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it is a family tradition to keep the business going strong and strong, but what can they do besides this, maybe they weren't meant to be outside. Maybe,the concept of being in here keep this place in complete
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MerDeCha is combined from 3 individual Jaegers. The term MerDeCha is a portmanteau of Merdeka* + Mecha.
*Merdeka is a Malay language term for Independence.
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Tokina created the T4 interchangeable lens-mount system sometime in the late 1960s. There's quite an extensive writeup here. Here you can see it in two slightly different versions, marketed as Vivitar and Soligor respectively.
eBay lens sellers often don't notice the little latch marked O→ ←L; or else they're hazy on the differences from the later TX system which externally looks the same. Note the bi-directional aperture scale which is characteristic of both systems. This give the correct orientation of the aperture numbers that a user expects from the camera's native lenses (unlike the Tamron Adaptall scheme).
Key points:
• A Soligor lens is never TX
• Vivitar T4 lenses have a red distance scale, not green
• Rubber diamond-pattern grips are only on TX lenses
• TX lenses and adapters are engraved TX on their inside faces
• T4 adapters will work (within their limitations) on TX lenses
At the time T4 lenses were current, both Canon and Pentax (and similar screwmount SLRs) were using stopdown metering; T4 only offered open-aperture metering on Minolta, Nikon, and Miranda Automex/Sensorex bodies.
Neither the Nikon nor the Miranda Sensorex flavors were auto-indexing (of the widest aperture of each different lens) and so T4 lenses are probably most appealing to Minolta MC lens users today.
Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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A photo taken with the new Canon Powershot G1X. Visit my blog for a writeup of my initial impressions of it.
Flash is used in this photo, to show that the G1X can do flash at high shutter speeds. This was shot at 1/500, and it can sync up to 1/2000 when using the built-in flash. This is very useful outdoors -- in this case to preserve color in the sky while still exposing the boy correctly.
(If I understand the specs posted over at DPReview correctly the max sync speed drops to 1/250 when using external flash.)
Some early weekend camera porn, in the form of a 2002 Leica R8 film camera. Sure is a hell of a lot bigger than an M Rangefinder, but the 35-70/4 is a wonderful lens, well worth a little extra bulk. Not heard of it? Check out Erwin Putz' writeup on the lens.
The 150-bedroom Dewey Hotel, located at 1330 L Street NW, was constructed in 1898 and named for Admiral George Dewey, the celebrated Hero of Manila. It was sold in 1921 to the Salvation Army, which used it as a rooming home for young women, named the Evangeline. Major J.G. McGee, supervisor of Salvation Army activities in Washington, explained that the home would "work to the benefit of many young women in the city, as they will be surrounded by good clean girls and the temptations that confront the average girl away from home will be removed in the environment of the home." The Evangeline continued at least into the 1960s. By 1989, the site was a parking lot where the Franklin Court office building was subsequently constructed. See John Kelly's new writeup of the Evangeline: www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-evangeline-residence/2021...
Nicolas Flamel showed up in the first Harry Potter book. JK Rowling seemed to want to base the series at least partially in reality. (Apparently, Flamel also showed up in The Da Vinci Code too, but somehow I missed that reference.)
Interestingly, more recent photos show that the facade has changed significantly since we were there in December 2003: by May 2006 renovations had begun, and by September 2009, in addition to the stonework being cleaned up, the gothic "Auberge Nicolas Flamel" inscription over the ground floor has been removed, as has the lamp and red sign, and it looks like the doors & windows have been replaced.
Obligatory WIkipedia writeup follows:
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Nicolas Flamel (French pronunciation: [nikɔlɑ flaˈmɛl]) (early 1330-1418 or 2009, as some say) was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone.
According to the introduction to his work and additional details that have accrued since its publication, Flamel was the most accomplished of the European alchemists, and had learned his art from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela. "Others thought Flamel was the creation of 17th-century editors and publishers desperate to produce modern printed editions of supposedly ancient alchemical treatises then circulating in manuscript for an avid reading public," Deborah Harkness put it succinctly.[1] The modern assertion that many references to him or his writings appear in alchemical texts of the 1500s, however, has not been linked to any particular source. The essence of his reputation is that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy -- that he made the Philosophers' Stone, found on page 14 of the Book of Abraham the Mage, which turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality through the "Elixer of Life" found on Page 7 of the Book of Abraham the Mage.
Life
Nicolas and his wife, Perenelle were devout Roman Catholics. Later in life they were noted for their wealth and philanthropy as well as multiple interpretations on modern day alchemy.
An alchemical book, published in Paris in 1612 as Livre des figures hiéroglypiques and in London in 1624 as Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures was attributed to Flamel.[2] It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned by Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published. In the publisher's introduction Flamel's search for the philosopher's stone was described. According to that introduction, Flamel had made it his life's work to understand the text of a mysterious 21-page book he had purchased. The introduction claims that, around 1378, he travelled to Spain for assistance with translation. On the way back, he reported that he met a sage, who identified Flamel's book as being a copy of the original Book of Abraham the Mage. With this knowledge, over the next few years, Flamel and his wife allegedly decoded enough of the book to successfully replicate its recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, producing first silver in 1382, and then gold.
Flamel lived into his 80s, and in 1410 designed his own tombstone, which was carved with arcane alchemical signs and symbols. Some believe that he died shortly after the tombstone was created. Later, according to popular culture, a local criminal (possibly a tomb robber) who wished to acquire Flamel's reputed gold went to Flamel's residence. Finding nothing, but undeterred, he was said then to have gone to the gravesite with only a spade and a lantern, and dug up the grave. Upon opening the coffin, he was disappointed to find an absence of gold, but shocked to find no trace of the corpse of Nicolas Flamel.[citation needed] Some claim that it was just the grave of the wrong person who was not dead at the time, while others claim that he faked his own death, citing as evidence the fact that long after 1410 several books were published in his name.[citation needed] The tombstone is preserved at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
Expanded accounts of his life are legendary. In addition to the mysterious book of 21 pages filled with encoded alchemical symbols and arcane writing, he may also have studied some texts in Hebrew. Interest in Flamel revived in the 19th century, and Victor Hugo mentioned him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Eric Satie was intrigued by Flamel.[3] Flamel is often referred to in late twentieth-century fictional works such as the Harry Potter and The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel books and movies as well as The Da Vinci Code.
Death
Flamel's death was recorded in 1418, but his tomb is empty. Rumors spread that Nicolas Flamel never actually died and is still alive today, since people have claimed to have seen him and his wife roaming around Paris; Witnesses claimed to have seen him in 1761 at an opera in Paris.[citation needed]
Flamel's house, where he lived with his wife Perenelle Flamel, an alchemist in her own right, still stands in Paris, at 51 rue de Montmorency, and is the oldest house in the city. The ground floor currently contains a restaurant. A Paris road near the Louvre Museum, the rue Nicolas Flamel, has been named for him; it intersects with the rue Perenelle, named for his wife.
In popular culture
• The plot of Shadow of Destiny for the PS2 follows that of the story of Nicholas Flamel. In that game, an alchemist becomes obsessed with finding the philosopher's stone after his wife dies of an illness. The game features multiple endings, one of which allows the alchemist to save his wife by forming the Elixir of Life from the philosopher's stone, while others involve him obtaining eternal youth for himself.
• Nicolas Flamel's story is alluded to in J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(1997), in which he is something of a MacGuffin; though he is the clue to the whole mystery of the book, he never actually makes an appearance. He was friends with Albus Dumbledore and is said to have lived for six-hundred and sixty-five years until the Philosopher's Stone was destroyed following the events of the book.[4]
• Flamel has been alleged to be the eighth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion (1398-1418) as part of a 1960s intrigue where his name was planted in the French National Library in the Dossiers Secrets. This resulted in him being mentioned in the 1982 pseudohistory book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, and Dan Brown's 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code. Many of the names of "Grand Masters" were evidently chosen for some sort of connection with alchemy.
• Nicolas and his wife Perenelle Flamel are important characters mentioned in the Indiana Jones story Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone by Max McCoy (1995), and an elderly couple named "Nicolas and Pernelle" save Indy during one scene, before professing to have followed Jones's career closely.
• Nicolas and his wife are central characters in Michael Scott's seriesThe Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Sorceress: The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel ,and "The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" . Also the book of Abraham the Mage is a focus in the series, called The Codex.
• He is the subject of Michael Roberts' poem "Nicholas Flamel", collected in These Our Matins (1930).
• The concept album Grand Materia (2005) by the Swedish metal band Morgana Lefay is about Nicolas Flamel, his life, and how he made the Philosopher's Stone.
• Flamel was once referenced in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, when Edward Elric was researching alchemy in Central. The symbol on Edward Elric's coat is also known as a "Flamel."
• In the DC comics universe, Zatanna is a direct descendant of Flamel.
• Nicolas Flamel is also a character in the 1999 novel "The Burning Road" by Ann Benson. The Book of Abraham also plays a significant role in the novel.
• Nicolas Flamel is referenced in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père, when the title character is discussing chemistry, poisons, and alchemy with Madame de Villefort.
• Flamel is mentioned as possessing the Book of Abraham in Dennis Wheatley's novel about black magic, "The Devil Rides Out".
• Flamel is mentioned as Claude Frollo's scientific inspiration in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Frollo seems to be obsessed with Flamel's work with the Philosopher's Stone.
• Flamel, Paracelsus, and Raymond Lull are described as "the magicians and alchemists of the Middle Ages" (62) in the 1885 sci-fi classic Tomorrow's Eve by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. Robert Martin Adams; University of Illinois Press, 1982).
• In the book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott, he is one of the main characters, and so is his wife, Perenelle.
See also
• Alchemy
• Magic
• Gold
Notes
1. ^ Harkness, review of Dixon 1994 in Isis 89.1 (1998) p. 132.
2. ^ Laurinda Dixon, ed., Nicolas Flamel, his Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures (1624) (New York: Garland) 1994.
3. ^ Wilkins 1993.
4. ^ JKRowling web page - rumour section
References
• Decoding the Past: The Real Sorcerer's Stone, November 15, 2006 History Channel video documentary
• The Philosopher's Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy, 2001, Peter Marshall, ISBN 0-330-48910-0
• Creations of Fire, Cathy Cobb & Harold Goldwhite, 2002, ISBN 0-7382-0594-X
• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott, 2007, ISBN 9780739350324
• Parashpathor(Philosopher's Stone) : A Bengali fiction by Adrish Bardhan,2008
• The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott, 2008
• The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Micheal Scott, 2009
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling,1997
External links
• An explanation of some of the alchemical figures on Flamel's tomb
• Flamel Technology French based company named after the alchemist includes a biography of his life and major accomplishments
• Reginald Merton, "A Detailed Biography of Nicolas Flamel" Highly detailed legend.
• The Alchemy Web Site, "The Hieroglyphic Figures" Contains some of Flamel's writings
As some of you may remember, I dropped my MacBook Pro a little over a week ago and killed its internal hard disk. I ordered a replacment from Other World Computing and installed it and aside from some dings on the case I think I'm back up to speed with this computer. Not too bad for a serious fall.
Here's the writeup on installing the hard disk at my weblog.
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From superdawg.com:
In May of 1948, Superdawg® was established at the corner of Milwaukee, Devon and Nagle in Chicago. Superdawg® continues to be family owned and operated in the same location today.
Maurie Berman, a recently returned G.I. from World War II, married his high school sweetheart Florence (Flaurie), in August of 1947. Maurie was attending Northwestern University, studying to be a CPA, while recent Northwestern grad Flaurie was teaching in the Chicago Public Schools. With their "school-year" schedules, the newlyweds wanted to open a business that they could operate during the summer months. Many other returning G.I.'s were opening roadside hot dog carts and Maurie and Flaurie decided to open their own roadside hot dog stand, one that would be as unique and distinctive as they were.
Superdog has long been in the upper echelon of Chicago’s great hot dog restaurants. Recently remodeled, the old drive-in maintains tremendous kitsch appeal and still has genuine car hops and “Suddenserver” automated order system. A pair of ten-foot statues of a male and female hot dog (known as Flaurie and Maurie) are dressed in leopard-skin togas and stand atop the roof, winking electrically, and meals are presented across the counter packed in a cardboard box that announces, “Your Superdawg lounges inside contentedly cushioned in Superfries, comfortably attired in mustard, relish, onion, pickle, and hot pepper.”
Goofy as all this sounds – and it IS! – here is a place you can expect to eat some truly exquisite hot dogs. Firm, all-beef franks topped with bright, fresh condiments (including some wonderful spruce-green piccalilli relish) are loaded into soft buns and accompanied by hot crinkle-cut French fries and a Supermalt, Supersoda, or Supershake.
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Hot dogs rule in Chicago, but we must also tip our hat to Superdawg’s excellent Whooperburgers and Whoopercheesies (those are double hamburgers), as well as the Whoopskidawg, which is known by most Chicagoans as a Polish sausage.
Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
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I figured out how to non-destructively open up a DUPLO figure. The key is to remove the bar like element. This bar is 2.75L and 3.0mm at the ends but 3.2mm in the middle. You can clip stuff to the middle and poke the ends into Modulex. See the whole writeup at www.dagsbricks.com/2014/07/lego-techniques-duplo-figure-b...
Western pondhawk dragonfly, Erythemis collocata, at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve.
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One of the special features of this store is the Murray's Cheese counter. Murray's is a major New York cheese company, and has quite a few kiosks in Kroger stores, including several QFCs and Fred Meyers in the area. (Generally, the largest/fanciest QFCs have them, and nearly all Fred Meyers are getting them with the Marketplace remodels.) The Seattle Times did a writeup when this store's cheese counter opened in 2012, the first in the Seattle area.
Was selected to be included with another flickr member Zeroneg1 in a magazine writeup.
Called "Second Hand Classic D90" in the Sept. 2013 issue of What Digital Camera in the UK.
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This is my buddy Eric Chang and his 2004 Subaru WRX Wagon. I know what many of you may already be thinking, "WRX's shouldn't be stanced because they're designed to go fast" blah blah blah. Now a days, anything that can be stanced, will be stanced. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term "stanced" you probably shouldn't even be reading this. So get out, but seriously.
A few months back Eric had his eyes set on Rotiform BLQ's, unfortunately Rotiform was out of stock...for days...then weeks...then months. Finally after months of refreshing Rotiform's homepage and seeing "out of stock" Eric finally found a pair of BLQs, and oh man. I've known Eric for many years but the day he got his BLQ's was easily one of the happiest days I've ever seen him.
Eric is very similar to many car enthusiasts, he speaks car language like many of us do. To some people TE37, BLQ, CE28, NUE, RS and LM are just randomly generated letters and numbers, but to us they are wheels. A big part in a cars aesthetics and handling dynamics. After seeing Eric put many randomly generated letters/numbers on his car, I think he is finally going to settle with the letters B, L and Q.
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People dig the annual list of books that I finished, so here's 2017. There's a big writeup over at my site. (r) means it's a reread.
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love - Brad Gooch • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast)
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries - Jessa Crispin • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song - Ben Yagoda • Download our podcast
Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)
Memoir: A History - Ben Yagoda • Download our podcast
A Mother's Tale - Phillip Lopate • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast)
Note Book - Jeff Nunokawa • Download our podcast
Private Citizens: A Novel - Tony Tulathimutte • Download our podcast
What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell • Download our podcast
Snowed Under - Antje Ravic Strubel
Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives - Sarah Williams Goldhagen • Download our podcast
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (r)
Moving the Palace - Charif Majdalani • Download our podcast
Toscanelli's Ray - Wallis Wilde-Menozzi • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast)
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem - George Prochnik • Download our podcast! (and listen to our 2014 podcast)
Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator - R.O. Blechman • Download our podcast
Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 - Edward Sorel
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz • podcast coming someday!
This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information - Kyle Cassidy • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2012 podcast!)
Lovecraft Country: A Novel - Matt Ruff • Download our podcast
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer • podcast coming someday!
Bad Monkeys: A Novel - Matt Ruff • Download our podcast
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr - John Crowley • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)
Totalitopia - John Crowley •Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)
Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy - Patty Farmer • Download our podcast
After Henry: Essays - Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Survival In Auschwitz - Primo Levi
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!
The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered - Benjamin Taylor • podcast coming soonish!
The Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!
The Peregrine - JA Baker
Three Floors Up - Eshkol Nevo • Download our podcast
Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough • podcast coming someday
A Man Lies Dreaming - Lavie Tidhar • podcast coming soon!
Central Station - Lavie Tidhar • podcast coming soon!
Lastingness: The Art of Old Age - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast
Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast
The Years - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast
The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast
The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox - Vanda Krefft • Download our podcast
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press - Eddy Portnoy • Download our podcast
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe - Cullen Murphy • Download our podcast
Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A novel - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America - Cullen Murphy • Download our podcast
How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels - Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden • podcast coming soon!
Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old - John Leland • podcast coming soon!
Exit Ghost - Philip Roth (r)
Everyman - Philip Roth (r)
Note: This has been superseded by Version 4, updated in August 2015. For a full writeup see kevan.org/games/emergency
This is a tiny bag of game components I sometimes carry around - I thought I'd document it somewhere. Other Emergency Games Kits I've seen have been hefty plastic toolboxes full of books and custom-deck card games (which I suspect make more sense if you own a car), but this is just a pencil case that fits in a pocket. It comprises:
* A 130 x 80mm "Tuff Bag" pencil case which I think I picked up from Rymans.
* A two-sides-of-A4 printout of the rules for 57 paper/card/dice games from the Freeze-Dried Games Pack.
* A couple of blank crossword grids for Lynx.
* A few sheets of squared paper for grid type games.
* A 2" x 2.5" mini deck of cards. (I picked up a custom deck in an Artscow sale.)
* 38 mini poker chips from Koplow Games; 16 black, 16 white and six in other colours. Haven't yet gotten around to painting chess icons on the black and white ones.
* Six 12mm dice (six being enough to play Farkle).
* A biro.
It all fits inside the pencil case, the chips being arranged into a single stack and bound with two rubber bands.
Images from OOAK designer Matt Sutton party. writeup available at insidethefashiondollstudio.com/2018/07/10/2018-nbdcc-matt...
Fun for the whole family on a sunny day. At the International Fountain; Seattle, WA. More shots, and a quick writeup on them all, over on my blog.
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Catching up on the ol' backlog. This batch from January when we visited Ōsaki Hachimangu Shrine for the New Year festival, Donto-Sai.
Full writeup at this this blog post.
ちょっと先に取った写真の山を片付けていま〜す。これは１月に大崎八幡宮でのどんと祭の束です。
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Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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A good though unusual career - Mohammed Ali of Bogra
From Constituent Assembly member to Ambassador, from Ambassador to Prime Minister, then back as Ambassador, after a few years Foreign Minister, dies in office. And when we dissect what he did in office the results are equally unique and facinating. So who was H. E. Mr. Mohammed Ali of Bogra?
Mohammad Ali Bogra was born in Barisal in 1909 to an aristocrat Nawabzada Altaf Ali with Muslim League connections, and grew up in his Bogra Estate. Bogra is a small city regarded as the nerve center of Northern Bangladesh. And so Bogra is not a surname but the name of a place. He is educated in the Presidency College in Calcutta University and is elected as a member of the Bengal legislative assembly in the 1937 election. In 1946, he joined the Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy's cabinet with the portfolios of finance, health. Upon the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. However, Mr. Jinnah's visit to Dhaka accompanied by his insistence on Urdu as the national language irks him and he requests Chief Minister Nazimuddin to argue on it with Jinnah with no success. Meanwhile, Jinnah hearing of this is annoyed but having regard for his family connections tells the foreign ministry headed by Sir Zafrulla Khan and Secretary Ikramullah to suggest a posting for him. They suggest Egypt but Mohammed Ali picks Myammar (which was not yet socialist then) and is posted as ambassador there. Apparently he made a mark in his brief stint in Rangoon, leading to his appointment to Canada in 1949 when the ambassador there died, and three years later in 1952 to the USA for which he is yet remembered.
Meanwhile at home Jinnah has passed away and the coterie which ostensibly led to Liaquat Ali Khan's assassination is in power led by Governor General Ghulam Mohammad with the support of Army Chief Ayub Khan and Finance Minister Ch. Mohammad Ali. Ghulam Muhammad is unhappy on his pious though ineffective Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin who was also the second governor general after Jinnah and decides to send him home. A legal battle ensues and in their quest for a Bengali politician with a good track record, the eyes of the ruling junta, falls on Bogra who is called to take oath as prime minister. As has been explained above, he wasn't exactly a paratrooper in politics but had a good history behind him.
Things go smoothly for a while. Constitution making is his main priority and the bicameral legislature he proposed finally took shape in 1973. Anyway the glitch was that fearing that Ghulam Muhammad might dismiss him too, he hurriedly stripped the Governor General of this power through an Act of the Constitutional Assembly and went off to London and the USA. He was summoned back by the Governor General but he was anxious not to return as he may be arrested. However Gen Ayub Khan who happened to be near the scene of action at all times offered him his protection and he returned with him. There was immense security at Karachi airport and rumors were rife that the Prime Minister had been arrested.
A fuming Ghulam Muhammad who spent most of his time as a sick man in bed was hurling filthy abuses at everybody including Bogra, and he went out. As Ayub was leaving the room, the nurse caught him by the collar and he turned back seeing a smiling Governor General, who took out certain instruments from under his pillow and offered to make him head of Martial Law. Ayub refused only to take over a few years later. At least that was his version in Friends Not Masters. What actually transpired was a cabinet of talent including Gen Ayub Khan in uniform as Defence Minister - it would have been apparent to anyone as to which direction Pakistan was heading for ---
However, the cabinet of talent comprising of 14 personalities sounds like the who's who of Pakistan at that time. It included Pakistan's first and second presidents Maj Gen Syed Iskander Ali Mirza and General (not yet FM) Ayub Khan, Bogra's successor prime ministers Ch. Mohammad Ali and Suhrawardy (under whon he had served as minister in undivided Bengal), his predecessor in Washington M A H Ispahani, the last governor of East Pakistan Dr. A. M. Malik, future chief minister of West Pakistan Dr. Khan Sahib, a governor of Sindh Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, Mr. Ghayasuddin Pathan and Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur (from upper and lower Sindh, respectively), Syed Abid Hussain (made famous again by daughter Abida Hussain), Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan and East Pakistan politician Mr. Abu Hussain Sarkar. Together with Bogra there were fourteen gentlemen, and though the latter had been stripped of some power he yet presided over possibly the strongest cabinet ever constituted in Pakistan.
Time magazine in its issue of November 1, 1954, entitled 'Friend in Trouble' reveals how "in Washington last week, the U.S. Government showered $105 million in economic aid and $50 million in military aid on Pakistan's likable Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. In him the U.S. recognized a friend; in his country the U.S. recognized an Asian nation steadfast in its resistance to Communism. Unfortunately, just at the climactic moment, Ali had to cut short his trip and hurry home. In Karachi 70 hours later, Mohammed Ali was all but stripped of power. "The Governor General has with deep regret come to the conclusion," read the official Pakistan communique, "that the constitutional machinery has broken down . . . The Constituent Assembly has lost the confidence of the people and can no longer function . . . Elections will be held as early as possible."
Constitutional machinery broken down sounds so very similar to our infamous Article 58-2-b. Meanwhile, Ali would remain in office with a "reconstituted" Cabinet, but real power would reside with the Governor General, a financial wizard of 59 named Ghulam Mohammad."
Anyway Bogra continued in office until August 1955, when his finance minister Ch. Muhammad Ali succeeded him under the growing undercurrents of the One Unit in West Pakistan. Normally that should have been the end of his career but he returned to his position as Pakistan's Ambassador to the USA where he remained till March 1959. He had retained the foreign affairs portfolio as prime minister and brought Mr. J A Rahim as foreign secretary. By March 1959, the Secretary General and Deputy CMLA Aziz Ahmed had become so unpopular with fellow civil servants that Ayub thought it best to send him as ambassador. Aziz would turn out to be one of the two ambassadors most unpopular with John F Kennedy.
To return back to our main character, after a few years in retirement, Ayub Khan returned the favor by inviting Mr. Bogra to join as foreign minister. The president had been impressed by the highly sophisticated defence of the Rawalpindi conspiracy accused by Mr. Manzur Qadir in the early fifties. He made him his first foreign minister and also lifted martial law early on his insistence. After the constitution of 1962 was approved Mazur Qadir, its main author, wanted to go back to his first love. He was appointed Chief Justice of the West Pakistan High Court in 1962. And so Bogra became the foreign minister for a little less than a year until he literally worked himself to death on 23rd January 1963.
May his soul rest in eternal peace!
The picture shows him in the White House with President Kennedy and Ambassador Aziz Ahmed.
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More or less this entire blog is written in the eternal present tense. The internet is eternally frozen, littered with abandoned Myspace pages, blogs, and the like. Derelict fragments of moments past. As fascinating as that can sometimes be to the passing observer, sometimes its best to use our benefit of hindsight and groom the hedges of history. Not because we wish to revise history, but because we wish to share the insight history has granted us. It's also important to know where we've been so as to keep a steady sight on where we're going. My relationship with Wendy has come and gone, and I'm grateful for all the things I've learned. Like all the events of my past, I wouldn't be who I am today without this experience.
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Strobist Info:
silver reflector, low camera right
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1/500 f/1.8 at ISO 200
Nikon 35mm f/1.8
I really don't like this holiday. I suspect a lot of you don't either. But I still went and photographed the Boston fireworks from the park at the top of the hill that gives Arlington Heights its height. Photos and writeup here.
میں کس کے ہاتھ پے اپنا لہو تلاش کروں
تمام شہر نے پہنے ہوئے ہیں دستانے
20-10-2009:
This shot makes me rethink my pessimism. Light can't be shut down. It makes its path through dark always.
But the kind of turmoil my dear Pakistan is going through makes me foresee only darkness. Two days back, my Alma Matter, Islamic University, was hit by not one but two blasts. Suicide bombers. When I heard the news on a channel, I was in shock. I never considered of all the places, a university; of all the universities this particular university a supposedly victim of such violence ever. Islam is nothing but peace. It is not the reason behind this terrorism at all. Its the fanatic beings who brainwash the naive minds in the name of Islam and use them as their live weapons.
It was utter sorrow when I saw pictures of defaced, blown off and shattered corridors ... with blood of aspiring youth spilled around. These were the same corridors once I walked with my friends. Same passages that shared the memory of our tense and pleasant moments. We moved on and new comers came to fill up, with alive and vibrant dreams. But no more. Government came and showed blatant sympathy when probably they care not but themselves.
According to my sources, the number of demises (Shahadats) was around 15 and not the count of 6. Possibility of seriously injured and ones with permanent damages is even more. Oh but government may show some sympathy and pay their families a lac or two.
Problem is this ferocity leads to nowhere.
May Allah bless the departed souls in higher gardens of jannah (heaven) and make their sacrifice profound for the nation and country. May Allah also give sabr to the affected families. Their loss is immeasurable. Amen. When I think about it losing parent for a child is hard but losing a child is harder for a parent. Not expected in the unexpected world. Only we can pray and stay united for the larger cause.
موج بڑھے یا آندھی آئے دیا جلائے ركھنا ہے
گھركی خاطرسودكھ جھیلیں گھر تو آخر اپنا ہے
And just an hour back, another earthquake hits of 6.2 magnitude. Thanks to Allah, was not shallow. May Allah keep everyone in his safety. Amen.
And Truth for peace shall prevail. Inshah Allah.
Today's outtake probably speaks for itself.
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Joan's car went in for an oil change last October 19, and I followed along so Joan didn't get stranded at the dealership. While she was talking with Phil, the writeup guy, I grabbed a few pix of Carraba's Restaurant, which is across the street. It's safe to call Carraba's my favorite restaurant.
On our way home I stopped to photograph a church for my sister's cross collection; after we got home I wandered the yard taking pix of colored leaves. And corn in Joan's garden.
My project-oriented job could be stressful. After a bad day I'd meet Joan at the car and tell her "We're eating at Carraba's tonight." And we would.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 24
Title of folder: Carraba's-Corn
Other photos taken on 10/19/2021: My phone caught another photo at the dealership when we picked up Joan's car a couple hours later. And my tablet took a couple pix of the new kitten.
Today is the last day of Durgapuja Festival and is marked as Vijayadashami, also known as Dasara. This is one of the most important festivals celebrated in various forms, across India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Dasara/ Dussehra is derived from Sanskrit Dasha-hara meaning "remover of bad fate".
The picture is computer generated and the writeup there is in Roman Bengali wishing all a Happy Vijayadashami.
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This past weekend, I got the opportunity to shoot with Patrick Lauder of Quickworks Photo in San Francisco on Pier 40. This has been my second time shooting with Patrick, and I must say it has been quite the experience. I have learned so much from just two shoots.
During the shoot I met a lot of cool people, one of which was Andrew (the owner of the e46 m3) and his girlfriend Aileen. Originally I came to shoot a 370z but while everybody was about to leave the shoot I saw our two cars parked and thought it would make an awesome shot, so here's the shot. I hope it has as much awesomeness to you as it does to me.
More coverage of the M3 and 370z will be posted up within the next week or so.! (:
P.S. Andrew, I will see you at Mfest, Las Vegas April 20th!
Exif:
f/1.4
1/250th
ISO320
Natural Light
40D | 35L (This lens is AWESOME!)
Day 365
Well, this is the second last portrait in my project, of taking 366 photos of Jaymi. One for every day of this year.
Tomorrow I will do a writeup about the whole project - stay tuned!
For tonight, I wanted to focus on New Years, since it's coming up tomorrow.
In the year 2008, Jaymi has been through a lot, and has accomplished a lot.
She has:
-learned how to ride a 2-wheeler with confidence,
-begun Gr.1, including a specialized math and language arts program way above her grade level,
-learned how to make pottery,
-discovered that she loves turtles,
-discovered that she loves Irish music,
-made a new friend,
-begun her 2nd year at Sparks,
-starred in a Christmas play,
-travelled to Ontario and New York state (by airplane and by train),
-amazed us every day, in everything she does!
This coming year of 2009, she wants to do so many things. I will be enjoying another year of being her mommy. It's a fantastic job...one that comes with so many rewards!
A golden nugget!
While out doing photos on my birthday, with already one stranger photo under my belt I was feeling adventurous and went for number two. I came across Joshua sipping on his tea outside of Ian's Pizza on State Street, between drinks he strummed a chord or two. I knew that he was a willing subject for my 100 more strangers project, and thus I asked him why he didn't have a cup for tips. As the wind gusted up State he expressed to me that he tried putting a cup down already, but the wind blew it away (thankfully nobody had thrown any large bills in just yet!) Although he did suggest that if someone had a golden nugget he could keep it weighted down, reaching into my pockets I pulled out a folded $1 bill. "Not a golden nugget, but a good start for the day," I said and smiling he finished sipping his tea and removed the lid. Allowing me to put my bill as his first contribution for the afternoon, to go towards his "tea replenishment fund."
For lent, Joshua decided to force himself to play his guitar more. While I'm not entirely sure how this relates to giving something up, maybe it was more then just the beautiful weather that brought him outside today. Strumming with a smile and a good tune, he asked me if I would like a happy or a sad song. Obviously, a given with the weather a happy song. As I sat near his side, a few other people stepped in and listened to the melodic sounds of Joshua and his guitar. I found my feet tapping in tune with the music and when it was all over we gave a round of applause (mostly just myself). Joshua was thankful for the fact that myself and the others decided to just sit and listen. As many times a busker only captures a few seconds of ones attention for his pay, so to have an audience enjoy a full song was quite the treat.
After snapping a few photos once the crowd* dwindled to just my friend Ben and I, I informed him of my project and was happy to find that he was just as willing as I thought to be included in the project. As summer draws closer, I hope to find more local musicians to enjoy the wonderful weather found on the isthmus with, no matter the instrument; it's all about the moment. In order to find more stranger stories as well as great photographs, I suggest checking out the 100 Strangers group.
059/100
Have a workshop coming up and decided it would be good to do the full writeup; this is the end shot.
Thanks again to Primatoide Futile for the idea to make the beads into tubes.
Faux Coral Tube beads tutorial. see profile for details.
Also available as a workshop.Contact me if interested.
She refused to give me a good pose. First she played dead in thick twigs and then moved upwards into the foliage. This is the best I could manage.
It was possible for me to handle the snake and place her to get a better composition. But I didn't do so, not from the fear of getting struck but more so because I didn't want to come across as the guy who bothers wildlife just for a photograph to my fellow trekkers.
I'd love to hear your views on positioning a wild subject. How do you guys do it?
A writeup for the trip can be viewed here: footloosegups.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/wet-and-wild-an-ex...