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How do you say goodnight?
Escape with Eddie
As I get older, I keep learning there are more goodbyes than hellos. This is especially true when someone dies who has known you for a long time. After a week of having issues with my email password, I finally got back online. I found a message from a friend's brother that my friend, Roger Christgau, had died. I feel kind of numb at this time. I know that as the days, weeks, months, and years pass, there will be more goodbyes. This is a loss, however, of another friend who has known me for donkey's years.
I was working on the pediatric unit at the old Abbott Hospital in Minneapolis when I met Roger during one of those middle of the night shifts, where you raced from dark until dawn. At 3 a.m. we admitted an 8-month-old baby with mono. Roger was the doctor on call for his clinic and he arrived with the baby and the parents. We were all a little curmudgeonly. I think that is the proper word to describe our attitudes. I remember this man, Dr. Christgau, asking me, "Where does an 8-month-old get mono?" Being a little harried myself, I replied, "He has a kissy babysitter." A few hours later, I had almost forgotten my words as I crawled into bed.
Upon returning the next night, for another round of the graveyard shift, I read my little patient's physician's notes. Good grief, the nursing student was right. Roger had written that the child's babysitter had gotten a blood test that day and was diagnosed with mono. Such was the auspicious beginning of many years of mutual respect.
My sons and I both became his patients. I never knew him to be wrong about any diagnosis he gave us.
It wasn't long before I realized he had the driest sense of humor of anyone I had ever met. He was also, bar none, the most intelligent. I don't think he ever forgot anything he read. Once he perused it, it was committed for all time to his memory. And, like all people with great memories, there were times you wished he would forget something.
We would argue endlessly about physician-nurse relationships. As I got to know him, he began to relate some of his life experience. He was a career Air Force officer. He loved to fly. I think he was born with a P-51 throttle in his hand. In 1957 or so, he was on leave from the Air Force and had purchased a plane. As he was flying home to Minnesota, he crashed in a cornfield. He showed me pictures of the instrument panel where his head had smashed into it. A farmer saw him crash and removed him from the plane. He spent the next couple of years not only fighting for his life, but forcing himself back onto his feet. Pressure had been on his spinal cord from a broken back. He believed that after the pressure was off, he should be able to learn to walk again. It took a long time, and a lot of arguing with his doctor about outcomes — he believed he would walk, his doctor did not. Roger was right. He walked. He had leg braces, but when I met him I realized that this was a man who understood pain — physical, psychological, and spiritual.
That baby that introduced us, so to speak, was a patient in December of 1968, right before I graduated from nursing school. Over the years of friendship, we discussed a lot of things. I got to know him almost better than I knew my brother and sister.
I know one thing for sure, I will never again meet anyone like him. I can remember when he told me he had purchased a P-51. He would spend a number of years flying that airplane all over the place. He took part in many air shows and flew in formation with other pilots.
I know I'm not the only friend who will miss his bright conversation and dry wit. God in the heavens will miss him streaking out of the blue and tickling his mustache. Goodnight, Sweet Prince.


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A former child genius who turned to crime to feed his heroin addiction has been jailed for at least 20 months on fraud and theft charges.
County Court judge Carolyn Douglas said on Wednesday that Adam Weishaupt was an intelligent and manipulative person who had successfully played the system for his own ends.
"This is also reflected in the sophistication of the offending, which involved a clever and complicated plan which was carefully carried out," Judge Douglas said.
Weishaupt was considered a child genius at the age of two when he could recite the alphabet forwards and backwards, and by the time he was seven he had the reading age of a child of 12.
He changed his name by deed poll when he was 18 from Christopher Hopley to that of 18th-century German philosopher Adam Weishaupt,who led a movement of republican free thought known as the Illuminati.
His mother, Amanda Hopley, claimed he had a gift with numbers similar to that of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man.
Weishaupt, 31, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $85,000 by deceiving banks into giving him victims' credit card details when he was 19.
Police planned to charge him with card-skimming in 2006, but he had moved to South Australia. He was arrested when he returned to Victoria last year after his mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Judge Douglas said Weishaupt told a psychiatrist his parents had separated before he was born and his life with his mother had been chaotic as she worked for the air force and they moved regularly around Australia.
"You attended various schools as a result of the moves, but you were an intelligent young man and you were bored," the judge said. "You were interested in quantum mechanics, philosophy and theology."
The first time he broke the law was when he was 13, weeks after the death of his beloved uncle Christopher Hopley.
His life spiralled out of control after he left school at 14. He became a father two years later when living on the streets and had about 400 convictions for dishonesty by 2003. He had his first taste of heroin while in juvenile detention.
Judge Douglas said Weishaupt never had any significant employment and had been receiving a disability support pension for 10 years after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
But the judge said psychiatrist Dr Clare McInerney did not believe he had schizophrenia.
"She [Dr McInerney] reported that you present with unusual and dramatic beliefs, a history of fraud and obtaining material items and services through deception, which had been present throughout your life," Judge Douglas said.
"It remains uncertain, in her view, whether you have a major mental illness such as schizophrenia. However, her view is that you do not ...
"Dr McInerney reported that she has not identified any other relevant mental disorder and ... that you may have a personality disorder, although she is unclear what disorder you might have.
"She reported that your history of substance misuse leads to more chaotic thoughts and behaviour and reduced social functioning. However, she does not believe substance abuse alone can explain your presentation.
"Her conclusion was that she cannot find evidence that any of your reported symptoms and observable behaviour could be considered a valid contributory factor to your offending."
Weishaupt was jailed for three years with a non-parole period of 20 months.

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Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is an inherited (genetic) bone disorder that is present at birth. It is also known as brittle bone disease. A child born with OI may have soft bones that break (fracture) easily, bones that are not formed normally, and other problems. Signs and symptoms may range from mild to severe.
There are at least 8 different types of the disease. The types vary greatly, both within and between types. They are based on the type of inheritance (see below), and signs and symptoms. These include findings on X-rays and other imaging tests. The OI types are as follows:
OI is passed on through the genes. The different types are passed on in different ways. The gene may be inherited from one or both parents. Or the gene can be passed on from an unexplained change (spontaneous mutation) of a gene.
Most babies with OI have a defect of one of two genes. These genes help in forming collagen. Collagen is a main part of connective tissue that connects and supports the whole body, including the bones. Because of the defect there is not enough collagen. Or the collagen is abnormal.
The symptoms of OI vary greatly within and between types. Symptoms of OI include:
The symptoms of osteogenesis imperfecta may look like other medical conditions. Always see your child's healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your baby's healthcare provider will ask questions about your baby's medical history, your family and pregnancy history, and your baby's current symptoms. He or she will examine your baby, looking for signs and symptoms of OI. The milder forms of OI may be difficult to diagnose in a baby.
Your baby's healthcare provider may refer you to specialists with experience in diagnosing and treating OI. For example, your baby may be referred to a specialist in genetic conditions (geneticist) or in bone disorders (orthopedist).
Your baby's healthcare provider or the specialists may recommend the following diagnostic tests:
Your child's healthcare provider will figure out the best treatment based on:
The main goal of treatment is to prevent deformities and fractures. And, once your child gets older, to allow him or her to function as independently as possible. Treatments for preventing or correcting symptoms may include:
Complications may affect most body systems in a baby or child with OI. The risk of developing complications depends on the type and severity of your baby's OI. Complications may include the following:
OI is a lifelong condition. Managing it may include the following:
Call your baby's healthcare provider if your baby:
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The Moundbuilders
By Dan Cincotta and Stuart Welsh
Instead of building mounds to bury their dead, some minnow species build mounds as nests for their eggs to spawn a new generation of life.
WHIP Your Land Into Shape for Wildlife
By Gary Foster
The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program provides technical assistance and funding to landowners who want to improve wildlife habitat on their property.
Attack of the Zebra Mussels
By Janet Butler
Annual surveys of zebra mussels on the Ohio River keep tabs on populations of this exotic mussel which threatens native species.
Archery in the Schools: Coming Soon To a School Near You!
By Scott Warner and Dave McClung
Students and teachers discover that shooting a bow and arrow makes for a physical education class that can be enjoyed by all.
Fishing the Shores
By Shawn Head
A childhood curiosity and passion for the natural world led to a career in wildlife biology.
Look, But Don't Touch
Discover which plants you need to avoid in your wanderings around the Mountain State.
Field Trip: Cathedral State Park
Mountain State Flora : The Rhododendron
Wildlife Diversity Notebook: The Cheat Mountain Salamander
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She doesn't speak English. She has never been to Los Angeles. And on Sunday, the day of the Academy Awards, French actress Emmanuelle Riva will celebrate her 86th birthday.
Riva has quietly been one of this Oscars season's most compelling stories. Once considered to be, at best, a long shot in the lead actress race that most awards pundits had predicted would come down to Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook" or Jessica Chastain, who played a CIA operative in "Zero Dark Thirty," it now seems that interest and appreciation for Riva's career — and specifically her work in the Oscar-nominated "Amour" — may well result in a trophy Sunday night.
Riva's turn as a woman confronting her mortality after a debilitating stroke in Michael Haneke's unflinchingly honest "Amour" won praise from the moment the movie premiered at Cannes in May. Since then, the actress, who has done only a handful of interviews and left Paris but once in support of the film, has taken top prizes from the European Film Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. (which she shared with Lawrence), the National Society of Film Critics and, most recently, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Happy Hallowe'en!
The other cool thing about Hallowe'en in the 50's: no expensive and uncreative licensed character costumes. All you needed was to cut a hole in one of mom's best bedsheets and to jam a hollowed-out pumpkin on your head and you were good to go. Sure, the smell in there must have been pretty funky but that's a small price to pay for full size chocolate bars (and a helluva lot better than wearing your old red sleeper with the ridiculous rabbit ears).
You'll find all of this year's (and all of last year's) Hallowe'en illustrations at full size in my Retro Hallowe'en Flickr set.
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Man, that kid in the bunny suit prolly had problems later in life.ReplyDelete
Reminds me of Ralphie from the movie"Christmas Story".
Great week Leif!
You know, I don't recall getting those full-size candy bars, and I was a little kid back then...I must have lived in the wrong neighborhood. :)ReplyDelete
I second that——great week, wonderful illustrations and memories!
Hey, thanks for your comments Jeff and Chrissie - I'm glad you enjoyed the illustrations! :-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:48 PM
What you lacked in Butter Finger you more than made up for in Coffee Crisp.ReplyDelete
Its true, anonymous, before Nestle and Hershey bought up all the Canadian candy companies, we did have a fine selection of chocolate bars - but it was one of those "grass is greener" things, you know?ReplyDelete
I can still remember, around age eleven, one local variety store began carrying Charleston Chew bars. really, they are crappy bars - cheap "choco-coating" over weird marshmallow filling - but we ate 'em up 'cause they were AMERICAN! ;-)
- cclements6:18 PM
I've been downloading your Flickr stuff for about six months now and have to say, YOU RULE (and so does your clipart file). Pardon me while I go sign up for some daily inspiration, but thank you and keep it up. (I just found your blog/website today)ReplyDelete
Thanks cclements - and don't hesitate to request a topic you'd like to see more of - I enjoy fulfilling requests, if I can. :-)ReplyDelete
Leif - I've just been carousing around your blogsite which is a result of searching for Einsel works. I grew up in Westport, knew some of the artists/illustrators, and now at home in Duxbury, MA, I type this beneath a framed print of the "Save Cockenoe Now" illustration that Walter Einsel did back when I was a kid (I have inherited this little gem).ReplyDelete
Anyway, just felt like commenting and will look through more of your work and your reviews. I am keen on the period of illustrations you have showcased. I'm excited to have stumbled upon your blog.
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This activity is a short engineering design challenge to be completed by individual students or small teams. A real-world problem is presented, designing buildings for hurricane-prone areas, but in a simulated way that works in a classroom, after... (View More) school club, or informal education setting. Students are given simple materials and design requirements, and must plan and build a tower as tall as possible that will hold up a tennis ball while resisting the force of wind from a fan. After the towers are built, the group comes together to test them. If there is time after testing, which can be observational or framed as a contest between teams, students can redesign their towers to improve their performance, or simply discuss what worked well and what didn't in their designs. (View Less)
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Photo of Steven Keith courtesy of Gil Talbot.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Three members of the Harvard wrestling team will compete for a spot on the podium at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational Saturday after competing in the opening rounds Friday at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Junior Corey Jantzen, ranked seventh at 149 pounds, sophomore co-captain Walter Peppelman (157) and freshman Cameron Croy (184) picked up at least three wins on the day. Jantzen will wrestle in the championship rounds, while Peppelman and Croy are making their way back through the consolation rounds.
Jantzen won three matches Friday to earn a spot in the semifinals at 149 pounds. The Shoreham-Wading, N.Y., native dominated in his first two matches, downing Andrey Patselov of North Dakota State 19-2 and then pinning Central Michigan's Donnie Corby in 27 seconds. He defeated the seven seed and 18th-ranked Cole Schmitt of Wisconsin, 4-3, in the quarters. Jantzen will wrestle the 11 seed Eric Terrazas of Illinois in the semifinals.
Peppelman picked up his 10th career fall by pinning Joshua Nolan of San Fransisco State in 1:02. In the second match, the 11 seed fell to the six seed and 11th-ranked Peter Young of Virginia Tech in a close 5-1 bout. He responded by downing UNC-Greensboro's Jonathan Rodebaugh in 1:29. He won would have won by technical fall if he had not scored the pin having outscored his opponent by 16 points in just over a minute
Croy is still alive at 184 pounds with a 3-1 record. After earning a 14-6 major decision over Colt Goff of Dickinson State, Croy fell to the two seed and fifth-ranked A.J. Keissel of Purdue. Croy won two straight in the consolation brackets starting with a 19-7 major decision over Brown's Brandon Vorrius and ending with a 4-2 sudden victory win over the No. 10 seed Peter Capone of Ohio State.
Steven Keith went 2-2 at 125 pounds, falling to the top seed and third-ranked Anthony Robles of Arizona State, 8-4. Shay Warren (133), Adam Hogue (165) and Ian Roy (174) each had a win at the tournament.


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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Resort 2012
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Givenchy prints are to DIE for, love them so much!ReplyDelete
What did you think of Marc Jacobs...I thought the shorts were bizarrely ill-fitting. LOVED the freshness of Sonia Rykiel was amazing.ReplyDelete
the shorts have interesting cuts but I didn't like them particularly...ReplyDelete
The Row and Philosophy were one of my favorites, Suno had the pajama look that I love! Pretty much every collection had something special going on.ReplyDelete
Givenchy patterns reminds of the end of a kaleidoscope, pretty playful.
I definitely like The Row collection, looks perfect for the sea vacation although Stella MacCartney works are also awesomeReplyDelete
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2008 Annie Awards & Nominations for SCL Members
2008 G.A.N.G. Awards for SCL Members
2008 Golden Globe Awards & Nominations for SCL Members
SCL mourns LINDA LAWLEY PELFREY
2007-2008 SCL Mentor Program Interns Announced
ASCAP and BMI Announce Launch of RapidCue Online Music Cue Sheet Technology
Congratulations to the 2007 Primetime EMMY Music Nominees & Winners
DAVID NEWMAN Elected President of The Film Music Society
2007 Vision Awards Honor THOMAS NEWMAN as a Composer Of Vision
SCL Member DAN CARLIN appointed Chair of the Film Scoring Dept. at Berklee
BMI And Radio Music License Committee Agree To Extend Radio Agreement 3 Years
Congratulations to SCL Advisory Board Member MARC SHAIMAN
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DAYTONA BEACH — Sitting behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Malibu on the famed backstretch of Daytona International Speedway, Marc Compere was tempted to put the pedal to the metal.
"It makes me want to floor it," said Compere, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
But Compere's joyride on arguably the world's most famous racetrack would have to wait Monday as he and a team of ERAU students, known as the EcoEagles, tested the aerodynamics of a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu as part of a three-year national EcoCAR2 competition, formed by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Embry-Riddle is competing against 14 other North American universities to reduce the environmental impact of the Malibu without compromising its performance, safety and consumer acceptability.
Hours and months worth of research by students were put to the test as they took the Chevy Malibu to the track. Compere performed several tests, including one to see how fast the Malibu could go from 0-60 mph and also coasted down from 60-0 mph, to see how quickly the car naturally slows down.
On Monday, the vehicle looked more like the Mutts Cutts van off the movie "Dumb and Dumber'' with strands of red yarn taped on the exterior. Cameras mounted to the car recorded the movement of the yarn during the tests.
Those strands – hardly laughing matters -- can prove to be very important indicators for the group moving forward, said team leader Ken Leslie.
"If there's turbulent airflow, we can see how things change," the 28-year-old said.
Data collected during the test will also let the team know what specific improvements can be made.
"You want that number to be as small as possible, so you can be as fuel-economical as possible," Leslie said of the readings.
At the track, the students made several quick modifications, including removing the side-view mirrors, adding a side skirt and taping wheel covers over the back tires to test the theories of Domenic Barsotti, in his first year of graduate studies at Embry-Riddle.
Barsotti, who researched the aerodynamics of the vehicle, said the group is already planning to use a camera-based system instead of mirrors to cut down on aerodynamic drag by 7 to 8 percent.
"It's good that everything stayed on," he said, joking about the wheel covers that were hastily taped to the side of the car. "I think we'll have a lot of data to go over in the next few weeks."
Once all the data is collected, the team of students will reassemble the vehicle with slight modifications. Leslie said the vehicle, when finished, will be converted into a hybrid, running on electricity and a 1.7-liter biodiesel fuel engine. The vehicle will be capable of being driven as an electric vehicle for more than 40 miles.
Ultimately, the team will be judged on how well the vehicle performs and how close it is to the vehicle they promised they would deliver. In its first EcoCAR competition, Embry-Riddle finished in the middle of the pack, Compere said.
"It's very competitive," he said, adding he believes the team will do better this time around. "It's for bragging rights."
The competition also gives GM a glance at some of the nation's top engineering minds, Compere said. In the past two years, 10 Embry-Riddle students have been hired out of the EcoCar program.
"They're on the fast track to General Motors," he said.
During year two of the competition, Embry-Riddle's car will be taken to General Motors' proving grounds in Yuma, Ariz., and then San Diego, Calif. In year three, the cars will be tested in Detroit, Mich., and Washington, D.C., where the winner will be named.
"The goal is by (year three) I can give you a key and you wouldn't even know the vehicle wasn't something GM produced," Barsotti said.
Embry-Riddle team battles on big track in engineering challenge
DAYTONA BEACH — Sitting behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Malibu on the famed backstretch of Daytona International Speedway, Marc Compere was tempted to put the pedal to the metal.


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The following will be sub-section 1.3 in the nearly-done report A Question Mark Over Yarmouk.
In late August 2011, the world was shocked by news of a string of barbaric massacres across Tripoli, accompanying the fall of the Gaddafi regime in the Libyan capitol. These also happened at the same time as those doing the final pushing, the NATO-backed rebel militias, swept into the city.
Perhaps the single largest and certainly the most visibly memorable among these was the alleged Khamis Brigade shed massacre, also called the Yarmouk, or 32nd Brigade massacre. This, as currently understood, was the mass execution of a group of about 150-160 prisoners, using machine guns and hand grenades, on August 23. It was carried out, witnesses say, by soldiers of the elite, 32nd mechanized Brigade. The most notorious military unit run by the Libyan leader's son, Khamis Gaddafi, and otherwise known as the Khamis brigade, they operated the prison and the adjoining Yarmouk military base.
It's an anonymous place, the prison where, witnesses say, soldiers cut down their wards before torching the remains and fleeing from the area. The shed (warehouse, hanger, barn, etc.) sits within a small, low-walled compound, used previously by an agricultural collective. Its rickety outer shell of rust-orange corrugated metal is lined with cinderblock walls, now soot-stained. Two interlocking, oversized, barn-style doors of thin metal would have held the prisoners in.
On the west door, in red spray paint, rebels wrote in Arabic Ash-Shaytan - Satan.
The east door has a smaller inset metal door with a sliding bolt lock. Inside were the bodies – as many as fifty of them - reduced to skeletons with only portions of their charred flesh remaining. As the world's media filmed the scene on the 27th and 28th smoke continued twisting up from the victims as if they had just, moments before, stopped burning in Hell.
The CIWCL doesn't put any stock in metaphysical explanations for these types of crimes. However what passes for the devil's work does often make its appearance, during times of war especially. Journalist Janine di Giovanni said in the Daily Beast it was one of a few "haunted" places she'd visited, like Srebrenica in Bosnia. Walking up to the doors amid the stench of death and the noted graffiti, she wrote "I begin to feel a familiar sensation: something evil happened here." [JG]
Something un-Islamic certainly happened there. Even willful cremation is forbidden in Islam, which mandates burial in the dirt within 24 hours and no harm to the body. [YA] Misrata fighter Majid Fayturi, who was among those that took the Yarmouk base, said of those who torched their victims "we cannot say they are Muslims. They do not belong to any religion in the world." [FPS] Further, as widely noted, the killings and extreme harm to the dead were carried out at the height of Ramadan.
More dead men, at least 20 by some reports, lay scattered around the yard un-burnt. Some of them were bound, some brutalized, all apparently executed. Most of the eleven seen by news cameras are black men (see article 3.2.3). According to the witnesses, there were mass graves beneath the dirt all over the compound containing an unknown number of previous victims of Gaddafi regime violence.
1.3.2: The Location
Yarmouk was one of the two largest bases of the Khamis Brigade guarding the capitol (the other was southwest of the city). The base lies in the southern suburbs, on al-Hadbhah road, about 5 miles (8 km) south of central Tripoli. It's in the Khalet al-Furjan neighborhood of the Salaheddin district, with the immediate area sometimes called the Yarmouk neighborhood. The base, which suffered NATO bomb damage throughout the war, has walls enclosing a space nearly a half-kilometer square, and it seems to take in surrounding buildings and areas as well. The main gate is capped with a dramatic eagle sculpture, and a giant metal "32" to the right announces the brigade's presence.
Behind the base, just outside its east walls, is the prison compound (outlined in red in the map above). The shed is the only sizeable building in it, nine meters deep and 16 meters long, with a smaller building (guard house) next to it, and a covered space between them. The shed is divided into two chambers, a small 4-meter-wide room with at least one charred body, and the 9x12 meter main space everyone refers to: where people saw and counted each other.
Solid cinderblock walls covered the windows built into the shed frame, leaving no real light input aside from the grating above the door, and a large hole in the west wall that may or may not have been there before the massacre (accounts differ). Pins and ribbons of light enter through gaps in the walls and ceiling, and the hundreds of bullet holes that riddle the place. Wherever metal was not shielded by cinderblock - the doors, the uppermost walls on three sides, and the roof - all are holed extensively.
Within the main chamber, there were no partitions, no privacy, no furnishings whatsoever. There was nothing but some random mechanical junk on the floor of half-concrete, half-dirt. There is no sign of even the most rudimentary prison; no plumbing or fixtures, no lights on the ceiling, no electricity at all, it seems. Nowhere outside are high walls, barbed wire, spotlights, or guard towers seen.
1.3.3 High-Profile Prisoners
But the site has a long alleged history. Shieikh Sayyid Musa Al Sadr, the Lebanese Shiite cleric, is widely believed to have been killed in 1978 after disappearing, allegedly, inside Libya. In October, it was reported that he might have been held and tortured at this very site, and perhaps even buried there. The source is rebel commander and LIFG founder Abdelhakim Belhaj. [LBC]
Whatever happened there in the years between, in 2011 the shed compound seemed to be used for ordinary agricultural things until the brigade reportedly took it over and began holding prisoners there "as early as March 2011" [PHR p. 15], or "by March 2011 at the latest." [UH]
Some of the self-described prisoners were even foreigners of repute working with the BBC. Journalist Feras Kilani, photographer Goktay Koraltan, and security man Chris Cobb-Smith reported being arrested by the Libyan military near Az Zawiya, accused of being spies. [BBC4] They were taken to a base with an eagle on the gate, Cobb-Smith said at the time, and finally to a "dirty scruffy little compound" behind the base. There they were held in a cage, then a room. Kilani was beaten and his Palestinian people were insulted. Cobb-Smith reported a mock execution they were subjected to shortly before release, and seeing other prisoners shackled, terrified, and speaking of torture. [CNN5]
Another more confusing report suggests Kilani and his team were detained in March after visiting the Yarmouk base itself, to film a documentary about the death of Sheikh al-Sadr. By this, Kilani was surprised to see a man come in with "dogs and special equipment to detect burials," along with explanations that they were looking for buried bodies. But the newsman investigating the Sheikh's burial there was threatened not to tell anyone about this, and was arrested, beaten, and released. [LBC]
Cobb-Smith at least returned to the massacre shed after the rebel victory, and verified it as the same spot that he was held. [CTV]
1.3.4: Prison Life and Death, Per the Witnesses
Otherwise the prisoners at Yarmouk were, by and large, ordinary Libyan civilians, men of mixed backgrounds, reportedly ranging in age from 14 to at least 70. They mostly hailed from Tripoli, Misrata, and especially from Zlitan, an important city between them. According to former detainees, those held in this primitive prison were partly rebel sympathizers and collaborators, but largely citizens of suspected loyalty, some innocent of anything aside from breaking curfew.
The prisoners report being held there anywhere from a few days to four months, all of it brutal. They describe witnessing or even experiencing treatment like people being crammed into tiny cells in police trucks-turned-adjunct-prisons for days or weeks, or hanged upside down for long periods, and beaten with sticks and metal cables, or even sliced up. Some were subjected to electrocution (in the neighboring guard-house, which did have electricity). All were starved, routinely denied water, and some report being made to drink urine or motor oil.
There are some interesting sub-themes to this system of torture and degradation. Self-described escapee Mustafa el-Hitri explained how "a uniformed woman commander called Nooriya, along with two other female officers […] kicked us repeatedly in our genitals while they screamed at us 'your seed will give Libya no more children.'" [AL] Robert F. Worth of the New York Times heard a similar story, with racial overtones as well.
"Much of the torture was carried out by women, a special humiliation in Libya's patriarchal Arab culture. There was a Chadian woman with a shaved head who used to beat the men on their genitals, several inmates told me. Her Libyan supervisor, also a woman, would watch these beatings approvingly, then jeer at the male guards: "See, she's more of a man than you are!"" [RWN]
Between the abuse, the neglect, and frequent executions or killing of attempted escapees, most onetime prisoners describe witnessing at least a one death or even several. One man, rather outlandishly, swore in a documentary video that "this place has witnessed the death of thousands. I'm not exaggerating when I say thousands. Every day, there were about 20-25 bodies." [FGM 4:55]
By more reasonable and supported assessments, a total of 90 prisoners were held there by the beginning of August. [UH] The reported number grew about 50% over the next three weeks, as the invasion of Tripoli loomed. That commenced on August 19 and 20, and on Monday the 22nd, survivors said that 153 names were read out for a prison roll call. [PHR p.15] On the 23rd NTC militias first entered Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli. Perhaps in revenge for this, the prisoners have speculated, the guards at this Khamis prison were given orders to kill all their wards before fleeing the rebel advance.
Prisoners reported seeing ominous signs: new prisoners brought in, and promises of freedom coming up soon, often accompanied by a wicked look, a bad feeling, or even being told that "free … meant that we will all be killed." [KS] At least two witnesses, a soldier ("Laskhar") [PHR] and a prisoner (el-Hitri) [AL], reported seeing Khamis Gaddafi there and apparently giving the fatal order.
The survivors describe the assault as coming just after sunset and the evening call to prayer and breaking of the Ramadan fast. About seven grenades were tossed in, joined with repeated fire from Kalashnikov rifles. They all agree that however many escaped, even more didn't, were cut down under horrendous circumstances and then, in some accounts, burned alive.
1.3.5: The Witnesses / Some Notes on the Math
Everything we know about the massacre details-who the victims were and what exactly happened-comes from people who at least claim to be witnesses. These include locals who saw and heard, at least two soldiers who have confessed to taking part, prisoners who had served time there, and some dozens of prisoners who claim to have escaped the massacre itself. Those whose accounts the CIWCL is aware of and considered will all be listed and briefly explained in subsection 2.2, and analyzed over the three sub-sections after.
The bodies of about 45-55 people were found inside the shed, other bodies totaling apparently more than 32 in the immediate vicinity, and another 22 bodies were discovered about one kilometer from there, behind a mosque. The last, possibly related, is generally not counted in this massacre total, which was first given as around 150.
A.M. Haleem had said, on August 25, that roughly 180 out of 200 prisoners were killed, with 18 escapees. Mounir Own told CNN there had been 175 prisoners, with about two dozen of them escaping, leaving about 150 dead. [CNN2] Clean-up volunteer Bashir Own (no relation to Mounir) also spoke to CNN and said he saw and removed around 150 bodies on the 28th. [CNN2]
On the other hand, estimates of the dead range as low as 60 (Algala) [KS] and the number of escapees as high as an oddly complementary 90 (at least as reported, in a possible mix-up) by witness Senussi. [SZB]
By early 2012, the accepted death toll had been settled at 106, per Libyan authorities and a UNHRC report. This seems to be backwards math based on the "only 51" confirmed survivors subtracted from 157 prisoners. This means nearly one in three people escaped both the shed and the prison yard despite this close assault with grenades and machine guns. Further, as we'll see in the close-up examination, they survived with very few injuries even claimed.
1.3.6: Global Commentary and the Drive for Justice
There has been no shortage of people near and far noting the horror and scale of this crime, especially back when it was thought to be about 50% bigger than it now is. One local announced it to be "the greatest massacre in recent history." [FPS] The Yarmouk shed has been called a "holocaust camp" by Libyan survivors, family of victims, and supporters congregating on Facebook as "the Association of Holocaust victims of Yarmouk prison." [FBR]
The media knew the story's rightful place. Consider Richard Spencer of the UK Telegraph, who called it at the time "the most clear-cut war crime of this six-month uprising." [RS] Months later, Spencer decried the "damnable" widespread torture, often to death, committed by the "once-heroic" Misrata brigades who had been at the front of liberating Yarmouk. But it all seemed tame, he thought, "to anyone who witnessed […] the remains of the scores killed and cremated by Khamis Gaddafi in a single incident in a shed-prison as he fled Tripoli in August." [RS2]
Amnesty International said in August the reported massacre showed a "flagrant disregard for human life and international humanitarian law," and demanded "loyalist forces in Libya must immediately stop such killings of captives." [AI] Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch said "these merciless murders took place in the midst of Ramadan and those responsible should be brought to justice and punished." [HR]
Susan Rice, The US ambassador to the UN, went to the warehouse in November and found "the stench of death & cruelty was pervasive." [ABR] At a press conference, she called it a "very important site" where "over 100 people were killed by grenades and bullets and then," showing some confusion, "their bodies [were] burnt to death." [USN] UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon made a pilgrimage to the site, was shocked, and the perpetrators "should be brought to account." [UM]
The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, visited the site on November 23 and met family members of alleged victims, desperately seeking closure. [ITN] After the visit, a spokesman for the court, Islam Shalabi, said Moreno-Ocampo believed "the site merits investigation." [SG] Alex Loyd, writing for the Australian, said of the survivors: "their accounts are likely to provide the backbone" of evidence the ICC would use "to bring charges against Colonel Gaddafi and his sons for war crimes." [AL] Khamis, clearly the most relevant son to this case, was reported dead in battle on the 29th – the same day Loyd's article ran. But named officers and intermediaries would continue to be hunted down in his stead.
1.3.7: Different Reports
From the above statements, we can see this episode matters to Libyans and to the outside world alike. The CIWCL agrees with the ICC's Mr. Shalabi that a close look – an investigation - is very much merited.
The closest the world has to that, at the moment, is a December report about the massacre issued by the Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Deputy director Richard Sollom called it "the first comprehensive forensic account of the massacre." [GPP] The report, titled 32nd Brigade Massacre: Evidence of war crimes and the need to ensure justice and accountability in Libya "sought to clarify what took place," to correct the confused record of earlier reporting. [PHR p.7] The only thing their expertise added was verifying the injuries of two of their four subjects as consistent with detention and abuse, most of that claimed as happening previously at Zlitan. Otherwise, their talent was in taking down and believing whatever the witnesses told them, which improves nothing on what the media had been doing.
A special commission of the UN Human Rights Council issued a report on March 2, which addressed the massacre under study, among many other things. With original witness interviews, this added some useful information. They concluded the witness "testimony is broadly consistent and corroborative." They added "similar mass killings perpetrated around the time that opposition forces seized control of Tripoli have been reported by Human Rights Watch," and "these allegations warrant further investigation." [UH] Again, the CIWCL agrees.
A report from the Independent Civil Society Fact-Finding Mission to Libya, January 2012, also heard about this incident: "Mass Killings: Yarmouk Detention Centre." [CS] Their report added little, passing on vague characterizations they were handed.
Only the PHR report and now this one, those dedicated solely to this complex alleged event, qualify as further investigation of any real scope. The PHR report describes itself as "provid[ing] a measure of truth and acknowledgment for victims and helps to build an important historical record." This report works towards these same laudable goals, but its conclusions are very different.
In contrast, this report will de-emphasize immediate accountability; somehow, it doesn't even seem worth asking the NTC to have its Misrata militias hunt down and hold themselves to account, if that's what proves to be warranted. Well before anything like that can happen, someone has to first speak the possibility and give it a chance to be ruled out, rather than ignored. Until now, no one in the world community had seriously done that.


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Its Anew
A new day. A new start. For our country and why not for ourselves as well? I know that I need to be renewed. I thank our God for allowing each day to be fresh and clean.
I vowed during this sometimes mostly vicious campaign season that whomever would win, I would get behind that person and join in the vision for our country and I will do that. We all watched history in the making!
How has everyone been? Why not take one day at a time and begin to slow down life. Let's simplify and value what we have.
I have spent several days moving some of the files from this blog over to a new server. The page loads so much better now. I just might be starting something here! I am giving thought to posting more regularly... what do you think? I'll try if you do.
This past week, I have valued what I have. I valued my good old tried and true Ballband pattern. OK, so I gave it a little twist. But I rather liked the way it turned out. This was knit by knitting each slipped stitch row offset by a single stitch. I think I'll have some more of these soon! There are rather addicting...
What do you think? It is really eye-catching. But, of course, the Ballband always has been hasn't it? In every one of the bazillion color combinations I have seen and tried. You've gotta love it! Plus, no better time to knit for those precious gift aways.
The Diagonal Ballband Dishcloth
- a variation of the classic
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5
Oh Lord, let me abide in you, Let me cast my worries on you for you O Lord, long to carry them.
May these days be blessed.


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This is one of those desserts that is sure to dazzle people.
The cute colorful marzipan vegetables against the black Oreo cookie dirt simply delight the eye.
This cake is fantastic for a summer garden party or darling as a Peter Rabbit cake for Easter. You can scale this cake to any size you wish and be as basic or decadent as you desire with the decorations. Here's a large version of a garden cake I made for my daughters 5th Birthday.
Please don't be intimidated with this cake. If you can work with Play-Doh you can make these little vegetables, and you have my tutorial to help you every step of the way, so let's go to Garden Cake School 101!
Garden Cake 101
Bake any cake you wish and allow cake to cool. A carrot cake with cream cheese icing is especially fun for this cake, but I'm using a yellow cake today with custard filling and whipped icing.
Cut 9"X13" cake in half and stack with your favorite filling between the two layers.
Just look at that extra filling! YUM. I almost ate it myself but took pitty on one of my little helpers.
Frost cake
Pipe a decorative trim if you wish.
Add pre-made fence pickets to cake. I rolled out white fondant icing on parchment paper and used a ruler and a knife to cute my pickets. I let them sit out for a couple of days to dry hard, but you could pipe them out of royal icing, or even bake them out of sugar cookie dough. The cake is still adorable without the pickets, so feel free to skip this step all together.
I tucked my pickets into the icing bottom trim and stick against fresh moist icing.
Remove icing from Oreo cookies and crush the cookies in a food processor to the consistency of dirt. CAREFULLY and neatly spoon Oreo cookie dirt on top of the cake. You don't want to get any black dirt on the sides or piped edges of your cake.
Using a #133 tip (great for making grass or hair), pipe grass around the top and bottom of cake. (Optional)
Pipe decorative vines growing up the fence and embellish your cake with royal icing pansies and bugs found at Fancy Flours. (Optional)
I piped a few leaves on the vines.
Using a fork, sow your garden rows. I like to do a grid, with my rows changing direction in each grid.
Apply your marzipan vegetables to your garden. (See vegetable tutorial below) I like to group my vegetables in each grid, but you can arrange them any way you wish.
We added a sugar butterfly fluttering over the garden. Click here to see my post with sugared butterflies.
Stand back and look at your amazing creation.
*It was a humid rainy day when I made this cake so my pickets started to get a little wobbly/soft. I piped little dollops of frosting behind eat picket to keep them standing straight. You would not need to do this if using royal icing or sugar cookies.
Boxed up and ready to go to my daughter's teacher for Teacher Appreciation week.
Marzipan Vegetable Tutorial
These little vegetables are so fun to make. There really is no wrong way to do these. Working with marzipan is much like working with Play-Doh, only a little stickier. I found that keeping my hands slightly damp helped keep the marzipan from sticking to my skin. I also found that washing my hands with each color change with super helpful. I used gel food coloring to tint my marzipan. Remember marzipan is made from almonds, so if you have someone with a nut allergy, try making your veggies with fondant icing.
I used one tube of marzipan for the size cake I'm making today. If you are going to do a larger cake, then you will need two tubes of marzipan.
Purple Cabbage or Lettuce
Tint some marzipan with your food coloring but don't blend the color all of the way. Use purple for cabbage and light green for lettuce. You want some white spots left to make the leaves look lifelike.
Roll some marzipan in a small ball.
Pinch little pieces of marzipan between your fingers to shape petals
Apply petals in a circular pattern around your ball until you get your desired size cabbage.
Tint some marzipan orange.
Roll with one finger to make a carrot shape.
Using a toothpick or a blunt knife, score lines around your carrot.
Poke a whole in the top of your carrot and add a little green marzipan leaf.
CornTint marzipan golden yellow and roll into shape of an ear of corn.
Using a knife mark you ear of corn with a grid pattern to make kernels.
Pinch small amount of green marzipan to make two leaves and apply one to each side of your ear of corn.
Tomato & Pumpkins
Tint some marzipan red and roll into a tiny ball. (Use orange for a pumpkin and make your ball larger)
Puncture a little hole on top and make 5 little lines. (Score the lines from top to bottom if making a pumpkin).
Roll little squiggle stems out of green marzipan and push them into the top of your tomato.
Roll an oval out of red marzipan.
Roll out a flat circle of green marzipan and wrap it around your red oval ball.
Cut your watermelon in half and add black seeds with a black food color marker (found at most art and craft or cake decorating stores).
Peas & Frogs
See my marzipan cookie tutorial to learn how to make cute little peas and frogs! The peas photographed here are cookie dough. You'll be using marzipan candy and making the peas a smaller scale for a garden cake.
Your creativity is the limit with other fruits and veggies you can make. I like to make my veggies the night before I decorate the cake. Then I store them in an air tight container until I am ready to use them. It's a great project to work on while watching a movie or favorite show.
~The Lemonista
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Garden Cake Tutorial
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Amazing as always Erin!! Love it :)ReplyDelete
Seriously the cutest cake!! Great job!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM
Just too beautiful and good instructions.ReplyDelete
Love.this tutorial,am going to try it next week for my dad's birthday,thanks! MeabhReplyDelete
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Of course, it's just a rumor -- like they always are -- but word on the street is Jennifer Aniston is six months pregnant. Now, I'm not one to typically fall for tabloid fodder like this, but I've got to admit, this time it's really convincing.
The actress, who, come to think of it, has been keeping really low-pro lately, turned up for a screening for HBO's Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory recently looking, well, really pregnant. Apparently, she kept her oversized coat on the entire night, and if you'll look at the handy-dandy photo to your left, her midsection does sort of look ... buldgy. And not in a post-holiday, too-many-sugar-cookies kind of way. In a holy-s**t-Jennifer-Aniston-is-totally-pregnant kind of way. Could the moment we've all been waiting for have finally arrived?
Read more: Jennifer Aniston Will Never Convince Us She Isn't Baby Crazy
According to iron-clad source MTV UK, the actress has been spotted with a visible baby bump lately, and a friend of Aniston's said: "She wouldn't have wanted to make a big deal but she must be so excited. If anyone ever asked if she was worried about running out of time, she'd reply, 'I'm absolutely having kids, there's not one doubt in my mind.'"
If this is true -- and dear God, please let it be -- Jennifer's not going to be able to hide the good news much longer. I'm currently almost seven months, and let me tell you, there is no more hiding. You can bust out the bulky coats and tunic tops for a few more weeks, then you're done, girl. Unless, of course, you wanted to wear a cape, in which Zara has some cute ones. But I digress.
Read more: Jennifer Aniston Really Is Dull, Just Like Brad Pitt Said
Even though it seems like the world is full-to-the-brim with pregnant celebrities -- or celebrities who have just given (a super lavish) birth -- Aniston would be the creme de la creme of all. The world has been waiting years for the former Friends star to get knocked up. And while I think she seems to be doing just fine without any children or a husband, it sure would be fun. I mean, seriously, when is a pregnant star, or a Hollywood baby, not? We live through you all vicariously, don't you know this already??? Dance monkeys dance!
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It's the final week of my paleo diet and here's my final thoughts (which may be a rehash of old thoughts):
1. It's sort of like a "smart" Atkins diet. Basically it says "OK dummy, here's what makes you fat: sugars and carbs. Don't eat refined sugars and carbs. Eat everything else." So you can nit pick and question "IS THERE SUGAR IN KETCHUP?!", and count calories if you want. The bottom line is just avoid wheat, dairy, rice, beans/lentils and sugar and any product that is made with those ingredients. Eat meats, veggies and fruits to your hearts content. Don't worry so much about fat. Fat doesn't make you fat. Carbs and sugar makes you fat.
2. It's an easy diet if you plan. It's difficult if you don't plan and/or have food/leftovers in your fridge. There were a few nights where it got late, I didn't have food on hand and suddenly...I'M HUNGRY!!! I would get like Taco Truck tacos (without shells), add in a veggie or fruit, throw in a handful of nuts and - that's dinner.
Also along with the "planning" part is the time part. Most of my dinners took at least 20 minutes of prep (chopping, etc) and then time to cook, etc - and usually was a solid hour of 'dinner'. That really cuts into your time. By the time i'm home from CrossFit and showered it was 7pm. I have to walk Rocco, which is another 20 minutes. Then make & eat dinner, and I was done by 8:15 to 8:30. Then you have maybe 2 to 2 1/2 hours of whatever to do until bed.
3. I'm frankly amazed how everyone I met has zero willpower. You mention not eating dairy and I always get the same reaction, like I told the person they had to take cold showers for the rest of their lives. "Whhaaaattt? No dairy? No cheese? No yogurt!?"
Also on a related topic. Try not eating dairy for 30+ days and then eat something with milk, and watch your body's reaction. For me it was cramps and some quality "toilet time". A bit TMI, but really makes you wonder if we were meant to drink cow's milk.
4. Believe it or not the hardest part of the diet wasn't the alcohol restriction. I was fine. There were a few times where I would have liked a beer or a glass of wine, but for the most part, it wasn't hard to give up drinking. The only problem I did have with giving up drinking was my social life (and lack thereof) was basically zero. You ask your friends to do something that doesn't involve getting a drink and you hear crickets on the other end of the phone - or replies by text of: "That sounds like an option" and never hearing back from them again for a week.
What was hard was "missing food". Like missing that big cup of coffee with cream and sugar. Or pizza from Grimaldi's. Or getting a cupcake from Sweet.
5. I think it's sustainable, and do-able as a normal diet. I plan to continue it, but the big problem I can start to see is 'cheating'. I plan to resume drinking. I plan to have foods that have rice in them. I'd like to avoid wheat. I'd like to avoid sugar. But I guar-an-tee you I will be walking down the street with a box of cupcakes and run into someone who is going to be like, "OOOH! That's not on the DIET!"
Willpower is one thing, like I mentioned before, and that willpower is basically going to be focused on reducing the bad foods that I mentioned above. I hear from my friends all the time how they eat so well, and then watch how they check into Foursquare to places where I know they aren't ordering something healthy. Or I ask the same people "Keep a food log for ONE WEEK. Just one week. Write down EVERYTHING you eat or drink. Then you will immediately see why you can't lose weight."
I love the people who do eat 95% right but are out drinking 3-4 nights a week and claim "It's just wine! That's good for you!". It's good when you have one glass of wine, not a bottle of wine. Trust me, cutting out alcohol was probably the #1 reason why I was able to lose 2-3 pounds a week.
So, that's it. My 'final weight' was 211 pounds from 222. 11 pounds in 6 weeks. Only had 1 true "cheat" meal which was my birthday on Feb 12th. Otherwise I stuck to the diet, and I do have some "before and after" pictures, but not sure if I want to put them up on the web. If you shoot me an email at philly2hoboken (at) gmail I will share them with my friends and answer any Paleo-centric questions you may have.


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Detail of photograph showing the first cars to enter the tunnel. Archive reference number 11256-12
The Queensway Mersey Tunnel, connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead, was a major engineering feat of its time and was the largest sub-aqueous tunnel then built. It was constructed 1925 - 1934 and the prestigious contract to photograph its progress was secured by the firm of Stewart Bale. As a result a unique record totalling almost 1,000 glass negatives has been created.
Stewart Bale also covered the tunnel opening ceremony on 18 July 1934, attended by King George V and Queen Mary. An album was made as a souvenir of the event, documenting the ceremony and the enormous crowds that it drew. The album, which is now part of the Stewart Bale collection at the Maritime Archives and Library, contains 23 images; the first 17 (pages 2 to 18) feature the ceremony at the Liverpool tunnel entrance, with the remaining 6 views (pages 19 to 24) covering the ceremony at the Birkenhead end after the tunnel drive-through by the royal party. There is also a title page listing the members of the Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee, the body with legal responsibility for overseeing the tunnel's construction. You can see each page from the album below.
Follow these links to read a brief outline of the tunnel's history.
Why the tunnel was built
Celebration on completion
Images of the tunnel's construction can also be found elsewhere on the website.
Follow the links below to see each page from the album. Note the zoomify facility, available on a selection of the images, which can be used to view the scenes in more detail.
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