Hodge-podge:
YOU decide.
Mostly pictures I’ve run across. Some other stuff. Click for big- as per usual.
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1950
Short story- Gold Coast- MacPherson
bye for now,
Rick
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Pete Townsend – There’s A Heartache Following Me
Click when you want bigger size- some of these are biiig. Click sound thingys where they appear. Click click click. This is just for fun. Obviously.
Abandoned- top > down
Sub Base
In a bay on the northern shores of the Black Sea, the Soviet army maintained an elaborate submarine base throughout much of the Cold War. Now a museum, this abandoned submarine base is in the town of Balaklava, Ukraine. One picture.
Detroit
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre explored some of Detroitās dying landmarks for their photo series The Ruins of Detroit. As the industrial revolution came to a close and race riots crippled a once bustling city, many buildings throughout Detroit fell into disrepair and eventual abandonment. Three pictures.
Beelitz Hospital
It is rare that a ruin like this should decay so gracefully and without the marks of vandalism. The Beelitz Military Hospital in Berlin is in great condition for a ruin, perhaps for the history it represents. In 1916, a young Lance Corporal Adolph Hitler recuperated here after taking a bullet in the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. One Picture
NYC City Hall Subway Station
Under the busy streets of New York City rests a perfectly preserved monument to that cityās transportation history. The City Hall Subway Station was first constructed over 100 years ago, a part of New Yorkās earliest underground transport network. It was shut down in 1945, where it lay dormant and untouched until a one night public exhibition on the stationās centennial. Two pictures- present and past.
Ryugyung Hotel
The Ryugyung Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is one of the 20th centuryās greatest architectural failures. Initially designed as a beacon of progress and power, the Ryugyung Hotel was unable to sustain construction when the North Korean government ran out of money. Ground was broken in 1987, construction was halted in 1992. One picture.
Pripyat
Pripyat, Ukraine. In a span of sixteen years, the population of Pripyat grew from zero to 50,000 and back down to zero, following the greatest nuclear power disaster in human history. Pripyat was billed as an atomic city, built into the forests south of Kiev in 1970 to house the families of workers at the Chernobyl nuclear facility. One picture (but you can gopogle many others).
Waterpark
A massive, indoor water park was planned for the children of Russia, one towering many stories high with a myriad of rides within. Before this park could be completed, the developer went belly up and couldnāt afford its completion. One picture.
Sea Forts
During the Second World War, the British Royal Navy constructed a series of sea forts for an advanced line of defense against inbound air raids and potential sea invasions from the Axis powers. The Maunsell Sea Forts still stand today, abandoned a few meters above the North Sea. One, however, remains inhabited, now a nation of its own referred to as the Principality of Sealand. These sea forts are a favorite of maritime explorers. One picture.
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No reason. No theme. Just pictures; some move; click for full size especially if the picture appears to beĀ unrecognizableĀ or doesn’t animate, etc.
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The winner:
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It’s Sunday night, I’m tired and still want to share a couple things.
First, Update on Blizzard, our cat that had her eyes removed (surgically) because she was suffering from glaucoma. She’s doing exceptionally well. Wayy better than when she was going bind from the glaucoma. She gets around the houseĀ withoutĀ any difficulty, hardly ever uses the walls to roam the place. One of these shows her eating with her sister Annie.
A great little short story:
09-02 You’re Ugly Too – Lorrie Moore
Anxiety a problem? Step into my office for your hypnosis session:
Attacking Anxiety Relaxation Session – Female Hypnotist Guided
Before:
After:
Never Give up. I mean it.
Miscellaneous-
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I just had aĀ birthdayĀ last week. I was born in 1955, 55 years ago.That makes me 5,555 years old! Below is a twenty dollar bill in circulation at the time of my birth.
(click for full size, as usual; you know I neverĀ skimpĀ on picture size-always the biggest pictures here at moonsoup!)
I have a variety of things to share today. Music, pictures, animated gifs, personal history, stories from where I work, other things.
Enjoy! or not.
Okay, some of the Mozart promised in the title:
mozart-sinfonia_concertante-presto
So, this is an odd time of year for me. My birthday last weekend, April 11th will be my older son’s 25th birthday (he’s coming to visit from SF this weekend-Ā riding the dog, ought to arrive by tomorrow morning), and smack in the middle of these things is the anniversary of my oldest/ youngest child’s death- April 6th. I often dread this time of year- if I’m going to be symptomatic mental health wise, this is the time I would do it. These days, however, I’m not expecting badness. She has mellowed in my heart. I experience her as a kind, gentle angel of death; reminding me of the preciousness in each moment. Thank you Erin.
Here’s a doodle by Andrew, the oldest living child,
and one of the most coolest people I know.
One of our cats- Blizzard, has been suffering from glaucoma for years, gradually going blind. Last month she had surgery to remove her eyes- it’s called “enucleation“. Anyway, these are some shots of her recuperation. By the way, she’s doing great. She’s way more comfortable and happy and since she’s been blind for a while she has no trouble finding her way around. My younger son paid for theĀ surgery- over $1000- because he is also a really great guy. Blizz gets the cone off her head later today.
Here’s Blizzard today, sansĀ cone head,
in the arms of my youngest son.
The JupiterĀ SymphonyĀ is one of my favorite Mozart compositions-
I wrote a while back, I think, about the death of a patient at Oregon State Hospital where I work. The Oregonian newspaper just did it’s first major story about it (betterĀ lateĀ than never).
From the article linked above:
The body of Moises Perez, 42, was discovered in this bed located just to the left of the door of a room he shared with four other men. The Oregon State Hospital patient had been dead several hours before he was discovered during evening medication checks.
Below- some great pictures of/ from the ESO ParanalĀ ObservatoryĀ in Chile, high in the Andes. The top picture is a full-sky, 360 degree panorama. The other pictures are of the observatory itself in summer and winter.
Richard Harris is the state Director of Addictions andĀ MentalĀ Health. He wrote this to the Oregon Consumer Survivor Coalition, our primary collective voice as survivors of the Mental Hell treatment system. I don’t know if it’s serious or comic relief. Time will tell. Anyone can yak yak yak.
From: “Richard HARRIS” <richard.harris@state.or.us>
Date: 18 March 2010 12:14:23 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Consumer Voice—-REVISED MEMO
Revised
DATE:Ā Ā Ā Ā March 18, 2010
TO:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā All AMH Staff
FROM:Ā Ā Ā Richard L. Harris
Assistant Director
RE:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Consumer voice
Over the past several months I have had the opportunity to meet with
many people representing manyĀ mental health consumer groups. From
these meetings it has become clear to me that there is a need for
increased consumer voice within local and state government. Len and I
recently met with the Oregon Consumer Survivor Coalition (OCSC) and
together we have identified four ways by which consumer voice can be
amplified:
1.Ā Ā Increased public education onĀ addiction and mental healthĀ issues;
2.Ā Ā Increased training for those providingĀ addiction and mental
healthĀ treatment;
3.Ā Ā Continued and increasedĀ peer support servicesĀ and;
4.Ā Ā Supporting and promoting an independent voice in the addictions
andĀ mental health consumer community.
My initial commitment to increase consumer voice and to support and
promote peer delivered services will be for AMH to provide phone and
video support to the upcoming strategic planning summit sponsored by
OCSC. The summit will identify a clear pathway to establishing a
formal mechanism to support consumer voice statewide. In addition
Oregon’s Olmstead Plan calls for increased consumer participation in
all aspects of transition from residential facilities to independent
living with people having a key to their own home with access to
addiction and mental health services when needed.
To further consumer voice and increase consumer visibility in the
community, OCSC will reach out to the addictions community and attend
and participate in the OHA/DHS statewide budget forums scheduled
around the state later this spring.
These are important first steps in creating a solid foundation to
promote consumer voice and visibility within local communities and
local and state government. I look forward to continuing dialogue with
the OCSC and others to develop a highly visible and robust consumer
voice as part of AMH and the developing OHA.
Richard L. Harris
Assistant Director
Addictions and Mental Health Division
500 Summer St NE E-86
Salem, OR 97301-1118
richard.harris@state.or.us
Blackberry:Ā 503-569-3183
FAX:Ā 503-373-7327
Heads up: may contain graphic violence–
By the way, you can’t outrun a Samurai!
My personal favorite by Mozart, hisĀ unfinishedĀ “requiem”. This is the whole shebang, huge file, high quality-
A couple weekends back my wife and I went hiking at Catherine Creek to look at the first wildflowers of spring. You get there by going to Hood River, Oregon, crossing the troll bridge (don’t look! you’ll turn to stone!) into Washington, driving east through the town of Bingen, Washington and at the second roadside lake take the old state road that climbs the hill. You’ll know you’re there when you get to it. There are a few waves of wildflowers that bloom and pass relatively quickly in the stony volcanic earth. By now there’s a whole new batch. By the middle of April they’ll almost all be gone. I hope we get back up there before the end of the season.
Mozart plays the bassoon!
mozart-bassoon_concerto-allegro
mozart-bassoon_concerto-andante
Bye for now, have a great day.
-Rick
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First post of the new year.
Note: I’ve uploaded the first radio show of the new year to the MLBM archive (tab above).
I will add more to this post when time allows. My life has been challenging. Cute picture of kitten follows. Click for full size.
Pictures, photographs, that is. Starting with family items, degenerating into random finds, ani-gifs. The family pictures are big big big, click for full size.
Erin and Me
Erin is no longer with us- as in she died 2 & 1/2 years after this picture was taken. After we bought the flute, I tried to encourage her to practice. Detail follows with clear view of the glare she was giving me in this sweet father-daughter moment:
The last good family Halloween- also 1991. Top picture includes our babysitter and her boyfriend with Erin on the left side, middle is outside with a guest, me and Matt as a toddler, bottom is trick or treat-
One of our cats, Blizzard, a few years back (pre-Ā foreclosureĀ on the house the kids grew up in, pre- rented house burning down last year); Eyes on Fire-
Matt getting a sword for his birthday last year (he collects swords, doesn’t use them- he’s a Quaker kid, after all)-
Random, mostly from an un-named (un-nameable, unknowable etc.) source:
Dr. Brewers Guide to Science- 1880
More Dr. Brewer
#D Hilbert Curve, generated with a custom MEL script in Maya
Cat 'n melon
![[ani] ready for take-off](https://moon-soup.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ani-ready-for-take-off.gif "[ani] ready for take-off")
Bye for now-
-r
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Oh, my- did you see the full moon last night at about dark- beautiful, full harvest moon. Clear sky (here in PDX), yellow and big (horizon illusion), gorgeous. It’s a shame we have no radio show this month. Looked something like this:
Some photos taken on the way to work in the morning- sunrise (as per usual, click for full size or if picture doesn’t show, most of these are huge):
Holgate Street, pre-dawn
Rhone Street
On a different note- this illustratin of Mercury’s magnetic field, distorted by it’s proximity to the solar wind:
Following in the “space” category, a May 22nd, 2009 view of the Space Staion from the space shuttle, earth back:
Beautiful Bangalore shrine, oddly found while looking for pictures of Swami Sarvaganada (because I wanted an illustration of his Guru Puja/ Akanda Mandala Karam audio, instead found this excellent Ramakrishna altar:
Then this:
Gynandromorphic Butterfly
This:
Woody G at McSorely's
All that remains is Fluff and Cuteness:
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