Hitler in Paris in 1940
Warsaw Poland 1944
First computer 1946
Friday, January 31, 2014
Photos" Iconic moments in time of the 1940's
First computer 1946
Thursday, January 30, 2014
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Aesop's thoughts (A freed slave) who lived from 620 BC - 560 BC
A false tale often betrays itself.
A fine appearance is a poor substitute
for inward worth.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A villain may disguise himself, but he
will not deceive the wise.
Acquaintance softens prejudices.
An act of kindness is a good investment.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the
disease.
Be on guard against men who can strike
from a distance.
Be reasonable in your criticism.
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed
increase their means of injuring you.
Better a certain enemy than a doubtful
friend.
Beware of flatterers.
Beware of hypocrites.
Beware of the counsel of the
unfortunate.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
Children are not to be blamed for the
faults of their parents.
Choose the lesser of two evils.
Clothes do not make the man.
Contentment with our lot is an element
of happiness.
Counsel without help is useless.
Count the cost before you commit
yourselves.
Do not attempt to hide things which
cannot be hid.
Barry Clifford: Food for thought....
Calling God
Hence today, I believe that I am acting in accordance with
the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am
fighting for the work of the Lord.
Attributed to Adolf Hitler from his speeches
“But Ivan The Terrible would execute someone and then spend
a long time repenting and praying. God got his way in this matter; Ivan ought
to have been more decisive!”
Attributed to Stalin from his writings
“Only in the cities of these people that the Lord your God
is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that
breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the
Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God
has commanded you, so that they may not teach you to do according to all their
detestable things which they have done for their Gods, so that you would sin
against the Lord Your God.”
Attributed to God from his Bible
Video: The Green Fields Of .......
BC
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Article: More Pompeii Graffiti From 79 AD
Mosaic of a satyr and nymph from The House of the Faun, the home of
wealthy Pompeian aristocrats.
Most people associate Pompeii with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79
AD, an event which killed over 16,000 people and “froze” the surrounding area
in ash, leaving an entire city nearly perfectly preserved for posterity. One of
Pompeii’s more endearing qualities is its preservation of the less respectable
(but more recognizable) aspects of humanity and that is its graffiti. Here are
some more of its finest, or at
least well written pieces, and maybe that’s the most important thing of all to
show how little we have changed or perhaps ever will.
(Bar of Astylus and Pardalus): Lovers are like bees in that
they live a honeyed life
(Bar of Athictus; right of the door): I screwed the barmaid
(House of Caecilius Iucundus): Whoever loves, let him
flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice
over whoever forbids love.
(barracks of the Julian-Claudian gladiators; column in the
peristyle): Celadus the Thracian gladiator is the delight of all the girls
(vico degli Scienziati): Cruel Lalagus, why do you not love me?
(Wood-Working Shop of Potitus): What a lot of tricks you use to
deceive, innkeeper. You sell water but drink unmixed wine
(atrium of a House of the Large Brothel): Blondie has taught me
to hate dark-haired girls. I shall hate them, if I can, but I wouldn’t
mind loving them. Pompeian Venus Fisica wrote this.
(atrium of the House of Pinarius): If anyone does not believe
in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend
(vicolo del Panattiere, House of the Vibii, Merchants):
Atimetus got me pregnant
(vicolo del Panattiere, House of the Vibii, Merchants): Figulus
loves Idaia
(Bar of Hedone (or Colepius) on the Street of the Augustales;
on the corner toward the lupinare): Hedone says, “You can get a drink here for
only one coin. You can drink better wine for two coins. You can
drink Falernian for four coins.”
(House of Caprasius Primus): I don’t want to sell my husband,
not for all the gold in the world
(Vico d’ Eumachia, small room of a possible brothel): Gaius
Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of
Rufus, screwer of women
(Vico d’ Eumachia, small room of a possible brothel): Vibius
Restitutus slept here alone and missed his darling Urbana
(corridor in the theater): Methe, slave of Cominia, from
Atella, loves Chrestus. May Pompeian Venus be dear to both of them and
may they always live in harmony.
(above a bench outside the Marine Gate): If anyone sits here,
let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for
Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.
(in the basilica): No young buck is complete until he has
fallen in love
(in the basilica): Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together
so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!
(in the basilica): Let everyone one in love come and see. I
want to break Venus’ ribs with clubs and cripple the goddess’ loins. If
she can strike through my soft chest, then why can’t I smash her head with a
club?
(in the basilica): Phileros is a eunuch!
(in the basilica): If you are able, but not willing, why do you
put off our joy and kindle hope and tell me always to come back tomorrow.
So, force me to die since you force me to live without you. Your gift will
be to stop torturing me. Certainly, hope returns to the lover what it has
once snatched away.
(in the basilica): Take hold of your servant girl whenever you
want to; it’s your right
(in the basilica): Love dictates to me as I write and Cupid
shows me the way, but may I die if god should wish me to go on without you
(House of the Centenary; in the atrium): My lusty son, with how
many women have you had sexual relations?
(triclinium of a house): Restitutus has deceived many girls.
Nuceria Necropolis (on a tomb): Greetings to Primigenia of
Nuceria. I would wish to become a signet ring for no more than an hour,
so that I might give you kisses dispatched with your signature.
Herculaneum (bar/inn joined to the maritime baths): Two friends
were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy
named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii
most agreeably on whores.
Herculaneum (bar/inn joined to the maritime baths): Apelles Mus
and his brother Dexter each pleasurably had sex with two girls twice.
Sourced; BC
Barry Clifford: 'It doesn’t matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
The Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping
said: “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it
catches mice.” He said it at a time when it was politically dangerous and
suffered greatly for it. His son was thrown out of a 3rd story building and rendered
paralyzed in a wheelchair for the rest of his life; while Deng himself was
stripped of all status and sent to a place that must have been called nowhere.
In the end, he triumphed and became the greatest leader China had ever seen while his son continues to champion human rights at every level since, and
especially those with disabilities.
One can only hope in Ireland that any new party which may be born or re-born on these shores anew can come to embrace similar tactics
as Deng to find their political footing, and be centre stage rather than
forever be on the margins because of the inherent political and institutional
corruption that has blighted this country since 1922.
I believe any party worth its morals
laced with idealism should put the economy at the centre stage of all its
ideals, and corruption as its other main objective to achieve it.
Any parties core objectives today may
be too narrow and cannot describe
everyone in the Ireland we have now. The single biggest immigrant group who can
vote in Irish elections today are British, followed by the Americans, and then
the Poles. It will take more than broad rhetoric to win the hearts and
mind of either, against the apathy and disgust of voters who are still suffering and
reeling from the bill and ultimate payment for what corruption means in
monetary terms. Much work needs to be done.
We have seen a false economy come and
go and its physical footprint in ghost estates across the country. Not so
visible is diminishing services of health and education that is the core of any
political ideology. Get sick and you will see it. You know all this. Irelands only success story today is its
ability to borrow money rather than create wealth. The diminishing median
businesses cannot stand and support themselves anymore, let alone a wider
economy, or its tax liabilities because of been given a bill without choice
from the crime syndicate that is fianna Fail and their banker/gangster friends. The only thing that has changed at all is the balance of power festooned with the same liars wearing different masks. It is a wonder there will be an electorate at all because of their undoubted
apathy. There is always a hope and a way.
It is for any new political party or
person to show that way, if integrity still exists without compromise, and when
it does it will get the credibility that it seeks and be better able to realize
its citizens ideals and expectations. It is paramount not to repeat parish pump
politics ever again for that can only mean a pump without a parish,
where the traditional villages will become empty but die permanently this time;
and traditional gossip will become the sport of the birds in the trees.
Do something before nothing can be done.
Barry Clifford
Article: Catholic priest strikes £20MILLION deal to transform office block into homes in England
By Tara Brady
A Catholic priest who juggles his job with property developing has landed a £20million deal - and will donate all the spare profits to church charity projects.
Father
Gregory Grant, 63, went into business with a parishioner in 1998 and now runs
the PG Group from a converted office above his Bristol church.
The
company has built up a large portfolio by buying dilapidated city centre
buildings and turning them into much-needed accommodation.
But
now they have moved into the big league by buying a 13-storey office block
which they plan to convert into 120 new homes.
Father
Gregory has always considered God to be the 'third partner' in the business and
as such gives a third of the profits to church projects.
To
date the company has handed out more than £1million to charity and he expects
the new deal - his biggest to date - to raise that figure even further.
The
parish priest of St Patrick’s Church, in Redfield, Bristol, said: 'God gives
you money simply so that you can give it away again.
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'My
idea of fun is working out the best way to make money so that we can find a way
of giving it away. It’s very satisfying.
'The
work of the priest is often cyclical, with the same services coming around
again each year.
'But
the world of property management has projects, which have a beginning, a middle
and an end.'
After
being ordained in 1977, Father Gregory spent four years as curate at Corpus
Christi Church, Weston-super-Mare, where he became involved in his first
development project.
The
church had an old Scout hall facing the sea and Father Gregory made £40,000 by
selling it for redevelopment and using the money to build a meeting room.
Later
he was appointed parish priest of St Patrick’s in Bristol, which was scheduled
for closure because of its decaying 65-year old church and dwindling 200
congregation.
Father
Gregory opted to rebuild the church, which now has a new building, convent, 22
retirement homes and a 67-bed nursing home - and its congregation has grown to
600.
He
officially launched the business in 1998 with parishioner and friend Peter
Bradley in a bid to raise a small amount for their local community.
Mr
Bradley died from a brain tumour a year later aged 43 and his wife Fiona took
over his role as trustee.
In
2002, Father Gregory launched The Grant Bradley Trust, which helps to fight
poverty in the Third World by providing housing and building schools.
Father
Gregory works from 7.30am to 11pm Monday to Friday in a converted office above
his church, but is still able to tend to his parishioners in the evening and
weekends.
The
PG Group’s latest deal is worth more than £20m alone for the firm.
The
block of old offices will be transformed into flats for more than 120 families
and will include roof gardens, a gymnasium, a cafe and a shop.
Director Stuart Gaiger said: 'We already have permitted development rights for all internal works but now we are seeking permission to provide all the apartments with balconies and also to replace large areas of the building’s concrete cladding with glass.
'This
work will considerably enhance the slightly austere appearance of Lewins Place
and boost the cityscape of which it is an integral part.
'Following
on from the sell out success of The Eye, our iconic eye shaped apartments
complex close to Temple Meads, this will be our largest city redevelopment
project to date.'
Photos: An owl going out for dinner and bringing it home.
An owl going out for dinner and bringing it home.
Going home........
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Graffiti from Pompeii in 79 AD
From Herculaneum (a bar/inn joined to the maritime baths):
"Two friends
were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named
Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most
agreeably on whores."
From just outside the Vesuvius gate:
"Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can
leave this place."
From the peristyle of the Tavern of Verecundus:
"Restitutus says: 'Restituta, take off your tunic, please,
and show us your hairy privates.'"
From Herculaneum (a bar/inn joined to the maritime baths):
"Apelles the chamberlain with Dexter, a slave of Caesar, ate here most
agreeably and had a screw at the same time."
From the basilica:
"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that
I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin."
Barry Clifford: Once Were Orphaned
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685- 1750
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Nelson Mandela 1918- 2013
Steve Jobs 1955- 2011
Aristotle 384 BC-322 BC
Bill Clinton 1946-
John Lennon 1940-1980
Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977
Steve Mc Queen 1930-1980
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