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History / Golden-Torques.
History / Golden-Torques.
Picture Above. North Sea Rig. "Semi-submersible Sea Quest."
I started Life in The North Sea @ Christmas in 1969/70 working for Albert Abella Catering on Gas Rig Platforms off of Great Yarmouth
Arpet-A and another BP Gas Platform. My first Helicoptor flight out we were asked to put on survival overalls before getting on board the Helicopter from the Heliport in Yarmouth out to the platform. I thought what have I let myself in for here with ear-muffs on also.
For testing gas quality a flare was shot into the Gas Gushing out from the Xmas Tree on the drilling deck,
The ignition blast shaking the whole Rig, it used to light up the night sky like daylight.
Then early into 1970 I flew out to Vlissingen for BP to pick up the semi-submersible rig Sea Quest as "Chief Steward / Chef."
And we were towed into the North Sea, off of Yarmouth first, for drill testing. Then we were towed up 150 miles off of Aberdeen and then the semi-submersible rig Sea Quest made the first UKoffshore Oil find in the Forties Field. I used to go shopping for the Crew on board our stand by boat being lowered from the deck of the Sea Queast on a crew conveyer net suspended from the rig crane and go off to the pipe laying platform Hercules like a big floating Town for our shopping, Cigarettes, & other toilet things. Had a few hair raising moments while on the Sea Quest with one storm snapping two of the anchor chains all personel were on the Heli Port life jackets on ready to go with the helicopter blades going round, but the other Seven anchor chains held thank the good lord or we could have gone over like the Sister Rig the Sea Jem did a year earlier with many sad fatalities. But you do not think its your turn with dangerous moments like this. I have had quite a few very dangerous moments during my life time though.
Very sad to hear she sank I had some happy times aboard her.
I am now retired in Jersey Channel Islands.
1809-1882 Charles Robert Darwin.
His work still has today the enormous influence in his fields as a leading scientist of his day.
Evolutionary Biology.
The discoverer of natural selection.
He studied medicine and biology then became a naturalist writing on plants and animals.
Darwin has already done the work for you on stem cells by acknowledging that cleanliness is next to godliness.
Raising an organism's fitness.
So that natural selection can spread that gene.
"Eternal Life"
Very possible the secret of eternal life is held in the bone marrow genes , within the bones is the secret of breath, sinews, flesh, skin, youth, old age, the immune system, and nervous system.
Fitness being the dominant factor of all of the genes for eternal life.
Can you imagine Barbara Windsor starting to make her "Carry On Films" in twenty years time after youth gene treatment?.
A jigsaw for the big boy's for sure.
" God made it work in the beginning."
" Sure infinity can be carried forward."
Anthony Fry 2006.
Stem Cell Research.
A cladistic analysis is not good enough for this sensitive topic you must get a suitable regulatory framework positive.
That determines the evolutionary relationship between organisms based on derived similarities.
There are concepts in many of the fables of folklore.
Everything we value, we value for evolutionary reasons.
A fantasy generation process of ifs and butts.
Agents with beliefs and desires.
Survival of the fittest an historical theory having been endorsed by natural selection.
You must follow the code of practice.
Embryonic stem cell research could mark the beginning of revolutionary new borders in this century.
A Trojan horse filled with prokaryotic parasites to fight against the body's eukaryote cells.
Is it an illusion in a mystery inside an enigma.
Because only members of the species can inter breed successfully.
An endocrine system with two thousand to ten thousand receptacles in each cell.
Ondatra Zibethicus(Muskrat).
Flammulina Velutipes(Mushroom).
Calendula Officinalis(Marigold).
Our nearest evolutionary kin.
Aside from other members our own genus and species.
Homo sapiens are the hominoid family which includes apes after that in decreasing order of relationship we belong to the order of primates the class of mammals the super class of tetra-pods the sub-phylum of vertebrates the phylum of chordates creatures with a nerve down the back and finally the animal kingdom as a whole.
The key unit of evolution however is the species that's the level at which changes get made.
Defined as the genealogical connection among all earthly organisms. Plus We have the internal parasites which adapt into a complex mammalian carnivore a parasite living within on the free savannas, just the same as it did in our long living relatives the chimpanzee. Ethically different realms of human life.
As seen through the eyes of the eugenicists trying to improve the human race by curing diseases is OK.
But some innovations that would enable scientists to create gorilla type beings in a zoo.
That you can hold an intelligent conversation with.
Mind boggling but it is not impossible if you are given the go ahead with neuroscience.
Embryonic stem cell research.
Will there be another world war for the multi-billion pound industry.
When someone starts cloning embryonic stem cells by the lights of a perverted science.
God has written all the books. Will he tolerate their existence.
Stem cells are immortal in that they are able to replicate an unlimited number of times.
Playing god What would these people make of an artificial human.
Is this going to turn into a very remarkable story about natural selection about metaphysics of ensoulment or maybe of moral contradiction.
Will there be a moral value in talking to something that looks and talks like your mother or father.
Progenitor cell life is an illegitimate transmitted clandestine disease you must draw a line.
You must try to develop this bio-tech development issue in an historical way.
Give Darwin some worthy credit or you will have to re-write the bible in the future when it goes as far as cloning humans.
Do not forget the body's immune system plus the nervous system. There will be prerequisite( Sine Qua Non )allotments everywhere with super-fit(Genomic)gardeners with nothing to do all day but sow their seeds.
Let me tell You a 4.55 billion year old secret.
"Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
Raising an organism's fitness so that natural selection can spread that gene.
2006.
Is this world ready for a change yet with only 50% of the population having sanitary conditions.
Yes 50% of the population of this world does not have a toilet to flush a very sad statement to make in this year of 2006.
We really take things for granted in our so called civilised country's.
772 million people in India and 736 million in China alone use the great outdoors.
Flushing more toilets would make many more cubicle people happy.
"The Decade's Of The Holocaust."
Remembered by the Freedom Tree.
Designed To Sculpture Significance Of Liberation
This sculpture was unveiled by HRH Queen Elizabeth 11 on at the Elizabeth Marina Jersey on Liberation Day in the Year 2005.
Everyday folk gave their lives for general issues of hope and freedom.
May the place of the future have peace.
At the request of the artist( Richard Perry )local poet( Linda Rose Parker )who was commissioned to write a Poem and this is engraved into jersey granite around the base of the sculpture.
Freedom Tree Poem by " Linda Rose Parker "
In the winding near-deserted lanes at dusk how will we comfort the great fretted moths searching in their liminal silks for the echo of branches - if we drive out every place where the tree bends its voice into the cotils? every gap in the walls or stone latch where leaves scatter into our stymied thoughts their green cadences of rustling air when we sleep the open vowels of landscape still draw us back to the windswept oak the fissured bole of language.
The Tree is over 6 metres high and 3 metres wide.
It has 30 oak leaves and 12 acorns.
The whole commissioned construction consists about 8 tonnes of bronze, plaster and steel armature.
Open your eyes before you open your mouth go to the website below to see the suffering endured to appreciate the meaning of
" The Freedom Tree "
http://history1900s.about.com
decade by decade/holocaust
just press in the alphabetical list of the holocaust.
1889. Golden Torque Of Jersey.
Undoubtedly the most beautiful prehistoric find also the most valuable relic to have been found in Jersey.
This torque of pure Gold is four and a half foot long and the thickness is just under half an inch it was found in Lewis Street at Torque Villas in 1889.
A very rare find for the island its weight is twenty four troy ounces also found were some unusual Gold Coins from the dark ages. The Golden Torque of Jersey was thought to have been worn round the shoulder as an holster for a sword.
It makes you wonder how it was worn.
It was called a Gold Necklace worn by the Romans and the Gauls for masculine adornment worn about 1550 BC.
The Druids place of worship was groves, the oak tree being their favorite sacred tree.
Thousands of years ago, the early people of Europe thought that bogs were places where they could communicate with gods and goddesses as well as dead relatives.
They made offerings in the bogs, to please the gods or perhaps to ask for something. Cauldrons, jewelry, and even wagons were deposited in the bogs to curry special favor.
A Golden Torque perhaps? sometimes people were sacrificed in or near the bogs and buried there, as the ultimate offering.
One or two oak trees to be found to this day near to where the Torque was discovered about 20 metres away near the boules courts
opposite the Peoples Park in St Helier. makes you wonder what happened on that day it was lost.?
Because the Gauls used to have human sacrifices in their worship. This was marshland going back to the time of the Golden Torque the imagination is really working overtime now??.
There are quite a few Torques been found throughout England and Ireland.
In different Museums now.
Some extraordinary weights and also different metals.
1170
Richard Le Breton( One of his descendants was Lillie langtry )
One of the four knights who assassinated
Saint Thomas A'becket Archbishop of Canterbury.
Accomplished in his own Canterbury Cathedral at the alter
on December 29th 1170.
A shrine was later re-established there and remains extremely popular for tourist today.
Richard Le Breton shortly after the assassination retreated to Jersey there starts the saga of Emily Le Breton( Lillie Langtry ).
I used to be the chef of the "Sun Street Restaurant" outside the Cathedral gates in the 1960's and it was extremely busy with french tourist getting their preserves also tea and coffee fresh roasted in the restaurants Victorian cellar.
The aroma drove them crazy coming up through the iron grill in the early morning on the pedestrian sidewalk of Sun Street after they had visited the Cathedral.
(1853-1929) LILLIE LANGTRY;
One of the Finest Lady's to leave Jersey for a " Life in London."
" Emilie Charlotte Le Breton. " nicknamed " Lillie "in her early teens was acknowledged as the most beautiful girl on the Island of Jersey.
Her nickname possibly came about after one of her jaunts,
with friends late one summer evening in the cemetery next to the rectory in St Saviours where she lived it took place under the big old mulberry tree, when she arrived home late she shared a room with her brothers it was the done thing in those day's, whilst undressing in the lamplight one of her brothers said "hey Emilie your behind died in 1860" and for all to see was imprinted on her backside, "To Lillie our sister died 1860" Henceforth her nickname was "Lillie." It bought a smile to her six boisterous brothers faces.
The Prince of Wales(later King Edward VII)
Once had a quarrel with his then mistress, Lillie Langtry.
"I've spent enough on you to buy a battleship" the Prince complained.
"And you've spent enough in me Lillie retorted, to float one."
Oh! not at all just a straightaway pound-er,
Lillie Langtry replied when asked if the Prince
of Wales was a good lover.
1889 Queen Victoria.
Some really interesting quotes from the Lady Herself.
Queen Victoria, "I think people unmarried are very happy,
certainly more so than married people who don't live happily
together of which there are so many instances, i think people really marry far to much, it is such a lottery after all,
and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness, which you cant deny is the penalty of marriage."
"I positively think those Ladies who are always Enceinte quite disgusting, it is more like a rabbit or guinea pig than anything else and it is not very nice, i know that papa is shocked at that sort of thing."
1889( The Eiffel Tower )
Built for the Paris exhibition by the french bridge builder
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Made of wrought iron It stands 300M( 984FT )high on the left bank of the River Seine.
It's revolutionary lattice-work earned Eiffel the title.
" Magician of Iron ".
1890 Sioux Indians
Federal troops massacred 300 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee
South Dakota.
Ending the last Indian war in the west.
1904( Entente Cordiale )
The signing of the "Entente Cordiale."
The agreement signed in London on April 8th, 1904 which marked
the start of an unprecedented era of friendship and military
alliance between Britain and France.
2004 Banquet
Queen Elizabeth II At the British Embassy in Paris.
In 2004 presented a Banquet of welsh lamb, courgettes,
aubergines, and Jersey royal potatoes, for President
Jacques Chirac's Wife Madame Bernadette Chirac.
If Things Don't Change They Stay As They Are.
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