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Q: Validating and correcting URLs using JavaScript tl;dr: User enters a short-form/alias URL into an input field (website.com). I need to figure out its long-form and replace the user's input (which can be www.website.com or www2.website.com - it depends on the redirection).
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I have a web service where the user can enter a URL into an input field. When submitted, my web service regularly sends GET/POST requests (from the server) to that URL and does stuff with the returned data.
The problem I've run into is that users sometimes enter short-form URLs. For example, they enter washingtonpost.com instead of https://www.washingtonpost.com. This isn't an issue when navigating to that URL in the browser (during regular browsing) since the browser automatically follows the redirect to https://www.washingtonpost.com. The issue is that handling that redirect logic on the server side is proving to be pretty messy and I want to avoid it.
I'm looking for a way to "validate" the URL the user enters into the input field. I thought about prepending www to all URLs entered if they don't have it already, but not all websites have that. Some use www2 for example, while others don't use it. The only way (that I know of) to reliably figure out the "final" URL is to listen for a redirect and get the location value from the response.
I thought about validating the URL by sending a GET request to it using JavaScript, parsing the response, and if the statusCode is a redirect (301, 302, etc.), replacing the URL in the input field with the location.
The issue with that is CORS. I get this error in the console:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://washingtonpost.com/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://myservice.com' is therefore not allowed access.`

What's the best way to accomplish this task? I'd like to use JavaScript if possible.

A: This won't be possible with Javascript as Javascript imposes security measures on these cases.
The closest you can get is to create an iframe and load the URL, but in case of cross domain redirects iframe won't allow you to inspect its location.href
Another possible try can be using AJAX requests, but that requires CORS enabled in target server which you cannot possibly do in your case as user can enter any URL.
So basically the solution you are looking for is bound to break the cross-domain security policy in browsers and so it is better you do a check in backend.

If you can't do it in your backend
There are anyways proxy servers that are CORS enabled and exposing their services. You can reuse their service as long as your requirement doesn't expose any private data. Here is an example with cors-anywhere and using their custom final url provided in their header (X-Final-Url). You have to add a protocol anyways http/https

$.ajaxPrefilter( function (options) {
  if (options.crossDomain && jQuery.support.cors) {
    var http = (window.location.protocol === 'http:' ? 'http:' : 'https:');
    options.url = http + '//cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/' + options.url;
    //options.url = "http://cors.corsproxy.io/url=" + options.url;
  }
});

 $.ajax({
   type: 'HEAD', //'GET'
   url:'http://washingtonpost.com',
   success: function(data, textStatus, request){
        console.log(request.getResponseHeader('X-Final-Url'));
   },
   error: function (request, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        console.log(request.getResponseHeader('X-Final-Url'));
   }
  });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>


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British Pound (£) BREXIT, Macron & Trading, What Will Happen To The Pound
By S. Jack Heffernan Ph.D on May 9, 2017 Comments Off on British Pound (£) BREXIT, Macron & Trading, What Will Happen To The Pound
Emmanuel Macron told the UK to expect "tough" Brexit negotiations after being elected last night as France's youngest leader since Napoleon and vowed to heal divisions in Europe. His landslide victory has been hailed by EU leaders such as Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, who said they were "rejoicing" after hearing the news.
*The French president will be "tough" on Brexit negotiations but will not seek to "punish" the UK for quitting the bloc.
*Macron has become France's youngest-ever president.
*World leaders including Trump, Theresa May and Justin Trudeau have congratulated Macron.
*The GBP/USD pair has found the $1.30 area tough to crack in its fightback from the post-vote lows of $1.19. It's now hovering around $1.2950 and lacks obvious impetus to go higher.
Overall, the bias in prices is: Upwards.
Short term: Prices are stalling.
Intermediate term: Prices are trending.
By the way, prices are vulnerable to a correction towards 1.26.
During the past 10 bars, there have been 7 white candles and 3 black candles for a net of 4 white candles. During the past 50 bars, there have been 29 white candles and 20 black candles for a net of 9 white candles.
One method of interpreting the Stochastic Oscillator is looking for overbought areas (above 80) and oversold areas (below 20). The Stochastic Oscillator is 78.3611. This is not an overbought or oversold reading. The last signal was a sell 6 period(s) ago.
The RSI shows overbought (above 70) and oversold (below 30) areas. The current value of the RSI is 64.31. This is not a topping or bottoming area. A buy or sell signal is generated when the RSI moves out of an overbought/oversold area. The last signal was a sell 6 period(s) ago.
The CCI shows overbought (above 100) and oversold (below -100) areas. The current value of the CCI is 76. This is not a topping or bottoming area. The last signal was a sell 0 period(s) ago.
FOREX GBP= closed up 0.000 at 1.294. Volume was 44% below average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 27% wider than normal.
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Short Term: Overbought
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Volatility: 7 10 12
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56013 Rainald Gilfrid LEWTHWAITE, OBE, MC, MiD*, Scots Guards
Discussion in 'The Brigade of Guards' started by dbf, Aug 30, 2019.
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Personal Number: 56013
Rank: Captain
Name: Rainald Gilfrid LEWTHWAITE, OBE, MC, MiD*
Unit: Scots Guards
London Gazette : 31 August 1934
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34083/page/5522/data.pdf
FOOT GUARDS.
S. G'ds.—
2nd Lt. Rainald Gilfrid LEWTHWAITE, from Camb. Univ. Contgt., Sen. Div., O.T.C., 31st Aug. 1933, next above 2nd Lt. H. S. N. Rathbone.
London Gazette : 2 September 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35262/supplement/5084/data.pdf
The undermentioned Lts. to be Capts.: —
31st Aug. 1941: —
R. G. Lewthwaite (56013).
London Gazette : 30 December 1941
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East (including Egypt, East Africa, The Western Desert, The Sudan, Greece, Crete, Syria and Tobruk) during the period February, 1941, to July, 1941:—
Capt. R. G. Lewthwaite (56013).
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period November, 1941, to April, 1942:—
Capt. (temp. Maj.) R. G. Lewthwaite (56013)
London Gazette : 18 May 1943
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East:—
The Military Cross.
Captain (temporary Major) Rainald Gilfrid Lewthwaite (56013), Scots Guards (Broughton-in-Furness, Lanes).
London Gazette : 27 March 1956
MEMORANDA.
REGULAR ARMY.
The. undermentioned Majs. to be Lt.-Cols. on the Emp. List (1) on the dates shown:—
R. G. LEWTHWAITE, M.C. (56013), S.G., 30th June 1955.
London Gazette : 4 August 1964
The undermentioned Cols, to be Brigs, on the dates shown:
R. G. LEWTHWAITE, M.C., B.A. (56013) late Ft. Gds., 11th July 1964.
London Gazette : 29 July 1966
REGULAR ARMY
The undermentioned Offrs. to be Supernumerary to Establishment on the dates shown:
Brig. R. G. LEWTHWAITE, M.C. (56013), late Ft. Gds., 11th July 1966.
COMMANDS AND STAFF
Brig. R. G. LEWTHWAITE, M.C. (56013), late Ft. Gds. retires on retired pay, 1st Sep. 1968.
London Gazette : 15 June 1974
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order :
Brigadier Rainald Gilfrid LEWTHWAITE, M.C., Director of Protocol, Hong Kong.
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to make the fol- lowing appointments to the Royal Victorian Order in connection with Her Majesty's Visit to Hong Kong:
To be Commanders:
Brigadier Rainald Gilfrid LEWTHWAITE, O.B.E., M.C.
dbf, Aug 30, 2019
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35396/page/73/data.pdf
dbf, May 31, 2020
The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details
Name Lewthwaite, Rainald Gilfrid
Service No: 56013
Regiment: 2 Scots Guards
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Award: Military Cross
Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 18 May 1943
Catalogue reference WO 373/24
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R.G. LEWTHWAITE (Trinity College) Middle Row 7th from left
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Come winter, I start craving fresh, crunchy textures. Root vegetables, squashes and leafy greens have been on the menu for a while now and my palate yearns for something new. That's when I'm especially grateful for fennel. Although grown all year long, the tender, voluptuous bulbs are at their sweetest and crunchiest in the winter months.
Florence fennel or finocchio is the fennel that we're all used to seeing at the market. The female plant produces a large round bulb with a delicate anise flavor that lends itself perfectly to being eaten raw. But lately, I've been wanting to make something a bit different with fennel. So I decided to try fennel fritters… and I'm so glad I did!
First I blanched the fennel slices until tender but still a bit crunchy. Then I dipped them in eggs and coated them with Parmesan breadcrumbs. And finally, to highlight the fennel's delicate anise flavor, I crushed a few fennel seeds in a mortar and added them to the crumb mixture.
Pan-fried in a little olive oil, the fennel fritters came out tender on the inside and delightfully crunchy on the outside. Served with a fragrant Meyer lemon dip, these fritters were irresistible – just what I'd hoped for!
A medium- to full-bodied white wine with mellow lemony notes works really well with these scrumptious morsels. Try a Pinot Blanc from Alsace or a Chenin Blanc from South Africa. A sparkling Chenin Blanc would be wonderful here too!
Step 1: To make the dip — Place the sour cream in a bowl. Add the lemon zest and lemon juice. Whisk until well incorporated and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Step 2: To trim the fennel bulb – Cut the stalks off where they meet the bulb. Cut the bulb in quarters, right through the root end. Then cut each quarter in 4 to 5, 1/4" slices, making sure to cut right through the root end again so the slices stay attached together. (The fennel slices can be blanched right away or placed in a bowl and submerged with cold water. They can be stored this way and refrigerated for several hours. This will keep them crisp and prevent them from discoloring).
Step 3: Fill a medium bowl with cold water and several ice cubes, set aside. Fill a medium heavy-bottomed pot with water and bring to a boil. Add the salt and fennel slices. Blanch for 6 minutes, until tender but still firm. Scoop them out with a slotted spoon and transfer to the ice water bath until cool. Drain on kitchen towels or paper towels and pat-dry.
Step 4: Place the breadcrumbs, cheese, ground fennel seeds, salt and pepper in a medium bowl and stir until well blended. Spread on a plate and set aside. Place the beaten eggs in a small bowl. Dip each fennel slice in the egg and then turn them in the breadcrumb mixture. Place on a plate large enough to hold all the slices in a single layer.
Cook's note: The fennel fritters can be prepared to this point up to 6 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate until ready to pan-fry them.
Step 5: To make the fritters – Heat a large heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat. Add enough oil to the pan to reach 1/8" up the sides. When the oil is hot add the fennel slices to the pan so they are in a single layer, without overcrowding them. Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes until golden-brown. Flip the slices and continue to sauté for another 2 minutes until golden-brown. Remove from pan with a slotted spatula and drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with sea salt to taste. Overlap 4 to 5 fritters in the center of each plate. Place a spoonful of the dip next to them. Garnish with fennel greens and serve immediately. Alternatively, serve as an hors d'oeuvres and place the fritters on a large platter and the dip in a medium bowl. Serve the fritters piping hot, as they become soggy as they cool.
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Happy Fennel Friday! We love this recipe and it is featured on our Fennel Appetizers Recipe Round-Up this week! Thanks for sharing!
Just beautiful! Love the idea of a fennel fritter! Especially with that lemony dip!
These look amazing! I absolutely love fennel and it's always great to see how other people are using it.
These look fabulous!! Just buzzed it!!
Oh… thank you, thank you!
Wow – I am a big fan of fennel, but I never had it this way, or even so prominently featured as the main ingredient. What a wonderful idea 🙂 I love your pictures, too!
Viviane, Once again this looks delicious! I'm with you I love fresh crunchy textures. And just in time for the weekend. Thank you!
Hi Viviane, I love all the photo's! I can do this, thanks for the recipe and keep on cooking!
I don't even like fennel and this is tempting me!
Wow, thank you for this amazing recipe – I never know what to do with fennel, I mean just adding it to salads sounds too boring… never thought you could make fritters of it! And I love the idea of the Parmesan breadcrumbs and the lemon dip!..
Is there anything you could use in place of breadcrumbs?
I could not resist: I tweeted this. I'm not a fan of fennel but would be happy to give those a try. Lovely work!
Oh wow! Simply divine! I love fennel and what an amazing way to cook them! I must try both of your recipes! Brilliant!
Why didn't I think of this? What a fabulous idea.
What a beautiful, original dish! I am really looking forward to try these fritters.
This is absoloutely beautiful! Congratulations on being number 1 on Foodbuzz top 9!
OMG! Amazing idea! Can't wait to try!!!
Thank you for your comments on our Robola. The Robola grape is considered one of the finest for wine-making in Greece. It is the limestone soil at high altitude that gives this wine its terroir and tremendous minerality. I agree that the pairing is great – Robola can usually handle 'difficult' flavours. The fritters sound delicious – I cannot wait to try them!
This looks like a fabulous way to enjoy fennel. I know some people who have a hard time appreciating it, but I'm sure this dish will make a believer out of fennel's delicious possibilities!
I really have a newfound love in fennel since last autumn, but never have made fritters with it before. This is such a great idea that I just have to try next time. Thanks!
I haven't cooked much with fennel. But, this is definitely making me want to give it a go, Viviane!
such a beautiful idea and presentation! i will definitely have to make these soon!
I want to thank everyone of you for your wonderful comments. Your words make me so happy and nurture me so that I continue to create more recipes, to take more photos and to dream up fun wine pairings. It's bliss!
I love that this recipe includes fennel seed in the breading, in addition to the fennel itself. It sounds delicious.
Oh my. This looks & sounds incredible. Lovely photos and clear instructions. Thank you for this beautiful, creative recipe.
I really like the fennel "powder" you have incorporated into the crumb mixture.
I can't wait to try making these. We love fennel here, but up until now I've only been braising it.
Fabulous! This is a must-try for us fennel-lovers!
Beautiful presentation. What a pretty dish!
I usually eat fennel sliced finely with lemon juice and olive oil, perhaps a bit of salt. I would love to try this recipe, it looks delicious.
A very interesting use for fennel, I am sure this is great on the palate in these winter months. I have heard so much about Greek Wines lately and am so excite to start learning more about them. Thanks for your description of Robola.
This sound fabulous. The photos made me want to make some! I love fennel be it raw or braised!
I LOVE fennel. I love it raw, cooked, braised, in salads – what have you. I would never have thought to enjoy it this way but it looks absolutely delicious. I so enjoy reading about your newest creations!
This sounds like a delicious way to enjoy fennel! The additional crushed seed in the breadcrumbs was a great to boost the flavor too. Sounds lovely with the Robola.
That's absolutely stunning. I can eat a plateful of those!
Uh oh… Drooling alert! YUM!
Viviane, this is a terrific post. I adore fennel; I usually roast it, but these fritters are truly inspired. I'll have to try them soon! And the Robola sounds like the perfect companion wine. Simply lovely.
As Viviane's official food tester, I can attest… it's knock-your-socks-off delicious! And what a perfect contrast to an icy, endless January.
This looks terrific! I didn't know that fennel is sweeter in the winter, but now that you mention it, I have been making more shaved fennel salads recently and it's likely because I've been sourcing sweeter specimens. Thanks for sharing!
Viviane, just by reading your post I know that this food/wine combination is very special indeed. I can imagine very well that the Robola manages nicely with the fennel, which is not an easy task. I am delighted by your suggestion, the next time I visit the Gentilini Estate, I will make sure that we try this pairing. Can't wait for the reaction! Your talent speaks for yourself – thank you so much!
This looks wonderful. I planted fennel in the fall (it needs cold weather so we can't grow it here in the summer). Well, as you know, we've had lots of cold weather lately but our fennel seedlings are still ridiculously tiny. Sigh. We may not be able to wait for a harvest to give this a try because it seems like such a perfect January dish. Now the dip would be great with almost everything, all year round. Another winner!


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2018 Florida Road Trip Part 13
Day 13 Wednesday 10/31/2018
After a great breakfast at Denny's this morning, I headed south on I-95 to visit the Southeast Museum of Photography (which is part of the Daytona State College) located in Daytona Beach. This museum is best known for its rotating annual series of artistic events and photographic art displays.
The museum didn't open until 11:00, so while I was in Daytona Beach, I headed west on U.S.-92 a few miles to visit the Daytona International Speedway Museum. Because of all the race-day traffic cones and painted lane directions, it took me a while to find the museum. Once I found the museum entrance, I discovered you can't see the cars in the museum collection unless you are part of one of the museum's guided tours. I was fast heading for a time/location crunch, so I said, "No thank you"for today's museum tour and headed back up I-95 to meet my son for lunch in Ormond Beach.
Before I started this trip, I knew I would be going right by my son, Bill's, office there in Ormond Beach on the last day of my trip, and made arrangements with him to meet at a restaurant close to his office. When I arrived at Bill's office, he had already made arrangements for us to eat at one of his favorite BBQ Shacks. We drove over to Colt's Pig Stand, where I had a "Verity Plate" of some of the most delicious pork sausages. Outside the restaurant, Colt's Pig Stand has the absolute largest "mobile BBQ Cooker" I've ever seen! When they say, "We Deliver"they really mean it.
After that delightful lunch with my son, Bill, he went back to work, and I headed south on I-95 and east on U.S. 92 again. This time I was looking for the Daytona Beach International Airport, so I could visit the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Embry-Riddle was founded in 1925 as an aircraft dealer and U.S. Mail provider, located in Cincinnati, OH. During WWII Embry-Riddle operated as an aviation school in Miami, FL. After the war, in 1965, the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute was moved to the Daytona, Beach location. The school continued to grow and expand over the years, and was renamed Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1970. I had always wanted to visit the university, thinking they would have a static display of aircraft spanning the years.
But I was wrong. This large scale model hanging in the lobby of one of the Aviation Maintenance Sciences buildings was just about it. The only other airplanes I saw as I drove thru the Engineering campus were the many Cessna 150's being flown by student pilots. I sat and watched them take off and land for a few minutes, and I estimated there was an airplane taking off at about 1-minute intervals, and one landing about every 2-minutes. All I can say is, they must have some really good Traffic Controller's in their tower to keep all those airplanes out of trouble.
Next I headed south on U.S. -1 and A1A a few miles to visit the Ponce de Leon Lighthouse & Museum located at Ponce Inlet. The first lighthouse built in this area was a wooden structure in 1835, but it didn't last. In late 1835, during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), the natives attacked and set fire to the structure and it collapsed the following year. It was not until 1887 that another lighthouse (known as the Mosquito Inlet Light) was built on the north side of Mosquito Inlet. This 175 foot tall lighthouse is the tallest in Florida, and one of the tallest in the U.S.
In 1927 the name Mosquito Inlet was changed to Ponce de Leon Inlet, and the lighthouse was turned over to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939. In 1972 the Coast Guard deeded the lighthouse to the city of Ponce Inlet. A Lighthouse Preservation Association was formed to restore the lighthouse and three lighthouse keeper dwellings, and they also operate the museum. In 1982 the lighthouse was restored to active service.
By now I was only about 50 miles from home, and headed south on U.S.-1 thru the familiar towns of New Smyrna, Edgewater, Oak Hill, and Mims, before reaching the outskirts of Titusville. As I pulled into my driveway, ending another interesting and unusual trip, I was filled with that warm feeling I get when I've been away from home for a while, and know I am about to see my lovely wife DiVoran, and be sleeping in my own bed tonight. I sure hope you have enjoyed reading about my adventures on this Florida Road Trip as much as I have writing about it. It's been fun, reliving the various experiences accompanied by some of the sights and sounds along the way. That's it for now folks. Hope you will join me next time, when I take to the road again, to who knows where and when.
Bill is a retired Mechanical engineer living with his wonderful artist/writer wife, DiVoran, of 61 years in Titusville, Florida. He was born and raised in the Southwest, did a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy, attended Northrop University in Southern California and ended up working on America's Manned Space Program for 35 years. He currently is retired and spends most of his time building and flying R/C model airplanes, traveling, writing blogs about his travels for Word Press and supporting his wife's hobbies with framing, editing and marketing. He also volunteers with a local church Car Care Ministry and as a tour guide at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum there in Titusville. Bill has two wonderful children, two outstanding grandchildren, and a loving sister and her husband, all of whom also live in Central Florida, so he and DiVoran are rewarded by having family close to spend lots of quality time with.
One of Bill's favorite Scriptures is: John 10:10
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2018 Florida Road Trip Part 11(Continued – 3)
Note to our readers– I uploaded part 12 last week in error, so this week, we back up a day. My apologies-Onisha
Day 11 Monday 10/29/2018
The Hotel Alcazar lay unoccupied until 1947, when it was purchased by Otto C. Lightner to house his extensive collection of Victorian Era pieces. The museum was opened in 1948, and consists of Gilded Age displays of the Lightner collection on three floors of the original hotel, including the three-story Ballroom (capable of holding 350 wedding guests). The first floor houses a Victorian village and a music room filled with all types of musical instruments, including player pianos and orchestrions dating from the 1870s. On the second floor visitors will find a large collection of Victorian glass items displayed, including stained glass works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. On the third floor (Ballroom) there are displays of Victorian furniture, fine art paintings, and sculptures by famous Victorian artists dating from the early 1800s.
Across Cordova street from the Lightner Museum is the Casa Monica Hotel. The hotel was built in 1888 by Franklin W. Smith, who also designed the Hotel Alcazar for Henry Flagler. In fact, Smith was instrumental in convincing Flagler that the St. Augustine area was the perfect location to begin building the "American Rivera" down the east coast of Florida that Flagler dreamt of. Not to be outdone by Flagler, Smith decorated and operated the Casa Monica Hotel as a showplace for the rich and famous. However, soon after the hotel opened, Smith began to run into financial trouble that became so bad that he finally had to sell the hotel. In 1902 Smith sold the hotel to his friend/competitor Henry Flagler. By the time of the sale, Henry Flagler had already completed two hotels there in St. Augustine (the Hotel Alcazar (1887) now the Lightner Museum and the Ponce de Leon Hotel (1888) now part of Flagler Collage). This put Henry Flagler at the top of the heap as having a monopoly of the luxury hotels in the city of St. Augustine.
Trivia note: Did you know that Saint Monica (322-387) was the North African mother of St. Augustine (354-430), who was Bishop of Hippo Regius (395-430), in North Africa, and who the city of St. Augustine was named for.
Across King Street from the Lightner Museum is the Flagler Museum. Originally built in 1888 by Henry Flagler as the Ponce de Leon Hotel, this elegant hotel was another tribute to the entrepreneurial character of Henry Flagler. At the time the luxury hotel business, in the St. Augustine area, was at an all-time high. It's hard for me to imagine the opulence that adorned these luxury hotels. They were so far ahead of their time that, for instance, Flagler had to hire additional staff to turn the electric lights on and off for the guests, because they were afraid to touch the switches. As a part of Flagler's dream to build the "American Rivera" in Florida, over the next several years, he began expanding what would become, the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC), south to eventually reach Key West. But, Flagler overlooked the fact that this new railroad would allow some northern tourists to by-pass St. Augustine for the warmer climates of places like Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
The Ponce de Leon Hotel survived the depression and WWII, but after a long downturn period, the hotel finally closed in 1967. Then in 1968 Flagler College was founded on 19 acres behind the hotel and the Ponce de Leon Hotel became the centerpiece of the newly established college. (Check out interior photos on the internet of this luxury hotel that students are surrounded by on a daily basis – e.g. Dining Room with its stained glass windows by Tiffany). Also go to Wikipedia and click on Henry Flagler (1830-1913) for many more interesting facts about the man and his adventures.
While Franklin Smith was in his architectural prime designing and building luxury hotels, he also designed and built his own winter home there in St. Augustine (1883) just one block west of the current location of the Casa Monica hotel. Smith built his home in the Moorish Revival style and named it Villa Zorayda. It has sometimes been called the first example of "fantasy" architecture in Florida. Henry Flagler visited St. Augustine in 1883 and was so impressed with Smith's Villa Zorayda that he tried to buy it for his wife, but Smith wouldn't sell. Smith finally did sell the Villa Zorayda to Abraham Mussallem in 1913. After having been used for several different businesses, over the years, Villa Zorayda was finally opened to the public, as a museum, in 1936.
As I mentioned at the first of this day's blog (Monday 10/29/2018), there was so much to see there in St. Augustine that I ran out of time to see it all, up close and personal. Some of those places I saw from the trolley, but didn't have time to go thru were:
"Gonzalez-Alvarez House" (1723) or "The Oldest House"
The Ximenez House (1798)
The Oldest Drugstore (1886)
Potters Wax Museum (1949)
Black Raven Pirate Ship (1720 replica)
Colonial Corner (1740)
With the help of Greta (my Garmin) I finally found my way to the motel, just outside St. Augustine, and got checked in. Once I got unpacked, I warmed up those wonderful Fish Tacos from the Sandollar Restaurant, and enjoy them anew. Yummm!
Tags: Fl, Florida #RoadTrip, Henry Flagler, St.Augustine
Day 12 Tuesday 10/30/2018
My plan this morning was to drive to outlying areas around St. Augustine to visit several additional points of interest. As I was driving back into town, I passed a sign on a store-front, that advertised "Big Bill's Die Cast" and I just had to stop to see what it was all about. This is an amazing store! This guy, Bill, really does have a die cast model of just about everything that has ever been made. Cars, Trucks, Airplanes, Motorcycles, Boats, Tanks, and you name it, Bill has the item in several sizes. His moto is, "If I don't have it, they don't make it"and I believe him.
After that interesting stop, I headed across the "Bridge of Lions" and Matanzas Bay onto Anastasia Island to visit the St. Augustine Lighthouse Museum. Some historical records tell us that this area has been the location of a coastal warning light (watch towers) as early as 1565. The current lighthouse was built in 1871 to replace the original 1824 lighthouse (the first official lighthouse in Florida built by the new, territorial, American Government) that collapsed in 1880, as a result of erosion and a changing coastline.
Now it was south on SR-A1A just a few miles to visit the Fort Matanzas National Monument (fort) located on the eastern side of the Matanzas Inlet. This small fort was built by the Spanish in 1742 to guard the southern mouth of the Matanzas River, which opens up the southern access to St. Augustine. The fort itself is only accessible by ferry across the river from the Park Service Visitor Center.
This fort was built and manned by the Spanish to protect the rear entrance to the city of St. Augustine from attack. The only way to get to the remains of this small fort is by a short ferry-boat ride. I asked the Ranger how long it would take, from the time one left the landing, until the ferry-boat brought them back. He said the ferry made the trip once each hour. From the pictures I saw of this small fort, I didn't want to take that much time to see it today. Maybe another time.
South on A1A another few miles, and across the Matanzas Inlet, I checked out the Dolphin Adventure at Marineland. This attraction was first opened by a group of dedicated sea mammal enthusiasts headed up by W. Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as the Marine Studios. This original facility was situated on a 125 acre plot located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intercostal Waterway (Matanzas River). As the world's first Oceanarium, the Marine Studios was designed to rescue, study, and film the underwater life and habits of sea creatures.
On my way south on A1A to visit Marineland, I had noticed several large homes, perched on stilts, located right on the beach. Now as I headed back north towards St. Augustine, I stopped on the side of the road to get a closer look and take a photo or two. It looked like the houses were located along the beach road known as Old A1A. I had no idea people were allowed to build that close to the ocean. I doubt they would have too many visitors during hurricane season, but of course, they would have an excellent view of any 20 or 30-foot tidal surge or tsunami coming in at them from the ocean.
I had to do a little back-tracking on A1A to get to SR-312, where I turned west to avoid having to go through down town St. Augustine again. Then I turned north on N. Holmes Blvd. until I came across 4 Mile Road, and north again to where I turned west on SR-16. All of this (with Greta's help) got me to the St. Augustine Aquarium. This turned out to be a very interesting family-participation type attraction, feathering all kinds of salt water creatures including sharks and rays. I was there long enough to witness the afternoon shark feeding, but wasn't interested in the snorkeling or the zip line ride.
So, before heading back to the motel for the night, I started looking for a place to eat supper. And wouldn't you know it, there was a Cracker Barrel Restaurant just down the road. I stopped in for a delicious Meat Loaf dinner with garlic mash potatoes and green beans, and one of their fresh baked biscuits with butter and honey for desert.
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, Historic St. Augustine
I hopped on another Trolley and made the short trip down the road to visit the Fountain of Youth and Archaeological Park. This is one of at least three known locations in Florida that claim to be the site that Juan Ponce de Leon named during his 1513 search for what the local Timucua natives referred to as the Fountain of Youth (I don't think he ever found it).
Excavations of this area (1909-1977) have produced much evidence of the existence of Timucua native communities dating from as early as 2400 BC, but no actual proof of Ponce de Leon or his party. The site has been a tourist attraction since 1927, when Walter B. Fraser purchased the property. The attraction consists of several exhibits, including The Spring House, where I was able to sample water from "The Fountain of Youth" (I don't feel any younger), a Timucua native village, a 1585 Spanish Menendez settlement, a chalupa boathouse, and a blacksmith shop, just to name a few.
Next stop turned out to be a major Trolley stop where the Old St. Johns County Jail (Oldest Jail) was the centerpiece for the Oldest Store Museum, Gator Bob's Cracker Trading Post, and the Florida Historical Museum. The jail was built in 1891 by Henry Flagler in this location to keep it away from the downtown St. Augustine area. It was designed to look like a hotel, so Flagler's prospective investors would not be put off by its presence. With room for 72 inmates and warden's quarters, the jail was used until 1953, when it was closed and became a museum. The museum displays prison articles, exhibits, and memorabilia explained to visitors, during their tour, by costumed actors relating tales of the jail and its occupants.
The Oldest Store Museum is a re-creation of the original 1908 general store that was operated by Mr. C. F. Hamblen. The store is filled with turn-of-the-century "modern living" items that are demonstrated to visitors, by period dressed "clerks" and "salesmen" as part of their tour of the store.
Gator Bob's "Cracker" Trading Post is your typical Florida tourist trap, with everything imaginable the visitor could be looking for as a souvenir. I have to admit, this store has the most complete size range of alligator heads I believe I have ever seen. Since I didn't need an alligator head for my man-cave at home, I just took the next trolley back to downtown.
The next hour was a whirlwind of sights, sounds, and information about the many interesting places there in St. Augustine by our Trolley driver. It would have been smart of me to have a tape recorder, so I could have recorded that wealth of information. But, of course, who thinks that far ahead when on a road trip? I got off the Trolley at the Plaza de la Constitucion park (1573), and began taking a closer look at some of the points of interest we had just driven past.
The Governor's House is on the west side of the Plaza de la Constitucion, and served both the Spanish and British Governors, who ruled St. Augustine, during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763), the British Period (1763-1784), and until 1812 in the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821). The building now houses the Cultural Center and Museum (click on Wikipedia for Governor's House & Government House for more interesting information about early St. Augustine).
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (1565, 1586, 1605, 1707, 1793-1797) is located on the north side of the Plaza de la Constitucion, and represents the oldest Roman Catholic parish in the United States. The placement of the church facing the Plaza de la Constitucion follows the tradition of siting religious, government, and commercial functions around the central plaza, as dictated by the 1573 Laws of the Indies for Spanish Colonial town planning.
The original commercial stores, and more modern tourist shops, are situated on the south side of the Plaza de la Constitucion, satisfying the 1573 Spanish decree. I looked up and down the west side of King Street for the Lyons Maritime Museum, but to no avail. I continued a short distant west on King Street to visit the Lightner Museum. This museum was originally built in 1887, as the Hotel Alcazar, by Henry Flagler (1830-1913) for wealthy northern tourist traveling south for the winter on Flagler's railroad (1885). Flagler spared no expenses on this magnificent hotel, which was far ahead of its time in amenities, including being one of the first hotels in the U.S. to incorporate electric lights designed by Flagler's friend Thomas Edison. However, many of the rich and famous people in America were not exempt from the dreadful effects the depression years had on this country, and the hotel ended up closing in 1932.
—–More of this day's activities will be continued next week—–
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, Henry Flagler, Historic St. Augustine
2018 Florida Road Trip Part 11(Continued -1)
By now I was ready to catch a ride on one of the Old City Tour Trolleys, and let them carry me around to see the many additional sites I wanted to see there in St. Augustine. I walked across Castillo Drive to the parking lot for the Castillo de San Marcos Fort to wait for the next trolley. As I mentioned earlier, the fort was built (1672-1695) on the western shore of the Matanzas Bay to protect the city of "San Agustin." As built, the basic coquina structure survived several attacks from enemy forces and pirates over the years. When the British controlled "La Florida" (1763-1783) they changed the fort's name to Fort St. Marks. Then during the Second Spanish Occupation (1783-1821), the fort's original name was restored. In 1819 Spain ceded Florida to the United States as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty, and In 1821 the fort was designated a U.S. Army base and renamed Fort Marion. In 1933 the fort was turned over to the National Park Service, and in 1942 the original Castillo de San Marcos name was restored by an Act of Congress.
DiVoran and I had visited this famous fort years ago, so I wasn't interested in spending the time going thru it again today. However, during that former visit, we did learn some interesting facts about the fort. One was that while it was a U.S. military fort, it also served as a military prison, and incarcerated some of the most famous indigenous Indian chiefs in our nation's history, such as Osceola, Geronimo, and Howling Wolf, just to name a few (check Wikipedia for "Castillo de San Marcos" for many more interesting facts about this famous fort's history.
At my first trolley stop I visited the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum. This is a large 3-story museum building with some of the most interesting exhibits and artifacts imaginable. Probably one of the most interesting, to me, was a movie of Robert Ripley's trip to the mountainous jungle of Ecuador and Peru in the 1930s to visit the Jivaro (Shuar) Indians and film the entire "head shrinking process." The Jivaro consider the shrunken head (tsantsa) of an enemy to be a valuable symbol of bravery for tribal warriors.
The other interesting item there at the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum was a "House in a Redwood Log" located in the parking lot in front of the museum. This 4-room house was carved out of a 33 foot diameter by 8 foot long Redwood log, and looks a lot like the inside of a camping trailer (snug). Signs outside the log inform visitors that it took Len Moore four months to carve out the 8-foot high interior and another eight months to complete his project. One major design problem I saw was the lack of a bathroom anywhere inside.
My next stop was to visit the Mission Nombre de Dios and its Museum. The mission is said to be the site of the very first parish mass to be performed in "La Florida." This was on the occasion of the landing of the Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles party from Spain in 1565, and was conducted by the chaplain of the expedition,Father Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales. The first Franciscan mission was founded near this location in 1587, and ministered continuously to the people of "San Agustin" and the local Mocama natives during the 17th and 18th centuries.A shrine to Our Lady of La Leche was erected near the mission in the late 1500s and a 208 foot stainless steel cross was erected at the site in 1966 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the mission.
The museum itself is filled with artifacts and memorabilia related the long and interesting history of the founding of the Mission Nombre de Dios, as well as the addition of the Shrine to Our Lady of La Leche and the giant commemorative cross. One of the most interesting artifacts I saw at the museum was the coffin of Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles (his remains rest in Aviles Spain). I found it interesting that Admiral Aviles not only became San Agustin's first Governor, but that at one time or another, he was appointed Governor of La Florida and then later Governor of Cuba before his death in 1574.
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, oldest city, St Auguestine, Touring St Augustine
After a great breakfast at the motel this morning, I headed south on I-95 to visit the beautiful old Florida city of St. Augustine, with its many historic landmarks and museums. It had been several years since DiVoran and I had visited St. Augustine, and I had forgotten how difficult it is to find parking close to any of the museums or points of interest I was planning on visiting. After wasting half an hour squeezing thru the narrow streets, looking for a parking place close to my first museum, I gave up and went to the Visitor Information Center. I bought an All-Day "On & Off" Old Town Trolley Tour ticket, which took care of most of my parking and museum access problems for the day.
I had allowed two days in St. Augustine to see the many museums and points of interest on my list, so the trolley tour approach should work out fine. However, I had also forgotten just how many museums and other points of interest there really are in St. Augustine. I had no way of knowing, at the time, just how long this day was going to turn out to be, or (now) just how long this day's write-up was going to take me! The Trolley Tour visited 23 different points of interest, and that didn't take into consideration my personal list. (This day's activities will be divided into four parts, so bear with me).
At the visitor Center, I was informed that in 1565 King Philip II of Spain sent General Pedro Menendez de Aviles to Florida to settle the region and eliminate all French influence in the area. Menendez claimed "La Florida" for Spain, at that time, and established "San Agustin" as the first Spanish settlement. (Check Wikipedia for many interesting facts about the early Spanish claims to Florida).
Since the Visitor Center was only a block or so from the original "San Agustin" main city gate, I walked over to take a photo. Local information informs visitors that even though construction on the Castillo de San Marcos fort had begun as early as 1672, it did not deter the devastating attacks on the city by various enemy forces and pirates over the next 30 or so years. When construction of the fort was completed in 1695, even that did not stop Sir Francis Drake and his British fleet from attacking "San Agustin" in 1698, and ultimately burning the city to the ground in 1702 (check Wikipedia for "Sir Francis Drake in St. Augustine" for a very interesting story about why he was in Florida).
In the years that followed, the city was rebuilt and additional fortifications began with the Cubo Line, a mote, and a main gate (made of massive coquina pillars and heavy wooden doors). At the time this gate was the only access to the city of "San Agustin," and was closed and locked each evening.
Once inside the city gate, the "Oldest City in the United States" opened up to me, and I began the typical tourist walk down St. George Street. The first building I came to was the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse. Claiming to be the "Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse" still standing in the United States, we are told that the first school master, and his family, lived on the second floor of the building. With no official records as to when this schoolhouse was actually built, it first shows up in city records in 1716, after the British burned the city to the ground in 1702.
Just down the street, was the Spanish Bakery, with its delicious aromas wafting out across the street. A little further down was the Columbia Restaurant and the Medieval Torture Collection. I had not known there was a Columbia Restaurant in town and besides that, it was too early for lunch. I wasn't particularly interested in what kind of cruelty people had imposed upon each other back in the Middle Ages, so I kept going.
At King Street I turned left and started back north on Aviles Street to visit the Spanish Military Hospital Museum. This is a very interesting museum, with a guided tour that includes an elaborate description of the tools and procedures used by military physicians during the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821) in "San Agustin."
I continued north on Charlotte Street until I got to Castillo Drive and visited the Pirate & Treasure Museum. I was amazed at how many individual exhibits and how many artifacts they were able to fit into this small museum. They claim to have the largest collection of "authentic" pirate artifacts in the country (dating from the mid-1600s).
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, Sir Francis Drake in Florida, St.Augustine
2018 Florida Road Trip Part 10 (Continued)
Day 10 Sunday 10/28/2018
Now I worked my way back to I-95 and headed south to visit the Jacksonville Fire Museum, located in the Midtown area of Jacksonville. This museum is located in the restored 1886 Fire Station #3, and displays artifacts and memorabilia related the evolution of the Jacksonville Fire Department from the 1850s. This includes various hand operated, horse drawn, and motorized firefighting and rescue equipment, that have been used by Jacksonville firefighters over the years.
The Museum of Southern History located in the Fairfax area of Jacksonville was my next stop. The museum was closed today; however, their website informs me that this museum depicts the lifestyles and cultures of the antebellum South. The museum also covers the cultures of the early Florida Native Americans and those who settled Florida, with respect to the Civil War and more recent times. As it happens, the Civil War Governor of Florida, John Milton, whose plantation site I had visited, near Marianna the other day, is also mentioned in this museum's website write-up.
Now I headed a few miles west to visit the Norman Silent Film Studios Museum located in the Arlington area of Jacksonville. This studio complex (museum) began as the "Eagle Film Studios" in 1906. This was a typical example of the northern U.S. film studios wanting to be able to continue filming throughout the winter months. Between the years of 1908 & 1922, as many as 30+ northern film studios moved their operations here, where the area soon became known as the "Winter Film Capital of the World." Richard E. Norman purchased the Eagle Film Studios in 1908, and moved his Midwest film operations to the Jacksonville area, where he renamed it the Norman Silent Film Studios. Over the years the Norman Film Studios gradually declined as the Jacksonville film industry moved its operations to southern California in the 1930s. Finally, after many years of very little activity, in about 2008, as part of an overall restoration project, one of the existing buildings was opened as the museum (Google Norman Silent Film Studios to see how the film studio has progressed over the years).
Next on the list, I travelled across town to visit the Kingsley Plantation, located in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve on Fort George Island. This 1797 plantation house, and out buildings, are situated conveniently on the Fort George River, where the owner's docks gave him access to all types of river traffic, and for his own needed supplies and crop transport. Zephaniah Kingsley was a slave trader and shipping magnate, and owned several plantations along the St. Johns River, by the time he became the third known owner of this plantation in 1814 (Google "Kingsley Plantation" for more interesting details about Zephaniah Kingsley and the Kingsley Plantation).
By now I was ready to head for the motel, and gave Greta (my Garmin) the address. After leaving the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve and St. George Island, I spotted the Sandollar Restaurant and decided to stop in for a seafood dinner with them. That was a very good choice. Their Fish Tacos were out-of-this-world good, and the view of Mayport across the St. Johns River, from my outdoor patio table, was beautiful and restful, with the soothing river sounds and the whole scene being painted golden by the setting sun.
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, Jacksonville Florida
This morning my plan was to head north on I-95 to visit the Kings Bay Submarine Museum, located just across the border from Jacksonville in Kings Bay, GA. I was hoping to get a photo of all of the submarine launched missiles (display) that was advertised to be part of the museum. When I got to the gate entrance to the base, I was informed that the Museum was no longer on the base, but had been relocated to the town of St. Marys, GA. The only thing related to the base was a submarine "Gate Guard" near the gate entrance. So I took a photo of the Gate Guard and headed for St. Marys.
When I got to the St. Marys Submarine Museum, located on the St. Marys River waterfront, in downtown St. Marys, it was closed. However, I noticed there was a car parked in front of the museum, and decided to see if it was open after all. Sure enough, the curator was there doing some work and agreed to let me look around the museum until he was finished with his work. This small museum is dedicated to the history of the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet, from its inception, and includes submarine memorabilia and artifacts dating from the early 1800s. The museum also has a submarine control room display, with a working periscope.
Across the street from the submarine museum I took a stroll thru the St. Marys Waterfront Park overlooking the St. Marys River. This is a beautiful quiet park where a person can enjoy the surroundings while being soothed by the sounds of the river flowing nearby. In the 1800s, tall ships frequented the St. Marys harbor, as it was the southernmost point of the United States (at the time), and was a prime trading port. Today the city of St. Marys offers several areas, within the park, to rent for weddings and other special occasions.
While I was in St. Marys, I checked out the St. Marys Railroad Museum, located just a few blocks north of the Submarine Museum. This museum was closed, but their website informs me that the museum is situated in the restored late1800s St. Marys SM&K train depot. The museum offers 1-hour excursions, on "Train Days," on their restored diesel powered train with open site-seeing train cars. The museum also displays model railroad layouts, of different scales, inside the building. The museum building also doubles as the local St. Marys Little Theater.
I headed south on I-95/U.S.-17/SR-200 to visit the Amelia Island Museum of History, located in Fernandina Beach, Fl. This museum is housed in the restored 1878Nassau County Jail building, and displays artifacts and memorabilia on two floors. The museum showcases the island's some 4000 years of Florida history. There is an emphasis on 8 flags, representing the 8 countries that have occupied this island area over the centuries. Displays include a Timucuan Indian Village scene, evidence of the Spanish Mission period, Civil War photos, and artifacts from the early Florida settlers.
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, St. Mary's Florida, Submarine Museum
2018 Florida Road Trip Part 9
Day 9 Saturday 10/27/2018
This morning I headed southeast on U.S.-231 & I-10, to see if I could find the Whippoorwill Sportsman's Lodge located on Lake Talquin in Quincy. I'm not sure how I ended up on U.S.-90, but I saw a Historical Marker and stopped to see what it was all about. As it turned out, this was at the entrance to the Blue Springs Recreational Park (closed because of hurricane damage). The historical marker indicated that this park was, at one time, the site of the "Sylvania Plantation" built by John Milton in 1845. The plantation was actually a small family community, consisting of the large manor house, barns, a family chapel, a school, a blacksmith shop, and living quarters for his 50 slaves. John Milton later served as Florida's Governor during the Civil War.
Instead of getting back on I-10, I continued east on U.S.-90 thru more hurricane devastation, and finally found the Whippoorwill Sportsman's Lodge located in Quincy. This turned out to be nothing like what I was expecting. If there was a lodge or club house, there in the trailer park, I didn't see it. So I just took a photo and was on my way.
Now I heading east on I-10, by-passing Tallahassee this time, to visit the Old Monticello Jail Museum located in Monticello. This museum is located in the original 1893 Jefferson County jail that was in use until 1984. In addition to being a modern jail (for its time), the Sheriff's office and his home were both designed to be part of the building. I discovered the Old Jail is currently under restoration, so I took a photo and headed for the next museum.
Traveling east on I-10 again, my next stop was to visit the Treasures of Madison County Museum located in Madison. This museum is housed in the restored original 1890 W. T. Davis building, and displays artifacts, exhibits, and all kinds of memorabilia, related to the early history and development of Madison County, Florida. The original W.T. Davis building has also served as an opera house and theater over the years.
Now I headed east on SR-6, thru the Twin Rivers Wildlife Management Area to visit the Old Jail Museum located in Jasper. This museum is housed in the original 1893 red brick jailhouse. The museum was built to house the sheriff and his family on the first floor, which now contains artifacts and memorabilia related to the history of the jail in the late 1800s. Originally prisoners were housed on the second floor, and the central tower was use for hangings, the last taking place in 1916,
Taking U.S.-41 southeast several miles, I was planning to visit the Steven Foster Museum located adjacent to the Suwannee River in White Springs. As it turned out, the museum is part of the Steven Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, which looked to me more or less like a Day Park where a family would plan an all day event. I didn't want to pay admission to the park and then have to take the time to find the museum. So I took a photo and was on my way to the next museum.
Heading southeast out of White Springs on U.S.-41, I passed the Adams Country Store and just had to stop for a photo. The store was closed, but their website Informs me that this building was built in 1865 and was restored in around 2011 using mostly building materials from other old buildings in the area (where possible). The "Store" is filled with every conceivable thing that you might find in a general store during the mid-1800s time period, including antique gas pumps and gas station signs.
Continuing southeast on U.S.-41, next I visited the Keystone Heights Airport in Starke to see what might be on the ramp and in the hangers. As luck would have it, the entire airport was deserted. So I took a couple of photos and was on my way northeast toward Jacksonville.
I gave Greta (my Garmin) the motel address for tonight, and headed northeast on U.S.-41 & I-10. I skirted downtown Jacksonville, by taking I-295 north to find my motel, located in the Pecan Park area, near the Jacksonville International Airport. After I got checked in, I heated up my Mexican food dinner and enjoyed that delicious meal again. Yummmm!
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip
This morning I was at the National Museum of Naval Aviation there in Pensacola when the doors opened. I had been to this museum on previous trips, but knew they rotated their aircraft from time to time, and I wanted to see what they had on display at this time. With 150+ beautifully restored aircraft dating from the early 1900s, I knew it was going to take me a while to do the whole museum. I am constantly amazed at how this museum can get such a large number of aircraft in the space available, and the place not look crowded. In most cases there is room between the aircraft to allow for good photos. I would place this museum with some of the top "Must See" aviation museums in the country.
Just a short distance east of the Naval Museum, I visited the Pensacola Lighthouse & Museum located adjacent to Pensacola Bay. This lighthouse was built in 1858 to replace the 1825 lighthouse, to give better navigation aid to ships within Pensacola Bay and outside Santa Rosa Island. The museum displays artifacts of the history of the lighthouses that have served in this location dating from 1823 (See Wikipedia for many more interesting lighthouse details).
Now I headed another few miles east to visit Fort Barrancas located in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. This fort was built by the Spanish in 1839 directly across Pensacola Bay from Fort Pickens, on Santa Rosa Island, to protect the bay from water attack. The fort is now part of the 860 acre Fort Barrancas Historical District, which is now actually located within the Pensacola Naval Air Station (See Wikipedia for many interesting details about the history of Fort Barrancas),
Next I headed northeast on I-110 & I-10 to visit the West Florida Railroad Museum located in Milton. This small museum is situated on the original 1882 Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad passenger depot site, that provided L & N Railroad service to the area until 1973. In addition to railroad memorabilia inside the depot, the museum has a restored bridge tenders house, a section shed with motor car, and several restored pieces of rolling stock outside.
As I was heading toward my next museum, I saw a Historical Marker in the small town of Bagdad, and stopped to see what it was all about. The marker informed me that in late 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces attacked the Confederate forces in the town of Bagdad, in what was later called the "Skirmish on the Blackwater." This activity took place in and around the Bagdad area, with the Union forces ultimately occupying the town and the Thompson House, shown in the photo below.
I continued northeast on I-10 & SR-4 to visit the Baker Block Museum located in the city of Baker. This museum turned out to be sort of a small indoor artifact and exhibit building next to a historic village, outside, related to the history of early Florida panhandle living. The village consists of a restored late 1800s post office, log cabin, corn crib, grist mill, blacksmith shop, and outhouse.
—-To Be Continued—–
Tags: Florida #RoadTrip, National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola Florida


What I'd like you to note in this one is the generally minimal amount of action and situation-shaking events. It's more about the fallout from such things in the previous session, and about what the characters look like now.
As usual, I'm sad that Alastor's player can't be seen, as he's a responsive and attentive participant. There are several points where someone you can see is responding to some look or gesture of his, which I know is happening because I was there, but seems to a viewer of the video that it's coming out of nowhere.
Here's session #6, which be warned, ran into sound problems. This was recorded back in May, when my technical facilities went into a trough for a bit, and it shows. Fortunately that was followed by a significant uptick in everything, but this is an artifact of the blue period.
Anyway, you'll see that Piotr's and Alastor's situations slowed down - maybe even stalled. I recall that we did play the party that everyone's talking about in this session, but it didn't get recorded, or perhaps it was in the next session. If the former, then you should know Dagny came up with a terribly wretched party outfit and had a big gory fight with Jessica.
I'm hoping you do get to pick this up again because it would be really interesting to see if its possible for these poor broken monsters to break out of their destructive behaviours given the right tools - the growing up moves. Assuming these are the right tools.


August 21, 2017 | Rodgers Townsend, part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE; OMC), announced today the appointment of Andrew Dauska as Chief Executive Officer. Effective August 30, Dauska will partner with Michael McCormick, EVP and Chief Creative Officer, taking over from Tim Rodgers, one of the agency's two founders, as he enters retirement.
Dauska joins from Omnicom's TBWA\Chiat\Day where he served as Managing Director and lead client partner for Nissan North America. Previously, Dauska helmed Wunderman's Minneapolis office and led accounts including Allstate, Delta Air Lines and Heinz for Leo Burnett and as Director of Account Management at Carmichael Lynch where he served on the agency leadership team and was a principal architect of the Effie-award winning, "Love" campaign for Subaru of America.
Reporting in to Wendy Clark, President and Chief Executive Officer of DDB North America, Dauska and McCormick will lead top clients such as AT&T, The Hartford, Spectrum Brands, and others.
After 41 years in the industry, 21 of those at the company he founded with Tom Townsend, Rodgers is handing over the reins.
"When you leave a group of people and a company you love, you hope you'll be able to find someone you know in your heart feels right. With Mike, we knew we had someone who understood what matters, and with Andrew, I knew we'd found someone who would build on and surpass what we've started, and be someone our clients would want to look to for marketing counsel," said Rodgers.
The appointment of Dauska adds to the agency's recent move to a new space in the St. Louis Place building and follows the selection of a Cannes Young Lions Cyber team and Cannes shortlist at the recent Cannes Festival of Creativity.
Rodgers Townsend is a nationally acclaimed, full-service marketing communications agency located in St. Louis, Missouri. The agency provides strategic planning, advertising, digital, social and direct/one-to-one marketing, and design services to a wide range of clients both nationally and regionally.
Current clients include: AT&T, The Black Rep, The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Enterprise Holdings, Great Circle, The Hartford, Luxco Brands, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis University, Schnucks Markets and Spectrum Brands.
For further information on Rodgers Townsend, please visit rodgerstownsend.com.


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Home » Europe » Hospital asks for patient families to 'assist with mealtimes'
Hospital asks for patient families to 'assist with mealtimes'
John Bishop says nurses going on strike because NHS is broken
A hospital has asked patients' families for help as nursing strikes loom this week. Dorset County Hospital has reached out for "additional support" ahead of planned industrial action on January 18 and 19. Staff said in a statement that the building would open for longer visiting hours and "welcome" family members prepared to help on-duty nurses.
The statement, posted to its website, noted that "relatives and friends" of patients can visit during a 10-hour window.
People can drop by between 10am and 8pm, extending the usual 2pm to 4pm and 6pm to 8pm visiting window by six hours.
Staff stressed that all wards would be "safely staffed" during the strikes but that members of the public could help nurses focus on the most vital services.
They said nursing staff would need to "focus on clinical care" and that visitors could help with more menial duties.
An example of potential aid the hospital provided was helping "assist with mealtimes".
The trust has not provided any further details of the kind of help it would like from visitors.
Experts have criticised the request as a bad idea, with Dennis Reed, the director of the Silver Voices campaign group, telling the Daily Telegraph it "is a very dangerous situation".
He added people likely won't appreciate "basically being asked to strike break" as nurses prepare to withhold labour across dozens of NHS trusts.
Nurses will walk out from 55 trusts in England later this week as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) builds momentum.
Roughly a quarter of hospitals and community services will shoulder the impact, affecting some operations and routine services.
Nurses will still provide services in intensive and emergency care, but check-ups and minor operations may see some disruption.
Vital services such as kidney dialysis and chemotherapy receive priority staffing over operations like hip replacements.
Health services have asked people to honour scheduled medical appointments, but some may have seen theirs cancelled.
The RCN announced earlier this week that nurses had voted for another round of strikes affecting more trusts in February.
The additional action will cover 73 trusts next month, the union announced on Monday.
In a statement, Pat Cullen, the RCN chief executive, blamed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Ms Cullen said Mr Sunak had "chosen strike action" after Government negotiations failed to reach an acceptable agreement.
She said: "We are doing this in a desperate bid to get him and ministers to rescue the NHS.
"The only credible solution is to address the tens of thousands of unfilled jobs – patient care is suffering like never before."
The RCN has called for higher pay after claiming the value of salaries for experienced nurses are "20 percent lower in real terms due to successive below-inflation pay awards since 2010".
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There is a reunion of old friends and lovers in Ukiah this holiday season.
An exhibit called "Artful Liaisons," at the Grace Hudson Museum (until Feb. 17) tells the intriguing century-old life stories of three artists, what connects them to each other and what contributions they made to 19th century American art.
It won't surprise you to learn that Mendocino County artist Grace Carpenter Hudson, whose portraits of her Native American Pomo neighbors won her national acclaim, is one of the three.
Her seldom-seen early work, from the first years of her artistic training in the 1870s, is the beginning of the story.
The artist in the middle, the fulcrum, if you please, is Edward Lincoln Espey, whose short life produced vivid landscapes. His early romance with young Grace Carpenter provides not only the reason for the show but the "might-have-been" that makes it almost as much love story as art.
And, finally, a talented multimedia artist named Grafton Tyler Brown brings it all to a kind of conclusion. But not really.
The definitive end of the story belongs to Karen Holmes, curator of the museum/Sun House complex that is a center for Mendocino County's history and ethnography as well as its premier art venue.
It was Holmes' article in a Maine art and antique digest that began a five-year correspondence with Portland gallery owner Mark Humpal which put all the pieces of this painterly puzzle in place.
The trail is too long and steep to follow here, but I can tell you that it is awash in happenstance and serendipity and ends triumphantly with the current exhibit.
In 1878, Grace Carpenter graduated from Ukiah Grammar School. Because there was no high school in town, she was sent off for further education to San Francisco by her parents, Aurelius O. and Helen McCowan Carpenter, who were among the literati of the frontier community.
Grace's early interest in art brought her to the San Francisco School of Design before her 14th birthday. That's where she met Ed Espey from Eugene, Oregon, who, following his artistic inclinations, was also a student at what was deemed the best art school on the West Coast (precursor of today's SF Art Institute).
Before long Grace and Ed became — in the language of those gentler times — "sweethearts," a relationship that would last for the next four years.
Both explored the depth of their talent in a range of artistic disciplines. But Espy went to study in France and, while the love letters between them continued, Grace had caught the attention of an older man, a widower named William Davis. Against the wishes of her family, she eloped with him in 1884. She was 19. He was 34. It was a brief marriage. The divorce was finalized in 1886. Grace's formal art education ceased and she returned to Ukiah to work with her parents in the photo studio and give art lessons. Her artwork from this period — what little there is — is signed "Grace Davis" and lacks the quality of her earlier and later work.
The three-year "down period" ended when John Hudson came to town.
Hudson was a physician, sent to Ukiah as the "railroad doctor" when the San Francisco and North Pacific line reached Mendocino County. He was also an ethnographer, interested in the Pomo population of this frontier town.
The love story of Grace and John Hudson which would result in a marriage that lasted well into the new century. It produced not only a new and important form of California art — Grace's Pomo portraits — but also John's contributions to the ethnography and anthropology of the region. Both disciplines are well told in permanent exhibits at the museum and the adjoining Sun House, where they lived and worked.
But Espey's energy and ambition and his promising career were cut brutally short when he took ill with Hodgkin lymphoma, the first case of this disease ever diagnosed in the area. He wed Albertine in January 1889 and died six weeks later. He was 28 years old.
Grafton Brown was already well established on the West Coast by the time Ed Espey came back to Portland. This African-American adventurer from Pennsylvania had come west as a teenager in 1858, worked as a hotel steward in Sacramento and taught himself enough about art to win praise at the State Fair in 1860.
By the 1880s, Brown had left both lithography and printing behind and devoted himself to landscape painting, taking his salable skills as a plein air artist on geological expeditions into British Columbia, back to Washington Territory and finally in 1885, to Portland — where he met Ed Espey as well as his lover and later-wife, Albertine.
That "friendship" continued after Espey's death and, in 1896, Grafton Brown and Albertine Espey were wed.
Marriage ended his artistic travels and he went back to map-making, opening a studio that included his new interest, photography, in St. Paul, Minnesota. But he and Albertine worked to keep Espey's artistry alive. In 1910 they financed a formal exhibition of 20 Espey paintings in St. Paul.
Brown died in 1918 and Albertine, the sole inheritor of both Espey and Brown's work, moved back to California to live in a Los Angeles boarding house for French expatriates.
The owner of the boarding house, himself a French ex-pat, was Albertine's executor when she died in 1926. He inherited her artistic archive.
The disposition of those paintings and lithographs and photos is complicated, as well as partly unknown. We do know that Portland's Mark Humpal bought 12 paintings in 2007 that had been donated to a church in Los Angeles in 2001. Edward Espey had signed eight of them. The rest were unsigned.
Investigation by a forensic document examiner attributed the unsigned works to Grafton Tyler Brown.
The world of art is a small one; particularly the kind of 19th century works that are no longer "fashionable" but still greatly respected When Humpal wrote an online essay about his purchases, historian Robert J. Chandler saw it. Chandler was finishing a book on Grafton Tyler Brown and a path from the granddaughter of Albertine's 1920s landlord to the present day, was established. Chandler's book was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2014 but not before Karen Holmes' essay mentioning Grace Carpenter's teenage love, Ed Espey, brought it all together.
Humpal, Chandler and Holmes formed a trio of curators for the show at the Ukiah museum, each teaching the others more of the story.
So, you see, it is not your usual art exhibit. Rather it is a multifaceted story illustrated by very interesting art.
Some, looking at the landscapes may think of the "Westward Ho!" effect — the influence of all the 19th century artists who helped to populate the American West.
But others would consider it a love story — or two or three.


Despite being 3-0 on the season, Georgia Tech continues to fly under-the-radar with one of the best offenses in college football. The Yellow Jackets are averaging 45.3 points per game on 345 rushing yards (5.7 yards per carry), 139 passing yards (10.7 yards per pass attempt) and 485 total yards (6.6 yards per play; 10.7 yards per point).
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Libertarians will not make any political progress in the foreseeable future. There's no party unity, and they can't even get along with each other. The candidates range from pretty solid to ridiculous. The convention is a joke.
Libertarian principles are great on paper, but they require the right conditions to flourish. Unfortunately, many libertarians don't realize this, and they are against policies that are necessary for those conditions. If the reader is languishing in Libertarian Party irrelevance, here is a trail of bread crumbs to find your way home.
Libertarians must dispense with the open borders policy. Those hordes of immigrants crossing the border don't care about the non aggression principle, and they aren't interested in the same form of government you are. Those with amenable ideologies are welcome. Extreme vetting is necessary. It should be obvious to anyone that freedom doesn't exist everywhere, and that not everyone is capable or even wants the freedom that we have, or the responsibilities that come with it. Come to the nationalist dark side, young Jedi, renounce your open borders, and stay free!
More importantly, libertarian Christians should consider the Alt-Right. We aren't the racist Nazis we're made out to be. A Christian realizes that we are endowed by our Creator with rights. If there is no God, there is no such thing as rights. Faith is integral to a free society. The most murderous and oppressive governments in history were atheist, and that isn't just a coincidence. The vision of a secular paradise is a trap. The Christian precept of loving your neighbor as you love yourself makes for a much better society than a stupid non-aggression pact.
There's nothing there for you in the libertarian party, Christians. It is a party of gay marriage, abortion, and drug addled political nonsense. While you may have been indirectly supporting those things because you are against a government with enough power to regulate them, one only needs to look around. It was a mistake to unfetter the homosexual agenda. They've taken the inch and are demanding the mile. You can't just tolerate them; you will celebrate them, or else. Next they will try to normalize pedophilia. Our society is descending into perversion. That is not freedom, it is sickness that leads to death, and we must reverse it.
We don't want a theocracy. We don't want the government running our lives. We understand that taxation is theft. We'd like to get back to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but that is only possible for a people with a common cause. I think libertarians share our cause more than anyone else.
I thought the helicopter photo was a 'free helicopter ride' image and didn't understand until I enlarged it. You mean SAVE them, not PHYSICAL_REMOVAL.
Note to self: spending too much time contemplating solutions to the Antifa/SJW/shitlib infestation of the West.


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MADISON'S CONNOR HIVELY drives to the basket during the first half of a game against the Castlewood Warriors in the Madison High School Gym on Dec. 31. Hively ended the game with 12 points to help Madison gain a 73-43 win.
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Bulldogs improve to 4-1 with two wins
By LARRY LEEDS, Sports Editor
The Madison Bulldogs won a pair of games over the Christmas break.
Madison used a balanced scoring attack and downed the Lakota Tech Tatanka 55-25 on Saturday afternoon at the Corn Palace in Mitchell.
"I was extremely happy in how we played on the defensive end and how we shared the ball offensively," said Madison Coach Jeff Larsen. "We made 22 field goals on 18 assists and outrebounded Lakota Tech."
Leading the way for the Bulldogs was Logan Allbee with 16 points, four assists and three rebounds. Dillon Bickett added 10 counters, five rebounds and two assists.
Rounding out the scoring for the Bulldogs were Connor Hively with eight, Carter Bergheim seven, Aspen Dahl and Mickale Dohrer six each and Aiden Jensen two.
Dahl led the team with nine rebounds and five assists. Jensen pulled down seven rebounds.
Madison 73, Castlewood 43
Madison led at every quarter break en route to a 73-43 win over the Castlewood Warriors during the Michael J. Entringer Scholarship Classic in the Madison High School Gym on Dec. 31.
Madison jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead as Bergheim hit a pair of field goals and Allbee added another.
The Warriors went on a 10-2 run to grab a 10-8 lead. Dahl stopped the Warriors' run with a basket with 3:16 left in the opening quarter to knot the score at 10-10.
Madison closed the quarter with a 10-4 scoring run and held a 20-14 advantage. Bergheim ended the quarter with 12 of Madison's points.
Bergheim and the Bulldogs started to pull away in the second period. He scored the first five points Madison enjoyed a 25-16 lead.
Castlewood was able to pull to within four, 27-23.
In the last four minutes of the half, the Bulldogs outscored the Warriors 15-0 and held a 42-23 halftime lead.
Madison never looked back in the second half as the Bulldogs outscored the Warriors 31-20.
Madison made 30 of 49 field goals, 61.2%, and 10 of 20 from behind the three-point arc, 50%. The Bulldogs hit 3 of 6 free throws, 50%, and grabbed 38 rebounds.
Bergheim ended the game with 23 points, hitting 9 of 15 from the field which included 5-of-8 three-pointers. All of his points came in the first half, and for his effort he was named MVP.
Hively added 12 counters while Dahl chipped in with 11.
Rounding out the scoring for the Bulldogs were Peters with seven, Allbee and Dohrer four each, Bickett and Adam Roemen each three, and Ben Brooks, Elijah Olson and Joe Gors two apiece.
Dahl and Dohrer each had five rebounds. Allbee and Dohrer each had three assists. Allbee had five steals.
Castlewood made 16 of 48 field goals, 33.3%, and just 5 of 25 three-pointers, 20%. The Warriors made 6 of 15 free throws, 40%, and had 19 rebounds.
Lane Tvedt tossed in 12 points while Carson Kirwan added 10 for the Warriors. Booker Schooley grabbed four rebounds.
Madison is 4-1 overall, 2-1 in Dakota XII Conference. The Bulldogs will go to Tea on Friday night to face the Titans in a Dakota XII matchup. Action starts at 5 p.m. with the C game, with the junior varsity and varsity games to follow.
"We will improve in practice this coming week in preparation for Tea on Friday night," Larsen said.


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The program includes Quickstart Guide, Dead-Simple Fat Loss Instruction Manual, Supercharge Your Metabolism, Done-For-You Meal Plans, The FightBody Grocery List, The Fat Fighting Cookbook, Workout Calendar, Video Tutorials, Fight Circuit Audio Training, Progress Tracker and Lifetime Access To The FightBody Formula Community Group. Download now!