The participators in this advanced wargame will meet in Helsingborg on the 5th of July to discuss further steps. At this meeting it will be known that Omfalos is not a part of the responsibility of the state secretary. Already in April he sold the piece to the swedish artist Ernst Billgren. The two artists met in Malmö on the 7th of April when Vilks opened his show in Galleri 21. Billgren was immediately interested in enlarging his collection of artworks (he already has a famous collection of the swedish artist Dick Bengtsson). Vilks offered him a good price, only 10.000 swedish crowns, and, of course, Billgren couldn’t resist that. Will he remove the sculpture from its proper place at the center of the world? Furthermore, it is said that the center of the world goes with the piece. But Billgren is also thinking about economy: ”It is expensive to store things in Stockholm. It is much cheaper per inch in Ladonia; I think it is a perfect place to keep Omfalos exactly where it is.”
On the top of Omfalos there is to be found some extraordinary details. Billgren, a lover of mosaic, is delighted to find the golden glitter on the top of the sculpture.
This war is of course very good for the tourist season. War is good news as news, and in Ladonia we prefer tourist wars to ordinary.
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Anyway, I have a new web page for the Ladonian Space Administration it can be found at;
http://barondom.homestead.com/LSA.html
I hope to bring new technical citizens via this project.
I have told readers how almost everything at some point is linked in my life, like number plates on cars, friendships, telephone numbers, places like all the Hartmann towns lined up from Namibia where Hartmann Zebra Roam, up through Germany and ending at Ladonia "The Head or Most Northern" unknowingly at first, events that match or miss rarely by just by 1 digit or 1 numeral. I never claim anything only present interesting facts.
Here is another. This on has to do with Saint Jude. This item is said to be "recently obtained in Rome." Rome lies on the 12 E line!!!! 14 degrees from Ladonia. I'm not Catholic but Christian who seems lead to these things unusual events.
I just purchased a relic of Saint Jude two days back. I paraphrase "A First Class Relic is a bone or body part from a Saint. A Second Class Relic is like clothing or an item owned by a Saint. A Third Class Relic is when something touches the dead Saint."
"After the death and resurrection of Jesus, Saint Jude, the brother of James the Less and a cousin of Christ, traveled throughout Mesopotamia for a period of ten years preaching and converting many to Christianity. He died a martyr's death as tradition tells us he was clubbed to death and his head was then shattered with a broad ax. Sometime after his death, Jude's body was brought to Rome and placed in a crypt in Saint Peter's Basilica.
Saint Jude identifies himself in his epistle in two ways: (1) "Servant of Jesus Christ", (2) "Brother of James". Servant of Jesus Christ Saint Jude regarded himself as having one goal, one distinction in life, and this was to be permanently committed to the service of Jesus Christ."
Here is the mystery. It is two fold. I had wondered about this quote;
"Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He
would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection."
I had gone to bed late and 5 minutes after I lay down a voice said "open the bible to St. John 14:10." So, I did.
It starts out with "Beleivest thou not that I am in the Father...." Sure enough 12 lines down...
"Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, How is it thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?"
I'm like amazed!!! But then I uncovered more;
He is the patron saint of desperate cases and his feast day is October 28. Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God's mercy.
But Hartmanburg Day is a three day event like Octoberfest that runs between October 29 -31.
Unknowing I choose this date line!!! Here is the real clincher last year in mid October I shot several images of fall foliage. This picture is a second picture taken 5 months later in the same general location showing a lighted mass or glare once again. The sky and trees turn dark!!! But this brightens up.
It could be anything but It makes me wonder!!! If nothing else it proves a mystery again.
Waaalll,
--- James
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I was sitting around one afternoon when this discovery changed everything. I discovered a new instrument from a simple green marker. Being a marquis and being a green marker I knew it was another revelation. With this I could make strange sounds, change pitch and play all the songs I ever wanted unless the range was wrong. Then I switched to other markers with there own musical ranges. With echo on a computer I could turn it into the wildest wind instrument on earth. A Plastic Wind Instrument. Outdoors it sounds again very different. I noticed the cap removed allowed for faster slides. I could make UFO hover sounds, Bird calls. It is just a miracle from a simple item used in Art Drawings!!! I can foresee it used in a Jazz bands to produce new styles of music. Since the 4th of July is near it makes for a great substitute for a flute in MARCH Music. I recommend you clean the mouth piece after use.
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http://www.dse.nl/hubgong
Some thoughts from The Ministry of Stones, Minister Joe Strahl.
As Minister of Stones my first task will be to establish the Royal Ladonian Geologic Survey (hereafter The Survey). Contrary to what one might think The Survey will not start by mapping Ladonia and hitting various stones with hammers. Instead The Survey will attempt to see what ad hoc efforts at stone naming and mapping have taken place in the past. For example The Ladonia Herald issue 40 has a picture of a Stone or more possibly a small boulder which has been named Vojvodina but the exact location of this Stone is not clear. Additionally the Survey will attempt to identify past efforts to work on the Geology and Stones of Ladonia so to make sure that the Ministry is not going to drop stones on any toes through its work. This should lead to an Initial Royal Catalog of Ladonian Stones.
Following this work The Survey will then attempt to reconcile the Catalog with the ”Map” section of www.ladonia.net as well as any maps of Ladonia that the Swedish enemy organization SGU has created over the area. This will lead to a Map of the Physical Geography of Ladonia, with the location of some prominent books added in for good measure. Taken together, the Catalog and the Map will serve as the ”groundwork” for things to come.
Now there are many many MANY stones in Ladonia and probably a bit too many for The Survey to deal with at once. So some sort of priorities will have to be made.
I propose dividing the stones into Boulders, Rocks, Stones and Pebbles in descending order by size. Since there may be tens of thousands of Pebbles (the location of the pebbles can change as people amble about on the rocks and move the pebbles around also some of the pebbles will be used to play the National Anthem, blup--splassh) the Ministry will not prioritize these. Instead Boulders and Rocks should receive the greatest attention. The preliminary definition for Boulders could be those which are not moveable. Rocks could be moved by a person, stones and pebbles can be picked up and thrown. I will have to consult Ministers with similar portfolios in other countries first to see if there is an international standard to follow.
The Ministry will then launch an “Adopt-A-Rock” program whereby citizens of Ladonia can chose a rock, propose its name, pay for the upkeep and together with the Ministry establish the 1. Connection with society and 3. The stone as being a stone. The Ministry will determine the geology. The “Adopt-A-Rock” program could be announced in a future issue of the Herald. The results of the ongoing “Adopt-A-Rock” program will then be fed into the Catalog of Stones and form the basis of revisions in the Map.
Since the boulders of Ladonia are not very numerous (?) “The 1. Connection with society 2. Geology and 3. The stone as being a stone” for each could be proposed by the Ministry and after time for public comment, the proposal could be established by Presidential/Royal/State Secretary decree.
In the more distant future it would seem that the Ministry should consider some form of visible physical identification for the more popular boulders and rocks in Ladonia. This could be done by bolting on small bronze plaques or by simply painting on an identification number. The plaque would be very fitting but on the other hand there are three results:
1) “The landowner” and others might dislike this, thus leading to legal complications (a problem but for some also a possibility or the source of glee)
2) Swedish tourists in Ladonia might want to “borrow” the plaques in the same way that German tourists take down moose warning signs in Sweden, take them home to Germany and mount them indoors to be viewed by admiring neighbors…
3) Costs (the adopt-a-rock program could be a way to solve this) for metal and engraving.
Since this is a resource-poor ministry (after all, stones don’t grow on trees), the work of volunteers in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated. Especially folks who live closer to Ladonia than I do and those who have a digital camera etc.
I am spending another summer (as I did two years ago) in the hilly NE United States; specifically, western Massachusetts. Summers are much more tolerable here than in my beloved Texas. Winters, however, are not. Besides, I like the cross-country drive between the two states, so it gives me an excuse to make it twice every time I come here.
I think the best part of my trip here was a detour into the Delta Blues region of northern Mississippi, a town called Clarksdale that's about an hour's drive south of Memphis. (I took the musical route this time, also passing through the country music capital of the world, Nashville, and Cleveland Ohio, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which I didn't stop
to visit.) Here are some pictures from the very unusual place I stayed in Clarksdale <http://home.earthlink.net/~thaggardb/shackup.html> ... I should explain that a "shotgun shack" is a small, narrow cabin (allegedly you could shoot a shotgun from the front door through to the back, straight through) usually occupied by sharecroppers and other residents of lesser means throughout the southern US. (That is, it ain't no mansion.)
A word from our Minister of Health
The Department of Health in Ladonia is reaching for deep waters. Next year will be announced as our Vertical Time Year, 19997 years before one of the several very much looked forward to culiminations of the New Pole Star Feast declared by our former prefect of State, professor Lars (formerly in ancient days Conte-) Vilks. Vertical time is Health Time. In vertical time you don't suffer the shortcomings of this nether world based on violence, big fish eats small fish, big wife beats small, whatever, big boss negotiates with small fry clerks, politics, wars, implementations of laws good for some, the neverending struggles between doers (not so many) and takers (pretty few much more abundant), etc. etc. Vertical Time is Eternity. We, the Department & Minister of Health, Dr von Bock, have found documents about a perennial long since forgotten knowledge, we have experimented with the magic of it, discovered - how to say this - what "they don't teach you in Medical School", and are very exited about it. Unfortunately, part of this knowledge belongs to the illustrious brother of myself, alias the Minister of Philosophical Fishery, as a copyrighted Hitherto Unparallelled Treatise on Entropy, and this brother being very strict about his copyrights, further details cannot be disclosed by me or any living law abidient person - at this point. The vertical time concept, however, and proof thereof are quite solid and fantastic reading too, but why should I disclose something even better than the good Philosophical Fisherman has come up with behind his carefully locked doors, if he doesn't - an old timer romantic as he is, believing in secrecy, bah(!), secrecy doesn't depend on hiding your gold & gems, it depends so very much more on nobody desiring it - on people not noticing what's so particular about them, not seeing the key - not even needing this key. Mainstream people are already perfect. They already know everything there is to be known - about "self" and "reality" (i.e. the universe, cosmological theories disregarded). So......holding ones breath, hovering about in the cool transparent medium, below the reach of the burning sun, the enigmatic dark emerald shadows in the deapths and afar, in
this relaxed, eternal moment...
Much love to Everybody in the Vast Wide World, be it in Ladonia or
Elsewhere, Dr E. von Bock, Minister of Health