#Eason Photographic Collection

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With the sun in their eyes and the Lord at their backs by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: The Krazy Kataloguers have been at it again describing the beautifully constructed temporary emporium as a "Mission Toy Stall"! The vendor is standing in the shadows of rosary beads while statues of the Virgin Mary and Crucifixes stand on the counter would be objects of devotion rather than play? Apart from all of that the children standing in front of the stall make an interesting contrast. The ones on the left are dazzled by the sunshine and are well shod while those on the right are unaffected by the sun and are barefoot! Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: between 1900-1939 NLI Ref: Eas 4070 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Jenelle Evans is still standing by her man.

The fired Teen Mom 2 star gushed about her husband David Eason in a new post to social media on Friday, praising him for “protecting” her and proclaiming that they will be “just fine." The couple has been at the center of plenty of drama lately, from David’s pending charge of child abuse for his alleged assault on Jenelle’s oldest son Jace, to the recent accusations that David had been texting his ex-wife Whitney Rich and proclaiming he was “dreaming” of her, among other things.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenelle Evans seemingly got all gussied up and headed down to the local mall’s “Glamour Shots” location to pose for “happy family picnic” pics together.

In the black-and-white shots (which have no photographer credit), Jenelle looks lovingly at her employment-challenged soulmate, as David stares dead-eyed off-camera.

In another photo, David has his girthy paw wrapped around Jenelle’s neck and collarbone, as he and Jenelle both close their eyes (surely dreaming of all the fun times they’ve spent together in courtrooms).

In the final shot, Jenelle closes her eyes in fake laughter as she admires David’s chain necklace (which was surely purchased from the Vanilla Ice Insta-Rapper Collection). David, again, stares off-camera with a vacant look.

“No matter where I go I’m loved by you, no matter where we are you always make me laugh,” Jenelle wrote. “No matter where we are you know how to take away my anxiety, no matter where you are you don’t let anyone walk all over me, no matter where you are you protect me. Let them say whatever about us because we will be just fine. I love youuu babeeeee.”

In the comment section of the post on Facebook, David responded to Jenelle’s love note.

“Awwwe don’t make me cry,” David wrote. “I love you so much and I will always be there for you no matter what!”

While David appreciated the love letter, Jenelle’s followers were not impressed, with some reminding Jenelle that, just a few months ago, she was on Facebook accusing David of stealing her debit cards, making her depressed and refusing to work. Others brought up some of David’s unsavory past actions, such as Jenelle’s 911 call from 2018 in which she accused David of abusing her.

“No matter when she calls 911 to say you broke her collarbone she’ll forgive you,” one person wrote. “No matter which children get hit with sticks, locked in cars and strangled she will stay with you. No matter how many times you contact your exes or random girls she will want your Vienna sausage. True love story.”

“Every time I see pics of them I feel like we’ll see them one day on the First 48 [crime show],” another person wrote.

“Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago you were posting about unsupportive he is and how he’s the cause of your anxiety?” someone else commented. “And he was the reason you had no friends… Ohhh how the tables have turned!”

As The Ashley previously told you, David and Jenelle are currently being investigated by CPS. While Jace has been removed from their care and is now living with his grandma Barbara Evans, Jenelle’s son Kaiser and the couple’s daughter Ensley remain on The Land. (As The Ashley reported earlier this week, David’s older daughter Maryssa comes and goes from The Land.) 

In addition to the slobbery soulmate tribute, Jenelle also posted a proclamation to her website that the text messages David allegedly sent to his ex-wife Whitney last year were “photoshopped.”

In a new story posted to her website, a writer who is absolutely, positively not Jenelle addressed the text messages and even obtained “exclusive” texts between David and Whitney during the time in question. According to Jenelle’s story, these prove that David never texted the things Whitney claims he did back in May 2022.

Jenelle even (somehow) managed to obtain an exclusive statement from David himself about how the text messages provided by Whitney are fake.

No. Seriously…

“I honestly think they are photoshopped because I have the real texts between Whitney and I,” David tells his wife’s website. “I have shown them to Jenelle and they are only pertaining to co-parenting.”

The website goes on to again accuse Whitney and her husband Shane of creating the text messages that were released.

“Many close sources to Jenelle and David Eason believe that Whitney Johnson and her husband, Kenneth Shane Rich, photoshopped the text messages that were submitted to The Sun a few weeks ago.”

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Limerick Hams to Dalkey by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: For today we have a view of a very familiar scene, O'Connell Bridge from the south side looking up O'Connell Street towards the Pillar. The activity captured here is just fascinating with the electric trams, the trucks, vans, cars and lots and lots of pedestrians. The sign in the foreground which shows that ladies must walk on the road is taking things a little bit too far! Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: between 1900-1939 22nd January 1932 to early February 1932 NLI Ref: EAS_1741 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: I think this is the first non military / non railway photo of Newbridge we have ever posted. There is a lot going on here and I think the megazoom via the catalogue link below is worth a look. Our eagle-eyed contributors have spotted a motor-car (possibly a Ford) further down the hill - which perhaps puts this image after the mid-1900s. There's a suggestion also that the man riding from the barracks is in military uniform - narrowing the range perhaps to before the mid-1920s (when the barracks was demilitarised). The 40-year range in the catalogue could therefore possibly be narrowed to a 20-year range earlier in the 20th C.... paulcooke3 of the Newbridge Local History Group comments that their research puts the date around 1916 and we are happy to go along with that. Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: Probably c.1916 NLI Ref: EAS_2515 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Cork History | National Heritage Week 2021

by Richard Forrest

As part of National Heritage Week 2021, we take a look back at some of the more interesting history stories discovered by Cork City Libraries’ Local Studies department.

The Botany of the Bohereens

Cork polymath, Richard Dowden, fell very sick to fever at the time of the Great Famine. During a slow recovery he eventually felt up to walks in the countryside near the city. During these he found he had leisure and energy enough for botanical exploration, one of his many diverse interests. This eventually resulted in the publication in 1852 of his “Walks After Wildflowers”, subtitled “The Botany of the Bohereens”. Richard prefaced his “botanical chit-chat” with the beautiful illustration you see here. But who was responsible for it? Well, it was a mystery lady whose name we at Local Studies would love to discover. Richard simply tells us that he had a kind lady friend “to thank for the pretty and tasteful illustrative vignette which ushers in these pages but I may not give her name, dear reader, without hurting her modest secrecy”.

Diddledum Club

Admit it! You’ve always wanted to know what a Diddledum Club was. A folk music band? An Alice in Wonderland Appreciation Society? Well, neither. Local Studies can now assuage your curiosity. A Diddledum Club was simply a savings club in times when money was scarce. Their heyday was before the foundation of the national Credit Union movement and they were especially popular in the run up to Christmas. Indeed, the Yuletide Diddledum Club was the most common variant. Usually a neighbourly-minded individual got the ball rolling by collecting penny subscriptions and handling the paperwork, before releasing funds back to the payees for a spending bonanza. Unfortunately, embezzling opportunities sometimes proved tempting and in 1938, a fowl plucker for a city centre firm was charged with fraudulently converting sums entrusted to her by her colleagues. The court decided she was more of a “muddler” than anything else and had gotten all mixed up. Although witnesses did say she was down in Crosshaven in August (living the high life?) Anxious to defer prison, His Lordship described the accused as “an old woman, a grandmother and not in the best of health”. In a similar case, a defendant was admonished for leaving her clients vainly calling out, “Alice, where art thou?” for their money. Maybe there is a Wonderland connection after all.

The Victoria Hospital – a Snapshot from 1921

This largely charitable hospital on Infirmary Road was established in 1874. One hundred years ago, it had 50 beds and treated 391 internal patients and 2,005 external. It began 1921 £80 in debit but reduced this to £28 by the close of the year. Here we see a photograph of a salubrious looking Children’s Ward. Note the rocking horse and the large toy cow! The Hospital Council had a fair representation of Sirs, Colonels, Ladies and even a Countess in 1921. The Tabitha Guild supplied most of the wants of the children’s wards, including 70 garments and £8 5s. 6d. for further purchases. The Annual Report 1921 has a nice informal tone. It mentions that £32 was spent on the installation of electric radiators and that the absence of floor covering on an upper floor was a source of considerable noise to those below. That problem was addressed with less expenses than expected. Now, time to have a hunt through our collections at Local Studies to see if we can find a photo of a children’s ward in the North Infirmary in 1921.

A Case of What Might Have Been!

Here is one proposal that was mooted when Cork was searching for a downstream crossing of the River Lee. The City was frantically looking for ways to ease traffic congestion and stimulate economic growth and our picture is from a report by a firm of consulting engineers drafted in 1980. The eventual outcome was, of course, the Jack Lynch Tunnel. Just as well, walks along the Marina wouldn’t have been half so pleasant. The Library’s Local Studies department will bring you more of these alternative futures in the near …. future!

John Fitzgerald’s Diary 1793

John Fitzgerald, teacher and convivialist lived on Drawbridge Street (behind today’s Easons) in the 1790s. He had an insatiable curiosity for events both local and international and has left us with an evocative record of his life and times. Here’s what was occupying John’s thoughts this week all of 238 years ago: July 7th: Drank a share of 12 pots of porter at Cotter’s. Paid John Connell, the barber, 2s. 6d. July 8th: A fine warm day. Commencement of the new moon. Bandon races began. Old potatoes 11 d. per wt. and coal 7s. a barrel. John Hely Hutchinson, our M.P., and Sir William Clarke, our Sheriff, are both now fighting in the entrenchments at Vallenciennes. July 9th: Beautiful weather. Met Dr. Orpen on Wandesford Bridge and he told me to walk as little as I could. July 10th: Fine and warm. 500 recruits from Dungannon arrived at Cork for embarkation. Frigates and transports at Cove to take away the 58th and 63rd Regiments. The journeymen bakers striking. July 11th: Three troops of horse came from Bandon to quell the rioters in Limerick. They stayed but an hour to refresh. July 12th: At break of day there were tremendous claps of thunder and heavy rain. Several flashes of lightning. Mr. Sandiford was buried. July 13th: Gloomy sky, slight rain and close. Patty Chamberlain’s gown was stolen. Took mutton broth for my dinner. Drank three tods at Bat Murphy’s with John Baily and Jack Conway.

The Fingerpost

A fingerpost is a traditional signpost consisting of one or more ‘fingers’. Erected in cast iron or wood, the poles were painted black or white and the fingers had black lettering on a white background. It is thought that the oldest in existence is in England and dates back to 1669. It points to Oxford, Warwick, 'Gloster' and 'Woster'. Recommendations from 1921 advised 21⁄2 or 3 inch high upper case lettering and, from 1933, that poles be of alternating black and white bands. Mileage is typically measured to the nearest quarter mile although fifths and eighths of a mile were used in parts of Scotland. Cork’s fine fingerpost example at Douglas shews the city 2 ¾ miles, Passage 4 ½ and Carrigaline 5 ½. A major review of road signage in Ireland was carried out in 1977.Just how old is our Douglas landmark? Well, for a century or more, the post served as the meeting point for the South Union Hunt. Mind, they would look lost on their horses on today’s modern roundabout! A Grand Jury presentment dating from 1845 tells us that road repairs was under way between “the gate of the Douglas Lunatic Asylum and the finger post”. Further back again, the old ballad has it that one of the brave 1798 men, Phil Carty, was tracked when slipping home “to old Donnybrook” and “his bosom bled from the cruel lead, of a well-aimed musket ball”. After that, his body was hung from “the Finger Post, where walks his ghost, that they made his gallows tree”. Though still standing proud and prominent, perhaps the post has already, in fact, gone the way of Phil’s ghost. The current occupant of the historic spot is a metal recreation from 2004!

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"Street, Dublin City" .... is actually Navan by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: A street in Dublin City? While this is what the catalogue says, I really don't think so! But, if not Dublin, then where is it or even where was it? A busy hilly street somewhere in Ireland, where a Taoiseach might meet a man in a pub with a pint in each hand? At least they had the electric so dating may not be too hard... ... And we have confirmation that indeed this isn't Dublin, but Ludlow Street in Navan, County Meath. Derangedlemur very quickly set us straight, and while his explanation (that he's "memorised all of Google StreetView") was probably intended as a joke, sometimes I do wonder :) Beachcomber reminds us that we have previously seen other Eason photos of Navan similarly mislabelled - something to look out for in future... Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1900-1939 NLI Ref: EAS_1728 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Images: Eason Chang (Flickr)

WHY OFF-WHITE SUCKS

           By now we all know what Off-White is. The brand launched by Virgil Abloh, in 2013, that has taken over the street wear scene. As someone who has followed street wear and high fashion in equal measure, I am writing this piece to tell you all why I think Off-White sucks.

           Off-White came to prominence because of its affiliation with a known Kanye West collaborator: Virgil Abloh. Abloh became Kanye West’s creative director in 2002, and went on to start his own brand, Pyrex, before shutting the doors of that project the same year he launched Off-White. Those who knew of Pyrex knew that Abloh was at the helm because of the headlines outing him as Kanye’s creative director. The two had frequently been seen attending fashion shows together in Paris, so when he announced his Pyrex line, the street wear community paid attention. The line didn’t do well. Screen-printed dead stock tees and Ralph Lauren shirts, sold for $225 and $550 respectively, didn’t attract the favor of many in the community.  Though it did catch on with a select few ,who are now mocked in the street wear world, it was overall a failure. No matter, any designer associated with Kanye West will make the fashion world pay attention. This explains the rapid rise of Off-White: a brand that would likely be toiling in obscurity without its founder’s association with the icon that is Kanye West.  Despite Abloh’s considerable prowess in producing the types of images and clothing that attract the social media generation, I wonder how Off-White would fare without any affiliation to Kanye West.

           Abloh has said that his goal for his brand is to bring luxury to street wear; to make clothes for the kids who mix street wear with high fashion. He wants to, ironically, validate street wear; a clothing genre that has long been valid, without any aid from Abloh. Off-White designs are elementary and repetitive, and have been called out for being so. The designs alone aren’t enough to justify the prices (which are normally in the $500 - $1,000 range), so the fabrics, hopefully do more to justify the prices. That remains to be confirmed. Some who have reviewed Off-White pieces have denied that they are worth their price. Luckily, Off-White’s target consumers are generally apathetic to which fabrics are used to make the clothes. They initially bought into the brand because of Abloh’s association with Kanye West, and have remained loyal since. Abloh had the sense to collaborate with other prominent street wear and sneaker brands (such as Nike, VLONE, and Levi’s), keeping his young audience interested and dedicated to his clothes, even though those designs are usually just words added to already iconic products (i.e. the NikexOff-White sneaker collection). He has simply followed the now long-standing tradition of collaborating with other brands, avoiding designing himself.

           Off-White is, none-the-less, is a very confusing brand. Compare their women’s offerings to the men’s, and it’s hard to believe that all the pieces come from the same brand. It seems as if Abloh forgot his ethos of bringing luxury to street wear, when designing the women’s clothing, and just tried to create luxury. Meanwhile, he has strictly street wear pieces on offer for men. That is odd. The lack of consistency in the brand makes the brand seem very amateur, and the lack of aspiration in the brand is made worse by its uninspired, repetitive, apathetic designs.  I know I have repeated that sentiment, but I have done so to reiterate my disdain for what Off-White produces. Abloh claims to have deliberately eschewed the choice of branding his line as high fashion or street wear (something his customers don’t seem too fussed about) but, would anyone buy from his disjointed brand had it not been so popular already? Would houses like Valentino or Balmain get away with offering such confused collections? I don’t think so, but you can decide for yourself.

           One thing Abloh certainly understands is how to reach his target. He has all but mastered social media marketing and wears his own products. He is regularly seen in his own wares, promoting the terrible style that he has made so popular. At this point, for me, it is difficult to understand why he was the only American to be chosen as a finalist for the LVMH Young Designer award in 2015. Having a designer who worked for Kanye West as a finalist was great marketing for both parties, making the award an unnecessary formality for Off-White*. Seeing how Off-White has evolved since then, I am certainly hoping Abloh doesn’t fulfill his ambition of ruining , ahem, I mean running, a luxury house the way Demna Gvasalia has at Balenciaga. He has expressed a desire to helm a luxury house, but would only ruin it in my opinion (again, just as Gvasalia has at Balenciaga). I understand that younger consumers are mixing street wear with high fashion, but they do it very poorly, and, in most cases, should not be doing it at all. Luxury houses create aspirational clothing. It is supposed to be worn well, with other pieces that create a refined, elegant, and powerful style; not just something copied from what is seen on Instagram, to create an even more senseless look than what was seen on Instagram, to be photographed and posted back to social media. Unfortunately, fashion magazines have increasingly become nothing more than social commentaries with photos and articles about anything other than fashion; making them useless for anyone looking for real fashion inspiration outside of social media and Google searches. I miss the days of Nicholas Ghesguiere and Christophe Decarnin at the helm of Balenciaga and Balmain, respectively. They both brought inspiration and originality to the brands for which they worked, and made consumers feel great in their clothes. They attracted attention with the quality of their designs and created trends (especially in the case of Decarnin) instead of just serving them.

           Despite his claims about not being a celebrity designer, Abloh has long passed any chance of staying out of the limelight, and has entered firmly into an era of celebrity designers who produce very sub-par clothing. I hope there are plenty of designers out there who are not following this model and are focusing on creating beautiful clothing, not just poorly designed street luxury, without any actual luxury. That is Off-White, and, that, to me, is why Off-White sucks.

 That said. There is one piece by Off-White that I wouldn’t mind in my closet. Yes, only one piece. That piece is the men’s jeans with the stripes at the bottom back of each pant leg. That’s it. That piece is the only one I would wear. However, I’m not willing to spend a few hundred dollars on them. That  money would be better spent elsewhere.

 *Off-White did not win the LVMH Designer prize

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Why Is Coolest Backgrounds Ever Considered Underrated? | Coolest Backgrounds Ever

INDIANAPOLIS — The NFL apple is able-bodied acquainted that the Indianapolis Colts called Washington quarterback Jacob Eason in the fourth annular of the contempo NFL draft.

But the Colts additionally added one of his academy teammates, linebacker Brandon Wellington, as an undrafted chargeless agent.

Mike Martin of SI’s HuskyMaven provided accomplishments on anniversary player.

Let’s alpha with Eason. Martin mentions the strong-armed quarterback was the advance aggregation MVP in the year he sat out afterwards appointment from Georgia. He continues:

“Entering Spring football he was the odds-on admired to win the starting position afterwards 4-year amateur Jake Browing left. The QB action came bottomward to 5-star, 6-6 Jacob Eason and 3-star, 6-0 green Jake Haener. Eason didn’t win the job until the final two weeks of abatement camp. Speculation was that Haener fabricated the accommodation difficult because he threw a bigger brawl and that Eason won the action because his measurables presented a college ceiling.

“Eason didn’t accept an abominable season, but he was never able to put the aggregation on his aback and backpack them to victories in abutting games. The Pac-12 is accepted for breach but Utah, Cal, and Oregon all had aristocratic defenses and the Huskies absent to those three teams by a absolute of 10 points. Back the bold was on the line, he got the Huskies abutting but couldn’t anytime get over the abundance top. Statistically, he absolutely had a abundant division throwing the brawl and had the fourth-best single-season in UW history.”

Martin additionally acicular out that Eason didn’t accept abundant receivers who could handle his fastball, and that his best receiver was a bound end.

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Mineral Mondays: Rhodochrosite

Large rhodochrosite specimen showing characteristic banding. Photo from University of Delaware.

First discovered in Romania in 1813, rhodochrosite is a relatively well-known pink mineral famous for its malachite-like banding patterns. But, in truth, pure rhodochrosite doesn’t have banding, instead forming vibrant red or hot-pink crystals. 

As a member of the calcite group, rhodochrosite forms a solid-solution series with the mineral calcite - that is, the manganese in rhodochrosite (which causes the pink color) is sometimes substituted by calcium (which doesn’t create color, resulting in white or colorless crystals), to form a crystal partway between rhodochrosite (manganese carbonate) and calcite (calcium carbonate). When there is more magnesium than calcium, we still call the crystal rhodochrosite, but when calcium is dominant, the crystal becomes manganocalcite. During growth, the amount of calcium present can vary, resulting in bands of white and pink.

A rare specimen of single-crystal rhodochrosite. Photo from GIA.edu.

You’re probably most familiar with the pink-and-white banded version of rhodochrosite. With the presence of iron (as rhodochrosite also forms a solid-solution series with siderite, the iron carbonate), a brown banded rhodochrosite can form - the bands may be brown and pink, brown and white, or a combination of both. The gemological term for rhodochrosite’s banding is “bacon strips”. 

Due to its low hardness (Mohs 3.5-4) and three directions of perfect cleavage, pure rhodochrosite is rarely faceted into gemstones, instead being kept as specimens. The banded aggregate form, however, is slightly harder and can take a greasy polish, so it’s sometimes polished into cabochons and used in jewelry (but be careful, because it’ll scratch and abrade quickly). Crystals of rhodochrosite, like calcite, form in the trigonal system and usually have a rhombohedral habit. 

Faceted rhodochrosite. Photo from Pala International.

In its banded form, rhodochrosite is usually fairly inexpensive and difficult to mistake. Sometimes brown rhodochrosite can be confused with aragonite or other banded stones, but any gemologist should be able to help you distinguish the two. 

However, if you’re buying single-crystal rhodochrosite - that is, unbanded and bright red or hot pink - you should take a bit of care to be certain, because it can get quite expensive. For the most part you won’t run into any issues., because it’s not a well-known enough stone for people to use simulants. Do your research before shopping and find a seller you trust!

Correspondences

Element: Fire Sign: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Leo Planet: Mars, Mercury, Venus Color: Bright pink Herbs and plants: Nutmeg, hibiscus, sweet pea, carnation, anise, cedar, rose, orange  Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous

Good for…

…love spells ...strengthening ties and bonds ...creativity and learning ...friendships ...passion and romance ...finding ...healing trauma related to love and sex ...confronting fears

Sometimes you can find rhodochrosite cut in half, with matching banding on both pieces. These pairs of crystals are considered especially lucky for relationships - give one to your partner and keep one for yourself to maintain a strong bond.

A rhodochrosite kept on your bedside table can help liven things up in the bedroom. Pair it with some pink candles and red roses in a vase for extra passion and romance!

“Put [rhodochrosite] in the sleeping place of a missing animal; it may call them to return.” The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals, Cassandra Eason

Mineral Mondays Overview

Please Note: My personal collection of crystals is currently on loan and will remain so for several months. Photographs in this and upcoming Mineral Mondays posts will be from other sources.

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‘Teen Mom 2′ Fans React to Jenelle Evans’ Dog Adoption News

Jenelle Evans revealed that she has adopted a brand new dog on Wednesday, and Teen Mom 2 followers are cut up. Evans has had her share of hassle with pets up to now, together with the mysterious dying of her final dog, Peanut. Now, followers are hoping issues can be completely different for her new Goldendoodle, Rosey.

Evans shared a photograph of Rosey on Twitter on Wednesday, together with a hyperlink to her blog. The dog was posing with two of her youngsters, and apparently receptive to their joyous hugs.

Evans defined in her weblog submit that she had truly gotten Rosey when she first moved to Tennessee again in November, early on in her divorce from David Eason. Eason was accused of capturing and killing her final dog, Peanut, although he and Evans later modified their tales about that.

NEW BLOG: Meet Rosey 💓🎉

Since everybody’s asking… right here’s our “new” pet. https://t.co/QCZBWyiRyz pic.twitter.com/U5fRN7liDp

— Jenelle Evans (@PBandJenelley_1) February 26, 2020

“When I arrived I wanted to make the kids feel as comfortable as possible. I thought the best way to do this was to buy a dog,” Evans wrote. “Yes, I know what you’re thinking, ‘Jenelle is crazy!’ Sometimes I have the best ideas, and sometimes I don’t. This idea turned out to be a good one.”

Evans defined that she picked a Goldendoodle as a result of the breed is usually “super friendly” and “extremely playful” — good for Evans’ animal-loving youngsters. She discovered a girl promoting Goldendoodle puppies on Craigslist, then met up along with her in particular person to choose one out.

“Even though this was a very fast decision to get a new dog and at a tough time in my life, I’m happy I did!” Evans wrote.

Of course, followers had combined emotions about this new pet, and so they let Evans know. Some are particularly weary since Evans’ ex-husband, Eason doesn’t appear to be fully out of her life but. On Tuesday, TMZ printed pictures of Evans and Eason collectively, shopping for dog meals and pet provides in Tennessee.

Here is what followers are saying about Rosey within the replies to Evans’ tweet.

‘Keep Her Away From David’

Keep her away from David is all I’ll say. Also please train your youngsters not to seize or maintain a dog by the neck. This can upset the dog and trigger them to NIP. We certain don’t need Rosie to find yourself like Nugget.

— Carla (Pond) (@TheDocsPond17) February 26, 2020

Most replies to Evans’ tweet got here with one main headline: “keep Rosey away from David Eason.” Many followers are satisfied that Eason is a unfavorable affect on Evans, and is accountable for her greatest scandals in recent times. They thought that with out Eason round, Evans and Rosey ought to get alongside simply effective.

‘Death Sentence’

You have sentence one other poor creature to dying… When is it going to cease???

— Tasha Lee (@TashaLee6051) February 26, 2020

Great, one other dog for David to homicide.

— Ellie (@missyellie_ot) February 26, 2020

Other followers had been much more harsh when it got here to Evans’ animal historical past. They tweeted as if it had been inevitable that the brand new pup would come to hurt, calling it a “death sentence” to have it in her household.

Nugget

RIP Nugget pic.twitter.com/3pDgpY3BBI

— 🍊Leslie🍊 (@Leslie12890) February 26, 2020

Fans didn’t let Evans get by way of her submit with out fascinated about Nugget, and even seeing his face. They posted previous photos of Nugget, and revived the previous hashtag “Justice For Nugget.”

Speechless

pic.twitter.com/651QYFUSrl

— 𝐻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝑒 𝒢𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒾𝒶🕊🖤 (@Haileegarciaxo_) February 26, 2020

There weren’t sufficient phrases for some followers to correctly react to Evans’ new pet information, in order that they resorted to photographs. The replies featured some selection GIFs exhibiting how followers felt about Evan’s new pet adoption story.

Heads Up

Hope this one doesn’t get dragged out to the woods and a bullet by way of it’s head. Some individuals shouldn’t be proudly owning canines or every other kind of pets. @ASPCA #dogkillers

— Keith (@keith_D02919) February 26, 2020

@ASPCA this womans husband shot and murdered their final dog and now they’ve a brand new one, needs to be a ban on individuals like this proudly owning pets

— N i a m h 🇮🇪 (@NiamhBrady6) February 26, 2020

Some felt so strongly that Evans mustn’t have a dog that they even tagged the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA of their replies. They urged the group to maintain and eye on Evans.

‘Puppy Mill’

This is extremely unhappy. Not solely did you buy one other dog you will not correctly take care of, however you additionally supported an Amish pet mill. So unhappy.

— e l l y ✨ (@ellyson_manuel) February 26, 2020

Based on Evans’ story of adopting Rosey from a girl she met on Craigslist, many followers inferred that Rosey got here from a “puppy mill” — an unfit breeder the place puppies are mistreated. Animal lovers despise these locations for mistreating animals and typically leaving them bodily or mentally scarred for all times.

Confusion

She tagged TMZ… my guess is Yes. Yes, she does.

— Mandy Rose (@ShortCake11148) February 26, 2020

Finally, many followers had been merely perplexed as to why Evans would make a submit like this, figuring out that the replies would probably be unfavorable. They assumed that she was producing controversy on function, maybe feeling that “all press is good press.”

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Jenelle Evans: The Cops Are LYING! David Shot the Canine to Save Our Daughter! (Unique)

http://tinyurl.com/y5jwcarg Jenelle Evans is, no doubt, probably the most controversial figures within the historical past of actuality tv. She’s been accused of all method of unsavory conduct over the course of her decade within the highlight, however by all of it, she’s maintained that anybody who actually desires to know the reality about her life can get the straight details from one supply and one supply solely — Jenelle Evans. To her credit score, Jenelle has confirmed her honesty and consistency by admitting to conduct that might have left many actuality stars hiding behind their publicists.  Not too long ago, Jenelle briefly misplaced custody of her youngsters in response to allegations that her husband, David Eason, shot and killed the household canine with out purpose. Now, she’s talking with The Hollywood Gossip completely concerning the surprising allegation that she lied to police and faked her canine’s loss of life as a publicity stunt. It is an appalling cost, and never surprisingly, Evans is raring to clear her identify. Here is what she needed to say in our unique interview: 1. Secure at Dwelling Following a sequence grueling custody hearings, Jenelle’s youngsters have been returned to her. However she’s nonetheless on trial within the court docket of public opinion. 2. David the Dad After weeks of authorized wrangling, a household court docket decide dismissed David and Jenelle’s case, and Ensley, Kaiser, and Maryssa had been again on The Land in time for Fourth of July weekend. 3. Collectively Once more In photographs shared completely with The Hollywood Gossip, Jenelle paperwork a lifetime of quiet domesticity — her youngsters bonding with their dad and mom, with each other, and with the animals that make up such a vital a part of life on the Eason homestead. But it surely wasn’t straightforward to get again thus far … 4. The Nugget Scandal Again in April, it was reported that Jenelle’s beloved French bulldog Nugget was shot and killed by David after the canine allegedly grew to become aggressive with the couple’s 2-year-old daughter Ensley. 5. Domino Impact This alleged act resulted in a CPS investigation which triggered Jenelle and David’s youngsters to be faraway from their house. 6. Jenelle’s Model From the beginning, Jenelle maintained that she was irate with David for killing the canine, however forgave him with the understanding that his actions had been prompted by a priority for his daughter’s security, Edit Delete Source link

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"Street, Dublin City" .... is actually Navan by National Library of Ireland on The Commons A street in Dublin City? While this is what the catalogue says, I really don't think so! But, if not Dublin, then where is it or even where was it? A busy hilly street somewhere in Ireland, where a Taoiseach might meet a man in a pub with a pint in each hand? At least they had the electric so dating may not be too hard... ... And we have confirmation that indeed this isn't Dublin, but Ludlow Street in Navan, County Meath. Derangedlemur very quickly set us straight, and while his explanation (that he's "memorised all of Google StreetView") was probably intended as a joke, sometimes I do wonder :) Beachcomber reminds us that we have previously seen other Eason photos of Navan similarly mislabelled - something to look out for in future... Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1900-1939 NLI Ref: EAS_1728 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie http://flic.kr/p/SkUiuN

[vintageoculus]

Towering above the town by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Drogheda, an ancient town at the mouth of the River Boyne, with a long and distinguished history, and many reminders of its architectural splendours. The Magdalen Tower is one of the most prominent, jutting up like a last remaining tooth in the mouth of an old man. The surrounding area is much more developed now, so can the existing buildings help us to date the photo? +++ UPDATE +++ Bonzer that an article in an Adelaide, South Australia newspaper – the Southern Cross – gave us a narrower date for this one. Our roving Australian correspondent, beachcomber australia found an article describing the installation of railings around the Magdalen Tower on 15 August 1906. So this one drops from a date range of 40 years, to 6 years, i.e. 1900 to August 1906. Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: between 1900-1939 and August 1906 (before railings were erected around the tower!) NLI Ref: EAS_3082 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

[anneduebjerre]

Church (Ruins), Waterville, Co. Kerry by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Labelled as "St. Fininan's Church (Ruins), Waterville, Co. Kerry", we have an interesting photo from the Eason Collection to start off the week. We are in the Kingdom, and as a Dub I am happy to visit Kerry at any time, but I am always happier to visit when "Sam Maguire" is residing in the Capital. (The Dub Mary!) Based on input from Mosskayree, and corroberation from B-59, we have added this photo to our "Possible Cagalogue Correction" tag. It seems that this is actually very likely Derrynane Abbey, on the appropriately named Abbey Island, near the town of Caherdaniel in County Kerry. Mossy and beachcomberaustralia offer some additional detail on the history and folklore surrounding the abbey in the comments - including its connection to the O'Connell family of Derrynane..... Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: between ca. 1900-1939 NLI Ref: EAS_2386 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

[spookyhati-wren]

View of O'Connell Bridge and monument, Dublin by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

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Mineral Mondays: Rock Crystal

Rock crystal cluster. Photo from Gemstone Buzz. 

Rock crystal, sometimes called colorless or clear quartz, is one of the most popular crystals. This is, in part, because quartz is the second most common mineral on Earth, and rock crystal is the purest quartz. 

The word ‘crystal’ in reference to quartz originates from the Ancient Greek word krustallos, which is derived from a word meaning ice or cold, and was used to refer to colorless quartz. It was thought that rock crystal was actually a form of ice that had been supercooled so it would not melt. Today, ‘crystal’ is used in a variety of ways - rock crystal is specifically colorless quartz, while crystal without other specifying words may refer to rocks, minerals, and gem materials as a whole; materials with a regular lattice of atoms; or a few different types of glass, usually leaded. 

Rock crystal showing typical patterns of fractures and inclusions. Photo from Sacred Apothecary.

While quartz can come in every color except blue (though blue can be achieved through inclusions, coating, or synthesis), rock crystal refers specifically to colorless, transparent quartz. Like all quartz, rock crystal forms in the trigonal system with a prismatic habit. In rock crystal, the ideal crystal has six even sides and a pyramidal termination on both ends. More commonly, though, it forms in long, single-terminated prisms, or even as short tooth-like crystals in a geode. Twinning (changes in direction during crystal growth) is very common in quartz.

Quartz is the defining mineral for 7 on the Mohs scale of hardness. It’s somewhat brittle, but has only one indistinct direction of cleavage, so it makes a good jewelry stone. Dust in the air can also have a hardness of 7, though - when you wipe your jewelry, try to use a damp cloth to minimize fine scratching. Abrasion will inevitably occur over time in rock crystal rings and bracelets.

Rock crystal showing an ‘iris’ inclusion and characteristic external structure. Photo from The Quartz Page.

Because rock crystal is so common, there aren’t really any imitations for it on the market. In its rough form it’s pretty easy to identify (some other rare crystals can appear similar, but a trained eye can easily recognize quartz). Tumbled or shaped pieces tend to be of lower quality, bearing distinctive patterns of fractures and inclusions, including the frequently-seen iris (rainbow) inclusion, which is caused by a fracture with air inside acting as a prism and splitting white light into its individual wavelengths. Anyone who handles stones frequently will learn to recognize the particular lustre, inclusions, and weight of quartz. 

When faceted, rock crystal is occasionally used as a diamond imitation. These days there are much better simulants for diamond, but some older jewelry will still have small faceted rock crystals. When internally clean, rock crystal is very easy to confuse with a variety of other colorless stones (though diamond returns light far better, so it’ll sparkle much more than rock crystal). If you have a colorless faceted stone, it’s best to have a gemologist examine it to determine its identity.

Correspondences

Element: Fifth element (spirit, etc.), fire, water, all elements Sign: Leo, Cancer Planet: Moon, Sun Color: Gold, silver Herbs and plants: Rosemary, frankincense, marigold, sage, bay leaf, sunflower, orange, sweetgrass, St. John’s wort Moon Phase: Full  Sabbat: Yule, Imbolc, Litha, Samhain

Good for…

…energizing ...healing of all kinds ...neutrality ...personal power ...optimism ...cleansing and purification ...amplifying other crystals or spell ingredients ...absorbing or reflecting negativity

Rock crystal quartz is the most versatile crystal for spell work. It may be used in place of other crystals. Keep in mind that it works best when it’s amplifying other energy!

It’s common to have a personal rock crystal, which you may carry on your person some or all of the time, or leave in a place you frequent (like on your bedside table). It can bring luck and happiness, increase your energy, and provide numerous other benefits as well as being a sort of companion. 

“A [rock crystal] cluster is an excellent antidote to harsh lighting at work and will enliven a home that is always dark, even in summer.” - The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals, Cassandra Eason

It’s believed that different shapes of rock crystals, whether natural or shaped by man, have various properties and may work differently in spells and energy work. Most crystal guides will have a section on various shapes of quartz. 

Rock crystal is an excellent offering to almost any deity, spirit, faerie, or other entity.

Add rock crystal to any of your spells to provide a little extra boost of power!

Mineral Mondays Overview

Please Note: My personal collection of crystals is currently on loan and will remain so for several months. Photographs in this and upcoming Mineral Mondays posts will be from other sources.