Two Florida cops — a lieutenant and a detective sergeant — allegedly handcuffed and jailed their 3-year-old son to “discipline” him for having difficulties with potty training.

Daytona Beach Shores police Lt. Michael Schoenbrod told a Department of Children and Families caseworker that he took the boy to headquarters in October and put him behind bars, the News-Journal reported, citing body-cam video.

The child was jailed twice, the first time on Oct. 5 and again the following day, when he was also cuffed, according to the outlet.

“He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,” Schoenbrod told the caseworker, the footage from a Volusia County sheriff’s deputy reportedly shows.

He said his son promised to never poop in his pants again after his time in the slammer.

Schoenbrod admitted that he also had resorted to the jail tactic about nine years ago, when he disciplined his then-4-year-old son for hitting a girl in preschool, the newspaper said. Lt. Michael Schoenbrod and Detective Sgt. Jessica Long, of the Daytona Beach Shores Police Department in Florida, allegedly placed their 3-year-old son in jail twice after he had potty-training accidents.Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety

“I took him to the jail and he sat there. And I watched him … and he was crying and everything, and to this day, if you mention, like, that incident, he’s just like, ‘I would never do that again.’ It was effective,” Schoenbrod told the caseworker.

“So that’s why I did it with this. He didn’t hit anybody, but I figured the same thing, discipline. And he didn’t want to go back, so …,” the lieutenant added, according to the report.

It was not immediately clear whether Schoenbrod and Detective Sgt. Jessica Long faced discipline, according to the News-Journal, which said it obtained copies of memos from Public Safety Director Michael Fowler informing the couple about a probe.

The top cop told the paper he would consult with the city attorney before commenting.

Schoenbrod and Long — who live together and have the child together — and their attorney, Michael Lambert, have not responded to the paper’s requests for comments. A Department of Children and Families rep acknowledged a request for comment but did not offer one.

“It’s just disgusting that somebody would drag our family through the mud like this,” Schoenbrod said in the video, while Long could be heard calling the investigation “insane,” the News-Journal reported. Detective Sgt. Jessica Long, the child’s mother, also reportedly faces a professional standards investigation.LinkedIn / Jessica Long

Meanwhile, City Clerk Cheri Schwab said a judge has sealed the records in a March 24 case that lists Schoenbrod “et al.” as plaintiffs and the State Attorney’s Office “et al.” as defendants.

The couple also filed a separate case against State Attorney R.J. Larizza on May 18, but the initial filing and several subsequent motions have been marked as confidential, according to the News-Journal.

Antonio Jaimes, an attorney with the Volusia County Clerk of Court’s Office, told the outlet that the cases “are confidential due to motions for confidentiality filed within the cases.”

But Michael Barfield, director of public access initiatives for the Florida Center for Government Accountability, argued that the internal-affairs documents should be made public.

“A pending motion to determine confidentiality of court records does not have any impact on the city’s IA (internal affairs) investigation,” Barfield told the News-Journal in an email.

“A party cannot make a record that is subject to production under Chapter 119 (of the state public records law) confidential by merely filing a lawsuit requesting confidentiality and then not setting a hearing on the motion,” he added.

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman said she has forwarded a request from the paper about any completed investigation to the public records department for processing. The Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety building.City of Daytona Beach Shores

Former city attorney Lonnie Groot also has reportedly sought records about any officer placing a child in a jail cell, as well as investigations into “alleged child abuse by an officer.”

“This whole matter just does not pass the basic smell test from a transparency and governmental openness perspective,” he wrote City Attorney Becky Vose, the outlet said.

And a former South Daytona police officer who describes himself as a civil-rights activist said that when he requested the findings of the professional standards probe, he was provided an estimate of $3,398.40 − about 40 hours of work at $84.96 per hour — to review and redact the documents. 

“It’s a severe matter of public interest when you have strong allegations of that kind,” Dickinson told the paper. “Rumors are being brought to you by fellow law enforcement … and you want to make sure the stuff they’re saying isn’t true.”

Some Brief Sketches on "World"

1. The world is a system of interlocking orders of things, and of orders of things ensconced within other orders of things.

1.2 The term "thing" I mean to apply broadly to whatever may exist discreetly.

2. Harmony is a function of orders of things. It is thus not a function of singular things alone but of singular things as related to other singular things, of collections of things discreetly arranged in a way whereby those singular things are actively what they are.

2.2 Relations are not things apart from other things.

2.3 Interlocking orders with their own respective harmonies can give rise to further harmonies of order in their interlocking, but not necessarily.

3. Knowing subjects and things known constitute together an order of which its own respective harmony is a function.

4. Things known as such are constituted in the interplay of unrepresented order—which has its own respective harmony as a function of itself—and knowing subjects, and knowing subjects, with their own natural (in the sense of that-which-gives-rise-to-priorly) order and thus respective harmony, are constituted as knowing precisely in their interplay as knowing subjects with the unrepresented-now-represented. Knower and known constitute one order because they are one, even if they can be separated in the further built order of reflected-upon-things. It is all in Barfield.

4.2 The world is not a world apart from knowers; the world is the sum total of things and things done (facts as known); everything else is inference. Thus, Wittgenstein was not wholly wrong, but he did not love Kant well enough, and so he erred; to do otherwise, perhaps he needed Barfield.

5. Is Eros part of the order of the world, or does it constitute an order comprehended by the total order of the world?

6. Every thing has its place.

6.2 Everything that positively marks a thing as what it is has its place, for there is nothing apart from things, and all things have their place, which is to say that all things have a place in a particular order and the harmony which is a function of that order.

6.3 Homoeros marks the reality of some things in the world; therefore, homoeros has its place in an order of things and the harmony that is a function of that order.

7. Persons are the highest sort of thing, for persons can encompass and bring to further perfection (in making them known) all things by knowing them while remaining themselves.

Elvis Presley takes delivery of his 1957 Harley-Davidson FLH

On this day, November 1, 1956, while in downtown Memphis, Tennessee to insure his Lincoln Continental Mark II, Elvis Presley sees his friends at Memphis Harley-Davidson and buys a 1957 FLH.

Later that day 19 year-old Natalie Wood climbed aboard and off they went for a 3-hour ride in the Memphis night accompanied by Elvis' pal, Nick 'Johnny Yuma' Adams riding Elvis' 1956 KH Harley. And a Memphis motorcycle cop. When Elvis bought his FLH he then sold the KH to his riding buddy Fleming Horne.

Fleming eventually sold the motorcycle, along with complete documentation including the bill of sale, registration paperwork and insurance documents, all signed by Presley to Harley-Davidson in 1995. It has been the centerpiece of the Harley-Davidson Museum’s Pop Culture exhibit since the museum opened in 2008.

Photo: Back row, left, sales and service manager Al McAlexander Back row, right, B.W. Barfield of the Memphis Tennessee Harley-Davidson Motor Company.

Photo attribution: Enthusiast Magazine, December, 1956

On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley takes delivery of his 1957 Harley-Davidson FLH.

On this day, November 1, 1956, while in downtown Memphis, Tennessee to insure his Lincoln Continental Mark II, Elvis Presley sees his friends at Memphis Harley-Davidson and buys a 1957 FLH.

Later that day 19 year-old Natalie Wood climbed aboard and off they went for a 3-hour ride in the Memphis night accompanied by Elvis' pal, Nick 'Johnny Yuma' Adams riding Elvis' 1956 KH Harley. And a Memphis motorcycle cop. When Elvis bought his FLH he then sold the KH to his riding buddy Fleming Horne.

Fleming eventually sold the motorcycle, along with complete documentation including the bill of sale, registration paperwork and insurance documents, all signed by Presley to Harley-Davidson in 1995. It has been the centerpiece of the Harley-Davidson Museum’s Pop Culture exhibit since the museum opened in 2008.

Photo: Back row, left, sales and service manager Al McAlexander Back row, right, B.W. Barfield of the Memphis Tennessee Harley-Davidson Motor Company.

Photo attribution: Enthusiast Magazine, December, 1956

h/t J Mark Barfield

London Eye

London Eye Daar is min om te doen: die uitsig vanaf die London Eye, die groot reuzenrad wat die suide van die Teems oorheers en die gebied voor Westminster, is die mooiste in die stad. En die struktuur, met sy 135 meter hoogte, is een van die grootstes in sy soort ter wêreld. Om op te gaan, sal 'n sonnige dag natuurlik verkieslik wees, maar dit is waar dat die weer in Londen so veranderlik is dat daar waarskynlik 'n oomblik van helder lug sal wees, selfs al is die lug somber. En dan pas grys die stad, dis sy natuurlike kleur. Die groot speelding bestaan ​​uit twee-en-dertig hutte, een vir elke stad - stadsaal - van Londen, uiters gemaklik en ruim en in staat om selfs diegene wat aan vertigo ly, beskerm te laat voel. Die standaardrit duur 30 minute, maar jy kan twee kaartjies koop om langer te bly. Dit is natuurlik nie besonder goedkoop nie, selfs al koop jy kaartjies aanlyn: £29,5 vir 'n enkele reis vir 'n volwassene (pleks van £36) en £26 per persoon as jy vir 'n gesin bespreek. Of jy kan ’n hele kajuit vir ’n groep van 2 tot 25 mense vir ’n halfuur huur, maar die prys, £625, is hoog en dit is streng verbode om alkohol aan boord te bring. As jy regtig iets wil drink wat die uitsig waardig is, sal 'n glas sjampanje bedien word vir £50 elk. Buiten die prys is die uitsig skouspelagtig en in die verte kan jy selfs 'n blik op Kent, die suidelike kusstreek sien, en om te dink dat die London Eye nie gebore is om te bly nie. Die idee van 'n reuzenrad is in 1993 deur argitekte David Marks en Julia Barfield aangebied as deel van 'n kompetisie wat deur die "Sunday Times" geloods is om 'n projek te vind wat die skyline, die profiel van die stad, kan versier met 'n nuwe element, wat dus die gang na die nuwe millennium in groot styl merk. Met Parys verteenwoordig deur die Eiffeltoring, het die twee, 'n getroude paartjie, die idee van 'n gebou geskrap en aan iets meer speels gedink, soos een van daardie reuzenwiele wat so tipies is van kusoorde. Hulle het nie die tender gewen nie, trouens niemand het nie, want volgens die jurielede was daar nie genoeg interessante projekte nie. Met kenmerkende Engelse inisiatief het Marks en Barfield besluit om alleen te gaan, aansoek te doen vir magtiging en befondsing en logistieke ondersteuning van British Airways te verkry. Die London Eye het 'n deursnee van 120 meter, en anders as ander reuzenwiele word dit net aan die een kant ondersteun en beweeg dit baie stadig: dit maak net twee draaie elke uur en hoef dus nie gestop te word om passasiers in die kajuite in te laat nie. Aanvanklik moes daar meer wees, maar in daardie geval sou die wiel aanhoudend moes stop, terwyl jy op hierdie manier die reis, die progressiewe verandering van perspektiewe kan geniet, en nie net die gesogte oomblik waarin jy bo-op is nie. die stad. Die wiel is saamgestel op 'n paar kunsmatige eilande wat op die Teems geskep is, en om dit te verhoog - 'n historiese operasie, dit was die grootste voorwerp wat nog vertikaal geplaas is - was nie maklik nie. Dit is op 31 Desember 1999 deur 'n jong Tony Blair ingewy in die nou afgeleë era van Cool Britannia, en is aanvanklik die Millennium Wheel gedoop, en was bestem om binne vyf jaar afgebreek te word. En in plaas daarvan, danksy sy buitengewone sukses met die publiek en kritici, aangesien dit tientalle argitektuurtoekennings gewen het, weerstaan ​​dit nie net nie, maar is dit toegerus met 'n LED-ligprojek wat dit sedert 2006 selfs na sononder skouspelagtig maak. In dieselfde jaar is die London Eye oortref deur 'n struktuur in China, deur die High Roller van Las Vegas en deur Ain Dubai, wat in 2020 vir die Expo geopen is en 250 meter hoog is. Ten spyte hiervan was dit beslis die klein groot Londenaar wat die wêreldwye passie vir reuzenwiele laat herleef het. En hoewel dit 'n bietjie kos, is dit beslis die moeite werd om die geld te spandeer om 'n totale uitsig oor Londen te hê, verskillende perspektiewe en ligte te kruis en verskeur te voel tussen die begeerte om vir ewig bo te bly en die begeerte om af te gaan, in die groot stad te sink , sien dit nog nader.

74) Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) - amerykańska organizacja zwolenników białej supremacji oraz neonazistowski więzienny i uliczny gang. Według Anti-Defamation League i Southern Poverty Law Center, Aryan Brotherhood of Texas jest jednym z największych i najbardziej brutalnych neonazistowskich gangów więziennych białej supremacji i zorganizowanych przedsiębiorstw przestępczych w Stanach Zjednoczonych, odpowiedzialnych za liczne morderstwa i inne brutalne zbrodnie. Pomimo podobieństwa nazw, Aryan Brotherhood of Texas nie jest powiązany z Aryan Brotherhood (AB), znanym gangiem więziennym i syndykatem przestępczym założonym w Kalifornii w latach 60. XX wieku z oddziałami w federalnych i stanowych systemach więziennych oraz poza więziennymi murami. W 1981 roku grupa więźniów z Teksasu poprosiła o pozwolenie na założenie oddziału Bractwa Aryjskiego w Teksasie. AB odrzuciło ich prośbę, ale więźniowie z Teksasu i tak ją utworzyli. Niemniej jednak ABT powstała w latach 80. XX wieku, po desegregacji więzień w Teksasie i demontażu „przetargu budowlanego” lub systemu Trusty, systemu, w którym funkcjonariusze więzienni wykorzystywali innych więźniów do pomocy w utrzymaniu porządku w więzieniach. Te główne i mniej lub bardziej jednoczesne zmiany stworzyły atmosferę niepewności i braku kontroli, które okazały się żyznymi pożywkami dla czarnych, latynoskich i białych gangów więziennych. Te gangi wkrótce stały się głównymi drapieżnikami w systemie więziennictwa w Teksasie. Różne białe gangi, o nazwach takich jak Aryan Society i Aryan Brothers, w większości przyjęły stosunkowo prymitywną ideologię białej supremacji. Na początku do połowy lat 80. większość członków tych dwóch gangów zjednoczyła się, tworząc Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, podczas gdy inni wykluczeni z fuzji pomogli później w utworzeniu rywalizującego gangu więziennego Aryan Circle (AC). Od samego początku ABT stał się jednym z najbardziej brutalnych gangów w Departamencie Sprawiedliwości w sprawach karnych w Teksasie, popełniając 13 morderstw tylko w latach 1984–85. W marcu 1985 roku potencjalny Virgil Barfield wykonał rozkaz Bractwa Aryjskiego w Teksasie, aby zabić Calvina Masseya, który w tamtym czasie obaj próbowali dostać się do bractwa. Massey „postawił konstytucję”, robiąc sobie tatuaż, zanim jeszcze wstąpił do bractwa. Barfield dźgnął Masseya 42 razy. Brutalny atak zarejestrowała kamera. Klip wideo pomógł prokuratorom skazać Barfielda za zabójstwo Masseya. Virgil Barfield został skazany na dożywocie. Pierwsza wojna ABT była z czarnym gangiem Mandingo Warriors, który został pobity do punktu bliskiego eksterminacji w systemie więziennym. Aryan Circle był kolejną wielką wojną, która trwała około 8 lat (1986–1994). ABT odwracało uwagę od AC na krótkie okresy czasu, aby radzić sobie z mniejszymi, ale wciąż śmiertelnymi zagrożeniami, a to dawało AC czas na przegrupowanie. ABT znajdowało się w stanie wojny z wieloma gangami, które dostrzegły okazję, by spróbować je pokonać, podczas gdy były osłabiane przez te 8 lat. Mimo to nikt nigdy nie wygrał z nimi wojny, chociaż Mexican Mafia i Aryan Circle wyszły z nich z „traktatami pokojowymi” na początku lat 90. Texas Mafia (TM) była „zaparkowana” w całym systemie, co oznacza, że ​​nie mogli już rekrutować członków po wojnach ABT-TM w latach 1995/1996. Następnie AC zamordował członka ABT w 1998 na McConnell Unit. Wojna szalała do 2009 roku. Potem znowu wojna przyszła do tych dwóch rodzin, począwszy od 2015 roku i trwa nadal. W 2001 roku członek ABT Mark Anthony Stroman otrzymał karę śmierci za swój szał zabijania ludzi z Bliskiego Wschodu. Twierdził, że był to odwet za ataki terrorystyczne z 11 września. Jednak wszystkie trzy jego cele były pochodzenia południowoazjatyckiego. 21 września 2006 roku byli członkowie ABT zostali oskarżeni o śmierć młodej kobiety o imieniu Breanna Taylor. Według dochodzeń przeprowadzonych przez władze, Taylor była torturowana, napastowana seksualnie i zamordowana przez byłych członków gangu ABT. Po jej zabiciu oblali jej ciało kwasem, a następnie włożyli ciało do wanny, zalali je cementem i wrzucili do rzeki. Dale Jameton przyznał się do winy i otrzymał dożywocie, a Jennifer McClellan została skazana na 20 lat więzienia. Dale „Tiger” Jameton jest przetrzymywany w oddziale Estelle w nieposiadającym osobowości prawnej hrabstwie Walker. W 2012 roku Terry Sillers, były generał w rodzinie ABT, został aresztowany po tym, jak dowodził policją w dzikim pościgu motocyklowym w pobliżu Fort Worth. W zamian za współpracę z władzami przeciwko gangowi, który według niego go zdradził, został skazany na 10 lat więzienia federalnego. Bractwo Aryjskie w Teksasie jest kierowane przez pięciu generałów, zwanych łącznie "Steering Committee", "The Wheel” („Komitetem Sterującym” lub „Kołem”). Każdy generał otrzymuje kontrolę nad regionem Teksasu, przy czym każdy region ma pewną liczbę więzień w Departamencie Sprawiedliwości w sprawach karnych w Teksasie, a także nad wszystkimi hrabstwami składającymi się na region. Każdy generał ma 2 Majors, jeden „Inside Major” i jeden „Outside Major”. Major (który przebywa w więzieniu, a zatem zna zawiłości relacji między gangami w swoich jednostkach, dzięki czemu lepiej nadaje się do podejmowania decyzji za te jednostki jako całość) nadzoruje rodzinne interesy w jednostkach w swoim regionie. Major Zewnętrzny robi to samo dla miast w swoim regionie. Obaj majorzy podlegają swojemu generałowi, który wykorzystuje te informacje, aby jego region działał płynnie. Każda jednostka więzienna z członkami ma przydzielonego kapitana jednostki, który z kolei wyznacza porucznika. Porucznik jest najniższym stałym stopniem w ABT, chociaż w większych jednostkach i w większych miastach porucznik może wyznaczyć sierżantów do pomocy w codziennych sprawach rodziny. W połowie lat 90., starając się uwolnić członków ABT od segregacji administracyjnej, gang zmienił nazwę na „Texas Aryan Brotherhood - Church of Aryan Christian Heritage” (TAB-COACH). Wiara polega na tym, że robiąc to, może odkryć się na nowo jako organizacja religijna i otrzymać status zwolnienia podatkowego 501 (c) 3 od rządu federalnego. Ta próba została zaaranżowana przez Rileya Raya Fultza i Bobby'ego Adamsa, którzy również mianowali się prezesem i wiceprezesem organizacji. Bractwo Aryjskie w Teksasie liczy około 3500 członków, skupionych głównie w Teksasie, ale także w więzieniach sąsiednich stanów, w szczególności Nowego Meksyku. Według Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), od 2012 r. W więzieniach w Teksasie przebywa 2600 członków, a kolejnych 180 w więzieniach federalnych. Prospekt lub potencjalny członek to osoba znajdująca się pod ochroną ABT, odpowiedzialna za wykonywanie wszelkich / wszystkich bezpośrednich poleceń wydawanych przez aktywnego członka, który jest rozważany w celu członkostwa w organizacji. Zazwyczaj, ilekroć trzeba wykonać „brudną robotę”, taką jak napaść lub morderstwo, najczęściej wykorzystuje się perspektywy. Kiedy perspektywa jest wykorzystywana w taki sposób, często określa się to jako „zarabianie na kościach”.

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Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge

Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge Building Design, English Higher Education Architecture Photos

Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge Building

29 May 2022

Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, southeast England, United Kingdom

Design: Niall McLaughlin Architects

Photos by Nick Kane

Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge Design

Jury Report

A brief to create a college library with a lifespan of 400 years – to replace a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years previously – is no small task. Niall McLaughlin Architects have certainly risen to the challenge with this deft and inspiring temple to learning.

The library combines load-bearing brickwork with exquisitely detailed horizontal engineered timber structure to establish a lofty, surprisingly vertical space with a complex three-dimensional tartan grid. The library draws on familiar predilections from previous McLaughlin projects – the references to Louis Kahn’s handling of oak panelled window assemblies for example, via the housing for Summerville college, while also creating something wholly particular within the setting of the wider college. As with the best of the city’s many libraries, a great diversity of spaces to read and work are established, and reflecting its planned longevity, the building feels nicely slack – bookshelves are barely half filled and an extraordinary sense of space pervades, like inhabiting a hugely luxurious treehouse.

The design of this library has been strongly influenced by the requirements to passively light (characterised by the roof lanterns), and naturally ventilate the spaces (characterised by the stack effect ventilation chimneys and openings in the roof). Overall, the project presents exceptional engagement with environmental design principles. The predicted energy performance as a result exceeds the RIBA 2030 benchmark to be one of the best performing buildings of this year’s submissions.

The project is also one of the top submissions in terms of whole-life carbon considerations, and has addressed the RIBA 2025 benchmark. The structure is dominated by loadbearing brickwork, with horizontal support predominantly in engineered timber and to lesser extent as precast lintels and support beams. These material choices have successfully reconciled the existing constraints of the historic College context to deliver a building that will present a long and sustainable service life.

Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge – Property Information

Title: Magdalene College Library RIBA region: East Architect practice: Niall McLaughlin Architects Date of completion: January 2021 Date of occupation: January 2021 Client company name: Magdalene College Project city/town: Cambridge

Contract value: Confidential Gross internal area: 1,525.00 m² Net internal area: 1,223.00 m² Cost per m²: Confidential Contractor company name: Cocksedge

Consultants

Structural Engineers: Smith & Wallwork Project Management: Savills Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant: Gleeds Acoustic Engineers: Max Fordham Environmental / M&E Engineers: Max Fordham Building Control: MLM

Awards

• RIBA Regional Award

Photographs: Nick Kane

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Magdalene College University of Cambridge images / information received from the Royal Institute of British Architects

Location: Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, south east England, UK

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personal Tolkien (related) Reading List 2022 so far, (suggestions welcome).

On Tolkien and his work:

Books

A companion to Tolkien, ed. Stuart Lee 2014

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, Verlyn Flieger 1983

Tolkien and the Classical World, ed. Hamish 2021

Tolkien and Alterity, ed. Christopher Vaccaro 2017

Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien ed. Bradford Lee Eden

The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie, Jonathan S. McIntosh, 2017.

Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader, ed. Jane Chance 2014

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien - Janet B. Praeger 2004

Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien, Michael Tomko 2017.

Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya 2020.

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth,  Claudio A. Testi, 2020.

Arda reconstructed, Douglas C. Kane 2009.

Shadows of imagination: the fantasies of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark R Hillegas 1979.

essays:

The Story Was Already Written: Narrative Theory in The Lord of the Rings, Mary R. Bowman Narrative, Volume 14, Number 3, October 2006, pp. 272-293

Tolkien's Debt to Fellow Inkling Owen Barfield, Siobhán Maloney.

Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity,  Dimitra Fimi 2007.

Real-World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien. In Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance 2003.

“Mad” Elves and “Elusive Beauty”: Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology, Dimitra Fimi  2006.

“Come sing ye light fairy things tripping so gay”: Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien's "'Celtic' type of legends": Merging Traditions  Dimitra Fimi 2007.

and also @skyeventide​’s essay list.

Books on related/relevant authors and topics:

related topics:

The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng 2018.

(On) authors that influenced on Tolkien, or seem related to his work:

The Well at the World's End, William Morris.

The House of the Wolfings, William Morris

The Roots of the Mountains, William Morris

News from Nowhere, William Morris.

William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary : Thompson, E.

The place of the Lion, Charles Williams.

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Edison 1922

An Experiment with Time, J.W. Dunne 1927 >> Borges’ "Time and J. W. Dunne", in Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952.

The Book of Wonder ,The Charwoman’s daughter, Lord Dunsany (’ "When American Clyde Kilby arrived in Oxford in the summer of 1966 to offer Tolkien "editorial assistance" in finishing The Silmarillion, one of the first things Tolkien did was hand him a copy of Dunsany's The Book of Wonder and tell him to read it before starting work on Tolkien's own story.”)

(I would add The King of Elfland’s Daughter to any list involving Dunsany and Tolkien, but this list is for me and not people in general, so does not include books I have already read and don’t want to read again this year. As much as I adore it!

Same goes for great essays I have already read, like the Enchanted hair, Cloaking or Stuart Hall and Tolkien ones).

this is...far from complete but let’s see how far I get while also reading other things lol. Feel free to suggest more.

All about The London Eye or the Millennium Wheel

The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is one of the UK's most iconic attractions. This giant ferris wheel is an observation wheel from where you can get unique and stunning views of London. Many people, equipped with their UK tourist visa, make a beeline for this place the moment they set foot in the country - such is the craze for this the London Eye. What makes the London Eye so special? 

The Numbers

Standing at a massive height of 443 feet (135 metres), the London Eye was once the tallest ferris wheel in the world in the year 2000, but since then has been surpassed by a few more observation ferris wheels. The London Eye is 394 feet (120 metres) in diameter, weighs over 1000 tons, and took around £70 million ($91.5 million) to make. It has 32 capsules that act as observation cabins that are controlled by motorised mounts that keep them upright no matter at what angle the cabin is at. Each cabin can carry 25 passengers at a time.

With 64 cables attaching to the hub of the wheel, the whole wheel leans out at an angle of 65 degrees. London Eye turns slowly, completing 2 rotations per hour, but this gives the passenger enough time to take in the views and click some amazing pictures. Each year, more than 3.5 million visitors come to see the London Eye, no wonder there’s always such a rush for London Eye tickets.

How did it come into being?

In 1993, Architect couple, Julia Barfield & David Marks, of architecture firm Marks Barfield Architects, entered the London Eye’s design for a competition being held by The Sunday Times. The competition aimed to create a new landmark to celebrate the new millennium in London (that’s why London Eye was previously named Millennium Wheel). Though the competition never came to fruition, the London Eye did after the architects, sponsored by British Airways, began developing the attraction. It was built on the original site envisioned by the architects. 

The London Eye was inaugurated on Millennium New Year’s Eve, by then Prime Minister Tony Blair. However, it was still not open to the public. On the 1st of Feb, 2000, the first test run carrying the general populace was carried out, and on the 9th of March, the London Eye was properly opened to the public. Since then, it has been one of London’s most popular and loved landmarks.

Ownership 

Today, the London Eye is owned by Merlins Entertainment Group but has seen many owners over the years. When it first started, it was owned by British Airways, Marks Barfield Architects, and The Tussauds Group. Later, The Tussauds Group bought out the shares of British Airways and Marks Barfield Architects. Later, The Tussauds Group got bought out by the Blackstone Group which later became Merlin Entertainments Group. They are the sole owners now.

Fun Facts About the London Eye 

The  London Eye operator has a keen eye for celebs, and according to his calculations, Jessica Alba has been on the wheel around 31 times. Kate Moss comes close with 25 rides. 

More than 5000 couples have gotten engaged on the London Eye. 

The design of the London Eye is such that it is supported only on one side.

There aren’t many giant ferris wheels around the world that have this distinction. 

For the London Restaurant Festival, one of London Eye’s capsules transformed into a restaurant where chefs, Daniel Boulud and Gordon Ramsay served 10 people meals. 

On the clearest day, you can see Windsor Castle from the London Eye.

All travellers with the UK visit visa must check out this marvellous landmark. London Eye opening times are 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, so plan accordingly as many new tourists arrive late or too early.

Mezquita diseñada por el arquitecto Marks Barfield en Cambridge

Cambridge Central Mosque by Marks Barfield Architects