https://www.fogolf.com/1123320/polar-bear-golf-tournament-set-for-jan-31-in-millstone/ Polar Bear Golf Tournament set for Jan. 31 in Millstone #AndJoinThe2026PolarBearTournamentScheduledForSaturday #DonYourWarmestOutwear #GolfCourses #Jan.31AtCharlestonSpringsGolfCourseSouthInMillstoneTownship.ThereWillBeA10A.m.Shotgun #MILLSTONE—AttentionAllPolarBears:DustOffYourClubs

#magicthegathering #mtg #Millstone #JohnAvon

#magicthegathering #mtg #Millstone #JohnAvon

一位才华横溢的女孩正在制作石磨！

#Millstone #Stonemill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmmRSDx83-0

#magicthegathering #mtg #Millstone #YeongHaoHan

Meule et molette – Néolithique – Musée Arkéos Douai – Photo Kroko pour Hominides.com
https://www.hominides.com/musees-et-sites/arkeos-le-musee-parc-archeologique/
#neolitique #neolithic #meule #molette #millstone moudre #grinding #farine #flour

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits is a short video.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/damiavos/3629228119/

A youthful (!) Damian tries milling some wheat in a rotary quern. Orkney, 2009. If you watch carefully, you can see the level fall in the central well.

#RotaryQuern #millstone #grain #wheat #milling #flour #orkney

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#SandyDennis and #IanMcKellen #film based on the #MargaretDrabble #novel '#Millstone'

#ATouchofLove (1969) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065085/

#Millstones and #swords


In 2022, Kimber Glidden was fighting for her job as a library director in northern Idaho after refusing to cave to the book-banning demands of hard-right Christian parents who smeared her as a danger to children.


At one public meeting, Glidden recalled in a recent interview, a woman looked her in the eye while quoting
#Matthew 18:6, which describes a lethal punishment for anyone harming the young:

“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”


“It’s like, ‘I’m not actually threatening you
— I’m just quoting scripture at you,’” said Glidden,
who eventually resigned because of the attacks.

“You can threaten people and you can intimidate them, as long as you have a Bible tract in your hand.”

Religion scholars say Christian nationalists are skilled at plucking scripture out of context to justify intolerant or conspiratorial beliefs,
literalist readings that can be used to persuade worshipers that violence is a biblically sound response to perceived existential threats to their country and faith.

Such cherry-picking distorts the text to suggest that ordinary Christians should be carrying out punishments that traditionally are interpreted as being meted out by God, said Kaitlyn Schiess, a theologian at Duke University
and author of
“The Ballot and the Bible,”
which tracks how scripture is used in political speech.


“It gives them a sense of belonging to some kind of exciting drama
— the fight between good and evil,” Schiess said.
“And that can have really disastrous effects.”

To explain why it’s permissible to engage in fiery partisan fights
while simultaneously recounting the peaceful examples of Jesus,
some turn to #Mark 12:17:

“Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.”

To legitimatize militancy against leftist opponents, Christian hard-liners quote a verse from #Matthew that proclaims,

“I came not to send peace, but a sword.”

#Millstone references pop up regularly in calls for retribution against librarians, teachers, abortion providers, racial justice activists, LGBTQ advocates and anyone else some members of the religious far right deem a threat to the project of a White Christian nation.

At a Proud Boys protest outside a drag event in Maryland last year,
one man wearing the far-right group’s yellow-and-black insignia
held a sign that quoted
#Matthew 18:6 above the words,
“It’s millstone time!”

In April, anti-fascist activists in Miami criticized the singer Jimmy Levy,
a MAGA favorite who has performed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida,
for warning President #Biden in lyrics that he was
“coming for your neck like a milly,”
a millstone reference.

Levy suggested the outrage was alarmist, writing on social media:
“I never threatened Biden. I referenced what God says about those who hurt little ones.”


Republican lawmakers in states including Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina have introduced versions of what they call a
“Millstone Act,”
legislation seeking to ban gender-affirming care for young adults.

Civil rights groups say the proposals are part of a bigger right-wing campaign that uses religion to vilify transgender people with unfounded accusations of grooming and pedophilia.

Speaking in a small-town church last month, Mark #Robinson, the Trump-endorsed GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, told the audience that
♦️ “some folks need killing.”♦️

“It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful.
It’s a matter of necessity!” Robinson, the lieutenant governor, said, according to a video of the speech surfaced by the New Republic.


The recording shows Robinson shouting about
“wicked people,” including liberals, socialists and communists.

He was introduced at the event by a local pastor, the Rev. Cameron #McGill, who told the audience:
“Who’s behind President Biden, and that administration?
Is it Obama.
Is it Clinton?
Read your Bible.
It is the Devil.”

Mike #Lonergan, Robinson’s campaign spokesman, said on X that the candidate’s words referenced World War II enemies
and were taken out of context in a “gutless and dishonest smear.”

In Arizona, Jeff #Durbin, a far-right “abortion abolitionist”
and influential Christian nationalist,
has said that women deserve to be executed if they have an abortion
— a stance he recently reiterated is “the historical position of the Christian church.”

💥“You forfeit your right to live,” 💥Durbin said last month in a New York Times podcast.

After receiving backlash for the remarks, Durbin doubled down in a post on X:

“We make no apologies for God’s Word and affirm that capital punishment is a just response from the state for the crime of murder

Mills were an important source of income for the #14thCentury #LadyOfClare, who took an interest in design improvements. I wonder if she used imported volcanic rock like the #lava #millstone from #Mayen in this #medieval #windmill find?
https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/news/one-mill-ion-find-uncovering-medieval-mill-a428
@medievodons

So, it seems the #SeabrookNuclearPlant survived the recent storms without incident, but if there was a problem, there is NO WAY nearby residents would have been able to evacuate. I came across this letter to the #NRC from the group #NoMoreFukushimas expressing their concerns about #ClimateChange and #NuclearPlants in 2012!

Concerns regarding the #SeabrookStation

No More Fukushimas letter to the NRC.

The Honorable Allison M. Macfarlane, Chair
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
11555 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852

November 8, 2012

Dear Chairwoman Macfarlane:

We appreciated receiving a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) response to the August 28, 2012, letter that we sent to the NRC concerning Seabrook Station relicensing. The NRC's response (October 17, 2012) came from Dennis Morey, Chief, Project Manager 1, Projects Branch Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (Docket No. 50-443).

In our letter, we highlighted a concern openly discussed NRC meeting April 26, 2012, on Seabrook relicensing held in Hampton, New Hampshire. Data indicates that due to climate change there could be an increase in #SeaLevels and storm surges that would affect the Seabrook plant. Obviously, the flooding of the Seabrook plant campus should be a cause for concern, especially since it the flooding is projected to occur within the timeframe of the relicensing period, 2030-2050.

In his response to our letter, Mr. Morey categorically rejected the idea that this rising sea level information was of any relevance to the relicensing of the Seabrook plant:

"Regarding your concerns about the current design-basis flood level calculations.... please note that these issues are not part of the NRC's review of a license renewal application. A license renewal review is not a re-review of the facility licensing basis; rather, it is focused on managing
the age-related degradation of passive systems, structures, and components to ensure they will fulfill their safety-related functions, as specified in the current licensing basis.

"The NRC has multiple processes to evaluate the adequacy of current plant operations and licensing bases. Should the NRC become aware at any time of information calling into question the continued safe operation of any nuclear power plant, including Seabrook Station, the NRC will take the appropriate actions as part of the agency's ongoing safety oversight, regardless of
whether those plants have sought or are seeking a renewed license."

In the twists and turns of bureaucratic thinking, Mr. Morey may be technically correct that climate-
change-related flooding is not an "age-related" deterioration artifact. But, Mr. Morey seems to brush off the fact that new global climate conditions could completely reconfigure the safety profile of the plant. We believe that whether or not climate-change-related flooding falls within "design-basis flood calculations" is a hairsplitting issue for bureaucrats. However, for those of who live near the plant it's a major safety issue. Therefore, if necessary, we respectfully recommend that NRC modify its relicensing concerns to include global climate change/rising sea levels in its license renewal framework.

Furthermore, Mr. Morey must know that the NRC has identified "alkali-silica reaction (ASR)" as a potential long-term threat to the reliability of the Seabrook plant and that structural degradation due to
#ASR is currently under the NRC's relicensing review. The flooding water will obviously raise levels of saltwater saturation, which will accelerate concrete degradation so, on that basis alone, the flooding should be within the Seabrook relicensing purview.

Finally, since Mr. Morey did not identify the steps the NRC plans to take to address flooding at the Seabrook plant, we surmise that the NRC does not consider flooding due to sea-level rise to be a problem. Our concern has escalated since researchers at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University in an October 31, 2012, piece in the Washington Post reported that they had conducted a study that assessed the vulnerability of #NuclearPlants flooding around the world.

The Stanford researchers collected information on plant height, #SeaWall height and the location of emergency power generators for 89 nuclear plants that lie next to water. They compared this to
historical information on high waves triggered by various sources, such as #earthquakes, #landslides and #hurricanes. The study found that the U.S. plants most vulnerable to inundation are the Salem and #HopeCreek plants on the New Jersey / #Delaware border; the #Millstone plant in Connecticut; and the Seabrook plant in New Hampshire (italics added). We strongly urge you to contact the researchers and obtain this invaluable information from them directly.

That said, we ask the NRC-as we did in our August letter-to review the risk that rising sea levels, #StormSurges or increased groundwater saturation of concrete poses to residents who live in the vicinity of the Seabrook nuclear power plant. As we have stated, we believe it is entirely appropriate to do so within the purview of the license renewal process. But, in the spirit of public safety, which we believe should be paramount-we urge the NRC to use whatever regulatory tools are needed to investigate this critical issue.

Sincerely yours,
Bruce Skud and Joanna Hammond
Co-founders, No More Fukushimas!

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1232/ML12321A328.pdf

#SeaLevelRise #HamptonNH #SeabrookNH #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #ClimateCrisis #Flooding #ClimateCatastrophe #WaterIsLife #AlkaliSilicaReaction #GlobalSeaLevelRise #SeabrookNuclearPlant #MillstoneNuclearPlant #HopeCreekNuclearPlant #NewJersey #Connecticut

Milling process
Houghton Mill
@nationaltrust #houghtonmill
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#mill #grain #nationaltrust #milling #heritage #bread #flour #grind #machinery #motion #miller #huntingdon #flourmill #cog #cogs #millstone #wheat #wood #wooden #houghton #motion #Floor #timber #ntchallenge #Beam

Eye of a Millstone • Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2023

#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Film #Camera #120film #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Photography #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Outdoors #Monochrome #Millstone #Eye #MillDistrict #Historic #Downtown

Wooden cogs
Houghton Mill
@nationaltrust #houghtonmill
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#millstone #grain #nationaltrust #milling #heritage #bread #flour #grind #machinery #motion #miller #huntingdon #flourmill #cog #cogs #millstone #wheat #houghton #Beam #Floor #timber #wood #wooden #woodencogs #Wheel #Iron #Metal

#nikon #z6ii 24-70S
#ntchallenge

Milling process
Houghton Mill
@nationaltrust #houghtonmill
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#mill #grain #nationaltrust #milling #heritage #bread #flour #grind #machinery #motion #miller #huntingdon #flourmill #cog #cogs #millstone #wheat #wood #wooden #houghton #motion #Floor #timber

#nikon #z6ii #nikkor #2470S

Cogs
Houghton Mill
@nationaltrust #houghtonmill
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#millstone #grain #nationaltrust #milling #heritage #bread #flour #grind #machinery #motion #miller #huntingdon #flourmill #cog #cogs #millstone #wheat #houghton #timber #wood #iron #photography #Wheel #Metal #wheels #millphotography #nationaltrustmember

#nikon #z6ii #24-70S