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U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held Apr. 29, 2021, at the 331st Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
I found a picture of my Basic Training platoon from 1981. The scan is not too great as the photo was larger than the scanning bed.
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Oct. 22, 2020, for the 331st Training Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Cadets from 1st Regiment, Basic Camp completed the Forest Hills Climbing Complex at Fort Knox, Ky., July 21, 2023. The course is designed to Challenge the Cadets' mental and physical endurance. | Photo by Rosalita Mitchell, Ball State University, CST Public Affairs
Cadets complete a climb on the Alpine Tower, which gives them the opportunity to overcome a number of different challenges as each way up the tower is different. Cadets can change their path with every climb, no matter the lane the climb on. Fort Knox, Kentucky, July 5. | Photo by Megan Reynolds, CST Public Affairs Office.
Cadets from 2nd Regiment, Basic Camp, participate in a team development course at Fort Knox, Ky., July 22, 2023. The TDC is designed to enhance teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills among participants. | Photo by Danielle Smith, Ohio University, CST Public Affairs Office
This is a very basic Block dress from the new book. I even left off the collar and cuffs! Looking forward to being more adventurous with my next one
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is a basic research centre dedicated to exploring the world around us at its most fundamental level. It began in the summer of 1999 when Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion and the innovator who was instrumental in launching the smart phone revolution, found himself in a position to help foster research and innovation in Canada by establishing a world-class institute devoted to theoretical physics.
Research
Since research operations began in the fall of 2001, the Institute has grown to include over 80 resident researchers who are involved in day-to-day operations. Additionally, the vigorous Visitor Program has enabled PI to host hundreds of international researchers each year for collaborations and workshops. The current groups involved with cross-disciplinary research include Condensed Matter, Cosmology & Gravitation, Particle Physics, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information Theory, Superstring Theory and related areas.
Training
Among activities that help develop future generations of scientists, is the innovative Perimeter Scholars International. This research training program exposes rising talent from around the world to the full spectrum of theoretical physics, bringing them rapidly to the leading edge of current research.
Outreach
In addition to the scientific operations, Perimeter Institute also shares the importance of basic research and the power of theoretical physics with the wider community. The award winning educational outreach team provides specifically crafted programs and educational resources for youth, teachers and members of the general public across Canada and beyond.
Funding
Perimeter Institute is an independent, non-profit, charitable organization focused on scientific research, training and educational outreach in theoretical physics. The Institute is funded through an innovative public-private partnership - uniting governments, individuals, corporations, and foundations in a shared enterprise to help advance scientific breakthroughs, nurture scientific talent, and share scientific discovery with the broader public.
Workplace
Perimeter Institute endeavors to foster an inclusive culture that embraces and celebrates the diversity of our organization. We are committed to providing a safe, comfortable, harassment-free working environment for all students, scientists, support staff and volunteers, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, religion or place of origin. We have a zero tolerance policy towards any form of harassment, discrimination, or violence in the workplace. Trust and mutual respect are the basis of our community.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 54 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18248 × 9124 (166.5 MP; 160 MB).
Location: Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
BOX DATE: None
APPROXIMATE RELEASE DATE: 2013
MANUFACTURER: M.G.A.
DOLLS IN LINE: Cloetta; Jade; Meygana; Yasmina; Sashabella
BODY TYPE: 2012; bend & snap legs
HEAD MOLD: 2012; pierced ears
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Most of my Bratzillaz dolls don't have super exciting backstories. That's simply because I purchased the majority of them around the same time, online or at the stores (many on clearance). I knew that this short lived line of dolls would not be easy to find later on secondhand, so I put extra effort into tracking them down brand new. However, this "Basic" Yasmina does have a unique story behind her, that is one of my favorites in my collection. I never paid this line any attention in stores. Granted, I hated the Bratzillaz dolls for most of their time as an active doll line. By the time I had a change of heart, the dolls were officially discontinued, which meant I snagged a ton of them on clearance. I still wasn't mesmerized by these "Basic" dolls. I didn't understand why MGA made them so much "cheaper" than the regular Bratzillaz dolls (many of whom were already questionable quality). As you can see, this gal doesn't have articulation and she has painted eyes, not inset ones. But as my window of opportunity to get these "Basic" dolls was closing, I found myself really taken with their painted features. This doll is absolutely gorgeous--besides "Basic" Cloetta, she might have the most stunning face of the bunch. So I took it upon myself to find them in stores while I could. However, I was only able to track down Jade, Meygana, and Sashabella (which was impressive nonetheless). Yasmina was my favorite doll from this collection at the time, and I was annoyed that I was having no luck acquiring her. So I took to the internet to see if I'd fare better. Lo and behold, on Amazon I found cheap listings for Cloetta and Yasmina, and promptly ordered them. I checked my tracking info everyday. Yasmina made it to Massachusetts, and I eagerly awaited her arrival. Then a day passed, two days, three days, etc. Why was she not here?!!! I started to realize that there was a strong possibility that she had gotten lost in the mail. I was devastated, and I had spent money on a doll (not much at least), that I was never going to see. Colleen contacted the Amazon seller and explained the situation. Since they could see for themselves that the tracking info had not updated in a week, they offered to send us a replacement. So I held my breath, waiting for this Yasmina to arrive. I thought for sure she was cursed, and would end up being lost too, in the vortex where all mail seems to disappear to. But fortunately she arrived, and super quickly. Yasmina was unharmed, and was probably really confused as to why we were so ecstatic to see her. I'm very grateful that I was able to get a replacement doll. Had I bought her from eBay from a seller with only one, I would not have been so lucky. I still think to this day about my first Yasmina, the one I never met. I hope she somehow was saved, and that someone took her in. But fate gave me this doll, and I've loved her since late 2013/early 2014, when she arrived. Funnily enough, Cloetta ended up being my favorite aesthetically from this line. But sentimentally, this Yasmina will always be the gal I most appreciate.
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Jan. 07, 2021, for the 324th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
5th Regiment Basic Camp Cadets conduct practice run throughs before going through the next training lane at Fort Knox, Ky., August 3, 2019 | Photo by Tristan C. Pilch, Public Affairs Office
5th Regiment Basic Camp Cadets conduct practice run throughs before going through the next training lane at Fort Knox, Ky., August 3, 2019 | Photo by Tristan C. Pilch, Public Affairs Office
The Norfolk Southern Geometry train, featuring the Brick, pulls into Andrews Yard in Columbia, SC with a tophat leading.
Ridi Bazar is a small pilgrimage town at the confluence of Kali Gandaki and Riri Khola
Nearby cities: Palpa, Butwal, BAGLUNG,PAINU,GHIURA, (LEKHANATH SHARMA)
Coordinates: 27°56'9"N 83°26'19"E
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Cremation is the combustion, vaporization and oxidation of dead bodies to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone. Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite that is an alternative to the interment of an intact dead body in a coffin or casket. Cremated remains, which do not constitute a health risk, may be buried or interred in memorial sites or cemeteries, or they may be retained by relatives and dispersed in various ways. Cremation is not an alternative to a funeral, but rather an alternative to burial or other forms of disposal.
In many countries, cremation is usually done in a crematorium. Some countries, such as India and Nepal, prefer different methods, such as open-air cremation.
HISTORY
ANCIENT
Cremation dates from at least 20,000 years ago in the archaeological record, with the Mungo Lady, the remains of a partly cremated body found at Lake Mungo, Australia.
Alternative death rituals emphasizing one method of disposal of a body - inhumation (burial), cremation, or exposure - have gone through periods of preference throughout history.
In the Middle East and Europe, both burial and cremation are evident in the archaeological record in the Neolithic era. Cultural groups had their own preferences and prohibitions. The ancient Egyptians developed an intricate transmigration of soul theology, which prohibited cremation, and this was adopted widely among other Semitic peoples. The Babylonians, according to Herodotus, embalmed their dead. Early Persians practiced cremation, but this became prohibited during the Zoroastrian Period. Phoenicians practiced both cremation and burial. From the Cycladic civilisation in 3000 BC until the Sub-Mycenaean era in 1200–1100 BC, Greeks practiced inhumation. Cremation appeared around the 12th century BC, constituting a new practice of burial, probably influenced by Anatolia. Until the Christian era, when inhumation again became the only burial practice, both combustion and inhumation had been practiced, depending on the era and location. Romans practiced both, with cremation generally associated with military honors.
In Europe, there are traces of cremation dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000 BC) in the Pannonian Plain and along the middle Danube. The custom becomes dominant throughout Bronze Age Europe with the Urnfield culture (from c. 1300 BC). In the Iron Age, inhumation again becomes more common, but cremation persisted in the Villanovan culture and elsewhere. Homer's account of Patroclus' burial describes cremation with subsequent burial in a tumulus, similar to Urnfield burials, and qualifying as the earliest description of cremation rites. This may be an anachronism, as during Mycenaean times burial was generally preferred, and Homer may have been reflecting the more common use of cremation at the time the Iliad was written, centuries later.
Criticism of burial rites is a common form of aspersion by competing religions and cultures, including the association of cremation with fire sacrifice or human sacrifice.
Hinduism and Jainism are notable for not only allowing but prescribing cremation. Cremation in India is first attested in the Cemetery H culture (from c. 1900 BC), considered the formative stage of Vedic civilization. The Rigveda contains a reference to the emerging practice, in RV 10.15.14, where the forefathers "both cremated (agnidagdhá-) and uncremated (ánagnidagdha-)" are invoked.
Cremation remained common, but not universal, in both Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. According to Cicero, in Rome, inhumation was considered the more archaic rite, while the most honoured citizens were most typically cremated - especially upper classes and members of imperial families.
Christianity frowned upon cremation, both influenced by the tenets of Judaism and as an attempt to abolish Graeco-Roman pagan rituals. By the 5th century, the practice of cremation had practically disappeared from Europe.
In early Roman Britain, cremation was usual but diminished by the 4th century. It then reappeared in the 5th and 6th centuries during the migration era, when sacrificed animals were sometimes included with the human bodies on the pyre, and the deceased were dressed in costume and with ornaments for the burning. That custom was also very widespread among the Germanic peoples of the northern continental lands from which the Anglo-Saxon migrants are supposed to have been derived, during the same period. These ashes were usually thereafter deposited in a vessel of clay or bronze in an "urn cemetery". The custom again died out with the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons or Early English during the 7th century, when inhumation became general.
MIDDLE AGES
Throughout parts of Europe, cremation was forbidden by law, and even punishable by death if combined with Heathen rites.[6] Cremation was sometimes used by authorities as part of punishment for heretics, and this did not only include burning at the stake. For example, the body of John Wycliff was exhumed years after his death and cremated, with the ashes thrown in a river, explicitly as a posthumous punishment for his denial of the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
On the other hand, mass cremations were often performed out of fear of contagious diseases, such as after a battle, pestilence, or famine. Retributory cremation continued into modern times. For example, after World War II, the bodies of the 12 men convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials were not returned to their families after execution, but were instead cremated, then disposed of at a secret location as a specific part of a legal process intended to deny their use as a location for any sort of memorial. In Japan, however, erection of a memorial building for many executed war criminals, who were also cremated, was allowed for their remains.
HINDUISM AND OTHER INDIAN ORIGN RELIGIONS
Religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism practice cremation. In Buddhism cremation is acceptable but not mandated. The founder, Shakyamuni Buddha was cremated. For Buddhist spiritual masters who are cremated, one of the results of cremation are the formation of Buddhist relics.
A dead adult Hindu is mourned with a cremation, while a dead child is typically buried. The rite of passage is performed in harmony with the Hindu religious view that the microcosm of all living beings is a reflection of a macrocosm of the universe. The soul (Atman, Brahman) is the essence and immortal that is released at the Antyeshti ritual, but both the body and the universe are vehicles and transitory in various schools of Hinduism. They consist of five elements - air, water, fire, earth and space. The last rite of passage returns the body to the five elements and origins. The roots of this belief are found in the Vedas, for example in the hymns of Rigveda in section 10.16, as follows:
Burn him not up, nor quite consume him, Agni: let not his body or his skin be scattered,
O all possessing Fire, when thou hast matured him, then send him on his way unto the Fathers.
When thou hast made him ready, all possessing Fire, then do thou give him over to the Fathers,
When he attains unto the life that waits him, he shall become subject to the will of gods.
The Sun receive thine eye, the Wind thy Prana (life-principle, breathe); go, as thy merit is, to earth or heaven.
Go, if it be thy lot, unto the waters; go, make thine home in plants with all thy members.
— Rigveda 10.16
The final rites, in case of untimely death of a child, is usually not cremation but a burial. This is rooted in Rig Veda's section 10.18, where the hymns mourn the death of the child, praying to deity Mrityu to "neither harm our girls nor our boys", and pleads the earth to cover, protect the deceased child as a soft wool.
SATI
The act of sati refers to a funeral ritual in which a widowed woman committed suicide on the husband's funeral pyre. While a mention of self-immolation by one of several wives of an Indian king is found in a Greek text on India, along with self-immolation by widows in Russia near Volga, tribes of Thracians in southeast Europe, and some tribes of Tonga and Fiji islands, vast majority of ancient texts do not mention this practice. Rare mentions of such cremations in aristocratic circles appear in texts dated to be before the 9th century AD, where the widow of a king had the choice to burn with him or abstain. Ancient texts of Hinduism make no mention of Sati; its early medieval era texts forbid it, while post 10th century medieval era texts partly justify it and criticize the practice. The practice of sati, grew after 1000 CE, becoming a particularly significant practice by Hindus in India during the Islamic wars of conquest in South Asia.
This practice was made illegal in 1829 during the British colonial rule of India. After gaining independence from British colonial era, India passed a series of additional laws. The Indian Sati Prevention Act from 1988 further criminalised any type of aiding, abetting, and glorifying of sati. In modern India, the last known case of Sati was in 1987, by Roop Kanwar in Rajasthan. Her action was found to be a suicide, and it led to the arrest and prosecution of people for failing to act and prevent her suicide during her husband's cremation.
BALI
Balinese Hindu dead are generally buried inside the container for a period of time, which may exceed one month or more, so that the cremation ceremony (Ngaben) can occur on an auspicious day in the Balinese-Javanese Calendar system ("Saka"). Additionally, if the departed was a court servant, member of the court or minor noble, the cremation can be postponed up to several years to coincide with the cremation of their Prince. Balinese funerals are very expensive and the body may be interred until the family can afford it or until there is a group funeral planned by the village or family when costs will be less. The purpose of burying the corpse is for the decay process to consume the fluids of the corpse, which allows for an easier, more rapid and more complete cremation.
ISLAM
Islam strictly forbids cremation. Islam has specific rites for the treatment of the body after death.
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1st Regiment Basic Camp Cadets wait to start Group and Zero at Fort Knox, Ky. July 6, 2019. | Photo by Mary Kate Griffin, CST Public Affairs Office.
When dressing Agnes in this 'Barbie Pink' dress, I kind of had the concept that she was channelling Malibu Barbie - after all Malibu Sky Agnes was designed as a 'basic' doll. Be that as it may, in my opinion she is one of the very best versions of Agnes - I think Barbie would approve ;-)
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