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Today, I have committed an unforgivable mistake, it was totally bad that i never can imagine.
I did it wrong. and i feel so sorry about that :(
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"Nếu có một ngày em không còn xuất hiện trong cuộc sống của anh thì hãy nhớ rằng em đã từng đối với anh rất tốt.
Nếu có một ngày trong trí nhớ của anh không còn những hình ảnh về em thì đừng quên những giây phút chúng ta đã từng bên nhau rất vui vẻ.
Tồn tại bên cạnh người khác như một thói quen, cho dù đó là người mình yêu hay không thì vẫn có lúc cảm thấy mất mát, khó chịu. Trong chuyện tình cảm không hề có hai chữ công bằng, nên em sẽ thôi tính toán, so đo về những thiệt hơn. Những ngày chúng ta bên nhau thật vui vẻ chính là kỷ niệm đẹp nhất của em trong cuộc đời này. "
Quên đi thật sự không phải là không hề nhớ đến. Mà là thỉnh thoảng khi nhớ đến trong lòng không còn xao động như trước nữa
*If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets*
Happy birthday to you, my hanoi.
Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
From the Murder of Halit Yozgat
Kassel, Germany, 6 April 2006
On 6 April 2006, 21-year-old Halit Yozgat was murdered in his family run internet café in Kassel, Germany. His was the ninth of ten racist murders committed in Germany between 2000 and 2007 by a neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist Underground (NSU). At the time of the killing Andreas Temme, an agent of the German domestic intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz), was present in the café. Temme claimed not to have witnessed the murder.
Within the 77 square metres of the internet café, and the 9 minutes 26 seconds during which the incident unfolded, different actors – members of migrant communities, a state employee and the murderers – were positioned in relation to each other in a manner yet to be made clear, but one whose implications bear great political significance. This unit of space and time stands as a microcosm of the social and political controversy known as the ‘NSU Complex’.
Commissioned by Unraveling the NSU Complex, a Germany-wide alliance of anti-racism activists, Forensic Architecture’s investigation became possible when hundreds of documents from the Hessen police investigation of the murder – reports, witness depositions, photographs, and computer and phone logs – were leaked at the end of 2015.
One of the most important pieces of evidence in this leak was a video of a police re-enactment performed by Andreas Temme. Such re-enactments are often ritualistic events forming part of an admission or confession, denoting justice fulfilled. In Forensic Architecture’s investigation the re-enactment is treated not only as a representation of an event, but an event in itself; a potential crime – of perjury and misrepresentation – in its own right.
Within a reconstructed real-scale physical model of the internet café – the exact dimensions of which are marked here on a black carpet – Forensic Architecture re-enacted this re-enactment in order to examine Temme’s testimony, while also carrying out further tests to analyse the threshold of sensory perception. A video presented here shows moments from this process of re-enactment.
The video triptych 77sqm_9:26min presents Forensic Architecture’s full analysis of the events surrounding Halit Yozgat’s murder. This investigation established that Temme’s testimony was untruthful, opening up to larger questions regarding the involvement of German state agencies with radical right-wing groups. As the NSU trial approaches its conclusion in 2018, the truth of the murder – and above all, Temme’s presence at the scene – remains obscured.
The mural presented here charts the events related to the production, presentation and subsequent contestation of Forensic Architecture’s analysis across multiple forums: press conferences, cultural institutions, public demonstrations, two parliamentary inquiries and a criminal court. In each of these forums, Forensic Architecture was obliged to defend its evidence according to different rules and conventions. The complexity of this flow diagram traces the indeterminate nature of counter forensics, its methods, limitations and points of impact.
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Part of Counter Investigations by Forensic Architecture (March-May 2018).
Forensic Architecture is both the name of the agency established in 2010, and a form of investigative practice into state violence and human rights violations that traverses architectural, journalistic and legal fields, and shifts between critical reflections and tactical interventions.
Counter Investigations presents a selection of recent investigations undertaken by the agency into incidents occurring in different contexts worldwide. In parallel, the exhibition outlines five key concepts that raise related historical, theoretical and technological questions. Continuing to be explored in an accompanying series of public seminars, these investigations and propositions add up to a Short Course in Forensic Architecture.
Grounded in the use of architecture as an analytic device, Forensic Architecture has in recent years developed a host of new evidentiary methods that respond to our changing media landscape – exemplified in the widespread availability of digital recording equipment, satellite imaging and platforms for data sharing – and propose new modes of open-source, citizen-led evidence gathering and activism.
Forensic Architecture has worked closely with communities affected by acts of social and political violence, alongside NGOs, human rights groups, activists, and media organisations. Their investigations have provided decisive evidence in a number of legal cases, and contested accounts given by state authorities, leading to military, parliamentary and UN inquiries.
Counter Investigations marks the beginning of a long term collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Forensic Architecture. The exhibition and this ongoing partnership exemplifies the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ intent to foster and explore new modes of civil practice operating across the fields of art, architecture and activism.
[Institute of Contemporary Arts]
The interior of the Richfield Federated Church, circa 1939. A caption with the photo reads: "Note the divided church pews. It was not unusual in the 1800's that churches had divided pews of several different sizes. It was common practice to 'sell' (rent) the pews to member families. Here in our old church, pews were 'sold' with proceeds from those on the north side committed to help pay the pastor's salary. Proceeds on the south side were used for janitor, fuel, and incidentals."
Location of photo: Church Data Notebook
Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
324/365 ― labyrinth
“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.” ―William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
About Kiran Stordalen and Horst M. Rechelbacher:
A pioneer in plant-based personal care and aromatherapy, Horst M. Rechelbacher was a committed environmentalist who changed the world of beauty. As a dynamic entrepreneur, he excelled in several lifetimes of pursuits including artist, organic farmer, author, speaker and passionate collector.
Born during WWII in Klagenfurt, Austria, Horst worked from the age of 14 in a small neighborhood salon. Undiagnosed dyslexia pushed him to become a creative thinker with a unique perspective for problem solving, leading him to become a hairdresser's apprentice.
Throughout the 1950s he won countless Junior Hairdressing Championships in Europe, followed by international awards that brought him to New York, Chicago and Minneapolis in his early twenties. After a traumatic car accident in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Horst opened a salon to pay accrued hospital bills. One salon soon became three. In tandem, Horst saw the opportunity to educate stylists on the skill and artistry of hairdressing and the importance of customer service. He created his own apprentice program that later evolved into the Horst Educational Center.
Extensive traveling in India during the early 1970s exposed Horst to plant medicines, the potency of pure essential oils and seeded his love affair with aromatherapy. In 1978, Horst founded the Aveda Corporation, a global hair, skin and beauty company with a natural and sustainable approach to making products. Nearly two decades later, he sold Aveda to Este Lauder to pursue a new chapter in his life. He shifted focus to Intelligent Nutrients, a health and beauty company that is centered on 100% food-based, safe, non-toxic and organic ingredients.
Horst and Kiran Stordalen, his partner in life and work, traveled throughout Europe, India and Asia, searching for new product ideas and unique raw materials, all the while finding incredible art and artifacts to bring to their home in Osceola, Wisconsin.
Horst nurtured strong relationships with auction houses in Europe, attending countless auctions in person and by phone. Objects have been hunted, rummaged and ferreted from all corners of the world. Horst's collection of swords and canes took over 15 years to amass, while his mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture was found in North Africa and India during hot summer bazaars. Some items were salvaged from warehouses in Turkey and India, spending months on a freighter before arriving safely to their final destination.
Horst and Kiran's collection represents a lifetime of adventures and a deep appreciation for the beauty, art and craftsmanship that can be found everywhere in the world.
We were in The Lake District for the August Bank Holiday, great weather for walking but very busy – unlike the last Bank Holiday - were we had Great Gable to ourselves after a bad forecast kept people away. It was grim back home but we walked in shorts and Tee shirts.
Saturday and we were in the Old Dungeon Ghyll car park and away in good time. What a beautiful morning, we headed up Redacre Gill onto Pike of Blisco. The first climb of the day is always tough until the blood gets flowing. I didn’t really have a plan but it wasn’t what we did that’s for sure. I’d thought that we would walk until early afternoon and then head down, probably from Rossett Pike – But! Jayne made a call to her Mum from Pike of Blisco and she asked if we would be going over the Langdale Pikes – Jayne said yes! I looked at her and said “will we?” I was a bit surprised as it is a pretty full on walk – what we call a two Banana walk – and we only had one. She couldn’t believe that I was letting her off without doing the whole circuit of Langdale. We have done this walk before but usually in the opposite direction. There is a lot of slow and tough ground, ten tops ( depending on where exactly you go in the Langdales) over 15 miles and over 6000ft of ascent – a decent walk.
We walked from Pike Of Blisco across Red Tarn to Cold Pike onto Crinkle Crags – Including the bad step. On Crinkle Crags we met a very Fit 65 year old from London, wiry and experienced, we crossed paths and walked with this guy for quite a while, it slowed us all down a bit but it didn’t matter. Bow Fell for sandwiches and our one banana. We picked our way down Hanging Knotts, the direct route to Rossett Pike. When there isn’t a well-worn path on the direct route there is always a reason – because it’s hard usually! This was the start of the second half of the walk but the afternoon was ticking by, if we were doing it I wasn’t prepared to cut corners and miss any tops so were committed to the whole thing.
We had a long slog over Rossett Pike, It’s a long fell, across Stake Pass and Martcrag Moor. After the dry summer and a wet August the fells were noticeably wetter underfoot and Martcrag was very boggy. Onto Pike of Stickle and Loft Crag. By mid-afternoon the Langdales were very busy with large family groups, every top had a small crowd on it, we took a photo and enjoyed the view and moved on – briskly! My old knee and ankle injuries were starting to tell a story by now but there wasn’t much I could do about it. Across to Harrison Stickle and I decided to include Thunacar Knott as it’s a short easy diversion on the way to Pavey Ark. Stood at the top of Pavey Ark looking over Stickle Tarn I knew that it was going to be a long painful descent – and it was. The mile or so from the New to the Old Dungeon Ghyll wasn’t so bad as there is a path through the fields which was nice and gentle on my aching joints. Eight hours wasn’t bad as we never hammered it, just wanting to enjoy our first big day on the tops for quite a long time. The golden Rule in Ambleside was calling – after a shower.
On Sunday we had another beautiful start although there was a fair bit of cloud later. We drove over Kirkstone Pass and down to Hartsop, there’s a little car park up the dead-end road through the village, it’s only small and you need to be there early, it was already filling as we got there. We had a tough first climb up the nose of Hartsop Dodd, steep but fantastic views. I’d thought long and hard about how to make the most of the fine forecast for today and views from the first climb proved that it was worth it. The day took us over 17 miles and fourteen tops, the ground was easier than yesterday so we finished an hour sooner but it was still a tough day.
Caudale Moor, Stoneycove Pike, down to Threshthwaite Cove, an out and back to Gray Crag and a quick early sandwich on Thornthwaite Crag. High Street, were most walkers never go near the summit but bypass it on the main path – something that’s true of a lot of tops and a lot of walkers – each to their own. Rampsgill Head out and back to High Raise and Kidsty Pike, back to Rampsgill Head and onto The Knott, Rest Dodd. We normally do an out and back to The Nab on this walk but not today, it might have caused some friction wi’ our Jaynie. Across Satura Crag to Brock Crags, we only had the twin tops of Angletarn Pikes to go and we were done with the tops. I usually find Angletarn Pikes hard work at the end of a long walk but we used a different path this time and they didn’t’ seem so bad. The problem with this walk is that you think it’s all over now but it’s a long fast yomp back to the car- around three miles with a little bit of climbing as well, it certainly magnifies the aches and pains.
Monday was forecast to be wet, very wet the further south you went so we headed north. It rained over breakfast and we feared the worst, gale force wind were also forecast and sure enough the trees outside the dining room were straining at the leash. I t might have to be a short leg stretcher. We headed for Keswick and parked below Dodd. We were the only ones there, gales and rain and it was the day of the Keswick show ( Grasmere Games and traffic gridlock yesterday) The rain stopped but it was a dark and grey day. We creaked our way up Dodd with aching legs, I don’t think Jayne was impressed but we plodded up Carl Side, battered by the wind. Once on Carl Side we were wind propelled along Long Side and over Ullock Pike. There was a bit of blue in the sky to the north and a bit of sun but not much. We descended via The Edge and back along Longside Wood. Nearly seven miles and 2000 ft of ascent.
Over two and a half days we climbed almost half the height of Everest, stood on 28 tops and walked 40 miles ( we clocked a couple of evening miles) we used to do eight day weeks in the Lakes with every day a full on day but over the last few years we haven’t made the effort to travel up there, we need to get our act together – and some new knees!
Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
250,000 committed mass civil disobedience May 22 in Montreal marking Day 100 of the student strike by participating in an illegal demonstration.
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Clifford’s Tower is one of the best-loved landmarks in York. It is the largest remaining part of York Castle, once the centre of government for the north of England. The 11th-century timber tower on top of the earth mound was burned down in 1190, after York’s Jewish community, some 150 strong, was besieged here by a mob and committed mass suicide. The present 13th-century stone tower was probably used as a treasury and later as a prison.
Archaeological evidence shows that there was activity in this area in Roman times (with a Roman cemetery lying across the site) and perhaps even earlier, but it was William the Conqueror who first established a castle here. When he marched north in 1068 to suppress a rebellion against his rule, he built a series of castles as he went, including one here where Clifford’s Tower now stands.
The Norman motte-and-bailey castle saw several violent incidents during its earliest years, including further revolts and an attack by Danish invaders. As the political situation settled down in the 1070s, however, the damage of these early years was repaired, and the castle, built largely of earth and timber, probably survived relatively unaltered through most of the 12th century.
The Mass Suicide and Massacre of 1190
The castle of York was the setting for one of the most notorious events in English history: the mass suicide and massacre in March 1190 of York’s Jewish community.
Tensions between Christians and Jews had been increasing throughout England during the 12th century, partly because many people were in debt to Jewish moneylenders and partly because much crusading propaganda was directed not only against Muslims but also against Jews. Anti-Jewish riots in several cities followed the coronation of the crusader king Richard I in 1189, and a rumour (untrue) was put about that he had ordered a massacre of the Jews.
In York, as described by William of Newburgh and other contemporary chroniclers, about 150 people from the Jewish community were given protective custody in the royal castle, probably the site of Clifford’s Tower.
Somehow, though, trust between the royal officials and the Jews broke down. The officials, finding themselves shut out from the tower, summoned reinforcements to recapture it. These troops were joined by a large mob, which soon ran out of control, incited by both anti-Jewish preachers and local gentry eager to escape their debts.
On 16 March, the eve of the Sabbath before Passover, when the Jews realised that there would be no safe way out for them, a rabbi urged his fellow-inmates in the tower to commit suicide rather than fall into the hands of their persecutors. Heads of households killed their own families before killing themselves, and the wooden tower itself was set on fire.
According to several accounts a number of Jews did survive and came out of the tower under an amnesty, only to be murdered by the attackers. A plaque at the base of the mound, commemorating these events, was installed in 1978.
Though Jewish life did in fact revive in York within a few years of the massacre, it came to an end a hundred years later, in 1290, when Edward I expelled all Jews from England. This time their exile lasted until the 17th century.
The Medieval Castle
The tower burnt down in 1190 was rebuilt very shortly afterwards. Further repairs and rebuilding, some in stone, took place in the castle during the early 13th century. Then in the middle years of that century, as war with Scotland loomed, King Henry III decided to build a completely new stone tower on the mound.
A writ of March 1245 may refer to the construction of the tower. It orders Master Henry the mason and Master Simon the carpenter to advise the sheriff on strengthening the castle’s defences. Master Henry is often identified as Henry of Reyns, master mason of the new abbey at Westminster. At the abbey, as at Clifford’s Tower, English architectural detailing was applied to a plan influenced by French prototypes.
Documentary sources show that construction was intermittent and the tower was probably not finished until the 1270s, possibly not until the 1290s.
Despite the regional and national importance of York, its royal castle did not generally act as a royal residence. Together with Clifford’s Tower it was instead used chiefly for administrative purposes, notably for imprisonment, for storage and for judicial sessions. Occasionally it acted as a home for the Exchequer and its various treasuries when wars against the Scots caused the government to relocate to the north of England. It also housed an important royal mint.
The castle’s buildings, particularly Clifford’s Tower, whose mound was scoured by floods of the river Fosse, fell more than once into disrepair. By 1360, several of the structural defects which are visible today had already appeared.
The Tower in Decay
The history of the castle and Clifford’s Tower during the 15th and 16th centuries is obscure. Accounts of Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VIII suggest that several buildings were ruinous, and efforts were concentrated on maintaining a small number of them as gaols.[14] In 1540, just three years after Robert Aske (one of the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace) had been hanged ‘on the height of the castle dungeon’, John Leland wrote that the ‘arx is all in ruin’.
In 1596–7 a public scandal arose when the aldermen of York accused the gaoler, Robert Redhead, of trying to demolish the derelict tower and sell the stone for lime-burning. Contemporary correspondence about these events contains the first recorded use of the name ‘Clifford’s Tower’.
The name is sometimes interpreted as evidence that the Clifford family claimed the post of constable to be hereditary. Alternatively, it may refer to the rebel Roger de Clifford, who was executed after the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 and whose body was displayed on a gibbet at the castle.
War and Explosion
After a brief period when Clifford’s Tower passed out of royal ownership, in 1643 it was occupied again by a royal garrison during the Civil War. The building was re-roofed and re-floored, apparently at the behest of Queen Henrietta Maria, creating storage rooms for ammunition and a gun platform on the roof. The forebuilding was largely reconstructed.
The city fell to Parliamentarians the following year. The tower continued to be occupied by a garrison of between 40 and 80 men and it may also have served occasionally as a prison. The Quaker George Fox was imprisoned here for two nights in 1665, on his way to Scarborough Castle.
The garrison’s dissolute behaviour caused discontent among the citizens of York, who called for the demolition of the tower, scathingly nicknamed ‘the Minced Pie’. On 23 April 1684 the interior was partly gutted by fire, allegedly as a result of the firing of a ceremonial salute for St George’s Day. Destruction was not total, though, and parts of the building remained in use for storage, while cannon were still positioned on the roof.
By 1699, however, when Clifford’s Tower was released to freeholders, sketches of the interior by Francis Place show that it was completely roofless.
Gaol and Monument
The 18th century was a period of changing ownership for the tower and mound. Clifford’s Tower was treated as a garden folly and possibly as a stable or cattle shed.
In marked contrast, the former bailey of the castle was redeveloped as a prison. New courthouses and gaol buildings were built, until in the 1820s and 1830s the prison encompassed the entire castle area. The mound and tower were enclosed and effectively hidden from view. Clifford’s Tower was accessible only with permission from a magistrate.
In 1902 a radical campaign of repairs and investigations was undertaken by Mr Basil Mott, including the partial reconstruction of the mound in an effort to underpin the south-east lobe of the tower with buried concrete ‘flying buttresses’. During these works, the most detailed archaeological investigation to date of the internal structure of the mound was carried out.
On 30 March 1915, Clifford’s Tower was taken into state guardianship. The structure was repaired and public access improved in 1935 with the demolition of the surviving 19th-century prison buildings, notably the wall enclosing the mound on its north and west sides. The lower parts of the slope were restored to their presumed medieval profile, and a stairway leading up to the forebuilding in a straight line was created, replacing a spiral path.
219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Mo., was the home of Harry S. Truman from the time of his marriage to Bess Wallace on June 28, 1919, until his death on December 26, 1972. Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house between the years 1867 and 1885. After Bess's father, David Willock Wallace, committed suicide in 1903, she and her mother and brothers moved into the house with Bess's grandparents, George and Elizabeth Gates. After Truman's haberdashery failed in 1922, he and his wife continued to live in the house to save money while he paid his debts. After being elected to the Senate in 1935, he moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter. Whenever they came back to Missouri, the house at 219 N. Delaware was their home. Truman is one of the few Presidents who never owned his own home prior to his time in office. He lived with his parents until he married, then in the Wallace House, in rented apartments and houses in Washington (including 4701 Connecticut Avenue), in Blair House (the official state visitors residence), and in the White House, but it was not until July 1953, following his term of office and the December 1952 death of Madge Gates Wallace, that Harry and Bess Truman purchased the home at 219 North Delaware Street. After he retired in 1953, until the Truman Library was opened on July 6, 1957, the Truman Home served as President Truman's personal office. Bess lived in the home until she died in 1982, and she bequeathed the property to the National Park Service. The home was closed for 8 months in 2009-10 for a $1.1 million renovation that improved fire safety, visitor comfort and structural stability. The house is now located in the Harry S. Truman Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District. 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Mo. 30 April 2022
Mencap celebrated its official partnership with the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon today at the Mencap Centre. Pictured is Alderman Brian Kingston, Lord Mayor of Belfast, David Seaton, Chairman of the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon, Mencap Young Ambassador James Martin and Dame Mary Peters CH, DBE. The Lord Mayor has committed to running the full 26.2-mile race in aid of Mencap. To learn how you can #StepUp4Mencap, visit mencapbigstepforward.org. Photo by Simon Graham/Harrison
News Release18th January 2017Lord Mayor to run full Belfast marathon in aid of Mencap- Lord Mayor Brian Kingston joins young people with a learning disability to launch Mencapâs official charity partnership with the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon Alderman Brian Kingston, Lord Mayor of Belfast, was among the VIPs at the Mencap Centre today for the launch of the learning disability charityâs official partnership with the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon. The Lord Mayor, a keen runner, has committed to completing the 26.2-mile race on 1st May 2017 and to fundraising for Mencap through sponsorship. Speaking at the launch, the Lord Mayor said: âIt was great to see the Mencap Centre today and to celebrate Mencapâs involvement in the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon. The marathon is a highlight on Belfastâs calendar as it brings people to the city, promotes fitness and creates a unique spectacle and community spirit on our streets. âIt also promotes fundraising for many worthy causes. I am running for Mencap this year because I find the charityâs work so inspiring. The new Mencap Centre serves as a new model for early intervention services across the UK and Ireland, so Belfast is lucky to have this state-of-the art facility. I encourage everyone to join me in running and fundraising in aid of Mencap to help this charity keep changing the lives of local people with a learning disability.â Margaret Kelly, Director of Mencap in Northern Ireland, added: âWe would like to thank Lord Mayor Brian Kingston for his commitment to running the marathon and raising money for Mencap. A 26.2-mile run is no easy feat, so we appreciate his support for not only participating on Marathon Day but for also logging the training hours. âAs a charity that supports people with a learning disability and their families, we believe anyone can take part in the marathon and its associated events, whether thatâs running the Fun Run or simply donating to a friendâs fundraising page. Money raised from marathon support will benefit a variety of Mencap initiatives including a family support programme that will offer bespoke guidance to families with a child diagnosed with a learning disability. This innovative initiative is a first for our charity and it is a crucial step in reaching more families across Northern Ireland. âI am sure the Lord Mayorâs involvement will inspire the people of Belfast to lend their support in this yearâs marathon and we canât thank him enough for running in aid of Mencap. Weâre looking forward to cheering on the Lord Mayor and everyone on Marathon Day!â The Lord Mayor was just one of the VIPs at the charityâs official launch; Dame Mary Peters CH, DBE was also in attendance, as well as the five members of Mencapâs first learning disability relay team. In addition to the full race, the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon also includes a team relay, one of the most popular events. James Martin, a Mencap Young Ambassador and member of the learning disability team, said: âI have been involved with Mencap since I was 2 years old, when I attended Mencapâs nursery school for children with a learning disability, autism or developmental delay. Mencap has been such an important part of my life since then and it still means so much to me. My team and I have been training for months for the upcoming relay and we are excited to run. We are asking everyone across Northern Ireland to âStep Up for Mencapâ and support the charity that has done so much for us.â To sign up for the team relay, full marathon or any of the other events at the 2017 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon in aid of Mencap, email fundraising.ni@mencap.org.uk, call 02890 691 351 or visit mencapbigstepforward.org. ENDSFor further information contact Haley Adams / Kirsty Wallace at Morrow Communications on (t) 02890 393837 or (e) h.adams@morrowcommunications.com. NOTES TO EDITORS: What is a learning disability?A learning disability is a reduced intellectual ability and difficulty with everyday activities â for example household tasks, socialising or managing money â which affects someone for their whole life. People with a learning disability tend to take longer to learn and may need support to develop new skills, understand complex information and interact with other people. 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TobaccoDays (TD) is committed to showing you; the pipe-maker, the pipe collector, the pipe hobbyist – the pipe world from a different perspective. Every topic covered on TD aims to make you think different. Aims to make you see different. Anything & everything that we can bundle up together and have the final outcome alter an existing attitude on the subject covered, is considered a wonderful day here at TD.
Today I launch a new series which has the aim to highlight the beautiful & varied texture on our beloved pipes. Yes, we hold our pipes, caress them, enjoy them & smoke them day in and day out. Do we ever miss some of the small details though? Can we look at them any deeper? Of course we can.
To assist that process, I went out and hired a professional photographer (high-speed camera, strobe lights, big set-up & all) and took macro pictures of pipes to focus on their surface, their texture. The next phase of the project required me to find a way to express the beauty of the pipe’s surface. Since I lack any skill in the photo shop arena, I went out and hired a professional graphic designer and together we art-directed the project and took it to it’s final stages. The question of – How do we show the beauty of the pipe’s surface & make sure that we ‘really see it’ was the one thing guiding this project. While the pipe’s surrounding’s are definitely photo-shopped, the actual surface of the pipe remains 100% untouched. You are looking at the actual pipe surface of a Dunhill Patent pipe made in 1917, as it looks in reality. This was part of the project’s point. To show the surface, unchanged, in order to highlight it’s ‘interest factor’ that much more.
What I love about this image is that you can see the so-called birth of the sandblasting process. This was right around the time when those pioneers at the Dunhill factory first began to use sandblasting as a technique to apply texture to the briar's surface.
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I attended the Melbourne Open House today. As I waited to enter 101 Collins Street, I saw this committed photographer on his back, taking photos of the atrium ceiling. It turned out to be none other than Vermin Inc.
You can see Paul's photostream here.
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"The EU remains firmly committed to achieving the goal of halving the number of people
suffering from hunger by 2015. Failing to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal
would jeopardise other ones, such as those to achieve universal primary education, reduce
child mortality and improve maternal health. It is still possible to achieve the Millennium
Goals, if all partners in the international community demonstrate strong political commitment and take concrete action", President Van Rompuy stressed on his speech
Link to the Speech of President of the European Council at the AECA Conference:
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
The Baymont Inn & Suites is committed to providing you with top notch lodging at amazing prices. Beautiful rooms. Beautiful prices. For beautiful people like you. Start your visit to Des Moines the right way by checking into the Baymont Inn and Suites of Des Moines! Your stay is welcomed by an immaculate lobby for you and your guests, followed by exceptional customer service by our hosts. Post check-in, you may be interested in relaxing at the wonderful indoor pool that also features a great hot tub and fitness facility. Towels are always made available for you and your guests located inside the pool area!
Within the vicinity, there are several restaurants for you to enjoy. Iowa Beef Steakhouse is only a half mile from the hotel. This restaurant was voted #1 for the Finest Steak House In Des Moines in 2005. The other restaurants near the hotel are: Bonanza Buffet, Plaza Mexico, Country Kitchen, and Village Inn.
Venues such as the Civic Center, Hoyt Sherman Auditorium, Wells Fargo Arena, and Des Moines playhouse are all within 7 miles of this hotel. You can view all upcoming events by going to www.eventful.com!!!
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Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
We are committed to this project as our shop car. We are under the process of conducting the following:
-S52 engine swap
-body work (wrap/repaint, body kit, etc.)
-suspension (Lead Tech, Jason will be making one for this project)
-Tires/Rims
and we are open to suggestions, give us your feedback here or under the "Review" tab on our fan page www.facebook.com/brianjesselautohaus
Stay tuned for the latest updates on our launch party, and many exciting events.
Also a chance to vote and win prizes throughout the building process.
St. Romualdus, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
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(From a life of St. Romuald.)
1. Romualdo went to the monastery of Class; does penance for the murder committed by her father.
In the tenth century human life was little respected. The men were used to resolve their disputes through violence, because it was almost completely absent from society and church culture of dialogue and nonviolence. The fees prescribed ecclesiastical just forty days of penance for the murders: we seem trivial, but the canons of the time seemed sufficient. Nothing but "respect for life"!
The first chapter of VR reveals two traits Romuald: he was very sensitive to the vital (the beauty of nature, the high price of human life) and very impulsive in fulfilling the dictates of their conscience (a man of s'inorridisce consciousness of sin of others, but normally does not feel obliged to atone). These personal characteristics could be considered weaknesses by men of aristocratic-military caste that owned the young Romuald, but they are just the human basis of his holiness.
A native of Ravenna, Romuald descended from illustrious ducal family. In adolescence he began to feel the inclinations of the flesh of sin, vice at that age wont attack with more force men, especially rich. With his mind, however, was devoted to God assiduously tried to rise and is proposing to undertake something great. For example, if some time was devoted to hunting and happened to find a peaceful corner of the woods, immediately lit up the soul of a desire to retreat and say to himself: "What would be nice to live as hermits in these recesses of the forest! You really would quiet the noise from the world." So, inspired by the sky, his mind, like an omen, it was falling for that one day he would put in place.
His father's name was Sergio. He was greatly interested in the mundane reality and completely absorbed from the business. He kept enmity towards his relative, friction has arisen for a certain property. Seeing that his son Romuald contention that remained indifferent, indeed it was in deep apprehension over the possibility of fratricide, he began to threaten to deprive him of the inheritance if he persisted in his attitude.
But why dwell? Eventually, the two parties enemy ran out of town to settle the dispute, take up arms and engaged in combat. And while he waged on both sides, suddenly the enemy of Sergio eventually killed by him.
Romualdo had not inflicted any injury slain. However, the very fact of being there he took on the repentance of that great crime. Soon he went to the monastery of St. Apollinaris in Classe and remained there for forty days in mourning, as is customary for a murderer.
2. S. Apollinaris appears to Romualdo who, moved by the Holy Spirit, becomes a Monk.
At that time the monastery of St. Apollinaris (called "Classe" because once that place was the sea port and the fleet) was the most important monastic community in the area. But its importance to social policy did not fit a serious spiritual commitment by the monks.
At Class Romualdo meets a "conversation": the term indicates a man who (if rare) take the monastic habit as an adult. In the monasteries of the time almost all the monks are fed, ie children or teenagers donated to the community by their parents grew up in a monastery almost all prefer to stay forever.
Elder brother calls Romuald (twenty years already an adult) to follow his example and be a monk, but he, despite his impulsive nature, is not easily convinced, even after the two visions of St. Apollinaris, the first pastor of the church of Ravenna. Not that Romuald not believe in visions, his hesitation is due to the fact that has not yet heard the voice of his conscience. Eventually you monk, in response to the visions but not the love that the Holy Spirit kindles in his heart.
With the recommendation of Onesto, former abbot and bishop of Ravenna from Class 971, Romuald received the habit. So the date of entry into a monastery Romuald should be placed between 972 and 975.
In the monastery of Classe, while the most rigorous penance mortified, Romuald began to spend every day talking with a hand, good lessons that addressed, albeit within the limits of his knowledge. He frequently urged him to put aside the secular life and immediately choose the monastic life, but fail to convince.
One day, talking of this and that, gave him this jovial joke: "If you show Sant'Apollinare in his body and looks really visible, what reward will you give me?" Romualdo replied: "I pledge irrevocably not to stay longer in world, as soon as I saw the blessed martyr. " Conversely then invited Romualdo not go to sleep the next night and watch with him in prayer in the church. So in the silence of the night, were both long in prayer. Apollinaris, under the gaze of the two, go under the altar at the center of the church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was seen leaving the eastern part, where is the slab of porphyry.
Immediately the whole church was filled with bright light, as if the sun had concentrated among those walls the radiance of its rays. The martyrs of priestly vestments and beautifully adorned with a golden spoon in his hand, then all the incense altars of the church. Finished incense immediately returned to the place from which he came, and disappeared also the light that had accompanied him.
Thus the conversation as hard collector began to insist strongly and harassing Romualdo because it maintained the promise. Romualdo, however, was still reluctant and asked to observe a second time that vision. And another night, likewise, remained in prayer and saw the blessed martyr like the first time around.
Since then, happened when a discussion on the body of this martyr, Romualdo said he was adamant that placed in the church and the holy life he continued to present his testimony.
Romualdo had a habit of stopping often in prayer before the altar of the church and beyond, when the brothers retired, he prayed to God with many groans. A few days after the vision, while he was praying with great concentration, suddenly the Holy Spirit so inflamed his heart with the fire of divine love that, suddenly, he burst into tears and could not restrain his tears abundant. Prostrate at the feet of the monks said, with indescribable desire, the monastic habit. The monks, however, fearing the harshness of his father, dared not open the door to his conversion. The chair was then archbishop of Ravenna, Onesto, former abbot of the monastery of Classe. Without wasting time, Romuald went to him and expressed a desire he had in his heart. He enthusiastically to the holy desire to Romualdo said the stimulus of his exhortation and ordered the brothers to accept without delay in their community. And the monks, reassured by this protection, without fear Romualdo welcomed him and gave him the monastic habit. So he spent almost three years in that monastery.
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This bird has committed to the drop down to the pond in a steep descent... more a free fall drop (i.e., parachute) than a glide-in. They don't drop their legs like this until they have committed to land. This shot against a cloudy western sunset sky results in a silhouette view of the crane against the clouds... but if you're familiar with these birds such shots offer no difficulty regarding their ID. The sky colors change so rapidly and the bird groups arrive constantly... you need to be constantly shooting to capture the changing spectacle!
IMG_8328; Sandhill Crane
The Des Moines Police Department's 2015 Crime Fighter Awards Luncheon. The program is made possible by IMT Insurance which provides the support and funding of the program. These people were recognized for their contribution to the DMPD by their unselfish actions in the apprehension of people who committed or were committing a criminal act, some at the risk of injury or possible loss of life.
The Government of BC has committed $113 million in its share of funding for Phase 2 of the Trans-Canada Six-Laning – Fraser Valley Project.
This will be a federal-provincial-municipal project to six-lane the highway from 216th Street to 264th Street, improving safety, capacity and access on this important route.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017TRAN0121-000866
We've committed ourselves to really getting our teeth into Cinema 4D in session 2010-11. This is the latest in a series if lessons that introduces pupils to basic modelling tools. Here we focus on spline based techniques and then apply them to the lathe operator. Other NURB based lessons to follow before we get into the tricky polygon based techniques. We were doing this with Higher Product Design pupils but a simple exercise like this could be equally successful with S2 pupils.
June 19th 2008, Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will celebrate her 63rd birthday alone, under house arrest.
She is now in her 13th year of detention yet she has committed no crime. She is imprisoned for peacefully calling for freedom and democracy in Burma. She isn't allowed to see family or friends as all visitors are banned. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted.
Banner Map is from Amnesty International
We've committed ourselves to really getting our teeth into Cinema 4D in session 2010-11. This is the latest in a series if lessons that introduces pupils to basic modelling tools. Here we focus on spline based techniques and then apply them to the lathe operator. Other NURB based lessons to follow before we get into the tricky polygon based techniques. We were doing this with Higher Product Design pupils but a simple exercise like this could be equally successful with S2 pupils.
Shortly after the Chrysler takeover of the Jeep product line, they committed what many diehard Jeep enthusiasts considered blasphemy- SQUARE headlights on a Jeep! Oh the horror! Although this design was consistent with vehicle styling of the era, it only lasted a few years before they switched back to the traditional round headlights. Many YJ owners went as far as swapping the front sheet-metal to an older CJ style so as to have the round headlights.
I too shared this mentality for many years until I ran across this one for a price I just couldn't pass up. It was a bone stock 1988 Olympic Edition Wrangler when I acquired it. A search into its history showed that it was a loaner vehicle during the 1988 Olympic Games, meaning it was driven by one of the USA Olympic athletes during the competition then sold to the general public. It's one of the last Jeeps to use the decades old leaf-spring front axle and carburetor induction designs. Pretty much bullet-proof after you retrofit the problematic 28 year old electronics and change the engine oil. Although a little tired looking by the time I got it, it had great bones and no rust. All it took was a little freshening up, a few inches of lift, and a paint job to become a vehicle that I get asked if I want to sell every time I take it out somewhere.
I've owned several of the older round headlight CJ's, but this square headlight ugly-duckling Jeep will remain in my stable to be passed on to the little guy on the front! Due to the proven design and interchangeability of parts spanning at least 30years, there's no doubt he'll be able to keep it going for another decade or two.....
Triestiner Fischerboot/Triestinian Fishing Boat, 1912 (Bleistift, Aquarell und Deckfarben/Pencil, watercolor and gouache), Albertina
The Albertina
The architectural history of the Palais
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Image: The oldest photographic view of the newly designed Palais Archduke Albrecht, 1869
"It is my will that the expansion of the inner city of Vienna with regard to a suitable connection of the same with the suburbs as soon as possible is tackled and at this on Regulirung (regulation) and beautifying of my Residence and Imperial Capital is taken into account. To this end I grant the withdrawal of the ramparts and fortifications of the inner city and the trenches around the same".
This decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I, published on 25 December 1857 in the Wiener Zeitung, formed the basis for the largest the surface concerning and architecturally most significant transformation of the Viennese cityscape. Involving several renowned domestic and foreign architects a "master plan" took form, which included the construction of a boulevard instead of the ramparts between the inner city and its radially upstream suburbs. In the 50-years during implementation phase, an impressive architectural ensemble developed, consisting of imperial and private representational buildings, public administration and cultural buildings, churches and barracks, marking the era under the term "ring-street style". Already in the first year tithe decided a senior member of the Austrian imperial family to decorate the facades of his palace according to the new design principles, and thus certified the aristocratic claim that this also "historicism" said style on the part of the imperial house was attributed.
Image: The Old Albertina after 1920
It was the palace of Archduke Albrecht (1817-1895), the Senior of the Habsburg Family Council, who as Field Marshal held the overall command over the Austro-Hungarian army. The building was incorporated into the imperial residence of the Hofburg complex, forming the south-west corner and extending eleven meters above street level on the so-called Augustinerbastei.
The close proximity of the palace to the imperial residence corresponded not only with Emperor Franz Joseph I and Archduke Albert with a close familial relationship between the owner of the palace and the monarch. Even the former inhabitants were always in close relationship to the imperial family, whether by birth or marriage. An exception here again proves the rule: Don Emanuel Teles da Silva Conde Tarouca (1696-1771), for which Maria Theresa in 1744 the palace had built, was just a close friend and advisor of the monarch. Silva Tarouca underpins the rule with a second exception, because he belonged to the administrative services as Generalhofbaudirektor (general court architect) and President of the Austrian-Dutch administration, while all other him subsequent owners were highest ranking military.
In the annals of Austrian history, especially those of military history, they either went into as commander of the Imperial Army, or the Austrian, later kk Army. In chronological order, this applies to Duke Carl Alexander of Lorraine, the brother-of-law of Maria Theresa, as Imperial Marshal, her son-in-law Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, also field marshal, whos adopted son, Archduke Charles of Austria, the last imperial field marshal and only Generalissimo of Austria, his son Archduke Albrecht of Austria as Feldmarschalil and army Supreme commander, and most recently his nephew Archduke Friedrich of Austria, who held as field marshal from 1914 to 1916 the command of the Austro-Hungarian troops. Despite their military profession, all five generals conceived themselves as patrons of the arts and promoted large sums of money to build large collections, the construction of magnificent buildings and cultural life. Charles Alexander of Lorraine promoted as governor of the Austrian Netherlands from 1741 to 1780 the Academy of Fine Arts, the Théâtre de Ja Monnaie and the companies Bourgeois Concert and Concert Noble, he founded the Academie royale et imperial des Sciences et des Lettres, opened the Bibliotheque Royal for the population and supported artistic talents with high scholarships. World fame got his porcelain collection, which however had to be sold by Emperor Joseph II to pay off his debts. Duke Albert began in 1776 according to the concept of conte Durazzo to set up an encyclopedic collection of prints, which forms the core of the world-famous "Albertina" today.
Image : Duke Albert and Archduchess Marie Christine show in family cercle the from Italy brought along art, 1776. Frederick Henry Füger.
1816 declared to Fideikommiss and thus in future indivisible, inalienable and inseparable, the collection 1822 passed into the possession of Archduke Carl, who, like his descendants, it broadened. Under him, the collection was introduced together with the sumptuously equipped palace on the Augustinerbastei in the so-called "Carl Ludwig'schen fideicommissum in 1826, by which the building and the in it kept collection fused into an indissoluble unity. At this time had from the Palais Tarouca by structural expansion or acquisition a veritable Residenz palace evolved. Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen was first in 1800 the third floor of the adjacent Augustinian convent wing adapted to house his collection and he had after 1802 by his Belgian architect Louis de Montoyer at the suburban side built a magnificent extension, called the wing of staterooms, it was equipped in the style of Louis XVI. Only two decades later, Archduke Carl the entire palace newly set up. According to scetches of the architect Joseph Kornhäusel the 1822-1825 retreaded premises presented themselves in the Empire style. The interior of the palace testified from now in an impressive way the high rank and the prominent position of its owner. Under Archduke Albrecht the outer appearance also should meet the requirements. He had the facade of the palace in the style of historicism orchestrated and added to the Palais front against the suburbs an offshore covered access. Inside, he limited himself, apart from the redesign of the Rococo room in the manner of the second Blondel style, to the retention of the paternal stock. Archduke Friedrich's plans for an expansion of the palace were omitted, however, because of the outbreak of the First World War so that his contribution to the state rooms, especially, consists in the layout of the Spanish apartment, which he in 1895 for his sister, the Queen of Spain Maria Christina, had set up as a permanent residence.
Picture: The "audience room" after the restoration: Picture: The "balcony room" around 1990
The era of stately representation with handing down their cultural values found its most obvious visualization inside the palace through the design and features of the staterooms. On one hand, by the use of the finest materials and the purchase of masterfully manufactured pieces of equipment, such as on the other hand by the permanent reuse of older equipment parts. This period lasted until 1919, when Archduke Friedrich was expropriated by the newly founded Republic of Austria. With the republicanization of the collection and the building first of all finished the tradition that the owner's name was synonymous with the building name:
After Palais Tarouca or tarokkisches house it was called Lorraine House, afterwards Duke Albert Palais and Palais Archduke Carl. Due to the new construction of an adjacently located administration building it received in 1865 the prefix "Upper" and was referred to as Upper Palais Archduke Albrecht and Upper Palais Archduke Frederick. For the state a special reference to the Habsburg past was certainly politically no longer opportune, which is why was decided to name the building according to the in it kept collection "Albertina".
Picture: The "Wedgwood Cabinet" after the restoration: Picture: the "Wedgwood Cabinet" in the Palais Archduke Friedrich, 1905
This name derives from the term "La Collection Albertina" which had been used by the gallery Inspector Maurice von Thausing in 1870 in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts for the former graphics collection of Duke Albert. For this reason, it was the first time since the foundation of the palace that the name of the collection had become synonymous with the room shell. Room shell, hence, because the Republic of Austria Archduke Friedrich had allowed to take along all the movable goods from the palace in his Hungarian exile: crystal chandeliers, curtains and carpets as well as sculptures, vases and clocks. Particularly stressed should be the exquisite furniture, which stems of three facilities phases: the Louis XVI furnitures of Duke Albert, which had been manufactured on the basis of fraternal relations between his wife Archduchess Marie Christine and the French Queen Marie Antoinette after 1780 in the French Hofmanufakturen, also the on behalf of Archduke Charles 1822-1825 in the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory by Joseph Danhauser produced Empire furnitures and thirdly additions of the same style of Archduke Friedrich, which this about 1900 at Portois & Ffix as well as at Friedrich Otto Schmidt had commissioned.
The "swept clean" building got due to the strained financial situation after the First World War initially only a makeshift facility. However, since until 1999 no revision of the emergency equipment took place, but differently designed, primarily the utilitarianism committed office furnitures complementarily had been added, the equipment of the former state rooms presented itself at the end of the 20th century as an inhomogeneous administrative mingle-mangle of insignificant parts, where, however, dwelt a certain quaint charm. From the magnificent state rooms had evolved depots, storage rooms, a library, a study hall and several officed.
Image: The Albertina Graphic Arts Collection and the Philipphof after the American bombing of 12 März 1945.
Image: The palace after the demolition of the entrance facade, 1948-52
Worse it hit the outer appearance of the palace, because in times of continued anti-Habsburg sentiment after the Second World War and inspired by an intolerant destruction will, it came by pickaxe to a ministerial erasure of history. In contrast to the graphic collection possessed the richly decorated facades with the conspicuous insignia of the former owner an object-immanent reference to the Habsburg past and thus exhibited the monarchial traditions and values of the era of Francis Joseph significantly. As part of the remedial measures after a bomb damage, in 1948 the aristocratic, by Archduke Albert initiated, historicist facade structuring along with all decorations was cut off, many facade figures demolished and the Hapsburg crest emblems plunged to the ground. Since in addition the old ramp also had been cancelled and the main entrance of the bastion level had been moved down to the second basement storey at street level, ended the presence of the old Archduke's palace after more than 200 years. At the reopening of the "Albertina Graphic Collection" in 1952, the former Hapsburg Palais of splendour presented itself as one of his identity robbed, formally trivial, soulless room shell, whose successful republicanization an oversized and also unproportional eagle above the new main entrance to the Augustinian road symbolized. The emocratic throw of monuments had wiped out the Hapsburg palace from the urban appeareance, whereby in the perception only existed a nondescript, nameless and ahistorical building that henceforth served the lodging and presentation of world-famous graphic collection of the Albertina. The condition was not changed by the decision to the refurbishment because there were only planned collection specific extensions, but no restoration of the palace.
Image: The palace after the Second World War with simplified facades, the rudiment of the Danubiusbrunnens (well) and the new staircase up to the Augustinerbastei
This paradigm shift corresponded to a blatant reversal of the historical circumstances, as the travel guides and travel books for kk Residence and imperial capital of Vienna dedicated itself primarily with the magnificent, aristocratic palace on the Augustinerbastei with the sumptuously fitted out reception rooms and mentioned the collection kept there - if at all - only in passing. Only with the repositioning of the Albertina in 2000 under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the palace was within the meaning and in fulfillment of the Fideikommiss of Archduke Charles in 1826 again met with the high regard, from which could result a further inseparable bond between the magnificent mansions and the world-famous collection. In view of the knowing about politically motivated errors and omissions of the past, the facades should get back their noble, historicist designing, the staterooms regain their glamorous, prestigious appearance and culturally unique equippment be repurchased. From this presumption, eventually grew the full commitment to revise the history of redemption and the return of the stately palace in the public consciousness.
Image: The restored suburb facade of the Palais Albertina suburb
The smoothed palace facades were returned to their original condition and present themselves today - with the exception of the not anymore reconstructed Attica figures - again with the historicist decoration and layout elements that Archduke Albrecht had given after the razing of the Augustinerbastei in 1865 in order. The neoclassical interiors, today called after the former inhabitants "Habsburg Staterooms", receiving a meticulous and detailed restoration taking place at the premises of originality and authenticity, got back their venerable and sumptuous appearance. From the world wide scattered historical pieces of equipment have been bought back 70 properties or could be returned through permanent loan to its original location, by which to the visitors is made experiencable again that atmosphere in 1919 the state rooms of the last Habsburg owner Archduke Frederick had owned. The for the first time in 80 years public accessible "Habsburg State Rooms" at the Palais Albertina enable now again as eloquent testimony to our Habsburg past and as a unique cultural heritage fundamental and essential insights into the Austrian cultural history. With the relocation of the main entrance to the level of the Augustinerbastei the recollection to this so valuable Austrian Cultural Heritage formally and functionally came to completion. The vision of the restoration and recovery of the grand palace was a pillar on which the new Albertina should arise again, the other embody the four large newly built exhibition halls, which allow for the first time in the history of the Albertina, to exhibit the collection throughout its encyclopedic breadh under optimal conservation conditions.
Image: The new entrance area of the Albertina
64 meter long shed roof. Hans Hollein.
The palace presents itself now in its appearance in the historicist style of the Ringstrassenära, almost as if nothing had happened in the meantime. But will the wheel of time should not, cannot and must not be turned back, so that the double standards of the "Albertina Palace" said museum - on the one hand Habsburg grandeur palaces and other modern museum for the arts of graphics - should be symbolized by a modern character: The in 2003 by Hans Hollein designed far into the Albertina square cantilevering, elegant floating flying roof. 64 meters long, it symbolizes in the form of a dynamic wedge the accelerated urban spatial connectivity and public access to the palace. It advertises the major changes in the interior as well as the huge underground extensions of the repositioned "Albertina".
Christian Benedictine
Art historian with research interests History of Architecture, building industry of the Hapsburgs, Hofburg and Zeremonialwissenschaft (ceremonial sciences). Since 1990 he works in the architecture collection of the Albertina. Since 2000 he supervises as director of the newly founded department "Staterooms" the restoration and furnishing of the state rooms and the restoration of the facades and explores the history of the palace and its inhabitants.
St Baldricks Brevard at The Avenue Viera by commercial photographer Rich Johnson of Spectacle Photo. Dedicated to the St. Baldrick's Foundation Events on the Space Coast of FL and raising awareness for Childhood Cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
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In the Hungarian Pastry Shop’s sweet, bustling atmosphere, she was so focused on her task the entire time we were there, sipping coffee and savoring delicious pastry. Occasionally she would exchange a smile with passers by but nonetheless did her box-folding fast and perfectly. I loved watching those moments of dedication and focused joy.
The baddest police car ever committed to the silver screen; Max Rockatansky's 1973 Ford Falcon XB. As seen in the in the sequel "The Road Warrior".
I've committed to spending Sunday in bed. I have magazines, books and laptops. There is quick access to the kitchen and my phone is set to charge. No one disturb me. I'm quite content.
The London Borough of Haringey is committed to protecting the Environment; and wants to be the Greenest borough in London.
You wouldn't think so in Carbuncle Passage.
Dumping along just these few metres of alley includes: bagged kitchen waste; a broken table-top; a smashed door; and neatly folded cardboard boxes. (My guess about the cardboard: perhaps a small trader is saving money on their trade waste contract by dumping.)
This is the second photo in the Carbuncle Greenest Borough Tour. Continue sampling more of the delights of this famous alley.
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Lets take another trip to the past, this time to 2007. I had just finished the Xenosaga trilogy, and had pretty much committed myself to being a KOS-MOS fan for life. I didn't realize it at the time, but Xenosaga apparently wasn't that popular of a game, resulting in much of the merchandise available in Japan never really being offered. Alter seemed to be the leading producer of Xenosaga merch offered, so I eagerly purchased what has remained a focal point in my Bishoujo figure collection, the 1/8 scale KOS-MOS v.4.0 statue.
I'd eventually get the 1/8 scale Griffon release, which I should probably pop open for a photo op, but overall the other 1/8 offerings paled in comparison to this statue. Alter would go on to release a 1/8 scale T-ELOS, though she would be nowhere as extravagant looking as KOS-MOS.
Still, much like with her Figma counterpart, I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to find a T-ELOS to complement KOS-MOS here.
Again, my stuff is all packed away so I don't have access to it right now, but one of the coolest things about this figure was the box. It was a clear plastic cube, nothing more, nothing less, and really worked well with the high tech theme of KOS-MOS.
If you do consider buying one of these, the price seems to be much higher than MSRP though MSRP was around $60 back in the day, so that isn't saying much. Sadly, because of age, KOS-MOS does suffer from the leg bend that plagues many similarly aged pieces, though fixing it is pretty straight forward.
KOS-MOS is sculpted in a dynamic stance, hair blowing in the wind, though sadly she's only posed with one of her chainguns rather than two of them like with her Figma release. The various details of her lingerie/armour are captured quite well as is her generally serene expression. Even by modern standards, the v4.0 body that KOS-MOS has is particularly busy, a vivid tapestry of lines, layers, and colours - and of course, her tranlucent blue hair.
Decals are expertly applied, and are so high resolution that they are legible even at very close proximity, which isn't something I can say about, for example, those horrible things that came with the Elita-1 Voyager toy.
I will readily admit that while this is one of my favourite pieces, it's not perfect. While assembly work and finishing of the part is top notch, as I would expect from Alter, the paint apps on busy areas is a bit on the sloppy side, with some of the gold and black oversprayed, and the masking not as crisp as I would have liked. I suspect the small scale coupled with the frequent need for paint apps and masking probably didn't help.
For over a decade, this was pretty much the defacto 1/8 scale KOS-MOS statue to own. She still displays well with contemporary items, with the exception of the lean you have to keep an eye out for. Sadly, it looks like the title of best scale statue will likely be handed off to the upcoming 1/7 release from Good Smile Company for their Xenoblade 2 KOS-MOS, but it was a good reign, and when the time comes I'll be sure leave her a space so that the v4.0 can stand tall and proud as she was always meant to.
Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.