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My lost and refound evaluation form from Quiltcon 2013 exhibition of Flying Geese and Swans. I hope I'm not offending anybody by publishing this. Just to give you a general idea of the format. For me it shows care in formulating an opinion.
I was surprised when they offered the form at pickup, and glad I could have it. After reading I felt all right. I knew some things had not been really perfect and it would be strange if nobody had seen it - and I was glad that the spirit of the quilt was recognized.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 28, 2014) -- Army researchers are evaluating prototype devices developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, Warrior Web program's goal is to create a soft, lightweight undersuit to help reduce injuries and fatigue, while improving mission performance. DARPA is responsible for the development of new technologies for the U.S. military.
Researchers from Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering spent the past two years developing a biologically inspired smart suit that aims to boost efficiency through a new approach. A series of webbing straps contain a microprocessor and a network of strain sensors.
Read more at www.army.mil/article/135272
(U.S. Army photo by Tom Faulkner)
Platoon sergeant evaluates soldiers assigned to Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment, movements across the objective with the use of phosphorous smoke for concealment during a squad live fire exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, on November 21, 2017.
Seminar hos Norad i forbindelse med lanseringen av evalueringsrapporten: "Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?"
Foto: Terje Fjeldsgård Andersen/Norad
WAPA, DOE and USACE deployed personnel take the Ferry to Vieques Island to evaluate restoration options and inspect substations for future electrification. From left to right: Jeff Miller (WAPA), Tom Lavender (USACE), Theresa Berry (BPA), Elijah Sullivan (BPA), Jorge Ferrer (Oakridge Nat’l Labs), David Gary (USACE) (Photo by Jeff Miller).
Seminar hos Norad i forbindelse med lanseringen av evalueringsrapporten: "Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?"
Foto: Terje Fjeldsgård Andersen/Norad
In Jordan the evaluators interviewed staff of the Petra National Trust, responsible for preserving ancient architectural ruins.
Seminar hos Norad i forbindelse med lanseringen av evalueringsrapporten: "Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?"
Foto: Terje Fjeldsgård Andersen/Norad
2016 Equipment Evaluations and Kiteboard Format Trials. 2012 Copyright ©ISAF. Image copyright free for editorial use. This image may not be used for any other purpose without the express prior written permission of ISAF.
Illustration showing the conformation of a horse that stands over at the knees.
Photo source: University of Kentucky
More info: www.extension.org/pages/10275/relating-form-to-function:-...
The groups answered questions ranging from the activities that were offered, impact on the community, media coverage, and suggestions to improve the activities.
Photo by Kristen Maryn, June 27, 2011
Baseball legend Cal Ripken during the Sports Envoy Program, a program included in the Division's Evaluation of ECA sports programs.
Rick Dobson, MTRI, Evaluation of Bridge Decks at Near Highway Speeds Using MTRI's 3D Optical Bridge Evaluation System (3DOBS)
Michigan Tech Research Institute of Ann Arbor September 2013 Recent Projects Poster Presentations
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 28, 2014) -- Army researchers are evaluating prototype devices developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, Warrior Web program's goal is to create a soft, lightweight undersuit to help reduce injuries and fatigue, while improving mission performance. DARPA is responsible for the development of new technologies for the U.S. military.
Researchers from Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering spent the past two years developing a biologically inspired smart suit that aims to boost efficiency through a new approach. A series of webbing straps contain a microprocessor and a network of strain sensors.
Read more at www.army.mil/article/135272
(U.S. Army photo by Tom Faulkner)
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 28, 2014) -- Army researchers are evaluating prototype devices developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, Warrior Web program's goal is to create a soft, lightweight undersuit to help reduce injuries and fatigue, while improving mission performance. DARPA is responsible for the development of new technologies for the U.S. military.
Researchers from Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering spent the past two years developing a biologically inspired smart suit that aims to boost efficiency through a new approach. A series of webbing straps contain a microprocessor and a network of strain sensors.
Read more at www.army.mil/article/135272
(U.S. Army photo by Tom Faulkner)
These images are the record of an emotional visit. Beyond the pictures I want to share some of the details that I have found and so I have included some links below. The times we live in still hold onto to prejudice and persecution. In some areas we may not be hanging and burning women as witches, but we have new ways to to castigate people and to destroy them. Our ancestors hung and burned those they feared and those that they wanted out of the way. We seem at times to have transformed our lives and found a better world to share, it also seems that we need to look back into our history and learn lessons to continue our progression so that the fear and hatred of groups will not be raised and set upon individuals and other groups. Innocent women have been tortured and hung, or burned to fulfil the process demanded by society and in honouring their memory and in keep alive their story we have a chance to progress. In my remembering of the now seemingly inhuman ridiculous witch trials I wish to focus on the historical occurrence and to try to understand how something so terrible happened to ensure we do not forget our past which is an indication of our potential present and possible future and at the end of my journey through the viscous witch craze realise the horror within us and from that perspective honour the memory of the persecuted.
The old sign read,
“The Witches Stone of Spott.
Marion Lillie, the Ringwoody Witch was burnt here in 1698.
The stone is reputed to stand on the site of the burning of the last witch in the South of Scotland.
Near to this site the Birley Tree stood, under whose branches the local Birley Court was held.”
The Witches Stone is said to mark the spot where Marion Lillie, known as the Rigwoody, or Ringwoodie Witch, was burned at the stake in 1698 and serves to commemorate Marion Lillie and the plight and deaths of many others that were executed for witchcraft. The site outside the current village is thought to have been used as a place of trial, punishment and execution. The term, “Rigwoodie,” is an old Scottish word used to denote someone thin and bony. With many terms involved around the persecution of witchcraft it might be that the term is being recorded in to indicate both an improper sexual allure through magic and to add sexual allure to the telling and retelling of the story. Some authors record that many witches were burnt on the top of, “Spott loan”, in 1705, seven years after the death of Marion Lillie in 1698 which if accurate would reveal that Marion Lillie was not the last witch to be burned in the South of Scotland.
To this day the very harsh nature of times gone by including religious punishment can be seen at Spott kirk. An iron chain and neckbrace, or the 'Jougs' are displayed on the external wall near the kirk door. Contemporary locals keep a tradition of placing a coin on the Witches' Stane when passing so as to avoid bad luck. The now fenced off monument attracts other offerings too. The outcast and the persecuted are better remembered over time and there is a greater acceptance of witchcraft than before whether in the past it was anything like we often now think of it with it being a popular theme in contemporary culture.
It is noted that the area around Spott was notorious for its witch burnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. East Lothian has been made infamous due well publicised witch trials, with records detailing allegations, trials and convictions around Haddington, Tranent and North Berwick. The Iron Age hill fort on The Chesters, not far to the south west of Spott was also linked to witch burnings. From early drawings it is possible that the current stone is the last survivors of several that were a part of a megalithic monument. The current monument attracts good attention for the right reasons and it serves for commemoration of society being inhumane which is something that we all need to struggle against and to succeed in fighting. To witches and to all that society would seek to silence there is a potential for full re-evaluation unfortunately all too often after terrible costs of life.
PHH Sykes ©2020
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Further References
Field Visit (25 June 1913)
RCAHMS County Inventory: East Lothian
A rough block of stone about 22 inches across both ways but almost entirely covered with road scrapings, lies at the root of the hedge on the southern side of the road some 3/8 mile south-west of Spott Church and 90 yards north-east of the junction of the road to. Little Spott. This stone is placed near the spot where Marion Lillie the Ringwoodie Witch was burnt. At the western corner of the junction of the road to Little Spott stands the Birley Tree, an ash tree, 12 feet 4 inches in girth 6 feet from the ground, which marks the place where the Birley Courts were held in olden days.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 25 June 1913.
canmore.org.uk/collection/1460251
Drawing of the Witches' Stane.
James Drummond
Description Drawing of the Witches' Stane.
Date 1/9/1849
Collection Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Catalogue Number DP 203322
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ELD 177/1
Scope and Content SAS 386 p.77.
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 386
Permalink canmore.org.uk/collection/1460251
Some 500 yards east of the dwelling house on Innerwick Farm and nearly 200 yards south of the public road, in a field called Single Knowes field, is a slightly rising piece of ground known as the Witches Knowe, on which a number of witches are said to have been burnt.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 26 June 1913
About 80 years ago, while foundations were being prepared for the old hot-houses in Spott House gardens, the skeletal remains of a number of men with fragments of their accoutrements, including broken swords and buttons, were found, no doubt relics of some of the Covenanters who fell at the battle of Dunbar. All the remains were re-interred in the Kirkyard of Spott, 26 feet from the north-eastern corner of the church and some 5 or 6 feet east of the line of the wall of the church.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 25 June 1913.
WAPA and BPA deployed personnel accompany PREPA crews to evaluate a 38-kilovolt lattice tower installed in 1935. WAPA Engineer Jeff Miller and BPA Lineman Paul Sever are wearing white hard hats (Photo provided by Jeff Miller)