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FR :
C’est dans la campagne devant cette chapelle qu’étaient exécuté(e)s les condamné(e)s à mort, notamment durant la période dite de “caccia alle streghe” (chasse aux sorcières) aux 16ème et 17ème siècles. Condamnations prononcées à l’époque par le "ministre de la justice" (bourreau) véritablement au nom de ce qu’on appellerait aujourd’hui la superstition, l’ignorance, et l’intolérance religieuse.
La loi de l’époque ne connaissait pas la présomption d’innocence.
Le nombre exact d’exécutions (quelques dizaines ou plusieurs centaines) reste inconnu puisque toutes les archives de la soi-disant Sainte Inquisition du diocèse de Milan de 1314 à 1764 ont été délibérément détruites le 3 juin 1788.
Certaines victimes d’exécutions ont été depuis réhabilitées, après étude de divers procès-verbaux d’origine des chanceliers de l'époque. Ces procès-verbaux nous rappellent des traditions populaires, des prétendus malheurs, des crimes odieux, des tortures atroces, des superstitions absurdes et des injustices flagrantes du passé qui ont également marqués les vallées alpines.
ITA :
Fu nella campagna di fronte a questa cappella che i condannati a morte furono giustiziati, in particolare durante il periodo noto come "caccia alle streghe" nei XVI e XVII secoli. Condanne pronunciate all'epoca dal "ministro della giustizia" (il boia) proprio in nome di ciò che oggi chiameremmo della superstizione, dell'ignoranza e dell'intolleranza religiosa.
La legge dell'epoca non prevedeva la presunzione di innocenza.
Il numero esatto delle esecuzioni (qualche decina o qualche centinaio) rimane sconosciuto poiché tutti gli archivi della cosiddetta Santa Inquisizione della Diocesi di Milano dal 1314 al 1764 furono deliberatamente distrutti il 3 giugno 1788.
Alcune vittime delle esecuzioni sono state riabilitate, dopo aver studiato vari verbali originali dei cancellieri dell'epoca. Questi verbali ci ricordano tradizioni popolari, presunte disgrazie, atroci delitti, atroci torture, assurde superstizioni e palesi ingiustizie del passato che hanno segnato anche le valli alpine.
ENG :
It was in the countryside in front of this chapel that people sentenced to death were executed, especially during the period known as "caccia alle streghe" (witch hunt) in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Condemnations pronounced at that time by the "minister of justice" (torturer) truly in the name of what we would call today superstition, ignorance, and religious intolerance.
The law of the time did not know the presumption of innocence.
The exact number of executions (a few dozen or several hundred) remains unknown because all the archives of the so-called Holy Inquisition of the Diocese of Milan from 1314 to 1764 were deliberately destroyed on June 3, 1788.
Some victims of executions have since been rehabilitated, after studying various original reports of the chancellors of the time. These reports remind us of popular traditions, alleged misfortunes, heinous crimes, atrocious tortures, absurd superstitions and blatant injustices of the past that also marked the Alpine valleys.
The Christopher Columbus Memorial, executed by sculptor Giuseppe Ciochetti, was dedicated in Washington Park on October 12, 1927. Funded by the Associated Italian Societies of Newark and the Giuseppe Verdi Society, the memorial features a bronze portrait of Christopher Columbus atop a tall square base adorned with four bronze relief plaques depicting the commissioning, embarkation, voyage, and landing of Columbus. Each corner of the base, between the reliefs, is adorned with a standing female figure representing discovery. The female figures stand with their faces directed toward the sky and their hands raised to their chests. The corners above each female figure are carved with fluted stone columns, above which a bronze garland encircles the base. Un March 1973, one of the base plaques fell off and was taken to the Bureau of Parks and Ground warehouse to await replacement by the Department of Public Works. Graffiti was cleaned from the base of the memorial in April 1985.
Tomb of Pope Alexander VII sculptural monument designed and partially executed by the Bernini. commissioned by Pope Alexander VII but construction of the monument didn't start until 1671 and was completed in 1678, eleven years after the Pope's death.
At the age of 81, this would be Bernini's last major sculptural commission before his death in 1680.
Below the Pope are four female statues representing virtues practiced by the Pontiff.
Truth, whose foot rests on a globe. More precisely placed directly over England, where Pope Alexander had strived to subdue the growth of Anglicanism.
Most dramatically, below Alexander, the figure of Death is represented in gilded bronze, shrouded in a billowing drapery of Sicilian jasper.He raises an hourglass to symbolize that time has passed.
This was a collaboration between Bernini and his assistants.
Bernini began working on a design and model of the whole tomb and on October 7, 1672.
An early design of the tomb that was made in Bernini's studio survives in the Royal Library at Windsor.
Two small clay bozzetti have survived which include Charity, in the Istituto delle Belle Arti in Siena, and the kneeling pope of Alexander in the Victoria and Albert Museum .
The tomb was almost finished but Pope Innocent XI, had objected to not only the nudity of Truth but also the bare breasts of Charity. Thus Bernini was forced to dress the figures
What Do I See? (What They Do To Me?)©
Execute my fears, kill them, blow them all away with relief
Have a blast, have a say, let this moment have it's way
Fine weather, a pretty face, flirty eyes opening the door of passionate belief
A name, a redefined mood for disposable concoction of utter dismay
And here we are presiding over burning formulae for icy morning
The blue sky has an Anglian sunrise for it's blessed crowning
Song two fills my head, seeking and destroying the webs of waste
Not yet fully awake my sleepy thoughts exorcise toxins conceit
Something inside so sulphuric, spiteful and slighted by taste
Disharmonious with the Zen of flow before the tri-coloured repeat
An undeclared war of zones one and two, the spell of present ages
Fanatical powers fire our hatred, for imagination to repel the facing pages
Torn, burnt, damaged and lost from a fingertip switch of chi-annal
This unfinished story of indigestible med to pacify the docs of admin
Creating the other me from a science that heaves to political throe of channel
No cure for the broken spine that must take it all on the chin
Weak yet keeping a distance the touch of pain seems such a conspiracy
Where apathy retains youth, health grows old and out of sight from deliracy
However, every feeling is labelled meticulously, dated methodically
And hurt medically...vigour poisoned by every medic looking out for himself
My Soul is fractured left right and central to spinal sensations lost analogically
Walk away if it could my anger is blue like my breath numbing itself
Designing hygiene for the senses acquiescent, my severed nerves cut off from reality
They increase the prescription! I wish to avenge sevenfold their hospitality
Change tack! it really is nice out, the sunbeams pole-dance the trees with ease
Light is the greatest dancer, the erotic benefice of anguished posterity
One morning after She looks as sexy as ever, this pneumatic heartbeat tease
With a withy whipped-up enthusiasm She is the Gloria of salvation and temerity
No more do I wish to see the twibilled surgical topping
For my sensual natural lover is atop my senses for the pain She is a heart stopping.
by anglia24
09h35: 09/12/2008
©2008anglia24
Last year CEA Project Logistics were employed to assist the Royal Thai Navy in the transportation and shipping of a USD multi-million Seahawk Helicopter.
This project was executed with the upmost efficiency with all parties involved being very happy with the outcome.
Such was the professionalism of the teams at CEA and the impression they gave, the Royal Thai Navy once again employed their service and assistance on a very similar project.For this project another Seahawk helicopter was to be transported and shipped to Australia for maintenance and repairs.
CEA teams, Royal Thai Navy personnel and representatives from the maintenance company convened at Utapao Airport in Rayong province Thailand to begin the project. As with all projects CEA conduct a tool box talk was given to the teams to explain the lift and rigging plan for the day. Rigging equipment was then prepared while another team set up a safe exclusion barricade for the operational activities.
Personnel from the Royal Thai Navy carefully moved the valuable cargo into position for the lift.Two Modular spreader bars were assembled with the required nylon slings attached, these were then attached to the waiting 55 T mobile crane. The slings and shackles were attached to the designated lift points on the Seahawk, with the fuselage of the helicopter being protected by use of sling pads. Chain blocks were used to make precise alterations to the lift to ensure that the helicopter lifted level.
As the helicopter rose form the ground a Drop-Deck Air Ride trailer was placed underneath, the Seahawk was lowered on to the trailer and secured in her slots. All slings and shackles were carefully removed and the rigging team went to action securely lashing down the helicopter readying her for the journey to CEA HQ in Laem Chabang.
Upon arrival at CEA the Seahawk was transported to one of their main warehouses and removed from the trailer. After all checks were complete a CEA Shrink Wrap team set to work enveloping the whole helicopter in an industrial grade shrink wrap that will protect the Seahawk from the corrosive effects the elements can produce during transportation.
The Aircraft was transported again on the Drop-Deck Air Ride Trailer to Laem Chabang Port where a Mafi Trailer was awaiting. Prior to loading the Mafi was thoroughly cleaned and sprayed with Cilsin 25 to negate any issues with Australian DAFF/AQIS authorities upon arrival. As the fore wheels were wider than the Mafi a steel plate extension was fabricated by the CEA team for a safe and secure load. The Aircraft was safely loaded onto the Mafi and professionally lashed by CEA under the close supervision of a 3rd party marine surveyor.
After she was loaded a tug master pushed the Mafi and aircraft into place on the RoRo vessel where it was safely secured for the transit to Australia. Hats off to the CEA team who once again handled another multi-million USD shipment without incident.
Detail of the Baptistry Window, a masterpiece of abstract stained glass designed by John Piper and executed by Patrick Reyntiens.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of postwar optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
It is a common misconception that Coventry lost it's first cathedral in the wartime blitz, but the bombs actually destroyed it's second; the original medieval cathedral was the monastic St Mary's, a large cruciform building believed to have been similar in appearance to Lichfield Cathedral (whose diocese it shared). Tragically it became the only English cathedral to be destroyed during the Reformation, after which it was quickly quarried away, leaving only scant fragments, but enough evidence survives to indicate it's rich decoration (some pieces were displayed nearby in the Priory Visitors Centre, sadly since closed). Foundations of it's apse were found during the building of the new cathedral in the 1950s, thus technically three cathedrals share the same site.
The mainly 15th century St Michael's parish church became the seat of the new diocese of Coventry in 1918, and being one of the largest parish churches in the country it was upgraded to cathedral status without structural changes (unlike most 'parish church' cathedrals created in the early 20th century). It lasted in this role a mere 22 years before being burned to the ground in the 1940 Coventry Blitz, leaving only the outer walls and the magnificent tapering tower and spire (the extensive arcades and clerestoreys collapsed completely in the fire, precipitated by the roof reinforcement girders, installed in the Victorian restoration, that buckled in the intense heat).
The determination to rebuild the cathedral in some form was born on the day of the bombing, however it wasn't until the mid 1950s that a competition was held and Sir Basil Spence's design was chosen. Spence had been so moved by experiencing the ruined church he resolved to retain it entirely to serve as a forecourt to the new church. He envisaged the two being linked by a glass screen wall so that the old church would be visible from within the new.
Built between 1957-62 at a right-angle to the ruins, the new cathedral attracted controversy for it's modern form, and yet some modernists argued that it didn't go far enough, after all there are echoes of the Gothic style in the great stone-mullioned windows of the nave and the net vaulting (actually a free-standing canopy) within. What is exceptional is the way art has been used as such an integral part of the building, a watershed moment, revolutionising the concept of religious art in Britain.
Spence employed some of the biggest names in contemporary art to contribute their vision to his; the exterior is adorned with Jacob Epstein's triumphant bronze figures of Archangel Michael (patron of the cathedral) vanquishing the Devil. At the entrance is the remarkable glass wall, engraved by John Hutton with strikingly stylised figures of saints and angels, and allowing the interior of the new to communicate with the ruin. Inside, the great tapestry of Christ in majesty surrounded by the evangelistic creatures, draws the eye beyond the high altar; it was designed by Graham Sutherland and was the largest tapestry ever made.
However one of the greatest features of Coventry is it's wealth of modern stained glass, something Spence resolved to include having witnessed the bleakness of Chartres Cathedral in wartime, all it's stained glass having been removed. The first window encountered on entering is the enormous 'chess-board' baptistry window filled with stunning abstract glass by John Piper & Patrick Reyntiens, a symphony of glowing colour. The staggered nave walls are illuminated by ten narrow floor to ceiling windows filled with semi-abstract symbolic designs arranged in pairs of dominant colours (green, red, multi-coloured, purple/blue and gold) representing the souls journey to maturity, and revealed gradually as one approaches the altar. This amazing project was the work of three designers lead by master glass artist Lawrence Lee of the Royal College of Art along with Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke (each artist designed three of the windows individually and all collaborated on the last).
The cathedral still dazzles the visitor with the boldness of it's vision, but alas, half a century on, it was not a vision to be repeated and few of the churches and cathedrals built since can claim to have embraced the synthesis of art and architecture in the way Basil Spence did at Coventry.
The cathedral is generally open to visitors most days. For more see below:-
CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan – Military working dog handlers take turns executing an improvised explosive device lane March 24 at Camp Hansen. The training is part of their preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. While military working dogs are able to identify explosives, it is necessary for the handlers to know how to identify the types of environments where IEDs may be emplaced. The military working dog handlers are with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III MEF. (Marine Corps photo by Private First Class Abbey M. Perria/RELEASED)
Klinkicht, Gerhard, * 1915, † 14.03.2000 Bavaria, Wehrmacht Captain. A commemorative plaque on St. Stephen's Cathedral (side of the gate Singertor) recalls that in April 1945 Klinkicht refused to execute the order to bombard the cathedral.
Klinkicht, Gerhard, * 1915, † 14.03.2000 Bayern, Wehrmachtshauptmann. Eine Gedenktafel am Stephansdom (Seite des Singertors) hält in Erinnerung, dass sich Klinkicht im April 1945 geweigert hatte, den Befehl zur Beschießung des Doms auszuführen.
Fire in St. Stephen's Cathedral: eyewitnesses cried in the face of devastation.
Despite great need after the war, the landmark of Austria was rebuilt within seven years.
04th April 2015
What happened in the heart of Vienna 70 years ago brought tears to many horrified residents. On 12 April 1945, the Pummerin, the largest bell of St. Stephen's Cathedral, fell as a result of a roof fire in the tower hall and broke to pieces. The following day, a collapsing retaining wall pierced through the vault of the southern side choir, the penetrating the cathedral fire destroyed the choir stalls and choir organ, the Imperial oratory and the rood screen cross. St. Stephen's Cathedral offered a pitiful image of senseless destruction, almost at the end of that terrible time when the Viennese asked after each bombing anxiously: "Is Steffl still standing?"
100 grenades for the cathedral
Already on April 10, the cathedral was to be razed to the ground. In retaliation for hoisting a white flag on St. Stephen's Cathedral, the dome must be reduced to rubble and ash with a fiery blast of a hundred shells. Such was the insane command of the commander of an SS Artillery Division in the already lost battle for Vienna against the Red Army.
The Wehrmacht Captain Gerhard Klinkicht, from Celle near Hanover, read the written order to his soldiers and tore the note in front of them with the words: "No, this order will not be executed."
What the SS failed to do, settled looters the day after. The most important witness of the events from April 11 to 13, became Domkurat (cathedral curate) Lothar Kodeischka (1905-1994), who, as the sacristan director of St. Stephen, was practically on the spot throughout these days. When Waffen-SS and Red Army confronted each other on the Danube Canal on April 11, according to Kodeischka a report had appeared that SS units were making a counter-attack over the Augarten Bridge. Parts of the Soviet artillery were then withdrawn from Saint Stephen's square. For hours, the central area of the city center was without occupying forces. This was helped by gangs of raiders who set fire to the afflicted shops.
As a stone witness to the imperishable, the cathedral had defied all adversity for over 800 years, survived the conflagrations, siege of the Turks and the French wars, but in the last weeks of the Second World War St. Stephen was no longer spared the rage of annihilation. Contemporary witness Karl Strobl in those days observed "an old Viennese lady who wept over the burning cathedral".
The stunned spectators of destruction were joined, according to press reports, by a man in baggy trousers and a shabby hat, who incidentally remarked, "Well, we'll just have to rebuild him (the dome)." It was Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. Only a few weeks later, on May 15, 1945, the Viennese archbishop proclaimed to the faithful of his diocese: "Helping our cathedral, St. Stephen's Cathedral, to regain its original beauty is an affair of the heart of all Catholics, a duty of honor for all."
April 1945
In April 1945, not only St. Stephen's Cathedral burned. We did some research for you this month.
April 6: The tallest wooden structure of all time, the 190 meter high wooden tower (short-wave transmitter) of the transmitter Mühlacker, is blown up by the SS.
April 12: Following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the 33rd US President.
April 13: Vienna Operation: Soviet troops conquer Vienna.
April 25: Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer, member of the ABBA group, is born.
April 27: The provisional government Renner proclaims the Austrian declaration of independence.
April 30: The Red Army hoists the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building. Adolf Hitler, the dictator of the Third Reich, commits suicide with Eva Braun.
Brand im Stephansdom: Augenzeugen weinten angesichts der Verwüstung.
Trotz großer Not nach dem Krieg wurde das Wahrzeichen Österreichs binnen sieben Jahren wieder aufgebaut.
04. April 2015
Was vor 70 Jahren im Herzen Wiens passierte, trieb vielen entsetzten Bewohnern die Tränen in die Augen. Am 12. April 1945 stürzte die Pummerin, die größte Glocke des Stephansdoms, als Folge eines Dachbrandes in die Turmhalle herab und zerbrach. Tags darauf durchschlug eine einbrechende Stützmauer das Gewölbe des südlichen Seitenchors, das in den Dom eindringende Feuer zerstörte Chorgestühl und Chororgel, Kaiseroratorium und Lettnerkreuz. Der Stephansdom bot ein erbarmungswürdiges Bild sinnloser Zerstörung, und das fast am Ende jener Schreckenszeit, in der die Wiener nach jedem Bombenangriff bang fragten: "Steht der Steffl noch?"
100 Granaten für den Dom
Bereits am 10. April sollte der Dom dem Erdboden gleichgemacht werden. Als Vergeltung für das Hissen einer weißen Fahne auf dem Stephansdom ist der Dom mit einem Feuerschlag von 100 Granaten in Schutt und Asche zu legen. So lautete der wahnwitzige Befehl des Kommandanten einer SS-Artillerieabteilung im schon verlorenen Kampf um Wien gegen die Rote Armee.
Der aus Celle bei Hannover stammende Wehrmachtshauptmann Gerhard Klinkicht las die schriftlich übermittelte Anordnung seinen Soldaten vor und zerriss den Zettel vor aller Augen mit den Worten: "Nein, dieser Befehl wird nicht ausgeführt."
Was der SS nicht gelang, besorgten einen Tag später Plünderer: Zum wichtigsten Zeugen der Geschehnisse vom 11. bis 13. April wurde Domkurat Lothar Kodeischka (1905–1994), der als Sakristeidirektor von St. Stephan in diesen Tagen praktisch durchgehend an Ort und Stelle war. Als am 11. April Waffen-SS und Rote Armee einander am Donaukanal gegenüberstanden, war laut Kodeischka die Nachricht aufgetaucht, SS-Einheiten würden einen Gegenstoß über die Augartenbrücke unternehmen. Teile der sowjetischen Artillerie wurden daraufhin vom Stephansplatz abgezogen. Für Stunden sei der zentrale Bereich der Innenstadt ohne Besatzung gewesen. Dies nützten Banden von Plünderern, die Feuer in den heimgesuchten Geschäften legten.
Als steinerner Zeuge des Unvergänglichen hatte der Dom über 800 Jahre hinweg "allen Widrigkeiten getrotzt, hatte Feuersbrünste, Türkenbelagerungen und Franzosenkriege überstanden. Doch in den letzten Wochen des Zweiten Weltkrieges blieb auch St. Stephan nicht mehr verschont vor der Wut der Vernichtung. Zeitzeuge Karl Strobl beobachtete damals "eine alte Wienerin, die über den brennenden Dom weinte".
Zu den fassungslosen Betrachtern der Zerstörung gesellte sich laut Presseberichten ein Mann in ausgebeulten Hosen und mit abgeschabtem Hut, der so nebenbei bemerkte: "Na, wir werden ihn (den Dom) halt wieder aufbauen müssen." Es handelte sich um Kardinal Theodor Innitzer. Nur wenige Wochen danach, am 15. Mai 1945, ließ der Wiener Erzbischof an die Gläubigen seiner Diözese verlautbaren: "Unsere Kathedrale, den Stephansdom, wieder in seiner ursprünglichen Schönheit erstehen zu helfen, ist eine Herzenssache aller Katholiken, eine Ehrenpflicht aller."
April 1945
Im April 1945 brannte nicht nur der Stephansdom. Wir haben für Sie recherchiert wa noch in diesem Monat geschah.
6. April: Das höchste Holzbauwerk aller Zeiten, der 190 Meter hohe Holzsendeturm des Senders Mühlacker, wird von der SS gesprengt.
12. April: Nach dem Tod von Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt wird Harry S. Truman als 33. Präsident der USA vereidigt.
13. April: Wiener Operation: Sowjetischen Truppen erobern Wien.
25. April: Björn Ulvaeus, schwedischer Sänger, Mitglied der Gruppe ABBA, kommt zur Welt.
27. April: Von der provisorischen Regierung Renner wird die österreichische Unabhängigkeitserklärung proklamiert.
30. April: Die Rote Armee hisst die sowjetische Fahne auf dem Reichstagsgebäude. Adolf Hitler, der Diktator des Dritten Reiches, begeht mit Eva Braun Selbstmord.
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Claudia, executed by Joe Fafard, sits outside the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
The Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, MMFA), at 1380 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, was founded in 1860, making it Canada's oldest art institution. The museum is partitioned into three pavilions: the 1912 Beaux Arts building designed by William Sutherland Maxwell, now named the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, focuses specifically on Québécois history; the modernist Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion across the street, designed by Moshe Safdie, built in 1991, houses works of art from around the world; and the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion, focused on decorative arts. The museum is also converting the Erskine and American Church, built in 1894, into the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion for Canadian Art, doubling its floor space for Canadian artists.
Monument to Queen Victoria. 1906. Executed by Herbert Hampton and presented by Lord Ashton. Portland stone ashlar with bronze reliefs and statuary. The principal elements are a large square plinth, surrounded by bas-relief panels, and a tall pedestal on which stands a statue. The plinth, approx 7m square and mounted on 2 steps, is hollow-sided with rounded corners; its base is shaped as a seat with a hollowed back-rest. Beneath a prominent cornice, its sides are filled with large bas-reliefs portraying groups of eminent Victorians, framed by bronze pilasters, and its corners are occupied by exuberantly executed high-relief representations of Wisdom, Truth, Liberty and Justice, each with a seated woman surrounded by angels and putti. On top of the plinth, seated lions at the corners guard a tall tapered pedestal, on which stands the statue of the Queen, elderly but sternly regal; she is bearing a mace and facing the Town Hall (qv) on the south side of the Square. The south side of the pedestal bears an inscription in bronze lettering - 'VICTORIA 1837-1901' - beneath a roundel carved with the Royal Arms, and the north side has an inscription in similar lettering: 'GIVEN TO HIS NATIVE TOWN BY LORD ASHTON A.D. 1906'. EH Listing
Hugh Mortimer executed after the Battle of Wakefield 1460. He wears the yorkist collar. He was the son of John Mortimer d1415 Lord of the Manor of Kyre & Martley: and grandson of Roger Mortimer. The manors passed to his elder brother John who died a minor in 1420. Hugh inherited aged 7 and was under the guardianship of Roland Lenthall until his majority. He is thought to have been the builder of the church tower c1450.
Aged 41 he m Eleanor d1520 daughter of Sir Edmund Cornwall of Burford d1435 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8544972201/ by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas Barre by Alice daughter of Richard , 4th Baron Talbot d1396 and Ankaret le Strange, 7th Baroness Strange of Blackmere. (Sister of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7361308108/ )
Children
1 John dsp 1505 m Margaret daughter of John Nevile, Marquess of Montagu,
2. Elizabeth m Sir Thomas West 3rd Lord De la Warr
Thomas son of Elizabeth & Thomas sold the Kyre estates in 1520 to the half-brother of his mother John Croft,
The alabaster side of the table tomb, with angels holding shields, on which the effigy rested is now over the fireplace of the rectory great hall !
His widow Eleanor m2 Sir John Croft d1509 of Croft www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8980286632/ having 6 more children
Eleanor outlived both her children by Hugh. She died aged nearly 90 in 1520 and is buried in Croft church in a double effigy with her second husband, who died in 1509.
Last year CEA Project Logistics were employed to assist the Royal Thai Navy in the transportation and shipping of a USD multi-million Seahawk Helicopter.
This project was executed with the upmost efficiency with all parties involved being very happy with the outcome.
Such was the professionalism of the teams at CEA and the impression they gave, the Royal Thai Navy once again employed their service and assistance on a very similar project.For this project another Seahawk helicopter was to be transported and shipped to Australia for maintenance and repairs.
CEA teams, Royal Thai Navy personnel and representatives from the maintenance company convened at Utapao Airport in Rayong province Thailand to begin the project. As with all projects CEA conduct a tool box talk was given to the teams to explain the lift and rigging plan for the day. Rigging equipment was then prepared while another team set up a safe exclusion barricade for the operational activities.
Personnel from the Royal Thai Navy carefully moved the valuable cargo into position for the lift.Two Modular spreader bars were assembled with the required nylon slings attached, these were then attached to the waiting 55 T mobile crane. The slings and shackles were attached to the designated lift points on the Seahawk, with the fuselage of the helicopter being protected by use of sling pads. Chain blocks were used to make precise alterations to the lift to ensure that the helicopter lifted level.
As the helicopter rose form the ground a Drop-Deck Air Ride trailer was placed underneath, the Seahawk was lowered on to the trailer and secured in her slots. All slings and shackles were carefully removed and the rigging team went to action securely lashing down the helicopter readying her for the journey to CEA HQ in Laem Chabang.
Upon arrival at CEA the Seahawk was transported to one of their main warehouses and removed from the trailer. After all checks were complete a CEA Shrink Wrap team set to work enveloping the whole helicopter in an industrial grade shrink wrap that will protect the Seahawk from the corrosive effects the elements can produce during transportation.
The Aircraft was transported again on the Drop-Deck Air Ride Trailer to Laem Chabang Port where a Mafi Trailer was awaiting. Prior to loading the Mafi was thoroughly cleaned and sprayed with Cilsin 25 to negate any issues with Australian DAFF/AQIS authorities upon arrival. As the fore wheels were wider than the Mafi a steel plate extension was fabricated by the CEA team for a safe and secure load. The Aircraft was safely loaded onto the Mafi and professionally lashed by CEA under the close supervision of a 3rd party marine surveyor.
After she was loaded a tug master pushed the Mafi and aircraft into place on the RoRo vessel where it was safely secured for the transit to Australia. Hats off to the CEA team who once again handled another multi-million USD shipment without incident.
This piece is entitled "self portrait of ones entire life". I executed this piece with the a theory I developed that is called Dimensionalism . This theory has its inspiration form my experiences with pre-seizure events for I have epilepsy. In this state I become detached from reality and see time in a different construct,that of a hyper intensity. A hyper awareness of a moment and everything that constructs it from sounds,thoughts,things tactile . While in these pre seizure states, some instances time is slowed down/speed up or frozen. While in other instances I am forced away form all comprehension of what is in my present environment and reality takes on a totally foreign existence where all has to be re learned.
For the viewers of my piece all of life is in dimensions and how one moves through these dimensions of either large dimensional constructs such as ones life or to the minute dimensional construct of a simple word. Thus giving the viewer this new perspective of time and space. The suspended animation of the piece is only dynamic as the viewer views the piece from the narrower sides form either end where a visible play of time sequencing exists and ones eye is drawn into the piece...
A perspective of a Dimesionalist where one has a view of a moment with a gods eye/time traveler or a pure energy source . From looking at a simple word to a memory one has. All is captured in dimensions. There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time/moment.I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
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Efj.
There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time but deals more with dynamic movement .I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
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Efj.
Autumn Landscape Designed by Agnes Northrop for Tiffany Studios.
A tour de force of it medium, this window, executed late in Tiffany's career, portrays the late afternoon fun filtering through rich autumn foliage. It was probably designed by Northrop, who was known for her landscapers and flowers. No paint was used to add detail; rather, the modeling, texture, and form were created solely with glass, using the full range developed at Tiffany Studios. The Variegated surface was made by wrinkling glass in its molten state. Different color effects were archived by embedding tiny, confetti-like flakes of glass in the surface. Plating- superimposing of several layers of glass on the back of the window-added depth. Although commissioned in 1923 by Loren D. Towle for a stair landing of his enormous neo-Gothic mansion in Boston, the window was never installed. In 1925, Robert W. de Foresr, Tiffany's close friend donated the window to the Museum, where he was president and found of the American Wing
The magnificent complex was designed by San Francisco architects Bakewell and Brown as a "monumental reminder" of California's Spanish heritage. The Mission Revival styling reflects the colonial Spanish history of the state, and was intended to harmonize with the Spanish Colonial Revival Style buildings of the Exposition. The size and grandeur far surpassed anything the Santa Fe had ever built in the West. The new edifice featured a covered concourse some 650 feet (198.1 m) long by 106 feet (32.3 m) wide, with a main waiting room measuring 170 feet (52 m) by 55 feet (17 m). A 27-foot (8.2 m) by 650-foot (200 m)-long arcade connected the passenger terminal with the baggage and express rooms. The cost of the station was approximately $300,000. An enlarged bus depot was installed in the southeast portico in 1942.
The massive arch of the front entrance is flanked by twin campaniles, each topped by a colorful tile-covered dome and displaying Santa Fe's blue "cross" emblem on all four sides. The structure draws much more heavily from the architecturally distinctive Spanish, Moorish, and Mexican lines exhibited by the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (located in the town of Oceanside in north San Diego County) than it does from the nearby Mission San Diego de Alcalá, some nine miles (14 km) away. The grand interior space of the depot features natural redwood beam ceilings, highlighted by walls covered with a brightly colored ceramic tile wainscot. The glazed faience tile used in the wainscot was manufactured by the California China Products Company of nearby National City. Elaborate Hispano-Moorish designs are executed in green, yellow, blue, white, and black and the bottom and top edges are finished with a frieze of stylized ziggurats.
Wikipedia Quote
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Body of Dago Frank being carried to hearse
[1914 April]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows funeral of "Dago Frank" Cirofici, a New York City criminal convicted of murdering Herman Rosenthal, along with his associates Harry Horowitz "Gyp the Blood", Louis Rosenberg (Rosenweig) "Lefty Louis", and "Whitey" Lewis (Frank Seidenshner) on July 16, 1912. The four men were executed at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York on April 13, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15762
Call Number: LC-B2- 3025-8
Executed in the early 1630s during a particularly creative period in Molenaer’s career, this painting can be compared with one of a similarly mirthful violinist formerly in the Weldon Collection and sold Sotheby’s, New York, 22 April 2015, lot 1 (fig. 1). Unlike the ex-Weldon painting, the young violinist here pays no heed to the viewer, his upturned eyes conveying his emersion in his music. Such images of musicians making music were a specialty of Haarlem painters in the orbit of Frans Hals, with whom Molenaer studied, and highlight the contemporary Dutch interest in its making.
In Molenaer’s time, the violin would have been relatively new, having first appeared in Italy circa 1500 and would only arrive in the Netherlands around 1600. Enjoyed for its sophistication today, in the seventeenth century the instrument held rather more complicated associations. While contemporary musical theorists held that string instruments were, in general, superior to the flutes, recorders and other wind instruments played by the more uncouth segments of society, the violin tended to be played solo as an accompaniment to song or dance, with the violinist frequently unable to read sheet music. Molenaer may well have intended to convey the boy’s lower social status through an intriguing detail – the manner in which he holds his bow. He uses the French manner, his thumb under the bow’s hair, as opposed to the more sophisticated Italian grip, where the thumb is placed between the bow and hair. While the French manner enabled the musician to play with greater spontaneity, it prevented him from producing more subtle notes.
The boy’s clothing – his foppish feathered hat (traditionally associated with sixteenth-century Northern European mercenaries), brilliant red cloak and the gorget slung awkwardly around his neck – equally add to the comedic aspects of this painting. While artists like Rembrandt often employed military apparel to enhance their images, here Molenaer seems to play with their use, their inclusion deliberately defying their intended function and adding to the painting’s discordant, boisterous atmosphere.
A copy after this painting attributed by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot to Molenaer's wife, Judith Leyster, was offered Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 6 November 2001, lot 4, as Follower of Jan Miense Molenaer.
Source: Christie’s’ Lot Essay
This piece is entitled "self portrait of ones entire life". I executed this piece with the a theory I developed that is called Dimensionalism . This theory has its inspiration form my experiences with pre-seizure events for I have epilepsy. In this state I become detached from reality and see time in a different construct,that of a hyper intensity. A hyper awareness of a moment and everything that constructs it from sounds,thoughts,things tactile . While in these pre seizure states, some instances time is slowed down/speed up or frozen. While in other instances I am forced away form all comprehension of what is in my present environment and reality takes on a totally foreign existence where all has to be re learned.
For the viewers of my piece all of life is in dimensions and how one moves through these dimensions of either large dimensional constructs such as ones life or to the minute dimensional construct of a simple word. Thus giving the viewer this new perspective of time and space. The suspended animation of the piece is only dynamic as the viewer views the piece from the narrower sides form either end where a visible play of time sequencing exists and ones eye is drawn into the piece...
A perspective of a Dimesionalist where one has a view of a moment with a gods eye/time traveler or a pure energy source . From looking at a simple word to a memory one has. All is captured in dimensions. There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time/moment.I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
Dec 02nd, 2022 Aitken University Centre Fredericton New Brunswick - Annual Teddy Toss game. final UNB 4 vs UdeM 1
Hall totally loses it in the final minute of play andTeddys aren't the only ones to get tossed in this game ?
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Some relevant School news clippings,
Feb 24, 2022 - Wolfville, N.S. Acadia University. The Acadia University Professors strike enters its 4th week ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51901774104
Sept 30th 2022 - Acadia Axeman hockey at Andrew H. McCain Arena goes paperless ? The Official paper program is no longer handed out to the paying customer ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52395343477
January 22, 2024 - Canada sets two-year cap on foreign students. The cap will result in a decrease of 35% in approved study permits.
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68059996
Dec 14,2021 - Don't all of the members matter ? Discrimination shown against active Acadia Athletics outside community members during Covi. A posted official notice at Acadia reads : "The Acadia Athletics complex will be closed to community drop-ins, community memberships, and external rentals until further notice , However,, Acadia staff, faculty and students, with proof of double vaccination, will continue to access the fitness center, the pool and the arena for skating. "
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51748079885
International student fallout hits the bottom line.. Atlantic universities depend on international students for about 30 per cent of their enrollment.
universityaffairs.ca/news/international-student-fallout-h...
May 11th 2023 - A new policy has been announced at Acadia where almost half of seats for a new Course will be set aside and reserved only for members of certain racial or ethnic groups as specified by the University ? The PC Government announced that a new nursing program is to be offered at Acadia University where approximately 50 percent of the seats are reserved only for African, Mi'kmaq and Indigenous students. The total number of annual seats set to increase to 63 ? When bearing in mind the current health care worker crisis and an urgent need for nursing grads, is it really wise or responsible to install race or ethnic restrictions that could eliminate many of those wanting to apply ? www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia/newsroom/news-reader-page/ac...
Dec 27, 2021 - Playing the race card ? The Liberal Provincial Government could be on a slippery slope by choosing to use race to determine which applicants will get preferental treatment during a short supply emergency situation in an international health crisis ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51782360402/in/album-7...
The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission,
www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/affirmative-action-suprem...
Free University for some ? B.C. university waives tuition for local First Nation students,
bc.ctvnews.ca/that-s-reconciliation-b-c-university-waives...
Aug 2023 - A new physician assistant program at Dalhousie U open to 24 students per year with preference given to applicants from Nova Scotia, atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-invests-5-6-million-for-first-phy...
Oct 10, 2025 - R-Studio plays the race card ?
R-Studio, a local Halifax gym, executes an exclusive low price membership charge determined by what race you are ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsHpxm3yb7c&t=20s
June 11, 2025 - Maritime students struggling to find scarce summer jobs in Canada,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/mission-impossible-mariti...
Tim Horton's appears to use racial profiling in its hiring policies ? Why aren't the Liberals upset over this inequality ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54605482350/in/album-7...
Canada's Gen Z can't find jobs,, www.cbc.ca/news/business/youth-unemployment-rate-1.7549979
The Koncerned Kentvillian must ask, " why is it every time you gas up at Milne Court Petro-Can, New Minas Ultramar, KVille Ultramar and now the Big Stop, or go to the KFC for chicken, or Mary Browns, or the Burger King, or Subway, or all of the 3 Timmies for coffee, or Walmart, oe Needs, or receive a parcel from amazon, or attend the cash register post to pay a bill at many other stores, it feels like you're suddenly in a foreign country ? " What has happened to all of the friendly locals that used to hold these positions and were one of the main reasons that we all frequented these establishments ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54418705157/
Kody Bloise . Liberal Party
Is there an identity crisis looming in Kentville ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094330358/in/album-7...
Canada's post-secondary industry predicts storm ahead, as budget cuts shrink courses, staff,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-secondary-cuts-1.7387175
July 1, 2021 - the Prime Minister of Canada will not be celebrating Canada Day this year claiming that for some Canada Day isn't a day to celebrate." Wha-a-a-a-t -t-t ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1....
U of T Toronto, Jun 27, 2023 - " She Sung it her Way "
Jully Black makes up her own personalized and politicized, 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in her performance at Toronto university graduation. Black was asked to perform her way of singing Canada's national anthem to reflect the core values of the U of T law program ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada is sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg Manitoba,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
March 18, 2025 - Professors, students say Nova Scotia university bill threatens academic freedoms,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/professors-st...
March 4th, 2025 - Trump issues a ban on 'illegal' college protests as he threatens students with arrest and deportation,
www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics/trump-issues-ban-on-illegal-co...
April 9, 2025 - Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University, $790 million for Northwestern University ,,
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/cornell-northwestern-federal-fu...
Jan 20,2026 - Trump hates wind turbines ? ‘so pathetic and so bad .. You might notice that China makes and sells them but they will never use them .'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkHCSbSwkw
5th Mar 5th, 2025 - U.S. funding freeze affecting both American and international exchange students and major US scholarship funders
monitor.icef.com/2025/03/us-funding-freeze-affecting-both...
Trump protecting historic statues - enacts 10 years in jail penalty for harming or defacing historical statues,, www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-signs-executive-order-enactin...
February 10, 2025 - Acadia University announces permanent pool closure, discontinues varsity swim team - will close its swimming pool on June 15, 2025,
Students chose Acadia because of the swim team and many parents got calls “from their kids – in tears – devastated.”
Acadia Aquatics,
recreation.acadiau.ca/aquatics.html
How not to park at Hennigers farm Market Greenwich,
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54788130883
April 13, 2025 - Eight programs suspended at P.E.I. college over drop in international students,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/prince-edward-island/article/pei-...
Sept 13th, 2025 - Acadia Axemen and Dal Tigers hockey teams cross the Dal strikers picket line to play an Exhibition game at Dalhousie University ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54784598896/in/photost...
Town of Wolfville breaking the law, obstructing traffic, while creating a safety hazard ? And making trip to and from hockey games a real challenge ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54710009955/in/photost...
Sep 29, 2025 - Wolfville now studying ways to solve traffic congestion along Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville-nova-scotia-...
Gambling in amateur Sport ? CBC has introduced gambling into the Olympic games coverage ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC will include gambling in its live coverage of the 2024 Olympic games ?
Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and a Sports betting parlor that runs sports betting during Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by Olympic Games ?
Aug 22 2024, - While NHL heros past and present like Wayne Gretzky, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid can be found in TV gambling commercials, online gambling ads and huge billboards endorsing and promoting sports gambling, the Minister of hypocrisy, oops, I mean the Libral Minister of Health Mark Holland and his Government pass legislation to open up access to massive gambling in Canada ? But Holland seems to be more worried about Zonnic, a smoking cessation product that is currently sold only to those over 19 and always kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Holland attacks and bans the sale of Zonnic as he proclaims in a reherence to Zonnic, that "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over !"
Targeting our youngsters to gamble ? Fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes play starring roles in glamorous new bet MGM ads that promote gambling numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased away from this image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although McDavid's image itself was never seperated from the gambling vice or the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version now shows Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling when you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Are University student loans being gambled away ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54775209530/in/photost...
Targeting youth for gambling ! gambling ads - The aggressive marketing of a highly addictive social vice to sports fans both young and old ? www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/sports-betting-gambling-adver...
CBC news Sep 08, 2025 - Targeting young people to gamble ? Young people are being inundated with sports betting ads that doctors warn can be harmful . Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial calls for ads to be restricted during sports broadcasts,
www.cbc.ca/news/health/youth-sports-betting-advertisement...
Feb 4th 2025, Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning your Unionized Maritimes telephone workers, refusing to talk to them and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, mobile phones and Social media are taking a heavy toll on the mental health and overall mental well being of today's society ? And so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown by the giant media mogul Bell Canada who might just be the biggest contributor and profit taker from a national crisis ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51844732131/in/album-7...
This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
June 28,2021, O Canada at Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays unflattering version of National Anthem on World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to want to push, promote or publicize male gender hockey like AHL, ECHL, U Sports University level or Men's Junior hockey ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF men's World Juniors hockey tournament will be held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC, and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male gender Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC has ignored and failed to televise all IIHF Men's junior hockey games played on T.V. they have made sure to make daily news reports and give loads of air time focused on an alleged past scandal involving a previous men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
Justin says Goodbye Don't cry for me O my Canada.
Jan 06, 2025 - Trudeau resigns as prime minister, Prorogues Parliament until March 24 2025,
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54385355629/
Caste system Canada ? 2023 NDP caste system Leadership Convention - Is this really Canada ? It seems that the NDP Party has adopted a caste system ( like the system they use over in India ) ? Delegates here must wear caste identifiable yellow or white tags ? Master, Mistress, person or whatever of Ceremonies instructs those who declare themselves as white and male gender to get to the back of the line ? Other identities, or those with yellow tags can go to the front of the line and speak first ?
they play the race card ? Apr 3, 2026 - NDP Leadership Convention uses 'racial equity cards' to identify and categorize people by their race and color ? black and red before white after yellow or green etc, etc ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtHsUTBrt8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDV7ImXwTPI
2026 NDP Leadership Convention - Was Hitler's hairdresser here ? Some pretty weird stuff going on,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqhIBsaHzCg
Lost in Space________Episode # 1_______Death to Deniers !
Danger - Will Robinson, Danger !
These fine ladies want prison sentences handed down to individuals who dare to be themselves and to think differently while calling anyone with a different opinion from theirs to be a denier or hater ?
No one denies the existence of residential schools. And so why are Leah Gazan (NDP), Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP), Nahanni Fontaine (NDP) and Kimberley Murray (Liberal Government investigator) so dissatisfied and why are they trying to force their own radical and ego-driven personal viewpoints based on hearsay and as yet unproven allegations on everyone else ? Why do they want you to think the way they think, believe what they believe, and be forced ( by law ) to accept their unique, extreme left wing, selfish and self-serving narrative, (that they get paid for) as being Gods' truth, and,, if you were to dare resist then you are to be labelled hater or denier and become a criminal that could be sent to jail for up to life in prison under the law enshrined in Bill C-63 or C-9 that they are all pushing for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZU7NEzs3Gk
Sep 27, 2024 - Leah Gazan wants you think like her and be like her ?
NDP narcissistic MP Leah Gazan introduces her bill in Parliament where she wants to charge those who ‘deny’ her own and as yet unproven personal narratives of genocide and the discovery of 215 children' bodies being found in a well hidden mass grave in Kamloops, with a crime ? Her Bill C-413 will charge those who commit, what she calls promoting hate against Indigenous peoples by challenging, questioning, denying, or downplaying her theories, with committing a hate crime ?
www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-democrat-mp-introduces-bill...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant".
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - An entire generation of students that has grown up while attending the Canadian public school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) have reached post secondary age and are arriving at University in a heavily indoctrinated state of mind with extremely one-sided only, uni-opinion attitudes expressed in a coercive and even threatening way ? Violent gangs of young masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors, tribalism, mind control, far left radical activism and propaganda posters hanging in an Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth has become a crime was seen recently at the U of B.C. ? This might sound Orwellian, but actually it's the University of B.C. in Vancouver a Canadian institute of higher learning that gets over a billion dollars per year of public funding ? Frances Widdowson, "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsLPodE9R0
Ace CBC reporter Jordan Tucker ? In her interview assignment for CBC with Professor Widdowson, Jordan Tucker says that around 6000 child bodies have been found so far at first nation reservation schools, and that to her, the truth is not really a top priority ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ik61NGwXas&t=58s
Residential schools. After three years of searching for bodies and a massive cost to taxpayers of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains have been found ?
thecatholicherald.com/article/failure-to-find-bodies-ends...
U of Vic claims 215 but Frances and Dallas say Zero ?
What Is Truth ?
Dec 3rd 2025, Frances and Dallas visit the U of Vic in Victoria B.C. and discover a mass indoctrination of impressionable young minds ? Open free thinking and freedom of speech were discouraged here ? Asking questions that ruffle some feathers or challenge the status quo are not wanted on this campus ? Challenging what is taught here can get you abused or even carted off to jail ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53G5WBpVmc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRn8BzpvLc
May 28th, 2026 - If we believe massive untruths that are told then our democracies will collapse,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pd8-F2p0A&t=17s
Feb 24th, 2026 - Lethbridge, "You're not welcome here !" Welcome to the University of Lethbridge where manners are ignored, etiquette is absent, and where students use threats of bodily harm, chant ancient tribal war cries and bang out continuous monotone loud drumming noise to drown out the opposition during debate ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Moi7VM7xI
Apr 26th, 2026 - A whited sepulchre University set in the windy city of Lethbridge - Following yet another arrest and another trip in the paddy wagon, Frances Widdowson pleads with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to help re-enforce the basic rule of truth that is based on free and independent thinking in our public schools once again ? "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfPix14aMIc
UBC Jan 22,2026 - Counter viewpoint reporters attacked and have to run for their lives ?
UBC zombie apocalypse, Jan 22,2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIpTnyH_Zg
2021, Major Canadian Party leader Jagmeet Singh attacks his own Country calling it a genocidal nation ? Jag says that 215 bodies have been found in hidden unmarked mass graves in Kamloops and this clearly shows that Canada is a genocidal nation ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQb3GZx_ZR0
2021 - Dr. Timothy Rahilly, the President of Mt. Royal College - When learning of a story that unmarked graves may have been found at a Kamloops B.C. residential school the President has immediately turned on his University PA system to make the official announcment to the entire studeny body that 215 children have just been found buried in a mass unmarked grave at the Kamloops B.C. residential school and that a shaken, shameful and perhaps genicidal nation is now in mourning ? One of the senior teachers at his University has asked for evidence to support such a monumental and newly discovered allegation and he has fired her ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGhB3uNHwA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGhB3uNHwA
Mar 23,2026 - Mt. Royal College, " my spider sense is tingling "
Is Mt. Royal College in Calgary making the kids Crazy ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQNM063-lY
"What are they doing to our kids" ? Many Parents contribute for years into Registered Education Savings Plans that are to be turned over to Universities on behalf of their Children,
www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/education/education-sa...
Apr 29, 2026 - Vancouver School Board to introduce the Orwellian concept of 'unlearning' into their system ? They are also re-naming schools from their historical English names to instead Indigenous names that cannot be pronounced and use letters not found on a standard keyboard ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrC4GB4wURI
Vancouver March 12, 2026 - Have Liberal backroom land transfer deals with first nations already transpired as the Eby provincial NDP government pretended to look the other way ? The Indians may now own property rights in and around Vancouver ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2DqPzulos
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/musqueam-rights-r...
March 12, 2026 - treachury or treason ? B.C.'s Eby Government may have been giving Canada away while insulting veterans who fought to secure and retain the Country ? Led by Spencer Herbert it seems the NDP party in B.C. want to give Canada away without first asking Canadians for permission ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTzJWE86go
March 12, 2026 - What NDP Spencer Herbert is trying to do in B.C. was recently defeated in a fellow Province's Highest Court ? New Brunswick's supreme court ruled that Aboriginal Title Cannot Co-Exist with Fee Simple Title,, www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/01/new-brunswick-court-o...
2025 Election Overturned - Double crossers deny democracy in Canada ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/55228615842
March 09, 2026, Canada’s Bill C-3 "An Act to amend the Citizenship Act" - New Liberal legislation allows Canadian citizenship to be passed down over multiple generations back to as far as caveman days, and means many millions of unvetted individuals are now eligible to automatically be Canadian ? www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7120945
March 30, 2026, Millions of Americans now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’
www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/travel/canadian-citizenship-by-des...
March 14, 2026 - Completely contrary to Canada, the country of Italy has restricted Italian citizenship for anyone born abroad. Italy has enacted a ruling that tells millions with Italian roots that they have lost the right to their citizenship,
www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/italy-ruling-tells-millions-...
March 12, 2026 - Acadia University reducing staff levels amid ‘financial pressures’? 31 Acadia positions eliminated. University monetary chaos affecting not only the institutions but also the broader economy. Financial difficulties stem from capped international student enrollments, increased costs of high-end employment, and draconian funding cuts by provincial government. These have all led to job cuts, program reductions, and even campus closures. The financial strain on universities is expected to continue, with further announcements of layoffs and program cuts are likely to come soon. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/acadia-univer...
Mar 4th, 2026 - Canada grants $100 million in scholarships for students in India ? This comes on the heels of PM Carney's trip to India.
www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1VHElLBjsSwpz5-CK3P4SsNdrZmGdelS
feb 25, 2026 - Drastic University cuts implemented in latest Nova Scotia Provincial budget. Tim Houston's PC government is reducing funding for all Universities incl the PhD programs in education at Acadia,
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Grant-R...
February 26, 2026 - Vulnerable hard hit starving Nova Scotia university students who struggle daily with the high cost of living in Nova Scotia prepare for a week-long strike to protest the provincial education cut, the cuts to advanced education grants, and they are demanding tuition reductions and divestment from fossil fuel dollars,
globalnews.ca/video/11708934/n-s-university-students-prep...
March 15, 2026 - Dalhousie University students vote to join the Nova Scotia student strike, www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dalhousie-uni...
George Orwell's dark prediction has just come true.
London England, Apr 22,2026 - The British Parliament has just enacted legislation that will install a form of Orwellian Totalitarian rule into current democratic English society and allow for Government placement of specific social comtrol and restrictions in the form of mandatory lifetime probationary orders to be placed on certain citizens who will then be monitored for as long as they live to insure compliance is met on their personal probation orders from birth to death ? Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society are crusading in Canada for residents of his home country to be forced into this compulsory social control ? www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/uk-agrees-ban-on-cigarette-s...
Dec 13th, 2025 - this is a bit rich ? A doctor advertising smoking for the liquor store ? Dr. Robert Strang Chief Medical Officer of Health and top doctor for Nova Scotia is now appearing in TV ads that endorse the (safe) smoking of pot while representing the Provincially owned liquor stores ? It's also a bit rich that Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society do not appear to have a problem with this smoking ad ?
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4190201767960744
May 29th, 2026 Kentville Memorial Park, the ABF Friday night concert, ( Can the good ole days of dollar dogs and bargain Big 8 drinks be over) ? A high level of security to guard the 20 dollar burgers and kids bouncy castles ? ( must have taken up most of their budget at the sacrifice of bringing in some quality outside live entertainment) ? Town calls for outside police to assist the local Kentville force, cordons off the entire ground zero event perimeter with road blocks, street barricades and manned guard posts to establish a maximum level traffic control that unfortunately forces patrons including seniors, the handicapped, toddlers, and Mothers carrying babies to park and walk a fair distance to get to the park gates ? Also, in the past years this concert had always featured special outside guest rock bands, interesting games, demonstrations and displays, and a visit from the Queen Annapolisa Royal party following the prestigious coronation ceremony in Wolfville, However, the long running historic concert appears to have deteriorated into some kind of a Children's outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, inflatable air bouncy castles and a local band as the featured guest star main stage performing act ? Not much to do or see for those above the elementary grade school level other than to maybe purchase some food from a food truck charging upscale restaurant prices and then dine on a paper plate using plastic utensils while standing up in a crowd of unruly kids and being lustfully observed by some nearby hungry saliva drooling pet dogs leashed to their owners ? However, thanks to the heightened security and the crowd and traffic control there was a report of a parking violator being successfully apprehended and a runaway pet was also captured and returned to its owner ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
A cultural genocide is going on in Kentville ?
Why always Kentville ? Now it's the library ? First came the loss of the Railway and Day-liner service back in 1989, then Kings council expropriated the local Airport and evicted the many other established aviation schools and businesses, they had tried to take Grand street parade away from Kentville in 2017, and then we lost the famous Cornwallis Inn logo and the 88 yrs old statue in Halifax was torn down, they then terminated Apple Blossom Princess Kentville and ended the 87 consecutive years of the Queen Annapolisa pageant. Kentville lost a massive amount of diversity that had always been provided by the multiple villages that participated in the Festival, as well elimination of the Princess teas, the Coronation, and all of the popular mid-week public outdoor entertainment always normally held at Memorial Park during ABF week ? And now they are after the popular long time Kentville Library ?
After the Town has conducted termination after termination while not offering any similar replacement, and, as Kentville gradually approaches cultural ghost town status, we notice that the downtown business core (in which the Mayor has a major private business interest ) has been renovated and restored to pristine condition by way of a massive Town expenditure budgeted for a complete 100 % total beautification makeover program complete with new installations of street paving, street paint, new double sidewalks on both sides, new driveway entrances, new curb and gutter both sides, signage and flower pots ? And the other three surrounding streets making up this downtown business block have also been totally upgraded including Aberdeen Street (twice), Cornwallis Street and Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/annapolis-valley-libra...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/video/2026/06/02/funding-cuts-lea...
May 09, 2026 A cyberattack has hit universities worldwide, including top Canadian schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canvas-cyber-attack-canadian-unive...
CBC News · Posted: May 12, 2026 - the boys are falling behind the girls in school. A new Quebec report says boys are systemically disadvantaged in the school system ? The high school dropout rate for boys is 27.1 per cent, while for girls it's 19.9 per cent.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/boys-falling-behind-in-school-9.71...
An ongoing deterioration of the Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival in Kentville ? Bring back Eddies Basement to Memorial Park, and 'honey they shrunk the stage' ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/55295377420/in/photost...
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Some relevant main media news clippings,
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to be in a hurry to broadcast, promote or publicize male gender hockey like the AHL, ECHL, WHL, U Sports University level Men's hockey or the Canadian Men's Junior hockey ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF men's World Juniors hockey tournament will be held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC T.V. and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male gender Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC ignored and failed to televise all IIHF Men's junior hockey games played, they were certain to make daily news reports and give loads of air time that focused on an alleged past scandal involving a previous Men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
PWHL - CBC providing massive air time, full TV advertising, coast to coast live game broadcasts, player bios and a game each week that is complete with hosting and analysis,, "CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Professional Women's Hockey League". However, CBC has shown a completely different attitude when it comes to supporting or televising pro sporting events such as the Grey Cup, the Calgary Stampede, FIFA, Copa America international men's soccer football and men's IIHF World Juniors and so many Canadians were unable to watch male pro athletes like Acadia Axemen footballer Bailey Feltmate in the Grey Cup, or Nova Scotia's Jacob Shaffelburg in the Copa international Men's soccer tournament or Connor Badard in the IIHF World Men's Juniors hockey tournament ?
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
CBC T.V. doesn't seem eager to televise Men's soccer or Men's CFL pro football ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/album-7...
Jun 11, 2024 - CBC really pushing the new Women's Pro soccer league ? Halifax Tides - CBC sponsoring and providing media support and full game coverage for the brand new start-up Women's gender Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has just turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
This year the Canadian Taxpayer will pay out $1.4 billion dollars to subsidize CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Breathtaking salaries at CBC/Radio-Canada ? CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait had a base salary range of $390,300 to $459,100 in 2019 ? Why should someone who is actually a public servant whose salary is paid by taxpayers make more than the Prime Minister of Canada ? tnc.news/2022/01/26/cbc-salaries-include-125-senior-direc...
Apr 04, 2025 - Mark Carney pledges a $150M boost to the 'underfunded' CBC ? And says a new Liberal government will make CBC funding statutory ? Last year CBC received an all time record 1.4 billion in taxpayer funding and their CEO Catherine Tait, made more than the Prime Minister ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-cbc-funding-1.7501902
February 20th 2023 Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black makes headlines when changing the lyrics and singing her own personal 'our home on native land' politicized version of the Canadian National anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah ?
www.iheartradio.ca/news/jully-black-sings-o-canada-with-s...
Calgary Stampede O Canada - the original "in all thy Sons command" National anthem before they changed it sung at the 2023 Calgary Stampede, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53044391089
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada national anthem sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg Manitoba,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
July 2023 - Katherine Henderson is appointed to take over and thereby become the first female CEO and President of Hockey Canada ,
www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/katherine-henderson-hockey-canad...
No more hockey fighting : This league now plans to ban them dailyhive.com/vancouver/hockey-fights-ban-qmjhl
Skate Canada making history Dec 13, 2022 - Canada is to completely revolutionize traditional international Sport ? Canadian trail blazers led by President Karen Butcher push to change historic Ice dancing rules from the separate male and female gender roles ?
theprovince.com/sports/other-sports/skate-canada-redefine...
A Federal audit has found that Hockey Canada did not use public funds for legal settlements.
discoverhumboldIcom/articles/federal-audit-finds-hockey-...
NHL moves away from Pride jerseys - advocates are disappointed, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nhl-special-jersey-announcement-re...
Nov 20th, Grey Cup 2022 - Many Canadian households unable to watch the Toronto Argos win the 2022 Grey Cup game by a score of 24 to 23 because both CBC/Radio-Canada and the Bell media owned CTV did not (and never do) schedule or televise this iconic purely Canadian event for national T. V. viewing ? CBC had instead scheduled an unknown variety show being held in another coubtry for this Grey Cup Sunday night time slot ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/photost...
CBC quits Twitter when Twitter calls them, "a government-funded media" ?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media...
Apr 27th 2023 , Bill C-11 - A controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law. Bill C-11, which will force streaming platforms to contribute to funding Canadian content. Critics say the bill is too ambiguous, with many issues unresolved.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
Nov 11th, 2023 - The Liberal Government has ordered Canadian Military not to use or recite Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer at this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies ? No such order has been given to all the other religious denominations in the forces ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...
The Grey Cup Nov 19th 2023, Hamilton Canada - Why aren't either of the Canadian major media moguls CTV and CBC broadcasting the 2023 Grey Cup game on T.V. for Canadians to view on this Grey Cup Sunday in Canada ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53338415225
Dec 2023 - Merry Christmas, and a ho ho ho ? Have a very Merry Christmas Canada ? The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the federal Liberal Government) declares that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
Dec 31 2023 - Question to the CBC about this year's New Years Eve celebrations ? Do they now view New Years Eve as a public holiday that has become inappropriate to celebrate in Canada ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve 2024 Party, the stage show or the countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...
Bell Canada is a proud Canadian media mogul ? It's time for the Super Bowl LVIII in the USA and prior to the big game CTV has been flooding North American airways with Superbowl ads promoting full CTV coverage of the upcoming game in Las Vegas Nevada. They then broadcast 10 straight hours of prime time uninterrupted live T.V. coverage of the American sporting event to Canadians from the United States ? However, on the other hand, back home in their home country of Canada, they don't broadcast anything at all, nothing (zero) blanco, zilch, silencio, not even 1 minute of TV coverage of their own 2024 Canadian Grey Cup game for fellow Canadians to enjoy ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/datepos...
Bell media placing the citizens of Atlantic Canada in jeopardy after choosing cost cutting over public safety ?
Feb 2024 - Halifax Nova Scotia, Bell media and CTV have eliminated many of the crucial hours needed for local and community news reporting in Atlantic Canada ?
Recent Bell Canada Corporate decisions have left many Maritimers in a weakened and vulnerable position ? The East Coast Provinces of Canada appear to have been the target of severe Bell media local prime time news cancellations that will leave many Maritimers without their eagerly awaited crucial daily Noon hour news updates normally broadcast each and everyday during the week ? ATV viewers will now be forced to tune into the other station where CBC tends mainly to run world international news and a small select choice of Provincial news, and also lengthy live news conferences put on by the PM or other members of the Liberal party ?
Aside from terminating all weekday ATV Noon hour news shows, CTV has also downsized in half the very popular and iconic, 'ATV live at five' 5 P.M. local community news program, (prompting long time popular host Jason Baxter to seek early retirement) ? Adding to the devastating loss, Bell has also terminated all weekend Saturday and Sunday local news reports that currently run on ATV ? The cancellation and elimination of so much of the local news normally broadcast in Atlantic Canada will surely threaten the safety and security especially now that there will be a 24 hour local news blackout for 2 full days each and every weekend and as much as 3 consecutive days every holiday long weekend ? And so it seems that arch rival CBC has taken over the major share of prime time live local news programming in the Maritimes ? Meanwhile, Bell is blaming the Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash many prime time hours of local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
Halifax, Feb 1st 2024 - Bell Canada blames Liberal Government Bill C-18 for them having to slash many hours of critical local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritime area ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
the Junos 2024, Halifax, Mar 24th - CBC and the new Heritage Minister seem more interested in their politics than in Canadian music ? itsthe4thquarter.blogspot.com/2024/03/junos-2024-halifax-...
Angry Canadian - Canadian juno awards ? where ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNieEg-_d1k
Is this a Stanley Cup cruel joke ? Edmonton, June 2nd, 2024 ? Fans upset after CBC broadcasts the first 5 games of the Men's NHL Dallas vs Oilers series, and then, without warning and for no logical reason, CBC blacked out the critical and most important climactic final game that saw Edmonton win and gain entry into the Stanley Cup finals ? It remains unclear why CBC would do this ? Was it arrogance, or was it to be mean spirited, or was it a gender bias issue due to this being Men's pro hockey, or was it maybe a lesson given out to remind Canadians just who is running this Countries main media and who controls the programming ? www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=...
The Koncerned Kentvillian must ask, "What kind of a Country would ever show sad and upsetting images of itself when playing their National Anthem on the World stage in front of an international audience ?" www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874/
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to broadcast or sponsor men's soccer and will not televise the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy women's gender soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full television coverage to the Women's National team and the new Women's pro soccer league and soon to the new Women's pro basketball league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
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June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) - CBC doesn't appear to support men's football anymore, and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male gender university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans will be able to watch the graduating female gender athletes perform as CBC will provide cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, and the new Women's pro hockey league, and also the upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
Jun 11, 2024 - Mya Harnish (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) joins the Halifax Tides. CBC is to provide full media support and full coverage for the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans are now able to follow female gender University athletes like Mya Harnish when turning Pro ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
2024 Paris Olympics - CBC's Olympic coverage seems to favor the female gender when giving full game coverage to female team events while the male gender athletes receive only limited coverage with short clips from their events ?
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/olympic-games-paris-2024
Jul 25, the 2024 Paris Olympics - CBC airs the entire start to finish Women's team soccer games, the Women's beach-ball games, Women's rugby games, Women's basketball games, water polo and more ? Watch CBC live full game coverage of Womems team sports from St-Etienne, France heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
Gambling in amateur Sport ? CBC has introduced gambling into its Olympic games coverage ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC has introduced and included gambling in the Olympic games ?
Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of live Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and Sports betting parlor running sports betting during Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
Grey Cup Nov 17th 2024 - Everyone else is here, but where's CBC ?
Once again this year CBC has distanced itself from a long running nation uniting Canadian sports tradition and will not cover or live broadcast the Grey Cup game to Canadians ? However, CBC has instead covered a relatively unknown Women's tennis sports event named after the Battle of Sexes winner and Women in sports advocate Billie Jean King that is being held overseas ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54147303159/in/album-7...
October 27, 2024 - Demand for CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait to refund the Canadian taxpayers . Why should a civil servant who works for Trudeau make more than the Prime Minister that she works for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z1ZNza5Fk
Aug 22 2024, - While NHL heros past and present like Wayne Gretzky, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid can be found in TV gambling commercials, online gambling ads and huge billboards endorsing and promoting sports gambling, the Minister of hypocrisy, oops, I mean the Libral Minister of Health Mark Holland and his Government pass legislation to open up access to massive gambling in Canada ? But Holland seems to be more worried about Zonnic, a smoking cessation product that is currently sold only to those over 19 and always kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Holland attacks and bans the sale of Zonnic as he proclaims in a reherence to Zonnic, that "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over !" ?
Targeting our youngsters to gamble ? Fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes play starring roles in glamorous new bet MGM ads that promote gambling numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased away from this image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although McDavid's image itself was never seperated from the gambling vice or the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version now shows Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling when you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
March 30th Vancouver B.C. - Michael Bublé plugs his own private business products when hosting CBC's 2025 Juno Awards ? Is it appropriate for CBC to allow a salaried MC paid for by the taxpayer to take advantage of free advertising of his own personal outside businesses ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54607761592/in/album-7...
2025 Calgary Stampede- CBC's refusal to show the 2025 2026 Calgary Stampede on national T.V. ? CBC doesn't broadcast Calgary events including the Parade ? You'll have to subscribe to a specialty channel if you are interested in this famous Canadian standard ? www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/sports/watch-calgary-stam...
July 13th 2025 - Pro Rodeo and chuckwagon fans left out ? CBC Sports programming does not include this years fifty thousand dollar rodeo finals of the world famous Calgary Stampede ?
Jul 13, 2025 - Men's World Cup soccer us not broadcast on CBC T.V. ? FIFA Club World Cup Jun 15, 2025 – Jul 13, 2025 - Chelsea beats PSG 3-0 to win 2025 Club World Cup Coldplay and Trump and 81,000 attend the final but it is not scheduled for broadcast by CBC ?
apnews.com/live/psg-chelsea-club-world-cup-updates
May 18th, 2026 - CBC speak with forked tongue ? CBC lures unsuspecting RCMP members into a trap set by First Nations ? Ambushed by the CBC and First Nations, a music video ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvZX06xmslA
2025 Canadian Election - Democracy denied by double crossers ?
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CBC News · Posted: May 12, 2026 - Boys are falling behind the girls in school. New Quebec report says boys are systemically disadvantaged in the school system ? The high school dropout rate for boys is 27.1 per cent while for girls it's 19.9 per cent.
June 20th, 2026 following the firing of Don Cherry a few years back, CBC is now going to cancel the entire NHL Hockey night in Canada show after a 74 year Saturday night run ? Is CBC shifting its focus to women's gender sports ? Does CBC plan to move the current weekly broadcast of Womens's PWHL games on Saturday afternoon to the newly vacated Saturday evening time slot ?
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Destinee S. Stone executes a rear-hand punch Jan. 30 during a Marine Corps Martial Arts Program portion at the Jane Wayne day at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. This event taught the participants efficient ways to defend themselves. Stone is the wife of 2nd Lt. Hamilton A. Stone. Photo by Lance Cpl. Cedric R. Haller II
Donatello's Bronze David (1430) - This was the first nude statue executed since ancient times - Bargello - Florence (1/2) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
This group is modern and was executed by Pio Fedi, of Florence, in 1866. The group, with its four large figures, was produced out of a single block of marble, and, until the work was executed, the sculptor was exceedingly poor and comparatively unknown, but this achievement lifted him at once out of poverty and obscurity. This remarkable work was purchased by the city of Florence on condition that the artist would not reproduce the subject, and it was placed here in the Loggia with the works of some of the greatest of Italian sculptors. It represents a mythological subject, the forcible abduction of Polyxena by Achilles. The warrior, whose form is characterized by great strength and beauty, encircles the form of the maiden with his left arm, while his right is uplifted and in its hand is a sword with which he is about to strike down the mother, Hecuba, who, kneeling at his feet, implores his mercy while she clings piteously to her child and the betrayer. The entire group is exceedingly strong, not unworthy of the immortal company by which it is surrounded, and the powerful impression which it makes upon all beholders is intensified when one recalls the fact that, on the promontory of Sigeum - so the legend goes - where, after the fall of Troy, were buried the ashes of the hero-leader Achilles, and those of his friend Patroclus, Polyxena was offered as a propitiatory sacrifice. The group is instinct with vitality, passion and action, and seems more real and lifelike the oftener you behold it.
Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence Italy
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The Bridge and Cascade.
Grade I listed.
Cascade I Bridge and cascade. Designed with a single arch by Robert Adam in 1761. Redesigned, with three arches in 1764. Executed 1770- 1771. Ashlar. The bridge has three round-arched spans with moulded hoodmoulds. Fluted roundels in the spandrels. Projecting piers with apsed niches and moulded sill band. The tops of the piers with swags. Fluted frieze and dentil cornice. Balustraded parapet the balusters divided into three units per span. Cast iron balusters. Steep road approaches with the end walls curving outwards and downwards. End piers. Rubblestone cascade to east.
Listing NGR: SK3126840716
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335352
The Bridge by Robert Adam
Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a National Trust property.
The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo. At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
World War II
In 1939, Kedleston Hall was offered by Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale for use by the War Department.[1] Kedleston Hall provided various facilities during the period 1939–45 including its use as a mustering point and army training camp. It also formed one of the Y-stations used to gather Signals Intelligence via radio transmissions which, if encrypted, were subsequently passed to Bletchley Park for decryption.
National Trust
In the 1970s the estate was too expensive for the Curzon family to maintain. When Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale died, his cousin Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale offered the estate to the nation in lieu of death duties. A deal was agreed with the National Trust that it should take over Kedleston while still allowing the family to live rent-free in the 23-room Family Wing, which contained an adjoining garden and two rent-free flats for servants or other family members.
External design
The design of the three-floored house is of three blocks linked by two segmentally curved corridors. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are of smooth-dressed stone. The central, largest block contains the state rooms and was intended for use only when there were important guests in the house. The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation. Plans for two more pavilions (as the two smaller blocks are known) of identical size, and similar appearance were not executed. These further wings were intended to contain, in the south east a music room, and south west a conservatory and chapel. Externally these latter pavilions would have differed from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors only; a mezzanine was to have been disguised in the north of the music room block. The linking galleries here were also to contain larger windows, than on the north, and niches containing classical statuary.
If the great north front, approximately 107 metres in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by the massive, six-columned Corinthian portico, then the south front (illustrated right) is pure Robert Adam. It is divided into three distinct sets of bays; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch (based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase. Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief. The four Corinthian columns are topped by classical statues. This whole centre section of the facade is crowned by a low dome visible only from a distance. Flanking the central section are two identical wings on three floors, each three windows wide, the windows of the first-floor piano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
Gardens and grounds
The gardens and grounds, as they appear today, are largely the concept of Robert Adam. Adam was asked by Nathaniel Curzon in 1758 to "take in hand the deer park and pleasure grounds". The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence. It was during this period that the former gardens designed by Charles Bridgeman were swept away in favour of a more natural-looking landscape. Bridgeman's canals and geometric ponds were metamorphosed into serpentine lakes.
Adam designed numerous temples and follies, many of which were never built. Those that were include the North lodge (which takes the form of a triumphal arch), the entrance lodges in the village, a bridge, cascade and the Fishing Room. The Fishing Room is one of the most noticeable of the park's buildings. In the neoclassical style it is sited on the edge of the upper lake and contains a plunge pool and boat house below. Some of Adam's unexecuted design for follies in the park rivalled in grandeur the house itself. A "View Tower" designed in 1760 – 84 feet high and 50 feet wide on five floors, surmounted by a saucer dome flanked by the smaller domes of flanking towers — would have been a small neoclassical palace itself. Adam planned to transform even mundane utilitarian buildings into architectural wonders. A design for a pheasant house (a platform to provide a vantage point for the game shooting) became a domed temple, the roofs of its classical porticos providing the necessary platforms; this plan too was never completed. Among the statuary in the grounds is a Medici lion sculpture carved by Joseph Wilton on a pedestal designed by Samuel Wyatt, from around 1760-1770.
In the 1770s, George Richardson designed the hexagonal summerhouse, and in 1800 the orangery. The Long Walk was laid out in 1760 and planted with flowering shrubs and ornamental trees. In 1763, it was reported that Lord Scarsdale had given his gardener a seed from rare and scarce Italian shrub, the "Rodo Dendrone".
The gardens and grounds today, over two hundred years later, remain mostly unaltered. Parts of the estate are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, primarily because of the "rich and diverse deadwood invertebrate fauna" inhabiting its ancient trees.
Detail of the Baptistry Window, a masterpiece of abstract stained glass designed by John Piper and executed by Patrick Reyntiens.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of postwar optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
It is a common misconception that Coventry lost it's first cathedral in the wartime blitz, but the bombs actually destroyed it's second; the original medieval cathedral was the monastic St Mary's, a large cruciform building believed to have been similar in appearance to Lichfield Cathedral (whose diocese it shared). Tragically it became the only English cathedral to be destroyed during the Reformation, after which it was quickly quarried away, leaving only scant fragments, but enough evidence survives to indicate it's rich decoration (some pieces were displayed nearby in the Priory Visitors Centre, sadly since closed). Foundations of it's apse were found during the building of the new cathedral in the 1950s, thus technically three cathedrals share the same site.
The mainly 15th century St Michael's parish church became the seat of the new diocese of Coventry in 1918, and being one of the largest parish churches in the country it was upgraded to cathedral status without structural changes (unlike most 'parish church' cathedrals created in the early 20th century). It lasted in this role a mere 22 years before being burned to the ground in the 1940 Coventry Blitz, leaving only the outer walls and the magnificent tapering tower and spire (the extensive arcades and clerestoreys collapsed completely in the fire, precipitated by the roof reinforcement girders, installed in the Victorian restoration, that buckled in the intense heat).
The determination to rebuild the cathedral in some form was born on the day of the bombing, however it wasn't until the mid 1950s that a competition was held and Sir Basil Spence's design was chosen. Spence had been so moved by experiencing the ruined church he resolved to retain it entirely to serve as a forecourt to the new church. He envisaged the two being linked by a glass screen wall so that the old church would be visible from within the new.
Built between 1957-62 at a right-angle to the ruins, the new cathedral attracted controversy for it's modern form, and yet some modernists argued that it didn't go far enough, after all there are echoes of the Gothic style in the great stone-mullioned windows of the nave and the net vaulting (actually a free-standing canopy) within. What is exceptional is the way art has been used as such an integral part of the building, a watershed moment, revolutionising the concept of religious art in Britain.
Spence employed some of the biggest names in contemporary art to contribute their vision to his; the exterior is adorned with Jacob Epstein's triumphant bronze figures of Archangel Michael (patron of the cathedral) vanquishing the Devil. At the entrance is the remarkable glass wall, engraved by John Hutton with strikingly stylised figures of saints and angels, and allowing the interior of the new to communicate with the ruin. Inside, the great tapestry of Christ in majesty surrounded by the evangelistic creatures, draws the eye beyond the high altar; it was designed by Graham Sutherland and was the largest tapestry ever made.
However one of the greatest features of Coventry is it's wealth of modern stained glass, something Spence resolved to include having witnessed the bleakness of Chartres Cathedral in wartime, all it's stained glass having been removed. The first window encountered on entering is the enormous 'chess-board' baptistry window filled with stunning abstract glass by John Piper & Patrick Reyntiens, a symphony of glowing colour. The staggered nave walls are illuminated by ten narrow floor to ceiling windows filled with semi-abstract symbolic designs arranged in pairs of dominant colours (green, red, multi-coloured, purple/blue and gold) representing the souls journey to maturity, and revealed gradually as one approaches the altar. This amazing project was the work of three designers lead by master glass artist Lawrence Lee of the Royal College of Art along with Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke (each artist designed three of the windows individually and all collaborated on the last).
The cathedral still dazzles the visitor with the boldness of it's vision, but alas, half a century on, it was not a vision to be repeated and few of the churches and cathedrals built since can claim to have embraced the synthesis of art and architecture in the way Basil Spence did at Coventry.
The cathedral is generally open to visitors most days. For more see below:-
Detail of the Baptistry Window, a masterpiece of abstract stained glass designed by John Piper and executed by Patrick Reyntiens.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of postwar optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
It is a common misconception that Coventry lost it's first cathedral in the wartime blitz, but the bombs actually destroyed it's second; the original medieval cathedral was the monastic St Mary's, a large cruciform building believed to have been similar in appearance to Lichfield Cathedral (whose diocese it shared). Tragically it became the only English cathedral to be destroyed during the Reformation, after which it was quickly quarried away, leaving only scant fragments, but enough evidence survives to indicate it's rich decoration (some pieces were displayed nearby in the Priory Visitors Centre, sadly since closed). Foundations of it's apse were found during the building of the new cathedral in the 1950s, thus technically three cathedrals share the same site.
The mainly 15th century St Michael's parish church became the seat of the new diocese of Coventry in 1918, and being one of the largest parish churches in the country it was upgraded to cathedral status without structural changes (unlike most 'parish church' cathedrals created in the early 20th century). It lasted in this role a mere 22 years before being burned to the ground in the 1940 Coventry Blitz, leaving only the outer walls and the magnificent tapering tower and spire (the extensive arcades and clerestoreys collapsed completely in the fire, precipitated by the roof reinforcement girders, installed in the Victorian restoration, that buckled in the intense heat).
The determination to rebuild the cathedral in some form was born on the day of the bombing, however it wasn't until the mid 1950s that a competition was held and Sir Basil Spence's design was chosen. Spence had been so moved by experiencing the ruined church he resolved to retain it entirely to serve as a forecourt to the new church. He envisaged the two being linked by a glass screen wall so that the old church would be visible from within the new.
Built between 1957-62 at a right-angle to the ruins, the new cathedral attracted controversy for it's modern form, and yet some modernists argued that it didn't go far enough, after all there are echoes of the Gothic style in the great stone-mullioned windows of the nave and the net vaulting (actually a free-standing canopy) within. What is exceptional is the way art has been used as such an integral part of the building, a watershed moment, revolutionising the concept of religious art in Britain.
Spence employed some of the biggest names in contemporary art to contribute their vision to his; the exterior is adorned with Jacob Epstein's triumphant bronze figures of Archangel Michael (patron of the cathedral) vanquishing the Devil. At the entrance is the remarkable glass wall, engraved by John Hutton with strikingly stylised figures of saints and angels, and allowing the interior of the new to communicate with the ruin. Inside, the great tapestry of Christ in majesty surrounded by the evangelistic creatures, draws the eye beyond the high altar; it was designed by Graham Sutherland and was the largest tapestry ever made.
However one of the greatest features of Coventry is it's wealth of modern stained glass, something Spence resolved to include having witnessed the bleakness of Chartres Cathedral in wartime, all it's stained glass having been removed. The first window encountered on entering is the enormous 'chess-board' baptistry window filled with stunning abstract glass by John Piper & Patrick Reyntiens, a symphony of glowing colour. The staggered nave walls are illuminated by ten narrow floor to ceiling windows filled with semi-abstract symbolic designs arranged in pairs of dominant colours (green, red, multi-coloured, purple/blue and gold) representing the souls journey to maturity, and revealed gradually as one approaches the altar. This amazing project was the work of three designers lead by master glass artist Lawrence Lee of the Royal College of Art along with Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke (each artist designed three of the windows individually and all collaborated on the last).
The cathedral still dazzles the visitor with the boldness of it's vision, but alas, half a century on, it was not a vision to be repeated and few of the churches and cathedrals built since can claim to have embraced the synthesis of art and architecture in the way Basil Spence did at Coventry.
The cathedral is generally open to visitors most days. For more see below:-
Detail of the Baptistry Window, a masterpiece of abstract stained glass designed by John Piper and executed by Patrick Reyntiens.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of postwar optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
It is a common misconception that Coventry lost it's first cathedral in the wartime blitz, but the bombs actually destroyed it's second; the original medieval cathedral was the monastic St Mary's, a large cruciform building believed to have been similar in appearance to Lichfield Cathedral (whose diocese it shared). Tragically it became the only English cathedral to be destroyed during the Reformation, after which it was quickly quarried away, leaving only scant fragments, but enough evidence survives to indicate it's rich decoration (some pieces were displayed nearby in the Priory Visitors Centre, sadly since closed). Foundations of it's apse were found during the building of the new cathedral in the 1950s, thus technically three cathedrals share the same site.
The mainly 15th century St Michael's parish church became the seat of the new diocese of Coventry in 1918, and being one of the largest parish churches in the country it was upgraded to cathedral status without structural changes (unlike most 'parish church' cathedrals created in the early 20th century). It lasted in this role a mere 22 years before being burned to the ground in the 1940 Coventry Blitz, leaving only the outer walls and the magnificent tapering tower and spire (the extensive arcades and clerestoreys collapsed completely in the fire, precipitated by the roof reinforcement girders, installed in the Victorian restoration, that buckled in the intense heat).
The determination to rebuild the cathedral in some form was born on the day of the bombing, however it wasn't until the mid 1950s that a competition was held and Sir Basil Spence's design was chosen. Spence had been so moved by experiencing the ruined church he resolved to retain it entirely to serve as a forecourt to the new church. He envisaged the two being linked by a glass screen wall so that the old church would be visible from within the new.
Built between 1957-62 at a right-angle to the ruins, the new cathedral attracted controversy for it's modern form, and yet some modernists argued that it didn't go far enough, after all there are echoes of the Gothic style in the great stone-mullioned windows of the nave and the net vaulting (actually a free-standing canopy) within. What is exceptional is the way art has been used as such an integral part of the building, a watershed moment, revolutionising the concept of religious art in Britain.
Spence employed some of the biggest names in contemporary art to contribute their vision to his; the exterior is adorned with Jacob Epstein's triumphant bronze figures of Archangel Michael (patron of the cathedral) vanquishing the Devil. At the entrance is the remarkable glass wall, engraved by John Hutton with strikingly stylised figures of saints and angels, and allowing the interior of the new to communicate with the ruin. Inside, the great tapestry of Christ in majesty surrounded by the evangelistic creatures, draws the eye beyond the high altar; it was designed by Graham Sutherland and was the largest tapestry ever made.
However one of the greatest features of Coventry is it's wealth of modern stained glass, something Spence resolved to include having witnessed the bleakness of Chartres Cathedral in wartime, all it's stained glass having been removed. The first window encountered on entering is the enormous 'chess-board' baptistry window filled with stunning abstract glass by John Piper & Patrick Reyntiens, a symphony of glowing colour. The staggered nave walls are illuminated by ten narrow floor to ceiling windows filled with semi-abstract symbolic designs arranged in pairs of dominant colours (green, red, multi-coloured, purple/blue and gold) representing the souls journey to maturity, and revealed gradually as one approaches the altar. This amazing project was the work of three designers lead by master glass artist Lawrence Lee of the Royal College of Art along with Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke (each artist designed three of the windows individually and all collaborated on the last).
The cathedral still dazzles the visitor with the boldness of it's vision, but alas, half a century on, it was not a vision to be repeated and few of the churches and cathedrals built since can claim to have embraced the synthesis of art and architecture in the way Basil Spence did at Coventry.
The cathedral is generally open to visitors most days. For more see below:-
For executing the handmade collage were printed several A3 size boards (around 10) with the photos in different scales. This allowed us to have some flexibility by not having to go back to the original every time it needed to be scaled.
Tapestry: Chancellerie
Executed by Etienne-Claude Le Blond (French, about 1700 - 1751)
After designs by Guy-Louis Vernansal (French, 1648 - 1729)
and after designs by Claude Audran III (French, before 1658 - 1734)
Royal Factory of Furniture to the Crown at the Gobelins Manufactory (French, founded 1662 - present)
about 1728–1730
Medium: Wool and silk; modern linen straps and lining
Dimensions: 351.5 × 273.4 cm (138 3/8 × 107 5/8 in.)
Gift of J. Paul Getty
the Getty Center ● J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles
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Friday, April 28, 2023
The Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture Challenge is an annual entrepreneurship competition for Hofstra students administered by the Hofstra University Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with total prizes valued at $$76,500, made possible through the donation of a Hofstra Board Trustee and CEO of Digital Remedy, Mike Seiman. The competition is in its eleventh year at Hofstra University.
We are looking for business ideas that demonstrate scalability, the identification of a unique problem, and has a qualified team in place to execute the idea. The Challenge offers a great experience and is a resume builder for any career path.
Contact Sharon Goldsmith with questions: sharon.n.goldsmith@hofstra.edu.
April 28, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm
Location: ideaHUb (103 Guthart Hall)
Finalists
1K Industries–
1k Industries aims to make personalized wheelchair accessories that help bling out people’s wheelchairs. We design a product all wheelchair users can personalize to fit their chair and personality. We then create a unique software that makes the personalized product from user inputs. This design is then uploaded to a 3D printer for creation.
Founder: Peyton Tansey, Computer Science, ‘23
BoJo –
BoJo is a platform for high-school students and high-school counselors. On our platform students create profiles where they answer questions about their college preferences and their academic results. Based on that information students are matched with universities. The counselors get access to the profiles and matches of their students. With that information in hand, they can better guide their journey of finding a college.
Founders: Jonathan Mahrt Guyou, Computer Science, ‘23 & Bo Cautaerts, Accounting, ‘24
Bubble Green –
Bubble Green addresses the problem of environmental harm and plastic waste in delivery packaging by turning an invasive plant species, water hyacinth, into sustainable zero-waste packaging filler, offering businesses an eco-friendly alternative to plastic bubble wrap. This approach can have a positive social impact by helping to protect the environment and natural resources for future generations while promoting sustainable business practices.
Founders: Benjarat Tirasirichai, MS Marketing, ‘23, Chris Zhang, MBA, ‘23
CMS Biotechnologies –
CMS Biotechnologies is developing a novel technology to purify pharmaceutical compounds that can reduce adverse side effects from medications.
Founder: Arielle Gabalski, Zucker School of Medicine PhD, ‘24
COTA-
COTA’s music-based program is for individuals on the autism spectrum who struggle with social, communication, and behavioral challenges. The program is intended to encourage communicative behavior and interaction through leveraging music as an intervention source.
Founder: Michael Ford, Entrepreneurship, ‘23
Cozy Clip-
The Cozy Clip is an innovative hair accessory that combines comfort and style into one unique design. Our reformed claw clip is designed to lay flat and bend when leaned against, eliminating discomfort, and providing a more comfortable experience for the user.
Founder: Elena DiStefano, Public Relations, ‘23
LacunaFocus –
LacunaFocus is a Gmail optimization app designed to enhance email management for staff, faculty, and students offering a unique intelligent sorting system, summarization, and the ability to optimize emails. We offer a unique product tailored to university needs, cheaper prices, seamless integration, and game-changing features through the application of AI.
Founders: Yulia Erdyv, Computer Science, ‘25, Mykola Izbor, Computer Science, ‘23
Love Overdose-
Love Overdose is a pre-revenue e-commerce fashion brand that delivers luxury womenswear to the modern-day girl. We provide quality clothing, inclusive sizing, and creative designs with feminine silhouettes to women of color in the luxury market, an underserved demographic. We celebrate women and promote radical self-confidence through our branding and messaging.
Founders: Tiye Bradley, Accepted Student, Dance ‘25
Our Bloom –
OurBloom is a company devoted to providing accessible education on women’s health, guides to living intuitively with your menstrual cycle, and natural solutions to menstrual symptoms. We place a heavy emphasis on researching the needs of Women of Color, who have been underrepresented in the medical field.
Founders: Priya Singh, Finance, ‘23, Aydan Smith, International Business, ‘25, Anjalee Laikhram, Computer Science, ‘22
SoCircle
SoCircle recognizes hospitalized, bed-ridden, and recently discharged patients are often deprived of meaningful social connections and depression rates are rampant in this group. We aspire to provide a platform that streamlines social connection, private support groups, friendly AI-based chat therapy, personalized journaling, and a safe and private community for these patients to minimize the likelihood of them developing depression and to optimize their mental health to aid their recovery.
Founder: Bongseok Jung, Medicine, ‘25
Photo: Matteo Bracco
Broadgate House. 1953 Designed by Hugh R. Hosking and executed by Rene Antonietti of Geneva.
The Coventry Martyrs were a group of Lollard Christians executed for their beliefs in Coventry between 1512 – 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men).
Those martyred were -
Joan Ward (or Washingby). She was burnt at Coventry on 12 March 1512.
Master Archer (a shoemaker), Thomas Bond (a shoemaker), Master Hawkins (a shoemaker or skinner), Robert Hockett, or Hatchet, or Hatchets (a shoemaker or leather-dresser), Thomas Lansdail or Lansdale (a hosier) and Master Wrigsham (a glover) were all burned on 4 April 1520.
A widow, Mistress Smith, was due to be discharged when a document was discovered in her sleeve, containing (in English) the Lord’s Prayer, Ten Commandments and Apostles' Creed. For this, she was immediately condemned and burnt with the others.
Robert Silkeby (or Silkby or Silkesby) was burnt on 13 January 1522.
The three martyrs burnt during the reign of Mary Tudor were-
Laurence Saunders burnt in the city on 8 February 1555.
Robert Glover burnt in Coventry on 20 September 1555.
Cornelius Bongey, or Bungey, was a tradesman (hatmaker), and was executed on the same day as Glover.
363 Broome Street, Little Italy, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Fire Engine Company 55 is a richly ornamented, mid-block firehouse, erected in 1898- 99. It was the prominent New York architect R. H. Robertsonís only commission for the New York City Fire Department and one of the first firehouses completed following the consolidation of Greater New York. Built to replace an earlier facility located at 173 Elm Street (now Lafayette Street), the new structure was among several civic improvements planned and executed in the "Little Italy" neighborhood at the turn of the century.
The brick and limestone facade is characteristic of Robertsonís late work, reflecting both the Romanesque Revival style popular during the 1880s and the Beaux-Arts style which dominated American architecture from the 1890s on. With a monumental arch that serves as the apparatus bay, a company banner carved in stone, as well as a pair of oval windows draped with garlands, Fire Engine Company 55 stands out as a distinguished example of late nineteenth-century civic architecture, having continuously served its community for nearly one hundred years.
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS
The Fire Department of the City of New York
From its first days as a Dutch colony to the end of the Civil War, New York City relied on teams of unpaid volunteers to extinguish fires. While under Dutch rule all men were expected to participate, under the British a force of thirty volunteers was organized by the General Assembly of the Colony in 1737 to operate two Newsham hand pumpers that had been recently imported from London. After the American Revolution, a few tentative steps were taken to give firefighting a more professional character. Authorized by the New York State Legislature in 1798, the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York was placed under the supervision of a paid engineer and six subordinates.
Over the next half century, New York grew and so did the number of volunteer fire-fighters, which increased from 600 men in 1800 to more than 4,000 by 1860. Those who served benefited from their association with the department; not only were firemen admired for their heroism, but participation was often used as a stepping-stone in political careers, including that of seven New York City mayors elected after 1835. Despite rapid growth, the department was frequently criticized for poor performance. Public disapproval was especially strong during the Civil War, a period when many volunteers resigned to serve in the Union Army, leaving the department without sufficient personnel. Under such circumstances, support grew for creating a professional force ó like that of the police, established in 1845. Advocates maintained, based on recent experience in Albany, Boston, Buffalo, and other American cities, that a paid department would prove more reliable, and be better equipped to protect city residents.
In May 1865, the New York State Legislature established the Metropolitan Fire District, comprising the cities of New York (south of 86th Street) and Brooklyn. The act abolished the volunteer system and created the Metropolitan Fire Department under the jurisdiction of the state government. The lawís impact was immediate. With numerous firehouse closings and the forced retirement of thousands of volunteers, only 500 salaried firefighters remained on duty by the end of the year.
Under General Alexander T. Shaler, who served as President of the Board of Fire Commissioners between 1867 and 1870, further changes were initiated. A former volunteer and decorated Civil W ar general, he reorganized the department
"according to a military model in which specialization, discipline, and merit were encouraged by a system of daily advisory orders, trials for disobedience, and ranks." Despite the Metropolitan Fire Departmentís generally excellent record, with a steady decline in annual property losses, the City sought and regained control of the department and other municipal services under the Charter of 1870 (commonly known as the "Tweed Charter").
During the following decade there was increasing pressure to expand and improve fire protection. Not only did the city nearly double in size with the annexation of the western portion of the Bronx in 1874, but the increased height of many recently constructed buildings created new challenges for firefighters. In response, public funds were allocated to upgrade the departmentís equipment and training ó a new fire alarm telegraph was purchased, as well as gas floodlights, taller ladders, and steam engines with increased pumping pressure.
Firehouse Design
During the eighteenth century, firehouses were simple wood-frame buildings, large enough to accommodate a single firefighting apparatus and little more. These sheds were small and inconspicuous, designed by local carpenters. The earliest examples, built to store two Newham pumpers in the late 1730s, stood behind the City Hall on Kip Street (now Nassau Street). As the number of volunteer companies multiplied, so did the number of firehouses which reached a total of fifty-five by 1823. By the 1850s two major innovations were adopted by the department -- the use of larger, horse-drawn steam-powered engines, and the inclusion of sleeping facilities. Among the engine houses that reflected this change, the best known was the Americus, or "Big 6," Engine Company, where William Marcy "Boss" Tweed was elected foreman in the early 1850s. Completed in 1854, the elaborate brownstone firehouse featured a dormitory and meeting rooms as part of a reputed effort to improve attendance and response time by volunteers.
Although the well-appointed interiors were criticized for their club-like atmosphere, the general plan adopted in the Americus Company firehouse became the norm. Under the architect Napoleon LeBrun, who designed nearly all department structures between 1879 and 1894, engine house plans became more or less standardized. Most were two- or three-story structures built on narrow side street lots and clad in stone, brick, and terra cotta. The plan of the ground floor was generally arranged as follows: horse stalls and feed storage were located at the rear of the building, while the firefighting apparatus was stored close to the street. On the floors above were various spaces for the uniformed men, including a bunkroom, bathroom, kitchen, storage, and offices. While firefighting technology would continue to evolve over the next century, this basic program remains in use today.
The 1890s proved to be a particularly significant decade in terms of firehouse design. This was an era of bold experimentation, when the department gave commissions to a number of rival firms, each working in the Classical or Renaissance Revival style. They included Hoppin & Koen (Fire Engine Company 65, 33 West 43rd Street, 1897-98, a designated New York City Landmark), Flagg & Chambers (Fire Engine Company 33, 44 Great Jones Street, 1898-99, a designated New York City Landmark), Horgan & Slattery (Fire Engine Company 73, 655 Prospect Avenue, Bronx, 1899- 1900), as well as R. H. Robertson, the architect of Fire Engine Company 55. For Flagg & Chambers and Robertson, these would be their only Fire Department commissions, but for Hoppin & Koen, Horgan & Slattery, as well as Alexander H. Stevens, this was the beginning of a long and productive relationship with the recently consolidated department.
The 14th Ward ó Little Italy
For more than a century, the area encompassed by what was the 14th Ward has been called "Little Italy," a neighborhood with borders extending from the Bowery to Broadway and from Canal Street to Houston Street. As in the section to the west, residential development began in the first years of the nineteenth century when the areaís uneven terrain was graded and the streets laid in a rectangular grid. During the decade that followed, a highly desirable residential quarter developed, attracting such prominent New Yorkers as Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839), who constructed a two- story Federal-style house (c. 1816, a designated New York City Landmark) at the northwest corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets while serving as commissioner of the Erie Canal project. Representative of the districtís fashionable character during this period are two extant structures, St. Patrickís Old Cathedral (Joseph-Fran5ois Mangin, 1809-15, a designated New York City Landmark) on Mott Street near Prince Street, and the Odd Fellows Hall (Trench & Snook, 1847-48, a designated New York City Landmark) at Grand and Centre Streets.
By mid-century, many of the neighborhoodís well-to-do families had begun to abandon the neighborhood, to be replaced by working class Irish, Jews, and other immigrant groups. After the Civil War, the wardís Italian population increased dramatically, reaching 110,000 residents by 1920. While the blocks surrounding Engine Company 55 were by no means the cityís largest Italian community, it was probably the best known due to its population density, its colorful street festivals, and its proximity to the Mulberry Street and later Centre Street headquarters of the New York Police Department.
During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, social critics and reformers often focused their efforts on the impoverished residential blocks east of Centre Street. Though at the time the southern end of Mulberry Street, especially between Park and Baxter Streets, received the most attention, the photo-journalist Jacob Riis in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives observed that "Little Italy already rivals its parent, the íBend,í in foulness.î Frank Mossís 1897 guide to New York City expressed a similar view, declaring Elizabeth Street "a famous thoroughfare of vice." In response to the conditions found here, many institutions to aid the immigrant population were established, such as the Childrenís Aid Society of New York at Hester and Elizabeth Streets, the Fourteenth Ward Industrial School (Vaux & Radford, 1888-89, a designated New York City Landmark) built by the Childrenís Aid Society on Mott Street, the Centre Market Peopleís Baths" (1890, demolished) between Grand and Broome Streets, as well as numerous schools and churches.
Fire Engine Company 55
In the decade following the consolidation of Greater New York many civic structures were built throughout the five boroughs, particularly public libraries, police stations, and firehouses. Not surprisingly, a large number of public projects were planned and completed in the 14th Ward. Fire Engine Company 55 was organized on June 4, 1887, at 173 Elm Street (later 185 Lafayette Street). While the neighborhood already had two firehouses, Fire Engine Company 9 at 47 Marion Street (now Lafayette Street) and Hook & Ladder 18 at 195 Elizabeth Street, the new company was probably established to provide fire protection for the new loft buildings rising along Elm and Centre Streets.
In 1896 the widening of Elm Street necessitated the relocation of Fire Engine Company 55. To secure the new site, bonds for $18,000 were issued by the City. Initially, a lot at 167 Mulberry Street, near the corner of Broome Street, was chosen; however, on July 1, 1898, the Board of Fire Commissioners convinced the Board of Estimate to the transfer the funds to acquire the present Broome Street site.' No explanation was given. As a crosstown thoroughfare more than thirty-five feet wide, Broome Street would have been more convenient for the movement of company vehicles. Acquired by condemnation, the new site was on the south side of the street, located between a row of three-story brownstone houses to the west and a five-story brick structure to the east.
On July 13, 1898, the architect R. H. Robertson submitted his plans to the Department of Buildings. The estimated cost for the "Fire Engine House" and "one-story out building" to store feed for horses, was $25,000, exclusive of lot. The brick and Indiana limestone facade was to rise forty-eight feet to a mansard roof faced with copper tile, and a hose tower extending an additional eight feet. Steel beams were used to support the first and second stories, and the ground floor interiors featured Guastavino arches and glazed brick wall tiles. These designs were approved, with amendments, on August 8, 1898. Construction began soon after and was completed eight months later in March 1899. Service from the new location was inaugurated on June 6, 1899. The company was staffed by sixteen firemen and four horses (two for the steam engine and two for the four-wheel hose wagon). In 1903 there were 319 alarms, and in 96 cases firefighters performed duty. For nearly one hundred years, this structure has served the Little Italy community as the home of Engine Company 55.
R.H. Robertson. Architect
Robert Henderson Robertson was born in Philadelphia in 1849. After graduating from Rutgers College in 1869, he worked briefly in the offices of two architects, Henry Sims of Philadelphia, and later, George B. Post of New York City. Success came quickly to Robertson who established his own firm in 1871, and became a partner of William A. Potter (1842-1909) in 1875. Although their partnership lasted less than five years, the firm designed thirty-four projects, including a library at Brown University, as well as churches and private residences in the Queen Anne and Victorian Gothic styles. In addition, they collaborated on entries for two major architectural competitions, submitting designs for New Yorkís Metropolitan Opera House in 1880 and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892.
During the 1880s Robertson produced a large and varied body of work, including institutional structures, city and country houses, as well as numerous churches in New York City. Many of these designs suggest the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson, the much-celebrated Boston architect known for his bold interpretations of the Romanesque style. While during this period many architects owed a considerable debt to Richardson, the architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler praised Robertson for taking "up the Romanesque in his own way.î This persistent individuality is expressed in many of his designs, particularly in the bold massing of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church (1884, demolished) at East 66th Street, St. Lukesís Episcopal Church (1892-95, Hamilton Heights Historic District) at the northeast corner of 141st Street and Convent Avenue, and in his later experiments with neo-classical elements beginning in the 1890s.
Robertson is also admired for his contributions to early skyscraper design. For instance, in the Lincoln Building (1889-90, a designated New York City Landmark) at 1 Union Square, he demonstrated how Romanesque and Renaissance-inspired motifs could be combined on the exterior of a tall building. Like many architects of this generation, he employed the base-shaft-capital formula, a feature that remained standard for several decades. Other skyscrapers by Robertson include the Com Exchange Bank (1893-94, demolished) at Beaver and William Streets, the American Tract Society Building (1894-95), southeast corner of Spruce and Nassau Streets, and the thirty-story-tall, Park Row Building (1896-99) which held the title as the worldís tallest building until 1908.
Robertson was an extremely prolific architect, producing designs for a diverse clientele, including religious groups, banks, clubs, as well as private individuals. Like many of his contemporaries, he adopted the architectural vocabulary popularized by the buildings constructed for the Worldís Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893-94). At this time he gave up the richly-colored palette found in his earlier works, producing light-colored designs clad in glazed brick and limestone. Nevertheless, the classicizing work he produced was particularly robust, frequently incorporating powerful juxtapositions of form, bold decorative treatments, and a variety of picturesque details. Buildings that exemplify this approach include the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (1895-97, a designated New York City Landmark) at 86th Street and West End Avenue, and Fire Engine Company 55, the subject of this designation report.
Robertson received the commission to design Engine Company 55 at the height of career. Not only did he have a number of significant projects under construction in New York at the time, but in December 1896 Schuyler published a thirty-five page assessment of his built work in the Architectural Record.ô Although he expressed some significant reservations about Robertsonís production, he also praised the architectís boldness and lack of care for "academical correctness." The firehouse that resulted is characteristic of Robertsonís best work, combining features and forms from various stylistic sources into a single composition.
Robertsonís mid-block design stood out sharply from its modest brick and brownstone neighbors in the 14th Ward. Of particular note is the sculpted banner that appears draped above the apparatus bay. Like the corner entrance bays he designed for the Corn Exchange Bank of 1893-94, this feature identifies the engine company while giving the facade a festive and celebratory character. Overall, the effect created is heavy and dense, with a substantial amount of three-dimensional detail employed at the center of the composition. Furthermore, each floor had its own thickly embellished decoration.
While the ground and third floors were mostly classical in their inspiration, the triple-arched windows on the second story are best described as a synthesis of Beaux-Arts and Romanesque Revival forms. Unlike many of his contemporaries who enthusiastically embraced the Beaux-Arts style in the 1890s, Engine Company 55 demonstrates Robertsonís independent character, fashioning a design that was unique while still of its time.
Description
Fire Engine Company 55 is a three-story structure that occupies a 24 by 103 foot lot on the south side of Broome Street between Elizabeth and Mott Streets. The facade is faced in red brick and limestone. At the center of the ground floor is the arched vehicular entrance with a decorative wrought- iron grill inset above the stringing line. The non- historic roll-down door, painted red, has four horizontal windows. The pedestrian entrance, to the east, has a glazed transom. The door is painted red, although much of it is obscured by a metal sign.
To the west of the vehicular entrance is the house watch, marked by a double-hung window with transom. In the lower half an air-conditioning unit has been installed. Above the pedestrian entrance and the house watch window are single oval windows framed by wreaths and elaborate garland detailing carved in stone.
The oval sash is made of wood painted red. Between the top of the arch that marks the vehicular entrance and the second-story cornice a billowing banner is depicted in stone. The text reads: "55 ENGINE 55." This low relief appears to cover a projecting keystone that links the arch with the cornice above.
Numerous changes have been made to the ground floor, including the application of red and blue paint (post 1975) on the rusticated walls and on the banner. Although the red paint nearly reaches the bottom edge of the oval windows near the top of the ground floor, the keystones have been left unpainted. Likewise, attached to the facade are glass and metal lighting fixtures to the right and left of the vehicular entrance, an alarm box to the upper right of the pedestrian entrance, as well as four halogen lamps (two large, two small) linked by metal tubing attached just below the cornice. These fixtures are directed toward the street.
The second floor has three intersecting stone arches, surrounded by brick. The central arch, which is aligned directly above the vehicular entrance and is slightly shorter and less wide than its neighbors, frames a bronze plaque, set between Corinthian pilasters. Perched immediately above the pediment is a tan-colored phoenix seated in flames, probably made of terra cotta, with its head turned to the right and depicted in profile. The plaque is set in an elaborate stone frame with a broken pediment. It bears the following text:
1898
JOHN J. SCANNELL FIRE COMMISSIONER
HUGH BONNER CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT
R. H. ROBERTSON ARCHITECT
A continuous egg-and-dart molding links the three arches. Where they intersect, directly above the Corinthian pilasters, are a pair of swirling rosettes.
- From the 1998 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Ugolino and His Sons, modeled ca. 1860–61, executed in marble 1865–67
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)
Saint-Béat marble
Signed (incised in script at right front facet of base): Jbte Carpeaux./Rome 1860; (incised at right end facet of base) JBTE CARPEAUX ROMA 1860
Dante's Divine Comedy has always enjoyed favor in the plastic arts. Ugolino, the character that galvanized peoples' fantasies and fears during the second half of the nineteenth century, appears in Canto 33 of the Inferno. This intensely Romantic sculpture derives from the passage in which Dante describes the imprisonment in 1288 and subsequent death by starvation of the Pisan count Ugolino della Gherardesca and his offspring. Carpeaux depicts the moment when Ugolino, condemned to die of starvation, yields to the temptation to devour his children and grandchildren, who cry out to him:
But when to our somber cell was thrown
A slender ray, and each face was lit
I saw in each the aspect of my own,
For very grief both of my hands I bit,
And suddenly from the floor arising they,
Thinking my hunger was the cause of it,
Exclaimed: Father eat thou of us, and stay
Our suffering: thou didst our being dress
In this sad flesh; now strip it all away.
Carpeaux's visionary composition reflects his reverence for Michelangelo, as well as his own painstaking concern with anatomical realism. Ugolino and His Sons was completed in plaster in 1861, the last year of his residence at the French Academy in Rome. A sensation in Rome, it brought Carpeaux many commissions. Upon his return to France, Ugolino was cast in bronze at the order of the French Ministry of Fine Arts and exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1863. Later it was moved to the gardens of the Tuilieries, where it was displayed as a pendant to a bronze of the Laocoön. This marble version was executed by the practitioner Bernard under Carpeaux's supervision and completed in time for the Universal Exposition at Paris in 1867. The date inscribed on the marble refers to the original plaster model's completion.
Text from www.metmuseum.org
The Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg (St. Sebald)
The Sebalduskirche is, in addition to St. Lawrence one of the two large main churches of Nuremberg. It is located not far from the Main market in the northern half of the old town. The most important work of art in the church is the Sebaldus sepulchre - by Peter Vischer the Elder and two sons over several years created (about 1509-19). In addition to works of the great Nuremberg sculptors Veit Stoss and Adam Kraft, there also can be found executed designs by Albrecht Dürer for "his parish church".
The foundation of the mother church of St. Sebald by the legendary hermit Sebald probably occurred in the period around 1050/60. It was the Peter and Paul church in today's district of Fürth-Poppenreuth. The Holy Sebald (canonization on March 26, 1425 by Pope Martin V) died around 1070. According to one of the traditions, the team of oxen in the transfer of his body stood still where now the towers of Sebaldus church overtop the roofs of the Old Town of Sebald. Therefore, was built then at this point the Peter chapel. Another theory suggests that Sebald had built the chapel in 1050 himself. After the death of Sebald were reported at his grave from 1070 on miracle cures. The subsequently setting in pilgrimages triggered the renaming of the church in St. Sebald.
The Peter chapel was replaced in the years 1230-40 by the construction of a late Romanesque pillar basilica. The consecration of St. Peter's Choir (September 9, 1274) suggests a completion of construction in the years 1274/75.
The extension of the aisles and the heightening of the towers in high Gotic style took place 1309-45, followed was this by the construction of the late Gothic hall choir in the years 1358-79. Installation of the galleries and a baroquisation of the equipment were carried out in middle of the 17th century.
After the renaturation by the conservationist, painter and architect Karl Alexander Heideloff, followed in the years 1888-1906 an extensive restoration under the leadership of architect Josef (Joseph?) Schmitz.
The 1237 completed Bamberg Cathedral was probably the model for the Doppelchörigkeit (consisting of two chancels) of Sebaldus church.
All roofs, the chancel arch and the towers of the church were largely destroyed during World War II. The reconstruction, under the direction of architect William Schlegtendal, lasted very long, and in some partial areas is still going on. The main works in the interior and exterior have been completed in 1957, the repair of the western gallery with the angel choir even lasted until 30 years after the war (1976-77).
Fritz Nadler writes after the first air raid on October 3, 1944 in his diary (I saw as Nuremberg was going down): "Now I'm standing in the middle of the greatest chaos. At Albrecht-Dürer square. The prince of painting made of ore with patched jacket stands intact on a marbled base. (...) He looks to the parsonage of St. Sebald in which he once along with Pfinzing illustrated the "Theuerdank (The Heroic Life of Sir Theuerdank)". The vicarage remained intact, together with the precious very small Pfinzing choir. Not a stick of noble relief representation of Mary's life is in the least bruised. The suction of the bomb has dealt graciously with the Blessed mother."
After the heavy air raids on 02 January 1945, Fritz Nadler describes the following day the sinister picture of Sebalduskirche: "Today the once fine-looking massive structure looks miserable. It is like a skeleton. The massive roof construction mostly fell down. From the still above hanging, reduced into fragments heavy beams rise pale-gray whisps of smoke. A proof that the fire continues to smolder. Every day, crashes new roof woodwork burnt to a cinder on the meters high rubble under which the pews, altar and church facilities are smashed and buried. From the dreary, pointed arched window openings pour smoke and soot. For weeks ...! Thank God that some of the valuable, leaded stained glass works were shifted in time. This raises anxious questions: What happened to Henry Traxdorf's organ from 1444? Has Fischer's miracle work of early German Renaissance, the "Sebaldus sepulchre", under the thick concrete shell of collapsed thousand-ton load withstood? Accusingly the Sebaldus towers which became dull and were deprived of their ringings rise into the brightening up January sky...!"
In and at the Sebalduskirche many unique works of art can be found. Outside there is, for example, the Schreyer-Landauer-Epitaph (emerged 1490/92) by Adam Kraft and of course the mighty portals - inside, next to the Sebaldus sepulchre, the Loeffelholzaltar, works by Veit Stoss and Adam Kraft. The glass paintings mainly go back to foundations of Nuremberg patriciate. The silver shrine of Sebaldus sepulchre was even twice forced open by thieves (1461 and 1506).
Diagonally across from St. Sebald is the Sebalder rectory with very small Sebald choir and the last preserved medieval courtyard of Nuremberg.
To 1520 was the northern place of the church, current Sebald square, part of the surrounding church cemetery, the "Sebald graveyard". The official designation read "Behind St. Sebald".
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This finely executed statue's owner seems to have been highly ranked, as his statue was made of Parian marble, the finest and most expensive among all Greek marbles. He is represented in a heroic posture, and the shape of his beard differs from the Greek Hellenistic pattern, suggesting a Libyan origin. Alexandria was a destination for immigrants from everywhere in the Mediterranean. The sculpture was of an honorific function, perhaps placed in a theatre, gymnasium, house or agora.
Parian Marble
Ptolemaic Period 1st century AD
Provenance unknown
Graeco-Roman Museum
Alexandria Egypt
This piece is entitled "self portrait of ones entire life". I executed this piece with the a theory I developed that is called Dimensionalism . This theory has its inspiration form my experiences with pre-seizure events for I have epilepsy. In this state I become detached from reality and see time in a different construct,that of a hyper intensity. A hyper awareness of a moment and everything that constructs it from sounds,thoughts,things tactile . While in these pre seizure states, some instances time is slowed down/speed up or frozen. While in other instances I am forced away form all comprehension of what is in my present environment and reality takes on a totally foreign existence where all has to be re learned.
For the viewers of my piece all of life is in dimensions and how one moves through these dimensions of either large dimensional constructs such as ones life or to the minute dimensional construct of a simple word. Thus giving the viewer this new perspective of time and space. The suspended animation of the piece is only dynamic as the viewer views the piece from the narrower sides form either end where a visible play of time sequencing exists and ones eye is drawn into the piece...
A perspective of a Dimesionalist where one has a view of a moment with a gods eye/time traveler or a pure energy source . From looking at a simple word to a memory one has. All is captured in dimensions. There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time/moment.I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
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Efj.
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
Last year CEA Project Logistics were employed to assist the Royal Thai Navy in the transportation and shipping of a USD multi-million Seahawk Helicopter.
This project was executed with the upmost efficiency with all parties involved being very happy with the outcome.
Such was the professionalism of the teams at CEA and the impression they gave, the Royal Thai Navy once again employed their service and assistance on a very similar project.For this project another Seahawk helicopter was to be transported and shipped to Australia for maintenance and repairs.
CEA teams, Royal Thai Navy personnel and representatives from the maintenance company convened at Utapao Airport in Rayong province Thailand to begin the project. As with all projects CEA conduct a tool box talk was given to the teams to explain the lift and rigging plan for the day. Rigging equipment was then prepared while another team set up a safe exclusion barricade for the operational activities.
Personnel from the Royal Thai Navy carefully moved the valuable cargo into position for the lift.Two Modular spreader bars were assembled with the required nylon slings attached, these were then attached to the waiting 55 T mobile crane. The slings and shackles were attached to the designated lift points on the Seahawk, with the fuselage of the helicopter being protected by use of sling pads. Chain blocks were used to make precise alterations to the lift to ensure that the helicopter lifted level.
As the helicopter rose form the ground a Drop-Deck Air Ride trailer was placed underneath, the Seahawk was lowered on to the trailer and secured in her slots. All slings and shackles were carefully removed and the rigging team went to action securely lashing down the helicopter readying her for the journey to CEA HQ in Laem Chabang.
Upon arrival at CEA the Seahawk was transported to one of their main warehouses and removed from the trailer. After all checks were complete a CEA Shrink Wrap team set to work enveloping the whole helicopter in an industrial grade shrink wrap that will protect the Seahawk from the corrosive effects the elements can produce during transportation.
The Aircraft was transported again on the Drop-Deck Air Ride Trailer to Laem Chabang Port where a Mafi Trailer was awaiting. Prior to loading the Mafi was thoroughly cleaned and sprayed with Cilsin 25 to negate any issues with Australian DAFF/AQIS authorities upon arrival. As the fore wheels were wider than the Mafi a steel plate extension was fabricated by the CEA team for a safe and secure load. The Aircraft was safely loaded onto the Mafi and professionally lashed by CEA under the close supervision of a 3rd party marine surveyor.
After she was loaded a tug master pushed the Mafi and aircraft into place on the RoRo vessel where it was safely secured for the transit to Australia. Hats off to the CEA team who once again handled another multi-million USD shipment without incident.
Arbour Hill Prison is a prison and military cemetery located in the Arbour Hill area near Heuston Station.
The military cemetery is the burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. Among those buried there are Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Major John MacBride. The leaders were executed in Kilmainham Gaol and their bodies were transported to Arbour Hill for burial.
The graves are located under a low mound on a terrace of Wicklow granite in what was once the old prison yard. The grave site is surrounded by a limestone wall on which the names are inscribed in Irish and English. On the prison wall opposite the grave site is a plaque with the names of other people who were killed in 1916.
The prison was designed by Sir Joshua Jebb and Frederick Clarendon and opened on its present site in 1848, to house military prisoners.
The adjoining Church of the Sacred Heart, which is the prison chapel for Arbour Hill prison, is maintained by the Department of Defence. At the rear of the church lies the old cemetery, where lie the remains of British military personnel who died in the Dublin area in the 19th and early 20th century.
The church has an unusual entrance porch with stairs leading to twin galleries for visitors in the nave and transept.
A doorway beside the 1916 memorial gives access to the Irish United Nations Veterans' Association house and memorial garden.
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152. It was disestablished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.
Kirkstall Abbey was acquired by Leeds Corporation as a gift from Colonel North and opened to the public in the late 19th century. The gatehouse became a museum.
Henry de Lacy (1070, Halton, – 1123), Lord of the manor of Pontefract, 2nd Lord of Bowland, promised to dedicate an abbey to the Virgin Mary should he survive a serious illness. He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in Lancashire) on which to found a daughter abbey. Abbot Alexander with twelve Cistercian monks from Fountains went to Barnoldswick and after demolishing the existing church attempted to build the abbey on Henry de Lacy's land. They stayed for six years but found the place inhospitable. Abbot Alexander set about finding a more suitable place for the abbey and came across a site in the heavily wooded Aire Valley occupied by hermits.
Alexander sought help from de Lacy who was sympathetic and helped acquire the land from William de Poitou. The monks moved from Barnoldswick to Kirkstall displacing the hermits, some of whom joined the abbey, the rest being paid to move. The buildings were mostly completed between 1152 when the monks arrived in Kirkstall and the end of Alexander's abbacy in 1182. Millstone Grit for building came from Bramley Fall on the opposite side of the river.
The buildings
Interior
The English Cistercian houses, of which there are remains at Fountains, Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Tintern and Netley were mainly arranged after the same plan, with slight local variations. As an example, below is the groundplan of Kirkstall Abbey, one of the best preserved.
Kirkstall Abbey
The church is of the Cistercian type, with a short chancel , and transepts with three eastward chapels to each, divided by solid walls. The building is plain, the windows are unornamented, and the nave has no triforium. The cloister to the south (5) occupies the whole length of the nave. On the east side stands the two-aisled chapter-house , between which and the south transept is a small sacristy, and on the other side two small apartments, one of which was probably the parlour . Beyond this is the calefactory or day-room of the monks. Above this whole range of building runs the monks' dormitory, opening by stairs into the south transept of the church.
On the south side of the cloister there are the remains of the old refectory, running, as in Benedictine houses, from east to west, and the new refectory , which, with the increase of the inmates of the house, superseded it, stretching, as is usual in Cistercian houses, from north to south. Adjacent to this apartment are the remains of the kitchen, pantry and buttery. The arches of the lavatory are to be seen near the refectory entrance. The western side of the cloister is occupied by vaulted cellars, supporting on the upper story the dormitory of the lay brothers,
Extending from the south-east angle of the main group of buildings are the walls and foundations of a secondary group of buildings (17, 18). These have been identified as the hospitium or the abbot's house, but they occupy the position in which the infirmary is more usually found. The hall was a very spacious apartment, measuring 83 ft. in length by 48 ft. 9 inches in breadth, which was divided by two rows of columns. The fish-ponds lay between the monastery and the river to the south. The abbey mill was situated about 80 yards to the north-west. The millpool may be distinctly traced, together with the goit or mill stream.
Dissolution and later history ,
On 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to Thomas Cranmer in 1542, but reverted to the crown when Cranmer was executed in 1556. Sir Robert Savile purchased the estate in 1584, and it remained in his family's hands for almost a hundred years. In 1671 it passed into the hands of the Brudenell family, the Earls of Cardigan. Much of the stone was removed for re-use in other buildings in the area, including the steps leading to Leeds Bridge.
During the 18th century the picturesque ruins attracted artists of the Romantic movement and were painted by artists including J. M. W. Turner, John Sell Cotman and Thomas Girtin. In 1889 the abbey was sold to Colonel John North, who presented it to Leeds City Council. The Council undertook a major restoration project and the abbey was opened to the public in 1895.
The abbey today,
Chapter House of the abbey
Western Elevation of the abbey
The abbey is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument. After a £5.5 million renovation programme there is a new visitor centre with interactive exhibits which illustrates the history of the abbey and the lives of the monks.
The Leeds Shakespeare Festival, performed by the British Shakespeare Company, took place annually in the cloisters from 1995 until 2009. The abbey grounds are a public park, and are used for occasional events such as the annual Kirkstall Festival and the Kirkstall Fantasia open-air concerts.
On the other side of the main road, the grade II* listed former abbey gatehouse now forms the Abbey House Museum.
The Sanctury of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church features three beautiful 1880s Ferguson and Urie stained glass windows; Faith on the left, Charity in the middle and Hope on the right. All are executed in iridescent reds, yellows, greens and blues, to reflect the colour palate used in other Ferguson and Urie windows elsewhere around the church.
Built on the crest of a hill in a prominent position overlooking St Kilda and the bay is the grand St Kilda Presbyterian Church.
The St Kilda Presbyterian Church's interior is cool, spacious and lofty, with high ceilings of tongue and groove boards laid diagonally, and a large apse whose ceiling was once painted with golden star stenciling. The bluestone walls are so thick that the sounds of the busy intersection of Barkley Street and Alma Road barely permeate the church's interior, and it is easy to forget that you are in such a noisy inner Melbourne suburb. The cedar pews of the church are divided by two grand aisles which feature tall cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals. At the rear of the building towards Alma Road there are twin porches and a narthex with a staircase that leads to the rear gallery where the choir sang from. It apparently once housed an organ by William Anderson, but the space today is used as an office and Bible study area. The current impressive Fincham and Hobday organ from 1892 sits in the north-east corner of the church. It cost £1030.00 to acquire and install. The church is flooded with light, even on an overcast day with a powerful thunder storm brewing (as the weather was on my visit). The reason for such light is because of the very large Gothic windows, many of which are filled with quarry glass by Ferguson and Urie featuring geometric tracery with coloured borders. The church also features stained glass windows designed by Ferguson and Urie, including the impressive rose window, British stained glass artist Ernest Richard Suffling, Brooks, Robinson and Company Glass Merchants, Mathieson and Gibson of Melbourne and one by Australian stained glass artist Napier Waller.
Opened in 1886, the St Kilda Presbyterian church was designed by the architects firm of Wilson and Beswicke, a business founded in 1881 by Ralph Wilson and John Beswicke (1847 - 1925) when they became partners for a short period. The church is constructed of bluestone with freestone dressings and designed in typical Victorian Gothic style. The foundation stone, which may be found on the Alma Road facade, was laid by the Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Barkly on 27 January. When it was built, the St Kilda Presbyterian Church was surrounded by large properties with grand mansions built upon them, so the congregation were largely very affluent and wished for a place of worship that reflected its stature not only in location atop a hill, but in size and grandeur.
The exterior facades of the church on Barkley Street and Alma Road are dominated by a magnificent tower topped by an imposing tower. The location of the church and the height of the tower made the spire a landmark for mariners sailing into Melbourne's port. The tower features corner pinnacles and round spaces for the insertion of a clock, which never took place. Common Victorian Gothic architectural features of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church include complex bar tracery over the windows, wall buttresses which identify structural bays, gabled roof vents, parapeted gables and excellent stone masonry across the entire structure.
I am very grateful to the Reverend Paul Lee for allowing me the opportunity to photograph the interior of the St Kilda Presbyterian Church so extensively.
The architects Wilson and Beswicke were also responsible for the Brighton, Dandenong, Essendon, Hawthorn and Malvern Town Halls and the Brisbane Wesleyan Church on the corner of Albert and Ann Streets. They also designed shops in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Auburn and Fitzroy. They also designed several individual houses, including "Tudor House" in Williamstown, "Tudor Lodge" in Hawthorn and "Rotha" in Hawthorn, the latter of which is where John Beswicke lived.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
The Liechtenstein Garden Palace is a Baroque palace at the Fürstengasse in the 9th District of Vienna, Alsergrund . Between the palace, where the Liechtenstein Museum was until the end of 2011, and executed as Belvedere summer palace on the Alserbachstraße is a park. Since early 2012, the Liechtenstein Garden Palace is a place for events. Part of the private art collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein is still in the gallery rooms of the palace. In 2010 was started to call the palace, to avoid future confusion, officially the Garden Palace, since 2013 the city has renovated the Palais Liechtenstein (Stadtpalais) in Vienna's old town and then also equipped with a part of the Liechtenstein art collection.
Building
Design for the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1687/1688
Canaletto: View of Palais Liechtenstein
1687 bought Prince Johann Adam Andreas von Liechtenstein a garden with adjoining meadows of Count Weikhard von Auersperg in the Rossau. In the southern part of the property the prince had built a palace and in the north part he founded a brewery and a manorial, from which developed the suburb Lichtental. For the construction of the palace Johann Adam Andreas organised 1688 a competition, in the inter alia participating, the young Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Meanwhile, a little functional, " permeable " project was rejected by the prince but, after all, instead he was allowed to built a garden in the Belvedere Alserbachstraße 14, which , however, was canceled in 1872.
The competition was won by Domenico Egidio Rossi, but was replaced in 1692 by Domenico Martinelli. The execution of the stonework had been given the royal Hofsteinmetzmeister (master stonemason) Martin Mitschke. He was delivered by the Masters of Kaisersteinbruch Ambrose Ferrethi , Giovanni Battista Passerini and Martin Trumler large pillars, columns and pedestal made from stone Emperor (Kaiserstein). Begin of the contract was the fourth July 1689 , the total cost was around 50,000 guilders.
For contracts from the years 1693 and 1701 undertook the Salzburg master stonemason John and Joseph Pernegger owner for 4,060 guilders the steps of the great grand staircase from Lienbacher (Adnet = red) to supply marble monolith of 4.65 meters. From the Master Nicolaus Wendlinger from Hallein came the Stiegenbalustraden (stair balustrades) for 1,000 guilders.
A palazzo was built in a mix of city and country in the Roman-style villa. The structure is clear and the construction very blocky with a stressed central risalite, what served the conservative tastes of the Prince very much. According to the procedure of the architectural treatise by Johann Adam Andreas ' father, Karl Eusebius, the palace was designed with three floors and 13 windows axis on the main front and seven windows axis on the lateral front. Together with the stems it forms a courtyard .
Sala terrene of the Palais
1700 the shell was completed. In 1702, the Salzburg master stonemason and Georg Andreas Doppler took over 7,005 guilders for the manufacture of door frame made of white marble of Salzburg, 1708 was the delivery of the fireplaces in marble hall for 1,577 guilders. For the painted decoration was originally the Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini hired, from him are some of the painted ceilings on the first floor. Since he to slow to the prince, Antonio Belucci was hired from Venice, who envisioned the rest of the floor. The ceiling painting in the Great Hall, the Hercules Hall but got Andrea Pozzo . Pozzo in 1708 confirmed the sum of 7,500 florins which he had received since 1704 for the ceiling fresco in the Marble Hall in installments. As these artists died ( Pozzo) or declined to Italy, the Prince now had no painter left for the ground floor.
After a long search finally Michael Rottmayr was hired for the painting of the ground floor - originally a temporary solution, because the prince was of the opinion that only Italian artist buon gusto d'invenzione had. Since Rottmayr was not involved in the original planning, his paintings not quite fit with the stucco. Rottmayr 1708 confirmed the receipt of 7,500 guilders for his fresco work.
Giovanni Giuliani, who designed the sculptural decoration in the window roofing of the main facade, undertook in 1705 to provide sixteen stone vases of Zogelsdorfer stone. From September 1704 to August 1705 Santino Bussi stuccoed the ground floor of the vault of the hall and received a fee of 1,000 florins and twenty buckets of wine. 1706 Bussi adorned the two staircases, the Marble Hall, the Gallery Hall and the remaining six halls of the main projectile with its stucco work for 2,200 florins and twenty buckets of wine. Giuliani received in 1709 for his Kaminbekrönungen (fireplace crowning) of the great room and the vases 1,128 guilders.
Garden
Liechtenstein Palace from the garden
The new summer palace of Henry of Ferstel from the garden
The garden was created in the mind of a classic baroque garden. The vases and statues were carried out according to the plans of Giuseppe Mazza from the local Giovanni Giuliani. In 1820 the garden has been remodeled according to plans of Joseph Kornhäusel in the Classical sense. In the Fürstengasse was opposite the Palais, the Orangerie, built 1700s.
Use as a museum
Already from 1805 to 1938, the palace was housing the family collection of the house of Liechtenstein, which was also open for public viewing, the collection was then transferred to the Principality of Liechtenstein, which remained neutral during the war and was not bombed. In the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called Building Centre was housed in the palace as a tenant, a permanent exhibition for builders of single-family houses and similar buildings. From 26 April 1979 rented the since 1962 housed in the so-called 20er Haus Museum of the 20th Century , a federal museum, the palace as a new main house, the 20er Haus was continued as a branch . Since the start of operations at the Palais, the collection called itself Museum of Modern Art (since 1991 Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation ), the MUMOK in 2001 moved to the newly built museum district.
From 29 March 2004 till the end of 2011 in the Palace was the Liechtenstein Museum, whose collection includes paintings and sculptures from five centuries. The collection is considered one of the largest and most valuable private art collections in the world, whose main base in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) is . As the palace, so too the collection is owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation .
On 15 November 2011 it was announced that the regular museum operating in the Garden Palace was stopped due to short of original expectations, visiting numbers remaining lower as calculated, with January 2012. The Liechtenstein City Palace museum will also not offer regular operations. Exhibited works of art would then (in the city palace from 2013) only during the "Long Night of the Museums", for registered groups and during leased events being visitable. The name of the Liechtenstein Museum will no longer be used.
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Historical and sickeningly disturbing. Part of the Bandits, Badges & Bars exhibit at the Arkansas Old State House Museum. Partial list of executees here.
aside: Chair was unplugged for a period of time in the 1970's and "used for giving haircuts"
Another aside: The oldest chair (on the left) "was manufactured from the wood of the state gallows which it replaced in 1913."
This piece is entitled "self portrait of ones entire life". I executed this piece with the a theory I developed that is called Dimensionalism . This theory has its inspiration form my experiences with pre-seizure events for I have epilepsy. In this state I become detached from reality and see time in a different construct,that of a hyper intensity. A hyper awareness of a moment and everything that constructs it from sounds,thoughts,things tactile . While in these pre seizure states, some instances time is slowed down/speed up or frozen. While in other instances I am forced away form all comprehension of what is in my present environment and reality takes on a totally foreign existence where all has to be re learned.
For the viewers of my piece all of life is in dimensions and how one moves through these dimensions of either large dimensional constructs such as ones life or to the minute dimensional construct of a simple word. Thus giving the viewer this new perspective of time and space. The suspended animation of the piece is only dynamic as the viewer views the piece from the narrower sides form either end where a visible play of time sequencing exists and ones eye is drawn into the piece...
A perspective of a Dimesionalist where one has a view of a moment with a gods eye/time traveler or a pure energy source . From looking at a simple word to a memory one has. All is captured in dimensions. There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time/moment.I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.