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For the last year of their existence, Northern Coach Builders, is alleged to have poached a draughtsman from Eastern Coach Works and developed this all metal ECW pastiche of the highbridge body, normally fitted to the Bristol K.
Northern General had a batch of these fitted to Guy Arab 3 chassis, with the same predictable, under achieving Gardner 5LW engine.
One of these, probably on loan to Tynemouth, is seen arriving in Northumberland Square, North Shields. Going the other way is a 1957 Leyland PD2 Willowbrook. There was a batch of ten of these PD2's, one of the first manifestations, of a change in engineering policy from Guy to Leyland within the Northern General Group, following the retirement of Major Hayter, the erstwhile general manager. It was said that if you knew where to look all these Willowbrook bodies were different. But they all looked the same to me.
Other automotive goodies on site are a mid fifties Morris Oxford or Cowley, a similar vintage Bedford CA van and a Mk 2 Ford Consul.
The Govora Monastery is an active monastery of the Romanian Orthodox Church , which was of primary importance for the existence of Slavic writing in the Danubian Principalities in the pre- Enlightenment era.
The Chrysobull of September 27, 1485, is the oldest surviving written text attesting to the monastery's existence. This means it was built during the reign of Vlad Dracula . However, there is archaeological evidence that an older building from the time of Mircea the Old may have existed here .
The name of the monastery is not disputed even among Romanian linguists, and it means what is understood in Russian.
In 1637, Matei Basarab established the second printing press in the history of Wallachia in the monastery (after the one brought from Montenegro to Targovishte in the early 16th century ), which was brought from Kiev (a gift from Peter Mogila ). In 1640, the monks Miletiy Macedonian and Stefan Ohridski printed the " Rules of Dialogue " in the monastery printing house, which are actually the Kormchaya Kniga ( The Kormchaya Book ).
Current painting dates from the restoration of the church by abbot Paisie, late 17th or early 18th century.
source: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0
"I pray one prayer, I repeat it till my tongue stiffens.... may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Heathcliff of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is one hero who's more a villain. He embodies the enigma of existence.
Strobe info: Oloong 1/64, 50mm, ISO 500 shot with an umbrella reflector placed on the left of the model.
ODC: heroes & villains
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
So often we find ourselves burdened by life's travails and pushed into an abyss from where there is no coming back. This is to all of us who have strived to fight and struggle to make a life of our own and haven't given in to life's obstacles. Modelled by my friend Aneek Chakrabarty, this is to all of us who know no meaning of 'a taxed existence'.
Using pioneering new technologies in Superfoods and nutrition, CFTRI has developed amazing new products which are on show at CFTRI stall at Pragati Maidan:
· Chia and Quinoa based Chocolates and Laddoos;
· Omega-3 enriched ice-cream;
· Multigrain banana bar
· Fruit juice based carbonated drinks.
New Delhi, 24th November, 2016: CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), the premier national institute for food technology is exhibiting a range of new agri-products now grown in India, called Superfoods that bring health and nutrition best practices to everyday eating and living to the common man. The exhibits by CFTRI at the Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi both impress and surprise with the range and scope of their utility and potency.
The Indian population is presently going through a nutrition transition and there is an increase in incidence of diabetes, impaired heart health and obesity while there is still rampant malnutrition in the nation.
Keeping in mind an effective solution needed to address these concerns, CSIR-CFTRI is working on bringing Superfoods to the Indian population. CFTRI works on various facets of food technology, food processing, advanced nutrition, Superfoods and allied sciences. Superfoods are foods which have superior nutrition profiles which upon regular consumption can help improve health and wellness of the consumer.
CFTRI has developed the agro-technology for growing Superfoods viz. Chia and Quinoa in Indian conditions. Chia is the richest source of omega-3 fats from a vegetarian source and Quinoa has excellent protein quality and low glycemic load carbohydrates. Comprehensively, Chia and Quinoa have potential to improve population health and both blend seamlessly into traditional food preparations.
CSIR-CFTRI also infuses the spirit of entrepreneurship in their students. One of the doctoral students after completing her academic program started her own technology provider start-up company, Oleome Biosolutions Pvt Ltd. In a global first, CSIR-CFTRI in collaboration with Oleome, has developed a 100% vegetarian, Omega-3-enriched Ice cream called “Nutriice” using Chia oil.
CSIR-CFTRI is also in the process of the final phase of testing of diacylglycerol (DAG) oil, a unique cooking oil that has “Anti-Obesity” functionalities. One can consume it as part of daily regular diet and while the oil is available as energy but does not get stored as fat in our bodies. The final phase of human clinical trial is presently under progress.
CFTRI has also designed and developed snacks with advanced nutrition designs to support the nutrition needs of growing children. These have been implemented in the aganwadi levels to complement the existing government mid-day meal and will be scaled up soon. The products, such as Nutri Chikki with spirulina, rice beverage mix, high protein rusk, energy food, nutri sprinkle, seasame paste and fortified mango bars have been well received by the children and the anganwadis alike. Multi-grain Banana bar is a new addition to in this product portfolio.
Another exciting area of multidisciplinary research being done at CSIR-CFTRI is on nanotechnology, food technology and nutrition. Nanomaterials are known for their characteristic properties and CSIR-CFTRI is working on the use of nanoparticles for various applications. One of our interesting developments is the design and development of food packaging material with nanoparticles with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to improve shelf-life of processed foods.
CSIR-CFTRI is also working on “Smart Foods” to answer specific needs of the consumer. These promising and specifically designed innovations are being developed for better sleep, better skin health, improved digestion, better cognitive performance and better stress management. The high science is brought into a simple food product, like a cereal bar which helps one to be more attentive over the day, or a unique dosa mix that helps in working out better at the gym with lower perceived exhaustion and even a special soup to help sleep better at night!
Speaking on the sidelines of the CSIR-CFTRI exhibition at Pragati Maidn, Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CFTRI said “Our mandate is to find innovative solutions to India agricultural and nutritional challenges. Our aim is to develop products to make Indian agriculture productive, efficient and at a consumer level gradually replace drugs with foods that will promote better health and wellness. We strive to deliver our best in improving food security and nutrition security, also developing a stronger, smarter and healthier India”.
About CSIR-CFTRI:
CSIR − Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore (A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi) came into existence during 1950 with the great vision of its founders, and a network of inspiring as well as dedicated scientists who had a fascination to pursue in-depth research and development in the areas of food science and technology.
CSIR-CFTRI is today a large and diversified laboratory headed by Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CSIR-CFTRI. Presently the institute has a great team of scientists, technologists, engineers, technicians, skilled workers, and support staff. There are seventeen research and development departments, including laboratories focusing on lipid science, molecular nutrition, food engineering, food biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, food safety etc.
The institute has designed over 300 products, processes, and equipment types. It holds several patents and has a large number of high impact peer reviewed journal articles to its credit. India is the world's second largest food grain, fruit and vegetable producer, and the institute is engaged in research and development in the production and handling of grains, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry.
The institute develops technologies to increase efficiency and reduce postharvest losses, add convenience, increase export, find new sources of food products, integrate human resources in food industries and develops solutions to improve the health and wellness of the population.
CFTRI has a vast portfolio of over 300 products, processes and equipment designs, and close to 4000 licensees have availed themselves of these technologies for commercial exploitation. The achievements have been of considerable industrial value, social importance and national relevance, and coupled with the institute's wide-ranging facilities and services, have created an extensive impact on the Indian food industry and Indian society at large.
Using pioneering new technologies in Superfoods and nutrition, CFTRI has developed amazing new products which are on show at CFTRI stall at Pragati Maidan:
· Chia and Quinoa based Chocolates and Laddoos;
· Omega-3 enriched ice-cream;
· Multigrain banana bar
· Fruit juice based carbonated drinks.
New Delhi, 24th November, 2016: CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), the premier national institute for food technology is exhibiting a range of new agri-products now grown in India, called Superfoods that bring health and nutrition best practices to everyday eating and living to the common man. The exhibits by CFTRI at the Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi both impress and surprise with the range and scope of their utility and potency.
The Indian population is presently going through a nutrition transition and there is an increase in incidence of diabetes, impaired heart health and obesity while there is still rampant malnutrition in the nation.
Keeping in mind an effective solution needed to address these concerns, CSIR-CFTRI is working on bringing Superfoods to the Indian population. CFTRI works on various facets of food technology, food processing, advanced nutrition, Superfoods and allied sciences. Superfoods are foods which have superior nutrition profiles which upon regular consumption can help improve health and wellness of the consumer.
CFTRI has developed the agro-technology for growing Superfoods viz. Chia and Quinoa in Indian conditions. Chia is the richest source of omega-3 fats from a vegetarian source and Quinoa has excellent protein quality and low glycemic load carbohydrates. Comprehensively, Chia and Quinoa have potential to improve population health and both blend seamlessly into traditional food preparations.
CSIR-CFTRI also infuses the spirit of entrepreneurship in their students. One of the doctoral students after completing her academic program started her own technology provider start-up company, Oleome Biosolutions Pvt Ltd. In a global first, CSIR-CFTRI in collaboration with Oleome, has developed a 100% vegetarian, Omega-3-enriched Ice cream called “Nutriice” using Chia oil.
CSIR-CFTRI is also in the process of the final phase of testing of diacylglycerol (DAG) oil, a unique cooking oil that has “Anti-Obesity” functionalities. One can consume it as part of daily regular diet and while the oil is available as energy but does not get stored as fat in our bodies. The final phase of human clinical trial is presently under progress.
CFTRI has also designed and developed snacks with advanced nutrition designs to support the nutrition needs of growing children. These have been implemented in the aganwadi levels to complement the existing government mid-day meal and will be scaled up soon. The products, such as Nutri Chikki with spirulina, rice beverage mix, high protein rusk, energy food, nutri sprinkle, seasame paste and fortified mango bars have been well received by the children and the anganwadis alike. Multi-grain Banana bar is a new addition to in this product portfolio.
Another exciting area of multidisciplinary research being done at CSIR-CFTRI is on nanotechnology, food technology and nutrition. Nanomaterials are known for their characteristic properties and CSIR-CFTRI is working on the use of nanoparticles for various applications. One of our interesting developments is the design and development of food packaging material with nanoparticles with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to improve shelf-life of processed foods.
CSIR-CFTRI is also working on “Smart Foods” to answer specific needs of the consumer. These promising and specifically designed innovations are being developed for better sleep, better skin health, improved digestion, better cognitive performance and better stress management. The high science is brought into a simple food product, like a cereal bar which helps one to be more attentive over the day, or a unique dosa mix that helps in working out better at the gym with lower perceived exhaustion and even a special soup to help sleep better at night!
Speaking on the sidelines of the CSIR-CFTRI exhibition at Pragati Maidn, Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CFTRI said “Our mandate is to find innovative solutions to India agricultural and nutritional challenges. Our aim is to develop products to make Indian agriculture productive, efficient and at a consumer level gradually replace drugs with foods that will promote better health and wellness. We strive to deliver our best in improving food security and nutrition security, also developing a stronger, smarter and healthier India”.
About CSIR-CFTRI:
CSIR − Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore (A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi) came into existence during 1950 with the great vision of its founders, and a network of inspiring as well as dedicated scientists who had a fascination to pursue in-depth research and development in the areas of food science and technology.
CSIR-CFTRI is today a large and diversified laboratory headed by Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, CSIR-CFTRI. Presently the institute has a great team of scientists, technologists, engineers, technicians, skilled workers, and support staff. There are seventeen research and development departments, including laboratories focusing on lipid science, molecular nutrition, food engineering, food biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, food safety etc.
The institute has designed over 300 products, processes, and equipment types. It holds several patents and has a large number of high impact peer reviewed journal articles to its credit. India is the world's second largest food grain, fruit and vegetable producer, and the institute is engaged in research and development in the production and handling of grains, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry.
The institute develops technologies to increase efficiency and reduce postharvest losses, add convenience, increase export, find new sources of food products, integrate human resources in food industries and develops solutions to improve the health and wellness of the population.
CFTRI has a vast portfolio of over 300 products, processes and equipment designs, and close to 4000 licensees have availed themselves of these technologies for commercial exploitation. The achievements have been of considerable industrial value, social importance and national relevance, and coupled with the institute's wide-ranging facilities and services, have created an extensive impact on the Indian food industry and Indian society at large.
"Snow and pine tree" expresses a sense of evanescent intensity, of the still quiet of a snow blanketed scene broken by the hawk's sudden awareness and the quiver of snow showering off of the pine.
Shot at Salkumar'23 this photo shows the existence and survival of life with trees and plants and how those two are related.
*BOOM*
The new Existence.
Home of BOOM, SMP, fable, Modd.G, Bodyline (soon), Miseria and Minettes. Main locations of Skream and Muse & Amuse.
Existence of this old castle was confirmed into 11th Century, there was first a wooden fort, soon replaced by a romanesque stone castle. From that time comes the romanesque rondel, the tower is from a later gothique period. The castle served as a guardian for many centuries, until it became not suitable for modern living in the 17th Century and began to deteriorate. It was restored into livable condition in the late 18th Century, the palaces and economic buildings were modernized and used as apartments. Today it´s owned by the Czechoslovak hussite church, the tower serves as a lookout and exposition hall, the rondel is a active chapel.
Lila Gumbaj Ki Masjid (Mosque) in Champaner, Gujarat state, western India is one of the 114 monuments listed by the Baroda Heritage Trust that are part of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
USS OLYMPIA
Resting aside Becuna, a WWII sub.
This is a wonderful and majestic piece of history
now docked in Philadelphia to be experienced if you can.
However, it's future existence and location
is very much in question so
please take advantage and get to see it.
Here are a few interesting links/references to review
www.phillyseaport.org/ships_olympia.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Olympia_(C-6)
www.theolympian.com/2011/01/27/1521428/sink-the-uss-olymp...
www.google.com/#q=uss+olympia&hl=en&rlz=1W1ADRA_e...
It is the oldest steel hulled warship afloat today.
It is the oldest half sail/ half steam ship remaining.
It is the first naval vessel to use refrigeration, a big step.
It was the flagship at the famous battle of Manila Bay
commanded by Commodore George Dewey.
Name: USS Olympia
Namesake: Olympia, Washington
Ordered: 7 September 1888
Builder: Union Iron Works
San Francisco, California
Laid down: 17 June 1891
Launched: 5 November 1892
Sponsored by: Miss Ann B. Dickie
Commissioned: 5 February 1895
Decommissioned: 9 December 1922
Reclassified: CA-15, 17 July 1921
CL-15, 8 August 1921
IX-40, 30 June 1931
Fate: Museum Ship. Future disposition is uncertain.
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,586 tons
Length: 344 ft 1 in (104.88 m)
Beam: 53 ft 0.625 in (16.17028 m)
Draft: 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Propulsion: vertical triple-expansion steam engine
2 × screw propellers
Speed: 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h)
Range: 13,000 nmi (15,000 mi; 24,000 km)
Complement: 33 officers and 395 enlisted men
Armament: 4 × 8 in (200 mm)/35 cal Mark 4 guns (2x2),
10 × 5 in (130 mm)/40 cal guns (later replaced with 5 in (130 mm)/51 cal guns) (10x1),
14 × 6-pounders (57 mm (2.2 in)) (14x1),
6 × 1-pounders (37 mm (1.5 in)) (6x1),
4 × Gatling guns (4x1),
6 × 18 in (460 mm) above-surface torpedo tubes, firing Whitehead Mark 1 torpedoes
Armor: Deck: 4.75 in (121 mm) on slopes; 2 in (51 mm) flat
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My grandmother from my mother's side - she suffered from massive stroke 18 years back and since then she has been living with us. She raised my mom, me and my sister and she has been more than our existence to us. With the span of time her body mechanism is failing one after another. Three years back, the house physician prescribed tube feeding for her nutrition and survival. Since then she has been living like this. Now a day she cannot move at all and can barely speak. Till to date she has been very pious - still tries to pray in her own ways.
The almighty is never wrong but never dared to justify his action!
The University. A combat zone
Vienna around and after 1900: science and research are driven forward by numerous Jewish protagonists. Also first Jewish scientists (female ones) win themselves the way to the until then exclusively male-dominated academic platform. Their projects, their successes - including Nobel Prizes are until these days partly anchored in the academic consciousness. Lesser known are the professorial chairs refused them, the related to this brain drain before 1938 as well as their expulsion and murder in the era of National Socialism and their new careers in exile. This field of tension between Viennese Modernism and Fascism is one of several focal points of a large-scale exhibition project to the 650th year of existence of the University of Vienna, giving for the first time a comprehensive look at the history of relations between Jews (male and female ones) and the universities of Central Europe, especially Vienna.
The exhibition narrative begins with the stones of 1421 destroyed medieval synagogue, which were used for the then new University of Vienna. At the same time it raises the question of Jewish learning and communication strategies in times when Jews entry to the catholic universities were denied. Another focus forms that turn at the end of the 18th century, entailing the admission of Jewish students and the by emperor Joseph II sought "Germanization of the Jews" in the Habsburg Empire. Therefore, the exhibition illuminates also the Jewish student body during the 1848 revolution, its German national fantasies of freedom, soon followed by their exclusion from the fraternities because of the anti-Semitic development. Following the initially described tension between modernism and fascism, the exhibition narrative finally approaches the presence: Between the demonstrations in 1965 against the anti-Semitic professor Taras Borodajkewycz and the rise of anti-Semitism within individual groups of the New Left in the 1970s, we learn one of the unknown to the public point of view of Vienna and its universities in the years between 1945 and today.
Die Universität. Eine Kampfzone
Wien um und nach 1900: Wissenschaft und Forschung wird von zahlreichen jüdischen Protagonisten vorangetrieben. Auch erste jüdische Wissenschaftlerinnen erkämpfen sich den Weg auf die bis dahin ausschließlich männlich dominierte akademische Bühne. Ihre Projekte, ihre Erfolge – darunter Nobelpreise, sind heute zum Teil im akademischen Bewusstseins verankert. Weniger bekannt sind die ihnen verweigerten Professuren, der damit zusammenhängende braindrain vor 1938 sowie ihre Vertreibung und Ermordung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bzw. ihre neuen Karrieren im Exil. Dieses Spannungsfeld zwischen Wiener Moderne und Faschismus ist einer von mehreren Schwerpunkten eines groß angelegten Ausstellungsprojekts zum 650. Jahr des Bestehens der Universität Wien, das erstmals einen umfassenden Einblick in die Beziehungsgeschichte zwischen Jüdinnen und Juden und den Universitäten Mitteleuropas, insbesondere Wiens, vermittelt.
Die Ausstellungserzählung beginnt mit den Steinen der 1421 zerstörten mittelalterlichen Synagoge, die für den damaligen Neubau der Wiener Universität verwendet wurden. Gleichzeitig stellt sie die Frage nach jüdischen Lehr- und Vermittlungsstrategien in Zeiten, in denen Jüdinnen und Juden der Zutritt zu den katholisch geprägten Universitäten verwehrt wurde. Einen weiteren Fokus bildet jener turn am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts, den die Zulassung jüdischer Studenten und die von Kaiser Joseph II. angestrebte „Germanisierung der Juden“ im Habsburger-Reich mit sich brachten. Die Ausstellung beleuchtet daher auch die jüdische Studentenschaft während der 1848-Revolution, ihre deutschnationalen Freiheitsphantasien und ihren bald darauf folgenden Ausschluss aus den Burschenschaften wegen der antisemitischen Entwicklung. Im Anschluss an das eingangs geschilderte Spannungsfeld zwischen Moderne und Faschismus, nähert sich die Ausstellungserzählung schließlich der Gegenwart an: Zwischen den Demonstrationen im Jahr 1965 gegen den antisemitischen Professor Taras Borodajkewycz und dem aufkommenden Antisemitismus innerhalb einzelner Gruppen der Neuen Linken um 1970 lernen wir eine der Öffentlichkeit unbekannte Sicht auf Wien und seine Universitäten in den Jahren zwischen 1945 und heute kennen. Kuratoren: Werner Hanak-Lettner
In the seventeenth century we discovered that a drop of water is alive, in the eighteenth century that all of nature is alive in its discrete particles, in the nineteenth century that these particles are all dancing a constant dance, and the twentieth century discovered that nothing at all is dead, that the material of existence is so many little solar systems of light mush, or as Einstein said, "… every clod of earth, every feather, every speck of dust is a prodigious reservoir of entrapped energy."
Now we have a new vision for a world totally alive. A product for our times. A revolution of spirit that would seem a miracle to previous ages.
Read on.
This is chiefly the landscape of an imaginative cast.
It is a great story.
This is just the beginning.
The proposition: e fango il mondo – ours is an intelligent way of looking, a music of thought. All had to be reorganized, redone, reset in their ways, made over. It's a new world we have invented. We have the spirit of time and matter. And so, by nobody's leave, we went on a journey, to see creation. But space and time were still the same thing, unsorted. So we began to create the world, so that we would all fit together somehow, some way. Our steps became time, our steps measured off space. You can see the road we took in the rainbow.
It is our sign.
Now that time has begun, we are teaching the history of the word
and the inmost things that have been forgotten. Teaching the structure and meaning of the word so that the system and the harmonies will finally be understood.
A greatcoat will be needed. The days will be raw.
The Evolution, like all things in time, is metamorphic. It has a history, as yet unwritten, and it has a geography, as yet unseen.
Geography is the wife of history, as space is the wife of time.
It lives in history, ageing, or proving immune to the bite of time.
The Evolution is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes.
The Evolution emphasises lightness and grace, colour and clarity, knowledge and truths.
What will be needed is an understanding of the meaning of the symbols, the signs.
The Evolution is an animal, alive and with a will of it's own.
It is invariably less or more than it's sum.
In just a few years, it will take its place in a complex of meaning that only now can be guessed at. At the heart of the complex will be Evolutionists
Once The Evolution is realized, it belongs to the world, and its greatest destiny is its usefulness to the tribe. It is worthwhile adding that the power of The Evolution to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, once locked into and released, will replace practically any university in the world.
First things first, then.
The primal importance of The Evolution is what it can add to the individual mind.
The Evolution is the voice of an Evolutionist at its birth, the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfilment as a successful and useful work of art.
The Characters: shall be known in time. They are shepherds, forages. Masters of horns and flowers, of printing and dancing, of the cello and cartography, of crystals and snakes, of polyhedral tensegrities and Cartesian speech, of history and embroidery. They are masters of friendship and love, of hyperbolic ambition, and family. They display allegiances and stubborn propensities. They assume the colour of their new surroundings, like chameleons; they perversely develop echoes. They are off. They have seen the signs. One dot starts all. Connect the dots with lines and you have a thing. A thing is an example of a plan. A thing has come into space, it enters the world. All they can make is what they have thought. And now it is written, as fine as any eye could ever see. It is written in every seed, which contains the plan of all things, it is written in the okra, in the spiders eye, in the stars.
Now they have it forever.
They are space itself, and only needed to move themselves outward, to swell themselves out, like light from the sun, like wind from the mountains, like thunder.
The Setting: London, the shadowed walls. Everyone on the streets, men, women, children, soldiers.
The Method: We play God, and havoc. Pranks on full career. The plan of all creation. We come down to an unfinished world way before we are welcome and see the world twist in a spiral as we grow. This is our journey.
We, not they, will be landlord of the world.
They are all blind in relation to thoughts.
See as the world twists on the bole while our branches spiral up, casting out the seeds of all other things. What grows, spins. We spin the word, which is nothing but the word move. The world will tremble, vibrate, shifting from one foot to the other, it will shake, it will dance our dance and we will talk with our feet, leaving our tracks in the plan of the signs we draw every evening at the edge of the city.
The signs we make will be the signs we live by that day.
You will not be afraid.
There are shepherds who will take you. There they wear the masks and bloody shirts and make the drums speak. The dancers come from afar.
They have been waiting many days. They enter the bounds wearing the masks of creation and their hearts are light, their hearts are gay.
They cry with joy.
The calendars are right, the great calendar of the sun, the great star.
It is a funeral and a rebirth
The families of drums begin to beat at dawn.
This is all the work of the great redeemers.
They are the beginning of sacrifice.
Cities are their shrouds.
Our work is to organize the world half made and crazy. Our work is in the shine of things, in light.
Now time is out of kilter, askew, but turning again to zero.
You will have been hearing the drums a long time before you see the new tribe in their bloody shirts leaping in the first light.
•200,000 years: Pre-historic and Proto-historic existence of early mankind
•2600 - 1900 BCE: Harappa Culture
•1500 - 1000 BCE: Rigvedic Aryan Civilization
•599 BCE: Jainism
•567 - 487 or c. 400 BCE: Buddha
•550 BCE - 600 CE: Buddhism remained prevalent
•550 - 515 BCE: Persian Invasion to west of Indus River
•326 BCE: Alexander’s Invasion
•322 - 298 BCE: Chandra Gupta Maurya Period
•273 - 232 BCE: Ashoka’s Period
•125 - 160 BCE: Rise of the Sakas (Scythians, known as the ancestors of Jats)
•2 BCE: Beginning of Rule of the Sakas.
•45 - 180 CE: Rule of the Kushanas
•320 - 550 CE: Gupta Empire
•500 CE: Hunnic Invasion
•510 - 650 CE: Vardhana Era
•647 - 1192 CE: Rajput Period
•713 - 1300 CE: Muslim Invaders (Arabs, then Turks) like Mohammed Ghori and Mahmud Ghazni
•8th Century CE: Arabs capture Sind and Multan
•1450 - 1700 CE: Mughal Rulers
•1469 - 1539 CE: Guru Nanak Dev (1st Sikh Guru)
•1539 - 1675 CE: Period of 8 Sikh Gurus from Guru Angad Dev to Guru Tegh Bahadur
•1675 - 1708 CE: Guru Gobind Singh (10th Sikh Guru)
•1708 - 1715 CE: Conquests of Banda Bahadur
•1716 - 1759 CE: Sikh struggle against Moghul Governors
•1739 CE: Invasion of Nadir Shah
•1748 -1769 CE: Ahmed Shah Abdali’s nine invasions
•1762 CE: 2nd Holocaust (Ghalughara) from Ahmed Shah’s 6th invasion
•1764 - 1799 CE: Rule of the Sikh Misls
•1799 - 1839 CE: Rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh
•Maharaja Ranjit Singh (b.1780, Coronated April 12, 1801, d.1839)
•Kharak Singh (b.1801, d.1840), Eldest son of Ranjit Singh.
•Nau Nihal Singh (b.1821, d.1840), Grandson of Ranjit Singh.
•Sher Singh (b.1807, d.1843), Son of Ranjit Singh.
•Duleep Singh (b.1838, Coronated 1843, d.1893), Youngest son of Ranjit Singh.
•1849 CE: Annexation of Punjab - The British Empire annexed Punjab in c.1845-49 AD; after two Anglo Sikh Wars
•1849 - 1947 CE: British Rule
•1947 CE: Partition of India and thus Punjab into 2 parts. The Eastern part became the Indian Punjab and the Western part the Pakistan Punjab
•1966 CE: Punjab in India divided into 3 parts on linguistic basis - Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjabi Suba (the present Punjab)
•1984 CE: Operation Blue Star and its aftermath
History of Karnataka
1 Kadambas and Gangas
2 Badami Chalukyas
3 Rashtrakutas
4 Western Chalukyas
5 Hoysalas
6 Vijayanagara Empire
7 Bahmani Sultanate
8 Bijapur Sultanate
9 Kingdom of Mysore
A few months ago I read a post about this ancient monument, I was unaware of its existence.
I logged into my Google Maps and recorded it as one of my desired places to visit.
Today Thursday 15th November 2018 Scotland basked in a beautiful Autumn sunshine, my favoured shooting conditions, I packed my Nikon and drove the 25 miles to the site.
Historic Environment Scotland maintain the monument , thankfully they have done a magnificent job, I truly believe it is important to preserve history for the generations to come.
I had a magnificent two hours recording my experience, I never fail to feel overwhelmed by the wealth of history that surrounds Aberdeen and the shire.
Thank's to Historic Environment Scotland for their detailed information on this site.
Ancient Monument - Kinkell Church - Inverurie Aberdeen Scotland.
Kinkell Church, built in the 1200s, is a classic medieval Highland church: simply designed and rectangular in shape. But the liturgical features installed in the 1520s are anything but plain. The stone sacrament house in the north of the church is an especially fine fixture.
Kinkell was refitted for Presbyterian worship following the Protestant Reformation of 1560, and declared redundant in 1771. Much of the building was dismantled and building materials recycled for use in a new kirk.
KINKELL CHURCH
• Kinkell Church, dedicated to St Michael, consist of the remains of a simple rectangular medieval parish church, of which only the N, W and part of the E
wall are upstanding.
The church was partly remodelled, perhaps on more than one occasion,
including in the early 16th century, when an elaborately carved Sacrament
House was built into the E end of the N wall.
Within the church is the monument of Gilbert de Greenlaw, killed at the battle
of Harlaw in 1411; the stone was re-used for a Forbes burial in 1592
CHARACTER OF THE MONUMENT
The church appears to have come on record in the early 13th century. Kinkell
was a mother church, or plebanus, and had dependent chapels at Dyce,
Drumblade, Kemnay, Kinnellar, Kintore and Skene.
This connection, which
was of long standing, may have arisen if Kinkell’s origins was that of an ecclesiastical foundation, rather like a minster, with an extensive parochia.
This would push back its origins considerably.
From the 14th century, certain revenues of the church evidently pertained to the Knights Hospitallers, although it is also recorded as an independent parsonage during the 14th century.
Any connection with the Hospitallers came to an end in 1420, when the church
and its annexes were erected into a prebend of Aberdeen Cathedral.
From a date and a set of initials on the sacrament house, it is apparent that in 1524 Alexander Galloway, rector of Kinkell and canon of Aberdeen Cathedral,
paid for the splendid sacrament house built into the E end of the N wall.
He appears to have been paying for further work the following year as a carved stone panel depicting the crucifixion, dated 1525, and with Alexander’s initials (three times), is built into the N wall (only a bronze replica survives; the original
was removed to Aberdeen Museum in 1934 and subsequently lost).
The church was abandoned in 1771 when the parish was amalgamated with
Keithhall. It was partially demolished to provide building materials for the new
parish church.
Archaeological Overview
There have been no recorded archaeological investigations at Kinkell.
The archaeological potential of the monument is extremely high and any excavation is very like to come across human remains, and perhaps also earlier church
buildings on the site.
Artistic/Architectural Overview
The church is fragmentary and devoid of features apart for the sacrament
house, the crucifixion panel and a single jamb of what must have been a large,
traceried E window. The simple oblong plan of the church suggests that the
basic form of the church dates from the early 13th century, with much late
medieval remodelling.
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• The sacrament house is a particularly fine, and unique, example of this type of
medieval church fixture. It was an aumbry, or wall cupboard, designed to
reserve the host in appropriate reverential surroundings.
• The sacrament house at Kinkell shares several features with others found in
the NE, associated with Galloway, but is unique due to its cross shape. The
aumbry is flanked by two buttresses with crocketed finials. Between these is a
panel, which although badly defaced, appears to have been ornamented with a
monstrance supported by two angels (a very common motif found on other
sacrament houses associated with Alexander Galloway). Above this panel is a
corbelled and battlemented cornice, and above this is an oblong panel, which
probably contained a crucifixion scene, but is now empty. Flanking the
pinnacles are two panels, each filled with scrolls, which are of different forms
although the inscriptions on the scrolls were meant to be read as one and
state: ‘Here is preserved that body which was born of a virgin’.
• The crucifixion panel has a representation of St Michael, the archangel (to
whom the church was dedicated) to the right of the crucified, the Virgin on the
left and under her a priest, perhaps representing Galloway himself as donor,
standing beside an altar on which are Galloway’s initials.
• The sacrament house and the Crucifixion panel appear to have been part of a
liturgical revival in the diocese of Aberdeen during the early decade on the 16th
century. Alexander Galloway appear to have been a central figure in the move
to ensure parish churches had the fittings for the proper worship of God, and in
particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. He erected several sacrament
houses in churches he was involved in; Kinkell and its dependents at Dyce and
Kintore, and at King College, Aberdeen and may have been influential in the
decision of his colleagues, Alexander Spittal of Auchindoir and Alexander Lyon
of Turiff, to erect those in their respective churches. Galloway also donated a
font to Kinkell, which now is now in St John’s Episcopal Church, Aberdeen.
• The construction of the sacrament house may have been part of a wider
reorganisation of the chancel area of the church, and it is tempting to suggest
that the great E window may have been a part of this re-organisation, although
details of this moulding may be more consistent with a 14th or 15th century
date.
Social Overview
• The church is currently used as a recreational attraction. It receives little other
community use.
Spiritual Overview
• As a parish church in use for some six centuries, the site has the potential to
inform our understanding of medieval Christianity, the aspirations of the
rectors, vicars and ministers who served the church and the congregations
who worshipped in it.
• The burial ground was in use until fairly recently, and may still be in use for
occasional burials. People still visit family graves and memorials.
Aesthetic Overview
• The church and burial ground are located in the haughs of the River Don,
amongst arable farmland which adds to the appreciation of this monument.
The church has been pointed with a hard cement mortar that give the walls the impression of crazy paving.
The sacrament house, the replica crucifixion panel,
3/3 the window jamb are fine architectural details which are aesthetically very striking, and provide some idea of the glories of this once very fine church.
• The graveslab of Gilbert de Greenlaw, killed at the Battle of Harlaw, which would originally have been a ledger slab, is a particularly detailed carving of an armed knight.
What are the major gaps in understanding of the property?
• Do further historical sources or references survive.
• Nothing is known about the archaeology and earlier history of this site.
The church is an example, although much ruined, of a church which was remodelled in the 16th century.
The sacrament house is a particularly fine example of this type of church
furnishing, and the only example which takes the form of a cross.
Sacrament houses are physical manifestation of an important aspect of late medieval
Christianity; the veneration and adoration of the Body of Christ in the form of the consecrated host.
The church is closely associated with Canon Alexander Galloway, who encouraged a liturgical revival in the diocese in the early 16th century.
The site has high archaeological potential, but as a place of burial over centuries so the scope for research-led invasive excavation is not high.
Associated Properties
St Fergus’, Dyce, Auchindoir Church, St Machars Cathedral, Kintore Church,
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ARTIST STATEMENT
"One of my research interests focuses on the use of Motion Capture (Mocap) in the creation of computer animated portraits.
"I'm interested in the notion that Mocap is a document of existence in the same way that a photograph or a piece of video footage is. It is not one moment captured in time but a document of movement and identity removed from a specific time and place.
"Within these works I attempt to capture a sense of stillness and perhaps the mundane using motion captured sequences as the basis for the portraiture."
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