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Adelaide High School was formed in 1908 in Grote Street with the amalgamation as the Pupil Teacher School (where some teachers received a little training to be a teacher in a Tudor Gothic building), the Grote Street Model School and the Advanced School for Girls. Before this time boys were expected to attend one of the private colleges for secondary education but the Advanced School for Girls was basically a high school. Some primary schools ran continuation classes before 1910 to introduce the brightest pupils to some form of secondary education.
By the end of 1908 the new school had changed its name to Adelaide High School the first government high school in South Australia and the first free high school in Australia. Country and suburban high schools were developed from around 1912 onwards with early high schools at Mount Barker, Strathalbyn, Victor Harbor, Gladstone, Gawler etc. Due to overcrowding at the Grote Street site boys were moved to the Currie Street School (there were four government primary schools within the city square mile during most of the 20th century) and only the girls occupied the Grote Street School site. In 1951 this cream brick Art Deco but slightly modernist high school as built for the Adelaide boys. The girls did not move to the West Terrace campus until 1979. Additions to the school in recent decades have been done in a sympathetic architectural style.
This lichen prouces soredia, small roughly spherical units made up of fungal hyphae and algal cells that are capable of reproducing the lichen assexually. In this case, the soredia are produced in localized regions of the thallus, rather confusingly called soralia (sing. soralium). The soralia are the more or less circular raised patches with a mealy texture seen in this image
Onze instituições que formam a Mesa pro Bice Brasil assinaram o Acordo de Cooperação pela Dignidade e Direitos das Crianças e Adolescentes Brasileiros.
O documento, que tem entre seus objetivos valorizar o trabalho conjunto das instituições católicas nacionais e internacionais, contribui para a construção de um novo conceito de cidadania, pautado no respeito à dignidade, a promoção, a defesa e garantia dos direitos da criança e do adolescente, como eixos principais.
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The Kamakshi Temple is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to Kamakshi, one of the forms of the goddess Parvati. It is located in the historic city of Kanchipuram, near Chennai, India and is popularly associated with Sankaracharya, one of the greatest Hindu gurus. The Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, the Akilandeswari temple in Thiruvanaikaval near Tiruchirappalli and this Kamakshi are the important centers of worship of Parvati as the mother goddess, in the state of Tamil Nadu. The temple was most probably built by the Pallava kings, whose capital was Kanchipuram, around 6 C.E.
The main deity, Kamakshi, is seated in a majestic Padmasana, an yogic posture signifying peace and prosperity, instead of the traditional standing pose. The goddess holds a sugarcane bow and bunch of flowers in the lower two of her arms and has a pasha (lasso), an ankusha (goad) in her upper two arms. There is also a parrot perched near the flower bunch. There are no other Parvati temples in the city of Kanchipuram, apart from this temple, which is unusual in a traditional city that has hundreds of traditional temples. There are various legends that account for this fact. One of them according to Kamakshivilasa is that the Goddess had to absorb all the other shakthi forms to give a boon to Kama, the Hindu god of love. Another legend attributes it to the Raja Rajeswari pose of the deity that signifies an absolute control over the land under the deity's control. Legend has it that Kamakshi offered worship to a Shivalingam made out of sand, under a mango tree and gained Shiva's hand in marriage.
FESTIVALS
Four worship services are offered each day. The annual festival falls in Spring, in the Tamil month of Masi, which runs from mid-March to mid-April. During this time the chariot festival (Ther) and float festival, (Theppam) are held. Other festivals include Navaratri, Aadi and Aippasi Pooram, Sankara Jayanthi and Vasanta Utsavam in the Tamil month of Vaikasi. All Fridays are considered sacred, though the Fridays in the Tamil months of Adi (mid-July to mid-August) and Thai (mid-January to mid-February) are celebrated.
THE OLD KAMAKSHI DEVI TEMPLE
The original Kamakshi Devi Temple is what is now known as Adi Peeteswari or the Adi Peeta Parameswari. This temple is just adjacent to the Kumarakottam, and is near to the Kamakshi Devi temple.
Adi Shankaracharya, the famous 8th-century CE scholar and saint, established the Sri Chakra at this original Kamakshi Devi temple in the trough-like structure in that shrine. This Sri Chakra soon became the All India famous Kamakoti Peeta. The Acharya's Lalitha Trishati Bhashya comments Kamakoti Peetam as Sri Chakra.
The Acharya changed the fierce form of worship into a sowmya form. The Devi in this original Kamakshi temple is called by various names like Kirtimati, Devagarbha in extant Tantric works like Tantrachudamani. She has four hands containing in each of them respectively, Ankusa, PAsa, Abhaya and a Kapala. This description corresponds to those extant old tantric works. Further, Girvanendra Saraswathi describes precisely this swaroopa as Kameswari.
Sundaramurthi Nayanar, the Saiva saint of the 12th century is aware of the Kamakottam. He in fact mentions that the Kamakottam has come in existence just at that time.
THE MODERN KAMAKSHI DEVI TEMPLE AT KANCHI
The Siruthondar Puranam of Sekkilar Peruman, written during this time, is aware of both the temples and mentions the original temple as the Yoga Peeta and the present Kamakshi devi temple as Bhoga peetam. The reference to the present Kamakshi Devi as Aram Purappaval (bestower of boons)by Sekilar Peruman is noteworthy, as the present name of the street in which this new temple is located in Kanchipuram is called Arapanak Ara Theru.
The present Kamakshi temple too, has a Sri Chakra which was established during the 16th Century by NrusimhAdvari, of the famous dathamAnji family. There is a stone inscription inside the new temple, near this Sri Chakra, which states this fact. It is noteworthy that Arunagirinathar a 15th Century Tamil Saint, sings in praise of the Goddess as devi of dark emarald complexion and the mother of Muruga of Kumarakottam. The Original Kamakshi Devi temple i.e. Adi PeeteswariKamakshi Devi temple is just adjucant to the Kumarakottam. Arunagirinathar mentions the Sri Yantra in the Kamakshi Devi temple, which can apply, during the 15th century, only to the original Adi Peeteswari Kamakshi Devi, which contained the Sri Chakra installed by Adi Shankara. Arunagirinathar does not make any reference to the new temple.
Also noteworthy is the fact that this new temple's legend considers the Bangaru Kamakshi at Thanjavur as Dharmadevi This is the metallic counterpart of the stone image of Dharmadevi, which is at present at Thiruparuthikunram (Jina Kanchi) to where it was removed from this present Kamakshi (Tara Devi) temple after the conversion of the Jain Tara Devi temple into Hindu Sakta tradition has become stronger. There is a stone inscription at the Jina Kanchi temple which explains this fact. There are strong evidences that Dharadevi was worshipped in the present day main shrine.
THE KANCHI KAMAKSHI AMMAN TEMPLE AS A
SHAKTI PEETH
The mythology of Daksha yaga and Sati's self immolation is the main theme in the origin of Shakti Peethas.
Shakti Peethas are divine temples of Adiparashakti. The cause of the presence of Devi's presence is due to the falling of body parts of the corpse of Sati Devi. The eyes/back of Sati Devi is believed to have fallen here. There are 51 Shakti Peeth linking to the 51 alphabets in Sanskrit. There are also arguments that the old Kanchi temple is the Shakti peetha, where Sankaracharya has installed the Shri Chakra. It is reverred world wide as Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.
TIRUKKALAVANUR
In the shrine of Kamakshi Amman close the sanctum, the Tirukalavanur Divya Desam, the temples dedicated to Lord Vishnu glorified by the 7th-10th century alwars (Tamil saint poets) is present. The temple faced west went to ruins and the deity is now placed inside the Kamakshi Amman temple. There are shrines over the vimana.
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I sprayed on the stucco 'till I thought I'd faint
With twelve shades of brown and for real I cain't...
Believe all the blandness, oh no artist I ain't
But it's my destiny to be the King of Paint
Finally, I figured out something fitting (albeit strange) for that song!
Yes, the new Taco Bell looks to be already past the stucco and paint stage, at least on the exterior (minus painting the confetti if they do that here), and that's right at one mere month from pouring the foundation! In this pic grooves in the stucco for confetti (on the top of the walls) are clearly visible.
If the old TB remains standing after all (looks like it very well might), the new building will have no choice but to assume the 1117 address that the construction crew is using. Will the old building be re-addressed correctly when Taco Bell vacates? I doubt it but stay tuned...
Quórum formado pelos conselheiros Nestor Baptista, Artagão de Mattos Leão, Fernando Augusto Mello Guimarães, Ivan Lelis Bonilha, Ivens Linhares e auditores Tiago Pedroso e Claudio Augusto Canha.
Ministério Público: Procurador Gabriel Guy Léger
Secretária: Maria Estephania Domenici
Local: Plenário do TCE-PR
Autor: Wagner Araújo
Southern Pylon form traveller raised to deck level .....Please note ALL pictures on this Photostream are Copyright Protected
Our principal violinists, cellist and harpsichordist were at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington, on Wednesday 20th September 2017 for a workshop on performance and interpretation. We greatly enjoyed working with the orchestra and soloists on three concertos – Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041, Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in D major ‘The Goldfinch’ RV428 and John Garth’s Cello Concerto No 2 in B flat major. It was an intensive workshop focusing on period interpretation, style and performance practices, and at the end of the workshop the orchestra presented a concert to an invited audience of students from other schools in the area. We were delighted to be involved in this workshop to engage and explore this wonderful music with enthusiastic young players.
We’re grateful to Dr Simon Fleming (Curriculum Leader for Music) and the staff at QESFC for inviting us to lead this workshop. QESFC has a thriving culture of music education and participation, and we’re delighted to have been involved in supporting their music learning.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Formed from the Afon ( river ) Llugwy,, just off the A5 road a couple of miles west of Betws-y-coed
Taken with a Minolta SR-! SLR camera using a 55mm f2 Auto Rokkor lens on Kodachrome slide film
Former Ampsin quarry, in the commune of Amay.
Ruins of industrial installations for the treatment of lime.
Ancienne carrière d'Ampsin, commune d'Amay. Ruines d'installations industrielles pour le traitement de la chaux.
Une vieille caisse pourrie abandonnée sur le sol, rappelant un peu un cercueil.
Ilford HP5+ 800iso Adonal 1+25 8'
'Rehearsal After Reflect Soft Matte Discourse' by Malin Arnell, Clara López & Imri Sandström at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness @ Tramway, Glasgow on Saturday 25th February 2012
The Geology of “A” Mountain
If you drive up Sentinel Peak Road, you will travel past a series of rock layers that formed between twenty and thirty million years ago. These multicolored strata produce the bedrock that constitutes “A” Mountain as well as the nearby Tumamoc and Powder House Hills. These hills and “A” Mountain are the visible remains of a former landlocked peninsula that was anchored in the west by the Tucson Mountains and extended beyond the present day Santa Cruz River to the east. “A” Mountain is an erosional remnant of this land prominence sculpted by the forces of ice, wind and water. Four distinct and interesting rock layers are easily visible on the face of this 550-foot mountain.
Flowing lava created the dark red rock strata at both the top and the bottom of “A” Mountain. Nearby volcanic pipes and fractures supplied the basaltic magma that created these beds, each one separated by a span of nine million years from the formation of the other. None of this lava came from the large “volcano like” crater on the northeast side of the mountain. Quarrymen from the Griffith Construction Company dug this basin at the turn of last century in the pursuit of its stone, used for building Tucson homes, walls and other structures.
The dark red color of these two basalt layers is due to a high concentration of iron and magnesium in the original magma. These elements reduce the lava’s viscosity and the explosive tendency of the sourcing eruptions while allowing the molten rock to flow more uniformly across the surface. Much of the basalt layer at the base of “A” Mountain contains small cavities known as vesicles. The magma, in this case, erupted out of the ground just fast enough for the dissolved gasses to vaporize in the decompressing molten rock and then cooled fast enough to retain the holes formed by these gas pockets. The same bubble forming principle occurs when opening a bottle of beer. An example of this vesiculated basalt is visible on the west side of Sentinel Peak Road between the parking lot at the bottom and the beginning of the one-way road around the summit. The basalt cavities are at the top of this dark layer, presumably because the bubbles floated upward before the cooling lava locked them in place.
The two rock layers sandwiched between the basalts were the result of more violent volcanic activity about 27 million years ago. The older of these two light colored rock strata is composed of rough dark pebble size cinders (basalt) embedded in silt, sand and ash. This material fell from the sky in the form of a volcanic cinder fall. The light brown agglomerate layer with its dark embedded pebbles is visible on the left side of the one-way lane just beyond the split in the road.
Finally, the most visually striking layer of “A” Mountain is composed of tan and pink rock, known as tuff. This layer resulted from one or more volcanic ash falls. The magma for this ash also went through decompression near the earth’s surface. In this case, however, the eruption occurred so suddenly that the expanding gas in the magma shattered the molten minerals and rock into very fine pieces and threw them forcefully into the air. After settling back to the ground, the combination of heat, pressure and time welded this bed of ash into the light colored rock layer that we can see today. Look for a sharp color transition between the tan rock and pink rock as you drive up the southern slope of “A” Mountain. This will identify the tuff layer that is also visible as a large light horizontal bed on Tumamoc Hill to the west.
This introduction to the geology of “A” Mountain is an invitation to explore and enjoy our hilly community with an understanding of its primordial past. The vestige of this beginning is locked within every pebble and stone of our iconic mountain.
Our principal violinists, cellist and harpsichordist were at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington, on Wednesday 20th September 2017 for a workshop on performance and interpretation. We greatly enjoyed working with the orchestra and soloists on three concertos – Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041, Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in D major ‘The Goldfinch’ RV428 and John Garth’s Cello Concerto No 2 in B flat major. It was an intensive workshop focusing on period interpretation, style and performance practices, and at the end of the workshop the orchestra presented a concert to an invited audience of students from other schools in the area. We were delighted to be involved in this workshop to engage and explore this wonderful music with enthusiastic young players.
We’re grateful to Dr Simon Fleming (Curriculum Leader for Music) and the staff at QESFC for inviting us to lead this workshop. QESFC has a thriving culture of music education and participation, and we’re delighted to have been involved in supporting their music learning.
The Avison Ensemble is the outstanding period instrument orchestra based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which plays and popularises the music of Charles Avison (1709-1770) and other English classical composers of the Baroque period, such as Garth, Arne and Herschel. The Ensemble also performs Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Geminiani, Pergolesi, Teleman, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
This is a unique shape i found in the Red Dot Design Museum. It made great use of Light so did I make use of it.
Shot with my Nikon D5000 and a Sigma 17-70mm F2.8.
Set to 26mm at F3.5, 1/320s and ISO200.
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Many of the tropical butterflies have distinctive seasonal forms. This phenomenon is termed seasonal polyphenism and the seasonal forms of the butterflies are called the dry-season and wet-season forms. How the season affects the genetic expression of patterns is still a subject of research. The dry-season forms are usually more cryptic and it has been suggested that the protection offered may be an adaptation. Some also show greater dark colours in the wet-season form which may have thermoregulatory advantages by increasing ability to absorb solar radiation.
The wet-season form has large, very apparent multiple eyespots whereas the dry-season forms have very reduced, oftentimes nonexistent, eyespots. Larvae that develop in hot, wet conditions develop into wet-season adults whereas those growing in the transition from the wet to the dry season, when the temperature is declining, develop into dry-season adults. This polyphenism probably has an adaptive role. In the dry-season it is disadvantageous to have conspicuous eyespots because they blend in with the brown vegetation better without eyespots. By not developing eyespots in the dry-season they can more easily camouflage themselves in the brown brush. This minimizes the risk of visually mediated predation. In the wet-season, these brown butterflies cannot as easily rely on cryptic coloration for protection because the background vegetation is green. Thus, eyespots, which may function to decrease predation, are beneficial for Satyrine butterflies like the Bushbrown to express.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
see comments for wet season form......
With oven set to 375 deg. F., slide in the plastic. Now with the oven light on, watch the plastic VERY carefully. In about 30 seconds, it'll start to droop.
Now work quickly! Throw open the oven, carefully yank out the frame with your gloved, unburnt hand, and kick on the vacuum cleaner with your foot!
The fins of the modernist, circa 1973, Chase Tower seemingly straddle the neo-classic, circa 1926, Alliance Building from this vantage point. Straddle? Maybe more of an embrace as their architectural brethren face the wrecking ball.
Walking through downtown Rochester on a Saturday morning reminded me of some kind of dystopian ghost town. On the other side of Chase Tower, Midtown Plaza, a once thriving architectural gem of Mid-century Modern design, is hollowed out and awaiting demolition. A promised 40 story tower which was supposed to be built on the site was scaled back to 8-10 stories, and is now down to 3 or 4 stories...
if it is ever built.
One vacant building after another, locked and dilapidated parks, litter everywhere, landmarks and museums for sale and being sold to private entities... This seems like an entirely different city than the one I left 17 years ago, especially knowing that Rochester was once the country's first "Boom Town."
"Abandonment" is a word that immediately comes to mind. Kodak has abandoned nearly 70,000 local employees through layoffs and outsourcing. Xerox has abandoned it's corporate headquarters for Norwalk, Connecticut, and Rochester's mayor has abandoned the city for the chance of being Lieutenant Governor of New York.
"Irony" is also a word that comes to mind. Rochester was one of the last stops on the Underground Railroad as well as the home of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, yet the city is marred by racism and a fear of downtown by many people.
In a city where building implosions have turned into a spectator sport, "Irony" is also seeing crowds of people gather to watch Kodak level blocks of buildings while taking pictures with their Japanese cameras and cheering.
I will never understand the cheering part....
Scanair was formed in June 1961 to act as the charter arm of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), similar to the relationship of Condor and Lufthansa. The holiday travel market was becoming popular, and Scanair was to take advantage. Its initial fleet consisted of two ex-SAS Douglas DC-7s for charter flights to Spain and Morocco; this was later extended to the United States.
Jet aircraft were acquired in 1965, the same year Scanair became wholly owned by SAS, in the form of DC-8s and Boeing 727s. The DC-8s extended Scanair's range to worldwide destinations, mainly ones in Asia, while the 727s took over European routes. The airline became very popular as the holiday market reached its heyday in the 1980s, so much that Scanair had to lease 747s from SAS to deal with demand. Airbus A300s were purchased by the airline as its first owned wide-body aircraft, but these lacked the range to reach Asia, and at the time were prohibited from flying transatlantic routes; the A300s were subsequently replaced by McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. DC-10s became the primary equipment of the airline.
Though Scanair posted record profits in the 1980s, the near collapse of the European charter industry following the First Gulf War left the airline nearly bankrupt. As it was becoming a drain on SAS, it was sold to Danish charter operator Conair. The two airlines merged to form Premiair in 1994.
This tiny toy shows Scanair's last livery before the merger, which was similar in titling to SAS. This DC-10 is among the smallest exhibits in the Poletto Collection--it's not much bigger than a quarter.
Savigny lès Beaune (21 - Côte d'Or)
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San Carlos de Bariloche es un lugar ideal para pasar las Pascuas acompañado por riquísimos chocolates que podemos saborear en los diversos locales especializados en la elaboración de bombones, chocolate en ramas, tabletas de los más diversos gustos como marroc, con almendras, con nueces, con licores caseros, etc con las más diversas formas como se muestra en la vidriera de la foto. San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Patagonia argentina.
Routing 30,000 randomly-chosen trips through the paths suggested by 10,000 randomly-chosen geotags. These are perhaps the most interesting routes between the endpoints of the trips, even if not necessarily the most likely.
Data from the Twitter streaming API, August, 2011. Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA.
Vivimos en la época de la información, las nuevas tecnologías como Internet han facilitado que los conocimientos fluyan por todo el mundo de forma instantánea. De esta forma, todo el que quiera puede estar al tanto de los hechos que sucedan en cualquier lugar del mundo aunque este se encuentre a miles de kilómetros de nuestra computadora.
Esta facilidad a la hora de acceder a la información ha facilitado que mucha gente se concientice de los problemas que acontecen en el mundo actualmente. Este hecho ha provocado que los intereses de muchísimas giren hacia los movimientos sociales que buscan una mejora de la sociedad en la que vivimos a través de proyectos de cooperación en lugares donde existen diferentes problemas.
A la vez, el numero de organizaciones, instituciones y organismos sociales que trabajan sobre ello se han multiplicado, creando redes de trabajo muy interesantes que fomentan la colaboración y cooperación entre zonas y personas que quizás nunca en sus vidas se conozcan personalmente, pero que facilitan la actuación y proporcionan conocimientos que pueden ser muy valiosos para mejorar la calidad de vida de la población sobre la que se trabaja.
Este movimiento de personas concientizadas con una visión internacionalista del desarrollo humano se ha convertido en un rayo de esperanza para las sociedades del llamado tercer mundo. Estos movimientos están haciendo ver a las poblaciones de estas regiones que ya no son zonas ignoradas y/u olvidadas, sino que sienten el cariño de la cercanía de las millones de personas que consideran que el progreso humano se debe hacer de forma igualitaria en el mundo, luchando contra la actual tendencia de vivir con lujo y derroche en el primer mundo, a costa de la penuria y la miseria de los llamados países del tercer mundo.
La esperanza es el sueño del hombre despierto, tal y como dijo Aristóteles, las personas están despertando y comenzando a darse cuenta de que, a miles de kilómetros de , muchas personas sienten como si fuesen suyos los problemas de los países menos desarrollados, aunque nunca los sufran. Todos formamos la humanidad, y todos debemos sentirnos responsables de ella.
Javier Collado Ruano y José María Barroso Tristán
Concrete forms used to pour closure walls on multi-story building in Florida. For more information on aluminum concrete forms visit www.wallties.com