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Manchester has seen large numbers of visitors over the past few days as the city again played host to a major political conference.
Chief Superintendent John O’Hare said: “Over the past five days Manchester City Centre has played host to the Conservative Party Conference which saw more than 12,000 delegates visit our city.
“This is a complex and challenging security and public order operation which requires a high degree of partnership activity and the highest levels of professionalism throughout.
“As is the norm, there have been elements of protest throughout the conference period - 30,000 people marched through the city on Sunday alone.
“The vast majority of people attending protests did so in the spirit of their causes, worked with us to make sure they could voice their opinions in a safe manner and with minimal disruption to others.
“On the occasions where individuals crossed the line we have taken positive action and 11 people have been arrested as a result of unacceptable behaviour over the past few days.
“Throughout this operation officers have worked tirelessly to protect delegates, facilitate the protests, and keep our city safe.
“I am proud of all our officers and staff. They have all performed their duties to the highest of standards and acted in a professional and fair manner throughout.
“I also want to thank everyone who lives in, works in or was visiting the city centre while this operation has been taking place for their patience, support and co-operation.”
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Cropredy has ancient origins, a chapel in the church is dedicated to St Fremund, an anglo-saxon saint thought to be the son of King Offa. It's name combines the Old English croppe or hill and ridig, a small stream. The village is only a few miles from Banbury, in hilly country along the banks of the River Cherwell. Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries Cropredy belonged the Bishop of Lincoln. More recently Brasenose College, Oxford, has become a significant landlord giving it's name to the local pub.
Dramatic changes to centuries of agrarian life were heralded by the excavation of the Oxford canal which runs alongside the Cherwell south-east of the church. This busy waterway was superseded by the Great Western railway, the village even had it's own station until 1956.
Unusually Cropredy retains the ringing of the curfew bell, in Medieval times this was a signal to return home and 'cover their fires'. Roger Lupton local priest between 1487 and 1528 was so lost in dense fog that he could only find his way from nearby Chacombe by the ringing of Cropredy's bells. He founded a fund in gratitude which paid for the daily winding of the clock and tolling the bell morning, noon and night. The bell is still rung Tuesday and Thursday nights for five minutes after eight O'clock.
The village is best known for the Civil War 'Battle of Cropredy Bridge'. A rare Royalist victory at a time when the Parliamentary forces were in the ascendancy. In June 1644 the King slipped out of Oxford to avoid two Roundhead armies which were rapidly approaching. At this point the Earl of Essex chose to lead his army south and relieve the siege of Lyme Regis leaving Sir William Waller to pursue the King with half of the men. Waller shadowed the Royal army to Worcester only for the King to double back towards Banbury where the Parliamentary commander saw an opportunity to split the Royal forces which were strung out along the Daventry road. Waller's artillery crossed Cropredy bridge but were too far ahead of the infantry and were overrun. Fierce fighting followed but neither side achieved a significant advantage and a chance of capturing the King was lost. As children we were told stories of a phantom drummer boy.
Cropredy's most prominent claim to fame is their music festival founded when Fairport Convention played the village fete in 1976. Cropredy Music Festival grew from these modest beginnings and now attracts over 20,000 music fans every year.
St. Mary the Virgin is an impressive building constructed from the local rust-coloured ironstone. While part of the wall of the south aisle has been dated to c1050 the present church begins in the 13th century with significant 14th and 15th century additions. The south wall has two tomb recesses thought to be built for Simon de Cropredy and his son c1200. The church has an interesting 13th century parish chest and the chapel dedicated to the anglo-saxon saint Fremund has two 15th century screens, one of which has the initials AD which may stand for Alice Danvers. The nave arcading, tower and choir arches are Perpendicular in style with no capitals and continuous moulding from ground level. The tower is early 15th century with the belfry and parapets added 80 years later, There are eight bells, six from the late 17th century, two added in 2007 called Fairport and Villager. Fragments of a Doom survive above the chancel arch. The church has a 17th century pulpit and a rare pre-reformation eagle lectern which is said to have been hidden in the river before the Battle of Cropredy where it lost one of it's lion feet. The beak has a slot for collecting 'Peter's Pence'. There is a beautiful 15th century head of the Virgin Mary in stained glass which was found in the churchyard. There are two fonts, one Norman and one Victorian. In the tower is a magnificent clock by John Moore of Clerkenwell dated 1831.
Cropredy is just off the Daventry road a few miles from Banbury about an hour from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Cropredy has ancient origins, a chapel in the church is dedicated to St Fremund, an anglo-saxon saint thought to be the son of King Offa. It's name combines the Old English croppe or hill and ridig, a small stream. The village is only a few miles from Banbury, in hilly country along the banks of the River Cherwell. Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries Cropredy belonged the Bishop of Lincoln. More recently Brasenose College, Oxford, has become a significant landlord giving it's name to the local pub.
Dramatic changes to centuries of agrarian life were heralded by the excavation of the Oxford canal which runs alongside the Cherwell south-east of the church. This busy waterway was superseded by the Great Western railway, the village even had it's own station until 1956.
Unusually Cropredy retains the ringing of the curfew bell, in Medieval times this was a signal to return home and 'cover their fires'. Roger Lupton local priest between 1487 and 1528 was so lost in dense fog that he could only find his way from nearby Chacombe by the ringing of Cropredy's bells. He founded a fund in gratitude which paid for the daily winding of the clock and tolling the bell morning, noon and night. The bell is still rung Tuesday and Thursday nights for five minutes after eight O'clock.
The village is best known for the Civil War 'Battle of Cropredy Bridge'. A rare Royalist victory at a time when the Parliamentary forces were in the ascendancy. In June 1644 the King slipped out of Oxford to avoid two Roundhead armies which were rapidly approaching. At this point the Earl of Essex chose to lead his army south and relieve the siege of Lyme Regis leaving Sir William Waller to pursue the King with half of the men. Waller shadowed the Royal army to Worcester only for the King to double back towards Banbury where the Parliamentary commander saw an opportunity to split the Royal forces which were strung out along the Daventry road. Waller's artillery crossed Cropredy bridge but were too far ahead of the infantry and were overrun. Fierce fighting followed but neither side achieved a significant advantage and a chance of capturing the King was lost. As children we were told stories of a phantom drummer boy.
Cropredy's most prominent claim to fame is their music festival founded when Fairport Convention played the village fete in 1976. Cropredy Music Festival grew from these modest beginnings and now attracts over 20,000 music fans every year.
St. Mary the Virgin is an impressive building constructed from the local rust-coloured ironstone. While part of the wall of the south aisle has been dated to c1050 the present church begins in the 13th century with significant 14th and 15th century additions. The south wall has two tomb recesses thought to be built for Simon de Cropredy and his son c1200. The church has an interesting 13th century parish chest and the chapel dedicated to the anglo-saxon saint Fremund has two 15th century screens, one of which has the initials AD which may stand for Alice Danvers. The nave arcading, tower and choir arches are Perpendicular in style with no capitals and continuous moulding from ground level. The tower is early 15th century with the belfry and parapets added 80 years later, There are eight bells, six from the late 17th century, two added in 2007 called Fairport and Villager. Fragments of a Doom survive above the chancel arch. The church has a 17th century pulpit and a rare pre-reformation eagle lectern which is said to have been hidden in the river before the Battle of Cropredy where it lost one of it's lion feet. The beak has a slot for collecting 'Peter's Pence'. There is a beautiful 15th century head of the Virgin Mary in stained glass which was found in the churchyard. There are two fonts, one Norman and one Victorian. In the tower is a magnificent clock by John Moore of Clerkenwell dated 1831.
Cropredy is just off the Daventry road a few miles from Banbury about an hour from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Ex FAA Lynx HAS.3GSM XZ232 in use as an Offshore Helicopter Training Airframe at Falck Safety Services at Aberdeen Airport. Edited and cropped from original.
Todrick Hall has re-imagined how Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will look and sound like if done in a Britney Spears music video.
In this album dance till the world ends Hall has done the song in the beauty and the beast theme. It shows how the song will be like if it is in Britney Spears...
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Life has thrown sore really crappy curve balls at us recently.
We decided to head out and hit the thrift stores for some boots, haven't done this in a while ans its the end of boot season here sadly.
This shoot will be getting back to "core business" of sorts. It was a giant haul of boots and heels so may take a few days to shoot them all.
Unilever has launched the first ever multi-sensory campaign in malls with JCDecaux Innovate to promote its new Surf laundry Wild Flowers and Morning Dew fragrance nationwide.
This two-week interactive campaign has deployed motion-activated indoor scent emitters at bespoke digital 6-sheets across six UK malls on June 30th 2014. The campaign is spearheaded by brand mascot Surfy who is inviting consumers to play a game of hopscotch on the brightly coloured flower floor media that leads to the digital 6-sheets, encouraging consumers to view the onscreen content, smell the new fragrance and interact with the brand.
Katy Holder, brand manager at Unilever, said: “Surf offers a bright and unique approach to laundry, guaranteed to put a smile on your face and leave your clothes smelling gorgeous. The new Surf Wild Flowers and Morning Dew really encapsulates the playful nature of the brand, perfect for creating fun and interactive out of the home.”
The campaign was planned and booked with JCDecaux Innovate by Mindshare and Kinetic.
The weather has been so nice around here, I've been enjoying the warm temperatures, playing in the yard and relaxing in my private lounge, sheltered from the sun. I don't know if you noticed, but I got a suntan! But I have to protect my skin because since I do not have hairs everywhere, the sun can be quite harsh on my delicate skin, so I better stay in the shade. And I can still watch what's happening outside from the deck, isn't it nice?!
Le temps a été si agréable par ici, j'ai profité des températures chaudes, joué dans le jardin et me suis relaxée dans mon salon privé, abrtiée du soleil. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez remarqué, mais j'ai bronzé ! Mais je dois protéger ma peau parce que comme je n'ai pas de poils partout, le soleil peut être assez violent sur ma peau délicate, donc j'ai meilleur temps de rester à l'ombre. Et je peux quand même voir ce qui se passe dehors depuis mon deck, n'est-ce pas super cool ?!
Rick Witschonke, of the American Numismatic Society, has just announced an important new tool for Roman Republican numismatics, CHRR, numismatics.org/chrr/ that supplements Crawford's RRCH for the period after 156BC. I think this should be of a lot of interest to LaMoneta readers and it would be interesting to discuss experiences using this tool. I attach a screenshot above of a typical presentation of a hoard on CHRR. Note that it mainly covers the same period as Kris Lockyear's book Patterns and Process in Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, 157–2 BC. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Andrew
Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic – A New Tool for Roman Numismatics
Today the American Numismatic Society and the
Institute of Archaeology of University College London, UK, launch an important new tool for the analysis of Roman Republican coin hoards.
Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic Online (CHRR Online) is a collaboration between Rick Witschonke and Ethan Gruber at the ANS and Dr. Kris Lockyear of UCL.
The new web-based tool makes available in searchable form the contents of a database created by Dr. Lockyear of 694 Roman Republican Coin hoards and the 115,000 coins that they contain. The new tool, which is based on the Numishare technology, makes it possible to browse, search, map and analyze the evidence of Roman coin finds in new and exciting ways.
“The database was initially created on a PC for my PhD, but it has continued to be expanded since then and forms the basis of my book Patterns and Process in the Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, where it is used, amongst other things, to investigate the size of late Republican coin issues, the date of the import of Republican denarii to Dacia and the patterning created by the events of the civil wars. I am very grateful to Professor Michael Crawford for allowing me access to his unpublished archive held in the British Museum”, noted Dr Lockyear. “It was obvious that the database, the result of over twenty years work, was a valuable resource that could help others in their research if I could make it widely available. As the database continues to grow, updates will be posted to the online version, which I hope will encourage others to share information.” Further information on the history of the project, and its future is available here.
The potential for the ANS to help in the process of online publication was spotted by curatorial associate Rick Witschonke. “It was clear that Kris’ database dovetailed very neatly with work being carried out at the ANS to create stable identities for numismatic concepts on the web”, explains Witschonke. “We were very fortunate also to be in touch with the curators at the British Museum, Ian Leins and Eleanor Ghey, who generously made available to us the work they had recently undertaken to catalogue the BM collection. By bringing together their data and Kris’ hoard database with the work that ANS has been undertaking at Nomisma.org, we were able to create a new tool based on Linked Open Data principles.”
The creation of the new web tool was the work of ANS database developer Ethan Gruber. The integration of Roman Republican Coinage coin types defined by Nomisma.org into CHRR Online enables maps and timelines showing the geographic and temporal extent of hoards. Furthermore, users of the quantitative
analysis interface may compare the distribution of selected typological attributes across numerous hoards, visualizing results in the form of graphs or downloading data in CSV for more sophisticated analyses. For example, one may
compare the distribution of mints or issuers across dozens of hoards: a common numismatic query, delivered nearly instantaneously.
“The CHRR project is wonderful example of the way that ANS is working with multiple partners to create new resources for our members and the whole community of collectors and scholars” notes ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenberg Kagan. “By sharing our data in standard, open formats, we increase its power hugely. The ANS is currently at the forefront of the development of digital tools for numismatics at an international level. It is tremendously exciting to see another tool launched today.”
The tool can be accessed at: numismatics.org/chrr/
Rick Witschonke
Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that the City of New York has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Uniformed Superior Officers Coalition, marking the administration’s first contracts with uniformed unions. Blue Room, City Hall. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Credit: Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office.
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Long Beach Airport has very little passenger service compared with the dominant Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) approximately 18 miles (29 km) to the northwest, and will always remain a relatively small airport because of restrictive ordinances adopted to minimize noise in the residential neighborhoods near LGB. The airport is under one of the strictest ordinances in the United States on both airport noise and the number of commercial flights. The current noise levels allow for 41 daily commercial flights and 25 commuter flights. Local community groups and activists are very vocal about any changes at the airport.
At the same time, the arrival of low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways at Long Beach Airport in 2001, and that airline's decision to establish a West Coast hub at LGB, has substantially increased the air traffic to the airport and has cemented LGB's standing as a viable alternative to LAX for flights from the Los Angeles area to major East Coast cities. While JetBlue used the local noise ordinance to turn Long Beach Airport into a miniature fortress hub, it quickly reached maximum capacity and has since been forced to rework flight schedules and direct future growth to other Los Angeles area airports. JetBlue calls LGB a Focus city and now operates 31 of the 41 slots.
Air cargo carriers, including FedEx and UPS, also maintain operations out of LGB. 57,000 tons of goods are transported each year.
The Boeing Company (formerly McDonnell Douglas) maintains production of the C-17 military transport jet; maintenance facilities for other Boeing and McDonnell Douglas/Douglas aircraft (including the historic DC-9 and DC-10 aircraft) are also found at Long Beach Airport. Gulfstream Aerospace also has a completion/service center at the airport.
Although commercial flights are severely restricted, there are still a large number of flights at the airport from charter flights, private aviation, flight schools, law enforcement flights, helicopters, advertising blimps, planes towing advertising banners, etc. Because of that, Long Beach airport is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world, with 398,433 aircraft movements in 2007.[6]
Long Beach Airport has a single terminal. It is notable for its Streamline Moderne style of architecture and is a historical landmark. Because of the age and limited size of the current terminal, changes—including a possible addition—are currently on-going.
has anybody noticed that our planet is being over taken by lady birds or are they just stalking me because every were i go there is like 6000 of them ( ok a bit of an exaggeration but there is lots :) ) used my dads macro lense for this shot i may have to steal it from time to time :) haha
Chandmani Singh, 16, from the village of Rangamatia, works in the rice paddy, Chandmani is an uneducated girl who has never attended school because when she was young she was needed more to work at home. She is illiterate and unable to sign her own name. (NOTE: we’ve learned from local CARE staff that since our visit Chandmani has learned to sign her name). Chandmani spends her days taking the family bulls out to graze, working in the family's rice paddy and preparing their harvest. When there has been no work in the fields, she has also worked on road crews. Her time at home is spent carrying out her household chores, such as cooking, cleaning, gathering water, making rope and helping care for younger children. For many young women, such as Chandmani, who have not had exposure to education their movements are restricted and their worlds are quite limited because they have not developed the reading, writing, math or social skills to function safely away from their own villages. They often lack the confidence to feel they can express or even develop their own valid opinions about household or societal issues. Chandmani's older sister attended school up to grade 10. But when asked if she wished she had been able to attend school like her sister she simply stated that as a child she did not study so she sees no point in thinking about it now. She hopes her children will be able to attend school..
In the Mayurbhanj district of Orissa, CARE is implementing education programs through its long-established Flood Response Program (FRP) recognizing that education builds resilience within communities. CARE provides academic support at 103 schools through curriculum design and examining the learning continuum..
Within the 3 blocks of the district where CARE is beginning to program the current overall graduation rate out of 7th grade is 40%. While the student gender ratio is about 1:1 approximately 40% of girls drop out, particularly during harvest season. When girls enter adolescence they are encouraged to stay home, work and learn home-making skills so they will make proper wives. In this cultural context an educated girl will marry later (18+), can lead her family & community, can access banks & officials and is confident to speak freely. An uneducated girl will marry young (14), will marry an uneducated man will be restricted in her movement, often confined to the farm & 4 walls of the house to cook, clean, have children and will not be considered a valid member of the community, prevented from voting or holding office..
In the state of Orissa villages are tribal with 14 primitive tribes. In tribal communities 80% of those working in the field are women and as they produce more through their labor they are seen as an economic asset. .
Today we were meant to be going on a family outing to Bicton Park, a place just outside Exeter which has loads of room for kids to burn off some excess energy and the adults can sit and eat biscuits.
Lydia did an extra shopping run last night to get the stuff we'd need for our wonderful, sunny day out and spent most of this morning getting everything ready.
Then Joe and Ben threw a big spanner in the works by being the biggest pains in the ass ever. If I'd treated my parents the way they've been treating me and Lyd lately I'd've been crucified - and quite rightly. My mum sat on me till my dad got home once because I told her that she'd never be mean to me if my dad was home!
So I snapped, put my foot down and here I am, not at Bicton taking loads of photos like I wanted but stuck in the house with two belligerent little tykes. Whatever they can do though, I have years extra experience in being a pain in the ass and am giving them a taste of their own medicine - you want to watch TV? No way my boy! You'd like a biscuit? Make a wish! You want sweets? Tough shit kiddo.
Yes, they've really wound me up today and trust me, they deserve everything they get. Which won't be much *evil grin*.
It might be childish but it's really cheered me up being a complete bastard.
Anyways, today's shot was obviously going to be from some beautiful country location, probably with flowers and fountains and all sorts of other posh stuff in the background.
Instead you get a shot, from the glamourous location of my back garden, of my Chucks and my cup of tea that I was trying to enjoy at the time.
The treatment is a preset I created in Lightroom called 'O'Donnelled' as a tribute to Nicholas O'Donnell, master of the funky processing. Read more about it here.
I'm not planning on ripping Nick off for the next . . . errr . . . 348 days but I wanted to do at least one shot that had a similar feel to it as his do.
The shot itself is, I guess, meant to be a comment on Sundays in general and the relaxing nature of the day.
I wish I could remember what that felt like . . .
I'm off now to make the kids some lunch, I'm not sure where we keep the stale bread and I need to find a recipie for gruel so I'd better get a shift on. And I wish I hadn't swallowed the key for the cupboard I locked them in - they've got the hoover in there and I need it!
NOTE: I'm joking about the gruel and the cupboard . . . those keys hurt going down though.
You can see the mug closer here - no, not me, the Simpsons mug!
Locomotive 99 678 has just left the stop Weißes Roß (White horse) and crossing the tracks (1450 mm) of the Dresdner tram route Nº 4 towards Weinböhla
This has yet to open for business but I hope to give it a try as soon as the doors are opened to the public.
Up until a few years ago this street was dominated by Furniture Outlets and Tool Shops and a few Polish Grocery shop but more recently the furniture shops are being replaced by restaurants.
A kopitiam or kopi tiam is a traditional coffee shop found in Southeast Asia, patronised for meals and beverages. The word kopi is a Malay/Hokkien term for coffee and tiam is the Hokkien/Hakka term for shop.
Menus typically feature simple offerings: a variety of foods based on egg, toast, and kaya, plus coffee, tea, and Milo, a malted chocolate drink which is extremely popular in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia and Singapore and Brunei and in some parts of Indonesia, especially at Sumatra Island.
My son has always really loved Dumbo, especially Casey Jr.. Little Casey Jr is something I've wanted to build for a few years now, but it's been built quite a few times before and I wanted to do something different. My plan has, for a while now, been to try to build a Casey Jr that moves in a very eccentric and cartoon-y fashion.
Once the theme of OcTRAINber 2019 was announced, I knew that this was the perfect time to finally build him. Casey Jr. is an Indirect Drive entry, with all of his moving functions being powered by the drive axles and the piston rods. Due to time and budget constraints, I have only been able to build his yellow passenger car for now (Conveniently serving as the powered car to push him along), but I will get the the rest of the train over time. I'm going to try to continue to put a variety of different motions into each of the remaining train cars as I can.
Unfortunately, my entry is a little delayed. The drive wheels for Casey Jr arrived just in time - but unfortunately an O-Ring was missing from one and I had to procure a replacement; Casey Jr is so incredibly light that without some form of traction tire on both rear wheels, he simply won't work. Thankfully, BMR had already announced an extension which gave me the time needed to finish - and put a little bit of time into trying to edit together a slightly more fun video for Casey Jr.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Boeing has completed the Passive Intermodulation test of its UHF hosted payload with the company’s newest satellite. 702MP model satellite IS-22 is being built for Intelsat. In this photo, IS-22 and its UHF hosted payload are installed in the test chamber.
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Coventry has had three cathedrals. The first was St. Mary's, a monastic building of which only a few ruins of which remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th century Gothic cathedral, which remains a ruined shell after it was bombed. The third is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built after the destruction of the former and a celebration of 20th century architecture.
The second St Michael's Cathedral was bombed almost to destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940. Only the tower, spire, the outer wall and the bronze effigy and tomb of its first bishop, the wonderfully named Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, survived. The ruins of this older cathedral remain hallowed ground and are Grade I listed. Following the bombing of the cathedral in, the words "Father Forgive" were inscribed on the wall behind the altar of the ruined building.
The current St Michael's Cathedral, built next to the remains of the old, was designed by Sir Basil Spence and Arup, built by John Laing and is also a Grade I listed building. Spence was selected for the work was a result of a competition to find an architect for the new Cathedral. He insisted that the old cathedral it should be kept in ruins as a garden of remembrance and that the new cathedral should be built alongside forming one church. The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid by Queen Elizabeth II on 23 March 1956. The cathedral was consecrated on 25 May 1962.
The interior is notable for its huge tapestry of Christ, designed by Graham Sutherland, the emotive sculpture of the Mater Dolorosa by John Bridgeman and the Baptistry windows by John Piper, of abstract design that occupies the full height of the bowed baptistery, which comprises 195 panes, ranging from white to deep colours. Also worthy of note is the Great West Window known as the Screen of Saints and Angels, engraved directly onto the screen in expressionist style by John Hutton. The foundation stone, the ten stone panels inset into the walls of the cathedral called the Tablets of the Word, and the baptismal font were designed and carved by the émigré German letter carver Ralph Beyer.
The Charred Cross and the Cross of Nails were created after the cathedral was bombed during the Coventry Blitz of the Second World War. The cathedral stonemason, Jock Forbes, saw two wooden beams lying in the shape of a cross and tied them together. A replica of the Charred Cross built in 1964 has replaced the original in the ruins of the old cathedral on an altar of rubble. The original is now kept on the stairs linking the cathedral with St. Michael's Hall below.
The Cross of Nails was made of three nails from the roof truss of the old cathedral by Provost Richard Howard. It was later transferred to the new cathedral, where it sits in the centre of the altar cross. It has become a symbol of peace and reconciliation across the world. There are over 160 Cross of Nails Centres all over the world, all of them bearing a cross made of three nails from the ruins, similar to the original one. They are co-ordinated by the International Centre for Reconciliation.
One of the crosses made of nails from the old cathedral was donated to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, which was destroyed by Allied bombing and is also kept as a ruin alongside a newer building. A replica of the cross of nails was also donated to the Chapel of Reconciliation (Kapelle der Versöhnung) which forms part of the Berlin Wall Memorial. A copy of the Stalingrad Madonna by Kurt Reuber that was drawn in 1942 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) is shown in the cathedrals of all three cities (Berlin, Coventry and Volgograd) as a sign of the reconciliation of the three countries that were once enemies.
A medieval cross of nails has also been carried on board all British warships who subsequently bear the name HMS Coventry. The cross of nails was on board the Type 42 destroyer Coventry when she was sunk by enemy action in the Falklands War. The cross was salvaged by Royal Navy divers, and presented to Coventry Cathedral by the ship's Captain and colleagues. The cross was subsequently presented first to the next Coventry in 1988 until she was decommissioned in 2001, and then to HMS Diamond, which is affiliated to Coventry, during her commissioning ceremony on 6 May 2011.
Sbusi Zulu Umemulo Coming of Age Ceremony South African Zulu Cultural Singing and Dancing Umlazi Durban November 2019
Umemulo also known as the Coming of Age is an important Zulu ritual that celebrates a young girl's journey into womanhood. The ceremony indicates that the young girl has transitioned from a child and into an adult woman who can now get married
38'' Disney Cinderella Doll. First look, deboxed.
The doll has been fully deboxed, and is posed free standing. She is very stable standing on her own. She is also very light for such a large doll, weighing in at only 4 lbs 6 oz with all her accessories. I think she is much prettier in person than in the promo pictures on the box. The silver bow in her bodice is a nice addition that is not in the box photos. However, the slippers are much less transparent than it appears in the box photos.
Disney Princess Cinderella Fairytale Friend 38'' Doll
Produced by CDI (a division of Jakks Pacific) for Disney.
Purchased new in box on December 26, 2012.
Received on December 28, 2012.
This is 38'' poseable Cinderella doll that was released in late 2012 in conjunction with the Diamond Edition release in October 3, 2012 of the original 1950 animated Cinderella movie on Blu-ray and DVD. The doll comes wearing a glittering blue and white ball gown. Also included are blue flexible plastic slippers, and a silver and blue plastic tiara with a portrait of the new look Cinderella.
She shares the same body design as the Tangled Rapunzel Fairytale Friend 38'' Doll released in late 2010, also produced by CDI for Disney. These dolls are similar in size and design to the Mattel My Size line of dolls that were released in the 1990's, but these dolls were not produced by Mattel. She has rotating neck, shoulder and hip joints. Her head rotates 360 degrees around a plane that is tilted about 15 degrees from the horizontal, matching the angle of her neck to the vertical. The movement is rather stiff, which I don't mind for a brand new doll. The head can also tilt a bit from side to side, about 10 degrees. Her arms rotate around 360 about a vertical plane. They cannot be tilted from the vertical plane, and the joints are very stiff, with a click stop when they are aligned with her body (exactly vertical). Her legs rotate 90 degrees forward and backward about a vertical plane. They are considerably freer in movement than her head or her arms. There is no click stop when the legs are vertical (in line with her body), which would have been convenient. She can stand up on her own very stably on a hard flat level surface, with or without her shoes. She is also very stable sitting down, although with straight legs since she doesn't have knee joints.
Her face is very pretty, but different in look from the 12'' and 17'' Disney Store Cinderellas released in 2012. Nor is she very movie accurate. She has large blue eyes staring straight ahead, light brown eyebrows, five brown eyelashes over each eye. She has a small nose, and a wide open mouthed smile, with deep pink lips.
She has light blonde hair in her trademark bun with a protective hairnet, but it is smaller than in the movie (or the smaller dolls). The majority of her tresses are in loose medium length curls. She has no bangs. Insead her hair is wrapped around her head over her forehead, below her bun, ending in a short ponytail behind her head, hidden beneath her curly tresses.
Her blue, silver and white dress is based on the new design that was introduced with the new 12'' and 17'' Disney Store Cinderellas in 2012. It is made of satin and organza, and has glitter in the decorations in the skirt. The bodice is deep blue satin, with a light blue satin panel with a printed silver dotted pattern, and silver sequined border. There is a silver bow at the top of the bodice, made of foil-like material. She has puffy shear white organza sleeves and peplum. Her skirt is light blue satin, with deep blue panels on the left and right sides in front. There is a pattern of silver glitter dots in the center light blue panel, and wavy vertical lines of made of smaller multicolored glittery dots on the side deep blue panels. The glitter in her dress does she a little, but nowhere as much as in the current 12'' Classic and 17'' Singing Disney Store Cinderella dolls.
Her accessories are different than the movie character's, as well as the recent Disney Store Cinderella dolls. Her choker is a wide blue satin ribbon with a large diamond in front, rather than the simple black ribbon choker in the movie or in the smaller dolls. She has a silver colored plastic tiara in her hair, topped by a blue heart shaped crystal, rather than a blue or silver head band. Finally, she has translucent light blue rubbery plastic shoes, rather than the clear ''glass'' slippers in the movie, or on the latest Disney Store Cinderella dolls. The shoes are topped with a large heart, embossed with the letter ''P'' (I presume standing for Princess).
Photographed boxed, during the deboxing, and fully deboxed, both alone and with comparable dolls.
Gwalior is a historical and major city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is located to 319 kilometres south of Delhi the capital city of India, Gwalior occupies a strategic location in the Gird region of India, and the city and its fortress has been ruled under several historic northern Indian kingdoms. From the Tomars in the 13th century, it passed to the Mughals, then the Marathas under the Scindias (1754).
Besides being the administrative headquarters of Gwalior district and Gwalior division, Gwalior situates many administrative offices of Chambal Division of northern Madhya Pradesh. Several administrative and judicial organizations, commissions and boards have their state as well as national headquarters situated in the city. Gwalior was the winter capital of the estwhile state Madhya Bharat which later became a part of the larger state Madhya Pradesh. Before Independence Gwalior remained a princely state of British Raj with Scindias as the local ruler. The high rocky hills surrounds the city from all sides, on the north it just forms the border of the Ganga- Yamuna Drainage Basin.the city however is situated on the valley between the hills of Plateau. Gwalior's metropolitan area includes Lashkar, Morar, Thatipur and the City center.
Gwalior is especially known for it rich contribution to the history of India. Strategic events and times; from vedic ages to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to the British Raj, Gwalior has emerged as a prominent place making it an important archaeological as well as historical site. The rich heritage of art and culture and especially contribution of Gwalior to the classical music is worth mentioning.
Post independence, Gwalior has emerged as an important tourist attraction in central India as well as many industries and administrative offices came up within the city. Before the end of the 20th century it became a million plus agglomeration and now it is a metropolitan city in the central India.Gwalior is surrounded by industrial and commercial zones of neighbouring districts (Malanpur – Bhind, Banmor – Morena) on all three main directions. Gwalior is one of the largest cities of Central India and is often referred to as the tourist capital of Madhya Pradesh; the state being called as The Heart of Incredible India.
A recent report of World Health Organization found Gwalior to be the third-most polluted city in the world.
ORIGIN OF NAME
According to local tradition, Gwalior owes its name to a sage of former times. Suraj Sen, a prince of the Sikarwar Rajput clan of the eighth century, is said to have lost his way in the forest. On a secluded hill, he met an old man, the sage Gwalipa, whose influence almost took him by surprise. Upon asking the sage for some drinking water, he was led to a pond, where the waters not only quenched his thirst but cured him of leprosy. Out of gratitude, the prince wished to offer the sage something in return, and the sage asked him to build a wall on the hill to protect the other sages from wild animals which often disturbed their yajnas (or pujas). Suraj Sen later built a palace inside the fort, which was named "Gwalior" after the sage, and eventually the city that grew around the fort took the same name.
HISTORY
After being founded by Maharaj Suraj Sen, Gwalior Fort saw many many different rulers capturing it and ruling the city around it.Gwalior became a prominent place for religious practices, cultures and other disciplines coming up during that time in the country. .During 6th century BC Gwalior was ruled by the Naad dynasty of Pataliputra. During the first century AD Gwalior came under Naag Dynasty. From the carving found at Pavaya it has been discovered that the kushanas ruled the city till the 3rd century AD. After that it came under the Guptas till 467 AD. During the 5th century, The Kannauj of Pratihara Dynasty ruled Gwalior and played a prominent role in shaping its history. From 700–740 AD Gwalior (fondly called then as Gopal Giri) became the capital of Kannauj. A Magnificent Sun Temple was created at the fort hill during that period which later was destroyed.
Later Kachwaha became the rulers of Gwalior. The Padavali Group of Monuments near Morena, Sahastrabahu Temple at the Fort, Kankadmad, were built under their rule.
During 1195–96 Mahhamed Gauri invaded Gwalior and created a mass destruction with attempts to capture Gwalior. But he failed as the fort of Gwalior was unconquerable under the brave efforts of Parihars. In 1231 Itutmish captured Gwalior after an 11-month-long effort and from then till the 13th century it remained under Muslim Rule. In 1375, Raja Veer Singh was made the ruler of Gwalior and he founded the rule of the tomars in Gwalior. During those years, Gwalior saw its golden period.
The Jain Sculptures at Gwalior Fort were built during Tomar's rule Raja Man Singh made his dream palace the Maan Mandir Palace which is now the centre of attraction of Gwalior Fort. Babur described this Palace as a pearl in the necklace of forts in India and said that not even the winds could touch its masts.The daily Light and Sound Show tells about the beautiful history of the Gwalior Fort and Man Mandir Palace. Later during the 1730s the Scindia Captured Gwalior and it remain a princely state during the British Rule.
Ganesh temple at Gwalior Fort has the very first occurrence of zero as a written number in the world. By the 15th century, the city had a noted singing school which was attended by Tansen. Gwalior was ruled by the Mughals and then the Marathas.
REVOLT OF 1857
Gwalior is also known for its participation in the 1857 revolt, mainly due to Rani Lakshmibai's involvement. After Kalpi (Jhansi) fell into the hands of the British on 24 May 1858, Lakshmibai sought shelter at Gwalior Fort. The Maharaja of Gwalior was not willing to give up his fort without a fight as he was a nominal ally of the British, but after negotiations, his troops capitulated and the rebels took possession of the fort. The British wasted no time in attacking Gercest, the bloodiest battle ever fought on Indian soil. Indian forces numbered around 20,000, and British forces around 1600. Lakshmibai's example is remembered to this day by Indian nationalists. She died fighting, and Gwalior was captured. Tatya Tope and Rao Sahib escaped. Tatya Tope was later captured and hanged in April 1859.
SCINDIA STATE OF GWALIOR
Scindia is a Maratha clan in India. This clan included rulers of the Gwalior State in the 18th and 19th centuries, collaborators of the colonial British government during the 19th and the 20th centuries until India became independent, and politicians in independent India.
The Scindia state of Gwalior became a major regional power in the second half of the 18th century and figured prominently in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars. (Gwalior first fell to the British in 1780.) The Scindias held significant power over many of the Rajput states, and conquered the state of Ajmer. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the city was briefly held by rebel forces in 1858 until they were defeated by the British. The Scindia family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, when the Maharaja Jivajirao Scindia acceded to the Government of India. Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states to become the new Indian state of Madhya Bharat. Jivajirao Scindia served as the state's rajpramukh, or appointed governor, from 28 May 1948 to 31 October 1956, when Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh.
In 1962, Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia, the widow of Maharaja Jivajirao Scindia, was elected to the Lok Sabha, beginning the family's career in electoral politics. She was first a member of the Congress Party, and later became an influential member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Her son, Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 representing the Congress Party, and served until his death in 2001. His son, Jyotiraditya Scindia, also in the Congress Party, was elected to the seat formerly held by his father in 2004.
OLD TOWN
The old town of Gwalior, commonly called is kila gate and then about 1 km away is hazira largest area in old town, which is of considerable size but irregularly built, lies at the eastern base of the rock. It contains the tomb of the Sufi saints, Khwaja Khanoon and Muhammad Ghaus, erected during the early part of Mughal emperor Akbar’s reign, and the tomb of Mian Tansen, a great singer and one of the 'Nine Jewels' of Akbar's court. A town called by his name Ghauspura situated near the tomb of Mohaommed Ghaus.reold town consisted of some streets and mohallas which are presumed to be 700 to 800 yrs old areas in gwalior which are still backward areas in gwalior due to improper management of new town. these old areas are as follows.
1)koteshwar temple- this temple is 700 yrs old temple of lord shiva whose shivling was on gwalior fort but when mughals conquered the fort they ordered to threw out the shivaling fort when his troophs done that,shivaling was automatically established in a field below fort without any harm then Muslim qazi told emperor not to do harm to shivaling then in late 18th century scindians build a temple for that shivaling now popularly known as koteshwar mahadev.
2) Ghas mandi- this area is presumed to be 700 years old it was established around the 15th century this place was used by local population for business by selling grass for feeding animals for king and other rich persons.
3) Baba Kapoor- this place is 500 meters away from ghas mandi actually this place was given name baba kapoor because of a famous saint shah abdul gafoor his mazar is there in this area that's why this place is called as baba kapoor and this area consist of 90% Muslims in whole gwalior.
4) kashi naresh ki gali- this a 600 yrs old residential street in gwalior it was given name as kashi naresh ki gali because in the 14th century when the emperor of kashi was defeated in war he was sent to exile by oppositions at that time gwalior emperor and kashi's emperor were good friends when kashi's emperor told gwalior's emperor whole story, emperor gave him an entire street for living at that time which is now known as kashi naresh ki gali. their family is even now resides there in kashi naresh ki gali in RAJAJI KA BADA. meanings- naresh =king = rajaji. gali =street in Hindi language. bada= big area.
5) Loha Mandi- this place is also 600yrs old in gwalior. this place was used for buying iron materials.
6) Hazira- it was the main market place of gwalior that time nowadays this place is too much congested because of its irregular and unplanned structure which was made by old merchants in the 15th century.
All these areas are very considered to be very important areas in historical point of view even now many times many historical coins, jwellery, arms etc. founded in houses when a person try to reniewate the house and these areas also many unpredictable secrets. The town has a museum situated in the Gujari Mahal.
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Special Edition Tinker Bell has been deboxed. She is free standing with her accessories (bottle of pixie dust, and bag).
Detailed photos of my Special Edition Tinker Bell Animator Doll. I bought her from my local Disney Store today, her release day. She comes in a box that is much larger than the normal Animator doll box. She has many special features, including iridescent hair and pom poms, a five layered skirt, yellow satin bloomers, a white and pink flower on her dark pink belt, and a dark pink bow in her hair. But her most special feature is that her fiber optic wings light up when her belly is pressed. They automatically turn off after about 15 seconds. She also has a couple of accessories, They are a round bottle of pixie dust and a faux suede bag. She can free stand, but must be carefully balanced since she is top heavy. She costs more than twice that of a normal Animator doll ($60 vs $27), but with her accessories and many special features, I think she is worth it. I think of her as a Designer Animator doll, although she doesn't come with a display stand or a hard plastic case.
Disney Animators' Collection Tinker Bell Doll - Special Edition
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“A slender and restricted diet is always dangerous not only in chronic
diseases but also in acute diseases.” Hippoctates 400B.C. Nutrition support
in critically ill is obligatory and least prioritized till date in this part of world. But
there has been a revolutionary change across the globe in last few years
since nutrition care is an essential and integral part of first line ICU protocol.
Nutrition care in the ICU presents several challenges because the usual
control mechanisms such as hunger and thirst may be missing. Despite the
huge body of evidence that Nutrition support is essential in ICU we face lots
of impediments to provide early and optimal Nutrition support. Throughout
ICU course patients and attending doctors faces cascades of challenges which more complicates the already fragile issues relating demands Vs. supply. Now a days it is not
uncommon to encounter patients who spend days and months in ICU struggling multidisciplinary
approaches. Most of well designed studies have suggested that both under and over feedings are
dangerous in critically ill hence the need to develop nutrition care plan which should be dynamic and
flexible enough to take care of all subsequent challenges.
Nutrition screening and assessment
The first step in providing appropriate nutrition therapy is to identify patients at risk and diagnose
nutritional problems. Nutritional screening and assessment are fundamental to an effective nutrition
therapy program. These should be routinely undertaken by appropriately trained and skilled nutrition
specialist. Screening and assessment have similar goals: to identify patients at risk of malnutrition or
patients who are malnourished. The first step in identifying risk factors for malnutrition is to observe
and interview patients. Questions that are commonly asked during screening should be easy and
include information about body weight changes within a given time frame and amount of oral intake .
By consensus and validations there is an urgent need to roll down our own assessment tool with an
Indian perspective.
Nutrition support
There are lots of myths about Nutrition support in ICU such as bowel sounds are absent , large
gastric residuals , diarrhea , proteins are restricted in ARF and so on. There are plenty of unmet
needs and there is an urgent need to change the dogmatic picture. Many a times critically ill patients
receive even less than half of the actual caloric needs.
Since there is no true biomarker of adequacy of nutritional status we solely rely on tools and
clinical skills. There is no doubt that starvations is bad for both community dwellers and critically
ill patients.Even well nourished critically ill patients passes through cascades of metabolic and
immunological events which ultimately affects host defense and both short and long term
outcome.
“ We can’t solve problems by using same kind of thinking we used them when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
Has just been treated to a full repaint, arguably its last with Stagecoach, and has landed at Cumnock depot for an unknown reason.
A magical petal
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Cat Stevens » Morning Has Broken
Morning has broken like the first morning,
blackbird has spoken like the first bird.
Praise for them singing, praise for the morning,
praise for them springing, fresh from the world.
Sweet the rain's new fall sunlit from heaven,
like the first dew all on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden,
sprung in completeness where his feet pass.
Mine is the sunlight ! Mine is the morning
born on the one light Eden saw play !
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day.
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I heard the Prophet Muhammad al Mustafā (s.a.w.w.) said,
"People in my house are like the boat of Noah . Whoever is mounted has been saved, and he that missed drowned."
[Hadīth al-Safīnah]
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.w.) has compared his Ahlul Bayt (Ahl al-Bayt) to Noah's ark. Whoever loves and follows them will attain salvation and whoever violates their sanctity will drown. While holding the door of Holy Kaaba, Abu Dharr told that he had heard Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.w.) say, "My family among you is like Noah's ark. He who sails in it will be safe, but he who holds back from it will perish."
he Olympic Torch Relay has arrived in Northern Ireland. On Sunday 3 June 2012 it was here in my hometown Bangor Co Down Northern Ireland. Just before 7am on a cool overcast Sunday morning and the town was packed with people wanting to share in this historic moment. Cheers rang out along with applause as the Torch was caried throughout the town.
The present torch is designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby (BarberOsgerby) for the 2012 London Games. Despite a deeply cynical response to the logo and mascots of the London Games, this torch design appears to have been well accepted in the UK and internationally.
The fuel used for the torch has varied. Early torches used solid or liquid fuels, including olive oil. For a particularly bright display, pyrotechnic compounds and even burning metals have been used. Since the Munich Games of 1972, most torches have instead used a liquefied gas such as propylene or a propane/butane mixture. These are easily stored, easily controlled and give a brightly luminous flame.
The number of torches made has varied from, for example, 22 for Helsinki in 1952, 6,200 for the 1980 Moscow Games and 8,000 for the London 2012 Games.
In transit, the flame sometimes travels by air. A version of the miner's safety lamp is used, kept alight in the air. These lamps are also used during the relay, as a back-up in case the primary torch goes out. This has happened before several Games, but the torch is simply re-lit and carries on.
The Olympic Flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since.
In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Has an archaeologist been working here?
[In 2017, on my 10th visit to Peru and 6th to Cusco and Machu Picchu, I finally found the time and organised the traditional Inca Trail trek. I had also booked to climb Huayna Picchu, a climb that I had previously undertaken and enjoyed in 2007.]
Smokey's momma has been missing now for over a week. Makes my heart incredibly sad. We first met her when she was frequenting my friend's home, famished, obviously nursing. We followed her through the woods back to her kittens. Tried to rescue them, but I refused to do anything without speaking to the "owner" as they were kept on her property near their main door. We were too late for Smokey's siblings as she gave them much-too-young to live on a farm before calling us back, but the gal's boyfriend had always wanted a gray kitten. That meant Smokey became an indoor kitten. We will be neutering him next month just to be sure he doesn't contribute to the neighborhood population somehow. I took his momma in to be spayed and initially the couple kept her indoors but then they decided to have her live outside again. Well, now she is nowhere to be found. Such a friendly, loving feline. I can't imagine she is staying away by her choice. She either became food for some other critter (fox? owl?) or--I can only dream--someone else met this loving feline and decided to take her into their home. What a fabulous feline companion she would be. . . makes me wonder, and yet I don't believe I have the right to take other people's pets if I don't agree with their choices. The momma wasn't being abused, just living as an outdoor cat. I was just grateful we got her spayed to keep her from pumping out litter after litter after litter. And yet, how discouraging to have her disappear. I feel like I let the beauty down.
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Wikipedia: Gaza genocide
December 5, 2024
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report published today.
The report, 'You Feel Like You Are Subhuman': Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity.
“Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” said Agnès Callamard (b. 1965), Secretary General of Amnesty International.
“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.”
“States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide. All states with influence over Israel, particularly key arms suppliers like the USA and Germany, but also other EU member states, the UK and others, must act now to bring Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza to an immediate end.”
Over the past two months the crisis has grown particularly acute in the North Gaza governorate, where a besieged population is facing starvation, displacement and annihilation amid relentless bombardment and suffocating restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid.
“Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza. It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard.
“Israel has repeatedly argued that its actions in Gaza are lawful and can be justified by its military goal to eradicate Hamas. But genocidal intent can co-exist alongside military goals and does not need to be Israel’s sole intent.”
Amnesty International examined Israel’s acts in Gaza closely and in their totality, taking into account their recurrence and simultaneous occurrence, and both their immediate impact and their cumulative and mutually reinforcing consequences. The organization considered the scale and severity of the casualties and destruction over time. It also analysed public statements by officials, finding that prohibited acts were often announced or called for in the first place by high-level officials in charge of the war efforts.
“Taking into account the pre-existing context of dispossession, apartheid and unlawful military occupation in which these acts have been committed, we could find only one reasonable conclusion: Israel’s intent is the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, whether in parallel with, or as a means to achieve, its military goal of destroying Hamas,” said Agnès Callamard.
“The atrocity crimes committed on 7 October 2023 by Hamas and other armed groups against Israelis and victims of other nationalities, including deliberate mass killings and hostage-taking, can never justify Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
International jurisprudence recognizes that the perpetrator does not need to succeed in their attempts to destroy the protected group, either in whole or in part, for genocide to have been committed. The commission of prohibited acts with the intent to destroy the group, as such, is sufficient.
Amnesty International’s report examines in detail Israel’s violations in Gaza over nine months between 7 October 2023 and early July 2024. The organization interviewed 212 people, including Palestinian victims and witnesses, local authorities in Gaza, healthcare workers, conducted fieldwork and analysed an extensive range of visual and digital evidence, including satellite imagery. It also analysed statements by senior Israeli government and military officials, and official Israeli bodies. On multiple occasions, the organization shared its findings with the Israeli authorities but had received no substantive response at the time of publication.
Unprecedented scale and magnitude
Israel’s actions following Hamas’s deadly attacks on 7 October 2023 have brought Gaza’s population to the brink of collapse. Its brutal military offensive had killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, including over 13,300 children, and injured over 97,000 more, by 7 October 2024, many of them in direct or deliberately indiscriminate attacks, often wiping out entire multigenerational families. It has caused unprecedented destruction, which experts say occurred at a level and speed not seen in any other conflict in the 21st century, levelling entire cities and destroying critical infrastructure, agricultural land and cultural and religious sites. It thereby rendered large swathes of Gaza uninhabitable.
Mohammed, who fled with his family from Gaza City to Rafah in March 2024 and was displaced again in May 2024, described their struggle to survive in horrifying conditions:
“Here in Deir al-Balah, it’s like an apocalypse… You have to protect your children from insects, from the heat, and there is no clean water, no toilets, all while the bombing never stops. You feel like you are subhuman here.”
Israel imposed conditions of life in Gaza that created a deadly mixture of malnutrition, hunger and diseases, and exposed Palestinians to a slow, calculated death. Israel also subjected hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza to incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment.
Viewed in isolation, some of the acts investigated by Amnesty International constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law or international human rights law. But in looking at the broader picture of Israel’s military campaign and the cumulative impact of its policies and acts, genocidal intent is the only reasonable conclusion.
Intent to destroy
To establish Israel’s specific intent to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza, as such, Amnesty International analysed the overall pattern of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, reviewed dehumanizing and genocidal statements by Israeli government and military officials, particularly those at the highest levels, and considered the context of Israel’s system of apartheid, its inhumane blockade of Gaza and the unlawful 57-year-old military occupation of the Palestinian territory.
Before reaching its conclusion, Amnesty International examined Israel’s claims that its military lawfully targeted Hamas and other armed groups throughout Gaza, and that the resulting unprecedented destruction and denial of aid were the outcome of unlawful conduct by Hamas and other armed groups, such as locating fighters among the civilian population or the diversion of aid. The organization concluded these claims are not credible. The presence of Hamas fighters near or within a densely populated area does not absolve Israel from its obligations to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. Its research found Israel repeatedly failed to do so, committing multiple crimes under international law for which there can be no justification based on Hamas’s actions. Amnesty International also found no evidence that the diversion of aid could explain Israel’s extreme and deliberate restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid.
In its analysis, the organization also considered alternative arguments such as ones that Israel was acting recklessly or that it simply wanted to destroy Hamas and did not care if it needed to destroy Palestinians in the process, demonstrating a callous disregard for their lives rather than genocidal intent.
"Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now."
- Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International
However, regardless of whether Israel sees the destruction of Palestinians as instrumental to destroying Hamas or as an acceptable by-product of this goal, this view of Palestinians as disposable and not worthy of consideration is in itself evidence of genocidal intent.
Many of the unlawful acts documented by Amnesty International were preceded by officials urging their implementation. The organization reviewed 102 statements that were issued by Israeli government and military officials and others between 7 October 2023 and 30 June 2024 and dehumanized Palestinians, called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them.
Of these, Amnesty International identified 22 statements made by senior officials in charge of managing the offensive that appeared to call for, or justify, genocidal acts, providing direct evidence of genocidal intent. This language was frequently replicated, including by Israeli soldiers on the ground, as evidenced by audiovisual content verified by Amnesty International showing soldiers making calls to “erase” Gaza or to make it uninhabitable, and celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mosques, schools and universities.
Killing and causing serious bodily or mental harm
Amnesty International documented the genocidal acts of killing and causing serious mental and bodily harm to Palestinians in Gaza by reviewing the results of investigations it conducted into 15 air strikes between 7 October 2023 and 20 April 2024 that killed at least 334 civilians, including 141 children, and wounded hundreds of others. Amnesty International found no evidence that any of these strikes were directed at a military objective.
In one illustrative case, on 20 April 2024, an Israeli air strike destroyed the Abdelal family house in the Al-Jneinah neighbourhood in eastern Rafah, killing three generations of Palestinians, including 16 children, while they were sleeping.
While these represent just a fraction of Israel’s aerial attacks, they are indicative of a broader pattern of repeated direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects or deliberately indiscriminate attacks. The attacks were also conducted in ways designed to cause a very high number of fatalities and injuries among the civilian population.
Inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
The report documents how Israel deliberately inflicted conditions of life on Palestinians in Gaza intended to lead, over time, to their destruction. These conditions were imposed through three simultaneous patterns that repeatedly compounded the effect of each other’s devastating impacts: damage to and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure and other objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population; the repeated use of sweeping, arbitrary and confusing mass “evacuation” orders to forcibly displace almost all of Gaza’s population; and the denial and obstruction of the delivery of essential services, humanitarian assistance and other life-saving supplies into and within Gaza.
After 7 October 2023, Israel imposed a total siege on Gaza cutting off electricity, water and fuel. In the nine months reviewed for this report, Israel maintained a suffocating, unlawful blockade, tightly controlled access to energy sources, failed to facilitate meaningful humanitarian access within Gaza, and obstructed the import and delivery of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, particularly to areas north of Wadi Gaza. They thereby exacerbated an already existing humanitarian crisis. This, combined with the extensive damage to Gaza’s homes, hospitals, water and sanitation facilities and agricultural land, and mass forced displacement, caused catastrophic levels of hunger and led to the spread of diseases at alarming rates. The impact was especially harsh on young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, with anticipated long-term consequences for their health.
"The international community’s seismic, shameful failure for over a year to press Israel to end its atrocities in Gaza, by first delaying calls for a ceasefire and then continuing arms transfers, is and will remain a stain on our collective conscience."
- Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International
Time and again, Israel had the chance to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, yet for over a year it has repeatedly refused to take steps blatantly within its power to do so, such as opening sufficient access points to Gaza or lifting tight restrictions on what could enter the Strip or their obstruction of aid deliveries within Gaza while the situation has grown progressively worse.
Through its repeated “evacuation” orders Israel displaced nearly 1.9 million Palestinians – 90% of Gaza’s population – into ever-shrinking, unsafe pockets of land under inhumane conditions, some of them up to 10 times. These multiple waves of forced displacement left many jobless and deeply traumatized, especially since some 70% of Gaza’s residents are refugees or descendants of refugees whose towns and villages were ethnically cleansed by Israel during the 1948 Nakba.
Despite conditions quickly becoming unfit for human life, Israeli authorities refused to consider measures that would have protected displaced civilians and ensured their basic needs were met, showing that their actions were deliberate.
They refused to allow those displaced to return to their homes in northern Gaza or relocate temporarily to other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or Israel, continuing to deny many Palestinians their right to return under international law to areas they were displaced from in 1948. They did so knowing that there was nowhere safe for Palestinians in Gaza to flee to.
Accountability for genocide
“The international community’s seismic, shameful failure for over a year to press Israel to end its atrocities in Gaza, by first delaying calls for a ceasefire and then continuing arms transfers, is and will remain a stain on our collective conscience,” said Agnès Callamard.
“Governments must stop pretending they are powerless to end this genocide, which was enabled by decades of impunity for Israel’s violations of international law. States need to move beyond mere expressions of regret or dismay and take strong and sustained international action, however uncomfortable a finding of genocide may be for some of Israel’s allies.
“The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949) and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (b. 1958) for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued last month offer real hope of long-overdue justice for victims. States must demonstrate their respect for the court’s decision and for universal international law principles by arresting and handing over those wanted by the ICC.
“We are calling on the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently consider adding genocide to the list of crimes it is investigating and for all states to use every legal avenue to bring perpetrators to justice. No one should be allowed to commit genocide and remain unpunished.”
Amnesty International is also calling for all civilian hostages to be released unconditionally and for Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups responsible for the crimes committed on 7 October to be held to account.
The organization is also calling for the UN Security Council to impose targeted sanctions against Israeli and Hamas officials most implicated in crimes under international law.
Background
On 7 October 2023 Hamas and other armed groups indiscriminately fired rockets into southern Israel and carried out deliberate mass killings and hostage-taking there, killing 1,200 people, including over 800 civilians, and abducted 223 civilians and captured 27 soldiers. The crimes perpetrated by Hamas and other armed groups during this attack will be the focus of a forthcoming Amnesty International report.
Since October 2023, Amnesty International has conducted in-depth investigations into the multiple violations and crimes under international law committed by Israeli forces, including direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and deliberately indiscriminate attacks killing hundreds of civilians, as well as other unlawful attacks on and collective punishment of the civilian population. The organization has called on the Office of the ICC Prosecutor to expedite its investigation into the situation in the State of Palestine and is campaigning for an immediate ceasefire.
For the Hebrew translation of this press release, click here.
Source: Amnesty International - Amnesty concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza (Publ. 5 December 2024)
The Transat has a new title sponsor in the French pastry company, bakerly.
The Transat, the oldest professional solo sailing race, which sets sail from Plymouth to New York on May 2nd, has a new title sponsor in bakerly, a new brand of French inspired bakery goods.
The race now officially becomes “The Transat bakerly” – in a partnership that perfectly fits the French company’s spirit of adventure.
Founded in 2015, bakerly, is a new consumer brand but it shares with The Transat – which enjoys a 56-year history steeped in adventure and sailing folklore – a common path: both The Transat and bakerly are crossing the Atlantic.
‘bakerly’ is a US subsidiary of the French industrial food group Norac. With bakerly, American consumers can now experience crêpes, brioches, and croissants made without additives or preservatives.
For the Norac group, the sponsorship of the race is something of a homecoming. Crêpes Whaou! is one of the most iconic brands owned by the group and sailing fans will remember the many victories of French skipper Franck-Yves Escoffier and his trimaran. Escoffier even took part in the 2004 edition of this solo transatlantic epic.
With a warm-up from St Malo to the race start at Plymouth and then finishing New York 3,000 miles later, The Transat bakerly follows the strategic path of the bakerly brand – created in France, established in Britain and today setting foot in America.
During each of The Transat bakerly’s stopovers – at St-Malo, Plymouth and New York – the public will have the chance to discover, or rediscover, the different products the Norac group has to offer.
The Transat bakerly is a key race in the world of offshore racing and sport in general, since 1960, the race has contributed a great deal to sailing and its history has a universal appeal. We are very proud to associate our brand with an event of this magnitude.
“The Transat bakerly is a key race in the world of offshore racing and sport in general”, explained Bruno Caron, CEO of Norac. “Since 1960, the race has contributed a great deal to sailing and its history has a universal appeal. We are very proud to associate our brand with an event of this magnitude.
“For us this sponsorship marks a return to racing and a sport that has much potential, as we discovered with Crêpes Whaou! Now with The Transat bakerly, we marry passion and reason because this is how the best stories start.”
Hervé Favre, The Transat bakerly Events Director said: “Since the first edition, The Transat has been associated with fine partners. Today we are proud to join together with bakerly and look towards a promising future with Norac, a French food group out to conquer the US market.
“This partnership is great news, and it will help give greater scope to the event,” Favre added.
Since the first edition, The Transat has been associated with fine partners. Today we are proud to join together with bakerly and look towards a promising future with Norac, a French food group out to conquer the US market. This partnership is great news, and it will help give greater scope to the event.
The 2016 edition of The Transat bakerly will see 25 solo skippers in four classes – Ultimes, IMOCA 60s, Multi50s and Class40s – take on one of the great challenges in professional sailing. They face a 3,000-mile course complete with storm force headwinds, rough seas and freezing fog.
When Sir Francis Chichester won the first edition of the race in 1960, it took him 40 days to reach New York. This year the fastest boats could be there in as little as seven days.
The Norac Group:
- 4200 employees
- CEO Bruno Caron
- HQ in Rennes, France
- Owner of 12 brands, including 5 outside of France
- Companies in France: Ateliê do Sabor, Cie des Pains, Daunat, Dessaint Food Services, La Boulangère and Sud’n’Sol
- Companies outside France: Germany – Ibis; Brazil – Norac do Brazil; Spain – Espanorac; UK – Norac Foods UK; USA – Norac USA
- 21 production sites; two outside of France
- Brands: Armor Délices, Ateliê do Sabor, bakerly, Crêpes Whaou!, Daunat, Dessaint Food Services, Ensoleil’ade, Ibis, La Boulangère, Le Ster Le Pâtisser, Sud’n’Sol.
The Transat bakerly:
- The oldest professional solo sailing race, first staged in 1960 and held every four years
- Race winners have included many of the world’s greatest solo sailors, among them Sir Francis Chichester, Eric Tabarly, Ellen MacArthur and Loick Peyron
- The 2016 edition of The Transat bakerly features 25 entries from four nations
- Solo skippers will race in four classes of yachts
- The racetrack is 3,000 nautical miles of the North Atlantic Ocean
- The race starts from Plymouth in the UK and finishes in New York (for the first time since the inaugural race in 1960)
- Involves some of the toughest racing in solo sailing with storms, big seas and freezing fog to contend with
- Features for the first time a non-timed warm-up from St-Malo in Brittany to Plymouth
- At the finish the yachts will berth in the brand new Oneº15 Brooklyn Marina overlooking Manhatten
- See more at: www.thetransat.com/news/view/the-transat-2016-welcomes-ba...
La Transat anglaise appelée The Transat bakerly depuis 2016, (également connue sous le nom de Transat en solitaire), est une course à la voile transatlantique d'Est en Ouest, entre l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord, en solitaire. Elle a lieu principalement contre les vents dominants, et les dépressions y sont fréquentes. D'abord sur la route Plymouth - Newport, elle arrive désormais à Boston. Elle se déroule tous les 4 ans depuis 1960 et est une des plus anciennes grandes courses en mer. Elle est ouverte aux multicoques et aux monocoques qui ont un classement séparé.
Créée en 1960 par le RWYC (Royal Western Yacht Club), la Transat Anglaise est sponsorisée par le journal l'Observer jusqu'en 1984 (d'où son nom d'OSTAR - Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race). À partir de ce moment, la course change de nom au gré de ses différents sponsors. Baptisée Carlsberg STAR en 1988, elle prit le nom d'Europe 1 STAR en 1992 et 1996 puis d'Europe 1 New Man STAR en 2000, date de la dernière édition. Rebaptisée en 2004 The Transat, elle n'est plus organisée par le RWYC, mais par Mark Turner et sa société Offshore Challenges. En 2005, la course est divisée eux deux catégories, l'une destinée aux bateaux de moins de 50 pieds, désignée par le nom d'OSTAR ou de Corinthian Race, l'autre, destinée aux plus de 50 pieds, adoptant le nom de Transat1. En 2008, rebaptisée The Artemis Transat, la course est ouverte aux monocoques 60 pieds IMOCA et Class40.
Le premier français à participer à la Transat est Jean Lacombe, en 1960, sur un Cap Horn de 6,50 m dessiné par J.J. Herbulot et construit aux chantiers Jouet; il termine cinquième3. Jean Lacombe participe aussi à la deuxième Transat Anglaise de 1964, à bord d'un Golif4, le plus petit voilier de la flotte. Il coupe la ligne d'arrivée après 46 jours de navigation et prend ainsi la 9ème place, améliorant de 23 jours son temps réalisé en 1960.
La Transat anglaise a contribué à faire de ses vainqueurs des légendes de la voile, comme Éric Tabarly, double lauréat (1964, 1976), ou encore Alain Colas, premier en 1972 sur Pen Duick IV5 et qui disparaîtra six ans plus tard sur ce trimaran rebaptisé Manureva, au cours de la première Route du Rhum.
Cette course a souvent souri aux Français, puisqu'outre les marins mentionnés ci-dessus, Fauconnier l'a emporté en 1984, Poupon en 1988, Loïck Peyron en 1992, 1996 et 2008, Joyon en 2000 et Desjoyeaux en 2004 soit dix victoires françaises en 13 épreuves.
Loïck Peyron est le seul à cumuler trois succès sur cette épreuve.
L'édition 2012 a été reportée à une année ultérieure, le format de la course étant peut-être appelé à change.
The sun has set, yet still sets the clouds afire. The clouds and water are moving with the wind and show movement in the long exposure.
Playground has faded - the last ones are dancing on the horizon - in search of new exciting places - objects and subjects
The modern world has made the short walk from St Martin to St Augustine a difficult one, as the inner ringroad cuts between them both, and there is just one safe crossing at the western end of the road, and a subway the other side of the roundabout to the east (although I did not know it was there).
So I crossed the road, waiting as cars thundered past eager to get wherever they were going.
Past a quiet residential street, then turning left at the roundabout near to the awful Anglia Square shopping centre.
A further short distance to the north, St Augustine sits in its yard, mostly open to view before the mature trees are full of leaves again, and it can go back to being hidden.
It was supposed to be open, and to say I was frustrated putting in the effort and the time out of the packed day to get here is an understatement. But, on the door there was a sign saying a key could be obtained in one of the shops opposite. So I go over to collect it, and return to find the key opened the priest's door.
Inside is an unremarkable church, it seemed to me one little visited, but is in the care of the CCT.
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St Augustine was one of thirty-six parish churches in medieval Norwich to survive the Reformation; but it has always seemed apart from the others, and doubly so nowadays. It is the most northerly of them all, and from here to the heart of the city the factories and workshops spread in the 18th and 19th centuries. Then came the blitz, and the area to the south and east of St Augustine was laid waste. Mad City Engineer Herbert Rowley seized his chance, and built a four lane urban freeway across the medieval city that cut St Augustine off from the heart. Just to make sure that everyone's misery was complete, Rowley allowed the stupefyingly ugly Sovereign House and Anglia Square to be built to the east of St Augustine.
When you stand in the graveyard of St Augustine, you can enjoy the 17th century almshouses that line the south side of the graveyard, and some modern award-winning sheltered flats on the north side. But dominating the scene is the jaw-dropping presence of Sovereign House. It really is stupefyingly ugly. It was built for Her Majesty's Stationery Office when such a thing existed, but today stands empty and derelict. Anglia Square and the multistorey carpark beside it seem almost jaunty by comparison, but don't be fooled. They are ugly too.
It really does seem a slap in the face for this pretty little church. Despite being in an area of the city where lots of people actually live, St Augustine is redundant, but mercifully in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. This means that you can visit it, and the keyholders I met were really lovely, even offering me a cup of tea on this cold and snowy day.
The most striking think about St Augustine, of course, is its red-brick tower, the only one in the city. The rest of the church seems to hunch against it - the nave is really short, but very high, and the aisles continue eastwards to the end of the chancel. This gives a floor plan inside which is almost exactly square.
I'm really pleased that the CCT have care of this church, because there are not many historical survivals inside, and it might otherwise have been lost. The furnishings are all late Victorian, and the rood screen dates from the 1920s - it is the parish war memorial, and the names of the dead are inscribed on the western side of the dado. They are not dead who live forever in our hearts it reads on the west side, which seems a curiously secular thing to say, as if it came out of a card saying with sympathy on the front.
When Mortlock came this way in the 1980s, he saw a surviving panel from the medieval screen reset in the north aisle, but this is now in safe storage. It depicts St Apollonia, and there are hopes to put it on display here in the future.
There are a couple of curiosities. The Laudian communion rails, presumably ripped out by enthusiastic Norwich puritans, have been pressed into use as the western side of the ringing gallery beneath the tower, although the gallery itself has been boarded up. Below it, the font cover has been cobbled together apparently out of bits of furniture - a strange little head sits on the pinnacle.
One famous name associated with this church is Matthew Brettingham, the 17th century architect, responsible for refurbishing a number of Norfolk buildings. His memorial is in the north aisle chapel; unfortunately, you can't see it, because the vestry was built around it and is kept locked. I wonder what he'd make of Sovereign House?
Simon Knott, December 2005
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St Augustine stands rather remote from the other churches of Norwich, partly because the area around it was, until the 19th century, fields and gardens. It is probably named for St Augustine of Canterbury, who was sent to England by Gregory the Great in 597, although there is a possibility it may be named for Augustine of Hippo. it is the only pre-reformation church in Norfolk with this dedication – whichever of the two Augustines it is!
The most noticeable thing about the church is its red brick tower. This was built in 1682-7, although the bottom few feet are what remains of the old flint tower. The unusualness of this tower caused the parishioners to be known as ‘Red Steeplers’.
The church is square in plan, with a nave and a chancel of equal length, and two aisles that run their full length east to west.
The roof was put up around 1530, and is of arch-braced construction. The font is 15th century. The gallery front in the tower may be made from the old 18th century communion rails. The rest of the furnishings date from the 1880 restoration.
There is not much stained glass: the east window is 1870, and the one in the vestry (of St Augustine of Canturbury and St Felix of Dommoc) dates from 1901.
Include a memorial to Matthew Brettingham - architect at Holkham Hall.
Before Phipson’s restoration work, the interior presented a very different appearance. Owing to its square plan, the communion table was at the east end (where it still is) but the pulpit and reading desk were at the west end, with the box-pews arranged in between, so that the occupants could see both.
The present arrangement, with the pine pew benches, and the reredos, are all of the 1880s. The screen (which incorporates the pulpit and reading desk) was erected in 1920 in memory of those from the parish who lost their lives in the Great War.
The parish was united with various neighbouring ones – St Mary Coslany, St George Colegate – over the years, but was finally united with St Luke, Aylsham Road, in 19.., and declared redundant in 1997. It came under the care of the Churches’ Conservation Trust in 2000.
www.norwich-churches.org/St Augustine/home.shtm