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Garrison leaders Command Sgt. Maj. Sa'eed Mustafa and Col. David Carstens recognized employees for from five to 45 years of service June 21.
H.E. Mr. Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan addresses the High-level Segment of the 46th session of the Human Rights Council, Palais des Nations. 22 February 2021. UN photo by Violaine Martin
The figure of Our Lady of the Angels is a terracotta majolica (tin-glazed pottery) ceramic statue depicting the Virgin and Child with Angels.
When completed by Eugenio Pattarino, it was originally placed in the Queen of Angels Minor Seminary. Later, from 1965 till 1974, it was part of the high altar of the Cathedral of St Vibiana (the former cathedral of Los Angeles).
Los Angeles; September 2018
The Lunacy Cabaret crew, in support of Zero Gravity Circus, close out their season with a bunch of hippies... May 10, 2014, at the Centre of Gravity Theatre, Toronto. Fire juggler
Cultural Soirée session with André Hoffmann, Vice-Chairman, Roche Holding; Co-Chair, World Economic Forum; Li Qiang, Mayor, Dalian Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China; Mazen S. Darwazeh, Executive Vice Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Jordan during the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China, on 24/6/2026 from 19:00 to 21:30 in the Dalian International Conference Center - Donggang Music Fountain Square, Reception. (cultural soirée). ©2026 World Economic Forum
Tianjin (天津) is a metropolis in northern coastal China and one of the five national central cities of China, with a total municipal population of 15,469,500. It is governed as one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.
In terms of urban population, Tianjin is the fourth largest in China, after Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. In terms of administrative area population, Tianjin ranks fifth in Mainland China. The walled city of Tianjin was built in 1404. As a treaty port since 1860, Tianjin has been a major seaport and gateway to the nation's capital. During the Boxer Rebellion the city was the seat of the Tianjin Provisional Government. In the period of late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China, Tianjin became one of the largest cities in China. At that time, numerous western-style buildings and mansions were constructed in concessions, many of which are well-preserved today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tianjin suffered a depression due to the policy of the central government and Tangshan earthquake, but recovered in the 1990s.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin
When I visited the area today there were a number of signs indicating that I was in Rialto Village and as I was unaware of such a village I was a bit surprised so I suspect that Rialto is being promoted as being a village for commercial and business reasons.
Rialto is a suburb of Dublin, situated on the southside . It is located along the abandoned section from the Grand Canal to James Street Basin which was built to serve the Guinness Brewery. This section of the canal was the original (not the extension), but closed down in 1976.
I do know if it is true or not but the area is named after the bridge rather than the other way around. Also the original Rialto Bridge [Dublin] was replaced in 1931.
The Luas Red Tram line follows the former Main Line of the Grand Canal – now filled in as a Linear Park from Davitt Road to the Basin Lane end of St. James’s Hospital. Luas trams now pass under the former canal bridge at Rialto. Locally known as Rialto Bridge but the official name is Harcourt Bridge which is a bit confusing as Harcourt Street is elsewhere in the city.
A temporary wooden bridge was constructed in 1766. Some time later, after a previous project had failed, a Mr. Henry Roche obtained the contract to construct an ornamental bridge costing £1200. When the bridge it was finally completed it was considered similar in shape and style to a bridge in Venice, called Ponte Di Rialto. The name 'Rialto', dating from 1795, eventually extended to the nearby district.
The bridge was reconstructed and widened in 1939 and further modified to comply with safety requirements when the Red Line Luas came into operation in September 2004.
Nearly 300 job seekers attended the recent Career Fair at College of DuPage. The fourth annual event featured more than 60 employers. In addition to the fair, the College’s Career Services office offered a number of pre-fair workshops to help job seekers fine tune their resumes and prepare for the interview process.
100's of Artists and Activists Condemn Oil Spill At Manhattan BP Station. The start of something much much larger. Protesters in New York City descended on a BP gas station in SoHo on Friday and demanded a boycott of the oil company. We, the Citizens of The United States of America, stand in solidarity with the State of Louisiana and the entire Gulf of Mexico, demanding an urgent resolve of this Extraordinary Crisis. We demand ACTION and ANSWERS, RESTITUTION and PROTECTION and we want it NOW! There’s growing anger at both BP and the federal government regarding the Gulf oil catastrophe; three-quarters of Americans think that BP has muffed the response and — are you listening, President Obama?
The group condemned BP for its response to the oil spill and the damage company is causing to the environment. Some carried protest signs and covered themselves with chocolate syrup and black food coloring to mimick the crude that's washing up along the Gulf Coast.
BP: Spill Could Be 10 Times Current Estimate
The oil giant BP has privately conceded the size of its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be ten times greater than current estimates. The New York Times reports a senior BP executive told a closed-door Congressional briefing that a ruptured oil well could be spewing as many 60,000 barrels of oil a day. The expanding oil slick meanwhile has hit the shores of Louisiana’s Chandeleur islands, a wildlife refuge 60 miles from New Orleans.
BP stations are all across the United States and Europe.
Protest your local BP Gas Stations regularly and let your voice be heard by BP and most importantly the US Governement.
Chad Farquharson and Wayne McGill, two well-known Surrey citizens, have been presented with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship. Farquharson and McGill will be honoured with the medal for being unrelenting advocates for BC families who have children with medical needs, and have provided hundreds of families with healthy snacks while they care for their hospitalized child.
Launched in July 2015 by Premier Clark, the prestigious Medal of Good Citizenship recognizes individuals who, through exceptional long-term service, have made outstanding contributions to their communities without expectation of remuneration or reward. The medal reflects their generosity, service, acts of selflessness and contributions to community life.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017IGRS0005-000468
This charming Romanesque Revival courthouse was erected in 1893 just southwest of the Elberton town square on South Oliver Street. It was designed by prominent Chattanooga architect Reuben Harrison Hunt. It appears strikingly similar to Hunt's Henry County Courthouse in Paris, Tennessee, which was built three years later.
The Elbert County Courthouse was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is also a contributing property to the Elberton Commercial Historic District, which was listed in 1982.
Elberton, Georgia is a lovely Piedmont community known for its granite stone, favored by architects and builders throughout the region. Elberton was named for Samuel Elbert.
Waterbird Regional Preserve is a 198-acre area comprised of a wetland and the associated uplands to the east. The focal point of the Preserve is the rich and diverse Al McNabney Marsh, of which the East Bay Regional Park District owns 46 acres in the southern end and Mountain View Sanitary District owns 69 acres in the northern and deeper end.
The area now known as McNabney Marsh was first visited by the Bay Miwok's Chupcan people, a tribelet thought to have consisted of about 200 people. With the plentiful resources of the bay, marshlands, and uplands, these Native Americans were able to sustain their existence here for centuries, until the influx of explorers and missionaries in the 1800s.
The construction of a major rail line through the area in the 1880s helped define the marsh as we see it today. The shipping and rail services of Martinez encouraged the location of the Peyton Chemical Company and the Mountain Copper Company at the mouth of Peyton Slough. The uplands area of the Preserve with pepperwoods and eucalyptus was most likely the site of early nineteenth-century chemical company worker housing. The pepperwoods line an old road made of "clinker" stones, produced through smelting operations.
McNabney Marsh, named after a former leader of the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society, is part of a larger 200-acre wetland complex connected by Peyton Slough, which drains into Suisun Bay. In 1988 an oil spill inundated marshlands in this area, including McNabney Marsh. Following that spill, a $10 million Natural Resource Fund was established to restore, rehabilitate and acquire the equivalent of the natural resources damaged by the oil spill. The East Bay Regional Park District acquired 198 acres in the south end of the marsh in 1992 using funding provided by the Trustee Committee overseeing the Natural Resource Fund. This land included the uplands to the east of the marsh, which provide recreational trail opportunities today.
Info source: East Bay Regional Park District
Another Zeni sighting a monochrome exposure of her wearing my baseball cap backwards.....
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After a fair amount of walking I reached the sumit of the Wanla Scar Road, and the turnoff for Brown Pike which would take me up to Dow Crag.
Or at least that was the plan. In reality when I reached the summit I was hit by winds from the other side of the pass that were so strong that I was almost blown over.
Knowing that if I went up towards Dow Crag, I'd probably be hit by this wind all the way which wouldn't be particularly safe to walk in, I reluctantly abandoned my plans for Dow Crag and headed back down the Wanla Scar Pass to Cove Bridge once more.
Gary Cohen, founder of Healthier Hospitals Initiative, is one of 11 champions of change, honored at "Protecting Public Health in a Changing Climate" event at the White House
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Metempsychosis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Greek concept of the transmigration of the soul. For the general concept, see Reincarnation.
A section of Metempsychosis (1923) by Yokoyama Taikan; a drop of water from the vapours in the sky transforms into a mountain stream, which flows into a great river and on into the sea, whence rises a dragon (pictured) that turns back to vapour; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Important Cultural Property)[1]
Metempsychosis (Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. Generally, the term is only used within the context of ancient Greek philosophy, but has also been used by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer[2] and Kurt Gödel;[3] otherwise, the term "transmigration" is more appropriate. The word plays a prominent role in James Joyce's Ulysses and is also associated with Nietzsche.[4] Another term sometimes used synonymously is palingenesis.
Contents [hide]
1Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers
2In Greek philosophy
3In literature after the classical era
4See also
5References
6External links
Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers[edit]
It is unclear how the doctrine of metempsychosis arose in Greece. It is easiest to assume that earlier ideas which had never been extinguished were utilized for religious and philosophic purposes. The Orphic religion, which held it, first appeared in Thrace upon the semi-barbarous north-eastern frontier. Orpheus, its legendary founder, is said to have taught that soul and body are united by a compact unequally binding on either; the soul is divine, immortal and aspires to freedom, while the body holds it in fetters as a prisoner. Death dissolves this compact, but only to re-imprison the liberated soul after a short time: for the wheel of birth revolves inexorably. Thus the soul continues its journey, alternating between a separate unrestrained existence and fresh reincarnation, round the wide circle of necessity, as the companion of many bodies of men and animals." To these unfortunate prisoners Orpheus proclaims the message of liberation, that they stand in need of the grace of redeeming gods and of Dionysus in particular, and calls them to turn to God by ascetic piety of life and self-purification: the purer their lives the higher will be their next reincarnation, until the soul has completed the spiral ascent of destiny to live for ever as God from whom it comes. Such was the teaching of Orphism which appeared in Greece about the 6th century BC, organized itself into private and public mysteries at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.[5][6][7]
In Greek philosophy[edit]
The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros;[8] but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent. Pythagoras is not believed to have invented the doctrine or to have imported it from Egypt. Instead he made his reputation by bringing the Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia, and creating societies for its diffusion.
The real weight and importance of metempsychosis in Western tradition is due to its adoption by Plato.[citation needed] In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the myth how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world. After death, he said, he went with others to the place of Judgment and saw the souls returning from heaven, and proceeded with them to a place where they chose new lives, human and animal. He saw the soul of Orpheus changing into a swan, Thamyras becoming a nightingale, musical birds choosing to be men, the soul of Atalanta choosing the honours of an athlete. Men were seen passing into animals and wild and tame animals changing into each other. After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth. There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, the Phaedrus, Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus and Laws.[citation needed] In Plato's view the number of souls was fixed; birth therefore is never the creation of a soul, but only a transmigration from one body to another.[9] Plato's acceptance of the doctrine is characteristic of his sympathy with popular beliefs and desire to incorporate them in a purified form into his system.[citation needed] The extent of Plato's belief in metempsychosis has been debated by some scholars in modern times. Marsilio Ficino (Platonic Theology 17.3–4), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.
In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.). In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius,[10] who in his Calabrian home must have been familiar with the Greek teachings which had descended to his times from the cities of Magna Graecia. In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist. II. i. 52). Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid (vv. 724 sqq.). It persists in antiquity down to the latest classic thinkers, Plotinus and the other Neoplatonists.
In literature after the classical era[edit]
"Metempsychosis" is the title of a longer work by the metaphysical poet John Donne, written in 1601.[11] The poem, also known as the Infinitati Sacrum,[12] consists of two parts, the "Epistle" and "The Progress of the Soule". In the first line of the latter part, Donne writes that he "sing[s] of the progresse of a deathlesse soule".[12]
Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story "Metzengerstein".[13] Poe returns to metempsychosis again in "Morella" (1835)[14] and "The Oval Portrait" (1842).[15]
Metempsychosis is referred to prominently in the concluding paragraph of Chapter 98, "Stowing Down and Clearing Up", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (Chinese: 《莊子》).[16] The use of this term is contested by Hans Georg Möller, though, who claims that a better translation is “the changing of things”.[17]
Metempsychosis is a recurring theme in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922).[18] In Joycean fashion, the word famously appears in Leopold Bloom's inner monologue, recalling how his wife, Molly Bloom, apparently mispronounced it earlier that day as "met him pike hoses."[19]
In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 premiere novel V., metempsychosis is mentioned in reference to the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" by Morey Bernstein, and also later in chapter eight.
Metempsychosis is referenced in Don DeLillo's 1982 novel The Names.
In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis is a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.
Guy de Maupassant's story "Le docteur Héraclius Gloss" (1875) is a fable about metempsychosis.
In Marcel Proust's famous first paragraph from In Search of Lost Time, the narrator compares his separation from the subject of a book to the process of metempsychosis.
See also[edit]
Yazidis
Zalmoxis
Ya’furiyya Shia
Gilgul
Saṃsāra Métempsycose : migration des âmes après la mort vers un nouveau corps.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Masterpieces". National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Schopenhauer, A: "Parerga und Paralipomena" (Eduard Grisebach edition), On Religion, Section 177
Jump up ^ Gödel Exhibition: Gödel's Century
Jump up ^ Nietzsche and the Doctrine of Metempsychosis, in J. Urpeth & J. Lippitt, Nietzsche and the Divine, Manchester: Clinamen, 2000
Jump up ^ Linforth, Ivan M. (1941) The Arts of Orpheus Arno Press, New York, OCLC 514515
Jump up ^ Long, Herbert S. (1948) A Study of the doctrine of metempsychosis in Greece, from Pythagoras to Plato (Long's 1942 PhD dissertation) Princeton, New Jersey, OCLC 1472399
Jump up ^ Long, Herbert S. (16 February 1948) "Plato's Doctrine of Metempsychosis and Its Source" The Classical Weekly 41(10): pp. 149—155
Jump up ^ Schibli, S., Hermann, Pherekydes of Syros, p. 104, Oxford Univ. Press 2001
Jump up ^ "That is the conclusion, I said; and if a true conclusion, then the souls must always be the same, for if none be destroyed they will not diminish in number." Republic X, 611. The Republic of Plato By Plato, Benjamin Jowett Edition: 3 Published by Clarendon press, 1888.
Jump up ^ Poesch, Jessie (1962) "Ennius and Basinio of Parma" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25(1/2): pp. 116—118, page 117, FN15
Jump up ^ Collins, Siobhán (2005) "Bodily Formations and Reading Strategies in John Donne's Metempsychosis" Critical Studies 26: pp. 191—208, page 191
^ Jump up to: a b full text of Metempsychosis or Infinitati Sacrum from Luminarium Editions
Jump up ^ Bonaparte, Marie (1949) The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe: a psycho-analytic interpretation Imago, London, page 273, OCLC 1398764
Jump up ^ Roderick, Phillip L. (2006) The Fall of the House of Poe: And Other Essays iUniverse, New York, page 22, ISBN 0-595-39567-8
Jump up ^ Quinn, Patrick F. (1971) The French face of Edgar Poe (2nd edition) Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, page 272, ISBN 0-8093-0500-3
Jump up ^ Giles, Herbert (1889). Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer. B. Quaritch.
Jump up ^ Möller, Hans Georg (2011). Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory. Open Court. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8126-9750-6.
Jump up ^ List of occurrences of Metempsychosis in Ulysses
Jump up ^ Cf. Joyce, Ulysses, §8 Lestrygonians
External links[edit]
The Columbia Encyclopedia: Transmigration of souls or Metempsychosis
The Catholic Encyclopedia: Metempsychosis
Jewish view of reincarnation
Did Plato Believe in Reincarnation?
Beech Hurst Miniature Railway
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
SMLS (Sussex Miniature Locomotive Society)
60th Anniversary of opening the track in 1954
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Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov responds to questions from the press during the G-20 Press Conference at the 2013 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington, DC on April 19, 2013.
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Day 11: After leaving Reims I headed further East to Strasbourg, the crossroads of French and German culture, in time to watch a Germany VS France Euro Cup game. It was a very different city, with its germanic architecture built from red stones out of the clay bearing soil. The food here was fantastic.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg is a beautiful gothic church in central Strasbourg and offers a stunning view of the city. It was the world's tallest building for 227 years from 1647 to 1874.
Backlit glow of hairlike fuzz of fiddle neck flowers at sunsut in the rolling landscape of the foothills of the Temblor Range in Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California.
medievalpoc: Correggio Adoration of the Magi Italy (1517) Oil on Canvas (transferred from panel), 84 x 108 cm. Pinacoteca di Brera. I love how dynamic this particular Adoration scene is. You get a sense of movement and flow from the overall composition, as well as the individual figures.
End Of The Line - coolest gift ideas this year, awesome stuff from artists and makers - King Johns Court, off Holywell Lane by Citizen M hotel
Longhorn Pep Band performing at the University of Texas Longhorn volleyball match against Kansas State at Gregory Gym in Austin, Texas on September 30, 2017.
Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 460
Built in 1914
Named the "Lindbergh Engine'"
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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An officer candidate receives some congratulatory words and a handshake from Brig. Gen. Joyce Stevens during the OCS graduation. (Photo by: Laura Lopez/JFTX-PAO).
Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), participated in a Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of Chuck Hagel, Twenty-Forth Secretary of Defense, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Jan. 28, 2015. Hagel served as the Secretary of Defense for two years and present for the ceremony was President of the United States Barrack H. Obama, Vice President of the Untied States Joseph R. Biden, and General Martin E. Dempsey Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody Wes Torkelson)
The Sanford School for Public Policy at Duke University held the Graduate Programs graduation events and ceremonies on Saturday, May 11, 2013 in the Wilson Center gymnasium. The Class of 2013 consisted of 55 Master of Public Policy graduates, 38 Master of International Development Policy graduates and 5 Ph. D. graduates. Bruce R. Kuniholm, Dean and Professor of Public Policy and History, gave the welcome and opening remarks.
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We made a kind of Quiche/Frittata tonight. The bottom layer is a kind of dense crust, and on top is a mixture of cooked onions, basil, tomatoes, salt, papper, and egg, all mixed together and cooked halfway through, and then poured on top of the crust that was layed out in the pan as dough, and baked at 350º for about 15 minutes until the egg and dough had cooked all the way through. It wasn't bad! Quite delicious actually.
We then made fall colored M&M cookies (picture in comments). NOM.