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He considerado varias veces tatuarme esta frase en el costado izquierdo de mi torso. Nunca me animo, porque tengo miedo de que sea muy grande y cansarme muy pronto.
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I've always wanted to get this sentence tattooed on the left side of my torso. I never had the gust to go and do it cause I'm afraid it'll end up being to big and that would make me tired very soon.
Earthchick tagged me for the handwriting meme. I do have messy handwriting that is a weird combination of cursive and printing. I wrote slowish for this so that it would be mostly legible.
The rules:
Using a pen or pencil write down the following items...
1. Your name and your Flickr name
2. Are you right handed or left handed?
3. Favorite letters to write
4. Least favorite letters to write
5. Write out the sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (Or, "The cow jumped over the moon.")
6. The names of six of your Flickr contacts that you'll be tagging.
purling plans
shetha
Bagatell
Drew-The Crochet Dude
megastoat
Roxy--you know who you are! I'm not even trying to write your whole Flickr name
Does Massachusetts Need a (New) Three Strikes Law? | Rappaport Center Blue Cross Blue Shield Roundtable
House Minority Whip Bradford Hill, United States District Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), and Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian led a full capacity crowd in a lively debate of the pros and cons of the sentencing reform bills currently being negotiated by a Massachusetts legislative conference committee. Rep. Hill explained the evolution of “Melissa’s Bill,” which he introduced shortly after the murder of 27-year-old Melissa Gosule in 1999, from a California-type “three strikes” bill to a more narrowly tailored habitual offender provision targeted at the most violent offenders. Others questioned whether even a more narrow provision will reduce crime or just exacerbate prison overcrowding.
Rugby organised crime gang sentenced to over 100 years in prison
The last four of 24 men arrested by officers investigating an organised crime group responsible for supplying drugs in the Rugby area were sentenced at Northampton Crown Court on Wednesday 11 January 2012 to a total of 12 years and 2 months. Seven others, including John Logue who controlled a number of drug dealers in the Rugby area were sentenced in December 2011.
Senior Investigating Officer Detective Inspector Mark Davison, said “This brings the total the gang has been sentenced to to 100 years and 10 months. We are delighted at these sentences. "
Full Press release can be found here: onlinenews.warwickshire.police.uk/wpnews_pressrelease/rug...
This is a quote from "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy.
For my critique class we are having a class show in the SVA photography building. We all picked at random a sentence from the book and photographed our interpretation of it.
Second year in a row Daisy will be in a school show, I used this photograph of her last year for my freshman photo show!
On 15 December 2022 at 11:30 (Hague time), in the case The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court delivered its judgment on the Defence's appeals against Mr Ongwen's conviction and sentence.
On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
Baldessari, John. Fable: A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable. Hamburg, Germany and New York, N.Y.: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion, 1977.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
Town hall
Object ID: 10588 Main Square 1
The Town Hall was first mentioned in 1401. In the last third of the 16th Century, the building was extensively remodeled. To main square, the building shows a neoclassical facade with colossal pilasters on the upper floors and six coat-of-arms relief stones. On mighty consoles rests above the arched portal a balcony with wrought iron railings from the first half of the 18th Century. The facade is crowned by a flat triangular gable with lateral balustrades. Above the southeast corner (Neunkirchnerstraße - Sparkassegasse) rises a 1564-1596 erected corner tower with a 1834 attached octagonal dome.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten_O...
(for further information or pictures please go to the end of page and by clicking on the link some of my promises will be fulfilled!)
History
© Tobisch
Wiener Neustadt, capital of the district under the Vienna Woods (Wiener Wald), owes its origin to the Babenbergerherzögen (Babenberg dukes) Leopold V. and Leopold VI . 1194 Leopold V decided in Steinfeld - then part of the Duchy of Styria - to build a fortified town to protect the local trade route against incursions from the east. He died only a little later, so his son realized this plan and is regarded as the true founder. The Nova civitatis or Neustatt - the name "Wiener Neustadt" or "Viennese New Town" arose only in the 17th Century - is the largest founding city of Lower Austria and was financed from the ransom for the English King Richard the Lionheart.
The generous privileges by the princes created the basis for the economic development of the city . Middle of the 13th Century was built at the southeast corner the castle, in 1279 the late Romanesque church was consecrated. The city was the site of numerous orders, including the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the German Order, as well as a large Jewish community (center on the present Allerheiligenplatz ) with a far beyond the borders famous Talmudic school. A masterpiece of Gothic architecture is the "(female) spinner at the Cross", one in the 80s of the 14th Century built stone Wegsäule (way column) before the northern gate.
A climax experienced Wiener Neustadt under the Emperor Frederick III. (1440-1493) as an imperial residence. The presence of the court and the political prominence led to a lively construction activity. Friedrich III. donated two Canon monasteries and prompted the establishment of other religious orders such as the Cistercians (New Monastery - Neukloster), the Pauline Hermits and the St. George Order of Knights, whose seat was moved in 1479 from Millstatt (Carinthia) to Wiener Neustadt. 1469 allowed the Pope the establishment of an - albeit small - diocese. The city, called by Frederick the 'forever faithful", received from the emperor the right to keep the double eagle (1452), as well as to promote trade a Niederlagsprivileg (staple right -1448), which forced the merchants to offer their goods in the city. The revenues should contribute to redress for damages caused by the fire of 1433.
In the conflicts between the Emperor and the estates of the Duchy of Austria because of the guardianship over King Ladislaus it came in late August 1452 to the siege of Wiener Neustadt, Friedrich III. forcing to release Ladislaus from the guardianship. Towards the end of his reign the well-fortified city finally had to capitulate after a nearly 17-month siege by the Hungarians in 1487 and open the gates to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus. The so-called "Corvinusbecher - cup of Corvinus", a richly decorated ceremonial cup, still reminds us of that time. Three years later, Frederick's son Maximilian I conquered the city back.
A few years after the death of Frederick III. (1493), who was pursuing a pro-Jewish policy, the large and for its scholars widely famous Jewish community was disbanded. 1496 Maximilian I ordered the expulsion of all Jews in Styria, in Wiener Neustadt and Neunkirchen. The last Jews left in 1500 their hometown, the synagogue became a Allerheiligenkapelle (chapel of All Saints). 1519 Maximilian was buried in his native town under the high altar of St. George's Chapel. His magnificent tomb, the "Black Mannder", remained, however, contrary to his wishes in Innsbruck. Under his grandson and successor Ferdinand I. Wiener Neustadt 1522 became venue of the trial against the leading members of the Estates opposition, which ended with nine death sentences and as "Wiener Neustadt blood Court (Wiener Neustädter Blutgericht)" went down in history.
In the 16th Century the city lost, only rarely princely residence, in importance. Due to its border location, it had till the beginning of the 18th century to suffer under the incursions of the Ottomans and later the Kuruzzes, but the heavily fortified city never could be captured. The Reformation reached its peak around 1570/1580 in Wiener Neustadt, but was re-Catholicised after the establishment of the counter-reformer Melchior Klesl as administrator of the diocese (1588) in no time. The Baroque period was characterized by a number of monastic foundations, such as the Capuchins, the Carmelites (Karmeliter (m) and Karmeliterinnen (f)), the foundation of the Jesuit College with High School (1666) and the Jesuit residence in the suburbs (1743). During this time, Wiener Neustadt was again the scene of an execution creating a sensation at home and abroad: 1671 were two prominent participants of the "magnate conspiracy", Peter Graf Zrinský and Franz Frangepan, beheaded in the courtyard of the armory.
Of greatest significance for the city became the by Maria Theresa in 1752 as cadet school founded "Theresan Military Academy" in the imperial castle. Under her son Joseph II some for the development of Wiener Neustadt significant changes took place: in 1785 the diocese was moved to St. Pölten, already several years earlier, all the monasteries with the exception of the monastery Neukloster had been canceled. In the premises which had become vacant in the aftermath manufactories have been created. Wiener Neustadt became the industrial center of south-eastern Lower Austria, where the heavy industry dominated. Given its economic importance, the city with the law of 8 August 1866 a municipality statute and thus the law of the country immediacy was awarded.
The in 1842 by Günther Wenzel founded locomotive factory, the in 1899 established Daimler-Werke, headed from 1906 to 1923 by the famous designer Ferdinand Porsche and the term "Austro-Daimler" giving international recognition as well as the in 1909 created first Austrian airfield made Wiener Neustadt to one the most important industrial cities of the monarchy and to the center of aviation. The closing of those factories in the Great Depression of the interwar period left thousands of people unemployed. Under the Nazi rule, the city became the center of armaments production. The aircraft plants delivered in 1940 a quarter of the total production of the Me-109 fighters (Messerschmitt fighter plants), in the former locomotive factory established the "Rax-Werke", building the locomotive tender and from 1943 A-4 rockets. Due to the concentration of industry important to the war economy was Wiener Neustadt in the years 1943 to 1945 the target of a total of 29 air attacks and more than 50,000 bombs. The city was almost completely destroyed, about 1000 people died, not even 20 of the 4000 houses remained intact.
During the occupation time, the longtime mayor Rudolf Wehrl (1945-1965) attempted the reconstruction, which was completed in 1955 for the most part. In the second half of the 20th Century, Wiener Neustadt again became the economic and cultural center of the south-eastern Lower Austria.
geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://g...
(for further information or pictures please go to the end of page and by clicking on the link some of my promises will be fulfilled!)
History
© Tobisch
Wiener Neustadt, capital of the district under the Vienna Woods (Wiener Wald), owes its origin to the Babenbergerherzögen (Babenberg dukes) Leopold V. and Leopold VI . 1194 Leopold V decided in Steinfeld - then part of the Duchy of Styria - to build a fortified town to protect the local trade route against incursions from the east. He died only a little later, so his son realized this plan and is regarded as the true founder. The Nova civitatis or Neustatt - the name "Wiener Neustadt" or "Viennese New Town" arose only in the 17th Century - is the largest founding city of Lower Austria and was financed from the ransom for the English King Richard the Lionheart.
The generous privileges by the princes created the basis for the economic development of the city . Middle of the 13th Century was built at the southeast corner the castle, in 1279 the late Romanesque church was consecrated. The city was the site of numerous orders, including the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the German Order, as well as a large Jewish community (center on the present Allerheiligenplatz ) with a far beyond the borders famous Talmudic school. A masterpiece of Gothic architecture is the "(female) spinner at the Cross", one in the 80s of the 14th Century built stone Wegsäule (way column) before the northern gate.
A climax experienced Wiener Neustadt under the Emperor Frederick III. (1440-1493) as an imperial residence. The presence of the court and the political prominence led to a lively construction activity. Friedrich III. donated two Canon monasteries and prompted the establishment of other religious orders such as the Cistercians (New Monastery - Neukloster), the Pauline Hermits and the St. George Order of Knights, whose seat was moved in 1479 from Millstatt (Carinthia) to Wiener Neustadt. 1469 allowed the Pope the establishment of an - albeit small - diocese. The city, called by Frederick the 'forever faithful", received from the emperor the right to keep the double eagle (1452), as well as to promote trade a Niederlagsprivileg (staple right -1448), which forced the merchants to offer their goods in the city. The revenues should contribute to redress for damages caused by the fire of 1433.
In the conflicts between the Emperor and the estates of the Duchy of Austria because of the guardianship over King Ladislaus it came in late August 1452 to the siege of Wiener Neustadt, Friedrich III. forcing to release Ladislaus from the guardianship. Towards the end of his reign the well-fortified city finally had to capitulate after a nearly 17-month siege by the Hungarians in 1487 and open the gates to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus. The so-called "Corvinusbecher - cup of Corvinus", a richly decorated ceremonial cup, still reminds us of that time. Three years later, Frederick's son Maximilian I conquered the city back.
A few years after the death of Frederick III. (1493), who was pursuing a pro-Jewish policy, the large and for its scholars widely famous Jewish community was disbanded. 1496 Maximilian I ordered the expulsion of all Jews in Styria, in Wiener Neustadt and Neunkirchen. The last Jews left in 1500 their hometown, the synagogue became a Allerheiligenkapelle (chapel of All Saints). 1519 Maximilian was buried in his native town under the high altar of St. George's Chapel. His magnificent tomb, the "Black Mannder", remained, however, contrary to his wishes in Innsbruck. Under his grandson and successor Ferdinand I. Wiener Neustadt 1522 became venue of the trial against the leading members of the Estates opposition, which ended with nine death sentences and as "Wiener Neustadt blood Court (Wiener Neustädter Blutgericht)" went down in history.
In the 16th Century the city lost, only rarely princely residence, in importance. Due to its border location, it had till the beginning of the 18th century to suffer under the incursions of the Ottomans and later the Kuruzzes, but the heavily fortified city never could be captured. The Reformation reached its peak around 1570/1580 in Wiener Neustadt, but was re-Catholicised after the establishment of the counter-reformer Melchior Klesl as administrator of the diocese (1588) in no time. The Baroque period was characterized by a number of monastic foundations, such as the Capuchins, the Carmelites (Karmeliter (m) and Karmeliterinnen (f)), the foundation of the Jesuit College with High School (1666) and the Jesuit residence in the suburbs (1743). During this time, Wiener Neustadt was again the scene of an execution creating a sensation at home and abroad: 1671 were two prominent participants of the "magnate conspiracy", Peter Graf Zrinský and Franz Frangepan, beheaded in the courtyard of the armory.
Of greatest significance for the city became the by Maria Theresa in 1752 as cadet school founded "Theresan Military Academy" in the imperial castle. Under her son Joseph II some for the development of Wiener Neustadt significant changes took place: in 1785 the diocese was moved to St. Pölten, already several years earlier, all the monasteries with the exception of the monastery Neukloster had been canceled. In the premises which had become vacant in the aftermath manufactories have been created. Wiener Neustadt became the industrial center of south-eastern Lower Austria, where the heavy industry dominated. Given its economic importance, the city with the law of 8 August 1866 a municipality statute and thus the law of the country immediacy was awarded.
The in 1842 by Günther Wenzel founded locomotive factory, the in 1899 established Daimler-Werke, headed from 1906 to 1923 by the famous designer Ferdinand Porsche and the term "Austro-Daimler" giving international recognition as well as the in 1909 created first Austrian airfield made Wiener Neustadt to one the most important industrial cities of the monarchy and to the center of aviation. The closing of those factories in the Great Depression of the interwar period left thousands of people unemployed. Under the Nazi rule, the city became the center of armaments production. The aircraft plants delivered in 1940 a quarter of the total production of the Me-109 fighters (Messerschmitt fighter plants), in the former locomotive factory established the "Rax-Werke", building the locomotive tender and from 1943 A-4 rockets. Due to the concentration of industry important to the war economy was Wiener Neustadt in the years 1943 to 1945 the target of a total of 29 air attacks and more than 50,000 bombs. The city was almost completely destroyed, about 1000 people died, not even 20 of the 4000 houses remained intact.
During the occupation time, the longtime mayor Rudolf Wehrl (1945-1965) attempted the reconstruction, which was completed in 1955 for the most part. In the second half of the 20th Century, Wiener Neustadt again became the economic and cultural center of the south-eastern Lower Austria.
geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://g...
On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
Chicago Tribune
Judge Denounces Palumbo Deal
FATHER, SONS SENTENCED IN ROAD-BUILDING FRAUD
By Matt O'Connor
Tribune Staff Writer
June 19, 1999
The patriarch and two sons of a century-old road-building business that constructed nearly every major expressway in Chicago were sentenced to federal prison terms for fraud Friday under terms of a plea agreement blasted by the judge in hindsight as being too lenient.
Referring to the sentencing agreement she had earlier approved between prosecutors and attorneys representing the three executives of Palumbo Brothers Inc., U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo said, "I don't like to find myself in a position of saying that a plea agreement fails to do justice because it does not adequately punish a defendant. . . . But in this case the conduct went on for years, the conduct harmed a lot of people, and it harmed the people of Illinois."
Bucklo gave Sebastian and Joseph Palumbo the maximum 21-month sentences and ordered each to pay a $250,000 fine. Their father, Peter, 72, was sentenced to a year in prison, 3 months of home confinement and a $250,000 fine. The elder Palumbo could have received as much as 15 months in prison under the plea agreement.
In pleading guilty in January, Palumbo Brothers and a second family-controlled company admitted billing for far more construction material than they used in 60 Chicago-area road projects by inflating weight tickets or creating "ghost" trucks. Although Bucklo accepted the plea deals then, she said Friday that on further reflection she concluded the prison terms called for in the agreements were "grossly below a minimum acceptable sentence."
While the government's evidence showed the Palumbos were deeply involved in a massive multimillion dollar road-building scheme that spanned decades, the plea agreement allowed them to plead guilty to less serious charges involving the cheating of workers out of overtime pay. Instead of the defendants, the corporation pleaded guilty to the road-building fraud.
Bucklo also decried the disparity in sentences for at least one co-defendant, an employee who potentially faces a longer prison term than the Palumbos even though he acted on their orders, didn't gain financially from the scheme and later cooperated with authorities in the federal probe.
By Bucklo's calculations, because of their involvement in the fraud scheme, the Palumbos should have been facing at least 3 1/2 years in prison, double the limitations imposed on her by the plea deal. = "Unfortunately, I cannot do anything about the agreement (now)," Bucklo said. "I cannot force the government to prosecute."
In an interview after the hearing, U.S. Atty. Scott Lassar defended his office's actions in the case, calling the plea deal with the Palumbos "an outstanding agreement" for the government. "We were able to get significant prison sentences for the Palumbos without having to risk a trial," Lassar said. The complicated case was expected to take four months to try. Lassar also noted that the Palumbos and their company agreed to a lifetime ban on bidding on federally funded road-construction projects, a major concession for a company that once ranked as Illinois' largest road contractor. If the case had gone to trial, the company could have been suspended from public road-building projects for five years at most.
In addition, Lassar cited the unprecedented $15 million in restitution and fines that the Palumbos and the company agreed to pay. The elder Palumbo and his two sons have to personally come up with $750,000 of that.
Bucklo had scoffed at the significance of the $250,000 fines for each of the Palumbos during the sentencing hearing. Financial records submitted as part of the case show the two sons each have net worths of $25 million or more while their father reported assets of more than $6 million, she revealed.
Defense lawyers sought home confinement for the elder Palumbo in hopes that even though he is retired, he could help run the business by telephone while his two sons serve their prison terms. Assistant U.S. Atty. John Newman, who prosecuted the case, questioned whether home confinement would be punishment, noting that at one time Peter Palumbo lived at son Joseph's palatial South Barrington farm house, with its six-car garage, a pond with a beach and an island, and a baseball field.
Bucklo ordered that the elder Palumbo serve his three months of home confinement at his less spectacular River North condominium. After sentencing the Palumbos, Bucklo imposed a 21-month prison term on another defendant in the case, Kelson Abdishi, a former Illinois Department of Transportation engineer who supervised many of the Palumbo road projects and pocketed bribes to overlook the fraud.
CrimeDawg Commentary
The indictment against the Palumbos charged them with defrauding the Laborers and Teamsters Pension funds, charges never prosecuted. The Palumbos were represented by the ploitically powerful law firm of Winston & Strawn where former Governor (Pinstripe Patronage King) James Thompson is the managing partner. Dan Webb was counsel for the Palumbos, as he was counsel for John Serpico is is disciplinary hearing and in Serpico's law suit against LIUNA for adopting the EDP under emergency conditions by vote of executive board members without ratification by rank and file. Winston & Strawn is also counsel to John Serpico on possible indictments he might face for the Capitol Bank Case .
In the fall of 1996, Capitol Bank in Chicago pled guilty to an federal grand jury indictment for accepting a local union's pension fund in return for providing below market interest rate loans to the union local's officers-ie. John Serpico. I have beeen advised that there is a ten year statue of limitations to indict Serpico. The GEB Attorney was not informed by the U.S. Attorney in Chicago that Serpico faces indictment and that there might have been room for a plea bargain in the event John Serpico testified against Arthur Coia and named him an associate of organized crime. Serpico and Caivano were not called as witnesses in Coia's disciplinary hearing-something I find strange.
Judge Blucko is the stupid judge who issued an opinion, subsequently over ruled, that federal criminal statues could not be used against the Palumbos but that their cheating the Laborers Pension/ welfare funds had to be handled under the collective bargaining agreement- an argument propounded by Sherman Carmel on behalf of the Chicago Federation of Labor no friend of the union rank and file whose money was stolen.
The whole thing stinks.
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If you really love animals, please sign the petitions:
ART CAN KILL
You are what you read. The sentence, written with dog food, was displayed on the white wall of an art gallery. Close to that wall, an abandoned and diseased street dog was left tied to a rope and a wire string. An incense burner was placed nearby where, allegedly, crack and cannabis was burnt during the inauguration. Without food and water, the animal died in the gallery during the next day.
It happened in Nicaragua. It was an “installation” by "artist" Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, known as Habacuc. The situation, documented with several images, received a lot of attention on the web and originated an online petition against this "artist". Art cannot be the umbrella for the vandalism and, consistently, would not have that to guarantee the impunity.
Art is not cruelty!
Photos:
www.marcaacme.com/blogs/analog/index.php/2007/08/22/5_pie...
Petitions:
www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Starving-A-Dog-Is-Wrong
See:
sic.sapo.pt/online/noticias/vida/20071025+Cao+morre+de+fo...
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ARTE PODE MATAR
Um artista da Costa Rica de nome Guillermo Habacuc Vargas expôs um cão abandonado e faminto numa galeria de arte. O cão estava preso por uma corda curta. Ninguém alimentou ou deu água ao pobre cão que morreu durante a exposição.
Guillermo Habacuc Vargas foi o artista escolhido para representar o seu país na "Bienal Centroamericana de Honduras 2008".
Mais absurdo: sobre o cão faminto e doente - uma parede repleta de frases escritas com ração!
Arte não pode ser uma desculpa para crueldade e garantia de impunidade! Arte não é crueldade! Vamos dar um basta nisso.
Os organizadores da exposição e visitantes são coniventes!
Fotos:
www.marcaacme.com/blogs/analog/index.php/2007/08/22/5_pie...
Petições:
www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Starving-A-Dog-Is-Wrong
Veja também:
sic.sapo.pt/online/noticias/vida/20071025+Cao+morre+de+fo...
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My dog Zeus. Taken with my friend's camera.
Photo 235.
Explored. Thanks all.
ift.tt/2g94sZo #Former Japanese Prime Minister Koki Hirota listens to his death sentence being read. 1948. [469 × 586] #history #retro #vintage #dh #HistoryPorn ift.tt/2gQTPhV via Histolines
Photo #2 from the series
the shoot was actually to depict on how does a wet market looks like after everyone gone (about 5-6pm) and to get some dramatic shadows for the photos. it was an overcasted day so i didn't get the shadows i want.
however, the first thing that nabbed my attention as i entered the market was was there were chickens being locked up in tiny cages for waiting to be executed, which i am pretty sure, not by choice. (what you see on the first photograph). the cage was so small, there's barely room for them to move or stand properly.
then as i walked around, i came across a section where various meats were hung about for sale. (photograph number two) this is the place were buy/sell takes place in the morning.
last but not least, (photograph number 3) is where the remains/leftovers of the slaughtered chicken were dumped. it was actually right next to the cages of chicken. the place looks like a holocaust for animals that we actually feed on. the whole place has a disconcerting stench of blood as well.
like i said, i'm not much of a PETA person like pamela anderson or neither am i a vegetarian, but somehow, i do think that we could make some kind of changes can be made to treat them better. at the current rate that we're going, it's a suprise that there's no major plaque breakout from the the way we handle the poultry and farm animals.
Medium: T-Max Film (film border is left purposedly for my own reference)
(further information and pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Schottenstift
Schottenstift Exterior - © Schottenstift
In the heart of Vienna lies the abbey of Our Lady to the Scots, the habitat of Benedictine monks who know themselves addressed by this sentence from the book of Psalms in person.
By the aim of the search for God and by the concrete form of life the monks are associated with the many Benedictine monks and Benedictine nuns all over the world. In addition, they know themselves in solidarity with all people of good will, like them, seeking true life.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Following the Benedictine rules, the monastery but provides also very specific services. In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality the Schottenstift offers »monastery for a limited time", in the as a bed and breakfast run Benediktushaus guests from all over the world are welcome. The pastoral and spiritual care are just as much part of everyday life of the members of the Convention as the teaching in the traditional Scots high school and youth work in the basement. In the spirited Scots parish a lively cultural activity can unfold.
History of the Schottenstift
Duke Henry II Jasomirgott made Vienna the residence of Babenbergerreiches (Kingdom of the Babenberg). To emphasize the importance of the new capital, he convened in 1155 iroschottische (Irish-Scottish) monks from the St. Jakob monastery in Regensburg to Vienna. The new foundation in the first place should be a place of prayer, but then also a place where pilgrims and guests could find admission, a refuge for asylum seekers (the name "Freyung" still today reminds of that) and a center of cultural life.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In the years from 1160 to 1200 outside the former city limits arose a mighty Romanesque church, which was a lot bigger than today's church, and the eastern part of the Roman church reached about 25 meters beyond the east wall of the present house of worship. In 1200, the church and convent were consecrated by the Bishop of Passau Wolfger von Ellenbrechtskirchen. Already in 1276 much of this troublesome erected complex fell victim to a fire. Earthquakes in the years 1348 and 1443 again left traces of destruction. In the mid-15th Century thus arose a new monastery.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In 1418 the era of Irish-Scottish monks ended, since in the course of the Melker Reform they were encouraged also to integrate locals into their ranks because junior staff more and more became sparse. The Iroschotten but prefered to return to their mother abbey in Regensburg. The name "Scots" but remained to this day.
Schottenstift Deed - © Schottenstift
Deed of Foundation
The fundamental redesign of Scots Abbey falls in the 17th and 18th Century. 1648, the present church was completed, in the following decades the monastery complex was changed from its very foundations.
Decisive role in these buildings had Abbot Carl Fetzer (1705-1750). Today's "Schottenhof (Court)" under abbot Andreas Wenzel (1807-1831) by the architect Josef Kornhäusel was classicist redesigned. The intensive study of science and close ties to the in 1365 founded University of Vienna resulted yet in the times of irish-scottish monks in the emergence of a first library. Although from those roots today almost nothing remains, the number of medieval manuscripts and incunabula in the following centuries grew. In this regard, wrote Albert P. Huebl (1867-1931) all currently valid printed catalogs. During the reorganization of the monastery, a new library hall was built under Abbot Andreas Wenzel for printed books, whose current division Vincent P. Knauer (1828-1894) had created. Under his leadership, a handwritten nominal catalog of books was created in 1883.
In 1807 on the request of the emperor it came to the foundation of the "Schottengymnasium" which took up the old school tradition of the house on the Freyung and should it continue. The prestigious school has become a main area of work of the monks. Concerning the building structure, the two world wars the Schottenstift on the whole has survived intact, for the Convention itself they entailed great damage, be it the economic troubles after the first world war or the great human bloodletting in the years 1939 to 1945. Numerous brothers fell in the war or did not return, the gates of the school remained closed from 1938 to 1945. The Second Vatican Council for the Scots Abbey, too, entailed the profound reflection upon the peculiarities of the monastic life and the tasks, which a Benedictine community in the world of today should and can shoulder.
The museum in Schottenstift
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Important art dating back several centuries
The Vienna Schottenstift on Freyung is among the most important Benedictine monasteries in Austria. Yet in the 15th Century, the Abbey of the Scots developed into a center of the Vienna spiritual and city life. Not coincidentally shows the Scots masters altar the first topographically correct view of the city of Vienna. The reign of Barockabtes (Baroque abbot) Carl Fetzer (1705-1750) was an economic and cultural heyday. The 1826-1832 by Josef Kornhäusel designed Prelature now houses the "Museum in the Abbey of the Scots". In addition to an extensive collection of paintings, furniture, tapestries, vestments and liturgical utensils and vestments, it shows an impressive documentation of the monastery history.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Scots Champion - © Schottenstift Scots Masters - © Schottenstift
The high altar of the original Gothic collegiate church was removed about 1640. Today, the altar of the "Wiener Scots Master (Schottenmeister)", originating from 1469 to 1480, is a masterpiece of late Gothic painting in Austria and the center of the museum in Schottenstift. History, development process, workshop operations, among others, illustrates an informative documentary, which complement the successor works to Flemish painting of the 17th Century by Josse de Momper the Younger and David Vinckboons.
In Schottenstift the Interested visitor finds in addition to major religious paintings (among others by Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Cossiers and Giovanni Battista Pittoni), portrait and landscape painting of the 17th and 18th Century (eg by Johann Christian Brand, Christian Seybold, Christoph Paudiss and Simon de Vos) and Vienna Biedermeier painting by Johann Baptist Drechsler, Johann Knapp, Thomas Ender and Johann Peter Krafft. Works of the Dutch and Austrian still life painting of the 17th and 18th Century complement the valuable private collection. The large-sized former Baroque high altar painting by Joachim von Sandrart »The heavenly glory" (1671) in Prälatensaal is, like the lecture hall with works of Austrian baroque painters, as Peter Paul Strudel and Tobias Pock, integrated into the museum complex.
On my way to Chinatown, i found this sentence, i didn't had any idea it was an advertising but loved the way it was set .
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Picture the scene now. You are a cop. You and your partner have pulled off on a quiet residential street and parked with your windows down to do some paperwork. Suddenly a motorcycle comes into view with a driver dressed in jeans, a torn t-shirt flapping in the breeze, and wearing one leather glove, moving at probably 80mph on one wheel, and screaming bloody murder roars by and with all his strength throws a live squirrel grenade directly into your police car. I heard screams. They weren’t mine… I managed to get the big motorcycle under directional control and dropped the front wheel to the ground. I then used maximum braking and skidded to a stop in a cloud of tire smoke at the stop sign at a busy cross street. I would have returned to fess up (and to get my glove back). I really would have. Really. But for two things. First, the cops did not seem interested or the slightest bit concerned about me at the moment. One of them was on his back in the front yard of the house they had been parked in front of and was rapidly crabbing backwards away from the patrol car. The other was standing in the street and was training a riot shotgun on the police cruiser. I swear I could see the squirrel, standing in the back window of the patrol car among shredded and flying pieces of foam and upholstery, and shaking his little fist at me. That is one dangerous squirrel. And now he has a patrol car…I took a deep breath, turned on my turn signal, made an easy right turn, and sedately left the neighborhood. Now faced with a choice of 80mph cars and inattentive drivers, or the evil, demonic, attack squirrel of death…I’ll take my chances with the freeway
Yep Pesky was sentenced to Oak Tree Prison for 3 long months......last of three in a series
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On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
The Washington Mobilization to Free Willie McGee calls on demonstrators arriving for a “Peace Crusade” to support freedom for Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Mississippi and sentenced to death in March 1951..
The flyer called for a prayer vigil at the U.S. Supreme Court March 15th, lobbying Congress March 16th and a vigil in front of the White House. McGee was scheduled to be executed March 20th.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black issued a stay, but the full Court would not hear the case. More demonstrations were held in D.C., including one in which protesters chained themselves to the Lincoln Memorial, but McGee was executed May 8, 1951.
McGee wrote to his wife the night before his execution, “Tell the people the real reason they are going to take my life is to keep the Negro down.... They can't do this if you and the children keep on fighting. Never forget to tell them why they killed their daddy. I know you won't fail me. Tell the people to keep on fighting. Your truly husband, Will McGee.
The “Peace Crusade” brought 1,500 demonstrators to the city led by activist actor and singer Paul Robeson to demand the U.S. withdraw troops from Korea, send no more troops to Europe and make a treaty with the Soviet Union ending nuclear weapons.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, one-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/1951-03-mcgee...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk2FV8xQ
The flyer is courtesy of Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress: Papers of the Civil Rights Congress. New York Public Library. Archives Unbound.
Look at this picture... I don't know who took this. Bwahahaha... It really made me smile...
It looks like I was reading a bad news to this man.
Noooo... actually we were praying hehehehe...
Today, 6 May 2021, Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years of imprisonment following the Trial Judgment in which the Chamber found him guilty for a total of 61 crimes comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. The period of his detention between 4 January 2015 and 6 May 2021, will be deducted from the total time of imprisonment imposed on him. The sentence may be appealed before the ICC Appeals Chamber by either party to the proceedings.
I am trying to learn Arabic. Written letters and vocab is coming on OK, grammar and sentence construction not so much!
Ahmed Shawi (D.J. Uptown) was born in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 1987. By the age of 12, Uptown took it upon himself to learn the art of turntablism. He began spinning at various events at his middle school (yes, middle school), and was quickly recruited by surrounding Bahrain schools. At 15 years old, Uptown was considered a musical prodigy and landed a permanent residency at Club Edge in Bahrain, one of the largest nightclubs in the kingdom. During his high school years, Uptown toured the Middle East and Europe, performing at the largest nightclubs and events in Dubai, Cairo, Istanbul, London, and Amsterdam. Influenced by the many cultures, languages, and musical genres he came across during his tours, DJ Uptown had the opportunity to develop a completely unique “international” style that set him apart from his peers; all before graduating high school.
In 2005, DJ Uptown moved to the United States to attend college and further develop as an artist. While living in Boston, MA, Uptown immediately broke into the local nightclub scene with the influence of Boston legends DJ Hevan, and DJ Big. Recognizing Uptown’s skills and taking an interest in his unique international sound and nicknaming him “The Arabian Scratch Master”, these well-established nightclub DJ’s began mentoring him, making his transition to the American scene smooth and natural. Within a few months, Uptown was recruited for residencies at some of Boston’s biggest nightclubs, including Clubs Aria, Mantra, and Venu. Taking a special interest in their Arabian protege, Uptown joined their extensive Boston-based DJ crew, “Team All-Star DJ’s.” His maturity, professionalism, and international experience were so impressive that by the age of 19, Uptown was appointed “Director of Business Affairs” and began managing events and marketing for the crew.
Today, DJ Uptown is one of the most highly recruited DJ’s out of Boston. His ability to ignite any crowd with Vocal House, Electro House, Hip Hop, Top 40 and Mashups makes him a club favorite, while his sophisticated turntablism and mixing skills make him a “DJ’s DJ.” He is associated with The Blaq List and Top Shelf Entertainment, two of the largest nightlife companies in Boston, New York, Miami, and more. Uptown makes guest appearances at some of the nation’s largest clubs including Pure (Vegas), Pacha (NYC), Le Passage (Chicago), Suite (Miami) and Pearl (Providence). DJ Uptown shares his global experience on his quest to “Uptownize” a nation, displaying all that he has learned and absorbed through each performance. He greatly appreciates all of his fans and explains in one sentence how he has been able to draw a following from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and nations:
“There is only one international language. Music.” - DJ Uptown
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Schottenstift
Schottenstift Exterior - © Schottenstift
In the heart of Vienna lies the abbey of Our Lady to the Scots, the habitat of Benedictine monks who know themselves addressed by this sentence from the book of Psalms in person.
By the aim of the search for God and by the concrete form of life the monks are associated with the many Benedictine monks and Benedictine nuns all over the world. In addition, they know themselves in solidarity with all people of good will, like them, seeking true life.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Following the Benedictine rules, the monastery but provides also very specific services. In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality the Schottenstift offers »monastery for a limited time", in the as a bed and breakfast run Benediktushaus guests from all over the world are welcome. The pastoral and spiritual care are just as much part of everyday life of the members of the Convention as the teaching in the traditional Scots high school and youth work in the basement. In the spirited Scots parish a lively cultural activity can unfold.
History of the Schottenstift
Duke Henry II Jasomirgott made Vienna the residence of Babenbergerreiches (Kingdom of the Babenberg). To emphasize the importance of the new capital, he convened in 1155 iroschottische (Irish-Scottish) monks from the St. Jakob monastery in Regensburg to Vienna. The new foundation in the first place should be a place of prayer, but then also a place where pilgrims and guests could find admission, a refuge for asylum seekers (the name "Freyung" still today reminds of that) and a center of cultural life.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In the years from 1160 to 1200 outside the former city limits arose a mighty Romanesque church, which was a lot bigger than today's church, and the eastern part of the Roman church reached about 25 meters beyond the east wall of the present house of worship. In 1200, the church and convent were consecrated by the Bishop of Passau Wolfger von Ellenbrechtskirchen. Already in 1276 much of this troublesome erected complex fell victim to a fire. Earthquakes in the years 1348 and 1443 again left traces of destruction. In the mid-15th Century thus arose a new monastery.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In 1418 the era of Irish-Scottish monks ended, since in the course of the Melker Reform they were encouraged also to integrate locals into their ranks because junior staff more and more became sparse. The Iroschotten but prefered to return to their mother abbey in Regensburg. The name "Scots" but remained to this day.
Schottenstift Deed - © Schottenstift
Deed of Foundation
The fundamental redesign of Scots Abbey falls in the 17th and 18th Century. 1648, the present church was completed, in the following decades the monastery complex was changed from its very foundations.
Decisive role in these buildings had Abbot Carl Fetzer (1705-1750). Today's "Schottenhof (Court)" under abbot Andreas Wenzel (1807-1831) by the architect Josef Kornhäusel was classicist redesigned. The intensive study of science and close ties to the in 1365 founded University of Vienna resulted yet in the times of irish-scottish monks in the emergence of a first library. Although from those roots today almost nothing remains, the number of medieval manuscripts and incunabula in the following centuries grew. In this regard, wrote Albert P. Huebl (1867-1931) all currently valid printed catalogs. During the reorganization of the monastery, a new library hall was built under Abbot Andreas Wenzel for printed books, whose current division Vincent P. Knauer (1828-1894) had created. Under his leadership, a handwritten nominal catalog of books was created in 1883.
In 1807 on the request of the emperor it came to the foundation of the "Schottengymnasium" which took up the old school tradition of the house on the Freyung and should it continue. The prestigious school has become a main area of work of the monks. Concerning the building structure, the two world wars the Schottenstift on the whole has survived intact, for the Convention itself they entailed great damage, be it the economic troubles after the first world war or the great human bloodletting in the years 1939 to 1945. Numerous brothers fell in the war or did not return, the gates of the school remained closed from 1938 to 1945. The Second Vatican Council for the Scots Abbey, too, entailed the profound reflection upon the peculiarities of the monastic life and the tasks, which a Benedictine community in the world of today should and can shoulder.
The museum in Schottenstift
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Important art dating back several centuries
The Vienna Schottenstift on Freyung is among the most important Benedictine monasteries in Austria. Yet in the 15th Century, the Abbey of the Scots developed into a center of the Vienna spiritual and city life. Not coincidentally shows the Scots masters altar the first topographically correct view of the city of Vienna. The reign of Barockabtes (Baroque abbot) Carl Fetzer (1705-1750) was an economic and cultural heyday. The 1826-1832 by Josef Kornhäusel designed Prelature now houses the "Museum in the Abbey of the Scots". In addition to an extensive collection of paintings, furniture, tapestries, vestments and liturgical utensils and vestments, it shows an impressive documentation of the monastery history.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Scots Champion - © Schottenstift Scots Masters - © Schottenstift
The high altar of the original Gothic collegiate church was removed about 1640. Today, the altar of the "Wiener Scots Master (Schottenmeister)", originating from 1469 to 1480, is a masterpiece of late Gothic painting in Austria and the center of the museum in Schottenstift. History, development process, workshop operations, among others, illustrates an informative documentary, which complement the successor works to Flemish painting of the 17th Century by Josse de Momper the Younger and David Vinckboons.
In Schottenstift the Interested visitor finds in addition to major religious paintings (among others by Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Cossiers and Giovanni Battista Pittoni), portrait and landscape painting of the 17th and 18th Century (eg by Johann Christian Brand, Christian Seybold, Christoph Paudiss and Simon de Vos) and Vienna Biedermeier painting by Johann Baptist Drechsler, Johann Knapp, Thomas Ender and Johann Peter Krafft. Works of the Dutch and Austrian still life painting of the 17th and 18th Century complement the valuable private collection. The large-sized former Baroque high altar painting by Joachim von Sandrart »The heavenly glory" (1671) in Prälatensaal is, like the lecture hall with works of Austrian baroque painters, as Peter Paul Strudel and Tobias Pock, integrated into the museum complex.
Today, 21 June 2016, Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) sentenced Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to 18 years of imprisonment. On 21 March 2016, the Chamber had found Mr Bemba guilty beyond reasonable doubt as a military commander responsible for two counts of crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and three counts of war crimes (murder, rape, and pillaging) committed in the Central African Republic between October 2002 and March 2003. ICC Trial Chamber III is composed of Presiding Judge Sylvia Steiner (Brazil), Judge Joyce Aluoch (Kenya) and Judge Kuniko Ozaki (Japan).
Pictured here: Trial Chamber III entering ICC Courtroom I at Mr Bemba's sentencing hearing © ICC-CPI
The Norse Viking Helgi magri (the slim) Eyvindarson originally settled the area in the 9th century. The first mention of Akureyri is in court records from 1562 when a woman was sentenced there for adultery.[4] In the 17th century, Danish merchants based their camps at the current site of Akureyri, which was one of the numerous spits of land in Pollurinn. The main reasons for choosing this spot for trading operations were the outstanding natural harbour and the fertility of the area. The merchants did not live at Akureyri year round but returned home in the winter.[3]
Permanent settlement at Akureyri started in 1778,[4] and eight years later, the town was granted its municipal charter by the king of Denmark (and at the time Iceland also) along with five other towns in Iceland. The king hoped to improve the living conditions of Icelanders by this action because at the time, Iceland had never had urban areas. As far as the king was concerned Akureyri was unsuccessful, because it did not grow from its population of 12. It lost its municipal status in 1836 but regained it in 1862. From then on Akureyri started to grow because of the excellent port conditions and perhaps more because of the productive agricultural region around it. Agricultural products became an important sector of the economy.[5]
Akureyri, with Hlíðarfjall behind, viewed from the eastern shore of Eyjafjörður, morning November 2007
During World War II, Akureyri was one of three air bases used by the Norwegian-British No. 330 Squadron RNoAF.[6] The squadron, which was formed on 25 April 1941, flew Northrop N-3PB bombers: 'A' flight was based at Reykjavik, 'B' flight at Akureyri and 'C' flight at Budareyri.[6] On 1 December 1940, 'A' and 'B' flights ceased operating from Norwegian bases, but 'C' flight continued to fly Northrop N-3PBs from Akureyri until 5 April 1943.[6] No. 330 Squadron RNoAF also operated Catalina flying boats from Akureyri, which protected convoys from the United States to the United Kingdom and Murmansk from attack by German submarines.[6][7]
In the 20th century, Iceland experienced an exodus from the countryside to the towns.[8] Commerce and service industries grew to be the primary employers in Akureyri in the 1990s.[5] Jón Sveinsson, a popular author of children's books, was born in Akureyri and died in 1944.[9]
In the early 21st century, fishing industries have become more important in Akureyri as two of the major fishing companies of Iceland have become a more important source of revenue and are expected to grow further in coming years. The University of Akureyri was founded in 1987 and is growing rapidly.
Since 2004, the former municipality of Hrísey, an island 35 kilometres (22 miles) to the north, has been a part of Akureyri.[10] Hrísey, which has a population of 210, is the second largest island off Iceland and is a site for pet and livestock quarantine. The settlement was previously the site of fishing processing.[11] The town is located on the southern part of the island.[11] The northern part consists of privately owned land that requires passes to enter.
Defense Attorney Fed Cohn talks to his client Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero though interpreter Susan Rosas in the Kenosha Courthouse. Lopez-Quintero was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
VH-VCJ, Airbus A319-132LR (1880), Skytraders Pty Ltd, 19 November 2015 - Auckland
"A chartered flight dubbed Con Air by opposition with criminals onboard has arrived at Auckland Airport.
Counties Manukau Superintendent John Tims said 12 people arrived back from Australia.
There had been a multi-agency approach to the return, he said.
""It's been a really smooth operation today.""
Reporter Andrea Vance tweeted that deportees were in handcuffs and wearing shorts and T-shirts. She said they had left the plane and were on buses.
Eight of the offenders have supervision orders. All of the offenders will have DNA samples and fingerprinting done today.
Corrections northern commissioner Jeanette Burns said the offenders would be monitored very closely today. Police and the Ministry of Social Development would help them settle into the community, she said.
Corrections have provided transport for the offenders and some housing.
Some offenders will be staying with family members.
The offenders arrived just after 10am.
None of them are in custody.
Ms Burns would not comment on the offenders criminal pasts, saying it was a ""privacy matter"".
The offenders will be ""processed"" for the next hour. Police would make the call how they would be moved through the airport.
Tims confirmed all 12 detainees were from Christmas Island. The detainees were seen wearing handcuffs as they left the plane. Tims would not comment on if it was necessary to cuff the detainees but said police were committed to ensuring the safety of the detainees and the safety of the public.
Parliament passed legislation under urgency this week to ensure offenders deported back to New Zealand could be put under similar supervision conditions as parole for New Zealand prisoners.
Police assistant commissioner Malcolm Burgess said the priority was community safety. Although Australia had provided information about each offender under the information sharing agreement, at the airport they would be required to provide identity information and fingerprints, as well as a DNA sample. If that was not taken at the airport, they would be issued a compulsion notice to provide it at a later date. Police will also individually interview them to assess the best management regime.
Corrections was responsible for the supervision regime and would set out the offenders' obligations at the airport as well as arrange transport and accommodation if it was required alongside prisoner rehabilitation service PARS. Other government agencies, including the Ministry of Health and Social Development, would also be called on if required. Corrections was also responsible for ongoing monitoring of the offenders and responding if there were issues.
Ms Burns said government agencies were working together to ensure a ""smooth arrival."" ""While there has been some focus on the group arriving this week it is important that this is viewed in the context of up to around 12,000 releases from the New Zealand prison system each year.""
Labour has slammed the Government for being much too slow to react to an Australian law change made a year ago, which saw non-Australians who were sentenced to a year or more in prison automatically lose the right to live in Australia.
The new law also gives the Australian Immigration Minister the right to deport someone deemed to have failed the ""good character"" test.
One of those being held, Ngati Kanohi Te Eke Haapu, also known as Ko, a former New Zealand soldier who guarded Prime Minister John Key in Afghanistan, has been ordered out of the country on ""character"" grounds even though he has committed no crime. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...;
Vishvanath Temple - dedicated to Lord Shiva, also called Vishwanath [master of the universe]. In the same premises, a temple dedicated to Nandi, holds a huge statue of Nandi [the Bull, the companion, attendant and closest aide of Lord Shiva].
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The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India. About 175 kilometres southeast of Jhansi, they are one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India. The temples are famous for their nagara-style architectural symbolism and their erotic sculptures.
Most Khajuraho temples were built between 950 and 1050 CE by the Chandela dynasty. Historical records note that Khajuraho temple site had 85 temples by 12th century, spread over 20 square kilometers. Of these, only about 20 temples have survived, spread over 6 square kilometers. Of the various surviving temples, the Kandariya temple is decorated with a profusion of sculptures with intricate details, symbolism and expressiveness of ancient Indian art.
The Khajuraho group of temples were built together but were dedicated to two religions namely Hinduism and Jainism - suggesting a tradition of acceptance and respect for diverse religious views among Hindus and Jains.
LOCATION
Khajuraho group of monuments are located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, in Chhatarpur District, about 620 kilometres southeast of New Delhi. The temples are in a small town also known as Khajuraho, with a population of about 20,000 people (2001 Census).
Khajuraho is served by Khajuraho Airport (IATA Code: HJR), with services to Delhi, Agra and Mumbai. The site is also linked by Indian Railways service, with the railway station approximately six kilometer from the monuments entrance.
The monuments are about 10 kilometres off the east-west National Highway 75, and about 50 kilometres from the city of Chhatarpur, that is connected to Bhopal - the state capital - by the SW-NE running National Highway 86.
HISTORY
The Khajuraho group of monuments were built during the rule of Rajput Chandela dynasty. The building activity started almost immediately after the rise of their power, throughout their kingdom to be later known as Bundelkhand. Most temples were built during the reigns of the Hindu kings Yashovarman and Dhanga. Yashovarman's legacy is best exhibited by Lakshmana temple. Vishvanatha temple best highlights King Dhanga's reign.:22 The largest and currently most famous surviving temple is Kandariya Mahadeva built in the reign of King Ganda from 1017-1029 CE. The temple inscriptions suggest many of the currently surviving temples were complete between 970 to 1030 CE, with few more temples completed in decades thereafter.
The Khajuraho temples were built about 35 miles from the medieval city of Mahoba, the capital of Chandela dynasty, in Kalinjar region. In ancient and medieval literature, their kingdom has been called Jijhoti, Jejahoti, Chih-chi-to and Jejakabhukti.
Khajuraho were mentioned by Abu Rihan-al-Biruni, the Persian historian who accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni in his raid of Kalinjar in 1022 CE; he mentions Khajuraho as the capital of Jajahuti. The raid was unsuccessful, and a peace accord was reached when the Hindu king agreed to pay a ransom to Mahmud of Ghazni to end the attack and leave.
Khajuraho temples were in active use through the end of 12th century. This changed in the 13th century, after the army of Delhi Sultanate, under the command of the Muslim Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, attacked and seized the Chandela kingdom. About a century later, Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller in his memoirs about his stay in India from 1335 to 1342 CE, mentioned visiting Khajuraho temples, calling them “Kajarra” as follows:
...near (Khajuraho) temples, which contain idols that have been mutilated by the Moslems, live a number of yogis whose matted locks have grown as long as their bodies. And on account of extreme asceticism they are all yellow in colour. Many Moslems attend these men in order to take lessons (yoga) from them.
— Ibn Battuta, about 1335 CE, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭūṭah, Translated by Arthur Cotterell
Central Indian region, where Khajuraho temples are, remained in the control of many different Muslim dynasties from 13th century through the 18th century. In this period, some temples were desecrated, followed by a long period when they were left in neglect. In 1495 CE, for example, Sikandar Lodi’s campaign of temple destruction included Khajuraho. The remoteness and isolation of Khajuraho protected the Hindu and Jain temples from continued destruction by Muslims. Over the centuries, vegetation and forests overgrew, took over the temples.
In the 1830s, local Hindus guided a British surveyor, T.S. Burt, to the temples and they were thus rediscovered by the global audience. Alexander Cunningham later reported, few years after the rediscovery, that the temples were secretly in use by yogis and thousands of Hindus would arrive for pilgrimage during Shivaratri celebrated annually in February or March based on a lunar calendar. In 1852, Maisey prepared earliest drawings of the Khajuraho temples.
NOMENCLATURE
The name Khajuraho, or Kharjuravāhaka, is derived from ancient Sanskrit (kharjura, खर्जूर means date palm, and vāhaka, वाहक means "one who carries" or bearer). Local legends state that the temples had two golden date-palm trees as their gate (missing when they were rediscovered). Desai states that Kharjuravāhaka also means scorpion bearer, which is another symbolic name for deity Shiva (who wears snakes and scorpion garlands in his fierce form).
Cunningham’s nomenclature and systematic documentation work in 1850s and 1860s have been widely adopted and continue to be in use. He grouped the temples into the Western group around Lakshmana, Eastern group around Javeri, and Southern group around Duladeva.
Khajuraho is one of the four holy sites linked to deity Shiva (the other three are Kedarnath, Kashi and Gaya). Its origin and design is a subject of scholarly studies. Shobita Punja has proposed that the temple’s origin reflect the Hindu mythology in which Khajuraho is the place where Shiva got married; with Raghuvamsha verse 5.53, Matangeshvara honoring ‘’Matanga’’, or god of love.
DESCRIPTION
The temple site is within Vindhya mountain range in central India. An ancient local legend held that Hindu deity Shiva and other gods enjoyed visiting the dramatic hill formation in Kalinjar area. The center of this region is Khajuraho, set midst local hills and rivers. The temple complex reflects the ancient Hindu tradition of building temples where gods love to play.
The temples are clustered near water, another typical feature of Hindu temples. The current water bodies include Sib Sagar, Khajur Sagar (also called Ninora Tal) and Khudar Nadi (river). The local legends state that the temple complex had 64 water bodies, of which 56 have been physically identified by archeologists so far.
All temples, except one (Chaturbhuja) face sunrise - another symbolic feature that is predominant in Hindu temples. The relative layout of temples integrate masculine and feminine deities and symbols highlight the interdependence. The art work symbolically highlight the four goals of life considered necessary and proper in Hinduism - dharma, kama, artha and moksha.
Of the surviving temples, 6 are dedicated to Shiva and his consorts, 8 to Vishnu and his affinities, 1 to Ganesha, 1 to Sun god, 3 to Jain Tirthanks. For some ruins, there is insufficient evidence to assign the temple to specific deities with confidence.
An overall examination of site suggests that the Hindu symbolic mandala design principle of square and circles is present each temple plan and design. Further, the territory is laid out in three triangles that converge to form a pentagon. Scholars suggest that this reflects the Hindu symbolism for three realms or trilokinatha, and five cosmic substances or panchbhuteshvara. The temple site highlights Shiva, the one who destroys and recycles life, thereby controlling the cosmic dance of time, evolution and dissolution.
The temples have a rich display of intricately carved statues. While they are famous for their erotic sculpture, sexual themes cover less than 10% of the temple sculpture. Further, most erotic scene panels are neither prominent nor emphasized at the expense of the rest, rather they are in proportional balance with the non-sexual images. The viewer has to look closely to find them, or be directed by a guide. The arts cover numerous aspects of human life and values considered important in Hindu pantheon. Further, the images are arranged in a configuration to express central ideas of Hinduism. All three ideas from Āgamas are richly expressed in Khajuraho temples - Avyakta, Vyaktavyakta and Vyakta.
The Beejamandal temple is under excavation. It has been identified with the Vaidyanath temple mentioned in the Grahpati Kokalla inscription.
Of all temples, the Matangeshvara temple remains an active site of worship. It is another square grid temple, with a large 2.5 metres high and 1.1 metres diameter lingam, placed on a 7.6 metres diameter platform.
The most visited temple, Kandariya Mahadev, has an area of about 6,500 square feet and a shikhara (spire) that rise
s 116 feet.
Jain templesThe Jain temples are located on east-southeast region of Khajuraho monuments. Chausath jogini temple features 64 jogini, while Ghantai temple features bells sculptured on its pillars.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE TEMPLES
Khajuraho temples, like almost all Hindu temple designs, follow a grid geometrical design called vastu-purusha-mandala. This design plan has three important components - Mandala means circle, Purusha is universal essence at the core of Hindu tradition, while Vastu means the dwelling structure.
The design lays out a Hindu temple in a symmetrical, concentrically layered, self-repeating structure around the core of the temple called garbhagriya, where the abstract principle Purusha and the primary deity of the temple dwell. The shikhara, or spire, of the temple rises above the garbhagriya. This symmetry and structure in design is derived from central beliefs, myths, cardinality and mathematical principles.
The circle of mandala circumscribe the square. The square is considered divine for its perfection and as a symbolic product of knowledge and human thought, while circle is considered earthly, human and observed in everyday life (moon, sun, horizon, water drop, rainbow). Each supports the other. The square is divided into perfect 64 sub-squares called padas.
Most Khajuraho temples deploy the 8x8 padas grid Manduka Vastupurushamandala, with pitha mandala the square grid incorporated in the design of the spires. The primary deity or lingas are located in the grid’s Brahma padas.The architecture is symbolic and reflects the central Hindu beliefs through its form, structure and arrangement of its parts. The mandapas as well as the arts are arranged in the Khajuraho temples in a symmetric repeating patterns, even though each image or sculpture is distinctive in its own way. The relative placement of the images are not random but together they express ideas, just like connected words form sentences and paragraphs to compose ideas. This fractal pattern that is common in Hindu temples. Various statues and panels have inscriptions. Many of the inscriptions on the temple walls are poems with double meanings, something that the complex structure of Sanskrit allows in creative compositions. All Khajuraho temples, except one, face sunrise, and the entrance for the devotee is this east side.
Above the vastu-purusha-mandala of each temple is a superstructure with a dome called Shikhara (or Vimana, Spire). Variations in spire design come from variation in degrees turned for the squares. The temple Shikhara, in some literature, is linked to mount Kailash or Meru, the mythical abode of the gods.
In each temple, the central space typically is surrounded by an ambulatory for the pilgrim to walk around and ritually circumambulate the Purusa and the main deity. The pillars, walls and ceilings around the space, as well as outside have highly ornate carvings or images of the four just and necessary pursuits of life - kama, artha, dharma and moksa. This clockwise walk around is called pradakshina.
Larger Khajuraho temples also have pillared halls called mandapa. One near the entrance, on the east side, serves as the waiting room for pilgrims and devotees. The mandapas are also arranged by principles of symmetry, grids and mathematical precision. This use of same underlying architectural principle is common in Hindu temples found all over India. Each Khajuraho temple is distinctly carved yet also repeating the central common principles in almost all Hindu temples, one which Susan Lewandowski refers to as “an organism of repeating cells”.
CONSTRUCTION
The temples are grouped into three geographical divisions: western, eastern and southern.
The Khajuraho temples are made of sandstone, with a granite foundation that is almost concealed from view. The builders didn't use mortar: the stones were put together with mortise and tenon joints and they were held in place by gravity. This form of construction requires very precise joints. The columns and architraves were built with megaliths that weighed up to 20 tons. Some repair work in the 19th Century was done with brick and mortar; however these have aged faster than original materials and darkened with time, thereby seeming out of place.
The Khajuraho and Kalinjar region is home to superior quality of sandstone, which can be precision carved. The surviving sculpture reflect fine details such as strands of hair, manicured nails and intricate jewelry.
While recording the television show Lost Worlds (History Channel) at Khajuraho, Alex Evans recreated a stone sculpture under 4 feet that took about 60 days to carve in an attempt to develop a rough idea how much work must have been involved. Roger Hopkins and Mark Lehner also conducted experiments to quarry limestone which took 12 quarrymen 22 days to quarry about 400 tons of stone. They concluded that these temples would have required hundreds of highly trained sculptors.
CHRONOLOGY
The Khajuraho group of temples belong to Vaishnavism school of Hinduism, Saivism school of Hinduism and Jainism - nearly a third each. Archaeological studies suggest all three types of temples were under construction at about the same time in late 10th century, and in use simultaneously. Will Durant states that this aspect of Khajuraho temples illustrates the tolerance and respect for different religious viewpoints in the Hindu and Jain traditions. In each group of Khajuraho temples, there were major temples surrounded by smaller temples - a grid style that is observed to varying degrees in Hindu temples in Angkor Wat, Parambaran and South India.
The largest surviving Saiva temple is Khandarya Mahadeva, while the largest surviving Vaishnava group includes Chaturbhuja and Ramachandra.
Kandarya Mahadeva temple plan is 109 ft in length by 60 ft, and rises 116 ft above ground and 88 ft above its own floor. The central padas are surrounded by three rows of sculptured figures, with over 870 statues, most being half life size (2.5 to 3 feet). The spire is a self repeating fractal structure.
TEMPLE NAME - DEITY - YEAR COMPLETED
Chausath Yogini - Devi, 64 Yoginis - 885
Brahma - Vishnu - 925
Lalgun Mahadev - Shiva - 900
Matangeshwar - Shiva - 1000
Varaha - Vishnu - 950
Lakshmana - Vaikuntha Vishnu - 939
Parshvanath - Parshvanath - 954
Visvanatha - Shiva - 999
Devi Jagadambi - Devi, Parvati - 1023
Chitragupta - Sun, Chitragupta - 1023
Kandariya Mahadeva - Shiva - 1029
Vamana - Vamana - 1062
Adinath Jain Temple - Rishabha - 1027
Javeri - Vishnu - 1090
Chaturbhuja - Vishnu - 1110
Duladeo (Duladeva) - Shiva - 1125
Ghantai - Jain Tirthankara - 960
Vishnu-Garuda - Vishnu - 1000
Ganesha - Shiva - 1000
Hanuman - Hanuman - 922
Mahishasuramardini - Devi - 995
ARTS AND SCULPTURE
The Khajuraho temples feature a variety of art work, of which 10% is sexual or erotic art outside and inside the temples. Some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. Some scholars suggest these to be tantric sexual practices. Other scholars state that the erotic arts are part of Hindu tradition of treating kama as an essential and proper part of human life, and its symbolic or explicit display is common in Hindu temples. James McConnachie, in his history of the Kamasutra, describes the sexual-themed Khajuraho sculptures as "the apogee of erotic art":
"Twisting, broad-hipped and high breasted nymphs display their generously contoured and bejewelled bodies on exquisitely worked exterior wall panels. These fleshy apsaras run riot across the surface of the stone, putting on make-up, washing their hair, playing games, dancing, and endlessly knotting and unknotting their girdles . . Beside the heavenly nymphs are serried ranks of griffins, guardian deities and, most notoriously, extravagantly interlocked maithunas, or lovemaking couples."
The temples have several thousand statues and art works, with Kandarya Mahadeva temple alone decorated with over 870. Some 10% of these iconographic carvings contain sexual themes and various sexual poses. A common misconception is that, since the old structures with carvings in Khajuraho are temples, the carvings depict sex between deities; however the kama arts represent diverse sexual expressions of different human beings. The vast majority of arts depict various aspects the everyday life, mythical stories as well as symbolic display of various secular and spiritual values important in Hindu tradition. For example, depictions show women putting on makeup, musicians making music, potters, farmers, and other folks in their daily life during the medieval era. These scenes are in the outer padas as is typical in Hindu temples.
There is iconographic symbolism embedded in the arts displayed in Khajuraho temples. Core Hindu values are expressed in multitude of ways. Even the Kama scenes, when seen in combination of sculptures that precede and follow, depict the spiritual themes such as moksha. In the words of Stella Kramrisch,
This state which is “like a man and woman in close embrace” is a symbol of moksa, final release or reunion of two principles, the essence (Purusha) and the nature (Prakriti).
— Stella Kramrisch, 1976
The Khajuraho temples represent one expression of many forms of arts that flourished in Rajput kingdoms of India from 8th through 10th century CE. For example, contemporary with Khajuraho were the publications of poems and drama such as Prabodhacandrodaya, Karpuramanjari, Viddhasalabhanjika and Kavyamimansa. Some of the themes expressed in these literary works are carved as sculpture in Khajuraho temples. Some sculptures at the Khajuraho monuments dedicated to Vishnu include the Vyalas, which are hybrid imaginary animals with lions body, and are found in other Indian temples. Some of these hybrid mythical art work include Vrik Vyala (hybrid of wolf and lion) and Gaja Vyala (hybrid of elephant and lion). These Vyalas may represent syncretic, creative combination of powers innate in the two.
TOURISM AND CULTURAL EVENTS
The temples in Khajuraho are broadly divided into three parts : the Eastern group, the Southern Group and the Western group of temples of which the Western group alone has the facility of an Audio guided tour wherein the tourists are guided through the seven eight temples. There is also an audio guided tour developed by the Archaeological Survey of India which includes a narration of the temple history and architecture.
The Khajuraho Dance Festival is held every year in February. It features various classical Indian dances set against the backdrop of the Chitragupta or Vishwanath Temples.
The Khajuraho temple complex offers a light and sound show every evening. The first show is in English language and the second one in Hindi. It is held in the open lawns in the temple complex, and has received mixed reviews.
The Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development has set up kiosks at the Khajuraho railway station, with tourist officers to provide information for Khajuraho visitors.
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I read an interesting post by Chase Jarvis about creativity. He asked the community at large to finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if ....". I also watched the movie Perfume last night, in which one character asked to be left alone - he needed silence to learn how to create.
For me, silence is the best mechanism. Not silence in terms of sound, but the silence of the mind which in turns, creates a loud heart. One which yells with passion, creating an inspiring space because it's doing what it needs.
It's important to apply silence to our loud lives.
On the off-chance that people still leave comments on my photos - what do you think? Finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if...."
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This blueberry bush is one of the original plantings we put in at Maple Hoo, so it should be a big ol' splash of beautiful red color by now. But... we planted it in a bad spot, so it's a medium-sized paltry sprig of beautiful red color.
Meanwhile, today was a busy one. Hegle got taken to the vet where she was fawned over, only stoking her adorable kitten ego. They wanted a photo of her for their Facebook page. It would need to be a video with the accompanying audio track of the words "Hegle" and "no" on a loop. Still a troublemaker, that one. Pookie made her first trip to see a sports doctor for her knee, which just seems hilarious because the words "Pookie" and "sports" don't seem like they should be used in the same sentence. Schnookie had a dimwit co-worker passive aggressively question her abilities, which is horrible and brings to mind the words "fuck" and "off". And maybe "you", "ignorant" and "slut".