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I got into the DailyMail Online! See here:
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A news agency contacted me a while back asking to write an article on me, but I hadn't realised I got into the paper already! And it was a week ago!
Still awesome though, I am very pleased :-D
An interesting article introducing the 12th Heron site, and Heron's expansion plans for 1967. I don't, unfortunately, have the November 5, 1966 issue of Garage in which Gerald Ronson's new Heron Group was introduced, but hopefully one day I'll be able to get hold of it. The temporary 1s. a gallon price cut is an interesting tactic.
My biggest question here, to anyone who remembers, is what colours the elliptical Heron logo was here? I mean, it seems as though it would have probably been red and yellow, but I think I have a dim memory of having seen a photo of a blue and green Heron sign of this kind.
Note also the circular sign on the building, to the left of the HERON lettering. I think this was probably Heron's 'coat of arms' as also seen on some receipts of the era (see image in comments below).
Assuming Dagenham Motors in Wembley stayed in the same location (which might not be a correct assumption), the site was still open (without a petrol forecourt) until 2019 goo.gl/maps/yWFBZ23F5pTZhcF88 but appears to have closed soon after that. Here's an article about the closure www.am-online.com/news/dealer-news/2020/11/20/ford-car-re...
There is an Esso a bit further down the road, and a Sainsbury's in the other direction.
Dagenham Motors, one of the largest Ford dealer chains, became TrustFord in 2014, owned by Ford itself.
p.s. The Paykan story is, of course, also worth noting!
Since using the world map mural in Ian's room, I've come across articles in design magazines featuring its use. This is another. From "Window & Wall Ideas, Spring 1999.
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Immersion
Immersion
Main article: Immersion baptism
The word "immersion" is derived from late Latin immersionem, a noun derived from the verb immergere (in – "into" + mergere "dip"). In relation to baptism, some use it to refer to any form of dipping, whether the body is put completely under water or is only partly dipped in water; they thus speak of immersion as being either total or partial. Others, of the Anabaptist tradition, use "immersion" to mean exclusively plunging someone entirely under the surface of the water (submersion).[94][95] The term "immersion" is also used of a form of baptism in which water is poured over someone standing in water, without submersion of the person.[96][97] On these three meanings of the word "immersion", see Immersion baptism.
When "immersion" is used in opposition to "submersion",[98] it indicates the form of baptism in which the candidate stands or kneels in water and water is poured over the upper part of the body. Immersion in this sense has been employed in West and East since at least the 2nd century and is the form in which baptism is generally depicted in early Christian art. In the West, this method of baptism began to be replaced by affusion baptism from around the 8th century, but it continues in use in Eastern Christianity.[96][97][99]
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Article from February 1959 Speed Age magazine.
A new book on the history of the Playboy has just been published by Cunningham Studio of Johnston Iowa.
(orphanbabies@mchsi.com).
Thousands of Hongkongers march in defiance of anti-mask law, despite metro shutdown, heavy rain, tear gas
Masked demonstrators joined unauthorised protests on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon on Sunday, defying a new emergency law banning facial coverings at protests.
The protests, now in their 18th week, drew tens of thousands to the streets despite heavy rain and the closure of key MTR stations.
But, by late afternoon, tear gas had been deployed near government headquarters in Admiralty and Wan Chai to clear demonstrators, whilst riot police sought to disperse crowds in Kowloon Tong.
The anti-mask law was enacted by Chief Executive Carrie Lam via emergency legislation and came into effect on Saturday.
Protesters nevertheless wore medical masks, Halloween masks, makeup and even facial treatment masks on Sunday.
Those who violate the new law a maximum punishment of a year in prison or a fine of HK$25,000.
Netizens called for a turnout of “three million” on Sunday as a show of strength. The largest demonstration since the movement began in June had a turnout of approximately two million, according to organisers.
All lanes of Hennessey Road and Yee Wo Street were occupied by protesters as they carried a large banner reading “Hong Kong police attempt to murder.” Another read “our gov is killing us.”
A 14-year-old and an 18-year-old were shot by police this week. The force said the incidents were appropriate and justified as self-defence.
Throughout the day, demonstrators built makeshift barricades and targetted at least one branch of Starbucks.
Branches of the coffeeshop have been vandalised in recent weeks after the daughter of the local franchisee’s owner – the Maxim’s caterers founder – spoke against the movement at the United Nations.
Mainland-owned businesses and banks were also vandalised.
In an SMS, Hong Kong police appealed to residents to remain alert and remain at home: “Unauthorised public events expected today will likely cause violence & disruptions. Please stay alert, avoid going out & check for police updates,” it read.
Large-scale peaceful protests against a bill that would have enabled extraditions to China have evolved since June into sometimes violent displays of dissent over Beijing’s encroachment, democracy and alleged police brutality.
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【明報專訊】《禁蒙面法》觸發新一輪示威，法例生效後的周六，各區爆發示威衝突，警方未有施放催淚彈。但到了周日，港九便烽煙再起，逾萬計市民參加遊行，再次演變成警民衝突，警方出動水炮車及裝甲車戒備，又施放大量催淚彈，示威者縱火、擲燃燒彈及破壞。其間在鵝頸橋一帶逾20名示威者被捕，包括一名外貌約10來歲女童，表情惶恐，身體發抖。昨日被捕者中，最少兩人被控告違反《禁蒙面法》。警方表示，於觀塘啟田道拘捕一名18歲男子及38歲女子，兩人被暫控合共一項「非法集結」及各一項「違反《禁止蒙面規例》」罪，案件今於東區裁判法院提堂。
警毆被制服者 市民喝罵方停
另有網上影片顯示，兩名防暴警在新蒲崗清場期間，拳打腳踢一名已被制服的黑衣男，遭市民喝罵才停手。
實政圓桌立法會議員田北辰表示，禁蒙面法不但未能止暴，更應驗了是「火上加油」，就算有了禁蒙面法，警方人手不夠應付， 反問「你拉得幾多個？」他最擔心政府以此為由推出更強硬法例，屆時示威者又再升級反彈。
田北辰：應驗立法火上加油
議會陣線區諾軒稱，不認為立法令示威者減少，反而在上周五（4日）晚上充分感受到市民的憤怒，「我從未見過有人身穿西裝在中環推水馬」，斥政府誤判只會令社會更激化。民主黨立法會議員林卓廷表示，政府口說「對話」，行動卻是火上加油。至於立法是否有效減少遊行人數，林卓廷稱是因港鐵停駛令市民難以過海遊行，但會在自己的社區抗爭，導致各區都見示威者。
萬計蒙面人遊行喊解散警隊
昨日天氣不穩，下午更下起大雨，但仍有數以萬計市民響應網民號召，在維港兩岸撐傘遊行，當中以港島遊行規模較大，大批市民以各種方式蒙面，有人戴普通口罩，亦有人用衣服蒙頭，亦有市民戴行山帽掩面。站前排的參加者手持一幅大型黑布標語，寫着「香港警察，蓄意謀殺」字句；市民沿途高叫「五大訴求，缺一不可」、「解散香港警隊」和「光復香港，時代革命」等口號。
遊行隊伍昨午2時前起步，不久已佔據軒尼詩道來回行車線，隊頭於3時前抵達遮打花園，龍尾伸延至銅鑼灣。另有示威者取道金鐘道行至灣仔警察總部外，以鐵欄及雜物築路障，與夏愨花園天橋上的警員對峙，其間警員施放催淚彈。
燃燒彈誤中 港台記者送院
下午約5時開始，大批防暴警向銅鑼灣方向推進，其間不斷發射催淚彈，示威者不斷後退，有人向警方投擲一輪燃燒彈，港台一名記者被擲中，身上雨衣着火。該記者其後送往律敦治醫院治理，港台稱其在灣仔採訪期間疑被汽油彈擊中面部受傷，嚴厲譴責暴力行為。
九龍方面，大批遊行市民下午2時許由梳士巴利公園出發，行出彌敦道，佔據南北行車線，有人撬開尖沙嘴港鐵站鐵閘，入內破壞設施，又破壞佐敦站出口和閉路電視。同一時間，另一批示威者在旺角麥花臣球場出發，匯合遊行隊伍，隊頭再分數個方向前進，多個港鐵站遭破壞或縱火。在旺角警署外，示威者以竹枝設路障，又在馬路燒雜物，警方發射催淚彈、海綿彈及布袋彈，又派出速龍小隊拘捕示威者。
民陣副召集人陳皓桓在facebook上載片段，顯示有兩名防暴警在新蒲崗「譽．港灣」對出，拳打腳踢一名已被制服的黑衣男子。片段顯示，有身處較高位置的市民見狀向警方投擲杯裝飲品，有人大叫「唔好打人」，該名警員才停手。
Summer holiday 2014
In and around Berlin Germany
Berlin
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This article is about the capital of Germany. For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation).
Berlin
State of Germany
Clockwise: Charlottenburg Palace, Fernsehturm Berlin, Reichstag building, Berlin Cathedral, Alte Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate.
Clockwise: Charlottenburg Palace, Fernsehturm Berlin, Reichstag building, Berlin Cathedral, Alte Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate.
Flag of Berlin
Flag Coat of arms of Berlin
Coat of arms
Location within European Union and Germany
Location within European Union and Germany
Coordinates: 52°31′N 13°23′ECoordinates: 52°31′N 13°23′E
Country
Germany
Government
• Governing Mayor
Michael Müller (SPD)
• Governing parties
SPD / CDU
• Votes in Bundesrat
4 (of 69)
Area
• City
891.85 km2 (344.35 sq mi)
Elevation
34 m (112 ft)
Population (December 2013)[1]
• City
3,517,424
• Density
3,900/km2 (10,000/sq mi)
Demonym
Berliner
Time zone
CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)
CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code(s)
10115–14199
Area code(s)
030
ISO 3166 code
DE-BE
Vehicle registration
B[2]
GDP/ Nominal
€109.2 billion (2013) [3]
NUTS Region
DE3
Website
berlin.de
Berlin (/bərˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] ( listen)) is the capital of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people,[4] Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.[5] Located in northeastern Germany on the River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 4.5 million residents from over 180 nations.[6][7][8][9] Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.[10]
First documented in the 13th century, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1417), the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the Third Reich (1933–1945).[11] Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world.[12] After World War II, the city was divided; East Berlin became the capital of East Germany while West Berlin became a de facto West German exclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989).[13] Following German reunification in 1990, the city was once more designated as the capital of all Germany, hosting 158 foreign embassies.[14]
Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media, and science.[15][16][17][18] Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations, and convention venues.[19][20] Berlin serves as a continental hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network. The metropolis is a popular tourist destination.[21] Significant industries also include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, clean tech, biotechnology, construction, and electronics.
Modern Berlin is home to renowned universities, orchestras, museums, entertainment venues, and is host to many sporting events.[22] Its urban setting has made it a sought-after location for international film productions.[23] The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts, and a high quality of living.[24] Over the last decade Berlin has seen the upcoming of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene.[25]
20th to 21st centuries[edit]
Street, Berlin (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
After 1910 Berlin had become a fertile ground for the German Expressionist movement. In fields such as architecture, painting and cinema new forms of artistic styles were invented. At the end of World War I in 1918, a republic was proclaimed by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building. In 1920, the Greater Berlin Act incorporated dozens of suburban cities, villages, and estates around Berlin into an expanded city. The act increased the area of Berlin from 66 to 883 km2 (25 to 341 sq mi). The population almost doubled and Berlin had a population of around four million. During the Weimar era, Berlin underwent political unrest due to economic uncertainties, but also became a renowned center of the Roaring Twenties. The metropolis experienced its heyday as a major world capital and was known for its leadership roles in science, the humanities, city planning, film, higher education, government, and industries. Albert Einstein rose to public prominence during his years in Berlin, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Berlin in ruins after World War II (Potsdamer Platz, 1945).
In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power. NSDAP rule effectively destroyed Berlin's Jewish community, which had numbered 160,000, representing one-third of all Jews in the country. Berlin's Jewish population fell to about 80,000 as a result of emigration between 1933 and 1939. After Kristallnacht in 1938, thousands of the city's persecuted groups were imprisoned in the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp or, starting in early 1943, were shipped to death camps, such as Auschwitz.[39] During World War II, large parts of Berlin were destroyed in the 1943–45 air raids and during the Battle of Berlin. Around 125,000 civilians were killed.[40] After the end of the war in Europe in 1945, Berlin received large numbers of refugees from the Eastern provinces. The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided. The sectors of the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom and France) formed West Berlin, while the Soviet sector formed East Berlin.[41]
The Berlin Wall in 1986, painted on the western side. People crossing the so-called "death strip" on the eastern side were at risk of being shot.
All four Allies shared administrative responsibilities for Berlin. However, in 1948, when the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany to the three western sectors of Berlin, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access routes to and from West Berlin, which lay entirely inside Soviet-controlled territory. The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949.[42] In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany. West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but it politically was aligned with the Federal Republic of Germany despite West Berlin's geographic isolation. Airline service to West Berlin was granted only to American, British, and French airlines.
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. On 3 October 1990, the German reunification process was formally finished.
The founding of the two German states increased Cold War tensions. West Berlin was surrounded by East German territory, and East Germany proclaimed the Eastern part as its capital, a move that was not recognized by the western powers. East Berlin included most of the historic center of the city. The West German government established itself in Bonn.[43] In 1961, East Germany began the building of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin, and events escalated to a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie. West Berlin was now de facto a part of West Germany with a unique legal status, while East Berlin was de facto a part of East Germany. John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" – speech in 1963 underlining the US support for the Western part of the city. Berlin was completely divided. Although it was possible for Westerners to pass from one to the other side through strictly controlled checkpoints, for most Easterners travel to West Berlin or West Germany prohibited. In 1971, a Four-Power agreement guaranteed access to and from West Berlin by car or train through East Germany.[44]
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November and was subsequently mostly demolished. Today, the East Side Gallery preserves a large portion of the Wall. On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital. In 1991, the German Parliament, the Bundestag, voted to move the seat of the (West) German capital from Bonn to Berlin, which was completed in 1999. Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several districts. The number of boroughs was reduced from 23 to twelve. In 2006 the FIFA World Cup Final was held in Berlin.
Jewish Museum, Berlin
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The Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin, to the left of the old Kollegienhaus (before 2005).
Outside of the Jewish Museum view
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe. In three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind, two millennia of German-Jewish history are on display in the permanent exhibition as well as in various changing exhibitions. German-Jewish history is documented in the collections, the library and the archive, in the computer terminals at the museum's Rafael Roth Learning Center, and is reflected in the museum's program of events. The museum was opened in 2001 and is one of Berlin’s most frequented museums (almost 720,000 visitors in 2012).[1]
Opposite the building ensemble, the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin was built – also after a design by Libeskind – in 2011/2012 in the former flower market hall. The archives, library, museum education department, and a lecture hall can all be found in the academy.[2]
Princeton economist W. Michael Blumenthal, who was born in Oranienburg near Berlin and was later President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Treasury, has been the director of the museum since December 1997.[3]
From the Wikipedia article: Gramercy Park is a small, fenced-in private park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park is at the core of both the neighborhood referred to as either Gramercy or Gramercy Park and the Gramercy Park Historic District. The approximately 2 acre (0.8 hectare) park is the only private park in New York City, and one of only two in the state; only people residing around the park who pay an annual fee have a key, and the public is not generally allowed in – although the sidewalks of the streets around the park are a popular jogging, strolling and dog-walking route.
When the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission created the Gramercy Park Historic District in 1966, they quoted from John B. Pine's 1921 book, The Story of Gramercy Park:
The laying out of Gramercy Park represents one of the earliest attempts in this country at 'City Planning'. ... As a park given to the prospective owners of the land surrounding it and held in trust for those who made their homes around it, Gramercy Park is unique in this City, and perhaps in this country, and represents the only neighborhood, with possibly one exception, which has remained comparatively unchanged for eighty years -- the Park is one of the City's Landmarks.
Calling it "a Victorian gentleman who has refused to die", Charlotte Devree in the New York Times said that "There is nothing else quite like Gramercy Park in the country."Gramercy Park is held in common as one of the city's two privately owned parks – Sunnyside Gardens in Queens is the other – by the owners of the 39 surrounding structures, as it has been since December 31, 1831. Two keys are allocated to each of the original lots surrounding the park, and the owners may buy keys for a fee, which was originally $10 per key, but as of 2005 was $350, with a $1,000 fee for lost keys, which rises to $2,000 for a second instance. The Medeco locks are changed annually. and any property that does not pay the annual assessment of $7,500 per lot has its key privileges revoked. As of 2012 there were 383 keys in circulation, each individually numbered and coded.
Members of the Players Club and the National Arts Club as well as guests of the Gramercy Park Hotel, which has 12 keys, have access, as does Calvary Church and the Brotherhood Synagogue; hotel guests are escorted to the park and picked up later by hotel staff.[26] In addition, the owners of the luxury condominium apartments at 57 Irving Place, which was completed in 2012, will have key access to the park, despite being located several blocks from the park, by becoming members of the Players Club.
At one time, the park was open to the public on Gramercy Day – which changed yearly, but was often the first Saturday in May. In 2007, the trustees announced that the park would no longer be open for Gramercy Day because it "had turned into a street fair". The park, however, continues to be open to the public on Christmas Eve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park
'Practical Photography' magazine here in the UK recently asked if I'd write an article for them about my photography - it's the first time I've been asked to do anything like this so it was really exciting! The article is in this months issue of the magazine (don't ask me why it's called the August edition when it's pubilshed in July!)
An island for really rich people, according to this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_Island,_Florida
We're headed back to Canada tomorrow, and I hear it's gonna be cold there for the next few days. Oh, well. We've had a great visit with my mom, stuffed ourselves with lots of good food, gone for lots of walks, and seen lots of birds and flowers. Miami Beach is like a tropical New York City, complete with tall buildings, traffic jams, and crazy drivers talking on cellphones and totally disrespecting pedestrians.
Article in the Sunday Mail, using 3 of my photos without my permission, no credit given, no payments made. My 3 are the decent ones, theirs are the 2 rubbish BNP / IRA tags.
Edit: some good ideas and discussion about it at:
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M7 30031 is being turned on Bournemouth shed in July 1962. Immediately after this shot, the photographer was unceremoniously escorted off the premises by a plainclothes railway policeman.
142 W High Ave, New Philadelphia, OH. Buehler's original store, opened in 1929 and relocated in 1964.
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I found a history article elsewhere on the interweb and based on the information I found, I'm reasonably sure this is the first Buehler's store. It's been modified over the years and has been at least a couple of different businesses since 1964 when Buehler's built their relocated store.
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion which originated during the 15th century in the Punjab region. The term "Sikh" has its origin in the Sanskrit words शिष्य (śiṣya; disciple, student) or शिक्ष (śikṣa; instruction). A Sikh is a disciple of a guru. According to Article I of the Sikh Rehat Maryada (the Sikh code of conduct), a Sikh is "any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh; Guru Granth Sahib; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru". "Sikh" properly refers to adherents of Sikhism as a religion, not an ethnic group. However, because Sikhs often share strong ethno-religious ties, many countries, such as the U.K., recognize Sikh as a designated ethnicity on their censuses. The American non-profit organization United Sikhs has fought to have Sikh included on the U.S. census as well, arguing that Sikhs "self-identify as an 'ethnic minority'" and believe "that they are more than just a religion".
Male Sikhs usually have "Singh" (Lion), and female Sikhs have "Kaur" (Princess) as their middle or last name. Sikhs who have undergone the khanḍe-kī-pahul (the Sikh initiation ceremony) may also be recognized by the five Ks: uncut hair (kesh); an iron or steel bracelet (kara); a kirpan (a sword tucked into a gatra strap); kachehra, a cotton undergarment, and kanga, a small wooden comb. Baptized male Sikhs must cover their hair with a turban, which is optional for baptized female Sikhs. The greater Punjab region is the historic homeland of the Sikhs, although significant communities exist around the world.
HISTORY
Sikh political history may be said to begin with the death of the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjan Dev, in 1606. Guru Nanak was a religious leader and social reformer in the 15th-century Punjab. Religious practices were formalized by Guru Gobind Singh on 30 March 1699. Singh baptized five people from a variety of social backgrounds, known as the Panj Piare (the five beloved ones) to form the Khalsa, or collective body of initiated Sikhs. Sikhism has generally had amicable relations with other religions, except for the period of Mughal rule in India (1556–1707). Several Sikh gurus were killed by the Mughals for opposing their persecution of minority religious communities including Sikhs. Sikhs subsequently militarized to oppose Mughal rule. The emergence of the Sikh Confederacy under Ranjit Singh was characterized by religious tolerance and pluralism, with Christians, Muslims and Hindus in positions of power. The confederacy is considered the zenith of political Sikhism, encompassing Kashmir, Ladakh and Peshawar. Hari Singh Nalwa, the commander-in-chief of the Sikh army in the North West Frontier, expanded the confederacy to the Khyber Pass. Its secular administration implemented military, economic and governmental reforms. The months leading up to the partition of India in 1947 were marked by conflict in the Punjab between Sikhs and Muslims. This caused the religious migration of Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab, mirroring a similar religious migration of Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab.
The 1960s saw growing animosity between Sikhs and Hindus in India, with the Sikhs demanding the creation of a Punjab state on a linguistic basis similar to other states in India. This was promised to Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Jawaharlal Nehru, in return for Sikh political support during negotiations for Indian independence. Although the Sikhs obtained the Punjab, they lost Hindi-speaking areas to Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. Chandigarh was made a union territory and the capital of Haryana and Punjab on 1 November 1966.
Tensions arose again during the late 1970s, fueled by Sikh claims of discrimination and marginalisation by the Hindu-dominated Indian National Congress party and tactics adopted by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
According to Katherine Frank, Indira Gandhi's assumption of emergency powers in 1975 resulted in the weakening of the "legitimate and impartial machinery of government", and her increasing "paranoia" about opposing political groups led her to institute a "despotic policy of playing castes, religions and political groups against each other for political advantage". Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale articulated Sikh demands for justice, and this triggered violence in the Punjab. The prime minister's 1984 defeat of Bhindranwale led to an attack on the Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star and to her assassination by her Sikh bodyguards. Gandhi's assassination resulted in an explosion of violence against Sikh communities and the killing of thousands of Sikhs throughout India. Khushwant Singh described the riots as a Sikh pogrom; he "felt like a refugee in my country. In fact, I felt like a Jew in Nazi Germany". Since 1984, relations between Sikhs and Hindus have moved toward a rapprochement aided by economic prosperity. However, a 2002 claim by the Hindu right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that "Sikhs are Hindus" disturbed Sikh sensibilities. The Khalistan movement campaigns for justice for the victims of the violence, and for the political and economic needs of the Punjab.
In 1996, United Nations Commission on Human Rights Freedom of Religion or Belief Special Rapporteur Abdelfattah Amor (Tunisia, 1993–2004) visited India to report on religious discrimination. The following year Amor concluded, "In India it appears that the situation of the Sikhs in the religious field is satisfactory, but that difficulties are arising in the political (foreign interference, terrorism, etc.), economic (in particular with regard to sharing of water supplies) and even occupational fields. Information received from nongovernment (sic) sources indicates that discrimination does exist in certain sectors of the public administration; examples include the decline in the number of Sikhs in the police force and the military, and the absence of Sikhs in personal bodyguard units since the murder of Indira Gandhi".
Although Sikhs comprise 10 to 15 percent of all ranks of the Indian Army and 20 percent of its officers, they make up 1.87 percent of the Indian population.
During the 1999 Vaisakhi, Sikhs worldwide celebrated the 300th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa. Canada Post honoured Sikh Canadians with a commemorative stamp in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of Vaisakhi. On April 9, 1999, Indian president K.R. Narayanan issued a stamp commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Khalsa.
DEFINITION
According to Guru Granth Sahib:
One who calls himself a Sikh of the Guru, the True Guru, shall rise in the early morning hours and meditate on the Lord's Name. Upon arising early in the morning, the Sikh is to bathe, and cleanse himself in the pool of nectar. Following the Instructions of the Guru, the Sikh is to chant the Name of the Lord, Har. All sins, misdeeds and negativity shall be erased. Then, at the rising of the sun, the Sikh is to sing Gurbani; whether sitting down or standing up, the Sikh is to meditate on the Lord's Name. One who meditates on my Lord, Har, with every breath and every morsel of food – that Gursikh becomes pleasing to the Guru's Mind. That person, unto whom my Lord and Master is kind and compassionate – upon that Gursikh, the Guru's Teachings are bestowed. Servant Nanak begs for the dust of the feet of that Gursikh, who himself chants the Naam, and inspires others to chant it.
Simran of the Lord's name is a recurring theme of Guru Granth Sahib, and Sukhmani Sahib were composed to allow a devotee to recite Nam throughout the day. Rising at Amrit Velā (before sunrise) is a common Sikh practice. Sikhism considers the spiritual and secular lives to be intertwined: "In the Sikh Weltanschauung ... the temporal world is part of the Infinite and partakes of its characteristics." According to Guru Nanak, living an "active, creative, and practical life" of "truthfulness, fidelity, self-control and purity" is superior to a purely contemplative life.
FIVE Ks
The five Ks (panj kakaar) are five articles of faith which all baptized Sikhs (Amritdhari Sikhs) are obliged to wear. The symbols represent the ideals of Sikhism: honesty, equality, fidelity, meditating on God and never bowing to tyranny. The five symbols are:
- Kesh: Uncut hair, usually tied and wrapped in a Dastar
- Kanga: A wooden comb, usually worn under a Dastar
- Katchera: Cotton undergarments, historically appropriate in battle due to increased mobility when compared to a dhoti. Worn by both sexes, the katchera is a symbol of chastity.
- Kara: An iron bracelet, a weapon and a symbol of eternity
- Kirpan: An iron dagger in different sizes. In the UK Sikhs can wear a small dagger, but in the Punjab they might wear a traditional curved sword from one to three feet in length.
MUSIC & INSTRUMENTS
The Sikhs have a number of musical instruments: the rebab, dilruba, taus, jori and sarinda. Playing the sarangi was encouraged in Guru Har Gobind. The rubab was first played by Bhai Mardana as he accompanied Guru Nanak on his journeys. The jori and sarinda were designed by Guru Arjan. The taus was made by Guru Hargobind, who supposedly heard a peacock singing and wanted to create an instrument mimicking its sounds (taus is the Persian word for peacock). The dilruba was made by Guru Gobind Singh at the request of his followers, who wanted a smaller instrument than the taus. After Japji Sahib, all of the shabda in the Guru Granth Sahib were composed as ragas. This type of singing is known as Gurmat Sangeet.
When they marched into battle, the Sikhs would play a Ranjit Nagara (victory drum) to boost morale. Nagaras (usually two to three feet in diameter, although some were up to five feet in diameter) are played with two sticks. The beat of the large drums, and the raising of the Nishan Sahib, meant that the singhs were on their way.
DISTRIBUTION
Numbering about 27 million worldwide, Sikhs make up 0.39 percent of the world population; approximately 83 percent live in India. About 76 percent of all Sikhs live in the north Indian State of Punjab, where they form a majority (about two-thirds) of the population. Substantial communities of Sikhs (more than 200,000) live in the Indian states or union territories of Haryana (more than 1.1 million), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.
Sikh migration from British India began in earnest during the second half of the 19th century, when the British completed their annexation of the Punjab. The British Raj recruited Sikhs for the Indian Civil Service (particularly the British Indian Army), which led to Sikh migration throughout India and the British Empire. During the Raj, semiskilled Sikh artisans were transported from the Punjab to British East Africa to help build railroads. Sikhs emigrated from India and Pakistan after World War II, most going to the United Kingdom but many to North America. Some Sikhs who had settled in eastern Africa were expelled by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972. Economics is a major factor in Sikh migration, and significant communities exist in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Malaysia, East Africa, Australia and Thailand.
Although the rate of Sikh migration from the Punjab has remained high, traditional patterns of Sikh migration favouring English-speaking countries (particularly the United Kingdom) have changed during the past decade due to stricter immigration laws. Moliner (2006) wrote that as a consequence of Sikh migration to the UK "becom[ing] virtually impossible since the late 1970s", migration patterns evolved to continental Europe. Italy is a rapidly growing destination for Sikh migration, with Reggio Emilia and Vicenza having significant Sikh population clusters. Italian Sikhs are generally involved in agriculture, agricultural processing, the manufacture of machine tools and horticulture.
Primarily for socio-economic reasons, Indian Sikhs have the lowest adjusted growth rate of any major religious group in India, at 16.9 percent per decade (estimated from 1991 to 2001). Johnson and Barrett (2004) estimate that the global Sikh population increases annually by 392,633 (1.7 percent per year, based on 2004 figures); this percentage includes births, deaths and conversions.
REPRESENTATION
Sikhs have been represented in Indian politics by former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and the deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is also a Sikh. Past Sikh politicians in India include former president Giani Zail Singh, Sardar Swaran Singh (India's first foreign minister), Speaker of Parliament Gurdial Singh Dhillon and former Chief Minister of Punjab Pratap Singh Kairon.
Politicians from the Sikh diaspora include the first Asian American member of the United States Congress, Dalip Singh Saund, British MPs Piara Khabra, Parmjit Dhanda and Paul Uppal, the first couple to sit together in a Commonwealth parliament (Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who requested a Canadian government apology for the Komagata Maru incident), former Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla, Canadian Minister of State for Sport Baljit Singh Gosal and Legislative Assembly of Ontario members Vic Dhillon and Jagmeet Singh. Ujjal Dosanjh was the New Democratic Party Premier of British Columbia from July 2004 to February 2005, and was later a Liberal frontbench MP in Ottawa. In Malaysia, two Sikhs were elected MPs in the 2008 general elections: Karpal Singh (Bukit Gelugor) and his son, Gobind Singh Deo (Puchong). Two Sikhs were elected assemblymen: Jagdeep Singh Deo (Datuk Keramat) and Keshvinder Singh (Malim Nawar).
Sikhs comprise 10 to 15 percent of all ranks in the Indian Army and 20 percent of its officers, while making up 1.87 percent of the Indian population. The Sikh Regiment is one of the most-decorated regiments in the army, with 73 Battle Honours, 14 Victoria Crosses, 21 first-class Indian Orders of Merit (equivalent to the Victoria Cross), 15 Theatre Honours, five COAS Unit Citations, two Param Vir Chakras, 14 Maha Vir Chakras, five Kirti Chakras, 67 Vir Chakras and 1,596 other awards. The highest-ranking general in the history of the Indian Air Force is a Punjabi Sikh, Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh. Plans by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence for a Sikh infantry regiment were scrapped in June 2007.
Historically, most Indians have been farmers and 66 percent of the Indian population are engaged in agriculture. Indian Sikhs are employed in agriculture to a lesser extent; India's 2001 census found 39 percent of the working population of the Punjab employed in this sector. The success of the 1960s Green Revolution, in which India went from "famine to plenty, from humiliation to dignity", was based in the Punjab (which became known as "the breadbasket of India"). The Punjab is the wealthiest Indian state per capita, with the average Punjabi income three times the national average. The Green Revolution centred on Indian farmers adopting more intensive and mechanised agricultural methods, aided by the electrification of the Punjab, cooperative credit, consolidation of small holdings and the existing, British Raj-developed canal system. According to Swedish political scientist Ishtiaq Ahmad, a factor in the success of the Indian green revolution was the "Sikh cultivator, often the Jat, whose courage, perseverance, spirit of enterprise and muscle prowess proved crucial". However, not all aspects of the green revolution were beneficial. Indian physicist Vandana Shiva wrote that the green revolution made the "negative and destructive impacts of science [i.e. the green revolution] on nature and society" invisible, and was a catalyst for Punjabi Sikh and Hindu tensions despite a growth in material wealth.
Punjabi Sikhs are engaged in a number of professions which include science, engineering and medicine. Notable examples are nuclear scientist Piara Singh Gill (who worked on the Manhattan Project), fibre-optics pioneer Narinder Singh Kapany and physicist, science writer and broadcaster Simon Singh.
In business, the UK-based clothing retailers New Look and the Thai-based Jaspal were founded by Sikhs. India's largest pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories, is headed by Sikhs. UK Sikhs have the highest percentage of home ownership (82 percent) of any religious community. UK Sikhs are the second-wealthiest (after the Jewish community) religious group in the UK, with a median total household wealth of £229,000. In Singapore Kartar Singh Thakral expanded his family's trading business, Thakral Holdings, into total assets of almost $1.4 billion and is Singapore's 25th-richest person. Sikh Bob Singh Dhillon is the first Indo-Canadian billionaire. The Sikh diaspora has been most successful in North America, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley. American Sikh farmers such as Harbhajan Singh Samra and Didar Singh Bains dominate California agriculture, with Samra specialising in okra and Bains in peaches.
Sikh intellectuals, sportsmen and artists include writer Khushwant Singh, England cricketer Monty Panesar, former 400m runner Milkha Singh, Indian wrestler and actor Dara Singh, former Indian hockey team captains Ajitpal Singh and Balbir Singh Sr., former Indian cricket captain Bishen Singh Bedi, Harbhajan Singh (India's most successful off spin cricket bowler), Bollywood actress Neetu Singh, Sunny Leone, actors Parminder Nagra, Neha Dhupia, Gul Panag, Mona Singh, Namrata Singh Gujral, Archie Panjabi and director Gurinder Chadha.
Sikhs have migrated worldwide, with a variety of occupations. The Sikh Gurus preached ethnic and social harmony, and Sikhs comprise a number of ethnic groups. Those with over 1,000 members include the Ahluwalia, Arain, Arora, Bhatra, Bairagi, Bania, Basith, Bawaria, Bazigar, Bhabra, Chamar, Chhimba, Darzi, Dhobi, Gujar, Jatt, Jhinwar, Kahar, Kalal, Kamboj, Khatri, Kumhar, Labana, Lohar, Mahtam, Mazhabi, Megh, Mirasi, Mochi, Nai, Rajput, Ramgarhia, Saini, Sarera, Sikligar, Sunar, Sudh, Tarkhan and Zargar.
An order of Punjabi Sikhs, the Nihang or the Akalis, was formed during Ranjit Singh's time. Under their leader, Akali Phula Singh, they won many battles for the Sikh Confederacy during the early 19th century.
IN THE INDIAN & BRITISH ARMIES
Sikhs supported the British during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. By the beginning of World War I, Sikhs in the British Indian Army totaled over 100,000 (20 percent of the force). Until 1945 fourteen Victoria Crosses were awarded to Sikhs, a per-capita regimental record. In 2002 the names of all Sikh VC and George Cross recipients were inscribed on the monument of the Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill, next to Buckingham Palace. Chanan Singh Dhillon was instrumental in campaigning for the memorial.
During World War I, Sikh battalions fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli and France. Six battalions of the Sikh Regiment were raised during World War II, serving in the Second Battle of El Alamein, the Burma and Italian campaigns and in Iraq and receiving 27 battle honours. Around the world, Sikhs are commemorated in Commonwealth cemeteries.
In the last two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded. They all died or were wounded for the freedom of Britain and the world, and during shell fire, with no other protection but the turban, the symbol of their faith.
—General Sir Frank Messervy
British people are highly indebted and obliged to Sikhs for a long time. I know that within this century we needed their help twice [in two world wars] and they did help us very well. As a result of their timely help, we are today able to live with honour, dignity, and independence. In the war, they fought and died for us, wearing the turbans.
—Sir Winston Churchill
IN THE WEST
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sikhs began to emigrate to East Africa, the Far East, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. In 1907 the Khalsa Diwan Society was established in Vancouver, and four years later the first gurdwara was established in London. In 1912 the first gurdwara in the United States was founded in Stockton, California.
Since Sikhs (like Middle Eastern men) wear turbans, some in Western countries have been mistaken for Muslim or Arabic men since the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War. Several days after the 9/11 attacks Sikh Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered by Frank Roque, who thought Sodhi was connected with al-Qaeda. CNN suggested an increase in hate crimes against Sikh men in the United States and the UK after the 9/11 attacks.
Since Sikhism has never actively sought converts, the Sikhs have remained a relatively homogeneous ethnic group. The Kundalini Yoga-based activities of Harbhajan Singh Yogi in his 3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy) organisation claim to have inspired a moderate growth in non-Indian adherents of Sikhism. In 1998 an estimated 7,800 3HO Sikhs, known colloquially as ‘gora’ (ਗੋਰਾ) or ‘white’ Sikhs, were mainly centred around Española, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund overturned a 1925 Oregon law banning the wearing of turbans by teachers and government officials.
In an attempt to foster Sikh leaders in the Western world, youth initiatives by a number of organisations have begun. The Sikh Youth Alliance of North America sponsors an annual Sikh Youth Symposium, a public-speaking and debate competition held in gurdwaras throughout the U.S. and Canada.
ART & CULTURE
Sikh art and culture are nearly synonymous with that of the Punjab, and Sikhs are easily recognised by their distinctive turban (Dastar). The Punjab has been called India’s melting pot, due to the confluence of invading cultures (Greek, Mughal and Persian) from the rivers from which the region gets its name. Sikh culture is therefore a synthesis of cultures. Sikhism has forged a unique architecture, which S. S. Bhatti described as "inspired by Guru Nanak’s creative mysticism" and "is a mute harbinger of holistic humanism based on pragmatic spirituality".
During the Mughal and Afghan persecution of the Sikhs during the 17th and 18th centuries, the latter were concerned with preserving their religion and gave little thought to art and culture. With the rise of Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Raj in Lahore and Delhi, there was a change in the landscape of art and culture in the Punjab; Hindus and Sikhs could build decorated shrines without the fear of destruction or looting.
The Sikh Confederacy was the catalyst for a uniquely Sikh form of expression, with Ranjit Singh commissioning forts, palaces, bungas (residential places) and colleges in a Sikh style. Sikh architecture is characterised by gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks, stone lanterns, ornate balusters and square roofs. A pinnacle of Sikh style is Harmandir Sahib (also known as the Golden Temple) in Amritsar.
Sikh culture is influenced by militaristic motifs (with the Khanda the most obvious), and most Sikh artifacts - except for the relics of the Gurus - have a military theme. This theme is evident in the Sikh festivals of Hola Mohalla and Vaisakhi, which feature marching and displays of valor.
Although the art and culture of the Sikh diaspora have merged with that of other Indo-immigrant groups into categories like "British Asian", "Indo-Canadian" and "Desi-Culture", a minor cultural phenomenon which can be described as "political Sikh" has arisen. The art of diaspora Sikhs like Amarjeet Kaur Nandhra and Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh (the "Singh Twins") is influenced by their Sikhism and current affairs in the Punjab.
Bhangra and Giddha are two forms of Punjabi folk dancing which have been adapted and pioneered by Sikhs. Punjabi Sikhs have championed these forms of expression worldwide, resulting in Sikh culture becoming linked to Bhangra (although "Bhangra is not a Sikh institution but a Punjabi one").
PAINTING
Sikh painting is a direct offshoot of the Kangra school of painting. In 1810, Ranjeet Singh (1780–1839) occupied Kangra Fort and appointed Sardar Desa Singh Majithia his governor of the Punjab hills. In 1813 the Sikh army occupied Guler State, and Raja Bhup Singh became a vassal of the Sikhs. With the Sikh kingdom of Lahore becoming the paramount power, some of the Pahari painters from Guler migrated to Lahore for the patronage of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh and his Sardars.
The Sikh school adapted Kangra painting to Sikh needs and ideals. Its main subjects are the ten Sikh gurus and stories from Guru Nanak's Janamsakhis. The tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, left a deep impression on the followers of the new faith because of his courage and sacrifices. Hunting scenes and portraits are also common in Sikh painting.
WIKIPEDIA
This photograph captioned "Where the Rivers Meet" accompanied a Norwester magazine article titled "The Work of the Mound Builders," which was from the book Ohio History Sketches. The article discusses Indian mounds in Ohio and specifically mentions one located just northwest of the city of Columbus on the Scioto River, just above its junction with the Olentangy River. Factory smokestacks are visible in the background. Within Franklin County, Ohio there are 132 Indian mounds, some of which were found along the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers, one near the Marble Cliff quarry, south of Trabue Road, and a sizeable one on Dublin Road near the water plant.
This image available online at the UA Archives >>
Read the related "Norwester" magazine article at the UA Archives >>
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Identifier: hinw13p018i01
Date (yyyy-mm-dd): c. 1918-11
Original Dimensions: 11.5 cm x 7.5 cm
Format: Black and White Halftone Photograph
Source: Norwester, November 1918, page 18
Original Publisher: Upper Arlington Community (Ohio)
Location/s: Columbus (USA, Ohio, Franklin County)
Repository: Upper Arlington Historical Society
Digital Publisher: Upper Arlington Public Library, UA Archives
Credit: UA Archives - Upper Arlington Public Library (Repository: UA Historical Society)
Thanks to fotoswoch My photograph got published in Ostholsteiner Anzeiger newspaper.
Original German
"Seize the moment" nannte Lateefa aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten ihr geheimnisvolles Bild. Die 23 Jährige stammt aus dem Emirat Dubai undwurde alsFoto grafin bereits mehrfach preisgekrönt. Über ihr Motive schreibt sie:,,Als junge Araberin benutze ich den Schleier in meiner Arbeit, da er ein wichtiger Teil von mir selbst ist. Dennoch erzählen meine Aufnahmen nicht vom Schleier, sondern von der Frau dahinter - und die ist trotz der Verschleierung wie alle anderen Frauen. "In der linken Hand hält das Modell eine große indische Frucht.
Die Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, darunter Dubai, und grenzen an Saudi-Arabian, Oman und Katar. Die Binnengrenzen sind nicht exakt festgelegt und die Kustenlinie am Persischen Golf kann nicht genau bestimmt werden, da sie sich durch Verlagerung von Sand und Schlickmassen ständig ändert.
English translation : thanks to Jessica.
' The U.A.E citizen Lateefa has called her mysterious picture 'Seize the moment'. The 23 year old comes from the Emirate of Dubai and has received several prizes for her photography. She writes about her work; 'as a young Arab woman I used the veil in my work - as it is an important part of myself. However my photos aren't speaking about the veil but the woman behind it - and in spite of being veiled, she is the same as all other women. ' In the left hand, the model holds a large Indian fruit. The U.A.E of which Dubai is one emirate, borders with Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar. The internal borders are not precisely marked and the coastline if the Persian Gulf can't be exactly identified as it constantly changes with the movement of sand and sand banks. '
A 2 page article about my night photography / light painting is appearing in the May issue of "Hemmings Classic Car" magazine. A pdf of the full article can be found here.
voici les sœurs Tatin et toute l'histoire / About the Tatin's sisters pie
La tarte Tatin a été inventée en 1898 par les sœurs Tatin à La Motte-Beuvron, en Sologne, non loin de Bourges. Le restaurant existe toujours. / Created by the sisters Tatin in the Loire Valley, in Sologne, not far from Bourges. The restaurant is always open today.
1 pâte brisée / 1pie dough
8 pommes moyennes / 8 apples
100 g de sucre brun / 0,25 pound brown sugar
Dans un moule faire le caramel avec le sucre, 2 cuillères à soupe d'eau / In a mould , do the caramel with sugar and 2 tablespoons of water.
Placer les pommes et cuire 15' environ / Place the apples and cook around 15'
Déposer la pâte sur les pommes / Place the pastry on the apples
Cuire 40' à 180°C / Bake at 360° F during 40'
Démouler / Remove from the mould
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Camera Lens, a different way…
To make good pictures, you need a good camera with good lenses. Such lenses are expensive in India. “What if we make lens at home?” was the question that came to the mind of Pune based Meghana Kulkarni, an architect by profession. Who went ahead and successfully experimented on making lens at home. Today, she is also known for her lens along with photography.
While studying architecture, Meghana, fell in love with Photography. From here her search for lens with special effects started. While searching the internet, she stumbled upon people in foreign countries who made lens at home. She thought, “What if I made those lenses?” This triggered her experimentation with home made lens for “special” effects.
Till date Meghana has made 3-4 special lenses, like a Macro lens for close up photography and a Lens baby. What’s even more special about these lenses is that she made them using stuff easily found at home: paper, cloth, driller and glass from old magnifying glasses. She has also made a pinhole camera using old cameras.
She publishes information abt her experiments on her website too.
Even though she is an architect, photography has become her passion. Some of her photos have also been published in travel magazines. Such magazines are always open to different types of pictures.
Apart from this, she also wants to try film photography and developing.
Errors:
1. I publish information about my experiements on my blog. I don't have a website... yet
2. I made a pinhole camera out of a sweet shop box and not out of an old camera.
Things I'm unsure about:
1. if a driller is commonly found in every household.
2. If travel magazines really open to different types of photographs.
The following article is a first-person Cornwall Marathon race report by Ottawa runner Ben-Zion Caspi, 67. It was written for the TriRudy blog, and is reproduced here with permission by the author.
In his report, Ben says, " At 36 km my slow running death started. I was...above a 6 minutes per km pace. Oh well, all I wanted to get to the finish line. During the lone run, before I started to see the half marathoners, there were no pretty girls with pony tails to chase and improve my pace... "
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Ben-Zion Caspi's race report (May 2, 2016)
As in most years, I was running with the group where many of its runners trained for Boston. I did not plan to run Boston, and I did not plan to run Ottawa either, so what do I do? I registered for the inauguration of the Cornwall Marathon, which was scheduled two weeks after Boston and 4 weeks before the Ottawa Marathon.
The training was OK. Last winter was very easy on us, not too many very cold weekends, and my body behaved with no significant injuries or illness.
The organizers of the Cornwall race were cautious, planning the first marathon as a learning one, and limiting the numbers of runners to 75. Only 75 runners will be able to lay the claim that they were part of the inauguration of the beautiful scenery of the Cornwall Marathon.
On the race website there was a description of the course, and part of it was: "The course is fast and has a net downhill elevation profile that includes a few gentle rollers." More on that latter.
At the end of March I registered.
Our group kept training and on the weekend when many traveled to Boston, three of us, Gilles, Colleen and I drove to the Crysler Park Marina (www.cryslerparkmarina.com/) in Morrisburg, and rode the course to Cornwall on our bicycles. It was a very pleasant ride of 84 km (52 miles). The marathon race course is point-to-point from Morrisburg to Cornwall.
As it is described at the race's web site, it is a beautiful course. It is still early spring, so no flowers or leaves are on the trees, but you are deep in nature and along the water (St. Lawrence River).
Race day arrived. Colleen and I planned to drive to the start and get a lift with one of our friends from the finish at Cornwall back to the car after the race. This plan gave us more time to sleep, since you had to be in Cornwall the latest at 6:05 a.m. on Saturday to be bused to the start line. Our option was to be at the start at 6:40 a.m., so we could sleep a bit longer before the race.
We arrived to Morrisburg at 6:30 a.m. On the drive there we passed a slow moving car, and were pleasantly surprised to realize that Irina and Alastair were in this car, driving to the start to cheer. Good friends for sure.
It was a chilly morning, perfect weather for me to run a marathon, a bit above freezing. Shorts, t-shirt, gloves and a hat. I was ready to roll.
I was not too concerned about my finish time; the plan was to run with Colleen and accommodate her desired pace. The idea was to get a time to qualify for Boston. I thought a 5 min. 20 sec. (5:20) per km pace would be good, but at the end we decided to run the first half at 5:15.
Since there were only 75 runners, there was no timing mat at the start and we all started together at 7 a.m. A beautiful morning for a run. Phil explained few things. It was funny to hear him warning us, "Watch the house in the middle of the road few hundred meters after the start." :-) It was not a joke.
I did not do any warm-up, and usually my first two km are very slow. Well not with Colleen. She was too eager for sure, and it was hard to rein her in. The first 7 km were done in 36 minutes, at a 5:08 pace. Not the planned pace for sure.
About 8 km of the first part of the race is on a firm trail bed of soft pine needles. It was pleasant run on this surface and it sure felt the different when we came to the asphalt path.
At 10 km our average pace was 5:12, still faster than the planned pace. At 14 km we left nature and ran on the Long Sault Parkway. You pass over many islands, each one of them with its unique name. Still beautiful scenery around but you share it with moving vehicles.
At 21 km our pace was about 5:18 (5 minutes, 18 seconds) per km and Colleen broke up with me. She told me it is not me, it is her, and I should go my own way.
So there I was running alone. The 75 runners at that point were spread all over and if you did not plan to run with somebody you were on your own. For some it can be a difficult experience. I did not mind and kept running. I tried to keep a pace of 5:15 and was able to do so for the next 4 km. At that point things changed. Wind and, if you remember the beginning of this story, the “few gentle rollers” ganged up on me, and apparently on most other racers. I started to slow down.
I stopped enjoying the scenery of the beautiful course and was very busy trying to convince my legs muscles to move my body faster. Nope, nobody listened.
For a few km I was able to maintain 5:40 pace and at that point I started seeing the half-marathon runners. It was less lonely, but did not improve my pace.
I forgot to mention that some friends, who were driving, moved along the course at few points to cheer the runners. Thanks so much to Jonathan, Chris, Karen, Irina, Benjamin, Alastair. I hope I did not forget anyone.
I think it was at 33 km I saw Ibrahim (Mike) on his bike. He was cheering loudly. At 36 km my slow-running-death started. I was many km above a 6 minutes pace. Oh well, all I wanted to get to the finish line.
During the lone run before I started to see the half marathoners, there were no pretty girls with pony tails to chase and improve my pace. Now there were many, running fast, fresh after 'only' 10-12 km, but I was not chasing anybody. All I was yearning for was the finish line. And then a ray of sunshine: my dear friends Diane and Dawn showed up on their bicycles.
I stopped on course to give Diane a hug. She was telling me to move on, that I am losing time. Like I cared.
They left me and went riding toward Colleen and I kept my slogging. The 39 to 40 km part was the worst: 6:19. I was seriously contemplating walking the rest, but it is well ingrained in my head that walking is not an option.
At that point Dian and Dawn appeared again. It was great to see them, so I picked up the pace. Yea right. The last 2.2 km were blazing fast: 13 minutes. :-(
Arriving to the finish line, I was welcomed by many of our friends, cheering loudly. They had run the 5 and 10 km races and were waiting patiently for Ezio, Kevin, Colleen and me to get to the finish line after 42.2 km.
It was a major feeling of relief. I got to end of another 42.2 monster, my thirty-fourth. You might think that is a lot of marathons, but listen… At the beginning of the race, another runner joined us and we talked a bit. He was running his 161st 42.2 km. All I said was, you are a marathon junky; you need help.
Talking to many of the runners after, the general consensus was that the course was not as fast as we hoped it to be, and most were off of their wishful finish time. We all agreed though, that it is a beautiful course and it was organized superbly…and the medal is beautiful.
Thanks to all the volunteers and the organizer. Cornwall knows how to throw a party for runners and triathletes. Yes, hope see you in August.
Again, if you managed to get to this end, thanks for reading.
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Other race reports by Ben Caspi:
1) Ottawa 2015 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/18027471110
2) Richmond 2015 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/16264464205
3) Boston 2014 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/14063880214 ..... (over 13,000 views)
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Cornwall Marathon website: runtoendms.com/
Note: the photo is from the Richmond (Ontario) Road Races, January 13, 2013.