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Clad in pure gold and copper, the Observation Deck travels the universe scanning, gathering information, observing, checkin' things out, but mostly looking for more gold and copper.
14 August 2005 - Provincetown, Massachusetts - A scantily clad transvestite walks down Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA.
Photo Credit: Jethro Soudant
A lovely muse, clad in a pristine white gown with flowing black hair, sits upon a chair amidst the verdant lawn. With a cheerful demeanor, she poses gracefully, holding a bouquet of flowers in the morning light.
File name: 10_03_002203b
Binder label: Thread
Title: White, black & colors for hand & machine. Why do you muse, o maiden, clad in dress of fashion long since fled? 'I'm wondering how they made these clothes before they had Coats' six cord thread!' [back]
Created/Published: Five Points, N. Y. : Donaldson Brothers
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 7 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Women; Brooms & brushes; Thread; Cotton
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
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Yesterday's GoodWill Shopping. Large & Small Skillets, Large Saute Pan, & Small Wok. All for less than $20.
Snow clad forest.
The heavy snow makes the smaller trees bend down in supplication - please, no more snow.
Photo taken February 21, 2009 at Eik, outside Tønsberg, Norway.
2500 Lakewood Drive, Vancouver, BC.
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place:
Laura Secord Elementary School is located at the southeast corner of Lakewood Drive and East Broadway, in the Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighbourhood on Vancouver’s east side. The building is a two-storey (plus basement), red-brick-clad school. The main block was designed on the ‘barbell’ plan and built between 1913 and 1928, with its principal facade facing Lakewood Drive. Classroom wings flank a central core.
A brick gymnasium (1979) and a classroom wing (2001) are located south and east of the main building, creating a courtyard and the sense of a small campus. Large grassed playing fields and an adventure playground lie east of the school. The 1.31-hectare property is well defined, with formal curbs, concrete retaining walls, steps, fences, and plantings.
Heritage Value:
Laura Secord Elementary School has heritage value for its architecture, history, and the many associated stories generated by staff and pupils. Representative of many Vancouver schools, its construction in 1913 is linked to population growth during Vancouver’s tremendous expansion in the years preceding World War I. Substantial relative to the neighbourhood, the school was designed to enhance the status of public education and to promote the good taste of Vancouver and its citizens.
The evolution over time is representative of many schools. One of eight similar schools designed by School Board architect N.A. Leech, Laura Secord Elementary School opened in 1913 with eight classrooms and was intended to be built in two stages. The design has strong decorative elements, with patterned brick on the main facade. The completion of the second stage in 1926-28, to designs by Vancouver School Board architect F.A. Barrs, is built of less robust materials, reflecting taxpayers’ insistence on economy. Substantial renovations were made in 1957. A community building/gymnasium was added in 1979 and a new classroom wing opened in 2001.
Laura Secord Elementary School has value for features that represented good school design. The earlier parts created spaces that were fireproof, well lit, and well ventilated, to promote health and safety. The school has standardized furnishings, reflecting that schools are the product of society’s decision to organize public education with bureaucratic systems. The enduring belief in the role of the school in the community and the importance of supervised play is seen in the construction of the first auditorium/gym in 1926 and the new community building/gym in 1979. Students from the 1970s remember participating in shaping their physical environment: they planted trees along Broadway and Lakewood Drive, worked with the playground designers, and turned the sod for the new gym.
Heritage value is also found in the associations that former students, parents, teachers, and neighbourhood residents have with the school. The strength of these associations has been expressed by frequent reunions. Following the 75th reunion (1988), an alumni association and newsletter were organized and thrived for years as the ‘only alumni association for an elementary school anywhere in Canada.’ Events such as the Christmas Concert and Sports Day stand out in student memories. Many remember teachers for their ‘special’ talents. Some teachers spent much of their career here, including a principal, Mr. Ramage. Former students’ achievements are diverse, including homemaking, atomic researcher (Muriel Wales), and Provincial Premier (Dave Barrett). Student memories and teachers’ careers bind the physical place with the neighbourhood and individual histories; this forms part of Secord’s heritage value.
Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of Laura Secord Elementary School include:
- sloped site that translates into a variety of entrance conditions
- corner location in a single-family residential content on a busy thoroughfare; set back from the street
- tradition of use as a school
Exterior features:
- form, scale and massing, as expressed by symmetrical form, barbell plan and commanding scale
-dual pitched gables with bargeboards
- concrete foundation, masonry construction and some cinder block walls
- yellow brick diamond patterning, projecting decorative corbelling, wide entrance staircase with metal handrail to the second floor, standard issue signage ‘LAURA SECORD SCHOOL’, double wooden-paneled door at the front entrance with nine panes and fixed five-paned transom and original hardware, ventilation panel in the gables, continuous sills, decorative projecting pilasters between fenestration
- fenestration: recessed double-hung multi-pane sash, functioning hopper transoms, fixed nine-pane windows in basement
Interior features:
- general: intact spatial configuration, high ceilings (some coved), generously proportioned wood paneled doors with wood surrounds, glazing and single pane transoms, high baseboards, large central hallways, bell system and clocks, public address speakers and exposed mechanical systems
- classrooms: millwork including built-ins, slate boards and their surrounds, cloakrooms with original hardware, benches and storage
- gymnasium/auditorium: clerestory windows, standard issue wall-mounted metal gym equipment, dressing rooms with built-ins and fixtures, original stage with stair access on either side, spot wells and storage underneath, designated equipment room and signage: ‘SHOES MUST BE WORN ON GYM FLOOR’
- stairwells: curved walls, wooden handrails, newel posts, banisters, twin bevelled detail on walls above the handrail and natural light in stairwells via bank of triple assembly multi-paned windows
- basement: padding on structural columns to meet health and safety requirements, ‘tuck-room’ with Dutch door and built-in shelving, doors with step-downs and metal handrails, children’s games in the poured concrete floor and bench attached to the wall
- other: fireproof projection room with heavy fireproof door between twin flanking staircase on main floor, kindergarten room with independent bathroom on main floor, deep interior window sills in staff room that has district wide 50’s XXX upgrade millwork and hardware, sub-grade boiler room with fireproof utility door, some original plumbing fixtures
Landscape features:
- perimeter of evenly spaced coniferous and deciduous trees, metal flagpole, covered play areas, multiple street entrances with a variety of entrance conditions because of the gently sloped site, ‘line up’ numbers 1-22 along north retaining wall on athletic field, at-grade children’s games (ie. hopscotch)
-school additions feel more residential in scale, but imitate features of the 1913 building, such as sash windows, built-in teachers’ storage, cloak area, bank of windows in stairwells to maximize daylight
Asbestos cement clad bungalow, this building was basically a wooden frame covered in asbestos cement sheeting.
The walls both internal and external, ceilings and cavity insulation (asbestos softboard) were asbestos cement sheeting.
The roof tiles were also asbestos!
Commercial - Cradlestone Shopping Centre - Cladding - Ascent profile - Fyne finish - Merbau Colourway - Krugersdorp - Installer: Eva-Last
The 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST with THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE !
A MUSCLE-BOUND, diaper clad, HUNKY JESUS carrying his toy Easter bunnies, two baby bottles filled with milk, and sucking on a pacifier waddled up on stage much to the delight of Sister ROMA and the crowd. Everyone went in to a wild uproar when he squirted his bottle of milk all over his golden tan, rippled muscled beautiful body a la Flashdance. Milk really do a body good...BABY JESUS won the title of 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST!
The sexy lanky ROLLER DISCO JESUS stunned the crowed with his roller skating antics on stage, ok it was his tight muscled body in a white disco jumpsuit which was ripped open in just the right places !
The EXORCIST JESUS also got the audience howling with his Dr. Frankenfurter black lace , neglige outfit and 6-inch black platform boots.
Afterwards, HUNKY, MUSCLE-BOUND BABY JESUS was pulled aside by tons of people for a photo-op !
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Example of a modular-style wall section of a large industrial air handling unit (AHU), shown in cutaway cross-section revealing metal-clad fibrous glass insulation sandwiched between sheet metal substrate.
The 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST with THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE !
A MUSCLE-BOUND, diaper clad, HUNKY JESUS carrying his toy Easter bunnies, two baby bottles filled with milk, and sucking on a pacifier waddled up on stage much to the delight of Sister ROMA and the crowd. Everyone went in to a wild uproar when he squirted his bottle of milk all over his golden tan, rippled muscled beautiful body a la Flashdance. Milk really do a body good...BABY JESUS won the title of 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST!
The sexy lanky ROLLER DISCO JESUS stunned the crowed with his roller skating antics on stage, ok it was his tight muscled body in a white disco jumpsuit which was ripped open in just the right places !
The EXORCIST JESUS also got the audience howling with his Dr. Frankenfurter black lace , neglige outfit and 6-inch black platform boots.
Afterwards, HUNKY, MUSCLE-BOUND BABY JESUS was pulled aside by tons of people for a photo-op !
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Thanks to everyone for visiting my Flickr site ! The VIEW COUNT is over SEVENTY-FIVE MILLION VIEWS (75,000,000 VIEWS) !
THANK YOU for visiting this virtual gallery! Enjoy my social documentary photos of the various events in San Francisco! Thank you FLICKR for providing an outlet for my artistic creativity !
THANK YOU to all the ADULTS who let ADDA take their photos! (Everyone was properly asked & everyone consented.) These are my original photos which were taken by me! They are NOT stolen! Do NOT steal them !
These photos carry copyright protection. Do NOT post them elsewhere! )
NUDES are PROPERLY marked RESTRICTED ! (EVERYONE PHOTOGRAPHED IS OVER 18-YEARS-OLD! ) There is NO PORN on my site! There are no stolen photos, either. and, Don't steal mine!
NOTE: MY photos are NOT to be reproduced, COPIED, BLOGGED, USED in any way shape or form. Use of them by anyone is an infringement copyright ! © All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal
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Not actually entirely sure what was going on here.
Nonetheless, a police officer talking to a bikini-clad lass in the middle of Martin Place (a business district) is always an interesting image :)
Nandi is the name for the bull which serves as the mount (Sanskrit: Vahana) of the god Shiva and as the gatekeeper of Shiva and Parvati. In Hindu Religion, he is the chief guru of eighteen masters (18 Siddhar ) including Patanjali and Thirumular. Temples venerating Shiva display stone images of a seated Nandi, generally facing the main shrine. There are also a number of temples dedicated solely to Nandi.
The application of the name Nandi to the bull (Sanskrit: vṛṣabha) is in fact a development of recent centuries, as Gouriswar Bhattacharya has documented in an illustrated article entitled "Nandin and Vṛṣabha". The name Nandi was earlier widely used instead for an anthropomorphic deity who was one of Shiva’s two door-keepers, the other being Mahākāla. The doorways of pre-tenth-century North Indian temples are frequently flanked by images of Mahākāla and Nandi, and it is in this role of Shiva’s watchman that Nandi figures in Kālidāsa’s poem the Kumārasambhava.
ETYMOLOGY
The word “Nandi” is derived from the ancient Indian Language of Sanskrit. The Sanskrit word 'Nandi' in English translates as Happy, Joyous or Happy Person.
BIRTH OF NANDI
There was a sage named Shilada who underwent severe penance to have a boon — a child with immortality. Lord Indra pleased of the austerities of Shilada appeared in front of him to offer a boon. After hearing the request of Shilada and his desire to have an immortal child, Lord Indra suggested he pray to Lord Shiva: nobody else could provide such a boon. Sage Shilada continued his penance for 1,000 years. He was totally immovable for many years, so the termites settled on his body and slowly started to build up their nest. Finally, his whole body was covered up by them. The insects started to eat his flesh and imbibed his blood. At last, only bones remained.
Lord Shiva appeared in front of him and provided the boon for the child. Moreover, Lord Shiva provided Sage Shilada his old form with a single touch. Sage Shilada performed Yagna and a child appeared from the sacrificial fire. His body was clad in armour made out of diamonds. The celestial dancers and singers performed on this auspicious occasion and the deities showered flowers on the child. The boy was named ’Nandi’ — who brings joy. Shilada brought the child home. Immediately the boy lost his divine appearance to an ordinary child. The child completely forgot all about his birth. Sage Shilada was worried about the sudden change. He devoted his time for Nandi's upbringing his education etc. By the age of seven, the boy was well versed in Veda and all sacred texts.
One day the deities Mitra and Varuna visited Sage Shilada. At the first sight of the boy, they commented: Though the boy had all auspicious signs, he would have a very short life. He would not live after the age of eight. Sage Shilada was mortified at this remark. Nandi could not bear his father's sorrow; he began to pray to Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva appeared before him and blessed him. Lord Shiva adorned the boy with a necklace and made him immortal. Lord Shiva blessed the child and declared that he would be worshiped along with Him and become his vahana (vehicle). Immediately the boy got all the divine powers and transformed into half bull-half human. He and Shilada went to Lord Shiva's abode to live.
IN HINDUISM
Bulls appear on the Indus Valley seals, including the 'Pasupati Seal', which depicts a seated figure and, according to some scholars, is similar to Shiva. However, most scholars agree that the horned bull on the Indus Valley seals is not identical to Nandi.
DESCRIPTIONS ON NANDI IN HINDU RELIGIOUS TEXTS INCLUDE:
- Some Puranas describe Nandi or Nandikeshvara as bull face with a human body that resembles that of Shiva in proportion and aspect, although with four hands — two hands holding the Parasu (the axe) and Mruga (the antelope) and the other two hands joined together in the Anjali (obeisance). Brahma Vaivarta Purana mentions Krishna himself to have taken the form of a bull as no one else in the Universe can bear Shiva.
- Vehicle of Shiva: The bull Nandi is Shiva's primary vehicle and is the principal gana (follower) of Shiva.
- Gate keeper of Shiva's abode: The close association of Shiva and Nandi explains the presence of a statue of Nandi at the gate of many temples dedicated to Shiva. It also explains why the word "nandi" in the Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages is used as a metaphor for a person blocking the way.[citation needed] In Sanskrit, a bull is called vrisha, which has another connotation — that of righteousness or Dharma. It is important to seek the blessings of Nandi before proceeding to worship Lord Shiva.
- Chief in Shiva's army: Some Puranas mention that Nandi lead the Shiva Ganas, Shiva's attendants.
- A Guru of Saivism: In addition to being his mount, Nandi is Shiva's foremost disciple. In the Natha/Siddhar tradition, Nandi is one of the primal gurus. He was the guru to Siddhar Thirumulanathar, Patanjalinathar and others.
- From the yogic perspective, Nandi/Nandhi/Nandikeshvara is the mind dedicated to Lord Siva, the Absolute. In other words, to understand and absorb Light, the 'experience and the wisdom' is Nandi which is the Guru within.
- Spiritually, Nandi represents an individual jiva (soul) and the message that the jiva should always be focused on the Atman (Paramatman).
LEGENDS
According to some puranas, Nandi was born to sage Shilada who got him by the grace of Shiva.
It was Nandi who cursed Ravana (the demon King of Lanka) that his kingdom would be burnt by a monkey (Vanara). And later Hanuman burnt Lanka when he went in search of Sita, who was kept prisoner by Ravana in Ashok Vatika.
In one puranic story, it is stated that once Siva and Parvathi were playing a game of dice. For any game there has to be an umpire, who has to declare who is the winner. Siva and Parvathi agreed to have Nandi (the divine bull) as the umpire. Nandi is a favorite of Siva, as he is Siva's vehicle. Although Siva lost the game, Nandi declared him the winner. It is stated that Parvathi was indignant over Nandi's partiality for Siva and cursed him that he should die from an incurable disease. Thereupon Nandi fell at the feet of Parvathi and pleaded for forgiveness. "Mother forgive me. Should I not show at least this amount of gratitude to one who is my master? Is it not humiliating for me to declare that my master has lost the game? To uphold his honor I no doubt uttered a lie. But am I to be punished with such severity for so small an offence?" Nandi prayed for forgiveness in this manner. Parvathi forgave Nandi and taught him the means to atone for his lapse. She told him. "The Chaturdasi day in the month of Bhadrapada is the day when my son's birthday is celebrated. On that day you have to offer to my son what pleases you most (green grass)". This means that one atones for one's sins when one offers to the Lord what is most pleasing and enjoyable to him. For Nandi the most enjoyable and relishing food is green grass. As directed by Parvathi Nandi worshipped Ganapathi by offering green grass. Nandi was then relieved of his dreaded disease. His health improved and by the grace of Parvathi he was redeemed.
When the positive forces, the devas, and the negative forces, the asuras, joined together on a rare occasion to churn the ocean with a mountain to obtain the nectar of immortality they utilized Vasuki, the serpent, as the rope. The devas pulled from one end and the asuras from the other. Lots of precious herbs and gems were produced during the Churning and one of them was a poison (halāhala) which became human karma. This "poison" was so dangerous that none of the devas or asuras wanted to go near it. It was extremely sticky and coming into contact with this poison, i.e., human karma, would drag the divinity down to the realms of human suffering and ego. As everyone else ran away, Lord Siva, followed by Nandi, came forward to help as he was the only one who could counteract this deadly poison. Siva took the poison into his hand and drank it, the descent of the poison was in turn stopped at His throat, by His divine consort. Siva is therefore also known as Nīlakaṇṭha (the blue-throated one) and Viṣakaṇṭha (the poison-throated one). Nandi saw some of the poison spill out of Siva's mouth and immediately drank if off the ground. The devas and asuras watching were shocked and wondered aloud what would happen to Nandi. Lord Siva calmed their fears saying, "Nandi has surrendered into me so completely that he has all my powers and my protection".
LARGEST NANDIS IN INDIA
1. Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh
2. Brahadishwara Temple, Tamil Nadu
4. Bull Temple, Bangalore, Karnataka
5. Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
6. Hoysaleswara Temple, Halebidu, Karnataka
7. Shanthaleswara Temple, Halebidu, Karnataka
8. Vadakkunnathan Temple, Thrissur, Kerala
9. Virupaksha Temple, Hampi, Karnataka
10. Nandi Temple, Western Group of Temples, Khajuraho,
Madhya Pradesh
11. Kedareshvara Temple at Balligavi (Karnataka)
12. Doddabasaveshvara temple, Kurugodu Bellary dist
MISCELLANEOUS
The white color of the bull symbolizes purity and justice.
Women visit images of Nandi, bringing floral offerings, and touch the stone. Their prayers are for fertility. Additionally, it is also considered a custom among some to whisper the fact of their visit, to that shrine, while requesting the faithful attendant to inform his master of the same.
WIKIPEDIA
What is one to make of this confection? It is really quite quirky. The balustrade wall is a rare accompaniment to stone cladding. The gate posts are tall and slender, and have been created at the opposite end from the front door . The darker clading inbetween floors mimics the moulded features of the original house, seen on its neighbours and precludes any random use of colour elsewhere in the cladding. The use of a sea green banding beneath the guttering is baffling. Windows are replacements in a faux Georgian style.