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To replace various helicopters in service at the time, namely the SH-34 Seahorse, the US Navy awarded Sikorsky a contract to develop a helicopter that would combine several roles into one airframe: hunter/killer antisubmarine warfare, cargo transport, and search and rescue. It would also have to be capable of amphibious operations and had to be able to operate from smaller ships as well as aircraft carriers. Sikorsky’s HSS-2 Sea King was the response, and it first flew in March 1959. The HSS-2 had a distinctive “boat” hull for water landings, including flotation bags in the sponsons, good visibility from the cockpit, and a folding tail section for stowage. In the antisubmarine role, the HSS-2 was equipped with a dipping sonar unreeled from the forward hull, 21 sonobuoys, and a MAD “bird” capable of being deployed from the port sponson. In 1962, the type’s designation was changed to SH-3A.
The SH-3 would remain in US Navy service for the next 50 years. During Vietnam, it operated in plane guard duties for carriers, the first aircraft to launch and the last to recover; it also served in SAR duties from the carriers and smaller ships, flying over water and often over land to rescue downed pilots. In this role, the SH-3 is probably responsible for the rescue of more people than any other aircraft type. Dedicated SAR helicopters often were equipped with heavy or light machine guns. Other versions were converted to UH-3 utility helicopters (for vertical replenishment and light cargo duties) and VH-3 VIP transports. The latter were the last Sea Kings in US service.
The US Navy began replacing the aging SH-3 following the First Gulf War, with ASW/SAR SH-3s mostly gone from fleet service by 1997. Cargo and utility variants remained in service until 2006. Besides its service in the US armed forces, Sea Kings were heavily exported to 17 air forces, including license-built versions made by Westland (Sea Kings), United Aircraft of Canada (CH-124), Agusta (AS-61), and Mitsubishi (HSS-2); foreign variants are used both in traditional roles for the Sea King, as well as antishipping duties, troop transports, minesweeping, and even airborne early warning. It remains in service worldwide.
When I noticed the side number of this SH-3 and the squadron--66 and HS-4--I got pretty excited: HS-4 (now HSC-4, "Black Knights") was assigned to my dad's carrier, USS Yorktown (CVS-10) from 1960 to 1968, and "Fetch 66," as it was known, was part of the recovery team for Apollo 8. Dad rode briefly in Fetch 66 while being transferred temporarily to a destroyer. If this was the same helicopter, it would be an amazing coincidence to photograph it 50 years after Dad rode in it.
However, this is not the "real" Fetch 66, which handled recovery duties for all the Apollo missions, and HS-4 was assigned to USS Hornet when the Yorktown transferred to the East Coast. The real helicopter, Bureau Number 152711, crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1975 with the loss of the pilot, though the rest of the crew was rescued. This "SH-3" is actually 149006, a UH-3H utility helicopter repainted to look like a SH-3D.
Whatever its origin, it has been particularly well restored as Fetch 66, and is shown recovering a mockup Apollo capsule. It carries the standard US Navy Vietnam-era color scheme for SH-3s, with white over light gray (a reverse of combat aircraft). The "Abandon Chute" legend on the bottom is an instruction for downed pilots to cut away their parachutes, so they would not fill with water or be dragged by the downwash from the rotors.
Catalog #: 01_00082157
Title: Lisunov, Li-2, DC-3 Contract
Corporation Name: Lisunov
Official Nickname: DC-3 Contract
Additional Information: Russia
Designation: Li-2
Tags: Lisunov, Li-2, DC-3 Contract
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Our lovely intern, Lisa Finch, has designed something special for our next author. And here’s what she’s done: hand-sewn, hand-made crafted contracts complete with their own little orange slip-cases. Read about the contract design here.
2011 © Visual Editions
After a period of great expansionism, Crosville is now in a period of pronounced retreat. They are continuing to run their 100 service along the sea front and on a very wet Saturday in December 2012, a former Lothian Olympian F357WSC was doing the honours.
Hello ladies, welcome to the third panel for Cycle Six of The Aspiring!
I would like to start by saying to any new viewers, I’m Ruby Lowe… The host & head judge.
And as you may know, I am joined with our marvellous judge; Bella Smith. She is a modelling icon & my very own best friend.
I am also joined by another one of my good friends. Rising super model, and popular social media star; Seulgi!
This cycle has some amazing prizes! The prizes include…
Cover of MOOD Magazine + 6 page spread
3 Year Contract with QX Model Management
Cover of various magazines such as:
Starr Magazine
Triad Magazine
Become a brand ambassador for Nike
Campaign with MAC
For your third shoot, you had to pose in editorials with bright backgrounds that were either fire or water.
Let’s get right into the scores!
Ada: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692120798/in/datepo...
Ruby: 7.5/10
Bella: 9.5/10
Seulgi: 6/10
Fan Vote: 7.6/10
Octavia: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692965577/in/datepo...
Ruby: 10/10
Bella: 8/10
Seulgi: 9/10
Fan Vote: 8.7/10
Noah: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692663021/in/datepo...
Ruby: 8.5/10
Bella: 9/10
Seulgi: 7/10
Fan Vote: 7.8/10
Lennox: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692120993/in/datepo...
Ruby: 8/10
Bella: 7/10
Seulgi: 4/10
Fan Vote: 8.2/10
Bebe: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692121358/in/datepo...
Ruby: 7.5/10
Bella: 6.5/10
Seulgi: 8.5/10
Fan Vote: 7.2/10
Ximena: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692965502/in/datepo...
Ruby: 8/10
Bella: 8/10
Seulgi: 8/10
Fan Vote: 7.1/10
Kya: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692663196/in/datepo...
Ruby: 6/10
Bella: 8.5/10
Seulgi: 3/10
Fan Vote: 5.7/10
Kiana: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692965972/in/datepo...
Ruby: 9/10
Bella: 9/10
Seulgi: 6.5/10
Fan Vote: 8/10
Charlie: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692121188/in/datepo...
Ruby: 7/10
Bella: 8.5/10
Seulgi: 5/10
Fan Vote: 7.3/10
Yuri: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692965432/in/datepo...
Ruby: 9/10
Bella: 8/10
Seulgi: 10/10
Fan Vote: 10/10
Casey: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692121268/in/datepo...
Ruby: 5/10
Bella: 6.5/10
Seulgi: 1/10
Fan Vote: 6.2/10
Nova: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692120853/in/datepo...
Ruby: 9.5/10
Bella: 8.5/10
Seulgi: 7.5/10
Fan Vote: 7.8/10
Leah: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692121033/in/datepo...
Ruby: 9/10
Bella: 8.5/10
Seulgi: 7.5/10
Fan Vote: 8.8/10
Ikki: www.flickr.com/photos/156141566@N08/49692121433/in/datepo...
Ruby: 7.5/10
Bella: 6/10
Seulgi: 6.5/10
Fan Vote: 6.8/10
We will now go and add up the scores, then will be back to reveal the girl who has the FCO.
Remember, Yuri has immunity from getting FCO last week.
………….
Top photo this week is…
1. Yuri: 37/40
Congratulations, Yuri! Second FCO in a row, keep it up!!
2. Octavia: 35.7/40
3. Leah: 33.8/40
4. Nova: 32.8/40
5. Kiana: 32.5/40
6. Noah: 32.3/40
7. Ximena: 31.1/40
8. Ada: 30.6/40
9. Bebe: 29.7/40
10. Charlie: 27.8/40
11. Lennox: 27.2/40
12. Ikki: 26.8/40
BOTTOM TWO:
KYA & CASEY
This week both of you have two of the worst scores I’ve seen in this competition in a while. Especially the girl who’s going home, whose score dips below 20. It’s unacceptable. You both gave lifeless and dull photos, and I need much better. However, the girl who gets to stay and prove that she deserves to be here is…
Kya! Congratulations, you are still in the running to become the next The Aspiring winner. You need to step it up next week.
Score: 23.2/40
Casey (Score: 18.7), your score was honestly, disgustingly low. I expect much better from all of my models, and honestly this felt like you didn’t even try. Now, you must return to the model house, pack your bags & leave. Thank you.
13 girls remain.
Who will be eliminated next?
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Lolita Dark is an Epic
Rock band with roots in Southern California and Japan formed in 2012. Their sound weaves together crunching guitar riffs, progressive bass lines, lush harmonies, and complex melodic structures in songs that reflect both angst and optimism in an increasingly interconnected world of disconnected residents.
2012 年に結成。米国・カリフォルニアを拠点とする日米双方にルーツを持つ個性派ロックバンド。壮大なハーモニーと複雑なメロディのアンサンブルを特徴的な激し いギターやプログレッシブなベースラインに乗せることにより、幻想的で独創性溢れる世界観を生み出している。バンドのフロントマンであるRay は闇と光、怒りと喜び、過去と現在、東洋と西洋など、現世に存在しうる全ての相反する事象や矛盾の「融合」を音楽を通じて表現しているという。
Fronted by Shibuya-born singer/songwriter Rayko, Lolita Dark provides the soundtrack and visuals of a world where light intersects dark, east meets west, and the past overlaps the present, depicting the, seemingly, redundant circles of our lives and universe.
The core of Lolita Dark is formed by singer/ songwriter / guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Rayko (Ray), Bassist Rain Balen, and Drummer Joey Felix who are also members of the Los Angeles rock band "Dig Jelly", and Okinawan vocalist and keyboardist Machiko (May), and guitarist Patrick Cabrera of prog metal band False Empire.
LD はバンドの中核を担うリーダー・Rayを筆頭に、苦楽を共に過ごした地元の音楽仲間であるRain Balen(Bs)、Joey Felix(Dr)、Patrick Cabrera(Gtr).沖縄出身のMay(Keys/Vocal)の移住の後、北海道出身のK−Luを加えた国際的なバンド構成。
Their first album, “Tokyo Status” was released in 2012 and featured a wide range of intensely personal, yet universal meditations on love, addiction, promise, and despair. It blazed new territory with a sonic landscape that fused Shibuya glam, European symphonic-rock, and American metal. Lolita Dark's debut CD explored the themes of Salvation, Redemption, Sanctuary, and displayed some of Rayko's internal anguish after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami ravaged her homeland.
Lolita Dark has performed at various venues including Bar Sinister, House of Blues, J-Pop events hosted by "Tune in Tokyo", and Rayko's on going event “Tokyo Status” .Lolita Dark has also performed at Anime Expo, Nan Desu Kan, Anime Los Angeles, and Pacific Media Expo, where they opened for Japanese artists BACK-ON (Avex) and D (Avex, Universal Music). Lolita Dark was also invited by NAMM 2015 to host a panel to talk about their success in finding a niche in independent music market.
Lolita Dark is working on their third release while they perform as an opener to national acts from Japan, and headlines local clubs and anime convention circuits.
全米最大の日本ポップカルチャー祭典であるAnime Expoでの鮮烈のデビューを飾る。これを期にバンドは本格始動し、ローカル誌などで多く取り上げられるようになる。Anime Expoでのライブを皮切りにBar Sinister Hollywood、Roxy、House of Blues等、数々の有名ライブハウス公演をも成功させている。また、デビュー後は矢継ぎ早 に Nan Desu Kan (Co)、Katsukon (D.C/Maryland)、Zenkaikon (PA)といった多様なコンベンション・ツ アーも取り組まれ、多くの会場での演奏を経験する。
“Mad Times”, from the "Tokyo Status" album, has been chosen for the in-production Steampunk web series “Tinker". “Wounded Angel”, the recently released song by Lolita Dark, has become the official theme song for Anime California 2014. Lolita Dark's second album, “Queen's Decade”, was released in the spring of 2014 at their opening performance for Gacharic Spin (Universal Music) at Tekko 2014.
Lolita Dark's albums and new single "Wounded Angel" are available now on iTunes and CDBaby.
Lolita Dark signed a 5 year recording/distribution contract for East Asia including Japan, Korea, and China in July 2015.
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/lolita-dark/id586389170
www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LolitaDark
Official Lolita Dark website: www.lolitadark.com/
Rayko official website: rayko.com/
2012年にはデビューアルバム「Tokyo Status」をリリース。
リリースから現在に至るまで、州外へも精力的に赴き本格的なライブ活動を行っている。このアルバムは全曲メッセージ性が強く、Rayの強烈な想いが反映されている。特に「Mad Times」というトラックは東日本大震災で被災された方々への追悼の意を込めた楽曲であり、Rayの故郷が崩壊されたことに対する悲しみや虚しさなどの感情を色濃く表現している。また、同曲は現在アメリカで制作 中の 「TINKER」というスティームパンクを題材としたウェブTVシリーズの主題歌として起用されている。(www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttWXSVs_4iI）
また、「Tokyo Status」リリース翌年の3月からはアルバムと
同名儀のファッション・ロックショーケース・イベントも月１で開催している。(www.facebook.com/TokyoStatus)
Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF’s African Department, participates in the Social Contract in Time of Crisis Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Ariana Lindquist
11 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: AL100391.JPG
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The 925th Contracting Battalion and Soldiers with the G4, the G8, the 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade and the 33rd Financial Management Support Unit are greeted by Maj. Gen. Brian Mennes, the commanding general for the 10th Mountain Division (LI) during their "Support The Mountain" exercise on Fort Drum, NY, in order to increase contracting operational readiness for warfighters and to increase proficiency in the battalion's operations and basic contracting skills.
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Federal Minister Public Safety Vic Toews, Minister Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens and other officers in attendance at the federal-provincial signing of a new 20-year RCMP contract on March 21, 2012.
I seem to have started a week late, but that's OK. I read the introduction and BASIC TOOLS which is really important. The two tools are the daily morning writings, and the weekly artist's date.
The first is writing 3 pages first thing in te morning (probably after a trip to the toilet for me, but before walking the dogs). That's it - you just write 3 pages, every morning. No restrictions, but don't read it again for a while. Doesn't have to be greate prose or infact make sense at all. But write it every morning.The second is to do something just for my inner child at least once a week, like a film, or trip to an art gallery or some such. But nothing that I "ought" to do, but what I want to do!
And this photo is a contract the author wanted me to sign (my scanner's not working so I took a photo instead). I have.
Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona Air Show 2019
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
560 A6M3 Model 22s were built between December 1942 and summer of 1943. The A6M3 was built after the Battle of Midway, with longer wings, folding wing-tips (for carrier use), a more powerful engine and the longest range of all the Zeros.
The first flight of the “Zero” fighter was April 1, 1939. Allied Intelligence applied the name “Zeke” to the A6M, but it was better known as the Zero, the name derived from its type designation after the year in which it was put into service – 1940. Mitsubishi and Nakajima built 10,449 “Zero” fighters (more than any other type of Japanese aircraft). The single-seat fighter has light-weight all-metal construction and fabric-covered control surfaces. As the fighting on Guadalcanal raged, the Zero 22s were rushed to Buna in New Guinea and Buka in the Solomon Islands to provide cover over the supply route to Guadalcanal.
Our Zero was delivered to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Group #3. The aircraft was recovered from Babo in New Guinea in 1991, partially restored from several A6M3s in Russia, then brought to the United States for completion of restoral. In 1998 the aircraft was re-registered and displayed at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. Currently, this aircraft has a Pratt & Whitney R1830 engine (compared to the original Sakai engine in the Planes of Fame Museum’s flyable A6M5 Zero). There is, nevertheless, the fact that Japan had a contract with Pratt & Whitney before WWII in which P&W provided engines for fighter planes and other aircraft. It is, therefore, conceivable that some of the planes participating in the Pearl Harbor attack could have been powered by American engines.
This Zero is currently one of only five flyable Zeros in the world.
Members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 today voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement with Giant and Safeway that preserves their health and retirement security and increases their wages.
On April 17, 1926, Western Air Service, Inc., commenced operation on Contract Air Mail Route 4 (CAM-4) between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. via Las Vegas. For service over this route, a distance of about 660 miles, Western selected the Douglas M-2 aircraft, a mailplane version of the 0-2 observation plane produced by the Douglas Company to replace the U.S. Army DH-4 aircraft.
The Douglas M-2 was selected because it was far superior in strength, construction, performance, and flying characteristics to other aircraft entered in the Post Office Department’s competition for airmail airplanes. The M-2 was a single-bay biplane with the conventional form of axleless undercarriage. The fuselage, a truss of steel tubes and tie rods, was made in two detachable sections. The engine section was detachable at the station at the front wing beam and the engine cowling was hinged to facilitate inspection. The fuselage aft of the firewall was covered with fabric. The wings, vertical fin, and horizontal stabilizer were of standard wood beam and built-up rib construction, with the elevators and rudder made of Duralumin tubing. The power plant was a 400-hp, Liberty water-cooled engine, with nose radiator. Two main fuel tanks, each of sixty gallons capacity and made of sheet aluminum, were so mounted in the lower wing that they could be jettisoned by the pilot. A small 10-gallon gravity tank was located in the upper wing.
A design detail of particular interest was the location and construction of the M-2 mail compartment. It was situated in front of the pilots cockpit, sealed from the engine by a fireproof bulkhead, and lined with reinforced Duralumin. It was six feet long, had a capacity of 58 cubic feet, and could carry up to 1,000 pounds of mail. A unique feature was the provision of two removable seats that permitted carrying passengers or reserve pilots from one field to another. The passengers were seated well down in the compartment and protected by suitable windshields. Access was provided by the use of aluminum covers over the top, arranged and constructed so that, with passengers aboard, the roof door could be folded down. providing a cockpit opening.
Flights were scheduled daily in both directions on the Los Angeles-to-Salt Lake City run, with one-way flight time averaging slightly in excess of six hours. The record time for the route was 4 hours, 12 minutes. The schedule was maintained by four regular pilots, two reserve pilots, eight mechanics, and three radio operators at the fields. Although transporting the mail remained the airlines’ chief concern, Western Air Express invited passenger traffic, and invaluable experience was gained flying passengers in the M-2 over the same rugged territory of eastern California. southern Nevada, and western Utah traveled many years before by the Mormons.
The M-2 performed remarkably well during the early years on the CAM-4 route. Its load-carrying capability, remarkable stability, and rugged construction contributed to a perfect safety record and profitable operation. Government and airline experiences with the Douglas mailplanes and the 0-2 led to modifications of the basic design. Relatively minor changes in cockpit layout, engine accessories, and airframe construction led to the M-3 mailplane, which differed little in physical appearance from the M-2 version. A subsequent addition of five feet to the wingspan resulted in the final version, the M-4, which realized considerable gain in payload at a negligible loss in performance. While Western eventually added two M-4s to its fleet of six M-2s, the M-4 saw more extensive service with National Air Transport (later United Air Lines) from 1927 to 1930 on the Chicago-New York route. National Air Transport modified all of its M-3s into the M-4 configuration and eventually had twenty-four Douglas mailplanes on its roster, to become the largest operator of this type in commercial service.
The M-2 of the National Air and Space Museum is believed to be the last Douglas mailplane in existence. This machine is actually an M-4 model originally purchased by Western from the Post Office Department in June 1927 and registered as NC 1475, serial number 338. The aircraft saw considerable service on Western’s mail route until 1930. when it crashed and was sold to Continental Air Map Company of Los Angeles. The airplane had a series of corporate and private owners until it was reacquired by Western Air Lines in April 1940 and subsequently registered with the Federal Aviation Administration as M-2 NC15O, Western’s first M-2. The first substantial restoration took place in 1946, although no attempt was made to make it flyable. For the next twenty two years, the M-2 made its home in a corner of Western’s hangar at Los Angeles International Airport. In 1974 an intensive, large-scale restoration effort commenced, under the impetus of retired Western Captain Ted Homan.
Volunteers from Western Air Lines, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Goodyear Tire Company, and many other organizations completely rebuilt the aircraft and its Liberty engine, returning the machine to flyable condition. The M-2 flew for the first time in thirty-six years on June 2,1976, and after a series of test flights was recertified airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration. After a successful transcontinental journey in May 1977, the venerable M-2, resplendent in the silver and red colors in which it flew the old Mormon Trail, is displayed as a lasting tribute to the men and women who pioneered the mail-passenger service during the formative years of commercial aviation in the United States.
Amey explained the study to reporters and answered questions. pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/09/by-dana-liebelson-the-u...
Created for Marcus Ranum Challenge #114
Model with thanks to Marcus Ranum
Snow: faeth-design.deviantart.com/art/Snowflakes-Brush-71012097
Hat: generalvyse.deviantart.com/art/Fedora-hats-85478426
Background: www.flickr.com/photos/rubyblossom/6418709857/
This is what happens when you've had a bit too much to drink, and your friends tell you to sign something.
Rich and I signed a contract written by Jevaun saying that we would marry each other if neither of us was married by the age of 35. That's 5 years away.
Danielle, Thaniya, Linc, Jevaun all signed as witnesses.
YIKERS, LET'S SIGN UP FOR EVERY LAST ONLINE DATING SITE THERE IS!!
Glasgow 2014 today (Monday 28th April) announced around £1 millions worth of Supported Business Contracts for the Commonwealth Games.
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Corporate Website: www.wmc-sa.com/
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For more than two decades, White Mansion Contracting Est. has been providing tailored made marble, mosaic, furnishings and fittings for hospitality, retail, office and nautical sector.
Over the years, the company has proved to be a prized partner for designers all over the middle east in the development of their hotels, residences, offices, museums, stores and gyms.
The partnership’s solid know how, not only guarantees products in the catalogues, but also guarantees functional and technologically advanced proposals. Such as exclusive marbles and furnishings which were conceived, designed, and interpreted to fulfill the specific needs of the client and the designer.
The company’s know how covers all the clients needs: design, production, project management and logistic phases. They are perfectly integrated in order to guarantee even the most complex contract projects, in the spirit of a constant pursuit of technical and design excellence.
The contract division has completed important projects, some of the most recent being Bougary Hotel-Makkah, Nawwarah Beauty Salon – Jeddah, Grand Kai Gym- Jeddah, Macchiato Café- Jordan, Al Shoyokh Showroom-Jeddah, H.R.H AAA Private Office- Jeddah .
Contact Person: Mr. Alberto Pavanello
‘Scene’ on a ‘Transpire’ Outing 2
‘DW Coaches’ (DWC), Clay Cross, Derbyshire.
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Transpire’ being ‘The Chesterfield Bus Society’.
Apart from the widely known Peak Park Bus Rally organised by the group and held at ‘Peak Rail’, Rowsley, Derbyshire.
They also organise regular days and evenings out to operators and events both locally and nationally.
Friend Peter Rose joined the group which numbered about 20 or so enthusiasts, as a guest for the evening.
‘DWC’ operates an eclectic mix of buses and coaches on contract work in the area.
New registered S8 BOS to ‘Bostock’, Congleton but acquired from
‘M. Pearson’, Chesterfield.
Part of a marriage contract entered into in 1806 between John Button, my 3rd great-grandfather and Harriet Skipper.
Before graduating on Saturday, December 15th with their MA in Culturally Responsive Leadership and Instruction from Drake University, the second cohort of DMPS BLUE contract teachers showcased their classroom-based research projects at the Drake University Collier Scripps building on December 14th.
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The Bayon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាយ័ន, Prasat Bayon) is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman's death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences.
The Bayon's most distinctive feature is the multitude of serene and massive stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak. The temple is known also for two impressive sets of bas-reliefs, which present an unusual combination of mythological, historical, and mundane scenes. The current main conservatory body, the Japanese Government Team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) has described the temple as "the most striking expression of the baroque style" of Khmer architecture, as contrasted with the classical style of Angkor Wat.
BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM
The Bayon was the last state temple to be built at Angkor, and the only Angkorian state temple to be built primarily as a Mahayana Buddhist shrine dedicated to the Buddha, though a great number of minor and local deities were also encompassed as representatives of the various districts and cities of the realm. It was the centrepiece of Jayavarman VII's massive program of monumental construction and public works, which was also responsible for the walls and nāga-bridges of Angkor Thom and the temples of Preah Khan, Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.
The similarity of the 216 gigantic faces on the temple's towers to other statues of the king has led many scholars to the conclusion that the faces are representations of Jayavarman VII himself. Others have said that the faces belong to the bodhisattva of compassion called Avalokitesvara or Lokesvara. The two hypotheses need not be regarded as mutually exclusive. Angkor scholar George Coedès has theorized that Jayavarman stood squarely in the tradition of the Khmer monarchs in thinking of himself as a "devaraja" (god-king), the salient difference being that while his predecessors were Hindus and regarded themselves as consubstantial with Shiva and his symbol the lingam, Jayavarman as a Buddhist identified himself with the Buddha and the bodhisattva.
ALTERATIONS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF JAYAVARMAN VII
Since the time of Jayavarman VII, the Bayon has suffered numerous additions and alterations at the hands of subsequent monarchs. During the reign of Jayavarman VIII in the mid-13th century, the Khmer empire reverted to Hinduism and its state temple was altered accordingly. In later centuries, Theravada Buddhism became the dominant religion, leading to still further changes, before the temple was eventually abandoned to the jungle. Current features which were not part of the original plan include the terrace to the east of the temple, the libraries, the square corners of the inner gallery, and parts of the upper terrace.
MODERN RESTAURATION
In the first part of the 20th century, the École Française d'Extrême Orient took the lead in the conservation of the temple, restoring it in accordance with the technique of anastylosis. Since 1995 the Japanese Government team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) has been the main conservatory body, and has held annual symposia.
THE SITE
The temple is oriented towards the east, and so its buildings are set back to the west inside enclosures elongated along the east-west axis. Because the temple sits at the exact centre of Angkor Thom, roads lead to it directly from the gates at each of the city's cardinal points. The temple itself has no wall or moats, these being replaced by those of the city itself: the city-temple arrangement, with an area of 9 square kilometres, is much larger than that of Angkor Wat to the south (2 km²). Within the temple itself, there are two galleried enclosures (the third and second enclosures) and an upper terrace (the first enclosure). All of these elements are crowded against each other with little space between. Unlike Angkor Wat, which impresses with the grand scale of its architecture and open spaces, the Bayon gives the impression of being compressed within a frame which is too tight for it.
THE OUTER GALLERY, HISTORICAL EVENTS & EVERYDAY LIFE
The outer wall of the outer gallery features a series of bas-reliefs depicting historical events and scenes from the everyday life of the Angkorian Khmer. Though highly detailed and informative in themselves, the bas-reliefs are not accompanied by any sort of epigraphic text, and for that reason considerable uncertainty remains as to which historical events are portrayed and how, if at all, the different reliefs are related. From the east gopura clockwise, the subjects are:
- in the southern part of the eastern gallery a marching Khmer army (including some Chinese soldiers), with musicians, horsemen, and officers mounted on elephants, followed by wagons of provisions;
- still in the eastern gallery, on the other side of the doorway leading into the courtyard, another procession followed by domestic scenes depicting Angkorian houses, some of the occupants of which appear to be Chinese merchants;
- in the southeast corner pavilion, an unfinished temple scene with towers, apsaras, and a lingam;
- in the eastern part of the southern gallery, a naval battle on the Tonle Sap between Khmer and Cham forces, underneath which are more scenes from civilian life depicting a market, open-air cooking, hunters, and women tending to children and an invalid;
- still in the southern gallery, past the doorway leading to the courtyard, a scene with boats and fisherman, including a Chinese junk, below which is a depiction of a cockfight; then some palace scenes with princesses, servants, people engaged in conversations and games, wrestlers, and a wild boar fight; then a battle scene with Cham warriors disembarking from boats and engaging Khmer warriors whose bodies are protected by coiled ropes, followed by a scene in which the Khmer dominate the combat, followed by a scene in which the Khmer king celebrates a victory feast with his subjects;
- in the western part of the southern gallery, a military procession including both Khmers and Chams, elephants, war machines such as a large crossbow and a catapult;
- in the southern part of the western gallery, unfinished reliefs show an army marching through the forest, then arguments and fighting between groups of Khmers;
- in the western gallery, past the doorway to the courtyard, a scene depicting a melee between Khmer warriors, then a scene in which warriors pursue others past a pool in which an enormous fish swallows a small deer; then a royal procession, with the king standing on an elephant, preceded by the ark of the sacred flame;
- in the western part of the northern gallery, again unfinished, a scene of royal entertainment including athletes, jugglers and acrobats, a procession of animals, ascetics sitting in a forest, and more battles between Khmer and Cham forces;
- in the northern gallery, past the doorway to the courtyard, a scene in which the Khmer flee from Cham soldiers advancing in tight ranks;
- in the northeast corner pavilion, another marching Khmer army;
- in the eastern gallery, a land battle between Khmer and Cham forces, both of which are supported by elephants: the Khmer appear to be winning.
The outer gallery encloses a courtyard in which there are two libraries (one on either side of the east entrance). Originally the courtyard contained 16 chapels, but these were subsequently demolished by the Hindu restorationist Jayavarman VIII.
THE INNER GALLERY
The inner gallery is raised above ground level and has doubled corners, with the original redented cross-shape later filled out to a square. Its bas-reliefs, later additions of Jayavarman VIII, are in stark contrast to those of the outer: rather than set-piece battles and processions, the smaller canvases offered by the inner gallery are decorated for the most part with scenes from Hindu mythology. Some of the figures depicted are Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma, the members of the trimurti or threefold godhead of Hinduism, Apsaras or celestial dancers, Ravana and Garuda. There is however no certainty as to what some of the panels depict, or as to their relationship with one another. One gallery just north of the eastern gopura, for example, shows two linked scenes which have been explained as the freeing of a goddess from inside a mountain, or as an act of iconoclasm by Cham invaders. Another series of panels shows a king fighting a gigantic serpent with his bare hands, then having his hands examined by women, and finally lying ill in bed; these images have been connected with the legend of the Leper King, who contracted leprosy from the venom of a serpent with whom he had done battle. Less obscure are depictions of the construction of a Vishnuite temple (south of the western gopura) and the Churning of the Sea of Milk (north of the western gopura).
THE UPPER TERRACE: & THE 200 FACES OF LOKESVARA
The inner gallery is nearly filled by the upper terrace, raised one level higher again. The lack of space between the inner gallery and the upper terrace has led scholars to conclude that the upper terrace did not figure in the original plan for the temple, but that it was added shortly thereafter following a change in design. Originally, it is believed, the Bayon had been designed as a single-level structure, similar in that respect to the roughly contemporaneous foundations at Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.
The upper terrace is home to the famous "face towers" of the Bayon, each of which supports two, three or (most commonly) four gigantic smiling faces. In addition to the mass of the central tower, smaller towers are located along the inner gallery (at the corners and entrances), and on chapels on the upper terrace. "Wherever one wanders," writes Maurice Glaize, the faces of Lokesvara follow and dominate with their multiple presence."
Efforts to read some significance into the numbers of towers and faces have run up against the circumstance that these numbers have not remained constant over time, as towers have been added through construction and lost to attrition. At one point, the temple was host to 49 such towers; now only 37 remain. The number of faces is approximately 200, but since some are only partially preserved there can be no definitive count.
THE CENTRAL TOWER & SANCTUARY
Like the inner gallery, the central tower was originally cruciform but was later filled out and made circular. It rises 43 metres above the ground. At the time of the temple's foundation, the principal religious image was a statue of the Buddha, 3.6 m tall, located in the sanctuary at the heart of the central tower. The statue depicted the Buddha seated in meditation, shielded from the elements by the flared hood of the serpent king Mucalinda. During the reign of Hindu restorationist monarch Jayavarman VIII, the figure was removed from the sanctuary and smashed to pieces. After being recovered in 1933 from the bottom of a well, it was pieced back together, and is now on display in a small pavilion at Angkor.
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