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Mona Hatoum
Current Disturbance, 1996
Madera, malla metálica, bombillas, regulador de intensidad de luz computerizado, amplificador y cuatro altavoces, 279 × 551 × 504 cm, edición 1/2
Vista de la instalación: Mona Hatoum: Current Disturbance, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, 4 de septiembre – 24 de noviembre, 1996
© Mona Hatoum. Foto: Ben Blackwell, cortesía de White Cube, Londres, y Alexander and Bonin, Nueva York
This is my version of the French roses pattern. I found the quilt and was inspired to make a quilt. This one is done entirely with fabrics I had on hand, both stash and scraps. If it turns out nice, it will become a quilt that I donate to Margaret's Hope Chest. I hope to do a baby girl quilt in this pattern next, but only if this one turns out ok. The abstract floral and leaf shapes are raw edged appliques and will fray up and be soft like a rag quilt after being washed. The lighting my sewing room is really bad on this snowy day. The background fabric is white Kona. Update February 18: I have this top completely put together. I need to come up with a backing before I can quilt it.
Karl Blake, Joe Budenholzer, Rose McDowall, Michael Cashmore, David Tibet, Gary Ramon, Sam Mannox-Wood, Joolie Wood
Peru's current president, Ollanta Humala belongs to the Partido Nacionalista Peruano
Fotos del centro histórico de Arequipa, La Ciudad Blanca.
Peru
POST CARD
TEXAS
THE LONE STAR STATE
Becoming the 28th state on December 29, 1845, Texas is ranked second in size among all the states. Austin is the Texas capital, while Houston is the state's largest city. More than 4,000 kinds of wild flowers grow in Texas. The Bluebonnet, with its blue bonnet-shaped petals, is the state's official flower. Texas' official state bird is the mockingbird.
Illustration by Leslie Eichler (c) Terrell Creative
(c) Distributed by Smith-Southwestern, Inc.
Printed in Singapore
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War Years Remembered is not a state-run museum. Due to the various lock-downs over the past year the museum has suffered greatly, with almost all of our annual income lost. All through lock-down the team at War Years Remembered has continued to support anyone requiring research from documentary makers and authors to families and veterans, all for free.
Our long-term goal for War Years Remembered is to find a permanent home and seek accredited museum status. Our dream is to become a major attraction that will provide an enjoyable, interesting and educational experience to all who visit.
We are fighting to survive the Covid-19 pandemic but we need your help. To survive and remain in our present location, we currently need to raise £50,000. With this money we can continue our vital work in remembering our veterans and the collection will be preserved for the education of future generations.
We were inspired by our late veteran 'Captain Tom' and our younger volunteers came up with the idea to walk 'in the footsteps of heroes'. So, over the coming weeks we will be using treadmills to walk 602 miles, the distance from our museum in Ballyclare to the beaches of Normandy, a journey undertaken by so many young men and women who fought in the Second World War. We will be posting regular updates on our progress and we hope you enjoy watching our journey.
Please give what you can, please help save War Years Remembered.
(Staff Photos by Rob Mattson/Amherst College, Office of Communications) Generations of Amherst College students, black alumni and current students share in the company of each other, during the numerous events hosted around campus as part of Black Alumni Weekend, on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, Mass., Saturday afternoon April 11, 2015. The weekend of events is presented by the Black Student Union (BSU) and Alumni and Parent Programs. The theme of this year's weekend, "By Any Means Necessary: Black Amherst and Beyond," is in honor of Charles Hamilton Houston, Class of 1915. Houston, who earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow," was instrumental in dismantling Jim Crow segregation laws, and played a role in nearly every landmark civil rights case to be argued in the Supreme Court, during the 20th century.
As I planted 45 pots of haworthia seed back on 7/10/13. Only this pot sprouted. It has 4 out of the 10 seeds growing. parents of my first seeds www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbytheseatofmypants/8667442166...
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
The Roman Theatre of Mérida is a construction promoted by the consul Vipsanius Agrippa in the Roman city of Emerita Augusta, capital of Lusitania (current Mérida, Spain). It was constructed in the years 16 and 15 BC.
Photo David Emery for Joe Geranio at Julio Claudian Iconographic Association
This Session examines the current model deployed by ICANN and other bodies involved in the Internet eco-system, and how this reflects the diverse interests of the Internet Community and users. It directly addresses how such a model has evolved since WSIS and to what extent it has allowed or even promoted growth and innovation and citizen’s interests. It considers how the model may evolve and improve to better serve the needs of public policy and community interests. Specifically it may address the role of governments, and whether their responsibilities are adequately taken account of in the multi-stakeholder model.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
• Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
• Cryptonomicon by Stephenson
• The New Space Opera edited by Dozois and Straham
• How to Get Happily Published by Appelbaum
• The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life
• Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 by Isaacs and Downing
• Orbiter by Ellis (illustrated by Foran with Stewart)
see also: blog.founddrama.net/2008/09/fresh-from-the-library/
Felix has huge paws cuz he is polydactyl which means he was born with extra paws. Normal cat has 18 toes. (paws) He has 24 something. He kept bite me when I tried to count lol. Guinness World records currently highest toes is 27 toes. According to wiki, it is considered deformed or abnormal but I think he's beautiful.
Pandiarajan is an actor who had played leading roles in many humorous Tamil films and currently plays supporting and comedy roles.Personal life[edit]
Pandiarajan was born to Rathnam and Sulochana in Saidapet, Chennai. He has two sisters namely, Maheshwari & Geetha. He is married to Vasuki in 1986, daughter of Director, Producer, and Poet Avinasi Mani. He has three sons, Prithvi Rajan, Pallavarajan and Premrajan.
Entry into Film Industry[edit]
Pandiarajan wanted to act in films. But due to his height and appearance he decided to join as an assistant director. He joined Thamizisai College where he had learnt violin and got his diploma as "Isai Selvam" in 1977. After that he had joined writer Thooyavan as an office assistant. Here he met director K. Bhagyaraj and later joined him as an assistant director. He had become his associate director in Darling Darling Darling and worked till the discussion of Munthanai Mudichu. Pandiarajan told the story of the film kanniraasi to Sivaji ganesan's brother shanmugam, he listened to the story and accepted it, though financiers refused to buy, the film was successful at the box-office.[4]
His first directorial venture was Kanni Rasi in 1985 starring Prabhu and Revathi. He directed and made his debut as a hero in Aan Paavam. Till now, he had directed nine films, including Kaivantha Kalai, Doubles where he directed prabhudeva in the lead role and acted in some 90 Tamil films and one Malayalam hit Kathavasheshan, where he acted with Dilip. Recently, he is acting in a TV serial called Mama Maaple in Sun TV.[5] His English short film called Help has been nominated at the ArtDeco Film Festival 2011, at São Paulo, in Brazil. ‘Help' is Pandiarajan's first short film in English.[
In the July/August 2019 issue of Sing Tao (星島) eliteGen I look at the current culinary scene in Montreal. More of a snapshot of a series of "other" ways the city is dining (outside of the great players I've featured a number of times and have written about in the past - see introduction, and other "trends" that can be found in the city). The result on pages 86-91, or read here: issuu.com/elitegen/docs/elitetor_39_200/88
Note: The caption is incorrect for Hoogan & Beaufort's chef. That is executive chef Jérémie Conan
German Currents 2013
7th Annual Festival of German Film Los Angeles
presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque
with the support of Deutsche Welle, German Films, the Friends of Goethe and ELMA.
In cooperation with the Consulates General of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Opening Night.
October 4th -7th, 2013, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood
The slide reads:
The Current Media Consumer - Life of a 25-54
* Read off-line newspapers and magazines
* Like mobile for voice (and a few for data) but do not see their world on mobile phones
* Aggregate information online and use RSS (though few know the term)
* Community important for tasks, much less for social. Will stay put.
* Trusts experts on factual information but rely heavily on reviews of peers on hotels, electronics, etc.
* When they create content it is to share reviews and experiences (not diaries or intimacies)
* Rely heavily on personalised portals for news and financials
* Care GREATLY about sources of news and information online
* Heavily into email
Source: "Surveying the Digital Future" A Project of Center for the Digital Future - USC Annenberg School, 2006
Paul Gudnason
"Shining Birch"
Layers of autumn birch leaves bestow lovely colors and patterns upon each other.
(612) 229-4389 // gundersonart@gmail.com