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Dedicated to the designers, developers and engineers who build the world’s most engaging user interfaces. From the community, for the community.
Dedicated to dear Majoodeh and her mother, Dr. Sahar Almasri; my host & colleague in Amman, Jordan. Also dedicated to all others which I miss them a lot…. There are lots of good memories from those days.
The picture is taken in Kish Island, Iran during her visit to Iran for MECCAward international meeting.
One of the four statues in Hackley Park. The park was dedicated Christmas Day, 1889 and essentially is a civil war memorial.
Galley on second floor, dedicated to “The New”. Illuminated new Hoover vacuum cleaners, never used (1980), the essence of “newness”. “New Shelton Wet/Drys 10 Gallon Double Decker”, 1981 from MoMA’s collection
Installation views of Jeff Koons retrospective
June 27-October 19, 2014
The Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, New York
The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is dedicated to the memory and music of Frank Sinatra and benefits the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children. The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational enjoys a rich history as one of the marquee golf and fundraising events in the Palm Springs, California desert. Each year, celebrities, amateur contestants, loyal sponsors and enthusiastic spectators from all over the country look forward to returning to this unique "celebrity friendly" event.
Known as "Frank's little party in the desert," Barbara and Frank Sinatra founded the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational in 1988 to raise funds for the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children at Eisenhower Medical Center, which opened in 1986. Through their efforts, and those of supporters throughout the world, the Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is now one of the most successful events of it's kind.
The mission of the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children is to provide counseling for victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and to focus on prevention, community education and breaking the generational cycle of abuse. Barbara Sinatra is quick to thank supporters of the "Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational, and she is proud to say "The children who come to us for help continue to receive the therapy they need and deserve; no child is turned away due to a family's inability to pay."
The Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational is a five (5) player team gross and net scramble golf tournament held at Eagle Falls Golf Course in Indio, California. The Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, also in Indio, is the tournament's hotel and venue for three nights of parties and a spectacular luncheon and fashion show.
One (1) celebrity and four (4) contestants are a team. The team of four (4) amateur players remains together for two (2) consecutive days. The celebrity contestant changes teams for the second day. Current USGA handicaps are verified and applied to all contestants.
Dedicated to the Virgin Mary (pic bottom center), the church was constructed over a water gate of Roman Babylon.
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We met our Flickr friend, Jim Griggs, at Mushroom Rock State Park yesterday. It was great to finally meet him, and we really enjoyed our day.
See the excellent shot Jim took here.
Dedicated to my grand-daughter, Keira on her 4th birthday today! May she have good health, abundance love and laughter in her life. Thanks for visiting and enjoy today:)
Bakong (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាគង) is the first temple mountain of sandstone constructed by rulers of the Khmer empire at Angkor near modern Siem Reap in Cambodia. In the final decades of the 9th century AD, it served as the official state temple of King Indravarman I in the ancient city of Hariharalaya, located in an area that today is called Roluos.
The structure of Bakong took shape of stepped pyramid, popularly identified as temple mountain of early Khmer temple architecture. The striking similarity of the Bakong and Borobudur temple in Java, going into architectural details such as the gateways and stairs to the upper terraces, suggests strongly that Borobudur was served as the prototype of Bakong. There must had been exchanges of travelers, if not mission, between Khmer kingdom and the Sailendras in Java. Transmitting to Cambodia not only ideas, but also technical and architectural details of Borobudur, including arched gateways in corbelling method.
HISTORY
In 802 AD, the first king of Angkor Jayavarman II declared the sovereignty of Cambodia. After ups and downs, he established his capital at Hariharalaya. Few decades later, his successors constructed Bakong in stages as the first temple mountain of sandstone at Angkor. The inscription on its stele (classified K.826) says that in 881 King Indravarman I dedicated the temple to the god Shiva and consecrated its central religious image, a lingam whose name Sri Indresvara was a combination of the king's own and the suffix "-esvara" which stood for Shiva ("Iśvara"). According to George Coedès, the devarāja cult consisted in the idea of divine kingship as a legitimacy of royal power, but later authors stated that it doesn't necessarily involve the cult of physical persona of the ruler himself.
Bakong enjoyed its status as the state temple of Angkor for only a few years, but later additions from the 12th or 13th centuries testify that it was not abandoned. Toward the end of the 9th century, Indravarman's son and successor Yasovarman I moved the capital from Hariharalaya to the area north of Siem Reap now known as Angkor, where he founded the new city of Yaśodharapura around a new temple mountain called Bakheng.
SITE
The site of Bakong measures 900 metres by 700 metres, and consists of three concentric enclosures separated by two moats, the main axis going from east to west. The outer enclosure has neither a wall nor gopuram and its boundary is the outer moat, today only partially visibile. The current access road from NH6 leads at the edge of the second enclosure. The inner moat delimits a 400 by 300 metres area, with remains of a laterite wall and four cruciform gopuram, and it is crossed by a wide earthen causeway, flanked by seven-headed nāgas, such as a draft of nāga bridge . Between the two moats there are the remains of 22 satellite temples of brick. The innermost enclosure, bounded by a laterite wall, measures 160 metres by 120 metres and contains the central temple pyramid and eight brick temple towers, two on each side. A number of other smaller buildings are also located within the enclosure. Just outside of the eastern gopura there is a modern buddhist temple.
The pyramid itself has five levels and its base is 65 by 67 metres. It was reconstructed by Maurice Glaize at the end of the 1930s according to methods of anastylosis. On the top there is a single tower that is much later in provenance, and the architectural style of which is not that of the 9th century foundations of Hariharalaya, but that of the 12th-century temple city Angkor Wat.
Though the pyramid at one time must have been covered with bas relief carvings in stucco, today only fragments remain. A dramatic scene-fragment involving what appear to be asuras in battle gives a sense of the likely high quality of the carvings. Large stone statues of elephants are positioned as guardians at the corners of the three lower levels of the pyramid. Statues of lions guard the stairways.
On Saturday, 9/24/16 we have perfect weather to work with over 50 dedicated volunteers at Bear Creek Park and Stream nearly filling a 40 yard dumpster with trash and debris they removed from the stream and the adjacent park totally over 3 tons!!! This included 171 bags of trash, a truck full of metal to be recycled, 7 shopping carts, 4 couches, 3 bicycles, 2 tires, 2 street signs, a VCR, a metal detector, a recliner, a vacuum cleaner and much more! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer’s dedication of working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is without equal! Thank to everyone who volunteered with us today.
We would also like to thank the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Day to Serve, National Public Lands Day and Trash Free Maryland for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic and Walmart for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies!
We would also like to thank CCBC, Towson University, the U. S Navy and the community for all the incredible volunteers they supplied! Thank you also to Baltimore County Highways for supplying us with a dumpster for our cleanup.
We also wish to thank photographers Brenda Harris, George Fischer and Brittany Jackson for contributing many of the wonderful photos that appear in this album.
The Village of Pinehurst, N.C. dedicated General George Catlett Marshall Park and Monument at grounds recently prepared near the Pinehurst Golf Resort. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the U.S. Army provided the keynote address. Odierno joined Pinehurst Mayor Nancy Roy Fiorillo in laying a wreath at the newly dedicated monument. General of the Army George C. Marshall Was the Army Chief of Staff during World War II; later he served the nation as Secretary of State, President of the Red Cross, and Secretary of Defense. Marshall is also noted for the European Recovery Program in which the United States gave tens of billions of dollars in economic support, starting in 1948, to help rebuild European economies following the devastation of World War II. The plan became known as 'The Marshall Plan.' His post war work earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. Marshall originally hailed from Pennsylvania; when he retired from military and public service, he and his wife settled in Pinehurst, N.C. The Fort Bragg headquarters of U.S. Army Forces Command is named Marshall Hall in honor of Gen. Marshall. Gen. Mark A. Milley, FORSCOM commanding general, Maj. Gen. Jimmie Jaye Wells, FORSCOM chief of staff, and Command Sgt. Maj. Scott C. Schroeder, FORSCOM command sergeant major, all attended the dedication ceremony.
Photos by Bob Harrison, U.S. Army Forces Command Public Affairs
On Saturday, 9/24/16 we have perfect weather to work with over 50 dedicated volunteers at Bear Creek Park and Stream nearly filling a 40 yard dumpster with trash and debris they removed from the stream and the adjacent park totally over 3 tons!!! This included 171 bags of trash, a truck full of metal to be recycled, 7 shopping carts, 4 couches, 3 bicycles, 2 tires, 2 street signs, a VCR, a metal detector, a recliner, a vacuum cleaner and much more! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer’s dedication of working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is without equal! Thank to everyone who volunteered with us today.
We would also like to thank the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Day to Serve, National Public Lands Day and Trash Free Maryland for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic and Walmart for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies!
We would also like to thank CCBC, Towson University, the U. S Navy and the community for all the incredible volunteers they supplied! Thank you also to Baltimore County Highways for supplying us with a dumpster for our cleanup.
We also wish to thank photographers Brenda Harris, George Fischer and Brittany Jackson for contributing many of the wonderful photos that appear in this album.
We had perfect weather to work with over 65 dedicated volunteers at Bear Creek Park and Stream as they removed trash and debris from the stream and the adjacent park. This included 180 bags of trash, an office chair, 3 bicycles, a minibike, the roll cage from a go-cart, much more! Thank you everyone so very much for all your incredible hard work under such tough conditions! Our volunteer’s dedication of working toward a cleaner, greener, healthier community and environment is without equal! Thank to everyone who volunteered with us today.
We would also like to thank the Ocean Conservancy, American Rivers, Day to Serve, National Public Lands Day and Trash Free Maryland for all their assistance and support on this cleanup. We could like to thank Chick fila Eastpoint for their incredible donation of chicken sandwiches, iced tea and cookies, Pap Johns Dundalk for donating pizza, Squires for donating pizza, Robert Jones for cooking and donating pulled pork and rolls. We also wish to thank Tradepoint Atlantic and Walmart for your generous donations allowing is to purchase much needed supplies! We would also like to thank CCBC, Towson University, the U. S Navy, Saint Timothy’s School, General John Stricker and the community for all the incredible volunteers they supplied! Thank you also to Baltimore County Highways for supplying us with a dumpster for our cleanup.
Dedicated to the designers, developers and engineers who build the world’s most engaging user interfaces. From the community, for the community.
Specially dedicated to Frank Philippi, a great Belgian Photographer who recently died,and to Filip Tas,they bought fought for the recognition for Photography as Art in Belgium
with this picture i want to pay some respect to this 2 icons of photography!!!
self portrait
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A third film dedicated to the extraordinary botanical garden green houses, Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon, France, on February 27, 2023.
I used again a brand new 36-exposure Fujifilm Super X-Tra 400 film but this time with my Canon F-1 SLR camera (year 1973) and its wild-angle lens Canon FD 1:2.8 f=28mm (1979).
The film was exposed for 400 ISO following essentially the Canon F-1 "semi-selective" metering confirmed in some cases by my Minolta Autometer III fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
In the warmer and humid tropical green houses, I had to wait about 20 min to leave the camera temperature to equilibrate enough (outside temperature 6°C, inside 30°C) to get no water condensation.
The Canon FD lens was equipped with a Hoya "X-Dry" UV-protection filter (55mm) without shade hood.
Documentary smartphone picture
Serres Tropicales du Jardin Botanique de Lyon
Parc de la Tête d'Or, February 27, 2023
69006 Lyon
France
After exposures the film was deposited for C-41 processing in local shop and was then film digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were then processed in LR and finally edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
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About the camera and the lens:
I bought this Canon F-1 a year ago in April 2022. The body is stamped "N1129" (in the film cartridge magazine) indicating that the camera body was manufactured in Japan in November 1973 while the FD 28mm lens is stamped "T102" on the rear baffle indicating a construction in the Canon factory in January 1979.
The camera was used very carefully with almost no sign of age. The photometric circuitry needs, as most of te SLR of that time, a 1.31V mercury oxide battery that I replaced by a Kanto MR9 adaptor for a SR43 silver oxide battery.
Redchurch Street East London Street Art:
Portal - CitzenSane - 2014 Dedicated to my late son Joe who took his own life a year ago today June 21 2013 Hare Krsna
Khajuraho, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a famous tourist and archaeological site known for its sculptured temples dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, Jain patriarchs, and others. Khajuraho was one of the capitals of the Chandela kings, who from the 9th to the 12th century CE developed a large realm, which at its height included almost all of what is now Madhya Pradesh state. Khajuraho extended over 21 sq. km and contained about 85 temples, built by multiple rulers mostly between 950 to 1050. In the 12th century the Chandelas, in a period of chaos and decline, abandoned Khajuraho and moved to hill forts elsewhere. Khajuraho puttered along until the 14th century (Ibn Batuta was impressed by its temples) but was afterwards largely forgotten and overtaken by jungles, which probably saved it from the desecration that Muslim conquerors sometimes inflicted on Hindu monuments. In 1838 a British army captain, TS Burt, employed by the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, came upon information that led him to the rediscovery of the complex of temples in the jungle in Khajuraho.
Of the 85 original temples—most constructed of sandstone—about 20 are still reasonably well preserved. Both internally and externally the temples are richly carved with excellent sculptures that are frequently sensual and often sexually explicit. The temples are divided into three complexes—the western is the largest and best known, containing the magnificent Shaivite temple Kandariya Mahadev, a 31m high agglomeration of porches and turrets culminating in a spire. Khajuraho's name derives from the prevalence of khajur, or date palms, in the area.
There are many theories explaining the real reason for incorporating erotic art with the temples. One of the most popular theories is that they were meant to provide education about earthly desires. During the medieval era, young boys were sent to hermitage and practice bramhacharya till reaching maturity. The sculptures were meant to educate them about grahasthahram.
Yet another theory states that they were meant to represent kama (desire) as the third purushartha (aim of life). The sculptures are also accredited to the rise of the Tantric cults during that time. However, several experts reject these theories.
However, the most credible explanations for the erotic sculptures at Khajuraho are as follows:
1. Sign of happiness, prosperity and auspiciousness: During the medieval era there was a common belief that having erotic sculptures were considered alankaras or decorative motifs, protective and auspicious. This hypothesis is based on the authoritative religious texts like the Shilpashastras and the Brihat Samhita. According to the Brihat Samhita, mithunas (couples), goblins, creepers and erotic sculptures were meant to be carved on the temple door to bring in good luck and as a sign of auspiciousness.
2. Mock the Ascetics: Yet another theory explaining the old erotic art at Khajuraho states that the coital couples represent ascetics as well as people from the royal class. It is also believed that the sculptures of couples participating in the orgies are scenes imagined by the artists. Also, it is also said that the artists used ascetics in sensuous and passionate moods as a way to mock the extreme Tantric sects that rose during that era.
3. Code Language: According to experts, the erotic figures were used as a code language to convey Tantric doctrines and non-communicable experiences. For e.g. A sculpture wherein a washerwoman clings to an ascetic may look erotic and sensuous for the layman. However, in the Tantric language, the washerwoman represents the Kundalini energy that has ascended up to the chakras i.e. the neck of the ascetic. Thus, the erotic sculptures have a deeper meaning related to the Tantric cult.
4. Conceal the Magico-Propitiory Yantra: According to the architectural text of the Shilpa Prakasha, every temple must have a Kamakala Yantra strategically placed to protect it from evil spirits and natural calamities. However, the Yantra, which is basically a set of lines drawn symmetrically, must not be visible to the lay man. Thus, a few erotic sculptures with the head down posture were made corresponding to the lines of the Yantra and superimposed on it.
5. Non-duality: It is possible that the erotic sculptures symbolically represent the union of two opposing forces or energies like, inhalation and exhalation, in a timeless state of non-duality.
The erotic art at Khajuraho is considered to be the pinnacle of love and passion. However, during the period between 900 – 1300 AD most Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples across western and southern India comprised of erotic art.
However, at other temples, these sculptures were carved at the plinth level, below the eye level and thus did not get noticed. It is only at Khajuraho that these sculptures were so prominently displayed on the main wall of the temples
Dedicated May 22, 1918 as the Gymnasium Building it is now one of three Intramural Sports buildings on campus.
I love the evenings of spring, lovely smell all around, mild temperature, lots of birds fluttering around, and the sound of children playing in the streets. Spring somehow renews and energizes everything.
Dedicated to the Semitic god Bel (Baal), lunar god Aglibol & sun god Yarhibol.
Architect: the Greek Alexandras (Αλεξάνδρας).
Burid Official Responsible: Abdul Hassan Ibn Fairuz
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report host, Rachel Greninger were invited to cover the 17th Annual Emmys Golf Classic at the Wilshire Country Club hosted by the Television Academy Foundation with title sponsor, LA LIVE
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John Ayers: Monday ain?t all bad
John W. Ayers, PhD, MA, is a social scientist and epidemiologist whose work is dedicated to the modernization of public health research methods.
John is a leading expert on the ?big data? revolution in public health, particularly for the study of non communicable diseases and health be haviors. His 2011 tracking of electronic cigarette Internet search queries was the first application of such data towards preventive medicine and was the American Journal of Preventive Medicine?s most cited research article that year?rightly predicting the rising popularity of electronic cigarettes. He harnesses search queries, Facebook posts, news media, and tweets to uncover how cycles in public health and disease are shaped by the physical and social environment. His work has been featured nationally by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired, with international coverage in more than a dozen languages.
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