Antelope Valley Fallen Heores Memorial Dedication, November 8th 2008, Michael T. Metro, Honor Guard, 1233 Ranco Vista BLVD Palmdale, CA 93551, Mall

Baby Dedication Oct 2013

The University of Central Arkansas' Health, Physical Educaiton and Recreation (HPER) Center was dedicated during a ceremony on Monday. The expansion includes a 10,000 square feet weight room, a new Olympic-sized swimming pool, racquetball courts and exercise rooms.

If you've never checked out Trisha GG's photostream. You should. She's the bee's knees.

Banteay Srei or Banteay Srey (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយស្រី) is a 10th-century Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Located in the area of Angkor in Cambodia. It lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, 25 km north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yasodharapura and Angkor Thom.[1] Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. These factors have made the temple extremely popular with tourists, and have led to its being widely praised as a "precious gem", or the "jewel of Khmer art."

HISTORY

FOUNDATION & DEDICATION

Consecrated on 22 April 967 A.D., Bantãy Srĕi was the only major temple at Angkor not built by a monarch; its construction is credited to a courtier named Yajnavaraha / Yajñavarāha (modern Khmer: យជ្ញវរាហៈ), who served as a counsellor to king Rajendravarman II (modern Khmer: ព្រះបាទរាជេន្រ្ទវរ្ម័ន).The foundational stela says that Yajnavaraha, grandson of king Harsavarman I, was a scholar and philanthropist who helped those who suffered from illness, injustice, or poverty. His pupil was the future king Jayavarman V (r. 968- ca. 1001). Originally, the temple was surrounded by a town called Īśvarapura.

Yajñavarāha's temple was primarily dedicated to the Hindu god Śiva. Originally, it was carried the name Tribhuvanamaheśvara—great lord of the threefold world—in reference to the Shaivite linga that served as its central religious image. However, the temple buildings appear to be divided along the central east-west axis between those buildings located south of the axis, which are devoted to Śiva, and those north of the axis, which are devoted to Viṣṇu.

The temple's modern name, Bantãy Srĕi—citadel of the women, or citadel of beauty—is probably related to the intricacy of the bas relief carvings found on the walls and the tiny dimensions of the buildings themselves. Some have speculated that it relates to the many devatas carved into the walls of the buildings.

EXPANSION & REDICATION

Bantãy Srĕi was subject to further expansion and rebuilding work in the eleventh century. At some point it came under the control of the king and had its original dedication changed; the inscription K 194 from Phnoṃ Sandak, dated Monday, the 14th or 28 July 1119 A.D. records (line B 13) the temple being given to the priest Divākarapaṇḍita and being rededicated to Śiva. It remained in use at least until the fourteenth century according to the last known inscription K 569, dated Thursday, 8 August 1303 A.D.

RESTAURATION

The temple was rediscovered only in 1914, and was the subject of a celebrated case of art theft when André Malraux stole four devatas in 1923 (he was soon arrested and the figures returned). The incident stimulated interest in the site, which was cleared the following year, and in the 1930s Banteay Srei was restored through the first important use of anastylosis at Angkor whereby a ruined building or monument is restored using the original architectural elements to the greatest degree possible. Until the discovery of the foundation stela in 1936, it had been assumed that the extreme decoration indicated a later date than was in fact the case. To prevent the site from water damage, the joint Cambodian-Swiss Banteay Srei Conservation Project installed a drainage system between 2000 and 2003. Measures were also taken to prevent damage to the temples walls from nearby trees.

Unfortunately, the temple has been ravaged by pilfering and vandalism. When toward the end of the 20th century authorities removed some original statues and replaced them with concrete replicas, looters took to attacking the replicas. A statue of Shiva and his shakti Uma, removed to the National Museum in Phnom Penh for safekeeping, was assaulted in the museum itself.

MATERIALS & STYLE

Banteay Srei is built largely of a hard red sandstone that can be carved like wood. Brick and laterite were used only for the enclosure walls and some structural elements. The temple is known for the beauty of its sandstone lintels and pediments.

A pediment is the roughly triangular space above a rectangular doorway or openings. At Banteay Srei, pediments are relatively large in comparison to the openings below, and take a sweeping gabled shape. For the first time in the history of Khmer architecture, whole scenes of mythological subject-matter are depicted on the pediments.

A lintel is a horizontal beam spanning the gap between two posts. Some lintels serve a structural purpose, serving to support the weight of the superstructure, while others are purely decorative in purpose. The lintels at Banteay Srei are beautifully carved, rivalling those of the 9th century Preah Ko style in quality.

Noteworthy decorative motifs include the kala (a toothy monster symbolic of time), the guardian dvarapala (an armed protector of the temple) and devata (demi-goddess), the false door, and the colonette. Indeed, decorative carvings seem to cover almost every available surface. According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, "Given the very particular charm of Banteay Srei – its remarkable state of preservation and the excellence of a near perfect ornamental technique – one should not hesitate, of all the monuments of the Angkor group, to give it the highest priority." At Banteay Srei, wrote Glaize, "the work relates more closely to the art of the goldsmith or to carving in wood than to sculpture in stone".

THE SITE

The site consists of three concentric rectangular enclosures constructed on an east-west axis. A causeway situated on the axis leads from an outer gopura, or gate, to the third or outermost of the three enclosures. The inner enclosure contains the sanctuary, consisting of an entrance chamber and three towers, as well as two buildings conventionally referred to as libraries.

THE OUTER GOPURA

The gopura is all that remains of the outer wall surrounding the town of Isvapura. The wall is believed to have measured approximately 500 m square, and may have been constructed of wood. The gopura's eastern pediment shows Indra, who was associated with that direction, mounted on his three-headed elephant Airavata. The 67 m causeway with the remains of corridors on either side connects the gopura with the third enclosure. North and south of this causeway are galleries with a north-south orientation.

THE THIRD (OUTER) ENCLOSURE

The third enclosure is 95 by 110 m; it is surrounded by a laterite wall breached by gopuras at the eastern and western ends. Neither pediment of the eastern gopura is in situ. The west-facing pediment is now located in the Musée Guimet in Paris.[18] It depicts a scene from the Mahabhārata in which the Asura brothers Sunda and Upasunda fight over the Apsara Tilottama. The east-facing pediment is lying on the ground. It depicts a scene from the Rāmāyaṇa in which a demon seizes Rama's wife Sita. Most of the area within the third enclosure is occupied by a moat divided into two parts by causeways to the east and west.

THE SECOND ENCLOSURE

The second enclosure sits between an outer laterite wall measuring 38 by 42 m, with gopuras at the eastern and western ends, and a brick inner enclosure wall, measuring 24 by 24 m. The western gopura features an interesting bas relief depicting the duel of the monkey princes Vāli and Sugriva, as well as Rāma's intervention on Sugrīva's behalf. The inner enclosure wall has collapsed, leaving a gopura at the eastern end and a brick shrine at the western. The eastern pediment of the gopura shows Śiva Nataraja; the west-facing pediment has an image of Durga. Likewise, the laterite galleries which once filled the second enclosure (one each to north and south, two each to east and west) have partially collapsed. A pediment on one of the galleries shows the lion-man Narasiṃha clawing the demon Hiranyakashipu.

THE FIRST (INNER) ENCLOSURE

Between the gopuras on the collapsed inner wall are the buildings of the inner enclosure: a library in the south-east corner and another in the north-east corner, and in the centre the sanctuary set on a T-shaped platform 0.9 m high. Besides being the most extravagantly decorated parts of the temple, these have also been the most successfully restored (helped by the durability of their sandstone and their small scale). In 2010, the first enclosure is open to visitors again, but the inner temples are roped off and inaccessible.

THE LIBRARIES

The two libraries are of brick, laterite and sandstone. Each library has two pediments, one on the eastern side and one on the western. According to Maurice Glaize, the four library pediments, "representing the first appearance of tympanums with scenes, are works of the highest order. Superior in composition to any which followed, they show true craftsmanship in their modelling in a skilful blend of stylisation and realism."

The east-facing pediment on the southern library shows Śiva seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa, his mythological abode. His consort Umā sits on his lap and clings anxiously to his torso. Other beings are also present on the slopes of the mountain, arranged in a strict hierarchy of three tiers from top to bottom. In the top tier sit bearded wise men and ascetics, in the middle tier mythological figures with the heads of animals and the bodies of humans, and in the bottom tier large animals, including a number of lions. In the middle of the scene stands the ten-headed demon king Rāvaṇa. He is shaking the mountain in its very foundations as the animals flee from his presence and as the wise men and mythological beings discuss the situation or pray. According to the legend, Śiva stopped Rāvaṇa from shaking the mountain by using his toe to press down on the mountain and to trap Rāvana underneath for 1000 years.

The west-facing pediment on southern library shows Śiva again seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa. He is looking to his left at the god of love Kāma, who is aiming an arrow at him. Umā sits to Śiva's right; he is handing her a chain of beads. The slopes of the mountain are crowded with other beings, again arranged in a strict hierarchy from top to bottom. Just under Śiva sit a group of bearded wise men and ascetics, under whom the second tier is occupied by the mythological beings with the heads of animals and the bodies of humans; the lowest tier belongs the common people, who mingle sociably with tame deer and a large gentle bull. According to the legend, Kāma fired an arrow at Śiva in order to cause Śiva to take an interest in Umā. Śiva, however, was greatly angered by this provocation, and punished Kāma by gazing upon him with his third eye, frying Kāma to cinders.

The east-facing pediment on the northern library shows the god of the sky Indra creating rain to put out a forest fire started by the god of fire Agni for purposes of killing the nāga king Takshaka who lived in Khandava Forest. The Mahābhāratan heroes Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are shown helping Agni by firing a dense hail of arrows to block Indra's rain. Takṣaka's son Aśvasena is depicted attempting to escape from the conflagration, while other animals stampede about in panic.

The west-facing pediment on the southern library depicts Kṛṣṇa slaying his wicked uncle Kamsa.

THE SANCTUARY

The sanctuary is entered from the east by a doorway only 1.08 m in height: inside is an entrance chamber (or maṇḍapa) with a corbelled brick roof, then a short corridor leading to three towers to the west: the central tower is the tallest, at 9.8 m. Glaize notes the impression of delicacy given the towers by the antefixes on each of their tiers. The six stairways leading up to the platform were each guarded by two kneeling statues of human figures with animal heads; most of those now in place are replicas, the originals having been stolen or removed to museums.

WIKIPEDIA

Baby Dedication Oct 2013

A dedication from Rex Coley on the end papers of 'Cycling is Such Fun'. In the days when we used fountain pens!

The 1st Brigade Combat Team Warrior Inn Restaurant hosted this year's Thanksgiving lunch for Soldiers and family members of the brigade with a menu featuring roast turkey, baked ham, strip loin steak and roasted pig. Senior leaders demonstrated the time honored tradition of serving their Soldiers, signifying sincere gratitude for their unwavering loyalty and dedication to the unit and the U.S. Army. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Keeler)

Dedication of Toronto Fire Boat Wm. Thornton

Hull turning in frames, with chainblocks and a derrick.

Dedication And Loyalty Regardless Of The Weather!

With Spain Losing To Switzerland By 1 Goal At The World Cup 2010 In South Africa, I thought A Little Of The Joyous Times From Years Past Would Console The Spanish Fans!

Spanish Football (Soccer) Fans Celebrate Spain's Victory over Germany to Win The Euro Cup, 2008, their first title since the 1964 tournament!

The University of Central Arkansas' Health, Physical Educaiton and Recreation (HPER) Center was dedicated during a ceremony on Monday. The expansion includes a 10,000 square feet weight room, a new Olympic-sized swimming pool, racquetball courts and exercise rooms.

I posted an earlier shot of this dedication marker which fortunately was removed during the early demolition stages. Note the "1903" in upper left corner. Will County officials AND the local newspaper (Joliet Herald News) both wrongly believed this structure dated to THAT year. Yikes. (It was actually constructed in 1950).

Iraq combat veteran Bill Stender and the Stender family's youngest grandson, Harry light the Eternal Flame at the Huntsville Veterans Memorial Dedication Nov. 17, 2012. Photo Credit Adoratia Purdy, AMC PAO — in Huntsville, AL.

The Kuman Bible Dedication parade, including the brass band from the

Lutheran Trumpet School at Banz and a truckload of New Testaments,

marching through Kundiawa. Note the SIL aircraft on the airstrip behind the parade.

This is one of a series of photos of the Kuman New Testament dedication

in Kundiawa, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, on the 27th day of June

2008. This is the first day these people could get a whole New Testament

in their own language. There are about 950 languages spoken in Papua New

Guinea. Other than the 3 national languages (Melanisian Pidgin, English,

and Hiri Motu), Kuman is the language with the third highest population

of speakers.

With a two-stage rocket launch air-brushed on the trunk. I had dinner with the guy – he did his Ph.D in rocketry…

The University of Central Arkansas' Health, Physical Educaiton and Recreation (HPER) Center was dedicated during a ceremony on Monday. The expansion includes a 10,000 square feet weight room, a new Olympic-sized swimming pool, racquetball courts and exercise rooms.

Kappa Alpha Psi "Women's Dedication"

PHENOMENOLOGY / PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIE.

edited by Karl Jirgens. Toronto, [after september] 1988.

5-15/16 x 15-7/16, 4o sheets natural white glossy perfectbound into white rectogloss card wrappers, all printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to outside covers.

wraparound cover photograph by Douglas Clark.

84 contributors ID'd:

Alexandre L.Amprimoz, Carol J.Anderson, Fortner Anderson, Brigitta Bali, Michel Belanger, John M.Bennett, Ron Benori, Charles Bernstein, Stephen Bett, Donald Brackett, Angus Brown, Misha Chocholak, Margaret Christakos, Douglas Clark, John Robert Colombo, Christian Damian, Samuel Danzig, Marguerite Dehler, Stephanie Dickinson, M.A.C.Farrant, Jim Francis, Jean-Claude Gagnon, Richard Gessner, Marty Gervais, Deborah Godin, John Grube, Daniel Guimond, Maggie Helwig, Brian Henderson, P.J.Holdstock, Mary Horodyski, Sally Ito, Genevieve James, Beth Jankola, Karl Jirgens, Miriam Jones, Wally Keeler, Ian Kent, Robert Kenter, M.Kettner, Richard Kostelanetz, Michelle LeBoutillier, Paul McCarthy, David McFadden, David Memmott, Scott Moodie, Robert C.Morgan, George Myers Jr, Opal Louis Nations, bpNichol, Fredo Ojda, Helen J.Orr, Alain-Arthur Painchaud, Susan Parker, Thomas Parkinson, Karen Peterson, Andras Petocz, Richard Purdy, Judy Radul, Bill Reid, Steve Reinke, Alain-Martin Richard, John Riddell, Douglas Rothschild, Pavel Rudolf, Michel Serres, Kazuko Shiraishi, Giles Slade, Melody Sumner, W.Mark Sutherland, George Swede, Ülrich Tarlatt, Lisa Teasley, Yves Troendle, Huguette Turcotte, David UU, Corneil Van Der Spek, Denis Vanier, Steve Venright, Don Webb, Jason Weiss, Kirk H.Wirsig, Josée Yvon, Robert Zenick.

Nichol "contributes":

i) love song 2 (poem; Nichol's singlestroke quote marks replaced with doublestroked)

also includes:

ii) DEDICATION:, by Karl Jirgens (prose; issue dedicated to Nichol)

iii) [untitled portrait of bpNichol], by Karl Jirgens (photograph; Nichol at A Festschrift for bpNichol, Toronto, Harbourfront, october 1986)

Shared under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication, Creative Commons License. Terms of use: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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People visiting with each other at Evergreen Cemetery following dedication ceremony. Juanell Smart at right, unknown man in center, unknown woman on left. Photo courtesy Ron and Laura Kohl

獻予阮的家後, 我牽汝的手七十五冬矣, 嘛亦無夠額.

In English:

"Dedicated to my wife:

75 years is not long enough

I'll never stop holding your hand."

People visiting with each other at Evergreen Cemetery following dedication ceremony. Jim Randolph in baseball cap, probably talking to Claire Janaro. Jack Colbert (back to camera) talking to Stephen Jones. John Cobb in far right. Photo courtesy Ron and Laura Kohl

Baby Dedication Oct 2013

A chain continuing to do its job long after securing the property had become a non-issue.

A lone runner heating for the top on Pen-y-Pass on the road from Llanberis. Rather him than me!

Taken through the car windscreen, don't worry , my wife was driving.

Members of the Armed Forces participated in the George W. Bush Presidential Center Dedication Ceremony on April 25, 2013. Photo by Eric Draper

I haven't fooled around in Photoshop for a while and thought this was an excellent image to start with. The flare is real. The color is not. ;) A little busy?

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Object Name (Title): Dedication

Dedication unknown, Borley, Essex

Borley is a tiny hamlet not far from the high street of the large Suffolk village of Long Melford. It became, in the 1930s, the focus of notoriety thanks to the activities of a conman and self-proclaimed 'ghost hunter' called Harry Price. Price elaborated on the hoaxing and spoofing of the successive Rectors and their families of the time. As a result of his books, Borley Rectory became known as 'the most haunted house in England'. The hokum and fakery still attract a lunatic fringe of sensation-seekers with nothing better to do, and hence the church is ordinarily kept locked, unusually for north Essex.

An unlikely knock-on effect of the events at Borley was what happened at nearby Middleton - one might even imagine there was something in the water around here which led to such shameless self-delusion.

This, from the Observer for 31.12.2000:

In We Faked the Ghosts of Borley Rectory, Louis Mayerling - for whom the house was a second home until its destruction by fire in 1938 - reveals for the first time how the 'hauntings' were created by the rectory's various inhabitants. He describes how they watched in amazement as the world fell for the elaborate hoax.

An investigation carried out by the BBC the year before the fire, when Mayerling was 26, noted more than 2,000 incidents of paranormal activity and concluded that the hauntings were true. The Most Haunted House in England, a book by Harry Price, the most eminent psychical investigator of the time, who lived in the house for a year, cemented the rectory's position as the best documented case of haunting in the annals of psychical research.

'Probably to save costs at Borley, sea-sand had been used in the walls in place of the regulation material. This caused a permanent dampness which swallowed up anything written on them in a matter of hours,' Mayerling said. 'Nevertheless, many scholars recognised the wall-writings as being genuine poltergeist activity and they were illustrated in the press across the world, adding a great stimulus to psychical research and Spiritualism.'

The real ghosts of Borley, of course, are the Waldegrave family, lords of the manor in late medieval times, and memorialised in wide-eyed terror in effigy on their rustic tomb of about 1600.

Collection Name: Second State Capitol Commission Collection

Photographer/Studio: Unknown

Description: Panoramic View of crowds at Dedication of State Capitol building.

Coverage: United States – Missouri – Cole County – Jefferson City

Date: October 6, 1924

Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.

Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives

Image Number: MS0316_134_12_067

Institution: Missouri State Archives

Dedication of Toronto Fire Boat Wm. Thornton

so, I am up with this 'Dedications' series. I just want to thank all people for making Flickr so cool! I did think twice for each dedication, so please don't mind if you don't like what I have dedicated to you....hope you like yours :-)

and these dedications came up because while taking these pictures, I had you people in mind : ) or when I look at them,they remind me of you!! the picture for you,has a note over it with your name.....

I know many important people are missing,,well there are more dedications to come, I'm collecting shots!

Take care : ))

Members of the EDGE Residential College faculty and students in that college were on hand to dedicate a labyrinth behind State Hall on Thursday. The labyrinth was a service project that was suggested by the students as an improvement behind the hall as well as an area of meditation and reflection. To uphold ages-old tradition, the labyrinth was dedicated by song as the performer walked the labyrinth.

This is for everyone, who have ever been a part of my life.

This is for everyone, whose presence in my life has made me , Me.

This is for everyone, who has encouraged me, discouraged me, loved me , hated me.

This is for everyone in my life.

Thanks for being a part of it.

Thanks for shaping me.

Today, the Middlesex County Hazardous Materials Unit hosted the dedication for their newest response vehicle, HAZMAT 8.The ceremony was held at their quarters located in the Middlesex County Fire Academy, 1001 Fire Academy Dr Sayreville, NJ 08872.

I know this poet-

he tangles with words

and sure enough,

we may never find closure.

but he would say:

close

sure.

(and those are his words, not mine.)

(for I use parenthesis)

Thesis?

We dance on clouds, we drift over each night

waiting for the day.

and when it does arrive-

it is empty and burdened.

Bird? End?

(small smile)

don't forget that night.

That day.

The sleepwalking dreams of the past.

For they brought us here

and we will always be

linked.

Neil Armstrong Dedication

what i do to get my landscape photos :) it was raining so i had to take my shirt off and cover my camera with it! knee deep in very cold water. worth it!

Peninsula Open Space Trust celebration at Whaler’s Cove today.

It used to be a motel.

More Denver International weirdness. Is there a massive Freemason conspiracy behind the airport? Almost certainly not. But maybe...

Have you ever heard of the New World Airport Commission? Neither have I.

~Dedication~

This is one from the archives. Almost three years ago while on the coldest day I have ever shot. With the windchill it dipped below -37 degrees which is so cold that bare skin can freeze in just a few minutes. While the conditions were miserable, the sea smoke that it caused was amazing. To my surprise, lobster and fishing boats were still braving the frigid day to haul their catch.

Prints available at www.charliewiddisphotography.com

WIESBADEN, Germany – U.S. Army Europe Commander Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell Jr., along with USAREUR Command Sgt. Maj. David Davenport and William Broughton, grandson of former Seventh Army commander Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes cuts the ribbon during USAREUR’s headquarters building dedication ceremony here, Nov. 14. USAREUR paid tribute to the former Seventh Army commander whose leadership contributed to the strategic and operational direction the U.S. Army took in establishing initial presence in Europe. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)

Hard top being fitted to tower.

This was a beautiful day among many ugly ones. I for the first time a good week felt myself wholesomely and peacefully in my body. Not that I was having out of body experiences, but I just felt so much more comfortable and available and fresh. I lived this day slowly. I took my time in doing what I wanted to do--including taking pictures and I ended up with 442 dope pictures. It was amazing what I gained from placing myself into a beautiful environment and dedicating my entire existence to that environment. Presence is everything.