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Ibis Ascending | Judy Kensley McKie, Sculptor
Garden of Peace Memorial | Boston, Massachusetts
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P.S. See the Ibis in the cloud to the left, too?
Happy Anniversary and Happy New Year! We decided to walk around on our first day, exploring as much as we can of what we missed the last time. But our old haunts were difficult to ignore and photograph.
Since we arrived at the end of the holiday season, we still managed to see the Christmas decorations. As usual, they were beautiful!
This guy is fucking scary. I’m not sure is comes arcoss in the pictures but all this figures made you wanting to check if it isn't a real person.
More of him on his awesome website: www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/
Seen at the Fresh Air Smells Funny exhibition in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
Taman Budaya Sarawak (Sarawak Cultural Village), Pantai Damai, Santubong, Sarawak.
A unique award-winning living museum that offers an excellent fascinating glimpse of rural Sarawak life as it was, before the old skills and older ways of life were lost to modernity. Located at the foot of the legendary Mount Santubong, the Sarawak Cultural Village portrays the cultures and traditional lifestyles of the seven major ethnic groups of Sarawak.
Orang Ulu, an ethnic designation politically coined to group together roughly 27 very small but ethnically diverse tribal groups in Sarawak, with a population ranging from less than 300 persons to over 25,000 persons. Some of the tribes collectively called Orang Ulu meaning "up-river dwellers" are given collective names such as Kenyah, Kayan, Klemantan (also referred as the Kedayan or Kadazan), Kelabit, the Lun Bawang (consisting several sub-ethnic tribes but collectively called Murut; in the Krayan highland in Kalimantan, they are more commonly known as Lundayeh or Lun Daye) , also including the Penan (the most primitive) as well as a few minor tribes in the interior. Generally, the tribes are so heterogeneous and culturally diverse that even ethnologists in disagreement with the confusing classifications. The Orang Ulu are also former head-hunters and conveniently also called the Dayak tribes.
Orang Ulu sword making foundry. Among the Orang Ulu the Kayans were the best iron smiths amongst all the peoples of Borneo . In the olden days, the iron ore were collected from riverbeds but later bars were procured from Malay and Chinese traders. The Dayak weaponry is the sword generally called mandau (sometimes it is also known as parang ilang among the Bidayuh and Penan people, malat by the Kayan people or baieng by the Kenyah people). Once the blades were forged, the hilts (human bones or deer antler in fine specimens) were tufted with human hair from the rewards in warfare. The wooden or leather scabbards is complemented with distinctive motifs unique to their tribes and ornately carved, beadwork, and amulets such as shells and animal teeth.
"This is the less elaborate version called ambang and is used as an everyday practical tool for chopping up meat, jungle clearing and recently as tourism souvenir. Ambang is made from ordinary steel, as oppose to the genuine mandau, as it is said made from iron ore obtained from rocky mountains and forged by skilled blacksmiths. A mandau has engravings on the blade and it is embedded with gold, copper or silver."
Ref. and suggested reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_Ulu
www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_orangulu.htm
www.pustaka-sarawak.com/Pustaka-Sarawak/Sarawakiana/pelah...
blog.sarawaktourism.com/2012/10/our-people-orang-ulu.html
www.artsborneo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyah_people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan_people_%28Borneo%29
healntland.blogspot.com/2012/02/klemantan-people-tribes-k...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelabit_people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun_Bawang
www.fulltextarchive.com/page/The-Pagan-Tribes-of-Borneo4/
Winter Solstice
December 21, 2024 @ 8:08pm EST [pieces of 8]
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Rainbow with others at the Garden of Peace. Paris!!!! 1700!! Money T truck, and they're broke? same guys go to Bowdoin!!
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(From left to right) Lt. Col. Mirrshaun, the operations officer, and Maj. Cahalam Mujtaba, the executive officer, both from the 5th Kandak, Afghan national army, 1st Lt. Andrew Booth, the officer in charge of the Embedded Partnering Team, Combat Logistics Battalion 8, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), and Cpl. Stephen Reynolds, an instructor with the EPT, listen as the guest speaker talks to ANA soldiers during a graduation ceremony at Forward Operating Base Delaram, Afghanistan, June 5, 2011. Fifty-one soldiers graduated from various courses that focused on specific trades like radio operator, driver, combat life saver, weapons familiarization and wrecker operator.
VIA's system products on show will include the VIA VIPRO panel PC, perfect for any HMI interface with its thin and fanless design and its IP65-compliant front panel which repels both dust and water. The VIA vmpc is ideal for digital signage with its ultra thin profile and VESA mounting design, changing any standard monitor into a signage vehicle in a snap.
Partway along the core I embedded a nut, bracketed above and below with washers to bear the longitudinal load when all the sections are bolted together. I made the rectangular washers out of short lengths of ¾ inch strap steel. The nut is drilled through the centre and pinned, firstly to ensure that the connecting threaded rods can each be screwed right home without taking more than half the nut; secondly to ensure the nut will not turn in the core. The collar nut actually ‘floats’: that is, it is allowed to move a few millimetres up or down in the core. This is bith to ensure the compression is evenly distributed through the bolted sections, secondly to allow for rotational adjustment of the section without compromising tightness. I’ll explain the reason for that later.
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Service members from Camp Lemonnier’s Expeditionary Medical Facility, or EMF, transferred two anesthesia machines to the Peltier General Hospital. The EMF upgraded their anesthesia capabilities, which left the two machines as excess equipment on Camp. The machines were given to help enhance Djiboutian medical care. The hospital treats more than 2,000 emergency cases a year in their five operating rooms; three of the five rooms have outdated machines. The newly acquired machines, adding to the hospital’s medical outreach, can be used in pediatric cases, allowing for more effective care for children. But that’s not the only positive according to the Hospital’s medical director. Soundbites include Lieutenant Heather Yurka – Anesthesiologist and Elias Said - Peltier General Hospital Medical Director. Produced by Petty Officer Jeremy Brandt. Also available in High Definition. (With Titles)
Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate.
The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt family came from in the Netherlands, and originally sat at the center of a 125,000 acre (195 square mile or 510 square kilometer) estate, which included Mount Pisgah, much of the present Pisgah National Forest Biltmore Village, and the upscale Asheville suburbs of Biltmore Forest and Biltmore Park, much of which has been parceled off and sold to help assist with keeping the estate running, with 86,700 acres of reforested land surrounding Mount Pisgah being sold to the United States government in 1915. Prior to becoming part of the estate, the land, which straddles the French Broad River, was home to small farms, and was in very poor condition, with Frederick Law Olmsted designing the landscape of the estate, reforesting large areas and creating a park-like setting with natural and artificial landscaped areas surrounding the house.
Part of the estate included Biltmore Village, formerly a small railroad town known as Best, which was redesigned to resemble a rural French medieval village, with a fan-shaped street grid centering around the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls, which was attended regularly by the Vanderbilt family. The village also features Norman-style cottages, various shops, a train station, a hospital, and a school for the families of workers at the estate, with many of the buildings being designed by Richard Sharp Smith, who took over as lead architect following the death of Richard Morris Hunt. Today featuring many shops, restaurants, and tourist accommodations, Biltmore Village has since been annexed by the city of Asheville. The portion of the estate bordering Biltmore Village features an iconic gatehouse, which melds the cottage-like materials of the village with the more imposing design language of the mansion inside the estate. Between the gatehouse and the mansion, a 3-mile-long (5 kilometer long) driveway known as the Approach Road winds its way through carefully cultivated landscapes, as well as crossing under Interstate 40.
The grounds around the estate include a walled garden with rusticate granite walls, a large rose garden, gardener’s cottage, and a conservatory featuring various tropical plants that would not naturally grow in the local climate. Closer to the house, the large South Terrace enclosed by a rusticated retaining wall stands immediately south of the house, with a gazebo at the southwest corner of the terrace. East of the terrace is the Italian Garden, which features a formal layout, fountains, and Italian-style sculptures, with a more natural Shrub Garden and vine-covered arbor south of the Italian Garden. In front of the house is a large lawn, which runs east to the Esplanade, a stone wall with a series of stairs and ramps that switchback to an upper lawn, with a decorative series of six stone fountains embedded into the base of the wall, and a small belvedere with a Statue of Diana at the upper end of the lawn. West of the house is a grassy knoll, which leaves the views from the house of the surrounding mountains unobstructed. Finally, below the Walled Garden, an enlarged former mill pond, which predated the estate by many decades, is now known as the Biltmore Bass Pond, and has been stocked with fish, and features a boathouse, with a dam and waterfall at the lower end of the pond along the exit road from the house.
The Biltmore House features elements from various historic French Chateaux, including the stair tower and hipped roofs of the Chateau Royal de Blois, as well as various elements from the Chateau de Chenonceau, Chateau de Chambord, also in France, and Waddesdon Manor in England. The house features a facade clad in Indiana Limestone, with lots of Gothic details, leaded glass windows, casement windows, and double-hung windows, towers with steeply pitched hipped slate roofs and decorative copper cresting, ornate wall dormers, an elevator tower at one side of the staircase, a large conservatory known as the Winter Garden next to the front entrance tower, which features an octagonal glass roof with an wooden Gothic support structure, a loggia on the west side of the house with sweeping views of the Pisgah National Forest in the distance, and a stable wing on the north end of the house, with a porte cochere tower entrance to the stable courtyard, stone chimneys, and a loggia on the south side of the house. The smooth limestone exterior of the house is contrasted by the house’s rusticated granite base, quarried on the grounds of the house, which also was utilized in the massive retaining wall around the adjacent South Terrace.
Inside, the house features luxurious finishes, including carved woodwork, intricate plaster details, electric lighting and steam heat, multiple fireplaces, a large kitchen and laundry in the basement, many guest rooms, a massive four-story chandelier in the grand staircase, a basement swimming pool, bowling alley, and gymnasium, a large grand banquet hall, bedrooms for staff, and a two-story library. The house features antiques and decorations sourced from the Vanderbilts’ many international excursions and antique dealers, as well as lots of art.
The house was opened for public tours in 1930, which has, over time, expanded in scale to feature more areas of the house and estate. The house was utilized to store 62 paintings and 17 sculptures from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC 1942, with Asheville believed to be a safe haven for them in the event that the United States was invaded by a foreign military, with the house remaining the repository for these important works until 1944, when the tides of war had turned. Biltmore Estate was designated as a National Historic Landmark 1963, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, owing to the house’s significant size, intact detailing, and connections to notable individuals. Still owned by the Cecil family, the descendants of Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, George and Edith Vanderbilt’s only child, the house is today utilized as a museum and open to tours, with the 8,000 remaining acres comprising the modern grounds of the estate having been developed with tourist amenities, including the conversion of the estate’s various barns into museums, restaurants, and a winery, as well as the construction of a luxury hotel, shops, and additional support facilities. The estate today is a major tourist attraction, seeing nearly 2 million visitors every year.
Once again, an image that I had in my head turned out completely different after several different variations. Good old Structure Synth doing what it does...
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Structure Synth / Sunflow