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This vault fills the arch over the window at Gul Emir, Samarkand: delicate blues, totally different from the gold inside.
Discussion on Situation in Iraq and assistance to Indian nationals in Iraq at Gulf envoys' meeting with External Affairs Minister in New Delhi
The signage I designed for the outside of our office building. Powdercoated Aluminium for the body, letter is all vinyl.
The Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.
HISTORY
The present-day structure was built by the Mughals, though a fort had stood there since at least the 11th century. Agra Fort was originally a brick fort known as Badalgarh, held by Raja Badal Singh Hindu Sikarwar Rajput king (c. 1475). It was mentioned for the first time in 1080 AD when a Ghaznavide force captured it. Sikandar Lodi (1488–1517) was the first Sultan of Delhi who shifted to Agra and lived in the fort. He governed the country from here and Agra assumed the importance of the second capital. He died in the fort at 1517 and his son, Ibrahim Lodi, held it for nine years until he was defeated and killed at Panipat in 1526. Several palaces, wells and a mosque were built by him in the fort during his period.
After the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Mughals captured the fort and seized a vast treasure, including the diamond later known as the Koh-i-Noor. The victorious Babur stayed in the fort in the palace of Ibrahim and built a baoli (step well) in it. The emperor Humayun was crowned here in 1530. Humayun was defeated at Bilgram in 1540 by Sher Shah. The fort remained with Suris till 1555, when Humanyun recaptured it. The Hindu king Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called 'Hemu', defeated Humanyun's army, led by Iskandar Khan Uzbek, and won Agra. Hemu got a huge booty from this fort and went on to capture Delhi from the Mughals. The Mughals under Akbar defeated King Hemu finally at the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556.
Realizing the importance of its central situation, Akbar made it his capital and arrived in Agra in 1558. His historian, Abdul Fazal, recorded that this was a brick fort known as 'Badalgarh'. It was in a ruined condition and Akbar had it rebuilt with red sandstone from Barauli area in Rajasthan. Architects laid the foundation and it was built with bricks in the inner core with sandstone on external surfaces. Some 4,000 builders worked on it daily for eight years, completing it in 1573.
It was only during the reign of Akbar's grandson, Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state. Legend has it that Shah Jahan built the beautiful Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Unlike his grandfather, Shah Jahan tended to have buildings made from white marble, often inlaid with gold or semi-precious gems. He destroyed some of the earlier buildings inside the fort to make his own.
At the end of his life, Shah Jahan was deposed and restrained by his son, Aurangzeb, in the fort. It is rumoured that Shah Jahan died in Muasamman Burj, a tower with a marble balcony with a view of the Taj Mahal.
The fort was invaded by the Maratha Empire during the mid 18th century. Thereafter, it changed hands between the Marathas and their foes many times. After their catastrophic defeat at Third Battle of Panipat by Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1761, Marathas remained out of the region for the next decade. Finally Mahadji Shinde took the fort in 1785. It was lost by the Marathas to the British during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, in 1803.
The fort was the site of a battle during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of direct rule of India by Britain.
LAYOUT
The 380,000 m2 (94-acre) fort has a semicircular plan, its chord lies parallel to the river and its walls are seventy feet high. Double ramparts have massive circular bastions at intervals, with battlements, embrasures, machicolations and string courses. Four gates were provided on its four sides, one Khizri gate opening on to the river.
Two of the fort's gates are notable: the "Delhi Gate" and the "Lahore Gate." The Lahore Gate is also popularly also known as the "Amar Singh Gate," for Amar Singh Rathore.
The monumental Delhi Gate, which faces the city on the western side of the fort, is considered the grandest of the four gates and a masterpiece of Akbar's time. It was built circa 1568 both to enhance security and as the king's formal gate, and includes features related to both. It is embellished with inlay work in white marble. A wooden drawbridge was used to cross the moat and reach the gate from the mainland; inside, an inner gateway called Hathi Pol ("Elephant Gate") – guarded by two life-sized stone elephants with their riders – added another layer of security. The drawbridge, slight ascent, and 90-degree turn between the outer and inner gates make the entrance impregnable. During a siege, attackers would employ elephants to crush a fort's gates. Without a level, straight run-up to gather speed, however, something prevented by this layout, elephants are ineffective.
Because the Indian military (the Parachute Brigade in particular) is still using the northern portion of the Agra Fort, the Delhi Gate cannot be used by the public. Tourists enter via the Amar Singh Gate.
The site is very important in terms of architectural history. Abul Fazal recorded that five hundred buildings in the beautiful designs of Bengal and Gujarat were built in the fort. Some of them were demolished by Shahjahan to make way for his white marble palaces. Most of the others were destroyed by the British between 1803 and 1862 for raising barracks. Hardly thirty Mughal buildings have survived on the south-eastern side, facing the river. Of these, the Delhi Gate and Akbar Gate and one palace – "Bengali Mahal" – are representative Akbari buildings.
Akbar Darwazza (Akbar Gate) was renamed Amar Singh Gate by the British.
POPULAR CULTURE
- The Agra Fort won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. India Post issued a stamp to commemorate this event.
- The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- The Agra Fort was featured in the music video for Habibi Da, a hit song of Egyptian pop star Hisham Abbas.
- Shivaji came to Agra in 1666 as per the "Purandar Treaty" entered into with Mirza Raje Jaisingh to met Aurangzeb in the Diwan-i-Khas. In the audience he was deliberately placed behind men of lower rank. Insulted, he stormed out of the imperial audience and was confined to Jai Sing's quarters on 12 May 1666.
- In the second expansion pack for the videogame Age of Empires 3, the Asian Dynasties, Agra fort is one of five wonders for the Indian civilisation.
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this is for my friend Swami Stream, he posted items his wife had in her arm, this is what I had in my arm when I broke my wrist in 2001. those four screws were drilled into my bones and the bar kept my wrist from moving while it healed, I expected a normal cast, but when I woke up this is what I had!
This is how you cool the aircraft on the ground without running the APU. External air is pumped into the aircraft downstream of the packs and straight into the passenger air vents.
last week i had a quite spontaneous shoot with two beautiful ladies
i'm so happy with the results!
i'm usually quite hesitant to use my external flash (unless i'm shooting an event at school or a party) because i prefer to use natural light, but i guess the reason i like this shoot so much is that i got out of my comfort zone, used my external flash and got results that i really, really liked :)
so expect to see more from this shoot!
This external hard drive media player has 250GB capacity (User replaceable, if you prefer a bigger one), and a built-in card reader that supports Compact Flash (CF) Type I / II, SD card, Memory Stick (original or Pro), Smart Media and Multimedia Card (MMC). Connections include: 1 high speed USB 2.0 for connecting to a computer for file transfer, A / V Phono leads for connection to TV with RCA phono or SCART connection, YPbPr video leads for professional users who want even higher picture quality, VGA video connection for CRT, LCD or plasma flat screen users and of course power supply (100V ~ 240V, works in both Europe / UK and US). The built-in hardware decoder supports music files such as MP3; video files: MPEG 1 / 2 / 4, Xvid (such as files with .dat, .mpg, .mpeg, .vob, .avi extensions.) from DVD discs or downloaded online, in both NTSC and PAL mode; JPEG photo files from any digital cameras. Files can be stored either on the hard drive or on a memery card via the card reader. Hard drive can be controlled via ether buttons on the front (see the next picture) or the remote control. Instruction book included, but not shown in this picture.
A vertical shot of part of the War Memorial in San Francisco taken early morning. I was struck by how beautiful the light fixtures are. This is one of the buildings were the UN was created in 1945.
I think a flaw of this photo is I gave t really picked the subject.
I bought two. Plus a little compass ball from the scrapyard. Found a screwdriver on the road outside where I parked.
3.5" Hunter XCI CG PreCut to fit tracks Polyiso Continuous Insulation installed over 3M 3015 AVB Roosevelt Field Neiman Marcus. Polyiso higher thermal resistance allows for thinner tracks and overall wall thickness. Passes NFPA 285
Xci CG is a high-thermal rigid insulation panel composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured on-line to premium performance coated glass facers on both sides. It is designed for use in commercial wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.
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Anton Church (Vienna)
The Anton Church in Vienna Favoriten
The Anton church is a Saint Anthony of Padua consecrated Roman Catholic parish church at Anton Place in Vienna's 10th district, Favoriten.
History
At the end of the 19th century, there was only one church in Favoriten, the 1876 consecrated parish church of St. John the Evangelist, who was responsible for 100,000 people. Thus, the construction of another church in the district was necessary, which to the request of the then archbishop Josef Anton Gruscha should be consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua, the namesake of Gruscha. The foundation stone for the church was laid in the presence of emperor Franz Joseph on November 10, 1896. Just six years later, followed the church's consecration in 1902 again in the presence of the archbishop and the emperor. The plans stemmed of the architect Franz Neumann, the execution took over the Court architect Josef Schmalzhofer. The interior design provided the history painter August Wörndle, while the organ was built by Johann M. Kauffmann.
During the Second World War, the Anton church on 6 November and 11 December 1944 was hit hard by bombs. As a result, the dome, the organ loft, parts of the towers and of the nave and the murals were destroyed. Although immediately after the war was begun with reconstruction, it took until 1961 before the restoration was completed. It was headed by architect Anton Steflicek. Due to lack of funds, it was decided at that time to paint the interior plainly white and do without murals. In 1962, the church finally obtained a new organ, by Dreher & Reinisch built as Karl Walter Memorial Organ. It has 52 stops on 3 manuals and pedal. The chancel was redesigned in 1981 and constructed a people's altar. An interior renovation took place in the year 1992.
Appearance
Dome of Anton Church
The Anton church is a monumental and representative construction. It is the largest church of the 10th district. It is located in the midst of Anton Square and is surrounded by a green area. By the streets leading towards Antonplatz, the church by axes of view is yet visible from a further distance.
The church is built in a historicizing Romanesque-Byzantine style. Originally, the architect wanted more orient himself to the St. Mark's Basilica of Venice and create a building with four lower domes and a crossing-cupola. However, the high construction costs forced him to economize, by which only a large crossing-cupola was realized. The external appearance is reminiscent of the great Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. The brick building has a very wide, well over 25 meters long facade which is flanked by two campanile like bell towers (each 51 meters high). Dominating is the 48.5-meter-high crossing-cupola in the center of the building, bearing a four-meter-high blessing statue of Christ. Both the choir and transepts have large vestibules.
Above the entrance portal there is in the upper part of the loggias like door building a statue of Saint Anthony of Padua by Heinz Satzinger from the year 1958. Immediately above the door is on a trumeau pillar a figure of Mary of Alois Düll. The mosaics above were donated in 1907 by Favoritner big industrialists. Around the church there are 31 glass mosaic images of saints, who are usually related to Vienna or Austria.
Interior
The spacious interior not last because of the white painting looks bright and simple. The high altar is designed as marble altar ciborium (1961). The only wall paintings are now located in the choir room, where in the apse the mosaic of Christ Pantocrator by Ernst Bauernfeind from 1962 can be seen as well as two large frescoes with scenes from the Old and New Testament of Hanns Alexander Brunner, also 1962. The pulpit on the basket has bronze reliefs of Heinz Satzinger of 1963. Still of the original equipment, the Way of the Cross reliefs of zinc, which were created according to designs of the architect in 1902, have been preserved. Also from the time around 1900 stem two statues of the Madonna with Child and Sacred Heart of Ludwig Schadler. From the former Schmelzer cemetery a Pietà and a statue of St. John Nepomuk were brought here. Other figures represent the Holy Anna teaching Maria to read, the St. Jude Thaddeus, the St. Joseph and St. Theresa of Lisieux. In the right transept is situated the Antonius altar with a statue of the Saint by Ferdinand Stuflesser from the construction period. Here a 6 cm long rib of Saint Anthony is stored, which was brought by Count Eduard Gaston Pöttickh of Pettenegg, the Titular Archbishop of Damietta, from Italy to Vienna. It is the largest Antonius relic in Vienna.
Particular attention deserves the weekday chapel, in which still a wood paneled ceiling with gilded rosettes of 1901 and the images of Saints Francis Xavier, Bonaventure and George, and the Holy Family can be seen. They escaped as the only ones the destructions of the war.
The interior of the church Antonskirche
Apse mosaic Christ Pantocrator of Ernst Bauernfeind
Interior space
Antonius altar
According to Eusebius of Caesarea, the Roman emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD built a temple dedicated to the goddess Venus in order to bury the cave in which Jesus had been buried. The first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, ordered in about 325/326 that the temple be replaced by a church. During the building of the Church, Constantine's mother, Helena, is believed to have rediscovered the tomb. Socrates Scholasticus (born c. 380), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery.
Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica, an enclosed colonnaded atrium with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis ("Resurrection" in Greek), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.
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The planes I took to and from Germany had several cameras providing external views. This was a view from the tail of the plane. Other views included one looking down, and another under the nose of the plane.
The MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF BRAZIL, through its Cultural
Department, makes public, to whom it may concern, that it will be accepting
applications for the IV International Essay Competition, dedicated to the body of work
of writer Lygia Fagundes Telles. The five winning essays, chosen by the Judging Committee, established for this purpose, will be awarded the “Itamaraty Brazilian Literature Award” (“Prêmio Itamaraty de Literatura Brasileira”) 2012.
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Public Notice 01/2012 – Cultural Department
IV International Essay Competition
The body of work of Lygia Fagundes Telles
Th MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF BRAZIL, through its Cultural
Department, makes public, to whom it may concern, that it will be accepting
applications for the IV International Essay Competition, dedicated to the body of work
of writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, under the terms of § 4 and subsection IV of article
22 of Law 8.666, of 21 June 1993, and under the conditions described on this Public
Notice. The five winning essays, chosen by the Judging Committee, established for
this purpose, will be awarded the “Itamaraty Brazilian Literature Award” (“Prêmio
Itamaraty de Literatura Brasileira”) 2012.
CHAPTER I
Subject
Art. 1 - The Competition aims to promote Brazilian Literature abroad.
Art. 2 - The Competition costs will be covered by the budget entitled “Dissemination of
the Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture Abroad”, code 07.392.0682.2530.0001,
expenditure item 339031, of the Cultural Department of the Ministry of External
Relations.
Art. 3 - A Judging Committee will chose the five winning entries. The Judging
Committee will be subject to a Public Notice issued by the Director of the Cultural
Department of the Ministry of External Relations.
Art. 4 - The competition is open to Brazilian citizens as well as Foreign Citizens
residing abroad and who are engaged in activities related to the study of Portuguese
language and Brazilian culture, such as teaching, cultural journalism and other related
activities.
Art. 5 – The following people are not eligible to enter the Competition:
I – Members of the Judging Committee, their relatives and anyone related to them,
according to the Civil Law;
II –Ministry of External Relations Officials and Servants;
III – Participants of the Ministry of External Relations Lectureship Programme and
the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education
(Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES).
Art. 6 - Each contestant may enter only one essay. The essay must have a minimum of
thirty (30) pages and a maximum of fifty (50) pages, font 12 and 1.5 line space.
Art. 7 - The essay must not have been published before. If it is originally written in
another language other than Portuguese, it must be translated into Portuguese. It is
understood that an unpublished essay is an essay that has not been edited or published
(in part or as a whole) in anthologies, collections, literary supplements, newspapers,
magazines or any other means of communication.
Art. 8 - Essays with illustrations and/or photos will not be accepted.
Art.9 - By submitting their registration, the candidates automatically agree to the
Competition rules, including the transfer of copyright and publication rights to the
Ministry of External Relations.
CHAPTER II
Registration
Art. 10 – The registration period is from 19th April to 31st October 2012.
Art. 11 – The registration form must be sent by post, to any Brazilian Consulate or
Embassy located in the candidate’s country of residence. The following must be
written on the envelope: “IV Concurso Internacional de Monografias: a obra de Lygia
Fagundes Telles”. The postage date will be considered as the registration date.
Paragraph 1 - The registration form must follow the template, which is attached to this
Public Notice.
Paragraph 2 - If there is no Brazilian Embassy or Consulate in the candidate’s country
of residence, the application may be sent to any Brazilian Embassy or Consulate.
Paragraph 3―After receiving the registration envelope, the Brazilian Consulate or
Embassy will send an electronic message to the candidate, in order to confirm their
registration for the IV International Essay Competition.
Art. 12 – Apart from the information requested on the registration form, the candidate
must include proof of residency abroad.
Art. 13 – Registration forms submitted after the deadline set out in articles 10 and 11 will not be accepted.
Art. 14 – The Brazilian Consulates and Embassies abroad will be responsible for
sending the essays by diplomatic post to the Cultural Department of the Ministry of
External Relations of Brazil.
CHAPTER III
The Judging Committee
Art. 15 – The Judging Committee will be formed of up to nine members amongst those
of acknowledged merit in the literary world, professors or literary critics. A Brazilian
diplomat will also be part of the Judging Committee.
Art. 16 – Each member of the Judging Committee, with the exception of the Diplomat,
will receive R$ 3.000,00 (Three Thousand Reais) as payment for their work.
Art. 17 – The members of the Judging Committee, with the exception of the Brazilian
Diplomat, will be appointed in accordance to the rules of Law n° 8.666/93, based on the
expertise of each of its members, and will be published at “www.itamaraty.gov.br”.
CHAPTER IV
Selection of Winning Essays
Art. 18 – The Judging Committee will select the winning essays according to the
following criteria:
I - Originality;
II - Creativity;
III – The candidate’s knowledge of Lygia Fagundes Teles’ body of work and of the
criticism of her work.
IV – Literary quality of the essay
Sole Paragraph – Each member of the Judging Committee will allocate a mark to each
essay according to the criteria listed above. The essay with the highest mark will be
declared the winner.
Art. 19 – The Judging Committee will have a period of four months, from the 31th
October 2012, to announce the final result.
Art. 20 – The members of the Judging Committee will meet in individual and public
voting sessions to select the five winning essays. The dates of these sessions will be
published in advance on the Itamaraty’s website. The result will be announced at
a special event to be held in Brasília, Federal District, as well as on the Ministry of
External Relations’ website “www.itamaraty.gov.br”. The marks assigned to each essay
will also be made public.
Art. 21 – In the event of a case that is not described here, it will be dealt with by the
Judging Committee.
Art. 22 – Appeals must be submitted to the Judging Commission within five working
days from the publication date of the results. The decision, and its reasons, will be
published on the Ministry of External Relations’ web page within five days.
CHAPTER V
The prize
Art. 23 – The prizes will be US$ 20.000,00 (Twenty Thousand Dollars), US$ 15.000,00
(Fifteen Thousand Dollars), US$ 10.000,00 (Ten Thousand Dollars), US$ 5.000,00
(Five Thousand Dollars) and US$ 3.000,00 (Three Thousand Dollars), respectively for
the first, second, third, fourth and fifth places, to be paid to the winners abroad by the
Brazilian Embassy or Consulate in the candidates’ country of residence.
Sole Paragraph – The five winning essays will be published by the Ministry of
External Relations as part of a book and distributed free of charge with the objective of
promoting Brazilian culture.
Art. 24 – The five winners will receive accommodation and return tickets to Brazil, in
economy class, to attend the awards ceremony and the academic activities scheduled by
the competition organisers.
Art. 25 – In the event of a tie in any of the winning places after the voting by the
Judging Commission, the Commission will convene in order to choose the winner
among the tied authors, so the other author will be given the following place in the final
result.
Art. 26 – The winning authors will transfer copyright for publication to the Ministry of
External Relations, according to article 23, sole paragraph of this Public Notice.
Art. 27 – In case of the author’s death in the year of the contest, the prize may be
awarded posthumously. It will be given to the attorney legally appointed for this
purpose from amongst the legal heirs of the winning author.
CHAPTER VI
Final Provisions
Art. 28 – Failure to comply with any of these rules the essay will be automatically
disqualified from the competition. As per art. 55 of Law 8666/93, the competition rules
are fully laid out on this Public Notice.
Art. 29 – Participation implies full acceptance of the competition rules, and failure to
comply with any of the rules will cause disqualification.
Art. 30 – The administrative authority responsible to resolve any matter of interpretation
of this set of rules and to answer any clarification about this Public Notice is the
Itamaraty’s Head of Press Release, available at divulg@itamaraty.gov.br.
Art. 31 – The Brasília/Federal District Forum is responsible to settle all issues arising
out of this Public Notice.
Brasília, March 2012.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosts a bilateral meeting with Angolan Minister of External Affairs Ansuncao Afonso dos Anjos in the Treaty Room of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC May 21, 2009. [Department photo by Michael Gross]
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Point Cook is a rapidly developing residential area, located in the south-east of the City of Wyndham. Point Cook is bounded by the Princes Freeway, Crellin Avenue South, St Anthony Court, Machair Drive, Dunnings Road, Point Cook Road, Tournament Drive, Fawkner Way and Crystal Court in the north, Skeleton Creek and Port Phillip Bay in the east, the northern boundary of the RAAF Williams Point Cook Base, Aviation Road and Duncans Road in the south and the Princes Freeway in the west.
The Point Cook small area includes parts of the suburbs of Point Cook, Werribee and Werribee South. The Point Cook small area excludes the Point Cook RAAF base, which has been included in the Werribee South small area. Point Cook is named after John M Cooke, mate of His Majesty's Vessel "Rattlesnake”, which charted part of Port Phillip Bay in 1836.
Settlement of the area dates from the late 1840s, with land used mainly for farming and grazing, and later for saltworks. Significant development did not occur until the 1990s. The population grew rapidly from the mid 1990s, rising from less than 200 in 1996 to over 14,000 in 2006. The population increased seven-fold between 2001 and 2006, particularly south and west of Seabrook and in the Sanctuary Lakes development. Population growth is expected to continued, as further housing is developed.
Major features of area include Cheetham Wetlands, Point Cook Coastal Park and Homestead, Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club, Sanctuary Lakes Shopping Centre, Point Cook Town Centre, Werribee Agriculture & Food Technology Precinct and numerous schools.
> 12 minutes from Westgate Bridge
> 20 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD
> 21 minutes from Avalon Airport
> Close to schools, kindergartens, community centre
> Short stroll to Point Cook Town Centre
> 6 minute drive to Werribee Plaza
> 4 minute drive to Werribee Mercy Hospital
> Family friendly community environment
> Aesthetically pleasing surroundings