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Delhi government on eve of International Women’s Day launched “Ladli” scheme aimed at curbing female foeticide and enhancing the social status of the girl child by promoting their education and protecting them from discrimination and deprivation.
The Government had also decided to contribute Rs.10,000 on the birth of the girl child. It would also contribute Rs.5,000 each on her admission to Class 1, Class VI, Class IX, Class X and Class XII. For availing of the scheme, the girl should have been born in Delhi on or after January 1, 2008. This would pave the way for accumulation of a deposit of up to Rs.1 lakh which would become payable to the girl child on attaining the age of 18 years and passing out of Class X.
Cheques of Rs 10000 ($250) were presented to a numbers of mothers who had come to receive the amount.
India Gate Lawns were full with yound girls and ladies enjoying cultural programmes and amusements as part of International women’s day celebrations.
Santos APPEA 2014 Cocktail Function, Monday 7th April 2014. Perth Convention Centre. Daniel Carson | PPR
The motley collection of buildings on the north side of Idle Cricket Club's Cavendish Road ground. They comprise (from left) tearoom, dressing rooms and clubhouse. Pictured before a Bradford League relegation battle against fellow Championship Two strugglers Hopton Mills. The visitors were skittled for 70. After slumping to 19-4, they mounted a recovery, but the last five wickets went down for the addition of eight runs. Idle, chalking up a third consecutive victory, lost just two batters in easing to their target.
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Admission: free. Programme: none. Attendance: 15. Hopton Mills won the toss and elected to bat. Hopton Mills 70 off 25.5 overs (Zaaid Sajwal 35, Salman Khan 5-23, Deron Greaves 2-3, Quadratullah Azizi 2-7) 1pt lost by eight wickets to Idle 71-2 off 23.4 overs (Naseem Aslam 41 not out, Umar Abbas 2-21) 19pts. Umpires: Craig Chaplin and Stephen Preshaw.
Idle Cricket Club can trace their roots to 1861 and the formation of Idle United Cricket Club. They played at Holly Fields and Dunk Hill before disbanding. In 1865, the club reformed as Idle Lilywhite Cricket Club, playing first on Idle Moor then on a field at Thorp Garth. Renaming, as Idle Cricket Club, coincided in 1889 with a move to Cavendish Road, the club's present home. In 1896, Idle had joined the West Yorkshire League before, in 1906, switching to the Bradford League, established three years earlier. Legendary opening bat Jack Hobbs, later to find fame with Surrey and England, and earn a knighthood, signed for Idle in 1915, and spent three seasons at Cavendish Road. He was paid £5 a match plus expenses. Idle's best season was 1965, in which they secured the First Division championship and Priestley Cup double. The title was retained in 1966 and 1967, a notable hat-trick. They finished second in 1964 and 1968. Idle also topped the Bradford League First Division in 1910, 1916, 1974 and 1977, and lifted the Priestley Cup in 1912, 1923, 1931, 1951 and 1976. Five victories from five cup final appearances is unprecedented in Bradford League history. Low points came in 1945, 2010, 2012 and 2013, when Idle were forced to apply for re-election. The club, often yo-yoing between the First and Second divisions, have struggled in recent seasons. Vandals in 4x4 vehicles caused major damage to the Cavendish Road square and outfield shortly before the 2016 season began. For 2017, Idle find themselves in Championship Two, the third tier of the Bradford League following its 2016 merger with the Central Yorkshire League.
If a modern nurse was told that she would have to revert to wearing this old starched relic, the person giving the instruction had better pray that the nurse did not have access to an implement of destruction.
Radiation Green's function, incorporating the phase delay and the fall off of fields proportional to distance from the source.
A cathedral without a bishop: St. Stephan in Vienna
In order to fully fulfill the function of a capital in its medieval understanding, Vienna lacked a decisive factor: Vienna was indeed a major city, but not the seat of a bishopric, but was subordinate to the Prince-Bishop of Passau in ecclesiastical matters. St. Stephen, the most important church in the city, had only the rank of a parish church.
Therefore, the first attempts to found a diocese in Vienna date back to the time of the Babenbergs. Also the under Ottokar II Přemysl after the fire of 1258 begun generous new building of the Saint Stephen's church in the late Romanesque style pursued this goal.
The Habsburgs' representational aspirations also focused on St. Stephen after they had taken control of Austria. Albrecht I began in 1304 with the construction of a new choir. The highlight, however, was reached under Duke Rudolf IV. This ambitious Habsburg wanted to turn Vienna into an important royal residence and St. Stephen as the "Capella regia Austriaca" into the court church of the Austrian sovereign princes, the sacral center of the country.
The background for this lay in the competition with the dynasty of Luxembourg: Emperor Charles IV was just about to expand his residence Prague to a metropolis of European importance. One of his measures was the elevation of Prague to the Archbishopric of 1344, which prompted the great expansion of St. Vitus' Cathedral on Prague's Hradcany.
Rudolf's plan to make St. Stephen the seat of a bishop failed because of the resistance of Passau, because the bishop rightly feared a reduction of his diocese. Nevertheless, Rudolf found a way to give St. Stephan a special rank. In 1359 he obtained the papal confirmation for the founding of a collegiate, an association of 24 dressed in cardinal red robes priests, which was headed by a provost in a bishop-like costume. By subordinating the collegiate directly to the Pope, it was beyond the Passau influence. Thanks to complicated ecclesiastical chess moves he finally succeeded in 1365 to transfer his foundation to St. Stephen, which increased the importance of the church.
This was also reflected in the structural design of the church. In 1359 Rudolf IV began with a large-scale expansion, which was to bear all the symbols of a ruling church: a princely gallery above the west portal was framed by two-storey Duke's chapels, in which the relic treasure was kept. A princely tomb was erected as the tomb of the rulers of the country and finally four towers were planned, which was actually a building prerogative of a bishop's church. By integrating parts of the late Romanesque predecessor building (the main portal and the westwork called "Giant Gate") into his concept, Rudolf gave his building program historical depth.
With the death of Rudolf, the interest of the Habsburgs in St. Stephen palpably came to an end, and the citizens of Vienna took the initiative for the further expansion of the church. Only with Frederick III., who saw his example in Rudolf IV, did a Habsburg take part in the expansion of the church. Friedrich ordered the beginning of the work on the north tower. However, his high tomb in the Apostle Choir of the Dome, which is another notable example of the dynastic program of the Habsburgs in the late Middle Ages, is particularly reminiscent of this Habsburg.
Frederick III. finally managed to bring the prestige matter of his ancestor Rudolf to a successful end: 1469 Frederick III succeeded in to bring about the Pope to elevate Vienna to a diocese. Although the Viennese diocese initially had only a minimal extension - it was smaller than the current urban area - but the Habsburgs had imposed their own will: The Cathedral of St. Stephen had finally a bishop.
Eine Kathedrale ohne Bischof: St. Stephan in Wien
Um im mittelalterlichen Verständnis die Funktion einer Hauptstadt vollends zu erfüllen, fehlte Wien eine entscheidende Sache: Wien war zwar eine bedeutende Großstadt, aber nicht Sitz eines Bistums, sondern unterstand in kirchlichen Belangen dem Fürstbischof von Passau. St. Stephan, die wichtigste Kirche der Stadt, hatte nur den Rang einer Pfarrkirche.
Daher datieren die ersten Versuche einer Bistumsgründung in Wien bereits in die Zeit der Babenberger. Auch der unter Ottokar II. Přemysl nach dem Brand von 1258 begonnene großzügige Neubau der Stephanskirche im spätromanischen Stil verfolgte dieses Ziel.
Auf St. Stephan konzentrierten sich auch die Repräsentationsbestrebungen der Habsburger, nachdem sie die Herrschaft in Österreich übernommen hatten. Albrecht I. begann bereits 1304 mit dem Bau eines neuen Chores. Der Höhepunkt wurde jedoch unter Herzog Rudolf IV. erreicht. Dieser ehrgeizige Habsburger wollte Wien zu einer bedeutenden Residenzstadt und St. Stephan als “Capella regia Austriaca”, als Hofkirche der österreichischen Landesfürsten, zum sakralen Zentrum des Landes machen.
Der Hintergrund dafür lag in der Konkurrenz mit der Dynastie der Luxemburger: Kaiser Karl IV. war gerade dabei, seine Residenz Prag zu einer Metropole europäischer Geltung auszubauen. Eine seiner Maßnahmen war die Erhebung Prags zum Erzbistum 1344, was den Anstoß gab für den großartigen Ausbau des Veitsdomes am Prager Hradschin.
Rudolfs Plan, St. Stephan zum Sitz eines Bischofs zu machen, scheiterte zwar am Widerstand Passaus, denn der Bischof fürchtete zu Recht eine Verkleinerung seiner Diözese. Dennoch fand Rudolf einen Weg, St. Stephan einen besonderen Rang zu verleihen. 1359 erwirkte er die päpstliche Bestätigung für die Gründung eines Kollegiatstiftes, einer Vereinigung von 24 in kardinalsrote Gewänder gekleideten Priestern, denen ein Probst in bischofsähnlicher Tracht vorstand. Indem er das Kollegiat direkt dem Papst unterstellte, war es dem Passauer Einfluss entzogen. Dank komplizierter kirchenrechtlicher Schachzüge gelang es ihm schließlich 1365 seine Stiftung auf St. Stephan zu übertragen, was die Bedeutung des Gotteshauses erhöhte.
Dies schlug sich auch in der baulichen Gestalt der Kirche nieder. 1359 begann Rudolf IV. mit einem groß angelegten Ausbau, der alle Symbole einer Herrscherkirche tragen sollte: Eine Fürstenempore über dem Westportal wurde von doppelstöckigen Herzogskapellen eingerahmt, in denen der Reliquienschatz verwahrt wurde. Eine Fürstengruft als Grablege der Herrscher des Landes wurde angelegt und schließlich waren vier Türme geplant, was eigentlich ein bauliches Vorrecht einer Bischofskirche war. Indem Rudolf Teile des spätromanischen Vorgängerbaues (das als “Riesentor” bezeichnete Hauptportal und das Westwerk) in sein Konzept integrieren ließ, gab er seinem Bauprogramm historische Tiefe.
Mit dem Tod Rudolfs erlosch das Interesse der Habsburger an St. Stephan spürbar, die Wiener Bürgerschaft übernahm die Initiative für den weiteren Ausbau der Kirche. Erst mit Friedrich III., der in Rudolf IV. sein Vorbild sah, beteiligte sich wieder ein Habsburger am Ausbau der Kirche. Friedrich veranlasste den Beginn der Arbeiten am Nordturm. An diesen Habsburger erinnert vor allem jedoch sein Hochgrab im Apostelchor des Domes, ein weiteres bemerkenswertes Beispiel für das dynastische Programm der Habsburger im Spätmittelalter.
Friedrich III. gelang es schließlich auch, die Prestigeangelegenheit seines Ahnen Rudolf zu einem erfolgreichen Ende zu bringen: 1469 erreichte Friedrich III. beim Papst die Erhebung Wiens zum Bistum. Die Wiener Diözese hatte zwar zunächst nur eine minimale Ausdehung – sie war kleiner als das heutige Stadtgebiet – aber die Habsburger hatten ihren Willen durchgesetzt: Der Dom zu St. Stephan hatte endlich einen Bischof.
Martin Mutschlechner
www.habsburger.net/de/kapitel/eine-kathedrale-ohne-bischo...
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Honorary Director Dr Lee Durrell and chief executive Oliver Johnson introduced the 2014 Durrell Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington Gore on the evening of Thursday September 4.
The event highlighted the burgeoning illegal trade in wildlife. This has had a serious impact on Durrell’s 25 year project to save the ploughshare tortoise of Madagascar.
Durrell members and guests heard about Durrell’s vital work on the ground in Madagascar from their conservation expert Herizo Andrianandrasana. Durrell’s Head of Field Programmes Dr Andrew Terry outlined the rise of the illegal wildlife trade.
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Tyler came into town for our buddies wedding this weekend. After a relaxing morning Ty and I decided to go out and get some shots of his gorgeous 2013 STI.
The center has a multi-purpose, air-conditioned social hall, numerous function rooms, dining areas, a first class cocktail lounge and complete restaurant facilities.
Well, here is the first photo! 364 to go. Whooo!! Two extra photos in the comments. LEIGH INSPIRES ME!