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British influence in Bhuj (Gujarat).
Bhuj is situated in the Kutch district of Gujarat. It is the administrative city of Kutch and therefore occupies an important place. If you are traveling to Bhuj by road then it is around 396 km from Ahmedabad.
Bhuj is an interesting place due to the fact that it was once the capital of the Princely state of Kutch. This makes Bhuj one of the popular places in India, from travel and tourism point of view. It is dotted by a number of affluent princely buildings of the yore which are truly a feast for the eyes.
This historic city is located between Bhujiyo Dungar Hill and Hamirsar Lake. The city has derived its name from the hill Bhujiyo Dungar only. The Rajput rulers of Kutch were supposed to have come to Bhuj from Sind or Northern India. The credit of establishing the city goes to Rao Khengarji I. He chose the strategic location at the base of the hill Bhujiyo Dungar and named the city as Bhuj in 1548 AD. The city served as the capital of the princely state till 1947 AD. The rulers of Bhuj enjoyed great support from the Mughal rulers also.
But after the decline of the Mughals, the rulers felt the need of security. As a result, the city of Bhuj was fortified. In 1819, the British overtook the fort. After that, Rao Pragmalji, another ruler, constructed three royal palaces in the city, Prag Mahal and Ranjit Vilas Palace at Bhuj and Vijay Vilas Palace at Mandvi. Another fascinating structure here is the Aaina Mahal. It was built by Rao Lakhpatji) in 1750 AD. He was a great patron of art and literature.
The Springfield Art Association will host an opening reception for a nationally juried ceramic exhibition entitled Shapes of Influence on Friday evening, August 3rd, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Awards and a gallery talk by juror Simon Levin will occur at 6:45 PM.
The show will be on display in the SAA's M.G. Nelson Family Gallery from August 3-September 1 and features work from over two dozen states and Canada.
Juried artists include Morgan Barton, Kenneth Baskin, Casey Beck, Irina Bondarenko, Robert Bruch, Danielle Callahan, Michelle Coakes, John Cohorst, Louis Colomarini, John Costanza, Paula Diaz-Sylvester, Auguste Elder, Karen Ellis-Phillips, Curtis and Karen Frederick, Verne Funk, John Gargano, Kaitlyn Getz, Sarah Gross, Lois Harbaugh, Ian Hazard-Bill, Jason Hess, Jennifer Holt, Drew Ippoliti, Iskra Ivanova, Anna Kats, Patty Kochaver, Robert Kokenyesi, Lucien Koonce, Joe Kraft, Annie Lee, Andrew Mcintyre, Jessie Martin, Paul McCoy, Avra Messe, Molly Morning-glory, Matthew Patton, Sara Prigodich, Jenny Reed, Masa Sasaki, Jessica Sallay-Carrington, Kourtney Stone, Suzanne Storer, Sam Thompson, Austin Wieland, Nicole Winning, Matthew Wright, Kensuke Yamada, Lisa York, and David Zahn.
Invited artists include Dan Anderson, Kahil Irving, Peter Pincus, and Kelsie Rudolph.
The M.G. Nelson Gallery is open to the public M-F from 9 AM-5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM-3 PM.
Photographer: SGT Rob Nyffenegger
Caption: ‘THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED FOR OPSEC. Orders to move out. Australian soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group work together with Afghan Provincial Police Reserve members during a sweep operation in Oruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan.’
Mid Caption: Soldiers of the Special Operations Task Group and their Afghan National Security Force partners, recently conducted a series of large-scale sweep operations in Oruzgan province. The operations were designed to disrupt insurgent leadership, reduce the threat of improvised explosive devices and protect the local population against insurgent influence, intimidation and violence.
The Special Operations Task Group (SOTG), is a Task Group of about 310 personnel. SOTG operates in support of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), security operations and provides security and force protection for coalition forces in Oruzgan Province. The SOTG consists of Commandos, members of the Special Air Service and enabling support personnel.
Deep Caption: Operation SLIPPER is Australia's military contribution to international campaigns against terrorism, countering piracy in the Gulf of Aden, and maritime security. Under this operation our forces contribute to the efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which seeks to bring security, stability and prosperity to the country and aims at preventing Afghanistan again becoming a safe haven for international terrorists, and the United States-led International Coalition Against Terrorism (ICAT) efforts in the broader Middle East.
The Springfield Art Association will host an opening reception for a nationally juried ceramic exhibition entitled Shapes of Influence on Friday evening, August 3rd, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Awards and a gallery talk by juror Simon Levin will occur at 6:45 PM.
The show will be on display in the SAA's M.G. Nelson Family Gallery from August 3-September 1 and features work from over two dozen states and Canada.
Juried artists include Morgan Barton, Kenneth Baskin, Casey Beck, Irina Bondarenko, Robert Bruch, Danielle Callahan, Michelle Coakes, John Cohorst, Louis Colomarini, John Costanza, Paula Diaz-Sylvester, Auguste Elder, Karen Ellis-Phillips, Curtis and Karen Frederick, Verne Funk, John Gargano, Kaitlyn Getz, Sarah Gross, Lois Harbaugh, Ian Hazard-Bill, Jason Hess, Jennifer Holt, Drew Ippoliti, Iskra Ivanova, Anna Kats, Patty Kochaver, Robert Kokenyesi, Lucien Koonce, Joe Kraft, Annie Lee, Andrew Mcintyre, Jessie Martin, Paul McCoy, Avra Messe, Molly Morning-glory, Matthew Patton, Sara Prigodich, Jenny Reed, Masa Sasaki, Jessica Sallay-Carrington, Kourtney Stone, Suzanne Storer, Sam Thompson, Austin Wieland, Nicole Winning, Matthew Wright, Kensuke Yamada, Lisa York, and David Zahn.
Invited artists include Dan Anderson, Kahil Irving, Peter Pincus, and Kelsie Rudolph.
The M.G. Nelson Gallery is open to the public M-F from 9 AM-5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM-3 PM.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 24JAN14 - Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Global Agenda Council on Institutional Governance Systems looks up during the Forum Debate 'Money and Influence' at the.Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, January 24, 2014.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Urs Jaudas
Reservists from 38 Brigade Group’s Influence Activities Company conduct patrols and execute key leader engagements in the fictional village of Bayan during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 19 at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright on May 11th, 2019.
Image By: Private Jordyn Anderson
Garrison Wainwright Imaging
WT07-2019-0013-0010
We take a deeper look into the phenomenon of pets as influencers - who they are, what spurred them to begin posting, how did they grow their audience, are they cashing in on this new found fame, who are their followers and why do people follow them?
What is it that is so compelling that millions of people follow these fake accounts – fully knowing that it isn’t the dogs and cats themselves doing the posting. We also look at the way some of these influencers are working with brands and where the industry is going.
Read the full report here: mslgroup.com/insights/2014/furry-influencers-and-their-fa...
I lived down South for three years during which my style was heavily influenced by the culture. I dressed a lot more preppy and started wearing a lot of white, which I had never worn before.
Shirt: Express (Thrifted)
Jeans: Levi's
Purse: American Eagle
Shoes: Liz Clairborne
Woohoo dumb ways to waste time, heck yes. This is probably one of those things where I'm the only one who cares, so you don't need to tell me that.
Will add stuff to all the notes in due time.
spiraling clockwise from top left: KRS ONE, Peter Tosh and reggae, the Estonian epic poem Kalevipoeg, Yoda and Star Wars, Richard Corben, Moebius, Above, Robert Crumb, gnomes, Spiderman, The Princess Bride, Rammellzee, Bugs Bunny, Jeunet's films, Dr. Teeth and Electric Mayhem, Swami Chinmayananda, 2 Tone and all things ska, and Han Solo who stands apart from the rest of Star wars for being extra cool. Missing from this photo : Terry Gilliam, Alfred E Newman, Grizelda from Hillarious House of Frightenstein, and many more...
...but it is a worthwhile exercise to reflect in this way, and I will have students do this in art class.
Her: I’d never live there again but there’s something about growing up on the plains.
Him: I know, when I went back I realized how much it was a part of me.
Her: there’s something about this she said, making a 180 motion with her forearm.
Him: It’s the boundlessness
Her: there’s nothing in your way.
Him: Anything is possible.
Her: What do you mean why not?!
Him: What the hell is gonna stop me?!
Both: hahahahahahaha! Exactly!
Him: But what about the bush parties?!
Her: OMG! So fun and so fucked up. First kiss, first under the shirt…
Him: First trip to the emergency, first near death experience…
Both: FUCK!
There are lots of images on the walls of Toy Story Midway Mania. There is such a variety that most riders will find something that brings back a fond memory.
There are lots of memories here for me. The images of yummy candy on the Candy Land board very likely led to the growth of at least one sweet tooth. Chutes and Ladders (known as Snakes and Ladders in the rest of the world) was always frustrating - every up was quickly followed by a down. Mouse Trap was the most fun, building the trap itself then watching it operate in all of its Rube Goldberg inspired glory.
Finally, the book of Grimm's Fairy Tales reminds me of one of my favorie movies as a child, the 1962 Cinerama film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. It was recently restored and released on BluRay, enabling future generations to discover and enjoy it.
We take a deeper look into the phenomenon of pets as influencers - who they are, what spurred them to begin posting, how did they grow their audience, are they cashing in on this new found fame, who are their followers and why do people follow them?
What is it that is so compelling that millions of people follow these fake accounts – fully knowing that it isn’t the dogs and cats themselves doing the posting. We also look at the way some of these influencers are working with brands and where the industry is going.
Read the full report here: mslgroup.com/insights/2014/furry-influencers-and-their-fa...
Gwalior Fort (Hindi: ग्वालियर क़िला Gwalior Qila) is an 8th-century hill fort near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The fort consists of a defensive structure and two main palaces, Gurjari Mahal and Man Mandir, built by Man Singh Tomar. The fort has been controlled by a number of different rulers over time. The Gurjari Mahal palace was built for Queen Mrignayani. It is now an archaeological museum.
ETYMOLOGY
The word Gwalior is derived from one of the Hindu words for saint, Gwalipa.
TOPOGRAPHY
The fort is built on an outcrop of Vindhyan sandstone on a solitary, rocky, long, thin, steep hill called Gopachal. The geology of the Gwalior range rock formations is ochre coloured sandstone covered with basalt. There is a horizontal strata, 104 m at its highest point (length 2.4 km and average width 910 m). The stratum forms a near perpendicular precipice. A small river, the Swarnrekha, flows close to the palace.
RULERS
Legend tells that Suraj Sen Kachwaha, chieftain of the nearby Silhonia village was on a hunting trip. He came upon the hermit, Gwalipa (Galava) who gave the chieftain healing water from the Surajkund reservoir. In gratitude for the healing of leprosy, the chieftain founded Gwalior, naming it after Gwalipa. The earliest record of the fort is 525 AD where it is mentioned in an inscription in the temple of the Huna emperor, Mihirakula (510 AD). Near the fort is an 875 AD Chaturbhuj temple associated with Telika Mandir.
PAL DYNASTY OF KACHAWAHA
The Pal dynasty of 86 kings ruled for 989 years. It began with Budha Pal and concluded with Suraj Pal. Budha Pal's son was Tej Karan (1127 - 1128). Gwalipa prophesied that the Pal dynasty would continue while the patronym, Pal was kept. Tej Keran married the daughter of Ran Mul, ruler of Amber (Jaipur) and received a valuable dowry. Tej Keran was offered the reign of Amber as long as he made it his residence. He did so, leaving Gwalior under Ram Deva Pratihar.
GUJARA-PRATIHARA DYNASTY
The Gurjara-Pratihar dynasty at Gwalior included Pramal Dev, Salam Dev, Bikram Dev, Ratan Dev, Shobhang Dev, Narsinh Dev and Pramal Dev.
TURKIC CONQUEST
In 1023 AD, Mahmud of Ghazni unsuccessfully attacked the fort. In 1196 AD, after a long siege, Qutubuddin Aibak, first Turkic sultan of Delhi took the fort, ruling till 1211 AD. In 1231 AD, the fort taken by Iltumish, Turkic sultan of Delhi. Under attack from Timurlane, Narasingh Rao, a Jaina chieftain captured the fort.
TOMAR RULERS
The Rajput Tomara clan ruled Gwalior from 1398 (when Pramal Dev captured the fort from a Muslim ruler) to 1518 (when Vikramaditya was defeated by Ibrahim lodhi).
Pramal Dev (Ver Singh, Bir Sing Deo) 1375.
Uddhharan Dev (brother of Pramal Dev).
Lakshman Dev Tomar
Viramdev 1400 (son of Virsingh Dev).
Ganapati Dev Tomar 1419.
Dugarendra (Dungar) Singh 1424.
Kirti Singh Tomar 1454.
Mangal Dev (younger son of Kirti Singh).
Kalyanmalla Tomar 1479.
Man Singh Tomar 1486 - 1516 (builder of the Man mandir).
Vikramaditya Tomar 1516.
Ramshah Tomar 1526.
Salivahan Tomar 1576.
SURI DYNASTY
In 1519, Ibrahim Lodi took the fort. After his death, control passed to the Mughal emperor Babur. Barber's son, Humayun, was defeated by Sher Shah Suri. After Suri's death in 1540, his son, Islam Shah, moved power from Delhi to Gwalior for strategic reasons. After the death of Islam Shah in 1553, his incumbent, Adil Shah Suri, appointed the Hindu warrior, Hemu (Hem Chandra Vikramaditya) as manager of Gwalior. From 1553 - 1556, Hemu attacked Adil Shah Suri and others from the fort.
MUGHAL DYNASTY
When the Mughal leader, Akbar captured the fort, he made it a prison for political prisoners. For example, Kamran, Akbar's cousin was held and executed at the fort. Aurangzeb's brother, Murad and nephews Suleman and Sepher Shikoh were also executed at the fort. The killings took place in the Man Madir palace.
RANA JAT DYNASTY
The Jats of Gohad occupied the fort on three occasions between 1740 and 1783. (Maharaja Bhim Singh Rana 1740 - 1756; Maharaja Chhatra Singh Rana 1761 - 1767; and Maharaja Chhatra Singh Rana 1780 - 1783).
MARATHA RULE
In 1779, the Scindia clan of the Maratha Empire stationed a garrison at the fort however, it was taken by the East India Company. In 1784, the Marathas under Mahadji Sinde, recovered the fort. There were frequent changes in the control of the fort between the Scindias and the British between 1808 and 1844. In January 1844, after the battle of Maharajpur, the fort was occupied by the Marathas as protectorate of the British government.
REBELLION OF 1857
On 1 June 1858, Rani Lakshmi Bai led a rebellion. The Central India Field Force, under General Hugh Rose, besieged the fort. Bai died on 17 June 1858.
STRUCTURES
The fort and its premises are well maintained and house many historic monuments including palaces, temples and water tanks. There are eleven temples to Gautama Buddha and the tirthankaras of Jainism. There are also a number of palaces (mahal) including the Man mandir, the Gujari, the Jahangir, the Karan, and the Shah Jahan. The fort covers an area of 3 square kilometres and rises 11 m. Its rampart is built around the edge of the hill, connected by six bastions or towers. The profile of the fort has an irregular appearance due to the undulating ground beneath. On the southern side are 21 temples cut into the rock with intricately carved tirthankaras. One, Pārśva, the 23rd local saint, is 12 m high.
There are two gates; one on the northeast side with a long access ramp and the other on the southwest. The main entrance is the ornate Elephant gate (Hathi Pol). The other is the Badalgarh Gate. The Man Mandir palace or citadel is located at the northeast end of the fort. It was built in the 1400s and refurbished in 1648. The water tanks or reservoirs of the fort could provide water to a 15,000 strong garrison, the number required to secure the fort.
MAN MANDIR PALACE
The Man mandir palace was built by the King of Tomar Dynasty - Maharaja Man Singh. It is a big palace with wonderful architecture, and beautiful art work done on its front as well as some interior walls.
HATHI POL
The Hathi Pol gate (or Hathiya Paur), located on the southeast, leads to the Man mandir palace. It is the last of a series of seven gates. It is named for a life-sized statue of an elephant (hathi) that once adorned the gate. The gate was built in stone with cylindrical towers crowned with cupola domes. Carved parapets link the domes.
GUJARI MAHAL MUSEUM
Gujari Mahal was built by Raja Man Singh for his wife Mrignayani, a Gujar princess. She demanded a separate palace for herself with a regular water supply through an aqueduct from the nearby Rai River. The palace has been converted into an archaeological museum. Rare artefacts at the museum include Hindu and Jain sculptures dated to the 1st and 2nd centuries BC; miniature statue of Salabhanjika; Terracotta items and replicas of frescoes seen in the Bagh Caves.
TELI KA MANDIR
The Teli-ka mandir (the oilman’s temple or oil pressers' temple) is a Brahmanical sanctuary built in the 8th (or perhaps the 11th century) and was refurbished between 1881 and 1883. It is the oldest part of the fort and has a blend of south and north Indian architectural styles. Within the rectangular structure is a shrine with no pillared pavilions (mandapa) and a Buddhist barrel-vaulted roof on a Hindu mandir. Buddhist architectural elements are found in the Chitya type hall and torana decorations at the entrance. There is a masonry tower in the nagari architectural style with a barrel vaulted roof 25 metres in height. The niches in the outer walls once housed statues but now have gavakshas (horse shoe arch) ventilator openings in the north Indian style. The gavaksha has been compared to the trefoil, a honeycomb design with a series of receding pointed arches within an arch. The entrance door has a torana or archway with sculpted images of river goddesses, romantic couples, foliation decoration and a Garuda. Diamond and lotus designs are seen on the horizontal band at the top of the arch indicating an influence from the Buddhist period. The vertical bands on either side of the door are decorated in a simple fashion with figures that are now badly damaged. Above the door are a small grouping of discs representing the finial (damalaka) of an Indo-Aryan Shikhara. The temple was originally dedicated to Vishnu, but later converted to the worship of Siva.
GARUDA MONUMENT
Close to the Teli ka Mandir temple is the Garuda monument, dedicated to Vishnu, is the highest in the fort. It has a mixture of Muslim and Indian architecture. The word Teli comes from the Hindu word Taali - a bell used in worship.
SAAS-BAHU TEMPLE
In 1093, the Pal Kachawaha rulers built two temples to Vishnu. The temples are pyramidal in shape, built of red sandstone with several stories of beams and pillars but no arches.
KAM MAHAL
The Karn mahal is another significant monument at Gwalior Fort. The Karn mahal was built by the second king of the Tomar dynasty, Kirti Singh. He was also known as Karn Singh, hence the name of the palace.
VIKRAM MAHAL
The Vikram mahal (also known as the Vikram mandir, as it once hosted a temple of Shiva) was built by Vikramaditya Singh, the elder son of Maharaja Mansingh. He was a devotee of Shiva. The temple was destroyed during Mughal period but now has been re-established in the front open space of the Vikram mahal.
CHHATRI OF BHIM SINGH RANA
This chhatri (cupola or domed shaped pavilion) was built as a memorial to Bhim Singh Rana (1707-1756), a ruler of Gohad state. It was built by his successor, Chhatra Singh. Bhim Singh occupied Gwalior fort in 1740 when the Mughal Satrap, Ali Khan, surrendered. In 1754, Bhim Singh built a bhimtal (a lake) as a monument at the fort. Chhatra Singh built the memorial chhatri near the bhimtal. Every year, the Jat Samaj Kalyan council (parishad) of Gwalior organises a fair on Rama Navami, in honor of Bhim Singh Rana.
OTHER MONUMENTS
There are several other monuments built inside the fort area. These include: the Scindia School (an exclusive school for the sons of Indian princes and nobles) that was founded by Madho Rao Scindia in 1897; and the Gurdwara Data Bandi, a memorial to the sixth Sikh, Guru Hargobind.
WIKIPEDIA
“Saturday [24 July 1897] was a great and important day in the history of Ashton. A couple of interesting functions which will have a very great influence upon the future of the township took place, the first being the laying of the foundation stone of the Record Mill, and the second the opening of the Jubilee Parks, practically given to the township by Lord Gerard. The ceremonies took place within an hour of each other, the first, that at the mill site, being timed for twelve o'clock, and the latter for one. There was a large assembly of residents, who visited both places...
OPENING OF THE PARKS
The Park gates, which had been in charge of police officers, were, on the arrival of Lord and Lady Gerard, formally opened. The members of the District Council and ladies succeeded the entrance of Lord and Lady Gerard, and afterwards the public was admitted. A flag staff had been erected on a plot of land near the end of the large late at the westerly end, and round about it a number of chairs had been placed for the accommodation of the ladies. The party was augmented by the arrival of the Rev W J Melville (rector), the Rev Father O'Meara and the Rev Father Patrick Ward, Mr W Valiant, Mr C F Clark, members of the Council and others. The band of the Lancashire Hussars, under the conductorship of Bandmaster T Batley, played several selections prior to the ceremony. Directly at one o'clock the procedure of handing over and the acceptance of the Parks was commenced.
Lord Gerard, on stepping to the front of the assembly, was very cordially received. In addressing the chairman and members of the Urban District Council, as well as the whole of those present, he said: I have very much pleasure on behalf of Lady Gerard and myself to throw open to the public these small Parks, and my only wish is that they were bigger places than they are. I hope you will accept them. (Applause.) I dare say you will all remember the old wambs – the hungry old swamps? I think I can claim to have made the present parks superior to the old wambs. (Hear, hear.) I, therefore, hand them over for the acceptance of the council. (He handed to the chairman of the council (Mr Gaskell) the lease of the land, which we learn extends over a period of 999 years.)
Mr Gaskell, accepting the document, said: Lady Gerard, my lord, ladies, and gentlemen. On behalf of the members of the Urban District Council, of the people of Ashton, and on behalf of the numerous meeting here, I beg to thank you most heartily for this very handsome gift. I can only hope that they will be received by everybody in the spirit in which they are given. I am certain it is another means of strengthening the feeling towards your family on the part of the people of Ashton. Long may that feeling continue in the present state in which it now is. I am sure we are all indebted to you, my lady and my lord, for the beautiful places you have given us, the handsome gardens I might term them, to walk about in, and I hope the people who use them will appreciate them, and use them as they wish. I should, before concluding, like just to say a few words to the general public of Ashton. I hope they will not look upon me as preaching, nor as being impudent, when I say to them: Use these grounds in the spirit in which they have been given, and remembers that they are to be used as if they were our own gardens, to be taken care of in the same way. (Hear, hear.) Remember they are your own gardens, therefore, it is your duty to the best of your ability to see that they are properly used by yourselves, and by everyone else who comes into them. The grounds can not be opened to the public right away;on Monday, for instance, because we have to use them under the authority of the Local Government Board, who will provide us with regulations for our guidance. They will be opened and closed at a certain time in accordance with the time of the year. Those regulations will also provide the local authority with whatever power may be deemed necessary for the well-being of the parks – the power to prosecute people who may abuse the property of the ratepayers, but I hope it will not be necessary to take such means. The right to go in will not be confined to any special body. Everybody will be the same; there will be no distinction to one or another. I hope, therefore, that these observations will be remembered. (He then handed to Lord Gerard a copy of the lease signed by the Council.) (Applause.)
Mr Valiant proposed to Lady Gerard and to Lord Gerard a hearty vote of thanks. He was sure all were pleased to see Lady Gerard among them. She was always willing to do what she could for the people of the town of Ashton, and he hoped she would long be spared to fulfil those duties. (Applause.)
Mr C F Clark said he had great pleasure in seconding the motion. He was sure that gracious condescension had been shown by Lady Gerard in appearing there that day at the opening of the Parks. He thought all the good feeling that had always existed between the Gerard family and the people of Ashton would be strengthened, and he hoped it might always continue. (Applause.)
The motion was received with a hearty round of applause.
Lord Gerard, responding, said Lady Gerard wished him to reply on this occasion. He had hoped she would have spoken for herself, as he was sure she could have responded infinitely better than he could. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He tendered to them her most heartfelt thanks for the extreme kindness she had received from them, not only on this occasion but always, from the people of Ashton and the neighbourhood. (Applause.)
On the invitation of the Chairman of the Council, Lord Gerard and a number of gentlemen partook of luncheon at the Council offices.
Luncheon concluding, the Chairman proposed the toast of “Her Gracious Majesty the Queen”, which was honoured with the singing of the National Anthem. In giving the toast of Lord Gerard, he said all were pleased to have his lordship among them. The last occasion on which most of them met together was when they received from the county police, then represented by Inspector Scott as secretary of their sports committee, the ambulance. Lord Gerard, he would like to say, had given him permission to call the Parks the Jubilee Parks, and he was quite sure all would be willing to do so in commemoration of an event in history which had taken place this year. They would all be very pleased to see Lord Gerard often among them, so that the good feeling that had held between the Gerard family and the people of Ashton might be increased. He had great pleasure in proposing the “Health of Lord Gerard”; long might he live to meet them again and again; also Lady Gerard and those of her family. (Loud applause.)
Lord Gerard, in reply, thanked all from the bottom of his heart for the very kind words expressed towards Lady Gerard, himself and his children. It had always been the greatest pleasure to him to do anything he could for the benefit of the township of Ashton. (Applause.) He dared say they all knew that he, a short time ago, met his friend Mr Walmesley. He said to him (Lord Gerard) that though both lived in the south their hearts were in Lancashire. (Applause.) He was quite sure it was true his (his lordship's) heart was here at Ashton. (Applause.) With regard to the little Parks he had thrown open, he could only say that it had been a great pleasure to him to do so. He had also taken part that day in the laying of the foundation stone of a new mill, which, he hoped, would tend to greater prosperity to the township and all of them. (Hear, hear.) …
The Ashton Congregational Prize Band played selections in the Park for an hour or so after the departure of Lord and Lady Gerard.”
As indicated above, the formal opening of the Jubilee Parks coincided with the laying of the foundation stone of the Record Mill. Completed in 1898, this cotton-spinning mill stood just off York Rd, on the site now occupied by the building materials retailer Travis Perkins. Robert Holt Edmonson JP was largely responsible for the formation of the Record Mill Co and served as its chairman and managing director until his retirement in the mid 1920s. At an Extraordinary General Meeting on 21 October 1935, little more than a year after Mr Edmondson's death, the remaining board members voted to wind up the company and appointed a Mr H Price of Ashton Cross as liquidator. Mr Price secured the sale of the premises to hinge- and lock-makers, Thomas Crompton & Sons. Part of the yard wall still stands on the corner facing Turnill Drive, and some further remains -possibly of the old water tanks- can be made out in the undergrowth at the end of Wellbrooke Close. However the factory itself was demolished in January 1974.
Houston Texas Three dumb shit guys are trying to conceive the police they had nothing do with two light poles and 4 road signs being hit by their car Like little bitches they all turned on each other 2012 drunk driving under the influence DUI DWI
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The media plays a gigantic role in politics! I can only bet that we will be able to vote for the president on facebook one day.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 24JAN14 - Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Global Agenda Council on Institutional Governance Systems speaks during the Forum Debate 'Money and Influence' at the.Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, January 24, 2014.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Urs Jaudas
Philippe de Champaigne, St. Jerome.
Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 - 12 August 1674) was a Baroque era painter of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. In 1621 he moved to Paris, where he worked with Nicolas Poussin on the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg under the direction of Nicolas Duchesne, whose daughter he married. After the death of his protector Duchesne, Champaigne worked for the Queen Mother, Marie de Medicis, and for Richelieu, for whom he decorated the cardinal's palace, the Dome of the Sorbonne church and other buildings. He was a founding member of the Acadèmie Royale de Peinture in 1648.
Later in his life (1640), he came under the influence of Jansenism. After his paralysed daughter was allegedly miraculously cured at the nunnery of Port-Royal, he painted the celebrated but untypical picture Ex-Voto de 1662, now in the Louvre, which represents the artist's daughter with Mother-Superior Cathèrine-Agnès Arnauld. Champaigne produced a very large number of paintings, mainly religious works and portraits. Influenced by Rubens at the beginning of his career, his style later became more austere. He died in Paris. (From Wikipedia)
The Springfield Art Association will host an opening reception for a nationally juried ceramic exhibition entitled Shapes of Influence on Friday evening, August 3rd, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Awards and a gallery talk by juror Simon Levin will occur at 6:45 PM.
The show will be on display in the SAA's M.G. Nelson Family Gallery from August 3-September 1 and features work from over two dozen states and Canada.
Juried artists include Morgan Barton, Kenneth Baskin, Casey Beck, Irina Bondarenko, Robert Bruch, Danielle Callahan, Michelle Coakes, John Cohorst, Louis Colomarini, John Costanza, Paula Diaz-Sylvester, Auguste Elder, Karen Ellis-Phillips, Curtis and Karen Frederick, Verne Funk, John Gargano, Kaitlyn Getz, Sarah Gross, Lois Harbaugh, Ian Hazard-Bill, Jason Hess, Jennifer Holt, Drew Ippoliti, Iskra Ivanova, Anna Kats, Patty Kochaver, Robert Kokenyesi, Lucien Koonce, Joe Kraft, Annie Lee, Andrew Mcintyre, Jessie Martin, Paul McCoy, Avra Messe, Molly Morning-glory, Matthew Patton, Sara Prigodich, Jenny Reed, Masa Sasaki, Jessica Sallay-Carrington, Kourtney Stone, Suzanne Storer, Sam Thompson, Austin Wieland, Nicole Winning, Matthew Wright, Kensuke Yamada, Lisa York, and David Zahn.
Invited artists include Dan Anderson, Kahil Irving, Peter Pincus, and Kelsie Rudolph.
The M.G. Nelson Gallery is open to the public M-F from 9 AM-5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM-3 PM.
The Springfield Art Association will host an opening reception for a nationally juried ceramic exhibition entitled Shapes of Influence on Friday evening, August 3rd, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Awards and a gallery talk by juror Simon Levin will occur at 6:45 PM.
The show will be on display in the SAA's M.G. Nelson Family Gallery from August 3-September 1 and features work from over two dozen states and Canada.
Juried artists include Morgan Barton, Kenneth Baskin, Casey Beck, Irina Bondarenko, Robert Bruch, Danielle Callahan, Michelle Coakes, John Cohorst, Louis Colomarini, John Costanza, Paula Diaz-Sylvester, Auguste Elder, Karen Ellis-Phillips, Curtis and Karen Frederick, Verne Funk, John Gargano, Kaitlyn Getz, Sarah Gross, Lois Harbaugh, Ian Hazard-Bill, Jason Hess, Jennifer Holt, Drew Ippoliti, Iskra Ivanova, Anna Kats, Patty Kochaver, Robert Kokenyesi, Lucien Koonce, Joe Kraft, Annie Lee, Andrew Mcintyre, Jessie Martin, Paul McCoy, Avra Messe, Molly Morning-glory, Matthew Patton, Sara Prigodich, Jenny Reed, Masa Sasaki, Jessica Sallay-Carrington, Kourtney Stone, Suzanne Storer, Sam Thompson, Austin Wieland, Nicole Winning, Matthew Wright, Kensuke Yamada, Lisa York, and David Zahn.
Invited artists include Dan Anderson, Kahil Irving, Peter Pincus, and Kelsie Rudolph.
The M.G. Nelson Gallery is open to the public M-F from 9 AM-5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM-3 PM.
Fig. 1. The sperm whale. Fig. 2. The California gray whale. Fig. 3 The North Pacific humpback whale. Fig. 4. The sulphur-bottom whale Fig. 5. The finback or Oregon finner Fig. 6. The Pacific right whale Fig. 7. The bowhead whale. From Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1876 Natural History in Section I of this report.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
Leftdance talks with PTU, a russian band, whose members are Alina Izolenta and Kamil Ea.
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Here´s the interview
1)What are your main musical influences ?
We would read about music a lot, our mates all worked at CD stores or they'd sell instruments. They definitely had encyclopaedic knowledge of music, it was never boring. We'd listen to kraut-rock, shoegaze, psychedelic rock, ambient, noise, idm, dub, techno (both German and Detroit). The only things we didn't really study then would be drum'n'bass, trance and r'n'b, we were really far away from that.
2)Beside the music, which other arts do you really love?
Literature. There is this thin line dividing prose and poetry, descriptive writing and imaginative, hallucinatory writing. Russian literature: Vladimir Nabokov, Sasha Sokolov, Andrei Bely. Foreign literature: Sartre, Kafka, Robert Walser. Georges Bataille's delirious dreams. South-American writers: Borges, Márquez, Castaneda, Cortázar. Literary avant-garde: Raymond Roussel, Kathy Acker, André Breton.
3)Which was the first record ,each of you, bought?, which was the last?
K.: I believe it was "III" by Led Zeppelin, on tape, at school, bought with pocket money. I remember I also had enough money for a can of soda so I came home, put the tape on, was drinking the soda and thinking to myself: WOW. I bought another album of theirs the next day. Moreover, my elder sister had a bunch of records and I can see it clearly now, her collection was a big influence on me.
4)How do you imagine the future of the music industry? The cd would be extinguished? Will there be only digital versions?
K.: CDs won't die I think. This format has a lot of advantages. Other formats won't go away either: cassettes, vinyl. People are deeply connected with them emotionally, nostalgically. Physical formats is a way of touching the sound, even though it's not really palpable.
5) Which topics inspired you in the new EP A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day ?
K.: Let's figure this out. The first track — Intact Alef — is an ambient thing with some IDM elements. Alef is the first letter of many alphabets: Hebrew, Phoenician, Ethiopean. In out context it means basis, something fundamental, biomatter, natural origin. Intact Alef stands for basics, when a powerful force divides a cell in two.
The second one — "A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day" — is about the thin border between the state of awakeness and dreams. When the ringing alarm makes you open your eyes but you're still asleep, you're in this state for a couple of seconds: neither in this reality, nor in the previous one. We added some drama with 146 bpm tempo and here comes a broken surrealist morning. As if you're still shaking from a nightmare, you're trying to turn the alarm off but the page of reality is glitching and won't let you proceed, you're stuck in this moment.
The third — "Yes" — is a canonical acid / breakbeat. It's the music we listened to when back in school, making mistakes and learning from them.
The fourth — "Between Us" — is dedicated to the nature of cross-gender relations, male and female, to the things programmed into us by nature. It's about all things primal and irrational.
The fifth — "April Theme" — is an abstract suite in 3 parts, it's like a narrative with a clear ending. The sixth track "Lizard" is a bass workout about a reptile. And the seventh, the final one, "Bracelet", is about that tight belt of social interests, about the conflict of a libertarian person's aspirations and the system of repressions such a person eventually faces.
A: In a broad sense, there's always two sides at work. Be it this EP or any other release, past or future. The first one — when you're immersed in creative process and you're not really analysing any idea at all. The other one is when you're not that deep and you're actually experiencing what you're doing. At that moment you're accepting your inner reactions and are reaching for something universal, something that other people will understand just as well as you do. It's the way things were 10 years ago, the way they are now, no matter whether we realise it or not.
. 6) What are your next plans ?
Currently we're into the idea of making a big ambient album. We already have a title for it — "Quiet Hour", like a siesta, an afternoon nap.