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A "First-Try" of the "Tilt-Shift-Mode" applied to a screenshot of my Guild Wars gameplay in an instanced dungeon
Tribunal of First Instance of Port-au-Prince, October 29th, 2018. Meeting of Mr. Alexandre Zouev, Assistant-Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions along with Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) with Me Bernard St-Vil, Dean of the Tribunal of First Instance of Port-au-Prince.
Photo Leonora Baumann UN/MINUJUSTH
I was quite impressed at how *green* this came out... It's near the Wick Road entrance to Windsor Great Park.
Original: IMG_2743
Initialisée il y a 375 ans, Instance, intelligence artificielle veille sur Montréal et permet aux citoyens de visualiser ses activités de façon transparente. Omniprésente, elle absorbe toutes les données de la ville et de ses citoyens, prête à s’adapter et à communiquer chaque nouvelle information. Suite à sa dernière mise à jour, son comportement évolue : Instance s’anime d’une volonté naissante de s’emparer de la métropole.
Le cerveau du système d’Instance est disposé au centre de la Place Pasteur. Ce serveur cubique composé de strates de lumière s’anime au rythme des flux de données générés par le système lui-même. Faisant face à la Place Pasteur, la projection sur le clocher Saint-Jacques transmet les analyses de numérisations du bâtiment réalisées par Instance pour mieux comprendre sa ville. Une section sur le clocher présente également l’accumulation des données des participants qui se font identifier dans la capsule située sur la Place Pasteur. Suite à la mise à jour prévue le 4 mars, le clocher Saint-Jacques devient un point de visualisation du corps humain. Instance affiche les résultats biométriques de ses numérisations et analyses effectuées dans les capsules. En raison d’un flux de données plus important, l’animation principale du cerveau devient plus agitée. Une capsule est présente sur le lieu pour permettre à Instance d’identifier les participants.
École des médias, UQAM
Montréal, Canada
L’ensemble du projet est une initiative des finissants du baccalauréat en communication, profil médias interactifs de l’UQAM.
Projet Instance
for instance: bagel always trumps croissant in a breakfast sandwich. did you know that? that's neither here nor there, I guess. this is a ham sandwich.
I had three mechanical instances during my weekend ride, two of them my fault, and one bad luck (lost the end screw of the decaleur 😕).
2. The chain disengaged when I mis-shifted after a long intense vertiginous downhill and quickly going up the vertiginous uphill. It could’ve been a chainsuck, so I got lucky.
3. But the luckiest was before the ride started, when Lance from Kansas pointed me to the fact that my rear wheel was not seated properly 😱 It was off about 2-3 mm. The worst is that I couldn’t remember how long I’d been riding around like that, and I had just waxed the chain the night before and didn’t notice. My “workspace” is too small and dark, and it’s given me a lesson to learn and improve.
Sometimes we take for granted how lucky we are.
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#rivbike #lucky #biketouringmishaps
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Sales Executive Resume are really amazing instances of resume and Cover Letter for the people who are scanning for course to fulfilling the enrollment in applying livelihoods and other formal need. These resume structures are in like manner made to be versatile so you can without quite a bit of...
A rare instance this winter where I was able to capture the sun reflecting off the snow creating many different colors.
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Pablo Arancibia Farías ‘Instancia de transacción mercantile minorista como factor determinante en la construcción de un imperio’, ('Instance of a mercantile transaction as a determining factor in the construction of an empire'), 2012, Tema ‘Pais’, (Theme ‘Country’), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, MAC Quinta Normal, Santiago de Chile.
Representa el mapa de Cina. (It represents the map of China.)
In about the fourth house we were invited into, an aged grandmother sits on the floor to make chai for everyone. Everyone in this instance being about thirteen people!
In this instance, the nap won out. Ah, life on a cruise ship.
This book is "Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery" by Spencer Quinn. A fun and fast read wherein the narrator is Chet the dog. If you like dogs and like mysteries, this one is recommended. Not great literature but Quinn sure knows the mind of a dog.
2023-06-16: Atef Majdoub, President of Instance Générale de Partenariat Public Privé (IGPPP) Tunisia addresses during PPPs in North Africa, for sustainable and inclusive growth, Tunisia.
2023-06-16: Sharing a group photograph (L-R), Mike Salawou, Director, Infrastructure, Cities and Urban Development , African Development Bank Group; Atter Hannoura, Director, PPP Central Unit, Ministry of Finance of Egypt; Mohamed Benatiya Andalousi, Head of PPP Division, Morocco; Abdalmaged Almlgta, President General Manager PPP, Libya; Atef Majdoub, President of Instance Générale de Partenariat Public Privé (IGPPP) Tunisia; Mohamed Salim Telidji, Director General of the National Development Equipment Fund at the Ministry of Finance, Algeria; Slim Zeghal, Board Member, CEO of Altea Packaging and officials during PPPs in North Africa, for sustainable and inclusive growth, Tunisia.
Another instance of the sun filtering through the trees and picking out these leaves. I like the vein detail and backlit subjects are one of my favourites!!!!!
Rosey and I hope you have a blessed weekend our dear Flickr Friends . . . . .
A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element— the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall
each instance of this game had a loose theme. another one, for example, featured statues of skulls with knives and snakes coming out of them. you know, classy stuff.
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some Background:
The Nanchang J-9C was a mid-sized interceptor for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) that had been developed during the Eighties. By the late Seventies, a new benchmark fighter had entered the global stage, the General Dynamics F-16, and the Ministry of Defense issued a new requirement on 9 June 1979 - and slightly revised it in November – to develop an air superiority fighter with comparable performance, since the Chinese People's Liberation Army’s standard fighters of the time, the J-7 (a derivative of the Soviet MiG-21, used by both PLAAF and PLAN) and the indigenous J-8 (used by the PLAAF only), appeared both outdated and no match for the American product anymore.
The fighter project started under the designation J-9II, inherited from the stillborn (and unrelated) Chengdu J-9 heavy interceptor project that had already been proposed in 1964 and eventually, after many iterations, evermore demanding requirements concerning range and speed but no prototypes, been cancelled in 1980. To reflect the second use of the designation and avoid confusion, the new type was called J-9II (later renamed into J-9B).
The J-9II was heavily inspired by the American 4thgeneration F-16, but eventually was a very different aircraft, even though the J-9II shared the F-16’s general layout, including the characteristic lip air intake. Rumor has it that information about the American type was acquired from Egypt where the F-16 had been introduced in 1982.
Two different variants of single airframe were initially proposed by Nanchang Aircraft Factory to cater to the slightly different needs of both PLAAF and PLAN. The navy variant was already dropped in 1981, though, while the air force variant was tailored to execute fast interception missions, with a secondary ground attack capability. However, from a technological standpoint, the J-9II was still only a 3rd generation fighter, at best, and suffered from several shortcomings. For instance, the J-9II’s wing geometry was very similar to the J-7s’ and J-8s’ clipped delta wings, even though they were combined with a blended body on the upper surface for additional lift and featured organically integrated LERX that improved handling at high angles of attack. The highly swept wings gave great speed and roll characteristics, but provided poor lift at low speed what limited the J-9II’s utility as a frontline fighter.
The aircraft’s powerplant was a single WS-9 Qinling twin-shaft turbofan engine, which was a blunt copy of the British Rolls Royce RB.168 Spey 202, originally exported to China in 1975 violating the COCOM restrictions. At the time of the J-9II’s development the copied Spey was, like many other aspects of the aircraft, no longer state-of-the-art, but it was the only suitable engine for the project. In the J-9II it was paired with an indigenous afterburner.
This semi-indigenous engine turned out to be notoriously unreliable and hardly provided the promised output of 53.4 kN/12,140 lbf dry thrust and 91.2 kN/20,500 lbf with reheat, leaving the aircraft notoriously underpowered. For comparison, the F-16A benchmark’s Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 turbofan was rated at 14,670 lbf/64.9 kN and 23,830 lbf/106.0 kN with afterburner. The J-9II’s higher structural weight due to the limited use of light composite material hampered its performance even further.
Other differences from the F-16 included a single foldable fin in the style of the Soviet MiG-23/27 (a solution also employed on the J-8 interceptor) instead of a pair of fixed vanes on the F-16, and the pilot sat in a more upright position under a taller and conventional canopy with a fixed 3-part windscreen. Even though the lip air intake was in the same position as on the F-16, it had a totally different square shape and geometry with an adjustable intake ramp and auxiliary intakes with feathered covers on the flanks to prevent engine surge.
The J-9II’s avionics were quite state-of-the-art, though, but not highly capable when compared with foreign systems and based on existing equipment. Its primary armament consisted of IR-guided PL-5 (based on the Soviet Vympel K-13) and PL-8 short-range AAMs (a license-built Version of the Israeli Python 3), and semi-active radar-guided PL-11 mid-range AAMs (a license-built version of the Italian Aspide missile, which itself was an ungraded AIM-7 Sparrow). A total of seven hardpoints were available for a total external ordnance of 2.500 kg (5.500 lb). Secondary armament consisted of a ventral Type 23-III twin-barrel cannon, a copy of the Soviet Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23L. The radar was a modified Type 1471 pulse-Doppler radar, placed under a pointed nose radome, which had a bigger diameter than the F-16’s installation, what gave the J-9II, together with the deeper cockpit section and its more bulbous canopy, a markedly different profile.
The first J-9II prototype was rolled out in August 1988 and shortly thereafter unveiled to the public in September 1988 at Farnborough International Air Show, where it was officially baptized “Tiān Hǔ” (天虎, Heavenly Tiger) – a first among Chinese military aircraft, which had until then lacked such an accolade. At the same time, it was given the AFIC code name “Freshman” by NATO. The first batch of eight J-9II aircraft was delivered to the PLAAF for evaluation in the early 1990’s. After a year of testing the air force agreed to procure more aircraft of the new type after upgrading the avionics and weapons suite with improved technology. This upgraded J-9II was then – following the PLAAF’s revised naming system – designated J-9C. The first serial production aircraft built to this revised standard were delivered to PLAAF units probably in 2001, where they primarily replaced outdated 1st generation J-8Is and some J-7 fighters, too.
However, on the PLAAF’s agenda, the J-9C was quickly superseded by the Chengdu J-10 “Vigorous Dragon” (NATO reporting name: Firebird), another medium-weight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft. The J-10 was capable of all-weather operations and configured with a delta wing and canard design, with fly-by-wire flight controls. This project had been kicked off as early as 1981 and developed in parallel to the J-9II, even though with more severe delays, so that the Tiān Hǔ’s development had been kept up to ensure at least one more modern interceptor type for the PLAAF from 2000 on. Compared with the J-9C, the J-10 was a much more modern aircraft overall and a true 4th generation fighter on par with the F-16. When the first J-10s were delivered to the PLAAF in 2003, only two years after the first J-9Cs, the latter’s production was shut down after only roughly 100 aircraft that were exclusively operated by PLAAF interceptor regiments.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 17,06 m (55 ft 10¾ in) overall incl. pitot
Wingspan: 8,93 m (29 ft 3 in)
Height: 4,25 m (13 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 30,5 m² (327 sqft)
Empty weight: 9.373 kg (20,645 lb)
Gross weight: 13.036 kg (28,713 lb) with full internal fuel
Max takeoff weight: 19.250 kg (42,400 lb)
Fuel capacity: 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) internal
Powerplant:
1× Xian WS-9 Qinling twin-shaft turbofan engine with afterburner,
with 53.4 kN (12,140 lbf ) dry thrust and 91.2 kN (20,500 lbf) with reheat
Performance
Maximum speed: (1,825 km/h (1,134 mph, 985 kn, Mach 1.72) at 35,000 ft (11,000 m), clean
Combat range: 1,000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi) radius with 4x AAMs and 2x drop tanks
Ferry range: 4,217 km (2,620 mi, 2,277 nmi) with 3x drop tanks, subsonic
Service ceiling: 17,500 m (57,400 ft)
Time to altitude: 17,000 m (56,000 ft) in 8 minutes 30 seconds
Rate of climb: 224 m/s (44,100 ft/min) at sea level
Roll rate: 275°/s
g limits: +6.0 sustained at 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
Thrust-to-weight: 0.72
Wing loading: 87.8 lb/sq ft (427 kg/m²)
Unstick speed: 330 km/h (210 mph; 180 kn)
Take-off run: 630 m (2,070 ft)
Touchdown speed: 224 km/h (139 mph; 121 kn)
Landing run: 900 m (3,000 ft)
Armament:
1× internal 23 mm Type 23-III (Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23L) autocannon with 200 rounds
7x external hardpoints for a total ordnance of 2.500 kg (5.500 lb)
The kit and its assembly:
This what-if model was inspired by an online picture of a model, probably at a convention or competition, that I had seen many years ago: it was an F-16 with wings and stabilizers from a MiG-21 in Czech markings and with a brown/green camouflage livery. While the idea appeared odd the highly swept wings blended well into the F-16’s LERXs – and I wanted to re-create this someday.
This has happened now, even though I put some more effort into the model and furthermore stumbled over some layout questions while building it. At the core this is a Hasegawa F-16A, mated with MiG-21 wings (probably from an Academy MiG-21 F-13) and many other additional mods.
These included:
- A new, deeper nose radome from a Nakotne MiG-29 (which has a totally wrong shape with a flat underside)
- A different sliding two-piece canopy (from a Hasegawa Grumman F9F Panther) with a classic layout for an old-school look
- Fin and stabilizers taken wholesale from a PM Model Su-15, because MiG-21 surfaces appeared too small
- A twin wheel front landing gear leg with modified covers
- Different main landing gear struts with F-16 wheels
- A new exhaust installation that has a more Spey-esque shrouded layout (as on the British Phantoms); two exhaust sections from F-16 kits were glue behind each other to extend the fuselage, and a J79 nozzle (from an Italeri IAI Kfir) was mounted inside
- The F-16’s ventral twin fins were replaced with a single foldable MiG-23 fin (from an Academy kit)
- A new “pizza oven-style” air intake, blended into the lower F-16 body with LOTS of PSR
While assembling this thing and recognizing that the MiG-21 wings would shift the center of lift considerably further back I wondered if the F-16’s original landing gear with its relatively short wheelbase would work on the J-9C at all, even more so because the fuselage would be extended at the tail with the different Spey exhaust arrangement. The inspiring benchmark picture of the Czech AF kitbash was taken from an angle that did not reveal the landing gear at all, probably on purpose… To avoid any trouble later, I decided even before I closed the fuselage halves to move the whole main landing gear and its bay backwards by about 0.5”/13 mm. Two ventral sections were cut out, switched positions, and PSRed back into the body again. Messy, but worthwhile.
Blending the wings into the F-16 body was not too complicated, even though the deeper MiG-21 wings left a significant gap at their trailing edge. To bridge this, I cut out of the respective sections from the F-16 wings, glued them flush with the MiG-21 wings’ trailing edges and later filled the resulting hole with putty.
The nose section was also rather tricky. To get away from the sleek F-16 look I implanted a different canopy, which required the cockpit opening to be raised and leveled out with the help of styrene profiles and lots of PSR. Additionally, I decided to replace the original flat radome with a taller one, so that there was a new raised are in front of the windscreen. With even more PSR this worked, and the result has a strange Su-27ish look! Inside of the cockpit the F-16 parts remained, I just mounted the seat in a more upright position (and filled its back) and had to sculpt the rear bulkhead new with putty and paper tissue drenched in white glue due to the opening’s raised edge.
Another element for a different silhouette was the air intake; instead of the F-16’s oval opening with a fixed geometry I constructed an implant from Su-15 intakes, with a ramp and a totally different (square) shape, which reminds a lot of the J-10’s arrangement and also a little of the Eurfoghter/Typhoon and the experimental MiG Ye-8.
The landing gear was totally changed, too, with a new twin front wheel arrangement and modified covers as well as main landing gear struts from a MiG-23/27 (Academy kit), which were glued together in a different fashion (upper segments turned by 90° so that they hang vertically in the hull) and into the wells that were moved back, yet with the F-16’s wheels.
Additionally, I gave the aircraft a Type 23-III gun in its small, characteristic pod (left over from a Condor MiG-21), on the left side of the front landing wheel well, similar to the J-10’s arrangement.
The underwing pylons were taken from the Hasegawa F-16, the ventral pod came from an Academy MiG-23/27, placed in front of vertical styrene tube adapter as a display holder for flight scenes. The ordnance was procured from the spares bank (AIM-7 from an Intech F-16 as Aspide/PL-11 AAMs and K-13 AAMs from a KP MiG-21 clone as PL-5s). At first, I also considered a pair of drop tanks on the inner wing stations, but to give the aircraft a “faster” look I eventually left them away and only hung the AAMs under its wings.
Painting and markings:
Again a rather dry and subdued choice. Many active PLAAF aircraft, esp. the fighters, carry rather boring liveries, with only a few historic exceptions. For a whif that already looks quite strange I went for a simple solution, inspired by typical J-10s; these carry uniform light bluish-grey upper and lower surfaces with a low waterline and with only little contrast between the tones. To add a unique touch, though, I used RAL tones for the camouflage, namely RAL 7000 (Fehgrau, Revell 57) above and 7001 (Silbergrau, Revell 374) underneath, which both appear colder than the very similar FS 36320 and 36375 greys. The radome and some other di-electric panels were painted in a very dark green (RLM 71, Humbrol 91), inspired by JH-7 fighter bombers with a similar livery.
Even though the J-10 benchmark typically has its landing gear and the respective bays painted white, I decided to do for a more Soviet look and painted everything silver-grey (Humbrol 56) and the wheels received bright green wheel discs. The cockpit was painted with a medium grey (Revell 77) on the floor and the rear bulkhead, but also with the dreaded Soviet bright teal (ModelMaster 4664) on the side walls and the dashboard.
The model received a light black ink washing and some post-shading to give the uniform surface more visible structure. Markings/decals were puzzled together from the scrap box – including non-standard national insignia with white instead of yellow. Not really low-viz, due to the bright standard red, but more subdued than the normal markings – even though I assume that the decals were designed in a wrong fashion, because I have never seen this type of roundels in real life? The tactical code was puzzled together from five single digits on each flank of the air intake, following the pre-2004 PLAAF scheme for its cryptic 5-digit-codes that I found in a book. The code includes information about the aircraft’s individual code, its unit, and the respective squadron within it. Finally, the model was sealed overall with matt acrylic varnish and the bare metal areas around the exhaust were treated with grinded graphite to create a metallic shine.
Quite a complex build with lots of PSR, but the result looks really good, even plausible! The MiG-21 wings blend well with the F-16 fuselage and its LERXs, and the many other changes help to move the J-9C visually away from its F-16 ancestry, which makes up less than 50% of the model. Especially the new front section, with the deeper radome, taller canopy, and square air intake, make you wonder about the model’s heritage. And the all-over pale blue-grey livery adds to the authentic look, too.
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I love how God's Word is proven true time and time again!
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For instance, as we celebrate the Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris during this Christmas season, I'm reminded that His birth is the fulfillment and a direct reflection of John 3:16-18!
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I pray that you have received His free gift of salvation and if you are in Christ, may we join together in praising God for sending His one and only Son so that we might have forgiveness, salvation, and new life in Him!
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It's with this perspective that we can celebrate Christmas all the more from a whole heart because it's His birth we celebrate!
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Merry Christmas!
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A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element— the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall
For instance, your unconsious may need some an image of a portal to be used in a dream.
These are the Doors of Babilon, each brick of it. Full of energy.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Preparing to marathon will definitely make me gay. For instance, for the last 30km I see the butt of my friend Oleksandr ;)
Another instance of early dining. This raccoon (not Missy) showed up, hungry, at about 7:15 pm. We suggested that the bird feeders were not an appropriate source of nutrition & brought out the kibbles. I am just on the other side of the slider door from this young one. Taken in Columbia County, New York, USA on June 24, 2010, the last student day of school for this year.
Accumulated Instances I 50MM
The idea behind these images is largely described by the title. The period covered by each set is determined by the capacity of a 2GB memory card.
I've been shooting with a single focal length (50mm in this case) concerning myself mainly with the changing light through the day and how it interacts with the things I see on a daily basis. I don't view the shots until the card is full. The best are then selected from the card unedited and uncropped, exactly as they were shot.
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan is the highest court instance and final court of appeal of three-staged judicial system in Azerbaijan. Established in pursuant Article 131 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Article 77 of the Law "on Courts and Judges". The Supreme Court has competence to carry out justice on civil (including administrative and economic disputes), criminal disputes and other cases related to the execution of general or specialized courts. Despite being established in Baku, its jurisdiction applies to the entire territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
History
History of the modern judicial system in Azerbaijan started from the establishment of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on 28 May 1918.
Starting from 1990s fundamental legal-judicial reforms have been carried out in Azerbaijan under the leadership of Heydar Aliyev, e.g. establishment of new three-stage judicial system, adopting several Codes (Land Code, Civil Code, Criminal Code, Code of Administrative Offence, Housing Code, etc). Judicial-Legal Council, contained of representatives of legislative, judicial and executive branches, was formed and actively took part in selection of the judges to the different instances including Supreme Court by testing or examination and interview.
Structure
There are Plenum and Cassation chambers operating within the Supreme Court. The following chambers are established in the Supreme Court:
Civil chamber
Administrative Economic chamber
Criminal chamber
Military chamber
Authorities of the Plenum
The Plenum of the Supreme Court is operating in the following structure the; Chairman of the Supreme Court, his deputy, chairpersons of board and judges. The members that included in the Plenum of the Supreme Court have equal rights within their authority. The Plenum of the Supreme Court hears the information of the chairmen of the courts on the issues related to on judicial practice of application of legislation in courts of the Republic of Azerbaijan and reports of Chairman of the Supreme Court, its chairperson and chairmen, chairmen of appellate courts, chairman of the Supreme Court of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and other general and specialized court chairmen about the status of the administration of justice issues, reviews materials about generalization of the practice of court and analysis of judicial statistics. Additionally, based on the proposal of the Chairman of the Supreme Court, it decides members of the Judicial Collegium. The Court approves the Statute and the Structure of the Scientific Advisory Board on the basis of recommendation of the Chairman of Supreme Court. It also has right to request Considers the request The Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan Republic in accordance with The Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan Republic. By taking into account the request of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on dismissal of the judges of the Republic of Azerbaijan in accordance with Article 128 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Court submits the relevant opinion to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan within 30 days of the request; Clarify the courts on matters relating to court practice in accordance with Article 131 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan; in cases and in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law, it deals with examine cases involving additional cassation or new cases of discrimination and violation of rights and freedoms the on the basis of the presentation of the Chairman of Supreme Court, the protest by the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan or the complaints of defending side. Moreover, in accordance with Article 96 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, reviews and make decisions on issues related to applying to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan by legislative initiatives. The court is also have accountability to accept the oath of the judges of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the cases that determined by the law, it considers complaints about the decisions of the Judicial-Legal Council.
Working principles of the Plenum
The working principles of the Plenum have been defined according to the Article 80 of the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic (“On Courts and Judges”). The Supreme Court is convened approximately 4 times in a year under the leadership of the Chairman of the Supreme Court. The chairman of the Supreme Court of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, the chairmen of the courts of Appeal, the General Prosecutor of the Republic of Azerbaijan and other heads of the relative state bodies attend in the plenary sessions of the Supreme Court. During the sessions, the Court ensure the participation of the defense in the cases of new cases of violation of rights and freedoms and newly discovered cases. The members and also participants of the sessions Plenum are notified before the starting date of the meeting (not less than 10 days before). The participants are also provided with the topic of the discussion and relevant materials. In order to be effectual, not less than 2/3 of its members must participate in the sessions. The decisions are accepted due to voting results signed by the chairman of the meeting. The Office of the Supreme Court organizes Plenum meetings, and ensure implementation of the decisions of the Plenum.
A rare instance of the right light, the right focus and the right subject. An excellent result from a very basic fixed-focus underwater 35mm film camera.
This is a scan of a film print so it's lost a little bit of definition in the transfer to digital image.
South Cottesloe, 2005.
A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning ledge) is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element— the cornice over a door or window" "for instance" "or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding." "Italian cornice ledge" decorative molding crown pedestal cornice "crown molding"
Take at look at Google, for instance, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's about $75,000/year, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.
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I feel like sometimes she is too critical of things.
Like, take for instance skateboarding. She had this thing about alternatives to skateboarding, like rollerblades. I used to skate and still do. When I moved to NY the first time I switched to blades because it is so dangerous with the cabs, not to mention that the sidewalks suck ass. She said "pssh! rollerblades... lame!..". Yet she can not even ollie on or off a curb. Take also for instance my scooter. I was a little pissed about that too. I have been riding motorcycles more then 10 years. I come from a motorcycle family and ride Harley Davidson. I have been in my fair share of wrecks and I have paid my dues many times over. I don't have to prove myself just because I think a scooter is kind of fun and economical transportation. She has never even ridden a bike alone on the street, and yet becomes all critical of me because I ride a scooter. Same with her tattoo. The instant she got a tattoo everyone else does not know shit about tattoos. Just because I don't have one (but all of my family members do, and I have planned on getting some since I was a kid) my opinion about what I want to put on MY body is moot. I told her I thought about music notes on my finger among other things. "no way! That is fucking dumb!" Somehow she is the authority on what is cool, hip or artistic and everyone else's opinion is shit. At least that is what I feel like sometimes.... That goes to show you how much I value her opinion. I don't know what sparked this thought. When I saw the chair it just hit me for some reason. It really had nothing to do with the chair itself.
Sometimes she drives me nuts. You know though, maybe that is just another part of why I love her. Conflict is very close to lust in the emotional chain. If she was completely absolutely perfect, I would have dumped her long ago.
It is the imperfection in many ways more then the perfection of her. It is what makes her... well... imperfectly perfect.
I am mad.
Clearly.
I have all day to travel back home, but here I am , catching the six o'clock ferry from East Cowes, sitting now on the deck, taking photographs as we cast off.
Because I am mad.
I have a couple of places to visit on the way home, so I catch the early ferry, missing breakfast at the hotel. I could have had breakfast and caught the ferry at nine, but that would have meant battling traffic in and out of Newport due to the Floating Bridge being out of action.
So here I am.
Taking shots.
It is the blue hour. Or is it the pink hour in the morning?
I don't know. But sunrise is half an hour away, the engines tone rises, calm water on the river turn to foam, and we move off.
Once the ferry leaves the river, I go back downstairs and buy a coffee and a Twix, then go to the back lounge to see the island blend into the murk of dawn's shadows.
The ferry is only 10% full, so plenty of room to spread out and pretend that there's no other people about. I could have gone back up to snap Southampton in the golden light as the sun had risen, but instead I just sit and wait for the call to return to your cars.
I program the sat nav, so once we were docked and tied up, I was one of the first off, and was soon heading north to the motorway and away from the Southampton rush hour.
Traffic was heavy, but I made good progress, allowing me to stop at Fleet services for breakfast in Costa, before pressing on to the M25 and the chaos that drive east would be.
Traffic much heavier than it was three weeks back, meaning I was half an hour later, which I didn't mind, as the church I planned to visit would be more likely to be unlocked at half nine rather than nine.
West Kent is picturesque, full of pretty villages full of former merchant's houses, now seamlessly turned into what used to be called the stockbroker belt.
Otford was a village, now a suburb of Sevenoaks, the ancient centre of the village is around the pond, and around the edge of the green is the pub and the church.
A parking space outside the papershop offered half an hour's free parking, so I abandoned the car there and limped over the main road to the church, showing well through the bare trees, just waking up as spring arrives.
A modern church centre sits to the north, and having tried the west and south doors, I try going through the church centre, and the doors swing open into the church, no one else was inside.
There was a grand monument, the west wall covered in hatchings and the east window in the Chancel had several Flemish painted panels of saints arranged into a cross.
I take many, many shots.
I am back at the car within the half hour, and a three mile drive away through the rolling countryside is the next target, Kemsing.
We had been here before, but the porch door was locked, but the parish website promised it would be open from nine. And it was.
John Vigar's description stated that access to the Chancel would not be possible, which confused me, but the large arts and crafts recreation of the rood screen, was locked, and the door through the vestry was also out of bounds.
So I took shots through the screen, not ideal, but better than nothing, and I think they came out well.
Through the trip, I had been reading John Vigar's latest book on Kent churches, and Offham interested me, as its walls were part Saxon. And it was on the way home from Kemsing.
The church is set half a mile outside the village, on a hill beside a farm. It is quite a small, simple church, and in the lower layers of brickwork, laid in herringbone patterns, showing how ancient the walls are.
Inside, the church is simple and doesn't take long to record, but it is the church itself which is the star.
It was time to go home. So, back in the car I program my phone, and it leads me back to the M20, and from there I know the way.
Lots of trucks and lorries also heading south, but I cruise past them. Its a fine day to be driving, the sun is breaking through the low cloud and mist, making for a pleasant drive.
I have also judged the fuel well, so don't need to refill before stopping at the car hire office.
They give it the once over, I tell them the things which are not working on the brand new car, they make notes, and I am done.
Emma drives me back to St Maggies, dropping me off on Station Road. I walk along to Chez Jelltex, check the garden for new flowers and growth, then go onside.
The cats sleep on, and I am overcome with weariness. MY knee is aching, I am out of painkillers, but massage it, nd its a little better.
I have brunch and a brew, listen to some podcasts, have a shower, unpack the suitcase.
Phew.
It now stays light until gone six, meaning we could have gone for a walk before dinner. But not at the moment. So I cook hash for dinner, which was ten minutes away from being done by the time Jools got home.
So we eat and drink wine.
One day and the weekend will be here.
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A small, isolated church set some way from its village. The north wall of the nave dates from the Saxo-Norman overlap and shows the usual building `lifts` which represent each new seasons work. Some herringbone masonry dates it to the years just before and after the Conquest. High in the wall is an original Norman window whilst to the east is the outline of its blocked twin. Inside the church another outline is quickly visible - that of a round headed Norman chancel arch replaced by the present tall and narrow arch in the thirteenth century. To either side of this narrow arch is an hagioscope telling the visitor that altars stood in these positions in the medieval period. The south wall of the chancel; displays some excellent lancet windows of the same date as the arch. A few fragments of medieval glass survive. Unusually the tower stands to the north of the chancel, no doubt because it was part of that same massive rebuilding campaign.
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OFHAM.
WESTWARD from Town Malling lies Ofham, called by the Saxons, Offaham; which name it is supposed to have taken from its having been once part of the possessions of Offa, king of Mercia, the most famous monarch of the Saxon heptarchy; ham in Saxon signifying a village or dwelling. Probably from this, and the Roman military way having gone through, or at least very near it, this place was then, and had been for some time, a village of some note.
THIS PARISH seems to have been formerly of much greater account than it is at present, the antient military way passing through it, as has been already noticed above; although the road from the Weald of Kent through Wrotham to London leads through the village, yet it is lonely, and otherwise a place but little frequented or known; the whole, from its being so much inveloped with woods, has a very gloomy appearance.
The village is situated on high ground round a broad green, having the parsonage, a handsome sashed house, on one side of it, and the church and courtlodge at a small distance northward.
On Ofham green there stands a quintin, a thing now rarely to be met with, being a machine much used in former times by youth, as well to try their own activity as the swiftness of their horses in running at it.
The cross piece of it is broad at one end, and pierced full of holes; and a bag of sand is hung at the other, and swings round, on being moved with any blow.
The pastime was for the youth on horseback to run at it as fast as possible, and hit the broad part in the career with much force. He that by chance hit it not at all, was treated with loud peals of derision; and he who did hit it, made the best use of his swiftness, least he should have a sound blow on his neck from the bag of sand, which instantly swang round from the other end of the quintin. The great design of this sport was, to try the agility both of horse and man, and to break the board, which whoever did, he was accounted chief of the day's sport.
When queen Elizabeth was at the earl of Leicester's, at Kenelworth castle, among other sports for her entertainment, the running at the quintin was exhibited in the castle yard by the country lads and lasses assembled on that day, to celebrate a rural wedding.
Dr. Plot, in his Natural History of Oxfordshire, says, this sport was used in his time at Deddington, in Oxfordshire; and Dr. Kennet, in his Parochial Antiquities, says, it was at Blackthorne. It is supposed to be a Roman exercise, left in this island at their departure from it. (fn. 1)
It stands opposite the dwelling-house of the estate, which is bound to keep it up. This estate has been for almost three centuries in the name of Tresse; the last of which, Mr. Thomas Tresse, died possessed of it, unmarried, in 1737. It is now the property of Mr. William Currant, who resides on it, and possesses it in right of his wife, a daughter of Mr. Thomas Coleman, descended from a sister of the above-mentioned Mr. Thomas Tresse. This name of Tress, or Tresse, is supposed to be the same as that of Tracy, and to have been altered by vulgar corruption and the succession of time; if so, the family of Tresse, so long settled at West Malling and this place, might very probably be a branch of the family of Tracie, possessors of the manor which still bears their name at Newington, near Sittingborne, in the reign of Henry III. They bore for their arms, Or, two bends between nine escallops, gules.
From the village, the ground descends for a mile down to the Maidstone road to London, which is at its northern boundary. Here the soil is a deep sand, which nearer the village approaches the quarry rock, adjoining the south side of it is the great tract of woods, called the Hurst woods, which extend from hence for near two miles, as far as West Peckham and Mereworth.
It is commonly said that Jack Straw, a principal companion with Wat Tyler in the rebellion, which they headed in the 5th year of king Richard II. was born at a small cottage at Pepingstraw, in this parish, whence he assumed his surname. (fn. 2)
This parish, among others, ought antiently to have contributed to the repair of the fifth pier of Rochester bridge. (fn. 3)
ATHULF, or Ethelwulph, king of England, son of king Egbert, about the year 832, gave Ofnehamme, at the instance of archbishop Ceolnoth, to the church of Canterbury. At the close of the grant were added the three letters, L. S. A. that is, Libere Sicut Adisham, meaning, that the land given by this charter to the church should be endowed with the same franchises and liberties, that Adisham originally was; a clause, or one similar to it, which the archbishops procured to most of the Saxon grants made to their church, if the lands were in this county. (fn. 4)
This place was wrested from the church of Canterbury during the troublesome times that followed, and seems afterwards to have been divided in the hands of two different owners. However, the whole appears, by the record of Domesday, to have been at the taking that survey, in the year 1080, part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux and earl of Kent, the Conqueror's half-brother, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered there:
The same Hugh (de Port) holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Ofeham. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is three carucates. In demesne there is nothing. There are six villeins, with one borderer having two carucates. There is one mill of fifty pence and three servants, and four acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs. In the time of king Edward the Con- fessor, it was worth forty shillings, when he received it twenty shillings, now thirty shillings Gedric held it of king Edward.
And a little lower thus:
Anschitil holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Ofehant. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is . . . . In demesne there is one carucate, and six villeins, with two borderers having one carucate. There are four servants, and one mill of ten shillings, and seven acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs, and in the city of Rochester one house paying thirty pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, this manor was worth one hundred shillings, when he received it four pounds, and now four pounds and nine shillings. What Richard de Tonebridge holds is worth eleven shillings. Uluric held it of Alnod Cilt.
These estates, on the disgrace of the bishop of Baieux, about four years afterwards, became confiscated to the crown. After which they were become the possessions of a family, which assumed its name of De Osham, from their property here, who held it of the archbishop of Canterbury. William de Ofham held the manor of Ofham, with its appendages of Godwell, Snodbean, and Pepingstraw, and the advowson of the church of Ofham, in the latter end of the reign of king Henry III. (fn. 5)
In the reign of king Edward I. Stephen de Pencestre, who had married Christiana, sister of William de Ofham above-mentioned, enfeoffed Richard de Courtone of an annual rent of assise, and the third part of the advowson of the church of Ofham. Ri chard de Courtone seems at that time to have been possessed of the other parts of this manor, a third part of which was claimed of him by Matilda, another sister of William de Ofham. Soon after which Robert, brother of Richard de Courtone, passed away that annual rent, and the third part of the advowson, to Ralph de Ditton, who together with the said Richard de Courtone, for he still remained owner of Godwell, were found to be possessed of Ofham manor, and its appendages, in the 7th year of king Edward II. (fn. 6)
Ralph de Ditton, senior, appears soon afterwards to have had the entire fee of this manor, and its appendages, excepting Godwell, and to have been possessed likewise of the entire advowson of Ofham; and in the 16th year of king Edward II. he granted to his daughter, Isabella, his manor of Ofham, together with the advowson of the church, in perpetual inheritance for ever, rendering yearly the due and accustomed services of the chief lords of the fee. In consideration of which he had paid him in hand one hundred marcs sterling, as a fine. Isabella de Offeham afterwards enfeoffed Sir John Chidocke in this manor and advowson, but this was in trust, on her marriage with Thomas de Plumsted, called Guodchepe; and accordingly he again assigned this manor and advowson back again to the said Thomas and Isabella his wife.
This Thomas de Plumsted seems also to have been called Thomas de Ditton, in respect of his wife, and to be the same person who paid aid for this manor, in the book for the collecting of which it is thus entered, under the title of the manor of Offeham, and sometime with Godwell annexed, as follows, viz.
Of Thomas de Ditton and John Melford, for one knight's fee, which Ralph de Ditton and Richard de Courtone held in Offeham of the archbishop of Canterbury; of which John de Melford holds one quarter of a knight's fee.
Thomas de Plumsted, alias Ditton, called likewise Thomas Guodchepe, survived his wife Isabella, by whom he had a son and heir, Theobald, and died in the 31st year of that reign, possessed of this manor and advowson, and leaving his second wife, Nichola, guardian to his son before mentioned, then under age.
How long this estate remained in this family I have not seen; but it was not long before the Colepepers, of Aylesford, were in possession of it.
Sir Richard Colepeper, of Oxenhoath, who was sheriff of this county in the 11th year of king Edward IV. died possessed of this manor, with its appendages, Snodbean and Pepingstraw, and the advowson of the church, in the 2d year of king Richard III. anno 1484. He left no issue male; so that his three daughters, Margaret, married to William Cotton, of Oxenhoath; Joyce, the wife of Edmund, lord Howard, and Elizabeth, wife of Henry Barham, of Teston, became his coheirs. They, in the next reign of king Henry VII. joined in the sale of this manor, and its appendages above-mentioned, and the advowson of this church, to Thomas Leigh, of Sibton, in Liminge, in this county. He left issue a son and heir, John Leigh, alias a-Legh, esq. who was of Addington, in the county of Surry, and in the 35th year of king Henry VIII. exchanged this manor and advowson with the appendant manors of Pepingstraw and Snodbeane, with that king, for other lands and premises. After which the king, in his 36th year, granted to William Wilford, John Bennet, and George Briggs, citizens of London, his manors of Ofham, Snodbeane, and Pepingstraw, with their appurtenances, in Ofham, Ryarsh, Yalding, Brenchley, and elsewhere in the county of Kent, to hold in capite by knight's service.
They next year alienated the above premises to John Tuston, esq. of Hothfield, in whose descendants, earls of Thanet, the manor of Ofham, with its appendages of Snodbeane and Pepingstraw, have continued down to the Right Hon. Sackville Tuston, earl of Thanet, the present owner of them.
The court is still held for this manor, which pays a fee-farm of 2l. 6s. 8d. yearly to the crown.
THE OTHER APPENDAGE of the manor of Osham, called GODWELL, which in the 7th year of king Edward II. anno 1313, remained in the possession of Robert de Courtone, passed from that name soon afterwards to Melford, and John de Melford paid aid for it in the 20th year of king Edward III. as one quarter of a knight's fee, which Richard de Courtone before held of the archbishop of Canterbury.
His descendants continued owners of this manor of Godwell till the reign of king Henry VI. when it was conveyed to Browne, whose descendant, Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, in Surry, alienated it about the latter end of the reign of king Henry VIII. to Richard Nortop, alias Clerk, which name he acquired the addition of from his office of clerk of the forest of Sherwood, in Nottinghamshire, and it before long became the common name of this family, who soon afterwards wrote themselves Clerk, alias Nortop, who bore for their arms, Argent, a cross chequy argent, and azure. His descendant, George Clerk, alias Nortop, died possessed of this manor in the reign of king James I. leaving seven daughters his coheirs, (fn. 7) one of whom, Frances, married Mr. Thomas Dowell, who purchased the other six parts of his wife's sisters, and so became entitled to the whole fee of this manor. (fn. 8)
His son of the same name, passed it away by sale in the reign of king Charles II. to Henry Streatfeild, esq. of Chidingstone, whose descendant, Henry Streatfeild, esq. of Chidingstone, in 1781 sold it to Mr. John Smith, who resided at it. Since whose death it has become the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Knell, the present owner of it. There is a court baron held for this manor.
There are no parochial charities.
OFHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and deanry of Malling.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, stands about a quarter of a mile northward from the village. It is a strong building of one isle and a chancel, having a tower steeple on the middle of the north side of it.
The patronage of the church of Ofham continued an appendage to the manor of Ofham from time to time, as has been already shewn; and John Leigh, esq. of Addington, in the 35th year of king Henry VIII. exchanged both manor and advowson with that king for other lands. Since which, though the manor was the next year alienated by the king, yet the advowson of this church continued in the hands of the crown, where it remains at this time.
It is now a discharged living, of the clear yearly certified value of forty pounds, the annual tenths of which are twelve shillings. (fn. 9)