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Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,[6][7] observed most commonly on December 25[4][8][9] as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.[2][10][11] A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or Nativity Fast and is prolonged by the Octave of Christmas and the season of Christmastide. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations,[12][13][14] is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people,[1][15][16] and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

While the birth year of Jesus is estimated among modern historians to have been between 7 and 2 BC, the exact month and day of his birth are unknown,[17][18] and are not the focus of the Church's Christmas celebration.[19][20][21] His birth is mentioned in two of the four canonical gospels. By the early-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25,[22] a date later adopted in the East,[23][24] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which, in the Gregorian calendar, currently corresponds to January 7, the day after the Western Christian Church celebrates the Epiphany. The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived,[25] or with one or more ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice);[26][27] a further solar connection has been suggested because of a biblical verse[a] identifying Jesus as the "Sun of righteousness".[25][28][29]

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins.[30] Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.[31] Because gift-giving and many other aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightened economic activity, the holiday has become a significant event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary as a fulfillment of the Old Testament's Messianic prophecy.[44] The Bible contains two accounts which describe the events surrounding Jesus' birth. Depending on one's perspective, these accounts either differ from each other or tell two versions of the same story.[45][46] These biblical accounts are found in the Gospel of Matthew, namely Matthew 1:18, and the Gospel of Luke, specifically Luke 1:26 and 2:40. According to these accounts, Jesus was born to Mary, assisted by her husband Joseph, in the city of Bethlehem.According to popular tradition, the birth took place in a stable, surrounded by farm animals. A manger (that is, a feeding trough) is mentioned in Luke 2:7, where it states Mary "wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn" (KJV); and "She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them" (NIV). Shepherds from the fields surrounding Bethlehem were told of the birth by an angel, and were the first to see the child.[47] Popular tradition also holds that three kings or wise men (named Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar) visited the infant Jesus in the manger, though this does not strictly follow the biblical account. The Gospel of Matthew instead describes a visit by an unspecified number of magi, or astrologers, sometime after Jesus was born while the family was living in a house (Matthew 2:11), who brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the young child Jesus. The visitors were said to be following a mysterious star, commonly known as the Star of Bethlehem, believing it to announce the birth of a king of the Jews.[48] The commemoration of this visit, the Feast of Epiphany celebrated on January 6, is the formal end of the Christmas season in some churches.

Christians celebrate Christmas in various ways. In addition to this day being one of the most important and popular for the attendance of church services, there are other devotions and popular traditions. In some Christian denominations, children re-enact the events of the Nativity with animals to portray the event with more realism or sing carols that reference the event. A long artistic tradition has grown of producing painted depictions of the nativity in art. Nativity scenes are traditionally set in a stable with livestock and include Mary, Joseph, the infant Jesus in the manger, the three wise men, the shepherds and their sheep, the angels, and the Star of Bethlehem.[49] Some Christians also display a small re-creation of the Nativity, known as a Nativity scene or crèche, in their homes, using figurines to portray the key characters of the event. Prior to Christmas Day, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the 40-day Nativity Fast in anticipation of the birth of Jesus, while much of Western Christianity celebrates four weeks of Advent. The final preparations for Christmas are made on Christmas Eve, and many families' major observation of Christmas actually falls in the evening of this day.The Chronography of 354 AD contains early evidence of the celebration on December 25 of a Christian liturgical feast of the birth of Jesus. This was in Rome, while in Eastern Christianity the birth of Jesus was already celebrated in connection with the Epiphany on January 6.[50][51] The December 25 celebration was imported into the East later: in Antioch by John Chrysostom towards the end of the 4th century,[51] probably in 388, and in Alexandria only in the following century.[52] Even in the West, the January 6 celebration of the nativity of Jesus seems to have continued until after 380.[53] In 245, Origen of Alexandria, writing about Leviticus 12:1–8, commented that Scripture mentions only sinners as celebrating their birthdays, namely Pharaoh, who then had his chief baker hanged (Genesis 40:20–22), and Herod, who then had John the Baptist beheaded (Mark 6:21–27), and mentions saints as cursing the day of their birth, namely Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:14–15) and Job (Job 3:1–16).[54] In 303, Arnobius ridiculed the idea of celebrating the birthdays of gods, a passage cited as evidence that Arnobius was unaware of any nativity celebration.[55] Since Christmas does not celebrate Christ's birth "as God" but "as man", this is not evidence against Christmas being a feast at this time.[7] The fact the Donatists of North Africa celebrated Christmas may indicate that the feast was established by the time that church was created in 311.[citation needed]

Many popular customs associated with Christmas developed independently of the commemoration of Jesus' birth, with certain elements having origins in pre-Christian festivals that were celebrated around the winter solstice by pagan populations who were later converted to Christianity. These elements, including the Yule log from Yule and gift giving from Saturnalia,[56] became syncretized into Christmas over the centuries. The prevailing atmosphere of Christmas has also continually evolved since the holiday's inception, ranging from a sometimes raucous, drunken, carnival-like state in the Middle Ages,[57] to a tamer family-oriented and children-centered theme introduced in a 19th-century reformation.[58][59] Additionally, the celebration of Christmas was banned on more than one occasion within certain Protestant groups, such as the Puritans, due to concerns that it was too pagan or unbiblical.[60][61]Choice of December 25 date

One theory to explain the choice of 25 December for the celebration of the birth of Jesus is that the purpose was to Christianize the pagan festival in Rome of the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means "the birthday of the Unconquered Sun", a festival inaugurated by the Roman emperor Aurelian (270–275) to celebrate the sun god and celebrated at the winter solstice, 25 December.[68][69] According to this theory, during the reign of the emperor Constantine, Christian writers assimilated this feast as the birthday of Jesus, associating him with the 'sun of righteousness' mentioned in Malachi 4:2 (Sol Iustitiae).[68][69]

An explicit expression of this theory appears in an annotation of uncertain date added to a manuscript of a work by 12th-century Syrian bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi. The scribe who added it wrote: "It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25 December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and revelries the Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be solemnised on that day." [70] This idea became popular especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.[71][72][73]

In the judgement of the Church of England Liturgical Commission, this view has been seriously challenged[74] by a view based on an old tradition, according to which the date of Christmas was fixed at nine months after 25 March, the date of the vernal equinox, on which the Annunciation was celebrated.[75] This alternative view is considered academically to be "a thoroughly viable hypothesis", though not certain.[76] The Jewish calendar date of 14 Nisan was believed to be that of creation,[77] as well as of the Exodus and so of Passover, and Christians held that the new creation, both the death of Jesus and the beginning of his human life, occurred on the same date, which some put at 25 March in the Julian calendar.[74][78][79][80] It was a traditional Jewish belief that great men lived a whole number of years, without fractions, so that Jesus was considered to have been conceived on 25 March, as he died on 25 March, which was calculated to have coincided with 14 Nisan.[81] Sextus Julius Africanus (c.160 – c.240) gave 25 March as the day of creation and of the conception of Jesus.[82] In his work Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus (c. 130–202) identified the conception of Jesus as March 25 and linked it to the crucifixion at the time of the equinox, with the birth of Jesus nine months after on December 25 at the time of the solstice.[83] An anonymous work known as De Pascha Computus (243) linked the idea that creation began at the spring equinox, on 25 March, with the conception or birth (the word nascor can mean either) of Jesus on 28 March, the day of the creation of the sun in the Genesis account. One translation reads: "O the splendid and divine providence of the Lord, that on that day, the very day, on which the sun was made, the 28 March, a Wednesday, Christ should be born. For this reason Malachi the prophet, speaking about him to the people, fittingly said, 'Unto you shall the sun of righteousness arise, and healing is in his wings.'"[7][84] The tractate De solstitia et aequinoctia conceptionis et nativitatis Domini nostri Iesu Christi et Iohannis Baptistae falsely attributed to John Chrysostom also argued that Jesus was conceived and crucified on the same day of the year and calculated this as 25 March.[75][80] This anonymous tract also states: "But Our Lord, too, is born in the month of December ... the eight before the calends of January [25 December] ..., But they call it the 'Birthday of the Unconquered'. Who indeed is so unconquered as Our Lord ...? Or, if they say that it is the birthday of the Sun, He is the Sun of Justice."[7] A passage of the Commentary on the prophet Daniel by Hippolytus of Rome, written in about 204, has also been appealed to.[85][86]

With regard to a December religious feast of the sun as a god (Sol), as distinct from a solstice feast of the (re)birth of the astronomical sun, one scholar has commented that, "while the winter solstice on or around December 25 was well established in the Roman imperial calendar, there is no evidence that a religious celebration of Sol on that day antedated the celebration of Christmas".[87] "Thomas Talley has shown that, although the Emperor Aurelian's dedication of a temple to the sun god in the Campus Martius (C.E. 274) probably took place on the 'Birthday of the Invincible Sun' on December 25, the cult of the sun in pagan Rome ironically did not celebrate the winter solstice nor any of the other quarter-tense days, as one might expect."[83] The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought remarks on the uncertainty about the order of precedence between the religious celebrations of the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun and of the birthday of Jesus, stating that the hypothesis that 25 December was chosen for celebrating the birth of Jesus on the basis of the belief that his conception occurred on 25 March "potentially establishes 25 December as a Christian festival before Aurelian's decree, which, when promulgated, might have provided for the Christian feast both opportunity and challenge".[88]

The Chronography of 354, an illuminated manuscript compiled in Rome, is an early reference to the date of the nativity as December 25.[89] In the East, early Christians celebrated the birth of Christ as part of Epiphany (January 6), although this festival emphasized celebration of the baptism of Jesus.[90]

Christmas was promoted in the Christian East as part of the revival of Catholicism following the death of the pro-Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The feast was introduced to Constantinople in 379, and to Antioch in about 380. The feast disappeared after Gregory of Nazianzus resigned as bishop in 381, although it was reintroduced by John Chrysostom in about 400.[7]Gift giving

The exchanging of gifts is one of the core aspects of the modern Christmas celebration, making it the most profitable time of year for retailers and businesses throughout the world. Gift giving was common in the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, an ancient festival which took place in late December and may have influenced Christmas customs.[56] On Christmas, people exchange gifts based on the tradition associated with St. Nicholas,[164] and the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh which were given to the baby Jesus by the Magi.[165][166]Using the Julian calendar

Some Eastern Orthodox national churches, including those of Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem mark feasts using the older Julian calendar. December 25 on the Julian calendar currently corresponds to January 7 on the internationally used Gregorian calendar. However, other Orthodox Christians, such as the churches of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Antioch, Alexandria, Albania, Finland, and the Orthodox Church in America, among others, began using the Revised Julian calendar in the early 20th century, which at present corresponds exactly to the Gregorian calendar.[9]

The original date of the celebration in Eastern Christianity was January 6, in connection with Epiphany, and that is still the date of the celebration for the Armenian Apostolic Church and in Armenia, where it is a public holiday. As of 2014, there is a difference of 13 days between the modern Gregorian calendar and the older Julian calendar. Those who continue to use the Julian calendar or its equivalents thus celebrate December 25 and January 6, which on the Gregorian calendar translate as January 7 and January 19. For this reason, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia, and the Republic of Moldova celebrate Christmas on what in the Gregorian calendar is January 7. Eastern Orthodox Churches in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Antioch, Alexandria, Albania, Finland, and the Orthodox Church in America celebrate Christmas on December 25 in the revised Julian calendar, corresponding to December 25 also in the Gregorian calendar.

Rack: This may be behind a pay wall (to the attached NYT link). I think of you in the same breath as all of these people, and indeed in a higher octave because the work is so raw and pure, and I lived with it during impossible days and it helped to save me.

Glad you’re getting back to your first loves. They will help arm you.

Have been strangely happy and perhaps embarking on a whole new chapter that I’m reluctant to elucidate for fear of the evil eye.

And have been enjoying summer more than I remember doing so. It may be that I’ll just take any old season now. ‘I’ll take the lot,’ to quote Mr. Creosote.

Hope you’re well and that the work goes well.

Ruin: No, I could see it. We have a 'New York Times' account. Of course, there is a conjoined bitter/sweet reaction to this article, this late re-evaluation of Aids-related art, these new collectors and talk of inspiring the auction houses to re-think their value. But that’s it really, it is about the market, almost all of the artists being dead, and those of us who are still here have been dealing with disbanding what we have made for fear of it bankrupting ourselves, all that storage, all that preservation. Thankfully we have words still, and these can be collected without much self-sacrifice. Actually, they are the opposite of that, they are a source of some joy, and even a centering device, so that the normal unravelling, that compounding of years and the influence of the disease, becomes neither here nor there. It can supply that urgency to ‘kick against the pricks’, that “embarking on a whole new chapter”, you speak of. I say fuck that evil eye. My impetus is to drag those twin buggers across the coals too, until they give out, like everything else. Bring on your best, bring on your worst, I am ready.

I find the unravelling to be sweet, as it would happen.

There was a lot of saving each other in those early days in New York. I felt as cack-handed as I have always managed to be, there’s very little sophistry there, I know. It was the best I could do at the time, the most honest way I could honour us. Manhattan was liberating, especially after the covert ‘anti-Irish’ racism of London. I say covert, but it wasn’t always so. Sometimes, it was profoundly explicit. I noted somewhat of a change in the 90s, when being Irish became somewhat trendy, but I had left by that time.

You were clever enough to fly over that small island and head towards that other small island, on the east coast of the USA. My first trip to Manhattan was in 1979. I spent three months there, ending with a Joni Mitchell concert in ‘Forest Lawns’. I was hooked, on New York I mean (and Joni). It was also, on the flight back to London, that I read Octavio Paz’s book on Marcel Duchamp, my undoing. London was really over for me, from that point forward, but it would take another 7 years before I could project myself back to the ‘Big Apple’.

I like things taking their own sweet time.

Yes, I am beginning to look again at Boris Vian, Raymond Roussel, Alfred Jarry, and of course Duchamp, but all, somewhat, through the influence of David Shields. The other usual suspects will be there too, of course, Joyce, Goya and others, including the hapless Marcus Sarjeant, who took pot-shots at the queen during the trooping of the guard in 1981, with a starting pistol. This somewhat motley crew will take me towards the idea, this description of us evolving from those edges of sexual expression, called homosexuality, through gender dysphoria and fluidity towards the neutered self, possibly as a byproduct of endocrine disruptors. This will also evolve out of a story called ‘Rack & Ruin’, two more hapless spectators, who themselves might be barking mad.

This writer, Rob Baker, wrote two very nice pages about my work in this book, putting me alongside Sue Coe and others. He was one of the earliest writers to recognise what was going on there, relative to the scourge and the making of art.

Did I mention that a lot of this description might take 'email' and 'Immediate Message' form, and even include comments left on this very organ?

Mr. Creosote's "take the lot" sounds like good advice. I am there with you. I am somewhat aware that I am making this thing very complicated, but what can I say? The nature of the beast, and all that, in a try to say it all, and see how far you get, sort of way.

It's sort of becoming a culmination of everything I have been thinking about, making art about, and writing about for the past 40 years. I am not going to worry if it is 'right' or 'wrong'. Shoot one's wad and have done with it, seems to be the recipe for whatever this turns out to be. I will leave the 'double blind' testing to the science bods, in a 'proof of the pudding' sort of way.

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43-49336 Douglas VC-47D Skytrain. Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum 20th July 2012

In the 1890s George Minne moved in progressive circles and came into contact with socialist and anarchist ideas. He befriended influential figures such as Henry Van de Velde, Emile Verhaeren, Octave Maus and Edmond Picard, all of whom were active in the Section d'art of the Brusselse Volkshuis, the culture house of the Belgian Workers' Party (Parti Ouvrier Belge).

In 1898 Minne made a design for the party for a monument, Solidarity, following the sudden death of the journalist and socialist leader Jean Volders. The memorial was the artist's first project for public space. We do not see an image of Volders himself, but of a slender, apparently stretched naked youth – one of Minne's main motifs since 1889 – who appears in duplicate in this work of art.

Minne's teacher, Charles Van der Stappen, once called his student 'the sculptor of the gesture'. Due to the specific focus on gestures and poses, Minne's figures always seem to be under tension, both physically and psychologically. The two young men stand with their legs apart, forearms folded, on the prow of an apparently sinking ship.

The delicate balance between the two is accentuated by the fragile rendering of both the figures and the boat. Despite the precarious situation in which the men find themselves, a sense of balance prevails here. That was to make this image a universal symbol of the deep human need for brotherhood, sincere support, help and solidarity. Yet it is also striking that all in all there is little profound human interaction between the two figures. In this way they do not grab each other with their hands and instead look expressionless next to each other. It is unclear whether that visible lack of human contact played a role, but the workmen's party rejected Minne's proposal. The plaster design for the monument in the public space, which was three meters high in full size, was destroyed

Pontifical Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament, celebrated by His Eminence, Vincent Cardinal Nichols

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Exposition au Grand Palais "Moi, Auguste, empereur de Rome" (19 mars 2014-13 juillet 2014)

Début ou milieu de l'époque d'Auguste

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Ukrainian Divine Liturgy - Hieromartyr Anthimus & Venerable Theoctistus, celebrated by Rt Revd Mitred Archpriest Mykola Matwijiwskyj

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A full octave, functional ocarina that began life as a large pinch pot. Sculptural and altered pieces were added to make this more of a display piece more than a functional piece.

Stoneware - 12" in length

This project is an expansion of these pieces from a couple of years ago:

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Keedie has a fantastic voice

Keedie Green (born Keedie Babb, 21 October 1982, Wolverhampton) is a British classical crossover soprano,[1] with three octaves in her voice that reaches a top A above a top E.[2]

Background

She was baptised as Keedie because her father is a fan of Kiki Dee.[3]

The family moved to Torquay when she was three years old and she subsequently attended White Rock Primary school in Paignton.[4]

Her father had an intermittent work as a painter and decorator, paying for his daughter's vocal lessons while narrowly avoiding bankruptcy, until one Christmas when bankruptcy made the family temporarily homeless.

Keedie left school when she was 14 years old to pursue a singing career, signing her first record contract when she was 16 years old, but soon became disillusioned and left to pursue her career alone.[5]

Career[edit] 2003-2005

In 2003 Keedie appeared in a local Torquay talent show, "Stairway to the Stars"; this appearance brought her to fame.[6] On 30 November 2003, Keedie performed at a World AIDS Day event at the Coronet theatre in London together with Liberty X in aid of Crusaid.[7]

In 2004, Keedie signed a seven figure music deal with EMI Classics,[8] after she duetted with former Blue member Duncan James, on "I Believe My Heart", the soundtrack to the Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical, The Woman in White. The single reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.[9] She also performed at the Miami and Washington Film Festivals.[5]

Her second single, a cover version of the hymn "Jerusalem", was released as a charity single in the UK on 18 December 2005, and entered the UK chart at #19.[9]

The single featured the victorious English cricket team who had just won the Ashes Test Series. Proceeds of the single were split equally between the Save the Children’s "Children in Emergencies Appeal" and two cricket charities.[10]

Her debut album I Believe My Heart was released on 18 November 2004, and met with positive reviews. It includes a variety of contemporary tracks and arrangements, and also featured the title theme "My Reason", from the film Modigliani; the video for which Keedie filmed on location in Bucharest.

The album includes two pop covers: Madonna's "You'll See" and Enya's "Only Time", seven original songs and nine arias. After her album was released, Keedie went on to record Puccini's Nessun Dorma.

[edit] 2005-2006Keedie parted ways with her record company, EMI classics, at the end of 2005. During this time she was able to secure gigs at sporting events and celebrity private parties, such as Michael Parkinson and Anthea Turner.[citation needed]

On 4 September 2005, she appeared at the Grand Finale of the Kent Music Festival along with Katherine Jenkins and G4.[11]

On 26 February 2006, Keedie sang the National Anthem at the Carling Cup final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.[12] In May 2006, Keedie was asked to sing "Time To Say Goodbye" at former Newcastle United footballer Alan Shearer's testimonial at St James' Park.

She performed the song after the game during the finale, and also performed earlier before the game.[13]

[edit] 2007-presentIn 2007 Keedie performed alongside Tina Turner in a one-off concert, The Bedrock Ball, in aid of the charity, Caudwell Children, at the National History Museum.

It was the first live concert Tina Turner had performed in seven years. Keedie was the only artist to support Turner at the charity gig and she performed in front celebrities such as Richard Hammond, Tara Palmer Tompkinson and David Gest.[4]

Keedie said after landing the gig[4]:

“ It was probably one of the most amazing nights I have ever seen. It was mind-blowing. I have never seen anything like it. There was so many celebrities there. When I performed I had a standing ovation and Tina's bouncer told me she had been watching me and had said I was phenomenal. It was really nerve-wracking. ”

Keedie was then invited to sing before David Beckham's first match for LA Galaxy in the United States.[citation needed] She was also booked for a private party for George Clooney and another charity gig in Moscow which was organised by Nelson Mandela.[citation needed]

In May 2007, a special charity album entitled KN21 was released in aid of Children's Hospice South-West. The album consisted of live recordings of Keedie and her sister Nadine from 1993 - when they were 11 and 10 years old, and called themselves KN21 - a name using the first initials of their names plus their combined age at the time. The tracks are mainly covers from the 1960s which were recorded during the girls "Swinging Sixties" show at the Great Western Hotel in Paignton. The album also has two exclusive bonus tracks which Keedie recorded in 2005 - "Nessun Dorma" and "Would I Know", an original song penned by American songwriter, Diane Warren, and previously used in the Charlotte Church film I'll Be There.[14] Diane Warren, is said to be in the process of writing a song for Keedie to sing on a forthcoming album.[4]

In 2010, it was revealed Keedie had auditioned for The X Factor under her marital name of Keedie Green.[15]

[edit] AlbumsI Believe My Heart (2004)

[edit] Singles"I Believe My Heart" (2004) (duet with Duncan James) - UK #2[9]

"Jerusalem" (2005) (& the England Cricket Team) - UK #19[9]

[edit] References1.^ "Seven-figure deal for Keedie". Birmingham Mail. 2004-11-04. icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_ob.... Retrieved 2007-08-27.

2.^ "Keedie". Last FM. www.last.fm/music/Keedie. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

3.^ Lynskey, Dorian (2004-12-09). "Rock me, Verdi". London: The Guardian. arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1369683,00.html. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

4.^ a b c d "Like Tina, Keedie is "Simply the best"". Torquay Herald Express. 2007-05-22. www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134844&.... Retrieved 2007-08-27.

5.^ a b "Keedie". Classic FM TV. 2005. www.classicfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=251315. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

6.^ "Herman's Habits - Page the Songbird". Elton John World. 2004-10-29. www.eltonjohnworld.com/coranto/herman/200410.html. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

7.^ "Liberty X to play the Coronet at World AIDS Day event". London SE1 community website. 2003-10-30. www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/697. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

8.^ "Singer Keedie signs classical album deal". BBC Entertainment. 2004-11-07. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3982257.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

9.^ a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 297. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

10.^ ECB.co.uk

11.^ "Gigs and concerts coming to Kent". BBC Entertainment. 2005. www.bbc.co.uk/kent/entertainment/music/events.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-27. [dead link]

12.^ "Carling Cup final clockwatch". BBC Sport. 2006-02-26. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/4752806.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

13.^ "Keedie sings for the testimonial game". Newcastle United F.C.. 2006. www.nufcpics.com/pictures_232390/Keedie-sings-for-the-Tes.... Retrieved 2007-08-27.

14.^ "Keedie's classic charity effort". Torquay Herald Express. 2007-05-16. www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134844&.... Retrieved 2007-08-27.

15.^ "Keedie Green impresses The X Factor judges". TellyMix. 2010-06-17. xfactor.tellymix.co.uk/2010/news/14321-keedie-green-impre.... Retrieved 2010-06-17.

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Rodin

Hatje Cantz

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Rodin . Femme Accroupie (Plâtre) . Porte De L'Enfer (Détail) . 1882

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From Brussels With Love

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Fantasy and Science Fiction / Magazin-Reihe

- George Alec Effinger / Opening Night

- Barry N. Malzberg / Blait House

- B. L. Keller / Flora

- Ron Goulart / Blockbuster [Jose Silvera]

- Bruce Holland Rogers / The Krishman Cube

- Isaak Asimov / Four Hundred Octaves

- Richard Mueller / The Chains of the Sea

- Charles Sheffield / The Devil of Malkirk

cover: Ron Walotsky

(Cover illustrates "The Devil of Malkirk")

Editor: Edward L. Ferman

Mercury Press Inc. (Cornwall / USA; 1982)

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Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Krakow (Copernicus Street)

Jesus - Conventual Church of the Jesuits

Distinctive emblem for cultural property.svg A- 299, 5 July 1966 [1 ]

Minor Basilica • suitable title since July 1, 1960

Pope John XXIII

Call of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Liturgical memorial Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi

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The interior of the church

Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Roman Catholic Jesuit convent church, which is located in Krakow, in Quarter II, the Merry Street Copernicus 26

Modernist architecture of the building represents the Young Poland and is one of the greatest works of Polish religious art from the first quarter of the twentieth century.

History

At this point, the Jesuits settled in 1868, and two years later erected the first chapel, which quickly proved to be insufficient. In 1903 it was decided to build a new, magnificent temple. The implementation of the adopted project by architect Francis Mączyński.

Originally it housed a large reality belonging to Peter Joseph Szyryna, that included the so called fruit and vegetable garden. English palace complex of smaller buildings and bungalows. The Jesuits acquired the property for $ 16 thousand guilders. Makeshift chapel in the 30s it was decided to put the building on the today Copernicus street. In June 1869, proceeded to demolish the house, leaving only the foundation and load-bearing walls. The left wall sacristy was added to the upper chapel (St. Aloysius) and the women's gallery and a new roof. In 1870, the floor was laid with plates made of Belgian marble and were built arched arcades separating the two side aisles of the nave. Then carefully shaped barrel vault and semicircular founded colorful windows in iron fittings. The completed building was 21 meters long, 11 meters wide and 9 meters high. Inside the chapel there is an altar with the image of Belarus brought from the Heart of Jesus and the two side altars dedicated to Our Lady and St. Joseph (Image by Antoni Reichenberg). In 1889 was founded a new, larg, richly carved altar and side altars images replaced with sculptures by Mayer of Munich. Later the chapel was built more extensive room where pomieszczono (mixed up) additional chapel and sacristy for clergy. Consecration of the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus took place August 28, 1870, the temple served the faithful for 42 years. Last service in the chapel was held on 20 May 1912 and transferred the Blessed Sacrament in the walls of a new building next to the church. The chapel began to undress on May 21.

November 1, 1909 , Bishop Suffragan Bishop of Cracow Anatol Nowak blessed the cornerstone of the new church. Construction lasted until 1912, but the equipment and decoration of the church because of the war were firmly extended Finally, the official consecration took place on 29 May 1921, the Bishop of Anatol Nowak made ​​her in the company of 24 other bishops, who lived then in Krakow, the Polish Episcopal Conference.

In 1960, Pope John XXIII granted the title of minor basilica church, and since 1966 it is registered as monument. In 1960 it was decorated a chapel in the church of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, which is October 29 of that year, consecrated by Bishop Karol Wojtyla.

Art

Architecture

The architect of the church appealed not only to modernism, but to practice the tradition of Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque. The church tower is 68 meters high and is one of the highest in Krakow. The church walls are made of red bricks, window frames and detail of gray stone. In the middle in the final of each window there is a mosaic-arms of the cities that contributed to the construction of the church.

Above the portal, the tower is a mosaic "Puncture the side of Christ", made and designed by John Bukowski, a little higher sculpture designed by Xawery Dunikowskiego. The figure of Christ in Odkuł-stone by Charles Hukan, the side of the lead characters were cast in 1913. They symbolize the suffering humanity and seeking comfort in the heart of God.

Outside the sacristy, on the east wall of the church, there is a memorial temple of artist Francis Mączyński in 1912 , by Xawery Dunikowskiego. Statue cast in bronze offered Jesuits architect 's widow in 1953.

Interior

The interior of the basilica is divided into three naves. Vaults, first in Krakow, made ​​of reinforced concrete. The floor mimics the patterns of early Christian churches. In the years 1914-1918 polychrome vaults made ​​and designed by John Bukowski. Mosaic of the nave in 1922, designed by Leonard Strojnowski, benches designed by Francis Mączyński a backdrop confessionals John Bukowski. Stations of the Cross purchased in France in 1937 by the Jesuits, for the purpose of churches in Kołomyja, but in 1946 it was brought to Krakow and installed in 1959.

The high altar, built between 1915-1920, is the work of Francis Mączyński. Frieze of mosaic in the chancel was designed in 1913 by Peter Stachiewicz, and executed by the company Gianese Angelo in Venice. The church was placed in 1921. Mosaic is 30 meters long, is a tribute to Christ by the holy and blessed Polish led by St . Stanislaus and the Polish nation, famed for Jesus by Queen Jadwiga Andegawenkę and her husband, King Wladyslaw Jagiello.

The six side altars made ​​in stucco placed between 1920-1930 sculptures by Charles Hukana. Attention is drawn in particular altar of Our Lady of the Angels, who, according to art historians, is one of the most valuable works of sacred art in Poland in the interwar period . Virgin Mary is presented as Queen of the crown, adored by a group of eight angels.

Authorities

Authorities were purchased in 1928 in the well-known firm of brothers Riegerów Jägerndorf (opus 2317). Then repaired several times (most recently in 2007), now have 47 votes and tracker power. Decorated in a romantic style sonic characteristic of organ building late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The church is located on the route of the Malopolska Way of St James from Sandomierz to Tyniec.

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The Octave of Easter, known as Low Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, has also come to be known in more recent times as "Divine Mercy Sunday." It was through St. John Paul II that the Octave of Easter received this new title in the Church's calendar. Drawing inspiration from the diary of Sister Faustina, the Octave of Easter has received a renewed emphasis on the mercy of God.

In a beautiful homily delivered on this day by St. Augustine of Hippo, he declared to the newly baptized, "You have been buried with Christ by baptism into death in order that, as Christ has risen from the dead, you also may walk in newness of life." For it was traditionally on this day that the Church received her newly baptized catechumens with maternal delight. Holy Mother Church rejoiced over her new children, all of which is made possible by the mercy of God in calling us to Himself while we were yet sinners.

St. Faustina recorded these words from our Lord Himself: "I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy." May we turn with trust to the Divine Mercy of Almighty God and seek Him in all things.

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It's a tiny glass prism, in fact just a pair of facets of a prismatic convex faceted "crystal" designed to spray tiny rainbow beams like this around the room when the sunlight hits it.

It's possible to change the appearance of this image a lot by mucking around with exposure etc. in post processing. None of them look quite like what I see with my eyes. This adjustment semed to give the closest approximation to what I can see while exposing the important diferences between what the camera sees and what I see. My eyes can't pick up the dim purple and magenta shades at the end of the blue which are just barely visible here, but I might be ble to see them if the room was darker. The dark grey background is actually a white wall.

The other strange difference is that each pool of a primary colour seems to be an oval, such as the red oval and the green oval, with the secondary colours formed by their intersections, such as the yellow formed where the red and green intersect. Whereas my eyes see more like bands of colour with straighter boundaries, like the illustrations in textbooks.

Isaac Newton, the inventor of the cat flap, spent a lot of time investigating colours, and decided that there were seven, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Why those? I find it much easier to see a few different greens than a few different blues. And why seven? Seems to me you could just as well argue for six or eight. Did Newton choose seven for mystical reasons? We can for example see nearly an octave of light, roughly the span of a dimished seventh, the original harmonically lowered version of the modern equally tempered diminished seventh. If sight went round in tonal circles of octaves like sound (as we hear it) then the next note past the diminished seventh of violet would be red again, or red an octave up. As the colour wheel of artists suggests.

So is it coincidence that the harmonically adjusted diminished seventh of our equaly tempered scale, at the blue end of the spectrum, is called a blue note? Is there more to synaesthesia than electrical leakage in the nervous soup of the brain?

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missing two of my Octave dividers to repair. Notice the incorrect knobs on the Octave Divider on the left. They do not make the "D" style POTs to my knowledge anymore. If they do, I need to aquire two. Digital delay also in for repair.

Octave

Moody Blues

London PS 708

1978

Atmos, a Green-Ringer-based octaver with extra LED clipping.

Sound clips in my octaver pedal shootout.

R4 is a 390 Ohm resistor and a 5 K pot to ground.

R14 can also be a 50 K pot for a variable high-pass filter.

hFE of the transistors I used was approximately 500, 600, 500.

One idea was to get as much of the signal to the first clipping stage as possible (large capacitor values), then cut some bass before the rectification to make the signal more uniform and make it "glue together" better (smaller capacitor values) and then use larger capacitor values again to keep the subharmonics.

The 2.2 pF value for C3 was chosen to move the distortion outside the bass and the lower mid range. 1 pF also works but is not as crunchy. Higher values might also sound good.

Read Dan Armstrong "Green Ringer" /// Clone and Mods for the components that should be matched.

Same lighting diagram than here !

Studor Mixing Console at PS Audio's Recording Studio, Octave Records, Once Owned by Neil Young

enjoying the view from the #Octave at #Marriott #Sukhumvit rooftop bar, #Bangkok

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www.stvincent.edu | The Saint Vincent College March of the Bearcats Drumline was invited to perform with the Pittsburgh Steelers official drumline prior to the Steelers pre-season game with the Philadelphia Eagles. That same evening, Saint Vincent College assistant professor of music Thomas Octave sang the national anthem

Foxx Tone Machine.

I'm working on a pedalboard. There will be two signal paths -- one dirty and one fuzzy. Dirty is going to be something like DOD 201 -> Lovepedal COT50 -> Zombie (or other dirt). Fuzzy is going to be Fuzz Face -> Ibanez Standard Fuzz -> Dice Works Astronimus.

I'm making the cables myself, but I'm not yet really good at it -- only half of the cables I made worked.

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Tom Sopwith

[ca. 1910]

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Notes:

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows English aviator Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888-1989) in the Howard Wright biplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

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· Octave ·

My mind was blown when I discovered an octave has twelve notes, not eight! I find that very confusing, since the latin root for “octave” means “eighth.”

I’ve been reading a music theory book so that I can better understand music and jam with my band mates. Eventually, I want to be able to look at a guitar chord notation and know what keys to press on the keyboard. Understanding how a song is structured also helps when I reverse engineer musical breaks onto the keyboard.

Shirt, Forever 21 (thrifted). Skirt, Urban Coco. Bag, A+ by Aldo. Bag strap, Paxmate. Boots, Seychelles.

Like the Kazakhs and other Central Asian peoples, the Kyrgyz have a distinct folk music with unique instruments that are considered national symbols. One such instrument is the Temir Komuz, which is sometimes called the "jew's harp" or the "jaw harp". The instrument's size determines its range but most are 4 to 6 in (10 to 15 cm) and cover an octave span. The musician's mouth acts as the sound box and movement of the tongue can change the timbre of the sound produced. Many Kyrgyz can play this instrument and it is especially popular with children.

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

This photograph is dedicated to flickr friend and lover of music, Farya.

Extraction of a Songbird (The Boy Who Spoke in Octaves), 2019.

From The Sialia Marbles, my first solo show which ran at MMX Gallery, London, 5th December 2019 - 15th February 2020.

The Sialia Marbles contains over 40 original hand-coloured prints, which together create an anthology of fractured tales inspired by the scared energy of traditional sculpture halls. A wing of my own Le Musee Imaginaire, an idea initially proposed by Andre Malraux, which can be defined as, 'the personal or cultural mental storehouse of images of the noblest works of art’ (Haley, 2002). These tableaus are cast in a form of fictional rigour mortis, through the symbolic reference to the weight and endurance of marble sculpture.

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E. Platt's Eastman Octave with my Standard shaped Cocobolo Armrest

Close-up right side view of A-4A Skyhawk BuNo 139947 (Blue Angels #6, Lucy) tail section, Octave Chanute Museum, August 1999. Photo by Len Lundh.

North American P-51H Mustang

USAAF

Octave Chanute Air Museum

Rantoul,IL 12/6/2014

Marked as 44-64195 flown by Claude J. Crenshaw with the 82nd Fighter Group. Aircraft is named "Louisiana Heatwave"

The museum shut it's doors on 30th December 2015 due to financial issues.

The COT50s were nice, but noisy.

Ironically, the Burford Mosquito kicked my Ibanez Standard Fuzz off the board. It's low output level requires the use of a boost (Stratoblaster) though. The black pedal is an Atmos.

The Lovepedal Black Magic is not stock. Most of the time, I run it through a 10-band MXR EQ for some mid scoop.

Both the Lovepedal Balance and the Black Magic are temporary solutions.