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A candidate plots points on a map he must find at a night land navigation course during the Expert Field Medical Badge competition in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sept. 8. Before the EFMB candidates take the actual testing they all must go through the standardization phase. During this portion the service members are taught what they must do at each of the different lanes so they understand what to expect before the actual testing phase. Passing rates for the badge range from 5-25 percent of candidates, making the EFMB a distinctive mark in a Soldier's records. About us: U.S. Army Europe is uniquely positioned to advance American strategic interests across Eurasia and has unparalleled capability to prevent conflict, shape the environment and, if necessary, win decisively. The relationships we build during 1000 theater security cooperation events in more than 40 countries each year lead directly to support for multinational contingency operations around the world, strengthen regional partnerships, and enhance global security. (photo by Sgt. Michael Reinsch, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
Curling player at European Curling Championships C-Division 2019 - ECCC2019 - Brasov 12-17 Aprilie 2019
Your child’s safety could be in jeopardy if your car seat is not installed correctly. Before you install your car seat, make sure you’re familiar with vehicle and car seat parts used in the installation process.
a free to download and use image of 5 of the master points used in microsystems auricular acupuncture.
image data conversion.
interactive conversion of pixel-based graphics into points. Code written in Processing.
#176 and #95 wait with their Superliner consists in the company of a Cascades trainset trailing #90340 at Portland Union Station (3-17-2015).
Hometeam: Crusaders roll to sixth straight win.BOYS' BASKETBALL: WHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN 65, SUTTON 26.By Carl Setterlund CORRESPONDENT..NORTHBRIDGE— Central Mass. Division 3 champion Whitinsville Christian may have lost superstar point guard Colin Richey in a prep school transfer this year, but the Crusaders have regrouped and are rounding into form as evidenced by their 65-26 thumping of Sutton High Friday night. .Rangy seniors Grant Brown and Antonio Estrella missed the first four games of the season, but the Crusaders finally looked at full strength against the Sammies, with Brown scoring 16 of his game-high 18 points in the first half. ..“There's a lot of things that came out tonight,” said Brown, a crowd-pleaser with his crafty finishing. “(Last year's state semifinal) was the hardest loss I've ever had and between that and losing to Sutton last year… We wanted revenge.” ..Junior center Graham Tienhaara also started strong, scoring six of his 10 points in the first quarter, while senior captain Tim Dufficy scored six of his eight in the third quarter before the starters came out. All 11 Crusaders scored a field goal. ..“We had a great week of practice and we were ready to play tonight,” said WC coach Jeff Bajema, whose squad won its sixth straight game, improving to 6-1 (4-1 Dual Valley). “We executed, played pretty good defense, and we rebounded well and when we do that, we're OK.” ..Whitinsville Christian faces two tough tests next week — at fifth-ranked St. Peter-Marian on Monday and at No. 7 St. Bernard's on Thursday. ..Brown, a 6-foot-3 forward with a hairstyle reminiscent of Tim Lincecum, said the memory of suffering the first DVC loss in three years to Sutton in 2012 stuck with them and played a factor in WC rushing out to a 40-12 halftime lead. ..“This is a huge rivalry for us,” Bajema said. The coach said he felt that “it showed” out on the court how badly his kids wanted this victory. ..Six-foot bruiser Gordy Smythe scored nine of his 13 points after the break to lead the Sammies (3-6, 1-4), with the junior serving as the only reliable scoring threat. ..Sutton was able to bookend the first quarter with a pair of 3s as Matt Soule hit from deep to open the scoring and Tom McGovern tacked on another at the buzzer. ..Brown scored four of his eight first-quarter points during a 10-0 run that spaced it out to 16-5 with 2:45 left in the period. ..Brown and Tienhaara were at it again in the second quarter, combining for 10 points as the Crusaders started the quarter on a 16-0 run, forcing turnovers and getting out in transition. Sutton was held scoreless the first 6:49 of the quarter. ..“He's just an active kid on the glass,” Bajema said of Tienhaara. “He never quits.” ..Dufficy converted a physical layup and then hit a 15-footer from the right side on the next possession as he joined with Brown in getting Whitinsville Christian off to an 8-0 start to the second half to take a 48-12 lead. ..Smythe hit a 3-pointer and a free throw to mix in four straight Sutton points, but Whitinsville Christian countered and carried a 57-19 advantage heading into the fourth quarter. ..From - www.telegram.com/article/20130112/NEWS/101129969/1152/hom....
Shot at ISO 3200, Aperture of 2.8, Shutter speed of 1/640 and Focal Length of 70.0 mm
Taken with a 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM lens and processed by Aperture 3.4.3 on Friday January-11-2013 20:05 EST PM
Points. Dots.. Period... mirit ben nun
The exposing of the aboriginal painting, (The Aborigines Tribes of Australia) to the western world in the 1970s infused an adrenaline rush like energy into modern drawing and relatively soon thereafter was accepted as a legitimate art form as well as an influential and inspirational source.
This tribal art form creates religious symbols for ritualistic purposes and its aestheticism is characterized with the hues of the land. Contemporary West-African artists are emphasizing similar elements in their work. They have diverted their attention to a continuous urge of constructing plateaus of colorful dots that please the eye with rich, velvet- like textures and winding images.
There is no doubt that Mirit Ben Nun s art derives, like a refreshing meteor in our skies, from that very source into our over- saturated art of photographic images and messages. As a self-taught artist, she grew outside of the lubricated system of art academies and does not suffer from the search for meaning. Her paintings burst out from within her as a primordial need to provoke the canvas, to attack it with an unstoppable obsession that leaves no corner hiding. The need to self- express does not stop but wants to continue and flow with her spiritual storm - perhaps to silence the demons within.
The painting is engulfing as a result of being primitive, free from justification and the sense of guilt for not being intellectual. It comes from the unconscious creative the psychological drive which is not adapted to a language of nuances and does not require decoding.
Mirits spectator is bombarded with a colorful abundance, with repeating images and metaphors that are easily perceived and identified. For the person who is accustomed to the sophisticated art form, this is a fresh breath of immediate beauty.
Perhaps this is the place and the time to go deeper into the roots of a culture which for generations now has been obscured with theories and isms.
David Gerstein
It struck me on the way home from work that, even when all you know is the times that it took to move between points, not the speeds at the points themselves, it is still possible to calculate the average speed at each point. With a steady sampling rate and related points, if there are five times as many samples at point X as at point Y, traffic must move at a fifth the average speed at point X as it does at point Y.
This map is not really necessary since the instantaneous Muni speeds at each point *are* known and don't have to be calculated, but this lets it serve as a sanity check for applying the algorithm to other data sets. It doesn't look exactly like the real instantaneous speeds, but for the most part it looks pretty reasonable, except at the Market Street subway stations, where there are weird artifacts from the extremely regular locations of the samples.
I think it would be more surprising if they did look exactly the same, actually, because the calculated speeds should always be slower than the instantaneous speeds because corner-cutting shortens the distances.
NextBus data, April 13-July 3, 2010
The window display of the Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road in London currently holds a series of neon installations of protein structures. These protein structures were all discovered by the Structural Genomics Consortium, a body the the Wellcome Trust part-funds, which has had a major role in identifying the structure of many proteins related to human disease.
If memory serves, this is a section of Human Capping Enzyme 1 - a protein which can be hijacked by the HIV virus.
Bonus points if you can spot what the background is before reading to the end or looking at the comments shot!
Following 3 strangers where I found out relatively little about their lives I decided that today I wanted a story - by the end my head was spinning trying to remember it all ;).
I first spotted Lester at Grey's Monument but he was on the phone so I wandered around a bit whilst keeping an eye on him waiting for him to finish. He eventually finished his call so I walked straight up to him (actually it was more of a bee-line as he tried to escape) and asked if I could take his photo. He was "honoured" he replied with a big smile and enquired why but long before I'd finished explaining I knew he was going to say yes, which he did, commenting that he “certainly was strange” and again that smile was there - and it never really disappeared throughout. Lester was great fun to talk to and I really enjoyed the 20 minutes that followed before we parted company - with me stating that some of us worked for a living … he smiled again, taking this in the right spirit!
Whilst talking about Flickr it came to light that Lester is in the process of converting 40 years of film photographs to digital and he is putting some of the better ones on Flickr. He has about 500 reels of his own and I think he said he had about 24 of his Dad's so there's a fair amount of work involved there. I kept meaning to come back to photography and what it means to him but I didn't quite manage to steer the conversation that way as it always seemed to flow from one topic to the next with no obvious point to start on something completely new.
Lester is a learning mentor in a secondary school in Jarrow and I was amused to hear him list "security guard" amongst the duties that this entails but as Jarrow is one of the more deprived areas locally having built its fortune in the coal and shipbuilding industries I am sure that this only tells half the story. Lester left school aged 15 before eventually qualifying as a primary school teacher and he worked in primary schools whilst his 4 kids were of that age then became a learning mentor 10 years ago pretty much as his kids moved to that stage of their lives - as a result coming home from work was often like a busmans holiday as he was confronted with the same types of issues he had been dealing with all day. Indeed his daughter once commented that he sorted everyone else's problems out but not hers ;). At 60 Lester reckons that he will be at this school for the rest of his working life and seems to enjoy it commenting that he really appreciates it when he bumps into ex pupils and they say thanks for what he did for them. It seems to be that a little life experience enables them to reflect on what school is all about and appreciate it more retrospectively. Lester is in the last week of his 13 week summer break (hence my parting comment) and looking forward to getting back to work.
Slightly random fact: Lester’s eldest is now a policeman in Leeds just out of his probationary period and working in the Yorkshire Ripper's old hunting ground.
An Eastender originally, Lester moved to Newcastle in 1991 moving into the east-end Byker area and he reckons he will see his days out here. We talked quite a bit about multi-cultural society and Lester remembers once seeing an Afro-Caribbean in the area and suddenly realising that this was not commonplace - he had been in the area for about 6 months by this point. He also recounts that when he first moved here his kids used to shush him in case the locals heard his accent and caused trouble!
A while back I came up with a new soundbite question to ask strangers and I tried it out in my last encounter but it fell completely flat but I reckoned it'd be a good bet with Lester - and I told him as much heaping on even more pressure, he came up trumps though:
Q: What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
A: PS: Don't do this kids - it's not big and it's not clever! Nonetheless … when he was young a friend had a party when his "2 bit film producer" Dad went to Italy. At the end of the party Lester got into his car and drove home but whilst driving down the rather long driveway he got a bit lost and drove across the lawn and flowerbeds (much to the amusement of his other friends in the car). When he woke up in the morning there were still bits of flower stuck in various parts of the car's bodywork. He denied all knowledge when his (rather concerned) friend later mentioned the devastation but has felt somewhat guilty ever since. Maybe this public admission will help cleanse his conscience and let him sleep easier at night. It turns out then that the "Alka Seltzer" background was more pertinent than I realised ;). I wonder what the odds on his mate reading this are? Just in case and in the interests of fairness, the "2 bit" phrase was only used when I asked if I was likely to have heard of his friend's film-producing Dad.
Lester, thanks very much for taking part in my project - it was a real pleasure talking to you and I hope you like the photos.
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This picture is #32 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
I didn't have a mirror to check myself out in a bandana, so Josh took a picture of me and I looked at the digital display. I just realized that I'm one bandana fold away from being a Willy Nelson impersonator.
Deva is the Hindu term for deity; devatas (Devanagari: देवता, Khmer: tevoda (ទេវតា), Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, Malay and Indonesian: dewata; Philippine languages: diwata), are a kind of smaller more focused devas. The term "devata" also means devas (deva in plural form or the gods). They are male and female devata. There are many kinds of devatas: vanadevatas (forest spirits, perhaps descendants of early nature-spirit cults), gramadevata (village gods), devata of river crossings, caves, mountains, and so on. In Hinduism, the devatas that guard the nine cardinal points are called Devata Lokapala (Guardians of the Directions) or in ancient Java called Dewata Nawa Sanga (Nine guardian gods). Every human activity has its devata, its spiritual counterpart or aspect.
Hindu devatas in the Konkan region are often divided into five categories: 1. Grama devatas - or village deities, for example, Hanuman, Kalika, Amba, Bhairava. 2. Sthana devatas - or local deities, for example, those in certain places of pilgrimage like Rama in Nasik, Vithoba in Pandharpur or Krishna at Dwarka. 3. Kula devatas - or family deities, like Khanderai. 4. Ishta devatas - or Chosen deities, 5. Wastu devatas or Gruha devatas - or a class of deities that preside over the house.
Some of well-known Hindu-Buddhist heavenly beings belong to the group of devatas, such as apsara or vidhyadari; heavenly maiden that sent by Indra from svarga to seduces the meditating ascetics, and her male counterparts; gandharvas; the heavenly musicians. Devatas often occurred in Hindu epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata, and also some Buddhist holy scriptures. The island of Bali is nicknamed as Pulau Dewata (Indonesian: "islands of devata or island of gods"), because of its vivid Hindu culture and traditions. In Bali, there are many offerings dedicated to hyang, the guardian spirits associated with devata._
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Banteay Kdei (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយក្តី; Prasat Banteay Kdei), meaning "A Citadel of Chambers", also known as "Citadel of Monks' cells", is a Buddhist temple in Angkor, Cambodia. It is located southeast of Ta Prohm and east of Angkor Thom. Built in the mid-12th to early 13th centuries AD during the reign of Jayavarman VII (who was posthumously given the title "Maha paramasangata pada"), it is in the Bayon architectural style, similar in plan to Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, but less complex and smaller. Its structures are contained within two successive enclosure walls, and consist of two concentric galleries from which emerge towers, preceded to the east by a cloister.
This Buddhist monastic complex is currently dilapidated due to faulty construction and poor quality of sandstone used in its buildings, and is now undergoing renovation. Banteay Kdei had been occupied by monks at various intervals over the centuries until the 1960s.
GEOGRAPHY
The Banteay Kdei, one of the many Angkor temples, is located in the Angkor Archaeological Park of 400 square kilometres area. The ancient city of Angkor during the Khmer Empire extended from Tonle Sap to the Kulen hills covering a vast area of 1,000 square kilometres. The temple is approached from the east gopura of Ta Prohm along a 600 metres path. This path leads to the west gate entrance gopura of Banteay Kdei. It is 3 kilometres east of Angkor Thom.
HISTORY
The Khmer Empire lasted from 802 to 1431, initially under Hindu religious beliefs up to the end of the 12th century and later under Buddhist religious practices. It was a time when temples of grandeur came to be built and reached a crescendo during the reign of Suryavarman II until 1191, and later in the 12th–13th centuries, under Jayavarman VII. Many Buddhist temples were built, including the Banteay Kdei, from middle of the 12th century to early 13th century. Though Jayavarman VII was credited with building many temples, he was also accused of squandering money on extravagant temple building projects at the expense of society and other duties. He built Buddhist temples in which Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was the main deity. This temple built, conforming to the style of the Ta Prohm and Preah Khan temples in the vicinity during the same period by Jayavarman VII, but of a smaller size, was built as a Buddhist monastic complex on the site of a 10th-century temple built by Rajendravarman. Some small inscriptions attest to the building of this temple by Jayavarman VII and the royal architect, Kavindrarimathana.
Jayavarman VII had come to power at the age of 55 after defeating Chams who had invaded Angkor and subjected it to devastation. His "prodigious activity" resulted in the restoration of Cambodia from its ruins. He was chiefly the architect of the rebuilt capital at Angkor Thom and was called a "Great Builder". He was responsible for building many temples, which apart from Banteay Kdei, included the central temple of the Bayon, Prah Khan, Ta Prohm and many others, and also many rest houses for pilgrims. The reasons for building this temple at its present site is not known. However, it is established that the temple is a contemporary of the Angkor Wat as many similarities have been identified between the two, and also with Phimai temple in Thailand. It is reported to be the first temple built by Jayavarman VII in 1181 AD, opposite to the Srah Srang reservoir.
In the 13th century, most of the temples built by Jayavarman were vandalised. However, some of the Mahayana Buddhist frontons and lintels are still seen in good condition. It is also the view of some archaeologists that the temple was built by Jayavarman II in honour of his religious teacher.
The temple, which for several centuries after the Khmer reign ended, remained neglected and covered with vegetation. It was exposed after clearing the surrounding overgrowth of vegetation in 1920–1922. This work was carried out under the guidance of Henri Marchal (then Conservator of Angkor) and Ch. Battuer, by adopting a conservation principle which was known as "the principle of anastylosis, which was being employed very effectively by the Dutch authorities in Indonesia". It was partially occupied by Buddhist monks till the 1960s.
For ten years till March 2002, Sophia University Mission or the Sophia Mission of Japan carried out several Archaeological research at the Banteay Kdei temple. During these investigations, a cache of fragments of 274 Buddhist statues made in sandstone, along with a few metal art pieces, were unearthed, in 2001. Plans to build a storage room to house the statues was also planned.
LAYOUT
The sacred temple complex is cloistered and packed in a space of 65×50 m with three enclosures within a large compound wall of size 700×300 m, made of laterite stones. The entry is from the east facing gopura, which is in a cruciform embellished with Lokesvara images. The temple is a treasure house of sculptures in the architectural styles of the Bayon and also of the Angkor Wat. The complex is on a single level.
EXTERNAL ENCLOSURE
The external enclosure with four concentric walls, has four gopuras similar to the Ta Brahm temple, and all are in some degree of preserved status. At the four corners, the gopuras have a fascia of Lokesvara (Buddhist deity, Avalokitesvara) mounted over Garuda images (it is also mentioned that the smiling faces are of King Jayavarman II, similar to those seen in the Beyan temple). The east facing gopura, in particular, has well-preserved garuda images on its corners. Two hundred meters from the west entrance of this enclosure leads to a moat, which is decorated with statues of lions and naga-balustrades mounted on garudas. The moat itself has in its precincts the third enclosure which measures 320×300 m, also enclosed with laterite walls. The Buddha image at the entrance to the moat, near the second interior gate, is well preserved, considering the fact that most of the other statues have been destroyed or stolen.
THIRD ENCLOSURE
The third enclosure has a gopura which has a cruciform plan. It has pillars which are crossed by vaults. There are three passages in this enclosure, two on either side are independent, with laterite walls. The niches here have small figurines, and large apsara devatas in single poses or in pairs of dancing poses. Large Buddha images, in an internal courtyard of this enclosure, have been defaced by vandals. A paved access from here leads to the main shrine, which comprises two galleried enclosures. At the entrance to these enclosures, from the eastern end, is the "Hall of Dancers", which has four open courtyards and the pillars have fine carvings of apsaras.
SECOND ENCLOSURE
The second enclosure, which is part of the main temple, measures 58×50 m. It has a gopura on its eastern side and also subsidiary gopura on the west. Entrance doors are at the northern and southern ends. The gopura is built like a gallery with one exterior wall and double row of pillars which open into a courtyard and which has mostly shored up walls with small openings at the bottom to allow air circulation. The niches here are decorated with images of apsaras, and a Buddha statue in the central hall has been defaced by vandals. Bayon style architectural features built-in are the "balustered false windows with lowered blinds and devatas with headdresses in the form of small flaming discs set in a triangle." The vaults built in sandstone and laterite have collapsed at several locations of the gallery. The inner enclosures contain library building to its north and south and also a central sanctuary.
INNER ENCLOSURE
The inner enclosure of the main temple is built on a 36×30 m layout plan. This enclosure has four corner towers abutted by small gopuras. Galleries running along an axis link these towers to the main sanctuary. The towers at the north-east and south-east are linked with the second gallery where a Buddha statue in a sitting posture is seen, in the backdrop of an open sky line. The sanctum which is 2.75 m square enclosure has some traces of statues of deities. This entire enclosure, however, is not built in Bayon style and hence conjectured to be of an earlier period. Remnants of wooden ceiling are also seen here. The entrance to the sanctum is flanked by dvarapalas surrounded by apsaras.
SRAH SRANG
Srah Srang or "The royal bathing pool" or "pool of ablutions" to the east of Banteay Kdei, which was dug to dimensions of 700x300 m during the reign of Rajendraverman in the 10th century, was beautified by Jayavarman VII with well laid out steps of laterite stones with external margin of sandstone, on the banks of the pond facing the Sun. It is set amidst large trees and has turquoise blue waters all the year round. The approaching steps to the water edge are flanked by two stone statues of lions with ornamented Nāga-balustrades. The pond was reserved for use by the king and his wives. A stone base seen at an island in the centre of the pond once housed a wooden temple where the king did meditation. At the lily filled lake, watching sunset reflections in the lake is quite an experience. The water from the lake is now used for rice cultivation by farmers of the area.
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
Some specific architectural features which evolved with the Bayon style are clearly discerned in this temple. The roof is supported on free-standing pillars in the eastern and western pavilions in the third enclosure, built in a cruciform plan with the inner row of pillars supporting the roof. The pillars are also tied to the wall by a tie beam using a "mortise–and–tenon join" patterned on wooden structures. Other features noted are of the four central pillars in the western pavilion which have been strengthened with temporary supports of laterite stone block pillars. Carvings of Buddha are seen on all these pillars but mostly defaced. The temporary support system provided to the roof built on free standing pillars is indicative of problems of design seen in the temples built during this period.
RESTAURATION
Laser scans and imaging of the Banteay Kdei and Angkor Wat Western Causeway were performed within a project launched in March 2004 by the University of California and Sophia University of Tokyo, in partnership with the nonprofit CyArk. The obtained information has facilitated restoration and reconstruction of these structures, which is funded by the Sophia University, and much publicly accessible data from the project is hosted on the CyArk Website. The APSARA Authority has achieved significant improvements in conservation and preservation of monuments in Angkor. Some of the towers and corridors are under restoration and as a result some locations have been cordoned off. Strengthening measures are seen in some parts of the interior temple area where structures in danger are tied together with cables.
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