site-specific light-motion installation

Exploring and re-activating an abandoned construction site outside Zaployarny, Russia.

Dark Ecology 2015 commission.

Getting the power supply in is usually one of the easiest parts! Shove it in and screw it! (Where have I heard that before?)

This case was quite awesome in having very specific instructions for placing the motherboard studs (the gold screw receipticles that get screwed into the case, giving you a place to screw in your motherboard). Normally it can require some guesswork, but this case was laden with holes that had a letter next to them. You then looked up the form factor of your motherboard in the case manual, and it corresponded to a letter. Thus, I could mindlessly follow instructions and put my studs into the case BEFORE picking up/touching/risking the motherboard. That was a sigh of relief.

BACKSTORY: So, as mentioned before (in a 10-part series of blog posts), my trusty computer of 9 years, "Storm", died a nasty death. My secondary/kitchen computer "Hell" stepped up to batand took Storm's place, but I still needed a new computer for our somewhat newly-built upstairs space. So I built Hades, during which I wrote another 5 blog posts. These are the pictures I took while building it.

building computer.

Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, OCZ GameXStream 600W power supply, Thermaltake computer case, studs, wires.

Hades.

Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

October 6, 2007.

... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com

A run-down of all parts in my new computer, with links to buy them, can be found here: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/journal-hardware-purcha...

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The thirteenth installment of Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works opens with a public reception on July 24, 2009 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

In 2001, the Mattress Factory initiated the Gestures exhibition series to present new works by regional artists. In each exhibition, participants include individuals from a wide range of creative practices. Past participants in Gestures shows have included florists, architects, graphic designers and a wig maker.

The exhibition, showing in the Gallery at 1414 Monterey Street through January 10, 2010, is guest-curated by Katherine Talcott (Independent curator and newly-appointed Administrator for the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Percent for Art Program) and features artists Stephanie Armbruster, Jeremy Boyle, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Jonny Farringdon, Victoria Hruska & La Toya Frasier, Gary Huck, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Amanda Long, Lindsay O' Leary, Drew Pavelchak, Renee Piechocki, John Riegert, The Urban Gardener: Joan Kimmel & Lynne Weber, Patricia Villalobos Echeverria and Dror Yaron.

Exhibition poster designed by Brett Yasko.

A new world-class research and technology facility to support the growth of a new industry centre in Wales is to be opened in June by Mrs Edwina Hart, MBE CStJ AM, Minister for Economy, Science and Transport. The facility, based in Baglan, South Wales has been made possible by the SUPER project (SPECIFIC Up-scaling Pilot Engineering Resource) which has received almost £2 million funding through the Welsh Government’s Academic Expertise For Business programme (A4B).

“I just want something to hold on to… And a little of that Human Touch”

Human Touch: Bruce Springsteen, Human Touch

This song has so many great words to it, that it is hard to pull out the one specific line that touches me the most and then describe why. I think it’s really been different lines for different times in my life.

I think what I always have taken away from this song is that we all go through periods of disillusionment with the world. We lose sight of what is right and wrong- good and bad. Who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. We go through periods where we reach out for things to comfort us, but in the end the thing that will fill us the most is that Human Touch.

That Human Touch is the sparked connection of a greater love that resides in all of humanity… and that human touch is not something to be nursed, sheltered or hidden away. It’s a gift we embrace and are supposed to share… to make this world a better place: to make this place more like the Love within us.

Lyrics:

You and me we were the pretenders

We let it all slip away

In the end what you don't surrender

Well the world just strips away

Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers

Ain't gonna find no miracles here

Well you can wait on your blesses my darlin'

But I got a deal for you right here

I ain't lookin' for praise or pity

I ain't comin' 'round searchin' for a crutch

I just want someone to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town

Ain't no bread from heavenly skies

Ain't nobody drawin' wine from this blood

It's just you and me tonight

Tell me, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want something to hold on to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize

Well it comes at a hard hard price

You can't shut off the risk and the pain

Without losin' the love that remains

We're all riders on this train

So you've been broken and you've been hurt

Show me somebody who ain't

Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain

But, hell, a little touchup

and a little paint...

You might need somethin' to hold on to

When all the answers, they don't amount to much

Somebody that you could just to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

Baby, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want to feel you in my arms

Share a little of that Human Touch

Feel a little of that Human Touch

Give me a little of that Human Touch

Haleakala Crater hike on Haleakala Crater Hike on 7/9/2019

I caught the first Hawaiian Airlines flight to Maui from Oahu which left at 5:05 am, arrival at 5:44 am.

I took a carry-on duffel bag and a photo backpack ( no checked bags )

Picked up my rental car from Alamo and first stopped at 7-Eleven for water, food and snacks.

Maui Airport has changed. All the car rental companies moved to one central location reachable by tram. Additionally a specific Airport Access road was constructed and in use by this trip.

7:40 am left 7-Eleven for Haleakala.

7:30 am arrived at park entrance. $25 entrance fee by credit card only.

8:00 am arrived at Halemau'u trail head parking lot. Filled my CamelBak bladder with 3L of water, redistributed my equipment and used the bathroom to add a thermal underwear layer for the cold.

8:40 am left the parking lot and went to the Hitchhiking spot to wait for a ride. I was picked up by the 3rd car to come along. A single young male on vacation by himself. As I was grabbing my things to get into his car a mother and young son came up and asked to share the ride. I only waited maybe 5 minutes to catch a ride.

9:00 am arrived at the Summit Visitor Center parking lot. The driver had never been up to Haleakala even after visiting Maui a couple of times before, and he was considering doing a short hike while up there. I would be passed by him and the other hitch hiker about a mile down the trail later.

9:15 am after a short look around at the lookout and tightening up my boot laces, I started on Keonehe'ehe'e ( Sliding Sands Trail )

11:51 am I would get to the bottom of the crater and the trail for Holua cabins or Kapaloa, Paliku cabins. Ate lunch of one Spam musube.

12:06 pm I would start on the trial to Holua Cabin

12:59 pm top of the ascent to "Ka Moa o Pele"

1:24 pm trail juncture on the left of "Halali'i"

2:14 pm Silver Sword loop begin ( did not take the loop )

2:22 pm Silver Sword loop end

3:05 pm Holua Cabin - rested

3:32 pm left Holua Cabin and headed out on Halemau'u trail and the crater rim.

4:13 pm arrived at base of crater rim and the start of the switchbacks up the crater wall. rested and stretched.

4:27 pm started up the crater rim switch backs.

6:56 pm I would reach the flat narrow spot I consider the end of the switchbacks.

7:00 pm the temperature would be 56 degrees and dropping down to 52 degrees ( not including windchill )

7:10 pm Sunset, and I was hiking in dark shadow. Too dark to take meaningful pictures or pics of my watch.

8:00 pm I would reach the Halemau'u parking lot and my car.

8:30 pm I would finish unloading and repacking bags for going to my hotel and possibly doing some astro-photography.

8:45 pm arrive at Kalahaku overlook to check out the possibility of astro-photography. The 50% moon washed out the Milky way too much, stars were visible and I was starting to yawn. So I didn't, and I left at 9:05 pm for Kahului and a shower.

I used up all my water, when I got to my hotel and check, the hydration bladder was flat. Possibly one or two sips left in the tube. This was the 2nd time hiking this trail. Both times I brought a collapsible water bag w/filter to refill water at Holua and did not. If I do this again I really, REALLY need to refill water at Holua cabin.

The weather reports for the previous week were about the possibility of hurricane Barbara hitting the islands the day before my trip. Fortunately Barbara down graded and by the time of my trip and predictions for the summit were somewhat cloudy with occasional showers. While hiking I only encountered a few light drizzle/drops from the clouds that didn't require me to break out any of the rain gear I brought or to stow my cameras from rain.

The weather at the summit was cloudy and approximately 65 degrees with windchill. Along the hike until the ascent up the crater rim at the end, the temperature would not seem as cold as I expected or remember from my previous hike a couple of years ago. Possibly due to my wearing thermal underwear, hiking pants, a medium thick long sleeve athletic shirt beneath a button long sleeve hiking shirt and my broad brimmed hat of course. While moving I felt cool and relatively comfortable temperature wise, while raising a slight glistening sweat. At least it wasn't dripping into my eyes.

Keeping to my expected and normal average hiking pace of around 1 mph or less going down hill and across the flats, I would take pictures about every 1-2 hundred feet of the trail. Boring, but I like to document the trail condition. In addition to any interesting views, scenery or recording the weather.

I kept one of my watches attached to my sleeve so it would not be in skin contact and would mostly dangle in my body shade. This would give me a way of tracking my elevation and mostly the temperature.

There were many more day hikers actually crossing the crater along the same route I was going. Most notable was the mother and son that caught a ride with me. They met up with her husband and other son who caught another ride a bit later.

Probably all the hikers that were crossing the crater caught up to me and passed me, and they all started later than I did. The only people who caught up but didn't pass me were 3 female park rangers on their way to Holua Cabin and pretty much started doing their park ranger stuff in the area where they caught up to me and didn't catch up again.

I was constantly annoyed by the hikers I would see taking short cuts along the trail. I had to remind myself to not get pissy with them. I'm tempted to think the only other hikers on the trail that did not take short cuts were the park rangers I met.

Personally, I started the hike with a kinda sharp lower back pain, which had been ongoing since the previous week. But since this hike was already book and paid for I wasn't going to cancel. All thru the hike my back would be in constant pain and I would continually think I might have to give up hiking if my back doesn't get better. It was most painful going down hill, while the flats and going up weren't as bad.

I was hoping the strain and constant back movement would loosen up my lower back and aleviate my pain. Surprisingly, while getting on my stomach with all my gear still on me, when I got up my lower back was better. The pain would come and go, but could now be aleviated for short periods of time by taking off all my gear and bending over to stretch my back. When I would get home, my lower back pain issues would return to "normal"

Evidently, the dry cold air and constant breeze caused my face and lips to chap, which showed up a day after I got home.

Once again I brought chapstic but didn't use it.

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CamelBak Octane 16X Hydration Pack (3L Hydration bladder)

3 liters of water = 6.6 pounds

1x Nikon D700 w/battery grip - Nikon 28-300mm

1x Nikon D700 w/out grip - Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye

Tokina 16-28mm f2.8

Camera & lens weight = 12 pounds

I brought both cameras to reduce the amount of time spent changing lenses and the possibility of getting grit on the camera sensors. Turns out I never changed to the 16-28 so never removed any lens. Yay, no spots in my pictures, Bo, lugged another heavy lens around for nothing. At least I left the 100mm macro in the car already.

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© Photograph by Noemí Jariod. Courtesy of the artist.

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‘Schizophrenic Machine’ was the closure to the three-part project ‘COLLAPSE’ by Joan Morey (Malorca, 1972). This new site-specific performance took place on January 10, 2019, in the former prison La Modelo, a location that was kept in secret up until the 113 guests were driven in coaches from either Centre d'art Contemporani - Fabra i Coats, or the Centre d'art Tecla Sala.

The audience previously registered to attend the closed-door performance and agreed to comply with the strict dress code. The performance script integrated the 1904 chilling architecture of the prison through voice and technological devices such as drones, surveillance cameras, strobe lighting, an architecture scanning laser. Each one activated and deactivated the building's memories making ‘Schizophrenic Machine’ be Morey's first performance with no human actors as protagonists. ‘Schizophrenic Machine’ continued Morey's long-standing exploration of power structures and control of the body.

‘Schizophrenic machine’ took the physical and discursive past of La Model as a scenario for performance where bodies were not acting and the protagonist was the architecture itself. The Panopticon-inspired prison was inaugurated on June 9, 1904, and was conceived as a model for the Spanish penitentiary system: an example of the reintegration of criminals into society through discipline, isolation and religious morality. La Model was one of the main sites of political repression and social control in the city. Followers of all political persuasion passed through its cells, aside from common criminals, yet during the long totalitarian dictatorship of General Franco (1939–1975), it was especially notorious as a site for the repression of political dissidents. La Model closed on June 8, 2017, 113 years after its inauguration.

‘Schizophrenic machine’ took over the unoccupied building and created a phantasmagoric presence that activated and deactivated its own memory. Conceived as an all-encompassing experience the event took on a singular awareness of the building and the site. The sequential dramatisation of its radial spaces articulated a dystopian representational device. A cast of technological interpreters —voices, sound, lights, cameras, drones and other devices— took the place of performing bodies. Moreover, the panopticon architecture itself seemed to address spectators through a female voice that spoke on the principles of control, power and the paradigm of a surveillance society. La Model became a schizophrenic machine, an imperious disciplinary mechanism for the 21st century.

Produced by the Contemporary Art Center of Barcelona - Fabra i Coats as the third and final part of the ‘COLLAPSE’ project.

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Since the late 1990s, Joan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) has produced an expansive body of live events, videos, installations, sound and graphic works, that has explored the intersection of theatre, cinema, philosophy, sexuality, and subjectivity. Morey’s work both critiques and embodies one of the most thorny and far-reaching aspects of human consciousness and behaviour – how we relate ourselves to others, as the oppressed or the oppressor. This central preoccupation with the exercise of power and authority seemingly accounts for the black and ominous tenor of his art.

COLLAPSE encompasses three parts. The first is presented over two floors of the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona - Fabra i Coats. ‘Desiring machine, Working machine’ is a survey of ten projects from the last fifteen years of the artist’s work. An exhibition display based around vitrines and video screens deployed as if sarcophagi or reliquaries, is presented alongside a continuous programme of audio works and a schedule of live performance extracts.

The second part of COLLAPSE takes place at the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (23 November 2018–13 January 2019) and is the definitive version of the touring exhibition ‘Social Body’.

Titled ‘Schizophrenic Machine’, the third and final part of the project comprises a major new performance event which will take place on January 10, 2019, at an especially resonant – yet deliberately undisclosed – location in Barcelona, where live action will be integrated within the longer narrative of the site’s physical and discursive past.

COLLAPSE is curated by Latitudes.

—> info: www.lttds.org/projects/morey/

—> info: ajuntament.barcelona.cat/centredart/es/projectes/anterior...

Etsy Beadweavers "A Touch of Royalty" Challenge

EBW challenge:

To bead a piece inspired by one specific royal figure.

Figure chosen: Queen Emma of Hawaii

(Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi)

"She was different from any of her contemporaries. There’s no one like her...

A typically Victorian woman who remained quintessentially Hawaiian...

She wrote exquisite chants of lament in Hawaiian, craved Hawaiian food when she was away from it, loved to fish, hike, ride, and camp out, and, throughout her life, took very seriously her role as a protector of the people’s welfare. In a way, she was a harbinger of things to come in terms of Hawaii’s multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society. You have to be impressed with her eclecticism — spiritually, emotionally and physically. She was kind of our first renaissance queen."

~ Kanahele, author of "Queen Emma: Hawaii's Remarkable Queen"

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the piece:

Cuff was woven using size 6 and 8 jade green glass beads in a "daisy chain" stitch embellished with pale pink and pearly ivory glass drop beads. Double layer fringe was then added using red glass drop beads and size 11 jade green glass beads. Green lucite monstera leaves and tiny beaded tropical flowers were finally added for decoration. Thin nylon cord is laced through gunmetal jump rings for a "fits all sizes" bracelet closure.

Measurements: 47mm wide (just under 2 inches) and 6 inches in length

Red and yellow were chosen because they signify royalty in

the Hawaiian culture. Many pictures of Queen Emma show a

cuff worn upon her wrist.

challenges for me included:

designing and beading and my first cuff, first time with daisy chain stitch

and designing my own double layer ruffled fringe.

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voting has ended.

poll results available at the Etsy Beadweavers team blog→

www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com

My entry received 33 votes, and earned 6th place. ♥

╙ Queen Emma cuff design and photos © 2011 Heart in Hawaii ╜

Specific date: 1/2/1934

Artist: Bocse, Olin. Black pencil & ink on tissue; floor plan. LN: 33 X HT: 21.75

Sanctuary Park Cemetery Toronto Ontario Canada.

Members of the Order are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women must have specific relationships with Masons. Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives[2] as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangles (NY only) and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars (NY only) to become members when of age.

The Order was created by Rob Morris in 1850 when he was teaching at the Eureka Masonic College in Richland, Mississippi. While confined by illness, he set down the principles of the order in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855, he had organized a "Supreme Constellation" in New York, which chartered chapters throughout the United States.

In 1866, Dr. Morris started working with Robert Macoy, and handed the Order over to him while Morris was traveling in the Holy Land. Macoy organized the current system of Chapters, and modified Dr. Morris' Rosary into a Ritual.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliatechapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D.C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.[3]

The "General Grand Chapter" was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 6, 1876. Committees formed at that time created the Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star in more or less its current form.[4]

The emblem of the Order is a five-pointed star with the white ray of the star pointing downwards towards the manger. In the Chapter room, the downward-pointing white ray points to the West. The character-building lessons taught in the Order are stories inspired by Biblical figures:

Adah (Jephthah's daughter, from the Book of Judges)

Ruth, the widow from the Book of Ruth

Esther, the wife from the Book of Esther

Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John

Electa (the "elect lady" from II John), the mother

Order of the Eastern Star:

General Grand Chapter logo:

The Order of the Eastern Star is a Freemasonicappendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason. The order is based on teachings from the Bible,[1] but is open to people of all religious beliefs. It has approximately 10,000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately 500,000 members under its General Grand Chapter.

Members of the Order are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women must have specific relationships with Masons. Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives[2] as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangles (NY only) and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars (NY only) to become members when of age.

History:

The Order was created by Rob Morris in 1850 when he was teaching at the Eureka Masonic College in Richland, Mississippi. While confined by illness, he set down the principles of the order in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855, he had organized a "Supreme Constellation" in New York, which chartered chapters throughout the United States.

In 1866, Dr. Morris started working with Robert Macoy, and handed the Order over to him while Morris was traveling in the Holy Land. Macoy organized the current system of Chapters, and modified Dr. Morris' Rosary into a Ritual.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliatechapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D.C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.[3]

The "General Grand Chapter" was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 6, 1876. Committees formed at that time created the Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star in more or less its current form.[4]

Emblem and heroines:

The emblem of the Order is a five-pointed star with the white ray of the star pointing downwards towards the manger. In the Chapter room, the downward-pointing white ray points to the West. The character-building lessons taught in the Order are stories inspired by Biblical figures:

Adah (Jephthah's daughter, from the Book of Judges)

Ruth, the widow from the Book of Ruth

Esther, the wife from the Book of Esther

Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John

Electa (the "elect lady" from II John), the mother

Officers

Officers representing the heroines of the order sit around the altar in the center of the chapter room.

Eastern Star meeting room:

There are 18 main officers in a full chapter:

Worthy Matron – presiding officer

Worthy Patron – a Master Mason who provides general supervision

Associate Matron – assumes the duties of the Worthy Matron in the absence of that officer

Associate Patron – assumes the duties of the Worthy Patron in the absence of that officer

Secretary – takes care of all correspondence and minutes

Treasurer – takes care of monies of the Chapter

Conductress – Leads visitors and initiations.

Associate Conductress – Prepares candidates for initiation, assists the conductress with introductions and handles the ballot box.

Chaplain – leads the Chapter in prayer

Marshal – presents the Flag and leads in all ceremonies

Organist – provides music for the meetings

Adah – Shares the lesson of Duty of Obedience to the will of God

Ruth – Shares the lesson of Honor and Justice

Esther – Shares the lesson of Loyalty to Family and Friends

Martha – Shares the lesson of Faith and Trust in God and Everlasting Life

Electa – Shares the lesson of Charity and Hospitality

Warder – Sits next to the door inside the meeting room, to make sure those that enter the chapter room are members of the Order.

Sentinel – Sits next to the door outside the chapter room, to make sure those that wish to enter are members of the Order.

Traditionally, a woman who is elected Associate Conductress will be elected to Conductress the following year, then the next year Associate Matron, and then next year as Worthy Matron. A man elected Associate Patron will usually be elected Worthy Patron the following year. Usually the woman who is elected to become Associate Matron will let it be known who she wishes to be her Associate Patron, so the next year they will both go to the East together as Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron. There is no male counterpart to the Conductress and Associate Conductress. Only women are allowed to be Matrons, Conductresses, and the Star Points (Adah, Ruth, etc.) and only men can be Patrons.

Once a member has served a term as Worthy Matron or Worthy Patron, they may use the post-nominal letters, PM or PP respectively.

Headquarters:

The International Temple in Washington, D.C.

Main article: International Temple

The General Grand Chapter headquarters, the International Temple, is located in the Dupont Circleneighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the former Perry Belmont Mansion. The mansion was built in 1909 for the purpose of entertaining the guests of Perry Belmont. This included Britain's Prince of Wales in 1919. General Grand Chapter purchased the building in 1935. The secretary of General Grand Chapter lives there while serving his or her term of office. The mansion features works of art from around the world, most of which were given as gifts from various international Eastern Star chapters.

Charities:

The Order has a charitable foundation[5] and from 1986-2001 contributed $513,147 to Alzheimer's disease research, juvenile diabetes research, and juvenile asthma research. It also provides bursaries to students of theology and religious music, as well as other scholarships that differ by jurisdiction. In 2000 over $83,000 was donated. Many jurisdictions support a Masonic and/or Eastern Star retirement center or nursing home for older members; some homes are also open to the public. The Elizabeth Bentley OES Scholarship Fund was started in 1947.[6][7]

Eureka Masonic College, also known as The Little Red Schoolhouse, birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star

Signage at the Order of the Eastern Star birthplace, the Little Red Schoolhouse

Notable members

Clara Barton[8]

J. Howell Flournoy[9]

Eva McGown[10]

James Peyton Smith[11]

Lee Emmett Thomas[12]

Laura Ingalls Wilder[13]

H. L. Willis[14]

See also:

Achoth

Omega Epsilon Sigma

References:

^ "Installation Ceremony". Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star. Washington, DC: General Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. 1995 [1889]. pp. 120–121.

^ "Eastern Star Membership". General Grand Chapter. Retrieved 2010-06-03. These affiliations include: * Affiliated Master Masons in good standing, * the wives * daughters * legally adopted daughters * mothers * widows * sisters * half sisters * granddaughters * stepmothers * stepdaughters * stepsisters * daughters-in-law * grandmothers * great granddaughters * nieces * great nieces * mothers-in-law * sisters-in-law and daughters of sisters or brothers of affiliated Master Masons in good standing, or if deceased were in good standing at the time of their death

^ Ayers, Jessie Mae (1992). "Origin and History of the Adoptive Rite Among Black Women". Prince Hall Masonic Directory. Conference of Grand Masters, Prince Hall Masons. Retrieved 2007-10-25.

^ "Rob Morris". Grand Chapter of California. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-10-01.

^ "OES Charities". Retrieved 2016-04-15.

^ "Elizabeth Bentley Order Of The Eastern Star Scholarship Award". Yukon, Canada. Retrieved 2009-11-05.

^ "Eastern Star has enjoyed long history". Black Press. Retrieved 2009-11-05. The Eastern Star Bursary, later named the Elizabeth Bentley OES Scholarship Fund, was started in 1947.[dead link]

^ Clara Barton, U.S. Nurse Masonic First Day Cover

^ "Sheriff 26 Years – J. H. Flournoy Dies," Shreveport Journal, December 14, 1966, p. 1

^ by Helen L. Atkinson at ALASKA INTERNET PUBLISHERS, INC

^ "James P. Smith". The Bernice Banner, Bernice, Louisiana. Retrieved September 13,2013.

^ "Thomas, Lee Emmett". Louisiana Historical Association, A Directory of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). Retrieved December 29, 2010.

^ Big Muddy online publications

^ "Horace Luther Willis". The Alexandria Daily Town Talk on findagrave.com. Retrieved July 25, 2015.

Official website:

Eastern Star Organizations at DMOZ

Pride of the North Chapter Number 61, Order of the Eastern Star Archival Collection, located at Shorefront Legacy Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

High degree of diversity in two specific areas. The corridor is associated with two areas of great climatic stability (even in dry periods), and high humidity environments rich in ecological niches. The enabling rapid transit between the two areas that periodic on-off connection center participated actively in this diversity. The Andes border (yungas) and "Serra do Mar" are some of this factors.The (M. osgoodi+M. macae) ancestor dispersed eastward into the "Serra do Mar" in a more humid period (climatic optimum) and there left a remnant . As it was adapted to a very wet, disappeared in the corridor. But M. adusta became ... and survived as M. kunsi. The M. americana group dispersed in a inverse route, from east to west, at the same time.

This specific aircraft is often highlighted for its MT-7 seven-blade composite propellers. These propellers are designed to improve climb rates, fuel efficiency, and reduce cabin noise.

North Las Vegas Airport KVGT

Photo: TDelCoro

February 27, 2026

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Pre/Post Natal Pregnancy

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Strength and conditioning

Female specific conditioning

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Site-specific інсталяція “HOME EAST” на сході ВДНГ (павільйон №7) – це вхід в Мистецтво війни і любові, це мистецтво про війну і її наслідки, про всі покинуті переселенцями будинки, про СХІД, про біжанців, про небезпеку, вимушену втечу і про надію на мир.

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Автор: Вальдемарт Клюзко (Waldemart KLYUZKO)

SPECIFIC is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre. It aims to develop coated glass and steel products that capture, store and release solar energy, turning buildings into power stations. The centre brings together world class academic and industrial expertise in the fields of photovoltaics, solar thermal, batteries, chemical conversion and wide area lighting, alongside unique sheet and coil printing and coating facilities.

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A site specific promenade performance visiting the unseen corners of The Lyceum.

Step behind the curtain for a unique perforamnce in the darkest corners of The Lyceum. You will be guided where no backstage tour goes - where hidden places meet the hidden voices of youth. This will be a unique theatrical adventure full of surprise and no little terror with live music and lively encounters inspired by The Lyceum's secret spaces.

Devised by members of the Lyceum Youth Theatre with direction from Mark Thomson, Amanda Gaughan, Christie O'Carroll and John Glancy, this is a special one-off production as part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations.

Photo credits: Mark Thomson and the ensemble

Hard to identify specific type of E36 3-Series seen here due to lack of badging, with exception of pre-facelift taillights. The Wuling Air EV, on the right, is now Indonesia's best-selling electric car since its introduction in August 2022, breaking Hyundai's near-monopoly of Indonesian battery EV market.

The "cute factor" of its design, relative affordability, longer driving range (for a city use) and shorter waiting period are reason behind Air EV's dominance. Though, to tell the actual type of this car (Standard or Long Range), one had to look the interior, because the Standard range variant has hand (not electronic) parking brake and shorter screen panel.

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Untuk BMW Seri 3 E36, agak sulit mengidentifikasi selain lampu belakangnya pre-facelift. Namun di sebelahnya adalah Wuling Air EV, mobil listrik murni paling laris se-Indonesia sejak mulai dipasarkan Agustus 2022, mengakhiri dominasi Hyundai di sektor ini.

Desainnya yang mencuri mata, harganya murah, jarak tempuhnya menarik di perkotaan dan indennya singkat, menjadi kunci keberhasilan Wuling Air EV menjadi mobil listrik terlaris nomor 1 di pasar Tanah Air. Untuk tipe harus cek interiornya, karena disini perbedaannya terlihat sekali.

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Aaron Buchan – Level 3 Senior Trainer

FF Trainer of the Year – 2011

Creator/Manager of Cross Training Systems

Since becoming a Personal Trainer, I have always had a passion towards helping people achieve their goals. I have often wondered what would be the best way to achieve the best results in the fastest possible way? That’s what prompted me to start developing Cross Training Systems – easy to follow structured programs suited to every individual’s needs.Aaron profile pic new

QUALIFICATIONS

C.H.E.K Exercise Coach

C.H.E.K Holistic Life Coach Level 1

Advanced Back Care Specialist

SA Fitness First “Personal Trainer of the Year” 2011

Pre/Post Natal Pregnancy

Registered Advanced Punchfit

SPECIALTIES

Advanced long term weight loss

Strength and conditioning

Female specific conditioning

Back and shoulder rehabilitation

Motocross/kite surfing specific training

Core conditioning/Muay Thai KIckboxing

aaroncrosstraining@gmail.com

Tel 0403 534 611

Lúa Coderch’s intervention for the "Composiciones" programme brings a mysterious and improbable apparition to life in the home of the Club de Billar Barcelona. Beneath the Teatre Coliseum in Gran Vía there is a rainbow. Coderch guides sunlight and a spectrum of colours down into the underground gaming space with a series of precisely positioned mirrors and prisms, as if evoking the mechanics, geometry and artistry involved in billiards. Accompanying the rainbow is a turntable and a transparent vinyl record that can be used to play an audio recording of a female voice. This voice narrates and interprets what can be seen in front of us, and the process that led to its appearance. The title of her intervention, “The Rainbow Statement” (2016), refers to one of the verbal tricks used by fortune-tellers and clairvoyants in ‘cold reading’ an individual’s life or personality. Suggestively nebulous assertions maximize the chance of apparently specific and meaningful paranormal insights hitting the mark. “The Rainbow Statement” is either an experiment of the imagination or a phenomenon of optical science with which Coderch seems to have invented a form of psychic meteorology, or spectral physics. – Latitudes

Lúa Coderch (Iquitos, Perú, 1982) obtained an MA in Artistic Production and Research (2012) and a degree in Fine Arts at the Universidad de Barcelona (2010). Amongst her individual exhibitions are: ‘Night in a Remote Cabin Lit By a Kerosene Lamp’, Galería Àngels Barcelona (2015); ‘Or’, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona (2014–2015); ‘La parte que falta’, Galería Bacelos, Madrid (2014); ‘La muntanya màgica’, Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2013–14). She has participated in the following group shows: ‘¿Por qué no lo llamas entropía?’, Edición 0 Encuentro de Cultura Contemporánea de Guadalajara, México (2015); ‘The World of Interiors’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2014), ‘El futuro no espera’, La Capella, BCN Producció (2014).

Coderch is represented by galería Bacelos (Madrid/Vigo) and àngels barcelona.

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“The Rainbow Statement” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend as part of the “Composiciones” commissions programme.

Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), "Composiciones" project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.

In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.

Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org

Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/

Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...

Double screen are provide with some of the computers in this lab for specific work.

Idaho issues a vanity plate just for Corvettes. This is the first time that I have seen this type of plate - one associated with a specific automobile brand and model. Does anyone know of another state that does this?

The specific identity of the sitters in this, Titian’s largest group portrait, is disputed, but the man in the centre is most likely Andrea Vendramin (1481–1547), while the one on his right is his brother Gabriel Vendramin (1484–1552), a significant collector of works of art. The boys are the former’s seven sons. The reliquary of the True Cross on the altar still exists in the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. It was presented to an earlier Andrea Vendramin, Guardian of the Scuola, on behalf of this confraternity in 1369. On one occasion he is said to have rescued it from a canal.

The painting was surely made for a specific site in the family’s Venetian palazzo. During execution, however, it was cut down on the left, probably because the patron changed the intended location. This accounts for the slightly awkward accommodation of the three boys at far left, who were surely painted by the artist's workshop. The two boys on the far right were probably also painted by an assistant: they are markedly drier of execution than the freely and luminously painted boy holding a puppy. Parts of the paint surface have become transparent with time, revealing to the naked eye Titian’s vigorous preparatory underdrawing of Gabriele.

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Many insects depend on specific plant species for their survival. For example, the larvae of monarch butterflies feed only on toxic milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) and cannot grow as caterpillars on any other plants. Milkweeds are not just important to monarchs; flies, true bugs, and beetles have also evolved the special ability to feed on milkweeds. Like monarchs, most of them are very brightly colored to warn predators of the toxic milkweed compounds that stored in their bodies as a defense. This is a lesser known insect that feeds on milkweeds, the milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis) which can be found feeding on milkweeds across Eastern North America. Restoring habitats with populations of milkweeds can help not only monarchs, but also a wide range of other beautiful insects.

For designer maker collective MAK9 ’s ‘Draw on the Walls’ exhibition I created a non-traditional site specific embroidery for installation. The themes of my work include an awareness of religious, socioeconomic and gender politics, with embroidery as a traditionally female ‘domestic’ art. The title is inspired by Jacobean embroidery techniques popular during *Lundy’s lifetime. (*Lundy is burned in effigy every December by the Apprentice Boys for absconding his role in the Siege of Derry). You can learn more about it on my blog here: cherryandcinnamon.com/2013/09/26/crewel-hope-at-mak9-draw...

Aaron Buchan – Level 3 Senior Trainer

FF Trainer of the Year – 2011

Creator/Manager of Cross Training Systems

Since becoming a Personal Trainer, I have always had a passion towards helping people achieve their goals. I have often wondered what would be the best way to achieve the best results in the fastest possible way? That’s what prompted me to start developing Cross Training Systems – easy to follow structured programs suited to every individual’s needs.Aaron profile pic new

QUALIFICATIONS

C.H.E.K Exercise Coach

C.H.E.K Holistic Life Coach Level 1

Advanced Back Care Specialist

SA Fitness First “Personal Trainer of the Year” 2011

Pre/Post Natal Pregnancy

Registered Advanced Punchfit

SPECIALTIES

Advanced long term weight loss

Strength and conditioning

Female specific conditioning

Back and shoulder rehabilitation

Motocross/kite surfing specific training

Core conditioning/Muay Thai KIckboxing

aaroncrosstraining@gmail.com

Tel 0403 534 611

Goal: message series title art

Audience: general church audience

Direction: not much - a multi-week series on the family, with looking at different roles/relationships/issues each week.

This is not yet completed, so I still have time to make modifications if there any that anyone would recommend. Thanks!

In her intervention, Lola Lasurt has collaborated with the Biblioteca Pública Arús, a study centre founded in 1895 with outstanding collections related to the labour movement, anarchism, Freemasonry and Sherlock Holmes. The project centres on a series of grisaille paintings forming a pictorial frieze that hangs from the balcony above a presentation of books in the Arús’s display cases. Under the title “Donació” (Donation), 2016, Lasurt departs from 135 publications that once formed the personal library of Assumpta Corbera Santanach that were gifted in 2010 to the Arús after her death. Corbera Santanach identified as a feminist and a Freemason; she was not a public figure. Yet the impulse of Lasurt’s project is not primarily biographic or historiographic, but bibliographic and pictorial. Accordingly, “Donació” attempts to narrate changes in social and cultural attitudes through the selection and redrafting of images that appear on the pages of the bibliographic bequest. Treating the publications as an intimate accumulation of ‘alternative’ knowledge and a representation of a self-education, Lasurt is interested in the portrayal of a private political imagination in the midst of what is now a public collection. – Latitudes

Lola Lasurt (Barcelona, 1983) studied Fine Arts (2005) at the Universitat de Barcelona and obtained a postgraduate in Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Theory, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (2007) and an MA in Artistic Production and Research (2009). She has been resident at HISK, Ghent; La Ene, Buenos Aires and at the Greatmore Art Studios, Cape Town. She has exhibited individually at ‘Promenade’, 105 Besme, Brussels (2015); ‘Exercici de ritme’, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona (2015); ‘Doble autorización‘, as part of the exhibition cycle ‘Arqueología preventiva’, Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2014); ‘Amnèsies’, Espai2, Terrassa (2012), ‘El Gegant Menhir’, Museu Joan Abelló, Mollet del Vallès (2011). Amongst her group shows are ‘Young Belgian Art Prize 2015’, Bozar, Brussels (2015); ‘Write of Spring’, Het Paviljoen, Ghent (2014); ‘Narrativas domésticas: más allá del álbum familiar’, Visiona, Huesca (2013); ‘Los inmutables’, DAFO, Lleida (2012); ‘La gran aventura’, Can Felipa, Barcelona (2012); ‘Learn and Teach’, Greatmore Art Studios, South Africa (2012).

Lasurt is represented by Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.

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“Donació” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (29 September–2 October 2016) as part of the “Composiciones” programme.

Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.

In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.

Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org

Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/

Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...

Michael Alstad's Coyote Illumination explores concepts of human/animal territory, evolving boundaries between the constructed and natural world and the migration, growth and adaptation of wildlife within urban ecologies. The installation is a nod to Joseph Beuys famous 1974 performance, I Like America and America Likes Me, where the artist spent three days in a NYC gallery with a felt blanket, a flashlight, a cane and a live coyote. Beuys performance was interpreted as a healing and transformative ritual that acknowledged the spiritual significance of the coyote to native North Americans, and as a symbol of environmental degradation and loss through colonial expansion.

For the FiedWork site-specific installation Alstad reworked the visual elements and context of Beuy's performance; the NYC gallery is transposed to a camping tent in a rural Ontario field, the live coyote replaced with a durable weather resistant plastic coyote decoy ‘geese repeller’ – a realistic stalking threat that creates a ‘danger zone’ where geese won’t want to linger. The felt is substituted with gardening fibre and the coyote now embodies the flashlight – solar powered LED lights are embedded inside the decoy, illuminating it at dusk.

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I often have regrets of not carrying a specific lens or so during a hike (mostly that would be my 100mm macro), but this one was about tripod. Since it was a long hike, and we weren't expecting any waterfalls to shoot, I had left behind my tripod. On hindsight that wasn't a smart move.

comming down the Siyeh pass towards the sunrift gorge, the trail passes along a beautiful creek carved into red rocks that forms cascades intermittently. The sight was very pretty even in the absence of sunlight. I wanted to capture the silky flow of water, but without a tripod, long shutter speeds are a tricky business. So finally after a bit of compromise on shutter speed, I tried a few shots around 1/6th of a sec which if you go by the books is not a good idea to shoot handheld when you are shooting at 40mm. Oh did I say it was very windy ? Anyhow books apart, I still wanted to give it a go... so after few attempts, holding my breath, keeping my legs apart for stability etc and holding the hands close to the body to minimize the shake as much as possible, I also put the camera on a two second timer to avoid shaking it while pressing the shutter button. And all that improvisation lead to this shot. It ain't much... but it could have been worse.

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Beyond the city walls 2012

Site specific installation with Corn79

Sarà il Castello Orsini di Soriano nel Cimino (VT), già carcere fino al 1989, ad ospitare la prima grande Mostra del ciclo di rassegne dell'Esposizione Nazionale delle Arti Contemporanee, previste per il 2012.

Con la Direzione artistica di Paolo Berti, a cura di Fabio Weik e Michele Wad Caporosso, coadiuvati da Anita Gentile, dopo una settimana di workshop, il 21 luglio alle 18,00, i cancelli del “Ferrigno” Castello si apriranno e le grandi Sale ospiteranno le opere dei migliori artisti contemporanei della Street Art internazionale, per “Beyond the city walls 2012.”

Alla sua seconda edizione, avendo tra marzo e aprile 2011, già invaso, artisticamente le stanze di Giulia Farnese e Vicino Orsini nell'omonimo Palazzo cinquecentesco di Bomarzo, ( altro gioiello dell'arte manieristica della metà del XVI secolo), nel prossimo luglio verrà riproposto il meglio del Writing internazionale.

Saranno infatti presenti con le loro opere, molte delle quali create in loco, nel periodo di residenza degli autori, Rems182_Truly Design, Shepard Fairey “OBEY”, Fabio Weik, VESOD, Francesco Pogliaghi, Manuel Di Rita “PEETA”, FLY CAT, Corn79 & MrFijodor, Massimo Gurnari, James Hancock Gulliver.

Oltre i muri delle città per ritrovarsi artisticamente e mentalmente tra le mura che trasudano la storia di nove secoli, sarà la sfida che per la seconda volta gli Artisti affronteranno, collocando la loro fatica e la loro creatività tra Sale e spalti, torri merlate e camminatoi, dall'alto dei Cimini, con intorno la vastità della pianura Teverina e la cinta degli Appennini.

Il Vernissage verrà preceduto, nei giorni antecedenti, da una serie di Eventi nella Città, con partecipazioni, perfomances e Jams, nelle sere tra il 18 e il 20 luglio, contaminando anche la musica del Tuscia In Jazz Festival, presente a Soriano nel Cimino in contemporanea.

Questo Evento, di portata e valore internazionale, è stato realizzato dall’Associazione Premio Centro, grazie alla fattiva collaborazione del Comune di Soriano nel Cimino e dell’Assessorato alla Cultura che ha immediatamente condiviso il progetto, rendendosi disponibile per la sua realizzazione, nell’ambito della ben più vasta Esposizione Nazionale.

Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Colombia's outgoing president Alvaro Uribe meets the public during a visit to the Agro Del Pacífico 2010 agricultural fair in Cali on Friday (July 30). President Uribe met CIAT's Andy Jarvis, who attended the event to promote an ambitious new Site-Specific Agriculture based on Farmers' Experiences (SSAFE) project. Please credit accordingly and let us know when you use a CIAT pic. Contact n.palmer@cgiar.org.

The Empire Supporters Club (ESC) celebrate the first New York Red Bull goal at Red Bull Arena.

Red Bull Arena, a soccer-specific stadium located in Harrison, New Jersey, opened in March 2010. The 25,189-seat soccer-specific stadium designed by Rossetti Architects, serves as the home to the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccet (MLS).

On the regular season opener at Red Bull Arena, the New York Red Bulls defeated the Chicago Fire by a score of 1-0 on March 27, 2010.

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Specific date: 7/19/1937

Artist: Wuehrman, William G.

Meeting room at the Soho office of media agency Specific Media

Welcome fellow Paddington Bear spotter! My photostream features all 50 Paddingtons. If you would like to shortcut to a specific one, please use the links below

No. 1: Love, Paddington X (Lulu Guinness) |

No. 2: Texting Paddington (Westminster Academy) | No. 3: The Mayor of Paddington (Paddington Waterside and Costain) | No. 4: Bearing Up (Taylor Wimpey) | No. 5: Brick Bear (Robin Partington & Partners) | No. 6: Futuristic Robot Bear (Jonathan Ross) | No. 7: Paddington (Michael Bond) | No. 8: Paddingtonscape (Hannah Warren) | No. 9: The Journey of Marmalade (Hugh Bonneville) | No. 10: Paws Engage (Canterbury of New Zealand) | No. 11: Flutterby (Emma Watson) | No. 12: W2 1RH (Marc Quinn) | No. 13: Paws (Sally Hawkins) |

No. 14: Goldiebear (Kate Moss) | No. 15: Sparkles (Frankie Bridge) | No. 16: Bear Humbug (Ant and Dec) | No. 17: The Spirit of Paddington (Rolls-Royce Motor Cars) | No. 18: Thread Bear (Matthew Williamson) | No. 19: Golden Paws (David Beckham) | No. 20: Parka Paddington (Liam Gallagher) | No. 21: Bearer of Gifts (Hamleys) | No. 22: Little Bear Blue (Intel) | No. 23: Bearodiversity (Peru) | No. 24: Paddington the Explorer (Ripley’s Believe it or Not! London) | No. 25: Andrew Lloyd Webbear (Andrew Lloyd Webber) | No. 26: Blush (Nicole Kidman) | No. 27: The Bear of London (Boris Johnson) | No. 28: Paddington Jack (Davina McCall) | No. 29: Good News Bear (The Telegraph) | No. 30: Paddington is GREAT (Stephen Fry) | No. 31: Special Delivery (Ben Wishaw) | No. 32: Rainbow (Darcey Bussell) | No. 33: Bear Necessities (John Hurt) | No. 34: Sherlock Bear (Benedict Cumberbatch) | No. 35: Bear in the Wood (Rankin) | No. 36: Fragile (Ryan McElhinney) | No. 37: Shakesbear (Michael Sheen) | No. 38: Good Morning, London (Michael Howells) | No. 39: RGB (Zaha Hadid) | No. 40: Taste of Peru (Peru) | No. 41 Wonders of the World (Peru) | No. 42 Paddington Who? (Peter Capaldi) | No. 43 Gravity Bear (Sandra Bullock) | No. 44 Wish You Were Here (Nick Mason) | No. 45 Toggle (Benjamin Shine) | No. 46 Primrose Paddington (Julie Walters) | No. 47 Sticky Wicket (Ian Botham) | No. 48 Chief Scout Bear (Bear Grylls) | No. 49 The Special One (Chelsea FC) | No. 50 Dapper Bear (Guy Ritchie)

Sanctuary Park Cemetery Toronto Ontario Canada

Unfortunately I have had no success searching for their obits so I can't add any details including their lodge names and numbers.

OES

Members of the Order are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women must have specific relationships with Masons. Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives[2] as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangles (NY only) and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars (NY only) to become members when of age.

The Order was created by Rob Morris in 1850 when he was teaching at the Eureka Masonic College in Richland, Mississippi. While confined by illness, he set down the principles of the order in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855, he had organized a "Supreme Constellation" in New York, which chartered chapters throughout the United States.

In 1866, Dr. Morris started working with Robert Macoy, and handed the Order over to him while Morris was traveling in the Holy Land. Macoy organized the current system of Chapters, and modified Dr. Morris' Rosary into a Ritual.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliatechapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D.C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.[3]

The "General Grand Chapter" was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 6, 1876. Committees formed at that time created the Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star in more or less its current form.[4]

The emblem of the Order is a five-pointed star with the white ray of the star pointing downwards towards the manger. In the Chapter room, the downward-pointing white ray points to the West. The character-building lessons taught in the Order are stories inspired by Biblical figures:

Adah (Jephthah's daughter, from the Book of Judges)

Ruth, the widow from the Book of Ruth

Esther, the wife from the Book of Esther

Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John

Electa (the "elect lady" from II John), the mother

Order of the Eastern Star:

General Grand Chapter logo:

The Order of the Eastern Star is a Freemasonicappendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason. The order is based on teachings from the Bible,[1] but is open to people of all religious beliefs. It has approximately 10,000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately 500,000 members under its General Grand Chapter.

Members of the Order are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women must have specific relationships with Masons. Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives[2] as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangles (NY only) and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars (NY only) to become members when of age.

History:

The Order was created by Rob Morris in 1850 when he was teaching at the Eureka Masonic College in Richland, Mississippi. While confined by illness, he set down the principles of the order in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855, he had organized a "Supreme Constellation" in New York, which chartered chapters throughout the United States.

In 1866, Dr. Morris started working with Robert Macoy, and handed the Order over to him while Morris was traveling in the Holy Land. Macoy organized the current system of Chapters, and modified Dr. Morris' Rosary into a Ritual.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliatechapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D.C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.[3]

The "General Grand Chapter" was formed in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 6, 1876. Committees formed at that time created the Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star in more or less its current form.[4]

Emblem and heroines:

The emblem of the Order is a five-pointed star with the white ray of the star pointing downwards towards the manger. In the Chapter room, the downward-pointing white ray points to the West. The character-building lessons taught in the Order are stories inspired by Biblical figures:

Adah (Jephthah's daughter, from the Book of Judges)

Ruth, the widow from the Book of Ruth

Esther, the wife from the Book of Esther

Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John

Electa (the "elect lady" from II John), the mother

Officers

Officers representing the heroines of the order sit around the altar in the center of the chapter room.

Eastern Star meeting room:

There are 18 main officers in a full chapter:

Worthy Matron – presiding officer

Worthy Patron – a Master Mason who provides general supervision

Associate Matron – assumes the duties of the Worthy Matron in the absence of that officer

Associate Patron – assumes the duties of the Worthy Patron in the absence of that officer

Secretary – takes care of all correspondence and minutes

Treasurer – takes care of monies of the Chapter

Conductress – Leads visitors and initiations.

Associate Conductress – Prepares candidates for initiation, assists the conductress with introductions and handles the ballot box.

Chaplain – leads the Chapter in prayer

Marshal – presents the Flag and leads in all ceremonies

Organist – provides music for the meetings

Adah – Shares the lesson of Duty of Obedience to the will of God

Ruth – Shares the lesson of Honor and Justice

Esther – Shares the lesson of Loyalty to Family and Friends

Martha – Shares the lesson of Faith and Trust in God and Everlasting Life

Electa – Shares the lesson of Charity and Hospitality

Warder – Sits next to the door inside the meeting room, to make sure those that enter the chapter room are members of the Order.

Sentinel – Sits next to the door outside the chapter room, to make sure those that wish to enter are members of the Order.

Traditionally, a woman who is elected Associate Conductress will be elected to Conductress the following year, then the next year Associate Matron, and then next year as Worthy Matron. A man elected Associate Patron will usually be elected Worthy Patron the following year. Usually the woman who is elected to become Associate Matron will let it be known who she wishes to be her Associate Patron, so the next year they will both go to the East together as Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron. There is no male counterpart to the Conductress and Associate Conductress. Only women are allowed to be Matrons, Conductresses, and the Star Points (Adah, Ruth, etc.) and only men can be Patrons.

Once a member has served a term as Worthy Matron or Worthy Patron, they may use the post-nominal letters, PM or PP respectively.

Headquarters:

The International Temple in Washington, D.C.

Main article: International Temple

The General Grand Chapter headquarters, the International Temple, is located in the Dupont Circleneighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the former Perry Belmont Mansion. The mansion was built in 1909 for the purpose of entertaining the guests of Perry Belmont. This included Britain's Prince of Wales in 1919. General Grand Chapter purchased the building in 1935. The secretary of General Grand Chapter lives there while serving his or her term of office. The mansion features works of art from around the world, most of which were given as gifts from various international Eastern Star chapters.

Charities:

The Order has a charitable foundation[5] and from 1986-2001 contributed $513,147 to Alzheimer's disease research, juvenile diabetes research, and juvenile asthma research. It also provides bursaries to students of theology and religious music, as well as other scholarships that differ by jurisdiction. In 2000 over $83,000 was donated. Many jurisdictions support a Masonic and/or Eastern Star retirement center or nursing home for older members; some homes are also open to the public. The Elizabeth Bentley OES Scholarship Fund was started in 1947.[6][7]

Eureka Masonic College, also known as The Little Red Schoolhouse, birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star

Signage at the Order of the Eastern Star birthplace, the Little Red Schoolhouse

Notable members

Clara Barton[8]

J. Howell Flournoy[9]

Eva McGown[10]

James Peyton Smith[11]

Lee Emmett Thomas[12]

Laura Ingalls Wilder[13]

H. L. Willis[14]

See also:

Achoth

Omega Epsilon Sigma

References:

^ "Installation Ceremony". Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star. Washington, DC: General Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. 1995 [1889]. pp. 120–121.

^ "Eastern Star Membership". General Grand Chapter. Retrieved 2010-06-03. These affiliations include: * Affiliated Master Masons in good standing, * the wives * daughters * legally adopted daughters * mothers * widows * sisters * half sisters * granddaughters * stepmothers * stepdaughters * stepsisters * daughters-in-law * grandmothers * great granddaughters * nieces * great nieces * mothers-in-law * sisters-in-law and daughters of sisters or brothers of affiliated Master Masons in good standing, or if deceased were in good standing at the time of their death

^ Ayers, Jessie Mae (1992). "Origin and History of the Adoptive Rite Among Black Women". Prince Hall Masonic Directory. Conference of Grand Masters, Prince Hall Masons. Retrieved 2007-10-25.

^ "Rob Morris". Grand Chapter of California. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-10-01.

^ "OES Charities". Retrieved 2016-04-15.

^ "Elizabeth Bentley Order Of The Eastern Star Scholarship Award". Yukon, Canada. Retrieved 2009-11-05.

^ "Eastern Star has enjoyed long history". Black Press. Retrieved 2009-11-05. The Eastern Star Bursary, later named the Elizabeth Bentley OES Scholarship Fund, was started in 1947.[dead link]

^ Clara Barton, U.S. Nurse Masonic First Day Cover

^ "Sheriff 26 Years – J. H. Flournoy Dies," Shreveport Journal, December 14, 1966, p. 1

^ by Helen L. Atkinson at ALASKA INTERNET PUBLISHERS, INC

^ "James P. Smith". The Bernice Banner, Bernice, Louisiana. Retrieved September 13,2013.

^ "Thomas, Lee Emmett". Louisiana Historical Association, A Directory of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). Retrieved December 29, 2010.

^ Big Muddy online publications

^ "Horace Luther Willis". The Alexandria Daily Town Talk on findagrave.com. Retrieved July 25, 2015.

Official website:

Eastern Star Organizations at DMOZ

Pride of the North Chapter Number 61, Order of the Eastern Star Archival Collection, located at Shorefront Legacy Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

A lovely Deep South Svastra, S. petulca to be specific. A nice pollen shot. You can see the huge bushy pollen carrying hairs on its hind legs, designed to carry dry pollen unlike Honey Bees and Bumble Bees which mix their pollen with nectar. I am guessing it is some sort of composite given it is blow out orange and that Svastras are known to favor that family of plants. Collected by Mimi Jenkins near Charleston, SC and Anders Croft's first bee photographs (Excellent work Anders, remind me to double your pay).

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Basic USGSBIML set up:

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USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4

PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:

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Visions of America: Amériques

Audio/Visual Performance conducted by Esa-pekka Salonen, performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic

6th of November, 2014

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

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'The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s multimedia presentation of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques launched the new in/SIGHT series at Walt Disney Concert Hall,The presentation of Amériques is accompanied by the new Anadol site-specific architectural video installation, which was developed to illuminate and enhance the Varèse's composition and to activate the architecture of Walt Disney Concert Hall. The dynamic visual program created by Anadol uses custom-built algorithmic sound analysis to listen and respond to the music in real time, using architecture as a canvas and light as a material. Additionally, the movements of Salonen, as he conducts, will be captured by next generation Microsoft Kinect hardware and 3-D depth camera analysis to inform the visuals displayed. The result was a powerful and immersive experience for the audience that engaged their visual and auditory senses.'

Launching in/SIGHT – the LA Phil's groundbreaking series of concerts with video – this program embodies the vision of the New World as a place of unlimited artistic freedom. Amériques was the first musical piece that Varèse composed upon coming to New York and this project is fittingly the first site-specific audio-visual performance that I produce in the U.S. I approached this collaboration from the standpoint of a non-linear and ephemeral interaction between Salonen, Varèse, and me, and hope that I will be able to transform Varèse’s timeless musical fiction into an immersive visual medium through which a new kind of storytelling will occur. Rather than approaching this medium as a means of escape into some disembodied techno-utopian fantasy, this project sees itself as a means of return. It aims to facilitate a temporary release from our habitual

perceptions and culturally biased assumptions about being in the world, and to enable us, however momentarily, to perceive our own stories and the stories around us freshly.

In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, Anadol stated regarding this work, “Instead of creating a media screen, there will be a story inside the space. What happens if you add a video layer that speaks to the audience in a whole new experience? We're exploring the boundaries of what is real, what is physical, what is virtual…”

I would like to sincerely thank everyone who made this project possible. This project would never have been possible without the tremendous and generous support of Los Angeles Philharmonic, President and CEO Deborah Borda; Vice President of Artistic Planning Chad Smith; Artistic Administrator Meghan Martineau and Concert Operations Manager Taylor Saleeby. I would also like to thank for their open-handed support the University California, Los Angeles, Department of Media Arts’ faculty members, Microsoft Research, and Lili Cheng, Finally and specially I would like to thank Frank Gehry for his dreamful canvas and Esa-Pekka Salonen for his open-minded collaboration with me to discover “New Worlds.”

CREDITS

Video Artist: Refik Anadol

Artistic Management: Dave Hunt

Executive Producer: Efsun Erkilic

Senior Generative Designers: Sebastian Neitsch & Woeishi Lean

Senior 3D Designer: Raman K. Mustafa

Senior Animator: Simon Russell

Junior Animators: Bahadir Dagdelen, Michael Hsiu, Kian Khiaban, Toby Heinemann,

Laurence Menor.

Research Assistant: Jarad Solomon

Painting and markings:

The reason why this aircraft ended in Greek service is a color photograph of a crashed Hellenic Bloch M.B. 152 (coded ‘D 177’, to be specific). I guess that the picture was post-colored, though, because the aircraft of French origin sports rather weird colors: the picture shows a two-tone scheme in a deep, rather reddish chestnut brown and a light green that almost looks like teal. Unique, to say the least... Underside colors couldn’t be identified with certainty in the picture, but appeared like a pale but not too light blue grey.

Anyway, I assume that these colors are pure fiction and exaggerated Photoshop work, since the few M.B. 152s delivered to Greece carried AFAIK standard French camouflage (in French Khaki, Chestnut Brown and Blue-Grey on the upper surfaces, and a very light blue-grey from below). I’d assume that the contrast between the grey and green tones was not very obvious in the original photograph, so that the artist, not familiar with WWII paint schemes, replaced both colors with the strange teal tone and massively overmodulated the brown.

As weird as it looked, I liked this design and used it as an inspirational benchmark for my Hellenic Glaive build. After all, it’s a fictional aircraft… Upper basic colors are Humbrol 31 (RAF Slate Grey) and 160 (German Camouflage Red Brown), while the undersides became French Dark Blue Grey (ModelMaster Authentics 2105). The result looks rather odd…

Representing a combat-worn aircraft, I applied a thorough black ink wash and did heavier panel shading and dry-brushing on the leading edges, along with some visible touches of aluminum.

The Hellenic roundels come from a TL Modellbau aftermarket sheet. The tactical code was puzzled together from single letters, and the Greek “D” was created from single decal strips. For better contrast I used white decals – most Hellenic aircraft of the time had black codes, but the contrast is much better, and I found evidence that some machines actually carried white codes. The small fin flash is another free interpretation. Not every Hellenic aircraft carried these markings, and instead of painting the whole rudder in Greek colors I just applied a small fin flash. This was created with white and blue decal strips, closely matching the roundels’ colors.

Finally, after some soot stains around the guns and the exhausts, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.

Matadero Madrid presenta, el viernes 5 de febrero, a las 19 h., (SELFI), un proyecto específico creado por Darya von Berner y comisariado por Carlota Álvarez Basso para la antigua cámara frigorífica del que fuera el matadero de Madrid, como parte de su programa Abierto x Obras. Se trata de una instalación que versa sobre la percepción, la atención, la ecología y el selfi.

La cámara digital ha sido una revolución técnica que, además de contribuir a la secularización, la democratización y la banalización de la fotografía, ha provocado un cambio radical en nuestra manera de expresarnos, de convivir y de comunicarnos con los demás. Plataformas como Instagram, Flickr, Photobucket, Tumblr o Picasa han modificado definitivamente la forma de escribir nuestras biografías y han decretado la muerte de los tradicionales álbumes de fotos familiares. La reciente aparición del selfi, además de visibilizar el narcisismo de nuestra sociedad, ha forjado un nuevo género fotográfico a caballo entre el autorretrato y la fotografía “conversacional”: ahora las imágenes actúan como mensajes fotográficos o como relatos visuales.

En (SELFI) hay dos auténticos protagonistas: la propia sala de Abierto x Obras y el visitante activo. Gracias a la creativa iluminación orgánica de la sala, ésta se expone por primera vez ante el público en su integridad. También se duplica el espacio arquitectónico sugiriendo que la nave se hace un selfi, un imaginario y grandioso autorretrato. Sólo la percepción atenta de la obra por parte del visitante permitirá que una nueva imagen de sí mismo le sea revelada al observarse y ser observado por los demás.

DARYA VON BERNER nació en México y creció en Madrid. Estudió en la School of Visual Arts de Nueva York, completando su formación con artistas como Antonio López, Tony Crag y Jannis Kounellis. Actualmente es artista residente en Luxemburgo en el proyecto BeHave/Public Art Experience. En 2015 ha realizado instalaciones en Amsterdam Light Festival, Tschumipavijlion Groningen (Holanda) y Paisagem de luz (Bahía, Brasil).

Antes, sus intervenciones de arte público, han tenido lugar en Dessau (Triennale der Moderne Bauhaus), Berlín, Colonia, Frankfurt (Ernst May Haus) y Göttingen (Kunstverein). En Italia (Flash Art Museum, Museo Perugia). En Holanda (Peace Palace, Den Haag; WWVF Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam). En Bruselas (Nuit Blanche) y en Suiza (Art Basel). En España: Donostia (Arteleku), Córdoba (Fundación Capital Cultural), Murcia (Sala Verónicas), Madrid (CentroCentro, Tabacalera, Noche en Blanco, PhotoEspaña, Doméstico). En EEUU (Emory Museum, Nexus Art Center), Tokio (Mori Art Museum) y en Turquía (III Bienal Estambul).

Abierto x Obras, en Matadero Madrid, es un programa de intervenciones site specific que incentiva el carácter experimental de la creación contemporánea a través de planteamientos que exploran la relación entre el arte y el lugar que lo acoge, la antigua cámara frigorífica del Matadero. Desde 2007 Abierto x Obras ha acogido las intervenciones de artistas como Daniel Canogar, Jannis Kounnellis, Román Signer, Carlos Garaicoa, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Jordi Colomer, Los Carpinteros, Cristina Lucas, o Eugenio Ampudia, entre otros.

Abierto x Obras / Matadero Madrid

Del 5 de febrero al 31 de julio. Martes a viernes, de 16 a 21 h. Sábados, domingos y festivos de 11 a 21 h.

Imagen: Paco Gómez / Matadero Madrid