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Now, on that occasion Ven. Sariputta was wandering in the Southern Mountains with a large community of monks. Then a certain monk who had spent the Rains in Rajagaha went to the Southern Mountains, to Ven. Sariputta.
On arrival, he exchanged courteous greetings with Ven. Sariputta and - after an exchange of friendly greetings and courtesies - sat to one side.
As he was sitting there, Ven. Sariputta said to him, "I trust, friend, that the Blessed One is strong and free from illness?"
"At the Tandulapala Gate is a brahman named Dhananjani.
"Dhananjani the brahman is also strong and free from illness."
"And I trust that Dhananjani the brahman is heedful?"
"From where would our Dhananjani the brahman get any heedfulness, friend?
His wife - a woman of faith, fetched from a family with faith - has died.
He has fetched another wife - a woman of no faith - from a family with no faith."
"What a bad thing to hear, my friend - when we hear that Dhananjani the brahman is heedless.
Perhaps sooner or later we might meet with Dhananjani the brahman.
Then Ven. Sariputta, having stayed in the Southern Mountains as long as he liked, wandered in the direction of Rajagaha.
After wandering by stages, he arrived at Rajagaha.
There he stayed near Rajagaha in the Squirrels' Sanctuary.
Then early in the morning, Ven. Sariputta put on his robes and, carrying his bowl and outer robe, went into Rajagaha for alms.
And on that occasion Dhananjani the brahman was milking cows in a cow pen outside the city.
Then Ven. Sariputta, having gone for alms in Rajagaha, after his meal, on his way back from his almsround, went to Dhananjani the brahman.
Dhananjani the brahman saw Ven. Sariputta coming from afar.
On seeing him, he went to him and said, "Drink some of this fresh milk, master Sariputta.
"As you say, master," Dhananjani responded to Ven. Sariputta.
Then after he had finished his morning meal, he went to Ven. Sariputta.
As he was sitting there, Ven. Sariputta said to him, "I trust, Dhananjani, that you are heedful?"
"From where would we get any heedfulness, master? - when parents are to be supported, wife and children are to be supported, slaves and workers are to be supported, friend-&-companion duties are to be done for friends and companions, kinsmen-&-relative duties for kinsmen and relatives, guest duties for guests, departed-ancestor duties for departed ancestors, devata duties for devatas, king duties for the king, and this body also has to be refreshed and nourished."
"What do you think Dhananjani?
There is the case where a certain person, for the sake of his wife and children ... his slaves and workers ... his friends and companions ... his kinsmen and relatives ... his guests ... his departed ancestors ... the devatas ... the king, does what is unrighteous, does what is discordant.
"No, master Sariputta. Even right while he was wailing, they'd cast him into hell."
"Now, what do you think, Dhananjani?
"Master Sariputta, the one who, for the sake of his mother and father, would do what is unrighteous, what is discordant, is not the better one.
"Dhananjani, there are other activities - reasonable, righteous - by which one can support one's mother and father, and at the same time both not do evil and practice the practice of merit.
"What do you think, Dhananjani?
Which is the better: one who, for the sake of his wife and children ... his slaves and workers ... his friends and companions ... his kinsmen and relatives ... his guests ... his departed ancestors ... the devatas ... the king ... refreshing and nourishing his body, would do what is unrighteous, what is discordant; or one who, for the sake of refreshing and nourishing his body, would do what is righteous, what is concordant?
"Master Sariputta, the one who, for the sake of refreshing and nourishing his body, would do what is unrighteous, what is discordant, is not the better one.
"Dhananjani, there are other activities - reasonable, righteous - by which one can refresh and nourish one's body, and at the same time both not do evil and practice the practice of merit."
Then Dhananjani the brahman, delighting and rejoicing in Ven. Sariputta's words, got up from his seat and left.
Then on a later occasion, Dhananjani the brahman became diseased, in pain, severely ill.
'Lord, Dhananjani the brahman is diseased, in pain, severely ill.
'Venerable sir, Dhananjani the brahman is diseased, in pain, severely ill.
'It would be good if Ven. Sariputta would visit Dhananjani's home, out of sympathy for him.'"
Responding, "As you say, lord," to Dhananjani the brahman, the man went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, bowed down to him and sat to one side.
"Lord, Dhananjani the brahman is diseased, in pain, severely ill.
Then he went to Ven. Sariputta and, on arrival, bowed down to him and sat to one side.
He pays homage with his head to Ven. Sariputta's feet."
"It would be good if Ven. Sariputta would visit Dhananjani's home, out of sympathy for him."
Ven. Sariputta acquiesced through silence.
Then Ven. Sariputta, having put on his robes and, taking his bowl and outer robe, went to Dhananjani's home.
"I trust you are getting better, Dhananjani?
"I am not getting better, Master Sariputta.
"The animal womb is better than hell, Master Sariputta."
"Did Master Sariputta say, 'Brahma world'?
Did Master Sariputta say, 'Brahma world'?"
What if I were to teach Dhananjani the brahman the path to union with the Brahmas?"
"Dhananjani, I will teach you the path to union with the Brahmas.
"As you say, master," Dhananjani the brahman responded to Ven. Sariputta.
Thus above, below, and all around, everywhere, in its entirety, he keeps pervading the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness imbued with good will - abundant, expansive, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill will.
Thus above, below, and all around, everywhere, in its entirety, he keeps pervading the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness imbued with equanimity - abundant, expansive, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill will.
This, Dhananjani, is the path to union with the Brahmas."
So Ven. Sariputta - when there was still more to be done, having established Dhananjani the brahman in the inferior Brahma world - got up from his seat and left.
Then, not long after Ven. Sariputta's departure, Dhananjani the brahman died and reappeared in the Brahma world.
"Monks, Sariputta - when there was still more to be done, having established Dhananjani the brahman in the inferior Brahma world - has gotten up from his seat and left."
Then Ven. Sariputta went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side.
"But why, Sariputta - when there was still more to be done, having established Dhananjani the brahman in the inferior Brahma world - did you get up from your seat and leave?"
What if I were to teach Dhananjani the brahman the path to union with the Brahmas?'"
"Sariputta, Dhananjani the brahman has died and reappeared in the Brahma world."
 The PTS edition of the canon gives this name as Dhaananjaani, whereas the Thai and Sri Lankan editions give it as Dhananjaani. This discourse is unusual in that Ven. Sariputta addresses Dhananjani not as "householder," but by his personal name. This would seem to indicate that the two of them were on especially familiar terms.
 I.e., inferior to any of the noble attainments. The Brahma world can be attained simply through the power of concentration applied to unlimited good will, etc., or to any of the jhanas. Only if discernment is developed to overcome passion and delight for these mundane attainments can the noble attainments be realized. For discussions of this issue see MN 106, AN 4.123-126, and AN 4.178.


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Каролина Бардуа (, также Karoline Bardua; ) — немецкая художница и хозяйка литературного салона. Она была одной из первых женщин среднего класса, которая смогла зарабатывать себе на жизнь как независимая художница.

Биография
Каролина Бардуа родилась в Балленштедте, в горах Гарц, в 1781 году, в семье Иоганна Адама Бардуа, камердинера наследного принца Алексия Бернбургского и Софии Сабины Кирхнер.

Первым учителем художницы был Иоганн Генрих Мейер, работавший в Веймаре с 1805 по 1807 год. Там же она познакомилась с Иоганном Вольфгангом фон Гёте, портрет которого она нарисовала. Затем Каролина Бардуа стала ученицей Герхардта фон Кюгельгена в Дрездене вместе с Луизой Зейдлер с 1808 по 1811 год. Здесь она, помимо прочего, делала копии картин. Она познакомилась с Антоном Граффом и Каспаром Давидом Фридрихом.

В 1811 году, после визита в Балленштедт, Фридрих сделал Бардуа фигурой на своей картине «Садовая терраса». После окончания обучения у Кюгельгена, которое проходило бессистемно, Каролина Бардуа отправилась в поездку в Париж и Франкфурт-на-Майне со своей сестрой, певицей .

В 1819 году обе сестры, которые всю жизнь оставались незамужними, приехали в Берлин, где содержали литературный салон. Одним из частых гостей был писатель Август Фридрих Эрнст Лангбейн.

Работы Каролины Бардуа пользовались спросом в Берлине, но вскоре всё обернулось с точностью до наоборот. В частности, выставка 1822 года, на которой её портреты принцессы Александрины Прусской, принца и других членов королевской семьи были представлены вместе с аналогичными портретами Фридриха Вильгельма фон Шадова, вызвала резкую критику в адрес художницы, которая, в отличие от Шадова, не получила академического художественного образования.

В 1827 году сёстры были вынуждены отказаться от проживания в Берлине по финансовым причинам и начали вести странствующий образ жизни. Это часто приводило их в небольшие города, такие как Гейдельберг или Крефельд, вдали от любой конкуренции. С 1829 по 1832 год они жили во Франкфурте-на-Майне, а с 1832 года снова в Берлине, где возродили свой салон, который посещали не только художники, но и учёные, такие как Фридрих Карл фон Савиньи и Леопольд фон Ранке. В 1852 году они переехали в Балленштедт. После смерти Каролины Бардуа в 1864 году Вильгельмина Бардуа написала биографию своей сестры. Она умерла через год после неё в 1865 году. «Юношеская жизнь художницы Каролины Бардуа» была опубликована посмертно в 1874 году.

"Der Männer Selbstsucht bannte gern die Frauen
Nur in der Hausgeschäfte Kreis
Und vielen grünt (das, Freundin, im Vertrauen)
Auch bloß am Herd ihr Lorbeerreis.

Dich aber rief, beschenkt mit höhern Gaben,
Zur Staffelei der Musen Gunst,
Den Geist mit Geist zu fesseln und zu laben,
Gelingt dem Zauber deiner Kunst."

Творчество
Каролина Бардуа в основном создавала портреты и делала копии картин. Среди портретируемых — такие личности, как Каспар Давид Фридрих, которого она изобразила маслом незадолго до его смерти, Юлиус Эдуард Хитциг, Никколо Паганини, Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте, его жена Кристиана фон Гёте и Иоганна Шопенгауэр.

Она оформляла титульные листы для газеты Kaffeterzeitung. В кругу своих друзей она также выступала в качестве сценографа, например, в пьесе Иоганны Моккель «Савиньи и Фемида, текст и украденная музыка» (Savigny und Themis, Text und gestohlene Musik) в постановке Каролины Бардуа, которую дети Беттины фон Арним исполнили по случаю дня рождения Фридриха Карла фон Савиньи в 1838 году.

"Für die Kunst hatte Karoline Bardua entschiedenen Beruf. An Ausdauer, Fleiß und Konzeptionsfähigkeit übertraf sie ihr Geschlecht und zeichnete sich aufs vorteilhafteste vor allen übrigen Schülerinnen meines Vaters aus, der sich ihrer daher auch mit besonderem Interesse angenommen hatte und sich ihrer Erfolge herzlich freute, solange er lebte."

Почести и награды
 Карл Вильгельм Салис-Контесса написал свою поэму «К Каролине Бардуа» в 1822 году.
 В Дрездене в честь художницы названа улица Каролина-Бардуа-штрассе.
 С 1839 года Каролина Бардуа получала ежегодную пенсию в размере 100 талеров от Академии изящных искусств в Берлине, а в 1857 году она получила медаль от герцога Александра Карла и герцогини Фридерики фон Анхальт-Бернбург «За заслуги Каролины Бардуа в области искусства и науки».
 В Балленштедте в честь сестёр названа улица Бардуаштрассе (), а на месте их рождения в Аллее 37 и в доме в Аллее 38, где сёстры провели свои последние годы, установлены информационные доски.

Галерея

Примечания

Литература

на немецком
 Wilhelmine Bardua: Jugendleben der Malerin Caroline Bardua. Mit dem Bildniß der Caroline Bardua. Nach einem Manuskript ihrer Schwester Wilhelmine Bardua herausgegeben von Walter Schwarz. Hoffmann, Breslau 1874.
 Hans Peper: Karoline Bardua. In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. 2. Band: Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhunderts. Magdeburg 1927, S. 107–116.
 Wilhelmine Bardua: Die Schwestern Bardua. Bilder aus dem Gesellschafts-, Kunst- und Geistesleben der Biedermeierzeit. Aus Wilhelmine Barduas Aufzeichnungen gestaltet von Johannes Werner. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1929.
 Pfarrer Jung, Mußbach: Auf den Spuren einer alten Hugenotten-Familie in Mußbach. Zum 200-jährigen Geburtstag von Johann Adam Pardua, geboren am 24. August 1739 in Mußbach-Lobloch. (Nach den Familienforschungen des Oberstleutnants der Gend. Bardua in Bad Ems). Buchdruckerei Carl Bockfeld, Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1939.

 Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: Caroline und Wilhelmine Bardua, zwei namhafte Ballenstedterinnen. Stadtverwaltung Ballenstedt 1993 (Kulturhistorische Schriften Ballenstedt. 1).
 Inga Leuwer-Bardua: Bardua. In: Deutsches Geschlechterbuch. Band 206, Fünfundfünfzigster Allgemeiner Band, C.A. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0206-1.
 Bärbel Kovalevski: Zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit – Künstlerinnen der Goethezeit. Gotha/Konstanz 1999, S. 43, 84, 90, 105, 131, 142, 173, 240.
 Christa Eschmann: Die Schwestern Bardua, Roman. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2001. ISBN 3-89812-073-2.
 Martin Stolzenau: Die Malerin Karoline Bardua porträtierte geistige Größen ihrer Zeit. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 20. Februar 2002.
 Bärbel Kovalevski: Caroline Bardua. Verlag Dr. Bärbel Kovalevski, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-9812252-3-5
 Nancy Tanneberger: Die Malerin Caroline Bardua (1781–1864) und ihre Zeit. Eine Würdigung, in: Weberiana. Mitteilungen der Internationalen Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesellschaft e. V., Heft 31 (Herbst 2021), S. 25–46

Родившиеся в 1781 году
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#159162 - 08/27/09 03:23 PM Henry Egg information
Sidelock
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Any one have any information on Henry Egg (19th-Century English gun maker). I believe that his father was John Egg (likely inventor of the percussion cap) and that his great uncle was Durs Egg. I'd be grateful for any info on the dates of his company etc.
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George L.
Loc: South Carolina
Henry Egg (1815-1869) son of Joseph Egg, gunmakers (successor to Joseph Manton & Son), 6 Holles Street,Cavendish Square, 1839-1842; 1 Picadilly, 1842-1850; Henry Egg, s.a. 1851-1869; Henry William Egg, s.a. 1869-1880. From BRITISH GUNMAKERS by Nigel Brown.
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#159176 - 08/27/09 07:00 PM Re: Henry Egg information [Re: George L.]
Thank you! That is very helpful information. (And it dates a Joseph Manton at 6 Hollis St as well.) Perhaps I will have to consider acquiring a copy of Nigel Brown. At some point I will have to figure out how to post some pictures.
What does s.a. stand for?
PeteM
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The Egg family is most simply viewed with Durs on the one hand, with his sons George Frederick, John and Henry Durs; and on the other hand, Joseph with his sons Charles, Henry and Augustus Leopold.
Durs Egg was born in 1748 in Switzerland. He moved to Paris but stayed there for only a short time, in 1772 he was recorded working for John Twigg in London.
In 1778 he opened his own business as a sword cutler and gun maker at 24 Princes Street, Leicester Fields. From 1784 to 1820 he was a Contractor to Ordnance.
In 1786 he moved to 1 Coventry Street, Haymarket; in 1791 he was granted British citizenship.
From 1794 to 1811 he was recorded as having a factory at 35 Mansell Street, but from 1797 to 1802 he appears to have had a workshop at 9 Kensington Gore, his residence. In 1802 his residence moved to Knightsbridge Green.
In 1803 he patented a breechloading gun, waterproof locks, a recoiling barrel, a shoulder butt for a pistol, tube sights and other items (No.2692).
In 1804 he moved to 132 Strand.
Possibly as early as 1811 he was appointed gunmaker to the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), the Duke of York etc.
In 1812 he patented an improved flintlock mechanism, 3 and 4 barrel guns, a walking stick gun and safety powder flask and other items (No.3599).
In 1815 Durs Egg and S J Pauly patented a dolphin shaped balloon (No.3909) (in 1808 S J Pauly, a Swiss gunmaker working in Paris, had invented a breech-loader which used a cartridge containing a fulminate which was ignited by a firing pin: nobody realised the importance of Pauly's invention at the time, so he channelled his creativity elsewhere; the balloon was not a commercial success).
At some time the firm became members of The Society of Master Gunmakers of Westminster (along with the Mantons, Joseph Egg, Grierson, Samuel Nock and Henry Wilkinson).
In 1816 the firm moved to 1 Pall Mall.
Durs Egg became blind in 1822, and died in 1831 at his residence in Knightsbridge Green.
From 1832 the business continued trading as Durs Egg under the control of his executors, George Frederick Egg, his son born in 1787, and Frederick W Devey, his son-in-law (some reports state Frederick Nicholls Devey but this has not been confirmed). John Egg (recorded variously as born 1796 or 1800) managed the firm which remained at 1 Pall Mall and promised "to maintain the long-standing reputation of the name" (Bell's Life in London). John Egg had been apprenticed to George Frederick in the Founders Company in 1813, and had had his own business in 1826 at 26 Princes Street, Leicester Fields.
In 1838 the firm moved to 20 Haymarket where they traded under the name of John Egg, but John Egg remained living in Pall Mall with his wife, Clara A (nee Daras married 1831) their daughter Julianna (b.1837), and, later, their son George D G Egg (b.1841).
In 1839 the firm moved to 10 Opera Arcade but in the same year it moved to 4 Pall Mall to trade under the name of Durs Egg. In 1855 this address changed to 4 Colonnade, Pall Mall.
In the 1861 census John Egg was recorded living at 7 Addison Road, Kensington, with his wife, Clara, their daughters, Clara and Julianna, and their sons, George D G (a gunmaker aged 19 but not recorded thereafter) and John (John (II) then aged 12).
The firm was last recorded as Durs Egg in 1865, but it appears to have continued to trade. The premises at 4 Pall Mall appear to have been large enough to house two separate gunmakers, because Calisher & Terry, trading as the Breech Loading Armoury Company, were recorded there in 1866 and 1867, and from 1874 to 1876 William Thorn's address was 4 Pall Mall.
John Egg (John (I)) died in 1873 at his home at 39 Great Western Terrace, Paddington; probate was granted in 1874, and it appears that the firm was then run by John (II) and Thomas William Watson. However, John (II) died in 1877, and in 1878 Thomas Watson was recorded at 4 Pall Mall trading as a gun maker and optician; he claimed establishment in 1875.
In the Royal Collection at Windsor are a breechloading carbine with spear bayonet, a Ferguson rifle with silver mountings, and some sporting guns.
Durs Egg was the son of Leonz Egg, gunmaker, Oberbuchstein, Switzerland. He was baptised Urs Christian Egg. [He had a brother, Johann Jacob who was baptised Jean Joseph, who had a son Joseph - see Joseph Egg.
Durs, or Urs, moved to Paris, but soon emigrated to England where in 1772 he started work with John Twigg.
In 1787 his son George Frederick was born. In 1791 he was granted denization (citizenship) in England.
In 1793 his other son, Henry was born, and at a later stage John was born.
George Frederick Egg was Free of the Founders Company by redemption and set-up in business at 12 Little Eastcheap, it is not known for how long he traded here. He took in his brothers, Henry Durs and John as apprentices in 1813; Henry Durs Egg was Free of the Founders Company and took Livery in 1822, he had probably been working in the business as a partner, he died in 1868. John Egg never sought his Freedom in the Founders Company and did not take Livery. From 1832 to 1837 he managed the business of Durs Egg trading as "executors of Durs Egg" from the 1 Pall Mall address. He seems to have taken over the business in 1838 and moved it as stated above.
Joseph Egg probably came to England soon after 1790, and he probably worked for Durs Egg.
He started trading as a gunmaker in Great Windmill Street, Soho in 1800 when he patented a method of bending steel using heat (No.2440).
In 1801 he went into partnership with Walker as Egg & Walker at 59 Frith Street, Soho where they traded as "Gunmakers and Patent Spring Truss Makers", but the partnership was recorded only in that year. In the same year he was recorded as being in partnership with Henry Tatham as Tatham & Egg at 37 Charing Cross.
In 1813 Joseph Egg patented an upside-down flintlock (No.3676).
In 1814 the partnership with Tatham broke up and Joseph went into business under his own name at Corner of Piccadilly and Haymarket, this address appears to have been numbered 1 Piccadilly in about 1825.
In 1816 a waterproof lock which Joseph had developed was rejected by the Board of Ordnance.
Joseph Egg was particularly famous for making duelling pistols but he was also famous because he claimed to have invented the copper percussion cap. The generally accepted date for its introduction is 1818. Nobody can state with certainty who invented the percussion cap, following Forsyth's development of primers many people developed similar ideas. Joshua Shaw, of London and Philadelphia, USA, claimed to have invented it in 1814 but kept the idea secret until he had emigrated to Philadelphia where, in 1817 he tried to patent it but, as an alien, was not allowed to file a patent until he had been resident in the country for two years. The invention was also claimed by Joseph Manton (and Colonel Peter Hawker) and John Day of Giltspur Street, London and Barnstaple in Devon. Joseph Manton's claim was backed by Col Peter Hawker who said that he had proposed the idea to Manton. Manton and Egg's patents differ substantially from Shaw's patent (Joseph Egg submitted a copper cap percussion musket to Ordnance in 1820 but it was rejected).
At some time, the firm became members of The Society of Master Gunmakers of Westminster (along with the Mantons, Durs Egg, Charles Grierson, Samuel Nock and Henry Wilkinson).
In 1822 Joseph Egg patented his self-primer, (a percussion priming magazine patent No.4727), and in 1827 in France he patented a pellet lock.
From 1823 to 1835 Joseph Egg was a Contractor to the Board of Ordnance (setting-up).
In 1832 a further shop or workshop was opened at 28 Titchborne Street. This shop closed in 1834 (no guns or trade labels bearing this address have been seen).
On 6 May 1835 Joseph Egg patented an improved percussion priming magazine (No.6829). This had a pierced bar that collected a priming pellet from a tubular magazine when the hammer was cocked. The bar placed the pellet in the breech and then retracted as the hammer fell.
Reportedly, in 1835 the firm traded under the names Joseph Egg & Son and / or Joseph Egg & Co. The name Joseph Egg & Son, Henry being the son, has not been confirmed, but many trade labels bearing the name Joseph Egg & Sons have been seen. No known reference sources refer to Joseph Egg & Sons, so it may be that an original error has been repeated by later sources. The evidence for the name Joseph Egg & Co appears to come from an 1839 advertisment for "The Patent Self-adjusting German Truss" made and sold by J Egg & Co.
The name Joseph Egg & Sons may have been used after Joseph's death in 1837 (and perhaps immediattely prior to it) when Charles and Henry took over the business. It may be of interest to note that Charles was the elder of the two brothers, probably born in 1811 or 1812, Henry was born in 1815 or 1816. Both Charles and Henry Egg started and finished their apprenticeships with the Reynolds firm of gunmakers at the same time. Charles would have been aged 21 in 1832 or 1833, Henry Egg would have been 21 only in 1836 or 1837.
In 1839 Charles and Henry took over the bankrupt business of Joseph Manton at 6 Holles Street, Cavendish Square. In 1842 these premises were closed but the business at 1 Piccadilly continued under the name of Charles & Henry Egg.
In 1850 Charles retired, he died in 1867; Henry Egg continued the business and in about 1860-1865 developed an under lever pin-fire gun (referred to as Henry Egg's improvement).
In 1869 Henry died and was succeeded by his son, Henry William Egg (b.1845 in St James). Henry William changed the name of the firm to his own and traded until 1880. He was recorded in the 1871 census as a gunsmith employing 7 men, 2 boys and 1 woman. He was living at 1 Piccadilly with his wife, Mary A (b.1848 in Hanover Square, London; married possibly in 1866).
Joseph Egg was the nephew of Durs Egg. He was born in 1775 and baptised Jean Joseph. He was the son of Johann Jakob Egg a gunmaker of Huningue, Alsace, brother of Durs Egg. In 1808 he was a member of the St James Loyal Volunteers.
Charles Egg was apprenticed in 1826 to Thomas Reynolds, he was made Free of the Gunmakers Company and took Livery in 1840, was Elected Assistant in 1844 and Master in 1848, he died in 1867.
Henry Egg was born in 1816 and apprenticed in 1826 to James Reynolds, Thomas's son. He exhibited a self-priming percussion gun at the Great Exhibition in 1851.
Henry William Egg was apprenticed to Charles Egg in the Gunmakers Company in 1861.
Joseph Egg had a third son, Augustus Leopold, who was a famous painter and administered Joseph's estate on his death.
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Thank you Pete. That is certainly a wealth of information, and typing. Does it have a source?
When dealing with the Eggs and the Mantons, it is clearly important to keeps the Josephs and the Johns separate.
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Home Arts	Love and loss in ancient Egypt comes alive at the Opera
Love and loss in ancient Egypt comes alive at the Opera
by Tiffany Lafleur September 20, 2016
Aida (Anna Markarova) and Amneris (Olesya Petrova) become rivals after they discover they both love Radames. Photo © Yves Renaud.
The Opéra de Montréal begins its 2016-17 season with Aida, a timeless story of anguish
In Aida, the Opéra de Montréal's first opera of the season, you are taken back to ancient Egypt, during the time of the Pharaohs. War looms on the horizon, yet the heart of the conflict rests with a forbidden love.
Aida (Anna Markarova) has caught the eye of Radames (Kamen Chanev), captain of the Egyptian guard and the hero chosen to defend Egypt against the invading Ethiopians. Aida loves Radames as well, however, she is a slave of Amneris (Olesya Petrova), daughter to the Pharaoh, who also loves Radames.
The opera, which had its premiere in Cairo at the Opera House in 1871, was written and composed by Giuseppe Verdi. The story is timeless: a love between two people who cannot be together, and unrequited love for someone whose heart is already taken. The live orchestra accompanying the drama made the performances that much more powerful. Instead of a flat recording, the music rose and fell with the tension and drama onstage.
The opera is performed in three acts. The first act, which takes place in a temple in the city of Thebes, sets the tone and stage for the conflict that will develop later in the piece. In it, we realize that Aida is in fact the daughter of Amonasro (Gregory Dahl), king of Ethiopia.
Under the unwavering eye of the God Ptah, Ramades is given the command of the Egyptian troops, and sent to defend Egypt. The assembled crowd pray for Ptah to protect him and guide him on his journey. At the end of the first act, Radames has returned from war victorious, trailing behind him a host of prisoners captured on the battlefield, of which Aida's father is included. In a cruel twist of events, the king offers Radames the highest honor: his daughter Amneris' hand in marriage.
Radames (Kamen Chanev) and Aida (Anna Markarova) stand together in the tomb which will be their grave. Photo © Yves Renaud.
The second act saw the capture of Ramades by the Egyptian guard, for accidentally disclosing to Amonasro the route that the Egyptian troops were to take on their march towards Ethiopia, betraying his country in the process. Amonasro and Aida flee while Ramades is taken away by the Egyptian guard for his betrayal.
The third act brings us back to the original setting of the temple in Thebes. There, Ramades is sentenced to death by live entombment. In this scene, Petrova, who plays the part of Amneris, delivered a fantastic performance, as she stood by in helpless anguish while her love was tried and sentenced to death, unable to use her influence in order to save him.
The final scene in the third act begins with Ramades entombed. He wishes for death, for death would be an escape. Without Aida by his side, life is meaningless. But lo and behold, she has snuck into the tomb in order to be with him, foreseeing the outcome of his sentencing. This final scene is incredibly powerful, as it circles back to the first act. While in the first act Ramades was receiving Ptah's blessing, guidance and protection, now the priests are praying for his condemnation. Together, the lovers embrace as the light from the torches slowly fades, leaving the tomb dark as Amneris watches from afar, realizing that for Radames and Aida, a death together was worth more than a life apart.
If Aida is any indication of the strength of the rest of the opera season, it should be one to look forward to. Aida will be shown again at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts on Sept. 20, 22 and 24 at 7:30 p.m.
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Pres. Obama and apologies
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This entry was posted in Religious Liberty, The Last Acceptable Prejudice and tagged 1st Amendment, abortion, contraception, HHS, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty. Bookmark the permalink.
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Traductora says:
I am completely outraged…by Obama. We didn't burn these Korans by mistake, but because that was the prescribed way of disposing of a defaced Koran (defaced by Muslim prisoners writing messages to each other in the margins). The Administration should never have apologized but should have explained the matter immediately to the Afghan government and should have told them to make sure the Afghan people knew it and understood it.
Aside from that, was there any apology when the US burned the troops' personal Bibles because it was feared that this evil book would offend the Muslims?
digdigby says:
Traductora:
Just a correction. The Bibles that were burned were in an Afghan language and sent by an evangelical group through complicit U.S. troops. The group showed no sensitivity to the incredible danger they posed to our guys. Of all the laughable efforts of Protestant bibliolatry nothing can beat the old 'Bible Societies'. One minister in the late 19th century says that of the hundreds of thousands of bibles distributed in Borneo he didn't know of one conversion brought about. He did mention that the Bible Societies were the single greatest source of toilet paper in that part of the world. Our troops having to pray in secret and hide crosses during Gulf War One while fighting for the Saudis and Kuwaitis – now that was indeed sickening.
S. Murphy says:
The apology was entirely appropriate as a desperate attempt to dissuade offended parties who might have been halfway on our side last week from murdering American advisors in their offices this week. It was too late, but that's not Mr Obama's fault. Burning a Koran may be an appropriate means of disposal, but sa with th disposal of any other copy of a sacred text, it has to be done the right way — and these yahoos apparently took a box of Korans out to the burn pit where they burn the *garbage*. And now they're horrified that their friends are getting killed.
Lest somebody misunderstand, by 'yahoos,*' I am referring to the fools who actually did the deed, and their chain of command, which obviously gave them garbled and incomplete or simply stupid guidance.
What the leadership should have done was find a Muslim chaplain and seek instruction – and maybe let him take care of it, or, preferably, hand over the Korans-with-notes-inmates-were-writing – to -each – other – in- the -margins to our Good Friends, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, to ensure proper disposal. Instead, they said, 'hey, tell Specialist Shmuckatelly to take these out to the burn pit.' I hope there's relief for cause and dismissal from the service, at minimum, in somebody's future. (Not Spec Shmuckatelly – it's not his fault he lacked the education and intelligence to do what his superiors didn't bother to do. But his lieutenant, his captain, his major, his lieutenant colonel – they need to go down hard.) [Perhaps you have missed the point.]
xavier217 says:
Brass knuckles are always a nice touch.
ContraMundum says:
@digdigby
Great thinking, there. If Caesar sends the legions in, then out of "sensitivity" to them we should halt evangelism. Gotta have priorities! And we know that Caesar, in stark contrast with those missionaries, really is making a lasting transformation of Afghanistan to a peaceful, stable, free, and prosperous society: a little piece of Crawford, TX in central Asia.
If you'd actually spent some time trying to evangelize, you'd already know three things: (1) The number of conversions is likely to be low, but that's no excuse for sitting on your hinders. (2) The seed you plant may grow and bloom long after you have left the scene. It's not about your immediate gratification. (3) Conversion can only be brought about by the Holy Spirit, not by any missionary.
If you'd spent any time around *serious* Protestants, you'd also know that they are fully aware of Acts 8:26-39.
Ugh! Too many Catholics misapply the quote "Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words," which may or may not be from St. Francis of Assisi, to justify never, ever, ever saying anything. Usually the non-verbal "preach the Gospel always" is also reduced to giving donations to some charity, or even paying taxes so that Uncle Sam can feed the poor.
ContraMundum-
1) What the hell are we still doing in Afghanistan propping up a sharia government of pederasts and drug dealers as bad as those we are fighting? And they mock and loathe us.
2) I believe the 5 Plymouth Brethren martyrs of 1956, young men who were missionaries to S. American natives and said, as they were attacked, "We came to save them, how can we kill them not having preached Jesus, to save our own lives?" – I believe they are saints in heaven.
3) The record of the missionary Bible Societies and the belief of just dumping millions of bibles everywhere is misguided at best and hilarious at worst.
4) To associate our military presence, however misguided, with an evangelical Christian effort is….there are no words for how counter-productive that is. You don't have to go to Afghanistan to evangelize, start with your neighborhood.
5) There are millions of secret Christians in desperate circumstances throughout the Muslim world, they listen to a Coptic priest, Father Zakaria for instance on the radio who has a HUGE secret audience and a huge price on his head.
catholicmidwest says:
Contramundum,
You are correct about the saying, "Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." St. Francis left a small collection of things the he actually did say, and this is not among them. American Catholics use it widely as an excuse to run incognito about their faith when they are ashamed of it in public. They fail to recognize that no matter how "nice" they are, if they don't identify themselves as Catholics in public, people generally take them for "nice" pagans about 99.9% of the time.
BTW, for those that intend to preach with their actions, then your actions had better be heroic, because anything less is not preaching.
Things that are not heroic: Going along with the flow because it's easier, using birth control, voting for abortion-touting politicians, getting an abortion (!), being ashamed of your faith, disobeying your bishop on matters of faith and morals, shoving your works of mercy off on the government to do for you, etc etc.
Fr. Z, no, I didn't miss the point of the cartoon. I'm just a lot more angry about Americans dying because other Americans handed the enemy an information operations coup on a silver platter than I could possibly be about the president's attempt to mitigate the situation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm against the HHS mandate, the gospel of birth control, and the sacrament of abortion, and the rhetoric of 'freedom to worship' as much as anyone here.
ContraMundum – the legions themselves can't evangelize on Caesar's dime. Tends to backfire anyway. 'Missionary' is a swear word to a lot of Native Americans (well, or at least to the liberal academics who love them from a nice, safe distance). Digdigby's right, though, on the point that the Bibles that were burnt weren't troops' personal Bibles, and that having those troops deliver Bibles to locals who didn't want them would have caused more harm than good.
To associate our military presence, however misguided, with an evangelical Christian effort is….there are no words for how counter-productive that is.
I never said that the military should be subservient, or even "sensitive", to the missionary effort. I did, and do, criticize your implication that missionaries should suspend their activities in order to make it easier on US and NATO troops. That lack of association cuts both ways.
Are you also going to mock Fr. Longenecker's "evangelize with holy cards" idea? It's not the least bit more likely to have success. Most of the holy cards will end up in the trash. Maybe some people will use them as toothpicks.


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Senior researcher at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center to discuss 'Ethnobotanicals of Southern New England' Nov. 14 at Quinnipiac University
Along with discussing health disparities among Native Americans, Bissonnette will cover the ethnobotanicals and their traditional uses, and the importance of history and culture in public health programming.
Ashley Bissonnette, senior researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. Contributed photo.
Ashley Bissonnette, senior researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, will present the talk, "Ethnobotanicals of Southern New England: Understanding Indigenous Roots to Address Health Disparities and Cultivate Public Health Initiatives," from 12 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, MNH201, at Quinnipiac University, 370 Bassett Road. This talk is free and open to the public.
"Health disparities among Native Americans stem from historical trauma and unjust policy that sought to disconnect tribal peoples from their land, heritage and medicine," Bissonnette said. "This presentation pays homage to the revitalization of traditional lifeways; a resilience of traditional Indigenous medicine and the role historical archaeology has played."
In addition to her work as a senior researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Bissonnette is a research consultant for the University of Connecticut and an adjunct professor of public health in the Department of Health Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her expertise is in ethnomedicine and Indigenous diets, health disparities and policy, historical trauma, historical archaeology and preservation, and using cultural resources in public health programming.
The talk is part of an initiative Quinnipiac is undertaking to connect with Native voices and narratives that explore the Quinnipiac people and other Native peoples of Connecticut. The series also will explore the relationship between Quinnipiac, its location, and the Indigenous histories and cultures of this region.
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Lizzy Grant, FCRH '08, has come a long way
June 17, 2014 by Connor Ryan
Lana Del Rey, 27 (soon to be 28), the pop star everyone loves to hate, reportedly earned $2.8 million for performing three songs during Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's wedding rehearsal dinner last month.
This week, she dropped her third album, Ultraviolence, amid a wave of publicity, including a glossy New York Times profile and an articlein The Guardian in which she said, "I wish I was dead already" when asked about the early deaths of Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain.
But not too long ago, her name was Lizzy Grant — Elizabeth Woolridge Grant — and she was a student studying philosophy at Rose Hill. And she was blonde.
"I've met people who know that music is the only thing they want to do with their lives, and that's always reassuring to me because I don't have a back-up plan," Grant said in 2006. (No interest in the stability Gabelli is said to offer.)
Before graduating from Fordham in 2008, Grant signed her first recording contract during her senior year. She recorded her debut EP that year, called Kill Kill, and then briefly released an album in 2010, called "Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana Del Ray," but quickly withdrew it and renamed herself Lana Del Rey. [More]
Here's Lizzy Grant performing in December 2008. (This song would later appear on Lana Del Rey's 2012 album, Paradise.)
Here's the 2011 homemade music video that put Lana Del Rey on the map. (Literally, she produced it on her laptop.)
And here's the famous 2012 Saturday Night Live performance — her first live TV appearance in the United States — that seemed to turn everyone against her.
Lizzy has come a long way…but has Lana?
Check her latest sounds on Ultraviolence. (I would recommend "Old Money.")
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Dublin Carol
Posted by Sarah Downs | Oct 3, 2019 | Reviews
Jeffrey Bean and Cillian Hegarty in Dublin Carol. (photo: Carol Rosegg)
By Sarah Downs
The Irish Repertory Theatre specializes in the works of Irish playwrights, and one might say that Irish playwrights specialize in Irish tragedy. Like dry humor, lyrical poetry and fighting at pubs (and parties, and weddings, and wakes) tragedy runs through Irish culture like one of the innumerable rivers that nourish that country's verdant landscape. In Dublin Carol, Conor McPherson has written a variation on that theme in a well paced play about loss and the hope for redemption that hits some striking emotional peaks and valleys.
Dublin Carol, by Conor McPherson; directed by Ciarán O'Reilly. With Jeffrey Bean, Cillian Hegarty and Sarah Street. Set design by Charlie Corcoran, costume design by Leon Dobkowski, lighting design by Michael Gottlieb, sound design by M. Florian Staab and Ryan Rumery and properties by Sven Henry Nelson. Jeff Davolt, production stage manager.
At the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd St.) through November 20, 2019. For tickets go to Ovation Tickets, click here or call the Irish Repertory box office at 212-727-2737.
Schedule: Wednesdays: 3pm & 8pm, Thursdays: 7pm, Fridays: 8pm, Saturdays: 3pm & 8pm and Sundays: 3pm. Running Time: 90 minutes, no intermission.
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Sarah Downs
Sarah Downs is a writer and performer who escaped the suburbs of Boston to pursue a career in the arts. In her theatrical incarnation she has worked both in New York and regional theater, and performed with local opera companies. She has sung arias to the stars, musical theater in barns and torch songs in cabaret. Sarah also toured the U.S. as Marian in The Music Man, and toured the U.S. and Canada as Marie Osmond's understudy in the national tour of The Sound of Music. In recent years Sarah has focused more on writing, including articles on feminism and politics. She is President of the Professional Women Singers Association and on the board of the Women In the Arts and Media Coalition. Sarah holds an B.A. from Harvard University.
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El piuí olivaci (Contopus cooperi) és una espècie d'ocell de la família dels tirànids (Tyrannidae).

Descripció
 Gran papamosques, amb uns 19 cm de llarg i 31 g de pes. Gran bec. Potes negres
 Adult amb dors verd oliva fosc i flancs verd oliva amb ratlles marrons. Parts inferiors blanques. Cap amb una petita cresta. Ales fosques amb dues barres pàl·lides. Cua fosca relativament curta i ampla.

Hàbitat i distribució
Cria als boscos de coníferes des de l'oest i centre d'Alaska i Yukon, cap a l'est fins a Terranova i nord-est dels Estats Units, i cap al sud, a través del sud i oest del Canadà fins aproximadament la meitat occidental dels Estats Units i el nord de Baixa Califòrnia. Passen l'hivern al sud de Mèxic, Guatemala i gran part del nord de Sud-amèrica.

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ONE OF FOUR Hitson brothers who served during the war, Hayden Earl Hitson was a wagoner with the 13th Field Artillery. He fought in three of the largest battles in which the United States Army was engaged: the offensives at Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. About the only major battleground he avoided was Champagne-Marne, where two of his brothers - Landy and Shandy - fought with the 148th Field Artillery (the fourth Hitson, Fred, was an engineer with the naval submarine service).
The Hitsons were from Clearmont - a tiny community today, but one which contributed over eighty young men to the war effort between 1917 and 1919. Like the Hitsons, most were farmers. Others worked for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
Dear Sister - I am taking in the excitement now and have been for several days and weeks. There has hardly been an hour that the shells have not been bursting around us but so far our battery has been lucky although some other batteries have lost heavily.
At first it made the cold chills run over a fellow but now a shell has got to burst close to attract much attention. Two horses were killed right close to one of our guns and we have had others slightly wounded, and several of the boys have had pieces of shell glance off their steel helmets; a hot piece of shell came through my shelter tent yesterday while I was reading.
They keep a fellow from getting lonesome, but while they are sending them over to us they are getting thousands in return. For all the shells and gas they send they get a double portion in return. We have got them going and for awhile we couldn't catch up with them close enough to get a shot. On every attack we have given them a warm reception and dead Germans are even now laying around unburied.
You asked if I had seen the boys [Landy and Shandy]. Yes, I was right close to them for a week and could go and see them whenever I was off duty. The 148th got a big feed ready and sent [Shandy] over after me. We went back together and certainly had big eats. Afterwards we spent the evening telling each other what we had done and what we were going to do. After that I went home with [Shandy]. His outfit was about three or four miles from hours but we got in a truck and had quite a visit. Landy's outfit was only half a mile from us, but both are gone now. They loaded their guns on the train but where they went I do not know although they thought they were going to Italy, but that was all guess work. I do not suppose I will see them again but at any rate all three of us had a good visit and all seemed glad to see one another.
The bunch that left Sheridan with them were all there except those that had been killed or wounded. Slim McGovern was badly wounded a few days ago. His left leg was broken by a piece of shell that struck him above the knee. A fellow cannot tell what minute he is going to get it.
It is four o'clock in the afternoon and the Huns have begun to send them pretty thick but they receive them back a damn sight quicker. This is a great life if a fellow don't weaken and I have not seen very many Yanks weaken yet.
I will never forget the first time we went into action. We got camped about two o'clock in the morning and it was raining and dark - gee, but it was dark in that thick brush and a light was not permitted on the front. I got my horses put away, then went to a little hillside and kicked out a level spot, laid my blanket down and took a real sleep. I was off by myself so I could not be bothered. Next morning I was sitting up in bed smoking and viewing things and the first thing I saw was a dead German. His hands were sticking straight up in the air and about a shovel full of dirt had been thrown on his stomach. His toes were also sticking out. That was as near as they got him buried.
Well, I guess this is enough for this time, so will close.
As I have not mailed my letter yet will add a little to it. We were on the move most of the night. Do not know where we are going but will have to admit that it is a relief to get back where the shells and gas do not bother and I will sure sleep after I get to bed. We were relieved from the sector where we were stationed but suppose we will hit it again in some new place where it is just as warm and where the fighting is just as good. A fellow sure seems lost away from the shells and battlefields after being so long among them. ... About one or two nights sleep and I will be ready to fly at 'em again for a month or two longer.


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«Кенгуру Джекпот» () — фильм 2003 года режиссёра Дэвида МакНалли. Комедия, рассказывающая о приключениях двух друзей-неудачников, у которых «украл» деньги обычный кенгуру.

Сюжет
Два лучших друга из Нью-Йорка вовлечены в дела мафии, им необходимо доставить 50 тысяч долларов на другой материк, в Австралию.
Неприятности не заставляют себя ждать… По прибытии в Австралию они сбивают кенгуру. Думая, что кенгуру «в отключке», один из них надевает на кенгуру свою красную куртку, в которую он положил все деньги, и пытается его сфотографировать. Однако от вспышки фотоаппарата кенгуру просыпается и убегает в неизвестном направлении.

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Музыка в фильме
 The Next Episode — Trevor Rabin
 Tainted Love — Soft Cell
 Casanova — Paulina Rubio
 So Clever — Lucia
 Rock da Juice — The Dude
 Down Under — Men at Work
 Start the Commotion — The Wiseguys
 Pig Wobble — Charlie McMahon & Gondwana
 Kangaroo I — Craig Eastman
 The Lost Coast — Ivan Rosenberg
 2 Way — Romeo Miller feat. Master P
 Hey Sexy Lady — Shaggy
 Rappers Delight — Sugarhill Gang
 Round Round — Sugababes
 Spread My Wings — Shawn Desman
 The Natural — Randy Newman
 Soak Up the Sun — Sheryl Crow
 Hey Baby — DJ Ötzi
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Meet Tiago.
4 years ago 1 year ago ZealousArticles, FeaturesCreatives
Image by Tiago Galo.
Meet Tiago: a Portuguese artist who finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. We're beyond pleased to feature him not only on Zealous, but also in the January 2017 issue of Creative Review.
Tiago's perspective is horribly consistent – bizarre, yet familiar. This illustrator-turned-architect-turned-illustrator-again captures life's precious, simple moments and immortalises them as prints of high-contrast, endearing giants – shopping for fruit, cycling, grilling sausages, riding around in a shopping trolley. Makes us wonder what he'd create if he saw Zealous on a workday!
LAB: Your background is in architecture, right? How does that experience influence your illustration (in practice, in execution, in aesthetic)?
TG: Yes, I worked as an architect for some years before I started as a professional illustrator. During my architecture degree I remember studying the Bauhaus movement—it made such a big impact on the way I look at things. Art, architecture and design's influences and shared commonalities made perfect sense to me. I believe I still carry some influences from that, especially the sense of proportion and colour balance. Apart from that, architecture helped me develop a strong self-discipline that helps me to be objective and get things done, which is essential for someone who works as a freelancer.
LAB: Did you always want to be an illustrator? Why or why not? If you went back in time, what would you tell your younger self?
TG: Illustration is a boomerang in my life. Since I was a kid, I always had a fascination with comics, which eventually made me want to draw my own stories and superheroes. As I grew up I started making small home-made fanzines with friends and collaborating with school publications, so I was pretty sure I wanted to draw for a living. As I pursued that, architecture also made its impact, and I had the sense that I could still stay involved with illustration since it was also a creative field. But in the end, working as an architect turned out to be an intense and overwhelming experience that didn't leave any space for other things, so for a while I left illustration aside. This didn't keep me happy, I left architecture behind and studied art direction, which seemed like a great way to get back on track to pursue design and illustration again. If Doc Emmett Brown got me back to the 90´s, I would tell my younger self not to get distracted and just concentrate in what you really love doing, which has always been illustration.
LAB: Describe a perfect day.
TG: I'm really a quiet guy who enjoys simple pleasures, so a day I discover something new and exciting – either a new artist or even a new song or movie – would be perfect.
LAB: Biggest influences? (This could be anything: pop culture, historical figure, children's book, song, a meal.)
TG: I've got lots of influences and artists that I admire, not only in the comics and illustration field but also in cinema and photography. People like Wes Anderson and Buster Keaton always gave me a sense that it's possible to make things differently and not just settle for what's "normal" or conventional. I like work that makes me feel that way. Recently I discovered the work of photographer Vivian Mayer which focuses on the little stories of anonymous urban in the 50s and 60s—it just blows me away.
LAB: What do you enjoy most about your artistic process? What part of the process do you wish to change? What are your best (and worst) habits?
TG: I think that most of my artistic process comes from self-discipline and the way I keep things to a certain daily routine to leave space for my imagination to run wild. I really enjoy exposing myself to a big dose of visual stimuli every day and letting my brain make all the necessary connections to reach an idea. That can be done either walking on the street or surfing the internet. Of course, sometimes it's too much to deal with and I get overwhelmed and distracted from what I was trying to accomplish in the first place.
LAB: What interests you most about people? Is there a certain environment you enjoy spending time in or find yourself most inspired by? (Sidewalk, café, park, swimming pool, at home, etc.)
TG: I tend to observe people everywhere I go and there's nothing more surreal and fascinating than the way people behave. I´m always getting odd ideas in the most common places and everyday situations. I tend to observe people everywhere I go, and I´m always coming up with stories in my head, like How did that guy get that stain on his shirt or Which subway station will that middle-aged couple drop off at? Maybe it´s a condition, I don´t know. After that I just need to keep all those characters and situations to live in my head for a while until something funny or bizarre comes along.
LAB: Does your work ever intimidate you? Why or why not?
TG: Right now I feel quite happy with the way I relate to my work. It´s not intimidating at all, since it reflects a lot of my own experiences and are somehow surreal versions of the way I see things.
LAB: What's your biggest hope? How will you approach (or pursue) that hope in 2017?
TG: I hope to continue my work as an illustrator and to get my work and style recognised by anyone who sees it. I also plan to launch a children's book somewhere next year and re-invent new ways of storytelling.
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Communities and nations are formed by symbols.
25.02.16 - Amandeep Sandhu
I am sure the bhaktas and the BJP will maintain a long silence over this, but that is exactly why problems in Punjab fester and blow out of proportion: why was the Sikh regiment not part of the Republic Day parade?
The Punjab CM Badal, whose party SAD is based on panthic issues and seeks to represent Sikh causes has now written to the PM calling it 'sad and regrettable'. The Congress has jumped into the fray calling it a 'grave omission'. The Sikhs are upset and as happens with issues related to Sikhs the grievance is pouring in from UK and the Diaspora. The reason alleged is that the French premier was the chief guest and Sikhs in France have been contesting French laws which disallow turbans in schools. India did not want to displease the French.
The BJP is in partnership with the SAD in Punjab and their marriage is on its silver jubilee. The Hindu supremacist ideology considers Sikhs to be part of Hindu religion - its militant wing - but this is exactly the reason for the struggle for identity between the communities. The BJP central government owes an explanation. It could be any reason: parade arrangements, rotation of contingents, selection process (which prevented Punjab from showing off its tableau fourth year in a row), or the theory which is gaining currency - pleasing the French masters (?).
If it is the last then super nationalist saffron has yet again demonstrated its double-speak. It wants to be the biggest bully in the street called India but sucks up to its foreign masters. If it willfully, on a flimsy pretext of pleasing a guest ignored the Sikh community's long history of service to the nation, it is pathetic. It is time the central government explains to the community.
Yet, given the track record of this government, like the previous government, no one will speak and when the Sikhs add this insult to the long list of grievances against the Indian state, the state and BJP will cry loud: no, no, we don't discriminate against the community!
If you respond that the turban issue is symbolic to Sikhs, then the Republic Day parade is also symbolic to nations. Communities and nations are formed by symbols.
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OUT OF THE THIN AIR
25.02.16 - Shekhar Gupta
Airlift has completely changed history. It has zero resemblance to reality except that it steals a real event to build a Sunny Deol-style hyper-patriotic yarn.
HOW accurately is a mere movie expected to adhere to facts and history even if it claims to be set in a real, recent event – recent is defined here as something that took place in our adult lifetime. That question has arisen with the success of Airlift, young director Raja Menon's new film, which tugged at our hearts on the eve of Republic Day with much patriotism and national spirit of unity in diversity. Surely, the return of more than 1.5 lakh Indian workers from Kuwait and Iraq was a remarkable Indian achievement and deserved a film. Some drama is also justified because of the sudden outbreak of that war and the crisis that hit mostly lower-middle class workers. But did it really have to be mythologised as much as it has been done in the film, particularly as it completely rewrites history with zero concern for facts?
The film shows that every government agency responded to the predicament of expatriate Indians with total callousness. These included the local embassies, where staff either ran away or (as in Baghdad) expressed helplessness. The External Affairs Minister too threw his hands up, saying his government was unstable, could fall any time and only the bureaucracy could do something to help as they were permanent. If India succeeded in bringing the stranded people back, it was because of the extra-ordinary initiative of some—in fact just two-and-a-half—individuals. Two being, of course the hero, Akshay Kumar or Ranjit Katyal and the other, Mr Kohli, Joint Secretary in the MEA whose office looks more modest than that of a clerk—joint secretary is actually a very high position, equal to a senior ambassador.
But never mind. Movies are not made about boring government systems and bureaucracies that work sometimes. They need crises, helplessness, drama and then characters, good or bad, who make the story. Bollywood is not the only one to exploit real events for fictional drama. Hollywood is often a bigger victim. Of the recent and celebrated releases, Argo and American Sniper are good examples. We have also seen some mythologies built successfully in the past around real events. The film Border, supposedly based on the 1971 battle of Longewala is another such example. The battle was indeed a remarkable chapter in the history of that war, but it was nothing like what was shown, at least not on land. The small contingent of Indian troops at Longewala post, under Major Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, performed a heroic role by staying put, warning the headquarters of the
Pakistani tank offensive and held it back, therefore, by making the attackers believe their strength was larger than in reality and also probably that the approaches to their position were heavily mined. This bought IAF time until first light to come in waves and destroy Pakistani armour. There was no fighting on the ground of any note and while Chandpuri richly deserved his Maha Vir Chakra, exploits of Sunny Deol, apparently playing him, would have only amused if not embarrassed him.
Now, we know no soldier fights in real life as Sunny Deol can in movies. But nor does anyone fight like Stallone or Schwarzenegger or Tom Cruise, so drama is fine. But the basic thread in Border was accurate and faithful to history. A tiny army unit with a big heart made the Pakistanis wait for the night and in the morning the IAF came and destroyed them, unopposed in the air. That is history, the rest was cinema.
Sadly, in trying to Sunny Deol-ise the Kuwait evacuation (sorry for using that metaphor, Akshay Kumar, but Deol is the original) Airlift has completely changed history. In the film, while the government washes its hands off and the minister says he is helpless, a local hero emerges, gets all Indians into camps, and then escorts them in a convoy 1,100 km through the Iraqi and Jordanian desert, even thrashing an Iraqi army picket led by a
Lieutenant Colonel, no less, on the way and leads fellow Indians triumphantly at the border checkpoint, not far from where Moses supposedly parted the seas and gave the call of "Let My People Go."
Here are the brief facts. Kuwait fell on Aug 3, 1990. Within less than a week, Inder Kumar Gujral, our external affairs minister, was in Baghdad, the first foreign leader to reach there. He was cursed globally for embracing Saddam Hussein for the cameras. But he said to us later he had to do it to protect his people whose safety and evacuation Iraq guaranteed. He came to Kuwait, spoke to stranded Indians, took a few back with him in his IAF Il-76 and then organised the biggest airlift in the history of mankind. Our embassy in Baghdad found a bus contractor to move our people to Amman and Jordan had never closed its borders with Iraq. The first airlift took place on August 13, on the tenth day after the invasion and continued for 59 days until the last Indian wanting to return was back. About 10,000 stayed on in Kuwait, feeling safe with the Iraqis who were friendly to India and never consciously hurt an Indian.
This film, therefore, has zero resemblance to reality except that it steals a real event to build a Sunny Deol-style hyper-patriotic yarn. These are days when vigilantism is popular. The state and the system can do nothing, so a super Indian has to rise and fill in, until, the tricolour is unfurled to notes of Vande Mataram and we all have tears in our eyes.
Just a footnote: I covered that Gulf War for India Today magazine from beginning until the end, first bombings in Baghdad, Scuds in Israel and finally the liberation of Kuwait. Amman was the base for all outward travel as you could drive to both Baghdad and Jerusalem. We never heard of a character like Katyal. Of course there was Sunny Mathew, popularly known as Toyota Sunny because he had flourishing agencies for the car company, and a cultured gentleman called Mr Vedi who helped the Indian community get its act together and keep the evacuation smooth. In fact, Mr Vedi was brave enough to stay put. My photographer colleague Prashant Panjiar and I were fortunate to find him as we reached Kuwait just after liberation, with debris scattered, skies blackened with oil well fires and hulls of destroyed Iraqi tanks lying all over. He looked after us, fed us, pointed us to an abandoned house we could just break into, like everybody else—fortunately it had a deep freezer filled with food which we gratefully ate from. He told us many stories of the crisis. He and Sunny had been brave, good, rich Indians, but sadly there was no story to even vaguely resemble what we are celebrating these days.
And one more important aside. V.P Singh had just come to power on the Bofors campaign in the 1989 scam season. One of Rajiv Gandhi's controversial purchases was the Airbus-320 for Indian Airlines. After one crashed in Bangalore, V.P Singh grounded all 320s. But once the airlift became necessary, he had no choice but to let the plane be flown again and it proved to be a real workhorse. Finally, no pilots protested and there was no real danger flying to Amman. Queen Aaliyah airport remained open through the war and most international airlines continued their scheduled flights uninterrupted. The then Civil Aviation Minister Arif Mohammed Khan was on board the first Air India flight to land in Amman for the Airlift and Telecom Minister K.P. Unnikrishnan spent almost two months in Amman, helping out, particularly as a majority of workers were his fellow Malayalis.
In the first picture, you can see me standing with Saddam's soldiers in Baghdad. Bombed day and night, losing Kuwait yet smiling & flashing victory signs.
And in the second, you can see behind me and Prashant Panjiar this wreck of an Iraqi tank after the first, short & one-sided armour battle in Kuwait in January 1991.
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Some changes have already been made and others are in the works as the university begins implementing the first stages of the Service and Process Enhancement Project (SPEP).
Richard Florizone, vice-president of finance and resources, said phase one of the project advanced over the summer on four fronts – printing; payments and procurement; communications; and "thinking about what's next." The areas were identified for immediate attention in a broad survey of university service offerings and processes conducted in the initial stage of SPEP earlier this year.
The most visible changes have taken place in the university's printing operations "which we're looking at in this new era of concerns about sustainability and how the use of internet can assist with improving printing services to the campus community—including turnaround time, customer service, as well as reducing costs," said Florizone. The first step was closing the satellite printing operations across campus in favour of a centralized service. "With the internet, most material you can order electronically from a central printing solution" which frees up much-needed space on campus and allows for a more efficient use of equipment and staff time.
The university has also entered into a partnership with Xerox, which is providing consulting services for training staff on its equipment and support for improving workflow and other processes in the new structure.
In the area of payments and procurement, one change has been the adoption of electronic funds transfers for travel expense reimbursement. Now, the reimbursements are electronically deposited, like paycheques, saving the university from preparing and mailing cheques.
Florizone said the U of S has also joined the University Spend Collaborative, a group of North American institutions that are pooling procurement information to determine opportunities for savings. Staff spent the summer preparing a massive database of procurement activity for the organization – "You can imagine what a university purchases!" – that will be analyzed to provide the U of S with areas of improvement in its management of supply costs. Florizone said the results provided through the collaborative will allow the university to assess, and change, current practices.
"I believe there are actual opportunities here," he said. "This report will tell us where they are."
On the communications front, Florizone said Vice-President University Advancement Heather Magotiaux is looking to create a more integrated communications structure at the U of S, the first step being research into how other universities organize. That work is focused mainly on Canadian institutions, he said, particularly "targeting institutions with best practice and worst practice in terms of communications outcomes." That work is expected to be complete next spring.
Finally, "we're starting to think about what we do next as these pieces advance," he said. Research administration will likely be a focus as "research, scholarly and artistic success represents one of our biggest opportunities and one of our biggest risks."
Ultimately, he said, process efficiency is a discipline that, like academic assessment, should be ongoing. "SPEP isn't a project that's going to start and stop with a big bang. The expectation is continuous improvement."