ASR Coat of Arms

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	Azure, upon a bend sinister argent a wavy etherkiller sable; riband of "Non ex transverso sed deorsum." Shield and NA Etherkiller by D. Joseph Creighton COA GIF EPS ; Standard GIF EPS Jan 2003: Lady Kayla Designs is offering a nifty pint mug with this version on it.
	Per pale azure and argent, a wavy etherkiller counterchanged; riband of "Non ex transverso sed deorsum." Heater Shield and EU Etherkiller (with riband added) by Andreas Skau COA GIF EPS ; Standard GIF EPS Heater Shield and NA Etherkiller (with riband added) COA GIF EPS ; Standard GIF EPS

Andreas Skau chose the original colours based on the symbolism they represented -- Azure (blue) for peace and sincerity: commitment to the monastery, profession, and mission; Argent (white or silver) for loyalty and truth: recovery -- then used a pale ordinary (military strength and fortitude) with his 230V wavy etherkiller design counterchanged on that field. His Reference. I then made the 110V plug and merged it with Andreas' etherkiller to create the North American heater shield.

When creating my own shield, I deferred to the historical use of the bend sinister -- no longer used in this manner -- to reflect our illigitimacy (or bastardness) as well as to benefit from the play on words that such a blazon would provide. My bibliography.

The blazon for each were written. I then created the riband and applied it to my design and to Andreas' design (with his permission) to complete the Coats of Arms seen here. It was a simple matter to translate each design to their respective standards.

Other sites contributing to this thread:

• Andreas Skau has gone 404: http://www.buzh.net/asr/ (who's etherkiller started this whole mess ;-)
• Timothy Miller has gone 404: http://www.sackheads.org/~cerebus/asr-coa.html
• Jonathan Chin: http://pfaff.newton.cam.ac.uk/ASR/arms/
• Anthony DeBoer: http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/asr/
• Alec Edworthy's UK mains variant: http://edworthyuk.co.uk/asr.shtml

Thanks to my eloquent friend, Geoff Kinnel, who polished up my blazons.

Here is an approximate change history.