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SDASM.TITLE: Lin Hendrix and Associate with Republic F-105
SDASM.CATALOG: Hendrix_00166
SDASM.DATE: 1939-1960
SDASM.COLLECTION: Lindell Eugene Hendrix Collection
SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Associated Electrical Industries Ltd (AEI) were a group of engineering companies across Britain, of which their Coventry factory produced parts for civil and military aircraft. Aviation components produced at Coventry included aircraft ignition systems, switchgear, airborne power generating units and electric motors. In addition to a range of social and activities clubs for company employees, there was also the Ex-servicemen’s Association that provided meeting facilities as well as organising annual reunion dinners for their members.
AEI was established in 1926 as a financial holding company for their group of electrical and engineering manufacturers. As part of a company reorganisation in 1960, the group were collectively renamed as Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) and from 1961 the name ‘AEI’ began to appear on their products. By this stage however, AEI was in financial difficulties and in 1967 were acquired by the General Electric Company (GEC) for £120 million.
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References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Thomson-Houston (History of AEI).
www.britishtelephones.com/histaei.htm (History of AEI).
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Enamels: 1 (blue).
Finish: Gilt.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: 11/16” diameter (about 17mm).
Process: Die stamped.
Imprint: No maker’s name or mark.
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Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court Clint Bolick speaking with attendees at the 2017 Constitution Day Lecture at the University Club at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Oil on canvas; 110 x 88 cm.
Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists.
He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen (1871-5), where his teachers Wilhelm Marstrand and Frederik Vermehren encouraged his interest in genre painting. Here he also met Karl Madsen, who would later become Skagen Museum's first director and who invited him to travel to Skagen. A group of artists had congregated to form the Skagen Painters in Skagen, a small fishing village in the north of Denmark.
After Ancher first visited Skagen in 1874, he settled there joining the growing society of artists. In 1880 Ancher married fellow painter and Skagen native Anna Brøndum, whose father owned the Brøndums Hotel. In the first years of their marriage, the couple had a home and studio in the "Garden House", which is now in Skagen Museum garden. After the birth of his daughter Helga in 1883 the family moved to Markve in Skagen.
He got his artistic breakthrough in 1879 with the painting Will he Round the Point?. Michael Ancher's works are true-to-life depictions of reality and at the same time monumental figure compositions. Michael Ancher's life's work is founded on the heroic series The Lifeboat is Carried Through The Dunes (1883), The Crew Are Saved (1894) and The Drowned Man (1896).
Michael Ancher was influenced by his traditional training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the 1870s which imposed strict rules for composition, and he found it difficult to adjust to Scandinavian painting's modern breakthrough, the "Skagen School". His marriage to Anna Ancher did, however, introduce him to the naturalistic concept of undecorated reproduction of reality and its colours. By combining the pictorial composition of his youth with the teachings of naturalism, Michael Ancher created what has been called modern monumental figurative art such as A Baptism.
Anna and Michael Ancher are currently featured on the front side of the DKK1000 bill. The current version of this bill came into circulation on 25 November 2004. The front of the banknote has a double portrait of Anna and Michael Ancher, derived from two 1884 paintings by Peder Severin Krøyer.
Title: The Foster Residence Project
Architect: Raiford Stripling Associates Inc. Architects
Document Type: Drawing
Format: Pencil on Vellum
Physical Description: 72 x 57 cm
Digitization Date: 2009-06
Project Name: A Brick Veneer Residence Catherine Davis Foster
Building Location: Please contact the Cushing Library for further information
Drawing Execution Date: 1950
Descriptive Notes: 7 sheets of construction drawings
Repository: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A& M University, College Station, Texas
Repository Collection: The Raiford Leak Stripling Architecture Collection
Order Number: 28/7
Inventory Correspondence: 12-20
Contact Information: Email: cushing-library@tamu.edu Phone: 979-845-1951.
Copyright: It is the users responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holders for publication of any materials. Permission must be obtained in writing prior to publication. Please contact the Cushing Memorial Library for further information.
Completed benches.
Fabrication by Associated Fabrication.
Design by Pedestrian Studio + Inform Design.
Associate Professor of Physics James Kelly physics lab works with atomic discharge tubes and spectroscopes on April 28, 2016.
Governor Kay Ivey was keynote speaker at the Alabama Associated General Contractors Convention Friday June 15, 2018 in Montgomery, Ala. (Governor's Office, Hal Yeager)
Corian molded parts seamed over marine plywood structural frames.
Fabrication by Associated Fabrication.
Design by Pedestrian Studio + Inform Design.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Helen Boylan, Westminster associate professor of chemistry presented "Shale Happens: An Investigation of the Environmental Chemistry of Hydraulic Fracturing " at the Faires Faculty Forum on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Westminster College.
Boylan has been doing collaborative research with undergraduate students on environmental analysis of hydraulic fracturing for over a year. She will discuss the pros and cons of shale gas extraction in the context of undergraduate research on the topic. She will also share experimental results on frack water and future plans involving air quality monitoring.
Boylan, a Westminster graduate who joined the faculty in 2001, earned a Ph.D. from Duquesne University.
The Faculty Forum was established in 1990 by Dr. Barbara Faires, Westminster professor of mathematics emerita, during her term as dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs. Faculty members from all disciplines volunteer to present lectures on their current research, artistic productions, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Each forum presents new ideas with innovative lecture techniques.
with pull down stairs, lights, shear walls, acess door and vent fans. I think their kids want to live up there!
OBITUARY.
MAJOR R. FORBES-MOORE.
GRAFTON BRIDGE ENGINEER.
The engineer who designed the working plans for Grafton Bridge, Major Robert Forbes-Moore, has died in Auckland in his 74th year. He was born in South Africa and went to England, where he was educated at Woolwich Arsenal. He graduated as a lieutenant and took part in the Battle of Suakin in the Egyptian War. Later he went to Australia, where he took up mining engineering and followed that career in various States. Major Moore became associated with the Ferro-Concrete Company, and about the year 1903 was sent to Auckland to supervise the construction of the King's wharf. In 1907 the Ferro-Concrete Company was the successful tenderer for the Grafton Bridge. Major Moore was the engineer-in-charge. The work was begun in May, 1907, and completed in 1910. It was then the largest ferro-concrete bridge in the world and was unique in having the widest arch-span of any such bridge. The greatest span was 320 ft and the total cost was over £35,000. Major Forbes-Moore served with the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps in France in 1917 and later rejoined the Royal Engineers, with whom he had been formerly associated. Returning to Auckland he carried on the practice of his profession practically up to the time of his death. He is survived by his wife and daughter. Major Moore will be accorded a military funeral.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19380613.2.21
GRAFTON BRIDGE.
DEATH OF DESIGNER.
CONTROVERSY RECALLED.
CONFOUNDING THE CRITICS.
Controversies have been many in Auckland, and one that greatly disturbed public opinion in the city 32 years ago is recalled by the death of Mr. R. F. Moore, the designer of the Grafton Bridge.
Originally there was a wooden footbridge across a lower level of the Grafton Gully, but as the years went on it became unsafe, and had to be closed. Pedestrians then had to walk down steps to the foot of the gully, cross the small stream, and climb many steps to reach tha top level on the other side.
It was then that the ratepayers of Auckland sanctioned a loan of £40,000 for acquiring the necessary land and building a high level bridge, one that it was intended should provide for Auckland's traffic for many years. The loan poll was carried in April, 1900. A year of bitter controversy followed. Then the Auckland City Council called for tenders, but insufficient time was given for the preparation of full plans and specifications.
The Ferro-Concrete Company of Australasia decided not to tender, but Mr. Moore,who was then the company's chief engineer, sent in a sketch of a ferro-concrete bridge which it was estimated would cost £35,000. The only other design received was for a steel girder bridge which, although £3000 cheaper than the concrete structure, was estimated to cost more for annual upkeep.
Mr. Moore had to cut down a number of items to bring the cost to £32,000 before the City Council would accept his tender, and even then many doubted whether he could build a 320 ft arch, 147 ft high, of ferro concrete to span the gully. At that time nothing approaching such a size had been attempted anywhere in the world, and the City Council stipulated that no payments should be made until the arch was completed and tested. Mr. Moore had the fullest faith in what he could do. The work started. Concrete was poured into the moulds until the approaches were completed to the big pylons on both sides of the gully. In the middle of the gully a latticework of timber was erected. The span was built, and finally the structure was ready for traffic, the greatest ferro-concrete span in the world.
After extremely exhaustive tests the Grafton Bridge was officially opened on April 28, 1910, a little over two and a half years from the time that the work was started.
Completed Structure.
The completed bridge became Auckland's pride, and throughout the world it was regarded as a remarkable engineering achievement. Had Mr. Moore had his way he would have provided a structure of greater width, but the City Council of 32 years ago decided on a limit in expenditure.
Two years ago a weakness in the approach spans was discovered, but not even an optimistic engineer like Mr. Moore could have foreseen the great a weight of traffic that the bridge would be called on to carry, and the stresses that would be added by fast-moving and heavy motor traffic.
Since then extensive repair works have been carried out at a cost of under £23,000, this indicating the increased labour costs of recent years compared with the period when the bridge was built.
It is now realised that it would have been better for Auckland had designs for a wider bridge been approved in the first place. From time to time various suggestions were made in connection with suggested improvements. Mr. Moore's suggestion was that a duplicate structure should be built and then each bridge used as a one-way traffic route.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19380614.2.23
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Bridge
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Plot 43: Robert Forbes Moore (73) 1938 – Civil Engineer* Service records show 37678
1st N.Z.E.F.
37676 L/Cpl
R. F. MOORE
Engineers
died (fern) aged
11.6.1938 (N.Z.) 73 yrs
DEATHS.
MOORE.—On June 11. at Auckland, Robert Forbes (member Tunnellers, N.Z.E.F.), son of the late Ponsonby Fitzgerald Moore, Kalgoorlie, West Australia; in his seventy-fourth year. Funeral will leave Tilton and Opie's Chapel, 150, Great North Road, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow for Waikumete.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19380613.2.3
View Robert’s military personnel file on line: www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=2406307...
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View and contribute to Robert’s profile on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph data base:
www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/recor...
Bob Odenkirk, $1 Associate Producer
Bob is awesome. He let us stay on his couch at Sundance. He gave us $1, saying: "My goal is to give you a dollar now and then work my way up. There are all kinds of reasons I need to make money; my house, my kids education, and now this."
(left to right) Sue Behrens, BS Chemical Engineering (1983), Sr. Director, Regulatory and Analytical Sciences - Biologics (RAS-B)
Jim Cunningham, MS, PhD Chemical Engineering (2002), Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Research
Eriko Miyake, BS Chemical Engineering (2003) , Staff Engineer, Recombinant Vaccine Technology and Engineering
Sandy Robertson, MS, PhD Chemical Engineering (1998), Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Research
Charlie
Alexandre Thibonnier, BS Chemical Engineering , M. Eng. Pharmaceutical Engineering (2004), Staff Chemical Engineer, Bioprocess Clinical manufacturing & Technology
Elizabeth Fernandez, BS Chemical Engineering (2001), Environmental Engineer, Environmental Engineering
Akhil Agrawal, MS, PhD Chemical Engineering (1995) , Senior Process Engineer, Recombinant Vaccine Technology and Engineering
Michelle M. Chang, M. Eng. Pharmaceutical Engineering (2002), BS Chemical Engineering (2001), Staff Engineer, Viral Vaccine Technology & Engineering
Marissa Bayman, BS Chemical Engineering (2003), Senior Site Compliance Inspector, GMP Compliance
Nancy Agrawal (not pictured), MS, PhD Chemical Engineering (1996), Associate Director, Drug Metabolism
(2005)
1000 de la Gauchetière was built to the design of Lemay & Associates and Dimakopoulos & Associates architects in 1992. The 51-floor postmodern tower rises to the maximum height approved by the city--the elevation of Mont Royal--at 205-meters. Measured to its roof, the tower is the tallest building in Montréal, but is surpassed by both 1250 René-Lévesque and the CIBC Tower when spires are considered. Built on lower ground than other towers in the city, 1000 de la Gauchetière appears shorter as part of the skyline from certain angles despite its height.
The postmodern design features a distinctive triangular copper roof as well as four copper-capped rotunda entrances at the tower base corners, inspired by the bordering Cathédrale Marie-Reine du Monde. The semi-spherical corner caps mirror the shape of the half-moon windows of neighbouring Marriott Château Champlain hotel, which were themselves inspired by the arches of the adjoining Windsor Station. The street-level architecture projecting out in a distinct style, reducing the visual and psychological impact of the entire building from this viewpoint. Inside, past an atrium planted with live trees, is an indoor skating rink bordered by cafés.
When it was built, 1000 de la Gauchetière was owned jointly by Bell Canada Enterprises and Teleglobe. In 2002, SITQ, a division of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP Capital), bought the building for $184 million CAD.
Walmart associates gathered in the Hyper Building on the University of Arkansas campus to practice dance moves, enjoy activities and spend time together. The associates traveled to Fayetteville, Ark. to attend the 2011 Walmart Shareholders' Meeting. To watch the replay of the event, view videos, and join the conversation, visit www.walmartstores.com/shareholdersmeeting
Walmart associates enjoyed lunch at Fast Lanes in Northwest Arkansas during an eventful week at the 2011 Walmart Shareholders' Meeting. To join the conversation visit www.walmartshares.com/shareholdersmeeting
British postcard in the Picturegoer series, London, no. W 883. Photo: British Associated Pathé.
Handsome Lithuanian-born actor Laurence Harvey (1928–1973) achieved fame as the Jack the Lad of British cinema. He is best known for his lead performance as a ruthless social climber in Room at the Top (1959).
Laurence Harvey was born in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania in 1928. He maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, but it was actually Zvi Mosheh Skikne. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ella Skikne Zotnickaita and Ber Skikne, a Lithuanian Jewish family. Aged five, his family emigrated to South Africa, where he was known as Harry Skikne. He grew up in Johannesburg, and as a teenager he served with the entertainment unit of the South African Army during the Second World War in Egypt and Italy. After moving to London, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he became known as Larry. After leaving RADA early, he began to perform on stage in regional theatre. He made his cinema debut as Laurence Harvey in the British horror film House of Darkness (Oswald Mitchell, 1948). After this the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) offered him a two year contract and he appeared in several of their lower budget films such as the film noir Man on the Run (Lawrence Huntington, 1949) starring Derek Farr, and the narcotics crime drama Cairo Road (David MacDonald, 1950). After failing in the commercial theater in London's West End, Harvey joined the company of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon for the 1952 season. His film career got a boost when he appeared in Women of Twilight (Gordon Parry, 1952) opposite René Ray. This crime drama was made by Romulus Films who signed Harvey to a long-term contract. He secured a small role in a Hollywood film, Knights of the Round Table (Richard Thorpe, 1953), and was cast with Rex Harrison in King Richard and the Crusaders (David Butler, 1954). That year he also played Romeo in Renato Castellani's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1954), narrated by John Gielgud. Patrick Hunter at IMDb: “a very worthwhile movie, especially for Shakespeare fans. I personally think Laurence Harvey is a terrific Romeo. Yes, he's a bit of a simp, but that's the character. In fact, Harvey is the screen's best Romeo; he's a lot more passionate than Leslie Howard in the MGM version, and he speaks the verse better than either DiCaprio or Leonard Whiting in the two subsequent versions.”
Laurence Harvey was now established as an emerging British star. He was cast as the writer Christopher Isherwood in I Am A Camera (Henry Cornelius, 1955), with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Later, the musical Cabaret would also be based on the same books by Christopher Isherwood. Harvey also appeared on American TV and on Broadway. He made his Broadway debut in 1955 in the play Island of Goats. The play closed after one week, though his performance won Harvey a 1956 Theatre World Award. A hit in France was the film Three Men in a Boat (Ken Annakin, 1956) with Shirley Eaton. Harvey appeared twice more on Broadway, in 1957 with Julie Harris, Pamela Brown and Colleen Dewhurst in William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and as Shakespeare's Henry V in 1959, as part of the Old Vic company, which featured a young Judi Dench as Katherine, the Daughter of the King of France. Jon C. Hopwood writes at IMDb: “The colorful Harvey, a press favorite, became notorious for his high-spending, high-living ways. He found himself frequently in debt, his travails faithfully reported by entertainment columnists. More fame was to come.“ His breakthrough to international stardom came in 1959 when he was cast as the social climber Joe Lampton in Room at the Top (Jack Clayton, 1959). The film was produced by British film producing brothers Sir John and James Woolf of Romulus Films and Remus Films. For his performance, Harvey received a BAFTA Award nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first person of Lithuanian descent to be nominated for an acting Oscar. His co-star, Simone Signoret, did win the Oscar for her performance. Room at the Top (1959) and Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) inaugurated the ‘kitchen sink’ cinema, the New Wave that revolutionized Britain’s film industry.
During the 1960s, Laurence Harvey appeared in several major films. He starred in Butterfield 8 (Daniel Mann, 1960) opposite Elizabeth Taylor, and John Wayne's epic The Alamo (1960), released within a month of each other. Harvey was then cast in the film version of the war drama The Long and the Short and the Tall (Leslie Norman, 1961) with Richard Todd. The role had earlier made Peter O'Toole prominent in the West End, but O'Toole was not yet established in cinema and Harvey was clearly more ‘bankable’. Other films included Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, 1962) with Barbara Stanwyck, a young Jane Fonda and Capucine; the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (Peter Glenville, 1961) with Geraldine Page, and Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde. He also appeared as a brainwashed former Korean War POW in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962). He became very good friends with his co-star Frank Sinatra, and was a member in good standing of high society, then dubbed ‘The Jet Set’. His career began to decline from the mid-1960s. The remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (Ken Hughes, 1964) was a failure, as was The Outrage (Martin Ritt, 1964) starring Paul Newman, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashômon (1950). Harvey reprised his Oscar-nominated role as Joe Lampton in the sequel Life at the Top (Ted Kotcheff, 1965), but the film was not a success. Harvey returned to Britain to make the comedy The Spy with a Cold Nose (Daniel Petri, 1966) with Daliah Lavi. His last hurrah was his appearance in the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic (1968), of which he took the direction over after the original director Anthony Mann died during shooting. In settlement of a dispute with Woodfall Films over the rights to The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tony Richardson, 1968), Woodfall cast him in their version as a Russian prince. He performed as cast, but was never seen as the Prince in the finished film. The only part of his performance remaining in the final cut is a brief appearance of him in the background of one shot, as an anonymous member of a theatre audience.
Laurence Harvey played out his career largely in undistinguished films, TV work and the occasional supporting role in a major production. In The Magic Christian (Joseph McGrath, 1969), he recited Hamlet's soliloquy, almost nude and very thin. A promising project, Orson Welles's The Deep (1970) with Jeanne Moreau, was never finished. One of his better performances from this period was in an episode of Rod Serling's TV series Night Gallery (1971). He was also guest murderer of the week on Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match (1973) as a chess champion who murders his opponent. He directed himself in the last picture in which he appeared, Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974). Harvey was married three times. In 1957 he married actress Margaret Leighton, whom he had met on the set of The Good Die Young (1954). They divorced in 1961. His second marriage in 1968 was to Joan Perry Cohn, who was 17 years his senior and the widow of film mogul Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Finally he married Paulene Stone. Harvey met Stone on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, and while still married to Cohn he became a father for the first time when Stone gave birth to a daughter, Domino, in 1969. Eventually, Harvey divorced Cohn and married Stone in 1972. Harvey was bisexual. His long-term lover was his manager James Woolf, who had discovered Harvey in the 1950s. A heavy smoker and drinker, Harvey died from stomach cancer in 1973. He was only 45. His daughter, Domino (1969–2005), who worked as a bounty hunter, was only 35 when she died. They are buried together in Santa Barbara Cemetery in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
17 & 19 Newhall Street is a red brick and terracotta building on the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street in the city centre of Birmingham. It is Grade I listed.
It originally had the address 19 Newhall Street, it was built as the new Central Telephone Exchange and offices for the National Telephone Company. It is popularly known as the Bell Edison Telephone Building. The NTC is in the wrought iron gates of the building. It was also known as the Telephone Buildings within the organisation.
NTC was taken over by the Postmaster General in 1912 and ownership transfered to the GPO. The Central Telephone Exchange relocated down Newhall Street to Telephone House in 1936.
It is now occupied by Associated Architects and Phoenix Beard. They use the address starting as The Exchange, 19 Newhall Street, but the property occupies 17 & 19 Newhall Street and 103 Edmund Street.
The building was designed in 1896 by Frederick Martin of the firm Martin & Chamberlain.
last working pic on my old camera, before it went wrong - at the time my old camera a Fujifilm Finepix F470 started to play up (the lense couldn't see anything and anything I tried taking at this time came out scrambled or just black nothingness). Was lucky to get this capture.
The result was I ended up buying a new Fujifilm Finepix F1500, which is much better than the F470.
Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Mark Scott and his team design some of the most elegant landscapes and homes in Southern California and beyond.
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Walmart associates gathered in the Hyper Building on the University of Arkansas campus to practice dance moves, enjoy activities and spend time together. The associates traveled to Fayetteville, Ark. to attend the 2011 Walmart Shareholders' Meeting. To watch the replay of the event, view videos, and join the conversation, visit www.walmartstores.com/shareholdersmeeting
Technology for Advanced Neural Prostheses
Dr. Philip Troyk, Illinois Institute of Technology
Dr. Troyk is Associate Dean of Engineering, and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology; he has a broad range of research interests related to neuroprostheses. Neuroprosthetic devices are implantable electronic modules that interface with the biological nervous system for the purpose of compensating for deficit, or disease, by mimicking normal sensory or motor function. Examples are neuromuscular stimulators for functional electrical stimulation (FES), implantable sensors for FES control, and cortical interfaces in which hundreds or thousands of electrodes sense and stimulate neurons within the central nervous system. The research work is highly interdisciplinary, using engineering principles and technology from electrical, computer, materials, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Design and fabrication of reliable implantable neuroprosthetic devices requires advancements in packaging of implantable electronics (hermetic and polymeric), VLSI integrated circuit design, transcutaneous magnetic coupling of power and data, as well as defining system architectures. His active research projects include development of implantable myoelectric sensors (IMES) for control of prostheses, and wireless transmission of ECoG signals for diagnosis of epilepsy. He is leader of a large multi-institutional team working to develop an intracortical visual prosthesis for individuals with blindness, as well as founder and CEO of Sigenics, Inc – an ASIC design company located in Chicago and Irwindale, CA.
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Mark Scott and his team design some of the most elegant landscapes and homes in Southern California and beyond.
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1000 de la Gauchetière was built to the design of Lemay & Associates and Dimakopoulos & Associates architects in 1992. The 51-floor postmodern tower rises to the maximum height approved by the city--the elevation of Mont Royal--at 205-meters. Measured to its roof, the tower is the tallest building in Montréal, but is surpassed by both 1250 René-Lévesque and the CIBC Tower when spires are considered. Built on lower ground than other towers in the city, 1000 de la Gauchetière appears shorter as part of the skyline from certain angles despite its height.
The postmodern design features a distinctive triangular copper roof as well as four copper-capped rotunda entrances at the tower base corners, inspired by the bordering Cathédrale Marie-Reine du Monde. The semi-spherical corner caps mirror the shape of the half-moon windows of neighbouring Marriott Château Champlain hotel, which were themselves inspired by the arches of the adjoining Windsor Station. The street-level architecture projecting out in a distinct style, reducing the visual and psychological impact of the entire building from this viewpoint. Inside, past an atrium planted with live trees, is an indoor skating rink bordered by cafés.
When it was built, 1000 de la Gauchetière was owned jointly by Bell Canada Enterprises and Teleglobe. In 2002, SITQ, a division of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP Capital), bought the building for $184 million CAD.
Mammoth Lakes is associated with the Long Valley Caldera. Long Valley Caldera is a depression in eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. The valley is one of the earth's largest calderas, measuring about 20 mi (32 km) long (east-west) and 11 mi (18 km) wide (north-south). The elevation of the floor of the caldera is 6,500 ft (2,000 m) in the east and 8,500 ft (2,600 m) in the west. The elevation of the caldera walls reach 9,800–11,500 ft (3,000–3,500 m), except in the east, where the wall rises only 500 ft (150 m) to an elevation of 7,550 ft (2,300 m).
Long Valley was formed 760,000 years ago when a huge volcanic eruption released very hot ash that later cooled to form the Bishop tuff that is common to the area. The eruption was so colossal that the magma chamber under the now destroyed volcano was emptied to the point of collapse. The collapse itself caused an even larger secondary eruption of pyroclastic ash that burned and buried thousands of square miles. Ash from this eruption blanketed much of the western part of what is now the United States.
Near the center of the caldera there is a mound called the "resurgent dome" that was formed by magmatic uplift. Though the area is still volcanically active, the caldera itself is extinct: seismic mapping has shown the magma body deep underground is mostly crystallized and not molten anymore. There is a hydrothermal power plant near the resurgent dome. The Bishop tuff is the oldest normally magnetized tuff (that is, it was formed when the Earth's magnetic north was near the north pole – as it is today). In the geologic past, water gathered in the Long Valley caldera and overtopped its rim, forming the Owens River Gorge.
Mammoth Mountain (11,050 ft (3,370 m)), is a composite volcano made up of about 12 rhyodacite and quartz latite domes extruded along the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera from 200,000 to 50,000 years ago. Mammoth Mountain is one of the eruptive centers that developed late in the evolutionary cycle of the Long Valley Caldera complex.
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Walmart associates gathered in the Hyper Building on the University of Arkansas campus to practice dance moves, enjoy activities and spend time together. The associates traveled to Fayetteville, Ark. to attend the 2011 Walmart Shareholders' Meeting. To watch the replay of the event, view videos, and join the conversation, visit www.walmartstores.com/shareholdersmeeting
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya, speak with the agency workforce during a monthly coffee and donuts with the Administrator event, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Pictures of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport in New York City on November 5th, 2022. This hotel's central public spaces are in the repurposed TWA Flight Center that served as their global gateway from 1962 to 2001. One of the most iconographic airport buildings in the world, the TWA Flight Center was designed by Eero Saarinen and associates. The large space is known as the Head House, and remains almost as designed for its opening in 1962. Sadly, Saarinen died one year prior to the opening of the building. The TWA Hotel opened in 2019 and was a major project to save the building that remained empty at JFK Airport from 2001 until 2015 when the plans were announced. Two additional buildings were added to house the 512 guest rooms. Enjoyed some time in the Constellation plane that serves as a bar. It's called Connie. Pam is an artist at the 2nd OOAK Doll Festival being held at the TWA Hotel from November 2nd through the 5th.
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David Goodhart, Head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit and Director of the Integration Hub, Policy Exchange
Speakers
Percy Barnevik, Honorary Chairman, Hand in Hand
Sir Paul Collier, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Begüm Doğan Faralyali, President, Doğan Holding
Dominik Hangartner, Associate Professor, London School of Economics; Co-Director, Immigration Policy Lab
Production Date: Circa 1945
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: King News Agency, E. C. Kropp Company (#13, #16051)
Postmark: July 13, 1948, Pocatello, Idaho
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Note that there are two versions of this postcard; they differ in the color of the state - one is yellow and one is red. This version shows the state in red.
Tenney and Hilbert Published Market Price in 2009: $3-$6
Source: Tenney, Fred, and Kevin Hilbert. 2009. Large Letter Postcards: The Definitive Guide 1930s to 1950s. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 176 p.
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The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) are an independent ‘craft’ union that represents the interests of railway train drivers and locomotive firemen. Other railway workers and administrative staff were represented by different trade unions with no direct connections to ASLEF. As such, members of ASLEF saw themselves as an elite within a hierarchy of railway workers having special status and highly paid in comparison.
ASLEF was founded in 1880 and today remain an independent trade union with some 18,500 members throughout Britain. Anyone know what year the Scottish District Council was established?
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References:
www.aslef.org.uk/information/100011/102822/history_of_aslef/ (History of ASLEF).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Society_of_Locomotive_En...
www.unionancestors.co.uk/ASLEF.htm
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Enamels: 4 (dark blue, light blue, red & green).
Finish: Chrome plated.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: 1 1/8” x 1 5/16” (28mm x 34mm).
Process: Die stamped.
Imprint: No maker’s name or mark.
59-61 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The Algonquin Hotel, which opened its doors in 1902, has played host to generations of famous men and women from the literary and theatrical worlds. Most often associated with the legendary Round Table — the group of critics and humorists who convened almost daily in the 1920s for luncheons spiced with quotable conversation and repartee — the hotel has also been frequented by countless others in the acting and writing professions. The particular cultural character of the Algonquin was nurtured by its devoted and congenial proprietor, Frank Case. "I was determined to get the Arts, especially the Theater,M Case later reminisced, and beginning with such illustrious guests as John and Ethel Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, Booth Tarkington and Sinclair Lewis, he proceeded to become 'boniface' to not only the stars, but to aspiring young artists as well.
The hotel is a representative example of an architectural mode highly popular in the early years of the century, a Beaux-Arts inspired design, with continuous projecting metal bay windows and neo- Renaissance detail. Designed by architect Goldwin Starrett, it complements the other fine buildings on this West 44th Street block, among them the New York Yacht Club (1899) and the Harvard Club (1894), both designated New York City landmarks.
Founded in the years immediately after the First World War, the Round Table, or the Vicious Circle as they apparently preferred to call themselves, began informally, first meeting for lunch in the. Oak Roan and later at a round table in the Rose Room. Its membership was never fixed, but generally speaking the group was fairly young and very convivial, confident and witty, and imbued with the high spirits of the 1920s. Their interests centered on theater and literature, politics and sports. Many were avid poker players. Frank Case provided them with an upstairs room for all night card games, played by the so-called Thanatqpsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. It was founded by Franklin Pierce Adams, who named it after a similar poker group he had formed in Paris while serving on the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes. The key figures were all writers, and all enjoyed quips, bons mots, and repartee. A favorite punning game was termed I-Can-Give-You-A-Sentence (see below.) Begun when the members were relatively obscure, all became famous in their own day. The group was early an associated with the New Yorker magazine, founded by Harold Ross in 1925. Ross, although never known for his witticisms, nevertheless played an important part in the Round Table. His "prospectus" outlining the intended character of his fledgling magazine, might well have described the Pound Table itself:
Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire, but it will be more than a jester. It will not be what is commonly called radical or highbrow. It will be what is commonly called sophisticated.... It will hate bunk.
With the onslaught of the Depression, the original cast of characters and a good deal of the spirit of the Round Table was dissipated, although numbers of the New Yorker staff, among them Peter Amo, James Thurber and E.B. White helped to fill the gaps.
Among the central figures of the group:
Franklin Pierce Adams (1181-1960): "Father" of the Round Table, columnist for the Herald Tribune, World, and Post, writing 'The Conning Tower" fear thirty years, with contributions from Round Table members. Wrote light verse and appeared on the radio program, "Information Please."
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
Robert Benchley (1889-1945): Drama critic for Life and The New Yorker. Humorist and writer of Hollywood comedy film shorts.
"It was one of those plays in which all the actors unfortunately enunciated clearly."
Heywood Broun (1838-1939): Began as drama critic for the World. Liberal, politically active columnist, writing "It Seems to Me." Founded American Newspaper Guild.
"The only real argument for Marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted."
"Repartee is what you wish you said."
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961): Playwright, producer, director and drama critic for the New York Times. Highly successful collaboration with other playwrights, creating Pulitzer Prize winning plays and musical comedies.
On visiting Boston: "I went through once, but it was closed."
Playing I-Can-Give-You-A-Sentence using ^punctilious': "I know a farmer who has two daughters, Lizzie and Tillie. Lizzie is all right, but you have no idea how punk Tilly is."
Ring Lardner (1885-1933): Began as a sports columnist is Chicago. A master of the short story and of rural American dialect.
On a certain baseball player: "Although he is a bad fielder, he is also a poor hitter."
"Mr. Cobb took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he has a complete set."
"Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition."
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967): Literary critic, short story and verse writer. Drama critic for Vanity Fair. Politically liberal and high priestess of Round Table wit.
On hearing that Calvin Coolidge had died: "How can you tell?"
Playing I-Can-Give-You-A-Sentence using * horticulture*: "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
Of her poetry: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Mil lay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers."
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943): Literary and drama critic, and radio commentator. Important arbiter of contemporary taste and fashion.
"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening."
Located at 59 West 44th Street, the Algonquin is a twelve-story building with a three-story annex at the west, and belongs to the turn-of-the-century and early 20th-century development which characterizes much of the block. The Mansfield and the Iroquois Hotels, the New York Yacht Club, the Harvard Club, the Bar Association Building, and the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen building are also among the buildings contributing to the block's architectural interest, while the Algonquin annex, a converted stable, recalls the area's earlier 19th-century history.
In plan, the Algonquin displays a modified version of the traditional "dumbbell" arrangement, with recessed courtyards on the east and west elevations, and with the elevators banked at the core of the building. Originally, each floor contained single rooms and suites .
The facade of the building is executed in brick, with limestone, metal and terra-cotta detail in a Beaux-Art inspired version of the neo-Renaissance style. There are numerous comparable structures in the city, among them the Wolcott Apartments at 2 West 31st Street of 1902-04 and the Hotel Churchill at 252 West 76th Street of 1902-03. These buildings are all fine examples of their type, one very popular in the early 20th century. (At the Algonquin, major alterations are restricted to the first story, with its replacement marquee, and at the twelfth story, where the cornice has been removed.) The facade is symmetrically disposed with a two-story smooth rusticated limestone base beneath a projecting bandcourse on console brackets, and another bandcourse above the tenth story which demarcated the shaft and upper section of the building. Four groupings of projecting metal bays each with three lights and two-over-two sash rise from the third to the eleventh stories, flanking the three-bay wide central portion of the elevation.
At the first story which is five bays wide, segmentally-arched doorways appear at the outer bays with two segmentally-arched windows flanking the central main entrance (reached by a shallow stairway). The west doorway has glazed wooden doors, that at the east is a service entrance. The windows are tripartite with transoms. Canopies and the marquee shelter the doors and windows. Above the water table to each side of the main entrance with double doors are stone bases surmounted by planters. Unadorned rectangular panels appear above the four arches to each side of the main entrance.
At the second story, which is also five bays wide, tripartite square-headed windows with two-over-two sash appear at the first and second, fourth and fifth bays. These have central scrolled keystones with festoons. At the center bay are three windows divided by shell and tassel motifs, with a leaf-covered molding above. The bays are interspersed by the console brackets which support the projecting bandcourse above.
The upper stories are of light red brick with prominent keyed limestone bands. The central three windows at each story are square-headed with two-over-two sash- The projecting metal bays have a central window and narrower side lights. These angular bays are adorned with panels, floral and urn-like elements. Air conditioner grilles have been placed in some of the panels. A balustrade and flagpole appear at the central portion of the facade beneath the third story windows.
Above the tenth story is the dentilled projecting bandcourse on scrolled console brackets. The windows in the outer bays at the twelfth story echo those at the second story. Between the three central windows at the eleventh and twelfth stories are panels with roundels and a panel also surmounts the 12th story windows. Above are festoons supported by lions' heads and roundels, with floral ornament suspended from them.
The annex, which was raised a story in 1905, when it was converted from a stable for the hotel's use, is three stories and constructed in brick with a glazed wooden storefront at the first story and metal detailing.The first story, beneath a sheltering canopy, contains a central double doorway, reached by a shallow stairway with railings, and is symmetrically flanked by paired windows which are decoratively enframed. These have transoms with metal grilles and panels beneath. Side pilasters are adorned by diminutive Indian heads. At the second story is a single projecting bay with a metal canopy, and a large central window with narrow sidelights. At the third story is a three-part window, beneath a metal cornice with brackets and modillions.
- From the 1987 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report