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MONROVIA, Liberia - January 31, 2015: Justina M. Morris, a member of an Ebola case investigation team, returns from interviewing people who may have been in contact with a new patient. Supported by USAID, work like Justina’s has controlled the spread of Ebola and allowed aid efforts to have powerful results. Justina keeps meticulous records of any potential Ebola cases. Through careful, sustained work to monitor and control Ebola, USAID and dedicated health workers like Justina are determined to beat the disease and leave Liberia even stronger than before. Justina encourages an environment where people are able and willing to share critical information. This work has taken a toll on her personal life, though; her 3 year-old child has been living with Justina’s mother since September, because of Justina’s fear of contamination. For Justina, this is a sacrifice she’s willing to make if it means saving lives. Saving lives is exactly what case investigation teams are doing--tracking down every last Ebola case to manage the threat of further contamination. USAID plays a pivotal role in supporting these decontamination staff, ambulance drivers, social workers and case investigators--all heros who are the face of USAID’s leading Ebola response.
Photo by Neil Brandvold, USAID
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Have a great day/night everyone.
Copyright© 2013 Kim Hojnacki
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La capitale ha il suo primo edificio sostenibile.
90 appartamenti progettati per assicurare un elevato livello di qualità della vita, ottenuto grazie alla combinazione di tecniche costruttive tese al risparmio energetico e all'uso di materiali di pregio che garantiscono grande comfort
Oz, the little wizard of getting into places he shouldn't, is a basket case.
He was climbing on a high shelf to gt to this bowl.
Instead of having the shelf come crashing down at some point we moved it to the table in front of the Wonderful Wildlife Window.
When he is not sleeping he uses it as a hunting blind.
The Birth of Venus is undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous and appreciated works of art. Painted by Sandro Botticelli between 1482 and 1485, it has become a landmark of XV century Italian painting, so rich in meaning and allegorical references to antiquity.
The theme seems to come, as is so often the case, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. On Venus' right is Zephyrus, God of Winds, he carries with him the gentle breeze Aura and together they blow the Goddess of Love ashore. The Horae, Goddess of the Seasons, waits to receive Venus and spreads out a flower covered robe in readiness for the Love Goddess' arrival.
For some scholars the painting was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokond
Of august gold-wreathed and beautiful
Aphrodite I shall sing to whose domain
belong the battlements of all sea-loved
Cyprus where, blown by the moist breath
of Zephyros, she was carried over the
waves of the resounding sea on soft foam.
The gold-filleted Horae happily welcomed
her and clothed her with heavenly raiment.
Hesiod's Theogony described that the genitals "were carried over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew" to become Aphrodite. Aphrodite floated in on a scallop shell. When she arose, she was hailed as "Cyprian," and is referred to as such often, especially in the poetic works of Sappho. This myth of a fully mature Venus (the Roman name for Aphrodite), Venus Anadyomene ("Venus Rising From the Sea") was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. For Plato – and so for the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy – Aphrodite or Venus had two aspects: she was an earthly goddess who aroused humans to physical love or she was a heavenly goddess who inspired intellectual love in them. Plato further argued that contemplation of physical beauty allowed the mind to better understand spiritual beauty. So, looking at Venus, the most beautiful of goddesses, might at first raise a physical response in viewers which then lifted their minds towards the Creator.
Viewed from a Christian standpoint, the nudity of Venus suggests that of Eve before the Fall as well as the pure love of Paradise. Once landed, the goddess of love will don the earthly garb of mortal sin, an act that will lead to the New Eve – the Madonna whose purity is represented by the nude Venus. Once draped in earthly garments she becomes a personification of the Christian Church which offers a spiritual transport back to the pure love of eternal salvation. In this case the scallop shell upon which this image of Venus/Eve/Madonna/Church stands may be seen in its traditionally symbolic pilgrimage context. Furthermore, the broad expanse of sea serves as a reminder of the Virgin Marys' title stella maris, alluding both to the Madonna's name (Maria/maris) and to the heavenly body (Venus/stella). The sea brings forth Venus just as the Virgin gives birth to the ultimate symbol of love, Christ. Ambiguity in art is generally a good thing.
The picture hung in the country villa of the Medici along with "Primavera", indicating that the work was commissioned by the Medici family. Venus rises from the sea, looking like a classical statue and floating on a seashell. The Birth of Venus is the first example in Tuscany of a painting on canvas. Moreover the special use of expensive alabaster powder, making the colors even brighter and timeless, is another characteristic that makes this work unique.
Shown here is an image from the exhibit "‘Twas the Night: 1930s Selections from the Nancy H. Marshall A Visit from St. Nicholas Collection and the University Archives," on display in the third floor rotunda of Swem Library from December 9, 2011 through February 13, 2012.
The following is a transcription of the label text presented in this case:
Illustrations in The Night Before Christmas continued to depict household interiors and clothing with distinctly old fashioned or colonial appearances into the mid 20th century.
Clement C. Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949
Clement C. Moore
A Visit from St. Nicholas, reprinted in The Night Before Christmas: The True Story of A Visit from St. Nicholas
Engraved by Boyd
New York, 1933
Clement C. Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Woodcuts by Ilse Bischoff
New York: Holiday House, 1937
The Nancy H. Marshall A Visit from St. Nicholas Collection
"And then just before they [the students] went home at Christmastime, he [President Bryan] thought there should be another big party so that everybody would go home with sugarplums dancing in their heads.”
Leslie Cheek,Jr.
Oral History Interview on May 11, 1976
Professor of Art and Architecture, 1935-1939
Head of the Department of Fine Arts, 1938-1939
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
"The students did not have to wear eighteenth century costumes, but they had to wear a fancy–dress costume of some sort or other.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
Dressed to impress, 1939
Emily Harrell Lynch ‘42 took snapshots of classmates Harriet Murray, Frances Poarche, and Dorothy Griffin as they were ready to depart for the president’s Christmas party in 1939.
Emily Harrell Lynch Papers, UA 5.040
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert in costume, 1939
John H. Garrett Photographs, UA 5.101
Linen shirt and silk waistcoat, circa 1935-1942
As part of colonial costuming for Yule Log, President Bryan had this shirt custom made with lace attached at the cuffs and pearl buttons down the front. His waistcoat used a silk brocade with rose bushes and daisies.
University Archives Artifact Collection, UA 13
"In his very first year at William and Mary, Mr. Bryan decided that we’d have to develop some social activities for the students and for the faculty… For the students, his first production was the Christmas party. He decided that we should have a costume party in Phi Beta Kappa Hall.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
"Mr. Bryan and the official party, who sat on the stage, were dressed in authentic eighteenth century costumes. All the faculty who attended wore eighteenth century costumes. Those of us [who] were not able to buy them— and very few could buy them—rented them for about $8 or $10. Mr. Bryan had his own made, and he wore what was called a double-bottomed wig. It was really handsome; it was a beautiful costume. I don’t know what he paid for it, but it was certainly far more expensive than anybody on the faculty could afford.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
Barrister wig, circa 1935-1942
W&M President John Stewart Bryan wore this traditional men’s wig, made with horse hair by a theatrical costuming company, for Yule Log ceremonies and parties in the 1930s and 40s.
University Archives Artifact Collection, UA 13
From the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. See swem.wm.edu/scrc/ for further information and assistance.
La capitale ha il suo primo edificio sostenibile.
90 appartamenti progettati per assicurare un elevato livello di qualità della vita, ottenuto grazie alla combinazione di tecniche costruttive tese al risparmio energetico e all'uso di materiali di pregio che garantiscono grande comfort
Dr. Fallah and Lani Fortier of the Montserrado County case investigation and contact tracing team pause their work to smile for a photo. Coming from separate aid structures, the collaborative efforts of the pair are representative of the coordinated global response and relief effort that USAID is proud to be a part of. Dr. Fallah and Lani Fortie lead the Montserrado County case investigation and contact tracing units. They hunt down any possible contacts suspected patients may have had, efforts that USAID supports as a vital step in managing the once out of control spread of Ebola.
Photo by Neil Brandvold, USAID
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division gathered in a Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield hangar during a ceremony to case the Commando brigade’s colors before an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, October 17, 2018, at Fort Drum, New York. The casing of the colors is a traditional ceremony symbolizing a unit’s movement into a new theater of operation. The brigade is sending an element of troops on an additional mission to Kosovo for the duration of the deployment.
Shown here is an image from the exhibit "‘Twas the Night: 1930s Selections from the Nancy H. Marshall A Visit from St. Nicholas Collection and the University Archives," on display in the third floor rotunda of Swem Library from December 9, 2011 through February 13, 2012.
The following is a transcription of the label text presented in this case:
Illustrations in The Night Before Christmas continued to depict household interiors and clothing with distinctly old fashioned or colonial appearances into the mid 20th century.
Clement C. Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949
Clement C. Moore
A Visit from St. Nicholas, reprinted in The Night Before Christmas: The True Story of A Visit from St. Nicholas
Engraved by Boyd
New York, 1933
Clement C. Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Woodcuts by Ilse Bischoff
New York: Holiday House, 1937
The Nancy H. Marshall A Visit from St. Nicholas Collection
"And then just before they [the students] went home at Christmastime, he [President Bryan] thought there should be another big party so that everybody would go home with sugarplums dancing in their heads.”
Leslie Cheek,Jr.
Oral History Interview on May 11, 1976
Professor of Art and Architecture, 1935-1939
Head of the Department of Fine Arts, 1938-1939
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
"The students did not have to wear eighteenth century costumes, but they had to wear a fancy–dress costume of some sort or other.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
Dressed to impress, 1939
Emily Harrell Lynch ‘42 took snapshots of classmates Harriet Murray, Frances Poarche, and Dorothy Griffin as they were ready to depart for the president’s Christmas party in 1939.
Emily Harrell Lynch Papers, UA 5.040
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert in costume, 1939
John H. Garrett Photographs, UA 5.101
Linen shirt and silk waistcoat, circa 1935-1942
As part of colonial costuming for Yule Log, President Bryan had this shirt custom made with lace attached at the cuffs and pearl buttons down the front. His waistcoat used a silk brocade with rose bushes and daisies.
University Archives Artifact Collection, UA 13
"In his very first year at William and Mary, Mr. Bryan decided that we’d have to develop some social activities for the students and for the faculty… For the students, his first production was the Christmas party. He decided that we should have a costume party in Phi Beta Kappa Hall.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
"Mr. Bryan and the official party, who sat on the stage, were dressed in authentic eighteenth century costumes. All the faculty who attended wore eighteenth century costumes. Those of us [who] were not able to buy them— and very few could buy them—rented them for about $8 or $10. Mr. Bryan had his own made, and he wore what was called a double-bottomed wig. It was really handsome; it was a beautiful costume. I don’t know what he paid for it, but it was certainly far more expensive than anybody on the faculty could afford.”
J. Wilfred Lambert ‘27
Oral History Interview on January 8, 1975
Longtime W&M administrator
Retired as Vice President of Student Affairs, 1973
University Archives Oral History Collection, UA 43
Barrister wig, circa 1935-1942
W&M President John Stewart Bryan wore this traditional men’s wig, made with horse hair by a theatrical costuming company, for Yule Log ceremonies and parties in the 1930s and 40s.
University Archives Artifact Collection, UA 13
From the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. See swem.wm.edu/scrc/ for further information and assistance.
Berthold had two Times families in its phototype library at the time this Berthold Types catalog was published in 1988. “Times New Roman” looks to be based on a 12pt or larger size, like the digital Times we know today. But Times New Roman 327 (a series name from Monotype) appears to be based on a smaller metal version. It’s darker, broader, and sturdier.
The difference is even more obvious in the bolds of the two families. To me, the sources for both Monotype (AKA 334) and Linotype digital versions (MT’s is essentially what you see here at left) really suffer from the condensed bold. At first I thought this was the result of duplexing, the practice of casting multiple styles and weights on the same width, but Walter Tracy in Letters of Credit says that wasn’t a requirement for the project and indeed Roman and Bold widths differ. In fact, many Bold letters are actually narrower, resulting in counters reduced to mere slits in some cases. Times 421 is not compromised in this way and the result is much more clear and confident. Yes, it takes up more space; but this style needs to — especially for text.
Times 421 also maintains the angled stress of the regular (327), while Times New Roman Bold is forced into an unrelated vertical stress. Starling is a digital interpretation of Times that does maintain stress angle and open counters throughout its weights, but it’s still more of a display face.
I haven’t yet compared the italics.
I don’t know if this design originated at Monotype or if it’s a Berthold invention. It isn’t a match, but it does seem similar to the variant used by Stanley Morison in his essay on Times for A Tally of Types (1953), which he describes as “a wide version, more suited for longer lines.” Jaspert, Berry and Johnson show that in Encyclopaedia of Typefaces as “Times Wide” (Series 427).
Another possible link to this Berthold design is mentioned by Tracy in Letters of Credit:
“This disparity in style between the roman and bold was evidently something the German Linotype company thought should be eliminated. In the version of Times Roman they issued in 1935, first called Neue Romanisch but then named Toscana, the bold lowercase was redesigned in the ‘old style’ mode. The idea of harmonising the bold with the roman was logical; the actual execution, especially the character spacing, was not well done. The type soon disappeared.” [scan]
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Members: Ron Whiteside sent the Reunion notice of the Doolittle Raiders which took place. It’s too long to include in the Nov Newsletter, but I thought I’d send it as a separate mailing in case you were interested in reading it. I did put part of it in the Newsletter.
The Final Toast
It's the cup of brandy that no one wants to drink.
On April 17, 2013 in Fort Walton Beach , Florida , the surviving
Doolittle Raiders gathered publicly for the last time.
They once were among the most universally admired and revered men
in the United States . There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942,
when they carried out one of the most courageous and
heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The
mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring
tears to the eyes of grateful Americans.
Now only four survive.
After Japan 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor , with the United
States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn
the war effort around.
Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan
for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was
devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off
from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been
tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.
The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James
Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet,
knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They
would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a
safe landing.
But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of
the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off
from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted
on. They were told that because of this they would not have
enough fuel to make it to safety.
And those men went anyway.
They bombed Tokyo , and then flew as far as they could. Four
planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the
Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed.
Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew
made it to Russia .
The Doolittle Raid sent a message from the United States to its
enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no
matter what it takes, we will win.
Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as
national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced
a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,"
starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and
emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the
national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM
proclaimed that it was presenting the story "with supreme pride."
Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each
April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different
city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson , Arizona , as a
gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders
with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with
the name of a Raider.
Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is
transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away,
his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion,
as his old friends bear solemn witness.
Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special
cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy
Doolittle was born.
There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving
Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and
toast their comrades who preceded them in death.
As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February,
Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.
What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a
mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill
with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to
Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured,
and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.
The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a
passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that,
on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that
emblematizes the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:
"When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home,
he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing
home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her
clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he
walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for
three years until her death in 2005."
So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick
Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite,
Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have
decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to
continue.
The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It
has come full circle; Florida 's nearby Eglin Field was where the
Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town
planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration
of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.
Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save
the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their
sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other
people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this
week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might
want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from
firsthand observation that they appreciate hearing that they are
remembered.
The men have decided that after this final public reunion they
will wait until a later date -- some time this year -- to get
together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is
when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing
by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are
only two of them.
They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets.
And raise them in a toast to those who are gone.
Their 70th Anniversary Photo
PLEASE SEND THIS ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, ESPECIALLY
TO THOSE WHO WERE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW ABOUT THESE GUYS. THIS SHOULD
BE READ BY EVERY KID IN GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOL SO THEY KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED.
In case there was confusion, this is the 'rubber' thingy I was referring to with regards to how you cover the eyepiece of a Canon camera other than a 1 series.
Busker Jesse Case performs by sticking his tongue in a mouse trap at Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Jason Ogulnik/Las Vegas Review-Journal
I worked on many of these old machines back in the day. Machines today are certanily more complicated and more fuel effecient. But these old ones would dig. This series had a leveling feature that would let you dig a flat bottom ditch on a hill side. Pretty handy here in Arkansas.