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Blythe Construction is working to create mainline lanes for the final leg of I-485 in Mecklenburg County. Traffic on the right is on Mallard Creek Road, which will have its own interchange, one of the first diverging diamonds in North Carolina.
Built in 1905-1907, the Beaux Arts-style Cleveland Trust Company Building was designed by George B. Post as one of his last commissions prior to his death in 1913, stands at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland. At the time of its completion, the building was the third-largest Bank Building in the United States, and was the largest bank building in Cleveland, and the first building built in the city for sole occupancy by a bank. The building was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company, founded in 1894, which merged with the Western Reserve Trust Company in 1903, and subsequently outgrew its original offices. The bank continued to grow throughout the early-to-mid-20th Century, merging with various other banks around Cleveland, and being one of the first banks in Northeast Ohio to have branch locations. The historic Cleveland Trust Building is clad in white granite with a rusticated base featuring large arched bays with keystones and bronze doors and window frames, with corinthian porticoes at the central bays of the west and north facades along the two street frontages, which are topped by pediments featuring decorative friezes, with ornate sculptural reliefs, a small two-column portico at the building’s chamfered corner facing the intersection of the two streets, windows on the second and third floors featuring recessed metal spandrel panels, a cornice with modillions and dentils, a balustrade on the parapet, and a drum and dome atop the roof over the interior rotunda. The nearly excessive ornateness and quantity of the decorative sculptural reliefs, ornament, and friezes on the exterior facade, when compounded with George B. Post’s Beaux Arts background and design philosophy, places the building into the Beaux Arts style of architecture, despite having many similarities to the Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival styles, which have been attributed to the building by architects and architectural historians in the past. Inside, the building features a four-story rotunda below a large stained glass dome, crafted by the famous Nicola D'Ascenzo, with several murals, known collectively as "The Development of Civilization in America,” which ring the top of the third floor balcony. The murals, dome, columns, arches, cornice, and stone floor of the four-story banking hall remain intact, gracing one of the most impressive rotundas in the state of Ohio, and one of the most impressive rotundas of any building designed by Post, comparable to the scale and details to another late Post design, the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the Cleveland Trust Company Building being one of his best-preserved commissions. The rest of the interior was altered in the 1970s, but has been partially restored, including original staircases, elevator screens, and balcony railings, though other areas of the interior, including ceilings and offices in areas outside the rotunda, were heavily altered during the renovation, and were not restored during the most recent round of renovations.
In 1908-1910, the 13-story Swetland Building was built to the east along Euclid Avenue, and was designed by Searles, Hirsh & Gavin in the Classical Revival and Chicago School style. Complimenting its earlier neighbor, the taller structure is simpler in appearance, with a buff brick and terra cotta facade, three-over-three and one-over-one double-hung windows, a similar cornice featuring modillions and dentils, a terra cotta-clad base with Chicago windows and large street-level openings, and light wells on the east and west facades. In 1919, a tower was proposed to be built atop the structure, but was never constructed, which helped to preserve the building's original appearance and configuration until the 1970s, and prevented the loss of the grand stained glass dome and rotunda, which would have been heavily altered or removed to accommodate the structure for the additional floors. In 1968-1971, the Marcel Breuer-designed 29-story Brutalist building, known as the Cleveland Trust Tower, was constructed immediately to the south of the original building along East 9th Street. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground floor. During the next two years, the original building was renovated and heavily altered on the interior in response to the addition of the new office tower, leaving only its most significant features intact. A second wing of the tower was planned at one point to mirror the constructed tower, but wrapping the east side of the original Cleveland Trust building, which would have led to the demolition of the Swetland Building. However, these plans were never carried out, in large part due to the economic and demographic decline of Northeast Ohio that began during the 1970s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building remained in use by the Cleveland Trust Company until 1991, when the Cleveland Trust Company merged with Society National Bank. This was followed by an acquisition by Key Bank in 1993, which no longer needed the structure for banking purposes, and the final offices moved out in 1996, with all operations moved to the Key Tower. The building was largely empty and closed to the public until 2005, when it was purchased by Cuyahoga County, which intended to convert the complex into a new government center, a plan which was never realized. The county government then sold the complex in 2012, and the developer has transformed the Cleveland Trust Company Building into a Heinen's Supermarket, a local chain, with offices on the upper floors. The adjacent Swetland Building also became home to part of the supermarket, with market-rate apartments on the upper floors, while the Breuer-designed Cleveland Trust Tower was converted into a hotel and apartments. Now a thriving center of activity, the complex, now known as The 9 Cleveland, is one of the many bright spots of the revitalized and vibrant Downtown Cleveland.
Foundations have all been completed at the 140 megawatt Loeriesfontein wind plant site in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
Coming together are the future lanes of I-485 meeting the I-85/I-485 interchange in northeast Mecklenburg County.
It doesn't look as thought it will be long before these new apartments are on the market ~ ideally situated in the centre of the town!
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DMS2282 nearing completion. This bus was repainted and has the roundel in the later position. The real bus can be seen on Flickr. Route numbers and destinations are temporary and light clusters to be completed.
This is an oldie, from back in March. My photographic habit is quickly being superseded by the ol' knitting sticks as the seasons turn. The temperature starts to drop (frost on my windshield this morning! I say!), and whaddya know - it's that time of year again. In positive news, I finished knitting the forsaken bobble toque tonight that I started back in January. You see? I can follow some things through to completion!
A plausible cause for me being sick until now is all the work I put into my kitchen this past week. Nonetheless, it was well worth it. It's far from a gourmet kitchen, but I feel a sense of peace when I'm preparing food in there. It's amazing how far your dollar can stretch if a little investment in time and sweat equity is made. I'm pretty proud of what I accomplished here, and am confident that the work I put into this I will receive back ten fold.
As the Old Donation School nears its completion, it is receiving great reviews. It will be home to students in grades second through eighth who are gifted intellectually, in visual arts or dance. It has a capacity of 1,375.
The school, which will open about four months ahead of schedule, has features common in 21st century education, such as small-group learning spaces and seats that easily slide around, flexible walls, and using hallways as educational spaces. It also has an 800-seat theater and an outdoor stage.
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The Maryland Freestate ChalleNGe Academy graduates nearly 90 cadets from class #42 on June 14, 2014, at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The cadets successfully completed more than 5 months of rigorous residential instruction. Cadets were recognized with awards and scholarships this week in a separate ceremony. The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, a preventive rather than remedial "youth at risk" program, is directed at unemployed, drug-free, high school dropouts, 16-18 years of age. Core components of the program are citizenship, academic excellence (GED/High School diploma), life-coping skills, service to community, health and hygiene, job skills training, leadership, and physical training. (Photos by Maj. (MDDF) Isadore Beattie, Maryland Defense Force)
Built in 1905-1907, the Beaux Arts-style Cleveland Trust Company Building was designed by George B. Post as one of his last commissions prior to his death in 1913, stands at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland. At the time of its completion, the building was the third-largest Bank Building in the United States, and was the largest bank building in Cleveland, and the first building built in the city for sole occupancy by a bank. The building was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company, founded in 1894, which merged with the Western Reserve Trust Company in 1903, and subsequently outgrew its original offices. The bank continued to grow throughout the early-to-mid-20th Century, merging with various other banks around Cleveland, and being one of the first banks in Northeast Ohio to have branch locations. The historic Cleveland Trust Building is clad in white granite with a rusticated base featuring large arched bays with keystones and bronze doors and window frames, with corinthian porticoes at the central bays of the west and north facades along the two street frontages, which are topped by pediments featuring decorative friezes, with ornate sculptural reliefs, a small two-column portico at the building’s chamfered corner facing the intersection of the two streets, windows on the second and third floors featuring recessed metal spandrel panels, a cornice with modillions and dentils, a balustrade on the parapet, and a drum and dome atop the roof over the interior rotunda. The nearly excessive ornateness and quantity of the decorative sculptural reliefs, ornament, and friezes on the exterior facade, when compounded with George B. Post’s Beaux Arts background and design philosophy, places the building into the Beaux Arts style of architecture, despite having many similarities to the Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival styles, which have been attributed to the building by architects and architectural historians in the past. Inside, the building features a four-story rotunda below a large stained glass dome, crafted by the famous Nicola D'Ascenzo, with several murals, known collectively as "The Development of Civilization in America,” which ring the top of the third floor balcony. The murals, dome, columns, arches, cornice, and stone floor of the four-story banking hall remain intact, gracing one of the most impressive rotundas in the state of Ohio, and one of the most impressive rotundas of any building designed by Post, comparable to the scale and details to another late Post design, the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the Cleveland Trust Company Building being one of his best-preserved commissions. The rest of the interior was altered in the 1970s, but has been partially restored, including original staircases, elevator screens, and balcony railings, though other areas of the interior, including ceilings and offices in areas outside the rotunda, were heavily altered during the renovation, and were not restored during the most recent round of renovations.
In 1908-1910, the 13-story Swetland Building was built to the east along Euclid Avenue, and was designed by Searles, Hirsh & Gavin in the Classical Revival and Chicago School style. Complimenting its earlier neighbor, the taller structure is simpler in appearance, with a buff brick and terra cotta facade, three-over-three and one-over-one double-hung windows, a similar cornice featuring modillions and dentils, a terra cotta-clad base with Chicago windows and large street-level openings, and light wells on the east and west facades. In 1919, a tower was proposed to be built atop the structure, but was never constructed, which helped to preserve the building's original appearance and configuration until the 1970s, and prevented the loss of the grand stained glass dome and rotunda, which would have been heavily altered or removed to accommodate the structure for the additional floors. In 1968-1971, the Marcel Breuer-designed 29-story Brutalist building, known as the Cleveland Trust Tower, was constructed immediately to the south of the original building along East 9th Street. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground floor. During the next two years, the original building was renovated and heavily altered on the interior in response to the addition of the new office tower, leaving only its most significant features intact. A second wing of the tower was planned at one point to mirror the constructed tower, but wrapping the east side of the original Cleveland Trust building, which would have led to the demolition of the Swetland Building. However, these plans were never carried out, in large part due to the economic and demographic decline of Northeast Ohio that began during the 1970s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building remained in use by the Cleveland Trust Company until 1991, when the Cleveland Trust Company merged with Society National Bank. This was followed by an acquisition by Key Bank in 1993, which no longer needed the structure for banking purposes, and the final offices moved out in 1996, with all operations moved to the Key Tower. The building was largely empty and closed to the public until 2005, when it was purchased by Cuyahoga County, which intended to convert the complex into a new government center, a plan which was never realized. The county government then sold the complex in 2012, and the developer has transformed the Cleveland Trust Company Building into a Heinen's Supermarket, a local chain, with offices on the upper floors. The adjacent Swetland Building also became home to part of the supermarket, with market-rate apartments on the upper floors, while the Breuer-designed Cleveland Trust Tower was converted into a hotel and apartments. Now a thriving center of activity, the complex, now known as The 9 Cleveland, is one of the many bright spots of the revitalized and vibrant Downtown Cleveland.
"A man is not complete until he sees the baby he has made."
Sammy Davis Jr
My husband and our new little boy. Our 4th baby together (my 5th), completing our family.
St Philip’s, Belvidere, was also carried on towards completion: but through hindrances common in the bush, it was not formally opened for divine service until after the commencement of the present year. Ref: South Australian Register (Adelaide SA) Tuesday 13 May 1862.
Belvidere May 1
The vestry meeting of the Church of St Philip, Belvidere, near Marrabel, was held on the 25th ult particulars of which have already been published.
The Church of St Philip, Belvidere is pleasantly situated on an eminence about two miles and a half from Marrabel, in the vicinity of a number of Episcopalian residents. In its establishment there was much praiseworthy zeal shown. Mr Levi Broadbent not only gave a handsome donation of £100, but an acre of ground on which the church stands. The church, though still requiring to be plastered, and sundry other little matters, is comfortable and of adequate size. Its floor is of brick, and it is furnished with neat cedar sittings. There is an elevated deal platform for administering the service, enclosed with neat cedar railing.
The church is also used for a school which is much needed in this quarter: the distance either to Marrabel or Hamilton being too far for the children to walk. The number of children now in attendance is not so large as it was a short time since owing to ploughing and sowing. The parents regret keeping them away, being extremely satisfied with their progress under the present teacher. The intention of the Rev J B Titherington was to conduct the Church service every alternate Sunday, but as that gentleman has to attend Auburn, Chingford, Riverton (in the latter service morning and evening) and here it is more than he could do to attend personally each time, so he was obliged to appoint lay readers to assist him. Ref: South Australian Register (Adelaide SA) Monday 6 May 1867.
Stained-glass window in St Philip's Church, Belvidere, South Australia, was installed as a memorial to the district's pioneers who built the church nearly 100 years ago.
Granddaughter of pioneer Levi Broadbent, 84-year-old Mrs John Rowett was prevented by illness from attending the dedication ceremony at the church, so a special call was made by the rector, the Rev Phillip Smith, at her home in Marrabel township. Mrs Rowett enjoyed telling her callers the story of the building of the church which she had heard from her mother. She described how the pioneers erected it themselves without help of an architect or trained builders.
Names of many members of the congregation who attended the dedication of a new stained-glass window and stone altar at little St Philip's Church of England, Belvidere, SA, on a recent Sunday morning matched those on the tombstones in the spick and span cemetery in the church grounds.
It was as though those named on the tombstones - Levi Broadbent, Hannah Sheppard, Mally Gill, James Hyde, John Dart, Samuel Dorrington. the Bradshaws, the Penneys, and others who founded, built, and supported the little church in the middle of last century - still directed its affairs.
But in place of Samuel Dorrington, the first warden and donor of the first 2000 bricks to build the church, there is his great-great-grandson, Colin Dorrington, as warden today. And the great-great grandson of Levi Broadbent, who gave the two acres of land and many building materials m 1856, is the other young warden, Stan Rowett.
In records dated 1861 Samuel Dorrington's gift of bricks is valued at £5. Today it would be worth about £35.
Octogenarian Robert Gill, who gave £100 to the fund for the window and another £100 for church renovations, is a son of Mally Gill and grandson of Levi.
Mrs P M Murray, who with her husband gave the altar as a memorial to Mrs Murray's parents, Mary and James Hyde, is a granddaughter of William and Elizabeth Bradshaw.
Most of the congregation of more than 200 are related-and are descendants of those pioneers.
The descendants of the pioneers love their church. They revere their antecedents. So when it was suggested five years ago that the white-anted, isolated little church, set on a hilltop among undulating farmlands, about 65 miles north of Adelaide, should be moved to the nearest township of Marrabel, the plan was resisted strenuously.
Set in Scrub Oaks on a hilltop, St Philip's Church of England was renovated and freshly painted for the special service to dedicate its new stained-glass memorial window and stone altar. The window was made in Brisbane.
A committee discussed the cost of renovations, and before long the required sum was raised. Then it was decided to install a stained-glass window as a memorial to the district's pioneers. Within a few days the £400 needed was in hand.
In many ways the church is now not quite as Levi Broadbent and his co-workers built it. White ants, weather, and time have made replacements necessary through the years. It is still an architect's nightmare with its queer angles and crooked lines.
But new paint, plaster, and loving hands have made it fresh, clean, and whole.
It has been transformed with a gay red roof, cream exterior and interior walls, a colourful carpet runner, and freshly varnished pews. The new window and altar have given it added dignity.
The window, a beautiful piece of Australian craftsmanship, from Brisbane, is full of rich colour and has as its main design the figure of St Philip, patron saint of the little church. Eleven feet high and five feet wide, it surmounts the altar, which is made of handsomely marked stone from the Mount Lofty ranges.
An informal luncheon was to have been served under the scrub oaks surrounding the church after the dedication service, but because of a heatwave and high bushfire hazard this plan was abandoned and dozens of cars drove off to Marrabel for a buffet luncheon in the decorated local hall.
Well-known identity Mrs John Rowett (mentioned earlier) who is aged 84 and is a granddaughter of Levi Broadbent, could not attend because she was ill, so many callers stopped at her home on their way to the hall.
Mrs Rowett, who has a long memory and a clear voice, enjoyed telling them the story of the building of the church which she had heard from her mother.
Hannah Broadbent, she said, carted all the water required in the building of the church. Hannah took it in a cask on a one-horse sledge up the hill every day to the masons, who were three brothers, George, Tom, and Charlie Sheppard.
Hannah and Charlie Sheppard fell in love and theirs was the first marriage in the church. Their son Charlie, who died recently aged 89, was the first child christened there.
Although the church and a house or two are all that is left of the old settlement people of the district still refer to them as being "at Belvidere". But Marrabel is the community's township.
Organist for half a century, Mrs P M Murray was at her seat at the harmonium in St Philip's Church at Belvidere, with her husband beside her. Mr and Mrs Murray gave the new stone altar at a memorial to Mrs Murray's parents, James and Mary Hyde. The Murray's home is the nearest to the church and it about a quarter of a mile distant. They have a farm and grazing property, like many other members of the congregation. Ref: Australian Women's Weekly Wednesday 8 April 1953.
Link with a Founder of Church at Belvidere. Mrs Gus Wurst, of Gawler East, attended the dedication of a stained-glass window and stone altar at little St Phillip's Church of England, Belvidere (near Marrabel) recently. She is a great grand-daughter of Levi Broadbent, one of the pioneers responsible for the erection of the church in the middle of the last century. Members of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh generations of the family were present at the ceremony. The 'Women's Weekly' of 8th April devoted two pages including pictures, to the ceremony at the little church. Ref: Bunyip (Gawler SA) Friday 17 April 1953.
Pirate-y Wallaby is in the home stretch. About 7 more inches worth of stockinette to go on that hood, then kitchener it up and I'm good! Well.. almost good. The bottom, as you can see, decided to have an "overachiever" kind of roll, so I'm debating whether I want to do an applied I-cord to tame it down, or just pick up and knit a ribbing band after all. Guess I'll see just how crazy it is after blocking.
Ms Foo Mee Har, Adviser to Ayer Rajah Grassroots Organisations, unveiled the precinct plaque to commemorate the completion of Teban View.
She is accompanied by (from left to right):
Ayer Rajah CCMC Chairman, Mr Jimmy Ong; HDB Director (Community Partnerships), Ms Leong Wai Han; Ayer Rajah Citizens’ Consultative Committee Chairperson, Ms Tan Lee Jee and Teban Vista RC Chairman, Mr Jimi Loh.
Project Facts
Completion Year: 2007
Site Area: 65,000 m2
Project Area: 100,000 m2
Building Height: 110 m
Number of Stories: 23
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At its completion in 1927 it was the largest hydroelectric project in Maine, and accounted for more than half of Central Maine Power’s hydroelectric generating capacity
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prototyping window farm to learn about hydroponic systems. still some final additions to complete and then i will add plants.
learn more about the window farms project here: www.windowfarms.org/
To bad it was overthrown to the guy on the sidelines. Roby was wide open. Not a very exciting game as Vince Young didn't play for violating team rules. Preseason games are usually a big bore anyway. The most we hoped to get accomplished was to get the team calendar that they give away every year at the first game. We accomplished that.
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The interior of the Sagrada Familia
The stunning interior of the basilica Sagrada Familia was consecrated by Pope
The Sagrada Familia is Barcelona's most famous symbol and certainly one of its most impressive sights. The church is huge in its dimensions, so it is often called the "cathedral", although it is without a bishop's headquarters. On 11/07/2010, the Sagrada Familia was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI and elevated to the status of a basilica.
The completion of the interior and consecration was a great moment for Barcelona. Now, finally, the imposing, yet ingenious design of the brilliant Antoni Gaudí could be admired. And all this without scaffolding and machinery noise.
The church of the Sagrada Familia is a five-naved basilica. The central nave rises above the others significantly. To each nave a door is assigned to the unfinished glory facade. There are also two side portals that lead to the penance chapel and baptistery. Behind the nave, in the apse, is the altar, in the light of the many windows of the apse.
In the same way that the façades carry a rich symbology, the layout of the church is also full of symbols. Every door, every column, and almost every area has its own concrete or symbolic significance. This symbolism refers to the individual Catalan dioceses and Spanish dioceses, to every church in Latin America, on each of the five continents, to the apostles, to the great religious founders and most revered saints, the theological virtues, the sacraments, and more.
The vault-and-pillar system inside the basilica
The first drafts of the naves were similar in their basic features to the Gothic style, but without additional support and buttress. In this original design, the walls were still the main elements of each column, and were indispensable for the stability of the building. Gaudí's studies of stability were groundbreaking: the architect created a knotted rope construction in which the columns correspond to the ropes. He turned the construction of the pressure points and hung small weights. In this way he was able to simulate the pressure gradients in the columns.
The result of his research is a tree-like column structure. The columns are inclined and branched-like trees. The weight will be routed directly over the pillars in the ground - all this without bearing facade or exterior buttresses. The result of this ingenious solution is spectacular: the pillars and arches supported by them transform the interior of the temple into a stone forest of palm trees, lots of light streaming in through large windows and the vault.
The vertical and partly inclined pillars are decorated with grooves. It creates the impression that the material constituting the pillars has been stretched. At the top the pillars branch out so that each can support multiple points of the ceiling. All sections of the roof are supported by such branched columns.
The columns are made of materials of different hardness. The longest and thickest columns are made of red porphyry, a very hard volcanic rock. The dark, somewhat smaller pillars are made of basalt, granite columns supporting the lighter and the outermost row of pillars in the church building consist of a relatively soft rock from the mountain of Barcelona, Montjuic. The "smallest" pillars support the chancel.
The interior of the Sagrada Familia constitutes the essence of Gaudí’s architecture: there is no model within architecture for the vault-and-pillar system.
The Sagrada Familia's five naves
The layout of the church has the shape of a Latin cross - with enormous dimensions. The Sagrada Familia is one of the world's largest Church buildings: from the entrance to the apse it is 90 metres, the five naves are limited by a 60 metre long and 45 metre wide transept. The four side naves are 7.5 metres wide each, the main nave is 15 metres - exactly twice as wide. The vault of the main nave is 45 metres high, and the side aisles are 30 metres high.
Construction of the naves was started in 1987, based on models that were created by Antoni Gaudí, and which were not destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.
In the outermost naves, the chancels are both situated in a gallery. These provide space for over 1,500 singers.
In contrast to the Gothic style Gaudí’s design requires no supporting side walls, and heavy vault: he used this freedom to incorporate numerous windows that allow plenty of natural light inside.
The apse of the Sagrada Familia
Within architecture an Apse is known as one half of a dome roofed area. In a church, it is usually the area where the altar stands.
Immediately after the completion of the crypt Gaudí had the apse built above. The Gothic-style apse is surrounded by seven chapels and two side stairs to the left and right.
These lead to spiral staircases from the crypt and continue up into the facades. As an indication of the spiral staircase you see two big stone snails crawling down the wall on the outer walls of the apse. The inside walls of the apse are decorated with angels' heads and tears that should remind one of the suffering of Jesus.
The apse was completed in 1893 by a huge crowned dome dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which are supported by massive columns. The entire apse and dome are flooded with light; it is very bright for Gothic Architecture.
In the centre is the raised altar, crowned by the Latin cross with a canopy, decorated with vines and grapes of a vine, as Gaudí's only concession to the traditional church design. Behind the altar are the organ pipes, which, although they have very large dimensions, represent very delicate work.