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This is the dropoff at the top of one of the ski trails on the summit of Mammoth Mountain. This one has a black diamond rating. The most difficult trails at Mammoth have a double black diamond rating. The view here is looking southwest down the San Joaquin River valley. We took the gondola back down to the Lodge.
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
I found this bluish-green mold-like growth covering dung (dog?) while looking for mushrooms. Fungus on dung (unless it has developed mushrooms) does not usually get my attention since I see the white fuzz all the time on dung from my dogs when cleaning up the yard. But this was bluish and a bit more interesting and, if you didn't have to smell it, more attractive than what I am use to. The insert at the upper right is of one of the fruiting bodies taken through a microscope camera. I have not been able to identify this fungus/mold. Any fungal dung experts out there in Flickr land? If so I sure would like to know what this is. Patapsco Valley State Park, Howard County, Maryland.
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
HAVING rung up its 70th anniversary, the prominent church of St Gabriel in Blackburn dominates Brownhill Drive, and is listed as a building of architectural importance because of its striking Thirties look.
But it is somewhat fortunate to have reached this milestone -- as the design for which it is noted was also almost its downfall.
For 34 years ago, the landmark building was facing possible demolition -- with the parish confronted with a then-immense bill of £15,000 for repairs. The crisis was due to serious damage to the roof timbers caused by water penetration.
But an expert's report in 1969 absolved St Gabriel's parochial church council of neglect. The blame, he said, lay in faulty design and unsuitable materials.
The upshot was not demolition, but a huge repair job -- and revamping of the original design of Liverpool architect F.X. Velarde which attracted so much attention when St Gabriel's opened in 1933. "The new building... marks a new departure from the accepted ecclesiastical style and is unique in this district," said the old Blackburn Times when it was consecrated on April 8, 1933, by the Bishop of Blackburn, Dr P.M. Herbert.
Eventually, it took £40,000-worth of refurbishment inside and out lasting until 1975 to save St Gabriel's -- at considerable expense to its original appearance. The main tower was shortened by six feet and later clad at the top with glass-fibre sheathing while the east tower was removed altogether and its flat roofs were made into pitched ones to deal with the rotting roof timbers and problems of settlement.
In fact, the difficulties that its design and construction posed were recognised much earlier in 1956 when the church, which had cost £20,000 to build, was found to be in urgent need of repairs that would cost more than £1,500. For an inspection by the Diocesan Architect found that major defects in the flat roof could have serious consequences unless they were given early attention and portions of the parapet wall were found to have large cracks due to settlement while half the building's brickwork needed pointing.
Yet, even when major repairs and remodelling of the building had radically altered its appearance, St Gabriel's remained sufficiently outstanding to appear in a 1992 guide book featuring the 500 best church buildings in the country -- though its "heroic proportions and simplicity," the book said, reminded people of a brewery or cinema and its glass-fibre sheathing was denounced as "horrible."
Even so, after all its troubles, the once ultra-modern church lies a long way from its origins -- in the back kitchen of a house at 532 Whalley New Road, Roe Lee, where the first services were held in 1889 when St Gabriel's began as a mission from St Michael's and All Angels Church, a mile or so down the road.
Soon afterwards, a corrugated iron building was erected nearby to serve as the church and in 1901 services commenced in the then-new St Gabriel's School in Cornelian Street and continued there until the 500-seat Brownhill Drive building was opened 70 years ago. The old school closed in December, 1979, when all pupils finally transferred to the extended new school at Wilworth Crescent.
Originally, a site in Topaz Street at Roe Lee, which had been given to the church in 1894, had been earmarked for the new St Gabriel's Church, but the location was switched to Brownhill Drive in 1924 in a deal with the Town Council that involved the development of Roe Lee Park and the surrounding housing scheme which was to add more than 300 new homes to the area and swell the parish's population by 1,200.
It was in 1937 that the churchgoers among them were first called to St Gabriel's by the sound of bells from the tower -- broadcast by loudspeaker from a gramophone record. But it was not a unique innovation for when the peal first sounded to ring in the New Year, similar recorded chimes were heard the same night at St Francis' Church, Feniscliffe, after the donation of equipment by a parishioner there while that at the Brownhill church was its war memorial, paid for by subscriptions.
The wartime ban on the ringing of church bells -- except as a signal for invasion -- did not silence St Gabriel's system, however. Starting in January, 1942, Brownhill folk were treated to Sunday broadcasts from the tower of choral selections and hymns from gramophone records -- and one midweek evening the year before to the famous Glenn Miller big-band orchestra's recording of "Moonlight Serenade" blaring over a radius of about a mile.
It was a prank and a disc played by a couple of choirboys who, before their evening practice, sneaked into the vestry where the record player and relay equipment were kept. "It was a bit of devilment," confesses, one of the culprits, Ken Roberts, now 74, of Haydock Street, Roe Lee. "The choirmaster was just coming up Brownhill Drive towards the church when suddenly he heard it booming out!"
Another wartime incident involving the tower was when an air-defence barrage balloon broke free from its moorings at Great Harwood and became snagged by its cable at St Gabriel's where some of the brickwork was damaged as a result.
But in peacetime the tower brought another shock, after the installation in October, 1964, of the large cross illuminated by red neon light.
The bright-shining cross was the church's response to a call by the Mayor of Blackburn for buildings in the town to be lit up after dark. But, according to a story that appeared many years afterwards in the parish magazine, its appearance high in the night sky had a chilling effect on one Brownhill resident when he spied it for the first time.
Emerging at closing time from the Brownhill Arms down the hill, he believed the cross in the sky was an omen and swore himself off drink before discovering that the sign was man-made and not a heavenly one!
www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/5905709.landmark-churc...
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St John the Baptist, Thaxted, Essex
The best church in Essex, and one of the best in England. The great spire rises above the gorgeous, prosperous little town, the big church surrounded closely on all sides by its busy life and a reminder that, like Lavenham in Suffolk, this was once a much more important place.
One of the touchstones of 20th Century Anglo-catholicism, with an influence which even today reaches out over adjoining parishes, this is a church full of light and space in the full confidence of its late 15th and early 16th Century rebuilding. The high, wide aisles extend to the full length of the chancel creating three parallel sanctuaries separated by the yawning of leaping, delicate arcades. The gathered paraphernalia of the Anglo-catholic tradition is shunted into corners and set boldly before pillars.
And yet, this does not feel like an urban church. Here, the wide spaces seem not to notice what has happened elsewhere. There are earlier details as well as later ones, among them late medieval glass and splendid 17th Century continental stalls brought here from the chapel of Easton Hall, but the overall impression is of serious High Church worship set within the frame of late-medieval Perpendicular harmony. And, perhaps also a sense of remoteness and distant loss, a recognition of what happened here once in another world, the world of lost Catholic England, an open airy emptiness which, as Pevsner observed, comes from the dearth of monuments as much as anything else. There is a sense here that there has not for a long time been a class in possession, and all in all it is a church which is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Like most of north Essex, the church and its town fell into a long sleep in the 18th and 19th Centuries, especially during the long agricultural recession in the second half of the latter century, but in 1910 a young London Priest called Father Conrad Noel was appointed to the living of Thaxted. He was a man of enormous energy and talent, and transformed Thaxted town and church into a maelstrom of political and cultural activity. He remained vicar of Thaxted until his death in 1942.
Conrad Noel set about galvanising the little town, making it a national centre for the English Crafts movement. When Arthur Mee visited Thaxted church in the 1940s he found the church hung and carpeted with colour, its tapestries, banners and vestments being the magnificent work of modern craftsmen inspired by the enterprise and fine judgement of the late incumbent (Conrad Noel) and his wife. Some of them we have all seen, for they were exhibited at the Wembley Exhibition (the Empire Exhibition of 1921). The surviving banners, now kept in storage to preserve them, are occasionally displayed and used in the church.
The parish became a centre for other revived English traditions. Fr Noel's undoubted charisma, and his insistence that Christianity was about beauty and ritual, attracted many well-known artists, musicians and folklorists to Thaxted. The folk revival was happening across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, and it is no coincidence that the Morris Ring found a friendly home in the town. English Morris Dancing still sees Thaxted as its home.
The composer Gustav Holst moved to Thaxted, and Holst and Noel collaborated on musical events, creating the Thaxted Festival which still takes place every summer. Holst regularly played the organ at Mass in Thaxted church, and his compositon Thaxted, a reworking of the Jupiter theme in his Planets Suite, is best known today as a setting for the words of I Vow to thee my Country. When it was reused by the BBC for the Rugby World Cup anthem World in Union, the royalties went to Thaxted church.
Working with them was Percy Dearmer, another left-wing Priest and musicologist. He was responsible for popularising Anglo-Catholic forms of liturgy and worship based on his research into the music and liturgy of the medieval church. He was also editor of the Oxford Book of Carols which almost single-handedly reintroduced the idea of Christmas carol services to English churches.
Other musical figures who became associated with Thaxted included the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. Vaughan WIlliams already had a considerable track record in collecting English folk tunes and working them into his own compositions. Shaw, best known today for hymn tunes like Little Cornard ('Hills of the North Rejoice') and Bunessan ('Morning has Broken'), wrote an Anglican Folk Mass for Thaxted church.
Another prominent figure in the Thaxted Movement was Joseph Needham, Cambridge professor and expert on Chinese Medicine, whose intellectual rigor gave a backbone to the folk tradition which Noel was allowing to live and breathe in his parish. Needham and his wife Dorothy were promoters of the Gymnosophist movement, in which young gymnasts would perform their routines naked, as in Ancient Greece. Gymnosophy was very popular in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, but perhaps it is as well that it did not catch on in Thaxted.
Conrad Noel had been one of the founders of the Church Socialist League in 1906, but he left it in 1918 to found the Catholic Crusade. Like several Anglo-catholic Priests, Noel was also a member of the Independent Labour Party, and in 1911 he became a founding member of the British Socialist Party. In the 1920s, his most notorious action was to hang the Socialist Red Flag, the Irish Tricolor and the English Flag of St George side by side in the south transept.
It is worth saying that, even today, hanging the Flag of St George in a parish church is unusual, and in Noel's day it was considered suspicious, for the more usual flag to be hung in parish churches is the Union flag as a sign of the protestant credentials of the Established Church. The flag of St George was considered evidence of Anglo-Catholic sympathies. The Irish Tricolor was even more controversial of course, for Ireland, although not yet a republic, was a newly independent nation which had broken away from the Union, an aspiration which some in the Thaxted Movement held for their beloved England.
Flying the red flag was an act of provocation, and flying the three flags together was quite outrageous, and unforgiveable. On at least one occasion, Cambridge undergraduates travelled to Thaxted church to remove the flags, ceremoniously pulling them down, sparking off fist-fights and other disturbances. Noel himself was accused of sedition in the House of Commons. Eventually a consistory court ruled against his displaying the three flags, and Noel obeyed the ruling. Conrad was inevitably dubbed "The Red Rector" by the popular press as a result of his actions and beliefs.
Conrad Noel is almost forgotten today outside of church circles, but his influence on English culture and the revival of tradition in the 20th Century was immense. If England ever becomes a nation independent of the Union again, I hope that someone will remember him and put his face on the bank notes.
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The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
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PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
Followed a blender tut. I plan on getting into modeling. Mainly to prove to Doug that I can blow him out of the water with enough experience.
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The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
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PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
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The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
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PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
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24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Mr. Cosmas Zavazava, ITU speaking at the 24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Vanessa Gray, ITU, at the 24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Delegates at the 24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
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