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Escolar, Israeli Risotto with golden beets and purple runner beans. Escolar is a deep sea fish with a sweet flesh. Also used as sushi.
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Social Media and the Psychological City
Social media are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, from connecting with friends and sharing images to exploring cities through location-based applications.
Sites such as Foursquare and Facebook allow us to spatially mark our explorations in the city, creating rich databases that hold digital imprints of our interactions. To analyze these traces, the Foursquare and Facebook Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) were used to access location-based data to determine where social media users broadcast that they are “Here Now”. Analysis of this geographic data exposed the psycho-geography and economic terrain of New York City’s social media users.
Foursquare users tell us how they feel but they also provide valuable land use and economic information for cities where this information can be hard to obtain. These maps of Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Tokyo allow us to compare how Foursquare users operate in these cities, but more importantly expose urban economic patterns that might not otherwise been seen.
Looking at these global cities provides a sense of how people travel around the city, where there are employment and commercial centers, and seasonal preferences – such as the indoor malls in Moscow. In Tokyo and Mumbai, the infrastructure of the transportation system is clearly visible as the nervous system of the city. Social Media can provide rich data about urban form and land use which is otherwise unavailable for many cities around the world – providing a new tool for research about how people respond and interact with cities in a way never before achieved.
Spatial Information Design Lab
Project Lead: Sarah Williams, Co-Director Spatial Information Design Lab
Research Associates: Juan Francisco Saldarriaga (Project Manager), Georgia Bullen, Francis Tan, Noa Younse, Bryan Valentini
Student Researchers: Fatima Abdul-Nabi, Adare Blumenfeld, Caitlin Hackett, Jen So Godzeno, Alex McQuilkin, Tiffany Rattray, Carlos Salazar Echavarría, Fred Sham, Nathan Tinclair
General Characteristics of the Foursquare
Simple floor plan
Boxy, cubic shape
Full width front porch with columnar supports and wide stairs
Offset front entry in an otherwise symmetrical facade
Two to two and a half stories
Pyramidal, hipped roof, often with wide eaves
Large central dormer
Large single light windows in front, otherwise double hung
Incorporated design elements from other contemporaneous styles, but usually in simple applications
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I was finally comfortable enough to use my new FourSquare on a paid gig. I highly recommend them for beautifully smooth lighting from a small portable bracket & modifier combo.
As always, thanks again to Neon Ibis for assisting beyond the call of duty. I hope you are finding it worth your time still.
One SB-800 in the FourSquare soft box at 1/8th power camera left, triggered by Pocket Wizard PII. Sun as rim.
This badge issued by the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance states the four corners or basic teachings of Elim, which states that Jesus is the Saviour, the Healer, the Baptiser in the Holy Spirit and the Coming King. The Elim church believes in the Holy Trinity that embodies God in three persons, the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. They also profess a firm belief in the Bible as the infallible Word of God and place great emphasis on miracles and divine healing, as do other Pentecostal churches.
The Elim Pentecostal Church was established in 1915 by George Jeffreys (1889-1962), a Welsh evangelist invited to Ireland to hold meetings and from which the Elim Evangelistic Band was formed. The first Elim church was built 1916 in Belfast and the Elim Movement quickly gained momentum. By the end of 1920, there were 15 Elim churches in Ireland and in 1921 established their first church in England at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex followed by another in London in 1922. In 1924 workers of the Elim church began preaching across America and Canada and so on their return to England in 1926, the Elim Evangelistic Band was renamed as the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and which remains the official name for the Elim church to this day. They also profess a firm belief in the Bible as the infallible Word of God and place great emphasis on miracles and divine healing, as do other Pentecostal churches.
By the 1920’s followers of the Elim churches grew rapidly in number, attracted by much publicity surrounding healings and miracle workings so that by 1925 they had 36 churches throughout London alone. At the same time the Elim Movement took a new direction by staging mass meetings such as those that took place in the Royal Albert Hall during Easter week with attendance in excess of 5,000 at each and culminating in those at Crystal Palace with over 15,000 attending. Such meetings would set the tone for the Elim tours across Britain where hundreds of followers would profess salvation and healings. The Second World War and internal events meant changes for the Elim church but despite the challenges they continued to prosper and expand, growing from 220 churches in 1948 to 300 in 1962. Part of the success of the Elim church movement in Britain was its ability to adapt and change in response to the challenges of the time which included great social change from the early 1960’s onwards.
The name ‘Foursquare Gospel’ reflects the four corners or basic teaching, which states that Jesus is the Saviour, the Healer, the Baptiser in the Holy Spirit and the Coming King. The Elim church believes in the Holy Trinity that embodies God in three persons, the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. The name Elim was chosen By George Jefferys, being adopted from the Book of Exodus. It was the name of the desert oasis to where Moses led the Israelites after they escaped from their bondage in Egypt.
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References:
www.elim.org.uk/ (Elim Foursquare Pentecostal Church (UK) - website).
www.elim.org.uk/Articles/417849/Our_History.aspx (History of the Elim Church in the British Isles).
www.elim.org.uk/Publisher/File.aspx?id=50923 (History of the Elim church in Ireland and Britain).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elim_Pentecostal_Church
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Enamels: 3 (red, blue & white).
Finish: Gilt.
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