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This was taken from the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building.
In 2011 Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, Belfast, became the first Presbyterian church in Ireland to win an Eco-Congregation Ireland (ECI) award.
In general buildings of interest in Belfast are not well documented online [there may be political, religious and security reasons for this] so I do not have much information about this attractive church building other than that the congregation's first premises were in Alfred Place before moving to Alfred Street in the 1830s and then to Fitzroy Avenue (renamed University Street) in 1872.
One thing that stands out about Belfast is the number of churches and in some areas I noticed at least two or thee on every street that I visited. As far back as 1861 there were 55 Churches in Belfast 20 Presbyterian, 20 other non-conformist 10 Church Of Ireland and 5 Catholic. Today it is not clear as to how many churches exist in Belfast but there is a large number [some claim that there are more than 1,000 which is unlikely to be true as that would be equivalent to one for every 700 people] of small churches with very small congregations. I suspect that many of the churches are not currently viable and are likely to cease within the next ten years.
If you are wondering what I mean by a small congregation I extracted the following from the Moravian Church web page "our communicant membership stands at 60 with a few adherents and several people who attend occasionally".
Photograph taken at an altitude of Eleven metres in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise, at 08:20am on Monday 28th December 2015, on a beautifully warm and sunny morning off Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards Road in the grounds of St James's Park. Situated in the City Of Westminster, the Park spans twenty three Hectares and is the oldest of the Royal Parks of London, with a variety of visiting and nesting birds that include Ducks, Canada Geese and Pelicans.
Big Ben is a nickname given to The Great Bell of the clock at the North end of the Palace of Westminster. The actual tower was originally called the Clock Tower and subsequently renamed in 2012 as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The tower was completed in 1858 and the Bell used nowadays and designed by Augustus Pugin, was in fact a second casting made in 1858 due to the original one two years earlier being damaged beyond repair whilst being transported to the tower by sixteen horses.
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A view of Rue Frei Bernando de Brito in the fortified town of Almeida from the fortress wall.
Een kijkje op Rue Frei Bernando de Brito in de vestigingstad Almeida vanaf de vestigingswal.
William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
Faber paper covered Editions, 1969
Cover: Photo from the movie
The Aspang station in National Socialism
In contrast to Germany, where the Jewish population was deported from several cities, the central location for the deportations of the Jewish population of Vienna and Austria was Vienna's Aspang railway station in the 3rd district. In the course of the deportations, which departed from Vienna between February 1941 and October 1942, the majority of the Jewish population was deported from there to ghettos and extermination camps in the east. The station, which is a bit off the main train stations or main railway lines and therefore less frequented, was probably chosen deliberately for this purpose. At the same time, however, the station was located in the middle of the city, so that the sometimes weekly deportation of about a thousand Jews was not unnoticed, but followed before the eyes of the population. Between 1939 and 1945, a total of 48,953 Jews were deported from Vienna, 47,035 of them in 47 transports from Vienna's Aspangbahnhof.
Deportations from the Aspang station - transports and number of victims
The first two transports handled at Aspang Station were those from October 20 and 26, 1939, to Nisko on the river San, with which 1,584 Jewish men were deported from Vienna, who had previously been interned in the Gänsbacher alley transit camp. The bulk of the Jewish population was deported with the 1941 spring deportations and the major deportations between October 1941 and October 1942 - a total of 45,451 women, men and children in 45 transports, with each transport between 900 and over 1000 people. Among them were not only Viennese, but also Jews from the federal states, who had been expelled to Vienna in 1938/39. Politically persecuted, stateless Jews and other non-Jewish groups of victims, however, were sent in the years 1938/39 mainly from Westbahnhof (Western Railway Station) to Dachau and Buchenwald, and later also to Mauthausen. The Nordbahnhof (Norther Railway Station) only served as a deportation station for smaller and individual transports after the completion of the major deportations from 1943 to the end of the war. In the years 1943-1945 a total of 1,918 Jews were deported.
According to the calculations of the historian Jonny Moser, only a total of 1,734 Jews survived the deportation to the ghettos and extermination camps. Of the 45,451 in the years 1941 and 1942 deported from the Aspang station, the majority was murdered, 989 people survived, including the via Theresienstadt to Auschwitz deported later writer Ruth Klüger.
Destinations of the deportation trains
The destinations of the deportations were the "Generalgouvernement (the German administered part of Poland during World War II)" (Nisko, Opole, Kielce, Modliborczicze, Łagów / Opatów and Izbica), Łódź (Warthegau), Riga (Latvia), Minsk with Maly Trostinec (Belarus), Theresienstadt/Terezin ("Protectorate") and Auschwitz (Upper Silesia). The train journey lasted between two days and one week. About half of all deportees from Vienna came to Theresienstadt (15,122 people) and Minsk / Maly Trostinec (9,471 people). From Theresienstadt around half of the Jews from the former Austria were sent on between August 1942 and October 1944 to Auschwitz and other places of extermination, such as Treblinka, and murdered, including the sisters of Sigmund Freud.
Roma and Sinti
Most of the Austrian Roma and Sinti were deported from train stations in Burgenland and Styria, partly directly from the Lackenbach detention camp. Some of the Roma and Sinti living in Vienna, including the family of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), were also deported from Vienna in 1943. Since at this time the Aspang station was no longer used for deportation transports, it can be assumed that Roma and Sinti were not deported from there.
The Aspang station in the years 1945-2002
After the Second World War, the Aspang station was used by the British occupation as a station for supplies. The passenger operation was maintained until 1971. This year, the rapid-transit railway station Rennweg was opened. The station building was demolished in the summer of 1977. The historic railway line, however, continued to exist and was later used by the airport express train (S7) and as a freight yard. The railway area was still used until 2001 as a freight yard. In 2002, the entire railway system of the Aspang Railway was broken off and a tunnel was built for the airport rapid transit railway. Furthermore, a crossing-free link was created with the rapid transit main line. As a result, traffic usage disappeared underground and was also the prelude to a high-quality urban development of the entire Aspang area.
Memorial stone and planned memorial
A commemorative plaque erected in 1983 with the call "Never forget!" recalls the Jews deported in the years 1939-1942 from the former Aspang station. In 1995, the city of Vienna renamed the forecourt into Place of the Victims of the Deportation.
On the grounds of the former Aspang station, the new district of Eurogate is under construction. The Leon Zelman Park located there was named after the founder of the "Jewish Welcome Service". An educational campus with kindergarten and schools will be named after Aron Menczer (1917-1943), head of the Zionist Youth Aliyah. Aron Menczer was deported to Theresienstadt on 24 September 1942 with one of the last major transports and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. A memorial for the victims of the deportation is to be erected on the site until the summer of 2017.
Opening of the Aspangbahnhof Memorial September 7, 2017
The memorial at the Aspangbahnhof was on 7 September 2017 in the presence of City Councilor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Municipal Councilor for Housing, Housing and Urban Renewal Michael Ludwig, the Ambassador of the State of Israel Talya Lador-Fresher, the President of the Jewish Community Oskar Deutsch, and numerous Personalities of political and cultural life and representatives of the Jewish community opened. The memorial is located in the Leon Zelman Park, Vienna 3, Aspang grounds. The memorial was designed by the artist group PRINDpod as part of the project KÖR Kunst in the public space Vienna, which lives since 1984 as a team in Vienna. It recalls the 47,035 Jews who were deported from the Aspang Station to the ghettos and extermination camps in 47 transports in the years 1939 and 1941/1942, of which only 1073 survived. One of these survivors, Herbert Schrott, born in 1926, spoke as a witness at the opening. The memorial "with two concrete rails converging conically over a length of about 30 meters points to the railway tracks" of the former station. These rails come together in a concrete block and end in this. In this way, the visualization of the journey to death should be symbolized.
Der Aspangbahnhof im Nationalsozialismus
Im Unterschied zu Deutschland, wo die jüdische Bevölkerung aus mehreren Städten deportiert wurde, war der zentrale Ort für die Deportationen der jüdischen Bevölkerung Wiens und Österreichs der Wiener Aspangbahnhof im 3. Bezirk. Im Zuge der Deportationen, die zwischen Februar 1941 und Oktober 1942 von Wien abgingen, wurde der Großteil der jüdischen Bevölkerung von dort in Ghettos und Vernichtungslager im Osten deportiert. Der etwas abseits der großen Bahnhöfe bzw. Haupteisenbahnrouten liegende und daher weniger frequentierte Bahnhof wurde vermutlich bewusst für diesen Zweck ausgewählt. Gleichzeitig befand sich der Bahnhof jedoch mitten in der Stadt, sodass der zuweilen wöchentliche Abtransport von jeweils rund tausend Jüdinnen und Juden nicht unbemerkt, sondern vor den Augen der Bevölkerung erfolgte. Zwischen 1939 und 1945 wurden insgesamt 48.953 Jüdinnen und Juden aus Wien deportiert, davon 47.035 Personen in 47 Transporten vom Wiener Aspangbahnhof.
Deportationen vom Aspangbahnhof – Transporte und Opferzahlen
Die ersten beiden am Aspangbahnhof abgefertigten Transporte waren jene vom 20. und 26. Oktober 1939 nach Nisko am San, mit denen 1.584 jüdische Männer aus Wien deportiert wurden, die zuvor im Sammellager Gänsbachergasse interniert worden waren. Der Großteil der jüdischen Bevölkerung wurde mit den Frühjahrsdeportationen 1941 und den großen Deportationen zwischen Oktober 1941 und Oktober 1942 deportiert – insgesamt 45.451 Frauen, Männer und Kinder in 45 Transporten, wobei jeder Transport zwischen 900 und über 1000 Personen umfasste. Darunter waren nicht nur Wienerinnen und Wiener, sondern auch Jüdinnen und Juden aus den Bundesländern, die 1938/39 nach Wien vertrieben worden waren. Politische Verfolgte, staatenlose Juden sowie andere nichtjüdische Opfergruppen wurden hingegen in den Jahren 1938/39 vorwiegend vom Westbahnhof nach Dachau und Buchenwald, später auch nach Mauthausen verschickt. Der Nordbahnhof fungierte erst nach Abschluss der großen Deportationen von 1943 bis Kriegsende als Deportationsbahnhof für kleinere und Einzeltransporte. In den Jahren 1943-1945 wurden insgesamt 1.918 Jüdinnen und Juden deportiert.
Laut den Berechnungen des Historikers Jonny Moser überlebten nur insgesamt 1.734 Jüdinnen und Juden die Deportation in die Ghettos und Vernichtungslager. Von den 45.451 in den Jahren 1941 und 1942 vom Aspangbahnhof Deportierten wurde der Großteil ermordet, 989 Personen überlebten, darunter die über Theresienstadt nach Auschwitz deportierte spätere Schriftstellerin Ruth Klüger.
Zielorte der Deportationszüge
Die Zielorte der Deportationen waren das "Generalgouvernement" (Nisko, Opole, Kielce, Modliborczicze, Łagów/Opatów und Izbica), Łódź (Warthegau), Riga (Lettland), Minsk mit Maly Trostinec (Weißrussland), Theresienstadt ("Protektorat") und Auschwitz (Oberschlesien). Die Bahnfahrt dauerte zwischen zwei Tagen und einer Woche. Rund die Hälfte aller aus Wien Deportierten kam nach Theresienstadt (15.122 Personen) und Minsk / Maly Trostinec (9.471 Personen). Von Theresienstadt wurden rund die Hälfte der aus dem ehemaligen Österreich stammenden Jüdinnen und Juden zwischen August 1942 und Oktober 1944 nach Auschwitz und andere Vernichtungsorte wie Treblinka weiter verschickt und ermordet, darunter die Schwestern von Sigmund Freud.
Roma und Sinti
Der Großteil der österreichischen Roma und Sinti wurde von Bahnhöfen im Burgenland und in der Steiermark, zum Teil direkt vom Anhaltelager Lackenbach deportiert. Ein Teil der in Wien lebenden Roma und Sinti, darunter die Familie von Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), wurde ab 1943 auch von Wien aus deportiert. Da zu diesem Zeitpunkt der Aspangbahnhof nicht mehr für Deportationstransporte in Verwendung war, ist anzunehmen, dass Roma und Sinti nicht von dort deportiert wurden.
Der Aspangbahnhof in den Jahren 1945-2002
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg diente der Aspangbahnhof der britischen Besatzung als Bahnhof für den Nachschub. Der Personenbetrieb wurde bis 1971 aufrechterhalten. In diesem Jahr eröffnete man die Schnellbahnstation Rennweg. Das Bahnhofsgebäude wurde im Sommer 1977 demoliert. Die historische Bahntrasse blieb jedoch weiterhin bestehen und wurde später durch die Flughafen-Schnellbahn (S7) sowie als Güterbahnhof genutzt. Das Bahnareal wurde noch bis 2001 als Güterbahnhof genutzt. Im Jahr 2002 wurde die gesamte Bahnanlage der Aspangbahn abgebrochen und ein Tunnel für die Flughafen-Schnellbahn errichtet. Ferner wurde eine kreuzungsfreie Verbindungsstrecke mit der Schnellbahn-Stammstrecke geschaffen. Damit verschwand die verkehrliche Nutzung unter die Erde und war zugleich der Auftakt für eine hochwertige städtebauliche Entwicklung der gesamten Aspanggründe.
Gedenkstein und geplantes Mahnmal
Eine 1983 errichtete Gedenktafel mit dem Aufruf "Niemals vergessen!" erinnert an die in den Jahren 1939-1942 vom ehemaligen Aspangbahnhof deportierten Jüdinnen und Juden. 1995 benennt die Stadt Wien den Vorplatz in Platz der Opfer der Deportation.
Auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Aspangbahnhofs ist der neue Stadtteil Eurogate im Entstehen. Der dort befindliche Leon-Zelman-Park wurde nach dem Gründer des "Jewish Welcome Service" benannt. Ein Bildungscampus mit Kindergarten und Schulen wird den Namen von Aron Menczer (1917-1943), dem Leiter der zionistischen Jugendalijah, tragen. Aron Menczer wurde mit einem der letzten großen Transporte am 24. September 1942 nach Theresienstadt deportiert und 1943 in Auschwitz ermordet. Ein Mahnmal für die Opfer der Deportation soll bis Sommer 2017 auf dem Gelände errichtet werden.
Eröffnung des Mahnmals Aspangbahnhof 7. September 2017
Das Mahnmal am Aspangbahnhof wurde am 7. September 2017 unter Beisein von Kulturstadtrat Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Amtsführendem Stadtrat für Wohnen, Wohnbau und Stadterneuerung Michael Ludwig, der Botschafterin des Staates Israel Talya Lador-Fresher, des Präsidenten der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Oskar Deutsch, sowie zahlreichen Persönlichkeiten des politischen und kulturellen Lebens und Vertretern der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde eröffnet. Das Mahnmal befindet sich im Leon-Zelman-Park, Wien 3, Aspanggründe. Das Mahnmal wurde im Rahmen des Projektes KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien von der Künstlergruppe PRINDpod entworden, die seit 1984 als Team in Wien lebt. Es erinnert an die 47.035 Juden und Jüdinnen, die vom Aspangbahnhof in 47 Transporten in den Jahren 1939 und 1941/1942 in die Ghettos und Vernichtungslager deportiert wurden und von denen nur 1073 überlebten. Einer dieser Überlebenden, der 1926 geborene Herbert Schrott, sprach als Zeitzeuge bei der Eröffnung. Das Mahnmal "verweist mit zwei über eine Länge von rund 30 Metern konisch zusammenlaufenden Betonschienen auf die Gleisanlagen" des ehemaligen Bahnhofs. Diese Bahnschienen laufen in einem Betonblock zusammen und enden in diesem. Auf diese Weise sollte die Visulisierung der Reise in den Tod symbolisiert werden.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: I Fori Imperiali, oltre 15mila reperti archeologicI nascosti in un magazzino, LA REPUBBLICA (01|05|2015), & ROMA - I gioielli del Museo dei Fori diecimila reperti di Roma antica, CORRIERE DELLA SERA (21|09|2004)& LA REPUBBLICA (24|09|2001).
"Oltre 15mila reperti chiusi in un magazzino e invisibili al pubblico [1998-2015]. E' il tesoro ritrovato ai Fori Imperiali durante gli scavi giubilari e in quelli successivi. Studiati, schedati e riposti negli scaffali, nelle cantine cinquecentesche del quartiere Alessandrino sopravvissuto alla demolizione degli anni Trenta, quei reperti si trovano oggi "nascosti" nella galleria sotterranea che collega il Foro di Traiano a quello di Cesare." LA REP. (01|05|2015).
1). FORO DI TRAIANO - Capitelli, teste, trionfi. Il tesoro segreto dei Fori: "Portiamolo alla luce" - Alla scoperta dei depositi accanto alla colonna di Traiano, conservano 15mila reperti. "Vogliamo esporre questi marmi." LA REPUBBLICA (01|05|2015).
Un tesoro custodito nell'ombra. Oltre le grate e i cancelli che oggi il pubblico sfiora, percorrendo la galleria sotterranea che collega il Foro di Traiano a quello di Cesare, nel nuovo spettacolo itinerante ideato da Piero Angela. È quello conservato nei depositi dei Fori Imperiali: un nucleo di 10-15 mila reperti, per ora invisibili al pubblico, rinvenuti durante gli scavi giubilari e in quelli successivi. Studiati, schedati e riposti sugli scaffali, nelle cantine cinquecentesche del quartiere Alessandrino sopravvissute alla demolizione degli anni Trenta. Dove a ergersi, oggi, sono vere e proprie "colonne" di cassette, in cui si celano splendidi frammenti architettonici e decorativi, perlopiù del Foro di Traiano, ma anche di quelli di Augusto, di Cesare e della Pace.
Il rilievo di una manina, che pare aggrapparsi con le piccole dita sul bordo di un fregio, conquistando la superficie, si fa immagine e metafora del sogno degli archeologi: quello - come spiega Beatrice Pinna Caboni, funzionario dell'ufficio Fori Imperiali della Sovrintendenza capitolina - "di poter arrivare un giorno alla pubblica fruizione, almeno dei reperti più eclatanti, leggibili e meglio conservati". Qualche passo è già stato fatto, proprio in occasione delle passeggiate notturne al Foro di Cesare firmate da Piero Angela e Paco Lanciano.
All'inizio della galleria sotterranea dei Fori Imperiali, ad esempio, sono stati riproposti nel loro contesto originario alcuni frammenti di colonne e lesene del colonnato che chiudeva il Foro di Traiano sul lato meridionale. Mentre più avanti, lungo il percorso ipogeo, viene illuminato un lacerto dello splendido pavimento in marmo del portico occidentale, restaurato con una parte degli incassi della prima edizione dello spettacolo sul "Foro di Augusto". Fondi serviti anche per il restauro dei quattro maestosi "blocchi" poggiati sull'erba all'uscita della galleria, coronamento delle trabeazioni del Tempio di Venere Genitrice, nel Foro di Cesare. E per i pavimenti in opus sectile e opus spicatum della vicina Basilica Argentaria, con gli intonaci scalfiti dagli antichi graffiti con versi dell'Eneide.
Ma per riportare alla luce le meraviglie nascoste del Foro di Traiano e svelarle finalmente al pubblico servirebbe uno spazio ad hoc. E a mostrarlo è Marina Milella del Museo dei Fori Imperiali: siamo a pochi passi dalla Colonna Traiana, nei depositi della Basilica Ulpia e della Biblioteca occidentale. Dove "già negli anni Trenta - racconta Milella - si progettò e si cominciò ad allestire un museo sotterraneo".
Sotto la soletta in cemento - da poco risanata per prevenire le infiltrazioni, con la risistemazione anche dell'aiuola in superficie - il tempo pare essersi fermato. Con gli spezzoni di colonne in marmo grigio egiziano della Basilica Ulpia e quelle bianche della Biblioteca lasciate in posizione di caduta, gli scorci della pavimentazione originaria e i capolavori architettonici e decorativi oggi coperti dalla polvere. A cominciare dall'enorme e maestoso frammento, protetto da un velo di cellophane, con la Vittoria Tauroctona del fregioarchitrave della Basilica Ulpia. Il più grande oggi conservato, che sarà riprodotto in materiale simile all'originario e usato per l'anastilosi delle colonne della Basilica finanziata dal magnate uzbeco Alisher Usmanov. "L'idea - spiega Milella - è di fare di questi depositi uno spazio visitabile che completi il Museo dei Fori, dove manca una sezione dedicata a quello di Traiano".
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2). ROMA - FORI IMPERIALI - I tesori della Basilica Ulpia nascosti nel ventre della città, CORRIERE DELLA SERA (21|09|2004).
Allo stupito Montaigne, che parlava correntemente il latino come fosse una lingua viva, Roma doveva apparire la traduzione architettonica della vitalità dell' antico: una città, scriveva ammirato, dove si ha la sensazione di camminare «sul culmine di case intere», dove lo strato archeologico sembrava una seconda natura sulla quale s' innalzavano, come escrescenze della passata grandezza, gli edifici del Rinascimento. Perfino le costruzioni moderne, aggiungerà tre secoli dopo Henry James, sembrano quasi ritornare, attraverso un' impenetrabile stratigrafia naturale-artificiale «alla primitiva, tirannica coesione con la roccia vergine». Se si volesse comunicare il fascino di una Roma interpretata come costruzione geologica che si rigenera sulle proprie rovine, bisognerebbe costruire un grande museo nel ventre della città, ricomponendo la continuità tra architetture sepolte dove i ruderi, come quelli della Basilica Ulpia, non vengano riportati alla luce, ma custoditi nelle ramificazioni del sottosuolo.
Quattromila metri quadrati inaccessibili al pubblico Basilica Ulpia il tesoro segreto sotto via dei Fori Ventimila reperti «sepolti» dalla strada Nel cuore sotterraneo della Roma antica, almeno quattromila metri quadrati inaccessibili, segreti. Che il grande pubblico non conosce e non ha mai conosciuto. Un magazzino, oggi. Una specie di maxi deposito per più di ventimila reperti (alcuni di straordinario livello) che potrebbero - anzi, dovrebbero - essere esposti e musealizzati almeno in parte. E che invece se ne stanno lì, ammonticchiati su vecchi scaffali fin dagli anni Trenta, data in cui vennero disseppelliti. Alcuni, i più importanti, sono stati studiati, puliti e restaurati. Ma a tutt' oggi giacciono impacchettati in grandi fogli di plastica trasparente: altorilievi con raffigurazioni di prigionieri Daci, antiche trabeazioni e altri fregi con decorazioni su temi bellici e sacrali, tutti elementi compositivi della decorazione architettonica e scultorea che fu. Questo pezzo sconosciuto e affascinante della Roma antica - scoperto e scavato settant' anni fa da Corrado Ricci - è una parte integrante della Basilica Ulpia: quel maestoso complesso di cui molto si sa (e altrettanto ancora si ignora) e che è uno degli esempi più evidenti, a Roma, di «archeologia interrotta». Questa parte della basilica - la più importante dell' antichità - è infatti sotterranea e invisibile da sempre. Salvo che agli studiosi, l' unica zona del monumento che si può ammirare è quella esterna, compresa tra il cortile della Colonna Traiana e la grande piazza forense. Il resto, appunto, esiste. Ma non si vede. A meno di non penetrare nel grande sotterraneo che giunge fin sotto la via dei Fori Imperiali, ben oltre l' area sottostante alla grande esedra arborea che si apre subito sulla sinistra imboccando la via da piazza Venezia. «Di un progetto di riuso dell' intera zona sotterranea si è spesso parlato» dice Lucrezia Ungaro, archeologa responsabile del complesso archeologico dei Fori Traiani: «Il recupero dell' area consentirebbe infatti di riconnettere esterno ed interno, di ridare unità, con un asse museale unico, a ciò che oggi appare interrotto». Progetto caro agli archeologi, a cui osta l' annosa questione dei finanziamenti. Recuperare l' area costerebbe infatti, a occhio, non meno di dieci milioni di euro: necessari intanto per affrontare una prima serie di problemi oggettivi, dalle numerose perdite d' acqua alla soletta di cemento armato degli anni Trenta che comincia a mostrare i segni del tempo. Una spesa che, se affrontata, potrebbe però restituire ai romani una zona ipogea ad alta densità di interesse archeologico, con indubbi elementi anche di spettacolarità visiva. Già oggi infatti, nonostante il vecchio sistema di illuminazione (presente solo in una zona ristretta) e nonostante i cumuli di polvere sedimentata nel tempo, non è impossibile immaginare come questo enorme «magazzino» potrebbe essere trasformato in area espositiva e interamente percorribile. Un' operazione da cui qualsiasi discorso sul futuro della via dei Fori Imperiali - questione di stretta attualità - non potrebbe evidentemente prescindere.
Lì sotto, ad esempio, si trova ancora l' unico tratto degli scalini originali con cui si ascendeva alla maestosità della grande Basilica. Sempre lì c' è la prosecuzione delle navate centrali e laterali del complesso. E, pur sotto le spesse incrostazioni, ben si vede come il calpestio insista su parti eccezionalmente conservate degli antichi marmi pavimentali: lastre di raro e pregiato «africano», ad esempio, di cui all' esterno si conservano solo minimi frammenti.
La Proposta - C' è un grande museo nelle viscere della città. Si potrebbero collegare i resti sotto Palazzo Valentini con l' area a ridosso della Colonna Traiana È possibile realizzare un poderoso sistema integrato nel cuore della Capitale Il visitatore vi scoprirebbe l' ordine della storia che si frammenta e si ricompone nella metropoli contemporanea, l' enigma delle sue complesse sezioni, l' energia inesauribile delle permanenze antiche capaci di trasmettere la propria forma nascosta alla città moderna. Credo che questo straordinario museo dovrebbe riutilizzare i vasti spazi ipogei sotto via dei Fori Imperiali e sotto piazza Madonna di Loreto, dove Corrado Ricci fece disporre i frammenti venuti alla luce nel corso della campagna di scavo condotta tra il 1926 ed il 1933: una vasta, dimenticata costruzione, mai aperta al pubblico, sospesa tra i giardini moderni sulla copertura e i resti di mura rovinate al suolo, di magnifiche trabeazioni semisepolte che affiorano dal pavimento. La parte più vasta di questa costruzione, che occupa l' intera ala occidentale della basilica innalzata da Apollodoro di Damasco, potrebbe costituire l' embrione di un sorprendente sistema museale composto da spazi sotterranei. A cominciare dalla sistemazione della galleria, peraltro già prevista nei piani della Soprintendenza archeologica, che collega i resti romani sotto Palazzo Valentini (utilizzando anche il rifugio antiaereo costruito sotto il cortile) all' area degli horrea ancora sommersi a ridosso della Colonna Traiana, per continuare con gli scavi da eseguire di sotto via dei Fori Imperiali allo scopo di connettere tra loro parti del complesso archeologico oggi separate. Sull' altro lato di via dei Fori, continuando le gallerie abbandonate che si dirigono verso il Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II (vecchi sondaggi che raggiungono il limite del Foro di Traiano) ritengo che si potrebbe arrivare ai grandi spazi sotto le volte, poco distanti, che sostengono la scalinata del Vittoriano. Continuando, potrebbero essere raggiunti i vuoti sotto la scalinata dell' Aracoeli, oggi ridotti a deposito, valutando poi non solo l' ipotesi di spingersi ad utilizzare le estese cavità prodotte dalla secolare estrazione del tufo sotto il Campidoglio (le quali, ora convertite a magazzini, dovranno in ogni modo essere consolidate), ma perfino la possibilità di percorsi che potrebbero congiungere e rendere visitabile il sistema di passaggi, gallerie, cunicoli, che conduce al teatro di Marcello. Ne risulterebbe, in alternativa all' idea di parco archeologico segregato, un poderoso sistema dimostrativo integrato nel cuore stesso di Roma, ricavato ristrutturando e collegando tra loro spazi esistenti oggi in abbandono. Un complesso degno di una grande capitale, che ripagherebbe i grandi sforzi necessari alla sua realizzazione raccogliendo la vocazione ipogea comune a molti spazi archeologici romani: mitrei, ninfei interrati, cripte, carceri, cimiteri. Una vocazione consolidata dalla memoria della Roma sotterranea, misteriosa, magica, iniziatica, indagata nel passato con solitaria passione da scrittori e artisti, verrebbe così raccolta e riproposta come potente narrazione, corale e continua, sepolta nelle vive viscere della città.
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-- CORRIERE DELLA SERA (21|09|2004).
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3). ROMA - I gioielli del Museo dei Fori diecimila reperti di Roma antica - E per Palazzo Rivaldi pronti 14 miliardi - Visita nei depositi sotto la Basilica Ulpia tra fregi architettonici e statue in attesa di esposizione. Apertura a metà 2003, LA REPUBBLICA (24|09|2001), p. 3.
In attesa. Diecimila reperti architettonici, statue, capitelli, colonne. Chiusi nei depositi ai piedi della Colonna Traiana, nella biblioteca della Basilica Ulpia, a lato della grande mezzaluna dei Mercati Traianei. Sigillati, catalogati e riposti sugli scaffali ancora per qualche stagione, prima di tornare sotto gli occhi della gente a testimoniare la storia di Roma antica ancora più a fondo di quanto facciano scavi e monumenti. Sono i gioielli che andranno a costituire il Museo dei Fori imperiali, l'anello ancora mancante della mastodontica impresa di riorganizzazione dell'area archeologica centrale, che troverà sede all'interno dei Mercati di Traiano. Visitare questi depositi sotterranei, soffiar via la polvere del tempo da questi capolavori è, insieme, un rapido tuffo nel passato e uno sguardo a un futuro ormai prossimo.
Per il "polo museale" dei Fori l'inaugurazione è prevista a metà 2003: verranno esposti i pezzi migliori portati alla luce nel corso degli scavi degli anni Trenta ma anche delle più recenti campagne giubilari. Ecco così i due guerrieri daci ritrovati nel Foro di Traiano un paio di anni fa ora custoditi in un'aula dei Mercati semisconosciuta, destinati a stare accanto ai fregi architettonici che decoravano le piazze dell'imperatore, colossali e sufficienti a dare l'idea della maestosità degli spazi pubblici frequentati dal popolo romano. Oltre i cancelli incatenati del deposito della basilica Ulpia, oggi sorvegliati da implacabili occhi elettronici e da magnifici gatti a mo' di sentinelle, stanno allineati a perdita d'occhio i pezzi che accendono di entusiasmo la passione di studioso del sovraintendente Eugenio La Rocca in visita insieme alla direttrice dei Mercati, Lucrezia Ungaro.
Ma il Museo dei Fori ai Mercati di Traiano non si limiterà a tirar fuori alcuni tra gli ultimi "invisibilia" romani. Nelle casse dell'assessorato alle Politiche culturali sono infatti già pronti 14 miliardi per l'acquisizione di Palazzo Rivaldi, di fronte alla Basilica di Massenzio, che accoglierà la sezione virtualedidattica del museo con plastici e ricostruzioni digitali. L'edificio, in condizioni di grave degrado, è di proprietà Ipab, nei confronti della quale il Comune intende avvalersi del diritto di prelazione nel momento di un'asta pubblica. Circa cinquanta miliardi servirebbero poi al restauro e all'allestimento.
Tra i vari cantieri aperti nell'area, quello per la sostituzione della "passerella di Campo Carleo" che portava da via dei Fori proprio all'interno dei Mercati: dietro le impalcature si sta rimpiazzando la vecchia struttura con una leggera. Sono conclusi, invece, i lavori di riordino del giardino ai piedi della Torre delle Milizie aperta per visite guidate e attrezzata di nuovi camminamenti che conducono i turisti fino a un belvedere sopra la piazza del Foro.
«Il complesso di questi interventi si inquadra nella prospettiva di musealizzazione e risistemazione dei Fori per la quale è al lavoro una commissione specifica spiega l'assessore Gianni Borgna Esclusa la parte del Museo dei Fori imperiali vero e proprio nei Mercati, l'accesso dovrà essere libero, tranne alcune parti per le quali progettiamo di istiture comunque un unico biglietto e una gestione unitaria. I visitatori dovranno potersi muovere liberamente dal Colosseo alla Colonna Traiana».
Dunque, il Museo dei Fori sarà un insieme complesso, nel quale si incroceranno sezioni didattiche a monumenti all'aria aperta, tante sale espositive già pronte e passeggiate sotterranee da mettere a punto in termini più precisi nei prossimi mesi. Ma non è ancora tutto. Eugenio La Rocca e Gianni Borgna guardano già da qualche tempo con interesse particolare a Palazzo Tiberi, sede del cosiddetto "viscontino" su via IV Novembre. Là dove ora siedono nei banchi i ragazzini del centro storico potrebbe nascere una nuova struttura legata al Museo e ai Fori imperiali: servizi aggiuntivi, libreria, biblioteca e anche uno splendido caffè.
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-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: I Fori Imperiali – Dott.ssa FRANCESCA CAVAGNINO, et. alli., “PROGETTO DI ALLESTIMENTO DEL SISTEMA DI AMBIENTI SOTTERRANEI DI COLLEGAMENTO FRA IL FORO DI TRAIANO E IL FORO DI CESARE,” FORMA VRBIS, NO. 10 | OTT (2012), pp. 30-39 [in PDF]. [Anche s.v., Dott.ssa Arch. Barbara Baldrati (2002-04), = “Tavola 1, Il Foro di Cesare: Il monumento, dalla sua realizzazione ad oggi (61 a. C. – 2001). Planimetrie dell’area dei Fori (quota + 22,00 m s.l.m. e quota + 13,00 m s.l.m.). Scala metrica 1:500.” La Sapienza (2002-04).
-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Via dei Fori - tunnel che collega il Foro di Cesare e il Foro di Traiano (1999-2015). Foto & Stampa (1 di 71) [05|2015].
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Inci Mehmet and In Gee Chun during Wednesday's practice round at the Ricoh Women's British Open Golf Championship 2018.
One of two photos taken today on my way back from walking my grand-daughter to school. Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
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This is the Three Dots and a Dash, a classic tiki cocktail created by Don the Beachcomber in the 1940's during World War II. The name comes from the morse code for the letter "V" which stands for victory. Tiki drinks sometimes get a bad rap as being a mindless mix of rum, fruit juice, and sugar. Three Dots and a Dash certainly has all of those things, but it's not mindless at all. It features two key ingredients that take it from a rum fruit salad to a balanced caribbean extravaganza.
The first is Allspice Dram. We often think of winter baking spices like allspice and nutmeg as being European, but the reality is many are from the Caribbean and Central America. Donn Beach knew this which is why he included allspice dram from Jamaica. The second part was using honey, which helps build a connection between the fruit, rum and spice. The rum foundation is built on rhum agricole for a distinct grassy funk. Three Dots and a Dash isn't just an excuse to drink rum and fruit juice, but it's a tour through the Caribbean from Martinique, to Jamaican, to Barbados and beyond.
1 oz rhum agricole
1 oz aged Barbados rum
1 oz fresh lime juice (see note)
0.5 oz dry curaçao (see note)
0.5 oz falernum
1 tsp oz Allspice Dram
0.5 oz honey syrup (Combine honey and warm water at a 2:1 ratio)
3 dashes Angostura bitters
Combine all of the ingredients into a shaker tin. Add ice and shake vigorously until arctic cold. Strain into an ice filled chilled footed pilsner, tiki mug or collins glass. Garnish with three cherries to represent the three dots and one pineapple frond or chunk to represent the dash.
Note: This an adapted recipe from Paul McGee. The original recipe uses orange juice, but I feel that dry curaçao works better instead. To make the original version, substitute 0.5 oz orange juice for the dry curaçao and decrease the lime juice by 0.25 oz.
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M has been extremely excited to get the Christmas tree burnt this year. To her credit, we left it up in the house far too long. The thing was a tinderbox waiting for a spark. So, I hauled it outside and dumped it on the fire pit.
Typically, we wait until the summer to burn the tree as one of the first fires of the season. But, M had so much energy, L had her go out and pick up any sticks she could find to add to the pile and they burned it together today. I stayed inside with C because it was incredibly cold out, but I managed to get this little shot of them staying warm by the tree. L came in and said the whole thing burned up in less than five minutes from a single match, Christmas Vacation style.
I should've had that thing out of the house a week ago.
iss071e208018 (June 24, 2024) --- NASA astronauts (from left) Mike Barratt and Tracy C. Dyson, both Expedition 71 Flight Engineers, are pictured in the Quest airlock prior to the start of a science and maintenance spacewalk that ended early after Dyson's suit experienced a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit.
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Puss in Boots
Record number: 23051301
Artist: Kubel, Otto (German, 1868-1951)
Item caption, front: Brüder Grimm / Der gestiefelte Kater / O. Kubel, pinx.
Item caption/descriptive text, back: 5. "Man hat mir versichert," begann der Kater, " daß Ihr die Gabe besäßet, gnädiger Herr, Euch in alle Arten von Tieren zu verwandeln." -- "Das ist auch wahr," antwortete der Zauberer, "um es dir zu beweisen, will ich mich gleich in einen Elefanten verwandeln." Der Kater war erschrocken, als er den Elefanten vor sich sah, und bat den Zauberer, sich in eine Maus zu verwandeln. Das geschah, dia Maus lief plötzlich hin und her, der Kater aber haschte sie und fraß sie auf. = "I have been told," began the cat, "that you have the gift, honored sir, of transforming yourself into all kinds of animals." "That is certainly true," answered the magician, "and to prove it to you, I will transform myself immediately into an elephant." The cat was astounded when he saw the elephant in front of him, and then asked the magician to transform himself into a mouse. That happened: the mouse suddenly ran back and forth, but the cat caught it and ate it up.
Uniform title: Grimm: Der gestiefelte Kater (“Puss in Boots”); Perrault: Le Maître chat ou Le Chat botté ("Puss in Boots" or “The Master Cat”)
Dimensions: 140 x 93 mm.
Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier
Nationality: German
Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 223 Nr. 4293
Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting
Interpretive notes: The Cat asks the sorcerer to demonstrate his powers. The sorcerer first transforms into an elephant; but when he then changes into a mouse, the cat catches him and gobbles him up!
Subject headings: Cats; Magicians; Monkeys; Elephants
Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design
In the years before continental holidays became the norm the SMT bus company provided a huge selection of extended and day tours throughout Scotland and England. So popular did they become that up to 100 coaches were allocated during the peak summer season. Most departures left from Edinburgh or Glasgow but some day tours also left from provincial towns such as Bathgate and Musselburgh.
The extended tours attracted high patronage, in particular that to Strathpeffer and the North West Highlands, which gave two departures per week. Seen amongst the bracken and purple heather of Glen Affric is B466A, a 1953 AEC Regal Mk IV, with luxurious 38 seat Alexander coachwork. The Regal is working a 7-day tour which would cost the 'holidaymaker' £19.10s (£19.50p) at the time of this scene in 1959. This price which today sounds more than a bargain, was all inclusive - meals, excursions and hotels. SMT, by then Scottish Omnibuses, chose only the most experienced drivers to crew these tours, and in turn the drivers guarded the 'privilege' with considerable acumen, with younger drivers getting a chance only of day or afternoon tours. B466A - attached to New Street garage remained for some years afterwards on tour-work before being withdrawn in 1966.
We had some time in Boston before our train to NYC left, and so we had some time to look around before we left town. Instead of breakfast at the hotel, we opted for a bagel at their fab Public Market, just a few steps away. Fortified, we continued on to the Paul Revere House, then took a different route back, checking out the amazing Greenway project, a former highway turned into a park. We finished off our short visit to Boston at the Michael Dukakis South Station Transportation Hub, known locally just as South Station. We were able to upgrade our rail tickets and were able to wait for our train in the Amtrak Lounge, before enjoying more space and better services on the Acela back to NYC.
In honor of the 365 November Starters in-group FGR theme: favorite
childhood movies. One of the movies I remember watching over and over
on HBO way back when was "Anna to the Infinite Power." If you weren't
a child of the '80s, the briefest synopsis possible is that a pre-teen
girl, Anna, comes to find out that she's not your everyday normal
girl, she's actually a clone - and there are plenty of other Anna
clones out there. She sets out to find more about her true history as
those who devised the cloning project try to protect their project. I
remember asking my father to explain the title to me, since this was
well before I'd learned anything about squaring or raising numbers to
any given power (we were still working on multiplication tables!), and
it really still didn't make much sense, so the title was basically a
string of syllables to me for the longest time.
This movie totally stuck with me for years, and I remembered certain
scenes vividly. The funny thing is about five years ago, I got a hold
of the movie on VHS and discovered that not only did I remember some
things vividly... I remembered them a bit incorrectly. Oops. But
while the movie in some ways appeared dated, in a lot of ways it held
up over the years, especially around a time several organizations were
talking about trying to clone humans. It still packed a wallop as the
story unfolded in ways I'd forgotten. I hunted down and read the book
the movie was based on not long after, and it was also quite
enjoyable. I would recommend both! :-)
(Interesting side note: I had Rowan watch the movie with us way back
when, she was probably about the same age as I was when I first
watched it, but the only thing she seemed to really notice in the
movie was that Anna's brother was named... Rowan!)
On a technical note, this photo was a nightmare and a half to take. I
had about 30 failed shots and this is the best of the lot. I was just
determined to actually use one of the photos, so here it is, lousy as
it may be technically. Besides having to balance the second mirror in
the bathroom (home of the worst lighting in the house), trying to get
the camera in such a position that I was reflected back and forth
where it could see it about drove me insane. Gary came along to
rescue me from the trying to balance the mirror AND the camera and
remote at the same time, at least!
This portrait of Thomas Jefferson (Catalog Number INDE11905) was executed by James Sharples Senior in 1796-1797.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). He idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a strictly limited federal government. Jefferson supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the co-founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated American politics for a quarter-century. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793) and second Vice President (1797–1801). A polymath, Jefferson achieved distinction as, among other things, a horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor and founder of the University of Virginia.
The Second Bank of the United States, at 420 Chestnut Street, was chartered five years after the expiration of the First Bank of the United States in 1816 to keep inflation in check following the War of 1812. The Bank served as the depository for Federal funds until 1833, when it became the center of bitter controversy between bank president Nicholas Biddle and President Andrew Jackson. The Bank, always a privately owned institution, lost its Federal charter in 1836, and ceased operations in 1841. The Greek Revival building, built between 1819 and 1824 and modeled by architect William Strickland after the Parthenon, continued for a short time to house a banking institution under a Pennsylvania charter. From 1845 to 1935 the building served as the Philadelphia Customs House. Today it is open, free to the public, and features the "People of Independence" exhibit--a portrait gallery with 185 paintings of Colonial and Federal leaders, military officers, explorers and scientists, including many by Charles Willson Peale.
Independence National Historical Park preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution. Administered by the National Park Service, the 45-acre park was authorized in 1948, and established on July 4, 1956. The Second Bank of the United States was added to the Park's properties in 2006.
Second Bank of the United States National Register #87001293 (1987)
Independence National Park Historic District National Register #66000675 (1966)
As I wrote earlier, I have been ill.
All day.
Jools is feeling tip top, so while I lay hovering close to death laying in my pit, she went to the gym for a workout, then, on the way back gets me a coffee from Starbucks opposite the hotel. Opposite and down a bit, then to the left. But close enough.
I drink that pretty quick, but I am not feeling very sharp at all.
So after Jools has a shower, she goes out for a wander and I stay in bed, listening to the radio, whilst my stomach empties.
And by one in the afternoon, I was feeling more human, so I began to think about what to do when Jools came back. And at just gone two, I see her in her coat coming back, carrying a huge cup of coffee for me.
She has been out on the L, going to various points she knew not where, as got lost twice, but had a good time.
What did I want to do?
Ride the L of course.
She sighs. Well, she put the idea in my head.
At quarter to three we go out, walk three blocks to the subway, where three bucks gets us one trip, to anywhere in the system.
We take two stops, then get out and go to the street onto the L, where I am happy as anything, standing at the very back of the train, snapping the scene as the train headed south.
After three stops, and going round a tight curve at a junction, of which I get pictures. And I am happy.
We get off and wander along the streets, stopping off at a health food place for a bag of chips and some juice.
I felt a little better.
Walk some more, back over the river, on a road that ran parallel with Michigan, as the designer shops and crowds are so boring.
After a few blocks, I see a tap room, and I am thirsty, so go over for a pint of porter. Which hits the spot, but goes straight to my head.
Of course.
Meanwhile, the dark clouds that had swept over the city in the afternoon were now producing light rain, and we scuttled north getting closer to the hotel.
We come to a bbq place, and I say, shall we eat here? I mean, its nearly five, eat early, back in our room and relax?
So we do.
Jools has a half baby back rib and I have brisket, both of which were good. Stunning to me who had not eaten in some 22 hours.
As ever, the food came with a side, and we also asked for onion rings. A small mountain of those came, which we made a fair dent in.
The ribs and brisket were stunning, the best of either I have had. So a win there.
But we left so much food as we both had had enough. It will get trashed.
The rain had stopped, so we walk back to the hotel in the thinning crowds as the time approached half six, and back in our room soon after.
Tomorrow, things will change, somewhat....
In 1885 this building was the U.S. Land Office. It escaped the disastrous fire of 1892. Later the building served as the Power Company Office, then later reinvented into the Wheaton & Hollis Hotel.
Today you can get a glimpse of Bodie life by peeking through the windows.
Soldiers from the 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in “Flags In”, where a flag is planted in each grave marker in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 21st, 2015. Over 1,000 Soldiers from the Old Guard took part in planting more then 228,000 flags in honor of those whose final resting place is Arlington National Cemetery. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody W. Torkelson)
A little boat in cambodia can be a house, a shop, everything.
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Focal length: 200 mm
ISO: 400
Full resolution: 4904x3248
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Statue in the gardens of Versailles Palace in France
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HISTORIC SOUTH CENTRAL – A well-established basement fire spread throughout an apartment building in South Los Angeles and burned for many hours, causing collapse and displacing residents.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department responded with over 100 firefighters to a structure fire that was reported at 3:03 A.M. on May 16, 2020, in the 4000 block of South Main Street in the Historic South-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles. Firefighters found a 24-unit two-story center-hallway apartment building with fire showing. The blaze appeared to have started in a densely-packed basement used for storage, which spread to the rest of the building.
Occupant safety was the immediate concern in the early morning hours, at a time when many residents are expected to be asleep in their units. A primary search ensued, while firefighters worked to locate the seat of the fire. Heavy fire was located in the basement, but access was extremely limited due to excessive storage. Firefighters battled through low visibility and extremely hot conditions for as long as they could, as the heat emanated from below. Fire attack teams were unable to directly attack the seat of the fire, but were able to cut holes in the first floor to drop a Bresnan distributor nozzle (“cellar nozzle”) down into the basement, which acts like a fire sprinkler on steroids, sending water out of nine orifices and spinning in a circular pattern (distributing 600-800 gallons per minute in a 30-foot diameter).
As fire attack teams continued their battle, search teams swept through the building and facilitated evacuations of both floors, unit-by-unit. All residents were evacuated. Only one needed additional medical care at the hospital for smoke inhalation. At least four adjacent buildings were evacuated as a precaution.
Firefighters were forced to withdraw as conditions deteriorated. As soon as the residents were safely outside, buckling walls and sagging floors led to the incident commander’s decision to withdraw all crews from the building. The fight continued from outside, with firefighters directing hose streams through windows of every unit.
The apartment built in 1924 had balloon construction that is characterized by open spaces within the walls that stretch from bottom to top - studs from basement to attic with no fire blocks. The fire extended upward unhindered from the basement, throughout the entire building, and across the attic. Eventually, the south side of the building collapsed. Due to the extensive fire damage and partial collapse, the only option was to tear down the building. Because of the structural compromise, it was unsafe for firefighters to make entry. Excavators were ordered to demolish the building and Department of Transportation removed vehicles off the street to make room for the operation. Firefighters stood by for at least two days to continue monitoring the fire and extinguish hot spots as the debris was removed.
Red Cross was notified to assist residents with interim housing. An MTA bus was ordered to give residents a sheltered place to wait, off the street, while details for accommodations were worked out. LAFD CERT teams set up on scene to support firefighters, as this turned into an extended operation.
Apartment fires are notoriously dangerous with high potential for casualties. Today, we are reminded of the importance of operable fire protection systems (especially smoke detectors), and previously-discussed emergency escape plans, and it was fortunate only one resident was injured in the blaze.
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United Nations Human Rights Commissioners in South Sudan expressed their disappointment at the conflict around Yei and Melut and the level of the current inter-communal conflict.
Speaking on localized violent, “It seems the current violent is heightens then the previous once, new and bigger weapons are used and causalities are higher …and we suggested that there are easier access to arms…this is a new form of conflict,” said Commissioner Barney Afako.
The commissioners explained concerns that there is lacks of progress of peaceful implementation of revitalized Peace Agreement, “the conflict around Yei and Melut creates instability and leading to displacement of civilians.” said Andrew Clapham.
Adding that conditions at “the cantonment sights are not supportive, in regards to living conditions and women have no separate accommodation or training arrangement.”
The Commission is expected release its report on the human rights situation in South Sudan to the Human Rights Council in March 2020.
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan is an independent body mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to, among other things; determine and report the facts and circumstances of, collect and preserve evidence of, and clarify responsibility for alleged gross violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes, including sexual and gender-based violence and ethnic violence, to end impunity and provide accountability.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
Most Filipino teachers were required to take up Nippongo course in the Normal Institute.
(Photo and text from The Sunday Times Magazine dated April 9, 1967. This was the first issue of three issues on World War II in the Philippines, its glory and despair, its anxiety and agony; the soul-shaking excitement of events from Bataan, 1942 to the Battle of Manila, 1945.)
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Dismals Canyon - located in Northwest Alabama - is an 85 acre Natural Conservatory designated a "National Natural Landmark" in 1975.
The Canyon has mysterious sanctuaries that were used for shelter by Paleo, Cherokee, and Chickasaw Indian Tribes about 10,000 years ago.
The Scottish-Irish early settlers named this hidden canyon after a rugged spot in Scotland called "Dismals".
In the face of a substantial change in the geopolitical context we need to react effectively to the new challenges, reads a special statement by chiefs of diplomacy of the Visegrad Group (V4) who have come to Budapest for informal consultations with Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries.
Photo: MFA / J. Cieślikowska
W obliczu znaczących zmian sytuacji geopolitycznej musimy efektywnie reagować na nowe wyzwania - piszą w specjalnym oświadczeniu szefowie dyplomacji Grupy Wyszehradzkiej zebrani w Budapeszcie na nieformalnych konsultacjach z państwami Partnerstwa Wschodniego.
Fot. MSZ / J. Cieślikowska