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My wife Lauren in the woods at Shing Mun Reservoir in Tsuen Wan.
This is a 120 image panorama using a 135mm f2 lens - enough to make any PC owner break down and cry!
This is called the Brenizer method.
taken with my motorola razr phone.
i sent this photo message to friends to encourage them to get to the damn bar before i was done with my "business".
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 2705. Photo: Paramount. Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934).
With her round apple face, big eyes and charm, French-born Hollywood star Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was the epitome of chic sophistication. Her comedies It Happened One Night (1934) - for which she won the Oscar, Midnight (1939) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) are among Hollywood's greatest ever. After more than 60 films, she returned with great success to the theatre and was 84 years old when she won a Golden Globe for the TV mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987).
Claudette Colbert was born Emilie ‘Lily’ Claudette Chauchoin in 1903 in Saint-Mandé, an eastern suburb of Paris, where her father owned a bakery. Her parents were Georges Claude Chauchoin and Jeanne Marie née Loew. In 1906 her family emigrated to New York. Though she did some acting in college, her primary interest was fashion design. She studied fashion when she met the writer Anne Morrison at a party who offered the 20-year-old student a small role in her play The Wild Westcotts (1923) on Broadway. She started to use the stage name, Claudette Colbert. After signing a five-year contract with the producer Al Woods, Colbert played ingénue roles on Broadway from 1925 through 1929. British actor Leslie Howard, with whom she had a brief relationship in 1924, encouraged her and persuaded his friend the producer Al Woods to put her under contract but, despite personally good notices, she did not get into a major hit until The Barker (1927) with Walter Huston and Norman Foster. In The Barker, she played a duplicitous snake charmer. She and Foster, later a Hollywood actor and director, were married the following year during the play's London run. Their marriage remained a secret for many years while they lived in separate homes. In Los Angeles, Colbert shared a home with her mother Jeanne Chauchoin, but her domineering mother disliked Foster and did not allow him into their home. Colbert and Foster divorced in 1935 in Mexico. Colbert's first film, For the Love of Mike (Frank Capra, 1927), was made during The Barker's Broadway run. The silent film is now believed to be lost. She was concerned that silent cinema failed to utilise her melodious voice, one of her greatest assets. The advent of talkies changed her attitude, and in 1929 she signed a Paramount contract. Only two of her first 15 films - The Big Pond (Hobart Henley, 1930) and The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931), both co-starring Maurice Chevalier - were better than mediocre. Then Cecil B. De Mille asked her to play Nero (Charles Laughton)'s unscrupulous wife Poppaea in the Biblical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932). Her performance was acclaimed, while her bath in asses' milk received immense publicity and has become a famous scene in Hollywood history. Columbia offered her the role of a spoiled heiress in It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934). Colbert was initially reluctant to appear in the screwball comedy and demanded to be paid $50,000 - twice her usual pay - and that filming was to be completed within four weeks to allow her to take a planned vacation. Tom Valance at The Independent: “The role gave her the chance to work with Clark Gable, who had been forced by his studio, MGM, to do the film. Neither star initially expected much of the low-budget comedy which won five Oscars. Colbert was in fact boarding a train for New York on the night of the ceremony when she was stopped and rushed back to accept her Best Actress award from Shirley Temple.” The madcap comedy was a mega-hit all across the country. Two more big hits consolidated her status. She played the title role in the lavish but inaccurate Cleopatra (Cecil B. De Mille, 1934), then starred in Imitation of Life (John Stahl, 1934), a trenchant study of racial intolerance. It was based on Fannie Hurst's novel about a young widow who becomes a millionairess marketing the pancake recipe of her black friend (Louise Beavers). While the widow and her daughter move into society, the friend insists on keeping in the background, and when her light-skinned daughter, who faces exclusion and prejudice where her counterpart has privilege and opportunity, tries to pass for white and disowns her mother tragedy follows.
In 1935, Claudette Colbert was named one of the top 10 money-making stars, a position she was to hold again in 1936 and 1947. Fred MacMurray had his first major role in her next film, The Gilded Lily (Wesley Ruggles, 1935), and the two would go on to co-star in six more films. Charles Boyer, co-star of Colbert's next film, Private Worlds (Gregory La Cava, 1935), and not yet fully conversant with the English language, would also acknowledge the support he received from the actress, who won a second Oscar nomination for her performance as a psychiatrist in this grim story of mental illness. Wikipedia: “Colbert was a stickler for perfection regarding the way she appeared on screen. She believed that her face was difficult to light and photograph, and was obsessed with not showing the right side of her face to the camera, because of a small bump resulting from a childhood broken nose. She often refused to be filmed from the right side of her face, and this sometimes necessitated redesigning movie sets.” Colbert's first marriage ended in 1935 while she was making She Married Her Boss (Gregory La Cava, 1935). The same year she married Joel Pressman, a throat specialist and surgeon at UCLA, who remained her husband until he died in 1968. Colbert's role in Under Two Flags (Frank Lloyd, 1936), based on Ouida's tale of the Foreign Legion, was an unusual one for her, that of the tempestuous camp-follower "Cigarette" who sacrifices herself for the love of a soldier (Ronald Colman). For the same director, she starred in Maid of Salem (Frank Lloyd, 1937), an account of the 1692 witch-hunts in Massachusetts. Colbert never seemed entirely comfortable in period pieces, and both audiences and critics were happy when she returned to modern comedy with I Met Him In Paris (Wesley Ruggles, 1937) and Tovarich (Anatole Litvak, 1937), in which she and Charles Boyer were impoverished Russian nobility working as maid and butler in a Parisian household. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938), with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, based on a 1923 Gloria Swanson silent film, was a disappointment. After a promising start in which Colbert meets Gary Cooper in a Riviera store where she is trying to buy pyjama bottoms while he is trying to purchase just the tops, it becomes contrived and frantic rather than funny. Zaza (George Cukor, 1939), in which Colbert sang several songs as a French music-hall star, was another failure. Then followed one of her greatest films, the Cinderella-inspired screwball comedy Midnight (1939), directed by Mitchell Leisen and brilliantly written by Brackett and Wilder. Colbert next appeared with Henry Fonda in the Western Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939), her first film in colour, as a farmer's wife coping with rugged conditions and hostile Indians. Boom Town (Jack Conway, 1940) was one of her most popular films, due to its star-power of Gable, Colbert, Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.
Claudette Colbert cited as her favourite film Arise My Love (Mitchell Leisen, 1940), set just after the Spanish Civil War. Tom Valance in The Independent: “It has some splendidly romantic, dramatic and comic moments as Colbert, playing a reporter, pretends to be the wife of a condemned soldier of fortune (Ray Milland) to save him from a Spanish firing squad, then inevitably falls in love with him. Brackett and Wilder's screenplay tried to keep pace with changing events in Europe (the story ends after the invasion of France) which resulted in some uneasy shifts of mood in an otherwise impressive work.” Better still was Henry King's warmly charming piece of Americana Remember The Day (Henry King, 1941), in which Colbert gave a glowing performance as a school teacher who while visiting a now-famous former pupil recalls the past and her sweetheart who was killed in the First World War. Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (1942) is one of the screen's greatest screwball comedies and contains the sequence Colbert later cited as her favourite comic scene. Having left her husband to find a millionaire to finance his inventions, she is climbing into a train's upper berth when she steps on the face and glasses of a rich passenger (Rudy Vallee). During the Second World War Colbert's husband, Joel Pressman, became a Navy lieutenant and she spent much time selling war bonds and working for the war effort. Two of her major films were effective wartime propaganda: So Proudly We Hail (Mark Sandrich, 1943), a tribute to the nurses in Bataan and Since You Went Away (John Cromwell, 1944), producer David O. Selznick's ambitious three-hour tribute to the families at home. Colbert considered hard before taking the role of the mother to two teenage girls, but it became one of her finest, most deeply felt performances, representing the women left to raise families while their husbands are at war. In one remarkably touching scene Colbert, who has taken a job at a munitions factory, converses with a refugee, now a naturalised American (Alla Nazimova). For the part, she received her third Academy Award nomination but lost to Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. She appeared in such mild comedies as Practically Yours (Mitchell Leisen, 1944), and tepid dramas as Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel, 1946) with Orson Welles. Colbert and Fred MacMurray had an enormous box-office hit with The Egg and I (Chester Erskine, 1947) as a city couple trying to run a farm, but the slapstick (lots of falling about in the mud) was far from the sophistication Colbert purveyed so expertly. Three Came Home (Jean Negulesco, 1950) gave her a strong dramatic role as Agnes Newton Keith, a true-life American author captured when the Japanese invaded Borneo in 1941. Her scenes with Sessue Hayakawa (as the cultured prison camp commander) were memorable in a gripping film which was too grim to be a major hit. Colbert had appeared on radio regularly throughout her career, and in 1951 she made her television debut on The Jack Benny Show. Other appearances included The Royal Family of Broadway (1954), The Guardsman (1955) and Blithe Spirit (1956), with Noel Coward and Lauren Bacall. In 1951 she also returned to the stage, with a tour of Noel Coward's Island Fling (later known as South Sea Bubble). She went to Britain to star with Jack Hawkins in The Planter's Wife (Ken Annakin, 1952) based on the native terrorism being faced by rubber planters. The film was a hit in Britain. The following year Colbert went to France to play a mistress of Louis XIV in Sacha Guitry's lavish Si Versailles m'etait conte/Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953). She returned to Broadway in 1955, replacing Margaret Sullavan in Janus, then in 1958 starred in a new play, Leslie Stevens's The Marriage-Go-Round. The play was a hit and Colbert won a Tony nomination. Her last film was Parrish (Delmer Daves, 1961), a soap opera in which Colbert played the mother of Troy Donahue. She continued to make Broadway appearances, among them The Irregular Verb To Love (1963), The Kingfisher (1978) and A Talent For Murder (1981), and she returned to the London stage in Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All? (1984) opposite Rex Harrison. For her television work in the mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (John Erman, 1987) she received a Golden Globe and a nomination for an Emmy Award. Claudette Colbert spent much of her time at the 200-year-old plantation house she and her husband had bought long ago in Barbados, and she also had a flat in Paris and an apartment on the East Side of New York. After three strokes, she died in Barbados in 1996 at the age of 92.
Tom Vallance in The Independent: “It is no accident, surely, that she flourished at that most European of studios, Paramount, home of Lubitsch and Chevalier, Mamoulian, Von Sternberg and Wilder. Her distinctive high-cheekboned beauty and the throaty individuality of her voice were complemented by superb comic timing and fine technical skill honed by an extensive apprenticeship in the theatre. She could be warmly compassionate in romantic drama but was unsurpassable in sophisticated comedy.”
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Pumping Station
The Water Tower and nearby pumping station were the only two buildings in downtown Chicago that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which razed the whole city to the ground. Today they sit in sharp contrast with busy North Michigan Avenue - and are dwarfed by the many surrounding modern skyscrapers such as John Hancock Center and Water Tower Place.
www.aviewoncities.com/chicago/watertower.htm
Water Tower Place
835 North Michigan Avenue
A large urban, mixed-use development comprising of a shopping mall and 74 story skyscraper. It is named after the nearby Chicago Water Tower. Water Tower Place's opening in 1975 changed the economic dynamics of the Magnificent Mile by bringing middle-class shops to what had been a street dominated by luxury retailers, tony hotels, and expensive apartments.
John Hancock Center
875 North Michigan Avenue
An iconic presence in a city of architectural icons.
Construction: Started, 1965 + Finished, 1969
Designed by: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Renovated: 1994-1995
Stories: 100
Home of the world-renown tourist attraction, John Hancock Observatory.
www.johnhancockcenterchicago.com/building.html
www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1006/The-John-Hanco...
A collection of images from the fall of 2014 in Pittsburgh. Fall in Pittsburgh can be a beautiful time of year, and this year's seemed to be especially stunning. From Mt. Washington to Point State Park to the North Shore, there were beautiful colors to be seen everything.
This beautifully transformed home in Pinehurst - minutes to the Village and #2. The home still has a chance to add anyone’s personal touches to this one of a kind home. An amazing Contemop/ranch with extensive additions and renovations. A sprawling 1.5 acre lot hosts this exciting home with endless possibilities for landscaping. Over 6200 +/-Sq. Ft. that features 4 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms in the main house and a unfinished carriage house that could have 2 more bedroom and baths. The double foyer dining room combination invites one into this spectacular entertainment retreat. The spacious gourmet kitchen with breakfast nook flows into the open floor plan featuring a formal dining room, great room, living room, multi-purpose room as well as a sun room sitting area. A full wet bar is ideally located convenient to both interior and exterior entertainment areas. The Private Master wing has his and her walk-in closets, it’s own stacked washer and dryer, a 5 piece master bath, indoor/outdoor fireplace and patio.
The second and third large bedrooms each with their own bathroom and walk in closets are situated convenient to the main laundry room. The fourth bedroom and full bath in the main house can also be comfortablely used as a den or home office. Five total patios allows for opportunity to enjoy the beautiful double lot at anytime of the day throughout each of the seasons. Across the breezeway two private suites with individual bathrooms await your guests.
The lower guest suite could also makea great home fitness center. The upper guest apartment is fully equipped with kitchenette as well. Plus an oversized 3-car garage with an additional storage room. Personal finishes can still be chosen! Pinehurst Country Club Membership available.
Offered by Parker Dunahay, HSP Realty Group . 910-235-0355 or
800-252-6815 Parker@ParkerDunahay.com www.ParkerDunahay.com
Gynecomastia is a cosmetic surgery designed to remove the excess breast tissue, fat and skin from the chest to enhances a man?s chest shape.
On the 25th May 2019 I had booked a coach trip to visit Gloucester Tall Ships to be held in Gloucester Docks, a wonderful part of this City’s old and historic part. Gloucester use to be part of the old Mercia Region of Great Britain. Gloucester is a city and district in the county of Gloucestershire it lies in the South West of England, of which it is the county town. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the southwest. The country's most inland port has seen a regeneration program in the last decade, more visibly at the city's historic docks. It was in 1963 when I visited this beautiful City while I was in the Royal Navy and stayed with my best friend at the time we visited Cookes Cafe in Westgate Street with all his friends.
The cathedral city of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire has its roots stretching back to Roman times and has continued to be an historic and important English city, boasting over 2,000 years of history. Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester stands in the north part of the city near to the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter. This beautiful Cathedral is on par with Winchester Cathedral which I visited last year in 2018. The large stained - glass windows behind the high altar is an amazing sight. The cathedral was used as a location for filming the first, second and sixth Harry Potter films along with few other films including in 2008, the cathedral was used by BBC Wales as a location for the Doctor Who Christmas special and again in 2019, when it was used to film for an episode of series 12 of Doctor Who.
King Henry II granted Gloucester its first charter in 1155, which gave the burgesses ( the word Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough of England or Wales or Ireland or burgh in Scotland . It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons ) and thus came the same liberties as the citizens of London and Winchester. A second charter of Henry II gave them freedom of passage on the River Severn. The first charter was confirmed in 1194 by King Richard I. The privileges of the borough were greatly extended by the charter of King John, which gave freedom from toll throughout the kingdom and from pleading outside the borough.
Llanthony Secunda Priory is now a ruined and former Augustinian prior. It was founded in 1136 by Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, as a retreat for the monks of Llanthony Priory.Around the 16th Century it had become an independent priory in its own right and had become one of the largest Augustian houses in England at that time, owning 97 churches and 51 well appointed manors.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries ( The Dissolution of the Monasteries which is sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland ) the priory with its lands near Gloucester was granted by the Crown to Arthur Porter, MP for Gloucester. The Porters family and their descendants the Scudamores, used it as a mansion house until the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, when it became part of the Royalist camp. After the siege only outbuildings remained standing, used as a farmstead and stables
Today the remains are a grade 1 listed structure and are occasionally open to the public during Gloucester’s Heritage Open Days which usually fall in September. However it was open and manned by Volunteers on this day of the Tall Ships venue.
Glamour Photography by Freelance Fashion Photographer Surinder Singh (+91-9971008151) in Rohini, New Delhi, India.
Die Grube Messel in Messel im Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hessen ist ein stillgelegter Ölschiefer-Tagebau. Wegen der hervorragenden Qualität der dort geborgenen Fossilien aus dem Eozän wurde sie zum UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe ernannt. Bislang wurden dort Vertreter aller Wirbeltiergroßgruppen sowie Insekten und Pflanzen gefunden. Die bekanntesten Vertreter der Messel-Fauna sind wohl die beiden frühen Pferdeartigen Propalaeotherium und Eurohippus, von denen bislang über 70 Individuen ausgegraben wurden. Weitere bedeutende Funde sind der Kranichvogel Messelornis cristata und Darwinius masillae („Ida“), ein früher Primat.
Jeep in Manila - via www.twitxr.com/rawbean/updates/295004 - Location: Skyway, Makati City, Philippines
I made this photo of stairs between the first and second floors of a local home improvement a couple of miles from our San Francisco home. In photos with lots of lines, like this one, I try for some semblance of level. In this case, I used the level tool to straighten the lines at the top and left side of the photo. The supporting column on the right side is not straight up and down, but the red sign compensates a bit. I shot this using a Canon Powershot SX50.
coup in Nigeria Africa's day of shame. Discussing Buhari's overthrow of Shagari in December 1983
Talking Drums - January 9, 1984 issue
Our Algarve, Portugal Visit In October 2016 Incl. Faro Airport, Vilamoura, Cabo De São Vicente, Lagos And Quinta Do Lago, [Almancil], A Beautiful Region In The South Of Portugal, Highly Recommended.
Yup, Thats a panda, in a bambo field, and he's gnawing on.........a Rubic's cube. not to often do you get this random in flesh, yet i welcome it. Shep..... and his tattoo------>TT
Foto’s: Thijs Hupkens
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In de aanloop naar de Global Conference on CyberSpace die hij 16 en 17 april organiseert maakte minister Koenders een experttour in Amsterdam rond de drie thema’s van de cyberconferentie: Freedom, Security and Growth. In de Rockstart Accelerator sprak hij hierover met deskundigen.
Global Conference on CyberSpace 2015:
Nederland organiseert 16 en 17 april in het World Forum in Den Haag de Global Conference on CyberSpace 2015 (GCCS2015),een internationale conferentie voor overheden, bedrijfsleven en experts over een open en veilig internet. Tijdens de conferentie kijken de deelnemers samen naar de kansen én bedreigingen van digitalisering voor onze vrijheid, veiligheid en economie. Ook zal een initiatief voor capaciteitsopbouw worden gelanceerd dat landen helpt hun cybercapaciteit te versterken.
Internationale samenwerking is essentieel, want internet kent geen grenzen. Nederland wil in deze aanpak een voorbeeld zijn voor andere landen. Op de agenda tijdens GCCS 2015 staan onder meer de strijd tegen cybercrime, het vergroten van cybersecurity, normen voor verantwoord gedrag van staten in cyberspace, en de bescherming van vrijheden en privacy online.
Het is de vierde conferentie onder deze noemer. Eerdere GCCS-conferenties waren in Londen (2011), Boedapest (2012) en Seoul (2013). GCCS2015 wordt georganiseerd door vier ministeries: Buitenlandse Zaken, Veiligheid & Justitie, Economische Zaken en Defensie, in samenwerking met de gemeente Den Haag. Minister Koenders (Buitenlandse Zaken) is gastheer en voorzitter van de conferentie.
St. Helens was established as a river port on the Columbia River in the 1840s. In 1853, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company tried to make the city their only stop on the Columbia River.[7] Portland's merchants boycotted this effort, and the San Francisco steamship Peytona helped break the impasse.[7]
St. Helens was incorporated as a city in 1889.[8]
The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through and camped in the area that is now St. Helens on the night of November 5, 1805 while on their way to the Pacific Ocean. While here the party encountered Native Americans and Clark observed "low rockey clifts".[9]
Geography
U.S. Route 30 passes through the city.[10]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.51 square miles (14.27 km2), of which, 4.53 square miles (11.73 km2) is land and 0.98 square miles (2.54 km2) is water.[1]
Neighborhoods
Columbia Heights is a formerly separate populated place that is within the city limits of St. Helens.[11][12]
Demographics
Columbia County Court House (1906)
Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1890 220 —
1900 258 17.3%
1910 743 188.0%
1920 2,220 198.8%
1930 3,994 79.9%
1940 4,304 7.8%
1950 4,711 9.5%
1960 5,022 6.6%
1970 6,212 23.7%
1980 7,064 13.7%
1990 7,535 6.7%
2000 10,019 33.0%
2010 12,883 28.6%
Est. 2012 12,910 0.2%
Sources:[4][13][14][15][16][17]
2010 census
As of the census[2] of 2010, there were 12,883 people, 4,847 households, and 3,243 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,843.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,098.0/km2). There were 5,154 housing units at an average density of 1,137.7 per square mile (439.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 90.3% White, 0.6% African American, 1.6% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.3% from other races, and 4.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.1% of the population.
There were 4,847 households of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 33.1% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.11.
The median age in the city was 34 years. 27.6% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 29.9% were from 25 to 44; 23.3% were from 45 to 64; and 10.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.8% male and 50.2% female.
2000 census
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 10,019 people, 3,722 households, and 2,579 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,305.6 people per square mile (889.3/km²). There were 4,032 housing units at an average density of 927.8 per square mile (357.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.74% White, 0.34% African American, 1.68% Native American, 0.63% Asian, 0.15% Pacific Islander, 1.35% from other races, and 3.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.05% of the population. 21.5% were of German, 10.9% English, 9.5% Irish and 9.3% American ancestry according to Census 2000.
There were 3,722 households out of which 39.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.7% were non-families. 24.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.12.
City Hall
In the city the population was spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $40,648, and the median income for a family was $45,548. Males had a median income of $39,375 versus $26,725 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,237. About 8.7% of families and 11.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.5% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.
Tourism
The town is home to sets of many films. These include the Disney Channel television film Halloweentown, and the film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's novel Twilight.[18]
The annual Loy Krathong Festival and grand parade in Chiang Mai
This traditional lunar festival marks the end of the rainy season. The Thai tradition of Loy Krathong began in the ancient capital of Sukhothai and is now celebrated throughout Thailand. Parades and beauty contests are part of the fun. People release paper lanters into the sky and float decorated banana-leaf boats (krathongs) onto ponds, lakes and rivers on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar, honoring the Goddess of Water.
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Title: Woman in cockpit
Catalog #: WOF_00081
Item Location: Women of Flight Box 2
Collection: Women of Flight Special Collection
Tags: Women of Flight Photo, Woman in cockpit
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, India at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The Hastings Jack-in-the-Green festival was revived by local group Mad Jacks Morris Dancers in 1983 and is now one of the biggest annual gatherings of Morris Dancers in the country. The Jack is “released” every year and is central to the festival. The main procession of the Jack takes place on the May Bank Holiday Monday through the streets of Hastings Old Town, starting from the Fisherman's Museum. The Jack is accompanied by Mad Jacks Morris, the Green Bogies, dancers, giants, musicians and various others. The procession ends on the West Hill where Jack is "slain" to "release the spirit of summer"
A Jack in the Green (also Jack in the green, Jack-in-the-green, Jack i' the Green, Jack o' the Green, etc.) is a participant in traditional English May Day parades and other May celebrations, who wears a large, foliage-covered, garland-like framework, usually pyramidal or conical in shape, which covers his body from head to foot. The name is also applied to the garland itself.
May 1st has long been an important part of the annual Calendar. It is the start of summer in these latitudes and as such has always been a day for celebration: the Celts celebrated May Day as Beltane; The Romans dedicated the day to the Goddess Flora and would go to the woods to cut a tree and decorate it with ribbons and flowers, this is the origin of the May Pole. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration, they became increasingly elaborate. Works Guilds would try to outdo each other, in the late 18th century this became a matter for competition, milkmaids in London carried garlands on their heads with silver objects on them, but the crown had to go to the chimney sweeps. Their garland was so big it covered the entire man. It became known as Jack in the Green.
In Hastings there were at least two groups who paraded a Jack in the Green until about 1889. By the turn of the century the custom was seen no more. The reasons were twofold: the Act which stopped boys climbing chimneys had been passed and these had been the main performers; secondly the Victorians had a different attitude to such customs, the prettification of customs took place, no more the giant maypoles with drunken and promiscuous behaviour, replaced by small poles imported from Germany with happy skipping children around them. The Lord and Lady of the May with their practical joking were replaced by a pretty May Queen. Certainly there was no place for the drunken noisy Jack in the Green.
The custom was revived in Hastings by Mad Jacks Morris Dancers in 1983. We do not say we are following exactly what happened, this is a custom for now, not a fossil. Jack is returned, he is not the property of a small group of dancers, but belongs to us all. Long may he dance!
Further information about the Jack in the Green in Hastings can be obtained by reading the excellent booklet "The Hastings Jack in the Green" written by Keith Leech. Keith, a long time member of Mad Jacks Morris was instrumental in reviving the tradition in Hastings and is a usually seen dressed as a "bogie" or green man, one of Jacks' attendants, during the procession on the May Bank Holiday.
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The biggest #pumptrack in Russia is finished by our team in Mar'ino district of Moscow! We've prepared a huge gift for local bike community. Great location on a bank of Moscow-river and 5000m2 of space with 4 sections of 700m long!
Асфальтовый памп трек в Марьино был реализован командой FK-ramps в парке 850-летия Москвы в конце лета 2018 года.
Новый памп трек из асфальта в Марьино – самый большой проект спортивного благоустройства в нашей стране от FK-ramps. Наша команда приложила максимум усилий для реализации памптрека, поэтому мы построили огромный подарок для велосообщества к первому дню осени. Асфальтовый велокомплекс имеет площадь в 5000м2. Четыре секции #FKpumptrack длиной в 700 метров позволят проводить комплексные тренировки спортсменов любого уровня подготовки и парные заезды профессиональных спортсменов.
Для кого эта трасса?
Асфальтовый памп трек в Марьино подходит для всех дисциплин велоспорта, для катания на скейтбордах, самокатах и роликах. Помимо впечатляющих размеров площадки, проект асфальтового памптрека в Марьино был максимально насыщен различными вариантами трасс. Начинающие райдеры пройдут экспресс-курс обучения амплитудному пампингу на трассе для новичков, длиной в 65м. Более опытные спортсмены будут проводить тренировки на выносливость в кардио-секции трассы, длиной в 160м. Парные заезды на время уже сейчас проводятся на зеркальной дуал-секции памптрека, длиной в 112м каждая. Помимо «Фан»-секций, проект располагает полноценным гоночным кольцом (210м) для проведения заездов и тренировок в дисциплинах BMX-race и 4cross.
Как вы это построили?
Отдельно хотелось бы отметить сроки реализации проекта. Гигантский Асфальтовый памп трек в Марьино в парке 850-летия Москвы был построен менее чем за месяц! Наша команда вышла на асфалтовый велотрек в начале августа 2018 года. Сказать, что мы были поражены площадью застройки – ничего не сказать, ведь до этого мы не строили объектов более 3000м2! В кратчайшие сроки было подготовлено основание под отсыпку «пирога» из песка, щебня и гранитного отсева. Процесс укладки мелкозернистого асфальта на радиусные поверхности кроет за собой много нюансов и ноу-хау. Помимо общестроительных работ, наша компания выполнила проект под ключ, осуществив благоустройство территории комплекса с использованием качественного рулонного газона. Новый опыт будет реализован в наших будущих проектах памтреков.
Конфигурация трассы разработана с привлечением опытных специалистов трейлбилдинга Alliance из Словении. На счету наших партнеров более 50 реализованных велотрасс по всей Европе. Экспертная группа из Словении руководила процессом шейпинга трассы и контролем качества исполнения проектных решений. Синергия опыта наших партнеров из Словении и производственных мощностей компании FK-ramps позволили построить в Москве новое место силы, новую точку притяжения адреналиновых голов со всей страны. Впредь мы будем рады применить накопленный опыт и все чаще реализовывать подобные проекты по всей нашей необъятной стране.
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
Stow Minster
Detail: Brass to Richard Burgh of Stow Hall, in Stow Minster
Also to Amy his wife. He died in 1616.
The Minster Church of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey is one of the oldest parish churches in England. It originally served as the Cathedral Church of the ancient diocese of Lindsey, founded in the 7th century, and stands on the site of a much older one.
History
The bishop's seat at Sidnacester (Syddensis) has been placed, by various commentators, at Caistor, Louth, Horncastle and, most often, at Stow, all in present-day Lincolnshire, England. The location remains unknown. More recently Lincoln has been suggested as a possible site.
There had been a church situated in Stow even before the arrival of the Danes in 870, the year they are documented to have burnt the church down. The building remained in ruins until an Abbey was built in 1040, reputedly by bishop Eadnoth II.
Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stow parish church, sometimes referred to as the "Mother Church of Lincolnshire," is one of the largest and oldest parish churches in England. It is partly Saxon and partly Norman in date and is designated by English Heritage as a “Scheduled Ancient Monument” and was also included in the World Monuments Fund's 2006 list of the world's 100 most endangered sites.[5] It has the tallest Saxon arches of its time in Britain,[6] the earliest known example of Viking graffiti in England (a rough scratching of an oared Viking sailing ship, probably dating from the 10th century), a font that is Early English, standing on nine supports with pagan symbols around its base and an early wall painting dedicated to St Thomas Becket.
Ralph de Diceto attributes the church's foundation to Elnothus Lincolniensis, almost certainly Aelfnoth, Bishop of Dorchester, c. 975, who built the church, possibly on the site of an earlier wooden Saxon church, to serve as Minster (or mother church) for the Lincolnshire part of his large diocese, it was a second cathedral because part of the bishop's household of priests (which later became the cathedral chapter) lived in Stow and administered this part of the diocese. The memory of this period gave rise to the tradition that Stow is the Mother Church of Lincoln Cathedral.
It is said to have been re-founded and re-endowed in 1054 by Leofric and Godiva encouraged by Bishop Wulfwig as a Minster of Secular Canons with the Bishop at its head. In 1091 Bishop Remigius of Fécamp re-founded it as an abbey and brought monks to it from Eynsham Abbey, describing the church as having been a long time deserted and ruined. Within five years his successor had transferred the monks back whence they had come and St Mary's had become a parish church.
In 1865 J. L. Pearson built the stair turret outside the church. This was originally inside the church in the nave up against the north side of the tower arch. At the same time some windows were altered and the church was re-roofed. A new vestry was added in the early 1990s (some skeletons and a broken 13th century limestone cross were found during the work).
One mile (2 km) to the west of the village and lying just to the south of the Roman road from Lincoln to York, known as Tillbridge Lane are to be found the remains of the medieval palace of the Bishops of Lincoln built in 1336. All that can be seen today are the earthworks of the moat and to the north and east of the site the earthwork remains of its associated medieval fish-ponds.