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As a child I always wanted a piano, now I have one and can rarely find the time to play it! I love playing and find it both taxing and soothing at the same time. The dogs seem to like it to, they always come and lay by the piano when I play. It's such a pure natural sound, maybe it soothes them as well!
Just before Christmas I was down stairs on my own, late one night, totally engrossed with a piece of music I was playing, when something whispered loudly HEY! in my ear! Totally freaked me out, I went cold from head to toe, shut the piano lid, and went upstairs to bed!
Now we do have a little spirit upstairs who likes to bolt the bathroom door from the inside, but this is the first time any thing has happened downstairs! I don't mind the one upstairs so much, but its a pain in the arse when you have to go and get the ladder to climb through the bathroom window to undo the very stiff bolt, which incidentally is slid right in the catch!
*Thanks to skeletalmess for the lovely texture*
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that's our son Yagiz playing it safe for the moment in the middle. The boy falling next to him was a joy to watch, I don't think he spent more than a few seconds upright the whole time and laughing the whole time. much better on black
In the last week before christmas we did some cooperative learning with origami. This one is a Bascettastar. Every student (about 13-14 years old) folded two or three moduls and I connected them... Now the class has two bascettastars hanging in their classroom ^.^
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Participants at the Solutions Summit in Durban, South Africa, 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christoph von Toggenburg
Jane Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, The Front Project, Australia speaking during the Session "Last-Mile Learning" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2019. . Congress Centre - Agora. . Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sandra Blaser
Georgia Army National Guardsmen, Spc. Austin Ingham, a military policeman with the Fort Stewart based 178th Military Police Company, conduct Raven unmanned aerial vehicle training on July 17, 2018, at Fort Stewart. The guardsmen are completing the pre-flight checks to ensure the safe operation and its systems are operating correctly.
Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. R. J. Lannom Jr
Andrew Dickson White Library
Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s co-founder and first president, built a great library. Although seldom identified today as one of the foremost collectors of the 19th century, his achievements have left a remarkable legacy. Unlike other famous book collectors of his time—J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Edwards Huntington, John Jacob Astor, and James Lenox—he did not establish a separate institution to house his personal collections of books and manuscripts. Instead, White donated his entire collection of 30,000 books to the Cornell University Library—at a time when the Library possessed a collection of just 90,000 volumes. White’s great generosity reveals his utilitarian approach to collecting and, in his words, a “strong belief in the didactic value of books.” As an educator and historian he believed that one could not have a great university without a great library, and he wanted his books to be read and used by Cornell’s faculty and students.
White’s collections of materials on architecture, witchcraft, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Abolitionism and the Civil War were among the finest in the world during his lifetime. Originally shelved in the large, three-story room within Uris Library that bears his name, White’s collections are no longer kept together in one place. Many of his books were moved to the stacks in Olin Library when it opened in 1961. In recent years, most of White’s books have been transferred to the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections for their continued protection and preservation. Today, the Andrew Dickson White Library holds a portion of the humanities and social science collections found in the combined Olin and Uris Libraries.
It is perhaps more fitting and accurate to say that Andrew Dickson White built two great libraries. The first was his large and significant personal book collection. The second was the Cornell University Library. White hired Willard Fiske to be Cornell’s first University Librarian, and he worked closely with him to develop innovative and progressive policies for their library. White purchased its first books, and played an active role throughout his life in developing the library’s collections.
Even in his student days, White had considered the merits of the most prestigious European libraries, imagining what it would be like to build an important new research library. White conceived and developed his vision for an upstate New York university during a miserable first year at college. White’s visions of a beautiful university were honed during his first year at a college whose architecture he called “sordid,” and later at Yale, where he urged classmates to “adorn and beautify the place.” While his classmates occupied themselves with shenanigans, the sixteen-year-old consoled himself in the library, where he found a book on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As a University of Michigan professor in the late 1850s, he planted elms and evergreens with the help of his students and was appointed superintendent of grounds. Two decades later he would preside over an institution that embodied the vision of his youth. The faculty included professors of modern history and literature, as well as classics and mathematics. They were free of control by religious sects and political parties. And learning was accomplished not by rote memorization and recitation, but through analysis, discussion, and experience. The Victorian beauty of the A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library would probably have satisfied White’s exacting standards.
A trace of this inspiration can be found in the stained-glass windows that line the room. They portray the crests of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In the north windows, for instance, the blue escutcheon contains the motto for Oxford University, “Dominus Illuminatio Mea.” Translated from Psalm 27, it means, “The Lord is my Light.” Visitors from a new generation find the room’s ambiance comes from another source, calling it the “Harry Potter” library.
When White offered his personal library to the university, he set two conditions. He asked that the university provide a suitable space to house his collection—he stipulated a fire-proof room—and he requested that proper provision be made for the ongoing maintenance of his collections. That “suitable space” is the Andrew Dickson White Library. White played an active role in helping the building’s architect, William Henry Miller, design and ornament this space.
The maintenance and cataloging of the collection became the responsibility of George Lincoln Burr, a member of the Cornell class of 1871. Burr was White’s secretary and personal librarian as well as the first curator of the White Historical Library. Originally hired by White when he was a Cornell sophomore, Burr worked closely with White to develop and care for his library. We can safely posit that after 1879, the White collection must be seen as a collaborative effort between the two scholars. Each traveled to Europe on extended book-buying tours. Burr, also a renowned professor in the Cornell History department, is given special credit for building and enriching the Library’s collections on the Reformation and witchcraft.
Burr’s portrait by Cornell art professor Christian Midjo is prominently displayed on the north wall of the room, and a small drawing by R. H. Bainton on the first tier shows Burr as Cornell historian Carl Becker once described him: an “indefatigable scholar and bibliophile . . . browsing and brooding in the stacks.”
The Andrew Dickson White Library is filled with art work, furniture, and artifacts from White’s academic and diplomatic careers. He served as U.S. minister to Germany while still president of Cornell, and later also served as minister to Russia. Several pictures and photographs in the room depict Russian scenes. The artwork and the case of plaster casts of European coins and medallions were all collected by Mr. White.
Originally, this space had skylights and an open archway into the adjacent Dean Room (where the Burr portrait now hangs). Those features were lost to renovations, but the original three tiers of wrought-iron stacks still offer an open and dramatic display of their books. Upon first seeing these shelves filled with White’s books in September of 1891, George Lincoln Burr wrote that it “gave one such an idea of a multitude of books. You see and feel them all. They quite overawe one.” Setting the objective for the collection, he promised to make the White Library, in his words, “the great living, growing historical workshop of the University.
Carved Wooden Manuscript Case
•Creator: unknown (unknown nationality, artist)
•Title: Carved wooden manuscript case
•Work Type: desks
•Location: Uris Library, Andrew D. White Library, Cornell University
•Description: Carved folding top, supported by two dogs. Possible attribution: Luigi Frullini.
•Repository: Cornell University
•Collection: Cornell: Campus Art and Artifacts
When school is out for summer, the learning continues at the Kodiak Refuge Salmon Camp at the Buskin River!
Credit: Lisa Hupp/USFWS
TA soldiers on Exercise ROMAN STAR in Italy
TA soldiers from 4 YORKS are in Italy learning how to adapt to the changing nature of conflict. As the Army looks to draw down its forces in Afghanistan and retrain to combat the new security threats facing the world, training is changing to reflect the new demands. The new training exercise with the Italian Army, known as Ex ROMAN STAR, follows this month's Government announcement on troop reductions and a greater reliance on reserve soldiers to integrate with the regular Army. It is the first of a series of new overseas exercises for the reserves who will need to increase their numbers to meet the demands of the Army 2020 structure
Reservists from 4 YORKS are the first to undertake the exercise which trains them to prepare for and execute an attack on a property occupied by enemy forces. The attack includes a helicopter assault with the Italian Army providing the air assets. Building up to this, the troops will learn how to combine conventional warfare and close quarter combat with modern assault techniques, some of which have been developed during operations in Afghanistan; Crown copyright.
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