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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Fortune The Most Powerful Women
Washington, D.C., USA
HONORING GLOBAL WOMEN LEADERS
The Goldman Sachs and Fortune Global Women Leaders Award
Nora Haleem Fares, Managing Director, Sparkle Printing Solution
Yin Myo “Misuu” Su, Managing Director, Inle Princess Resort
Presenter: Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Photograph by Stephanie Merriken / Fortune Most Powerful Women
Throughout history, the skin has been one of the most beautiful entities that life has to offer. I have taken several women and photographed them in their nudity to capture the beauty of the skin in its most natural form. The melanin their skin makes them look golden and rare, which they are. I wanted the women, who are all of African-American decent, to appear statuesque to convey the message of royalty—much like an African Queen. They appear to be cracked and rusted to convey the idea that despite time, we should never forget the exquisiteness of the African empress. The juxtaposition of time, skin, and royalty is demonstrated in this series of photographs. I invite you to enjoy the effortless beauty that has manifested itself into this photo documentary.
Most will miss this little archway . It's narrow and people would just walk around it to get to the main entrance. Nice little spot for portrait photography.
The most imposing building of Roman Sardis is the (much reconstructed) courtyard of the Bath-Gymnasium complex. Its design reflects the elaborate architecture of the Severian dynasty, late 2nd - early 3rd century CE.
Sardis Ancient City;
Sardis (Salihli/Sart) which was known as the capital of theLydia Kingdom was founded in the VIIIth century B.C. and was ruled by the kings: Gyges, Ardys, Sadyattes, Alyattes and Kroisos. The city was conquered by the Persian King Kyros in 546 B.C. and from then continued to function as a Persian garrison. Alexander the Great conquered the city in 334 B.C. and at that time the city becomes Hellenized. The city was then ruled by Syria, Pergamon and by the Romans in turn.
Sardis was known by its wealth and as a famous trade centre when it was the capital of Lydia Kingdom. Owing to the Paktolos who passed nearby the city and who had rich gold mines the wealth of the city became very famous. This city which minted the first coins in history in the VIIth century B.C., was the last stop on the famous King Road which started in Susa. Moreover, the city earned a considerable income from the famous Artemis temple which people from all over the ancient world visited.
SARDIS TODAY;
Since 1958 CE, the universities of Harvard and Cornell have been performing annual excavations at Sardis. As part of these works, Sardis’ gymnasium has been restored and the synagogue was discovered in 1962 CE, a building measuring over 91.4 metres (300 feet) in length. Some of the important finds from the archaeological site of Sardis are kept in the Archaeological Museum of Manisa in Turkey, including many Roman mosaics and sculptures and pottery from different periods in the history of the city.
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Cornel University;
Harvard University;
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'' Historic monuments are the common values of humanity. It
must be protected''
FFA
St Peter, Walpole St Peter, Norfolk
St Peter is one of the dozen most famous parish churches in England. Alec Clifton-Taylor thought it was the best. Of course, claims can made for many big churches; but St Peter is not just special for its size. It is indeed magnificent, but also infinitely subtle, the fruit of circumstance and the ebb and flow of centuries. There is a sense of community and continuity as well; this is no mere museum, and it is not simply St Peter's historic survivals that attract its champions. This is a building to visit again and again, to delight in, and always see something new.
Be in no doubt that St Peter is a big church. At 160 feet long it dwarfs other East Anglian giants like Southwold, Blythburgh, Cley and Cawston. Only Salle gives it a run for its money. It is also a welcoming church, as all great churches should be. But even if it were kept locked, there would still be so much to see here that it would be worth the journey.
This part of the county has a character more commonly associated with Cambridgeshire, and of course we are only a couple of miles from the Nene which forms the border between the two counties. Walpole St Peter is closer to Peterborough and Cambridge than it is to Norwich. Indeed, it is closer to Leicester than it is to Great Yarmouth at the other end of Norfolk, a reminder that this is a BIG county. Today, the Norfolk marshland villages tend to be rather mundane, apart from their churches of course. In this curiously remote area around the Wash delineated by Lynn, Wisbech and Boston, there is an agri-industrial shabbiness accentuated by the flat of the land. But you need to imagine the enormous wealth of this area in the late medieval period. The silt washed by the great rivers out of the Fens was superb for growing crops. East Anglia, with the densest population in England, provided a ready market, and the proximity of the great ports gave easy access for exports. And then there was the Midlands and the North which could be accessed by the east coast ports.
The landowners and merchants became seriously wealthy, and according to custom bequeathed enhancements to their parish churches to encourage their fellow parishioners to pray for their souls after they were dead. This was nothing to do with the size of the local population; in England's Catholic days, these buildings were not intended merely for congregational worship. The fixtures and fittings of the parish churches reflected the volume of devotion, not just the volume of people. In areas where there was serious wealth, the entire church might be rebuilt.
But here at Walpole St Peter there was another imperative for rebuilding the church. In the terrible floods of the 1330s, the church here was destroyed, apart from its tower. Before it could be rebuilt in the fashionable Decorated style, the Black Death came along and took away fully half of the local population. However, the economic effects of the pestilence would turn out to be rather good for East Anglia in the long term, and by the early-15th century churches were being rebuilt on a grand scale all over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Walpole has two late medieval churches - St Andrew on the other side of the village is very fine, but St Peter is the one that puts it in the shade.
The nave came first, the chancel following a few decades after. Eventually, the tower would also have been rebuilt, in a similar scale to the rest of the church. How amazing it might have been! We only need to look a few miles over the border to Boston to see what could have been possible. But the English Reformation of the 16th century brought an end to the need for bequests, and so the late 13th century tower remains in place to this day.
The vast church sits hemmed in to the north and east by its wide churchyard. The battlemented nave and chancel are a magnificent sight, most commonly first seen from the village street to the north. Rendering accentuates the reddishness of the stone, and the finest moment is probably the conjunction between nave and chancel; spired roodstair turrets rise to the gable, and at the apex is a glorious sanctus bell turret. The stairway on the north side is supported by a small figure who has been variously interpreted as the Greek god Atlas, the Fenland giant Hickathrift, or as anyone else I suppose.
The chancel is beautiful, but its most striking feature is the tunnel that goes beneath its eastern end. One of the features of the late medieval English Catholic church was liturgical processions, but when this chancel was extended in the 15th century it took the building right up to the boundary of consecrated ground. To enable processions still to circumnavigate this building, the tunnel was placed beneath the high altar. Such passageways are more common under towers, and there are several examples of this in Norfolk, but that option was obviously not possible here.
There are lots of interesting bosses in the vaulting. It isn't just the medieval past that has left its mark here. The floor of the tunnel is flagged, and there are horse-rings in the wall from the 18th and 19th century when it served the more mundane purpose of stabling during services.
Views of the south side of the church are hindered by a vast and beautiful copper beech, but there is no hiding the vastness of the south porch, one of the biggest and finest in Norfolk. The parvise window is as big as nave windows elsewhere; the keys of St Peter decorate the footstool of one of the niches.
And here are some of the finest medieval bosses in Norfolk. The two main ones are the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and the Last Judgement. There are characterful animals in the other bosses. Figures in niches include a Pieta, a Madonna and child, and a pilgrim with a staff, pack, and shell on his hat. Also in the porch is a sign reminding you to remove your patens, the hardy wooden clogs common to 19th century farm workers.
So much to see, then, even before you come to push open the original medieval door! And then you do, and the birdsong and leaf-thresh of the summer morning outside falls away, and you enter the cool of a serious stone space. The first impression is of height, because the vista to the east is cut off by an elegant 17th century screen, as at nearby Terrington St Clement. The unifying of nave and tower, almost a century apart, is accomplished by sprung buttresses high up on the west wall, each carved with a figure. Here are the Elizabethan communion table, a hudd ( the sentry box-like device intended to keep 18th century Rectors dry at the graveside) and the perpendicular light through the west windows.
And then you step through the pedimented entrance through the screen into the body of the church, and the building begins to unfold before you. Your journey through it begins.
Some huge churches impose themselves on you. St Peter doesn't. It isn't Salle or Long Melford. But neither is it jaunty and immediately accessible like Terrington St Clement or Southwold, nor full of light and air like Blythburgh. St Peter is a complex space, the sum of its parts, like Cley, and yet more than them, with a sense of being an act of worship in itself.
One of the delights of Walpole St Peter is that many of the furnishings reveal the hands of local craftsmen; the roodscreen dado Saints, for example. There are twelve of them, their naive character reminiscent of Westhall. The six outer saints are women, the inner ones apostles. The two sets are clearly by different hands, and the late Tom Muckley wondered if they were, in fact, from two different screens.
On the north side are St Catherine, the rare subject of the Blessed Virgin and Christchild, St Margaret (the processional cross with which she dispatches the dragon is unfinished), St John, St James and St Thomas. On the south side are St Peter, St Paul, St Andrew, St Mary of Magdala, St Dorothy and St Barbara. I was pleased to be asked recently for the use of my photographs for the information board which explains it.
The nave has a feel that is at once ancient and vital, not so much of age as of timelessness, of continuity. It's the sheer mixture of woodwork that impresses - silvery oak broods in the white light from the high windows. The best of the medieval work is in the south aisle, where the benches are tiered and face inwards. A massive dark wood pulpit and tester broods over the north side. Above all this rises the pale cream of the arcades, topped by the gold of the hanging candelabras, and the towering, serious early 17th century font cover. The font is clearly one of the Seven Sacraments series; but, as at the great churches of Blythburgh and Southwold in Suffolk, the panels have been completely erased. A dedicatory inscription is dated 1537.
As well as wood, metal. The candelabras provide a focus, but there is also one of the latten medieval lecterns familiar from elsewhere in Norfolk, the little lions perky at its feet. The south aisle chapel has a lovely parclose screen with a spiked iron gate. In the north aisle, the chapel has been neatly furnished for smaller scale worship.
And then you step through into the chancel, and this is something else again. Here is true grandeur. This immense spaces rises fully twenty-one steps from nave floor to high altar. Here is the late medieval imagination writ large, compromised in the years since, but largely restored by the late Victorians. You step from subtlety to richness. Niches and arcading flank the walls leading the eye east, their blankness becoming sedilia. In the high niches where once were images, 17th and 18th century worthies have their memorials. Everything leads the eye to the great east window, where excellent 19th century glass completes your journey through the Queen of the Marshlands.
Simon Jenkins, in the often-maligned England's Thousand Best Churches, tends to cast a cold and even sardonic eye on most buildings as he passes by, but at Walpole St Peter even his breath was taken away: it is a place not of curiosity but of subtle proportion, of the play of light on stone and wood. If English churches were Dutch Old Masters, this would be St Pieter de Hooch.
The most important monument in Pasargadae is the tomb of Cyrus the Great. It has six broad steps leading to the sepulchre, the chamber of which measures 3.17 m long by 2.11 m wide by 2.11 m high and has a low and narrow entrance.
Pasargadae was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great who had issued its construction (559–530 BC); it was also the location of his tomb. It was a city in ancient Persia, located near the city of Shiraz (in Pasargad County), and is today an archaeological site and one of Iran's UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
'Make the most of what you have'
ESTÉE LAUDER
it's Estée Lauder's birthday 1 July (1908-2004)
HD lettering music video!
Estee Lauder cultivated her love for beauty products and cosmetics at a young age. Her chemist uncle John Schotz taught her how to make her own face creams. By the time she was a teenager, she was selling her own beauty products at local hair salons. She pioneered two types of customer incentives that would eventually become standard beauty industry practice: the free gift and the gift-with-purchase.
Officially launching Estée Lauder in 1946, she and her husband Joseph made the products in the kitchen of a former restaurant. A year later, Saks Fifth Avenue ordered $800 in products. They sold out in two days.
A generous philanthropist, she created The Lauder Foundation in the 1960s. Her simple quotes reveal her life philosophies which translated into the massive commercial success that would span over 7 decades to the present day.
lipstick dip pen
a retractable broad edge folded nib dip pen!
0.2mm stainless steel
corella ink powder pink with mauve shimmer!
rhodia paper
music: possibly 'scavenger hunt', sorry i'm not sure
thanks mum for the lipstick
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral for most of its existence was simply the parish church of St James until the foundation of the new diocese of St Edmundsbury in 1914 when it was raised to cathedral status, one of the many new dioceses formed in the early 20th century that elevated existing parish churches to diocesan rank rather than purpose building a new cathedral. Many of these 'parish church cathedrals' sit slightly awkwardly with their new status, lacking in the scale and grandeur that befits such a title, but of all of them Bury St Edmunds has been adapted to its new role the most successfully, with in my opinion the most beautiful results.
The medieval church consisted of the present nave, built in 1503-51 under master mason John Wastell, with an earlier chancel that was entirely rebuilt in 1711 and again in 1870. Originally it would have seemed a fairly minor building at the entrance to the monastic precinct, overshadowed by the enormous abbey church that once stood immediately behind it. The absence of this magnificent church since the Dissolution and the scant remains of this vast edifice always sully my visits here with a sense of grievous loss, had history been kinder it would have served as the cathedral here instead and likely be celebrated as one of the grandest in the country.
The church never had a tower of its own since the adjacent Norman tower of the Abbey gateway served the role of a detached campanile perfectly. It is an impressive piece of Romanesque architecture and one of the best preserved 12th century towers in the country.
Upon being raised to cathedral status in 1914 the building underwent no immediate structural changes but plans were made to consider how best to transform a fairly ordinary church into a worthy cathedral. This task was appointed to architect Stephen Dykes Bower and work began in 1959 to extend the building dramatically. Between 1963-1970 the entire Victorian chancel was demolished and replaced with a much grander vision of a lofty new choir and shallow transepts, remarkably all executed in traditional Gothic style in order to harmonize with the medieval nave. It is incredible to think that this was done in the 1960s, a period in which church and cathedral buildings were otherwise constructed in the most self consciously modern forms ever seen, with delicate neo-medieval masonry in place of brick and concrete.
The new crossing of transepts and choir however remained crowned by the stump of a tower for the remainder of the century as funds were not available to finish Dykes Bower's complete vision of a lantern tower over the crossing: this was only realised at the beginning of the 21st century, aided by a legacy left in the architect's will and some subtle design changes under his successor as architect Hugh Matthews. The transformation from church to cathedral was finally completed in 2005 with most satisfactory results. A stunning fan-vault was installed within the new tower in 2010, an exquisite finishing touch.
Whilst it isn't a large building by cathedral standards its newer parts do much to give it the shape and dignity of one. This is especially apparent within, where the cruciform eastern limb draws the eye. The interior is enlivened by much colour, with the ceilings of Dykes Bower's choir and transepts adorned with rich displays of stencilling, whilst the nave ceiling (a Victorian replacement for the medieval one) was redecorated in similarly lively colours in the 1980s which helps to unify the old and new parts of the church.
Few fittings or features remain from the medieval period, most of the furnishings being Victorian or more recent, but one window in the south aisle retains a rich display of early 16th century stained glass, very much Renaissance in style. The remaining glass is nearly all Victorian, some of the windows in the new choir having been transferred from the previous chancel.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is not filled with the monuments and fittings that make other great churches so rewarding to linger in but it is a real architectural delight and cannot fail to uplift the spirit.
Most likely one of the most photographed tourist attractions and most likely all photos of this place have been already taken several times. Still, interesting place and most interesting place to photograph in. And I'm going to bother you with some of my photos of it. ;)
Berlin, Germany
Few more shots in blog.
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“He is a great, great, crazy man and a very good person. He has the most passion about food of anyone I have ever met,” says Fantin. “For Seiji, it’s always the kitchen, the kitchen, the kitchen! He doesn’t use salt ever. Instead, he marinates everything, and he has excellent techniques for fish, which result in the best possible of all possible cuts.”A stint at the 2-star Akelarre in San Sebastian, Spain, also significantly molded his personal style.“The Spanish style of cooking has a very strong visual impact. Sometimes the appearance is even more important than the taste! Spanish chefs will pay great attention to the details of the dish on the plate,’’ says Fantin. “When I worked at Akelarre, there was a lot of natural beauty around us, so we would go into the mountains in the morning to pick herbs and flowers, and two hours later, they would be served on the plate. “This is apparent in the dishes he serves later, additions to the menu that he will introduce to customers a week later for a 5,000 JPY lunch course: Carciofo ripieno di riccotta, cus cus alla menta e pistacchi (Italian artichoke stuffed with ricotta, zucchini and broccoli and served with pistachio crème and mint cous cous);
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Some of the most productive forests in the world are managed by the BLM in western Oregon. The objectives of the O&C forestry program are to manage for a sustained yield of forest products and qualities needed to contribute to the economic stability of local communities, and continuing forest values and health. This vintage photo depicts forest management that took place in the BLM’s Eugene District in the 1980s.
The Eugene District of the Bureau of Land Management, now part of the Northwest Oregon District, extended from the Pacific Coast into the western slopes of the Cascade Range, and encompassed 316,000 acres. The Eugene District managed several ecosystems ranging from coastal inlands to dense Douglas-fir, hemlock, and cedar forests.
The Eugene District and the Salem Districts were officially consolidated into the Northwest Oregon District in 2016 and now collectively make up approximately 720,000 acres. The Northwest Oregon District stretches from the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean, where the historic Yaquina Lighthouse greets thousands each year.
To learn more about forestry in western Oregon head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/forests-and-woodla...
To learn more about the Northwest Oregon District head on over to: www.blm.gov/office/northwest-oregon-district-office
Photo: Don Smurthwaite, BLM
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Fortune The Most Powerful Women
Washington, D.C., USA
12:10 PM ONE ON ONE
Olympia Snowe, Chairman and CEO, Olympia Snowe LLP; Former U.S. Senator (R.-Maine), U.S. Senate
Interviewer: Nina Easton, Fortune
Photograph by Danuta Otfinowski/Fortune Most Powerful Women
Most of the Brickish Association members who participated in the Great Western Lego Show (at Steam) October 2008.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
HONORING GLOBAL WOMEN LEADERS
The Goldman Sachs – Fortune Global Women Leaders Award
Catherine Nyambala Founder and Executive Director, STEMAfrica, Kenya
Precious Simba, Founder/Director Girls Development Initiative, Zimbabwe
Madhu Uday, Founder and CEO, Earthen Symphony, India
Presenter: Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Introduction: Andy Serwer, Managing Editor, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit
I am most definitely late with this post. The muse departed promptly on my birthday, the official end of my 52-week project, catching me flat–footed before I had a chance to post #52. However, the two images that have been combined here were both shot in that final month, so I should be forgiven my tardiness. As for the muse, well, I just needed to leave the door ajar and the light on.
I photographed the “blood moon” from the dimly-lit parking lot of our hotel on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I knew that photos of this eclipse would be posted all over the internet and that it would be difficult to do anything unique with it, but I shot it anyway. It was just something I had to do, like kissing the Blarney Stone. The evening was clear, warm for late September, with a light sea breeze. I was not thinking about the pull of the full moon – especially a “super-moon” – on ocean tides, but others were already preparing for what was coming to these southern shores.
There were clues over the next couple days as we finished up on the Eastern Shore and made our way south toward the Outer Banks of NC, the weather still balmy. There were little things, like inconveniently-flooded parking lots along the waterfront, earth-movers shoving sand away from road shoulders and piling it high on the beach side of the road. And there were reports of closed roads on Hatteras and Ocracoke. For the most part, though, all seemed as it should on the tail end of tourist season.
It wasn't until a couple nights later that my head cleared and I realized what was about to happen, given the still-full super-moon and the remains of Hurricane Joaquin chugging slowly north from the Bahamas. As soon as darkness fell, we headed to Jennette’s Pier in Nag’s Head - partly out of curiosity, partly out of the need to experience something different on this last night of our holiday, but mostly due to my thirst for more photos. Admittedly, a fishing pier perched in the fitful wet wind of a coming storm, at night, is not the best place to go looking for photos. But I was bent on capturing this story, this feeling of being overwhelmed by the elements, of being insignificant in the face of nature unleashed. We made our way to the mid-point of the pier, stepping over the bait pails of dedicated fishermen. I made a valiant effort with the tripod, futilely fighting wind gusts, angry salt spray and intermittent light rain; I obsessively wiped spray from the camera and the face of my lens.
Finally, I gave in, put the camera back in my two hands and started moving with the crashing waves, trying to capture their dark energy in a more abstract way. They came at me and the pier like the troops invading Normandy, singularly focused on their military objective, stepping undeterred over fallen comrades who had preceded them. I felt their rhythm and began to anticipate their moves, focusing on the next wave as it thundered toward me, following its progress as it moved past my position on the pier and hurried away from me toward the shore. Soon the elements were forgotten and creative bliss rediscovered, muse momentarily parked on my shoulder.
Nine Mile Canyon is a canyon, approximately 40 miles (60 km) long, located in the counties of Carbon and Duchesne in eastern Utah, in the Western United States. Promoted as "the world’s longest art gallery", the canyon is known for its extensive rock art, most of it created by the Fremont culture and the Ute people. The rock art, shelters, and granaries left behind by the Fremont make Nine Mile Canyon a destination for archaeologists and tourists alike.
There are at least an estimated 1,000 rock art sites in the canyon, with more than 10,000 individual images. The true figures may be ten times as high, but there is no question that rock art is more concentrated here than anywhere else in North America. Much is in the form of pecked petroglyphs, and there are many painted pictographs as well. Researchers have also identified hundreds of pit-houses, rock shelters, and granaries, although only a limited amount of excavation has been carried out. Many of these structures are located high above the canyon floor on cliff ledges, pinnacles, and mesas. They were built by the Fremont, whose presence in Nine Mile has been dated at AD 950–1250. Indeed, Nine Mile Canyon was one of the locations most heavily occupied by the Fremont. In contrast to the purely hunter-gatherer cultures that surrounded them, the Fremont practiced agriculture, growing corn and squash along the canyon bottom. Compared to other Fremont areas, relatively little pottery is found in Nine Mile, suggesting that beans, which must be boiled for hours to become edible, were not an important part of the local diet. The Fremont left irrigation ditches and earthen lodges on the canyon floor that could be seen as late as the 1930s, but are no longer visible after generations of modern cultivation.
By the 16th century the ancestral Utes were in the canyon. They added to the rock art already on the walls, but in styles of their own. Many scenes, for example, depict Ute hunters on horseback and date to the 1800s. Despite the number of Ute artifacts found in Nine Mile, there is no archaeological evidence of any Ute camps or residences.
In 2009, 63 archaeological sites in the canyon were listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, 36 in Carbon County and 27 in Duchesne County. Most are named in the National Register listing only by their archaeological site codes, but there were three named sites in Carbon County: Cottonwood Village, Drop-Dead Ruin, and First Canyon Site. The named ones in Duchesne County are Centennial House, Fool's Pinnacle, Karen's Cist, Maxies Pad, Nordell's Fort, Redman Village, Sunstone Village, and Taylor's City. The locations and details of these sites are not disclosed by the National Register. The 63 sites include 40 Fremont constructions, 19 rock art sites, and 4 sets of historical-era dwellings. A further 165 sites were added on September 12, 2012, all of them designated by codes only. Of these listings, 158 are in Carbon County and 7 in Duchesne County.
The canyon became a main transport corridor in the region during the 1880s. Settlers established a number of ranches in Nine Mile, and even a short-lived town named Harper. No longer heavily traveled, the rugged canyon road was used mostly for recreation and tourism through the end of the 20th century. The discovery of rich deposits of natural gas deep beneath the Tavaputs Plateau has brought an influx of industrial truck traffic since 2002. The large amounts of fugitive dust produced by the trucks' passage may be damaging the rock art. Public debate is ongoing about how best to balance energy development in the canyon against the preservation of its cultural resources.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Fortune The Most Powerful Women
Washington, D.C., USA
Powerful Storytelling: An Interview with Mona Simpson
Presented by Herman Miller
A star novelist talks about finding inspiration and unleashing creativity.
Mona Simpson, Author, My Hollywood
Interviewer: Stephanie Mehta, Fortune
Photograph by Stephanie Merriken / Fortune Most Powerful Women
most of these images were stitched in photoshop and also run thru Photomatix.most exposures were in the 30 to 1 second.
Sten Moster coming through the locks in IJmuiden.
Holga 120N
Kodak Portra 160
Taped cir pol filter to lens
Normal development
Left camera latch wasn't locked
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Fortune The Most Powerful Women
Washington, D.C., USA
8:35 AM One on ONe
From Big Business to The White House
Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
Interviewer: Nancy Gibbs, Managing Editor, TIME
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Most Powerful Women
This is thought to be one of the most haunted places in the UK. Built in 1610 by Sir John Trevor, it's been considered haunted since even then – Sir John's gatekeeper commited suicide after seeing a ghost. There have been at least three other violent deaths, not counting those caused by the most infamous resident.
Before becoming Lord Chief Justice of England (1681-3), then Lord Chancellor (1683-88), then dying in the Tower of London, 'Hanging' Judge Jeffries lived here in the 17th Century. He held court in the dining room; those sentenced to hang were executed immediately in an adjoining room. Yes, in his own home.
There have been a disproportionate number of accidents on the nearby A541 dual carriageway (viewpoint of this photo), many of them caused by motorists swerving around ghostly figures.
Okay; I'm sceptical, too, but I visited in the 1980s, and certain rooms genuinely felt 'wrong'.
Quite apart from the paranormal aspect, the three-storey, Grade I Listed, Jacobean mansion is interesting in itself, with odd and unique features. The staircase is constructed of wood from a ship of the Spanish Armada, a sofa was a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte, and there are witch marks in the main fireplace, intended to ward-off evil.
Better On Black?
Familiar to most Bon Echo visitors is the ‘Cabin-on-the Hill’ – a rental log cabin situated near the Denison complex within the provincial park. The 1870s cabin was once called the Manager’s House and was occasionally used as accommodation when Merrill Denison operated the Bon Echo Inn property.
In the summer of 1965, the Manager’s House and the White House were moved. Mary Savigny writes in her book, ‘Bon Echo – The Denison Years’:
‘At Lisa’s (Denison) request the Manager’s House was taken apart log by log to be re-erected up the hill beyond Greystones, close to Sawmill Bay, and re-named the Cabin-on-the-Hill. This was the second time the building had been re-located. Merrill told us that it was the original one-room school in the French Settlement in which his mother had taught, eight years before.’
Mary goes on to write about the Levere logs – part of Ada and Percy Levere’s house located on Highway #41 north of Cloyne (close to Ron Nowell’s gravel pit today), which were used to replace the bottom logs of the Cabin-on-the-Hill. The Levere house had to be removed during the reconstruction of Highway #41. Originally the large logs came from the Skootamatta Lake Road. They were used as boom logs and part of a lumber company cookhouse used by the log drivers. At least one of the boom logs has been identified by the company’s initial hammered them among the bottom logs of the cabin.
After the re-construction, Lisa used the cabin as a getaway for herself. Today, visitors to Bon Echo can enjoy the privacy of the cabin and the beautiful view of the Rock to the north from the Muskoka chairs with prices starting at $1050 per week.
More information about the cabin can be found in an article in The Tweed News, August 27, 1980 edition by Thom Reynolds:
"Cabin on the Hill dates back to 1870 when it served as a Salvation Army Hall on the Loon Lake concession road from Mazinaw to Loon (Skootamatta) Lake. It was acquired by Merrill Denison for $25.00 and moved and reconstructed in the same way as the school house (Greystone) at Campbell Bay.
The cabin first served as an office near the Narrows at the time when all guests came to the Inn by water. Then it was used as a guest's cottage on the southern shore of the property. The cabin was then moved to its present site on the top of the hill, near the other two cottages. It was restored to summer use by the late Mrs. Dension and is presently used as a staff quarters."
To view this blog post with more photos of the logs and view from the cabin visit: pioneer.mazinaw.on.ca/2022/05/15/cabin-on-the-hill-1870s-...
Part of the Ken and Cathy Hook and Bon Echo Albums.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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This is the kind of breakfast that I ate more than 30 years ago, and most people still do after all these years, minus the oldie cups and saucers of course. Most people in Singapore and Malaysia here like to add black soy sauce and white pepper to their half-boiled eggs. And for bread, most would go with kaya (coconut jam), margarine or butter, peanut butter and/or jam. For coffee, it's the Arabica variety that is most prevalent here.
Most of the miners lived in Ohura,- married men and their families in State houses.Single men were accommodated in the Ohura Miner’s Hostel run by the Labour and Employment Department.
The Hostel was built two years after the disastrous Boarding House fire in 1947, in which one man lost his life.
The hostel was also home for Post Office and Bank staff, P.& T. linesmen, and casual travelers.
Source: tatu.tauwhare.co.nz
Formerly a coal miners' hostel, Ohura Prison opened in 1972. Ohura is a minimum security open institution with no external perimeter fence. The prison can accommodate 97 male inmates. Accommodation was rebuilt in 1997-99 and now has 12 cells inside the main building and 85 external cells.
Not the most beautiful beach of Europe, but one of the most famous: Juno Beach. This is where more than 14,000 Canadians landed and confronted massive German resistance on D-day (June 6, 1944) as part of the invasion of Normandy known as Operation Overlord, in a desperate effort to liberate France from the Nazis (see map below). On that day, the Canadian forces suffered 1074 casualties including 369 killed right on the beach.
The larger town on the right of the photograph is Courseulles-sur-Mer. To the south, we can see the village of Reviers and about 1 km to the right (on the edge of the photograph) there is a small rectangle which is the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery (mouse over). There are 2049 markers in the cemetery, which include the D-day casualties on Juno beach as well as Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in July 1944 during the battle for Caen. Also interred in this cemetery are four British soldiers and one French.
The town on the left is Ver-sur-Mer (or La Rivière on the map below) which marks the eastern limit of Gold Beach, which on D-day was fought by the British forces.
I took this shot from my airplane window, on Sept 2nd, 2013, as Huguette and I were returning home to Canada after a lovely cruise on the Imperial Waterways of Russia (see three previous sets).
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.)
The number of contracts won in the different fields of regeneration consultancy
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Most aspherical lenses tend to have some flare - at least when used wide open. The Ultron 35mm f1.7 is very well controlled for that. This is at f1.7 - no corrections either in camera or Light Room.
Most of the red stuff is a holdover from my first solo West Hollywood apartment. The ceramic pot with the spoons and spatulas was made by a neighbor, a film technician, whose sideline was making ceramics- Richard and I bought it to be "polite" when he gave us a showing of his studio, but I really like and appreciate it. I have two more of his bowls for things.
For me, the visual and the auditory intertwine. When encountering a beautiful natural scene, my senses engulf me. Many times a song that particularly moves me will spontaneously begin playing in my head. So for one of my favorite places, one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I surrender. With open arms I let it wash over me. From this day.
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in the fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in the fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in the fields of gold
We'll walk in the fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in the fields of gold
Most of my photos are taken in and around the city of Molde, in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
This one was taken is not far from the city limits.
A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over a hundred species and thousands of cultivars.
They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds.
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Being the most organic of the team (followed by Gwenwyn), they are a rather disturbing sight to those whom are unaccustomed to it. Clad in thick armor plate and covered in toughened red hide, they may not be fast nor agile, but why would they need to be when even without their staff of fear they cause many to hide. Their staff of fear is more of a catalyst, once one foe begins to flee others quickly follow suit, which is fortunate, as Raedel’s fleshy exterior is rather easily damaged. This susceptibility to damage is the reason they avoid fighting, as even though they have the strength to rip a foe in half with their bare hands, they could just as easily have their own torn apart by even light weaponry.
They stay as far away from Gwenwyn as possible, where the others need to come into direct contact to be affected, close proximity is enough for Raedsel to be infected. They most often do so by helping move crates and supplies around in lower levels as none of the others care for doing so themselves.
The Europa in Belfast's Great Victoria Street has the unenviable title of "world's most bombed hotel." Yet today the Europa, the belle of Belfast City and an enduring symbol of Northern Ireland's resilience regarding terrorism, stands tall and proud, a stronger and more robust business because of -- and not in spite of -- Northern Ireland's "troubles,"
On the surface, the Europa is a respectable but unremarkable 240-bed hotel. But during the conflict's darkest days in the 1970s and 1980s, it emerged as a powerful icon, representing war, destruction, survival, and fortitude -- a monument to all that was right and wrong in Northern Ireland. Even in the new peace-processed Belfast, it remains a landmark, a place where tourists and natives alike get their bearings.
To the Irish Republican Army, it was, quite simply, a target. Attacking the high-profile Europa would attract worldwide attention by striking a blow at British capitalism. The first bomb exploded within a month of the hotel's opening; it destroyed the restaurant and kitchens. Another 20 explosions would follow in the next four years. Security walls were erected around and over the entrance. Guests were frisked; their luggage was searched. The tourist trade evaporated, leaving no one but the hard-core, battle-hardened business customers.
And so came the journalists. Because it remained Belfast's only world-class hotel, the Europa became home to all the hacks covering the conflict. The IRA's easy target became the perfect target. With every attack, the press got its story and the terrorists got publicity. Visiting journalists found that they could sound authoritative and well-informed without leaving their bar stool in the Europa.
Mercifully, remarkably, no one was ever killed by a bomb at the Europa.
The attacks became less frequent during the 1980s. Even Sinn Féin, the IRA's political wing, began using the Europa for meetings and conferences. In the absence of political institutions in Northern Ireland, the Europa often provided the forum for debate and negotiation.
And like the rest of the booze establishments here in Belfast, it serves a sublime pint of Guinness.
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Most photos are just that.....photos. But once in a great while I capture a moment that moves me. This is one example.
Most of my Licca heads got new bodies.
They all look like sisters, each one having her own personality (◕‿◕)
Here is the trophy for Most Fantastic in the Castle theme at Bricks Cascade 2015. It features a floating city suspended by magical means over a range of volcanic mountains.
Most people go to Roswell to check out the UFO Museum (we did too) but on the way we stopped at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art - wow! This museum is fantastic. There are no world famous works here, but a bunch of great art created by local artists or participants in the Artist in Residence Program. The museum is free, the staff was great, and we had it to ourselves on a Sunday afternoon. This is definitely a must see if you are anywhere near Roswell.
We visited the Anderson in March 2014. My only regret is not photographing the titles and artists so if you know any of them, please let me know.