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Mumbai Port Trust Recruitment 2016
Mumbai Port Trust Recruitment 2016 Advisor Jobs Admit Card: Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) is desirous of engaging an Advisor having expertise and vast experience in the field of Town/Urban/City Planning, Project Planning, Management & Implementation and dealing...
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Developers who built Plano's $3 billion Legacy West project are eyeing a vacant corner of Downtown Dallas for a major mixed-use project.
Builder KDC has teamed up with landowner Hoque Global to plan the more than 20-acre skyscraper campus on the south side of Downtown Dallas.
Located between Dallas City Hall and Interstate 30, the 8-block urban project would include office towers, retail and hotel space. It's one of the largest developments ever proposed for Downtown at 8,000,000 million square feet at build out.
KDC officials say they included the Dallas Smart District site in potential locations offered for digital retailer Amazon's new $5 billion second corporate headquarters complex.
Award winning international architect Pelli Clarke Pelli has designed the dramatic campus.
The centerpiece of the project is an office skyscraper piercing the clouds at 1,121 feet tall ... making it the tallest tower in Dallas, the new tallest in Texas, and the tallest outside New York City and Chicago!
DallasTowers.net: dallas.towers.net/2017/11/03/dallas-smart-district-projec...
Dallas Morning News: www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/10/18/bold-s...
D Magazine: www.dmagazine.com/business-economy/2017/10/8-million-squa...
Dallas Bisnow: www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/construction-developm...
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Terrance Farrow, mechanic trainee, receives his 2012 EAGLE diploma from Maj. Patrick Dagon, deputy commander for the Nashville District, during the Nashville District's 2012 EAGLE Class graduation held on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 at the Jack C. Massey Business Center at Belmont University. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)
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The tree came to the inventor’s Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber.
The banyan was not the answer. But it remained, growing to an acre in diameter, and becoming one of more than 1,000 plants from around the world ornamenting 25 acres dedicated mostly to the man who invented the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons’ home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford’s winter home. The combined Edison and Ford estates, museum, laboratory, and shops are open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
The botanical specimens, many of them labeled for easy identification, offer shade for strollers - and sometimes a touch of the exotic. It is not every day one sees an African sausage tree bearing hot-dog shaped fruit.
Edison, of course, is more extensively associated with his inventions. He held more than 1,000 United States patents, and he submitted patent paperwork for a record 65 consecutive years. Among his lesser known creations: the talking doll, the electric train, alkaline batteries, a fruit preserver, and a stencil pen, the grandfather of today’s tattoo stylus.
“Really cool,” said Aaron Summers, a visitor from San Diego. “I didn’t realize how many patents Edison actually had.”
A 15,000-square-foot, air-conditioned museum details the world’s busiest inventor’s extraordinary career, which stretched from 1869 - when he was 22 years old - virtually to 1931, the year he died.
Among hundreds of items and documents in the museum is Edison’s original custom Model T, a gift from Ford. A more personal artifact is the frame Edison built for the phonograph he was devising. Hard of hearing, Edison rigged the phonograph to the frame, which he would bite to feel vibrations and “hear” the music. The wizard’s teeth marks are visible in the wood.
The museum’s newest exhibit chronicles the camping adventures of Edison, Ford, Firestone and turn-of-the-century naturalist and environmental writer John Burroughs. The “vagabonds,” as they referred to themselves, camped throughout Florida and the United States.
Also on display is “Edison After 40,” an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It includes images from Edison’s middle and later years. In counterpoint, “The Child Wizard” shows early images of Edison as a youth, as captured in Michael Dooling’s award-winning book, Young Thomas Edison.
And not to be missed are the entertainment artifacts: phonographs, movie projectors, nickelodeons and films.
“I learned a lot of new things. So many inventions. I loved the phonographic demonstrations,” said Susan Wood, who is from England.
More than 200,000 visitors per year come to the property, where Edison and his family spent winter seasons starting in 1885. For $2,750, the inventor bought the property from the family of Jacob Summerlin, a legendary Florida cowman known as the King of the Crackers.
“This house is a dream . . . and we are living in Fairyland,” Edison’s wife Mina wrote of the Florida retreat, which was dubbed “Seminole Lodge.” At its edge, the broad Caloosahatchee River whispers against a restored limestone-and-coquina seawall.
Edison was perhaps “green” before the word became fashionable. Some of his words on the subject are posted in the museum: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Edison wrote that in 1931.
Ford bought property next door to his mentor in 1916. As a youth, the motor company founder worked at an Edison company in Detroit. The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines. The two entrepreneurs met at a convention in 1896, and Edison encouraged the younger man. The two proved to be kindred spirits. The automaker purchased property next to Edison in 1916, naming it “The Mangoes.”
The entrepreneurs spent hours sitting on their porches, discussing projects, planning trips to the Everglades, listening to Mina play the piano, and perhaps playing Parcheesi, Edison’s favorite game.
“It was interesting to learn how good of friends they actually were,” said Eric Rye, visiting from Sarasota.
Guests had to stay in line, though. The Edisons had seven rules, one in particular noting that discretion was important: “Don’t fail to retire to your room for part of each day - so that the family may squabble without embarrassment.”
— By Jon Wilson, VISIT FLORIDA
Nashville District EAGLE Class stands for a group picture during the Nashville District's 2012 EAGLE Class graduation held on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 at the Jack C. Massey Business Center at Belmont University. (Front row left to right) Amanda RutherFord, accountant; Janet Smith, secretary for the commander; Charles Leath, environmental protection specialist; Christopher Vega, contract inspector; Dustin Russell, electrical engineer, Christopher Meeks, senior electrician; Lori Neubert, administrative assistant; Natalie Haley, accountant; Jane Harris, engineering technician; Ramune Morales, project planning manager; Kara Beverly, regulatory specialist;(Back row, left to right) Jeff Fallin, maintenance engineer, Brent Sewell, natural resource specialist; Paul Drinkard, electrician; Arnette Hardage, accountant; Christopher Stoltz, environmental engineer; Terrance Farrow, mechanic trainee; Maj. Patrick Dagon, deputy commander for the Nashville District; and Tyler Matthews, natural resource specialist. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
At M56 Junction 5, there is a short spur to Manchester Airport. This short stretch of motorway was to be part of something far bigger, as this scan, showing the motorway pointing northwards indicates. The Manchester Outer Ring Road wouldn't have run via today's M60 route, but would have in fact headed further south from a point between M60's Junctions 5 and 6. It would have gone to the west of the Roundthorn Industrial Estate, to M56 Junction 5 which has plenty of space for the motorway and extra slip roads, along the existing spur and the handily named Ringway Road, and then linked up to the A555 dual carriageway crossing the A34. From there it would have gone to the south of Hazel Grove and linked up with the unbuilt A6(M) Stockport Bypass which would have gone north to M60 Junction 25, and thus complete the route. M60 Junction 25 is the site of another unbuilt motorway, the M63 Bredbury Bypass which has featured previously in this album along with the A6(M). Taken from a Bartholomew Motorway Atlas of Britain from the mid 1970s.
Key questions
* What is Social Software? Is an answer to that question useful to us?
* How are these tools different than email or discussion boards?
* What compenents can be added to weblogs to enhance their appeal and effectiveness? Do these raise special challenges?
Tom Coates (PlasticBag, Yahoo) definition of Social Software is Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation (this mediation may be distributed or centalised, top-down or bottom-up/emergent).
Then again, there's Clay Shirky's definition: "Social software is stuff that gets spammed."
Jon Udell (InfoWord) writes about The Social Enterprise. We are social animals for whom networked software is creating a new kind of habitat. Social software can be defined as whatever supports our actual human interaction as we colonize the virtual realm. The category includes familiar things such as groupware and knowledge management, and extends to the new breed of relationship power tools that have brought the venture capitalists out of hibernation.
The buzzword of "Web 2.0" caught on in 2005 as an attempt to describe a shift from the Web (1.0) as a system where the web was used primarily to "read" (consume) largelt statiuc content (web pages). The next digit is what some are calling the "Read/Write" web where there are now web-based tools for not just reading/consuming content, but ones where mere mortals can create content.
Fortunately Others Are Keeping Track...
* Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications (Virtual Karma)
* Tom O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0?
There are way to many examples to list in one place. We take just a weak slice at the pile below. But what is interesting is how many of these are designed to be able to share their contentn elsewhere (RSS syndication), provide tools so their content can be published to weblogs (via weblog APIs), and use the concept of user-based loose categorization, or tagging, as both an individual roganizing scheme, and a way of organziing common content across numerous individuals.
Media Containers/Collections
Sites where people can store and share images, music, video.
* Images: Using blog like features (chronological organization, comments) flickr, fotolog, BuzzNet
Shared Writing Environments
Wikis spring to mind as a profiund social software, places on the web where anyone can be an author.
Wiki Pedagogy Usurping official authorizing practices in the public domain poses fundamental - if not radical - questions for both academic theory and pedagogical practice... The particular pedagogical challenge is one of control: wikis work most effectively when students can assert meaningful autonomy over the process. This involves not just adjusting the technical configuration and delivery; it involves challenging the social norms and practices of the course as well (Lamb, 2004).
* Wide Open Spaces: Wikis Ready or Not - Brian's EDUCAUSE Review article.
* Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning - don't miss this ELI session by Steve Greenlaw and his students on an outstanding application of this form.
* Vicki Davis is using WikiSpaces with high school students to great effect.
* 3rd and 4th Graders using wikis
* Course Advisor Wiki "the course review catalog that anyone can edit!"
Maybe it is Web 2.5 but new variants have emerged that are less wiki-like and more like an online Word Processer. For an overview of some of these online "office suites", see Innerphaze's Ajax Office Review.
* Writely
Social Bookmarks
Online collections of individually bookmarked (and annotated) web sites. Combined with user based classification (tagging) new patterns and ways of discovering content emerge by looking at what a larger number of people are marking as important on the web.
* 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking - from the helpful folks at EDUCAUSE.
* weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/delicious.html - excellent screencast on the nitty gritty of folksonomies by Jon Udell.
Information Organizers
* List makers Remember the Milk
* Goal Setting: 43 Things
* Project Planning: Backpack, Basecamp
Our Blogged Bits...
* Alan blogs Me 2.0, Web Decimal Conundrum, and Zeldman Snorts Ajax and Hits Web 3.0
See more examples and resources in the network tag stream.
Image Credits: Mock-up of SciFi book cover created by Alan Levine, derived from Creative Commons licensed flickr blue robot image by "jspad"
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Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Hello flickr,
I’ve been off for a long time doing exams and courseworks. All my exams finally ended on last Friday. I can not begin to tell you how much stressful it was but nevertheless I’m free now!
I slept the whole day on Friday after the exam, recovering for some of the sleep-hours that I’ve skipped before. I had a wedding to shoot during the weekend. It was a friend’s sisters wedding and I had a lot of fun photographing pretty much everything. The whole place was filled with colours, melodious songs, kids running around, guests greeting each other and what not. I shall post something from the wedding soon along with a lot more details and behind-the-scenes-funny-stories.
I’ve also been to my back to my country this April. It was a 10 days trip. Yepp, right before my exams started. Although the bad timing did affect my exams quite harshly, I was glad to see everyone back there after about 2 and a half years. I’ve got a lot of images from there too which I will get around posting.
I’ll get back to my 365 and will try to catch up as soon as I can. :)
This image is from this spring. I have quite a bit to post from this day too actually haha :)
And at last, I have a lot of different projects planned. Lots and lots of new ideas. I hope summer is going great for you all :)
So like I said yesterday I was fed up with my growing hair. I can seriously say I failed trying to grow it.Especially whilst browsing through all my images of last year I decided that I look better without.
I'm feeling weird about ending this 365 and this year for that matter. It feels like leaving and saying goodbye to a loved one, but I'm not leaving. I have new projects planned for next year. I just hope they will be even more exciting then this year has been. It's been a turbulent year IRL as here in the Flickrverse.
Still have no idea what to do for my last shot....
The latest current NASA project is named OSIRIS REx. The project involves Acquiring Answers from Asteroid number 1999 RQ36. This asteroid is the largest known extraterrestrial threat to life on earth. That's one of the reasons to study it up close and friendly...
Here's a quote: "OSIRIS-REx will also provide the knowledge that will guide humanity in deflecting any future asteroid that could collide with Earth, allowing humanity to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs."
And another quote: "RQ36 is both the most accessible carbonaceous asteroid and the most potentially Earth-hazardous asteroid known." Bolding is by me...;))
Scientific Objective
4. Measure the Yarkovsky effect on a potentially hazardous asteroid and constrain the asteroid properties that contribute to this effect.
Please note that this effect, which I have not described here, leads to it changing its orbit around the sun so it can just possibly be more likely to collide with the earth.
NOT GOOD...
Read More Below...
This poster is inside the front entrance of the University of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory building in Tucson, Arizona. I don't know if the water bottle is part of the exhibit or not...
OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
Regolith: An unconsolidated residual or transported material that overlies the solid rock on the earth, moon, or a planet.
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I suggest viewing this on black by clicking once on the image.
Description of Project
www.arizona.edu/features/osiris-rex-wins-uas-largest-gran...
OSIRIS-REx Wins UA's Largest Grant Ever
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The team is led by Michael Drake, director of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. will manage the mission for NASA. Lockheed Martin will build the spacecraft.
View the video on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6XbYLGWmOs
Video courtesy of NASA.
The OSIRIS-REx mission is budgeted for approximately $800 million, excluding the launch vehicle.
The target asteroid – named 1999 RQ36 after the year it was discovered – measures 575 meters (one-third of a mile) in diameter. 1999 RQ36 is a time capsule from the early solar system rich with organic compounds that may have seeded life on Earth.
"OSIRIS-REx will explore our past and help determine our destiny," said Drake. "It will return samples of pristine organic material that scientists think might have seeded the sterile early Earth with the building blocks that led to life. Such samples do not currently exist on Earth. OSIRIS-REx will also provide the knowledge that will guide humanity in deflecting any future asteroid that could collide with Earth, allowing humanity to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs."
OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
Scheduled for launch in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx mission will return the first samples ever taken from a special type of asteroid holding clues to the origin of the solar system and likely organic molecules that may have seeded life on Earth.
OSIRIS-REx also will investigate an object potentially hazardous to humanity. 1999 RQ36 has a one-in-1,800 chance of impacting the Earth in the year 2182.
Spending longer than a year exploring 1999 RQ36 before acquiring samples, OSIRIS-REx will provide geologic context essential to expanding our understanding of the asteroid-comet continuum. The mission will provide near-live coverage of 1999 RQ36 operations and sample return to Earth. Samples will return to Earth in the year 2023.
The return to Earth of pristine samples with known geologic context will enable precise analyses that cannot be duplicated by spacecraft-based instruments. Pristine carbonaceous materials have never before been analyzed in laboratories on Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx instrument suite will include: the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) by the University of Arizona; the OSIRIS REx Visible-Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument by NASA Goddard; the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) by Arizona State University; and the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) by the Canadian Space Agency.
The team includes the University of Arizona, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lockheed Martin, Arizona State University, KinetX, the Canadian Space Agency, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center, along with science team members from across academia.
NASA New Frontiers is a program to explore the solar system with frequent, medium-class spacecraft missions that will conduct high-quality, focused scientific investigations designed to enhance our understanding of the solar system.
"OSIRIS-REx will usher in a new era of planetary exploration," said Dante Lauretta, the mission's deputy principal investigator and an associate professor at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "For the first time in space-exploration history, a mission will travel to, and return pristine samples of a carbonaceous asteroid with known geologic context. Such samples are critical to understanding the origin of the solar system, Earth, and life."
"OSIRIS-REx will have an extraordinary impact on the University of Arizona and our entire state," said UA President Robert N. Shelton. "For decades, our Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has made immeasurable contributions to our knowledge of the universe. This mission will continue and advance that tradition, with unique opportunities for our students and researchers."
Extensive characterization by the Arecibo Planetary Radar System, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based telescopes in Arizona and elsewhere have resulted in exceptional knowledge about the asteroid. 1999 RQ36 orbits the sun every 1.2 years, crossing the Earth's orbit every September. Its shape and rotation rate are well known, allowing OSIRIS-REx to make a safe, albeit short, touchdown.
"Our spacecraft will sneak up to RQ36 over the course of weeks," Lauretta said. "Once the two objects are traveling in sync, OSIRIS-REx will extend its sample collector, touch the surface for five seconds, collect well over 60 grams of sample, and get out of there."
Using an injection of ultra pure nitrogen, the OSIRIS-REx sample-collecting device will stir up dirt and small gravel to be captured and sealed for return to Earth. The samples are returned to the surface of the Earth using hardware and procedures successfully demonstrated on the Stardust mission, which returned samples from comet Wild 2 in 2006.
UA planetary science professor William Boynton is the mission instrumentation scientist, and Peter Smith, a professor in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and principal investigator on the Phoenix Mars Mission, is the instrument scientist for the three on-board cameras. Heather Enos, project manager for the TEGA instrument on Phoenix, serves as the project planning and control officer. Chris Shinohara, science operations manager for the Phoenix Mission, will perform a similar role for OSIRIS-REx.
All mission science operations will be performed on the UA campus. Anna Spitz from the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center leads the Education and Public Outreach program. In addition to outstanding science and educational opportunities, OSIRIS-REx will provide a significant boost to the Arizona economy; approximately $200 million will be spent in Tucson and across Arizona.
Visit the NASA website for details and a video animation of the OSIRIS-REx mission.
Visit the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
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Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
52#29
spring fever
yay. don't you love spring?! and this one has started with bright and warm sunny days.
and yes that deserves another jump shot. lol. i guess that this project 52 is going to be know more as my jumping project :-)
planning a more active presence around here, even considering starting a new 365 :-) but not sure yet if i'm ready to go at it again. i want the new one to be better not the first. also i'm considering a 365 made of not just selfies.. not sure. i just miss shooting daily.. so i'm considering my options. suggestions are welcome :-)
*and finally i have my 52 weeks project up to date
The construction process of the new physical science building continues on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
New England Aquarium on Central Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Boston previously had three other aquariums over the period of 150 years: the Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859), the Boston Aquarial Gardens and Zoological Gardens (1861), and the South Boston Aquarium (1912).
The demise of the South Boston Aquarium left a void in Boston. Through the South Boston Aquarium, generations of Bostonians had learned to appreciate the wonders of marine life. The seed had been sown for something larger and more ambitious.
The failures of both the Boston Aquarial Gardens and the South Boston Aquarium were instructive. The first was a purely mercantile venture that measured its success by its profits. The second was a civic institution with very limited goals, severe budget restrictions, and political pressures. Even prior to the closing of the South Boston Aquarium, a replacement was envisaged as a private, non-profit organization that would incorporate the best elements of the previous aquariums, while avoiding their pitfalls.
At first, a small, modern aquarium was projected as part of the Museum of Science and preliminary studies were undertaken in this direction. In 1957, however, a group of local businesspeople formed what the New England Aquarium Corporation with the intent of founding an aquarium that would be independent. The directors of the new organization chose the then-rundown Boston waterfront as the site for their project.
Planning for the aquarium began in 1962, with the principal designer being Peter Chermayeff of Cambridge Seven Associates. The building was opened to the public in 1969. The Giant Ocean Tank opened in 1970, and at the time was the largest circular ocean tank in the world.
It is one of the world’s first modern aquariums. Visitors can explore the oceans and visit thousands of marine animals in four levels of world-class exhibits.
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Interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
The construction process of the new physical science building continues on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Bright natural light is featured in SCI 142 as interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
There are some HUGE changes coming to this corner and arts commons directly South of this spot, very soon.
The Olympic Plaza Transformation will see a full redesign of the plaza as an innovative, flexible and active space in the core, building on the momentum of the investment and work already underway in downtown Calgary.
Built as a venue for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games medal ceremonies, Olympic Plaza is an urban park and popular gathering space, located along Macleod Trail between 7 and 8 Avenue SE. Since its construction more than 30 years ago, the plaza is aging and has outgrown its mandate and lifecycle costs.
The City and its partners Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and Arts Commons announced the transformation of the plaza on June 6, 2023. As development manager for the project, CMLC will steward design and construction on behalf of its partners, while also managing the expansion and modernization of Arts Commons and the redevelopment of Stephen Avenue on this block. Olympic Plaza’s proximity to the Arts Commons Transformation project, currently undergoing its own $480-million transformation provides a unique opportunity to allow for design synergies, construction efficiencies and coordinated leadership of both projects.
Given Olympic Plaza’s intimate connection to Arts Commons’ evolving campus, the Arts Commons team will lead curated programming, operation and maintenance for the revitalized plaza after construction is complete.
In its budget for 2023-2026, The City earmarked $108 million for downtown revitalization through Calgary’s Downtown Strategy, including upgrades to Olympic Plaza and Stephen Avenue. $40M has been allocated to the Olympic Plaza Transformation for project initiation, design team procurement and design development. Additional funding will be required prior to construction.
Construction timelines for the Olympic Plaza Transformation will be defined as the project plan is refined. The design of the plaza is expected to take place through 2023 and 2024, in alignment with the design process for the Arts Commons Transformation.
The new Science Building has completed its construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Here is the route of the Northampton Northern Bypass, heading from Duston to Great Billing on the A45, either side of the town. Part of this route has been built, albeit to a very low standard. The route begins on Tollgate Way at the end of the existing Ring Road, and then on to Bants Lane, over the A428 and onto Mill Lane, crossing over the railway and up to the A508. From there, an unbuilt section would head east, skirting the western and northern edges of the golf course, before swinging back towards the east, to the south of Moulton Park Industrial Estate. There it would join onto another section that was built, Talavera Way, meeting the A43 at the enormous roundabout which would have almost certainly been grade-seperated. Talavera Way then heads further east, before meeting Great Billing Way at a roundabout, which heads directly south, to meet the old A45 (now A4500) at a roundabout. It is likely that the extension to the later dual carriageway further south would have been planned at the same time. Both Talavera Way and Great Billing Way have plenty of room for a second carriageway as both were built with just one - the increased traffic on a completed bypass would have certainly warranted it. Taken from an AA Touring Map of Leicester & The Midlands from 1976.
This sleek 57 story, 700 foot tall skyscraper is the visual centerpiece of the $160 million 1900 Pacific Avenue project planned for the eastern side of the Downtown Dallas CBD. The project is by The Pillar Group, a Dallas development company.
In addition to the new 57 story residential tower the project includes renovating a gorgeous 1931 Art Deco building located at 1907 Elm Street into a 5 star boutique hotel with 115 rooms (The Tower Petroleum Building, two doors down from The Majestic Theater). A 3 acre landscaped park with an underground parking garage for 1,000 cars will also be constructed immediately in front of the sleek 57 story tower.
The soaring 700 foot tall tower will become an immediate landmark structure on the Downtown Dallas skyline when completed.
1900 Pacific is designed by world renowned architect Michael Graves & Associates.
The new Science Building has completed its construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
NEW ORLEANS - The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is attending the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) annual conference in New Orleans May 23-26 as part of its growing focus on renewable energy. The BSEE currently provides technical reviews of project plans and facility designs for offshore wind projects in federal waters, and provides input on the technology used for the generation of offshore renewable energy. Building from its technical role, the Bureau is in the process of developing regulations and safety and environmental compliance guidelines for offshore renewable energy facilities. The Bureau is also establishing procedures and criteria for inspections of these facilities.
It might take a bit of a squint, but in the middle of Liverpool you can make out a dotted line in a clear circle of the city centre. It clearly isn't the route of the originally planned Liverpool Inner Motorway, which is covered in great detail by Chris Marshall on his site here: www.roads.org.uk/articles/liverpool-inner-motorway But with the map dating from 1977, could it perhaps been a revised route to a lower specification? A comparison with the modern day area (goo.gl/maps/YxLp3) reveals the junction of Hunter St., Byron St., and Churchill Way to be in the vicinity of this projected route. Perhaps this junction was to be part of a larger scheme? As a bonus the northern extension of the M57 is shown at the top of the scan too! Taken from an AA Touring Map of Lancashire and Cheshire from 1977.
Shared to Eyre Highway and Beyond on Facebook
see also www.kalminer.com.au/news/kalgoorlie-miner/750000-allocate...
Interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Some girls start menstruation as early as at the age of eight, and these young girls often grow up with limited and/or wrong information on menstruation and sexual reproductive health largely because these subjects remain taboo especially in rural Kenya. This project plans to publish a booklet targeting girls ages 8 to 14 to demystify these subjects, and also cover other related topics such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, self esteem and the transition into womanhood.
Learn more: goo.gl/rs7L7b
The deconstruction process begins as Siskiyous Hall is torn down to make way for a new physical science building on Monday, June 18, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Facilitated by: Svenja Ruger (President, The Value Web ApS) With: Pratik Kunwar (Advisory Council, Kathmandu Hub) speaking in the Impact Skills Workshop: Design Thinking and Project Planning session at the Global Shapers Annual Summit 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2023. World Economic Forum Headquarters, Villa Mundi – Oak Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Marc Bader
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The Devon Energy Center (also known as the Devon Tower) is a 50-story corporate skyscraper in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is the tallest building in the city and state, though it has fewer floors than the 52-story BOK Tower in Tulsa. It is tied with Park Tower in Chicago as the 72nd tallest building in the United States; at its completion Devon Tower was tied as the 39th tallest. Construction began October 6, 2009, and was completed in October 2012. The tower is located next to the historic Colcord Hotel, which Devon currently owns, on Sheridan Avenue between Hudson and Robinson Avenues.
The office tower, a six-story rotunda, and a six-story podium structure comprise more than 1,800,000 square feet (170,000 m2) and was initially estimated to cost $750 million;[4] however, the first formal appraisal of the tower and complex came in at only $707.9 million. It serves as the northern anchor of Oklahoma City's aggressive Core to Shore downtown redevelopment project.
Devon World Headquarters LLC, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation, built the new skyscraper to replace their existing corporate office, which was located inside the Mid America Tower (now the Continental Resources Center), as well as other commercial space that the company had been leasing in a number of office buildings in the central business district.
The Devon Energy Center was originally planned to be 54 stories and 925 feet (282 m) tall. However, subsequent space planning revisions—including a decision to locate the data center to a separate facility for security reasons—resulted in a reduced height to 844 feet (257 m), including 50 stories.
Site preparation and demolition began October 6, 2009. The Holder Construction Company served as primary general contractor, and Flintco, Inc. the minority partner in the joint venture.
Construction started on October 6, 2009. The first crane was installed on February 25, 2010, and the second crane was installed on June 25, 2010. In July 2010, construction had reached above street level. In September 2010, construction topped the 10th floor. In November, workers started installing glass on the bottom levels of the tower. In December 2010, the building reached the 22nd floor.
Upon completion of the 34th floor, Devon Energy Center surpassed the 500-foot (150 m) Chase Tower (since renamed BancFirst Tower) as the tallest building in Oklahoma City on March 10, 2011. On May 17 of that year, the Devon Energy Center became the tallest building in Oklahoma, rising above Tulsa's 667-foot (203 m) BOK Tower. In June 2011, the building reached the 46th floor. On July 5, 2011, the building reached the 46th floor while the glass reached the 36th floor. The building marked its topping out at 50 stories in a ceremony held on September 21, 2011, as the Devon Energy Center reached its final height of 844 feet (257 m).
On October 23, 2012, the building marked its opening ceremony. It was confirmed by Devon Energy CEO, J. Larry Nichols that there would not be an observation deck; however, a restaurant named "Vast" on the 49th and 50th floors would be open to the general public. Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett attended the opening ceremony and stated, "The visual impact it has on the city is so striking and so identifiable. It took just over three years to complete the building that has quickly become a staple in our city's skyline."
On June 14, 2022, conservative activist Maison Des Champs conducted a free solo climb along the tower as part of an anti-abortion protest. (Incidentally, weeks prior to his feat, the Oklahoma Legislature passed several laws severely restricting abortion access in the state, including one banning the practice from the moment of conception.) He had previously gained media attention for climbing The New York Times Building in Manhattan, the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco to protest abortion or COVID-19 safety protocols. Des Champs—who only used chalk for gripping—was arrested after reaching the roof of the building, and was subsequently charged on two trespassing complaints.
Oklahoma City, officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and is the 8th largest city in the Southern United States. The population grew following the 2010 census and reached 681,054 in the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma's largest municipality and metropolitan area by population.
Oklahoma City's city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside the core Oklahoma County area are suburban tracts or protected rural zones (watershed). The city is the eighth-largest in the United States by area including consolidated city-counties; it is the second-largest, after Houston, not including consolidated cities. The city is also the second-largest by area among state capital cities in the United States, after Juneau, Alaska. Along with Topeka, Kansas and Cheyenne, Wyoming, Oklahoma City is one of three state capitals with an indigenous name in a state with an indigenous name.
Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets.[12] Oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and related industries are its economy's largest sector. The city is in the middle of an active oil field, and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which house offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).
Oklahoma City is on the I-35 and I-40 corridors, one of the primary travel corridors south into neighboring Texas and New Mexico, north towards Wichita and Kansas City, west to Albuquerque, and east towards Little Rock and Memphis. Located in the state's Frontier Country region, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the site of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died, the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Since weather records have been kept beginning in 1890, Oklahoma City has been struck by 14 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and one each rated F5 and EF5.
The history of Oklahoma City refers to the history of city of Oklahoma City, and the land on which it developed. Oklahoma City's history begins with the settlement of "unassigned lands" in the region in the 1880s, and continues with the city's development through statehood, World War I and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Prior to the Land Rush of 1889, the territory Oklahoma City fell under was known as the “Unassigned Lands”, which were located just north of the Chickasaw Nation, and covered roughly 2950 square miles in central Oklahoma. The term “Unassigned lands” was first coined in 1879 by Elias C. Boudinot, a mixed-blood Cherokee Journalist, who believed that the territory should be open to white settlers.
This territory of Oklahoma was not inhabited by any of the displaced indigenous tribes from the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and was located in central Oklahoma, surrounded by the other claimed indigenous territories. The Cherokee Nation fell to the north, bound by the Cherokee Outlet. On the east, the Potawatomi, Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Pawnee, and Iowa reservations resided. Just south of the Unassigned lands, the Chickasaw Nation fell, and the Cheyenne Arapaho settlement fell to the west. The lands were crossed by five rivers, including "the Canadian, the North Canadian, the Cimarron, the Deep Fork, and the Little", which provided natural borders, and a perfect combination of thin topsoil for grazing cattle, and rich bottomland soil for raising crops, thus making it greatly desired by white settlers who wanted to stake their claims to the inexpensive lands.
Prior to the opening of these Indigenous territories, the Boomer Movement saw forced raids and staked claims at sites in the unassigned lands, such as in present day Oklahoma City and Stillwater from 1879 to 1888. These raids, publicly led by David L. Payne and William Couch only saw brief success, and settled a town known as Ewing, present day Oklahoma City, in 1880. Despite this, were constantly overthrown and escorted out of the lands by U.S troops. However, they continued to enlist Boomers, and illegally made settlements in the Unassigned Lands and in the surrounding settlements until the Land Rush 1889.
Oklahoma City was officially opened to the public for settlement on April 22, 1889 with the Land Run and caused substantial settlement growth seemingly overnight. Oklahoma City was put under a provisional government, as the federal government did not expect the need to establish laws in the new territories, until the Organic Act that was passed under the Harrison Administration on May 2, 1890. This act applied the laws that were put in place for Nebraska to the newly settled Oklahoma Territories as a place holder until local governments could establish legislation. Oklahoma City was officially incorporated as the county seat for the second of the seven Oklahoma counties, with Guthrie, Oklahoma as the capital.
The first provisional mayor of Oklahoma City was William L. Couch, one of the leaders of the previous Boomer movement, who resigned in 1889. Couch passed the title on to Sidney Clarke on November 11, 1889 with his resignation. Clarke held the title of provisional mayor of Oklahoma City until an official election could be held on November 27, 1889, making Andrew J. Beale the mayor until the first nonprovisional mayor, William J. Gault, was elected in 1890.
With Guthrie, Oklahoma as the state capital, tensions began to rise between the two cities as high profile Oklahoman politicians, including Governor Charles N. Haskell, advocated for Oklahoma City to receive the title of state capital instead. This rivalry continued until, by popular vote, Oklahoma City was made the official capital of Oklahoma on June 11, 1910. Speculations among Guthrie civic leaders claimed that an unknown Oklahoma City booster allegedly spirited the state seal way from the Guthrie state capital in the night to ensure the title transfer. Oklahoma City continues to hold the title of Oklahoma’s Capital into present day, with the Oklahoma State Capitol established at N.E 23rd street and Lincoln Boulevard in 1917.
City leaders of this new capital included John Shartel, Anton H.Classen, James W. Maney, and Henry Overholser, who vastly transformed the infrastructure of the city, by providing better housing accommodations, efficient public transportation, public entertainment, and a railroad system. These city leaders set the blueprint for the upcoming economic development in later decades.
Overholser was a prominent early settler who emphasized his desire for public entertainment with his contributions to the city's infrastructure. Overholser created the Grand Avenue Hotel in 1889, the Overholser Opera House along with the Overholser theater in 1890, and assisted in the purchase of permanent fair grounds for the Oklahoma State Fair in 1906.
Classen, prior to creating the Metropolitan Railway Company with John Shartel (later the Oklahoma City Railway Company), was appointed as receiver in the U.S land office in Oklahoma City by president William McKinley in 1897. Classen focused his efforts on inner-city beautification and infrastructure improvements, becoming president of both the Oklahoma City Building and Loan Association and the Oklahoma City Commercial Club in 1899.
Classen worked closely with Shartel to add numerous housing divisions to accommodate the growing population, the first being the Highland Parks Addition in 1900. Along with this, "he was instrumental in getting city streets paved, in organizing Oklahoma City street fairs, and in promoting Oklahoma City as the location for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders annual reunion in 1900". Shartel and Classen collaborated once again in 1902 with the creation of the Metropolitan Railroad Company, which created an efficient mass-transport system for downtown Oklahoma City. Classen was also responsible for organizing the University Development Company, and financed Epworth University (Now known as Oklahoma City University) which was officially established in 1904.
Aside from his collaborations with Anton Classen, John Shartel bought twenty acres of land located at modern day 7th and 10th street, which became known as the Florence Addition. Prior to Classen's death in 1922, Shartel served as the Vice President on the Oklahoma City Building and Loan Association and the Oklahoma City Commercial Club, and overtook the position of president after Classen's death.
James W. Maney also focused his efforts on creating a railroad system in Oklahoma City, and gained the reputation of "the largest railroad contractor in Oklahoma" by 1900. Maney built the second railroad into Oklahoma City, when the territory opened in 1889, and then worked closely with Classen and Olverhoser to focus on the growth and development in Oklahoma City. Maney's legacy is sealed by the historic Maney House, the mansion he resided in until is death in 1945, that is now used as a bed and breakfast.
The new city continued to grow at a steady rate until December 4, 1928, when oil was discovered in the city. Oil wells popped up everywhere, even on the south lawn on the capitol building, and the sudden influx of oil money within the city and throughout the state greatly accelerated the city's growth. While those who had made money during this early oil boom largely escaped the Depression, the majority of Americans and Oklahomans were not so lucky. By 1935, rural migrants and unemployed workers had built a massive shanty town (or "Hooverville" after president Herbert Hoover) on the south bank of the North Canadian River. The river often flooded, bringing disease and misery to the people living there. As part of the "New Deal", the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps greatly reduced the level of the river to prevent flooding (a move which would later become a problem for city leaders stuck with a nearly empty river) and built one of the first experiments with public housing in the country.
A municipal-owned Elm Grove camp built in 1932 and which offered better amenities to residents who paid $1 a day or donated eight hours or labor. The camp was eliminated in 1933 because of a fear that it would attract more homeless residents to the city. A May Avenue Camp continued to exist in 1939. In 1933, the city planning commission recommended a policy restricting African Americans' ability to stay in white residential areas within the city (see sundown town).
The Second World War and the growing war industries brought recovery to the nation and Oklahoma City, and the post war period saw Oklahoma City become a major hub in the national Interstate Highway System. Additionally, Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City became the largest air depot in the country in the post war period, a fact which made Oklahoma City the likely target for a possible Soviet nuclear strike. As the civil rights era dawned, downtown Oklahoma City became the site of a revolution in civil rights tactics. History teacher Clara Luper and some of her students from nearby Douglass High School led the first "sit in" in American history to desegregate the lunch counter at a downtown department store in 1958. When they succeeded, the tactic was adopted throughout the country, notably by the young activists of SNCC.
With the support of Stanley Draper and the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the city government launched a "Great Annexation Drive" in 1959, quintupling Oklahoma City's legal boundaries from 80 square miles (210 km2) to 433 square miles (1,120 km2) in just over two years. Draper was concerned that Oklahoma City's peripheral cities and towns might block future urban developments and dominate city facilities, hampering long-range planning. He believed that annexation would allow the city to grow to provide the facilities industry required but which the surrounding communities did not have the resources to support. By the end of 1961, Oklahoma City had overtaken Los Angeles as the largest U.S. city by land mass. The annexation policy led to ballooning costs for services such as fire and police departments, roads, and lighting. In a 1965 special election, the Oklahoma City voters approved a sales tax by a margin of more than 2-1 to raise funds for expanding services.
From February 3 to July 29, 1964, Oklahoma City was subjected to eight sonic booms per day in a controversial experiment known as the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests. The intent was to quantify the sociological and economic costs of a supersonic transport aircraft. The experiment resulted in 15,400 damage claims. The persistence of the experiment and the 94% rejection rate of damage claims led to turmoil at all levels of government and embroiled Senator Mike Monroney's office in a battle with the Federal Aviation Administration. The embarrassment over the Oklahoma City experiments partially contributed to the demise of the Boeing 2707 SST project seven years later.
As the 1960s continued, however, Oklahoma City began to decline. By 1970, "white flight" and suburbanization had drained the life from the central business district and the surrounding areas. The oil beneath the city had begun to dry up, and property values declined. The city leaders then engaged in a disastrous program of "urban renewal" which succeeded primarily in demolishing much of the aging theater district. Despite popular conjecture, the impressive Biltmore Hotel was not originally targeted to be taken down by the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority. Plans drawn up for downtown's redevelopment by I.M. Pei always assumed the building would remain open for business. After a $3 million renovation in the mid-1960s, the hotel was renamed the Sheraton-Oklahoma Hotel. But, the operation could not turn a profit, and in 1973, hotel owners agreed with the authority the building had outlived its useful life and needed to be demolished. The city had planned to build a massive shopping mall called "The Galleria" downtown, but money for renewal ran out before they could construct more than the parking garage for it. This left downtown Oklahoma City in even worse shape than it had been in, with vacant lots where Victorian brownstones once stood. The 1970s and 1980s were periods of stagnation for Oklahoma City proper (and was the case for almost all major cities in the United States) and periods of affluence and explosive development for the suburbs. With the exception of The Myriad Gardens, little was done to improve the inner city or the central business district during this time, even as the oil boom of the late 1970s brought a flood of money into the area.
By 1992, the city was in such dire need of improvement that it was losing jobs, population, and even air carriers to more attractive cities. With this in mind, Mayor Ron Norick pushed through a massive plan for capital improvements throughout downtown called the Metropolitan Area Projects Plan, or MAPS. MAPS called for a five-year, one-cent sales tax to fund a new ballpark, a canal through Bricktown, a new central library, a large indoor arena, renovations to the fairgrounds and the civic center, and a series of low water dams on the North Canadian River to make it attractive and accessible to small boats. Though still stinging from the failure of "urban renewal", the people of Oklahoma City passed the measure, eventually raising over 1 billion dollars for improvements to the city and bringing life back to the central city.
In the midst of this atmosphere of optimism and change, Timothy McVeigh drove a rented truck full of explosives to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The explosion killed 168 people (including 19 children) and injured more than 680, as well as damaging and destroying many surrounding buildings. Until the attacks of September 11, it was the largest terrorist attack on American soil, and it remains the single largest domestic terrorist attack in American history.
The site is now home to the Oklahoma City National Memorial. The memorial was designed by Oklahoma City architects Hans and Torrey Butzer, and Sven Berg and was dedicated by President Clinton on April 19, 2000, exactly five years after the bombing. Oklahoma City has since rebuilt, and except for the memorial, there is little evidence of the bombing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation led an investigation, known as OKBOMB, the largest criminal case in America's history (FBI agents conducted 28,000 interviews, amassed 3.5 short tons (3.2 t) of evidence, and collected nearly one billion pieces of information). Special Agent in Charge Weldon L. Kennedy. commanded the largest crime task force since the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The task force included 300 FBI agents, 200 officers from the Oklahoma City Police Department, 125 members of the Oklahoma National Guard, and 55 officers from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.
As Oklahoma City moves through the 21st century, new changes continue to bring population, jobs, entertainment, and improvement. In 2004, a new Dell call center brought over 250 jobs, and plans to employ over 19,000 more jobs in the future. 2005 brought Oklahoma its first major league basketball franchise, the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, followed by becoming the permanent home of the renamed Seattle NBA franchise, now the Oklahoma City Thunder, in 2008. Many other corporations are making Oklahoma City their home and the population is once again increasing at a very high rate. Also, a new addition to the downtown skyline, Devon Energy Center, was completed in 2012, with 52 stories and a height of 850 feet.
Oklahoma is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla, 'people' and humma, which translates as 'red'. Oklahoma is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-owned lands until the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 authorized the Land Rush of 1889 opening the land to white settlement.
With ancient mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains, Cross Timbers, and the U.S. Interior Highlands, all regions prone to severe weather. Oklahoma is at a confluence of three major American cultural regions. Historically, it served as a government-sanctioned territory for American Indians moved from east of the Mississippi River, a route for cattle drives from Texas and related regions, and a destination for Southern settlers. There are currently 26 Native American languages spoken in Oklahoma. According to the 2020 U.S. census, 14.2 percent of Oklahomans identify as American Indians, the highest indigenous population by percentage in any state.
A major producer of natural gas, oil, and agricultural products, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly two-thirds of Oklahomans living within their metropolitan statistical areas.
The very common M23 northern section, and the short stretch of Ringway 2 it would have connected to. Taken from a Geographers' London to the South Coast map from early 1972.
Hello Everyone! Wow it has been a LONG time since I last updated this thing! I have been very busy with PC stuff, Sheep breeders stuff, field paper stuff (not as much as I should be though) and community integration (which is really just hanging out with host country nationals). Below is a brief description regarding what I have done in the past few weeks, and what I will be doing in upcoming weeks.
Success story for CSHI (an AID funded project)
I am getting a lot of practice writing success stories for implementing agencies for submission to USAID. Last fiscal quarter I wrote a story for the association development department of Land O'Lakes and a few weeks ago I wrote a story for another project, CSHI (community Self-Help initiative). The story was about how the sheep breeders association has helped its members improve their products and their business in general, and therefore, their incomes. If you want to read it, send me an email Ill send you the story.
Mickey Mouse Gives us Money!
Shaun and I authored a proposal at the end of January for something called World Youth Service Day which happens over April 15-17. We applied for funds to conduct a park clean up with 40 children from Gostivar ages 10-14. We found out that we received funding right before we were leaving for our in-service. Once we complete the event I will fully recount the affair on the blog. Thanks, Mickey!
Mid Point In-Service training (or was it a 2/3 point service training?)
From February 28th through March 2nd MAK 8 (my training group), was in the Southwestern Macedonian town of Strumica, located near the Bulgarian border. We were there for our mid-service training (although mid service for MAK 8 was December).
It was the best training we have had, due in part to the fact that about ten of us sort of hi-jacked the training early on. Previous trainings had many sessions that were presented by people who dont particularly understand what it is that we want or need. Those of us involved in the hi-jacking composed a detailed list of things that we did want and need, for example, training in adult English education classes or how to conduct a project design and management workshop.
Most of the sessions were facilitated by other volunteers and they all covered information that was interesting and relevant. And as of today, I have less than 8 months left as a PCV in Macedonia. Yippee.
Trip to Agriculture & Food Products Fair in Greece
On the weekend of March 5th and 6th I accompanied my sheep breeder friends to visit the Agriculture and Food Products fair in Thessalonica, Greece. Many of you know my previous experiences of traveling with host country nationals have not been pleasant (think Vienna or Germany with the Mayor) so I was dreading this trip. Fortunately though, it went remarkably well. We went with a few professors from the University of Skopjes agriculture department, a few students and 2 Land O'Lakes Macedonia folks. We had a chartered bus and things were all very well arranged, no catastrophe to report. I was also able to meet up with one of the MAK 7 volunteers, Kevin, who now lives in Thessalonica. It was good to see him and catch up, too.
Here is a photo of a few of the sheep breeders from the western regional association trying some Greek Feta cheese.
Another Snow Storm
When we returned to Macedonia it was sort of a rude awakening, the weather in Greece had been warm, about 70 degrees, with no clouds in sight. In Macedonia it was cold and rainy. Welcome home. Upon my return I went directly to bed, but when I woke the next morning there was about 6 inches of freshly fallen snow. When is spring supposed to be here?
Project Design & Management seminar for the OSCE
A few of us PCVs have offered to train some local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in project design and management. The Organization for Security and Cooperation has asked for us to train about 15 active NGOs (9 in Skopje, 6 in Tetovo) in how to design, implement and manage small scale development projects.
I am really excited to do this because it will be nice to share this kind of information with people that are looking to do some good projects, rather than just chase money (as is frequently the case with municipalities and less reputable NGOs). It will also be fun to meet new people in the NGO sector.
Bosnian Sheep Breeders come for a Visit!
I found out last week that a delegation of sheep breeders from Bosnia will pay us a visit in late April. Im really excited to meet these guysrest assured a big story will be on the blog after their visit!
Organizing the Cheese & Wine Festival
Last year Macedonia Competitiveness Activity (MCA), Land O'Lakes and ScanAgri (the Swedish agriculture aid organization) organized a wine and cheese festival in the tourist town of Ohrid. Local cheese and wine producers were able to market and sell their products at a fair type venue; it was very festive and fun.
This year the Sheep breeders association (with generous support from MCA, Land O'Lakes and ScanAgri) is organizing the festival, which in this early stage means that I am organizing the festival. I am working on the project plans and getting all of the documentation in order (because we are getting a grant from MCA for it) and it is taking up a considerable amount of time (and patience). Once all the paper work is finished we will begin organizing stuff and then we will train the sheep breeders in how to do everything like writing proposals and budgets, contacting advertising agencies and working with the host city. I anticipate that this will be a great experience both for me and the sheep breeders. And I cant wait to eat cheese and drink wine!
Local Elections
Last weekend was local election time and due to the slight possibility that violence may erupt we PCVs were grounded. I love living in Gostivar and I rarely want to leave, but being told that we were not allowed to leave made it feel a little stifling. No violence to report from here though, just a lot of noise around 11:00pm and parading cars with Flags representing Albanian political parties and the Albanian flag. Round II of the elections is the 26th and 27th. I plan to be hard at work on my field paper that weekend though
Skoka (Jump!)
Sunday, March 13 was the day that people ask each other for forgiveness here in Macedonia. Part of the ritual is jumping over a small fire, and then later trying to catch an egg in your mouth. To be honest, I dont fully understand the traditions, and I dont know if they do either, but it was fun. Here are a few photos of the activities I participated in along with the family from who I rent my apartment.
Open study spaces are available in the new Science Building, which has completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Another example of St. Peter's Way shown as a motorway. The reason for it being shown as motorway in many maps from the time could be that it was a former route option for the M3 into London which was later discarded, with part of it re-used for this link. Taken from a National Road Atlas of Great Britain from 1977.
This is one of the projects planned for spring/summer 2009. This very bare backside of the shed faces my neighbor. I like her and want her to have something pretty to look at. She's one of those ladies that has gnomes, birdfeeders, plastic tulips and giant tractor tires full of flowers. I like her yard...it's like living next door to my Grammy. (Oh, and she swears like a pirate...I love that).
I don't know what I'll get to grow up the trellis yet, as it's a fairly shady spot. I haven't sketched it in, but I really think a vintage metal lawn chair is in order. A friend down the road has an great old door for me. She gave me an old kettle as well. I plan to add at least one cat silhouette. Everything else was scavenged from the roadside, the local junk shop, the dollar store, or gifted.
Who knows, maybe I'll even throw in a handful of plastic tulips...
The main stairwell leads up 3 floors as interior spaces in the new Science Building have completed construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
The Rover 800 Series is an executive car range manufactured by the Austin Rover Group subsidiary of British Leyland, and its successor the Rover Group from 1986 to 1999. It was also marketed as the Sterling in the United States. Co-developed with Honda, it was a close relative to the Honda Legend and the successor to the Rover SD1.
Partnership with Honda
The first product of the BL-Honda alliance was the Triumph Acclaim - and shortly after its launch the two companies mapped out a advisable strategy for future collaborative projects. Plans for a midsize car were investigated, but were dropped because BL already had the Austin Maestro and Austin Montego in the final stages of development. However both BL and Honda had a pressing need for a full-size executive car in their lineups. BL had to start planning for a successor to the Rover SD1, whilst Honda was keen to expand its presence in the lucrative North American market - something which it couldn't fully do unless it had a full-size luxury saloon (at that time the Honda Accord was its biggest model) which would compete with similar large Japanese imports from Toyota and Datsun. Joint development of the car began in 1981 under the "XX" codename; the corresponding Honda version was known as the Honda Legend, and was codenamed as "HX". The development work was carried out at Rover's Cowley plant and Honda's Tochigi development centre. Both cars shared the same core structure and floorpan, but they each had their own unique exterior bodywork and interior. Under the agreement, Honda would supply the V6 petrol engine, both automatic and manual transmissions and the chassis design, whilst BL would provide the 4-cylinder petrol engine and much of the electrical systems, including defective fusebox and heater.
Honda and Austin Rover agreed that Legends would also be built in the Cowley plant for the British market. The US-market (Acura) Legends were built in Japan.
It was finally launched on 10 July 1986, taking the place of the decade-old Rover SD1.
Coupé
A two-door three-box coupé version was launched in early 1992, having debuted at the 1991 Motor Show. This specification had originally been developed with the American market in mind but was never sold there, with Rover having pulled out of the US market before the Coupé's launch. It was, however, sold to other export markets. Eighty percent of the interior and exterior of the 800 Coupé was finished by hand. The original Rover 800 had also formed the basis for the coupe version of the Honda Legend after its 1986 launch, but at the time Rover had decided against launching a coupe version of the 800 Series.
From February 1992 until 1996, the Rover 800 Coupe came exclusively with the 2.7 Honda V6 engine and 16" Rover 'Prestige' alloys. A four-speed automatic transmission came as standard, and the car was capable of well over 130 mph.
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