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Whilst the M27 has the M271 and M275 already as spurs, a further one is definitely known to have been planned as an access route into Southampton from the Swaythling area, the M272. Today it exists as a single carriageway route interrupted by traffic lights. Taken from a Geographia Atlas from the early 1970s.
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
Excerpt from From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whilst a previous image in the set showed the northern extension planned for the M57, here we can see the full route that should have been built, providing a complete 'half ring' around Liverpool, connecting all it's major radial routes. Taken from a Geographia Atlas from the mid 1970s.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation. In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will: • Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues. • Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world. Panel Discussion: MODERATOR: Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex PANELISTS: Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A. Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP) Panel Discussion: PANELISTS: Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation PARTICIPANTS: Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
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
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
No repair kit - the year markers on the wall indicate the flood water levels. The geometry of this bike is weird - the seat tube is bent forward, I wonder how uncomfortable this bike is to ride. Could be the reason it was abandon.
The Walterdale Bridge trail connections were officially opened on September 6, 2018 after many years of delays.
I C Art
Launched in July 2015, I C Art is a programme created and funded by Hamilton Davies Trust (HDT) to bring art to Irlam and Cadishead. It aims to create sites of interest across the area through the introduction of artwork in various forms, which can help to connect to the area’s heritage and environment, celebrating the present and past whilst simultaneously looking forward to the future. It can complement regeneration and be a showcase for local skills, brightening up some unloved or run down spaces, and enhancing pride through volunteer participation in the programme. It is also a great way of raising aspirations and fuelling the imagination.
Extremely passionate about urban art – HDT believe it will provide pleasure to local people; further enhance the appearance of the local environment and also attract visitors to the area. With the majority of projects planned as outdoor attractions, it will also be visible, accessible and free for everyone across the district to enjoy and get involved.
HDT engaged the services of local artist Rachelle Cleary, who recruited a team of 15 volunteers to complete the first major piece of art for the programme. Entitled ‘Bridging the Gap’ the piece tells the story of the areas industrial heritage and railways depicting a link between the people from the past through time to the present day, with the bridge as a central theme. The artwork is displayed on the Liverpool platform at Irlam Station, with a replica featured at what was once Phulphil Garage on the corner of Dudley Road and Liverpool. Why not pop down and take a look?
For further information about the programme visit the HDT website.
Interested in getting involved? Then why not get in touch? Anyone can be part of the team, it doesn’t matter if you can’t paint or draw. Creative ideas for future pieces or potential sites, help to research and prepare artwork or an extra pair of hands for its installation are all welcome. If you do have art skills however, these are most definitely welcome too.
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
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
Genero offers a comprehensive package of services to assist you in the delivery of your events programme. Our Event Delivery services can be tailored to meet your exacting requirements, from creative design to the supply of set and stage, lighting, sound, vision, communication and presentation support. Our Pre-production services include video production, event theming and brand awareness.
We specialise in the production and staging of live events, audio visual equipment hire and presentation creation. We provide fresh and creative end-to end solutions in the field of event delivery and multi-media communication.
Our success is based on the combination of three event management skills; creativity, production expertise and logistical experience. We can ensure consistent delivery across all media including:
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• Award Ceremonies
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We define our solutions as being offered in scalable tiers. Our resources can cater for your specific needs at any stage of your project process from initial concept to final completion. We can support your strategic marketing, creative and production solutions in preparation of your event:
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Another example of the plan for the M27's extension to Chichester. That was as far as the motorway was ever planned to go, contrary to a misconception that it was part of a South Coast Motorway that would extend from Exeter all the way to Dover. Taken from a Geographia Atlas from the mid 1970s.
SketchnoteHangout.com and SketchnoteLDN collaboration ‘365 #SNchallenge’ is back for the second year.
The theme for September 2018 is Project Planning. Download your printables and get started and at the end of the month practice what you've learned by creating a sketchnote. This month has two pages:
• Page 1 'Project Planning' icon calendar plus tips and tricks for planning a project by Nidhi Narula and Makayla Lewis
• Page 2 Sketchnote practice 'planning a project'
Share your progress daily, weekly or at the end of the month with @SN_Hangout and @SketchnoteLDN using #SNChallenge on Twitter, Instagram or Flickr.
Happy Sketchnoting!
Download Icon & Sketchnote Challenge printables at www.gumroad.com/snchallenge
To find out more about both events please go to:
SketchnoteLDN www.meetup.com/SketchnoteLDN/
Sketchnote Hangout www.sketchnotehangout.com
Week 2 of my new year's resolution. This one went about a thousand times better than last week's, apparently all I had to do was appease Lottie by letting her climb all over Telly.
This week I have a shoot planned with Knox, and one with Lottie. I'm hoping the mohair I ordered will arrive because I have a big project planned with Knox, if not I'll most likely finish sanding the dog's neck so that I can blush him. I also bought a bunch of supplies for a swap I'm in on DOA, as it turns out the bjd I'm making stuff for has a very similar style to Telly, so I'll make him some stuff at the same time :)
The world needs a fair and real deal on climate change. Let us act now!
Nikon D40 (EU Trainers Training and Project Planning Workshop, December 2009)
People take a tour the construction process of the new physical science building on Tuesday, September 11, 2019 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
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joined virtually by Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng as they take part in an event in Ottawa on Monday, May 31, 2021 to announce the launch of The Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund that will provide loans of up to $250,000 for businesses that are majority Black-owned, or entrepreneurs for their startups or existing for-profit small businesses. Social enterprises, partnerships and co-operative businesses are also eligible for the financing.
The government says applicants must have a business number, a business plan and financial statements, or project plans in the case of startups.
The Liberal government seeded the loan fund with $33.3 million, while the remainder of the $291.3 million program comes from a $130-million infusion from Business Development Bank of Canada, a Crown corporation, and $128 million split between the country's biggest banks and two credit unions.
The Federation of African Canadian Economics will administer the loans, which will initially flow through BDC, and credit unions Alterna Savings and Vancity.
Interstate 5 will be rerouted to meet with the new El Chaparral Port of Entry in Tijuana.
Estimated Completion: Sept 2015
E&N Railtrail -- from Times-Colonist A1 Thursday, April 16, 2009.
"Trying figure out how to get the most for their stretched dollars, municipal politicians took a first-hand look at sections of the proposed E&N Rail Trail yesterday. They face a tough task. Not only is the $20.2-million project short $9 million in funding, work also has to be co-ordinated with major road projects planned in coming months in View Royal, Esquimalt and Victoria. That has Oak Bay Mayor Christopher Causton, who chairs the Capital Regional District parks committee, looking for consensus among municipalities over what sections can and should be developed first.
Particularly daunting is a one-kilometre stretch in Langford in the Millstream-Atkins area estimated to cost $4 million. That's because extensive retaining walls have to be built. To avoid that cost, it has been suggested the trail could temporarily tie into the Galloping Goose Trail and then onto bike lanes on
Wale Road and Goldstream Avenue."
GPS Coordinates on E&N: 48°26'55.62"N 123°28'20.69"W
I walked the Langford/Millstream/Atkins section of the E&N Railline, April 2, 2009. That day two heavy rail maintenance machines were working this section near the E&N, 7-Mile Marker. Please see photos. I asked one of the workers if this was the start of the proposed railtrail upgrade and he stated it was routine "track levelling".
Anyway, it occurred to me that if the project is short of funds and the exact methodology of building the railtrail are not quite finalized, may I suggest building the easier parts of the trail first then tackling these trouble-spots later. The proposed railtrail only has value if it has continuity for the pedestrian and
cycling traffic for which it will serve.
To this end, the Langford/Millstream/Atkins section could be initially built as single-track using nothing more technologically advanced then the machine seen in the photos which serves to "level track". One can see, if the trailside, single-track swath made by the machine were packed down sufficiently, it would be ideal for pedestrians and cyclists.
Those users not mature enough to share single-track with other users, could use the alternated route suggested: The Galloping Goose Trail or the roadway. Once past the single-track section, these users could rejoin the railtrail.
WJI
About WJI
He has walked and cycled the entire length of the Galloping Goose Trail from the Blue Bridge to Leechtown, Sooke, BC – and return -- on two separate occasions. WJI has photographed every section and trail marker of said trail since 2007. WJI has cycled the Lochside Trail from Spring Bridge to Sidney and return. He has cycled Colquitz Park to Glendale Trail and behind Elk Lake through to the Lochside and has cycled the entire length of the Interurban Trail. WJI has cycled the entire length of the Trans Canada Trail -- in both directions -- from Sooke Lake Road to Lake Cowichan including the Kinsol TrestleBypass. He is regular user of Hartland Surplus Mountain Bike Area. WJI walks 100km on average each month and cycles approximately the same distance. WJI desperately needs this new E&N Railtrail!
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
Excerpt from From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
The Regierungsgebäude (or government building) of the Principality of Liechtenstein was built between 1903 and 1905 and has been the seat of the government ever since. The building, located in the center of Vaduz, was also the seat of the State Parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein, with interruptions, until the opening of the new state parliament building in 2008.
At the turn of the 19th century (leading into the 20th century), the state authorities and their offices were housed in different buildings throughout Vaduz, including the old princely tavern and the bailiff's house. These spaces were cramped and not practically functional. On June 12, 1899, the Liechtenstein state parliament asked the government to take the necessary steps to create a new Liechtenstein government building. The regional administrator, Karl von In der Maur, turned to the then ruling Prince Johann II, who resided mainly in Vienna, Bohemia, and Moravia. The prince commissioned his architect Gustav Ritter von Neumann to draw up project plans, which feature Jugenstil (Art Nouveau), Beaux-Arts, Romantic, and historicist design elements. The building cost around 380,000 crowns, which was around 25% more than the state revenue in 1905. The building could only be realized because Prince Johann II made the building site available free of charge and paid 100,000 crowns from his private coffers. The government building was opened at a state parliament session on December 28, 1905.
Information from: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regierungsgeb%C3%A4ude_(Liechtenstein)
Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein and also the seat of the national parliament. The small city, which is located along the Rhine, had about 5,700 residents in the 2020s. One of the most prominent landmarks of Vaduz is Vaduz Castle, perched atop a steep hill overlooking the city. It is home to the reigning prince of Liechtenstein and the Liechtenstein princely family. The city's distinctive architecture is also displayed in the landmarks of its historic district. Although Vaduz is internationally the best-known town in the principality, it is not the largest; the neighboring municipality of Schaan has a larger population.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaduz
Dave MacDonald, Mayor of the District of Port Edward and Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, met at the BC Legislature to review potential economic benefits from a significant LNG project planned for Lelu Island in the district.
High Paddington was a scheme, never built, for a vertical town of 8000 people over Paddington goods yard.
From the intro:
"PADDINGTON, like other London boroughs, is having to provide homes for many thousands of its people who are now living in conditions regarded to-day as unacceptable. There already exist standards of size and amenities for homes which are generally considered to be a useful guide for solving such problems; our task is now to devise the best way of applying these standards in practice.
The scale of Paddington's problem is to provide homes for about eight thousand people—virtually a small town. As other boroughs have similar problems, it is clear that the solution for Paddington must spring from the bigger national issue of how to build to the accepted standards on this gigantic scale to the greatest benefit to the country as a whole. If it is necessary for us as a nation to use such a large part of our capital and resources in housing our people and expanding our towns, then it is obviously prudent to make sure that we do not do this at the expense of other aspects of our economy— agriculture and industry—for which we find it equally necessary to use our resources and capital.
Our problem now becomes more clearly defined. We have to build on the scale of a small town, to the accepted standards of size and amenity, and in so doing assist rather than hinder agriculture and industry, as in this way the nation as a whole would appear to benefit most from the very large outlay of capital and resources entailed."
More from the intro with the following pics -->
The regional TA will support the Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program in addressing market gaps while strengthening financing for home improvement and upgrading housing and access to water supply and sanitation through the provision of loan loss guarantees, targeting these end-use specific loans. The TA addresses bottlenecks by providing a first-loss guarantees on loans that partner financial institutions extend to MFIs, specifically targeted at home improvement and improving access to water and sanitation In addition, the TA will also provide capacity building to MFIs covering: (i) product development, project planning and implementation with the targeted micro-borrowers; (ii) training of MFI staff; (iii) establishing guidelines for climate-resilient model housing and materials; and (iv) creating local language content knowledge-dissemination and training materials. Given the requirements of the TA providers; the TA has been designed and is being implemented on a regional basis.
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Building Community Resilience through Microfinance in Lagging Peri-Urban Settlements
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
The Abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , more precisely Fleury Abbey , is a Benedictine abbey which stands on the territory of the French commune of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in the Loiret department in the Centre-Val region of Loire .
The first monastery founded in the early Middle Ages in 651 was one of the first in Gaul to live according to the rule of Saint Benedict and the relics of Saint Benedict were transferred there. At the beginning of the 11th century , the abbey was one of the cultural centers of the West and then shone thanks to its important library and its scriptorium . After a fire in 1026, the current church was rebuilt and its porch tower occupied an important place at the beginning of the period dominated by Romanesque art , due to the high quality of the sculptures on the capitals.
The abbey church is classified as a historic monument . The site is located in the eastern part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Location
Fleury Abbey is located in the territory of the commune of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , 650 meters from the north bank of the Loire and 114 meters above sea level, in the French department of Loiret and the natural region of the Loire Valley . The abbey church is accessible via Rue Orléanaise (departmental road 60), Rue and Place de l'Abbaye.
History
Introduction of the Benedictine rule in France
The origin of the Benedictine rule in France is described in the life of Saint Maur which is a forgery, written by Odo de Glanfeuil (en) in the 9th century 1 .
The bishop of Le Mans , during the lifetime of Saint Benedict , sent religious from his diocese to Monte Cassino to learn about the rule of Saint Benedict . On the day of Epiphany 542 , Saint Maurus left Monte Cassino and Benedict of Nursia. He spent the Easter period near Auxerre in a place called Font-Rouge near a solitary man called Romain who had given the monastic habit to Benedict of Nursia. He arrived with his monks in Orléans where he attempted, without success, to introduce the Benedictine rule at the abbey of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs, which later took the name of Saint-Aignan note 1 . Following the death of the bishop of Le Mans , Saint Innocentus, and the refusal of his successor to receive Saint Maur, he remained in Orléans, then headed to Angers , where with the help of Count Florus, he created Glanfeuil Abbey . This is Odo's story, but it has no historical value 2 .
The first oratories
Under the episcopate of the Bishop of Orléans Leodegarius , the abbot of the Saint-Aignan collegiate church of Orléans , Léodebold, wished to introduce the rule of Saint Benedict into his abbey. Faced with the refusal of his monks, he decided to found a new abbey. For this he exchanged with the Frankish king Clovis II and the support of his wife Bathilde , favorable to the establishment of new abbeys, a property that he owned with the Gallo-Roman villa of Floriacum near Orléans and the edges Of the loire. The same year of his exchange, in 651, he sent monks, probably including Liébaut and Rigomaire , the future first abbots of Fleury, to found the new abbey. They probably initially used the old buildings of this royal possession. One of the oratories founded is dedicated to Saint Peter , the other to the Virgin Mary 3 , 2 .
The relics of Saint Benedict
Mommolin , the second abbot of Fleury, having a mystical vision of Saint Benedict , asked one of his monks, Aigulfe , to go to Italy and bring back to the abbey of Fleury the body of Saint Benedict which was then in the abandoned monastery of Monte Cassino . Aigulfe goes to Rome with monks from Le Mans who wish to bring back the relics of Saint Scholastica buried next to Saint Benedict. There he collected the bodies of Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica. Despite the pope's opposition, the return of Aigulfe and his companions with the relics of Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica to the abbey of Fleury took place inJune 655. The body of Saint Scholastica was then given to the monks who came from Le Mans. The body of Saint Benedict was first placed in the Saint-Pierre church then, finally, buried in the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary inDecember 655. The abbey then took the name of Saint-Benoît de Fleury or Saint-Benoît-Fleury. The date of this translation varies according to the authors: 653 for Mabillon, 655 for Dom Chazal, 660 for the Benedictines of the 17th century . The date of 660 might make more sense if we consider that the pope at the time of this transfer was Vitalian 3 .
Around 752-754, monks from the Abbey of Monte Cassino, accompanied by Carloman , came to the abbey accompanied by the Archbishop of Reims to take back the relics of Saint Benedict on the order of Pope Zacharias and King Pepin the Brief . Legend has it that a miracle by Saint Benedict meant that Abbot Medon gave the monks of Montecassino only a few bones from the body of Saint Benedict 3 .
In 887, a portion of the relics of Saint Benedict were given to the monastery of Perrecy-les-Forges dependent on the abbey of Fleury-Saint-Benoît. At the request of Pope Urban V , in 1364, they were sent to Montpellier , then in 1725, given to the Bec Abbey (Le Bec-Hellouin). At the request of the King of Poland Stanislaus Leszczyński , in 1736, a small part of the saint's bones was donated to the monastery of Saint Leopold, in Russia and after the French Revolution , donations of relics of Saint Benedict were more numerous
A first monastery founded in the High Middle Ages , theJune 27, 651, is then located in the Kingdom of the Franks 5 , 6 . This monastery is one of the first in Celtic Gaul to live according to the rule of Saint Benedict . The relics of Saint Benedict were transferred there by monks who went to look for the abandoned bones of their master, which is the origin of the current name of the abbey 7 .
The temporal is constituted, after Leodebold who gives in his will the domain of Fleury, around 670, the king of the Franks of Neustria and the Burgundians Clotaire III confirms to the abbey goods which will form the priory of Saint-Benoît-du-Sault , then the king of the Franks Thierry III made a donation near Bordeaux as Pepin I , Charlemagne 's father had done before him. Between 691 and 720, a royal prince offered vast domains in the diocese of Langres where the abbot of Saint-Benoît created a monastery under his authority. Before 720, the monks cleared land which formed hermitages in the forest of Orléans , in Sologne and on the banks of the Loire.
In the first years of the 9th century , the bishop of Orléans Théodulphe governed the abbey. He held high positions under Charlemagne and wanted education to be given to all those who held office. The monks of Saint-Benoît agree to teach the young nobles. He built the Carolingian oratory of Germigny-des-Prés .
In the 9th century , the situation was prosperous, the Frankish king Louis the Pious visited the monastery, confirmed the privileges including that of operating four boats on the Loire, exempted the abbey from all religious and civil jurisdiction and the priory of La Réole is returned to him. With the rise of feudalism , the stronghold of Fleury was divided into thirteen town halls including Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , Guilly , Tigy , Germigny-des-Prés , Bray-en-Val and Châtenoy . The abbey has numerous serfs on its estates 3 .
In 845, King Charles the Bald visited the abbey. Around 853, the Normans went up the Loire and the monks received the monks from Touraine who fled with the relics of Saint Martin then left for Auxerre . The populations are in poverty, the fields are no longer cultivated and the crops are plundered. King Charles the Bald granted new domains to the abbey in the country of Mâcon, Autun and Chalon, including the domain of Perrecy-les-Forges which would become a rich monastery. He established the abbey law by separating the abbot's property from that of the monks.
The end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century was a period of weakening of religious discipline and decadence. King Carloman II visits the monastery which is in ruins, the convent buildings are no longer habitable, the church is devastated, the tomb of Saint Benedict is empty because the relics are in Orléans for security reasons. The king gives the order to repair the buildings and rebuild the church. The monks returned to the abbey in 883. A fort was built at the southeast corner of the monastery in 883.
Around 897, the Normans who still traveled the Loire with their ships returned to Saint-Benoît and plundered the monastery but the monks left with the body of Saint Benedict. After all these invasions we are witnessing the withering away of discipline
The new king Raoul of Burgundy elected in 922 knew Abbot Odon de Cluny and gave him the task of restoring the monastery on the banks of the Loire. The abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, which is in the royal domain, becomes the propagator of the Cluniac reform . The introduction of the methods of Cluny revives perfect fidelity to the Benedictine Rule , silence, prayer, work, frugality, abstinence and the divine office celebrated with as much splendor as possible. The number of religious increased and the monastery model served as a reference and transmitted the reform to the monasteries of France, Lorraine , Rhineland , Flanders , Brittany and England . Among his novices, an Englishman, Oswald became archbishop of York and spread reform in England.
Two abbots made Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire one of the cultural centers of the West: Abbon (from 988 to 1004) 9 and Gauzlin (from 1004 to 1030). The abbey then shines thanks to its important library and its scriptorium , which produced works such as the Fleury Games Book . The successor of Odo de Cluny , Abbot Abbon (988-1004) 10 , 9 , is an Orléanais who fights to preserve the assets of the abbey which the bishop of Orléans Arnoult 11 disputes with him because, since the Council of Chalcedon of 451, the bishop has all power over the abbeys of his diocese, controls the election of abbots and can intervene if necessary. Abbon obtained the Roman exemption from Pope Gregory V which was confirmed by Pope Benedict VIII 12 . We owe him works touching on grammar, dialectics , cosmography , computing , mathematics, liturgy , canon law and ecclesiastical history .
In 1004, King Robert the Pious had the natural son of Hugh Capet , Gauzlin raised at the abbey, designated as his abbot. Donations poured in from the Count of Gascony, the Norman ducal family and several lords of Spain. William I of Bellême gives the abbey of Lonlay in Normandy, Abbot Gauzlin sends brothers there and a monk named William
The buildings suffered a fire in 1026. The current building was rebuilt under the leadership of Gauzlin, then abbot of Saint-Benoît, from 1027. The work began with the porch tower, construction of which began a few years earlier and who seems to have escaped the fire.
The apse , the crypt and the choir were completed and consecrated in 1108, allowing the burial in the sanctuary, the same year, of the King of France Philip I. The nave continues to reach the porch tower with Gothic arches . Most of the building was completed around 1218.
In 1130, the abbey experienced one of the most beautiful days in its history when Bernard de Clairvaux came to bless the alliance of the Roman Church and the Capetian Monarchy between Pope Innocent II and King Louis VI the Fat .
At the beginning of the 13th century the abbey had around 170 religious . Around sixty monks live at the monastery, 70 in the large conventual priories of La Réole, Perrecy-les-Forges and Saint-Benoît-du-Sault and 40 in the small priories. But in 1299, finances were in a critical state and the number of religious was limited to 45 in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, 24 in La Réole, 20 in Perrecy-les-Forges and 12 in Saint-Benoît-du- Sault
The weakening
At the end of the Middle Ages , the abbey of Saint-Benoît, like its peers, suffered a decline. The number of his possessions and their dissemination lead to disputes with the laity and material concerns. In 1335, life was difficult for religious people who were extremely frugal. During the Hundred Years' War , extraordinary contributions had to be paid while revenues declined.
In 1358-1359, the English garrisoned Châteauneuf-sur-Loire , ravaged the surrounding area, and devastated the buildings and the monastery church. A fire completed its destruction then in 1363, a band of Bretons forced the abbey to pay a ransom. Around 1369, new bands ravaged the country.
In 1372, the state of the monastery was lamentable due to a lack of money to restore it and there was great difficulty in having the property usurped during the period of unrest returned. In 1415, there were only twenty-four religious left.
In 1429, Joan of Arc and Charles VII passed through Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire on the road which connects the castle of Sully-sur-Loire and that of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire which remained in French hands. In 1443, a petition to the pope depicted calamities, incursions of warriors, epidemics and famine. Resources are so limited that nothing can be done about the buildings. With abbots whose election is the result of intrigue, the community is divided, rebellious and blames the abbots for the frugality in which it lives. In 1471, the Parliament of Paris imposed a reform but its effect did not seem decisive. Soon the abbacy will be nothing more than a title and its income a prebend 8
The commendation regime
The end of the 15th century was marked by the first commendatory abbots . From now on, the abbots will be great lords, royal favorites, rarely present and anxious to collect large profits. The life of monks becomes more secular than religious. The effective power and influence, both spiritual and temporal, on their destinies pass into the hands of the priors. The officers and particularly the cellarer tend to make profits and there are fewer monks. The order is the revenge of the episcopate against the system of exemptions.
The first two commendatory abbots are elected by the religious. Cardinal Jean VI de La Trémoïlle (1486-1507) restored the church and the convent buildings. Cardinal Étienne Poncher (1507-1524) separated the dormitories into cells and completed the abbey dwelling.
In 1515, the concordat between Francis I and Pope Leo X granted the king the appointment of bishops and abbots.
The monks refused to welcome Cardinal Antoine Duprat (1525-1535) and François I came in person to install him. He demolished the Saint-Michel tower, of which only the peristyle and the upper floor remained. With his successor the abbey suffered alienations but the king granted the bourgeois of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire the rights of a town with the possibility of enclosing itself with walls.
With Cardinal Odet de Coligny -Châtillon (1551-1569) the treasure and the library were pillaged; he sides with the Calvinists . During the three following abbatiats, there was a total withering away of monastic discipline due to its isolation. Some abbeys joined together into a Gallican Congregation of Exempts.
Charles of Orléans (1584-1601), natural son of Charles IX, restored the monastery and the church destroyed by a fire but the unrest which shook the Orléanais led to numerous defections. There are only five clerics left armed by the League , the others are dispersed.
At the end of the 16th century the abbey's assets were squandered. After the conversion of Henry IV , the monks returned to the monastery but indiscipline was at its height
In 1618, the Congregation of Saint-Maur was founded, approved by Louis XIII and Pope Gregory XV in 1621. Very quickly several monasteries affiliated but many old religious resisted and were guaranteed an exceptional regime. The young people accept the reform with the ancient Benedictine observances: residence, silence, abstinence and the performance of religious services in their entirety. To this we add meditation and a great fervor for intellectual work.
Cardinal Richelieu , abbot of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire from 1621 to 1642, introduced the Reform of Saint-Maur into the abbey. THEMay 26, 1627, the chapter decides that the old and the new will form two communities, each with its own prior. In 1660, there was only one elder left, there were twenty Maurists, including the prior and the sub-prior, and they undertook the work of recovery. To enhance the splendor of worship, they whitewashed the church and embellished it with new ornaments. They taught philosophy, theology and rhetoric and a library was established. They find old titles in the archives and restore alienated rights. This new income made it possible to restore the buildings and gardens, a new shrine for the relics of Saint Benedict cost 15,000 pounds and a building was constructed to house it
In 1645, the movement of the entrance door gave rise to the publication of a map exposing the project: Plan et Figure de l'Abbaye, & Villenie de St Benoist su Loire .
In 1712, the construction of a large building containing the regular places began: cells, refectory and common room, two new wings, one of which joins the transept of the church and the other leads towards the apse. They house the chapter house, the sacristy, the infirmary, the hostelry, the library and the other operational annexes. The facades are lined with terraces overlooking the gardens with a panorama towards the valley and the Loire.
Jansenism was introduced into the teaching of the abbey schools where philosophy, theology, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, physics, mathematics and history were studied. The religious refuse to renounce this doctrine despite the injunctions of the Bishop of Orléans .
Around 1760, recruitment for cloisters became difficult, literature and philosophy discredited religious vows and the public witnessed the decline of monasteries.
In 1789, in the registers of grievances of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, the parishioners asked King Louis XVI for the creation of a college run by the Benedictines, free for local children and paying for foreigners
In 1788, there remained in the monastery only around ten monks and around fifteen novices who no longer respected the austerity of their Order. The decree ofApril 6, 1792on religious communities forces them to leave the abbey. Two religious sign the constitutional oath and practice in Bray-en-Val and Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, the other marries and remains in the village 16 .
Benoît Lebrun , a Parisian architect based in Orléans, purchased on 24 Fructidor Year IV all the buildings, 22 acres of land forming an enclosure surrounded by fishponds and attached to the abbey. He planned to install a factory there, but the project did not come to fruition. He also bought the church on the condition of rebuilding another one for the 900 parishioners of the town but exchanging it for that of Fleury. He demolished the buildings then sold the site to a local owner 16 , 17 .
Of the important library of several thousand works, only 231 volumes remain which are transported to the libraries of Orléans
From 1850, Félix Dupanloup , bishop of Orléans, wanted to reestablish monastic orders and in particular that of Saint Benedict. THEJanuary 6, 1865, he announced to the commune authorities the arrival of two Benedictines to administer the parish. The monastic community dispersed during the French Revolution of 1789 regained possession of the church but the real refoundation took place during the Second World War , in 1944, with the arrival of around ten monks from the Abbey of the Pierre-Qui-Vire in Saint-Léger-Vauban ( Yonne ) 3 , 18 .
The abbey, attached to an international union of abbeys and Benedictine houses called the Congregation of Subiaco , has 32 religious in 2017 and welcomes several hundred guests each year and nearly 100,000 visitors, tourists or pilgrims. The brothers make a living from sales in the monastic craft shop, from making monk-shaped candy, from hospitality and donations. Unlike the Congregation of Solesmes , the abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire has granted, since the reforms of Pope Paul VI , a large place for French during the divine office while retaining Gregorian chant at mass and for the main festivals
The monk designs intellectual education, then, the whole life of the spirit in relation to the encounter with God in the liturgy , prayer, meditated and prayed reading, memorization, recitation, infinitely repeated and internally ruminated commentary. . The love of letters is closely linked to this search for God 20 .
The abbey founded in 651 had the mission of establishing on the banks of the Loire the principles of the rule of Saint Benedict in a population where pagan beliefs persist despite the first attempts at Christianization . The Rule, which adapts to each country, can allow the elite to cultivate themselves, almsgiving is in the spotlight and the divine office is characterized by its variety and suggestive by its symbolism. This custom is widely distributed.
Liturgical life takes up a considerable place, the cultivation of the fields is ceded to lay people, the professions entrusted to servants and many religious are content with spiritual and intellectual activity
At the end of the 8th century , a reading room was set up and books were distributed, probably sermons and treatises by the Fathers of the Church . The monks copy manuscripts and are renowned for the quality of the calligraphy and illuminations , the style of which is also that of the Marmoutier Abbey (Tours) and which constitutes a school of the Loire distinct from that of Paris. From the 10th to the 12th century , the abbey hosted a large number of writers. Abbot Abbon writes treatises on all concepts. At the end of the 10th century the pope ordered a beautiful missal from the abbot . The treatise on the Miracula is written by four monks; it is a manuscript from the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century containing ten mysteries with musical notation which forms the outline of the Game of Saint Nicholas by the trouvère - minstrel Jean Bodel 21 , 8 , 22 .
At the end of the Middle Ages, intellectual activity waned and it was not until the 17th century that the Congregation of Saint-Maur was reformed that it regained new fervor. The monks work on the manuscripts and charters which fuel the great historical investigation of the French cleric and historian Jean Mabillon . In 1658, the archives were inventoried and historical notes written. Dom Chazal wrote, from 1697 to 1723, a work on the entire history of the abbey
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Last couple of months have been very hectic. Same will be the case for coming two months atleast that is what my project plans says. If all goes well, I will find myself a new magic button this Jan.
This picture is about an year and half old. I am never good at spotting birds, they have the perfect camouflage. This was shot at Lalbagh,Bangalore.
To all the folks in US, Happy Thanksgiving :)
American postcard by Fotofolio, N.Y., N.Y., no. GH5. Photo: George Hurrell. Caption: Jean Harlow, 1934.
American film actress Jean Harlow (1911–1937) was with her come-hither body, platinum blonde hair, and keen sense of humour, one of Hollywood's sex symbols of the 1930s. She had her breakthrough in Howard Hughes' World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930). Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde (1931) cemented her role as America's new sex symbol. In 1932, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the leading lady in a string of hit films. These included Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Among her frequent co-stars were William Powell, Spencer Tracy and, in six films, Clark Gable.
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri in 1911. The name is sometimes incorrectly spelt Carpentier, following later studio press releases. Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter was a dentist from a working-class background who attended dental school in Kansas City. Her mother, Jean Poe Carpenter née Harlow was the daughter of a wealthy real estate broker, Skip Harlow. Jean's father arranged the marriage for their underage daughter in 1908. Jean was resentful and became very unhappy in the marriage. The couple lived in Kansas City in a house owned by Jean's father. Harlean was nicknamed 'The Baby', a name that would stick with her for the rest of her life. Harlean and 'Mother Jean', as she became known when Harlean became a film star, remained very close. Harlean's mother was extremely protective and coddling, reportedly instilling a sense that her daughter owed everything she had to her. "She was always all mine", she said of her daughter. When Harlean was at school, her mother filed for a divorce that was finalised in 1922. She was granted sole custody of Harlean, who loved her father who would survive her by thirty-seven years. However, Harlean would rarely see him again. Mother Jean moved with Harlean to Hollywood in 1923 with hopes of becoming an actress but was too old at 34 to begin a film career. Young Harlean attended the Hollywood School for Girls but dropped out at age 14 in the spring of 1925. Finances dwindling, she and her mother moved back to Kansas City after Skip Harlow issued an ultimatum that he would disinherit Jean if she did not return. Several weeks later, Skip sent his granddaughter to a summer camp, Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, in Michigamme, Michigan, where she became ill with scarlet fever. Her mother travelled to Michigan to care for her, rowing herself across the lake to the camp but was told she could not see her daughter. Harlow attended the Ferry Hall School (now Lake Forest Academy) in Lake Forest, Illinois. Her mother had an ulterior motive for Harlean's attendance there, as it was close to the Chicago home of her boyfriend, Marino Bello. Each freshman was paired with a 'big sister' from the senior class, and Harlean's big sister introduced her to 19-year-old Charles 'Chuck' Fremont McGrew, heir to a large fortune, in the fall of 1926. Soon the two began to date and then married. In early 1927, Jean Carpenter also married Bello; Harlean was not present. Shortly after the wedding, the McGrews left Chicago and moved to Beverly Hills. McGrew turned 21 two months after the marriage and received part of his large inheritance. The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1928, settling into a home in Beverly Hills, where Harlean thrived as a wealthy socialite. McGrew hoped to distance Harlean from her mother with the move. Neither McGrew nor Harlean worked, and both, especially McGrew, were thought to drink heavily. In Los Angeles, Harlean befriended Rosalie Roy, a young aspiring actress. Lacking a car, Roy asked Harlean to drive her to Fox Studios for an appointment. Reputedly, Harlean was noticed and approached by Fox executives while waiting for her friend but stated that she was not interested. Nevertheless, she was given dictated letters of introduction to Central Casting. A few days later, Rosalie Roy bet Harlean that she did not have the nerve to go and audition. Unwilling to lose a wager and pressed by her enthusiastic mother, now back in Los Angeles, Harlean drove to Central Casting and signed in under her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow. After several calls from Central Casting and several rejected job offers, Harlean was pressed into accepting work by her mother. She appeared in her first film, Honor Bound (Alfred E. Green, 1928), as an unbilled extra. This led to small parts in feature films such as Moran of the Marines (Frank R. Strayer, 1928) with Richard Dix, This Thing Called Love (Paul L. Stein, 1929), Close Harmony (John Cromwell, 1929), and The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch, 1929), starring Maurice Chevalier. In December 1928, she signed a five-year contract with Hal Roach Studios for $100 per week. She had a co-starring role in Laurel and Hardy's short Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), and went on to appear in two more of their films: Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929) and Bacon Grabbers (Lewis R. Foster, 1929). In March 1929, however, she parted with Hal Roach, who tore up her contract after Harlow told him, "It's breaking up my marriage, what can I do?" In June 1929, Harlow separated from her husband and moved in with her mother and Bello. After her separation from McGrew, Harlow worked as an extra in several films. She landed her first speaking role in The Saturday Night Kid (A. Edward Sutherland, 1929), starring Clara Bow. The couple divorced in 1929. In late 1929, Jean was spotted by actor James Hall, who was filming Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930). Hughes revamped most of his originally silent film of 1927 with sound, and he needed an actress to replace Greta Nissen, who had a Norwegian accent that was considered to be undesirable for her character. Harlow made a test and got the part. In this film she uttered the immortal words "Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?" Hughes signed Harlow to a five-year, $100-per-week contract in 1929. Hell's Angels premiered in Hollywood on 27 May 1930, at Grauman's Chinese Theater, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1930, besting even Greta Garbo's talkie debut in Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930). Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale, 1930) made Harlow an international star. Although she was popular with audiences, critics were less than enthusiastic. The New Yorker called her performance "plain awful", though Variety magazine conceded, "It doesn't matter what degree of talent she possesses ... nobody ever starved possessing what she's got." During the shooting, Harlow met MGM executive Paul Bern. She was again an uncredited extra in the Charlie Chaplin film City Lights (1931), though her appearance did not make the final cut. With no projects planned for Harlow, Hughes sent her to New York, Seattle, and Kansas City for Hell's Angels premieres. In 1931, loaned out by Hughes to other studios, she gained more attention when she appeared in The Secret Six (George W. Hill, 1931), with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable; Iron Man (Tod Browning, 1931), with Lew Ayres and Robert Armstrong; and The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931), with James Cagney. Though the successes of the films ranged from moderate to hit, Harlow's acting was mocked by critics. Concerned, Hughes sent her on a brief publicity tour, which was not a success, as Harlow dreaded such personal appearances. Jean Harlow dated notorious New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman (aka 'Longy"), who secured a two-picture deal for her with Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures by loaning Cohn $500,000 in cash. He also purchased her a jewelled charm bracelet and a red Cadillac. Columbia Pictures cast her in Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra, 1931), with Loretta Young. The film, originally titled Gallagher, was renamed to promote Harlow, capitalising on her hair colour, called 'platinum' by Hughes' publicists. Though Harlow denied her hair was dyed, the platinum blonde colour was reportedly achieved by bleaching with a weekly application of ammonia, Clorox bleach, and Lux soap flakes. This process weakened and damaged Harlow's naturally ash-blonde hair. Many female fans began dyeing their hair to match hers. Howard Hughes' team organised a series of 'Platinum Blonde' clubs across the nation, with a prize of $10,000 to any beautician who could match Harlow's shade. No one could, the prize went unclaimed but Hughes' publicity worked and the nickname stuck with Harlow. Harlow next filmed Three Wise Girls (William Beaudine, 1932), for Columbia Pictures, with Mae Clark and Walter Byron. Paul Bern then arranged to borrow her for The Beast of the City (1932), co-starring Walter Huston. After filming, Bern booked a 10-week personal appearance tour on the East Coast. To the surprise of many, especially Harlow herself, she packed every theatre in which she appeared, often appearing in a single venue for several nights. Despite critical disparagement and poor roles, Harlow's popularity and following were large and growing and, in February 1932, the tour was extended by six weeks.
Jean Harlow was now romantically involved with MGM producer Paul Bern and he spoke to Louis B. Mayer about buying out her contract with Hughes and signing her to MGM, but Mayer declined. MGM's leading ladies were presented as elegant, while Harlow's 'floozy' screen persona was abhorrent to Mayer. Bern then began urging close friend Irving Thalberg, production head of MGM, to sign Harlow, noting her popularity and established image. After initial reluctance, Thalberg agreed and, on 3 March 1932, Harlow's 21st birthday, Bern called her with the news that MGM had purchased her contract from Hughes for $30,000. At MGM, Harlow was given superior movie roles to show off her looks and nascent comedic talent. Though Harlow's screen persona changed dramatically during her career, one constant was her apparent sense of humour. In 1932, she starred in the comedy Red-Headed Woman (Jack Conway, 1932), for which she received $1,250 a week. The film is often noted as being one of the few films in which Harlow did not appear with platinum blonde hair; she wore a red wig for the role. She next starred in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932), her second film with Clark Gable. Harlow and Gable worked well together and co-starred in a total of six films. She was also paired multiple times with Spencer Tracy and William Powell. At this point, MGM began trying to distinguish Harlow's public persona from that of her screen characters, changing her childhood surname from common 'Carpenter' to chic 'Carpentier', claiming that writer Edgar Allan Poe was one of her ancestors and publishing photographs of Harlow doing charity work to change her image from that of a tramp to an all-American girl. This transformation proved difficult; once, Harlow was heard muttering, "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?" During the making of Red Dust, Bern—her husband of two months—was found dead at their home. His death created a lasting scandal. Initially, Harlow was speculated to have killed Bern, but Bern's death was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Reportedly, the day after Bern's former common-law wife met Harlow, Bern shot himself. A few days later former Mrs. Bern was found floating in the Sacramento River, after allegedly committing suicide. Louis B. Mayer feared negative publicity from the incident and intended to replace Harlow in the film, offering the role to Tallulah Bankhead. Bankhead was appalled by the offer and wrote in her autobiography, "To damn the radiant Jean for the misfortune of another would be one of the shabbiest acts of all time. I told Mr. Mayer as much." Harlow kept silent, survived the ordeal, and became more popular than ever. A 2009 biography of Bern asserted that Bern was murdered by a former lover and the crime scene re-arranged by MGM executives to make it appear Bern had killed himself. After Bern's death, Harlow began an indiscreet affair with boxer Max Baer who, though separated from his wife Dorothy Dunbar, was threatened with divorce proceedings naming Harlow as a co-respondent for "alienation of affection", a legal term for adultery. After Bern's mysterious death, the studio did not want another scandal and defused the situation by arranging a marriage between Harlow and cinematographer Harold Rosson. Rosson and Harlow were friends and Rosson went along with the plan. They quietly divorced eight months later. By 1933, MGM realised the value of the Harlow-Gable team and paired them again in Hold Your Man (Sam Wood, 1933), which was also a box-office success. The same year, she played the adulterous wife of a ruthless tycoon (Wallace Beery) in the glittering all-star comedy-drama Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933), and played a pressured Hollywood film star in the screwball comedy Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933) with Lee Tracy. The film has often been cited as being based on Harlow's own life or that of the 1920s 'It Girl', Clara Bow. The film included Harlow's greedy stepfather, her nine-room Georgian-style home with mostly-white interiors, and her numerous pet dogs. The following year, she was teamed with Lionel Barrymore and Franchot Tone in The Girl from Missouri (Jack Conway, 1934). The film was the studio's attempt at softening Harlow's image, but suffered with censorship problems, so much so that its original title, Born to Be Kissed, had to be changed. In 1934, Jean Harlow went on a salary strike from MGM, during which she wrote a novel, 'Today is Tonight'. The book was not published until 1965. After the financial success of Red Dust and Hold Your Man, MGM cast Harlow with Clark Gable in two more successful films: China Seas (Tay Garnett, 1935), with Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell; and Wife vs. Secretary (Clarence Brown, 1936), with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. Jean Harlow's popularity rivalled and soon surpassed that of her MGM colleagues Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. Reckless (Victor Fleming, 1935) was her first film musical. It co-starred her then-boyfriend William Powell and Franchot Tone. Suzy (George Fitzmaurice, 1936), in which she played the title role, gave her top billing over Franchot Tone and Cary Grant. While critics noted that Harlow dominated the film, they added that her performance was imperfect, and the film was a reasonable box-office success. She then starred in Riffraff (J. Walter Ruben, 1936) with Spencer Tracy and Una Merkel, a financial disappointment, and the worldwide hit Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936), in which she was top billed over Powell, Myrna Loy, and Tracy. By the late 1930s, Jean Harlow had become one of the biggest stars of Hollywood, often nicknamed the 'Blonde Bombshell' and the 'Platinum Blonde'. She filmed W.S. Van Dyke's comedy Personal Property (1937), co-starring Robert Taylor. It was Harlow's final fully completed film appearance. During the filming of Saratoga (Jack Conway, 1937), she died in a hospital of renal failure at the age of 26. The official cause of death was 'uremic poisoning brought on by acute nephritis'. For many years it was a widely held belief that she died because her mother, a Christian Scientist, refused to let doctors operate on her after she became sick. This story has been repeatedly shown to be completely untrue. MGM closed on the day of her funeral, 9 June 1937. Saratoga was completed using doubles and released a little over a month after Jean Harlow's death. It became MGM's second-highest-grossing picture of 1937. In 1965, two films about Jean Harlow were released, both called Harlow. The first, Harlow (Alex Segal, 1965), was released by Magna in May 1965 and stars Carol Lynley with Ginger Rogers as Mama Jean. The second, Harlow (Gordon Douglas, 1965), was released in June by Paramount Pictures and stars Carroll Baker with Angela Lansbury as her mother. Both were poorly received and did not perform well at the box office.
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The regional TA will support the Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program in addressing market gaps while strengthening financing for home improvement and upgrading housing and access to water supply and sanitation through the provision of loan loss guarantees, targeting these end-use specific loans. The TA addresses bottlenecks by providing a first-loss guarantees on loans that partner financial institutions extend to MFIs, specifically targeted at home improvement and improving access to water and sanitation In addition, the TA will also provide capacity building to MFIs covering: (i) product development, project planning and implementation with the targeted micro-borrowers; (ii) training of MFI staff; (iii) establishing guidelines for climate-resilient model housing and materials; and (iv) creating local language content knowledge-dissemination and training materials. Given the requirements of the TA providers; the TA has been designed and is being implemented on a regional basis.
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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
For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic images taken by NASA's Voyager mission, a new version of the image known as "the Pale Blue Dot."
Planet Earth is visible as a bright speck within the sunbeam just right of center and appears softly blue, as in the original version published in 1990 (see PIA00452).
This updated version uses modern image-processing software and techniques to revisit the well-known Voyager view while attempting to respect the original data and intent of those who planned the images.
In 1990, the Voyager project planned to shut off the Voyager 1 spacecraft's imaging cameras to conserve power and because the probe, along with its sibling Voyager 2, would not fly close enough to any other objects to take pictures. Before the shutdown, the mission commanded the probe to take a series of 60 images designed to produce what they termed the "Family Portrait of the Solar System." Executed on Valentine's Day 1990, this sequence returned images for making color views of six of the solar system's planets and also imaged the Sun in monochrome.
The popular name of this view is traced to the title of the 1994 book by Voyager imaging scientist Carl Sagan, who originated the idea of using Voyager's cameras to image the distant Earth and played a critical role in enabling the family portrait images to be taken.
The image of Earth was originally published by NASA in 1990. It is republished here to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Family Portrait of the Solar System (see PIA00451) and the Pale Blue Dot image in particular.
The planet occupies less than a single pixel in the image and thus is not fully resolved. (The actual width of the planet on the sky was less than one pixel in Voyager's camera.) By contrast, Jupiter and Saturn were large enough to fill a full pixel in their family portrait images.
The direction of the Sun is toward the bottom of the view (where the image is brightest). Rays of sunlight scattered within the camera optics stretch across the scene. One of those light rays happens to have intersected dramatically with Earth. From Voyager 1's vantage point — a distance of approximately 3.8 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) — Earth was separated from the Sun by only a few degrees. The close proximity of the inner planets to the Sun was a key factor preventing these images from being taken earlier in the mission, as our star was still close and bright enough to damage the cameras with its blinding glare.
The view is a color composite created by combining images taken using green, blue and violet spectral filters by the Voyager 1 Narrow-Angle Camera. They were taken at 4:48 GMT on Feb. 14, 1990, just 34 minutes before Voyager 1 powered off its cameras forever.
Like the original version, this is technically a "false-color" view, as the color-filter images used were mapped to red, green and blue, respectively. The brightness of each color channel was balanced relative to the others, which is likely why the scene appears brighter but less grainy than the original. In addition, the color was balanced so that the main sunbeam (which overlays Earth) appears white, like the white light of the Sun.
Directly to the east of Murg train station there is the 114 m long Bühl tunnel. It was expanded to two tracks by 1955. This is the eastern portal with the „Alte Staatsstrasse“ that leads over a bridge just a few meters before the tunnel. During the Cold War there was a blasting point here to block the road and the railway line. The hoistway for the ignition was at the west portal. What made me wonder is that the tunnel walls are full of alcoves. As clarifications showed, these are construction-related and have nothing to do with the army. On old project plans the tunnel was named as „Stornenbüel-Tunnel“. Switzerland, December 22, 2020. (3/3)
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
Raleigh bikes print and multimedia creative from the late 1990s. Early multimedia project plans were developed by Paul Fillingham, Ian Lawrence and Mike Conwill on rolls of wallpaper, then tidied-up in Quark XPress on a Mac.
HAPPY FENCE FRIDAY!!
little flare a little looking foward to the future full of projects!!!
TGIF xoxo
On April 8, 2020, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had an online meeting with Dong Nai province on the socio-economic situation, including the clearance of Long Thanh international airport project ... This makes Long Thanh Real Estate market hotter than ever .. In which, according to a survey of thuanhunggroup.com, we have summarized the real estate projects of townhouse land - villas - shophouse - shared apartments. apartments are about to be launched and open for sale in 2020 in Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province ...
Long Thanh urban development planning from 2020 to 2030
Specifically, Long Thanh urban area will go to Long Thanh Town in the period from 2020-2030 Binh Son urban area is an urban airport along the airport serving Long Thanh International Airport. Phuoc Thai urban area is an urban area. port serving the port group of group 5 of Thi Vai river.
Bản đồ quy hoạch huyện Long Thành, Tỉnh Đồng Nai
Area 1
These are supportive areas, including entrepot warehouses, logistics zones, industrial parks and airports support zones. This functional area is arranged at a distance of 5-7km around the airport area.
Region 2
Are existing residential areas, resettlement areas, smart urban areas, airport cities. This area is planned to cover about 15,000 hectares, linking 3-4 cities to form urban clusters here.
Region 3
Large functional services - commercial areas such as: free trade area, entertainment area, aviation support service. The size of these areas needs about 5,000 ha to be arranged at the traffic gate to the airport.
Region 4
Including tourist, service and sports resorts with an area of about 2 thousand ha. These areas are located about 10 km from the airport.
Region 5
Considered as the airport buffer zone including: green area for development reserve; isolation areas, agricultural and forestry development zones and national defense security
At the proposal of the Department of Construction, on the boundary of the vicinity of Long Thanh International Airport, the North borders Bien Hoa City, the West borders on Dong Nai River, the East borders Trang Bom District, Cam My and the South. borders Chau Duc district, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province. The Department also said the size and location of each specific functional area will be calculated and determined in the study of future planning projects.
General planning for Vietnam's largest International airport in Long Thanh, Dong Nai
Long Thanh International Airport Project is a project to build an international airport in Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province, about 40 km east of Ho Chi Minh City. This project is expected to be inaugurated in 2025. With a capacity of up to 100 million passengers / year when completing the stages (including 3 stages), this will be the largest airport in Vietnam in the future.
According to the Master Plan, the location of Long Thanh International Airport is located in Binh Son Commune, Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province, 40 km from Ho Chi Minh City to the East, 43 km from Tan Son Nhat Airport, and 43 km from Ho Chi Minh City. Bien Hoa city 30 km to the Southeast, 70 km from Vung Tau city to the North, next to Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway near Long Thanh town and from gateway to Public City Nhon Trach Industrial Zone (an urban area adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City) 10 km.
After completing this airport,
Ngày 8/4/2020 Đẩy nhanh tiến độ giải phóng mặt bằng dự án sân bay Long Thành
There are 4 runways that meet the latest international standards (4,000 m long, 60 m wide) that can serve huge 2-storey aircraft such as Airbus A380, Boeing 747-8, have 4 large terminals and modern with a total capacity of serving 100 million guests / year. Cargo terminal with a capacity of 5 million tons / year. The area of land surrounding the airport is about 25,000 ha (of which the area of Long Thanh international airport is about 5,000 ha) and according to the plan, Long Thanh airport will be an air entrepot port of Vietnam and internationally. . Long Thanh airport will be a 4F airport (the highest level according to the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization) or higher than the standard of ICAO.
Phase I
Total investment 6,7447 billion USD
Investor of Southern Airport Corporation
Design unit of Japan Airport Consulting Company (JAC)
The project planning legal was approved by the Government of Vietnam in Decision No. 909 / QD-TTg dated June 14, 2011 signed by the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
The project phases are implemented in 3 main phases: 2019 - 2025, 2025 - 2035, 2035 - 2050 and after 2050.
April 8, 2020 Accelerate the ground clearance of the Long Thanh airport project
On April 8, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had an online meeting with Dong Nai province on the socio-economic situation and the key project of Long Thanh airport.
Report to the Prime Minister, the leader of Dong Nai province, said that in the first quarter of 2020, industrial production increased by about 11% over the same period, but this increase was due to the increase since the end of 2019, due to industry and raw materials for production and export orders. The pig industry is recovering, with a current herd of over 2.1 million heads. The provincial budget revenue in the first quarter of 2020 reached about VND 16,100 billion, equaling 30% of the yearly estimate and up to 35% over the same period.
For the Long Thanh and Dong Nai airport projects, 99% of the resettlement areas have been cleared, and for the first stage of the airport (clearing 1,810 ha / 5,000 ha), the province has completed the inspection. counting, currently hiring consultants to determine land prices and then applying compensation rates, it is expected that in the second quarter of 2020, the compensation and payment plans will be approved for households.
Speaking at the meeting,
the Prime Minister said that the clearance of Long Thanh airport project is still slow, so it is suggested that the province will focus on speeding up, trying to disburse more than 17,000 billion VND this year to soon handing over ground to the investor to build the airport. However, the Prime Minister also noted that the compensation, construction of resettlement areas and social infrastructure must be done well. The Prime Minister instructed ministries and agencies to assist Dong Nai in speeding up the progress and related legal procedures.
Typical and outstanding real estate projects are about to be launched and launched in Long Thanh district, Dong Nai Province in 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023
Gem Sky World - is the latest super real estate project of the Investor - Ha An Real Estate Business Investment Joint Stock Company and Dat Xanh Group Joint Stock Company (Dat Xanh Group) invests and develops. It is known that Gem SkyWorld Residential Area has a scale of up to 92ha including, ShopHouse Apartment, Land for townhouses and villas, Social security facilities, Smart and methodical transport infrastructure. , ... GemSkyWorld is especially located in front of Highway 51, right next to the most beautiful Airport in Vietnam - Long Thanh International Airport, Dong Nai.
see alos : duan-gemskyworld.com/
Gem Sky World - Thiết kế Nhà Phố
Project scale
Gem Sky World project name
Project location Highway 51, Residential Area Long Duc Commune, Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province
Investor: Ha An Real Estate Business Investment Joint Stock Company
Investment and development unit of Dat Xanh Group Joint Stock Company
The master plan covers 92.2 hectares, including:
thuanhunggroup.com/gem-sky-world-dat-xanh/
Shophouse
Villa:
Townhouse:
Trade in Services:
Public construction:
Traffic:
Square with fountains:
Intelligent transportation system
Local utilities: The whole city is miniature in GemSkyWorld
Type of development: Urban Area
Estimated delivery time: Updating
Project Legal Already 1/500
Currently, all information about the projects near Long Thanh Airport such as the 92ha Gem Sky World project of Dat Xanh Group ... Customers can contact via:
0911 525454
Source : thuanhunggroup.com/cac-du-an-bat-dong-san-sap-trien-khai-...
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
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
Pausing during my morning woods walk to plan the next steps for the split pine logs I piled up recently.
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
It took most of a day to get all the cuts done for the project- starting with seven full sheets. There are 6 drawers, drawer bottoms, drawer faces, and the most of the main queen bed frame in the photo. Project plans came from knottyplans.com
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland