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Mayssoun Azzam, Political Anchor, Al Arabiya, United Arab Emirates, Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda, Sara Pantuliano, Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom, Kaan Terzioglu, Chief Executive Officer, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri, Turkey and Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Senior Vice-President; Chief Sustainability and Public Affairs Officer, Ericsson, Sweden during the Session "Reconnecting Refugees" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Pictured: The JABSOM Class of 1969 at the Outrigger Canoe Club. (L to R back): Drs. Stephan Kreith, David Horio, George Chu (doesn't want to be named), John Zander, Roy Wong, Rolland Nakashima. (L to R front): Drs. Richard Ripple, Jim Heyward, Wallace Chun. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo.
Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, His, Wife, Daughter and Son
*The Freedom Flights For Cuban Political Refugees Were Sponsored By
Catholic Charities USA*
*By Gardenia C. Hung*
On July 19, 1971, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, his wife Gardenia Fong
Ramos, his daughter and son, arrived at Miami International Airport on
Cubana Airlines where his eldest brother Miguel Hung, his wife Silvia
Simons and family were expecting this Cuban family arriving with the
Freedom Flights from La Habana, Cuba. Miguel Hung, his wife Silvia, and
his four children Olivia, Miguel, Santiago, and Raimundo Hung-Simons were
all Miami residents living in Florida. After Roberto Hung and his family
visited his Florida relatives, he decided to be relocated by Catholic
Charities to the City of Chicago by Lake Michigan in the State of Illinois,
by the Great Lakes area in the Midwest of the United States of America.
The third week in July 1971, on July 22, 1971, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris
Doctor, his wife, his daughter and son arrived at O'Hare Airport in Chicago
from Miami, Florida sponsored by Catholic Charities USA which relocated
this Cuban family to *The Montfield Hotel* for lodging upon referral by
Catholic Charities of Chicago. Once in the Windy City, they were welcomed
as Cuban political refugees from the Freedom Flights designed to bring
Cuban exiles to the United States of America. *The Montfield Hotel* was
the first place of residence in July 1971 for Mr. Roberto Hung, his wife,
his daughter and son in the Lakeview neighborhood of the City of Chicago,
in the State of Illinois USA.
*The Freedom Flights represent the largest and longest resettlement program
of political refugees ever sponsored by the U.S. government, offering an
escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba to 265,000 people. This is an effort for
people who were on the Freedom Flights to find their names, as well as
their families, complete their records, and reconnect over the memory. This
is the only public record of the Freedom Flights at this time.*
Read more here: Miami Herald
*Roberto Hung's Cousin "Hortensia" Niebocki who was married to Gary
Niebocki from New Jersey, had filed U.S. Immigration forms as a relative to
bring his family to the United States America. The name "Hortensia" in
Spanish is the eponym for the flower Hydrangea in English. Hortensia was
the eldest daughter of Antonia Mustelier Baró, who was a registered nurse
married to Dr. Gary Niebocki, M.D. Hortensia's mother was the eldest
sister of Gertrudis Salustiana Mustelier Baró, Roberto Hung's mother. Dr.
Gary Niebocki, M.D. was a medical officer in the U.S. Navy who married
Hortensia as a registered nurse practitioner while she worked at the
Guantánamo Naval Base near Santiago de Cuba in the Caribbean country of
Cuba.*
*Figure 1 The Flower Hydrangea is translated in Spanish as Hortensia.*
*The Montfield Hotel* was included as a National Historic Landmark in the
building located at the corner of Belmont and Sheffield Avenues for the
Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois USA.
This former multi-use commercial block was constructed by the
Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank, founded in 1927 by a group of
prominent Swedish businessmen to serve the needs of Lakeview's numerous
Swedish residents. An outstanding feature is the monumental arched entrance
on Belmont Avenue, designed in the Classical Revival-style, while simpler
Art Deco-style ornamentation is visible at the upper floors. Walls are clad
with limestone on the first four stories. Buff colored brick and light-gray
ornamental terra-cotta are used on the remaining two stories. In addition
to the bank, the building was originally designed to house multiple uses,
including rental offices, a hotel, and street-level storefronts. The
Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank thrived from 1929 to 1932, but was
forced to close on July 6, 1933, during the Depression.
Figure 2 Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank (Former) located at 1001
West Belmont Avenue and Sheffield, in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago,
Illinois USA
Address: 1001 W. Belmont Avenue
Year Built: 1929
Architect: John A. Nyden
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: July 9, 2009
The National Register of Historic Places has recorded and registered the
Belmont-Sheffield Bank Building as a national landmark in the City of
Chicago, Illinois USA.
The Belmont-Sheffield Bank Building, which once contained a bank, a
residential hotel, offices and stores, stands six stories at the southwest
corner of the Belmont and Sheffield Avenues. The freestanding building is
"U" shaped in the upper stories around a two-story central atrium with a
light court of approximately 1500 square feet in the center rear beginning
above the second floor of the building--which allowed the light to reach the
bank lobby--the glass atrium has since been roofed over.
The fourth floor, where the hotel section of the building begins, has
terracotta medallions of Medusa on the piers separating the five window
bays on Sheffield and end bays on Belmont and is topped by geometric
moldings and a second slightly deeper cornice. The top two floors have
simply-ornamented limestone spandrels: A parapet of brick is capped by a
projecting acanthus ornament.
The Sheffield House Hotel is a historic hotel in the heart of Wrigleyville,
built in the 1920s. The Cubs baseball team used the Sheffield House Hotel
for their players in the 1930s.
Stylistically, this building combines Classical influences typically found
in both downtown and neighborhood banking institutions, with elements of
the Art Deco style popular in the late twenties.
The Bank's monumental arched entry located on Belmont is its most
conspicuous Classical feature. Reminiscent of the Renaissance work of
Alberti (especially the Church of St. Andrea at Mantua). The three-story
arch springs from strong Ionic columns. Once inside this impressive
archway, the scale changes to one more human. A recessed post and lintel
doorway painted blue green is embellished with more intricate Classical
details deluding rosettes, lintils, quivers and acanthus patterns. Hanging
from the center of the shallow vaulted entrance is a wrought iron bronze
lantern. The hotel-office entrance on Sheffield is also ornamented with
Classical detailing.
This building combines the Art Deco style with Classicism, thus making it
more the legacy of its own time conventions.
The office spaces can be accessed from the bank vestibule, but the main
office and hotel entrance is on Sheffield, the elevator lobby to the upper
staircase has a strapwork ceiling with marble flooring in the same pattern
as the banking room.
The entire building combines Classicism and Art Deco, monumentality and
intimate scale in a manner that suits the bank's need to impress with the
more personal needs of the customer.
The Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank is primarily significant as
the only remaining bank building built in Lakeview before the Depression
which retains its architectural integrity; all others have been demolished
or extensively altered. Its stylistic characteristics, reflecting a
combination of Neo-Classicism typical of bank design and Art Deco
refinements typical of the period, have not been lost. In addition, this
building is important as an early multi-use structure. The
prominently-located six story corner building was unusual if not unique
under a single-roof. It was always a hotel. Reference to The Montfield
Hotel is found in the 1930 telephone directory. The Bank which occupied
the bulding between November 1, 1929 and July 6. 1933 is a typical Chicago
community bank, but it is historically important to Lakeview as the Swedish
institution in a neighborhood that was strongly Swedish. The bank's
financial support, its Board of Directors and its architects were all
Swedish...
*The Montfield Hotel* which used to be located at 3146 North Sheffield on
floors four through six struggled with vacancy until 1984, when a developer
received a federal loan to convert *the Montfield Hotel* into 54
apartments, maintaining stores on the ground floor. The building was sold
again to another developer and the upper floors were converted into loft
condos in 2005, which are now listed at the address 3150 North Sheffield. In
2008, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks designated this building as a
landmark along with 15 other neighborhood bank buildings.
This is a reference to the article about the Belmont-Sheffield Trust and
Savings Bank Building from Wikipedia.
On April 12, 2008 in Clearwater, Florida Anonymous gathered for Operation Reconnect, a Global Protest against the family destroying disconnection policy and other human rights abuses of the scientology cult . These protests took place in over 50 cities across the globe for the third straight month, with worldwide numbers estimated in the 7,000 range.
Taken about an hour before the start of the of pre-announced protest marching period, Anonymous was nevertheless ready to go! The numbers swelled to easily double this in no time. All faces of those unmasked are blurred to protect them from the evil Scientology cult's fair game policy of harassing & threatening it's critics. Learn more about the third straight month of global Anonymous protests against the scientology cult here: www.whyweprotest.net
Inspired by the titles of songs from my fav dutch band called Velvet Tuesday. I created this outfit for a gig of them I went to that night.
A lady in the northern part of Efate island bursts with joy upon hearing the voice of a loved one she hadn't been able to reach since cyclone Pam destroyed telecommunication facilities a week earlier.
Photo credit: TSF
On Monday, November 25, 2019, USDA Rural Development Administrator for Rural Utilities Service Chad Rupe announced a $5.13 million investment in broadband infrastructure in rural Utah and Colorado. The grants, made through the ReConnect pilot program, went to Beehive Broadband of Lake Point, Utah for projects impacting Box Elder, Wayne, and Garfield Counties including the community of Snowville, Utah; and to Emery Telecommunications of Orangeville, Utah for a project impacting eastern San Juan County, Utah and Dolores County Colorado including the community of Dove Creek. These projects will be used to install fiber to the premises to allow for high speed broadband capacity in significantly rural areas. This will have a positive impact on schools, rural small businesses, and public safety. Joined by USDA Rural Development State Director for Utah Randy Parker, Beehive Broadband CEO Cameron Francis, and Emery Telecommunications CEO Brock Johanson, Rupe announced the investment will impact over 675 households over the scope of the projects.
Booth 2022 Reconnect Registration and Happy Hour at the Gleacher Center May 5, 2022.
Photographer: John Zich
One of the many good things about going to our Regional Conferences or National Conventions in our Sorority is the opportunity to reconnect with someone that you haven't seen in a while. These two were soooo happy to see each other again. .... I love my DST
I had a really productive day at work, and then came home to see how many different ways I could mess up what should have been a simple plumbing job on my pool. I finally gave up and came inside to try and do another project, only to keep being disconnected.
It's just not my night.
Family members of North Carolina National Guard fallen Soldiers and Airmen meet for the Reconnect Survivor Event at the Marriott City Center in Raleigh N.C. Since 2014, the North Carolina National Guard has hosted the Reconnect Survivor Event with donations from the Wakefield Senior Mens Golf Association, the Patriot Military Family Foundation and the NCNG Survivors Outreach Fund. (North Carolina National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens)
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
Reconnecting the body with the ram. About 1987 Ronnie Maclean from Strathpeffer in the JCB. At Barratts site Aviemore.
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
COLUMBIA, Ky. -- U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced Jan. 29, 2020, USDA has invested over $55.3 million in four high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in rural Kentucky. These projects, part of the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments, will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 12,250 rural households and nearly 100 farms and businesses across Kentucky and northern Tennessee. (Photo by Greg Thomas, USDA Rural Development)
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall participate in a ReConnect Program Announcement. The ReConnect funding announcement will deploy high-speed broadband in rural Georgia, benefitting thousands of people in Heard, Troup, and Carroll counties at the Milltown Music Hall, Bremen, GA USDA photo.
Unplug - balance - reconnect. Unter diesem Motto stand die erste "Reconnect" - realisiert von Offtime und simyo. Die Besucher der re:publica 14 konnten sich zu unserer hypervernetzten Welt austauschen, über die Vorteile vom gelegentlichem Abschalten sprechen, und uns und der Netzcommunity ihre Gedanken zum Thema on/off-line mitteilen. Diese hielten zwei Tage lang life in einem graphical recording fest!
Videodoku: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn0pil2Ti8
Booth Reconnect 2023, Chicago Booth Black Alumni Brunch, Sunday, April 30, 2023 at River Roast in Chicago. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
Disconnect/Reconnect Series: 18x18
The central landscape is an original acrylic painting on canvas paper. This painting was then photocopied, cut into rectangular pieces and collaged around the original to create a repeating, kaleidoscope effect.
Booth Reconnect 2023, Class of 2022 Reunion Dinner, Friday, April 28, 2023 at Radio Room in Chicago. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
Booth Reconnect 2023, Class of 2013 Reunion Dinner, Friday, April 28, 2023 at The Dalcy in Chicago. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
Jacob Riis Park is an Atlantic Ocean beach in Queens New York City USA, commonly refereed to "The People's Beach"
Jacob Riis Park is reached by crossing the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge from Brooklyn into Queens. The Jacob Riis Park Historic District features an extensive sand beach and an art deco bath house built in 1932, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park is named for Jacob Riis, a famous New York City journalist and photographer who documented the plight of the poor and working class. The government built Jacob Riis Park to give New York City's burgeoning immigrant population a place to escape tenement life and the chance to reconnect with the natural beauty and recreation of the sea.
The park was largely built on the site of the former Rockaway Naval Air Station, where the first transatlantic flight departed from the Rockaway Naval Air Station on Jamaica Bay in 1919. the famous NC-4 crossing of the Atlantic crossing ultimately changed commercial aviation.
For more on Jacob Riis Park:
www.nyharborparks.org/visit/jari.html
Photo
Queens, New York City, USA
09-01-2012