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The sleeve cuff is the very last step in constructing this pattern. This sleeve is basted on, but I removed it, deciding to sew a 3/8" seam to get a deeper cuff
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Manhattan
Manhattan's Chinatown (simplified Chinese: 纽约华埠 ; traditional Chinese: 紐約華埠; pinyin: Niŭyuē Huá Bù), home to the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere,[1] is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the oldest ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia.
Contents [hide]
1 Location
2 History
2.1 Ah Ken and early Chinese immigration
2.2 Chinese exclusion period
2.3 Post-immigration reform
3 Economy
4 Demographics
5 Buildings
5.1 Housing
5.2 Landmarks
6 Street names in Chinese
7 Satellite Chinatowns
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
[edit] Location
The borders of Chinatown are traditionally recognized as:
Canal Street to the North (bordering Little Italy)
The Bowery to the East (bordering the Lower East Side)
Worth Street to the South
Baxter Street to the West
[edit] History
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[edit] Ah Ken and early Chinese immigration
Main article: Ah Ken
Although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, the first Chinese person credited as having permanently immigrated to Chinatown was Ah Ken, a Cantonese businessman, who eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] He first arrived in New York around 1858 where he was "probably one of those Chinese mentioned in gossip of the sixties [1860s] as peddling 'awful' cigars at three cents apiece from little stands along the City Hall park fence – offering a paper spill and a tiny oil lamp as a lighter", according to author Alvin Harlow in Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street (1931).[4]
Later immigrants would similarly find work as "cigar men" or carrying billboards and Ah Ken's particular success encouraged cigar makers William Longford, John Occoo and John Ava to also ply their trade in Chinatown eventually forming a monopoly on the cigar trade.[11] It has been speculated that he may have been Ah Ken who kept a small boarding house on lower Mott Street and rented out bunks to the first Chinese immigrants to arrive in Chinatown. It was with the profits he earned as a landlord, earning an average of $100 a month, that he was able to open his Park Row smoke shop around which modern-day Chinatown would grow.[2][6][12][13][14][15]
[edit] Chinese exclusion period
Faced with increasing discrimination and new laws which prevented participation in many occupations on the West Coast, some Chinese immigrants moved to the East Coast cities in search of employment. Early businesses in these cities included hand laundries and restaurants. Chinatown started on Mott Street, Park, Pell and Doyers streets, east of the notorious Five Points district. By 1870, there was a Chinese population of 200. By the time the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the population was up to 2,000 residents. By 1900, there were 7,000 Chinese residents, but fewer than 200 Chinese women.
The early days of Chinatown were dominated by Chinese "tongs" (now sometimes rendered neutrally as "associations"), which were a mixture of clan associations, landsman's associations, political alliances (Kuomintang (Nationalists) vs Communist Party of China) and (more secretly) crime syndicates. The associations started to give protection from harassment due to anti-Chinese sentiment. Each of these associations was aligned with a street gang. The associations were a source of assistance to new immigrants – giving out loans, aiding in starting business, and so forth.
The associations formed a governing body named the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association（中華公所). Though this body was meant to foster relations between the Tongs, open warfare periodically flared between the On Leong (安良) and Hip Sing (協勝) tongs. Much of the Chinese gang warfare took place on Doyers street. Gangs like the Ghost Shadows (鬼影) and Flying Dragons (飛龍) were prevalent until the 1980s.
The only park in Chinatown, Columbus Park, was built on what was once the center of the infamous Five Points neighborhood of New York. During the 19th century, this was the most dangerous slum area of immigrant New York (as portrayed in the book and film Gangs of New York).
[edit] Post-immigration reform
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In the years after the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, allowing many more immigrants from Asia into the country, the population of Chinatown exploded. Geographically, much of the growth was to neighborhoods to the north. In the 1990s, Chinese people began to move into some parts of the western Lower East Side, which 50 years earlier was populated by Eastern European Jews and 20 years earlier was occupied by Hispanics. Although very much diminished from its hey-day at the turn of the century, there is still a small Jewish community primarily on eastern part of Grand Street as well as some businesses on Grand and Essex and elsewhere, such as the famous Katz's Deli and a number of synagogues and other old religious establishments (see The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited, Joyce Mendelsohn, Columbia University Press, revised edition, 2009.
At the intersection of Mott and Pell StreetsChinatown was adversely affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks. Being so physically close to Ground Zero, tourism and business has been very slow to return to the area. Part of the reason was the New York City Police Department closure of Park Row – one of two major roads linking the Financial Center with Chinatown. A lawsuit is pending before the State Superior Court regarding this action.[citation needed]
By 2007 luxury condominiums began to spread from Soho into Chinatown. Previously Chinatown was noted for its crowded tenements and primarily Chinese residents. While some projects have targeted the Chinese community, the development of luxury housing has increased Chinatown's economic and cultural diversity.[16]
Currently, the rising prices of Manhattan real estate and rents are also affecting Chinatown and it seems that the neighborhood is shrinking to its original borders. New and poorer Chinese immigrants cannot afford their rents and a process of relocation to the Chinatowns in Flushing, Queens and Sunset Park, Brooklyn has started. Many apartments particularly in the Lower East Side and Little Italy that used to be affordable to new Chinese immigrants are being renovated and then sold or rented at much higher prices. Building owners, many of them established Chinese-Americans often find it in their best interest to terminate leases of lower-income residents with stabilized rents as property values rise.[17]
By 2009 many newer Chinese immigrants settled along East Broadway instead of the historic core west of the Bowery. In addition Mandarin began to eclipse Cantonese as the predominant Chinese dialect in New York's Chinatown during the period. The New York Times says that the Flushing Chinatown now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown in terms of being a cultural center for Chinese-speaking New Yorkers' politics and trade.[18]
[edit] Economy
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G.V. Trading Co. on the corner of Mott and Grand, one of many groceries in ChinatownChinese green-grocers and fishmongers are clustered around Mott Street, Mulberry Street, Canal Street (by Baxter Street) and all along East Broadway (especially by Catherine Street). The Chinese jewelry shop district is on Canal Street between Mott and Bowery. Due to the high savings rate among Chinese, there are many Asian and American banks in the neighborhood. Canal Street, west of Broadway (especially on the North side), is filled with street vendors selling imitation perfumes, watches, and hand-bags. This section of Canal Street was previously the home of warehouse stores selling surplus/salvage electronics and hardware. Besides the more than 200 Chinese restaurants in the area for employment, there are still some factories. The proximity of the fashion industry has kept some garment work in the local area though most of the garment industry has moved to China.[citation needed] The local garment industry now concentrates on quick production in small volumes and piece-work (paid by the piece) which is generally done at the worker's home. Much of the population growth is due to immigration. As previous generations of immigrants gain language and education skills, they tend to move to better housing and job prospects that are available in the suburbs and outer boroughs of New York.[citation needed]
See also: Chinatown bus lines
[edit] Demographics
Another view of ChinatownUnlike most other urban Chinatowns, Manhattan's Chinatown is both a residential area as well as commercial area. Many population estimates are in the range of 90,000 to 100,000 residents.[2] [3][4] [5] [6] It is difficult to get an exact count, as neighborhood participation in the U.S. Census is thought to be low due to language barriers, as well as large-scale illegal immigration. Until the 1960s, the majority of the Chinese population in Chinatown emigrated from Guangdong province and Hong Kong, thus they were native speakers of Cantonese, especially the Canton and Taishan dialects. A minority of Hakka was also represented. Mandarin was rarely spoken by residents even well into the 1980s. Most recent immigrants are from Mainland China, and hence speak Mandarin, the official spoken language of China. Immigration reform in 1965 opened the door to a huge influx of Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong, and Cantonese became the dominant tongue. But since the late 1980s and 1990s, the vast majority of new Chinese immigrants have come from mainland China, especially Fujian Province, and tend to speak Mandarin along with their regional dialects. Most Fuzhou immigrants are illegal immigrants while most of the Cantonese immigrants are legal immigrants in Manhattan's Chinatown.[19] With the coming of illegal Fuzhou immigrants during the 1990s, there is now a Fuzhou Community within the eastern portion of Manhattan's Chinatown which started on the East Broadway portion during the early 1990s and later emerged north onto the Eldridge Street portion of Manhattan's Chinatown by the late 1990s and early 2000s. As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.[20] Linguistically, however, in the past few years, the Cantonese dialect that has dominated Chinatown for decades is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin Chinese, the national language of China and the lingua franca of most of the latest Chinese immigrants.[21]
Now the increasing Fuzhou influx has shifted into the Brooklyn Chinatown in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn and is replacing the Cantonese population there more significantly than in Manhattan's Chinatown. Brooklyn's Chinatown is quickly becoming the new Little Fuzhou in NYC or Brooklyn's East Broadway(布鲁克東百老匯). During the late 1980s and 1990s, most of the new Fuzhou immigrants arriving into New York City were settling in Manhattan's Chinatown and later formed the first Fuzhou community in the city amongst the waves of Cantonese who had settled in Chinatown over decades; but by the 2000s, the Fuzhou population growth had slowed within Manhattan's Chinatown and began to accelerate in Brooklyn's Chinatown instead.
Although Mandarin is spoken as a native language among only ten percent of Chinese speakers in Manhattan's Chinatown, it is used as a secondary dialect among the greatest number of them and is on its way to replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca.[22] Although Min Chinese is spoken natively by a third of the Chinese population in the city, it is not used as a lingua franca because speakers of other dialect groups do not learn Min.[22]
[edit] Buildings
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The Confucius Plaza 44-story subsidized housing cooperative, above typical Chinatown housing stock[edit] Housing
The housing stock of Chinatown is still mostly composed of cramped tenement buildings, some of which are over 100 years old. It is still common in such buildings to have bathrooms in the hallways, to be shared among multiple apartments. A federally subsidized housing project, named Confucius Plaza, was completed on the corner of Bowery and Division streets in 1976. This 44-story residential tower block gave much needed new housing stock to thousands of residents. The building also housed a new public grade school, P.S. 124 (or Yung Wing Elementary). Besides being the first and largest affordable housing complex specifically available to the Chinatown population Confucius Plaza is also a cultural and institutional landmark, springing forth community organization, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), one of Chinatowns oldest political/community organizations, founded in 1974.
[edit] Landmarks
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For much of Chinatown's history, there were few unique architectural features to announce to visitors that they had arrived in the neighborhood (other than the language of the shop signs). In 1962, at Chatham Square the Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau Memorial archway was erected in memorial of the Chinese-Americans who died in World War II. This memorial, which bears calligraphy by the great Yu Youren 于右任 (1879—1964), is mostly ignored by the residents due to its poor location on a busy car thoroughfare with little pedestrian traffic.[citation needed] A statue of Lin Zexu, also known as Commissioner Lin, a Fuzhou-based Chinese official who opposed the opium trade, is also located at the square; it faces uptown along East Broadway, now home to the bustling Fuzhou neighborhood and known locally as Fuzhou Street (Fúzhóu jiē 福州街). In the 1970s, New York Telephone, then the local phone company started capping the street phone booths with pagoda-like decorations. In 1976, the statue of Confucius in front of Confucius Plaza became a common meeting place. In the 1980s, banks which opened new branches and others which were renovating started to use Chinese traditional styles for their building facades. The Church of the Transfiguration, a national historic site built in 1815, stands off Mott Street.[citation needed]
In 2010, Chinatown and Little Italy were listed in a single historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.[23]
Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie. Marty chopped down the tree. There I said it... my conscience is clear. Remember how he had two cameras? Well, guess who has two cameras now?
Fog rolling around Jordan Harbour middle of the afternoon, on a hot muggy day! Drop it all and dash for the camera.
Awesome news! I just got the issue of Simplified Living and Dali made the cover!
Along with that i have an article inside with a full write up and 7 photos inside about my photography Its a local Ontario magazine which runs out of Alban and its now available to in North Bay as well at --- Allison The Bookman --or Gulliver's Quality Books & Toys--- both on Main street in North Bay --The magazine is also available in Sudbury at Artists On Elgin or Black Cat and even in Sturgeon Falls at stop and shop as well as many other places in Ontario ---Feel free to message me if you need some info or want a copy and are far away I can even ship ya one--- So if you need a new magazine and looking to support the Arts It would be awesome if you could pick up a copy. A huge thanks to Melissa from Simplified Living for doing such an awesome job, i super appreciate the support and exposure. High 5 Dali on your 1st cover!
When a car focuses on performance instead of aesthetics, you get a very subtle package that is very appeasing.
281:365 - Simplify: A macro lens, a spray bottle, and the first time you've seen the sun since Friday. Simple recipe for a quick macro shot.
My dress will include these pockets and the view B shoulder buttons, but I don't care for the split front w/ grommets.
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v2, Better, and final version.
This gun is the standard AK weapon of the IC. It features upgraded internals, and it's a whole new beast on the outside.
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Domoappo: Workspace, Flash Hider, Logos, Iron Sights, Colors
Domoappo/Magnus: Chrome Barrel, Workspace
Nikita: Mag (Simplified to fit style)
Corp Scott: Rails
Shockwave: Rail Covers, Handstop
I also put the items I use less often further back, and got rid of a lot of items I have not used in ages. I cycled some panties I had not worn in a while back into the more commonly used section to spice things up, but got rid of any that were uncomfortable and meant I tended not to wear them. My best friend will be happy to note I culled a bunch of my granny bras. Of course I am mostly wearing nursing bras now anyway.
Another view...
Can you tell that I really like Topaz Simplify?
If you are here for flower photos, forget it...
Photo was taken Dec 28th, 2011. This is Skaha Lake in British Columbia. Photo was taken with a Nikon D300 10-24mm lens 5 exposures. Processed in Photomatix Pro and then duplicate file processed in Topaz Simplify.
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Photoshop (Topaz Simplify 3)
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I always want to simplify. Get rid of stuff. Less clutter in our lives. Keep it simple. Focus on what is important.
Just a little fun with spheres. The sphere above each one has a two stud difference between the one below it.
Operations image of the week:
The flight dynamics experts working on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission meet regularly to assess progress of the spacecraft's almost-year-long aerobraking manoeuvres at Mars.
The TGO orbiter swung into an initial, highly elliptical orbit at Mars on 19 October last year.
Aerobraking - using drag from the faint wispy tendrils of the upper-most part of the martian atmosphere to slow and lower the spacecraft into its final science orbit - began on 15 March, and will take most of a year, following a cautious ‘slow-as-you-go’ strategy.
As with Goldilocks and the famous bears, staying too high won't drag on TGO sufficiently to reach its intended orbit anytime soon, while dipping too low into the atmosphere could slow it too much, with unwanted results.
Therefore, the flight dynamics team carefully assess the results of every aerobraking orbit, and make detailed predictions on the subsequent orbits based on realtime results. This means there is a lot of data to keep up with.
They have, of course, many sophisticated tools, applications and databases available to help determine orbits, visualise trajectories and calculate future spacecraft manoeuvres.
"But the white board in our briefing room is the best tool we've found for giving everyone an up-to-the-date, realtime view of aerobraking progress during our frequent review meetings," says ESA's Robert Guilanyà, seen above, the TGO flight dynamics team lead.
"A large group of people need to see and discuss the data collected from the atmospheric passages to plan subsequent aerobraking activities. Marking up the white board by hand is simple, easy and instantly viewable by all."
From 25 June to end-August, aerobraking is on pause due to Mars and Earth lining up on opposite sides of the Sun in a conjunction that greatly reduces the reliability and robustness of communication to and from the spacecraft.
Aerobraking will resume in August, and should continue until early 2018, when TGO will perform a series of final manoeuvres to transition to its approximately 400-km high, circular science orbit.
Credit: ESA
Model : Angela Ong
Taken by : Kweong
Location : Taiping Lake Garden
Just tired for editing and due to disappointed on Canon because this morning I just knew Nikon increase lens price last 2 months and I want to buy 24-70L but atfer I call to the store take an order he told me the lens was increase by USD 200..... because after I walk out from the Canon Singapore fax a notice to them. No more old stock from him... I just saw in their lens display cabinet... and he told me yesterday just sold 2 lenses. I tell myself don't buy Canon lens anymore for this coming 2 years. 5D MK II also increase another USD 100. What I have to do now? Go for film!!!
EOS 650 + EF 28mm f/1.8
I remember a time when I shot bright, pastel coloured images. Super narrow depth of field and with long lenses. Style evolves as we discover more about ourselves through our work. The understanding that how we photograph is more about use than our actual subject comes and everything changes.
I'm happier now with one camera a 35mm lens and my subject. The simpler the shoot the more at home I feel. For me simplification is amplification.
Shot with the most basic of camera.