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The British Red Cross has worked with the communities in Haiti to identify environmental hazards, and funded infrastructure projects to help protect against future disasters. These projects include erosion and flood control, household water filters, sanitation education, and water source protection projects – such as this one in Chardonnieres, South Department.
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New York City (NYC), often called the City of New York or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the U.S. state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With almost 20 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and approximately 23 million in its combined statistical area, it is one of the world's most populous megacities. New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, significantly influencing commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.
Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is a county of the State of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. As of 2019, the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $2.0 trillion. If greater New York City were a sovereign state, it would have the 12th highest GDP in the world. New York is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.
New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the U.S. and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. In 2019, New York was voted the greatest city in the world per a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, citing its cultural diversity.
Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. A record 62.8 million tourists visited New York City in 2017. Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. New York is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, with multiple distinct Chinatowns across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service and contributing to the nickname The City that Never Sleeps, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. The city has over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the City University of New York system, which is the largest urban public university system in the United States. Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, namely the New York Stock Exchange, located on Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, and NASDAQ, headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center
875 North Michigan Avenue, formerly the John Hancock Center, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the Magnificent Mile district, its name was changed to 875 North Michigan Avenue on February 12, 2018.
It was constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with Peruvian-American chief designer Bruce Graham and Bangladeshi structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan. When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the second-tallest building in the world and the tallest outside New York City. It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the ninth-tallest in the United States, after One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower, 432 Park Avenue, the Trump Tower Chicago, the Empire State Building, the Bank of America Tower, 30 Hudson Yards and the Aon Center. When measured to the top of its antenna masts, it stands at 1,500 feet (457 m). The building is home to several offices and restaurants, as well as about 700 condominiums. It also contains the third-highest residence in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Trump Tower in Chicago. The building was named for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a developer and original tenant of the building. In 2018, John Hancock Insurance requested that its name be removed and the owner is seeking another naming rights deal.
From the 95th floor restaurant, diners can look out at Chicago and Lake Michigan. The observatory (360 Chicago), which competes with the Willis Tower's Skydeck, has a 360° view of the city, up to four states, and a distance of over 80 miles (130 km). 360 Chicago is home to TILT, a moving platform that leans visitors over the edge of the skyscraper to a 30-degree angle, a full bar with local selections, Chicago's only open-air SkyWalk, and also features free interactive high definition touch screens in six languages. The 44th-floor sky lobby features America's highest indoor swimming pool.
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Date: march 1995.
Photographer: J. Williams.
Copyright: ©1995 SBC (commissioned by Swindon Libraries).
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Photographer: Donor
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Source: Comics; Photo by Branko Collin. Taken on June 6, 2010, and shared at flickr.com/photos/24oranges under CC BY-SA 2.0.
De de-minimis problematiek op Wikimedia Commons
Op 6 juni 2010, zo'n twaalf jaar geleden, heeft de Amsterdamse freelance webontwerper Branko Collin een foto gedeeld van een stand met stripboeken op de Haarlemse Stripdagen. In die stand waren ook enkele posters opgehangen, er was nog een stapeltje stripboeken uitgestald, en zelfs een prent.
In Nederland mag je zo'n foto maken en ook delen op basis van het citaatrecht in een "aankondiging, beoordeling, polemiek of wetenschappelijke verhandeling of voor een uiting met een vergelijkbaar doel." Op de fotostream van Collin zelf valt terug te vinden, dat deze foto deel uitmaakt van een serie van zo'n 20 foto's; een documentaire zogezegd. Op de website van 24oranges.nl had hij hierover ook een blog geschreven. [1]
Aan de voorwaarden van het citaatrecht is in de blog zeker voldaan. Bij de fotostream zelf weet ik het niet. Zelf tracht ik dat tegenwoordig te voorkomen, maar ik loop helaas zelf wat achter de feiten aan. Indien ik zelf zo'n foto opneem, heeft dat veelal een reden, en die probeer ik daarbij dan ook vroeg of laat te vermelden. M'n Flickr Photostream is zodoende hier en daar een blog geworden.
Terug naar de foto's van de Haarlemse stripdagen. Deze serie van 20 foto's heb ik een tijdje terug overgenomen op Wikimedia Commons met de intentie deze toe te voegen aan de blijvende overlevering aldaar. Dat gaat een hele tijd goed tot je als donderslag bij heldere hemel geconfronteerd wordt met een copyrightschending aanklacht. De argumentatie daarbij was ook nog eens, dat de nominator eigenlijk niet wist of dat wel kan.
Zo'n nominatie blijft een soort doldwaze toestand, want ze hebben daar geen intern loket om advies te vragen. Er wordt geen voorbespreking gehouden of een advies ingewonnen. Gewoon knal... je beschuldigd iemand van copyrightschending, terwijl je helemaal niet weet of dat nu wel of niet het geval is, en dan mag die ander het maar uitzoeken. Zowel de nominator als de beklaagde zijn niet te benijden.
Ieder die dit een keer heeft meegemaakt heeft, laat dat zich geen tweede keer gebeuren. De foto's die je daarvoor hebt gedeeld onder een CC licentie, dat doe je niet meer. Zo is een initiatief als Wikipedia er debit aan, dat CC bereidwilligen zich terugtrekken. Deze ontwikkeling is al jaren gaande en zou voor Wikipedia zelf verontrustend moet zijn.
De hele ironie van de situatie is, dat ik het zelf met bijna 18 jaar ervaring ook nog steeds niet exact weet. Het is namelijk een hele ondoorgrondelijke problematiek. In Nederland zelf is het duidelijk, dat zoiets op basis van het citaatrecht wel mag in een aankondiging of beoordeling of vergelijkbaar. Zo'n overlevering valt in dat rijtje, dus dan zou het goed moeten zijn.
Maar nu is het geval, dat enkelen aldaar willen, dat die foto's ook voor commercieel hergebruik beschikbaar staat. En omdat dat dus niet mag volgens het citaatrecht, is het ineens mogelijk een copyrightschending. Een sjabloon toevoegen aldaar, dat dat niet de bedoeling is... daarin wordt niet voorzien. Dat is uit den boze.
Als je op Wikipedia en Wikimedia Commons actief wil blijven moet je het maar voor lief nemen, dat je ieder keer zo'n blikseminslag voor je kiezen krijgt. Na al die jaren ben ik daar nog steeds niet aan gewend. Menige avond zou ik het liefst de handdoek in de ring gooien, maar de volgende dag bedenk je toch weer dat het toch ergens goed voor is.
De hele rechtsgang is hier omgedraaid. Je bent schuldig totdat je ieder hebt overtuigd van je onschuld. Van deelnemers wordt er expliciet verwacht dat je zorgvuldig te werk gaat, en het benodigde vooronderzoek doet voor je werk upload. In dit geval bestond mijn vooronderzoek eruit dat je kijkt naar of het werk rechtmatig is gepubliceerd. In dit geval was er een vrijgave op Flickr en de publicatie op 24.oranges.
Je mag daar toch verwachten, dat de mensen in de stripwereld dit vroeg of laat ook meekrijgen. Een verantwoordelijkheid van elke uitgever is om dat wat in de gaten te houden. Dit hoeft niet eens bij de bron. Het kan ook zo zijn dat een commerciële partij er daadwerkelijk mee aan de slag gaat. Dan kunnen ze daar de commerciële partij op aanspreken en het alsnog herleiden naar de bron, en aangegeven dat dat niet de bedoeling is.
Dat is de normale rechtsgang, die in het belang van het dienen de commerciële partij ook weer is omgedraaid... waar wederom in het belang van de commerciële partij geen voorzieningen worden getroffen. Het is om doldwaas van te worden. De voorzieningen zijn er aldaar om het tijdelijk te blurren, en na zo veel tijd toch weer te laten zien. De hele copyrightaanklacht kan er dus zo vervangen worden door een blur-verzoek... maar zover zijn ze daar nog steeds niet.
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[1] www.24oranges.nl/2010/06/07/stripdagen-haarlem-2010/ Stripdagen Haarlem 2010 door Branko Collin, 07.06.2020 op 24oranges.nl
[2] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File...
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The Catalyst Open Source Academy 2018 took place at Catalyst IT in Wellington, New Zealand, from 8 to 19 January 2018.
catalyst.net.nz/open-source-academy
On Day 4 the students learned about Git, testing, CSS and Javascript.
I've decided to take a cross-country (US) trip this "holiday", using only this source photo and an app or two. I'll keep everyone minimally posted with a daily update untilI I reach my destination on 12/25/13.
I titled this work "opensource'n'networks". It was painted during Fokus Festival 2011 in Görlitz/Germany.
Stefan Schwarzer went crazy in lines and i added a character. Different from my other works I did not completly finish the character. I really like this collaboration ! It s a message to the Festival and people: "Be open source and contect via networking !"
Picture (including Zoe on paper) of the Wellington East Girls' College students with mentor Aleisha who is a WEGC alumna.
Road up to N Lake yesterday afternoon to checkout for some locations for shooting sunsets/sunrises and was pleasently rewarded with a beautiful glow in the sky
As always thanks for comments and favs they are greatly appreciated
CROATIAN CENTER of RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES (CCRES)• was founded in 1988 as the non-profit European Association for Renewable Energy that conducts its work independently of political parties, institutions, commercial enterprises and interest groups, • is dedicated to the cause of completely substituting for nuclear and fossil energy through renewable energy, • regards solar energy supply as essential to preserve the natural resources and a prerequisite for a sustainable economy,• acts to change conventional political priorities and common infrastructures in favor of renewable energy, from the local to the international level, • brings together expertise from the fields of politics, economy, science, and culture to promote the entry of solar energy, • provides the opportunity to play a part in the sociocultural movement for renewable energy by joining the association for everyone, • considers full renewable energy supply a momentous and visionary goal - the challenge of the century to humanity. CCRES Željko Serdar Head of association solarserdar@gmail.com
There is a 3 different sources of a light, one is a streetlight second one is from pillar of bridge and third one is a moon.
Church of St Petrox
A Grade I Listed Building in Dartmouth, Devon
Entry Name: Church of St Petrox
Listing Date: 14 September 1949
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297086
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387138
Location: Dartmouth, South Hams, Devon, TQ6
County: Devon
District: South Hams
Civil Parish: Dartmouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Dartmouth Townstal
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
DARTMOUTH
Parish church. Probably late C12 origins (Norman font),
rebuilt and enlarged in 1641 (date plaque). Local limestone
and slatestone rubble, mostly roughcast but exposed on west
end and tower; freestone detail; slate roof with crested ridge
tiles.
PLAN: Uninterrupted nave and chancel with full-length north
and south aisles, west tower, and small lean-to heated vestry
against west end of the south aisle.
EXTERIOR: Vaguely Perpendicular in style. Tower of 2 stages
with low offset buttresses, stair tower projecting from south
side to embattled parapet, arch-headed belfry windows and tiny
lancets to the ringing floor, 4-light west window and blocked
Tudor-arch doorway in the north side. Main doorway in west end
of north aisle, another Tudor-arch doorway under a very
weathered plaque from which only the 41 of the 1641 date is
legible. Panelled door, like those on the south side, appears
to be C19 but reusing older ferramenta. Window above has plain
mullions from a repair (another similar at east end of south
aisle). North side has 2 raking buttresses and a window each
end, and south side has 3 windows to right of the vestry; all
arch-headed mullioned-and-transomed 3-light without
hoodmoulds, with Tudor arch-headed lights. Larger 4-light
version at east end of north aisle. East window of chancel has
intersecting tracery.
INTERIOR: Uninterrupted nave and chancel. 4-bay arcades to
aisles on octagonal piers with plain moulded capitals. Plain
plastered barrel-vaulted ceilings. Tall plain tower arch and
large beams to the ringing floor. Tower walls of exposed
stone, the rest are plastered. Tower floor is an attractive
chequer pattern of red, black and cream tiles. Rest of the
church has a stone flag floor including good graveslabs and
brasses at chancel end (see memorials).
FITTINGS: C20 altar table and communion rail. Good C17 oak
pulpit - octagonal with panelled sides and dated 1641. Plain
C19 pine benches. West end of south aisle screened off by a
partition made up from pieces of C17 panelling, enriched with
guilloche, strapwork, cherubs, leafy scrolls, etc: these
fragments are probably from the C17 gallery (dismantled in
1885) as are the panelled sections of the gallery frontal with
similar ornament set in the tower and now used to commemorate
those parishioners who died in both World Wars. Good Norman
red sandstone font - circular stem and bowl with frieze of
palmette decoration. Painted arms of Charles II from 1660 on
south wall. North wall has painted boards recording charitable
bequests; the largest dated 1677, others from 1823 and 1841.
An arcade of round-headed boards at west end of the south
aisle from former reredos has taller outer boards painted with
the Lords Prayer and the Creed with biblical quotations
between.
MEMORIALS: two C18 funeral hatchments of the Holdsworth
family. Floor includes good collection of mostly C17 and C18
ledger stones, many of them for members of the Newman and
Holdsworth families. A row of 3 good brasses to right of the
altar - best one in memory of John Roope (died 1609), others
to Dorothy Rous (died 1617) and Barbara Plumleigh (died 1610).
Best, if somewhat worn, mural monument is reset at east end of
south aisle, to Edward Roope (died 1683) - oval plaque with
bayleaf frame, pulvinated frieze on Corinthian columns over
carved console brackets. Each aisle has a similar small,
delicately carved and pedimented plaque, one to Nicholas Roope
(died 1625), the other to Margaret Plumleigh (died 1638).
GLASS: All late C19 and early C20 dates, but probably
including earlier glass. Mostly plain patterns of leaded glass
with coats of arms but stained glass from 1927 in east window.
The church forms part of an important group of listed
buildings at the mouth of the Dart estuary. The church
probably originated as a light positioned at the harbour
entrance.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(Russell, Percy: The Story of St Petrox Church - church
guide).
Listing NGR: SX8865150320
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Lisa Strausfeld and James Nick Sears designed the illustrations for the cover story of the 3 December issue of The New York Times Magazine. The piece, titled "Open-Source Spying" is about whether blogs and wikis could be used by agencies like the C.I.A. and F.B.I. to combat terrorism. The visualizations create a three-dimensional space in which the physical relationship of actors, weapons and targets suggest their level of connection in an attack. An explanation about the visualizations, reprinted from the magazine:"A number of times each year, we find that our cover article is better suited to illustration than to photography (...) it could be that the substance of the reporting doesn't ultimately exist in the corporeal world - which is the case this week, with Clive Thompson's article on the intelligence community's quest to better utilize the tools of digital technology. Thompson, a contributing writer, reports regularly on high-tech matters. Lisa Strausfeld, who with James Nick Sears created the cover illustration and those accompanying Thompson's article, is a partner at the Pentagram design studio, where she heads a team specializing in digital-information projects ranging from software prototypes to computer-generated visualizations of the kind they created for us. Drawing on information maintained on a large counterterrorism database, the team created a pictorial equation in which terms that showed up most frequently in word searches interacted with one another. The resulting patterns are quite revealing, and quite beautiful."
The fountain in the Piazza Colonna is a fountain in Rome, Italy, designed by the architect Giacomo Della Porta and constructed by the Fiesole sculptor Rocco Rossi between 1575 and 1577.
The fountain was one of a group of sixteen fountains built by Della Porta following the reconstruction of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, a project begun by Pope Pius IV in 1561 and finished by Pope Pius V in 1570. The fountain itself was built under Pope Gregory XIII, best known for creating the Gregorian calendar. Like the other Roman fountains of its time, it was built to provide clean drinking water to the Roman residents, who before then had to drink the polluted water of the Tiber River. Also like the other fountains of its time, it operated purely by gravity; the source of the water was higher the fountain itself, causing the water to spout into the air.
The water for the fountain first arrived at the old Trevi Fountain, then went two reservoirs at the foot of the butte of San Sebastiancello, then through a series of the channels to the corner of via Condotti and the via del Corso, to Piazza Venezia, to the foot of the column of Marcus Aurelius. The source of the water for the fountain of Piazza Colonna was only 67 feet above sea level; like the Trevi Fountain, the Fontana della Barcaccia, and the fountains of Piazza Navona, all connected to the Acqua Vergine, the fountain of Piazza Colonna was unable to jet water high into the air
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The source of Hanging Lake lies just above, pouring directly from the rocks. This particular formation contains an abundance of limestone, making it very porous. Groundwater seeps through the stone until it finds an exit through the path of least resistance. This has the effect of both filtering impurities from the water as well as infusing it with minerals. It is these minerals that give the lake below its turquoise blue color.
Children (and adults) feeding geese, ducks and gulls caused quite a stir. It was a nice opportunity for me to practice some 'wildlife' photography!
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Image: P...
Date: 30th March 1965.
Copyright: © 1965 SBC.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.
As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and architecture libraries in the country—the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
The growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the World's Columbian Exposition. The most recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet, making it the second-largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.
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"RAILWAY WORKSHOPS. A function, in connection with the beautifying of some portions of the railway workshops premises, at Honeysuckle Point, Newcastle, and the coronation celebrations, took place on Saturday, at leaving-off time, when the 200 employees assembled around the newly-erected flag staff to witness the unfurling of the Union Jack. The chairman. Mr. T. Percy. leading blacksmith, made reference to the value and regard Australians had for the grand old flag, and the very liberal conditions which the workers of Australia laboured under. He called upon Mr. J. Davies, senior employee, of 44 years' service, to unfurl the flag. The National Anthem and three cheers were heartily given by all present. Mr. Davies said he regarded it as an honour to perform the duty, and was pleased to know that the flag-staff and the other parts in which flowers, shrubs, and grasses were being planted, met with the appreciation of the men, and tended to strengthen the very friendly relations now existing between the management and men. ..."
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RAILWAY WORKSHOPS. (1911, June 20). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , p. 5. Retrieved April 11, 2015, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137041844
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