Striver's Row, St. Nicholas Historic District, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

 

The St. Nicholas Historic District, consisting of four rows of houses built by David H. King, Jr., appears much the same as it did when it was built, more than 70 years ago, in 1891. Both then and now, it has been a source of pride not only to its own residents, but to all the people living in its vicinity.

 

These houses are a fine example of Nineteenth Century urban design, influenced by English antecedents. The sense of forethought and consideration in land development seen here is much sought after today, and often today's results arc not as successful. A high degree of architectural continuity is maintained, while taking into consideration even such problems as house service.

 

This problem is successfully resolved by the use of a main cross alley extending through the block, from avenue to avenue, with two shorter transverse alleys between the streets.

 

The District, designed by three of the most prominent architectural firms of the day, was one of the most prestigious sections of Harlem and is still considered as such. The fact that these houses have been well maintained through the years is most unusual in New York City. Obviously its reputation as a fashionable area has contributed to the residents' desire to preserve their homes and to their tremendous sense or pride in them.

 

Harlem Background

 

In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant named this area we now know as Harlem, Nieuw Haarlem. Up to the middle of the Nineteenth Century this part of Manhattan remained very much the same as it had been in the Seventeenth Century. Farms, and some large estates, comprise most of the land holdings. Many of the most prominent colonial families: the Delanceys, Beekmans, Bleeckers, Rikers, Coldens and Hamiltons had estates in Harlem.

 

The St. Nicholas Historic District lies within the estate of Cadwallader D. Colden, an early Mayor of New York, whose grandfather was a colonial governor.

 

In Lloyd Morris' book "Incredible New York" there is an illustration of Commodore Vanderbilt racing horses on Harlem Lane (now Eighth Avenue) near 137th Street. The Harlem Lane of that day extended up to 168th Street. Morris also notes that when General Grant visited the City at the end of the Civil War, one of his first requests was to be taken out to Harlem Lane.

 

In 1831, the Harlem Railroad was chartered, and by 1837 it was extended to Harlem changing it from a rural to a suburban community—one of New York's first suburbs. By 1981, the elevated rapid transit lines extended up to 129th Street, and by 1884 to 145th Street. Thus, Harlem had become a vary desirable and fashionable neighborhood by the 'eighties'.

 

During the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, with a rise of Harlem as a "convenient" residential suburb, there was great land speculation and a construction fever such as had rarely been seen in New York. It was in this climate of speculative activity that the D. H. King houses were built.

 

Early History

 

The property was purchased by D.H. King and in 1891 commissioned the architectural firms of Bruce Price, James Brown Lord, Clarence S. Luce and McKim, Mead & White to design four rows of houses. King was a member of the Knickerbocker Trust and was a well-known builder (Times Building, 1889; Madison Square Garden, 1890; Equitable Building, 1872; base of the Statue of Liberty, 1886).

 

A period of Victorian gentility had led to the creation of the houses which comprise the District. They represented what was possibly the apex of that disastrous spurt of over-investing which occurred at the end of the Nineteenth Century. It is reported that in a society whose working class families paid an average of $10-18 monthly for rent, rents for these dwellings started at just below $60 and ranged somewhere between $900 and $1700 a year.

 

King wished to erect high-quality housing for well-to-do buyers, who wished to make a sound, profitable investment. Almost prophetic of the principles of today's Landmarks Preservation Commission, he wanted to be able to assure a purchaser that no nuisances could spring up near these buildings and that one need have no fear of a stable, factory, tenement or over-shadowing hotel rising beside his home.

 

"The interests of each property owner are carefully protected by stipulations against the building of additions or altering any house...." (see agreement of December, 1890, Liber 463, par. 2338 in Hall of Records, between King and Board of Health).

 

Recent History

 

The building fever that had overtaken Harlem investors came to an abrupt end with the panic of 1904. A wave of selling followed, and owners sold buildings at losses ranging from one-third to two-thirds of their original cost. Many of these buildings had never been inhabited.

 

Negro realtors, such as Philip A. Payton and John M. Royall, persuaded many property owners to sell or rant their houses to Negroes who wished to move to Harlem. The northward movement of Negro families from the South and immigration from the West Indies were the catalysts which caused the move to uptown Manhattan.

 

The houses and apartments were by far the best available to Negro families at that time. It is stated in Gilbert Osofsky's "Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto" that Harlem's "name was a symbol of elegance and distinction.... its streets and avenues were broad, well-paved, clean and tree-lined.... its homes were spacious, with the best of modem facilities...."

 

Finally, by 1919; the D. H. King houses were made available to Negroes and were already being acquired by well established professionals, a few of whom are still living there today. Many of Harlem's most prominent doctors have lived there. L. T. Wright, Surgical Director of Harlem Hospital from 1938-52, lived at 218 West 139th Street.

 

He was an eminent brain surgeon, and was the only Negro member of the American College of Surgeons at one time. P. M. Hurray, of 200 West 138th Street, was the Dean and Professor of Surgery at Howard University (1917-1913) and was one of the first Negroes to be appointed to the staff of a private hospital.

 

Paul Collins, also of 200 West 138th Street, was a staff member in the Eye Clinic of Harlem Hospital.

 

In February, 1920, a front page article in the "New York Age" described the move to 260 West 139th Street of William Pickens, a former Dean and Vice-President of Morgan College, Baltimore, Maryland, and an Associate Field Secretary of the NAACP.

 

Several famous entertainers have also lived in the St. Nicholas Historic District. W. C. Handy, internationally known and considered the father of popular jazz, lived at 232 West 139th Street. Hubie Blake, the musician, lived at 236 West 13 8th Street. Floumay Miller, of 200 West 139th Street, and Noble Sissle, of 264 West 139th Street, were members of the "Shuffle Along Company", extremely successful, which played to a wide range of audiences.

 

In 1933, Abram Hill, one of the collaborators on the play, "Anna Lucasta", and a founder of the American Negro Theatre, wrote a play about the Historic District, called "On Striver's Row". Popular use of the name "Striver's Row" developed in the 1920's and 30's and indicated the great desirability of living in this two-block area.

 

Comments on the District

 

Montgomery Schuyler, in the "Architectural Record" of April-June 1899, praised the King project for "the employment of three architects of the first rank to compete with each other, net on paper, but in actual brick and mortar.... in the most extensive building operation that has been carried out on the West Side."

 

His only criticism was that "they have supplied but a small fraction of the demand that exists for such dwellings."

 

style, by respecting each others conventions, by keeping to a uniform cornice line, the architects achieved an unusual unity rarely seen in this City. For this reason the...rows which make up this Historic District arc probably the finest of their kind in any of the five boroughs."

 

And the Rev. John J. Hicks, pastor of St. Mark's Methodist Church and chairman of the West 139th Street Block Association, testified, "This area should be preserved in our City because it will aid us in keeping capable citizens and adequate indigenous leadership within the community. The present weakness in the inner city is that we have flights to the hinterlands that siphon off respectable and capable citizens and leave the community bereft of neighborhood leadership and respect."

 

ARCHITECTURE IMPORTANCE

 

The D. H. King Houses, though the rows vary in design and detail, were planned in order to create a unified, distinct "neighborhood within a neighborhood." The use of uniform block fronts of equal heights provides a strong cohesive element, while individuality of approach prevents the area from succumbing to monotony. The basic simplicity and elegance of the houses supports this dominating sense of quiet refinement.

 

The unobstructed view of the buildings of New York's City College, high on the heights overlooking St. Nicholas Park, contributes to a feeling of openness surrounding the St. Nicholas Historic District. Builder D. H. King wanted the residents of his houses to benefit from their location on land which was "high, healthful and accessible, swept by the westerly breezes from the Hudson."

 

The planning of ornamental, wrought-iron gateways for access is likened by Montgomery Schuyler to the cutting of the Gordian Knot of house service. The gateways (two per street, and one each at the avenue ends of the block) were at once decorative .and functional. Ostensibly designed to act as entrances to serve the houses at the rear, they also led to attractive hidden accessways for private use by the residents. Circular flower beds and fountains were planned for the intersections of these interior "cross-streets". Agreements were made between King .and the various buyers concerning the privileges of ownership and use of these "streets" at the rear.

 

The comprehensiveness of King's undertaking involved more than an interest in the sale-ability of his properties. The very scale of the project and the resources available to him, the financing and retaining the services of three well-known architectural firms permitted King to concern himself, to a great degree, with the everyday needs of residents within the area as a whole. The air of exclusiveness that resulted is still highly valued today.

 

Rows in the District South Side of 139th Street

 

The houses designed by Janes Brown Lord, on the south side of West 138th Street, are without pretension and are relatively modest in design and detail. They derive from the Georgian tradition and are constructed of red brick with brownstone trim, in exceedingly good taste.

 

This row is composed of twenty-five houses, and is broken into three major groups, separated by two handsome wrought-iron gateways. Being the shortest block-front of the four, it stops east of Eighth Avenue at 250 West 136th Street. Lord also designed, at the east end, the four adjoining row houses facing Seventh Avenue. Lord's three-story houses, with basement, are the widest houses in the Historic District. The entrances to adjoining houses are adjacent to each other. Of interest, is the use of a common stoop, serving both entrances, with beautiful wrought-iron railings The illusion of a single, wider more elegant house facade is thus created, in lieu of the compartmented effect of narrow houses side by side.

 

There is a restrained use of detail within the row. This raw house concept evinces an over-all concern with the unity of the facade, which is treated as a. single mass, and the uniformity of the detail serves to create a pleasing rhythm, carrying the eye along the street and maintaining visual interest. The Jajr.es Brown Lord row is reminiscent of the Eighteenth Century English development of the palace facade and in its comprehensiveness reminds us of John Weeds' work in the City of Bath, England.

 

North Side of 138th Street & South Side of 139th Street

 

The block located between West 138th Street and West 139th Street and Seventh and Eighth Avenues was the work of architects Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce. This block was designed in the Georgian style of the Eclectic period. Here, there is a greater reliance on detail than in the Lord houses, and the profusion of decorative elements, and their numerous variations, are most attractive. The use of buff colored brick with Indiana limestone detail acts as a contrast both to the Lord houses to the south, and to the McKim, Mead and White houses to the north.

 

This complete block of houses, executed in a uniform style of architecture, consists of thirty-five houses along each street. On Eighth Avenue, two apartment houses close the end with entrances on the cross streets.

 

On Seventh Avenue, there are two groups of five story houses on cither side of the inner accessway. The houses on these two block fronts are narrower than those at the south side of 138th Street, averaging about seventeen feet in width, except for the end houses, Which, ore twenty feet wide.

 

Although the stoops arc adjacent to each other, serving the adjoining houses, one senses here that they arc distinct, as they run up straight from the street, separated by handrails. The basic street elevation consists of a flush masonry basement, whose entrance is under the front stoop of each house, and three stories of handsome buff colored brick, undefined by any horizontal string course. Instead, the uniformity of the brick work provides a uniform ground to set off decorative motifs. The window sizes vary, and there are several different window treatments.

 

The first story windows and the narrow ones at the second story have terra cotta splayed lintels with elongated keystones. The wider second story window has a cornice-like lintel above with a semi-circular panel above that. The two third story windows are narrow and have simple lintels with keystones.

 

The second story of the houses on either side of the handsome iron gateways display an interesting pseudo-Palladian window treatment in terra cotta. Here, a triply divided window is separated by handsome Ionic columns supporting, above its garlanded horizontal lintel, an arch-form above the columns. This arch has alternate voussoirs elongated with a blind tympanum with wreath design within. The triple square-headed windows on the floor above these complement the arched window, at the second story.

 

An element of movement is added to the row by projecting forward some of the facades of the houses, which are adjacent to each other. This difference in alignment also adds interest and apparent depth to the row. The doorway is slightly recessed and its round arched head has an elongated, console-like keystone the arch springs from Greek-fret motif impost blocks similar to those used for some of the third story windows.

 

Delicate wrought-iron balconies extend from the base of the full-length first story windows, and similar wrought-iron work is to be found at the top platforms of the stoops and used as handrails for the steps.

 

A delicate garland pattern is employed in the fascia of the cornice, signalizing the windows below it. A horizontal moulding at the base of the fascia displays a tiny, continuous swag motif. These decorative elements unify the individual, attached buildings as does the overhanging cornice surmounted by a handsome stone balustrade topping the whole.

 

Distinctive stone quoins delineate the corners of the houses whore breaks in the wall occur.

 

The diversity of window treatment and the decorative motifs of the cornice ere at-; an interesting variation against the over-all pattern of the windows and doors.

 

North Side of 139th Street

 

Finally, there are the houses designed by McKim, Mead and White, situated on the north side of West 139th Street. They represent basically the Italian Renaissance style, which this firm was among the first to absorb, modify, and then transform into that distinctive product of American architecture which we so readily associate with them.

 

Thirty-two houses, approximately nineteen feet wide, contrast wall with the other houses by their generally darker tone. They are built of handsome dark brown mottled brick. The over-all design of this exceptionally handsome row of houses reminds one of a Sixteenth Century Italian palace. The center house of the block, 233 West 139th Street, acts as a central feature of the raw. Its elegant first floor English Basement, entered at ground floor, is deeply rusticated and is similar to that of all the houses in this row, except that in place of the simple rectangular doorway of the other houses, there is an attractive arcade effect, seen through two rectangular openings on cither side of a round arched doorway. A deeply recessed porch lies behind this arcade, with the doorway set to one side. On Eighth Avenue there is an apartment house, and there are five row houses on Seventh Avenue. The ground floors of the buildings on the avenues have been extensively altered to serve as store fronts.

 

Most of the residences on the north side of 13 9th Street have a single platform step, with simple railings leading to the entrance doors.

 

The window arrangement of these houses is very unusual. The first story, in each case, is handsomely rusticated, with simple elongated keystones over each of the two windows and the door, which is set off unsymmetrically to one side. The rest of the facade is of brick, separated by a delicate string course at the third floor sill level. The second story displays two,, narrow side windows on either side of a largo central window, from which an iron railed balcony extends, supported by stone brackets (consoles). Above this central window is a medallion with a floral rosette. The medallion acts as a focal print for this window grouping and punctuates the row of houses at regular intervals. The medallion was widely used in Italian Renaissance architecture; an early example was to be found on Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital, in Florence, 1445 A.D.). The upper portion ofvthe front elevation contains the third and fourth stories exhibiting an unusual wide-eyed appearance with the two windows at each floor set well apart.

 

The fourth story windows have simple lintels with keystones. The frames of the other windows above the basement are surmounted by small-scale, distinct cornices.

 

The four houses on either side of the gateways (Nos. 217, 219, 247 and 249 West 139th Street' vary the second story window treatment. Here a round-arched pediment is used, instead of the usual medallion, producing a handsome note of emphasis en these terminal houses. An attractive cornice with modillions crowns the row of houses and unifies the whole composition. The variation in window treatment lends interest and to some extent signalizes the individual units, while brick quoins on the end buildings emphasize the corners and the breaks in the main wall.

 

- From the 1967 NYCLPC Historic Distric Designation Report

Winds of Rock 2012

Arinaga, Gran Canaria

Foto de Jonas M.F.

 

www.sancocho.com

Strivers' Row was a speculative townhouse development in Harlem that became home to several influential African Americans. Despite being in New York, the development was initially segregated, but famous later residents included musicians Fletcher Henderson and W. C. Handy. Where Handy first heard the blues: www.flickr.com/photos/josepha/5424914959/.

 

Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless

The “2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.

 

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A race is a group of people who have shared appearance that are associated with one another through their traditions and outward appearances. My Puerto Rican friend was complaining that she wished she had "white people hair"--which, i suppose, would then be an aspect of ethnicity. The photo is a commentary on how the white race has somewhat "taken over" and begun to make other races and ethnicities strive to be, act, and look more like them--similar to the way in the 50

s the little african american girls chose the white barbie dolls rather than the black ones in the experiment on race.

With each and every post, we strive here at Creative Tempest to bring you only the best artists from around the world. This post comes to you all the way from NYC, New York, with our artist being none other than Joe Jusko. What makes this artist so special is that it’s a safe assumption to say that the majority of people alive today have seen his artwork! His work includes paintings and illustrations for characters such as Hawk Man, The Green Lantern, Conan the Barbarian, The Punisher, Lara Croft, and Captain America just to name a few. Producing his first cover at the age of 17 for Heavy Metal Magazine in 1977, Joe Jusko is a comic book artist who has worked for all the major comic book companies including Marvel, DC, Crusade, Innovation, Harris, Wildstorm, Top Cow, and Byron Preiss. Graduating that year as well from the New York High School of Art & Design (the only high school in the country that offers a curriculum geared towards commercial art) he received the DC Comics Award of Excellence in Cartooning. In 2007 Joe Jusko was inducted into the prestigious Society of Illustrators and received the Certificate of Merit from them for his more recent work in ‘Tomb Raider’ (based off the popular PlayStation videogame). We’re happy to post such talent and vision here on Creative Tempest and hope you will share the same appreciation for great artwork that we do. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com

Vandalized Campus Crusade for Christ poster.

CAPE TOWN\SOUTH AFRICA, 05MAY11 - Strive Masiyiwa, Group Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless group, South Africa, and Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Chief executive Officer and Head of Mission, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa, during the Development Partnerships plenary at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2011 held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 May 2011.

 

Copyright (cc-by-sa) © World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org/Photo Eric Miller emiller@iafrica.com

The “2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.

 

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The gal in the rich cultural costume -this is a common dressing being seen in and around the Nangarparkar, the city of eastern region of Sindh, Pakistan.

exhibition

 

29 October - 19 November, 2021

Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka

 

Photo: Hrvoje Franjić / Drugo more

  

#MEMEMANIFESTO is transmedia project that explores the occult meanings and communicative potential of memetic symbology, investigating different aspects of internet meme culture through various media: an art book, an interactive website, a physical installation, and a series of participatory workshops.

 

Based on the aesthetics of online conspiracy theorists, ancient grimoires, and cutting-edge contemporary digital design, the project strives to be a manual for memetic production, a refined documentation of the contemporary memetic landscape, and an art book about the hidden sides of the internet.

 

While their online exhibition #MEMEPROPAGANDA explored the potential of memes for political activism, the transmedia project #MEMEMANIFESTO (2020–ongoing) explores different aspects of meme culture through various media: a website installation and a participative archive called “Safari”, the physical installation “Detective Wall”, the book and catalogue to the exhibition “The Detective Wall Guide” and a series of workshops entitled “The Meme Manifesto Protocols” where participants are called on to contribute content, images and discussions to the implementation of #MEMEMANIFESTO.

 

During its visit to Drugo More, Clusterduck is focussing on the “Detective Wall” installation. Taking inspiration from Aby Warburg’s famous “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne” and with a nod to the so-called “Crazy Wall” shown in the “Pepe Silvia” meme, the ten panels composing “Detective Wall” are an investigation around ten different themes and moments of memecultural history, spanning the period from 2006 to the present day. The visitor is invited to explore the crazy wall – and the research behind it – with the help of “The Detective Wall Guide”, a book co-published by Aksioma and Impakt. By offering a closer look at the digital version of the panels, Clusterduck is inviting visitors to go down an almost infinite series of rabbit holes, navigating through a series of attributions and links. In doing so, Clusterduck recommends caution and to proceed at your own risk.

  

More: drugo-more.hr/en/clusterduck/

With each and every post, we strive here at Creative Tempest to bring you only the best artists from around the world. This post comes to you all the way from NYC, New York, with our artist being none other than Joe Jusko. What makes this artist so special is that it’s a safe assumption to say that the majority of people alive today have seen his artwork! His work includes paintings and illustrations for characters such as Hawk Man, The Green Lantern, Conan the Barbarian, The Punisher, Lara Croft, and Captain America just to name a few. Producing his first cover at the age of 17 for Heavy Metal Magazine in 1977, Joe Jusko is a comic book artist who has worked for all the major comic book companies including Marvel, DC, Crusade, Innovation, Harris, Wildstorm, Top Cow, and Byron Preiss. Graduating that year as well from the New York High School of Art & Design (the only high school in the country that offers a curriculum geared towards commercial art) he received the DC Comics Award of Excellence in Cartooning. In 2007 Joe Jusko was inducted into the prestigious Society of Illustrators and received the Certificate of Merit from them for his more recent work in ‘Tomb Raider’ (based off the popular PlayStation videogame). We’re happy to post such talent and vision here on Creative Tempest and hope you will share the same appreciation for great artwork that we do. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com

These pictures were taken as I played ultimate frisbee with a group of friends. It was uploaded for a post on striving and rest for the prayer blog.

Strivers Row is considered a gem of New York's architecture and consists of three rows of townhouses in the Western part of Harlem, Manhattan, New York. It is located between 138th and West 139th Sts and between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Originally called the "King Model Houses" after developer David King, they were designed for upper middle class whites and constructed between 1891 and 1893. Different architects - most famous amongst them were the ubiquitous McKim, Mead and White - worked on each of the three rows. This is one of the most beautiful areas in Manhattan with a high quality of life at the foothills of City. More about the nickname and the racial problems on these blocks in the Wikipedia article.

 

See where this picture was taken. [?]

Let's think about something today.

What do you strive to be?

       

Let me tell you something. Only one of these petals are real.... and with all it's blemishes and all it's imperfections, it is still the most beautiful of all.

With each and every post, we strive here at Creative Tempest to bring you only the best artists from around the world. This post comes to you all the way from Los Angeles, CA, with our artist being none other than Tomasz Opasinski. Born in Poland, in 1975, Tomasz has his bachelor’s degree in computer graphics in print and advertising, certified as an Adobe expert, and is currently working as a digital artist and creative consultant for various prestigious advertising agencies in LA. Tomasz has an incredibly impressive work resume that includes work in literally hundreds of movies, video games, TV shows, and television networks. What we love about the work of Tomasz Opasinski is how original and unique all his designs are. Looking at his work makes us ponder the depth and complexity of his mind, clearly there must be countless algorithms and innumerable image configurations taking place that all sum up to one thing: design genius! This is why his work is put on display for the entire world to see. And for this we’re happy to post such creative talent and vision here on Creative Tempest and hope you will share the same appreciation for great artwork that we do. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com

Strongman run Sept'13

Strive without seeking, struggle without greed.

some kids from colombia asked me to do a design for their band STRIVE FOR YOURSELF today, so this one came out on a couple of free hours I had.

 

hoy unos chicos de colombia me pidieron si les hacia un diseño para su banda STRIVE FOR YOURSELF asi que salio esto en un par de horas libres.

 

www.myspace.com/striveforyourself

The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaves 4–6 m long, pinnae 60–90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth. The term coconut refers to the seed of the coconut palm.

The flowers of the coconut palm are polygamomonoecious, with both male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. Flowering occurs continuously, with female flowers producing seeds. Coconut palms are believed to be largely cross-pollinated, although some dwarf varieties are self-pollinating. Coconuts also come with a liquid that is clear like water but sweet. The "Nut" of the coconut is edible and is in the shape of a ball or is on the inside sides of the coconut.

 

Source : Wikipedia

 

mixed media on canvas

40x80

 

Designer: Qian Daxin (钱大昕)

1958, March

Strive for even bigger harvests to contribute to socialism

Zhengqu gengdade fengshou xiangei shehui zhuyi (争取更大的丰收献给社会主义)

Call nr.: BG E15/449 (Landsberger collection)

 

More? See: chineseposters.net

 

Please join us for an international conference with senior opinion makers, policy makers, and officials to look in-depth at the prospects for regional cooperation among the major powers of East Asia, in advance of the White House summit between the United States and the Republic of Korea. A light lunch will be served. For RSVP questions, please email us at KoreaChair@csis.org

 

Featuring

 

Dr. Zbigniew K. Brzezinski

Counselor and Trustee, CSIS;

The 10th U.S. National Security Advisor

 

In Discussion With

 

Dr. John Hamre

President & CEO and Pritzker Chair, CSIS;

Director, Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy

 

Agenda

9:15 AM Registration and Check-in

 

9:45-9:55 AM Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Adviser & Korea Chair, CSIS; Professor and Director, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University

 

9:55-10:00 AM Introductory Remarks

Ambassador Ahn Ho-Young, Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the United States

 

10:00-10:40 AM Spotlight Conversation

Dr. Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, CSIS Counselor and Trustee and the 10th U.S. National Security Advisor

 

Dr. John J. Hamre, CSIS President and CEO, the Pritzker Chair, and Director, Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy

 

Moderated by Dr. Victor Cha, CSIS and Georgetown

 

10:40-10:45 AM Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:00 PM The Challenges and Opportunities of Northeast Asian Cooperation

Moderator: Dr. Victor Cha, CSIS and Georgetown

 

Dr. Kurt Campbell, Chairman and CEO, The Asia Group; Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

 

Dr. Evan Medeiros, Former Special Assistant to the President and SeniorDirector for Asian Affairs, National Security Council

 

Dr. Jin Canrong, Professor and Associate Dean, School if International Studies, Renmin University of China

 

Dr. Narushige Michishita, Director of Security and International Studies Program, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

 

Dr. Shin, Beomchul, Director General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea

 

Dr. Choi, Kang, Vice President for Research, Asan Institute for Policy Studies; Former National Security Council Staff, The Blue House

 

12:00-12:20 PM Lunch and Coffee Break

 

12:20-1:00 PM Northeast Asian Peace and Cooperation Initiative

Dr. Choi, Kang, Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 

Mr. Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

 

1:00 PM Adjournment

 

This event is co-hosted by CSIS and the Korea Foundation.

 

The "Korea Going Forward" series of events is made possible by the generous support of Grosvenor Capital Management L.P. and Amkor Technology.

 

Programs

Korea Chair, Korea Going Forward, South Korea as a Global Power, U.S.-ROK Alliance

 

Topics

Regional Analysis

 

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With each and every post, we strive here at Creative Tempest to bring you only the best artists from around the world. This post comes to you all the way from NYC, New York, with our artist being none other than Joe Jusko. What makes this artist so special is that it’s a safe assumption to say that the majority of people alive today have seen his artwork! His work includes paintings and illustrations for characters such as Hawk Man, The Green Lantern, Conan the Barbarian, The Punisher, Lara Croft, and Captain America just to name a few. Producing his first cover at the age of 17 for Heavy Metal Magazine in 1977, Joe Jusko is a comic book artist who has worked for all the major comic book companies including Marvel, DC, Crusade, Innovation, Harris, Wildstorm, Top Cow, and Byron Preiss. Graduating that year as well from the New York High School of Art & Design (the only high school in the country that offers a curriculum geared towards commercial art) he received the DC Comics Award of Excellence in Cartooning. In 2007 Joe Jusko was inducted into the prestigious Society of Illustrators and received the Certificate of Merit from them for his more recent work in ‘Tomb Raider’ (based off the popular PlayStation videogame). We’re happy to post such talent and vision here on Creative Tempest and hope you will share the same appreciation for great artwork that we do. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com

From a fabulous collection of vintage advertisements from the Roaring Twenties.

2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.

 

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Three weeks ago, I spent some time being shown around St Anne’s by a justly proud principal, Mary Cullen. I was more than a little envious as I viewed a beautifully maintained and very well equipped school. What pupils, staff, and parents now take for granted, is in stark contrast to the humble beginnings experienced by those of us who were here 40 years ago.

St Anne’s opened for business on the 1st July 1978 with ninety children. Three classes of junior infants in St Marks Senior Primary school. Our second year we lodged in St Marks Community school where Tom Cuskelly. and J. Fitzpatrick and many other teachers joined my staff. At last, on the 1st September 1980 we moved into our permanent home, St Anne’s School, and the school divided. I remained principal of the junior school and Tom Cuskelly was appointed principal of the senior school.

Life was not easy for the many families that came to Fettercairn. There were no amenities, no shops, and no bus services. The Luas was not even dreamt of. The school had only basic necessities and no money to equip it as we would have wished. There was no fence around the school and Mr. C was seen on occasions chasing horses off the grassy hills surrounding the school.

 

Soon things gradually improved. The occasional cake sale provided much needed funds to buy equipment. We were very lucky to have a gifted and conscientious caretaker, Matt Murphy, who maintained the school on a shoestring and without whom the school would have come to a standstill. Indeed some naughty teachers grumbled that unlike some other schools that closed for a day or two because of boiler break downs, it never happened in St. Anne’s because Matt Murphy always kept the boiler going.

 

We also appointed a highly efficient secretary, whose work was impeccable and whose discretion was valued by all. Then came Board of Managements which involved, quite rightly, parents in the running of the schools. In St. Anne’s parental involvement was further encouraged by the appointment of a home school liaison teacher and the establishment of a parent’s room within the school. Here I must pay tribute to W. Mc G who did Trojan work in this area and also great things were achieved in St. Anne’s down the years. Thanks to very enthusiastic, progressive and dedicated staff in both schools. There was great teamwork in each school and we were constantly striving to improve the quality of our teaching and the learning environment of the children entrusted to us.

 

We were particularly interested getting help for children who might have problems. In this we were helped by supportive Boards of Managements and by the very caring parents of Fettercairn. There was great cooperation between the junior and senior schools, especially when it came to the transfer of pupils and arranging school events. When necessary, we also liaised with other schools in the area. I should like now to pay tribute to my fellow with whom it was great to work with and consult when necessary.

 

Of course, the most important members of the school community are the children who are the reason that we are here at all. We were always very proud of St. Anne’s children and we were confident that we could bring them anywhere and that they were guaranteed to be very well behaved. That doesn’t mean that they were all saints – we wouldn’t want them to be – but they just seemed to sense when good behaviour was required – a tribute to their parents. It gives all a great feeling of satisfaction to know that many have done very well at both secondary and third level education.

 

And so St. Anne’s has come full circle and is now, as it began, just one school under the very able stewardship of Mary Cullen. I have no doubt that with Mary Cullen at the helm, it will go from strength to strength, while still retaining its happy and pleasant atmosphere and its sense of fun which sustained us all down through the years. I look forward to hearing of even greater achievements by our pupils in the years to come.

 

Taken in Bait Baws village, Yemen.

 

Thanks for your visit and have a great day!

Striving for excellence, tennis ace Sania Mirza achieved a career-best rank of number 5 in the world!

I doubt a girl hasnt said 'I look fat' to herself. Every girl feels fat every once in awhile. This is an example of a girl that depending on your definition has the perfect body. But it's still not good enough and she wants to be even skinnier. Everyone has insecurities. Even the people you think don't.

A new $250,000, 18-month pilot program is being launched by the Ministry of Children and Family Development and the YWCA Metro Vancouver to help youth who are transitioning out of government care to gain the life and work skills they need to become independent.

 

Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/02/strive-will-help-former-an...

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The “2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.

 

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The Jay Heritage Center is proud to have been named to the list of 100 Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area sites in 2009 for our dynamic programming centered on themes of Architecture, Landscape, Environmental Sustainability and Freedom and Dignity.

 

Most recently, a group of 100 visitors- students, teachers and parents from a local school- spent the whole day at JHC for a custom designed 1 day curricula that included classes about American history, the abolition of slavery in New York, colonial music, natural sciences and much more. From learning about John Jay's role as a spymaster for George Washington during the Revolutionary War to participating in a play about the abolition of slavery in New York State, this seventh grade experienced the value of "placed based learning."

 

There are truly no classrooms to rival the national historic landmarks where America's natural and cultural heritage began.

 

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The “2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.

 

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To my fancy, it appeared this kitty was striving for heaven. My son likes to think so, too. My more pragmatic sister thinks it was hunting swallows.

 

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sorry! i haven't posted in over a month and I had loads of photos to share! (this is only a small fraction of the photos I had to share but I settled with these!)

 

I missed you all, flickrinos! :)

Sunday morning walk around Austin, TX.

Talk & Play is a free event series organized by and for the local games industry. We strive to create a welcoming atmosphere for the entire community, from students to CEOs, with the intention to gather the entire industry at WERK1 for food, drinks, quality talks, networking and play sessions. Thanks to Games/Bavaria, CipSoft and WERK1 for their support!

 

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SPEAKER - Jean Leggett

 

Our first speaker is Jean Leggett, co-founder and CEO of One More Story Games, the developer of StoryStylus, a simplified authoring platform for amateur and professional writers to create, publish and market diverse narrative-based video games. Jean is the lead writer of the Charlaine Harris game adaptation of “Shakespeare’s Landlord” to be published in early 2019 about a woman coming to grips with her PTSD from sexual assault when she discovers a murder close to home.

 

In her talk "Stories that haunt us and heal us: exploring mental health, abuse and trauma through games narrative” Jean will be speaking about the design of Charlaine Harris’ "Shakespeare's Landlord," a novel-to-game adaptation and how the development team designed narrative choices, events and characters to mindfully explore trauma, PTSD and character progression within the construct of a 2D mystery adventure game.

 

SPEAKER - Arno Görgen

 

Our second speaker is Arno Görgen, research associate at the University of the Arts in Bern. Over the past years Arno has worked in various medicine-historic institutes researching topics like "Violence towards Kids" and "Science and Pop Culture". He's currently graduating at the University in Bern with his project „Biohorror in Digital Games“.

 

His talk "Mental Health in Digital Games. Ethics and Aesthetics of the Unplayable" is going to focus on the depiction of mental illness in video games.

 

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AGENDA

 

--- 19:00 Doors Open

 

--- 19:30 Talks Start

 

--- 21:15 Pizza & Drinks, sponsored by CipSoft

 

--- 21:30 Game Showcase & Networking

 

--- 23:00 The End

 

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GAMES

 

If you're interested in showcasing your current project during the event, sign up here: goo.gl/forms/Tvfte4BJsV5KaUc53

 

We'll be announcing the games on display at Talk & Play in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

 

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SPONSOR

 

Talk & Play is kindly sponsored by CipSoft:

CipSoft was founded in 2001 and arose from the success of Tibia, one of the first MMORPG’s of the world. In 2003, the company from Regensburg published TibiaME and with that the first online role-playing game for mobile phones. Panzer League, the first mobile multiplayer online battle arena for tanks, is currently in soft launch. Being one of the oldest German game developers, the company has an approximate annual turnover of 10 million euros and 90 employees. The independence from external investors as well as a continuous income from their online games allows CipSoft a steady growth without waves of redundancies or crunch times. You can find more information about CipSoft on their website: cipsoft.com/index.php/de/

 

Talk & Play is a format created by Berlingamescene.com, which has been running the event in Berlin every two months since 2013. Visit berlingamescene.com/talkandplay/ for more. This event is run independently and takes inspiration from the original format.