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Strike Team member Sgt. Joe Bercovic with the New Jersey National Guard's 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team, seals an evidence sample with anti-tampering tape during a training exercise with the Picatinny Arsenal Fire Department at the New Jersey Homeland Defense Homeland Security Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., Mar. 23, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Apr 26, 2011 Teachers and support staff protest the specially called school board meeting at John Jay HS in Cross River where New Berlin, Wisconsin superintendent, Dr. Paul Kreutzer, was formally appointed the new superintendent for the Katonah-Lewisboro school district. Outside, Geoff Curtis leads pledge of allegiance; middle school music teacher Elena Gambulos-Cody and husband Peter Cody [flag shirt] sing; speakers include TA pres. Sandy Grebinar; Lee Cutler; support staff pres. Jeani Granelli. Board members: Kimberly Monzon (District Clerk); Troy Chryssos (student); Peter Treyz; Janet Harckham; Peter Breslin; Michael Jumper (Interim Supt); Kreutzer; Michael Gordon (Pres); Mark Lipton (VP); Eve Hundt;; Warren Schloat; Carol Ann Lee (Asst Supt); Alice Cronin (Asst Supt). .
Jonathan Hansonbrook [K-L teacher].
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Firefighting resources loading a plane for Val-de-Or Quebec. Resources included Bitterroot Interagency Hotshot Crew, incident management teams, and 11 overhead. Photo provided by Hudson Plass, BLM Alaska Fire Service contract crew coordinator.
Visuals from PAIA-ID - The Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project in the Djuablin Region of Indenia, in September 2020, in Ivory Coast.
A sign for Aston Villa Football Club near The Holte pub and an entrance to Aston Hall.
This side says Thank You For Your Support. Points towards Aston Station and Witton Station. As well as Aston Hall.
Behind is the Aston Expressway - A38(M).
Fort Benning is a United States Army post which supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees, and civilian employees on a daily basis. It is a power projection platform, and possesses the capability to deploy combat-ready forces by air, rail, and highway. Fort Benning is the home of the United States Army Armor School, United States Army Infantry School, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Brigade - 3rd Infantry Division, and many other additional tenant units.
Since 1918, Fort Benning, Ga, has served as the Home of the Infantry. Since 1940, Fort Knox, KY, has served as the Home of the Armor. The Maneuver Center of Excellence transformation began as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission's decision to consolidate a number of schools and installations to create "centers of excellence." Included in this transformation was the move of the Armor School to Fort Benning.
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U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held May 14, 2020, for the 737th Training Support Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
On National Wildland Firefighter Day, we express our deepest gratitude to the brave men and women who answer the call to fight wildfires and the dedicated support personnel that make it all possible.
Wildfires transcend boundaries, requiring a collaborative and coordinated response. Interagency partnerships, like those represented in this video, play a vital role in achieving this.
We would like to acknowledge the significance of our partnerships and express gratitude to those in wildland fire at all levels. This includes, federal, state, local, Tribal, military, and contract resources. The coordination and cooperation between these entities creates a more efficient and effective response to wildfire.
By pooling resources, sharing expertise, and fostering open communication, we can tackle wildfires with greater strength and unity. Let us recognize and appreciate the exceptional teamwork exhibited by our interagency partners in safeguarding our communities and environment.
National #WildlandFirefighterDay, established in 2022, now serves as a poignant reminder of the critical role firefighters and support personnel play in protecting our communities and natural treasures. By prioritizing safety, fostering interagency partnerships, and expressing gratitude for this community, we demonstrate our commitment to their wellbeing. #ItTakesAllOfUs #ThankAFirefighter #NWFFD #FirefightingResources
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1/2 inch thick etched glass loggy sign, reverse etched logo. Edgelit illuminated with led lights in supporting rails.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy spreads throughout the body. It can affect everything from head to toe.
This is a picture of my own front teeth and what happened to them! They just started falling out! No reason.......
I don't have the money to fix them. I live on social security disability which is very low income. I can barely afford the co-pays for my medicines.
So, what is a person suppose to do?
Do I live the rest of my life without teeth?
Will a stranger donate teeth to me?
This disease can ruin your life AND YOUR FAMILY'S TOO!
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Quintin Doll stands with his wife, mother and sister following his promotion ceremony at Clay National Guard Center, Marietta, Ga. on Oct. 16, 2020. Doll's extensive career includes missions served around the globe such as to Germany and the country of Georgia. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Tori Miller)
Following a 401st Army Field Support Brigade command brief and a tour of the AFSBn-Bagram, Logistics Task Force Bagram redistribution property assistance team area, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, Communications-Electronics Command commanding general and Brig. Gen. Kevin J. O’Connell, Joint Munitions and Lethality Command and Joint Munitions Command commanding general got a chance to meet some of their employees assigned to the 401st who support the Warfighter across the Combined Joint Operations Area-Afghanistan Mar. 19.
About the 401st:
The 401st Army field Support Brigade provides Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, and Marines, the tools and resources necessary to complete the mission. If they shoot it, drive it, fly it, wear it, eat it or communicate with it, the 401st helps provide it. The brigade assists coalition partners with many of their logistical and sustainment needs. The brigade also handles the responsible disposition of equipment in Afghanistan to support evolving missions. We are the single link between Warfighters in the field, and working through Army Sustainment Command, we leverage Army Materiel Command’s worldwide Materiel Enterprise to develop, deliver, and sustain materiel to ensure a dominant joint force for the U.S. and our Allies.
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First Lady, Chirlane McGray, meets with NYPD Crime Victim Advocate and NYPD Commissioner, James P. OâNeill and Deputy Commissioner,Susan Herman at Safe Horizon Learning Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday, October 26th, 2016. Safe Horizonâs mission is to provide supports that help victims of crime and violence heal and find justice.
Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photo Office.
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held May 14, 2020, for the 737th Training Support Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
In support of the Warrior100K, on March 29th, 50 student veterans and spouses from five Texas universities joined the Military Service Initiative for a trail maintenance project at Prairie Chapel Ranch. Photo by Grant Miller
MTA Bridges and Tunnels is rebuilding the Harlem River Drive southbound ramp leading onto the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. The project, expected to be completed by the end of the year, is part of the nearly $1 billion in capital improvements planned over the next 15 years for the 75-year-old bridge, which serves a combined average of 170,000 vehicles daily. A temporary ramp, with a quick detour through local streets, is in place, continuing to give motorists access to the RFK Bridge ramp at 125th Street. This photo shows the original steel support columns are the only piece of the old ramp that remain. New galvanized steel beams will be placed horizontally across them, as seen in this photo, followed by new steel stringers and a brand new, slightly wider roadway. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Joyce Mulvaney.
Somewhere around December 25, Flickr's tag system broke. There's plenty of chatter in the help forum, I won't repeat it here.
Now Norwich Arts Centre.
In fact it has been a concert venue since the mid-80s, I can remember coming here several times, last time to see The Primitives do their thang, and supported by a local band, who did Wild Thing as an encore. I found out that the leader of that local band died recently, which is a shame.
It was also here that Richie James carved the word's "4 REAL" into his forearm during an interview with the NME, which brought him and his band, the Manic Street Preachers to national attention.
For me, it is good to see the venue still in use some 20 years after I first attended a gig here, and I was waved through when I explained I wanted to have a look at the old church, disturbing a small piano recital in the lobby, where a small group of people listened as a man played piano. They gently applauded him as one song finished, and I took the chance to nip past.
Very little of the church seems to remain, though there are memorials, and above the roof is still in place.
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St Benedict Street has four medieval churches within 250 metres of each other, and there are three more on adjacent Pottergate, so it is no surprise that some of them are surplus to requirements; in fact, all seven are now redundant. St Swithin is one of the smallest, but it was already derelict in the 19th century. The tall, elegant tower, with the porch built directly into its south side, was taken down as unsafe in the 1880s, and the church was closed shortly afterwards. You can see the church before the tower was demolished in the image on the left.
There obviously was a 19th century interior, because above the large west gallery the west window had been filled in, and scriptural texts painted in ribbons, suggesting an evangelical temper to the worship here. It can only have fallen into disuse because of the proximity of so many other churches - there are four others in St Benedict's Street alone.
However, this area was the toughest and grimiest part of industrial Norwich, and in 1905, a young clergyman, John Sawbridge, saw a need for an evangelical presence, probably because of the high Anglo-catholic character of nearby St Lawrence, and he raised the funds for St Swithin to be repaired and restored to use.
Diocesan architect Herbert Green did the job, and built parish mission and school rooms at the east end that still survive today, as we shall see. The ornate bell turret in the 15th century style is also his. He took out the large gallery, replacing it with a smaller one, and opened up the west window. The benches were replaced with modern chairs, a screen being put in to contain the tiny chancel.
However, it couldn't last, and by the Second World War St Swithin was redundant again. It escaped the blitz, despite St Benedict, 200m away, being destroyed. After the war, as with many Norwich churches, St Swithin was left to rot, being used as a furniture warehouse, until it was born again in the 1980s as the Norwich Arts Centre.
A new entrance hall was built in the south-east corner, and the parish rooms have become an exhibition space and restaurant. The church itself is the auditorium. It is all done so well that from the inside that it is hard to tell you are not in a modern building. Inside, very little survives of the Reverend Sawbridge's incarnation, and obviously hardly anything medieval. There are pictures of the modern interior at the bottom of this page.
Unfortunately, the revised edition of Pevsner uses the notes of the first edition to record the screen and a pair of medieval stalls, but in fact nothing remains at all of the internal furnishings.
Norwich Arts Centre is a pleasure to visit, and it is open every day. The staff here are very friendly, and you will be able to step into the auditorium. There is an illusion, as you look towards the stage, that you are facing east, as in the conversion of St Mary-at-the-Wall in Colchester as the Colchester Arts Centre; but here in St Swithin you enter the auditorium through what would have been the sanctuary, and look towards the site of the demolished tower. Looking up above the lighting rig, a Victorian roof survives, a reminder with a scattering of memorials that this was once a church.
In church explorer terms, it is not as well done as Colchester Arts Centre, in the sense that there is little regard for the former incarnation of the building, but this is a good venue for seeing smaller bands (I had been to see The Wedding Present a few days before I took these photos) and in any case, the plaque on the wall at Colchester applies here as well:
This building was intended as a church.
Deconsecrated, it is a church no longer.
One day it will become a ruin.
When it does, it will be the ruin of a church.
When you leave, it is worth wandering down the lane to the west of the church, where the tower used to be. Amazingly, here is a totally rural 16th century cottage, for all the world as if we were in deepest Norfolk, and the ancient street sign Hampshire Hog Yard.
Simon Knott, November 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichswithin/norwichswithin.htm
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This is one of four churches in St Benedict’s Street, and its dedication to St Swithin (the famous rain-making Bishop of Winchester!) indicates it may well have an Anglo-Saxon foundation date. The original church was probably no longer than the one we see today, and its development has been restricted by its site. Rich enough to rebuild the church as it stands in the fifteenth century, and still containing some well-to-do parishioners in the eighteenth, by the nineteenth the parish had become a slum.
The church appears very odd from outside, as there is no tower, and no obvious entrance. The tower became unsafe, and was demolished in 1882, and replaced by the turret. There were porches either side of it, as at St Gregory. Entrance was through the west door.
The windows are of the Decorated style, though those in the clerestorey are square-headed Perpendicular. They show that it is a building of four bays, with no separate chancel. The rood-stair turret on the north side shows the original screen crossed half-way along, giving a chancel and nave of two bays each.
Also on the north side is the Mission Hall, built in 1908, and as large as the church itself. This was the result of a generous benefaction.
Very little remains to be seen. Entry from the Arts Centre is now through the east wall, where the altar once stood.
Of special note are the arcades. That on the north (left as you enter) is a standard Perpendicular structure, with Gothic columns and arches; that on the south was remodelled around 1700 in the Classical style, with square piers and round arches.
All the fittings have been removed. These included an East Anglian ‘lion’ font; a screen which separated off the altar of 1905. This included a projection screen which could be raised and lowered for magic lantern lectures; and an organ, which is now at Heckingham.
The monuments include one to Anne Scottowe, who died in 1650; William Willcocks (died 1770) and Abraham Robertson (died 1777).
Nineteenth century. Closed in 1881, it reopened in 1883, then closed again in 1891, and fell into disrepair. It was thoroughly restored in 1905.
Twentieth century. Although the Hall had enabled it to become the social centre of its parish, falling numbers of residents forced its final closure in 1951. After many years’ use as a furniture store, it became the Norwich Arts Centre in 1980. The church is used as a concert hall, and the Mission Hall contains the restaurant, galleries, and offices.
www.norwich-churches.org/St Swithins/home.shtm