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Working Downtown, you are constantly confronted with the Old and the New, sometimes within the same building, but it's that contrast that is the beauty of Pittsburgh. Despite the epic failure to save the Civic Arena, there are some shinning examples of presearved and reused buildings like the classic Union Trust Building, now part of the Bank of New York Mellon complex in Downtown Pittsburgh.
April 30, 2016 | Rededication of the Pinnacles Research and Stewardship Center after it was remodeled. This project was funded by a generous donation from our partner, the Shenandoah National Park Trust.
VA Convenes Leaders in Brain Health to Advance Solutions for mTBI and PTSD at Brain Trust Summit
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is leading a groundbreaking two-day event focused on brain health, Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion. The first annual public-private partnership event will take place this week at the National Press Club and the IBM Institute for Electronic Government in Washington, DC.
Building on the extraordinary leadership and trailblazing efforts of a number of distinguished VA brain researchers, VA is convening many of the most influential voices in the field of brain health – to include the Department of Defense, the sports industry, private sector, federal government, Veterans and community partners - to identify and advance solutions for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Issues related to brain health and head trauma transcend the Veteran and military community, impacting all Americans. By highlighting the themes of collaborative research, medical technology, and sports innovation for player safety, Brain Trust participants will discuss the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration of Veterans, athletes, and Americans in general - suffering from head trauma related injuries. The event will also serve as a showcase for many of the advancements that VA is pioneering to improve brain health for Veterans, the military and for the American public at large.
In addition to many of the world’s most accomplished brain research scientists, other confirmed participants in the summit include sports commentator Bob Costas, Gen. Peter Chiarelli (CEO of One Mind, and the former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army), Briana Scurry (former U.S. Women’s Soccer Player), Jeanne Marie Laskas (author of the GQ article that inspired the movie Concussion), Terry O’Neil (16-time Emmy award winner), representatives from the NFL Players Association, the NFL, the NCAA, DARPA, DOD, NIH, CDC, and many more.
During the summit a special announcement will be made by Chris Nowinski co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) and former WWE professional wrestler. Joining Chris will be a former Super Bowl champion and an Olympic gold medalist, each of whom will be using this Summit to announce that they will be donating their brains to the CLF for the purposes of advancing brain health. CLF has partnered with VA and Boston University to establish the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, directed by VA’s own Dr. Ann McKee, now the largest sports mTBI and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) repository in the world with over 325 brains donated, and over a thousand more pledged.
“VA is uniquely positioned to contribute to the care of Veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI),” said VA Secretary McDonald. “The work we do produces results and life changing improvements in care for Veterans — as well as for all Americans, and for people around the world who suffer from these brain related injuries.”
The following organizations are teaming up with VA as event partners: Amazon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Comcast, GE Healthcare, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Optum Health, and Philips.
To learn more about Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion, please visit: www.va.gov/p3/braintrust.asp #VABrainTrust
(VA Photo/ Robert Turtil)
A visit to the National Trust run estate of Stourhead in Wiltshire.
Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset. The estate is about 4 km (2+1⁄2 mi) northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one of the most famous gardens in the English landscape garden style, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.
A look at the middle and top part of the Walled Garden, that we didn't see earlier on during this visit.
Stourhead House - there is a locker room here for putting your large bags in. You get a key.
Grade I Listed Building
Description
STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD PARK
ST 73 SE
(south side)
6/156 Stourhead House
6.1.66
GV I
Country house. 1721-24 for Henry Hoare by Colen Campbell, library
and picture gallery pavilions added 1796-1800 for Colt Hoare, east
portico added 1840, 1902-06 rebuilding of central block by Doran
Webb and Sir Aston Webb, following 1902 fire. Limestone ashlar,
Lakeland slate hipped roofs, ashlar stacks. Central C18 range with
added wings and pavilions, service court on north side. Two-storey
over basements, 5-window. Tetrastyle portico added 1840, from
Campbell's C18 design, Composite columns to modillioned cornice and
pediment with lead statue, from the Temple of Apollo (q.v.),
chamfered rusticated basement with 6-pane sashes, balustraded steps
up to portico flanked by large urns on plinths. Principal floor
has double half-glazed doors flanked by cross windows within
portico, casement with pediment either side. First floor has 3
blind windows in moulded architraves with 2-light casement in eared
and shouldered architrave either side, modillioned cornice to
balustraded parapet with corner urns, attic block above pediment
also with statues from Temple of Apollo. Flanking one-bay wings
and 3-bay pavilions over rusticated basement, tall casements with
cornices, small casements to attic, all front windows of library
are blind, balustraded parapets with ball finials added c1904 by D,
Webb. Right and left returns of main block of ten bays; principal
floors have Venetian windows and cross windows, all in Gibbs
surrounds, first floors have ten cross windows in moulded
architraves, good lead rainwater heads dated 1722. Library south
pavilion has French windows with lunette over to left return, 12-
pane and 6-pane sashes to rear, picture gallery to north has blind
windows to side and to rear, linking wings have 12-pane sashes.
Rear of main block has recessed distyle in antis first floor
portico with pediment and projecting 2-bay wings, all by D. Webb;
wing casements in Gibbs surrounds to principal floor, central
round-arched French windows to rusticated recessed entrance,
balustraded steps over basement and balustrade to portico added by
Sir Aston Webb. Service wing on west side of north court with 4-
panelled door, casements and sashes, the first floor billiard room
over added by D. Webb, diagonally-set outbuilding, possibly game
larder on west side.
Interior dates from after 1902 fire, rebuilt using photographs of
pre-fire interior, plasterwork by Agostini of Bristol, staircase
redesigned with two arms instead of one, fireplaces in Saloon and
Italian Room brought from Wavendon 1912. Library of c1800 survived
fire and retains Colt-Hoare's fittings; shallow-barrel vaulted
ceiling, stained glass in west lunette by F. Eginton, painted
lunette to east by S. Woodforde, fireplace from Wavendon, oval
niches over doors with Rysbrack busts. Picture gallery also
intact: white marble fireplace with classical frieze, modillioned
ceiling cornice, woodwork and fine contemporary furnishings here
and in library specially designed by Chippendale. Other fittings
include mahogany doors c1905. Despite the 1902 fire, this house is
important as a Palladian villa in England, set in landscaped
parkland and with the fine Stourhead Gardens to the west. The
London banking family of Hoares acquired the estate in 1714, the
old Stourton House was demolished c1720 and Stourhead built
slightly to the north west. Sir Henry Colt Arthur Hoare gave the
greater part of the estate to the National Trust in 1946.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1975; J. Lees-Milne,
Stourhead, 1964; Rebuilding Stourhead, 1902-06; National Trust
Studies, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7775434347
Later saw this statue
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIf I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
— 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)
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Picture Shows :
Author Janice Galloway (centre front)
Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland (l)
Fiona Hylsop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs (right)
John Scott, Chairman of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (centre)
Picture © Drew Farrell
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Friday 17th 2012
Janice Galloway’s All Made Up about winning the Book of The Year!
Janice Galloway has won the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her memoir All Made Up.
Announced today (Friday) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at a ceremony hosted by radio presenter and avid book fan, Dame Jenni Murray, the Award recognises and rewards the literary talent of an author from, or resident in, Scotland, or those whose books are of particular Scottish interest.
Amongst stiff competition from the Fiction, Poetry, and First Book category winners – Ali Smith, Angus Peter Campbell and Simon Stephenson respectively – Galloway will receive a total prize of £30,000.
All Made Up is a personal and eloquent account of Galloway’s struggle to make sense of the physical and emotional changes of adolescence. In this, the second volume of Galloway’s memoirs, the prize-winning author reveals how the awkward child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years, living with her stoical mother and domineering older sister.
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1021 Birchmount Road is a Toronto Community Housing apartment building at Birchmount and Eglinton. Laura Hammond, a very active member of her community, a young mother and the co-chair of the Resident Council, had a dream for the backyard of her apartment building; a backyard that was rarely used, covered in grass with couple of benches and an old playground. Her dream was to see a community garden flourishing in that space; a garden that brought together the young and not-so-young in her building and where, as a community, they could grow their own organic food so she did not have to travel downtown to buy it.
Early on the morning of Monday August 25, 2014, with the help of 30 youth from the surrounding neighbourhood and from the YouthWorx program, Laura saw her dream realized thanks to funding support from TD Park Builders and TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.
The youth and community rolled up their sleeves and installed seven galvanized steel raised beds. Galvanized steel was chosen for the beds as it is economical, safe for growing food, and allows for an early growing season due to heat retention of the steel. The raised beds are accessible for seniors and residents in wheelchairs. Vegetables and herbs were planted in the beds.
Laura is grateful that the garden is finally here. “Thanks to all the youth in the neighbourhood, the YouthWorx program, our funders and the entire community for pulling together and working so hard to make our community garden a reality. We are so excited to be achieving our goals of improving our local green-space with edible native trees/shrubs and vegetation for our community members to enjoy. Our garden will create learning opportunities for residents to become familiar with the ecological and nutritional benefits of having access to whole foods." she said.
David Schwimmer and Liana Liberato answer questions from host Pete Hammond at the March 22, 2011 screening of Trust held at the KCET Cinema Series.
For more on Trust and other film in this screening series, visit www.kcet.org/socal/cinema_series/
The Chitwa Trust was founded in 2008 with the purpose of meeting two of South Africa’s greatest challenges: unemployment and lack of education. The Trust is a registered non-profit organization that provides aid to underdeveloped areas of Mpumalanga in a way that involves both conservation and community upliftment.
Franky Oesman Widjaja, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sinar Mas Agribusiness & Food, Indonesia, in Trust or Bust? at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 20, 2015. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Charming 15th-century manor house with Arts and Crafts garden
This beautiful medieval manor sits in peaceful countryside.Cross the upper moat, passing barns, gatehouse and delightful parish church to enjoy fine oriel windows and the soldiers, griffons and monkey adorning the rooftops.
Romantic gardens offer terraces, topiary houses, gazebo, lily pond, roses and views across the spring-fed fishpond.
You are welcome to visit the Parish Church when you visit (not National Trust), donations are welcome.
Great Chalfield Manor House is home to the donor family tenants, who manage the house on behalf of the Trust.