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"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth." ~ Baha'u'llah
I added this to literary groups because this was on a doorway to an alley in Mount Pleasant, MIchigan and it reminded me of the magic door in Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
I was informed by someone called The Doctor on my Ubuntu article at DanLynch.org that Unity is just a Compiz plugin and you can disable it. Here's what happens when you do. You lose the top toolbar and all the main functionality. I assume you could add a Gnome panel back if you wanted. Why you would do this I'm not sure. I was just experimenting. You can read more at DanLynch.org/blog
Unity Day activities included displays, demonstrations, artifacts and food sampling from different groups in 21 ethnic or cultural booths.
We made a White Russian for our unity cocktail. The three ingredients each represented different aspects of our relationship which, once combined, could never be separated.
Photos by Cahoots Photography
This is a closeup portrait of a Unity Rider taken during the opening parade at Unity Park in Winona, Minnesota on June 5, 2010. The parade opened the Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming in Winona. Copies of this image without the watermark can be purchased. Contact me for information.
We're spoilt for pub choices in this part of town, and every few weeks we seem to discover another one that we really like. Our most recent discovery was the London Unity, which does a "Monday Curry Club". The atmosphere is nice, their curries are really good, and you get a loyalty card which encourages you to keep coming back. Which is just what we've done.
A drawing I made a couple years ago
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania National Guard held its fouth annual Unity Day Celebration Sept. 15, 2011 on the installation, in recognition of the cultural diversity throughout the Pennsylvania National Guard and state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Food, music, displays and clothing from a variety of cultures and ethnicities were featured. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Tom Cherry/Released)
This Cadillac was randomly parked in a vacant field on the north side of Highway 26 in the tiny community of Unity in eastern Oregn's Baker County.
Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Oak Park, Illinois.
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Students joined with members of the community in the annual Unity March on Monday in conjunction with a week of events honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1905-08, Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1905, after the original Unity Church burned down, the Universalist congregation of Oak Park, Illinois turned to architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design them a new structure. The result was Unity Temple. Wright was not only living in Oak Park, but was a Unitarian - which faith then had many beliefs in common with Universalism. The congregation needed a space of worship, as well as a community room. There were several immediate problems that the architect had to work with in order to satisfy the client. The budget for the Universalist congregation was rather small for its needs: $40,000 US dollars; and the proposed building site was long, but not very wide. Additionally, the building site stood on a busy street. And finally, the architect was expected to design not only the structure, but furniture and stained glass for the building. Charles E. Roberts, an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright, served on the church's building committee and was a key figure in seeing that Wright's vision for the church became a reality. For Roberts, Wright also remodeled Roberts' home and the Charles E. Roberts Stable.
To accommodate the needs of the congregation, Wright divided the community space from the temple space through a low, middle loggia that could be approached from either side. This was an efficient use of space and kept down on noise between the two main gathering areas: those coming for religious services would be separated via the loggia from those coming for community events. This design was one of Wright's first uses of a bipartite design: with two portions of the building similar in composition and separated by a lower passageway, and one section being larger than the other. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is another bipartite design.
To reduce noise from the street, Wright eliminated street level windows in the temple. Instead, natural light comes from stained glass windows in the roof and clerestories along the upper walls. Because the members of the parish would not be able to look outside, Unity Temple's stained glass was designed with green, yellow, and brown tones in order to evoke the colors of nature. The main floor of the temple is accessed via a lower floor (which has seating space), and the room also has two balconies for the seating of the congregation. These varying seating levels allowed the architect to design a building to fit the size of the congregation, but efficiently: no one person in the congregation is more than 40 feet from the pulpit. Wright also designed the building with very good acoustics.
The design of Unity Temple represents a leap forward in design for Wright. In recounting his experiences with Unity Temple, he stated that this design was the first time he ever realized that the real heart of a building is its space, not its walls. Indeed, architectural historians have commented on Wright's genius in creating and manipulating space in his designs; in his book The Master Builders, Peter Blake entitled the section on Wright "The Mastery of Space."
In addition to being very accomplished with making the most out of the space he had, Wright also found the concept of "Unity" was very prominent mainly because of how he managed to fuse together space, experience and the material world. This was key to Unity Temple which has both a common meeting area and the congregation of church-goers. The sanctuary space gives the best example of this according to practicing architect Robert McCarter.
The building was completed in 1908 and officially dedicated on September 26, 1909. The original Universalist (now Unitarian Universalist) congregation still owns and uses Unity Temple, although a separate and secular organization, the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, is in charge of the building's multi-million dollar restoration effort. Chicago restoration architect Gunny Harboe is in charge of the restoration with CTLGroup providing the engineering and materials technology expertise. In April 2009, Unity Temple, due to water seepage, was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 most endangered historic places.
This is one in a set of HDR photos taken along the self-guided walking tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's neighborhood in Oak Park, Illinois. The set includes many of his designs and a few other examples of homes designed in the same period.
Unity Day activities included displays, demonstrations, artifacts and food sampling from different groups in 21 ethnic or cultural booths.
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania National Guard held its fouth annual Unity Day Celebration Sept. 15, 2011 on the installation, in recognition of the cultural diversity throughout the Pennsylvania National Guard and state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Food, music, displays and clothing from a variety of cultures and ethnicities were featured. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Tom Cherry/Released)