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In addition to a comfortable atmosphere, the hospital also includes safety features such as heated sidewalks at major entrances, for the safety of all of our guests and staff.
The casa as the new foundation for the addition has been started. View from the front of the house. Early in the morning, the calm before all the workers arrive. Then there will be the sound of cement mixers, the radio, trucks arriving with mounds of sand and cement, and conversation among the workers.
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The cloisters date from the 15th century and were one of the last medieval additions to the cathedral. The walkways with their delicate vaulted ceilings surround the cloister garth on three sides instead of the usual four as there is no north walk (the space simply being closed by the south aisle of the nave).
Wells Cathedral is a magical place to me, having cast a spell over me from the very first time I laid eyes on it as a seven-year old when it started to be a regular break on our journeys south west for childhood holidays. Although it wasn't the first cathedral I'd encountered it was the first I'd seen after developing a more conscious interest in church art and architecture and it seemed to me like something from another world (which in many ways it is). I never forgot the impression it made, its beauties inside and out, and having not visited for nearly three decades I decided getting reacquainted was long overdue.
Described as England's 'Queen amongst cathedrals' it is not as huge as some but it is as beautiful as any, and its setting within the enclosure of a charming cathedral close that constitutes a large part of this modestly-sized but picturesque cathedral-city just adds to its qualities. Its three towers beckon the visitor through the turreted gates that connect the close to the market place and to walk through these and behold the west facade for the first time is an unforgettable experience. The central tower is a beautiful example of Somerset's pinnacled late Gothic masterpieces, and yet it almost disappears, practically forgotten, when one encounters the rich display between the two western towers with their curiously flat parapets. These towers are also mainly 15th century work, but below them, and built two centuries earlier, the facade unfolds like a huge screen covered with niches, most of which remarkably retain their original statues, the largest display of medieval sculpture surviving in England.
Currently visitors are directed to enter via the cloisters on the south side rather than through the surprisingly small, almost apologetic doorways burrowed through the base of this astonishing facade, so it is important to spend some time absorbing it before entering the building. Once inside the effect is rather calmer than the riot of ornamentation on the west front, and the scale a little more intimate and inviting than many cathedral interiors. Most of it is early 13th century and harmonious in style, but it is a later addition that draws the eye looking down the nave, the unique 'scissor arches' installed to brace the crossing in order to stabilise the central tower following signs of movement. The transepts beyond are of the same date and design as the nave, whilst further east the more ornate choir is a little later, being completed in the early 14th century. Beyond this the retrochoir and polygonal Lady Chapel with their delicate pillars and vaults form one of the most delightful and visually satisfying of English medieval interiors.
Furnishings and features of interest are plentiful as one explores the church admiring the beauty of its architecture, with much medieval glass surviving at the east end, the east window and the adjoining clerestories having survived almost intact (more survives in the choir aisles and lady chapel though aside from the traceries most is in a fragmentary state). Many medieval bishops effigies are to be seen (many forming a posthumous 13th century commemoration of earlier Saxon bishops) along with three chantry chapels. In the north transept is the famous medieval astronomical clock with its painted dials and jousting knights marking the quarter hours.
One of the most exquisite features is the chapter house also on the north side, approached via a delightfully timeworn staircase and covered by a particularly attractive vaulted ceiling. It is one of the highlights of the building and shouldn't be missed. The cloisters on the south side are also a delight to wander through and were one of the last major additions to the cathedral.
Wells Cathedral is without a doubt one of the country's greatest treasures and in my mind one of the most beautiful churches anywhere and even its surroundings are a joy to explore. It is sad to think of it closed at present owing to the current lockdown, it deserves to be visited and enjoyed again by all once the present crisis is over.
Michael Nash Design, Build & Homes: "Additions" Gallery. Showing just a few of many artistic works by Michael Nash Design, Build & Homes. Go to www.michaelnashinc.com for more selections.
One side of the bath has built-in cabinetry for storage. The mirrored doors allow light to bounce around the room. The owner's tub is well used and has a prominent position in the room.
You can go to www.hfdarchitects.com or e-mail to info@hfdarchitects.com to learn more about this and other projects designed by architect Bud Dietrich.
The ”Lumberjack’s Candle Bridge” was built in 1989. It serves as a balancing element between town buildings, the gently sloping Ounasvaara Hill and the spacious sceneries of Kemijoki River. In addition to its importance for traffic and road system the bridge bears a memory from the times of timber floating and is homage to the lumberjack. On the top of two columns there is a lighting solution resembling the lumberjack’s candle, a log cut in two with a fire in between. The Lumberjacks Candle Bridge has become one of Rovaniemi’s symbols along with Pohjanhovi, Arktikum and the Reindeer Antler Plan. The River Kemijoki doesn’t freeze completely near the bridge in the winter. That spot serves as a perfect resting place for the migrating birds in the spring. There are thousands of birds on the most and also some rare species amongst them.
Kemijoki, with its 550 km (340 mi) length, is the longest river in Finland. It runs through Kemijärvi and Rovaniemi before reaching the Gulf of Bothnia at Kemi.
At Rovaniemi the Ounasjoki river merges with Kemijoki.
The first hydroelectric plant on Kemijoki was constructed in 1949 at Isohaara. A total of 15 power plants have been constructed so far. The plants are owned by Kemijoki Oy and Pohjolan Voima Oy. In 2003 the plants produced a total of 4.3 TWh, which was about 34.5% of Finland's total hydroelectric production.
Rovaniemi is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Peräpohjola. The city centre is situated about 6 kilometres (4 miles) south of the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the river Kemijoki and its tributary, the Ounasjoki. It is the second-largest city of Northern Finland after Oulu, and, together with the capital city Helsinki, it is one of Finland's most significant tourist cities in terms of foreign tourism.
The city and the surrounding Rovaniemen maalaiskunta (Rural municipality of Rovaniemi) were consolidated into a single entity on 1 January 2006. Rovaniemi municipality has an approximate population of 65,000. The urban area of Rovaniemi has a population of 53,361, in an area of about 59 km2 (23 sq mi). Rovaniemi is a unilingual Finnish-speaking municipality and, uncommonly for larger Finnish towns, it is also known by its Finnish name and spelling in the Swedish language.
The coat of arms of Rovaniemi was designed by Toivo Vuorela. Its explanation is "in the green field, a silver pall with light-height upper branches; accompanied by a golden flame in the upper corner". It was approved on 15 August 1956 by the Rovaniemi Rural Municipal Council and confirmed on October 26 at the Ministry of the Interior as the coat of arms of the Rovaniemi Rural Council.
Name
The rova part in the name Rovaniemi has often been considered to be of Saami origin, as roavve in Northern Saami denotes a forested ridge or hill or the site of an old forest fire. The niemi part of the name means "cape". The name of the town in the Saami languages spoken in Finland are Inari Sami: Ruávinjargâ, Northern Sami: Roavenjárga and Roavvenjárga and Skolt Sami: Ruäʹvnjargg.
History
Periodic clearance of new land for agriculture and the practice of slash-and-burn cultivation began around 750–530 BC. Artifacts found in the area suggest that an increasing number of travellers from Karelia in the east, Häme in the south and the Arctic Ocean coast in the north must have come there from 500 AD onwards. The Sami are indigenous to Lapland.
Rovaniemi is first mentioned by name in official documents in 1453, existing as a set of small villages whose inhabitants earned their living mainly in agriculture and animal husbandry—with fishing and hunting the most important offshoots.[citation needed]
The exploitation of Lapland's natural resources in the 1800s boosted Rovaniemi's growth. Extensive logging sites and gold fever attracted thousands of people to Lapland. As the mining of natural resources was increased, Rovaniemi became the business centre of the province of Lapland.
The township decree was promulgated on 27 June 1928, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the old rural municipality as its own market town on 1 January 1929.
Second World War
During the Second World War, Finland signed the Moscow Armistice on 19 September 1944 and was required to expell forces of its former German ally. In the Lapland War retreating German forces utilised scorched earth tactics, and though initially German General Lothar Rendulic ordered only the public buildings in Rovaniemi to be destroyed, on 13 October 1944, the German army received orders to destroy all the buildings in Rovaniemi, only excluding hospitals and houses where inhabitants were present.
While the German rearguard was going about the destruction, an ammunition train in Rovaniemi station exploded and set fire to the wooden houses of the town. The German troops suffered many casualties, mainly from glass splinters. A Finnish commando unit claimed to have blown up the ammunition train and may well have been the primary cause of the town's ruin. The cause was then unknown and assumed to be the deliberate intent of Rendulic.[citation needed] During these hostilities, 90% of all the buildings in Rovaniemi were destroyed. There is a German cemetery 19 km from Rovaniemi where soldiers killed fighting in Lapland during the war are buried.
Although there has been continuous human settlement in the Rovaniemi area since at least the Stone Age, few of the buildings date back before 1944, since most of the city was destroyed during the Second World War. When the city was rebuilt, it was designed with input by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, who planned the city's footprint in the shape of a reindeer's head, with the city roads forming the antlers, and the local sports stadium as the reindeer's eye.
Due to its location near the Arctic Circle, Rovaniemi has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short, pleasant summers, while the winters are long, cold and snowy. The city lies just south of the 0 °C (32 °F) mean annual isotherm, but freezing in the soil is very limited even during the winter due to typical heavy snow cover. Its extreme northerly location combined with frequent overcast skies leads to very low levels of sunshine in the winter months; December averages just under six minutes of sunshine daily.
Winters are somewhat modified by marine air from the North Atlantic Current that ensures average temperatures are less extreme than expected for an inland area at such a northerly latitude. On 26 April 2019, Rovaniemi recorded its warmest April day on record with 19 °C (66 °F).
From 1 to 6 July 2021, Rovaniemi recorded 122 hours of continuous sunshine, which is a new world record. The sun shone continuously from 02:00 on 1 July 2021 to 04:00 on 6 July 2021. The previous record was 112 hours and 10 minutes at Cape Evans, Antarctica, from 16 to 21 November 1911.
The average annual temperature in Rovaniemi is 0.9 °C (33.6 °F). Snow stays on the ground 175 days a year on average. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the airport is −38.1 °C (−37 °F), recorded on 28 January 1999. However, on the same day temperatures as cold as -47.5 C were recorded at nearby weather stations. The highest temperature ever recorded is 32.2 °C (90 °F), recorded on 18 July 2018 at the railway station.
Despite the fact that Rovaniemi experiences polar day between 7 June and 6 July (30 days) it does not experience polar night. However, the sun barely gets above the horizon in the winter.
Demographics
Population
The city of Rovaniemi has 65,285 inhabitants, making it the 17th most populous municipality in Finland. The Rovaniemi region has a population of 68,884. In Rovaniemi, 4.1% of the population has a foreign background, which is below the national average.
Rovaniemi is a monolingual Finnish-speaking municipality. The majority of the population - 61,699 people or 95.6% - speak Finnish as their first language. In Rovaniemi, 137 people, or 0.2% of the population, speak Swedish. The number of Sámi speakers, Finland's third official language, is 143 inhabitants, or 0.3% of the population. 3.9% of the population of Rovaniemi have a mother tongue other than Finnish, Swedish or Sámi. As English and Swedish are compulsory school subjects, functional bilingualism or trilingualism acquired through language studies is not uncommon.
At least 40 different languages are spoken in Rovaniemi. The most common foreign languages are Russian (0.6%), English (0.3%), Arabic (0.3%) and Chinese (0.3%).
In 2022, there were 2,635 persons with a migrant background living in Rovaniemi, or 4.1% of the population. The number of residents who were born abroad was 3,278, or 5.1% of the population. The number of persons with foreign citizenship living in Rovaniemi was 1,795. Most foreign-born citizens came from the Sweden, former Soviet Union, China and Russia.
The relative share of immigrants in Rovaniemi's population is below to the national average. However, the city's new residents are increasingly of foreign origin. This will increase the proportion of foreign residents in the coming years.
Religion
In 2022, the Evangelical Lutheran Church was the largest religious group with 70.6% of the population of Rovaniemi. Other religious groups accounted for 1.6% of the population. 27.7% of the population had no religious affiliation.
Of the revival movements within the church, Conservative Laestadianism is particularly active in the locality, with three peace associations in the locality: the Rovaniemi Peace Association, the Rautionsaari Peace Association and the Viirinkylä Peace Association.
Other local communities include the Rovaniemi Pentecostal Church, a member of the Finnish Pentecostal Church, and the Rovaniemi Adventist Church, part of the Finnish Adventist Church.
Economy
Since Rovaniemi is the capital of the region of Lapland, many government institutions have their offices there. About 10,000 of the inhabitants are students. Rovaniemi is home to not only the University of Lapland but also the Lapland University of Applied Sciences (formerly known as the Rovaniemi Polytechnic), which comprises institutes of information and traditional technology, business, health and social care, culinary studies, forestry, rural studies, and sports. Local newspapers include the Lapin Kansa, Uusi Rovaniemi and Lappilainen.
Tourism
Because of the unspoiled nature of the area and numerous recreational opportunities, tourism is an important industry in Rovaniemi. The city has a number of hotels and restaurants located both in the centre and on the outskirts of the town, hosting over 481,000 visitors in 2013. Tourism can be seen and heard in the city's streetscape, at the Arctic Circle and at Rovaniemi Airport, one of Finland´s busiest airports in terms of passenger numbers.
Rovaniemi is also considered by Finns to be the official home town of Santa Claus. It is home to the Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle and Santa Park Arctic World, which is located 8 km (5 mi) north of the centre.
Directly across the river from the town is the Ounasvaara ski centre. There have been recreational activities in the Ounasvaara area since 1927, when the first winter sports were also organized. The top of the Ounasvaara hill bears the site of some of the earliest known human settlements in the area.
A phenomenon also attracting numerous tourists is the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. In Finnish Lapland, the number of auroral displays can be as high as 200 a year, whereas in southern Finland, the number is usually fewer than 20.
Attractions
Rovaniemi's most prominent landmarks include the Jätkänkynttilä bridge with its eternal flame over the Kemijoki river, the Arktikum Science Museum, which rises out of the bank of the Ounasjoki river, the Rovaniemi city hall, the Lappia Hall, which serves as a theatre, concert hall, and congress centre, and the library.
The last three mentioned buildings are designed by Alvar Aalto. The Arktikum Science Museum is a comprehensive museum of Finland's, and the world's, Arctic regions.
Sports
The city is home to the football clubs Rovaniemen Palloseura, or RoPS, part of the Veikkausliiga, the Finnish premier division, and FC Santa Claus, part of the third division; to the ice hockey team Rovaniemen Kiekko, or RoKi, whose home arena is Lappi Areena and which competes in Mestis, the second-highest league in Finland; and to the volleyball team called Team Lakkapää (formerly Rovaniemen Santasport and Perungan Pojat), which plays in the Finland Volleyball League and won the national championship in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2011. The Rovaniemi Nordmen, an American Football team, was formed in 2013 and has played at various levels throughout the Finnish American Football Association.
Rovaniemi has hosted several international ski competition, including the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1984, several FIS Nordic Combined World Cup and FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup events, the 2005 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, the 1970 Winter Universiade and the 2008 Winter Transplant Games.
In 2021, Rovaniemi hosted the World Rally Championship for 2021 Arctic Rally Finland, the first WRC event held inside the Arctic Circle.
Transport
VR Group, the Finnish state railway system, operates direct daytime and overnight passenger trains from Rovaniemi Station to Oulu, Tampere, Helsinki and Turku. Diesel-powered passenger trains operated northeast of Rovaniemi to Kemijärvi until March 2014, when electrification to Kemijärvi was completed. Rovaniemi Airport is located about 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of the Rovaniemi city centre, and it is the third-busiest airport in Finland after Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and Oulu Airport. The busiest time for the airport is in the Christmas season, when many people go on Santa Flights.
Notable inhabitants
See also: Category:People from Rovaniemi
Snowboarder and 2005 Winter X Games gold medalist Antti Autti, Rovaniemi native, in April 2005 received his own piece of land in the city for being named to the 2006 Finnish Olympic team
Antti Iivari (born 1992), ice hockey player
writer Timo K. Mukka died in Rovaniemi in 1974
Nätti-Jussi ("Pretty John"), legendary lumberjack and forester
Harri Olli, ski jumper
Tanja Poutiainen Alpine skier
Tomi Putaansuu, better known as Mr. Lordi lead singer of the hard rock band and 2006 Eurovision Song Contest winner Lordi
Jari Tervo, author
Antti Tuisku, singer
Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, said to be the residence of Father Christmas
Progressive rock band Absoluuttinen Nollapiste
The black metal band Beherit came from Rovaniemi
Twin towns – sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland
Rovaniemi is twinned with:
Ajka, Hungary
Alanya, Turkey
Cadillac, United States
Grindavík, Iceland
Harbin, China
Kassel, Germany
Kiruna, Sweden
Narvik, Norway
Neustrelitz, Germany
Olsztyn, Poland
Sankt Johann in Tirol, Austria
Veszprém, Hungary
In March 2022, Rovaniemi suspended the agreement with Murmansk, Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In popular culture
Hand prints and signatures of Lordi's line-up at the time can be seen at the Lordi's Square
A 1996 Christmas episode of Tots TV called "Lapland Out" took place in Rovaniemi.
The 1998 Spanish romantic film Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del Círculo Polar), by director Julio Medem, partly takes place in Rovaniemi.
Rovaniemi appears in the video game Tom Clancy's EndWar as a possible battlefield. In the game, Rovaniemi houses military facilities critical to a missile shield for a European Federation.
Rovaniemi is a central scene in a documentary film Reindeerspotting.
TV-Star Bam Margera and his friends travelled to Rovaniemi in their film Bam Margera Presents: Where the ♯$&% Is Santa? in order to find Santa Claus who is assumed to live in Rovaniemi.
A version of the music video for Lordi's song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" was filmed near Rovaniemi for the opening of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. After winning the contest, a square called the Lordi's Square (Lordin aukio) in the city center of Rovaniemi has been named after the band.
The video for the Nightwish single "The Islander" was filmed in Rovaniemi by Stobe Harju.
Rovaniemi used to have the northernmost location of any McDonald's in the world until the opening of a McDonald's in Murmansk in 2013, 23 years after it first opened in that country. However, the title of the northernmost in the world returned to Rovaniemi in 2022, when in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all Russian McDonald's restaurants were closed, and rebranded to Vkusno i tochka. From January 2024, Rovaniemi will once again lose the title of having the northernmost McDonald's in the world as a new restaurant will open in Tromsø, Norway.
Rovaniemi appears as one location of Gavin Lyall's 1963 book The Most Dangerous Game, a spy-thriller set in Lapland and the northern USSR.
Rovaniemi was featured in the first episode of The Reluctant Traveler.
This is a photograph from the inaugural Fr. Murphy A.C "Streets of Athboy" 5KM Road Race and Fun run which was held in the town of Athboy, Co. Meath, Ireland on Friday 8th August 2014 at 20:00. The "Streets of Athboy" is a new addition for 2014 to the already very well populated Meath Road Race Running Calendar. The race started and finished in the town and followed a nice mostly flat route. The very rainy weather of recent days cleared off and the race was held in very good weather conditions for running. Refreshments were provided afterwards in St. James' Hall in the town where the race headquarters and registration took place. Athboy is located west of Navan on the N51 between Navan and Delvin. Athboy is also very close to the Westmeath border which is only a few miles away to the west of the town. About 260 participants took part in the event this evening which invited runners, joggers and walkers to Athboy.
We have a small set of photographs from tonight's event and they are available on our Flickr Photostream in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646274860062
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2100 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.
Some useful Internet Links
Google Streetview Imagery of the main street of Athboy: www.google.ie/maps/@53.622614,-6.919143,3a,75y,90h,90t/da...
Father Murphy Athletic Club on Facebook: www.facebook.com/frmurphy.athleticclub
Streets of Athboy 5KM Event Page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/313594688807031/?ref=25
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Italian origin monddmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) was a highly productive writer and journalist. After the great success of his work, Bozzeti di vita militare, which was published in 1868 when he had chosen the military branch before and showed his military life as an idealized dream for educational purposes, he gives himself completely to writing. He travels regularly to book his impressions from Spain (1873), London (1874), the Netherlands (1874), Morocco (1876), Paris (1879) and Istanbul (1878).
De Amicis, who also wrote school and children's books, gained worldwide fame with his novel about the diary of a ten-year-old student named Cuore (The Heart), published in 1886. Along with Pinocchio of Carlo Collodi, the Heart is one of the best-known children's books, translated into 200 languages. De Amicis has been a supporter of socialists since 1890 and, in line with this idea, deals with articles and research on politics and society; In addition, he produces works inspired by topics such as friendship, Italian language, and travels to South America (1884) and Sicily (1908). Sad events that took place in his family towards the end of his life accelerate his death.
The work here is first published in Italian in 1877 and prints 15 prints. It was translated and published in French in 1878. It is translated into the Greek language in 1896 by D. Vernardakis like other works by De Amicis. This translation is a work that can keep De Amicis' unique style while keeping the reader alive and excited by the rich observations and descriptions of the author.
The city of Istanbul in the late 19th century is exhibited in a fascinating and realistic way with its Galata bridge, bazaar, monuments, palaces, walls, Bosphorus and many more views filled with a colorful multicultural crowd. In addition, various appearances from everyday life that emerge with the rich illustrations of C. Biseo accompany the text from beginning to end, and convey the air in this attractive, eternal and cosmopolitan city of the East even better than the photographs.
Written By: İoli Vingopoulou
The 3rd Simply series come in from the clouds above with their cute skate shoes!
Each of them have their fashion motifs, which are bubble, heart and star.
They always assist the 2010 anniversary Blythe when the odds are heavily against her!
The first one from the Simply series is "Simply Bubble Boom," and she has a charming reddish neon orange hair.
In addition, her face type is shiny Fairest mold that is used for the very first time!
Her fashion is an orange dress with light orange bubble print inspired by a skate
Scheduled release date: June 2010
Suggested retail price: 10,290 yen
Limited edition of 1500 dolls
Lifelong Oregon Hiller, Marty, added this bizarre second story addition to his old shotgun house at 824 China Street, to provide an knock out view of Hollywood Cemetery.
October's additions, Cutler and Bird Parks and the great foliage peak.
More up at www.paulwoolleyphotos.com too as usual.
Another addition to the "great to be away" series. [M] [A] [E]
Every day I spend in the City of Temptations I say to myelf how great it is to be young, to be student and to travel.
Si imi mai spun cat de bine este sa fiu printre altfel de oameni decat bizonii, pitzipoancele, cocolarii si pirandele de acasa.
In addition to operating NATCA’s booth and programming and delivering presentations on several of AirVenture’s main stages, NATCA members at #OSH22 also staffed the extremely popular KidVenture area, teaching young aviators about the phonetic alphabet, basic airport facts, and air traffic control concepts.
Check out the new Funky Chicken Coop Tour® Headquarters on April 19, 2014, at Sunshine Community Gardens, 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, Texas 78756. Enjoy a full day of free family and educational activities, including live poultry, educational booths, and a new speaker series. Don’t miss our keynote presentation: “Economic Impact of Austin's Food Sector - and the Importance of Buying Local” at noon!
FCCT has partnered with urban food groups throughout Austin to build a community that supports making healthy, local food available to everyone, including partnering with Keep Austin Fed for a community egg drive on Tour day.
The tour will have 14 coops, including both backyard and community participants. In addition to schools, a community garden, and a farm, a Community First! Village is on the tour. Visitors will see how collaboration between volunteers, artists, and the homeless—and formerly homeless--work to create the Genesis Gardens program.
Maps are $12 each and can be shared with everyone in your touring party. Create your own custom tour, on two wheels or four. You can join the Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens, hosted by the Austin Cycling Association. Rides for various levels and distances will be available.
This year’s tour benefits the New Farm Institute, which is “working to inspire a new generation of sustainable farmers in the urban fringe.” FCCT in partnership with the Austin Permaculture Guild will create a food forest for our beneficiary. The tour is an event of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. and welcomes your donations.
Get more info at AustinCoopTour.org.
The new addition to the Ft. Sam Theatre will seat 600 people and features:
-state-of-the-art lighting and acoustics
-a dance studio with the same wood floor as the stage
-a performers' lounge
-an audio/video mixing and recording studio
-Army Entertainment command suite and administrative offices
-an outdoor projector for projecting images against the addition's upper wall
-receiving ramps for moving sets from trucks to theatre
-catwalks rigged to the ceiling for production personnel
-an 80-foot “fly house” pulley system for quick set changes
Designed and outfitted with the latest equipment and features based on a design by RKJ, Inc. subcontractor construction team. Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon and Williams Theater Consultants, the same company that designed the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, contributed design concepts as well. Husband-and-wife theatre veterans Steve Smith and Nicole Coppinger brought their thespian background and insight to the project. The team proposed the theatre as the new home of the Army Soldier, and it will also play host to Operation Rising Star, USA Express, and concerts from touring music and entertainment stars.
Smith, technical director for the Army Soldier Show, has 20 years' experience in professional theatre and got his start working in Army Entertainment at Ft. Gordon. Coppinger, set designer for the Soldier Show, received her bachelor's degree in fine arts and has worked on Broadway in New York City. They worked with RKJ Construction, Inc., IMCOM Force Management Division and the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the new theatre would meet the standards necessary for a comprehensive training venue for budding artists and a Broadway-caliber theatre.
At the same time, all parties took great care to ensure that the front part of the original theatre, which contains the stage, main lobby, ticket box, original entrance and facade and VIP seating were restored to their authentic 1927 look. The carpet, paint, furniture, wood etching and silk banners hanging from the ceiling will all be restored or replicated as closely to the original as possible.
The project, which cost $18 million, started in early 2009 and will be completed in September 2011.
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About the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:
IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe – We are the Army's Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle.
Our Mission: To provide Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service.
Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizations’ mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.
To learn more about IMCOM:
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100 School Avenue
Sarasota, Florida
Architect: Paul Rudolph
1960
Shot with Pentax K-1000 with a Tamron SP f 2.8 28-80mm on Kodak bw 400 cn. Scanned with Nikon Coolscan V ED. edited with Corel Photopaint.
"From curated gardens to native Piedmont forest, no other place in Atlanta captures the variety of landscapes that have shaped our city’s history."
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Goizueta Gardens is a 33-acre landscape encompassing nine distinct gardens—including preserved woodland, diverse plant collections, and heritage-breed animals.
Olguita’s Garden: - This ornamental garden is in bloom throughout the year, with a rich tapestry of flowering and foliage plants selected for color, fragrance, texture, and an English garden aesthetic. The garden spans the entire rear façade of the Atlanta History Museum, encompassing an amphitheater for seating. Double borders lead to Neel Reid-designed columns, encircling a reflective water feature. This garden celebrates the life of Goizueta Gardens honoree Olga “Olguita” C. de Goizueta.
Smith Farm Gardens: - Explore a variety of heirloom plants, flowers, and animal breeds at Smith Farm. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Smith Farm tells the story of Georgia farm life and enslavement at Atlanta’s oldest surviving farmhouse. The farm accurately represents a working slaveholding farm of the Atlanta area in the 1860s with historic buildings moved here for preservation. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Entrance Gardens - The Entrance Gardens and 60-foot Tree Table are the newest additions to our campus and span eight acres, welcoming guests all year long.
Inspired by the New Perennial Movement and a desire to create a sustainable urban landscape, this series of unique garden spaces feature sweeping perennial beds and pollinator-attracting plants. Special care has been taken to incorporate and emphasize native plants.
The New Perennial Movement, an evolution of the Dutch Wave and the New American Garden, inspired the Entrance Gardens’ design. Unique amongst the more traditional Atlanta styles including classic boxwood and mixed border aesthetics, this style of garden is meant to emulate the American prairie. Well known examples of the New Perennial Movement in the U.S. include New York City’s High Line and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
The style is typified by a natural, sweeping color story created by the interwoven placements of mass perennial plantings, with emphasis on grasses. As the gardens grow over the next few years, there will be no bare ground to be seen, creating a seamless landscape. Unlike our usual American habit of tidying up gardens, the Entrance Gardens will not be universally cut back in fall. Instead, plants will be left standing all winter as they would in the wild—encouraging moisture retention in the soil, preventing erosion, and providing habitat for wildlife.
The plant selection and management of this style of garden is rooted in responsible stewardship of the environment. The plants selected do not require extra fertilization or other chemical inputs because they are carefully matched to the variety of soil and light conditions presented in these gardens.
Over half of the 10,000 plants that have been placed in the Entrance Gardens so far are native to Georgia, including uncommon species that deserve wider recognition and use in gardens. Goizueta Gardens staff researched plants that support high numbers of pollinators to be used in large quantities. The result is a garden buzzing with pollinators—which also means it will attract birds who eat insects and rely on insect larvae for their young.
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Aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) May 4, 2002 -- An F/A-18 ''Hornet'' strike fighter prepares to launch from one of four catapults on the ship's flight deck. In addition to its role in the Fleet Week festivities, Truman served as the "centerpiece" for the Air and Sea show.
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"A rich, round and roasty oatmeal stout using flaked oats and roasted barley in addition to our house roasted malts. Hopped with Columbus, Cascade and Golding." (from the the label on the bottle)
5.5% abv
It won't replace Pot Hole Filler (Howe Sound) as my personal favourite, but this is a very good stout indeed, just not as strong as the Imperial Russians. Nice bitter finish too.
Head of the Bight and Whales. The Head of the Great Australian Bight has a lookout controlled and managed by Yalata Aboriginal Community. It is a further 165 kms west of Fowlers Bay. The Bight is a breeding and calving grounds for Southern Right Whales and it is a favoured spot for them from June until October. There is a small viewing platform there on cliffs that are about 70 metres high and by late August about 70 Southern Right Whales are usually in these waters. Our cruise from Fowlers Bay actually takes us into the Southern Ocean around Fowlers Bay where we should see plenty of Southern Right Whales as Fowlers Bay is second to Head of the Bight for calving and whale spotting. The Fowlers Bay area has around 100 whales passing through on occasions. You are also likely to see Humpback whales on the cruise too as well as dolphins, sea lions, fur seals, marine birds – including Albatross, Sea Eagles and Little Penguins. Southern Right Whales have no fins and often have white lumpy sections on their backs whilst Humpback Whales have small dorsal fins on their backs and pectoral flippers on their sides. Humpback whales do not breed and calve along the Great Australian Bight. Whales have frequented this area for a long period and a whaling station operated in the Fowlers Bay area from around 1840 to 1844.
Fowlers Bay. A port like Fowlers Bay was essential for the establishment of the Yalata sheep run in 1860. Communication with Adelaide for supplies or mail was by ship. A postal service began in 1865 mainly for the Yalata sheep run but there were other runs near Fowlers Bay. The government approved the construction of a police station and lockup for prisoners at Fowlers Bay. The coast was surveyed in 1867 from Fowlers Bay to the Western Australian border and a store keeper was licensed to operate there on 13 March 1867. Also in March a member of parliament made the first parliamentary visit to Fowlers Bay. His voyage from Port Adelaide took four days. The government then appointed two Justices of the Peace to Fowlers Bay in June 1867. Later in 1867 a local resident requested a doctor to be sent to Fowlers Bay as many of the Aboriginals were dying of disease and needed medical attention. In July 1867 the government approved £1,000 for a small jetty to be built at Fowlers Bay. The Fowlers Bay Post Office in 1867 was busy. The government spent £499 financing the mail service from Port Lincoln to Fowlers Bay for a revenue from those mails of only £108. But communication changed drastically in 1876 when the government spent £600 building a telegraph station and Post Office at Fowlers Bay. The telegraph station, which was also a repeater station, started operating on 8 December 1877 with the first telegraph line completed from Adelaide to Port Lincoln to Fowlers Bay and onwards to Eucla and Perth. R Knuckey from the government built the line across the Nullarbor from Fowlers Bay to Eucla with 38 men and 89 horses from July 1876 to July 1877. WA still had to complete the telegraph line to Eucla.
The town was re-surveyed in 1890 when the Hundred of Caldwell was surveyed. A timber and iron school room opened in 1893. From 1896 the school room was used for Congregational Church services and a foot pump organ was placed in the school room for use the by the children as well as the church congregation. The school closed in 1959 and children were sent to Coorabie School. Other facilities in the small town included: a bigger rebuilt jetty in 1896 which was then extended in 1907 and 1914 and again in 1948, a new Police Station in 1883 and Courthouse addition on the side street in 1912. The Institute was officially opened on 13 January 1923 with the foundation stone laid by George Murray of Yalata station in 1922. Although a hotel was licensed in the 1880s the current building was erected around 1900. Near the jetty is the Captain Matthew Flinders monument which was erected in 1948. In the early years there was evidently much drunkenness especially when a new shipment of beer and spirits arrived at the jetty! This was a busy jetting shipping out wheat and wool. The port was fortunate to be served by the Coast Steamships Limited from 1901 to 1966. The wheat trader James Darling, who had flourmills around SA, also ran his own steamer service to Fowlers Bay until 1942. Darling’s last steamer on the Fowlers route was called the Coorabie. Throughout this period some sailing ketches also serviced the ship route from Port Adelaide to Fowlers Bay including the Failie. The Yandra was especially built for the Far West Coast services of Eyre Peninsula. This steamer was built in Denmark in 1928 with a shallow draft for places like Fowlers Bay which it serviced it until it sank in Spencers Gulf in 1959.
From the town’s foundation Betts ran a general store in Fowlers Bay from 1890 to 1925. They also ran stores in Denial Bay, Ceduna, Streaky Bay etc. The caravan park is now located where the general store once stood. The town has declined since the closing of Bett’s store and then that of the Telegraph Office in 1927. The Telegraph Office was a small addition in 1877 to the 1875 built Post Office. It is on the esplanade and is now the oldest building in Fowlers Bay. The Harbour Master’s house in West Terrace was built around 1890. The last harbour master was Mervyn Warmington who left with the last ship in 1966. He was married in 1956 in the Fowlers Bay Public Hall at the age of 26 years. The Post Office closed in 1967 after 92 years of usage. Today tourism and whale watching keep the town alive today with about 25 residents. The caravan park has a fine a café using locally caught fish. The bay is known as a nursery area for mother whales and their infants. On the edge of the town is a giant white coastal sand dune which looks as if it will one day swallow the town. But in 1952 it was estimated that Fowlers Bay would be under the sand dune within 20 years – i.e. 1972. That has not happened yet.
This MIG-29A of the Polish Air Force was a welcome addition to the Yeovilton Air Day 2011. She was joined by a MIG-29UB (two seater) and a Navy Antonov AN-28. Support was provided by a C-130 before the show.
Midsummer
Artist: Edvard Munch
Creation date: 1915
Born 1863 in Løten, Hedmark, death 1944 in Oslo
Edvard Munch worked as an artist for over sixty years. He was creative, ambitious and hardworking. He produced nearly two thousand paintings, hundreds of graphic motifs and thousands of drawings. In addition, he wrote poems, prose and diaries. The Scream, Madonna, Death in the Sickroom and the other symbolist works from the 1890s have made him one of the most famous artists of our time.
Edvard wanted to become an artist early on, and there was no doubt that he had talent. But his father refused to allow him to follow his dream, so Edvard began studying engineering. But already after one year he chose to defy his father, and switched from engineering college to the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Kristiania, now Oslo.
It was obvious to everyone in the Norwegian art community that the young man showed rare talent. In 1883, at the age of 20, he debuted at Høstutstillingen (The Autumn Exhibition). In 1886, Munch became acquainted with author and anarchist Hans Jæger, a leading figure in the Kristiania bohemian community. The bohemian community convinced Munch that the arts had to renew themselves to reach people and to have relevance in their lives. In the same year he exhibited the painting The Sick Child. This generated debate!
Some acclaimed The Sick Child a work of genius, while others deemed it unfinished and unworthy of exhibition. Today it is considered to mark Munch's breakthrough. It was here that demonstrated the independence and willingness to break fresh ground.
From this point until his final brush strokes, his artistic practice can be summed up in just word: experimentation. Munch did not care about established "rules" for so-called good art. His techniques in both painting and graphics were innovative.
Henrik Ibsen's plays about humanity's existential challenges inspired Munch. Themes such as death, love, sexuality, jealousy and anxiety were central to his early images. Some themes sprang from personal experience. For example, Death in the Sickroom and The Sick Child are linked to his memory of his mother and sister's illnesses and early deaths.
After 1910, Munch chose a quieter and secluded life. At his own farms at Ekely in Oslo and in Hvitsten, he found entirely new motifs, such as agriculture, working life and landscapes. Man in the Cabbage Field is a typical example from this period.
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On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).
The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.
The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.
The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.
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In addition to letterpress printing, we do have a few offset presses that we use to do cool things like....make custom envelope liners! Learn more about Boxcar Press letterpress printing at www.boxcarpress.com/letterpress
Ben and I fought the big TV craze for a couple of years now. Most of our friends and family (and our neighbors, who make fun of our old little tv) have the big screen fancies. Ben and I are so tight waddy though - we kept holding out. We finally gave in this year. It's a 50 inch so finally I can watch TV in the living room and be able to see it! I must admit it's pretty cool.
Soak your feet in vinegar for 15 minutes. In addition to helping us relax our feet and minimize cracks and corns, baths with apple cider vinegar are a great remedy to stop fungal infections The vinegar is an element that we can find in all the pantries. In addition to its normal applications in the kitchen, we use it to clean and deodorize our home and also, because of its medicinal properties, we use it as an ingredient in effective home remedies. It is also an excellent alternative to treat some foot problems. Its properties range from relieving tired feet or eliminating cracks in the heels to treating some ailments and types of fungus. Benefits of soaking your feet in vinegar The most used and effective in foot baths is white vinegar, although apple cider is also very useful in alleviating some problems. This bath should be done daily for about ten days. It will promptly relieve the itching and peeling caused by the athlete's foot. #Does It Work? Epsom Salt and Apple Cider Vinegar Foot Soak #she soaks her feet in apple cider vinegar 30 minutes later? #What Is Good To Soak Your Feet In? #Soak Your Feet In Apple Cider Vinegar #This HAPPENS If You DIP YOUR FEET IN VINEGAR One Night a Week!! #SHE SOAKS HER FEET IN APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, 30 MINUTES LATER? THIS IS REALLY AMAZING #How to Get Rid of Toenail Fungus At Home | Natural remedies for toenail fungus #How to Get Rid of Dry Cracked Feet FAST & NATURALLY | AT HOME Remedies & MORE If you found this video helpful hit Subscribe to support the channel and share the video with your friends to www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUzz3o4qb6inarEfrkbWiQ digg.com/u/jhonsm www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/lhealth4 www.linkedin.com/in/jhon-smm-754389134/ www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013176189529 plus.google.com/u/0/106240290294084283617
Standing on its nose, clipped to a pencil holder. I've put Envirotex Light into the instrument panel. The bezels are nice recesses, good for this sort of thing (but not for adding decals, unfortunately. Envirotex Light takes 24 hours to fully cure, but will be solid yet still tacky by 24 hours. Try to keep it away from dust at this point.