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Analogue telephones, metallized and thermo-lacquered mild steel, sound system, oscillators driven by microcontroller.
Sculpture made by contemporary artist Joana Vasconcelos.
Serralves Fundation - Porto
Thank you for your visits comments and favs! 😊
Edifício Marconi (Marconi Building) was designed by Raul Martins and opened in 1992. Since it was built to be the seat of a telecommunications company, its ondulating facade is supposed to resemble radio waves. Nowadays it´s a call center.
While we still have hardwired phone lines, we'll have these.
This is the "modern" switchboard, which will be obsolete once everyone converts to fibre optics and IP phones.
Rita, “non più govane ricecatrice precaria” italiana, ha deciso di trasferirsi in America per continuare le sue ricerche ed ha scritto al Presidente Napolitano per raccontare le ragioni della sua scelta.
This is an exaggeration of me working, but needless to say I try to get in more than just reading at work...
This is Turkan, she is the girl on the previous photo, hiding from the snow... she was on her way to her work, a callcenter at the Grote Markt. I was very pleased she made some time for me.
Thx Turkan !
Staff of Programmes Ltd, London, England. Dateline: mid-1980's.
Programmes Ltd. was the UK's sales sensation of its time. These people could sell anyone practically anything, legal or not: they worked insanely hard and made their company the industry leader in about two years. No wonder they quickly won Britain's top phone marketing award.
Never mind marketing – this is about a phenomenal group of people whose story has never been told. If a history of cults in modern Britain were to be written, these people would be in it. Fact: all or almost all the staff seen here are graduates of the controversial - some would say notorious - Exegesis Seminar. Without Exegesis, Programmes would never have existed. It was these men and women who launched Programmes in Bristol and later London. They quickly proceeded to revolutionize telephone marketing in the UK. The year was 1981.
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Founded, inspired and controlled by the charismatic Robert Daubigny, a master trainer, Exegesis copied the style and content of Werner Erhard's est training – and pushed further. Exegesis seminars were much smaller, more intense and confrontational than est trainings. Once the seminar commenced its four long days in a hotel room, you quickly realized the trainer was not like anyone you had ever met. He, or she, was ruthless. It was as if your game was up. You could not hide. Nothing had prepared me for it.
Was it disturbing? Absolutely. Was it abusive? Did it go 'too far'? I never witnessed that. The British media were extremely prejudiced about Exegesis and slammed it as a scam and worse. I cheerfully disagree.
A man needs a little madness or else he never dares to cut the rope and be free.
—Nikos Kazantzakis
If anything, I thought Exegesis did not go far enough; still, of what use would the most brilliant training be if it was so shocking that the authorities banned it?
Active in England and Wales from the late-70s to the mid-80s, with headquarters in Bristol and London, whoever was lucky - or doomed - enough to do the Exegesis Seminar, and had the nerve to endure it to the end either went through hell and came out transformed, as we used to say, or merely wasted time, money and the opportunity of a lifetime – and didn't. By normal, conventional standards it was a rash and scary thing to do.
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/gurus.shtml
Given Exegesis' damn-the-torpedoes brand of full-frontal experiential education, toxic media reportage and ensuing notoriety were all but guaranteed. In fact, Exegesis got such lousy press it led to hostile questions in the UK Parliament. Thus, from Hansard:
hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1984/may/14/mr-ashley...
Full disclosure: I never worked for Programmes. I took part actively in Exegesis. Did I like it? No. I loved it. I hated it. I was fascinated by it, and at times disgusted as well. I wanted to get out, I wanted to stay in. It was as if we were being cooked in a cauldron of ever increasing commitment to be fully here now. My time in Exegesis was priceless, unforgettable. It invited me to experience passion, excellence, total commitment, trauma, grace, and enlightenment. If you could stand it, Exegesis was the shock treatment of your life (those barf bags under every chair in the seminar? They weren't props). Every moment was wake-up time: take full responsibility - no excuses! now! now! now! Committed exegesis graduates were like warriors without a war – or rather the war Robert had us fighting was no less than the age-old spiritual war against our own copping out, against apathy, against the fear-driven betrayal of life, truth and of love.
Your greatest gift lies beyond the door named 'fear.'
—Sufi aphorism
“The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.”
—Simone Weil
Well, that was what fired me up. Other graduates responded differently. For many, the power they discovered in the seminar was promptly deployed in business; in this, Exegesis' series of communication, and other-themed, seminars were very successful. The applications for sales were obvious, and in Programmes they were put to full use.
Reality check: if Exegesis sounds implausibly gruelling, idealistic and too good to be true, well, it was. Personal integrity was hammered into us at seminars; yet, outside, the Exegesis ethic was to go for results by whatever, uh, worked. Morality was irrelevant: ends justified the means. Even healthy and creative criticism was angrily rejected: unquestioning trust in Robert's directives and appointees trumped all other considerations. Dysfunction shadowed enlightenment in a weird duet. Largely as a result, project after project was launched with high hopes only to go nowhere.
Away from the seminar – only, there was no 'away' from the seminar – there was no escape from the in-your-face demands by staff for more sacrifice, more commitment and most of all, more registrations. We grunts, called gaspers (graduate assistant seminar programme: an ultra-committed corps of unpaid employees) were not allowed to forget that Job One was to get people, thousands, millions of people, the whole freaking world! to do the Exegesis Seminar.
"Hello, I want to offer you this unique opportunity to be humiliated, taken apart and turned inside-out in front of strangers. This is your once in a lifetime chance to totally transform your life and get enlightened."
I mean, come on. You had to be crazy, right? We were!
Yes, I took part in the drive, in 1981, to swing an election in a heavily Labour constituency of London to our very own candidate, a respectable lawyer. Unknown to the public, not to mention the dear old oblivious Liberal Party, she was in fact an exegesis staff-member taking orders from Robert. In the weeks before election day, busloads of well-dressed graduates from Bristol joined London graduates in canvassing the entire borough, door to door, clipboards in hand, scripts memorised, getting the answers we wanted.
Using my deafness as an excuse I had at first not wanted to do it, then changed my mind. It turned out beautifully, blowing away yet another old limiting belief: "I can't do canvassing because I'm deaf". Going door to door meeting all kinds of people (years later I recall how kind they were to give me their time) and asking for their vote, and often getting it, was when I first realised my being deaf is, paradoxically, a gift, also an exquisite joke, opening me to total listening, without prejudice, a listening that transcends communication and opens to – whoa! – communion. Nothing else but total listening was – is – the answer to the koan of my deafness. How perfect it was. My world was rocked! Could I have learned this by following social norms and having a conventional education? Fat chance.
“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.” —Thomas Merton
How grateful I am that Exegesis was almost nothing like Aum Shinrikyo, or Heaven's Gate, or People's Temple, of "drinking the Kool Aid" infamy.
Being unreasonable, risking yourself and doing the impossible was the Exegesis way. That was what I got from my encounter with Robert D'Aubigny and his students.
Incidentally, in that election the Liberal Party, the Labour Party and even MI5 never knew who we were until the votes were in and it was too late. Exegesis' candidate came second, almost winning the seat against all the odds.
Ah, memories. Yes, I witnessed the rise and fall of Microlight Engineering Ltd. (made hang-glider-like planes from imported kits), an Exegesis front company in the heart of Bristol's old industrial district. All the employees were exegesis graduates, including - fatally - its management. Its too-trusting graduate founder was soon financially ruined... Yes, I was in at the beginning of the powerplays called the Bristol Project (aim: to recruit key people in the city, and grow Robert's influence there) and the Glastonbury University project (aim: a university teaching enlightenment or whatever else Robert wanted)
Dodgiest of all – or perhaps not – was the 'Money Seminar' (Bristol, 1981) in which Robert raked in serious cash from us suckers running a one-game casino, week after week... until we wised up and clammed up. How it worked: every graduate in the room wrote down their high bid in secret and handed it to a staff-person. The highest bidder won half the total pool. To this day I remember the awful look on the face of neophyte graduate D_ R_ as he learned that he had won that night's bout with his huge wager – and that after the organization had skimmed off its hefty cut he'd actually get back about half his stake. We all cheered for the winning loser!
While not as unfortunate as my hapless cultmate I too was taken for a tidy sum before catching on. Ouch!
The wackiest Exegesis project of them all? No contest: the Total Transformation of Society – yes, this includes you, dear reader – in 4 years. Or was it two? Launched at a much-heralded gathering of all exegesis graduates, led by Robert himself, in a city-owned hall at the foot of Park Street, Bristol in 1981, it was to begin with us 'transforming' the city, and go viral from there. If I recall aright, Robert declared the project a success after two years.
Or was it one? Whatever.
Anyway, every Exegesis project more or less failed, with the glittering exception of Programmes. It made Robert D'Aubigny extremely wealthy.
homersykes.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Exegesis-Cult-1...
In 1986 Exegesis ceased operations, having transformed itself into Britain's top telephone marketing firm: Programmes.
The people I trained with in Exegesis still have a place in my heart – you never forget your first time! I wanted more, and became somewhat of a glutton for seminars and groupwork in the 1980s. Pursuing my passion for enlightenment, I went to a zen monastery in California, then on to Esalen Institute, and did the est training and its various graduate seminars. At the last est training and the first Forum in San Francisco, I assisted Werner Erhard. Curious about Werner and est? Check out:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeXmFVq6cY
and
www.erhardseminarstraining.com/
At the same time, I volunteered at The Breakthrough Foundation, an est offshoot, as also the Hunger Project, and the simply transcendent Holiday Project, and as my decade of crunchy cult goodness came to a close, Ron Kennedy's 'Man Woman Training'. The last of these I did, in Russia, afforded us western participants the eerie realization that we were doing a seminar peppered with KGB agents (Moscow, then-USSR, 1989).
No, they did not exactly get into the groove.
Over 50 women telephone switchboard operators and their supervisors. During this period (circa 1914), only young women (not men) were hired for this type of work at a Salt Lake City, Utah company. Men were not considered "polite" enough for this kind of work :)
This image comes from a group of vintage images that I purchased -- all are scanned from contact prints made from the original 8x10 glass negatives. I have performed extensive restoration work on each image, but trying to be true to the original.
My new ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, gives extensive details on how to enhance the landscape foreground. Three other chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, shooting and post processing.
The new guy on the floating staff is a bit odd, but we never have any complaints on his calls...
At the Computer Center at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT.
Platinum Plaza Korat, Community Mall #abandoned #thailand #nakhonratchasima #mall #graffiti #samsung #callcenter
Zoomed in tighter on the Sears OC entrance. They may have been hiring, but anyone hired at this point would be transferred or pink-slipped 6 months later.
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Opened on August 9, 1995, the mall consists of nearly 1.3 million square feet over 2 stories. With space for over 80 tenants, the mall faced a decline in the 2000s when it lost many of its anchors and inline tenants. Notably, Dillard's closed its upper level and turned the lower level into a clearance center. JCPenney exited in June 2011 and Steve & Barry's, which was originally Goody's, went out of business and was replaced by a Sears Call Center. The Sears store at the mall went out of business in April 2012. In 2014, Belk departed for another location.
High Point University purchased the mall in 2011 with the intention of using it for educational space. In the mean time, the mall continued to operate, despite the loss of its tenants. After Sears announced that its call center would close in 2017, the High Point University president decided that it was time to pull the plug on the mall. The mall and its remaining 11 stores closed for the last time on March 10, 2017. Dillards still owns its building, despite HPU's attempts to acquire it, and is currently remaining open.
20-09-2022 Ruyschstraat
Vandaag was ik ook op jacht naar deze nieuwe Reclame tram GVB 2111.
De tram voert weer reclame voor het Buro Young Capitol.
Met de tekst WHATEVER WORK WORK
Lijkt het jou leuk om mensen te helpen via de telefoon? Check onze callcenter vacatures. Vanuit huis of bij jou in de buurt. Snel reactie op je sollicitatie. Da's wel zo makkelijk. flinke bonussen. snel reactie. bellend geld verdienen. leuke werkgevers. snel aan de slag.
Deze reclame was al eerder te zien op de GVB 2093 alleen nu heeft men de tekst iets veranderd maar heerlijk kleurrijk in Amsterdam.
Aangezien ik ook deze op paar andere locaties op de foto had gezet en besloot naar deze locatie te gaan en hopen dat het goed ging.
Het laatste paste dan voor mij perfect met het laatste zonnetje en het ging ook goed en geen tegen verkeer gelukkig.
This space began its life as a Goody's and later became Steve & Barry's.
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Opened on August 9, 1995, the mall consists of nearly 1.3 million square feet over 2 stories. With space for over 80 tenants, the mall faced a decline in the 2000s when it lost many of its anchors and inline tenants. Notably, Dillard's closed its upper level and turned the lower level into a clearance center. JCPenney exited in June 2011 and Steve & Barry's, which was originally Goody's, went out of business and was replaced by a Sears Call Center. The Sears store at the mall went out of business in April 2012. In 2014, Belk departed for another location.
High Point University purchased the mall in 2011 with the intention of using it for educational space. In the mean time, the mall continued to operate, despite the loss of its tenants. After Sears announced that its call center would close in 2017, the High Point University president decided that it was time to pull the plug on the mall. The mall and its remaining 11 stores closed for the last time on March 10, 2017. Dillards still owns its building, despite HPU's attempts to acquire it, and is currently remaining open.
Vandaag bestaat de Walk-In Amsterdam vijf jaar en dat moet gevierd worden! We nodigden collega's van andere afdelingen uit binnen KPN om langs te komen en te horen waar wij momenteel met veel trots aan werken. Er waren heerlijke hapjes bereid door onze geweldige medewerker Chantal en de nieuwe instroom hielp met het uitdelen van die hapjes. Er was een gezellige borrel achteraf met live muziek van muzikant Dennis Koppen, volgens draaide DJ VincentDeKid en sloot DJ DeadPixels de avond af.
Being a call center agent is one of the better paying jobs for a college graduate in the Philippines. They get paid more than nurses and other highly skilled occupations.
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On top of a jeepney, a large multinational corporation advertises job openings for call center agents. The listed monthly salary of 17,000 Philippine Pesos was equal to roughly 340 US Dollars at the time.
Metro Manila, Philippines
Wexford
Motto: Per Aquam et Ignem
'Through Water and Fire'
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52.3342°N 6.4575°WCoordinates: 52.3342°N 6.4575°W
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County County Wexford
Dáil Éireann Wexford
Elevation 1 m (3 ft)
Population (2011)
• Urban 19,913 (20,072 with Environs)
Irish Grid Reference T051213
Dialing code 053, +353 53
Website www.wexfordcorp.ie
Wexford (from Old Norse: Veisafjǫrðr, Yola: Weisèforthè, Irish: Loch Garman is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.
It is near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland, close to Rosslare Europort. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 National Primary Route, and the national rail network. It has a population of 19,913 (20,072 with environs) according to the 2011 census.
History
Ruins of Selskar Abbey, Wexford.
Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney. According to a local legend, the town got its Irish name, Loch Garman, from a young man named Garman Garbh who was drowned on the mudflats at the mouth of the River Slaney by flood waters released by an enchantress. The resulting loch or lough was thus named Loch Garman. The town was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD. They named it Veisafjǫrðr, meaning inlet of the mud flats, and the name has changed only slightly into its present form. For about three hundred years it was a Viking town, a city state, largely independent and owing only token dues to the Irish kings of Leinster.
However, in May 1169 Wexford was besieged by Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster and his Norman ally, Robert Fitz-Stephen. The Norse inhabitants resisted fiercely, until the Bishop of Ferns persuaded them to accept a settlement with Dermot. Wexford was an Old English settlement in the Middle Ages. An old dialect of English, known as Yola, was spoken uniquely in Wexford up until the 19th century.
County Wexford produced strong support for Confederate Ireland during the 1640s. A fleet of Confederate privateers was based in Wexford town, consisting of sailors from Flanders and Spain as well as local men. Their vessels raided English Parliamentarian shipping, giving some of the proceeds to the Confederate government in Kilkenny. As a result, the town was sacked by the English Parliamentarians during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. Many of its inhabitants were killed and much of the town was burned.
Wexford Pikeman Statue by Oliver Sheppard in memory of the 1798 rebellion
County Wexford was the centre of the 1798 rebellion against British rule. Wexford town was held by the rebels throughout the fighting and was the scene of a notorious massacre of local loyalists by the United Irishmen, who executed them with pikes on Wexford bridge.
John F. Kennedy visiting the John Barry Memorial at Crescent Quay, Wexford town, Ireland (27 June 1963).
Redmond Square, near the railway station, commemorates the elder John Edward Redmond (1806-1865) who was Liberal MP for the city of Wexford. The inscription reads: "My heart is with the city of Wexford. Nothing can extinguish that love but the cold soil of the grave." His nephew William Archer Redmond (1825-1880) sat as an MP in Isaac Butt's Home Rule Party from 1872 until 1880. The younger John Redmond, son of William Archer Redmond was a devoted follower of Charles Stewart Parnell and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party until his death in April 1918. He is interred in the Redmond family vault, St. John's Cemetery, Upper St. John's Street. Redmond Park was formally opened in 1931 as a memorial to Willie Redmond, younger brother of John Redmond. He was also an Irish Parliamentary Party MP and was killed in 1917 while serving with the 16th (Irish) Division on the Western Front during the Messines offensive, where he was buried. Willie Redmond had sat as a Parnellite MP for Wexford from 1883 until 1885.
Wexford's success as a seaport declined in the 20th century because of the constantly changing sands of Wexford Harbour. By 1968 it had become unprofitable to keep dredging a channel from the harbour mouth to the quays in order to accommodate the larger ships of the era, so the port closed. The port had been extremely important to the local economy, with coal being a major import and agricultural machinery and grain being exported. The port is now used exclusively by mussel dredgers and pleasure craft. The woodenworks which fronted the quays and which were synonymous with Wexford were removed in the 1990s as part of an ambitious plan to claim the quay as an amenity for the town as well as retaining it as a commercially viable waterfront. Despite the bankruptcy of the contractor, the project was a success.
In the early 20th century, a new port was built, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south, at Rosslare Harbour, now known as Rosslare Europort. This is a deepwater harbour unaffected by tides and currents. All major shipping now uses this port and Wexford Port is used only by fishing boats and leisure vessels.
Wexford
Culture
Wexford is the home of many youth and senior theatre groups including the Buí Bolg street performance group, Oyster Lane Theatre Group, Wexford Pantomime Society, Wexford Light Opera Society and Wexford Drama Group.
Wexford has a number of music and drama venues including Wexford Opera House, the Dun Mhuire Theatre and Wexford Arts Centre. Wexford's Theatre Royal opera house was recently replaced by the Wexford Opera House and it hosts the internationally recognised Opera Festival every October. Dr Tom Walsh started the festival in 1951, and it has since grown into the internationally recognised festival it is today. The Dun Mhuire Theatre holds music events and bingo as well as hosting shows by Oyster Lane Theatre Group and Wexford Pantomime Society. The Wexford Arts Centre hosts exhibitions, theatre, music and dance events. Various concerts are held in St. Iberius's Church (Church of Ireland).
Until the mid-nineteenth century the Yola language could be heard in Wexford, and a few words still remain in use. The food of Wexford is also distinct from the rest of Ireland, due to the local cultivation of seafood, smoked cod being a token dish in the region.
The National Lottery Skyfest was held in Wexford in March 2011, providing a formidable fireworks display and a pyrotechnic waterfall on the towns main bridge spanning 300m. Buí Bolg (Yellow Belly) also performed on the night.
Architecture
Wexford has witnessed some major developments such as the Key West centre on the Quays, the redevelopment of the quayfront itself, White's Hotel and the huge new residential development of Clonard village. Proposed developments include the development of a large new residential quarter at Carcur, a new river crossing at that point, the new town library, the refurbishment of Selskar Abbey and the controversial redevelopment of the former site of Wexford Electronix. Also, the relocated offices of the Department of Environment have been constructed near Wexford General Hospital on Newtown Road.
Notable churches within the town include St. Iberius, Bride Street and Rowe Street with their distinctive spires, the impressive Saint Peter's College, with a chapel designed by Augustus Welby Pugin and Ann Street Presbyterian church. A former Quaker meeting hall is now a band room in High Street. Two of the most noticeable buildings in Wexford are the "Twin Churches" Rowe St. and Bride St. These churches can be seen from any part of Wexford and in 2008 celebrated their 150th anniversary. This was a huge event for the churches. Joe Kinsella is the caretaker of Rowe St. Church.
Economy
From an employment point of view, major employers in and around the town are: Wexford Creamery, Celtic Linen, Wexford Viking Glass, Snap-Tite, Waters Technology, Kent Construction, Equifax and BNY Mellon. Coca-Cola operates a research plant employing up to 160.Eishtec operates a callcenter for British mobile operator EE employing 250.Jack n Jones,Pamela Scott and A-wear other retailers operate in the town.
In the public sector, employment is provided at Johnstown Castle by Teagasc, the Environmental Protection Agency headquartered in Johnstown, Department of Environment, Wexford County Council and Wexford General Hospital.
In May 2011 an official web portal for Wexford was launched which encompassed local government, Wexford Tourism, and the Wexford Means Business website, aimed at promoting the value proposition of Wexford as a business destination.
Places of Interest
Curracloe Beach in Wexford was the location in 1997 for the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan.
The Irish National Heritage Park at Ferrycarrig includes various exhibits spanning 9000 years of Irish History, allowing the visitor to wander around re-creations of historic Irish dwelling including crannogs, Viking houses and Norman forts.
The Wexford Wildfowl Reserve is a Ramsar site based on mudflats, (known locally as slobland), just outside Wexford.It is a migratory stop-off point for thousands of ducks, geese, swans and waders. Up to 12,000 (50% of the world's population) of Greenland White-fronted Geese spend the winter on the Wexford slobs. There is a visitor centre with exhibitions and an audio-visual show.
Transport
Wexford railway station opened on 17 August 1874.The railway line from Dublin to Rosslare Harbour runs along the quayside on the north-eastern edge of the town. In 2010 the Rosslare Strand to Waterford rail line closed down due to lack of customers.
Wexford is also served by local and national bus networks primarily Bus Eireann, Wexford Bus and Ardcavan. There are also many local taxi and hackney providers.
Rosslare Europort is 19 kilometers south of Wexford and passenger and freight ferries run between Fishguard and Pembroke in Wales and Cherbourg and Roscoff in France. The main ferry companies operating on these routes are Stena Line and Irish Ferries.
The closest airport to Wexford is Waterford Airport which is approximately 1 hour away (70 km). Dublin Airport and Cork Airport are both approximately 2 and a half hours away.
The town also has a shuttle-bus service which has stops at the towns main facilities.
Sport
Golf
Wexford Golf Club has a newly built clubhouse and course, which were finished in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
Soccer
The Wexford Youths football club were admitted to the League of Ireland in 2007. Wexford Youths are the first Wexford-based club to take part in the competition. Wexford Youths is the brainchild of former property developer Mick Wallace TD, who funded the construction of a complex for the new team's home at Newcastle, Ferrycarrig. In 2014, the team narrowly missed out on a promotion to the Irish Premier League.
Gaelic games
Wexford is also home to several Gaelic Athletic Association clubs. Though the town was traditionally associated with Gaelic football, with six teams providing ample outlets for its youngsters, it wasn’t until 1960 that hurling took its foothold, with much due to local man Oliver “Hopper” McGrath’s contribution to the county’s All-Ireland Hurling Final triumph over the then-champions Tipperary. Having scored an early second-half goal to effectively kill off the opposition, McGrath went on to be the first man from the town of Wexford to receive an All-Ireland Hurling winner’s medal.
One of the town’s local hurling clubs, Faythe Harriers, holds a record fifteen county minor championships, having dominated the minor hurling scene in the 1950s, late 1960s and early 1970s. However, the senior side has only enjoyed briefly successful periods, having won just five county senior championships.
Although the team has not achieved county senior football success since 1956, Volunteers (“the Vols”) of Wexford Town hold a record eleven county senior titles, as well as six minor titles. Other notable Gaelic football clubs in the town are Sarsfields, St. Mary’s of Maudlintown, Clonard and St. Joseph’s.
Wexford had a brilliant hurling team in the 1950s which included the famous Rackard Brothers, Nicky, Bobby, and Willie, Art Foley who was the goalkeeper, Ned Wheeler, Padge Kehoe, Tom Ryan, Tim Flood, Jim Morrissey, Nick O Donnell, to name but a few.
Rugby
Wexford has one rugby club, called Wexford Wanderers.
Boxing
Ireland’s boxing head coach and former Irish Olympian Billy Walsh is a native of Wexford town and has contributed greatly to the success of underage level boxers with local club St. Ibars/Joseph’s.
Education
There are five secondary schools serving the population of the town:
St Peter's College, Wexford (for boys), Coláiste Eamon Rís, Loch Garman - C. B. S., Wexford (for boys), Presentation Secondary School, Wexford (for girls), Loreto Secondary School, Wexford (for girls), and Wexford Vocational College V. E. C. (mixed).
People
Historical population
John Banville, writer
John Barry, father of the American Navy
Eoin Colfer, writer
Brendan Corish, politician
Anne Doyle, RTE Journalist
Jane Elgee 'Speranza', mother of Oscar Wilde
Gerald Fleming, meteorologist
Brendan Howlin, politician
William Keneally, recipient of the Victoria Cross
John Kent, Newfoundland politician
Dave King, musician
Larry Kirwan, writer and musician
Michael Londra, singer
Declan Lowney, director
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian politician
Dan O'Herlihy, actor
Bridget Regan, musician
Billy Roche, playwright
Dick Roche, politician
Kathleen, Viscountess Simon, abolitionist.
Declan Sinnott, musician
John Sinnott, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Pierce Turner, singer-songwriter
John Welsh, writer
Kevin Doyle, soccer player
William Lamport, Irish soldier upon whom Zorro is said to be based
Cry Before Dawn, rock band who found success in the late 1980s, hails from Wexford.
Twinning
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in the Republic of Ireland
Wexford is twinned with the following places:
France Couëron, France
United States Annapolis, Maryland
Italy Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Mexico Yanga, Veracruz, Mexico
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Another illustration for an article about callcenters from Dutch IT Magazine - ITcommercie.
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Over 50 women telephone switchboard operators and their supervisors. During this period (circa 1914), only young women (not men) were hired for this type of work at a Salt Lake City, Utah company. Men were not considered "polite" enough for this kind of work :)
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The Dumaguete Bell tower is an old landmark of the city .
It stands closer to the church of St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral which had many claims to have been constructed in 1811.
During its early days ,other than the normal bell ringing this tower also served as a look-out for possible pirate attacks from Mindanao the locals always dreaded .Infact some accounts also stated the pirates do kidnapped pretty young women they can come across .
There were other claims this was built between 1774 and 1776, but full construction into the proper shape of the tower didn't start until later .
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Here's an account gathered about the Bellfry with courtesy to Rene V Javellana :
"A four-storey ovoid tower supported by three buttresses. Made of coral, lime with brick facings it has arched and diamond-shaped windows. Repaired with cement and Mactan stones, a fourth storey clearly shows signs of repair. It is located beside, though separated from, the church, which was damaged during the World War II and subsequently lengthened with the addition of two bays and a facade.
The Dumaguete tower shows signs of being constructed and repaired a number of times. Although the date of construction is generally claimed to be 1811, based on the assumption that the nearby church and tower were built together as attested by a stone marker at the entrance of the cathedral, other dates are given, namely, 1624 by José E. Marcó (1912) and ca. 1760s (Kasaysayan, 1998). Fray Mariano Bernad OAR, who was assigned to Dumaguete in 1866-67, 1880-91, and 1894-97 writes in Reseña historica de Dumaguete (1895) that the belltower was built upon one of four watchtowers that defended the church. “At the four corners of the fortification were constructed four strong towers of cut stone and lime mortar, well provided with artillery …for the purpose of defense.
Today, nothing much remains of the towers, except the corner where there is a belltower constructed over the tower which stood there” (p. 11). The fortification was the handiwork of Fray José Manuel Fernandez de Septién, who administered Dumaguete from 1754 to 1776. He was also responsible for building a single-naved church to which transepts were added later, a convento well supplied with arms, and the two-meter tall perimeter wall that offered safety to the townspeople.
Fray Septién’s construction of defensive structures were catalyzed by the slaving raids that devastated Dumaguete and the surrounding towns in December 1722, May to June 1754, 1755 and 1756. The Cosas Notables de Dumaguete of 1855 onwards makes no mention of slaving raids, perhaps this is the reason why three of the watchtowers were razed and a portion of the wall by Calle Alfonso XIII was left to ruin.
Fray Septién had constructed the first two levels of the watchtower in the 1760s, but it was during the administration of Fray Juan Felix de la Encarnación (1867-79) that the Dumaguete belltower took its present shape. Fray Encarnación added the third and fourth stories in the 1870s, and built buttresses to support the lower wall. Encarnación’s design allowed access to the first three stories, which were protected by railings. The fourth floor was capped by a dome, originally of galvanized iron but replaced by one of brick. This dome had a lateral egress by which workers could climb out to do repair work. The dome, locally known as bonete, literally a skull cap, was crowned with a weather vane.
The tower was repaired in 1987 during the bishopric of Mgsr. Angel N. Lagdameo. A total of 125,000 pesos was spent to replace the staircase with one of reinforced concrete, strengthen the support of the dome, and replace missing stones with cut coral as in the original. "
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I've worked in a call center for a quarter of my life. It grates on my last nerve. Often.
People, more often than not, SUCK. Be nice to your telephone agents, we're here to help!
Yellow can represent a lot of things, but being in/around it for too long can cause severe irritability.
por causas de fuerza mayor, muchos de nosotros dijimos hoy chau al call center. fue un día increíble. esta gente es genial.
1813 is the number you dail, when you call if you have an emergency regarding health in the Copenhagen area. This is the place where your call gets answered.
These nurses and doctors are getting trained to receive calls from people, who need medical advice. There has been and presumably will be a massive pressure on this callcenter as long Corona is around.
Between every workspace hang transparant plastic plates to prevent possible spread of infection among the employees.
On Friday, March 18th, 2016 we at J.C.E.S. were granted a very unique opportunity to tour the Emergency Communications Center (E.C.C.). The center is located in Olathe, Kansas and handles police, fire, and EMS radio traffic for Johnson County and EMS traffic for Miami County. The police dispatchers are responsible for each city in Johnson County except for; Leawood, Lenexa, Overland Park, Prairie Village/Mission Hills, and Shawnee. The fire/EMS dispatch is responsible for all fire and EMS traffic in Johnson County and also EMS traffic in Miami County. Each dispatcher has an abundance of computer screens they use in order to handle each call. The computers utilize a Computer Aided Dispatching program, which helps the dispatcher quickly get units on scene. The dispatchers also have a direct line to the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, MO in case of a serve weather outbreak. If a tornado does occur in Johnson County the dispatchers are safe because the room can withstand an EF-4 tornado. We as a group learned a lot on how the E.C.C. works and how they manage each call for help. J.C.E.S. wants to thank all of our dispatchers in Johnson County for their outstanding work they do everyday. What they do can be extremely stressful and time consuming and they truly deserve to be highlighted. We also want say THANK YOU for your extreme hospitality and kindness during our tour. If you are interested in more information regarding E.C.C. or our tour please feel free to comment or send us a message and we will do our best to answer your questions. If we cannot answer it ourselves we can refer you to someone who can.
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Duurzaam hoofdkantoor CBS in Heerlen
Mijnwater zorgt voor duurzame verwarming in nieuw kantoorgebouw
Het voormalige kantoor van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) in Heerlen was verouderd en te groot geworden. Daarom is besloten tot duurzame nieuwbouw.
Het gebouw bestaat uit vijf vleugels die zijn gesitueerd rondom een atrium. Het omvat kantoren, vergaderzalen, auditorium, een groot atrium met daarin leeszaal, bibliotheek en restaurant, een drukkerij en callcenter, met een bruto oppervlak van 23.000 m2 en een parkeergarage van 9.000 m2.
Projectgegevens
Opdrachtgever
IPMMC, Utrecht
Architect
Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten, Amsterdam
Functie
Kantoren; atrium, auditorium, drukkerij, callcenter; restaurant; parkeergarage
Uitvoering
Start bouw december 2007. In gebruik name 17 juli 2009.
Bouwvolume
Circa 32.000 m2 BVO
Bouwsom
Circa € 19.000.000,-