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Circa 1910 postcard view of one of the hotels at Crooked Lake, Indiana. The sign above the door identified this as THE BEACH hotel. Additional information on that sign included HOME PHONE 625 M, FRED SHEETS PROP., GROCERIES, SHORT-ORDER-ROOM, ICE CREAM PARLOR, and NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS IN CONNECTION. The sign to the left of the entrance advertised FRESH MEAT HERE FOR SALE. The bottom sign on the other side of the doorway advertised ICE CREAM 10c CONES 15c. The smaller sign included the value of $5.00, but is otherwise unclear. The sign on the utility pole read LAUNCH SERVICE and included an arrow pointing south or southeast. Another sign on the building advertised FISHING TACKLE. An American flag was hanging from a pole on the balcony.
Crooked Lake is located a short distance northwest of Angola in Steuben County. The hotel was located on West Orland Road at the northeast corner of the lake. That road approaches the northeast shore of the lake from the east and then turns northwest, paralleling the shore for a short distance before turning north. A section of the road east of that turn is visible in the background at the right edge of this scene. The turn itself is just outside this postcard view and the road in front of the hotel is running north and south. The photographer was standing in the road and facing east-southeast.
The St. Joseph Valley Railway (the “Valley Line”) crossed West Orland Road just north of this hotel, outside of this view on the left. The men and boys standing in front of the hotel had their luggage, picnic baskets, lanterns, etc. They may have travelled to Crooked Lake via the Valley Line.
In the early years of the 20th century, steam locomotives were hauling passengers and freight back and forth across northern Indiana, but there was a very large gap in the expanding electric interurban service. Passengers could not travel from Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago via the interurban system. The gap extended from Elkhart into Ohio. Entrepreneur, Herbert E. Bucklen, intended to fill that gap. He began by forming the St. Joseph Valley Traction Company and then the St. Joseph Valley Railway Company. Each company built portions of the new line that would connect Angola with Elkhart. The first completed segments connected LaGrange and Middlebury in 1905 and 1906.¹ Later, the line was extended westward toward Elkhart and eastward to Angola via Orland, Inverness and Crooked Lake. The final segment between Elkhart and Angola was completed in 1911.² However, the route was more of a hybrid, using gasoline-powered rather than electric trolley cars and using steam locomotives. Both of Mr. Bucklen’s companies entered receivership shortly after his death in 1917 and the assets were sold. The line had been unprofitable and was abandoned in 1918. The 15 miles of the route between LaGrange and Orland reopened briefly before it too was abandoned in 1920. West Orland Road is still there today, but the rails are long gone.
Mr. Bucklen was also a real estate developer in Elkhart and later in Chicago. Reports indicate he purchased land around Lake Gage and Shipshewana Lake for development in association with the construction of his railroad. He genuinely believed his railroad would further the development of the northeast Indiana lakes. Our research didn’t uncover any direct involvement by Mr. Bucklen in Crooked Lake real estate. Nonetheless, the arrival of Valley Line had an undeniable impact on the area as described by the Indiana Department of Fisheries and Game in a 1915 report.³
“Quickly the place became known beyond the confines of the county, to the extent that today cottages are closely built around the shore of the two western or main basins…. And these cottages are owned and occupied by people from Fort Wayne, Goshen, Angola, Elkhart, Lagrange and South Bend…. There are three good hotels at the lake, each able to care for a large number of guests comfortably. The first one to be built was the Beach Hotel standing near the shore at the railway station…. The most popular beach, however, is on the eastern shore just south of the Beach Hotel, the place having received the name of Long Beach.”
The referenced “railway station” in that excerpt was actually a wooden waiting shelter for passengers. The Crooked Lake shelter was one of several such shelters the Valley Line built along the route between Metz (east of Angola) and Bristol. Another postcard view of this hotel includes an unidentified structure along the Valley Line track that was probably the Crooked Lake shelter. The nearest stations were at Angola, Inverness and Orland.
John Inbody took the photograph used in the production of this postcard. Mr. Inbody worked out of his Elkhart studio to produce some extraordinary postcard scenes. He was probably the most consistent photographer in Indiana in terms of publishing high quality real photo postcards with interesting scenes. However, he died at a relatively young age in 1915. Since this postcard isn’t included in the U. S. Copyright Office data, it may have been produced prior to 1910 when Mr. Inbody began copyrighting his work.
1. . Frederick Nicholas, editor, American Street Railway Investments, Fifteenth Annual Volume (New York, NY: McGraw Publishing Co., 1908). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=j47IQgaWJM4C&printsec=front....
2. Frederic Nicholas, editor, McGraw Electric Railway Manual: The Red Book of American Street Railway Investments, 18th Annual Number (New York, NY: McGraw Publishing Company, 1911). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=Lj0_AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Indiana Department of Fisheries and Game, Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1915). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=vLEWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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A worker sorts and stacks chair legs at the Longhua furniture factory. The chair legs are part of the “Stefan” chair sold by Ikea. The factory was visited by 2015 Forestry Asia Trade Mission delegates.
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Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America
Summary
Soaring over Central Park, the profile of the San Remo is among the most important components of the magnificent skyline of Central Park West. The first of the twin-towered buildings which give Central Park West its distinctive silhouette, and one of the New York's last grand apartment houses built in the pre-Depression era, it was designed by Emery Roth, then at the pinnacle of his career as a specialist in apartment house architecture. A residential skyscraper in classical garb, the San Remo epitomizes Roth's ability to combine the traditional with the modern, an urbane amalgam of luxury and convenience, decorum and drama.
Development of Central Park West
Central Park West, the northern continuation of Eighth Avenue bordering on the park, is today one of New York's finest residential streets, but in the mid-nineteenth century it was a rural and inhospitable outpost, notable for its rocky terrain, browsing goats and ramshackle shanties. With the creation of Central Park in the 1860s, followed by Riverside Park (begun 1876), as well as a series of transportation improvements such as the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad (1879), the Upper West Side in general experienced a period of intense real estate speculation. The 1880were the first decade of major development, and set the pattern for the Upper West Side, where rowhouses line the side streets, and multiple dwellings, commercial and institutional structures are sited on the avenues.
Not surprisingly, those avenues closest to the parks. Central Park West and Riverside Drive, were immediately considered the most desirable. (Ninth Avenue, re-christened Columbus in 1890, Tenth Avenue, renamed Amsterdam in the same year, and Broadway—the Boulevard before 1899 — were all, in varying degrees marred by cable car and elevated railway lines.)
The potential of the parkside avenues for development as prime locations led to an anticipatory increase in land values; prices rose to such extravagant heights that many speculative builders shied away from row house and tenement construction, from which they would realize relatively meager returns, while the very wealthy, who could afford to build mansions, for the most part remained on the more fashionable East Side- As a result, the development of Central Park West lagged behind the general development of the Upper West Side. It was not until the turn of the century that Central Park West's construction boom began and it emerged as a- boulevard of elegant tall apartments punctuated by impressive institutional buildings—a kind of grand proscenium to the architectural variety show of the Upper West Side.
The stage had been set By two great monuments, the American Museum of Natural History between 77th and 81st Streets, (begun 1874, architects Vaux & Mould, and a designated New York City Landmark), and the Dakota, the pioneering luxury apartments at 72nd Street (1880-84. architect Henry Hardenbergh, and a designated New York City Landmark). Yet a survey of roughly a decade later revealed that more than half the block fronts along the park from 60th to 96th Streets remained vacant or contained only old, modest frame houses. A few rather unprepossessing apartment hotels (at
least, relative to the Dakota) were constructed in the early 1890s, among them the San Remo at 75th Street, designed in 1890 by architect Edward Angel 1.2 was described by Moses King in his Handbook as "an immense and imposing edifice, finely situated on the high ground of West 75th Street and facing on the lawns, woods and waters of Central Park. The rooms . . . are all in suites"; and more recently as "a ten-story, high Victorian pile, a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque details . . . unremarkable from an architectural standpoint except for the steep pyramidal towers at its corners."
Among the other apartment hotels on the avenue, were the Beresford at 81st Street, the Majestic (architect Alfred Zucker) just south of the Dakota, both erected in the early 1890s, and the El Dorado at 90th Street of 1901. These have all been replaced by their towered namesakes of the late 1920s and early '30s, but they had already been architecturally superceded by grand apartments houses of the early 1900s—such as the Prasada (1904) at 65th Street, the Langham (1905) at 73rd Street, the Kenilworth (1908) at 75th Street. This phase in Central Park West's development was interrupted by World War I, when construction ground to a halt. The second major phase of development began with the great prosperity of the '20s producing the Art Deco towered buildings, and Roth's Beresford and San Remo Apartments which now define the skyline.
The 1920s provided a generation of aspiring immigrants with the opportunity to move up in the world, both economically and geographically. Many Jewish immigrants, refugees from Csarist pogroms, had achieved prosperity in New York by the late 1920s, and looked from the Lower East Side and the Boroughs to the Upper West Side as a cultural and architectural haven. By the mid-1930s more than half the residents of the Upper West Side from 72nd to 96th Streets were Jewish, and more than a third of these families was headed by a parent born in Europe. Emery Roth was himself a Jewish immigrant of Horatio Algeresque stamina and optimism, a family man and Upper West Sider, although he arrived by a more circuitous route than most of his neighbors.
The Architect
Emery Roth was born in 1871 in the town or Galzecs, Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When he was thirteen the family's fortunes took a turn for the worse, and it was decided that young Emery, alone, would immigrate to America. Passing through Ellis Island, he continued on to Chicago where his success story began.
When still a teenager living a hand to mouth existence in Bloomington, Illinois, Roth determined to become an architect. He worked for both a local builder and a local architect. In 1889, having won a national-government sponsored contest, the Maize Competition—for which he drew a living room utilizing the corn plant as a decorative motif—Roth took his $100 prize money and set out for Kansas City. Apparently he could not find architectural employment there, but while he was still in Bloomington, had applied to join the office of Burnham & Root. Offered the job by mail. Roth moved on to Chicago and worked under Charles Atwood (who had succeeded John W. Root after his death in 1891.) Roth helped to prepare drawings for the celebrated Palace of Fine Arts. While at the fair, he met Richard Morris Hunt, the recognized dean of American architects, who offered to hire him if he ever came to New York. After the fair, with true to form optimism, Roth made his way to New York, where Hunt's casual offer was honored. Assigned to draft interior perspectives for The Breakers, the Newport mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Roth came in contact with Ogden Codman, a noted architect, interior designer and socialite. In 1895 Roth went to work for Codman, where his decorative and planning abilities were sharpened.
By 1898 Roth believed himself ready for private practice. Two young architects, Theodore G. Stein and E. Yancy Cohen, after involved negotiations, sold Roth their architectural practice for $1000. As part of the agreement, Roth was entitled to represent himself as a partner in Stein, Cohen & Roth in order to capitalize on the good will of the existing firm. In fact, Roth was on his own.
Roth's first major commission was the Hotel Belleclaire of 1901-03 on upper Broadway, a designated New York City Landmark. While it was under construction Roth was approached by Leo and Alexander Bing, Manhattan real estate developers. The Bing brothers admired the Belleclaire and commissioned Roth to design a group of five-story apartment buildings in Washington Heights. This alliance inaugurated a lifelong association.
In the following years, Roth had several commissions, among them Bancroft Hall of 1910—a student housing facility for Columbia University, and a series of religious structures, including the Congregation Ahavith Achem of 1908 in Brooklyn and the First Reformed Hungarian Church of 1916 on East 69th Street in Manhattan.
The year 1918 was a traumatic one for Roth. He lost his vision in one eye, the result of glaucoma, and nearly died in the great influenza epidemic. But the prosperity of the 1920s was to carry him into a period of great achievement. After the hiatus in construction caused by the First World War, building was again undertaken. In New York City, a 1921 ordinance exempting new residential construction from real estate taxes for the next decade, opened the door to a building boom. The Bing brothers commissioned a series of apartment buildings and hotels from Roth, many of which Ruttenbaum aptly terras "fine background buildings," while two other developers, Samuel Minskoff and Harris H. Uris commissioned Roth to design a number of handsome medium height apartment houses which the architect dubbed "skyscratchers."
In 1926 Roth in association with Thomas Hastings, the surviving partner of the eminent firm of Carrere & Hastings, designed the Ritz Tower at Park Avenue and 57th Street, a 41-story apartment hotel In a neo-Renaissance style, its extreme height making it "a symbol of a new way to live for wealthy New Yorkers." After the Ritz Tower, Roth went on to design a host of luxury residential skyscrapers, among them the Oliver Cromwell Hotel on West 72nd Street (1928), the Beresford Apartments on Central Park West, and as a consultant to Margon & Holder, the Art Deco style El dorado Apartments also on Central Park West (1929-31, and a designated New York City Landmark). From the mid-1920s on, the signature of a major Roth apartment house was its tower(s). Initially designed to conceal water tanks, they evolved in the Beresford with its three towers into a major element of the design.
In the San Remo. among Roth's finest works, the towers are carried even further, becoming an integral component of this residential skyscraper. This fusing of the functional with the aesthetic was equally characteristic of his apartment plans. Roth's sons credit their father with the creation of the foyer plan, and if not the originator he was certainly a refiner of this type. Roth's best apartments seem effortlessly interlocked, wasteful corridor space reduced to a minimum, with spacious, well-lit rooms in their stead.
Roth's last great work was the Normandy Apartments on Riverside Drive of 1938-39 (a designated New York City Landmark), by which time his sons had joined the firm. The majority of his later buildings in concession to the Depression had smaller apartments and fewer amenities, while still maintaining high standards. Roth died in 1947, and his sons continued the firm, which has been prosperous and prolific.
The San Remo
In an advertisement of May 18, 1930, in the New York Times the San Remo was heralded as:
The Aristocrat of Central Park West Apartments Designed for You Built by the builders of the Beresford
Every detail of these sumptuous apartments has been carefully planned to make living in them the last word in luxury. Only private homes have ceilings as lofty as these and rooms as- spacious. Every chamber has its own colored tile bathroom and is well-supplied with deep closets. Many have dressing rooms too. The long galleries and living rooms with fireplaces offer splendid decorative possibilities. The kitchens have been fitted with the most modern appliances. Up in the towers are apartments such as New York has never before seen with windows on all four sides and views of Central Park, the Hudson, and Westchester. Other specially designed apartments have slate terraces overlooking the park.
Six to sixteen rooms, simplex and duplex apartments H.R.H. Construction Company 11
Contemporary writers essentially concurred with this euphoric description, and were impressed by the height of the building, the twin-towered silhouette, good plans and luxurious detailing. The New Yorker magazine (a publication which in 1930 seems, at least to modern eyes, to all but ignore the 1929 Crash) featured two articles on the San Remo, one by "Penthouse" [Marcia Clarke Davenport]. Davenport is impressed by the views, the size of the terraces and rooms, and "the remarkable sun and light everywhere." Perhaps a hint of the Depression can be detected in her interest in costs--"This is not one of the houses you use to illustrate that rents are lower on the West Side." An eighteen-room duplex was offered at $21,000 per year.
The second New Yorker contributor, "T-Square" [George S. Chappell] considers the San Remo in more strictly architectural terms and as a design by Roth "whose name must be inextricably associated with the development of this section" of Manhattan.
...the Italian baroque [is] skillfully adapted to modern conditions. Cornices are reduced to a minimum, becoming simply bandcourses, but such detail as is used is classic in derivation. The twin towers with their circular colonnades of Corinthian columns, crowned by bronze lanterns,
are fine in silhouette____ The proportions are
well-studied and the warm light brick used above the limestone substructure give a delightful effect.
Chappell also praises the watertank coverings and the innovative window design with upper and lower movable transoms.
Despite its popular success, the San Remo fell prey to the pervasive economic mayhem of the 1930s. A full year after it had officially opened, nearly a third of its apartments remained vacant, and the Bank of the United States which held its $5 million mortgage had collapsed, its officers charged with recklessly "gambling" on the San Remo. In an
effort to attract tenants rents were reduced, and some of the larger apartments were subdivided. But after a succession of owners and bankruptcies, in 1940 the San Remo was sold along with the Beresford, which was experiencing similar financial woes, for a mere $25,000 over existing mortgages.
In its near sixty-year history, the San Remo has had numerous well-known and famous tenants, among them David Nemerov and his wife, owners of Russeks Stores, and parents of Howard Nemerov, poet and critic, and Diane Arbus, photographer, Eddie Cantor, the singer and comedian, and more recently, singer Barry Manilow, and actors Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Tony Randall and Mary Tyler Moore.
Architectural Sources and Style
The San Remo is a skyscraper which, in the conservative early twentieth-century tradition, applies an historical style to a contemporary form. Roth, who had a lifelong predilection for classicizing styles (although he used others), here turned to the Late Italian Renaissance for inspiration,,. Broken pediments, both curved and triangular, cartouches, and boldly scaled pilasters and columns with composite capitals, and overlapping architectural elements—all hallmarks of the Late Italian Renaissance—are the components of the San Remo's detailing. Ruttenbaum has noted similarities in the crowning temples of the San Remo with the ancient Greek choragic monument of Lysicrates, which Roth had studied in his youth at the Chicago exposition. Certainly, there are parallels, especially in the proportions, but perhaps equally important are such Late Renaissance structures as Bramante's celebrated Tempietto in Rome, or—in terms of placement as much as form—Michelangelo's lantern atop St. Peter's dome.
Much closer to home are such general prototypes as McKim, Mead & White's Municipal Building of 1909-13, a skyscraper topped by a temple and designed in a neo-classical style.
Truly tall skyscrapers, rather than the "skyscratchers" of Roth's terminology, up until the 1920s had been almost exclusively erected as commercial structures. Roth's first very tall apartment building, the 41-story Ritz Tower of 1926, had been erected as an apartment hotel, for which less stringent building code requirements applied than for apartment houses. The Ritz Tower was exactly what the name implied—one preliminary scheme even called for a lantern clearly derived from the tower of the Florentine Palazzo Vecchio. In residential terms, this was a new building type, one which reached a fuller expression in the San Remo.
In early 1929, a new Multiple Dwelling Act was passed, allowing apartment houses of large ground area greater height and the use of towers. The San Remo, the first of the vast twin-towered West Side apartments, was designed in response to these new stipulations. An innovative design, based on Roth's experience with single-towered structures, it was quickly emulated: yet the sheer size and height of the San Remo apparently struck others as fundamentally "modern." The Century Apartments and the Majestic Apartments are exercises in the contemporary Art Deco style. Even the Normandy, Roth's own last great building combines elements of the Style Moderne with neo-Italian Renaissance motifs. Yet, as the architectural critic, Paul Goldberger (himself a resident of the San Remo) has remarked, "Roth's greatest gift was his ability to adapt Renaissance and classical details to modern building forms." 21
Description
The San Remo Apartments occupy the Central Park West blockfront from 74th to 75th Streets. A residential skyscraper, the main block of the building is 17 stories in height, with terraced setbacks from the 14th to 17th stories. Two symmetrical towers, each ten stories in height surmounted by elaborate suprastructures culminating in circular temples with lanterns give the building its dramatic profile. The building is executed in light brick. The first three stories are in rusticated limestone, lightly vermiculated at the first two stories, with smooth lower relief at the third. The facade is 26 bays wide, with two main entryways. The southern elevation is 19 bays wide, and the northern is 16. {The southern elevation is 180 feet in length, the northern, 150.) Each has a single main entrance. (There are four office entrances on the Central Park West facade, two on the south elevation, and three on the north. The towers are five bays wide on the facade and side elevations.
The rear, western elevation...which owing to its height above the side street rowhouses, is largely visible is executed in the same light brick, and is ranged around a T-shaped courtyard. The towers have terraced rear extensions. A large chimney abuts the north tower.
The facade and side elevations are articulated above the three-story base by shallow brick pilasters and slight projections signalized as pavilions by the Renaissance detailing at the upper stories. The facade of the main block of the building has a basic vertical arrangement of bays as: 1-1-1-6-1-6-1-6-1-1-1. At the terrace levels the central six bays and outermost three bays function as true pavilions between the setbacks. The towers have massive, pier-like enframements at the corners. Cornices are effectively and sparingly used to accentuate the upper stories of the main block of the building, the upper stories of the towers, and the suprastructures.
Architectural detailing, executed in stone, terra cotta and metal, is Late Italian Renaissance in character, and highlights entrances and window configurations at the upper stories. Balustrades, pilasters, engaged columns, broken pediments, both circular and triangular, garlands, urns, cartouches, scrolls, consoles and roundels are employed. The detail is executed in limestone up to the fourth story and in terra cotta above. The terraces have either terra-cotta balustrades or metal railings. The lantern is of copper. (All such detailing is described below.)
Detailing
Fenestration:
The windows are uniformly treated on the designed elevations, with metal casements featuring movable transoms above and below the principal windows. The upper transom swings out, the lower transom (or hopper) swings in. The central large windows open outward in the conventional manner. The windows have six panes (2 over 2 over 2). This innovative design was intended to facilitate the regulation of temperature and air circulation. There are some variations in width which reflect interior spaces (living rooms, bedrooms etc.) but the basic configuration remains the same, except in the second-story windows above the Central Park West entrances, and at the uppermost stories of the facade central pavilion, which are tripartite with nine panes of glass (3 over 3 over 3). On the rear elevation the windows are more varied in their treatment, with single double, triple and double leaf casement windows, some of which do not have the lower transom. A few windows have been altered, most notably on the rear tower elevations.
Main Entrances:
Facade [Central Park West] (two, symmetrically located at the 6-7th bays and 20-21st bays).
A broken triangular pediment surmounts the double doors , executed in bronze and glass with paneled, solid bronze transoms. The doors are each divided into three parts, with square panels ornamented by bronze medallions and bordering acanthus leaver set in a rectilinear bronze grillework. Metal and glass lanterns flank the doorway. A double-height limestone enframement surrounds the doorway and second-story tripartite window, and is composed of flanking pilasters with composite capitals , with reliefs depicting classical urns above, and supporting a dentiled curved, broken pediment. At the center of the pediment is a large scrolled cartouche draped by a garland which is looped over a rosette at each side. The doorways have sheltering canopies on bronze supports.
North [75 St.] and south [74th St.] elevations (one, located in the 13th bay, north side, and in the 11th bay, south side).
Both have deep reveals and limestone enframements with a surmounting console table on console-like supports with a central scrolled cartouche. The single bronze and glass doors follow the same design as those on the facade and have transoms with an octagonal panel with central medallion and acanthus leaves. Lanterns flank the doorways.
Office Entrances:
Facade [Central Park West] (four, symmetrically located at the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th bays).
These have limestone enframements and surmounting entablatures with scrolled ornamental keystones. The single doors are of bronze with a glazed upper panel and transom.
North elevation [75th St.] (three, at the 4th, 8th, and 15th bays).
These are detailed like those on the facade.
South elevation [74th St.] (two, at the 6th and 14th bays).
Set within deep reveals and enframed by the rusticated walls, each has a bronze door with a glazed upper panel and transom.
Service Entrances:
North [75th St.] and south [74th St.] elevations, (two, located at the rear of each elevation).
A rusticated wall which follows the design of the building walls and extends to the second story contains an arched doorway with a large keystone and is surmounted by a paneled overdoor. A decorative metal gate with a panel reading "Service" fills the archway. At the south elevation, a metal railing atop a brick wall extends westward along the property line.
Third Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West], north [75th St. ] and south [74th St.] elevations, (four, each set at the second bay from the Central Park West corners).
The windows have limestone relief enframements with side elements in the shape of a console in profile, and rosettes. .. . .
Fourth Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West] (two, symmetrically placed, 5-8th bays and 19-22nd bays).
A balustraded balcony set upon four large ornamented console brackets extends for four bays. The central two bays have a limestone enframement and are separated by a smooth limestone panel. Flanking pilasters support an entablature upon which a triangular broken pediment is superimposed. At the center is a scrolled escutcheon with a garland and ornamental tablet.
Facade [Central Park West], north [75th St.] and south [74th St.] elevations, (four, each set at the second bay from the Central Park West corners).
Each has an entablature with a superimposed triangular pediment, both dentil led, and a central ornamented keystone flanked by plain stones. Pilasters and enframements surround the windows which also have a balustrade executed in high relief.
Fourth Story Cartouche:
Facade [Central Park West] (one, between the 13th and 14th bays).
A large scrolled cartouche, placed at the center of the facade, it has the completion date of the building 19—30 placed to each side.
Eleventh-Twelfth Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West] (two, symmetrically located at the 5-8th and 19-22nd bays).
A balustrade on Four console brackets, which visually echoes the fourth-story treatment below, extends across four bays. A double-height, two-bay wide central section is recessed, with flanking brick pilasters, in which the capitals are seemingly "overlapped" by the outer wall surface. Two embossed rosettes appear in the panel which is enframed by bandcourses between the 11th and 12th stories. Two additional embossed rosettes appear in the outer bays. A scrolled cartouche with garlands draped over rosettes, similar to those of the facade main entrances, surmount the composition.
Thirteenth to Fifteenth Story Window Enframements:
Facade (Central Park West], north [75 th St. ] and south [74 th St.] elevations, (four, each set at the second bay from the Central Park West corners).
Placed similarly to the window enframement of the fourth story, these three-story compositions also serve to accentuate and anchor the Central Park West corners of the building. In each,, ornamented console brackets at the 13th story level support a balustered balcony one bay wide. At the 13th story and balcony level, are bandcourses which continue along the walls, articulating the designed elevations. The 14th-story windows are surmounted by curved broken pediments and ornamented at the center by escutcheons. Garlands and floral motifs appear below the pediments, upon the window frames. The 15th-story windows are surmounted by a scrolled escutcheon. Double height brick pilasters with rosettes flank the windows and support a broken triangular pediment. Cartouches appear at the center. The band courses of the pilasters and broken pediments also continue along the wall surfaces and here help to define the three-bay wide corner pavilions. These pavilions are further defined by flanking brick pilasters with rosettes.
Thirteenth to Seventeenth Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West] (one, at the 12-13th bays).
This composition, which signalizes the central six-bay wide pavilion, reiterates many of the elements of the four corner compositions just described, although it is two bays wide, rather than one. Ornamented consoles at the 13th story support the 14th story balustered balcony. Instead of two windows there are single tripartite windows. The 14th and 15th story windows are detailed like those at the corners, but here the broken pediment enframing the carouche is curved rather than triangular. The composition continues to the 16th and 17th stories, which are also flanked by brick pilasters. The tripartite window at the 16th story is richly enframed with a central garlanded tablet, and a broken triangular pediment. At the 17th story is a central garlanded cartouche. The central pavilion has terminating brick pilasters with embossed rosettes like those of the corner pavilions.
Twenty-third Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West], north [75th St.] and south [74th St.] elevations, (four, set in the central bays).
These window, set mid way on the designed elevations of the towers, function as medallions on the relatively unadorned tower shafts. The windows have elaborate enframements with ornamental keystones and curved, broken pediments.
Twenty-sixth - Twenty-seventh Story Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West], north [75th St. ] and south [74th St. ] elevations, (four, set in the 2-4th bays).
Set between bandcourses and balustrade and pediment level, which continue on the wall surfaces of the towers, are these three boldly scaled three-bay wide compositions. The central bay has a projecting balustrade and above, double-height engaged columns on brackets, with foliate capitals. These columns enframe the two windows and support a curved broken pediment. At the center of the pediment is a large cartouche. The side bays have balustrades and above, double-height pilasters on podia, with foliate capitals. These pilasters flank the two windows and support triangular broken pediments.
Suprastructure Window Enframements:
Facade [Central Park West], north [75th St.] and south [74th St.] elevations and the two inner faces of the towers (six, set at the second story of the suprastructure and in the penthouses).
These double-height compositions each include a framed window with flanking brick pilasters with embossed rosettes at capital-level. Above the window is a broken triangular pediment and a central escutcheon. Six small penthouses with semi-circular roofs have their facades placed above the pediments. The windows of these are curved at top and bottom and elaborately enframed and have metal grilles. They are each flanked by console brackets which support the curved pediment of the penthouse.
Temples:
North and south towers, (two, located at the top of the building).
Above the suprastructure each tower is surmounted by a circular temple of brick and terra cotta, set upon a base articulated by boldly scaled console brackets on eight buttressing pedestals. Large urns, draped with garlands, crown each pedestal and the intervening walls are ornamented with scrolled cartouches beneath balustrades. The temples, set on simple brick podia, are encircled by colonnades of smooth columns with foliate capitals. These support plain dentil led friezes beneath balustrades. Above on each tower is a circular base with copestones, which supports the crowing element — a fenestrated and electrified copper lantern, above elongated foliate scrolled consoles. (The temples and lanterns have recently been restored.)
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The San Juan Skyway is one of an All-American Road and a component in the Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway System. It forms a 233.0-mile (375.0 km) loop in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Colorado traversing the heart of the San Juan Mountains. It roughly parallels the routes of the narrow gauge railways: Rio Grande Southern (US 160, SH 145 and SH 62); and the unconnected Ouray and Silverton Branches of the Denver & Rio Grande along US 550 with the Silverton Railroad bridging a part of the gap. Its origin can be traced to the Around the Circle Route promoted by the D&RG.
From Ouray to Durango, the highway is referred to as the Million Dollar Highway. The first 7.0 miles (11.3 km) south of Ouray, the byway follows through the Uncompahgre Gorge. Just past the only tunnel on the route, just south of Ouray, the road crosses over Bear Creek Falls on a bridge at the location of an impassable toll booth on the original road. Before leaving the gorge, the byway passes through a snow shed under the Riverside Slide avalanche zone. A monument stands near here honoring those who have lost their lives in the avalanche, including several snowplow operators. At this point the byway enters Ironton Park, a nice flat valley in contrast to the gorge. The road ascends several switchbacks, or S-curves, past the Idarado mining operation to the 11,018-foot (3,358 m) summit of Red Mountain Pass, providing views of Red Mountain (Colorado) and several ghost towns. Back into the San Juan National Forest, the highway descends through the Chattanooga Valley to Silverton.
From Silverton, the byway passes over the 10,910-foot (3,330 m) Molas Pass and the 10,640-foot (3,240 m) Coal Bank Pass descending past the ski resort of Durango Mountain. From Hermosa, the road parallels the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge railroad before returning to Durango.
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Técnicas básicas de la fotografía
Introducción
Técnicas básicas de la fotografía/Introducción
IntroducciónEl uso de la cámara →
Técnicas básicas de la fotografía
Contenido [ocultar]
1 Origen de la Cámara Fotográfica
1.1 Cámara Estenopeica
2 Componentes de la Cámara
2.1 Cuerpos
2.1.1 Clasificación
2.2 Objetivos
2.2.1 Clasificación
2.3 Filtros
2.4 Accesorios
Aquí comienza este libro. En este capítulo describiremos los componentes de la cámara. Si bien es fundamental conocer estas piezas recomiendo que no se pierda demasiado tiempo en este capítulo. Una de las bondades de la fotografía de hoy en día es que se puede llevar a cabo sin mucho conocimiento técnico. Se puede aprender mucho del funcionamiento de una cámara con solo presionar el botón disparador u obturador. Creo que para aquel que comienza a adentrarse en el mundo de la fotografía es suficiente conocer las partes principales de la cámara para pasar al siguiente capítulo. Mas adelante podrá volver aquí para fijar nombres y conocer elementos más específicos. Como ya saben hacemos todo lo posible por brindar la información que tenemos de la forma más apropiada pero está en ti la capacidad de recorrer este libro de forma dinámica y de aprovechar lo que te brindamos.
[editar]Origen de la Cámara Fotográfica
La cámara fotográfica se ha usado desde el renacimiento. Se conocía como cuarto oscuro, y consistía en una cámara oscura con un orificio muy pequeño en la parte frontal, enfrentando al sujeto que se encontraba fuera de ella. Una imagen invertida se proyectaba en la pared opuesta la que era trazada manualmente.
[editar]Cámara Estenopeica
También llamada cámara de tarro, es una de las cámaras más simples que existen, ya que no posee lentes ni controles de exposición. La luz produce una imagen que pasa a través de un pequeño agujero y se proyecta en la cara opuesta de la cámara donde se coloca un papel fotosensible. La velocidad de obturación se regula manualmente destapando el agujero durante el tiempo deseado. Esta cámara nos permite entender cuales son los principios básicos por los cuales existe la fotografía.
[editar]Componentes de la Cámara
El propósito de una cámara, ya sea compacta, digital o réflex es proyectar la luz en una superficie que pueda capturar la imagen. La acción por la que una cámara permite la "impresión del material sensible" se llama exposición. La forma en que una cámara regula el nivel de exposición es a través de tres variables que la mayoría de las cámaras comparten. Estos tres controles principales son:
Velocidad de Obturación - Es el tiempo durante el cual la luz pasará a través del objetivo. La película o el sensor se verá expuesto a mayor cantidad de luz a medida que la obturación sea más larga, produciendo una imagen de mayor exposición (más luminosa).
Apertura del Objetivo (apertura del diafragma) - Es el tamaño del orificio detrás del objetivo. A mayor apertura, entra mayor cantidad de luz a través del objetivo, produciendo una imagen de mayor exposición (más luminosa). La apertura se controla mediante el diafragma.
Sensibilidad (ISO) - Es la sensibilidad de la película o sensor. Tradicionalmente no es un control de la cámara, sino que se refiere al tipo de película usada. Pero en cámaras digitales el equivalente a la sensibilidad de la película es el sensor de la cámara. Por ejemplo, una película de 800 ASA es ocho veces más sensible a la luz que una de 100 ASA. Normalmente un nivel ASA más alto es útil en lugares con luminosidad más baja.
Examinemos los distintos tipos de cámaras que existen y dónde podemos encontrar dichos controles:
[editar]Cuerpos
El cuerpo de la cámara es el lugar desde donde se controlan la mayoría de las funciones y es el lugar donde se encuentra el material sensible y el obturador que controla si el material sensible se encuentra o no expuesto. Por esto, separar el cuerpo del objetivo no tiene ningún efecto sobre el material sensible (un rollo no se velaría).
[editar]Clasificación
SLR (Single Lens Reflex) Este tipo de cámaras cuentan con un pentaprisma que muestra en el visor exactamente lo mismo que va a ser plasmado en la fotografía final. La imagen captada por el objetivo llega al pentaprisma tras dos reflexiones. Después de atravesar el objetivo, la luz llega, en un primer momento al espejo interno y de ahí se refleja y forma la imagen sobre una pantalla mate. La imagen formada sobre la pantalla mate es recogida por el pentaprisma que corrige las inversiones, tanto la lateral como la vertical. La imagen que se ve a través del visor es la que devuelve el pentaprisma. Cuando se dispara la foto, al tiempo que se abre el obturador, el espejo interno se levanta de modo que la luz ya no se desvía en dirección a la pantalla mate ni al pentaprisma, sino que imprime directamente el negativo (o sensor en el caso de las cámaras DSLR). De este modo el fotógrafo puede ver claramente la profundidad de campo y el enfoque que está entregando el lente, con un botón de vista previa que está incluida en la cámara.
TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) Las cámaras TLR llevan dos objetivos idénticos, uno sobre el otro. Los dos objetivos son gemelos en cuanto a apertura y distancia focal, se diferencian solo en que el superior carece de diafragma y obturador. Este objetivo sirve para formar una imagen sobre un cristal horizontal situado en la parte de encima de la cámara. La postura idónea que ha de adquirir el fotógrafo es situar la cámara en su cintura y mirar desde arriba.
[editar]Objetivos
Los lentes son objetos transparentes de plástico o cristal natural o sintético. Por su forma pueden ser cóncavos, convexos o planos. Los cóncavos tienen forma lenticular (como lenteja) gruesos al centro y delgados en los bordes, también llamados positivos. El lente más popular que conocemos es la famosa "lupa". Los convexos o negativos, son delgados al centro y gruesos en los bordes. Los lentes planos reciben el nombre de filtros y los hay para corregir color, modificar texturas, etc.
El término "lente" se refiere a una pieza y "objetivo" a un grupo o conjunto de lentes. Sin embargo es frecuente usar las dos palabras indistintamente y está aceptado. El término objetivo se aplica al conjunto de lentes que va dirigido al objeto. El término ocular se refiere al conjunto de lentes que se dirigen a nuestro ojo. La cámara fotográfica, el microscopio o el telescopio tienen objetivo y ocular. En algunas cámaras digitales el ocular ha sido sustituido por un display.
El lente u objetivo es la parte más importante de una cámara. Cuando de elección se trate, si prefiere calidad, elija el objetivo de marca más renombrada. De esa calidad dependerá en gran medida la calidad de las imágenes que se capturen con ellos.
Uno de los mejores lentes que se han producido hasta la fecha son de cristales naturales de una región alemana llamada Jena y son fabricados por la empresa alemana Karl Zeiss. Esta marca da una plena garantía de calidad. Desgraciadamente su precio es alto. Los usan las cámaras Leica (alemana), Hasselblad (sueca) y Contax (alemana - japonesa) entre las principales, Sony (japonesa). Las cámaras Hasselblad fueron usadas por los astronautas norteamericanos durante la conquista de la Luna.
Se denomina objetivo al conjunto de lentes convergentes y divergentes que forman parte de la óptica de una cámara. Existen diferentes tipos de objetivos y cada uno de estos tiene distintas características:
Distancia focal: Determina el ángulo de visión de un objetivo
Apertura máxima de diafragma: Indica cuan "luminoso" es un objetivo
Marca y modelo: No cualquier objetivo sirve para cualquier cuerpo
Diámetro: Determina el diámetro de los objetivos que se le quieran adosar estos si son compatibles entre marcas y modelos
Además distintos objetivos tienen distintas calidades ópticas pero esto no se expresa en forma numérica.
Otras características de los objetivos:
Número“f”. El significado del número “f” es el número de diafragmas que caben en la distancia focal de un lento u objetivo. Se le identifica con la letra "efe" minúscula. Es una unidad de medida que se expresa con número fraccionario (quebrado) y sólo se menciona el denominador. f 2 significa: f 1/2, f22 significa f 1/22. Mientras más chico es el número "f" es más grande la magnitud del diafragma. El número “f” de un lente es el máximo diafragma al que puede abrir. Los lentes con número “f” pequeño captan más luz que los de “f” grande. Los objetivos con mayor luminosidad de "f" grande son más caros. De los datos impresos que se incluyen en los objetivos están: Máximo número "f", distancia focal y diámetro de la rosca del lente. El diafragma expresado por el número "f" está íntimamente relacionado con la “profundidad de campo”
Distancia focal. De un lente u objetivo es la distancia medida desde el centro hasta el plano en que se forma la imagen.
Tomando en cuenta la distancia focal de un lente se clasifican en: Normal, gran angular y teleobjetivo.
[editar]Clasificación
Se los clasifica según la distancia focal:
Objetivos normales: Con un ángulo de 46º se asemejan a la visión del ojo humano. Su utilidad se centra en la representación de escenas sin carga dramática. Su profundidad de campo es moderada. No suele presentarse distorsión de la imagen como en los angulares. Generalmente se habla de un objetivo de 50mm como un objetivo normal en una cámara de 35mm.
Objetivos gran angulares: Objetivo cuyo ángulo es mayor al del objetivo normal. Suelen utilizarse para planos generales donde es necesario abarcar un gran ángulo de visión o para realzar o distorsionar ciertas características del sujeto. Su característica principal es que proporcionan gran profundidad de campo y abarcan un amplio ángulo de visión. Suelen distorsionar la imagen haciendo que las líneas verticales pierdan su paralelismo y al mismo tiempo representan exageradamente los objetos más cercanos haciéndolos aparecer de un tamaño mucho mayor que el real.
Teleobjetivos: El ángulo de visión es menor que el del objetivo normal. Permiten acercar objetos situados a grandes distancias. Así consiguen aumentar el tamaño de las imágenes respecto al objeto real. Por el contrario su profundidad de campo es reducida y su punto de enfoque crítico.
Objetivos zoom: Son objetivos de distancia focal variable. Destacan por su comodidad ya que evitan el cambio de objetivos de distancias focales fijas (angulares, normales y teleobjetivos). Suelen presentar la desventaja de no contar con aperturas muy grandes o de presentar una calidad de imagen inferior, ya que su construcción es más compleja que los objetivos de distancia focal fija.
Objetivos macro: Permiten el enfoque a muy corta distancia. Se utiliza para objetos muy pequeños situados a poca distancia del lente.
Objetivo ojo de pez: Se trata de un angular extremadamente amplio, llegando incluso hasta los 180º. Proporcionan una profundidad de campo extrema, y las imágenes se ven curvas como si estuvieran reflejadas en una esfera.
El Lente Normal: Tiene la misma distancia focal de la diagonal de la película o LCD (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD). Para la película de 35 mm el lente normal es de 50 mm. Es el lente con el que se equipa a la mayoría de las cámaras. El ángulo de visión coincide con el del ojo humano. Es el lente más usado. Es el lente más versátil. En él se ha conseguido obtener la menor incidencia de aberraciones.
Lente gran angular: El término se refiere a aquel cuya distancia focal es menor a la diagonal del formato de la película. Para una película de 35 mm un gran angular mide menos de 50 mm. Se usa principalmente para fotos arquitectónicas o en lugares estrechos, así como para hacer ciertos efectos. Tiene una gran profundidad de campo. Exagera la perspectiva haciendo ver muy grandes los objetos cercanos y extremadamente pequeños los objetos lejanos. Son muy luminosos. Es frecuente que no tengan completamente corregidas la aberración esférica, la aberración cromática y el astigmatismo.
El Lente Telefoto: Es aquel cuya distancia focal es mayor que el doble de la distancia focal. Se puede considerar telefoto aquel lente que mida más de 100 mm. Se usa principalmente para fotografiar objetos lejanos. Los más grandes llegan a medir más de 1,000 mm. (1 metro) y son muy poco luminosos, caros y pesados. El lente de 135 mm es el más adecuado para foto de retrato, ya que no altera las proporciones de la cara. Estos lentes producen el efecto de hacer que los objetos geométricos tengan el punto de fuga invertido, es decir que en vez de fugar hacia atrás fuga hacia adelante. También dan el efecto de comprimir la escena de modo que parece como si las distancias entre los elementos estuvieran más cerca uno de otro de lo que realmente están y los objetos lejanos aparentan estar más cerca de lo que realmente están.
Lente Zoom: Hay otra clasificación que corresponde a los lentes zoom o de distancia focal variable. No son recomendables para fotos de calidad, ya que tienen un exceso de aberraciones. Sin embargo el público en general los prefiera ya que prácticamente tienen 3 lentes en uno y son cómodos para encuadrar sin cambiar la distancia entre el fotógrafo y el modelo. También son cómodos al viajar.
For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.
Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.
Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.
Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.
Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.
Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.
One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.
Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.
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Backed by the Governor, legislators, police, educators, clergy, community activists, Attorney General Matt Denn proposed a multi-faceted plan to allocate money from a financial crisis settlement Wednesday, designed to have a profound impact on some of Delaware’s most economically distressed and crime-stricken communities.
Funded by settlements with Bank of America and Citi to resolve allegations of actions with respect to investments that contributed to the financial crash, “Lifting Up Delaware’s Communities” consists of three main components: Investing in people and neighborhoods, providing help to our high-poverty schools, and promoting affordable housing and development in economically impacted areas.
“We believe that this ambitious investment in Delaware’s economically impacted communities has the potential to transform parts of our state,” said Attorney General Matt Denn, “and we have faith it will have a real impact on people who desperately need help.”
Governor Markell noted the plan supports efforts in some of the highest need areas of the state, which can then serve to enhance all of Delaware. “Thriving cities shelter their people in safe and comfortable homes,” Markell said. “They support vibrant neighborhoods, and that allows businesses to prosper, and it also lures visitors as well.”
The details of Lifting Up Delaware’s Communities are as follows:
1.Investing In People and Neighborhoods. An investment of almost $16 million in programs to help youth succeed, provide treatment for Delawareans with substance abuse disorder, help inmates being released from our prisons to avoid re-offending and going back to jail, and fund a variety of policing and other enrichment activities for economically impacted communities. Specifically:
a. Substance Abuse Treatment. Proposing $3 million be spent over a period of three years to establish additional treatment facilities for persons suffering from substance abuse disorder or related conditions.
b. After-School and Summer Programs. Proposing $3 million be spent over three years for summer and after-school programs targeted at children from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
c. Prison Re-Entry Programs. Proposing $3 million be spent over three years to provide competitive grants to non-profit organizations that assist persons being released from correctional facilities in Delaware to avoid new criminal offenses.
d. Community Policing and Community Support. Proposing $5.9 million be allocated to the state’s Neighborhood Building Blocks Fund, which can make grants for a broad array of government and non-profit efforts to support economically impacted neighborhoods. The fund currently has $1 million available from a prior bank settlement. One example of a potential use of these funds is the Wilmington neighborhood foot patrol initiative that the Department of Justice and the City of Wilmington are about to propose to the Fund. We are also proposing that $1 million of the funds be used to continue the existence of the Department of Justice’s Crime Strategies Unit, which is designed to address underlying causes of crime in economically disadvantaged areas (such as abating nuisance properties).
2.Providing Help to Our High-Poverty Schools. Proposing to invest almost $5 million in adding teachers and paraprofessionals for the 16 elementary schools in Delaware with the highest percentage of low-income students. Each of the following elementary schools would receive $300,000 over a three year period to hire additional teachers or paraprofessionals to provide additional assistance with their students:
Brittingham Elementary (Cape Henlopen School District)
East Dover Elementary (Capital School District)
Towne Point Elementary (Capital School District)
Bancroft Elementary (Christina School District)
Elbert Palmer Elementary (Christina School District)
Pulaski Elementary (Christina School District)
Stubbs Elementary (Christina School District),
Eisenberg Elementary (Colonial School District)
Colwyck Elementary (Colonial School District),
Dunbar Elementary (Laurel School District)
Highlands Elementary (Red Clay School District)
Lewis Dual Language Elementary (Red Clay School District)
Richardson Park Elementary (Red Clay School District)
Shortlidge Elementary (Red Clay School District)
Warner Elementary (Red Clay School District)
West Seaford Elementary (Seaford School District)
3.Promoting Affordable Housing and Development In Economically Impacted Areas. Proposing to invest almost $16 million in efforts to promote affordable housing and economic development in economically impacted areas of the state. Specifically:
a. Foreclosure Prevention. Proposing to direct $1.5 million to the Delaware Mortgage Assistance Program to help Delaware homeowners prevent foreclosures on their primary properties.
b. Affordable Housing. Proposing to dedicate over $10 million to the Delaware State Housing Authority’s Strong Neighborhoods Revolving Housing Fund which is dedicated to the creation of affordable housing in economically impacted areas.
c. Economic Development in Low Income Areas. Proposing to devote almost $4 million to the Downtown Development Districts Program, half of which would be used to provide down payment assistance to homeowners willing to purchase homes in those districts.
The settlement of multistate investigations into the actions by Bank of America and Citi, in addition to providing direct relief to some homeowners and the state’s pension funds, has resulted in the state having $36,615,801 that it is permitted to spend to (a) remediate harm the state suffered from the mortgage and financial crisis, and (b) improve housing. Given the nature of the settlement, the settlement funds are not meant to be used to simply supplant existing state programs or for programs that do not target economically impacted areas or individuals.
“In the past, the Attorney General’s Office has independently exercised its common law authority to distribute lawsuit settlement funds,” said Attorney General Matt Denn. “But given the unprecedented sum of money involved in this settlement, we believe it is a sound practice to consult with the Governor and General Assembly regarding the expenditure of the funds.”
The Attorney General has already consulted with the Governor and obtained his agreement regarding the use of the funds, and will now seek to enter into a similar agreement with the General Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee.
Addressing high poverty schools is supported by educators across the state. Equetta Jones, a fourth grade teacher at Warner Elementary School in Wilmington, looks forward to the opportunities the school funding will bring. “So many people think our children don’t want to learn. They do want to learn, they are inspired to learn, and they are me. I am a prodigy of city schools,” Jones said. “Our teachers are capable but we do need resources, and this funding will actually support us by giving us additional staff.”
Colonel Elmer Setting, Chief of the New Castle County Police, believes education is a key component to substance abuse treatment. “It’s normally the message from law enforcement that we must find drug dealers and arrest them,” Setting said. “We’ve done that, but the prisons are full and forced sobriety is not the answer. Education is the only way out.”
Several elected officials representing the city of Wilmington offered support to the initiative.
“This proposal to invest in some of our hardest hit communities is a balanced one that is important to our citizens and to our effort to reduce violent crime,” said Senator Margaret Rose Henry. “Not only should we make these investments, but given the violence that we are seeing in our neighborhoods, we should make them sooner rather than later.”
“We can argue about what money should be spent where, but it’s difficult for me not to agree with conceptually where this money is being spent,” said New Castle County Councilman Jea Street. “The fact of the matter is, if you look at housing, the highest foreclosure rate in the state is in my council district in the city. The city is in trouble and it needs help.”
Wilmington City Council President Theo Gregory thanked the Attorney General for acting so quickly. “I wanted to thank and express my appreciation for the foresight in the recognition that there’s an urgency to get started, and that Matt Denn hit the ground running,” Gregory said.
The Joint Finance Committee is expected to address the proposal in early February.
Active components of the tireflies, modified by soldering a couple of wires to it. This allows a larger power source at the expense of bulkiness.
Read more about this project here.
For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.
Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.
Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.
Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.
Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.
Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.
One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.
Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.
Smoothing components (chokes, capacitors) for a BD272 250kW HF broadcasting transmitter (the recently de-commissioned Sender 61 at Skelton). Note the inrush resistor-mats lower LHS, and the 'Jennings' vacuum switch just behind the one furthest away.
ALBORAN SEA (Oct. 20, 2014) – The visit, board, search, and seizure team from Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) Canadian ship HMCS Toronto (FFH 333) transits toward SNMG2 flagship USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) during a ship boarding exercise. SNMG2 is participating in Noble Justification, a wide-scale multinational series of exercises geared towards maintaining and improving NATO’s ready forces’ security and defense capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Amanda S. Kitchner/Released)
All-City "Space Horse"
Headset:Chris King
Crank:Sugino Mighty
Rim:H PLUS SON TB-14 32H
Hub:DT Swiss 240
Spoke:DT Champion
Grip:PDW Bourbon Grip
RD:Campagnolo Veloce
Brake:Paul Component Mini-Moto
Seat:Brooks Cambium C17
Seatpost:Thomson Elite
Tire:Panaracer Pasera Skinwall 700x35c
For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.
Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.
Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.
Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.
Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.
Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.
One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.
Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.
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For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.
Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.
Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.
Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.
Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.
Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.
One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.
Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.
Belgian Land Component Piranha IIIC RECOVERY of the Bataillon de Chasseurs Ardennais/Bataljon Ardense Jagers, Paris, July 14, 2018.
The CIS Battalion provides reliable Communication Information System-services to several units of Headquarters 1 (GE/NL) Corps during Exercise Noble Justification. A Rapid CIS Element (RACE) is assigned to the Immediate Response Force Brigade in Evermoen, Norway. A second RACE supports the Exercise Command in Wildflecken and a third RACE provides controlled internet for several units at Wildflecken training area. When 2 CIS coy is not deployed for an exercise, it is located in Garderen, the Netherlands. 1 (GE/NL) Corps’ CIS Battalion is deployed with 8 RACE’s and 410 soldiers to Wildfecken and Norway for Noble Justification. Picture with courtesy of CISBn
A German-Netherlands Corps tank participates in Exercise Noble Justification Sept. 22, 2014. Exercise Noble Justification is the certification of HQ 1 GE/NL corps as Land Component Command NRF 2015, and about the multinational Immediate Response Forces brigade that is still in the field.