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Le grand escalier du bâtiment art nouveau du centre commercial Galerija Emporium
Ce bâtiment, de style Secession (art nouveau), est parmi les plus beaux de Ljubljana. Il a été construit en 1903 sur commande de Felix Urbanc pour en faire un grand magasin semblable à ceux de Paris, Vienne ou Budapest.
La conception de l'immeuble est de l'architecte autrichien Friedrich Sigmund. L'entrée est dotée d'une remarquable marquise en verre et en fer forgé. Un escalier monumental permet d'accéder aux étages.
Le magasin actuel a été restauré en 2010, seuls les décors et structures architecturales du hall d'entrée ont été conservées, les autres pièces ont été réaménagées dans un style de design contemporain.
Le magasin comprend aujourd'hui des stands de toutes les grandes marques de luxe pour les vêtements et les chaussures.
Site du magasin
Found this wonderful double portrait photograph in a delightful frame at a local thrift store. It is now being conserved by my good friends at First City Photography in Leavenworth who were as excited to see it as we were!
Strauss Peyton Photography was a very creative and cutting edge studio located in Kansas City from about 1908 to 1960's. Strauss and Peyton did work together before 1908 - but really came into their own in about 1908 when they opened a studio together, There are several good background articles - the best is here:
broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/studio-strauss-peyton
This photo has a handwritten note on the backing paper of the frame that suggests it was taken in on the 20th of some unreadable month in 1906 when the child was 11y 10m old. The back of the photos have the buyers address, job number, but no date. I have contacted the Jackson County Historical Society for any help they can provide with insight into the job number and such as I believe they have the Sitting Cards for much of the Strauss-Peyton Studio work (which was "found" in storage in the KC area a few years ago - and about 5 TONS are at the JCHS!)
The date is likely wrong as the studio really did not exist until about 1908. Also - (as noted below) the boy is believed to have been born in 1899 and appears too old to be Seven Years Old if 1906 is correct. Our guess is that the note on the back of the framing was done at a later date in an effort to educate other family members as to their history.
Researching the address shows that the family was a basic middle class family and the father was a construction contractor. The closest birthdate that makes any sense at all for the child is 1899, which would on the surface make him about seven years old here - but we think he looks older (10-12+). Maybe the date was written years later and is simply wrong. The date does not correspond to any birthdays
Some Questions to Ponder:
What would cause a middle class family to have such a nice portrait photograph (double wide too!) taken of a young child? Is this typical of the day to day work for the Strauss-Peyton Studio?
The clothing looks top notch. I believe he has relatives working at Emery Bird Thayer Department Store (upscale) and maybe that is where they came from (and the picture was framed there as well). Is there any chance that this would have been an effort to promote the child into the entertainment industry?
I believe the child is Mark Forest Doty, born in 1899 and passed away in 1973, parents are Charles A. Doty and Cora L Doty of 2449 Askew in Kansas City.
Any insight appreciated
I will post some better pictures later - this is so exciting I forgot to slow down!
Update August 1, 2016 - I heard back from a relative with a lot of detailed info - most of the speculation above is correct! The information below is copied from our emails with some minor adjustments.
Mark Forrest Doty - Found Photo - Biography
The photo you have posted on Flickr is a relative of mine. Mark (or Markle) Forrest Doty was my paternal grandmother's brother or an uncle to me. Their father was Charles Augustus Doty and his (Charles) final address was 2449 Askew, Kansas City, MO. In 2014 my mother who was living in Kansas City died and she had possession of many old family photos and items. This photograph of Mark Doty was disposed of by me after my mother's death.
Mark was my father’s uncle and my dad adored him. Mark often took my father into the out-of-doors and taught him to fish and hunt. They began fishing Lake of the Ozarks in the early 1930s when it first opened. They fished northern Minnesota during the same time frame driving dirt roads to get there. Hunting was local but they went frequently. The families met every Sunday afternoon for dinner and socializing.
Markle Forrest Doty was the son of Charles Augustus Doty and Cora Lee Doty. Mark was born in 1899 in Bloomington, IL. He had an older brother, Ray, and older sister, my grandmother, Gladys Madeline (Dot). They lived in Bloomington where Charlie grew up in the building contracting business. His father, Henry A. Doty, and grandfather, Henry Doty, were building contractors. Anna Einsminger was his mother. I’m aware that they sunk some of the coal mine shafts near Streator, IL and build homes and buildings including a high school near Bloomington.
Charlie moved to Kansas City in the early 1900s and began his contracting business, Doty and Sons Construction. I’m aware of several buildings he constructed in the Kansas City area. Two that remain are a portion of the St Stephen church at Truman Rd. and Paseo and a KCK fire station on about 33rd and State Ave. Mark worked in this business with his father, his brother Ray, and other relatives.
Mark went to Greenwood Elementary School in KCMO as did his sister, Dot. She went to Manual High School and my guess is he did also. Neither attended college to my knowledge. They lived at 2449 Askew, a house owned by Charles A. Doty. That house was torn down in the building of I-70 in the mid-1960s.
Mark married a lady named Eunice Doxsee and they had 4 children. Charlie Doty died in the mid 1920s and Mark worked with his brother, Ray in construction. Mark was involved in home building for the most part. Both brothers, Mark and Ray, suffered through the Great Depression when the housing industry dried up. Ray died in 1941 before the Depression was over. Mark for some years worked full time for my grandfather (Dot’s husband or his brother-in-law) in his florist shop. The rest of Mark’s family also worked in that shop on holidays.
Mark tried the housing industry again after WWII and managed to keep afloat until the early 1950s when he moved his family to California. My family lost contact with him and his family at that point; although, we knew he was involved with home building there. He took his youngest daughter, Janet, to CA when they moved. His middle daughter Pat married and moved to Louisville. His son Mark Forrest Doty Jr, died to a work-related accident before the move. His oldest child a daughter, Grace Lee, moved and the family lost track of her.
Mark and his wife, Eunice, moved from CA to Louisville when they spent the rest of their lives. Both died there and are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. Mark died in 1973. I visited the cemetery within the last year.
As for you questions about the photo. The photo is of course Mark and I would guess it was taken between 1905 and 1910. The Dotys then were not wealthy but did have a good income. Photos were apparently important to them as my grandmother, Dot, was one of the first people to own a Polaroid camera in the late 1940s and took many pictures with it. My father had his own darkroom and also took many photos. I think it was traditional for people to go to studios in the early 1900s, if they could afford to do so, and have portraits taken. The Doty side of my family left some photos for future generations.
Emery Bird Thayer was one of the higher end department stores in downtown KCMO. During those days retail shopping was done downtown or in smaller shopping areas like 31st & Troost, 27th & Prospect, etc. Most neighborhoods had their “mom and pop” stores for groceries, hardware, cleaning, etc. If you were shopping for something “fine”, you went downtown. Same was true for downtown KCK. I could only guess why the frame was purchased at EBT. I suppose they wanted something special.
If you delve deeper into the Doty’s history, you will find that Henry A Doty fought in the Civil Wart (Illinois 104th Volunteer Infantry) and Henry’s brother, Capt. John S. H. Doty, was the CO. E commander. John led his company through a number of battles but met his end at the Battle of Peachtree Creek which at that time was just north of Atlanta, GA. His company apparently was the flag company that evening. Beyond that generation is Henry Doty who was born in 1800 in either PA or NY. I’m still working on his history.
Statue d'Hercule en bronze conservée au musée d'Aquitaine de Bordeaux.
Cette sculpture gallo-romaine du dernier quart date du IIe siècle ou du début du IIIe. Elle a été découverte, en fragments, à Bordeaux en 1832 par François Vatar de Jouannet, conservateur du dépôt des Antiques, dans un égout.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_en_bronze_(mus%C3%A9e_d%27Aquitaine)
Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière est né à Toulouse, en France, le 7 septembre 1831est décédé le 19 avril 1900 à Paris
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“Caïn portant le corps d’Abel” est une peinture réalisée en 1876 par Alexandre Falguière, un artiste français reconnu pour ses sculptures et peintures. Cette œuvre est conservée au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne.
La peinture représente Caïn portant le corps sans vie de son frère Abel, illustrant le récit biblique du premier meurtre. Les dimensions de l’œuvre sont de 229 cm de hauteur sur 159 cm de largeur.
En plus de cette peinture, Falguière a également réalisé une estampe intitulée “Caïn portant le corps d’Abel” après 1876, qui est conservée au Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, sometimes referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, was erected in Fort Greene Park in 1908. Designed by Stanford White, the monument consists of a 100-foot-wide-granite staircase and a 149-foot high central Doric column. The monument, actually the third on the site, marks the site of the crypt for more than 11,500 men, women and children, known as the prison ship martyrs.
During the American Revolutionary War, the British imprisoned scores of soldiers, sailors, and private citizens--many simply because they would not swear allegiance to the Crown of England. When they ran out of jail space, they began using decommissioned ships anchored in Wallabout Bay as floating prisons. Life was unbearable on the prison ships. Disease was rampant, food and water were scarce or nonexistent, and the living conditions were overcrowded and wretched. Their bodies were thrown overboard or buried in shallow graves in the sandy marshes along the shore. In 1808 the remains of the prison ship martyrs were buried in a tomb on Jackson Street (now Hudson Avenue), near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
In 1776, the construction of Fort Putnam on the high ground that now makes up Fort Greene Park was supervised by American Major General Nathanael Greene. During the Battle of Long Island, the Continental Army surrendered the fort and retreated to Manhattan. The fort was renamed for General Greene and rebuilt for the War of 1812. In 1845, the City of Brooklyn designated the site as a public park behind the support of Walt Whitman, then editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1867, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were engaged to redesign the park, and incorporate a new crypt for the remains of the prison ship martyrs.
The remains were moved to the park in 1873 into the newly created 25 by 11 foot brick vault. Twenty-two boxes, containing a mere fraction of total volume of remains, were interred. Towards the end of the 19th century, a diverse group of interests including the federal government, municipal and state governments, private societies, and donors, began a campaign for a permanent monument to the prison ship martyrs. In 1905 the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White was hired to design a new entrance to the crypt and a wide granite stairway leading to a plaza on top of the hill. From its center rose a freestanding Doric column crowned by a bronze lantern. President-elect William Howard Taft attended the monument’s dedication in 1908.
Sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952) created the monument’s bronze pieces -- the large urn or decorative lantern (never functioning) as well as four eagles that were once mounted to the corner granite posts. The eagles were removed to storage after being repeatedly vandalized; two of them are on public display at the Arsenal, the Parks administrative headquarters on Fifth Avenue at 64th Street in Manhattan. A tablet over the entrance to tomb, also in storage now, was donated by the Tammany Society, and was originally the cornerstone of the Navy Yard vault. An elevator and stairs for the interior were installed in 1937; both were removed in 1948 after the monument was renovated by Parks. In 1970 the elevator pit was filled in.
Presently plans are being considered for the renovation of the monument, landscaping of the apex of the park and the re-installation of the conserved eagles and plaque.
The Fort Green Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978.
Fort Greene Historic District National Register #83001691
Coventry Transport Museum opened in 1980, after it became clear that the road transport collection was outgrowing the space it occupied in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The Museum’s current collection of vehicles is acknowledged as being one of the finest in the world, and the largest in public ownership.
The Museum’s collection consists of motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles. In addition, extensive collections of automobilia, books, photographs and a wealth of other archive material is held and conserved at the Coventry History Centre at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.
1938 Alvis Speed 25 - This car was made at the Alvis factory on Holyhead Road, Coventry. It was often used by T.G. John, founder and Managing Director of the company.
THE AFRICAT FOUNDATION: Okonjima is home to the headquarters of AfriCat. AfriCat is a non-profit organisation set up to conserve and protect threatened cheetah, leopard, and other wild carnivores of Namibia. AfriCat has grown significantly since its inception and has over the years identified the need to include a focus on education, community support, research and rehabilitation as being essential to accomplishing our new mission: to make a significant contribution to CONSERVATION through EDUCATION, while still striving towards the long term survival of Namibia’s predators in their natural habitat. Visitors will be able to observe some of this programme at work and learn more about these amazing and beautiful animals. www.africat.org
LEOPARD VIEWING: The leopard is the most adaptable of all the wild cats and has the widest distribution. Leopards are frequently seen on Okonjima, giving visitors an opportunity to observe these magnificent predators that are ‘radio-tracked’ from our game-viewing vehicles. The leopards roam freely and catch their own prey within the 20 000ha / 200km2 nature reserve. These solitary cats however, are elusive and roam huge, sometimes mountainous terrain and acacia thickets, and therefore sightings are not guaranteed.
THE CHEETAH PROJECT: Offers visitors a valuable insight into the ‘welfare work’ of The AfriCat Foundation. At AfriCat HQ, over the past 2 decades, the ‘Rescue and Release Programme’ developed as a result of our relationship with the farming community. The welfare, in turn, was a by-product of the ‘Rescue and Release Programme’. Some of the ‘ambassadors’ in our care are young, fit and wild enough to be part of our ‘Rehabilitation Project’. There are, however, some cheetahs and leopards too old or tame to go back into the wild. These individuals are going to live out their lives under the expert care of the AfriCat team and continue to be “ambassadors” for their wild counter-parts, but some of the cheetahs you will see at AfriCat’s Carnivore Care Centre, are in-line to be rehabilitated into the private Okonjima Nature Reserve and are patiently awaiting their turn to get a second chance to go back into the wild. www.africat.org/program/carnivore-care
A Victorian house and garden now in the care of English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/brodsworth-hall-...
Brodsworth Hall was built between 1861 and 1863 for Charles Sabine Thellusson, whose great-grandfather Peter Thellusson, a merchant and banker, had bought the estate in 1791. It survives as a mid-Victorian vision of a comfortable country house, with many of its original furnishings and the formal gardens laid out around it.
Brodsworth had fallen into disrepair by 1990 when it was given to English Heritage. Since then its fragile interiors have been carefully conserved, while the gardens have been returned to their earlier formality.
Umapine, Ore.— Felipe Jimenez implemented an underground drip irrigation system that has revolutionized his production by reducing operating costs and conserving the natural resources on his vegetable farm near Milton-Freewater, Oregon.
Felipe's newly installed irrigation system has helped him expand asparagus production.
Felipe’s newly installed irrigation system has helped him expand asparagus production.
Jimenez received both technical and financial support from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). EQIP is a federal program designated to provide farmers and ranchers assistance to protect natural resources, and ensure sustainable production on their farm, ranch, or non-industrial private forestland.
While the soil in the region of Milton-Freewater is fertile, it also tends to be silty, resulting in reduced water-holding capacity. Moreover, the semi-arid farming region receives only 18 inches of rainfall in an average year. For that reason, micro-irrigation, a family of irrigation systems that spray, mist, sprinkle, or drip water onto the soil surface near the plant base or below the soil surface near the plant root, is a recommended conservation practice.
“The nice thing with the micro-irrigation system is you’re targeting where you’re putting the water, not just using broadcast delivery,” Nick Sirovatka, a NRCS Soil Conservationist in Umatilla County, said. “It focuses the water in the seed row right on the plants.”
When Felipe first started his operation, he produced top-quality Walla Walla sweet onions, a market favorite unique to southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon.
Felipe exhibits his healthy onion yield.
Felipe’s newly installed irrigation system has helped him expand asparagus production.
Each year, Felipe has added to his business by planting new crops that he projects will pay off in the future. Asparagus is one such example.
“It came to my mind that someone around here was going to want fresh, local asparagus,” Felipe said. “So, three years ago, I planted it.”
The installation of a subterranean drip irrigation system is Felipe’s latest improvement. With assistance from NRCS, the system was carefully installed in 2012 around 13 acres of asparagus crowns.
“I divided up the two fields and put 50 [drip] tapes on one side and 42 on the other,” Felipe said.
Since turning on the new irrigation system, Felipe has been impressed with the results. “It’s pretty easy,” Felipe said. “You don’t have to sprinkle on the top, you just turn the water on and it goes.”
The new system has enough water pressure to water two fields simultaneously. The pump includes a flow meter that helps Felipe track his water use. It records the gallons of water used, as well as when the water is turned on and off. At the end of the year, NRCS will use this information, along with crop water use standards established by Oregon State University and the evaporation/transpiration rate for the county, to establish a customized irrigation plan for Felipe.
To ensure Felipe’s crops always get the water they need, the new irrigation system has a built-in feature allowing it to switch to an overhead sprinkler should the drip system go down.
Farm fresh Walla Walla sweet onion from the Jimenez farm.
Farm fresh Walla Walla sweet onion from the Jimenez farm.
“Felipe will still have the ability to use overhead watering and not damage or lose his crop,” Nick explained.
Benefits of the system extend beyond water conservation. Prior to its installation, Felipe used a hand line to water crops. Following water application, the field crew had to either work in the wet soil or wait for the field to dry. That all changed following the installation of the new system.
“I can keep my guys cutting asparagus and water at the same time,” Felipe said. “Now it takes half the time to water, and since it is underground, my guys can work until 10:00 or 11:00 a.m. Then I can turn on the water, and it’s dry by the time they come back the next morning,” he explained.
Since implementing the new regime, Felipe has witnessed an increase in crop yield, as well as improvement in overall crop quality. The asparagus spears tend to be suppler with a less woody stem.
“This irrigation system is a lot better for my farm,” Felipe said. “My asparagus is beautiful this year, and I packed it and sold it to local grocery stores and directly to customers. I will get 15 to 20 percent more production now.”
The success of his first collaboration with NRCS provided Felipe the confidence to consider additional farm enhancements. “Next, I would like to drill my own well and add a packing shed,” he said. “NRCS has been good to work with, and I am happy to get this help as it is not easy to save enough to do it myself.”
phases finales féminines et masculines (ouverture des portes au public à 8h15)
Le World Rugby Sevens Series 2017-2018 est la 19e édition de la compétition la plus importante du monde de rugby à sept. Elle se déroule du 1er décembre 2017 au 10 juin 2018. L'Afrique du Sud est tenante du titre et l'Espagne est l'équipe promue de la saison.
Au mois d'avril se déroulent les Jeux du Commonwealth 2018 où dix équipes des World Rugby Sevens Series participent. La compétition enchaine ensuite avec la Coupe du monde de rugby à sept en juillet 2018.
Chaque étape est un tournoi se déroulant sur deux ou trois jours, entre le vendredi et le dimanche. À chaque étape est convié une équipe qui ne possède pas le statut d'équipe permanente, portant le nombre total d'équipes à seize.
En fonction du résultat du tournoi précédent, ou du classement de la saison passée pour le premier tournoi de la saison à Dubaï, les équipes sont réparties en chapeaux avant tirage au sort pour former quatre poules de quatre équipes. Chaque équipe joue les trois autres membres de sa poule et un classement est établi, tout d'abord sur le nombre de points (victoire 3 points, nul 2 points, défaite 1 point) puis sur le goal-average général. Les deux premiers de chaque poule passent en quart de finale de la Cup ou tournoi principal et les deux derniers passent en quart de finale du Challenge Trophy. Les équipes vaincues en quart de finale sont alors reversées en demi-finales de classement, respectivement pour la cinquième et treizième place. Les équipes battues en demi-finales ne disputent pas de petite finale de classement et remportent le même nombre de point, sauf pour les équipes battues en demi finales de Cup qui disputeront un dernier match de classement pour la troisième place.
Chaque rencontre, y compris la finale depuis l'édition 2016-2017, se dispute en deux fois sept minutes.
Créée en 2016, l’étape parisienne de rugby à 7 rassemble, de ce vendredi à dimanche, les meilleures nations mondiales pour décider du vainqueur du circuit mondial. Une belle vitrine pour la discipline dans un pays qui ne jure que par le XV.
Dixième étape de la saison, le Paris Sevens clôture ce week-end le circuit mondial de rugby à 7, réunissant les 16 meilleures nations du monde aux quatre coins de la planète. De vendredi à dimanche, dans l’enceinte du Stade Jean Bouin, les équipes masculines feront le spectacle à travers une discipline méconnue en France mais très appréciée dans de nombreux pays. Et, pour la première fois cette année, les équipes féminines ouvriront les festivités.
Une véritable fête du rugby à 7, discipline olympique depuis 2016 et en plein boom grâce à la vitrine que lui ont offert offert les Jeux de Rio. Chez les hommes, outre les nations majeures de l’Ovale comme la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’Australie, l’Angleterre ou les Fidji, le Kenya, le Canada ou encore l’Espagne font leur trou et voient dans cette discipline une chance de développer un sport mineur dans leur pays. Chez les femmes, la Chine, le Japon ou la Russie figurent dans le top 12.
Le crazy rugby à la fête
Créée en 2016, l’étape parisienne est également l’occasion pour la France de développer la discipline dans un pays qui ne jure que par le XV. «Nous sommes fiers de soutenir financièrement ce tournoi et de permettre qu’il existe», a tenu à rappeler le vice-président de la région Île-de-France, Patrick Karam. Et de poursuivre. «La région est également présente dans la sensibilisation. Vendredi, 360 lycéens pourront découvrir la discipline grâce à de nombreuses animations. Il est important pour nous de tout faire pour développer cette pratique, en vue de Paris 2024», a-t-il poursuivi, alors que la conférence de presse de présentation se tenait dans les locaux de la région, dans le 7e arrondissement parisien.
Dernière étape de la saison, le tournoi parisien représente en tout cas une belle vitrine pour la discipline, dans une ville au rayonnement mondial. «C’est formidable de pouvoir clôturer la saison dans une ville aussi magnifique, chez un hôte comme la France», ajoute de son côté Douglas Langley, directeur du tournoi et membre de World Rugby. «Nous nous réjouissons d’avance de ce week-end de ‘crazy rugby’», conclut-il. Et c’est bien là l’atout majeur de la discipline. Spectaculaire, chaque rencontre offre de nombreux essais et des sprints permanents.
Les Bleues veulent briller
Le public parisien, qui vient en nombre à chaque édition, est adepte de cette discipline. Le Stade Jean Bouin était plein en 2016 et 2017, et l’édition 2018, même s’il reste encore des places à vendre, ne dérogera certainement pas à la règle. Pourtant, ce ne sont pas les résultats des Bleus qui font venir les supporters. Malgré une 3e place en 2016, et une 5e en 2017, l’équipe masculine connaît une saison compliquée. 12e sur 16 au classement, les Bleus n’ont pas fait mieux que 7e cette année lors des neuf précédents tournois du circuit.
«Même si nos chances sont moindres, on rentre dans ce tournoi pour le gagner, et on a la chance d’avoir le soutien du public avec nous», déclare Manoël Dall’igna, capitaine de France 7. «Ces deux dernières années on a eu des supers résultats ici et on compte sur le 8e homme pour faire aussi bien», termine-t-il. Cette période de creux, due en partie à de nombreux départs en retraite en 2016, ne touche pas les féminines. 3e du circuit mondial, les coéquipières de Fanny Horta visent le podium à Paris. «On a reçu beaucoup de messages de soutien de la jeune génération, et on veut vraiment profiter de ce soutien pour garder la dynamique de la saison et faire un nouveau podium», confie la capitaine.
Mises en valeur ce week-end, les Bleues représentent «la véritable locomotive du 7 en France avec une très belle réussite sportive», estime Christophe Reigt, manager des équipes de France à 7. Suffisant pour développer la discipline en France ? Quoiqu’il en soit, avec cette étape parisienne, la Fédération se démène pour populariser le 7 dans l’Hexagone, avec un objectif majeur en ligne de mire : les Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024.
The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2018 Awards in Paris brought a fitting end to an enthralling season which saw South Africa and Australia crowned men’s and women’s series champions respectively.
It’s been one of the most competitive seasons on record as both the women’s and men’s series were decided by just two-point differences.
South Africa fought an incredible battle with Fiji in the men’s series to retain their title with victory at the final round in Paris, while Olympic champions Australia won their second overall title ahead of rivals New Zealand on the women’s series after reaching the podium at every one of the five rounds.
The end of season awards provided a chance to celebrate the men’s and women’s sevens players, coaches and teams that are the stars, ambassadors and role models of the sport.
World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont said: “It has been another tremendous year for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, which continues to go from strength to strength.
“I hugely admire the skill and physicality of rugby sevens and thank the players for their outstanding commitment which makes the series such a success. It is great to see the series capturing the imagination on and off the field with year-on-year increases in attendances, broadcast and fan-engagement figures, and that is a great testament to the players, coaches, host unions and everyone involved with the events.
“Rugby sevens took a quantum leap when it joined the Olympic programme in 2016 and now we look forward to a Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco in just 40 days time in an iconic city and a market with great potential. It promises to be a thrilling and spectacular event.”
the workload. It is a blessing for me to be standing here.”
Rookies of the Year
Eroni Sau is the second Fijian to be named Rookie of the Year for the men’s series after being a clear winner in the fan vote ahead of his compatriot Alosio Naduva and Australia’s Ben O’Donnell. The 28-year-old featured in all 10 rounds in his debut season, using his powerful physique to score 37 tries.
France’s Coralie Bertrand, meanwhile, claimed the women’s accolade, having featured in all five rounds and helped Les Bleues enjoy their best season, reaching a first-ever Cup final in Kitakyushu and semi-finals in Langford and Paris to clinch the series bronze medal.
Fair Play Award
This award, selected by the match officials, recognises the teams who showcase rugby’s values of integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect. Japan were awarded the women’s accolade after an event that saw them lose their core team status on the series, with Kenya the men’s recipients following an exciting season which saw them reach the final in both Vancouver and Hong Kong.
Roche’s kick with the final play of the match against England to snatch the bronze medal for invitational team Ireland at the HSBC London Sevens was a clear winner of the men’s award, beating Fijian Alosio Naduva’s last-gasp winning try against Australia in the Singapore Cup final and Matias Osadczuk’s break and calm head to send Renzo Barbier over for the winning try in Argentina’s Cup semi-final against South Africa in Las Vegas.
Capgemini Coach of the Series
Another inaugural category, selected by the series’ global innovation partner Capgemini, was won by New Zealand women’s coach Alan Bunting after successive victories in the last three rounds of the series in Japan, Canada and France as well as the Commonwealth Games title in April.
South Africa coach Neil Powell, who guided the Blitzboks to retaining their series title, picked up the men’s coach of the series award and paid tribute to his victorious team: “The mental focus and composure they showed was fantastic, all credit to the boys for believing in their success. We had everything to play for and the team did an incredible job, not just today but over the whole season.
“I also want to congratulate Fiji on an amazing season, they were phenomenal.”
DHL Impact Player
The race to be named DHL Impact Player of the Year in both the men’s and women’s series went right down to the final matches. In total 16 players from 12 nations won tournament awards during this season’s series.
New Zealand’s Michaela Blyde was delighted to win the women’s award: “This is pretty special. I’m shocked and truly grateful. I put this down to my teammates who create the opportunities for me and I thank them.”
La Fédération française de rugby organise, du 8 au 10 juin au stade Jean-Bouin, à Paris 16e, un tournoi international de rugby à 7 masculin et féminin, étape du HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
Cette manifestation sportive, soutenue par la Région à hauteur de 170.000€, va rassembler 28 équipes internationales, qui s'affronteront au cours de 45 matchs masculins et 34 matchs féminins.
Le public pourra découvrir à cette occasion, jusque dans sa pratique féminine, une discipline largement méconnue.
Quant au stade Jean-Bouin, qui est l'un des sites retenus pour les JO Paris 2024, il pourra mettre en avant sa capacité d’accueil de 20.000 spectateurs.
Ce tournoi constituant la 10e et dernière étape du circuit mondial, il s'achèvera avec la remise des titres de champion et championne du monde de rugby à 7.
En soutenant l'organisation de tels grands événements sportifs franciliens, la Région Île-de-France renforce chaque fois un peu plus l'attractivité de ses territoires tout en assurant son rayonnement à l'échelle internationale.
Le titre HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series a été décidé de façon spectaculaire après que l'Afrique du Sud a battu l'Angleterre 24-14 en finale du HSBC Paris Sevens pour décrocher la médaille d'or et conserver son titre de série.
Au cours d'une des années les plus compétitives de l'histoire de la série, le titre est allé jusqu'au tout dernier match puisque l'Afrique du Sud avait besoin d'une victoire en tournoi pour dépasser les Fidji dans le classement de la série.
L'Afrique du Sud a terminé la série en tête avec 182 points, suivie des Fidji qui ont remporté l'argent avec 180 points et la Nouvelle-Zélande avec 150 points après avoir remporté la médaille de bronze à Paris avec une victoire de 38-5 contre le Canada dans la troisième place
Les champions de la série de l'année dernière, l'Afrique du Sud, ont devancé l'Espagne 15-10 en quart de finale avec un essai à la cinquième minute de Justin Deguld, après que les pointages aient été 10-10 à la fin du temps réglementaire. Les Blitzboks sud-africains ont ensuite trouvé leur rythme en demi-finale avec une victoire complète de 24-12 contre la Nouvelle-Zélande grâce à deux essais de l'impressionnant Dewald Human, 23 ans, qui a fait ses débuts il y a deux mois à Hong Kong .
Humain était de nouveau en forme de but en finale et était ravi d'être élu Joueur de la Finale: "Ca a été une expérience fantastique ici à Paris, je me suis appuyé sur moi et j'ai apprécié chaque minute sur le terrain. sommes très heureux de la victoire. "
Le capitaine de l'équipe sud-africaine, Philip Snyman, a ajouté: "Nous voulions aller jouer au rugby et nous concentrer sur ce que nous pouvions contrôler: les gars ont joué un rugby phénoménal et ont fait honneur à l'équipe. C'est un sentiment incroyable de représenter un pays si merveilleux et les gens de chez nous n'ont jamais cessé de croire en nous et de nous soutenir. "
Fidjiens ont raté l'occasion de remporter le titre plus tôt dans la journée alors qu'ils ont été vaincus 19-17 par une équipe d'Angleterre pleine d'entrain dans un quart de finale à couper le souffle. Le capitaine de l'équipe d'Angleterre, Tom Mitchell, a complété un mouvement de 26 passes pour marquer dans les dernières secondes du match et mettre un terme à la récente domination des Fidji qui les avait vaincus lors des quatre dernières manches de la série.
Les Fidjiens se sont rétablis pour battre l'Irlande 38-5 et les États-Unis 28-7 pour terminer cinquième à Paris et mettre la pression sur l'Afrique du Sud pour la finale mais finalement ce n'était pas suffisant et les Fidjiens ont été obligés de se contenter des dix tours.
L'Angleterre a produit une autre performance puissante en demi-finale avec une victoire convaincante de 26-12 contre le Canada pour atteindre sa première finale de la série 2017-18, mais ils ont été incapables de faire face aux Blitzboks en finale alors que les hommes d'Afrique du Sud couraient vainqueurs devant une foule parisienne bruyante.
Équipe Invitational L'Irlande a battu 19-5 du quart en quarts de finale, mais après sa médaille de bronze à Londres la semaine dernière, les Irlandais se sont montrés assez prometteurs au cours des deux derniers tours un brillant avenir dans le rugby à sept.
L'Argentine a remporté le Challenge Trophy, décerné à l'équipe terminant en neuvième position, après avoir vaincu le Pays de Galles 33-26.
Toute l'attention se tourne maintenant vers la Coupe du monde de rugby à sept 2018 à San Francisco du 20 au 22 juillet, où 24 équipes masculines et 16 équipes féminines s'affronteront pour devenir championnes du monde au cours de trois journées d'action excitantes. Plus de 72 000 billets ont déjà été vendus et d'autres détails peuvent être obtenus via.
Glow in Zion Canyon, the Narrows. First trip here but will be back. All the maples were completely bare - so no a lot of fall color photos from Zion. Hiking the slot canyons and rim trails was amazing. I use my iPhone as a timer and reciprocity calculator so I only took a shot or two with my phone to conserve battery power for all day hikes. According to my spot meter this scene ranged from EV 1 to EV 8. How does the iPhone get all that range? I'm hoping my negatives will capture detail in about 5 1/2 zones. We'll see.
Through the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Congress designated the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in Washington County, Utah “to conserve, protect, and enhance …the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cultural, historical, natural, educational, and scientific resources” of public lands in the NCA.
The Colorado Plateau, Great Basin Desert, and Mojave Desert overlap in Washington County. In this transition zone, unusual plant and animal species have evolved, including the dwarf bearclaw-poppy and Shivwits milk-vetch, small native plants that grow nowhere else on earth. The hot, arid Mojave Desert provides habitat for diverse wildlife, such as kit fox, Gambel’s quail, and the Mojave Desert tortoise. This native tortoise is listed under the Endangered Species Act and is at risk of extinction due to habitat loss and other factors. The newly-designated Red Mountain and Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness areas are also within this NCA. Here, hikers, backpackers, and equestrians can enjoy scenic vistas, solitude, and natural quiet, just a few miles drive from local communities.
More than 130 miles of non-motorized recreation trails (hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian trail riding) are available for public use in the NCA. The Red Cliffs Recreation Area offers camping and day use areas, in a developed site where fees are collected. All motorized vehicle travel, including Off-Highway Vehicles, is limited to designated roads in the NCA. No motorized or mechanized vehicle travel is allowed in the Red Mountain and Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness areas, without special authorization from BLM.
Learn more about the NCA and plan your visit: www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/st__george/blm_special_areas/nati...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM-California
Through the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Congress designated the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in Washington County, Utah “to conserve, protect, and enhance …the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cultural, historical, natural, educational, and scientific resources” of public lands in the NCA.
The Colorado Plateau, Great Basin Desert, and Mojave Desert overlap in Washington County. In this transition zone, unusual plant and animal species have evolved, including the dwarf bearclaw-poppy and Shivwits milk-vetch, small native plants that grow nowhere else on earth. The hot, arid Mojave Desert provides habitat for diverse wildlife, such as kit fox, Gambel’s quail, and the Mojave Desert tortoise. This native tortoise is listed under the Endangered Species Act and is at risk of extinction due to habitat loss and other factors. The newly-designated Red Mountain and Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness areas are also within this NCA. Here, hikers, backpackers, and equestrians can enjoy scenic vistas, solitude, and natural quiet, just a few miles drive from local communities.
More than 130 miles of non-motorized recreation trails (hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian trail riding) are available for public use in the NCA. The Red Cliffs Recreation Area offers camping and day use areas, in a developed site where fees are collected. All motorized vehicle travel, including Off-Highway Vehicles, is limited to designated roads in the NCA. No motorized or mechanized vehicle travel is allowed in the Red Mountain and Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness areas, without special authorization from BLM.
Learn more about the NCA and plan your visit: www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/st__george/blm_special_areas/nati...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM
"Vamana" ~ Provenance - Sironkhurd, Lalitpur.
C. 10th Cent A.D.
Conserved at Rajkiya sangrahalaya jhansi up.
That is the day my other half and I welcomed our child Zachary into the world. I quickly learned of all the happiness and worries having a kid can bring you. Natural birth we learnt after a number of hours would not be possible for our son, he would be delivered by cesarean. In the end however, whatever went well for our son and my better half after his birth and during recovery.
Flying is probably the most popular option for transportation, however getting the best cost requires you to prepare ahead and to be relentless about checking rates. You will probably get the most affordable airlines tickets 4 months out, and after that again perhaps 6-8 weeks ahead of time. You will pay the most if you wait and book within the last 2 weeks.
However, if you are remaining off property, or desire to travel stroller away from Disney to other areas, you will probably wish to lease a vehicle. You will discover numerous rental cars and truck companies at the Orlando Airport, and to obtain the very best possible price you need to expect to check their rates early and typically.
Be sure to sign up as a "preferred renter" on each site to get money-saving discount rates. And when you find a good rate, book it. The good thing is, if you find a better rate later on, there is no charge for cancellation. Determination definitely will pay off when it comes to conserving money on a rental vehicle.
The former occupant of our home was a chain cigarette smoker. Even 7 years later on I capture whiffs of smoke while nobody in the family or our group of friends is a smoker.
I laugh and say, "That must be Mrs. D. supervising us." When my four year old child said she was scared of our bedroom, everything was done in jest up until one night.
It would probably be a great time to inform the readers of this post that my child has actually often spoken about a little blonde woman. Prior to his very first mention of her, I had dreams of a little blonde lady myself.
In my dream she was the same age as Owen and I was pushing them both in a baby stroller. My dream is perfectly easy to understand.
The Chicco light-weight model is an ultra light compact stroller which is offered in various colors. One of The Chicco lite way has a 5 point security harness rating and cushioned shoulder straps to maintain your infant in position.
Additionally, the model must be well designed, strong and steady in structure. It should be sturdy enough not to be susceptible to toppling. You certainly don't desire your child's head hitting the flooring at this phase. Because of this, standard strollers are more effective over the light-weight models, which are less tough.
When eyeing for a design to buy, it is recommended to try hanging something, like a purse, maybe, at the back of the stroller to test if it pointers quickly. Anything that's heavy enough will do.
Vacations Coloring Pages has more than 20 various complimentary Mothers' Day coloring sheets! A few of them may be repeats, however there are lots of different complimentary Mothers' Day coloring sheets also.
Found this wonderful double portrait photograph in a delightful frame at a local thrift store. It is now being conserved by my good friends at First City Photography in Leavenworth who were as excited to see it as we were!
Strauss Peyton Photography was a very creative and cutting edge studio located in Kansas City from about 1908 to 1960's. Strauss and Peyton did work together before 1908 - but really came into their own in about 1908 when they opened a studio together, There are several good background articles - the best is here:
broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/studio-strauss-peyton
This photo has a handwritten note on the backing paper of the frame that suggests it was taken in on the 20th of some unreadable month in 1906 when the child was 11y 10m old. The back of the photos have the buyers address, job number, but no date. I have contacted the Jackson County Historical Society for any help they can provide with insight into the job number and such as I believe they have the Sitting Cards for much of the Strauss-Peyton Studio work (which was "found" in storage in the KC area a few years ago - and about 5 TONS are at the JCHS!)
The date is likely wrong as the studio really did not exist until about 1908. Also - (as noted below) the boy is believed to have been born in 1899 and appears too old to be Seven Years Old if 1906 is correct. Our guess is that the note on the back of the framing was done at a later date in an effort to educate other family members as to their history.
September 24, 2014 - A review of the book "Strauss-Peyton, Celebrity and Glamour" by Stephen White Editions and a look at the signatures show this style and type (in the book anyway) from about 1914-1917, and after that there were more styles, and the date appears to have been added after 1920. Based on that - I am sticking with the estimate of 1912.
Researching the address shows that the family was a basic middle class family and the father was a construction contractor. The closest birthdate that makes any sense at all for the child is 1899, which would on the surface make him about seven years old here - but we think he looks older (10-12+). Maybe the date was written years later and is simply wrong. The date does not correspond to any birthdays
Some Questions to Ponder:
What would cause a middle class family to have such a nice portrait photograph (double wide too!) taken of a young child? Is this typical of the day to day work for the Strauss-Peyton Studio?
The clothing looks top notch. I believe he has relatives working at Emery Bird Thayer Department Store (upscale) and maybe that is where they came from (and the picture was framed there as well). Is there any chance that this would have been an effort to promote the child into the entertainment industry?
I believe the child is Mark Forest Doty, born in 1899 and passed away in 1973, parents are Charles A. Doty and Cora L Doty of 2449 Askew in Kansas City.
Any insight appreciated
Update August 1, 2016 - I heard back from a relative with a lot of detailed info - most of the speculation above is correct! The information below is copied from our emails with some minor adjustments.
Mark Forrest Doty - Found Photo - Biography
The photo you have posted on Flickr is a relative of mine. Mark (or Markle) Forrest Doty was my paternal grandmother's brother or an uncle to me. Their father was Charles Augustus Doty and his (Charles) final address was 2449 Askew, Kansas City, MO. In 2014 my mother who was living in Kansas City died and she had possession of many old family photos and items. This photograph of Mark Doty was disposed of by me after my mother's death.
Mark was my father’s uncle and my dad adored him. Mark often took my father into the out-of-doors and taught him to fish and hunt. They began fishing Lake of the Ozarks in the early 1930s when it first opened. They fished northern Minnesota during the same time frame driving dirt roads to get there. Hunting was local but they went frequently. The families met every Sunday afternoon for dinner and socializing.
Markle Forrest Doty was the son of Charles Augustus Doty and Cora Lee Doty. Mark was born in 1899 in Bloomington, IL. He had an older brother, Ray, and older sister, my grandmother, Gladys Madeline (Dot). They lived in Bloomington where Charlie grew up in the building contracting business. His father, Henry A. Doty, and grandfather, Henry Doty, were building contractors. Anna Einsminger was his mother. I’m aware that they sunk some of the coal mine shafts near Streator, IL and build homes and buildings including a high school near Bloomington.
Charlie moved to Kansas City in the early 1900s and began his contracting business, Doty and Sons Construction. I’m aware of several buildings he constructed in the Kansas City area. Two that remain are a portion of the St Stephen church at Truman Rd. and Paseo and a KCK fire station on about 33rd and State Ave. Mark worked in this business with his father, his brother Ray, and other relatives.
Mark went to Greenwood Elementary School in KCMO as did his sister, Dot. She went to Manual High School and my guess is he did also. Neither attended college to my knowledge. They lived at 2449 Askew, a house owned by Charles A. Doty. That house was torn down in the building of I-70 in the mid-1960s.
Mark married a lady named Eunice Doxsee and they had 4 children. Charlie Doty died in the mid 1920s and Mark worked with his brother, Ray in construction. Mark was involved in home building for the most part. Both brothers, Mark and Ray, suffered through the Great Depression when the housing industry dried up. Ray died in 1941 before the Depression was over. Mark for some years worked full time for my grandfather (Dot’s husband or his brother-in-law) in his florist shop. The rest of Mark’s family also worked in that shop on holidays.
Mark tried the housing industry again after WWII and managed to keep afloat until the early 1950s when he moved his family to California. My family lost contact with him and his family at that point; although, we knew he was involved with home building there. He took his youngest daughter, Janet, to CA when they moved. His middle daughter Pat married and moved to Louisville. His son Mark Forrest Doty Jr, died to a work-related accident before the move. His oldest child a daughter, Grace Lee, moved and the family lost track of her.
Mark and his wife, Eunice, moved from CA to Louisville when they spent the rest of their lives. Both died there and are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. Mark died in 1973. I visited the cemetery within the last year.
As for you questions about the photo. The photo is of course Mark and I would guess it was taken between 1905 and 1910. The Dotys then were not wealthy but did have a good income. Photos were apparently important to them as my grandmother, Dot, was one of the first people to own a Polaroid camera in the late 1940s and took many pictures with it. My father had his own darkroom and also took many photos. I think it was traditional for people to go to studios in the early 1900s, if they could afford to do so, and have portraits taken. The Doty side of my family left some photos for future generations.
Emery Bird Thayer was one of the higher end department stores in downtown KCMO. During those days retail shopping was done downtown or in smaller shopping areas like 31st & Troost, 27th & Prospect, etc. Most neighborhoods had their “mom and pop” stores for groceries, hardware, cleaning, etc. If you were shopping for something “fine”, you went downtown. Same was true for downtown KCK. I could only guess why the frame was purchased at EBT. I suppose they wanted something special.
If you delve deeper into the Doty’s history, you will find that Henry A Doty fought in the Civil Wart (Illinois 104th Volunteer Infantry) and Henry’s brother, Capt. John S. H. Doty, was the CO. E commander. John led his company through a number of battles but met his end at the Battle of Peachtree Creek which at that time was just north of Atlanta, GA. His company apparently was the flag company that evening. Beyond that generation is Henry Doty who was born in 1800 in either PA or NY. I’m still working on his history.
A "Conserve Wildlife" license plate from the state of Nevada, seen in Winnemucca, NV, on a Nissan SUV. Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ 1.8 AF-D lens.
NEW JERSEY’S BALD EAGLE POPULATION CONTINUES TO SOAR
January 14th, 2016
CONSERVE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY RELEASES RESULTS OF 2015 STATE BALD EAGLE REPORT
by Lindsay McNamara, Communications Manager
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey today released the 2015 Bald Eagle Report, highlighting the number of nesting pairs, active nests and nest productivity for the raptors throughout New Jersey with data collected by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife biologists, CWF biologists and committed volunteers.
“With 161 pairs of bald eagles this past year — up from just a single nest in the early 1980’s — the dramatic ongoing recovery of bald eagles across the northeast continues to inspire so many of us,” said David Wheeler, Conserve Wildlife Foundation Executive Director. “The thrill of seeing a bald eagle fly across the sky is unparalleled. This report captures how these eagles are continuing their All-American return.”
The report notes that thirteen new eagle pairs were found this season, nine in the south, two in Central Jersey and two in Northern New Jersey.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2016/01/14/new-jerseys-ba...
entrepôt, 1939. Bâtiment destiné à conserver les effets personnels des détenus.
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Source : Wikipédia
Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald, IPA: [ˈbuːxənvalt]) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.
Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war— worked primarily as forced labor in local armament factories. From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2.
1937- 1945 :
According to the same source, the total number of deaths at Buchenwald is estimated at 56,545.
This number is the sum of:
Deaths according to material left behind by SS: 33,462
Executions by shooting: 8,483
Executions by hanging (estimate): 1,100
Deaths during evacuation transports: 13,500
NKVD Special camp 2
Numbers and casualties
The total number of detainees and deaths is uncertain.
The Soviet Ministry for the Interior released numbers in 1990, according to which 122,671 were detained, 42,889 of whom died primarily due to starvation and diseases, 756 were sentenced to death and executed, 45,261 were released, 12,770 were deported to the Soviet Union for forced labour, the status of 6,680 was changed to prisoner of war, and 14,202 were handed over to the Communist authorities of East Germany after their establishment. Historian v. Flocken says these numbers are too low, and places the number of total detainees at 160,000 to 180,000, 65,000 of whom died. Historians Plato, Mirenko, Niethammer, Jeske, and Finn give estimates of about 154,000 detainees, and say the number of deaths given by the Soviets is realistic.
Among the dead were an estimated 12,000 discovered in 1990 in mass graves near the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Six thousand of the captives in Sachsenhausen were German officers sent there from Western Allied camps.
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CHAPTER II.
SPEAKS TO GREAT AUDIENCE.[1]
Standing with his coat and vest opened, holding before him manuscript of the speech he had prepared to deliver, through which were two perforations by Schrank's bullet, the ex-President was given an ovation which shook the mammoth Auditorium, Milwaukee.
The audience seemed unable to realize the truth of the statement of Henry F. Cochems, who had introduced Col. Roosevelt, that the ex-President had been shot. Col. Roosevelt had opened his vest to show blood from his wound.
Even then many in the audience did not comprehend that they were witnessing a scene destined to go down in history—an ex-President of the United States, blood still flowing from the bullet wound of a would-be assassin, delivering a speech from manuscript perforated by the bullet of the assailant.
Col. Roosevelt said:
"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible," he said. "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a bull moose. (Cheers.) But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech (holds up manuscript with bullet hole) and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I can not make a very long speech, but I will try my best. (Cheers.)
"And now, friends, I want to take advantage of this incident and say a word of a solemn warning, as I know how to my fellow countrymen. First of all, I want to say this about myself: I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death, and now I can not speak to you insincerely within five minutes of being shot. I am telling you the literal truth when I say that my concern is for many other things. It is not in the least for my own life. I want you to understand that I am ahead of the game, anyway. (Applause and cheers.) No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way. I have been able to do certain things that I greatly wished to do and I am interested in doing other things. I can tell you with absolute truthfulness that I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not. It was just as when I was colonel of my regiment. I always felt that a private was to be excused for feeling at times some pangs of anxiety about his personal safety, but I can not understand a man fit to be a colonel who can pay any heed to his personal safety when he is occupied as he ought to be occupied with the absorbing desire to do his duty. (Applause and cheers.)
"I am in this cause with my whole heart and soul. I believe that the progressive movement is for making life a little easier for all our people; a movement to try to take the burdens off the men and especially the women and children of this country. I am absorbed in the success of that movement.
"Friends, I ask you now this evening to accept what I am saying as absolutely true, when I tell you I am not thinking of my own success. I am not thinking of my life or of anything connected with me personally. I am thinking of the movement. I say this by way of introduction because I want to say something very serious to our people and especially to the newspapers. I don't know anything about who the man was who shot me tonight. He was seized at once by one of the stenographers in my party, Mr. Martin, and I suppose is now in the hands of the police. He shot to kill. He shot—the shot, the bullet went in here—I will show you (opened his vest and shows bloody stain in the right breast; stain covered the entire lower half of his shirt to the waist).
"I am going to ask you to be as quiet as possible for I am not able to give the challenge of the bull moose quite as loudly. Now I do not know who he was or what party he represented. He was a coward. He stood in the darkness in the crowd around the automobile and when they cheered me and I got up to bow, he stepped forward and shot me in the darkness.
"Now friends, of course, I do not know, as I say, anything about him, but it is a very natural thing that weak and vicious minds should be inflamed to acts of violence by the kind of awful mendacity and abuse that have been heaped upon me for the last three months by the papers in the interest of not only Mr. Debs but of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taft. (Applause and cheers.)
"Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who attacks with such foul slander and abuse any opponent of any other party (applause) and now I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the republican, the democratic and the socialist parties that they cannot month in and month out and year in and year out make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.
"Now friends, I am not speaking for myself at all. I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot not a rap. (Applause.)
"I have had a good many experiences in my time and this is one of them. What I care for is my country. (Applause and cheers.) I wish I were able to impress upon my people—our people, the duty to feel strongly but to speak the truth of their opponents. I say now, I have never said one word against any opponent that I can not—on the stump—that I can not defend. I have said nothing that I could not substantiate and nothing that I ought not to have said—nothing that I—nothing that looking back at I would not say again.
"Now friends, it ought not to be too much to ask that our opponents (speaking to some one on the stage) I am not sick at all. I am all right. I can not tell you of what infinitesimal importance I regard this incident as compared with the great issues at stake in this campaign and I ask it not for my sake, not the least in the world, but for the sake of our common country, that they make up their minds to speak only the truth, and not to use the kind of slander and mendacity which if taken seriously must incite weak and violent natures to crimes of violence. (Applause.) Don't you make any mistake. Don't you pity me. I am all right. I am all right and you can not escape listening to the speech either. (Laughter and applause.)
"And now, friends, this incident that has just occurred—this effort to assassinate me, emphasizes to a peculiar degree the need of this progressive movement. (Applause and cheers.) Friends, every good citizen ought to do everything in his or her power to prevent the coming of the day when we shall see in this country two recognized creeds fighting one another, when we shall see the creed of the 'Havenots' arraigned against the creed of the 'Haves.' When that day comes then such incidents as this tonight will be commonplace in our history. When you make poor men—when you permit the conditions to grow such that the poor man as such will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they improperly have won, when that day comes, the most awful passions will be let loose and it will be an ill day for our country.
"Now, friends, what we who are in this movement are endeavoring to do is to forestall any such movement by making this a movement for justice now—a movement in which we ask all just men of generous hearts to join with the men who feel in their souls that lift upward which bids them refuse to be satisfied themselves while their fellow countrymen and countrywomen suffer from avoidable misery. Now, friends, what we progressives are trying to do is to enroll rich or poor, whatever their social or industrial position, to stand together for the most elementary rights of good citizenship, those elementary rights which are the foundation of good citizenship in this great republic of ours.
"My friends are a little more nervous than I am. Don't you waste any sympathy on me. I have had an A1 time in life and I am having it now.
"I never in my life had any movement in which I was able to serve with such wholehearted devotion as in this; in which I was able to feel as I do in this that common weal. I have fought for the good of our common country. (Applause.)
"And now, friends, I shall have to cut short much of the speech that I meant to give you, but I want to touch on just two or three of the points.
"In the first place, speaking to you here in Milwaukee, I wish to say that the progressive party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace. We do not regard as essential the way in which a man worships his God or as being affected by where he was born. We regard it as a matter of spirit and purpose. In New York, while I was police commissioner, the two men from whom I got the most assistance were Jacob Ries, who was born in Denmark and Oliver Van Briesen, who was born in Germany, both of them as fine examples of the best and highest American citizenship as you could find in any part of this country.
X-Ray Photograph Showing Bullet as it Remains in Theodore Roosevelt.
X-Ray Photograph Showing Bullet as it Remains in Theodore Roosevelt.
"I have just been introduced by one of your own men here, Henry Cochems. His grandfather, his father and that father's seven brothers all served in the United States army and they entered it four years after they had come to this country from Germany (applause). Two of them left their lives, spent their lives on the field of battle—I am all right—I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this speech.
"At one time I promoted five men for gallantry on the field of battle. Afterward it happened to be found in making some inquiries about that I found that it happened that two of them were Protestants, two Catholics and one a Jew. One Protestant came from Germany and one was born in Ireland. I did not promote them because of their religion. It just happened that way. If all five of them had been Jews, I would have promoted them, or if all five had been Protestants I would have promoted them; or if they had been Catholics. In that regiment I had a man born in Italy who distinguished himself by gallantry, there was a young fellow, a son of Polish parents, and another who came here when he was a child from Bohemia, who likewise distinguished themselves, and friends, I assure you, that I was incapable of considering any question whatever, but the worth of each individual as a fighting man. If he was a good fighting man, then I saw that Uncle Sam got the benefit from it. That is all. (Applause.)
"I make the same appeal in our citizenship. I ask in our civic life we in the same way pay heed only to the man's quality of citizenship to repudiate as the worst enemy that we can have whoever tries to get us to discriminate for or against any man because of his creed or his birthplace.
"Now, friends, in the same way I want our people to stand by one another without regard to differences or class or occupation. I have always stood by the labor unions. I am going to make one omission tonight. I have prepared my speech because Mr. Wilson had seen fit to attack me by showing up his record in comparison with mine. But I am not going to do that tonight. I am going to simply speak of what I myself have done and of what I think ought to be done in this country of ours. (Applause.)
"It is essential that there should be organizations of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. (Applause.)
"My appeal for organized labor is twofold, to the outsider and the capitalist I make my appeal to treat the laborers fairly, to recognize the fact that he must organize, that there must be such organization, that it is unfair and unjust—that the laboring man must organize for his own protection and that it is the duty of the rest of us to help him and not hinder him in organizing. That is one-half of the appeal that I make.
"Now the other half is to the labor man himself. My appeal to him is to remember that as he wants justice, so he must do justice. I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence. (Applause.) I want them to take the lead (applause) in denouncing disorder and inciting riot, that in this country we shall proceed under the protection of our laws and with all respect to the laws and I want the labor men to feel in their turn that exactly as justice must be done them so they must do justice. That they must bear their duty as citizens, their duty to this great country of ours and that they must not rest content without unless they do that duty to the fullest degree. (Interruption.)
"I know these doctors when they get hold of me they will never let me go back and there are just a few things more that I want to say to you.
"And here I have got to make one comparison between Mr. Wilson and myself simply because he has invited it and I can not shrink from it.
"Mr. Wilson has seen fit to attack me, to say that I did not do much against the trusts when I was president. I have got two answers to make to that. In the first place what I did and then I want to compare what I did while I was president with what Mr. Wilson did not do while he was governor. (Applause and laughter.)
"When I took office as president"—(turning to stage) "How long have I talked?"
Answer: "Three-quarters of an hour."
"Well, I will take a quarter of an hour more. (Laughter and applause.) When I took office the anti-trust law was practically a dead letter and the interstate commerce law in as poor a condition. I had to revive both laws. I did. I enforced both. It will be easy enough to do now what I did then, but the reason that it is easy now is because I did it when it was hard. (Applause and cheers.)
"Nobody was doing anything. I found speedily that the interstate commerce law by being made more perfect could be a most useful instrument for helping solve some of our industrial problems with the anti-trust law. I speedily found that almost the only positive good achieved by such a successful lawsuit as the Northern Securities suit, for instance, was for establishing the principle that the government was supreme over the big corporation, but that by itself, or that law did not do—did not accomplish any of the things that we ought to have accomplished, and so I began to fight for the amendment of the law along the lines of the interstate commerce, and now we propose, we progressives, to establish an interstate commission having the same power over industrial concerns that the interstate commerce commission has over railroads, so that whenever there is in the future a decision rendered in such important matters as the recent suits against the Standard Oil, the sugar—no, not that—tobacco—the tobacco trust—we will have a commission which will see that the decree of the court is really made effective; that it is not made a merely nominal decree.
"Our opponents have said that we intend to legalize monopoly. Nonsense. They have legalized monopoly. At this moment the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust monopolies are legalized; they are being carried on under the decree of the Supreme Court. (Applause.)
"Our proposal is really to break up monopoly. Our proposal is to put in the law—to lay down certain requirements and then require the commerce commission—the industrial commission to see that the trusts live up to those requirements. Our opponents have spoken as if we were going to let the commission declare what the requirements should be. Not at all. We are going to put the requirements in the law and then see that the commission makes the trust. (Interruption.) You see they don't trust me. (Laughter.) That the commission requires them to obey that law.
"And now, friends, as Mr. Wilson has invited the comparison I only want to say this: Mr. Wilson has said that the states are the proper authorities to deal with the trusts. Well, about 80 per cent of the trusts are organized in New Jersey. The Standard Oil, the tobacco, the sugar, the beef, all those trusts are organized in New Jersey and Mr. Wilson—and the laws of New Jersey say that their charters can at any time be amended or repealed if they misbehave themselves and it gives the government—the laws give the government ample power to act about those laws and Mr. Wilson has been governor a year and nine months and he has not opened his lips. (Applause and cheers.) The chapter describing of what Mr. Wilson has done about the trusts in New Jersey would read precisely like a chapter describing the snakes in Ireland, which ran: 'There are no snakes in Ireland.' (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Wilson has done precisely and exactly nothing about the trusts.
"I tell you and I told you at the beginning I do not say anything on the stump that I do not believe. I do not say anything I do not know. Let any of Mr. Wilson's friends on Tuesday point out one thing or let Mr. Wilson point out one thing he has done about the trusts as governor of New Jersey. (Applause.)
"And now, friends, I want to say one special thing here——"
(Col. Roosevelt turned to the table upon the stage to reach for his manuscript, but found it in the hands of some one upon the stage. He demanded it back with the words: "Teach them not to grab," which provoked laughter.)
"And now, friends, there is one thing I want to say specially to you people here in Wisconsin. All that I have said so far is what I would say in any part of this union. I have a peculiar right to ask that in this great contest you men and women of Wisconsin shall stand with us. (Applause.) You have taken the lead in progressive movements here in Wisconsin. You have taught the rest of us to look to you for inspiration and leadership. Now, friends, you have made that movement here locally. You will be doing a dreadful injustice to yourselves; you will be doing a dreadful injustice to the rest of us throughout this union if you fail to stand with us now that we are making this national movement (applause) and what I am about to say now I want you to understand if I speak of Mr. Wilson I speak with no mind of bitterness. I merely want to discuss the difference of policy between the progressive and the democratic party and to ask you to think for yourselves which party you will follow. I will say that, friends, because the republican party is beaten. Nobody need to have any idea that anything can be done with the republican party. (Cheers and applause.)
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John Flammang Schrank.
"When the republican party—not the republican party—when the bosses in the control of the republican party, the Barneses and Penroses last June stole the nomination and wrecked the republican party for good and all. (Applause.) I want to point out to you, nominally, they stole that nomination from me, but really it was from you. (Applause.) They did not like me and the longer they live the less cause they will have to like me. (Applause and laughter.) But while they do not like me, they dread you. You are the people that they dread. They dread the people themselves, and those bosses and the big special interests behind them made up their mind that they would rather see the republican party wrecked than see it come under the control of the people themselves. So I am not dealing with the republican party. There are only two ways you can vote this year. You can be progressive or reactionary. Whether you vote republican or democratic it does not make any difference, you are voting reactionary." (Applause.)
Col. Roosevelt stopped to take a drink of water and the doctors remonstrated with him to stop talking, to which he replied: "It is getting to be better and better as time goes on. (Turning to the audience) If these doctors don't behave themselves I won't let them look at me at all." (Laughter and applause.)
"Now the democratic party in its platform and through the utterances of Mr. Wilson has distinctly committed itself to old flintlock, muzzle loaded doctrine of states right and I have said distinctly that we are for the people's right. We are for the rights of the people. If they can be obtained best through the national government, then we are for national rights. We are for the people's rights however it is necessary to secure them.
"Mr. Wilson has made a long essay against Senator Beveridge's bill to abolish child labor. It is the same kind of an argument that would be made against our bill to prohibit women from working more than eight hours a day in industry. It is the same kind of argument that would have to be made, if it is true, it would apply equally against our proposal to insist that in continuous industries there shall be by law one day's rest in seven and a three-shift eight hour day. You have labor laws here in Wisconsin, and any Chamber of Commerce will tell you that because of that fact there are industries that will not come into Wisconsin. They prefer to stay outside where they can work children of tender years; where they can work women fourteen and sixteen hours a day, where, if it is a continuous industry, they can work men twelve hours a day and seven days a week.
"Now, friends, I know that you of Wisconsin would never repeal those laws even if they are to your commercial hurt, just as I am trying to get New York to adopt such laws even though it will be to New York's commercial hurt. But if possible, I want to arrange it so that we can have justice without commercial hurt, and you can only get that if you have justice enforced nationally. You won't be burdened in Wisconsin with industries not coming to the state if the same good laws are extended all over the other states. (Applause.) Do you see what I mean? The states all compete in a common market and it is not justice to the employers of a state that has enforced just and proper laws to have them exposed to the competition of another state where no such laws are enforced. Now the democratic platform, their speaker declares that we shall not have such laws. Mr. Wilson has distinctly declared that you shall not have a national law to prohibit the labor of children, to prohibit child labor. He has distinctly declared that we shall not have law to establish a minimum wage for women.
"I ask you to look at our declaration and hear and read our platform about social and industrial justice and then, friends, vote for the progressive ticket without regard to me, without regard to my personality, for only by voting for that platform can you be true to the cause of progress throughout this union." (Applause.)
All through his talk, it was evident that his physicians feared his injury had been more serious than he was willing to admit. That a man with a bullet embedded in his body could stand up there and insist on giving the audience the speech which they had come to hear was almost incredible and it was plain the physicians as well as the other friends of the colonel on the stage were greatly alarmed.
Col. Roosevelt, however, would have none of it. "Sit down, sit down," he said to those who, when he faltered once or twice, half rose to come towards him. He insisted that he was having a good time in spite of his injury.
Finally a motherly looking woman, a few rows of seats back from the stage rose and said, "Mr. Roosevelt, we all wish you would be seated."
To this the colonel quickly replied: "I thank you, madam, but I don't mind it a bit."
To those on the stage, who wished he would adopt the suggestion of being seated, he said: "Good gracious if you saw me in the saddle at the head of my troops with a bullet in me you would not mind."
The only time Col. Roosevelt gave up and took a seat was when he came to a quotation from La Follette's weekly which paid him a tribute of praise for his work as president. This was read by Assemblyman T. J. Mahon, while the colonel rested.
At the conclusion of the reading Col. Roosevelt said that he was the same man now that he was then. He had not been president since 1909 so that what he was described as being then he was now.
T. J. Mahon read this editorial from La Follette's magazine of March 13, 1909:
"Roosevelt steps from the stage gracefully. He has ruled his party to a large extent against its will. He has played a large part of the world's work for the past seven years. The activities of his remarkably forceful personality have been so manifold that it will be long before his true rating will be fixed in the opinion of the race. He is said to think that the three great things done by him are the undertaking of the construction of the Panama canal and its rapid and successful carrying forward, the making of peace between Russia and Japan, and the sending around the world of the fleet.
"These are important things but many will be slow to think them his great services. The Panama canal will surely serve mankind when in operation; and the manner of organizing this work seems to be fine. But no one can yet say whether this project will be a gigantic success or a gigantic failure; and the task is one which must in the nature of things have been undertaken and carried through some time soon, as historic periods go, anyhow. The peace of Portsmouth was a great thing to be responsible for, and Roosevelt's good offices undoubtedly saved a great and bloody battle in Manchuria. But the war was fought out, and the parties ready to quit, and there is reason to think that it is only when this situation was arrived at that the good offices of the President of the United States were, more or less indirectly, invited. The fleet's cruise was a strong piece of diplomacy, by which we informed Japan that we will send our fleet wherever we please and whenever we please. It worked out well.
"But none of these things, it will seem to many, can compare with some of Roosevelt's other achievements. Perhaps he is loath to take credit as a reformer, for he is prone to spell the word with question marks, and to speak despairingly of 'reform.'
"But for all that, this contention of 'reformers' made reform respectable in the United States, and this rebuke of 'muck-rakers' has been the chief agent in making the history of 'muck-raking' in the United States a national one, conceded to be useful. He has preached from the White House many doctrines; but among them he has left impressed on the American mind the one great truth of economic justice couched in the pithy and stinging phrase 'the square deal.' The task of making reform respectable in a commercialized world, and of giving the national a slogan in a phrase, is greater than the man who performed it is likely to think.
"And, then, there is the great and statesmanlike movement for the conservation of our national resources, into which Roosevelt so energetically threw himself at a time when the nation as a whole knew not that we are ruining and bankrupting ourselves as fast as we can. This is probably the greatest thing Roosevelt did, undoubtedly. This globe is the capital stock of the race. It is just so much coal and oil and gas. This may be economized or wasted. This same thing is true of phosphates and other mineral resources. Our water resources are immense, and we are only just beginning to use them. Our forests have been destroyed; they must be restored. Our soils are being depleted; they must be built up and conserved.
"These questions are not of this day only, or of this generation. They belong all to the future. Their consideration requires that high moral tone which regards the earth as the home of a posterity to whom we owe a sacred duty.
"This immense idea, Roosevelt, with high statesmanship, dinned into the ears of the nation until the nation heeded. He held it so high that it attracted the attention of the neighboring nations of the continent, and will so spread and intensify that we will soon see world's conferences devoted to it.
"Nothing can be greater or finer than this. It is so great and so fine that when the historian of the future shall speak of Theodore Roosevelt, he is likely to say that he did many notable things, among them that of inaugurating the movement which finally resulted in the square deal, but that his greatest work was inspiring and actually beginning a world movement for staying terrestrial waste and saving for the human race the things upon which, and upon which alone, a great and peaceful and progressive and happy race life can be founded.
"What statesman in all history has done anything calling for so wide a view and for a purpose more lofty?"
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Stenographic Report from The Milwaukee Sentinel.
Domaine conservé intact depuis la seconde moitié du 18e siècle, sans aucun ajout, le Château de Canon constitue un parfait témoin du siècle des Lumières en basse-normandie.
Photographie aérienne par cerf-volant.
Domain intact since the second half of the 18th century, without any addition, the Château de Canon is a perfect example of the Age of Enlightenment in Normandy.
Kite Aerial Photography.
© Janvier 2012, François Levalet
Une baignoire des anciens bains municipaux a été conservée dans le musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent
On constate une étonnante similitude avec un baptistère
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Le maire socialiste de Roubaix Jean Lebas (1878-mort en déportation en 1944) fait appel en 1923 à l'architecte Albert Baert (1863-1951) pour construire des bains municipaux comprenant une piscine de natation à l'eau chaude. Son but est de développer l'hygiène et le sport dans la population ouvrière de l'époque, notamment pour combattre la tuberculose qui sévit dans la région.
Outre le bassin de natation, avec douches obligatoires, il est prévu des ailes de baignoires, à l'usage de tous, un solarium, un jardin de détente, une buvette, des salles de massage, de musculation et de soins du corps.
Les plans du complexe des bains municipaux conçus par l'architecte Albert Baert évoquent ceux d'une abbaye cistercienne car les bâtiments entourent un jardin central.
La piscine est particulièrement théâtrale avec un bassin olympique, décoré d'une frise en mosaïque bleue et entouré de cabines de déshabillage et de douchage. Au 1er étage, se trouvent des vestiaires et au dernier niveau des loges pour assister aux compétitions ou regarder les baigneurs.
La lumière est fournie par deux spectaculaires demi-soleils de verre coloré, disposés en éventail de part et d'autre du bassin au levant et au couchant.
Inaugurée en 1932, les bains municipaux, qualifiés par la population de plus beaux d'Europe, connaissent un succès immédiat qui ne s'est jamais démenti jusqu'à sa fermeture, en 1985, pour des raisons de sécurité et de vétusté. Une nouvelle piscine a été construite à proximité.
Ne souhaitant pas démolir un tel lieu de mémoire pour toute la population de Roubaix, la décision est prise en 1990 par la municipalité de les transformer en musée des beaux-arts tout en respectant l'âme du site. C'est l'architecte Jean-Paul Philippon, membre de l'équipe des architectes du musée d'Orsay, qui a été chargé de la rénovation du complexe.
Une galerie de sculptures a été installée dans le bassin de natation (photo ci-dessus) sur un plancher en bois tout en conservant un plan d'eau de faible profondeur en son centre, afin de rappeler sa vocation d'origine. Des salles d'exposition occupent tous les locaux et même les anciennes cabines.
Cette idée géniale d'aménagement a fait la réputation internationale de ce musée en lui donnant une identité unique et remarquable parmi les musées français.
Site du musée d'art et d'Industrie André Diligent / La Piscine
On the 25th April 2018 I went back over to the Isle of Wight on a coach trip around the island. The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populated island in England. It is in the English Channel, about 2 miles ( 3.2 km ) off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the busy Solent. The island has been a holiday destination since Victorian times, and is known for its climate, its coastal scenery and chines.
The island has also been home to the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and to Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS usually known as Alfred Lord Tennyson and Queen Victoria also paid many visits to this part of southern England and owned Osborne House at East Cowes. It has a maritime and industrial tradition including boat-building, sail-making, the manufacture of flying boats, the hovercraft, and Britain's space rockets. The island hosts annual music festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival, which in 1970 was the largest rock music event ever held. It has well established and conserved wildlife and some of the richest cliffs and quarries for dinosaur fossils in the whole of Europe. Until 1995 the island had a governor. The quickest public transport link to the mainland is the hovercraft from Ryde to Southsea; three ferry and two catamaran services also cross the Solent to Southampton Ferry Port, Lymington and finally in Portsmouth.
Set in the grounds of the Old Vicarage the Model Village in Godshill is a well laid out Model Village that allows you to escape the busy world outside. It is one of the best Model Villages I have ever visited. The Model Village first opened to the public in 1952 when after Mr Dams created models of Shanklin to populate the top section of the Old Vicarage gardens. The lower half of the garden ( the first section you will see when you enter the village ) contains models of Godshill ( the village it is situated in ) that Robin Thwaites made with help of model makers at Pinewood studios – this was the 1960’s when Thunderbirds was as a prime example of the art of modelling! All Saints Church sits proudly overlooking the other cottages and houses just like the real church a little way up on the hill. If you stand in the right spot you can see the real church, the model church, the model of the model church and then the model of the model of the model.
All Saints Church, The original foundations for the church were laid in a flat, easily accessible site; each morning they were found transferred to the hill where the church exists today. Eventually the builders gave up building it in the planned flat location and built it on the hill. The church is medieval. It is noted for its medieval wall painting of a Lily crucifix one of only two in Europe. The Lily painting was whitewashed out to save it from destruction during the Reformation. It remained hidden until the 19th century, when it was rediscovered.
Alum Bay is a bay near the western most point of the Isle of Wight, England, within sight of the Needles rock formation along with the Needles Lighthouse. Alum Bay beach is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque beaches on the Isle of Wight. This mainly shingle beach situated at the most westerly tip of the Island is framed by the iconic chalk landmarks known as The Needles with the world famous coloured sands with 21 different shades creating a dramatic and natural shelter for the beach.
Above Alum Bay beach stands The Needles Park where you will find a range of attractions, cafes, a fully licensed tea room, retail shops and not to forget the Sand shop where you can fill your own shape with a choice of the Alum Bay sands! Alum bay beach can be accessed on foot using the steps taking you through the chine or ride the chair lift from The Needles Park. They were closed the day I attended because of the gale force winds sweeping across this part of the island. It was very difficult to even stand up the wind was so fierce. The No 7 bus runs every 30 minutes from Newport or hop on the Island Breezer. Guglielmo Marconi moved to Alum Bay in 1897 to experiment with radio. He installed a 40-metre radio antenna outside the Needles Hotel in Alum Bay. Initially establishing communication with ships offshore, by early 1898 he had successfully communicated with stations at Madeira House, Bournemouth and the Haven Hotel in Poole some 20 miles away. A plaque can be seen on this site now to mark his achievement.
Introduction: DNA polymerases are cardinal enzymes, which play a vital role in preserving as well as maintaining the blueprint of life in all living cells. Furthermore, in-depth analyses of DNA and RNA polymerases, which are the crucial catalysts of life, not only reveal fundamental information about their emergence but also on the evolution of life on the planet earth.
Aim: To analyze the active sites of various prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA polymerases and propose a plausible mechanism of action for the polymerases with the Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I as a model system.
Study Design: Bioinformatics, Biochemical, Genetic, Site-Directed Mutagenesis (SDM) analyses and X-ray crystallographic data were analyzed.
Place and Duration of Study: Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai – 625 021, India from 2007 to 2012.
Methodology: The advanced version of T-COFFEE was used to analyze both prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA polymerase sequences. Along with this bioinformatics data, X-ray crystallographic and biochemical, SDM analysis data were also used to confirm the possible amino acids in the active sites of different types of polymerases from various sources.
Results: Multiple sequence analyses of various polymerases from different sources showed only a few highly conserved motifs among these enzymes except eukaryotic epsilon polymerases where a large number of highly conserved sequences were found. Possible catalytic/active site regions in all these polymerases showed a highly conserved catalytic amino acid K/R and the YG/A pair. A distance conservation is also observed between the active sites. Furthermore, two highly conserved Ds and DXD motifs are also observed and implicated in catalysis.
Conclusion: The highly conserved amino acid K/R acts as the proton abstractor in catalysis and the YG/A pair acts as a “steric gate” and along with a completely conserved R, select only dNTPS for polymerization reactions. The two highly conserved Ds act as the “charge shielder” of dNTPs and orient the alpha phosphate of incoming dNTPs to the 3’-OH end of the growing primer. Multiple sequence analyses have shown that a basic amino acid K/R and an YG pair are highly conserved in almost all DNA polymerases except in error-prone polymerases where the YG pair is not found at the expected distance from the catalytic K/R. SDM, biochemical and X-ray crystallographic analyses of DNA polymerase I from E. coli have also suggested their involvement in substrate binding and catalysis. Large numbers of highly/completely conserved monos, diads, triads are also found among different groups of DNA polymerases and they may play an important role in folding the proteins to the correct 3D structure. Based on these results, a mechanism of action is proposed for the polymerization reactions as well as for the proof-reading function of DNA polymerase I from E. coli as a model enzyme. A similar mechanism may be followed by other polymerases as the almost completely conserved K/R and YG pair are present in all of them.
Biography of author(s)
Dr. Peramachi Palanivelu
Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai – 625 021, India.
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Conserving an endangered species of plant isn't easy. It takes partners to help grow and propagate the seedlings, volunteers to help plant and care for them, and people like you to support and believe that every species is worth saving.
We spent this Endangered Species Day helping to ensure a future for native Hawaiian species by outplanting endangered seedlings at Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. Mahalo to the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Fish and Wildlife for supporting native and endangered species!
Construction work continues in the Cannon Building's west wing.
Phase 1 of the Cannon Renewal Project began in January 2017 and is scheduled to be complete in November 2018. The entire west side of the building, from the basement to the fifth floor, is closed. Work includes demolishing and rebuilding the fifth floor, conserving the exterior stonework and rehabilitating the individual office suites.
Full project details at www.aoc.gov/cannon.
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We'd like to share the insider's scoop about the people who carry out the important work of protecting and conserving fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats along the central and southern California coast. Meet our new public affairs specialist Olivia Beitelspacher!
Hazel Rodriguez: Welcome to the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office Olivia! What role do you play within the agency?
Olivia Beitelspacher: I am a public affairs specialist, so it my job to share stories and communicate with different audiences about the amazing work being done at the Ventura FWO to protect endangered species. I also get to perform outreach and engage with local communities.
HR: Not a bad gig you got! Tell me about where you went to school and what you studied.
OB: I went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where I got a B.A. in Film and Environmental Studies.
HR: What led you to a career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
OB: I had just switched my major from Creative Computation to Environmental Studies and was looking for an internship with a federal land management agency. I applied for an internship with the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and got to spend a summer as an interpretive ranger at Grand Teton National Park.
The following summer I applied to another SCA internship and was fortunate enough to get to participate in the Directorate Resource Fellowship Program (DFP), which was actually my introduction to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Through the DFP I had the opportunity to spend a summer in Anchorage, AK making outreach and educational materials about invasive species. It was such an incredible experience! I love the Service’s mission and all of the people I met during my DFP, I admire for their passion and dedication to their work. It made me realize that USFWS is the agency that I wanted to work for.
HR: That is great to hear Olivia! Do you have any conservation heroes or mentors?
OB: There are so many amazing conservation heroes but the one who comes to mind first is Liz Putnam, the founder of the Student Conservation Association (SCA). I had the honor of meeting her during a volunteer service trip at Grand Canyon National Park and hearing her story was incredibly inspiring.
In 1953 at age 20, while still attending Vassar College, Liz created the SCA enlisting student volunteers to assist with the upkeep of U.S. national parks and public spaces. Because of her, I and so many other students were given opportunities to experience public lands and conservation in ways that we might’ve not had otherwise.
HR: That is so cool that you had the opportunity to meet her! We have a partnership with SCA to provide many fellowship and internship opportunities. Students can gain some serious skills, and experience life on different landscapes. Totally worth checking out!
OB: I second that! The SCA is a great organization and helped me find my passion and ultimately my career in conservation. 10/10 would recommend.
HR: Is there a particular project from your career or schooling that makes you really proud?
OB: When I was a senior in college I helped organize a Student Service Day for a local environmental non-profit, and it was such a cool experience. It took several months of planning and preparation, but it was so rewarding to see it come to fruition at the end. I was really proud to take part in the creation of an event that gave students the ability to learn more about environmentalism in their community, while also participating in a clean-up around a local lake.
HR: Now for the fun stuff. How do you spend your free time?
OB: I enjoy watching movies, reading, playing with my dogs, and baking! I’ve gotten way more into baking recently and it’s such a fun way to spend a day. I also really enjoy going to new restaurants and coffee shops! I actually have a running list of coffee shops I’ve visited and ones I still need to go to in my area. I update it every time I try a new one so that I can remember which ones I like the most.
HR: Do you have a hidden talent? If so, what is it?
OB: It’s not so hidden anymore, but I’m a pretty decent baker! I recently did a couple of what I call “Epic Bakes” where I spent a few straight days doing nothing but baking different flavors of the same dessert (or different desserts with the same flavor) and then delivered them to all of my friends. So far my Epic Bakes have included cheesecakes, scones, macarons, and blueberry themed desserts. When I have the time, maybe I’ll do bread or pie next!
HR: Wow Olivia that sounds delicious, hope to try one of your “Epic Bakes” one day!
Hey guys, I'm back once again with another MOC! This time, I show you my F6F Hellcat I made. The Grumman F6F, introduced in the latter parts of 1943, primarily served in the Pacific during World War II, deployed with the U.S. Navy as a carrier-based fighter. It was one of the first naval aircraft the U.S. came up with during the war that effectively exploited weaknesses cited in Japanese aircraft of the opposite side. For instance, some major Japanese front-line aircraft (such as the A6M Zero) had no armor around the fuel tanks, or rear armor plating protecting the pilot. The Hellcat incorporated armor pretty much anywhere designers could make room for it. In addition, it was armed with six 50-caliber machine guns (three on each wing) recessed in the leading edge of the wings. These considerations Grumman made while designing this aircraft proved to be absolutely critical to its success, and the F6F was thus used extensively until the end of World War II.
My model features working landing gear, space for a minfigure inside the cockpit, and folding wings for stowage to conserve space (similarly to how the wings folded on the real Hellcat). I hope you guys like it! Comments, faves, and constructive criticism, as always, are greatly appreciated!
Fuselage dumped in Dixon's Scrapyard, Ramsden Heath, Essex. Now conserved and exhibited at Airventure, Doncaster.
Coventry Transport Museum opened in 1980, after it became clear that the road transport collection was outgrowing the space it occupied in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The Museum’s current collection of vehicles is acknowledged as being one of the finest in the world, and the largest in public ownership.
The Museum’s collection consists of motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles. In addition, extensive collections of automobilia, books, photographs and a wealth of other archive material is held and conserved at the Coventry History Centre at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.
Arriving in Conwy near the Conwy Town Walls. I headed along Mount Pleasant and Tower Ditch Road towards Lower Gate Street and the Conwy Quay (mainly to see the bridges, and thought that way would be faster).
Conwy's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Conwy in North Wales. The walls were constructed between 1283 and 1287 after the foundation of Conwy by Edward I, and were designed to form an integrated system of defence alongside Conwy Castle. The walls are 1.3 km (0.81 mi) long and include 21 towers and three gatehouses. The project was completed using large quantities of labourers brought in from England; the cost of building the castle and walls together came to around £15,000, a huge sum for the period. The walls were slightly damaged during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr in 1401, but political changes in the 16th century reduced the need to maintain such defences around the town. The fortifications were treated sympathetically during the development of the road and railway systems in Conwy during the 19th century and survived largely intact into the modern period. Today the walls form part of the UNESCO world heritage site administered by Cadw. Historians Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham describe the defences as "one of the most impressive walled circuits" in Europe.
During the 19th century some changes to Conwy's town walls were made in order to accommodate a new railway line and roads. The engineer Thomas Telford built two new gateways into the walls in 1826 to accommodate the traffic from the new suspension bridge across the river Conwy. In 1848 Robert Stephenson constructed the Chester to Holyhead railway line, which ran through Conwy; unusually for the period, attempts were made to sensitively protect the appearance of the medieval fortifications and the entrance for the railway through the walls on the south side of the town was built in the form of a mock-Gothic archway, while an exit tunnel was dug under the western walls.
Interest in the town walls grew and in the 19th century one of the towers was restored and part of the wall-walk opened up for tourists. The walls were architecturally surveyed for the first time between 1928 and 1930, with the results published in 1938. The town walls were leased from Conwy's local authority by the Ministry of Works in 1953, and a concerted effort began to conserve and protect the fortifications. Many of the houses and buildings which had grown up against the walls since the 14th century were removed in an effort to improve the appearance of the walled circuit and to assist in conservation and archaeological work, and one of the 19th-century gateways inserted by Telford was demolished in 1958. Arnold J. Taylor, a prominent historian of the Edwardian castles, conducted extensive academic work on the history and architecture of Conwy's walls during the 1950s and 1960s, adding to their prominence.
Today Conwy's walls are managed by the Welsh heritage organisation Cadw as a tourist attraction; they form a popular walk around the town, although not all of the walls are safe for tourists to use. The walls require ongoing maintenance; in the financial year between 2002 and 2003, for example, this cost £145,000 (£184,000 in 2010 terms). The walls were declared part of a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986 and are classed as a grade 1 listed building and hold scheduled monument status. They are considered by historians Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham to be "one of the most impressive walled circuits" in Europe.
This gate gives access to Bangor Road.
Between Mount Pleasant and Tower Ditch Road in Conwy.
Marion Karl visits her forested property in Cooperstown, N.Y., on May 21, 2015. Karl’s 173 acres are in a conservation easement with the Otsego Land Trust, and she hikes through it almost daily to take in a view of Otsego Lake. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A conserved 14th Century castle over a town of the same name, originally one of the local guard castles, standing perfectly in one line. It served for many centuries and was maintained, but after it was besieged by imperial armies in 1621, and burned down by Polish cossacks in 1624, it was ruined and partially collapsed in 1783, none of the palaces survived. Insensitive reconstruction into a tourist place began in 1899, which incorporated new buildings into the walls and destroyed many remaining parts. The most significant part is the main tower, 40 meters high, today a lookout.
Found this wonderful double portrait photograph in a delightful frame at a local thrift store. It is now being conserved by my good friends at First City Photography in Leavenworth who were as excited to see it as we were!
Strauss Peyton Photography was a very creative and cutting edge studio located in Kansas City from about 1908 to 1960's. Strauss and Peyton did work together before 1908 - but really came into their own in about 1908 when they opened a studio together, There are several good background articles - the best is here:
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This photo has a handwritten note on the backing paper of the frame that suggests it was taken in on the 20th of some unreadable month in 1906 when the child was 11y 10m old. The back of the photos have the buyers address, job number, but no date. I have contacted the Jackson County Historical Society for any help they can provide with insight into the job number and such as I believe they have the Sitting Cards for much of the Strauss-Peyton Studio work (which was "found" in storage in the KC area a few years ago - and about 5 TONS are at the JCHS!)
The date is likely wrong as the studio really did not exist until about 1908. Also - (as noted below) the boy is believed to have been born in 1899 and appears too old to be Seven Years Old if 1906 is correct. Our guess is that the note on the back of the framing was done at a later date in an effort to educate other family members as to their history.
Researching the address shows that the family was a basic middle class family and the father was a construction contractor. The closest birthdate that makes any sense at all for the child is 1899, which would on the surface make him about seven years old here - but we think he looks older (10-12+). Maybe the date was written years later and is simply wrong. The date does not correspond to any birthdays
Some Questions to Ponder:
What would cause a middle class family to have such a nice portrait photograph (double wide too!) taken of a young child? Is this typical of the day to day work for the Strauss-Peyton Studio?
The clothing looks top notch. I believe he has relatives working at Emery Bird Thayer Department Store (upscale) and maybe that is where they came from (and the picture was framed there as well). Is there any chance that this would have been an effort to promote the child into the entertainment industry?
I believe the child is Mark Forest Doty, born in 1899 and passed away in 1973, parents are Charles A. Doty and Cora L Doty of 2449 Askew in Kansas City.
Any insight appreciated
I will post some better pictures later - this is so exciting I forgot to slow down!
Update August 1, 2016 - I heard back from a relative with a lot of detailed info - most of the speculation above is correct! The information below is copied from our emails with some minor adjustments.
Mark Forrest Doty - Found Photo - Biography
The photo you have posted on Flickr is a relative of mine. Mark (or Markle) Forrest Doty was my paternal grandmother's brother or an uncle to me. Their father was Charles Augustus Doty and his (Charles) final address was 2449 Askew, Kansas City, MO. In 2014 my mother who was living in Kansas City died and she had possession of many old family photos and items. This photograph of Mark Doty was disposed of by me after my mother's death.
Mark was my father’s uncle and my dad adored him. Mark often took my father into the out-of-doors and taught him to fish and hunt. They began fishing Lake of the Ozarks in the early 1930s when it first opened. They fished northern Minnesota during the same time frame driving dirt roads to get there. Hunting was local but they went frequently. The families met every Sunday afternoon for dinner and socializing.
Markle Forrest Doty was the son of Charles Augustus Doty and Cora Lee Doty. Mark was born in 1899 in Bloomington, IL. He had an older brother, Ray, and older sister, my grandmother, Gladys Madeline (Dot). They lived in Bloomington where Charlie grew up in the building contracting business. His father, Henry A. Doty, and grandfather, Henry Doty, were building contractors. Anna Einsminger was his mother. I’m aware that they sunk some of the coal mine shafts near Streator, IL and build homes and buildings including a high school near Bloomington.
Charlie moved to Kansas City in the early 1900s and began his contracting business, Doty and Sons Construction. I’m aware of several buildings he constructed in the Kansas City area. Two that remain are a portion of the St Stephen church at Truman Rd. and Paseo and a KCK fire station on about 33rd and State Ave. Mark worked in this business with his father, his brother Ray, and other relatives.
Mark went to Greenwood Elementary School in KCMO as did his sister, Dot. She went to Manual High School and my guess is he did also. Neither attended college to my knowledge. They lived at 2449 Askew, a house owned by Charles A. Doty. That house was torn down in the building of I-70 in the mid-1960s.
Mark married a lady named Eunice Doxsee and they had 4 children. Charlie Doty died in the mid 1920s and Mark worked with his brother, Ray in construction. Mark was involved in home building for the most part. Both brothers, Mark and Ray, suffered through the Great Depression when the housing industry dried up. Ray died in 1941 before the Depression was over. Mark for some years worked full time for my grandfather (Dot’s husband or his brother-in-law) in his florist shop. The rest of Mark’s family also worked in that shop on holidays.
Mark tried the housing industry again after WWII and managed to keep afloat until the early 1950s when he moved his family to California. My family lost contact with him and his family at that point; although, we knew he was involved with home building there. He took his youngest daughter, Janet, to CA when they moved. His middle daughter Pat married and moved to Louisville. His son Mark Forrest Doty Jr, died to a work-related accident before the move. His oldest child a daughter, Grace Lee, moved and the family lost track of her.
Mark and his wife, Eunice, moved from CA to Louisville when they spent the rest of their lives. Both died there and are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. Mark died in 1973. I visited the cemetery within the last year.
As for you questions about the photo. The photo is of course Mark and I would guess it was taken between 1905 and 1910. The Dotys then were not wealthy but did have a good income. Photos were apparently important to them as my grandmother, Dot, was one of the first people to own a Polaroid camera in the late 1940s and took many pictures with it. My father had his own darkroom and also took many photos. I think it was traditional for people to go to studios in the early 1900s, if they could afford to do so, and have portraits taken. The Doty side of my family left some photos for future generations.
Emery Bird Thayer was one of the higher end department stores in downtown KCMO. During those days retail shopping was done downtown or in smaller shopping areas like 31st & Troost, 27th & Prospect, etc. Most neighborhoods had their “mom and pop” stores for groceries, hardware, cleaning, etc. If you were shopping for something “fine”, you went downtown. Same was true for downtown KCK. I could only guess why the frame was purchased at EBT. I suppose they wanted something special.
If you delve deeper into the Doty’s history, you will find that Henry A Doty fought in the Civil Wart (Illinois 104th Volunteer Infantry) and Henry’s brother, Capt. John S. H. Doty, was the CO. E commander. John led his company through a number of battles but met his end at the Battle of Peachtree Creek which at that time was just north of Atlanta, GA. His company apparently was the flag company that evening. Beyond that generation is Henry Doty who was born in 1800 in either PA or NY. I’m still working on his history.
La fondation de Sainte-Croix
La première église fut édifiée vers 330 dans l’angle nord-est de la ville fortifiée alors appelée Aurelianum. Elle doit son vocable à saint Euverte, son fondateur. En effet, c’est à cette époque que la Croix du Christ fut découverte à Jérusalem par sainte Hélène, mère de l’empereur romain Constantin Ier. Un morceau de cette « Vraie Croix » fut conservé comme relique dans la cathédrale. Saint Aignan, évêque successeur de saint Euverte, termine l’édifice et c’est l'architecte Mélius qui en surélève l’abside et le chœur vers 450.
La fin de l'église Sainte-Croix
Les Normands pillèrent l'église en 865, mais ne purent la brûler. Les rois carolingiens Carloman et Arnulph la reconstruisirent en 883.
En 989, un grand incendie détruisit une partie de la ville, y compris Sainte Croix.
Sainte-Croix, cathédrale romane
Au xie siècle, l'église cathédrale Saint-Étienne devient trop exiguë pour rester la principale église du diocèse d'Orléans. L'église Sainte-Croix est alors élevée au rang de cathédrale. Les bâtiments du chapitre sont regroupés au sud et à l'est de la cathédrale actuelle.
L’hérésie d'Orléans décrite par plusieurs textes et chroniques médiévales est une hérésie savante qui touche en 1022 une douzaine des plus érudits parmi les chanoines de la cathédrale Sainte-Croix, liés notamment à l'entourage de la reine Constance d'Arles. Ces derniers sont brûlés comme hérétiques sur ordre du roi capétien Robert le Pieux. Il s'agit du premier bûcher de la chrétienté médiévale.
L'évêque Arnoul II entreprend la reconstruction de l'église afin de doter Orléans d'une cathédrale digne de son rang. Cet édifice roman, achevé au xiie siècle, fut une vaste cathédrale avec un déambulatoire agrémenté d'alvéoles, et une belle façade appuyée par deux tours. Mais, construite sans doute trop rapidement, elle menaça ruine au bout de 200 ans et s'effondra en partie en 1227.
Le renouveau gothique
En 1278, l'évêque Robert de Courtenay, arrière-petit-fils du roi de France Louis le Gros, décida, au lieu de restaurer l'édifice en ruine, d'édifier une autre église dans le style nouveau qui fleurissait alors en France. Mais contraint de suivre le roi Saint Louis en Terre Sainte, il lègue le soin de poursuivre et d'achever les travaux à son ami l'évêque Gilles Pasté, son successeur. Celui-ci pose la première pierre du nouvel édifice gothique le 11 septembre 1288. Comme le veut l'usage, c'est par le chœur que les travaux commenceront, pour finir par la nef. Les anciennes tours romanes de la façade occidentale, ainsi que les travées de la nef non ruinées, seront conservées.
À son achèvement, la nouvelle cathédrale comportait un chœur gothique soutenu par de magnifiques arcs-boutants. Ce chœur fut complété par des chapelles absidiales à la fin du xiiie siècle et par des chapelles latérales au cours du xive siècle.
La cathédrale passe sans heurts la Guerre de Cent Ans, y compris le siège d'Orléans levé grâce à Jeanne d'Arc le 8 mai 1429.
En 1512, une grosse boule dorée surmontée d'une croix est hissée sur le clocher qui vient d'être élevé au-dessus de la croisée des transepts. Dans les années qui suivent, le raccord avec les transepts romans est terminé ; quatre travées neuves permettent à la nef d'atteindre le portail qui s'encastre entre ses deux vieilles tours.
The destruction by the Huguenots
In 1567 began the second war of religion and Orleans, more than half gained to their cause, passed into the hands of the Protestants who are bent on churches soon. Deploring these excesses, the Prince de Condé, head of the Protestants, made wall openings of the cathedral to prevent further looting. However, a small group of fanatics Huguenots disappointed Condé ready to deal with Catholics, enters the Cathedral on the night of March 23 to 24, 1568 and blew up the four pillars of the transept crossing. The pillars collapsed, causing the steeple, copper surmounting the sphere, the vaults of the chancel and nave. Only the apse remain intact radiating chapels around the choir, and the first two bays of the nave. Work interim clearing and development will be carried out quickly.
On July 2, 1598, King Henry IV returned to Britain after he signed the Edict of Nantes that will put an end to religious wars. In Orleans, it promises to launch, at the expense of the state, the reconstruction of the cathedral. It seals the foundation stone on April 18, 1601. A plate is then placed on one of the remaining pillars.
Reconstruction: the Cathedral of the Bourbons
The April 18, 1601, the King and Queen Marie de Medici laid the first stone of the new building. The choir was completed in 1623.
In 1627, we laid the foundations of the transept which will be completed in 1636.
The north transept was completed in 1643 and the south transept in 1690. The brand of the Sun King appears by introducing classicism share in the Gothic style building. His portrait and motto Nec pluribus impar also listed, with the completion date of 1679, in the center of the rosette located above the south transept portal. Currency can be translated: It would suffice to [govern] many [kingdoms].
The architect Étienne Martellange labored there in the seventeenth century, succeeded in the eighteenth century by Jacques V Gabriel, who created the stalls and choir screen and Louis-François Trouard.
In 1739 starts the construction of the western gate topped the two towers, extension of the nave. The old Romanesque façade, which has survived all the destruction was demolished. The façade until the base of the towers, was completed in 1773. The first two floors of the towers are built over the next ten years, while the need to strengthen the portal that threatens to collapse.
The Revolution suspended the proceedings, it lacks the Gothic building than its two towers.
It contains the work in 1817. The king Charles X inaugurated completion May 8, 1829, for the 400th anniversary of lifting the English siege by Joan of Arc and her army: a monumental flight of steps takes square outside the cathedral, along with the breakthrough of the new St. Joan of Arc and the creation of the great cathedral square.
The ravages of time and war
Since its completion in 1829, the cathedral has experienced the ravages of time and war.
The bell tower, which bowed ominously, was destroyed in 1854 and rebuilt and inaugurated in 1858.
The windows of the choir (work Lobin) are installed in 1859 at the Mgr Dupanloup initiative.
In 1940, during the German advance, part of the historic center of Orleans is ravaged by bombs and German shells. The cathedral is also affected, but the damage remains minor, like in 1944. Since the end of the Second World War, the restoration works succeed to restore the building to its former glory. However, the horrors of war are not all repaired for example, access to the two towers is closed to the public because not repaired since 1940; following the bombing of May 1944, the drone, bell worst (and therefore bigger) found himself finally cracked (in 1971). Become so unusable, it has been recast and reinstalled in 2012.
Archaeological research
The discovery of the seventeenth century
François Lemaire, judge ecclesiastical court of Orleans, recounts in History of the Church and diocese of Orleans in 1628 allegedly found during the digging of foundations for the north transept, the remains of a castle Roman who has, thereafter, never been confirmed.
Excavations 1890
The first discoveries date back to the insured work undertaken in 1889/1890 to install a stove in the cathedral. They helped to recognize the North Arm and the crossing, the alignment of the southern pillars of the nave of the Romanesque cathedral. Their publication is accompanied by a plan providing a hypothetical restitution, strongly inspired by Saint-Sernin in Toulouse plan (double nave aisle, very short choir and ambulatory with five chapels). Other reconstructions, equally distant from the historical reality was even suggested by Paul Frankl or Frédéric Lesueur.
Excavations 1937-1942
In 1937 opened under the direction of Georges Chenesseau, became honorary canon between time, the first real excavations conducted in order to recognize the Romanesque choir. Its results are spectacular: all the Romanesque choir, the fruit of two building campaigns, the ambulatory and the entrance to the shaft chapels are now known. The results are stored in an archaeological basement incorrectly called crypt, this space has no religious function.
Besides graves and substructures of Romanesque and Carolingian times, are revealed building remains attributed to the Gallo-romaine9 time. Georges Chenesseau identifies immediately with the basilica built by the holy bishop Euverte, causing violent controversy that quickly exceeded the local single frame.
In 1940 a survey in the north aisle of the nave shows the north wall of the nave, thus demonstrating that the Romanesque cathedral had only one aisle.
It remained to resolve the many chapels. Excavations in 1941 before the sacristy provide the answer: the cathedral of Orleans had three chapels.
Jeanne D'Arc
There is an indirect link between the present cathedral and Joan of Arc. The national historic heroine came following the Vespers Mass May 2, 1429 during the siege of Orleans (we must remember that the building as it is today did not exist in 1429, with the exception of the chapels apse, which surround the choir at the rear). It may be mentioned also that the rue Jeanne d'Arc opened the nineteenth century arrived before the main facade (at the time we wanted to release the foremost shrine small streets and medieval buildings that the hemmed, the name did not come after).
Each year, on the evening of May 7, during Johanniques holidays, takes place on the square, the ceremony of Delivery of Etendard (which evokes that of Joan of Arc). The municipality is the guardian and send it to Catholic religious authorities for the duration of the festivities. The facade of the cathedral is then used to support a sound and light. wp
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Title: TO CONSERVE ENERGY ALL PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOLS HAD THEIR FOOTBALL GAMES RESCHEDULED FOR DAYLIGHT HOURS AT THE MULTNOMAH STADIUM. NORMALLY THEY WERE PLAYED AT NIGHT, 10/1973
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La chapelle Saint-Laurent de Rome, plus connue sous le nom de Sancta Sanctorum (Saint des Saints) est mentionnée pour la première fois dans la biographie du pape Etienne III au VIIIe siècle et fut dédiée à Saint-Laurent. Elle se situe tout en haut de l'escalier de Pilate (Scala Santa). De chaque côté du palier sont placées les portes en marbre et une grille qui ouvre sur le Saint des Saints, lieu où seul le Pape peut accéder. Elle prend le nom de Sancta Sanctorum au XIIe siècle (référence au Saint des Saints du temple de Jérusalem), du fait des nombreuses reliques acquises par les évêques de Latran qui veulent concurrencer la basilique Saint-Pierre. Dans l’autel un coffre ou « arche » de bois de cyprès (arca cypressina) placée par le pape Léon III et contenant un grand nombre de reliques, sans doute à l’imitation de « l’Arche d’alliance » du « Saint des Saints » du Temple de Jérusalem, abrite les reliques : les Tables de la Loi, les sandales de Jésus, le fauteuil sur lequel il s’était assis lors de la Cène, le bâton avec lequel il fut frappé à la tête, les têtes de saint Pierre et de saint Paul (transférées par Urbain V au-dessus de la confession du Latran en 1368), la tête de sainte Agnès (désormais conservée dans l'église sant'Agnese dell'Agone) et de sainte Euphémie, un morceau de pain de la sainte Cène, le manteau de saint Jean-Baptiste, l'épaule de saint Matthieu, le menton de saint Barthélémy. Ces reliques ont été transférées aux musées du Vatican et les authentiques qui les accompagnaient sont désormais à la Bibliothèque vaticane. Une inscription au-dessus de l'autel, placée sur ordre de Sixte V, rappelle la richesse du trésor des reliques : « NON EST IN TOTO SANCTIOR ORBE LOCUS » (Il n'est point de lieu plus saint au monde). En plus de ces anciennes reliques des premiers martyrs chrétiens de Rome, il reste une image byzantine du Christ, une icône réputée acheiropoïète, c'est-à-dire "non faite de main d'homme". La tradition veut qu'elle ait été commencée par saint Luc et terminée par les anges. Elle représente le Christ en gloire sur le trône entouré d’un nimbe crucifère, dans une pose classique d’enseignement. Elle est peinte sur une planche et recouverte de lames d'argent. L'on ne voit plus aujourd'hui que la tête et les pieds du Christ. Elle aurait été produite tout de suite après l’Ascension du Christ, à la demande de Marie, par saint Luc. Elle est peinte sur bois, mais il ne reste que quelques traces visibles du travail original. Le visage actuel est peint sur un drap de soie que le pape Alexandre III fit poser par-dessus l’image sainte. Le pape Innocent III recouvrit plus tard le reste du corps d’une feuille d’argent travaillée et, au XVe siècle, des portes en argent furent ajoutées pour la protéger. Elle est posée sur l’autel où étaient contenues les autres reliques et se trouve sous la loggia des Saints réalisée pendant le pontificat de Sixte V sous la direction des peintres Cesare Nebbia et Giovanni Guerra.
Reliquary where a fragment of the table of the Last Supper is kept. The last banquet on which Christ sat ...
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The St. Lawrence Chapel of Rome, better known as Sancta Sanctorum (Holy of Holies) is mentioned for the first time in the biography of Pope Stephen III in the eighth century and was dedicated to St. Lawrence. It is located at the top of the pilate staircase (Scala Santa). On each side of the landing are placed the marble doors and a gate that opens onto the Holy of Holies, a place where only the Pope can access. It takes the name of Sancta Sanctorum in the twelfth century (reference to the Holy of Holies of the Temple of Jerusalem), because of the many relics acquired by the Lateran bishops who want to compete with the Basilica of St. Peter. In the altar a chest or "arche" of cypress wood (arca cypressina) placed by Pope Leo III and containing a large number of relics, probably in imitation of the "Ark of the Covenant" of "Saint of the Saints "of the Temple of Jerusalem, houses the relics: the Tables of the Law, the sandals of Jesus, the chair on which he sat at the Last Supper, the stick with which he was struck in the head, the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul (transferred by Urban V over the Lateran confession in 1368), the head of St. Agnes (now preserved in the church of Sant'Agnese dell'Agone) and St. Euphemia, a piece bread of the Lord's Supper, the mantle of St. John the Baptist, the shoulder of St. Matthew, the chin of St. Bartholomew. These relics were transferred to the Vatican Museums and the authentic ones that accompanied them are now in the Vatican Library. An inscription above the altar, placed on the orders of Sixtus V, recalls the wealth of the treasure of relics: "NO IS IN TOTO SANCTIOR ORBE LOCUS" (There is no holiest place in the world). In addition to these ancient relics of the first Christian martyrs of Rome, there remains a Byzantine image of Christ, an icon deemed to be "acheiropoïète", that is to say "not made of a human hand". Tradition has it that it was started by St. Luke and ended with the angels. It represents Christ in glory on the throne surrounded by a cruciform nimbus, in a classical pose of teaching. She is painted on a board and covered with silver blades. Today we see only the head and feet of Christ. It would have been produced right after the Ascension of Christ, at the request of Mary, by St. Luke. It is painted on wood, but there are only a few visible traces of the original work. The present face is painted on a silk cloth that Pope Alexander III had placed over the holy image. Pope Innocent III later covered the rest of the body with worked silver leaf and in the 15th century silver doors were added to protect it. It is placed on the altar where were contained the other relics and is under the loggia of the Saints carried out during the pontificate of Sixtus V under the direction of the painters Cesare Nebbia and Giovanni Guerra.
Des stalles du château de Gaillon sont conservées dans la basilique Saint-Denis près de Paris. Ce château était la résidence de loisir des archevêques de Rouen. Commandées au début du XVIe siècle par Georges d’Amboise, ces stalles ont été construites lorsque cet archevêque, devenu légat du pape et premier conseiller de Louis XII a fait transformer le château médiéval en palais de la Renaissance. Seules stalles en France à présenter de nombreux panneaux de marqueterie et une iconographie inédite, elles forment un mobilier unique, chef-d’œuvre de cette période charnière entre gothique et Renaissance, arborant une grande mixité de styles. Ces stalles sont les chaires qui étaient destinées aux trois chanoines qui officiaient dans la chapelle haute du château de Gaillon, dédiée à saint Georges. Elles étaient ceintes d’une clôture en boiset constituaient ainsi le chœur liturgique de l'édifice.
Les stalles en chêne sont composées de deux rangées disposées côté nord et sud du transept de la basilique de Saint-Denis. La rangée nord présente un ensemble de six stalles, la rangée sud de cinq stalles et une isolée. Seules douze stalles ont été créées au XVIe siècle alors que le programme iconographique en prévoyait quatorze. De 2,83 m de haut, elles composées d’un siège et d’un dorsal, ce dernier comprenant deux registres : un bas-relief surmontant un panneau de marqueterie. Tous les éléments sont sculptés ou marquetés. De manière unique, les dossiers, les dorsaux et les voussures des dais sont galbés. De même les chaires ont des largeurs variées, fixées par celles des bas-reliefs des dorsaux. Pour s’adapter, les largeurs d’autres composants ont été rectifiées. La mixité de style se retrouve dans la globalité, les interdorsaux et deux dais étant gothiques alors que les faibles reliefs sont apparentés aux grotesques de la Renaissance, les bas-reliefs et les marqueteries des dorsaux étant quant à eux à la fois d’inspiration péninsulaire et septentrionale.
Sont illustrées sur les bas-reliefs originaux des dorsaux deux scènes de la vie d’Anne et Joachim, parents de la vierge Marie, cinq scènes de la vie de saint Jean-Baptiste le précurseur et sept scènes de la vie de saint Georges selon les textes d’Évangile ou de la Légende dorée. Nombre d’autres saints sont présentés en pied, sous forme de statuettes sur les interdorsaux ou de bas-reliefs sur les soubassements des jouées, notamment les quatre évangélistes sur ces derniers. Sur les panneaux marquetés des quadrants des parcloses sont figurées les affres des enfers des condamnés selon les sept péchés capitaux, avec les planètes et leurs influences. Les représentations sont inspirées des gravures du Calendrier des bergers imprimé à cette époque.
Les miséricordes figurent des scènes des Métamorphoses d’Ovide ainsi que les arts libéraux selon la Margarita Philosophica de G. Reisch. Les artisans se sont inspirés de gravures d’ouvrages imprimés au début du XVIe siècle, par exemple le soldat romain Caius Mucius Scaevola devant le roi Étrusque Porsenna y étant représenté exposant ainsi des thématiques propres à la culture antique. De manière également tout à fait inédite, les 7 vertus, cardinales et théologales, et 7 sibylles sont figurées et représentées sur les panneaux de marqueterie du premier registre des dorsaux. Les allégories et les prophétesses sont encadrées d’architectures identiques deux à deux qui les mettent en concordance. Les sibylles ont été choisies parmi celles du manuscrit des Heures de Louis de Laval dont les auteurs ont cité les prophéties. Ces dernières proviennent du manuscrit des Institutions divines de Lactance qui était de nouveau traduit et que le cardinal a lui-même fait enluminer. Ce grand rhéteur du IVe siècle ayant quant à lui repris les oracles rédigés dans les Oracles sibyllins.
Georges Ier d’Amboise n’a pas manqué de faire valoir qu’il était le commanditaire des stalles en demandant à ce que ses armes et sa devise y figurent à de nombreuses reprises. Le légat a donné pour modèles aux artisans des stalles des enluminures ou gravures de manuscrits faisant partie de sa splendide bibliothèque, digne d'un grand érudit humaniste. Il fit venir l’Italie en choisissant la marqueterie figurative en sus de la sculpture, seule technique utilisée à l'époque en France. Sans renier la tradition en faisant figurer les saints, il a fait représenter de manière inédite leur cycle de vie, dont il a choisi des événements bien spécifiques. De plus, il a incité les fidèles à s’instruire et à étudier les auteurs antiques en faisant sculpter des allégories des arts libéraux et des personnages mythiques ou héroïques. Enfin, par le dialogue des sibylles et des vertus, il a montré que la rhétorique de Lactance était convaincante. Il a ainsi non seulement introduit en France la mode italienne dans le mobilier, le décor et les ornements du château de Gaillon, mais surtout donné corps à l’esprit humaniste en faisant de ses stalles les messagères qui appellent à une vie vertueuse, dans la foi au Christ annoncé à tous les hommes (cf. wikipédia, merci Glass Angel pour la photo).
Coventry Transport Museum opened in 1980, after it became clear that the road transport collection was outgrowing the space it occupied in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The Museum’s current collection of vehicles is acknowledged as being one of the finest in the world, and the largest in public ownership.
The Museum’s collection consists of motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles. In addition, extensive collections of automobilia, books, photographs and a wealth of other archive material is held and conserved at the Coventry History Centre at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.
NEW JERSEY’S BALD EAGLE POPULATION CONTINUES TO SOAR
January 14th, 2016
CONSERVE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY RELEASES RESULTS OF 2015 STATE BALD EAGLE REPORT
by Lindsay McNamara, Communications Manager
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey today released the 2015 Bald Eagle Report, highlighting the number of nesting pairs, active nests and nest productivity for the raptors throughout New Jersey with data collected by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife biologists, CWF biologists and committed volunteers.
“With 161 pairs of bald eagles this past year — up from just a single nest in the early 1980’s — the dramatic ongoing recovery of bald eagles across the northeast continues to inspire so many of us,” said David Wheeler, Conserve Wildlife Foundation Executive Director. “The thrill of seeing a bald eagle fly across the sky is unparalleled. This report captures how these eagles are continuing their All-American return.”
The report notes that thirteen new eagle pairs were found this season, nine in the south, two in Central Jersey and two in Northern New Jersey.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2016/01/14/new-jerseys-ba...
I followed a recipe for Blueberry Conserve, but made half or more of the fruit be rhubarb (of which I still have plenty in the garden). Makes a wonderful combination! Tart and sweet. A "conserve" traditionally includes citrus (making it also kind of a marmalade; here lemon), nuts and raisins. I skip the nuts.
(Just kidding about the ™ in my title--but I DID just 'invent' it!!)