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Aluminium foundry alloys are produced as continuous cast or mold-cast ingots for cast products. Photo: Hydro/Helge Hansen
Striking telephone workers dance on the picket line outside the C&P Telephone headquarters at 725 13th Street NW April 23, 1947, two weeks into their walkout.
The union was seeking a nationwide agreement and the strike began April 7th.
The strike crippled long distance service and those phones not equipped with direct dial.
However, AT&T refused to negotiate a nationwide agreement and only offered a small wage increase after workers had been on strike for three weeks.
Four weeks into the strike, 17 local unions had signed local agreements. The nationwide strike collapsed and it marked the end of the NFTW.
However, the Washington operators continued their strike until May 18, 1947, holding out for written guarantees that there would be no reprisals.
The strike, however, succeeded in making the case for a stronger national union, with the Washington traffic union one of those pushing hard.
In June 1947, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) was formed as a national union, incorporating most of the locals of the NFTW, including the D.C. unit. Similarly the union later voted to affiliate with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) with the support of the Washington unit in 1949.
Mary Gannon led the local operators union from the time it was a company union in 1935 through militant strikes in the 1940s and up until 1950--after the Communications Workers of America was formed. She was one of the few women to lead a major local union in the Washington, D.C. area at that time. Margaret Gilmore at the Bureau of Engraving was another.
She led upwards of 200 strikes—most for an hour or two—during her career, including a one-day strike that disrupted White House communications during World War II. Many of the strikes were sympathy strikes helping other telephone unions around the country and helping to lay the basis for a national union.
She led an eight-day "continuous union meeting" to protest conditions such as having to call a supervisor before switching a headset from one ear to another or before taking an aspirin.
She was in the late stages of pregnancy with her son Tommy during the long 1947 strike, and put in the long hours and picket duty required of a union leader. Her son was born near the end of the strike and Gannon returned to the bargaining table to conclude the agreement that ended the strike.
She continued to work after giving birth helping to form the Communications Workers of America later in 1947 in the aftermath of the failed strike.
Gannon said of her decision to resign at age 38 in 1950, “I was torn between two children, for I feel like the union was my child too. But in the end I felt like I must give more attention to Tommy.”
During her tenure, the telephone operators were known as “Gannon’s girls” by local news reporters.
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For a blog post on the Washington Telephone Traffic Union, see washingtonareaspark.com/2022/02/08/the-washington-telepho...
The photographer is unknown. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection, copyright: Washington Post.
the children were looking at each other when they drew these. They were not allowed to take their pen off the paper.
This external view of the somewhat “unchurch-like” west end shows the unusual cross section formed by the nave and the aisles.
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St Augustine, High Street, Brookland, Kent.
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1230943
TQ 92 NE 5/35
BROOKLAND HIGH STREET (south west side) Church of St Augustine
9.6.59
GV I Parish church. Mid C13, C14, C15 and C18, restored 1790 by Thomas White, and in 1950s and 1960s. Roughly coursed mixed stone with plain tile roof. Continuous nave and chancel. North and south aisles of unequal length, each slightly overlapping chancel, formerly with chapels within east ends. North aisle has schoolroom at west end, now chapel. North porch. Small medieval north stair turret.
Nave: mid C13, extended to west by two bays in C14. West end plinthless, with two buttresses. Stepped, chamfered, untraceried three-light west window with angular hoodmould, set in blocked two-centred arched architrave. Tw centred arched marble-stone west doorway of two chamfered orders. Ribbed door.
South aisle: east end mid C13, rest C13, extended with nave in C14. Plinthless, with one west, seven south and one east buttress. 1741 rainwater-head to west. Gabled. Square-topped west window of three cinquefoil-headed lights with cavetto mullions, blocked tracery above, and fragments of hoodmould. Four untraceried south windows of two pointed-arched lights, square-headed, with cavetto mullions but no hoodmoulds, probably of 1790. Broad C15 five-light traceried east window-with cavetto mullions, segmental head and hood-mould. South doorway with segmental-pointed arch and continuous bead moulding. Ribbed door.
Chancel: mid C13. Plinthless, with angle buttresses and gabled roof slightly higher than that of nave. Two chamfered lancets to south and three to north. Stepped three-light untraceried east window with cavetto mullions and hood-mould, restored except for head; resembling C18 aisle windows but said to be C16. (Anne Roper, The Church of St Augustine, Brookland, 1982 edition). Fragments of lower cill and chamfered jambs of blocked east lancets. Blocked rectangular chamfered openings in gable above.
North aisle: C13, extended with nave in C14. Low chamfered stone plinth to north elevation only. Angle buttresses and two to north. Lean-to roof. C14 east window with cusped intersecting tracery and hoodmould. Geometrical window to east end of north elevation with two cinquefoil-headed lights, a chamfered sexfoil and two plain open spandrels. Hoodmould with roll-and-hollow moulding and carved heads as label-stops.Two further north windows, one to east of porch and one between turret and lean-to, the former with broad C18 wooden shutters; both similar to C18 south aisle windows. Small medieval stair turret adjoining porch to west, on stone plinth with stone string and battlements; two small lights, one cusped, one rectangular. Second World War memorial clock. Lean-to to school room at west end of north elevation has rectangular wood mullion window of five leaded lights. West gable end has rectangular C19 window of two leaded lights above C19 ribbed door with cambered head, up three steps.
North porch: gault and red brick in Flemish bond on stepped brick plinth with plain tile roof. Weatherboarded gable. Projecting eaves with moulded bargeboards. Formerly timber framed and probably partly open (evidence for large braces and a bracket). Beneath a collar, two large durns, moulded to outside with plain chamfer, roll and fillet. Large spandrels, each with quartrefoil circumscribed by roll and fillet, with a trefoil above and below. C18 shutter doors, lower panelled with ramped tops, upper boarded. Two-centred arched moulded stone inner doorway with broach stops. Ribbed medieval door.
Interior: structure: seven bay south arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches and six octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases; two east capitals different from two central, but all four have similar bases; two to west added when church extended in C14.
Six bay north arcade, also of double-chamfered pointed arches only west two of which align with south arcade; five octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases; that to east individual (and possibly marking chapel), two to centre similar to central capitals of south arcade, two west added during church extension. Bell capital corbels to east and west ends of both arcades, that to north east with carved face. Both arcades probably originally of dark marble stone, which has been extensively replaced. Continuous hood-mould to nave and south aisle arcade only, south east chapel down one step. Three internal flying buttresses to north aisle. West end of north aisle partitioned off as school-room from late medieval date. Narrow doorway to north turret with triangular head, hollow chamfer and broach stops. Three-centred arched doorway with hollow chamfer and broach stops in school-room wall, in north west corner of penultimate west bay of north aisle.
North and south chancel lancets have chamfered rere-arches springing from slender columns with bell capitals and bases. Continuous hood-mould to heads of lancets. Traces of outer jambs of original east window, and bell bases of columns of rere-arches. Continuous C13 string round chancel at cill level. Fragment of similar string half way up south wall of south chapel. Blocked fireplace in north east corner of school-room.
Roof: five rebated crown-posts to nave, all apparently same date, on square bases; with moulded tie-beams. Two square thick-set crown-posts to east end of south aisle (probably marking extent of chapel), broadly chamfered, with moulded capitals and bases on moulded tie-beams. Six crown posts to rest of south aisle; that to east set close to west post of chapel; all posts octagonal and slender but mouldings of five to east similar to those of chapel. Tie-beams differently moulded from chapel and moulding continued along cornices. West crown-post and tie-beam plain.
North aisle roof ceiled. C19 chancel roof. Fixtures and fittings: C13 stepped piscina and two-seat sedile to south wall of chancel, with pointed arches with roll-and-fillet moulding and continuous pointed-arched hoodmould. Column with bell capital and base between the two seats. C13 piscinain south wall of south chapel with stopped hollow chamfer, and five red ochre cinquefoils. Rectangular aumbry to centre of east wall of chancel. Cylindrical lead font of circa 1200 with signs of Zodiac and Labours of the Months in two arcaded rows under cable and zig-zag mouldings. Three C13 Resurrection castings below rim. Unique in Britain but similar to that at Saint Evroult-de-Montfort, Normandy. Possibly made in North France. (G. Zarnecki, English Romanesque lead Sculpture, 1957). Set on cylindrical stone base with concrete to top. Carved stone fragments by tomb in south chapel (possibly connected with font base?). Three medieval pews now north west end of nave.
Re-laid medieval floor tiles in various parts of church. Altar possibly a C17 Communion table. Mid C17 rails to east one and half bays of south arcade with moulded rail and symmetrical balusters on chamfered base. Bowed later C17 rails part of way across west end of south east chapel with plain hand-rail and turned balusters. C18 pulpit, formerly three-decker, now two, with fielded panels and Greek key pattern to cornice. Hexagonal veneered and corniced sounding board serves as table at west end.
Box pews circa 1738 with fielded panels, to north aisle, nave, and part of south aisle. Royal Arms 1739 over south door. Large chest, reputedly from Spanish Armada. Funeral hudd. Complete set of scales, weights and measures from Hundred of Aloesbridge, 1795, said to be oldest set in existence. Benefactors board 1821.
Decoration: wall-painting of second half of C13 at east end of south wall of south chapel, depicting martydom of St. Thomas a Becket. Traces of red and black paint on jambs and mouldings throughout church. C14 stained glass in east window of north aisle.
Monuments: Brass in north wall of chancel to Thomas Leddes, d.1503. Table tomb at east end of south chapel to John Plomer, d.1615; rendered brick on plain chamfered plinth with recessed side-panels and black Bethersden marble top bearing inscription. Memorial tablet, south wall south aisle, to Henry Read, d.1777; white marble with gadrooned gravy boats to top and black marble obelisk with white urn on consoled plinth.
Said to be on Saxon site. Detached belfry of circa 1200 (q.v.) (Anne Roper,Op.cit.; John Newman, Buildings of England Series, West Kent and the Weald, 1980).
Listing NGR: TQ9896825825
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See also:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Augustine%27s_Church,_Brookland
The Astoria-Megler Bridge is a continuous truss bridge that spans the mouth of the Columbia River between Astoria, Oregon and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington, in the United States. The span was the last segment of U.S. Route 101 between Olympia, Washington and Los Angeles, California.[1] It is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
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Kate and I spent a few days in Oregon and Washington in November-December 2009. See all of the pictures from this trip.
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Elfreth's Alley is a residential alley located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited residential streets in the country, dating back to the early 18th century. It is a National Historic Landmark. The alley is located off Second Street between Arch and Race Streets in Philadelphia's Old City Neighborhood. Elfreth's Alley is named for Jeremiah Elfreth, an 18th-century blacksmith and property owner. Among the alley's residents were tradesmen and their families, including shipwrights, silver and pewter smiths, glassblowers, and furniture builders. In the 1770s, one-third of the households were headed by women. The Georgian and Federal-style houses and cobblestone pavement of the alley were common in Philadelphia during this time. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, industry began to change the street. Perhaps the first was a stove factory that in 1868 took its place in a row of residential houses. Eventually, factories surrounded Elfreth's Alley. The city's waterfront was only a few blocks away. Industry changed more than the architecture; successive waves of immigrants, lured by the nearby jobs, moved onto the street; in 1900, the neighborhood was overwhelmingly Irish. In 1934, the Elfreth's Alley Association (EAA) was founded to preserve the alley's historic structures while interpreting the street's 300-year history. The EAA helped save the street from demolition, and also lobbied the city to restore the alley's name to "Elfreth's Alley"; it had been designated as the 100 block of Cherry Street years before as part of a street-name simplification program. Present-day Elfreth's Alley is the product of cycles of urban renewal and decay as well as historic preservation efforts. The alley is a tourist attraction and a rare surviving example of 18th-century working-class housing stock. The site stands in sharp contrast to the more frequently preserved grand mansion houses of Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood - October 7, 2007.
continuous line drawing on first day of college. Had to sit on the floor and draw surroundings as all the places were taken. I really enjoyed the technique and the quick jotting of my surroundings with biro.
This is a photograph from the annual Ardagh Moydow Glen Community Games 5KM and 10 Mile road races, fun runs, walks and challenges which were held in the heritage village of Ardagh, Co. Longford, Ireland on Saturday 30th December 2017 at 13:00. This year's race featured the change from last year's race where the race seen the introduction of chip timing, a new start and finish in the middle of the village at the community center and, a slightly amended route.
We have an extensive set of photographs from the race start and the finish on our Flickr photostream set at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157688852560892
The 10 mile race takes in the local 'Ardagh Mountain' which is a 1 mile continuous climb starting at the 2.5 mile mark of the 10 mile race. There is, of course, then the reward of a long down-hill stretch after the summit. The remainder of the race is The 5KM race takes a loop around the heritage village of Ardagh. Overall this is a very well organised race with accurate courses, good marshalling and traffic control and excellent after race refreshments. The 10 mile race is one of the longest road races held during the Christmas period anywhere in Ireland and has appeal to runners who want to add a longer distance race to their festive calendar of running.
The weather at this year's race was very cold and windy. The rain managed to stay away but a very cold northerly breeze certainly made conditions cold. Whatever wind advantage there was for the runners was not experienced until the second half of the race. In 2014 there was very frosty icy weather and last year in 2015 participants were given a very very windy day with heavy rain at the finish of both races. The 2016 event seen very suitable weather for road racing.
Ardagh is probably County Longford's most picturesque village with many historical and architecturally important features. It is located about 6 miles from Longford town.
Our Photographs from Ardagh 10 Mile 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157678237005786
Our Photographs from Ardagh 10 Mile 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157662725299342
Our Photographs from Ardagh 10 Mile 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157649570517620
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Continuous Wave Illuminator used to guide the radar guided Hawk AA missile to a target.
After visiting the Cherokee National Museum, I drove southwest, to go to Fort Sill. This is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma. It is home to the Artillery Museum and the Air Defense Artillery Museum. I visited this place on June 8, 2019.
Mitered corners with maple splines. The top and bottom are spalted Pecan. The rim was fabricated starting by a slab of cocobolo, and mitering the corners in such a manner that the grain is an exact continuous match at all the corners. The stopped mortises for the splines were milled with a spiral 3-flute end mill on a milling machine.
3.5" Hunter XCI CG PreCut to fit tracks Polyiso Continuous Insulation installed over 3M 3015 AVB Roosevelt Field Neiman Marcus. Polyiso higher thermal resistance allows for thinner tracks and overall wall thickness. Passes NFPA 285
Xci CG is a high-thermal rigid insulation panel composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured on-line to premium performance coated glass facers on both sides. It is designed for use in commercial wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.
In the photography world, continuous fluorescent daylight Kelvin lighting systems are rendering flash/strobe lighting obsolete. No more unwanted red-eye or mysterious shadows creeping into your images. Continuous Daylight Kelvin Fluorescent allows you to set up the look of the scene exactly as you want it to appear then simply capture the shot. No more guesswork.
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Eos Lighting LLC are manufactures of Fluorescent Lighting and have many kits and individual fixtures to chose from.
About the Artist: Liza Lou
Liza Lou was born in 1969 in New York City. She grew up in a family of modest means, playing with second-hand toys and dolls. As a child Lou saw Pop Art and realized that she had to be an artist. She was attracted by the idea that while you were making one thing it could mean something else.
Lou attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she fell in love with glass beads, but she dropped out of school when her professors didn’t take her choice of beads as a medium seriously. To support herself, Lou worked as a waitress and sold prom dresses in Hollywood.
Lou eventually beaded an entire life size kitchen, right down to dishes in the sink and a cherry pie cooling on the oven rack. The kitchen brought her recognition and a case of acute tendonitis. Next she beaded a back yard, including the blades of grass, and after that, portraits of American Presidents. “It’s humorous to see men in beads,” she said. “Herbert Hoover is not someone you associate with glitter.”
In 2002 Liza Lou was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, which changed her approach to her art. She moved to South Africa and worked with Zulu beadworkers to create Continuous Mile, a hand-beaded rope that is a mile long.
The Details
•Title: Continuous Mile
•Maker(s): Liza Lou
•Accession Number: 2013.9.1
•Place Made: United States, CA, Los Angeles; South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: about 80 cm
Diameter (max): about 140 cm
•Date: 2006-2008
•Technique: needleworking, sewing
•Materials: Glass beads; cotton, thread
Interpretive Text
Continuous Mile took Liza Lou more than a year to make with a team of Zulu women, who work with Lou in Durban, South Africa. The sculpture is a coiled stacked rope, measuring a mile in length, sewn with more than 4.5 million glossy black beads. The sculpture is a work about work, about process, about finding meaning in the everyday, and about managing many hands to create something that could not be made by one person alone. Lou says, “The idea was to employ as many people as possible, using the slowest possible technique in order to engage a community in the process of making an artwork.”
A Fair Display of Innovation and Initiative
03.16.2023
Photo by Douglas Stutz
Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton
A Fair Display of Innovation and Initiative…Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton staff took part in a Continuous Process Improvement Fair to showcase innovations and initiatives in providing safe, high-quality patient care from a number of clinic, department and directorate areas.
Submissions included the following entries: Directorate Surgical Services Anesthesia department Planning for Manning; Increasing OR First Case On-Time Starts from the Main Operating Room team with Directorate Surgical Services; Improving DMHRSi [Defense Medical Human Resource System – Internet] Completion at NMRTC Bremerton; Pharmacy Revolution from Directorate of Clinical Support Services; Increase Weight Loss Pre-Op To Improve Post-Op Outcomes in Bariatric Patients, from Director of Administration’s Nutrition Management; Multidisciplinary Weight Loss Clinic from Director of Medical Services Family Medicine team; Improving Efficiency With Technology from Directorate of Branch Clinic’s Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Everett; Directorate for Surgical Services Ophthalmology department on fixing equipment problems; Endoscopy Clinic on Time Outs Matter – tailer to your department; Endoscopy Clinic with Narcotic Reversal Agent box; NMRTU Everett with Vaccine Receipt Process Standardization and Directorate for Administration Patient Administration with Suitability Screening (Official Navy photos by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer). www.dvidshub.net/news/441579/fair-display-innovation-and-...
We have been in the grounds of the Harmandir Sahib/ Golden Temple for nearly an hour now, taking pictures, admiring the brilliantly floodlit shrine and generally soaking in the overall ambiance and atmosphere. All this while, we have been hearing chanting, going on continuously through the many loudspeakers fitted all along the path circumnavigating the large 'sarovar' or lake in which the Harmandir Sahib/ Golden Temple is located. I had thought that was a recording, put on by the temple management. But no. Somewhere along the path were two glass fronted cubicles where one elderly gentlemen in each cubicle was reading into a microphone from a copy of the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. Not many were gawking at them, except probably me, but the two gentlemen did not as much as even look up- they kept up their reading with 100% dedication and concentration. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
March 7th, 2015
K-5 Malala Feeder school by NCHD - National Commission fro Human Development.
Location: Mir Bandai Ali Khan at Tando Ghulam Ali Badin District, Sindh, Pakistan
By: Pervaiz Lodhie
Founder LEDtronics
Founding Director PHDF - Pakistan Human Development Fund
Faciltated by: Shaantech Pakistan Team
Back Ground
National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was established in July, 2001 as a federal statutory body. It is a fast-track initiative to improve social sector outcomes at the grass-roots. The goal of the Commission is to fill the implementation gaps and improve public sector delivery mechanisms to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through:
Universal Primary Education (UPE)
Adult Literacy / Gender Empowerment Program
Reducing Population Growth Rate
Improving Infant & Maternal Mortality
Capacity Building at Grassroots
NCHD has been officially declared as lead agency for the spread of literacy programs in the country by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The 2006 UNESCO International Reading Association Literacy Prize has been awarded to NCHD for its National Literacy Program.
Visit of Mr. Pervaiz Lodhi – Member PHDF
Mr. Pervaiz lodhie a distinguished member of PHDF visited Malala Feeder School on 7th March 2015 alongwith his team and the Worthy Director operations Sindh Humaira Hashimi Sahiba. The team arrived at Malala feeder school at about 12.00noon. A warm welcome was given to the distinguished guests. The students from Malala wrapped in school uniform give a salute the honourable guests and offered flowers to the guests. Thrown rose petals in a queue to the head Masters room.
Where Mr. Moti lal – Head Master briefed the honourable guests about the back ground and the efforts taken for establishment of such a wonderful building through donations. He elaborated that besides donors the I-care, PHDF, Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur and the chairman usher and zakat the children are continuously supporting the school by making donations from their pocket money, which were a unique contribution and the idea for construction of malala feeder school. They started the school with the number of 25 children only but now after hectic efforts and continuous work hard the number has raised to 455. At the movement 5 Feeder teachers are placed while 3 other teachers are voluntarily putting their time and efforts.
Then the guests visited each class room one by one, where two children from each class presented rose flowers to the guests. The guest asked many questions about the education, the attitude of the teachers and their satisfaction from the school and learning land marks. Checked and found whole the school very neat and clean.
A gathering of parents of children was also arranged in the school, after visiting class rooms the honourable guests moved toward the stage where function started with the recitation of holy Quran. A student of class three Ghulam Rasool recited from Holy Quran.
Naat Maqbool (PBHM) was presented by three female students namely Huma Naz, Mehmoona, Nayab and Iqra
Mr. Pervaiz lodhi – member PHDF said in his address that PHDF put a unique idea of public and private partnership and have proved that by collective efforts Pakistan can meet the desired goals and objectives especially in the field of education. He called a meeting with stake holder and the private sector yesterday and will be meet with the honourable minister and PHDF members in Pakistan to contribute on their part in the uplift of NCHD and the objective of Education and literacy in Pakistan. He thinks that it is only NCHD which has office in every district of the Pakistan and grass root approach. He will try a funding and the support of Pakistanis in America and bring some good news as well. He is himself contacting various philanthropists and groups in this regard also. Insha Allah we will bring a positive change in Pakistan and continue our mission. He appreciated the innovative idea for construction of Malala school building. He also suggested that he will show the movie to the father of Malala who is visiting America in coming month.
At end of this session honourable guest distributed Shaantech Solar Charged LED Lights to top 3 students from each class (1,2,3,4,5)
Concepcion Picciotto White House protestor running the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States
Concepcion Picciotto, has lived in Lafayette Square on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in a peace camp across from the White House, since August 1, 1981, in protest of nuclear arms. She has carried on the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.
Born Concepción Martín in Vigo, Spain, she immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. She worked in New York at the Spanish consulate. She fell in love with an Italian businessman and married him at 21. However, a bitter separation and custody battle cost her her home, her daughter and her job.
Picciotto was inspired by fellow activists William Thomas who originally began the protest.
Picciotto was featured in Michael Moore's 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11
The White House in Washington, D.C. during spring 2012.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1414
Video
Ryan Janek Wolowski
Washington, D.C. U.S.A.
03/24/2012
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About the Artist: Liza Lou
Liza Lou was born in 1969 in New York City. She grew up in a family of modest means, playing with second-hand toys and dolls. As a child Lou saw Pop Art and realized that she had to be an artist. She was attracted by the idea that while you were making one thing it could mean something else.
Lou attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she fell in love with glass beads, but she dropped out of school when her professors didn’t take her choice of beads as a medium seriously. To support herself, Lou worked as a waitress and sold prom dresses in Hollywood.
Lou eventually beaded an entire life size kitchen, right down to dishes in the sink and a cherry pie cooling on the oven rack. The kitchen brought her recognition and a case of acute tendonitis. Next she beaded a back yard, including the blades of grass, and after that, portraits of American Presidents. “It’s humorous to see men in beads,” she said. “Herbert Hoover is not someone you associate with glitter.”
In 2002 Liza Lou was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, which changed her approach to her art. She moved to South Africa and worked with Zulu beadworkers to create Continuous Mile, a hand-beaded rope that is a mile long.
The Details
•Title: Continuous Mile
•Maker(s): Liza Lou
•Accession Number: 2013.9.1
•Place Made: United States, CA, Los Angeles; South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: about 80 cm
Diameter (max): about 140 cm
•Date: 2006-2008
•Technique: needleworking, sewing
•Materials: Glass beads; cotton, thread
Interpretive Text
Continuous Mile took Liza Lou more than a year to make with a team of Zulu women, who work with Lou in Durban, South Africa. The sculpture is a coiled stacked rope, measuring a mile in length, sewn with more than 4.5 million glossy black beads. The sculpture is a work about work, about process, about finding meaning in the everyday, and about managing many hands to create something that could not be made by one person alone. Lou says, “The idea was to employ as many people as possible, using the slowest possible technique in order to engage a community in the process of making an artwork.”
It was not a continuous line of forts as some believe. In parts, especially in the south from Basle to Haguenau, it was nothing more than a series of outposts as the steep geography of the region and the River Rhine provided its own defence between France and Germany. The Line comprised of over 500 separate buildings but was dominated by large forts (known as ‘ouvrages’) which were built about nine miles from each other. Each ouvrage housed 1000 soldiers with artillery. Between each ouvrage were smaller forts which housed between 200 to 500 men depending on their size.
There were 50 ouvrages in total along the German border. Each one had the necessary fire power to cover the two nearest ouvrages to the north and south. They were protected by reinforced steel that was inches deep and capable of taking a direct hit from most known artillery fire.
The smaller forts were obviously not as well armed or protected as the ouvrages but they were still well built. They were further protected by minefields and anti-tank ditches. Forward defence lines were designed to give the defenders a good warning of an impending attack. In theory, the Maginot Line was capable of creating a massive continuous line of fire that should have devastated any attack.
The Maginot Line was such an impressive piece of construction that dignitaries from around the world visited it.
However, the Maginot Line had two major failings – it was obviously not mobile and it assumed that the Ardennes was impenetrable. Any attack that could get around it would leave it floundering like a beached whale. Blitzkrieg was the means by which Germany simply went around the whole Line. By doing this, the Maginot Line was isolated and the plan that soldiers in the Line could assist the mobilised French troops was a non-starter. The speed with which Germany attacked France and Belgiumin May 1940, completely isolated all the forts. The German attack was code-named “cut-of-the-sickle” (Sichlschnitt) – an appropriate name for the attack.
Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021)] it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city dating from the late Paleolithic Era. Though there is no direct evidence of when Samarkand was founded, several theories propose that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China, Persia and Europe, at times Samarkand was one of the largest cities in Central Asia, and was an important city of the empires of Greater Iran. By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, when it was known as Markanda, which was rendered in Greek as Μαράκανδα. The city was ruled by a succession of Iranian and Turkic rulers until it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220.
The city is noted as a centre of Islamic scholarly study and the birthplace of the Timurid Renaissance. In the 14th century, Timur made it the capital of his empire and the site of his mausoleum, the Gur-e Amir. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque, rebuilt during the Soviet era, remains one of the city's most notable landmarks. Samarkand's Registan square was the city's ancient centre and is bounded by three monumental religious buildings. The city has carefully preserved the traditions of ancient crafts: embroidery, goldwork, silk weaving, copper engraving, ceramics, wood carving, and wood painting. In 2001, UNESCO added the city to its World Heritage List as Samarkand – Crossroads of Cultures.
Modern Samarkand is divided into two parts: the old city, which includes historical monuments, shops, and old private houses; and the new city, which was developed during the days of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and includes administrative buildings along with cultural centres and educational institutions. On 15 and 16 September 2022, the city hosted the 2022 SCO summit.
Samarkand has a multicultural and plurilingual history that was significantly modified by the process of national delimitation in Central Asia. Many inhabitants of the city are native or bilingual speakers of the Tajik language, whereas Uzbek is the official language and Russian is also widely used in the public sphere, as per Uzbekistan's language policy.
Roi Et is the province located in the middle part of north east Thailand, and established over 200 years ago. It used to be a very large and glorious city named Saket Nakhon having 11 city gates and 11 satellite cities or subordinated communities under it's ruling. Since there have been several developments in various aspects continuously from the past thus changing it into a strange place where one can hardly trace its original features.
Roi Et is administratively divided into 17 Amphoe's and two King Amphoe's: Muang Roi Et, Kaset Wisai, Pathum Rat, Chaturaphak Phiman, Thawat Buri, Phanom Phrai, Phon Thong, Selaphum, Suwannaphum, At Samat, Nong Phok, Muang Suang, Pho Chai, Phon Sai, Moeiwadi, Amphoe Si Somdet ,Amphoe Janghan, King Amphoe Chiang Khuan, king Amphoe Nong Hee and King Amphoe Tungkao Luang. There are partial areas of four Amphoe's located in Kula Ronghai Field, they are Suwannaphum, Kaset Wisai, Pathum Rat, Phon Sai. Roi Et occupies an area of 8,299.50 square kilometres.
The history of Muang Roi Et started around late Ayutthaya period, i.e., a king of Laos with his people migrated from Champasak City to settle down in the area which is currently Amphoe Suwannaphum. Later, during the reign of King Taksin of Thon Buri era Muang Roi Et was moved to the present site while Muang Suwannaphum is still located at its original location till now. In addition to historical evidences, there have been findings of archaeological evidences showing that the area used to be the habitat of pre-historic people. It was also under the influence of ancient Khmer kingdom due to several findings of Khmer style archaeological sites as Ku Phra Kona, Amphoe Suwannaphum; Ku Kasing, Amphoe Kaset Wisai; Prang Ku, Amphoe Thawatchaburi; etc.
Wat Buraphaphiram It is located in Roi Et city. The third class royal temple was formerly known as Wat Hua Ro and was later renamed as Wat Buraphaphiram. There is the tallest standing Buddha image in Thailand known as Phra Phuttha Rattanamongkhon Mahamuni or Luangpho Yai, which was built with reinforced concrete in the blessing attitude. The Buddha image is 59.2 metres tall and if the base is included, it would be 67.85 metres tall. There is a museum at the base. Luangpho Yai is highly revered by the people of Roi Et.
Somdet Phra Srinakarindra Park, Roi Et It is a public park in the heart of the city, located in front of the city hall. The park was founded in 1986 on an area of 225 rai. It is decorated with a variety of flowers and shady trees. The highlight is the fountain in the middle of the park and a clock tower. There is also a public library. The park is used as a venue for various cultural occasions and events of the province.
The Phra Maha Chedi Chai Mongkol or the Great, Victorious and Auspicious Pagoda is one of the largest Chedi's ( pagoda ) in Thailand. It is located on the grounds of the Wat Pha Namthip Thep Prasit Vararam, a temple complex in Roi Et province in rural North Eastern Thailand. This huge Chedi is 101 meters long, 101 metres wide and 101 metres high and was built on a plot measuring 101 Rai, which is about 40 acres. The number 101 comes from the name of the province it is located in, Roi Et, which means 101 in Thai. The Chedi, which is also known as Phra Maha Chedi Chai Mongkhon is highly revered in Roi Et province, since relics of the Buddha are contained in the top of the pagoda. The fairly new Chedi was designed by the Department of Fine Arts, and was built to serve as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks. The very elegantly shaped Chedi is painted in white colour and very elaborately decorated in golden coloured artwork in modern style. Surrounding the Chedi are eight smaller pagodas. The finial on top of the Chedi is made of 60 kilos of pure gold. The Chedi and temple are located on top of Nam Yoi cliff, from where you will have a wonderful view of the surrounding rural area.
The Interior of the Chedi
The first floor is used for meetings and conferences. The names of the people who donated for the construction of the Chedi are engraved in the wall
The second floor is beautifully decorated with murals, showing scenes from the life of the Buddha
The third floor is used as an Ubosot or ordination hall. The marble images of 101 highly revered
Monks are displayed here
The fourth floor is a museum, where you can learn about the abbot of the temple
The fifth floor contains a staircase to the hall where the relics of the Buddha are enshrined
How to get to Phra Maha Chedi Chai Mongkol; ~
The Phra Maha Chedi Chai Mongkol in the Wat Pha Namthip Thep Prasit Vararam temple complex is located in Nong Phok district, some 80 kilometres from Roi Et town. Getting to the Chedi by public transportation from Roi Et town could be a hassle, by far the most convenient and comfortable option is to hire an air conditioned car with driver to take you there. Most hotels will be able to arrange one for you. Agree on the price before leaving.
Admission & opening hours The Chedi is open daily from 6 am until 5 pm. Entrance fee is 20 Baht per person
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