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Contributing Building - Northeast Gainesville Residential District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #80000942
Built 1906
Style: Colonial Revival
Architect: George Franklin Barber
314 Northeast 4th Avenue
Steel wires and steel rod sculpture by Victor Tan Wee Tar. You can watch the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGLmf68YErs or www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIfC8QND1k
Light breezes spring these steel wires and rods sculptures on the rooftop to life here on roof garden, level 12.
Many would agree that Victor's work makes one feel time, see mood and touches one's heart. As for Victor, who is still searching for ways artists could contribute to make this world a better place for everyone, "my sculpture is about being on a journey. Whether you are standing, sitting or lying down, the journey continues. In my journey and through my sculptures, I hope I can touch the hearts and influence the minds of fellow passengers. And if I can in some way alleviate human sufferings through my art; that would make my journey a worthy one. "
Kindly contributed by Patrice Louinet, from Conan.com.
Diablerie 4, May 1944.
Of special interest to Robert E. Howard collectors; because it includes the first appearance of E. Hoffmann Price's essay "Robert Ervin Howard".
The fanzine is mimeographed, in color, and all the photos are pasted over the "printed" page. I can't imagine all the work that went into this for a fanzine. For all of that, it was nearly distributed as "Diablepie"!
The Contents page gives the print run as 75 copies.
Posted 20 November 2011 by Patrice Louinet to the "Show Us Your Howards!" forum of Conan.com.
Contributing Building - Fort Gaines Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #84000970
Porto
Rua de Miguel Bombarda
Contributing to the art scene
Mercador commissioned Polish artist Tina Siuda to paint this beautiful mural outside the guesthouse.
Contributing Building - Savannah Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #66000277
Built 1887
Architect: William Gibbons Preston
Contributing Building - Springfield Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #100006329
Built ca 1940
Located at 102 S Laurel St
Classified as a "House-Type" Station
Join us in congratulating the Paratroopers who have contributed greatly to the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command - Iraq. The CJFLCC-I is Iraq's leading ground train, advise, and assist element.
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Information Presentation
Loide Rosa Jorge, Attorney At Law, US Immigration and Nationality Law
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The Skyway Club was built in 1945 as a recreational facility serving all military ranks and civilians. It provided food service and had a large hall for leisure and social gatherings. The Historic Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark District. The Skyway Club is a contributing property .
Contributing Building - Calhoun Street Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #79000677
Built 1923
Recurrent genetic abnormalities
AML with myelodysplastic related changes
Images contributed by Daniela Mihova, M.D.
editorial board (which changed personnel over the years). complete collection (3 in facsimile) of the 18 regular-issue catalogues issued from Toronto &, later, Saskatoon, 1979-1996, edited & assembled by various members of the editorial board (& contributed to by all), most especially Paul Dutton, bpNichol, Steven Smith & Richard Truhlar (who was wholly responsible for the Audiographic lists & the run in bright colours). most are 3-1/2 x 8-1/2, 8-panel leaflets, all printed offset (exceptions noted below) in editions of 1ooo copies, with brief descriptions of new titles (mainly written by the titles' editors), some illustrative excerpts & a "Still Available" backlist. the set consists of:
i) presenting... UNDERWHICH EDITIONS. may 1979. 6 pp/5 printed. the first 7 titles. illus: Jackson MacLow.
ii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS New for 1980. summer 198o. 12 new titles. illuss: Brian Dedora, Ray DiPalma, Steven Smith. facsimile colour copy.
iii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS New for Fall 1981. december 1981. with pastel holograph addition to cover. 1o new titles (of which one was never published). illuss: jwcurry, Michael Dean, bpNichol (whose contribution remains unpublished elsewhere).
iv) presenting... UNDERWHICH UNDERLINES. january 1983. 6 pp printed. 29 titles published by others distributed by Underwhich. no illuss.
v) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS New for 1983. june 1983. with 2-3/4 x 8-1/2 "Still Available" broadside laid in. 15 new titles. illuss: Claude Dupuis, Andre Kertesz.
vi) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS New for 1984. april 1984. 9 new titles. illuss: Joe Brouillette, Marilyn Westlake. facsimile colour copy.
vii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS AUDIOGRAPHICS New for 1985. september 1985. 8 new titles. illuss: Richard Truhlar.
viii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS NEW IN PRINT FOR 1985. september 1985. 9 new titles. illuss: P.C.Fencott, John Riddell, Richard Truhlar.
ix) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS AUDIOGRAPHICS New for Spring 1986. may 1986. 4 pp printed. 4 new titles. iilus: Richard Truhlar.
x) UNDERWHICH UNDERLINES NEW FOR 1986. may 1986. 3 new titles. no illuss. b&w facsimile on colour stock.
xi) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS NEW BOOKS SPRING 1986. may 1986. 6 new titles. illuss: David Botta, Rosalind Goss.
xii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS AUDIOGRAPHICS New for 1987. september 1987. 12 pp printed, stapled selfwrappers. 6 new titles. illuss: Four Horsemen, Robert Hindley-Smith, Richard Truhlar, Larry Wendt.
xiii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS NEW IN PRINT FOR 1987. september 1987. with 3-1/2 x 8-1/2 "Late Breaking News" broadsheet laid in. 17 new titles. illuss: Brian Henderson, John Riddell, Steven Smith, Richard Truhlar.
xiv) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS NEW RELEASES: 1989-90. 11 new titles. no illus. the 1st list to display the new logotype designed by jwcurry.
xv) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS 1990. april 199o. with 3-3/4 x 8-1/2 "Advance Notice" broadside laid in. 1o new titles (of which 2 were never published). iiluss: David Bolduc, David UU.
xvi) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS Always New! Releases: Winter 91-92. 12 pp printed, stapled selfwrappers. 6 new titles. illuss: Robert Hindley-Smith, Sam Kanga, John Riddell, Ann Rosenberg, Steven Smith, Richard Truhlar.
xvii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS Always A Rush! Releases: 1994. 6 pp, with 4 pp lasered "Price List 1993-94 All Available Titles" laid in. 3 new titles. illuss: Paul Dutton Gerry Gilbert, Glenn Goluska, Rosalind Goss, Brian Henderson.
xviii) UNDERWHICH EDITIONS Catalogue 1996. with 5-1/2 x 4 offset "Please keep me on the Underwhich Mailing Lit!" postcard laid in. 5 new titles. illus: Gerry Shikatani.
with a 9-1/2 x 4-3/16 offset Underwhich mailing envelope these generally went out in.
for fuller descriptions of the individual items, see the separate listings preceding this.
all in very fine shape except for the mailing envelope, which is slightly browned...
125.oo
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Zein El-Amine (Lebanon)
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IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Cuban DAN VERA (South Texas)
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NUTEC Plastics
A nuclear solution to plastic pollution.
(NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution)
Jane Gerardo-Abaya, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation, thanked IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi for chairing Session 1: Plastic Pollution: Challenges and the Need for Global Action, at the Roundtable for Asia and the Pacific Region, “Atoms Contributing to the Search for Solutions to Plastic Pollution” held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 18 May 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Seminar audience hears low levels of physical activity in Ireland are contributing to serious long term health problems
Delegates attending a public health seminar today learned that low levels of physical activity are contributing to long term health problems. The comments were made by Professor James Sallis, Director of Active Living Research and Professor at San Diego State University and Ms Teresa Lavin, Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), at a seminar jointly hosted by IPH and the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (Northern Ireland).
The seminar looked at why levels of physical activity are low in Ireland. It focused on how the built environment influences opportunities for being active.
Ms Lavin said: “Enhancing opportunities for physical activity is essential. Across Ireland levels of physical activity are low which has many implications for public health. While there are many reasons for low levels of physical activity one important factor is how the built environment is designed and maintained – this in turn facilitates how we move around our environment.
“We need to create more roads and pathways suited to cycling and walking as well as quality green spaces to encourage people to take physical exercise. We need to locate shops and services – such as schools – nearer to housing schemes and ensure road systems within these estates are engineered to reduce car dependency.”
Ms Lavin continued: “A recent IPH study forecasts a dramatic 40% increase in the number of people living with hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes in the Republic of Ireland by 2020. It is essential we reverse this trend and one way is by creating environments which are conducive to physical activity such as walking and cycling.
“To enable this to happen, there is a real need for intersectoral action – involving public health specialists, local authorities, developers and construction professionals such as architects, engineers and planners – to enhance opportunities for physical activity in the built environment across the population and especially for vulnerable groups.
“For example, in Ireland, half as many girls aged 15-17 as boys of the same age are likely to exercise four or more times weekly. Unfortunately, this trend continues through to adulthood and we need to develop specific strategies to tackle this issue.”
Professor Sallis has pioneered an extensive research programme into the environmental and policy influences on physical activity, nutrition and obesity in the United States and said: “Physical activity is a key risk factor for chronic disease; other high risk factors include poverty, unemployment, the environment, smoking, alcohol consumption and diet. The reality is that these factors are distributed unevenly across society. Ensuring that all neighbourhoods have safe and attractive places for physical activity and have shops that sell affordable healthy foods is one way to reduce these inequalities.”
Dr Mark Tully, UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI) who is leading a large research project on the benefits of green space to health and wellbeing said: “The visit of Prof Sallis to Ireland is very timely. We have been inspired by his research to continue our efforts to develop research into how we can help increase levels of physical activity through designing more attractive environments that support the messages our health professionals are promoting.”
Further Information
Ronan Cavanagh, Montague Communications: (01) 830 3116 or (086) 317 9731.
Jemma Hogan, Montague Communications: (01) 830 3116 or (085) 722 9024.
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) promotes cooperation for public health across the island of Ireland. It aims to improve health by working to combat health inequalities and influence public policy in favour of health. Further information can be found at www.publichealth.ie.
UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI)
The UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI) is the Northern Ireland based part of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC). It aims to strengthen public health research capacity in Northern Ireland and improve the health of the public by translating research into policy and public health practice.
Arlene McKay
Communications Officer
Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Forestview
Purdy's Lane
Belfast
BT8 7ZX
Email: arlene.mckay@publichealth.ie
Tel: +44 (0)28 90 648494
Contributing Building - Lake City Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #93001157
PS #1
Photo: Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle / Contributer
CÚCUTA, Colombia — Cristal Montañéz carried a box of her signature teddy bears from Houston as she led a small convoy down a Colombian highway to explore the humanitarian crisis spilling out from her homeland, Venezuela.
She spotted a crowd of young adults and children on the roadside, and she ordered the three cars in her group to pull over. A contingent of international aid workers stepped out to inspect.
Montañéz had been there before and knew the scene well. The people gathered were some of the thousands who every day flee Venezuela’s collapse into hunger and chaos, setting out to cross more than 1,000 mountainous miles on foot with nothing but their bags of clothes.
Children lit up and giggled as Montañéz handed them stuffed animals.
“The bears are just magic,” she said in Spanish, forcing a weak smile, though her eyes still bore the grief that weighed on her. “They can bring out happiness even at times of such tragedy.”
The convoy continued on. They were there to evaluate a project launched by a Houston Rotary club, designed to feed thousands of people in this crisis zone. Montañéz, a former Venezuelan supermodel and lifelong philanthropist who moved to Houston in the 1980s, led the delegation to demonstrate that the crisis was real, and that the project was working and ready to grow.
Two women of Houston’s large Venezuelan community led a local Rotary Club to partner with North Carolina-based Rise Against Hunger to deliver about $56,000 worth of food — a 20-ton shipping container full of nutrient-enhanced rice plus locally bought groceries — to this Colombian border region, which for years has borne the brunt of a massive migration.
“We do see a need to scale up our involvement,” said Silvia Roscot, a technical adviser for Rise Against Hunger who traveled with Montañéz to tour the project. “This is a population that’s on the move.”
It’s been years of spiraling decline for Venezuela, once the wealthiest South American nation. Conditions of hunger and health have worsened dramatically in the last year and plummeted toward catastrophe in early March, when most of the country’s power grid went indefinitely down, leaving millions without running water or communication with the outside world.
The region surrounding Cúcuta, Colombia, on the Venezuelan border, receives about 5,000 migrants every day, about twice the daily average of migrants apprehended at the entire U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
Some here have money to travel by bus, but many go on foot, bound for far away countries like Ecuador or Peru. All have left behind loved ones in search of whatever livelihoods they can find to support their families.
“It makes me so angry what I have seen,” Montañéz said, wiping tears away in the restaurant of an upscale Cúcuta hotel, decrying the self-proclaimed revolutionary government that has presided over Venezuela’s collapse. “They’ve destroyed the people, the families, the values, the hopes and dreams of an entire country.”
‘This one is perfect’
The idea for this project came from Isis Mejias, a Venezuelan who moved to the Bayou City in 2001 and earned a chemical engineering degree from the University of Houston.
Early last year, she chaired the Rotary Club’s international services committee, and she yearned to find a way to help her crisis-stricken homeland.
“There’s a huge Venezuelan community in Houston, and I can tell you that every single person is doing something to send aid,” she said recently by phone from Kalisizo, Uganda, where she was checking on another Rotary Club project.
She already knew about Montañéz, the 1977 Miss Venezuela whose personal charity project, Bear Hugs, had given teddy bears and more in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Allison. Mejias pulled the strings to bring together Rotary, Montañéz and Rise Against Hunger, and their project began to take shape.
They partnered with the Cúcuta Rotary Club, and Montañéz came in August to find a network of kitchens that could put their donations to use. Mejias came in January when their shipping container of rice with nutrients and dried vegetables arrived in Colombia by boat and began to be served.
“This is our first such international partnership,” said Diana Gamboa, president of the Cúcuta Rotary Club. “It’s allows us to at least do something small to help our region, which is totally drowning in this crisis.”
Now, Montañéz took three observers from Rise Against Hunger around the kitchens and shelters where their food was being served, demonstrating that resources were put to good use in acceptable conditions.
“This is your rice,” said Father Francesco Bortignon, an Italian-born priest who helps the poor in this border region, lifting the lid off a massive pot in one of the charity kitchens he supervises. “The previous supplies we got here had a weird taste, but this one is perfect.”
Several hundred people filed into the kitchen at lunchtime. Many brought young children. Many said they’d walked two hours for their only meal of the day.
“The first months here were hard, but now with all the help that is arriving, at least we can get food,” said Diana Alfonso, a 30-year-old Venezuelan who used to pick plastic recycling from trash piles for food money but now shares plates of rice, beans, salad and potatoes with her four children at the kitchen.
‘So much’ to be done
Later, Montañéz led the group out of town and up the highway into Colombia to visit shelters that fed the hundreds of people who every day set out on their cross-continental hikes.
The convoy stopped at a group of 12 young men loaded with luggage, who eagerly took the water and snacks then pointed out that one of them hobbled with a cane and hurt to walk up the mountains. So Montañéz offered him, 33-year-old Junior Rios Olivero, a seat in a car in her convoy.
The car would take him 20 minutes up the road, a four-hour walk, to the next town, where he would wait for his group at a shelter.
Beyond him lay about a thousand miles until Ecuador. There, he said, he planned to get a job — he guessed as an informal salesman or a laborer —and save money until December so he could buy a bus ticket home to spend next Christmas with his wife, two children and parents. Then with the money he hoped to save by then, he would buy them all bus transport back to Ecuador, where he planned to have a stable place to live.
He wasn’t scared of such a long path that crossed the cold Andean highlands then a large swath of the continent, he said. The journey was easier with his group — a dozen friends from his neighborhood in Valencia. Furthermore, he didn’t feel like he had a choice.
“There’s a saying that goes, ‘If you don’t risk, you don’t win,’” he said in the back seat of the former Rotary president’s car. “If we don’t risk, our families will die of hunger in Venezuela.”
Almost three years ago, he lost his job loading trucks at a state plastic factory after it shut down for lack of raw materials, Olivero said. He found several odd jobs since then but couldn’t keep up with hyperinflation that drove prices higher as the economy crumbled more each day.
Now a month’s minimum salary could buy one kilo of cheese, so his family and what few neighbors remained ate yuca root and potato, rarely three times a day. He hadn’t eaten meat in years, until Colombians fed him donated chicken rice and lentils the day before.
The car dropped him at a shelter where a few dozen other Venezuelans sat outside. The family owners of two adjacent houses had opened their doors to the flow of migrants walking into the mountain town of 57,000 people. So a new crowd of several hundred sleeps there each night — women and children on the floors of the houses and men on the ground outside.
Montañéz stepped out of her car and stood with her fists on her hips, looking at the hundreds of people who’d left the country that had been so prosperous in her days there. She sighed.
“There is so much work to be done,” she said.
Rise Against Hunger is now fundraising for phase two of the Houston-led project through its Emergency Global Relief fund: act.riseagainsthunger.org/give/95605/#!/donation/checkout
Photo contributed by the Capistrano Beach Community Association.
This is just one sample of the many items included in the time capsule placed at Dana Point Harbor during the harbor's "rock placing" (groundbreaking) in 1966. The capsule was opened during a special ceremony in Aug. 2016.
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Contributing Building - Brunswick Old Town Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #79000727
Contributing Anchor/Reporter of Fox Chicago News at Nine Anna Davlantes with a special team of Champions that raised money for DCM at their lemonade stand. Benefit Ball 2010.
Photo courtesy of Randall Studio.
Contributing Building - Savannah Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NHLS #66000277
Seminar audience hears low levels of physical activity in Ireland are contributing to serious long term health problems
Delegates attending a public health seminar today learned that low levels of physical activity are contributing to long term health problems. The comments were made by Professor James Sallis, Director of Active Living Research and Professor at San Diego State University and Ms Teresa Lavin, Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), at a seminar jointly hosted by IPH and the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (Northern Ireland).
The seminar looked at why levels of physical activity are low in Ireland. It focused on how the built environment influences opportunities for being active.
Ms Lavin said: “Enhancing opportunities for physical activity is essential. Across Ireland levels of physical activity are low which has many implications for public health. While there are many reasons for low levels of physical activity one important factor is how the built environment is designed and maintained – this in turn facilitates how we move around our environment.
“We need to create more roads and pathways suited to cycling and walking as well as quality green spaces to encourage people to take physical exercise. We need to locate shops and services – such as schools – nearer to housing schemes and ensure road systems within these estates are engineered to reduce car dependency.”
Ms Lavin continued: “A recent IPH study forecasts a dramatic 40% increase in the number of people living with hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes in the Republic of Ireland by 2020. It is essential we reverse this trend and one way is by creating environments which are conducive to physical activity such as walking and cycling.
“To enable this to happen, there is a real need for intersectoral action – involving public health specialists, local authorities, developers and construction professionals such as architects, engineers and planners – to enhance opportunities for physical activity in the built environment across the population and especially for vulnerable groups.
“For example, in Ireland, half as many girls aged 15-17 as boys of the same age are likely to exercise four or more times weekly. Unfortunately, this trend continues through to adulthood and we need to develop specific strategies to tackle this issue.”
Professor Sallis has pioneered an extensive research programme into the environmental and policy influences on physical activity, nutrition and obesity in the United States and said: “Physical activity is a key risk factor for chronic disease; other high risk factors include poverty, unemployment, the environment, smoking, alcohol consumption and diet. The reality is that these factors are distributed unevenly across society. Ensuring that all neighbourhoods have safe and attractive places for physical activity and have shops that sell affordable healthy foods is one way to reduce these inequalities.”
Dr Mark Tully, UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI) who is leading a large research project on the benefits of green space to health and wellbeing said: “The visit of Prof Sallis to Ireland is very timely. We have been inspired by his research to continue our efforts to develop research into how we can help increase levels of physical activity through designing more attractive environments that support the messages our health professionals are promoting.”
Further Information
Ronan Cavanagh, Montague Communications: (01) 830 3116 or (086) 317 9731.
Jemma Hogan, Montague Communications: (01) 830 3116 or (085) 722 9024.
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) promotes cooperation for public health across the island of Ireland. It aims to improve health by working to combat health inequalities and influence public policy in favour of health. Further information can be found at www.publichealth.ie.
UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI)
The UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI) is the Northern Ireland based part of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC). It aims to strengthen public health research capacity in Northern Ireland and improve the health of the public by translating research into policy and public health practice.
Arlene McKay
Communications Officer
Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Forestview
Purdy's Lane
Belfast
BT8 7ZX
Email: arlene.mckay@publichealth.ie
Tel: +44 (0)28 90 648494
Sunil Bharti Mittal contributes his views to the 8th meeting of the Broadband Commission at the Yale Club, New York.
Fun photos of the Class of 2023 competing by advisory for the olympics! Thank you to Mrs. Maria Found and Ms. Childers for contributing photos to this album!
St John the Baptist, Aymerton, Norfolk
2011 was at the time the second warmest year on record, but it was not the summer that particularly contributed to that statistic. For do you remember April, spring days heavy with the merciless sun, the temperature well into the eighties before the middle of the month, day after day? And then, a damp, humid May boiled the countryside into an outrageous green, the hedgerows swelling into the narrow lanes, the ground elder and angelica luminous in their sprawling, not a patch of bare ground to be seen anywhere. An old man in a village pub near Holt told me it was like 1940, the first spring of the Second World War.
Summer was mild in comparison, but then the hot days came back until, in early October of all months, the temperature soared up to the eighties again. How could I resist taking my new bike up into the north Norfolk lanes? I was in my element, with the promise of more rides to come. But in fact the weather would break within a week, and by the time the clocks went back the trees were bare and dripping with damp, the fields silvery with the rime of the first frosts.
I was cycling from Cromer to Norwich, and one of my first goals was St John the Baptist, Aylmerton. There were just two churches left in north Norfolk that I had yet to see inside, and this was one of them. I first came here in the summer of 2005, and I was a bit disappointed to find it the only locked church of eighteen that I visited that day. There wasn't even a keyholder notice. I complained about this, as you'd expect. I received a charming e-mail message from Professor Michael Balls, who was then the churchwarden of Aylmerton (and, for your interest in passing, also the father of the then-newly elected Labour MP Edward Balls), apologising that I had found the church locked, and explaining that they had just suffered a serious and expensive act of vandalism involving the water supply to the church. Since then, the church has been opened every day.
You climb the steep path from the road to this neat, trim little round-towered church in its pretty village stretched along the road just to the south of Sheringham. The top part of the tower was rebuilt in the first decade of the 20th century, when the east window glass was also put in place. There were some busy restorations in the 1860s and 1870s, and the font is an unfortunate replacement of this time, and the interior has much of the feel of the Anglo-catholic sentiments of the late 19th and early 20th Century. But much that is medieval survives, including a delicate sedilia and piscina.
There are the bones of a rood screen, and the pulpit is an elegant wineglass. Both altars are rather curious, that in the chancel made up of strapwork and the one in the south aisle with a roundel of a Flemish madonna and child set in an art deco reredos, for all the world like an ecclesiological wireless set. Also art deco is the war memorial, set oddly in the side of the organ.
On my first visit I had only been able to explore the graveyard.There are a couple of interesting 18th century headstones, including one with a skull, a coffin and a snake biting its tail, the symbol of eternity. A 19th century gravestone is for an honest inoffensive friend - Honest is good, but I'm not sure that I'd want to go through eternity with the tag inoffensive - you can imagine all the other souls in purgatory nudging each other, pointing and saying "look, you see him? He's inoffensive..." Not far off, a modern headstone has an elegant scallop shell of St James set into it.
Leaving the village, I headed south towards Aylmerton Cross, a restored medieval preaching cross standing at the junction with the road from Metton to Gresham. A rough track going off here shows that it was once a crossroads, and the old track points, intriguingly, across the fields to the holy shrine of Walsingham.
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Poet Amin Dullal, professionally known as DRAW LAW
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Contributing Building - Riverside Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
Built 1924
NRIS #85000689
Architect: Henry John Klutho
I contributed a few tips to the new eBook iPhone Photography - introductory price $5 goes up to $10 8/1.
Numerous European firms contribute to deforestation and tree plantations through their role in wood and paper pulp producing activities. The World Rainforest Movement will apply its knowledge of nearly 100 cases of conflicts over tree plantations to the Map of Environmental Injustice. Complemented with in-depth case studies, this area of EJOLT work will provide valuable input into the biofuel debate for European civil society and policy-makers. The European Union Biofuels Directive has been controversial since its inception, with many (including UN officials) arguing that fuel production for European cars is displacing food crops in the developing world. Our work will help answer questions such as: ‘are biofuel plantations leading to conflict in third countries?’ ‘What volumes of imports are involved and what amount of environmental space is being taken up through this biofuel policy?’ Similar questions will be raised in relations to landgrabbing, sourced from our partner GRAIN. They support the position of Via Campesina in favor of “food sovereignty”.
The Iris Foundation has the ambition to fundamentally contribute to the contemporary cultural life of St. Petersburg, the wider region, Russia and the international cultural world.It has taken the admirable initiative to expand its success of the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and convert St. Petersburg’s New Holland Island into a cultural district. MVRDV developed a strategy to gradually redevelop the historic structure and add a new volume dedicated to Modern Art. Inside the new structure a series of activators are collected, being released in summer activating the district. New Holland Island as curatable space, the informal and contemporary inside the monumental city, a cultural Trojan Horse. The historic buildings are treated with upmost respect as imposed by the UNESCO environment and economically upgraded in a gentrification strategy comparable to organic urban renewal on a larger scale.
Only what evolves stays vivid and contemporary
For more information read the project text on www.mvrdv.nl/#/projects/newhollandisland
Second installment -- finally contributing a second part to my set. My mother has not only been a teacher for her 3 kids, but continues to pass her knowledge and know-how to kids year in and year out. She shows her passion everyday with each student. She is just another example of living passionately.
Contributing Building - Green Street District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #75000596
Architect: George Franklin Barber
This contributes to foodborne illnesses. The dirty plates sitting in the sink for a period of time before they are washed help spread germs around the kitchen. Having these dirty dishes laying around contaminates the area in which you cook your meals, leaving you at a health risk.
Calrailfans Meet at Antioch, 15 July 2017
Hoping to beat some of the valley heat, our July Calrailfans meet was at Antioch, California, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta. It was warm, but not as miserable as the valley was.
A good crowd showed up to enjoy the barbecue that Eugene and Paul cooked up, and everyone contributed to the potluck. BNSF graced us with several freight trains while I was there, one of which had a CSX GE, and another with a BNAF SD70ACe leading.
I considered taking train to and from, but settled for a rubber tire leg between Sacramento and Stockon on one of he connecting buses.
I'd intended to take light rail in, but a train pulled out as I pulling into the parking lot, so I just drove to the station. Light rail would have saved me the cost of parking.
Before my bus left, I photographed Capitol 720 arriving off the I St bridge. It had a p42 pushing.
On the way into Stockton, I got a grab shot of the abandoned Stockton Greyhound station. The place just screams early 1960s design, a child of the Space Age.
San Joaquin 712 arrived and departed on time, vacuuming a lot of passengers.
Then it was time for 713, which has been running with the Comet cars. I had not yet ridden the Comets on the San Joaquins before Saturday.
The trip to Antioch took about a half hour and for the next several hours, we ate, chewed the fat, told bad joke, and photographed trains.
There is a feral cat colony that is being maintained by local people and I took a few photos of the kitties.
As the sun headed west, another fellow from the meet and I boarded San Joaquin 717, me to Martinez to connect to a Capitol, he to Richmond to connect to BART for Hayward.
The light at Martinez was golden and good for glint shots. San Joaquin 718 with the Comet Cars arrived just after 717 and it left a minute afterward.
I had a half hour wait for Capitol 742, which was then delayed by the open drawbridge between Martinez and Benicia. Other than that, we kept time to Sacramento, where the sunset was in full cry.providing a great end to a great day.
Collection of photographic snapshots from the 14th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as NyCon II or NEWYORCON, held August 31–September 3, 1956, at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, New York, USA.
The chairman was David A. Kyle.
The Guest of Honor was Arthur C. Clarke.
The toastmaster was Robert Bloch.
The Secretary was Ruth Evelin Kyle
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Provenance: The collection of 23 snapshots was purchased from a thrift store in Santa Barbara, California on December 31, 2015.
Others who may be featured in the photos: (Please help identify!)
Ted White
Bob Tucker (Wilson Tucker)
Boyd Raeburn
Jean & Andy Young
Dick Eney
Ron Ellik
Larry Stark
Richalex Kirs
Robert Silverberg
Damon Knight
Willy Ley
Frank Kelly Freas
Murray Leinster
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Bloch
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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