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Bribie Island development
July 1964
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"Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island is 34 kilometres (21 miles) long, and 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) at its widest. Archibald Meston believed that the name of the island came from a corruption of a mainland word for it, Boorabee. meaning 'koala bear'.
Bribie Island hugs the coastline and tapers to a long spit at its most northern point near Caloundra, and is separated from the mainland by Pumicestone Passage. The ocean side of the island is somewhat sheltered from prevailing winds by Moreton Island and associated sand banks and has only a small surf break. The lee side is calm, with white sandy beaches in the south.
Most of the island is uninhabited national park (55.8 square kilometres or 21.5 square miles) and forestry plantations. The southern end of the island has been intensively urbanised as part of the Moreton Bay Region, the main suburbs being Bongaree, Woorim, Bellara and Banksia Beach. A bridge from Sandstone Point on the mainland was completed in 1963.
Buckley's Hole, at the southern tip of the island, is an important bird habitat and refuge...
There are many types of wildlife present on the island. Kangaroos, wallabies, emus, various snake species, green tree frogs and dingos can often be seen venturing from the national park into the surrounding suburbs.
Pumicestone Passage, located between the island and the mainland, is a protected marine park that provides habitat for dugongs, turtles and dolphins. There are also extensive mangrove forests in this area. Eucalypt forests, banksias and heathlands are the predominant vegetation elsewhere.
Bribie Island is home to around 350 species of bird. This includes a range of honeyeater species, lorikeets, waterbirds and birds of prey. Flying foxes (also called fruit bats) visit the area, along with several species of small insect-eating bats. Flying foxes are important pollinators and seed dispersers while the insect-eating bats help control mosquito and other insect populations.
Buckley's Hole, at the southern tip of the island, was declared an environmental park in 1992.
The island seems particularly prone to instances of bee swarming.”
Information from Bribie Island
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The mills are an important feature of Maynard's development. The earliest saw and grist mills were built in the early 18th century. Two of the earliest mills were the Puffer Mill and the Asa Smith's Mill, which were located on Taylor Brook and Mill Street, respectively. These were the first mills to use the Assabet River for power; therefore, they were very slow and sluggish. The grist and saw mill were then followed by paper mills, which were built starting in 1820.
The Mill is easily Maynard's most prominent feature. The complex takes up 11 acres in the middleof what we call downtown. The Mill complex began in 1847 as set of wooden buildings used to manufacture carpets and carpet yarn. Amory Maynard helped construct this mill. His partner, William H. Knight, helped him build a dam across the Assabet and dug a canal channeling a portion of the river into what is called Mill Pond. The Mill changed hands a few times but it would eventually become the largest woolen factory in the world till the 1930s.
The 1950's ushered in a change from textiles to businesses like computer manufacturing. With the start of the final decade of the century the Mill is on the cusp of being transformed again.
It is said that "as the Mill goes, so goes Maynard". While the town isn't as dependent on the Mill as it was in 19th century it continues to play an important role in shaping the character of the town.
We hope you enjoy this historical perspective of the Mill. It has been pieced together from a variety of sources and continues to be enriched as we discover new materials to include, increase the number of hyperlinks and add pictures, diagrams, and sound..
The Mill from 1847 to 1977
The site of the mill was once part of the town of Sudbury, while the opposite bank of the Assabet River belonged to Stow. The present town, formed in 1871, was named for the man most responsible for its development, Amory Maynard.
Born in 1804, Maynard was running his own sawmill business at the age of sixteen. In the 1840's, he went into partnership with a carpet manufacturer for whom he'd done contracting. They dammed up the Assabet and diverted water into a millpond to provide power for a new mill, which opened in 1847, producing carpet yarn and carpets. Only one of the original mill buildings survives: it was moved across Main Street and now is an apartment house.
Amory Maynard's carpet firm failed in the business panic of 1857. But the Civil War allowed the Assabet Manufacturing Company, organized in 1862 with Maynard as the managing "agent", to prosper by producing woolens, flannels and blankets for the army. This work was carried on in new brick mill buildings.
Expansion of the mill over many years is evidenced by the variations in the architecture of the structures still standing.
The oldest portion of Building 3 dates from 1859, making it the oldest part of the mill in existence today, but several additions were made afterwards. Buildings constructed in the late 1800's frequently featured brick arches over the windows, and at times new additions were made to match neighboring structures.
The best-known feature is the clock donated in memory of Amory Maynard by his son Lorenzo in 1892. Its four faces, each nine feet in diameter, are mechanically controlled by a small timer inside the tower. Neither the timer nor the bell mechanism has ever been electrified; custodians still climb 120 steps to wind the clock every week- 90 turns for the timer and 330 turns for the striker.
Amory Maynard died in 1890, but his son and grandson still held high positions in the mill's management. The family's local popularity plummeted, however, when the Assabet Manufacturing Company failed late in 1898. Workers lost nearly half of their savings which they had deposited with the company, since there were no banks in town. Their disillusionment nearly resulted in changing the town's name from Maynard to Assabet.
Prosperity returned in 1899 when the American Woolen Company, an industrial giant, bought the Assabet Mills and began to expand them, adding most of the structures now standing. The biggest new unit was Building 5, 610 feet long which contained more looms than any other woolen mill in the world. Building 1, completed in 1918, is the newest; the mill pond had been drained to permit construction of its foundation. These buildings have little decoration, but their massiveness is emphasized by the buttress-like brick columns between their windows.
The turn of the century saw a changeover from gas to electric lights at the mill. Until the 1930's the mill generated not only its own power but also electricity for Maynard and several other towns. For years the mill used 40-cycle current. Into the late 1960's power produced by a water wheel was used for outdoor lighting, including the Christmas tree near Main Street. The complex system of shafts and belts once used to distribute power from a central source was rendered obsolete by more efficient small electric motors, just as inexpensive minicomputers have often replaced terminals tied to one large processor.
As the mill grew, so did the town. Even in 1871, the nearly 2,000 people who became Maynard's first citizens outnumbered the people left in either Sudbury or Stow. Maynard's first population almost doubled in the decade between 1895 and 1905, when reached nearly 7,000 people. Most of the workers lived in houses owned by the company, many of which have been refurbished and are used today. The trains that served th town and the mill, however, are long gone - the depot site is now occupied by a gas station.
Most of the original mill workers had been local Yankees and Irish immigrants. But by the early 1900's, the Assabet Mills were employing large numbers of newcomers from Finland, Poland, Russia and Italy. The latest arrivals were often escorted to their relatives or friends by obliging post office workers. The immigrants made Maynard a bustling, multi-ethnic community while Stow, Sudbury and Acton remained small, rural villages. Farmers and their families rode the trolley to Maynard to shop and to visit urban attractions then unknown in their own towns, including barrooms and movie houses.
Wages were low and the hours were long. Early payrolls show wages of four cents an hour for a sixty hour week. Ralph Sheridan of the Maynard Historical Society confirmed that in 1889 his eldest brother was making 5 1/2 cents an hour in the mill's rag shop at the age of fourteen, while their father was earning 16 1/2 cents per hour in the boiler room. (As of 1891 one-eighth of the workers were less than 16 years old, and one-quarter were women.)
Sheridan's own first job at the mill, in the summer of 1915, paid $6.35 for a work week limited to 48 hours by child labor laws. The indestructible "bullseye" safe still remains in the old Office Building.
Sheridan remembers the bell that was perched on top of Building 3:
"...the whistle on the engine room gave one blast at quarter of the hour, and then at about five minutes of the hour the gave one blast again. And everyone was supposed to be inside the gate when that second whistle blew. And then at one minute of the hour this bell rang just once, a quick ring- and we referred to it as "The Tick" because of that..... everybody was supposed to start work at that time, at that moment."
A worker was sent home if he'd forgotten to wear his employee's button, marked "A.W.Co.,Assabet".
The millhands really had to work, too. Sheridan recalls one winter evening when there was such a rush to get out an order of cloth for Henry Ford that the men were ordered to invoice it from the warehouse, now Building 21, instead of from the usual shipping room:
"There was no heat in the building, never had been. And it was so cold that I remember that I had to cut the forefinger and the thumb from the glove that I was wearing in order to handle the pencil to do the invoicing....the yard superintendant at the time brought in some kerosene lanterns and put 'em under our chairs to keep our feet warm."
Building 21, built out over the pond, remained unheated until DIGITAL took it over.
As in most Northern mill towns, labor relations were often troubled. In 1911 the company used Poles to break the strike of Finnish workers. When no longer able to play off one nationality against another, management for years took advantage of rivalries between different unions. The Great Depression hit the company hard, however. In 1934 it sold all the houses it owned, mostly to the employees who lived in them; and New Deal labor laws encouraged the workers to form a single industrial union, which joined the C.I.O.
World War II brought a final few years of good times to the woolens industry. The mill in Maynard operated around the clock with over two thousand employees producing such items as blankets and cloth for overcoats for the armed forces. But when peace returned, the long-term trends resumed their downward drift, and in 1950 the American Woolen Company shut down its Assabet Mills entirely. Like many New England mills, Maynard's had succumbed to a combination of Southern and foreign competition, relatively high costs and low productivity, and the growing use of synthetic fibers.
'Til then a one-industry town, Maynard was in trouble. In 1953, however, ten Worcester businessmen bought the mill and began leasing space to tenants, some of which were established firms, while others were just getting started. One of the new companies which found the low cost of Maynard Industries' space appealing was Digital Equipment Corporation, which started operations in 8,680 square feet in the mill in 1957.
A Mill Chronology
1846 Amory Maynard and William Knight form Assabet Mills.
1847 Maynard and Knight install a water wheel and build a new factory on the banks of the Assabet River.
1848 The Assabet Mills business is valued at $150,000.
The Lowell and Framingham Railroad carries passengers over branch road.
1855 The Mill now has three buildings on the site. Massachusetts is producing one-third of the textiles in the United States.
1857 Assabet Mills collapses after a business panic. The Mill complex is sold at an auction.
1862 The Mills are reorganized as Assabet Manufacturing Company. This involve replacing wooden buildings with brick, and the installation of new machinery. To fulfill contracts to the government during the Civil War production is switched from carpets to woolen cloth, blankets, and flannel.
The first tenement for employees are also constructed.
1869 Millhands peition President Ulysses S. Grant for a shorter work week ... 55 hours.
1871 The Town of Maynard incorporates. The population stands at 2,000
1888 A reservoir is installed for $70,000 to supply a growing population.
1890 The Assabet Manufacturing Company is valued at $1,500,000.
1892 Lorenzo Maynard donates clock in his father's name.
The Mill Complex contains seven buildings.
1898 Assabet Manufacturing Company declares bankruptcy. Many people in town lose much of their savings as banks have not yet been established.
1899 American Woolen Company purchases the Mill complex for $400,000. This company would eventually control 20% of the woolen textile market in the U.S. Wool was shipped all over the country to keep up with demand.
1901 160 additional tenements are constructed with their own sewage system. The streets are named after U.S. presidents.
The first electric trolley in Maynard begins service.
Building Number 5, the Mill complex's largest, is built in nine months. Electric power is introduced with the addition of dynamos on site.
1906 The Mill complex now has 13 buildings.
1910 The Mill complex grows to 25 buildings. Floor space is at 421,711 square feet. The property takes up 75 acres.
1918 With the addition of three new buildings the American Wollen Company and the Mill are in their heyday. The fortunes of the industry begin to decline over the next 30 years.
1947 After a brief spell of prosperity during World War II, the Mill phases out production as demand for woolen goods declines.
1950 Mill closes. 1,200 employees lose their jobs.
1953 Maynard Industries, Inc. purchases the Mill for $200,000. Space is rented to business and industrial tenants.
1957 Three engineers set up shop on the second floor of Building 12. With $70,000 and 8,600 square feet of rented space Digital Equipment Corporation is formed.
1960 Over thirty firms are located within the Mill complex.
1974 Digital Equipment Corporation purchases the entire Mill complex for $2.2 million. The Mill has over 1 million square feet in 19 buildings residing on 11 acres.
1992 The 100th anniversary of the Mill Clock is celebrated.
1993 Digital Equipment Corporation announces that it plans to leave the Mill complex. A search for a new tenant is started.
1995 Franklin Life Care purchases the Mill. Digital continues to rent space in Building 5.
1998 Mill purchased by Clock Tower Place.
Sources
* "Digital's Mill 1847-1977", a brochure published by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977.
* "A Walk Through the Mill...", published by Digital Equipment Corporation for the Mill Clock Centennial.
Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Sharmarke Farah, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States moderated by Noha El-Gebaly at the International Monetary Fund.
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Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Sharmarke Farah, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States moderated by Noha El-Gebaly at the International Monetary Fund.
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In the background, you can see the original Northwestern Bell tower. It is now crammed with telephone and internet transmission equipment. The tan tower to the right is the Northwestern Bell office building. It has been empty forever as Nortwestern Bell moved to a newer office building downtown. It became Qwest Communications after the Bell Telephone court ordered breakup. Qwest died of bad management and I think some of them went to jail too. Now it is CenturyLink Communications.
Anyway...just as The Highline a few blocks up the street was set to open, NuStyle announced they had purchased this building, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. Gotta save those examples of mid century bad architecture, with no thought for human usage or enjoyment!
Set to become 290 apartments.
I had an opportunity to explore the construction site for the future city centre and captured a few interesting perspectives.
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Mayank Srivastava presents MVC 3 (Part 2) at the Microsoft Store in Oakbrook
Sunday, August 7, 2011, 1:00 PM
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Oakbrook Center (Microsoft Store) - Next to Create & Barrel
49 Oak Brook Center, Oak Brook, IL
The Software Development Community (SDC) is pleased to announce that on Sunday August, 7th @ 1PM at the Microsoft Store - 49 Oak Brook Center Oak Brook, IL, 60523 Mayank Srivastava will present MVC3 and the following technologies:
ASP.NET MVC (using version 3.0) - Session 2 of 2
Session 2 - Workshop
Building an application interactively using ASP.NET MVC 3.0
· Design Pattern and practices considerations.
· DI – implementing IoC container
· TDD –Mock helpers
· jQuery and Ajax
· Enhanced UX with jQuery UI
· Implementing Grid
· Implementing Charts
· Using HTML 5 with ASP.NET MVC
Attendees can bring their problems, issues from their projects, that they want to discuss and we can try to tackle them.
About Mayank Srivastava:
Mayank Srivastava has been in the industry for almost 9 years working on different areas in the Microsoft .Net framework and related technologies. He is enthusiastic about Web, Mobile & Cloud development and a proponent of open source and Agile. He has a keen interest in OOAD, design patterns and N-tier application design.
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ILRI research project associate Braja Swain, an economics student at the Centre for Development Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi (right), confers with a farmer in Renoje Village, north of Udaipur, in Rajasthan, India. This is one of 24 villages in India and Bangladesh in which Swain is conducting household surveys for a project of the CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme. (Photo by ILRI/MacMillan)
REPORT ON SEMINAR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMTE CHANGE ORGANISED BY CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (CELDEV) AT BRITISH COUNIL MULTIPURPOSE HALL KANO-NIGERIA ON SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2009 AT 2:00 PM.
On behalf of centre for education and leadership development, I’m very happy to inform you that this very occasion of the commemoration of the international day of action on climate change was successfully conducted. The day’s activities commenced by 10:30am with radio chat at Radio Freedom House, Kano, Nigeria which gives us a good opportunity to make the action day very loud so that everyone would know about it. The program was delivered by Murtala Adogi Mohammed, the Lead-Co-coordinator, CELDEV-Nigeria where he addressed the missions and targets of 350 Global International climate actions in collaboration with CELDEV-Nigeria and the British Council Kano-Nigeria towards sustainable development strategies and the role of Non-state actors in addressing the challenges of climate change impact.
While the seminar started by 2:00 pm, the Lead-Coordinator, CELDEV-Nigeria presented his paper and discussed many issues concerning global warming in particular and the climate change in general. He also explains the meaning of 350 number and its importance toward the benefits of environment. He addressed the position of greenhouse gases during the past centuries and their present position at the Earth’s atmosphere. He also addressed the role of Non-state actors in addressing the challenges of climate impacts together with the role of women, youth and the grassroots communities in tackling the climate changes situation regionally. He suggested that, there is an emergency need of creation of institutions for analyzing the situation in Nigeria.
During the keynote address on the commemoration of the international day of action on climate change by the zonal director, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), North-west zone Kano-Nigeria represented by Enennaene Martins were he pointed out that, the seminar was came at a time when the whole world’s attention is focused on the management and challenges of environmental protection, climate change and issues on sustainable development. He also addressed that, NESREA which is a new institutional mechanism for environmental protection and sustainable development in Nigeria is a parastatal under the Ministry of Environment charged with the responsibility to ensure a cleaner and healthier environment for all Nigerians through inspiring personal and collective responsibility in building an environmentally conscious society for the achievement of sustainable development. Also, the federal
government of Nigeria has recently established the climate change commission charged with the responsibility of tackling the issues of climate change in Nigeria.
Today, we are all gathered here on another theme on climate change “communicating the science of climate change, 350ppm and the role of Non-state actors in addressing the challenges of climate change”. NESREA’s vision and mandate of ensuring a cleaner and healthier environment for all Nigerians in collaboration with other stakeholders underscores by Center for Education and Leadership Development (CELDEV-Nigeria) together with the 350 Global International climate actions and the British Council Kano-Nigeria.
These events of climate changes are likely to affect the health status of millions of people especially those in developing nations. Likely scenarios are an increase in malnutrition as a result of food shortage, water scarcity, famine, diseases and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and altered spatial distribution of infectious disease vectors. He added that 350ppm is the acceptable threshold of the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide emission in an environmental atmosphere. With the level of uncontrolled and incessant carbon dioxide emission from human activities like fuel wood exploitations, fumes from sub serviced engines of automobile and oil exploitation gas flaring in the Southern part of Nigeria, a great concern and high level of effort should be directed towards education and enlightenment of our populace on the dangers imminent and inherent from climate change, Global warming and Ozone layer depletion.
We thank British Council Kano-Nigeria for their support and contribution during the action day and we also thank them for proving us with the venue where the seminar took place. We wish them very successful and fulfilling deliberations.
Thank you!!!
Ahmad Abdullahi A.
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Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Sharmarke Farah, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States moderated by Noha El-Gebaly at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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September 24, 2011- Washington DC., 2011 World Bank Annual Meetings. Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities for Ministers of Finance and Development. Panelists:David Bloom , Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard University, United States; Melinda Gates , Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States; Maria Kiwanuka , Minister of Finance, Uganda; Andrew Mitchell , Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom; Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala , Minister of Finance, Thailand (shown); Rajiv Shah , Administrator, US Agency for International Development, United States.
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The Land Development Scheme of the Fitzroy Basin. A portion of the first burn viewed from the Eastern side.
December 1962.
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Long straight stretches of red road characterise travel through the Australian outback and this 260km stretch along the Kennedy Development Road between Hughenden and Lynd in outback Queensland is pretty typical. The road includes sections covered in fine red dust called “Bull Dust” and these sections are particularly hazardous when vehicles meet and the dust obscures vision … just another reason to be vigilant when driving in the outback of Australia!!
Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Sharmarke Farah, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States moderated by Noha El-Gebaly at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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April 18, 2015 - Washington DC., 2015 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings.
Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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September 24, 2011- Washington DC., 2011 World Bank Annual Meetings. Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities for Ministers of Finance and Development. Panelists:David Bloom , Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard University, United States; Melinda Gates , Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States; Maria Kiwanuka , Minister of Finance, Uganda; Andrew Mitchell , Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom (shown); Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala , Minister of Finance, Thailand; Rajiv Shah , Administrator, US Agency for International Development, United States. Photo: Simone D. McCourite / World Bank
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