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The Ultimate Kitchen featured an entry area with a built in desk, this bench with cubbies, and a laundry area. All were finished in sea drift stain with a licorice patina enhancement.
It is a surfboat, all modelled by hand for my entry in the Sugar Art category. I got a highly commended.
The entry into the Rodin Museum by KPF in Seoul, Korea.
This is one of my favorite buildings ever, but I'm not sure the entry has kicked it, and the sign seems to date it in the 1980's? Does anyone know if this was added after the design?
ATA-Houston celebrated the National sovereignty and Children's Day with a community picnic on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at Cullen Park. ATA-Houston Children's Choir performed the national anthems and popular children's songs. We had special games and contest for the kids, and each child went home with special gifts: A copy of the Little Prince in Turkish, various toys and giveaways, flashlights and more. We thank all our volunteers and members who made this event possible.
Photography: Bulent Selcuk
MQP Swap #2 - Entry #13
Name: Circles Squared
Size:20 inches square
Other details: machine pieced & quilted, inv. zipper
India is amongst those countries that have been hit hard by the US subprime meltdown.
It's probably because outsourcing businesses such as data entry services have been one of the key drivers of India's economy in recent times. The outsourcing businesses were the first to feel the heat of the subprime meltdown probably because of the depreciating value of dollar against most of the major world currencies including the Indian Rupee. Dollar depreciation means less pay for the same effort and costs for outsourcing companies and this is exactly how the outsourcing industry has been affected by the subprime meltdown.
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(The following information is compliments of various Wikipedia entries, and the cemetery brochure, which is available to all who visit.)
Final resting place of Charles Feltman, "inventor of the hot dog."
Green-Wood Cemetery in the western part of Brooklyn is a large (478 acre) historic cemetery. It was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery by Hezekiah Pierrepont. (He's buried on a manmade hillock in the cemetery.)
The cemetery grounds were considered so beautiful that it's usually referred to as the first public park in New York, and inspired the design and creation of nearby (a few blocks northeast of here) Prospect Park and Central Park in Manhattan.
Other places of interest nearby are Prospect Park, directly northeast, the Windsor Terrace neighborhood -- between the cemetery and Prospect Park, and the Park Slope neighborhood, which is considered one of the best neighborhoods in the entire country. (On a tangent, the number of notable people from Park Slope is...impressive.) Accessing the cemetery is also easy. There are four gates -- two of which are city landmarks -- with the main one being at 25th Street in the northwest part of the cemetery. They were designed by Richard Upjohn. The cemetery easily accessible via the NYC subway system as well. Nearest the main gate is the 25th Street station on the DNR lines. The 36th street station on the same line is directly next to the Sunset Park gate. The 9th Avenue station on the DNR line is next to the south side of the cemetery (though I'm not sure if it's near a gate).
Finally, to comment on the cemetery itself? If you were to make a matrix of different characteristics of a cemetery -- aesthetic/natural beauty, historical value, notable interments, architectural aspects -- this may very well be the best cemetery in the country to visit. (It did, after all, inspire the creation of two very famous parks, one of which is known in most parts of the world.) I'll address my above mentioned characteristics with some comments.
Aesthetically, this cemetery has lots of small hills, curving paths, lakes. The highest natural point in all of Brooklyn is located within the cemetery (and is pictured here). The cemetery was expanded a few times, and the only part of the cemetery that's reasonably flat is the southeastern part near the Fort Hamilton entrance. This was acquired last and basically left as is. As the cemetery isn't flat, you can always find some relaxing, distinct panoramic views (of the cemetery alone, or with the surrounding neighborhoods as a backdrop, or even Manhattan framed in a photo or two). The landscaping also has a very diverse collection of flora and fauna, along with trees (the latter of which include European beech, sassafras, tulip, gingko, elm, and others).
The cemetery also has historical value, especially regarding the foundation of the country. There were Revolutionary War battles fought on what would become the grounds of the cemetery, and you'll find some signage on your walk or drive through the park (though walking is certainly better) that can tell you about the localized battles that took place here in the 1770s.
Notable interments? Where to begin? They cover most all aspects of life in this country. African American history? James Weldon Johnson, author of the "black national anthem" Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is buried with his wife Grace in her family's plot in the eastern end of the cemetery. The Freedom Lots, where African Americans were buried separately are in the southeastern portion of the cemetery. Art? Jean-Michel Basquiat is interred here (also in the eastern end of the cemetery). The Tiffany family plot contains the graves of Louis Comfort Tiffany (stained glass artist) and his father (who founded the Tiffany Jewelry Company (of Breakfast at Tiffany's fame, and also the company that makes each U.S. sports main trophies -- Stanley Cup, Lombardy Trophy, Larry O'Brien Trophy, World Series Trophy, etc.) Notoriety? William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher (who Daniel Day Lewis portrayed in Gangs of New York) is laid to rest in the southern part of the cemetery. Science? Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph & Morse code is here, along with Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine. Baseball? Charles Ebbets and Henry Chadwick are here, not terribly far from each other. (Both had far-reaching impacts on the sport that are taken for granted today, with the latter being one of two credited as the Father of Baseball.) Civil War history? Major General Henry Halleck (general in chief of Union forces for a year and a half until Grant succeeded him) is here, along with Laura Keene (the actress who was on stage at Ford's Theatre when President Lincoln was shot). Politics? The Roosevelt family plot is a circle of graves in the center of the cemetery that contain the remains of many of Teddy Roosevelt's immediate family including his parents and first wife Alice are here. (Teddy, however, is buried near his Sagamore Hill home out on Long Island with his second wife Edith.) Governor De Witt Clinton (of Clinton's Folly/Erie Canal fame) is also here. Famous for corruption, William "Boss" Tweed is laid to rest here. Music? Leonard Bernstein (of West Side Story renown, among other works) and Pop Smoke (hip hop artist born in 1999 and murdered in a house break-in) are here. The Steinway (of piano renown) crypt is also on the grounds. Native American culture? An Iowan princess/daughter of a chief named Do-Hum-Me is buried in the western end of the cemetery. Also here is artist George Catlin's grave.
He most famously documented and glamorized Native American culture through art and traveled the west on subsequent journeys with Meriwether Lewis in the 1800s.
Superlatives? The oldest (at death) person in the cemetery is Sarah Kairns, who was about 40 years old at the beginning of the American Revolution, and breathed her last 7 years before the U.S. Civil War. Margaret Pine, the last enslaved African American in New York, is here as well. And this is just touching the surface of people you'll find here.
Architecturally, you'll find a trove of interesting details here, from the aforementioned gates, to mausoleums and crypts, the chapel, monuments and sculptures, obelisks, and other headstones/grave markers throughout the cemetery. The architectural styles you'll see are Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, and Romanesque, among others.
The William and Mary men’s basketball team led from start to finish and pushed its home-court winning streak to 14 games with a 77-58 victory over Elon on Wednesday night at Kaplan Arena. W&M shot 49 percent from the floor, knocked down ten 3-pointers and connected on 17-of-20 from the free throw line in outdistancing Elon. W&M remained in first place in the CAA at 10-3 in league and 16-8 overall, while Elon dropped to 11-15 on the year and 3-10 in CAA play.
Omar Prewitt led the Tribe, scoring 18 of his game-high 19 points in the first half to go with seven rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots. Sean Sheldon picked up his first career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, while Marcus Thornton finished with 17 points and three assists.
The Tribe jumped out to an early advantage thanks in large part to the play of Prewitt and Sheldon. They combined for 24 of the Tribe’s opening 28 points as the Green and Gold opened up a double-digit advantage. W&M scored 11 of game’s first 13 points as four straight from Sheldon, including a pair of free throws, gave W&M the nine-point cushion.
Five straight from Elon closed the gap to 11-7 at the 13:51 mark, but W&M responded with and 8-2 run, including six from Prewitt. His 3-pointer from the left side extended the Tribe lead to 19-9. The Tribe lead remained in double digits, jumping to 30-15 on a Thornton setback jumper with four and a half minutes left in the half. The margin was 11 points following an Elijah Bryant jumper at the 3:20 mark, before the home team ripped off a 12-2 run to push its advantage over 20.
Connor Burchfield provided W&M with a huge lift off the bench, hitting back-to-back 3-pointers. A steal and fast break bucket from Thornton gave W&M a 17-point advantage and forced an Elon timeout. The Green and Gold run continued on a tough finish inside from Sheldon and a pair of Prewitt free throws, extending the lead to 42-21 with a minute left in the first half. W&M led by 19 at the intermission after shooting 51.7 percent (15-of-29), while limiting Elon to 36 percent (9-of-25) in the opening 20 minutes.
The visiting Phoenix scored eight of first 11 in the second half to draw within 14 points. Hamilton scored six straight points for Elon, including a steal and fast break lay-up to close the visitors to within 45-31 with 16:45 left.
After failing to hit a 3-pointer in the opening 20 minutes, Thornton knocked down back-to-back triples, including one of the step-back variety, to push the lead back to 18, 51-33, and the Phoenix never got closer than 15 points the rest of the way. His fast break lay-up off a Sheldon defensive rebound and look-ahead pass gave W&M a 60-40 lead with just under eight minutes remaining.
The cushion reached as many as 23 on a pair of occasions, including on Thornton’s third 3-pointer of the second half with 2:50 to play. From there, both teams emptied the bench and W&M picked up a 77-58 win, its 16th of the season. The 16 wins rank 10th in program history.
In a stark contrast from the earlier meeting this season, W&M limited Elon to just 3-of-22 (13.6 percent) from 3-point range, including only 1-of-14 from its top two scorers in Bryant and Tanner Samson. The Phoenix duo was 12-of-22 from long range and combined for 45 points in their home win over the Tribe in January. Elon finished the game shooting 40.3 percent (25-of-62) from the floor. Bryant led Elon with 15 points and 10 rebounds, but was just 5-of-15 from the field and 1-of-4 from 3-point range. Samson, who had 20 in the first meeting, finished with just two points and was 0-of-10 from 3-point range. Hamilton added 13 points, while Christian Hairston tallied 10 off the bench.
Playing without the services of guard Daniel Dixon, who was out due to injury, the Tribe received a number of contributions, especially from its freshman class. Rookie Oliver Tot garnered his first career start, finishing with three rebounds and two assists in a strong floor game. Greg Malinowski added six points, knocking down a pair of 3-pointers, to go along with two assists and fellow classmate Burchfield poured in six points on two 3-pointers. Tom Schalk added six points, four rebounds and a career-high three blocked shots off the bench.
W&M shot 49 percent (25-of-51) on the night, including a 10-of-24 (41.7 percent) effort from 3-point range. The Green and Gold continued its strong free throw shooting, connecting on 85 percent (17-of-20) from the charity stripe. The Tribe out rebounded Elon, 36-30, and dished out 14 assists on its 25 made field goals.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action.
We used a sheet of grass-impregnated Lumicor as the divider between the entry and the living room. The idea was to create a sense of separation while allowing light to freely move about. Steel and walnut ribs hold the entire assembly solidly together.
Entry in category 2. Women and men of science; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Kaan Mika
There are moments when we want to freeze the time and photography is a great tool for that! However, scientists can do it without fancy cameras, at least in plants! Daniel Osoko is a Master’s student at Biocommunication Group at ETH Zurich and he wants to understand how plants cope with diseases. In his experiments, he uses the broad bean (Vicia faba) and investigates what happens to these plants when they are infected with a virus (Pea enation mosaic virus) which is transmitted by certain aphid species. To achieve that, he is freezing the leaves of healthy and sick plants under various treatments, quantify the amount of virus in each plant and also analyze metabolic mechanisms. Hopefully, his research will contribute to our understanding of how plants fight against diseases. I believe Master's students are the unseen heroes of the research laboratories and Daniel deserves to be on the spot light! Therefore, I decided to submit his photo for the competition.
From my mom's old passport.
Kenya Exit 01/10/85 NBO
Kenya Entry 12/29/84 NBO
France Exit 01/11/85 ORL
France Exit 01/11/85 CDG
Kenya Entry Visa/Washington Embassy
Kenya Entry 2/29/84 NBO
It was overcast and sometimes drizzly so the light and color wasn't all that good, that's why I used the Photomatix process on most of the pictures I took at Huntly Castle, to bring out the color and details. My booklet I purchased there said this would have originally been tinctured with coloured pigments.
The doorway itself is an elaborate Renaissance confection, its lintel resting on slim classical pilasters and ornamented with grotesque animals and heraldry. Directly above is a panel emblazoned with the arms of the marquis and marchioness. Above the marquis's coat of arms are those of his sovereigns, James VI and Queen Anna of Denmark. Higher still are two panels which once illustrated the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. The lower contained the Arma Christi (the arms of Christ); the pierced heart, hands and feet, along with the instruments of his passion. The circular panel above depicted the Risen Christ. The whole composition is crowned by the figure of the warrior archangel Michael triumphing over Satan, representing the victory of Good over Evil on the Day of the Last Judgeship.
The religious imagery of the frontispiece was carefully defaced when the Covenanters occupied the castle in the 1640s. They left the earthly heraldry untouched.
Our "Historic Scotland" passes we'd bought in Edinburgh let us into Huntly Castle as well as other places.
Huntly Castle: Over a period of 600 years this site saw four different castles in three slightly different locations under two different names. And between them these castles were attacked or besieged at least eight times.
In about 1180, Duncan, Earl of Fife, built the first castle here. By early 1306, John of Strathbogie, by now both Earl of Fife and Earl of Atholl, was executed by Edward I for supporting Robert the Bruce (see our Historical Timeline). The castle passed to his son, David of Strathbogie. After years of family support for Robert the Bruce, which included his using the castle as a base in 1307, David of Strathbogie chose to shift his support to the English early in 1314. This was a bad move, coming just before Robert the Bruce's final victory at Bannockburn.
In response to this Robert the Bruce, granted the castle and the lands of Strathbogie to Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly, in Berwickshire, who had shown him more consistent loyalty. This brought the Gordons to Moray, and with them the name of Huntly that was later to replace Strathbogie.
In about 1410, Sir Alexander Seton, later Lord Gordon, cleared away the 230 year old wooden castle and replaced it with a stone tower house built at the north end of the bailey. Only the thick-walled foundations of the tower house now remain, visible on the north side of the castle courtyard. The tower house would have been accompanied by a defensive wall around the bailey area, and ranges of other supporting buildings.
This castle was burned by the Earl of Moray in 1452, a member of the Black Douglas family and an opponent of King James II. In retaliation the Earl of Huntly (as the head of the Gordon family had become) destroyed the Black Douglas family in Moray. The damaged tower house at Strathbogie was replaced in 1460 by a much grander building on the south side of the site, where all later development was to take place. Today only the cellars under the later palace remain of the 1460 building.
In 1506, Alexander, the third Earl of Huntly, was granted a charter changing the name of the castle and surrounding area from Strathbogie to Huntly, in effect fitting the geography to his title. The castle has since been known as Huntly Castle, and the town to its south also later became known as Huntly.
By 1550 George, the 4th Earl of Huntly, was also Lord Chancellor of Scotland and one of the wealthiest men in the kingdom. He rebuilt the castle above the basement level into a grand palace, finishing the work just in time for a visit by Mary de Guise, widow of James V and mother of Mary Queen of Scots. George's strong Catholicism and political independence were later to lead to his falling out with Mary Queen of Scots. On 28 October 1562 she defeated him at the Battle of Corrichie, near Aberdeen. George was killed in the battle, Huntly Castle was looted and George's younger son was executed.
Repairs were still underway when George, the 6th Earl of Huntly, joined a plot against James VI (son of Mary Queen of Scots) in 1594. The King's response was to attack the castle, damaging it again and blowing up the remains of the old tower house on the north side of the enclosure. By 1599 George had made his peace with James VI and been promoted to Marquis of Huntly. His response was a further round of building work at Huntly, designed to make the 1550 palace even grander and more decorative.
The remodelling around 1600 included the remarkable fireplaces on view in the palace, one of which is dated 1606, and the decorative oriel windows and inscription on the exterior of the upper floor of the palace. The inscription reads: George Gordon First Marquis of Huntlie 16 above Henriette Stewart Marquesse of Huntlie 02.
The architectural triumph of the palace that resulted was not to be enjoyed for long. The 2nd Marquis of Huntly backed the King in the Civil War and paid for it with his life. In 1640 Huntly Castle was occupied by the Covenanting Army. In 1644 it was held for the King by the Duke of Montrose. And in 1647 it was defended by Lord Charles Gordon against General Leslie's Covenanters, but starved into submission. The defenders were all executed. In 1650, King Charles II stayed en route to his coronation as King of Scotland.
Huntly Castle last played an active role in Scottish History in 1746, when it was held by Government Troops against the Jacobites. It later became a handy quarry for those building the town of Huntly before its value as an attractive ruin was appreciated in the late 1800s. It was passed into State care in 1923, and is now looked after by Historic Scotland.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850.
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
Entry in category 3. Locations and instruments; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Jonathan Gasser
The photograph shows the interior equipment in a vacuum test chamber dedicated to the calibration of space instrumentation for ion or energetic neutral atoms (ENA) detection. The option to neutralize an ion beam in the left box allows to calibrate ENA imaging instruments even at very low beam energies, which makes this facility really special. On the motion table in the center, with two devices mounted on momentarily, an instrument under test can be moved relative to the beam. ENA imaging has become an important observation technique in heliospheric, planetary and space plasma science, as ENA carry pristine information about their source plasma to a distant observer. The arrangement of test instruments and supporting equipment we see here gives the impression of a very pleasant and harmonic situation in the warm chamber light. I felt urged to pause installation procedure to take a picture of this homely moment.
I did a short film project last school year – The Feast by Ghostgirl777 on youtube– in which I was Clove, the knife-thrower from 2 who I wish we knew more about. She couldn’t have been just a sadistic girl – there had to be another side to her. I wish we could’ve seen it. I digress!
So, I decided to dress as Clove for this. It’s almost the same outfit from my video, minus the jacket because we used fake blood and I didn’t want to risk staining it, and different boots. Little did I know while filming it, the black shirt and green pants ensemble would be the official “tribute” outfit in the movie. So this worked out great.
Costume: Black shirt, green pants, brown boots.
Props: Two knives
Makeup: Some eye shadow and fake blood.
--by Emily