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"Wang Wenlan" At the launch of his wonderful book "Facing the Cold", Philip McMaster congratulated China Daily, Wang Wenlan, all the people involved in the production of the book, the Chinese Military for thier rapid and compassionate help in the crisis, and the Chinese People for their courage and cooperation in the face of disaster.
Philip McMaster is from Montreal Canada, (the same city where Dr. Norman Bethune was educated and developed many innovations in Medicine) where he particpated as Director of Volunteer Coordination with "Cool to be Canadian" during two major disasters caused by Global Warming in 1997 and 1998. (see links below for details)
Presented with complimentary copies of the "Face the Cold" book, in gratitude Mr. McMaster shared the new Chinese Sustainability Symbol (3 fingers) with many of the key dignitaries, noting that he had developed the symbol in China, when teaching MBA students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This "made in China" symbol, researched and developed by the McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development of Commerce, is designed to become an ATTITUDE that the Chinese people will practice first for the Olympics, (balancing Society, Environment and Economy) and then export as China's gift of sustainability to the world.
Today Philip McMaster is Principal Researcher with the McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development of Commerce www.SustainabilitySymbol.com and Eco-Entrepreneurship Coach with www.Dragonpreneur.com , www.Dragonpreneur.com/blog
a description of the research and development of the Sustainability Symbol and programs for Chinese students of business and entrepreneurs can be found at the following websites: www.Dragonpreneur.com, www.DragonThink.com,
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National Emergencies where Philip McMaster has assisted citizens:
Flooding
In 1997, Philip McMaster was leader of "Cool to be Canadian" ( www.CooltobeCanadian.ca )crews helping the military build dams to protect the city from floods - www.cool.ca/cool_en/fld_action.htm
Ice Storm
In 1998, Philip McMaster was leader of "Cool to be Canadian" crews protecting Canadians from the ICE STORM covering Eastern Canada www.cool.ca/cool_en/icestorm_album.htm
Jan 13, 2000 - Philip McMaster cooperates with China Daily on Environment Book
Stop homogenization to protect tourism
By: Philip McMaster in Beijing
www.ecotaskforce.com/chinadaily/protect/
04/17/99 Philip McMaster - Sustainable Adventure in Hong Kong
www.ecotaskforce.com/chinadaily/HKnature/
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Photos of the "Facing the Cold" event can be found on Flickr at the following address: www.flickr.com/photos/dragonpreneur/sets/72157604040544560/
Built in 1923, this Renaissance Revival-style twenty-story skyscraper was designed by George B. Post and Sons to house the Buffalo Statler Hotel, part of the Statler Hotel chain that was headquartered in Buffalo. The second permanent hotel that the Statler family built in Buffalo, the building replaced an earlier hotel that stood on the site, housed in the former Millard Fillmore mansion, known as the Castle Inn, and an earlier flagship Statler Hotel, which was built in 1907, and located at the southeast corner of Swan Street and Washington Street in a building that was heavily influenced by the nearby Guaranty Building. Ellsworth Milton Statler, whom owned the business, had started in the hospitality industry with a restaurant in the basement of the Ellicott Square building in 1896, expanding with a 2,000-room temporary hotel at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and a 2,200 room hotel at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, which were so successful that Statler, a former bellhop, decided to re-enter the Hotel business permanently. The present building was the flagship hotel for the chain, which was based in Buffalo, but had hotels all around the United States, which featured amenities that are commonly expected today, including private bathrooms, telephones in each room, and free stationery and newspapers, and were priced at a moderate cost for more average travelers, rather than being targeted at wealthy clientele. Statler also wanted to attract the city’s elite to his establishment, and thus bought the nearby Iroquois Hotel, a longstanding center of social life for Buffalo’s elite and business class, in 1923, and closed it a day after his new hotel opened. Arguably, the original Hotel Statler was more architecturally significant, as it was one of the largest ever Art Nouveau buildings constructed in the United States, and featured a far more unique and distinctive interior and exterior, as well as being the first hotel to have all the innovative features that Statler became known for. Like the similarly significant Larkin Building, however, the original Statler Hotel Buffalo was demolished in 1968 to make way for a “shovel-ready” development site, with no regard for the non-monetary value of the building. Private development never materialized on the site, and it sat as a barren parking lot until a baseball stadium and plaza were built on the site in the late 20th Century.
The building features a tripartite composition, with a four-story base, which extends to the rear (east) of the tower along Genesee Street and Mohawk Street to Franklin Street, which contains many of the hotel’s major public spaces, including meeting rooms, ballrooms, lobbies, and retail spaces. Above the base rises a tower, twenty stories tall and E-shaped, with two light wells on the western side of the building that extend deep into the block to the east, with a largely unadorned red brick-clad section between the sill line of the windows on the sixth floor to the sill line of the windows on the eighteenth floor, forming the “shaft” of the composition. At the top is a more richly detailed three-story section of the building, forming the “capital” of the composition, drawing the eye upwards and emphasizing the verticality of the building. The first floor is clad in stone with rustication, with the second and third floors sharing large window bays with decorative surrounds, which include decorative keystones, broken pediments with cartouches, triple arched window openings flanked by doric pilasters and recessed niches on the western facade, paired arched windows facing Niagara Square, separated by doric pilasters, and smaller windows at the east end of the building along Franklin Street and Mohawk Street. Above the arched window bays are low-slope roofs enclosed by decorative balustrades, with smaller window openings on the fourth floor featuring decorative stone trim, with the window bays around the perimeter of the base of the tower portion of the building being flanked by doric pilasters, with an architrave with triglyphs and decorative reliefs above the pilasters, and a cornice featuring modillions running around the sill line of the fifth floor windows, marking the base of the transition from the base to the shaft. The fifth floor features windows with decorative surrounds and keystones with busts, and is topped with a cornice, which is the last strong horizontal datum before the building becomes an unadorned brick shaft for the next twelve floors. The building features double-hung and fixed windows, some of which are original, and others of which are replacements, with two-over-two windows being predominant between the sixth and eighteenth floors. On the eighteenth floor, the sill line of the windows is a line of stone belt coursing, with decorative window trim at the window openings, and a cornice with dentils above the windows, originally extending further out from the facade, but having been chiseled away due to structural issues in the late 20th Century. The nineteenth and twentieth floors feature decorative trim once again, with the outermost bays of the individual north and south facades, as well as the west facade, featuring single windows flanked by doric pilasters with decorative window trim, including busts on the keystones, and the middle bays being recessed, flanked by ionic pilasters, with copper spandrel panels. The top of the twentieth floor windows is a line of belt coursing, above which are a few courses of brick, with decorative reliefs above the doric pilasters on the east and west facades, which sits below the building’s cornice, which features brackets, and runs around the base of the brick parapet that encloses the building’s low-slope roof. Atop the parapet above the doric pilasters are decorative urns. The rear of the building also features a large circulation tower, housing the building’s main stairways and elevators, which features a largely unadorned facade with four oxeye openings with stone trim at the top, with this being the least detailed section of the building’s exterior.
Inside, the building features many original semi-public spaces that have been partially preserved from the original period of construction and function as a hotel. These include the “palm room”, the main lobby that is themed after a tropical garden, which sits just outside the hotel’s main dining room, a two-story space with a vaulted ceiling, decorative archways, paired arched second-story openings with balustrades and columns, arched windows above the dining room entrance, an entrance portico at the dining room with ionic columns, a decorative cornice, a broken pediment with a cartouche, and a decorative balustrade atop the portico, and a fountain surrounded by greco-roman statues. There is also the Terrace Room, which features a decorative beam ceiling, ionic columns, and a section of the ceiling that is vaulted, the golden ballroom, formerly the hotel’s main dining room, which features a cantilevered second-story balcony with ionic columns featuring capitals and accents clad in gold leaf, decorative trim and panels clad in gold leaf, a wooden parquet floor, and a vaulted ceiling, and a room in the mezzanine with well-preserved carved wood paneling and black marble fireplace surrounds. Other spaces, including the lounge, tea room, cafeteria, swimming pool, and turkish baths, have not been preserved in as intact of a condition.
The hotel began to see a decline in occupancy with the onset of the Great Depression, with several of its 1,100 rooms regularly sitting vacant. As a result, it began to see portions of its interior converted into office space, which accelerated after the opening of the WBEN TV studio in the building. The Statler hotel chain was bought out by Hilton in 1954, which continued to use the Statler brand on hotels that the chain had already built, but eventually phased it out. The hotel finally shuttered in 1984, with the building being renamed the Statler Towers. The building became largely vacant, with only the lower floors being occupied, with the highest occupancy being in the street-facing retail spaces. In the 2000s, the building was slated for conversion into a hotel and condominium, but this proved unsuccessful when the entity that owned the building went bankrupt, leading to a foreclosure and the building being threatened with demolition. Preservationists worked hard to save the building, leading to it being auctioned to a developer in 2010, whom started to stabilize the structure and address its deferred maintenance, reopening the event spaces on the lower floors in 2011, with plans to eventually renovate the rest of the building with an incremental, multi-phased approach. After that developer died, the building was sold to another developer, whom has announced plans to convert the base into a combination of parking, meeting and event space, amenity space, and retail space, with 600 apartments on the upper levels, with work being well underway in 2022.
IC 2466, one of the last C40-8W's operating on the CN idles with it's consist in Neenah, after working the yard, they will depart for Fond Du Lac Wisconsin.
I had just completed mowing the front yard and when I came back to the back yard the boys faced of to the mower. Long as it is quiet and not moving, they are fine.
fall applique and embroidery still making
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La cosiddetta torre pendente di Pisa (chiamata semplicemente torre pendente o torre di Pisa) è il campanile della Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, nella celeberrima Piazza dei Miracoli di cui è il monumento più famoso per via della caratteristica pendenza.
Si tratta di un campanile a sé stante alto circa 56 metri, costruito nell'arco di due secoli, tra il dodicesimo e il quattordicesimo. Pesante 14.453 tonnellate, vi predomina la linea curva, con giri di arcate cieche e sei piani di loggette. La sua pendenza è dovuta ad un cedimento del terreno verificatosi già nelle prime fasi della costruzione.
L'inclinazione dell'edificio attualmente misura 5° rispetto all'asse verticale. La torre di Pisa rimane in equilibrio perché la verticale che passa per il suo baricentro cade all'interno della base di appoggio.
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A torre pendente de Pisa (em italiano Torre pendente di Pisa), ou simplesmente, Torre de Pisa, é um campanário (campanile ou campanário autônomo) da catedral da cidade italiana de Pisa. Está situada atrás da catedral, e é a terceira mais antiga estrutura na praça da Catedral de Pisa (Campo dei Miracoli), depois da catedral e do baptistério.
Embora destinada a ficar na vertical, a torre começou a inclinar-se para Sudeste, logo após o início da construção, em 1173, devido a uma fundação mal construída e a um solo de fundação mal compactado, que permitiu à fundação ficar com assentamentos diferenciais. A torre atualmente se inclina para o sudoeste.
A altura do solo ao topo da torre é de 55,86 metros no lado mais baixo e de 56,70 metros na parte mais alta. A espessura das paredes na base mede 4,09 metros e 2,48 metros no topo. Seu peso é estimado em 14 500 toneladas . A torre tem 296 ou 294 degraus: o sétimo andar da face Norte das escadas tem dois degraus a menos. Antes do trabalho de restauração realizado entre 1990 e 2001, a torre estava inclinada com um ângulo de 5.5 graus,[1][2][3] estando agora a torre inclinada em cerca de 3.99 graus.[4] Isto significa que o topo da torre está a uma distância de 3.9m de onde ela estaria, se a torre estivesse perfeitamente na vertical
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo) after the Cathedral and the Baptistry.
Although intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate that has allowed the foundation to shift direction.
The height of the tower is 55.86 m (183.27 ft) from the ground on the low side and 56.70 m (186.02 ft) on the high side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 m (13.42 ft) and at the top 2.48 m (8.14 ft). Its weight is estimated at 14,500 metric tons (16,000 short tons). The tower has 296 or 294 steps; the seventh floor has two fewer steps on the north-facing staircase. Prior to restoration work performed between 1990 and 2001, the tower leaned at an angle of 5.5 degrees,[1][2][3] but the tower now leans at about 3.99 degrees.[4] This means that the top of the tower is 3.9 metres (12 ft 10 in) from where it would stand if the tower were perfectly vertical
A snowy owl, wings outstretched, faces the early morning sun just after sunrise at Boundary Bay, BC. (just as the bird touches down on the driftwood log)
Technical details, Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon EF300mm f/2.8L + 2.0x telextender II, ISO800, 1/2000 sec.
Harassed, arrested but not forgotten. Film director Jafar Panahi and Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh are paying the price for defending human rights in their native Iran as Mr Sotoudeh is now in prison and Ms Panahi is facing a six-year sentence. Yet, their struggle has not gone unrecognised. This year the European Parliament awarded them the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. As they were unable to pick it up in person, they designated people to represent them during the ceremony on 12 December.
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A month or so ago the Bi-Co News used a picture of me to illustrate a front-page story on temporary faculty at Haverford. Admire my "new energy".
„Facing the Balkans“ ist dem renommierten Fotojournalisten und ehemaligen stern-Fotografen Harald Schmitt gewidmet.
Die Fotoausstellung zeigt ausgewählte Bilder seiner Südosteuropa-Reisen, die dazu einladen, das eigene Balkanbild zu hinterfragen.
Über einhundert seiner Werke aus elf Ländern, die während seiner fünf Reisen zwischen 2015 und 2021 entstanden, zeigen Südosteuropa von Slowenien im Norden bis Albanien im Süden, von Kroatien im Westen bis Moldau im Osten.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - 1920x1080 w/ 4x SGSSAA + SweetFX (DPX shader, curves, film grain)
Yes, I'm fighting him with a dagger. Don't ask.
Meetings in North East Ohio this week, and this wonderful sculpture greeted me at the Westin, Downtown, Cleveland each day. I'm not sure if Cleveland rocks, but the sculpture definitely did.
Instead of making binding, you can also make facing from 3" - 3 1/2" strips and corner squares on the top for hanging.
Winter Facing, a sculpture by Jonathan Hateley.
Seen at 'Art & Soul' at The Artful Gallery, Haslemere, Surrey.
I've no idea what the name of this flower is, it came in a bunch from Tescos. Photographed fine though :)
At times things happen around us that we have no control over, we can only face whatever is thrown at us undaunted and figure out a way to survive; tough days at work..
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Vistors to Burgazada come here for the peace, tranquility and clean air, yet it's only 20 minutes by fast ferry to the heart of Istanbul. The apartment is modern, south facing, on the first floor with a balcony overlooking the pool (June - Sept) and lush semi tropical gardens with lovely trees including, palm, pomegranite, plum, ash and many more, shared with another block of four apartments. You will invariably be alone or with one other family in the pool/garden as during the week people commute to the mainland. Homes on Burgazada are typically owned by wealthy families from Istanbul and used in the summer months. Burgazada winter population approximately 4,000, summer approximately 20,000, but the Island never seems crowded. You'll be stepping back in time 50 years to when the pace of life was slower.There are ample grocery shops for all your self catering provisions, including butchers, bakers and candle stick makers (just kidding). Seriously, you need never set foot of the Island if you just want to slow to a snails pace and chill out.
A couple of beautiful "emblazoned by the sun" roses facing east, reaching for the glory on the highest.
Best when viewed in LIGHTBOX.
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