View allAll Photos Tagged indication
Overlooking Santa Fe, NM toward the Jemez Mountains.
Viewed from near Gonzales Rd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Picturenaut HDR
cs5 photoshop
Shooting Date/Time6/4/2012 1:46:20 PM
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 4 to November 8, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no studio name.
The divided back of the card has been hand-stamped with the date 9th. October 1933.
There are no indications as to the identity of the mother or the location of the photograph.
Peter Mansfield
So what else happened on Monday the 9th. October 1933?
Well, the day marked the birth in Lambeth of Peter Mansfield, British physicist. He was the 2003 recipient of the Nobel Prize for his development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Peter died in 2017.
Gus Winkler
The day also marked the death at the age of 32 of the American gangster Gus Winkler in a shooting.
Gus Winkler, who was born on the 28th. March 1901, headed a Prohibition-era criminal gang specialising in armed robbery and murder for hire with Fred "Killer" Burke.
Winkler was an associate of Chicago mob boss Al Capone, and is considered a suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Gus Winkler - The Early Years
Winkler was born August Henry Winkeler to Bernard J. Winkeler and Mary K. in Lemay, Missouri of German descent.
In September 1917, at the age of 16, Winkler enlisted in the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps and served on the Western Front with the 91st Infantry Division.
After his return to America, Winkler joined up with the notorious Egan's Rats gang. It was during this time that he first became associated with Fred "Killer" Burke and Bob Carey.
Winkler later confessed to his wife Georgette to participating in the "one-way ride" murder of auto thief Wesley Smith in July 1923.
After the heart of the Egan gang went to prison for mail robbery in November 1924, Winkler and his pals signed on with the South City-based Cuckoo Gang.
Winkler, Burke, and Milford Jones were captured in downtown St. Louis on the 5th. June 1925 after a high-speed chase and shootout with the St. Louis police. Within a year and a half, Winkler moved to Detroit and briefly aligned himself with the Purple Gang that was under control of Abe Bernstein.
Gus Winkler's Partnership with Al Capone
After arousing the ire of Al Capone by kidnapping a Detroit gambler, Winkler and his pals hired themselves out for freelance work from Capone and the Chicago Outfit in exchange for releasing the gambler unharmed.
Capone and Winkler developed a close friendship, and the Chicago mob boss used Gus and his friends (Fred Burke, Bob Carey, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent and Fred Goetz) for special assignments.
Capone jokingly referred to the men as his "American Boys." Circumstantial evidence and testimony from Georgette Winkeler indicates that Winkler and his crew may have participated in the July 1928 murder of Brooklyn gangster Frankie Yale and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
The American Boys were also implicated in the murder of Toledo police officer George Zientara on the 16th. April 1928, who was shot dead in the aftermath of an American Express armored truck heist.
Winkler himself enjoyed Capone's complete confidence, even after Fred Burke was publicly named as a suspect in the massacre and the discovery of the murder weapons. Winkler often told people that he worked as a 'contractor' which might have played on the undertone of the word and his career as a contract killer.
The Death of Gus Winkler
The fallout from the Valentine's Day massacre proved to be the undoing of the American Boys as an organised sub-group. Fred Burke was eventually captured and imprisoned for the murder of Michigan police office Charles Skelly. Bob Carey was exiled from Chicago after attempting to blackmail a friend of Capone's, and Crane Neck Nugent vanished without a trace.
Gus Winkler, along with St. Louis gangster John "Babs" Moran, was severely injured in a car accident in Berrien County, Michigan on the 3rd. August 1931. While Winkler survived, the crash cost him one of his eyes. While in his hospital bed, Winkler was accused of planning and taking part in the September 1930 robbery of $2 million from a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska.
While Winkler hadn't done the robbery, he knew who did, and claimed he could convince the actual heisters to turn over the loot. After this assurance, Capone reluctantly put up Winkler's $100,000 cash bond. After his release, Winkler did indeed deliver as promised. By the next year, Gus had carved out a lucrative position in the rackets of Chicago's North Side, despite his co-operation with authorities.
The beginning of the end for Gus Winkler began upon Capone's 1931 imprisonment. With Frank Nitti now in charge of the mob, Winkler was surrounded by gangsters whom he didn't trust. Nitti and other top Outfit mobsters had never been especially fond of the American Boys, whose rise to prominence was a product of Capone's generosity.
After Nitti was shot and nearly killed by the Chicago police detective Harry Lang in December 1932, his suspicions towards Winkler only intensified. Gus Winkler was observed making visits to the office of FBI agent Melvin Purvis in the summer of 1933. While Winkler was in fact only giving the feds tips on the Kansas City Massacre suspect Verne Miller, Nitti believed that Gus was turning informer.
Nitti decided to act. While entering the beer distribution office of Charles Weber at 1414 Roscoe Street in Chicago on the afternoon of the 9th. October 1933, Winkler was hit by multiple shotgun blasts fired by unknown assailants hidden in the back of a green delivery truck.
Winkler died a half-an-hour later after arriving at a local hospital. He was buried at Park Lawn Cemetery in St. Louis.
Winkler was one of the main casualties of a half-year-long purge where Frank Nitti eliminated the last of the so-called American Boys; including one of Winkler's alleged killers, Fred Goetz.
Gus's wife, the former 'Georgette Bence' (1898-1962), later wrote her memoirs in which she detailed her life with the notorious gangster.
A Further Death
On the 29th. February 1960, while at his home in Florence, South Carolina, former FBI agent Melvin Purvis died from a gunshot wound to the head fired from a .45 automatic given to him by fellow agents when he resigned from the Bureau.
The FBI investigated his death and declared it a suicide, although the official coroner's report did not label the cause of death as such.
A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol. It was found that the pistol that had taken Purvis's life had once belonged to none other than gangster Gus Winkler; the gun is believed to have been confiscated from Winkler during his debriefing in the summer of 1933.
We had a trip to Prague in January – for Jayne’s birthday - we don’t buy Christmas or birthday presents, we travel instead. We left snowy England for a very, very dull and grey Czech Republic. Yet again I was on a photographic downer looking at the weather forecast, grey is the colour that haunts me. Fortunately it was dull grey and not burnt highlight inducing bright grey.With the grey sky acting like a big diffuser I was going to have deep shadow and contrast to deal with. We had three very short spells of broken cloud which gave us a bit of sun and colour, which I managed to more or less anticipate so we managed to be in decent locations every time – generally somewhere high.
We had been upgraded to a five star hotel, apparently our original choice was flooded. We got compensation and five star hotel upgrade– a first for me. The Art Nouveau Palace has a beautiful interior, with beautiful rooms, the breakfast room was fantastic, as was the breakfast it has to be said. We were able to have an early breakfast so were out on foot just after eight. It was very cold – and dull! We spent the whole week well wrapped up. It drizzled for a day, but never really wet us, it snowed for a day, again we didn’t get wet and the snow didn’t settle. We walked 65 mile, spending plenty of time checking buildings and their interiors out – and coffee shop and bar interiors it has to be said. Although it was dull and sometimes wet I decided that the Camera was staying in my hands for the whole trip. Whenever I put it in my backpack for one reason or another I regret it.
Again, I didn’t look at any photographs of Prague before we got there, I like to just walk and discover, with the DK guidebook in my pocket (which is full of photos it has to be said). We like to get off the beaten track and see the grittier side of the places we visit – within reason! Prague has an incredible tram network, over 1000 trams – with many of them Tatra Eastern Bloc machines. The system seems chaotic but in reality it is incredible with one of the largest networks and highest usages in the world. The trams and cars frequently share the same road space with very little in the way of drama, none of the inexplicable and pathetic constant horn blowing one finds in many countries. Once it became apparent that buildings with a grey blanket as a background were going to be a bit un-inspirational I decided that the trams would be a good focal point instead. Where I have photographed one of the older trams against a background without clues it is easy to imagine that the photos were taken fifty years ago.
The train network also provided photo opportunities. The rolling stock ranges from old Eastern Bloc to very modern double decker’s and pendolinos. There are three stations although we visited the main station and Smichov. The main station interior is art deco and has been renovated by a private company. The exterior and the platforms are very rundown with a grim eastern bloc 1950’s feel –but it works! We discovered to our amusement that we could just walk across multiple lines, no health and safety, just keep your eyes open and don’t walk under a train – you’ll make a mess. Smichov station was grim, it didn’t help that it snowed all day and was grey and bitter. We felt like we were in a 50’s film set in Russia, broken concrete platforms and dereliction. With both stations there was another world underneath them. The underground Metro is running seamlessly and efficiently away beneath your feet. I didn’t have any problems taking photos anywhere but I was very open and obviously a tourist, I didn’t act covertly or suspiciously. There was only one occasion I was stopped and that was in a shopping centre – full of CCTV cameras filming everyone else!
We discovered old and beautiful- and very large- shopping centres hidden away in quite a few places. Brass framed windows and doors, shops thriving, there was a massive camera shop with thousands of second hand cameras, too much to look at. Many of the landmark buildings prevent photography, some make a small charge, some encourage it, the DK guide book gives a good indication regarding camera use. Nothing stops many people though, they just shoot away regardless, usually wanting a picture that includes their self. Prague is surrounded by low hills and has a fair few towers that you can pay a few pounds to go up, so viewpoints are plentiful. I think we visited most of them. I read about the Zizkov Tower, which looks like a Soviet rocket on the horizon and we headed straight for it - after crossing the rail lines! Set in a quiet residential area, there wasn’t a soul about. Two beautiful girls on reception and we parted with a few pounds, into the lift and were on the observation deck with no one else up there. There are fantastic views over the city, but! It is through two layers of not very clean glass so you go for the view rather than sharp panoramas. Still a fascinating place, with a nice café bar and very clean toilets – there are toilets everywhere, usually manned with a fee. Places are well staffed compared with home were three students are supposed to run a 20 screen multiplex cinema.
Graffiti was prominent, no matter how grand the monument, some moron would have daubed it. How do they get away with it in a 24 hour city centre with a strong police presence? The place is very clean, constantly being swept. What did surprise me, was that many buildings, that looked grand and built of stone, from a distance, were actually rendered with very low quality brickwork concealed. When restored the building look very impressive, others are missing the outer render from ground level to a fair height.
I need to cut this short really, I like to put a background story to the photos and although it would be better to individualise it to a specific photo or group of photos I don’t have the time to do that. I do try to give specific detail in the title bar after I have uploaded, this is time consuming enough although I’m pretty proficient at it by now. There are many things I would like to write that should be of interest to anyone thinking of going to Prague but I’ll have to let the pictures do the talking. As usual I am unlikely to be selective enough with my uploads, I’m not very good at leaving photos out so I just upload and be damned.
The strange little island in the middle of the narrow Caldon Canal is the remnant of a swing-bridge for a narrow-gauge railway which once crossed here. At Endon, Staffordshire
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The New South Wales Fires Service says there is no indication that smoke from a factory fire in Sydney's south-west overnight poses a health risk. The fire, that destroyed a factory and warehouse containing cork gaskets, has left a smoky plume over many parts of Sydney.
A spokesman for the NSW Fire Service, Mark Brown, says a large number of calls have been received from people complaining of a burning smell and smoke.
He says there is no indication that the smoke is a threat to health.
"We've had hazardous materials response personnel on scene monitoring the smoke, and I just think that at this stage it might be just some unusual wind conditions that have taken that smell across Sydney," he said.
"We don't have any evidence yet that there's any adverse health effects."
It is believed the building may have contained asbestos.
An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire, which has gutted a gasket factory at Revesby in Sydneyâs south-west.
Police from Bankstown Local Area Command, NSW Fire Brigade crews and ambulance personnel attended the Marigold Place complex about midnight after reports of a large blaze.
A perimeter was established as fire crews worked to stop the flames spreading to adjoining buildings, including a petrol station.
Traffic diversions have been put in place around the scene as the fire-fighting operation continues. Marigold Street has been closed between Gordon Parker Drive and Beaconsfield Street, while Beaconsfield Street is closed between Horsley Road and Queen Street. Local diversions will remain in place until about 10am today.
Specialist police from the Crime Scene Section and Forensic Services Group will examine the scene when it is deemed safe; however, the fire is being treated as suspicious.
Itâs believed an internal alarm was activated inside the factory before the fire started.
Photos by Martin Grant
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Can Reduced Testosterone Lead to Sleep Problems?
While difficulty sleeping is common for many, and even normal at times, chronic insomnia can be an indication of deeper, more serious issues. When this becomes your norm, a checkup with a trusted licensed physician should be made a priority.
When hormone levels are disrupted, it can wreak havoc on sleep patterns and other systems within the body. Depending upon the cause of your sleep deprivation, low testosterone replacement therapy and hormone monitoring can work wonders on ensuring improved sleep and greater overall health.
Our internal clock, or circadian rhythm, is responsible for the regulation of wakefulness and sleep. Existing in the hypothalamus, this rhythm helps the body to control heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and hormone release. All of these functions are essential to health, meaning that a problem can have a number of unwanted side effects.
What is the Importance of Sleep?
Our organs are constantly working to ensure our body is operating as it should. During sleep, our brain secretes essential hormones that trigger the restoration and regeneration of our organs and systems. From our heart muscles to our lungs and liver, virtually every organ in our body depends upon sleep in order to maintain health and optimal function. Not only this, but the body uses this time to produce testosterone as well.
Unfortunately, as men age, sleep can often be more difficult to attain, meaning that normal sleep cycles are not as frequent. This can lead to a whole host of problems if not addressed. Poor digestion, respiratory issues, irritability, heart disease, weight gain, low libido, and high blood pressure are just some of the many repercussions of disturbed sleep.
While aging is inevitable, being subject to unwanted side effects doesn't have to be. With Dr. Berman, patients of all ages can attain the guidance and care they need to experience renewed life with the help of hormone replacement therapy as well as diet and lifestyle-related guidance.
Schedule a Consultation
Dr. Mikhail Berman is a trusted and respected physician with over 30 years of experience helping patients who are dealing with sleep problems and other symptoms caused by hormonal deficiencies and issues.
When plagued with a lack of sleep, hormone imbalances are largely inevitable. Since sleep is required to regenerate muscles and organ function, a lack thereof can have detrimental effects on hormone levels and other aspects of the body. With the help of a testosterone specialist like Dr. Berman, male patients can experience renewed testosterone levels so that bones and muscles can be rebuilt and remain strong.
Since testosterone is so crucial to metabolism as well, improved sleep and subsequent optimal levels of the hormone can mean a better functioning metabolism and a healthier weight. Whether you're dealing with more well-known signs of low testosterone, such as decreased libido and erectile dysfunction, or with insomnia that you can't seem to get rid of, know that you're not alone. Dr. Mikhail Berman, a licensed and highly skilled doctor is at your service.
To learn more about sleep and its correlation to testosterone levels and overall health, give our practice a call today at (561) 841-1837 to schedule a consultation.
plus.google.com/106990328128651242148
www.facebook.com/DrMikhailBerman/
disqus.com/by/drmikhailberman/
www.facebook.com/DrMikhailBerman/
www.instagram.com/drmikhailberman/
www.linkedin.com/company/testosterone-clinic-dr-mikhail-b...
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
With a history that extends back nearly four thousand years, Palmyra has risen and fallen many times. Its original name was Tadmor, which probably meant “palm tree,” an indication of the site’s renowned fertility. Both the Bible and local legend credit the city’s foundation to King Solomon in the tenth century BCE, but in fact it is already mentioned in Mesopotamian texts a millennium earlier. A spring and a wadi, or dry river bed, provided the settlement with water, making it a welcome stop for travelers and traders on the road between Central Asia and the Mediterranean Sea.
The population, almost from the outset, was a mixture of Semitic peoples from surrounding areas: Amorites, Aramaeans, Arabs, and Jews, who developed a distinctive Palmyrene language and a distinctive script expressive of their distinctive cosmopolitan culture, which drew from Persia, Greece, and Rome as well as local tradition. The city expanded greatly in the Hellenistic period, in the wake of Alexander the Great (fourth century BCE), and again during the Roman Empire. Its most impressive archaeological remains date from the first and second centuries CE, when the expansion of the Roman Empire streamlined the trading networks that gave Palmyra life. Some 200,000 people may have made their home in the oasis, which was granted a political independence unusual under Roman rule; Emperor Hadrian, who visited in 129 CE, declared it an independent city-state.
The weakening of Rome and the rise of Sasanian Persia in the third century CE cut into Palmyra’s share of trade between Asia and the Levant. For a brief moment, from 271 to 273, the local queen Zenobia managed to hold off both the Persians and Rome to claim an empire of her own, but in 273 the Roman emperor Aurelian conquered the city, looted its temples to decorate his own Temple of the Sun in Rome, and razed its residential quarters. In 303, Emperor Diocletian supplied Palmyra with its own Roman fortress, a walled camp to house a permanent garrison of soldiers. Just two centuries later, in 527, the Byzantine emperor Justinian further reinforced the city walls.
Christianity became the dominant religion in Palmyra after Aurelian’s conquest; Islam arrived in 634, when the city had been reduced to a village within the walls of Diocletian’s camp. Under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, the city, now renamed Tadmur, grew and prospered despite its tendency to rebel against any form of centralized authority and the animosity of nature: earthquakes caused widespread destruction in 1068 and 1089. In 1230, with the Crusades menacing from abroad and the death of Saladin creating turmoil locally, Al-Mujahid Shirkuh II built a castle on the summit of the mountain overlooking Palmyra, but in 1400 the city fell to the Central Asian warlord Timur—Tamerlane—who not only destroyed it yet again, but also shifted the caravans to other routes. Palmyra’s few remaining residents huddled within the walls of the precinct surrounding the ruined ancient Temple of Bel.
Palmyra expanded again in the early twentieth century as the Great Game began to play out on Mesopotamian soil, now an emporium that welcomed motor traffic as well as camel caravans. By 1932, Syria’s general director of antiquities, the Frenchman Henri Arnold Seyrig, had convinced the residents of old Tadmur to move out of their homes among the ancient ruins and into a new village especially constructed for them by French builders. Archaeological investigation of the site began immediately afterwards, and Palmyra adapted to the tourist trade with additions like the Hotel Zenobia, built in 1900.
The Lebanese war that raged between 1975 and 1990 and the Syrian civil war of the past four years have damaged or destroyed many of the monuments that Vignes records in his photographs. The worst destruction, certainly, was inflicted between June and September of 2015 by the militants of the Islamic State, who first tortured and killed the eighty-one-year-old site director Khaled el-Assad before beheading him and hanging his body from a column. Then they set to work obliterating the ancient buildings amid accusations of paganism and idolatry.
These acts of destruction, like those of Aurelian and Timur, were deeds of pure brutality, a distressingly recurrent theme in the story of humankind. Yet Palmyra has also suffered destruction in the lofty name of knowledge: it was twentieth-century archaeologists, not Islamic fanatics, who obliterated old Tadmur Village, and many other structures, like fortification walls, that dated from post-classical times. These places and these structures had their own tales to tell; in them, sometimes for centuries, people lived out their lives, built their families, gathered their memories.
And thus a sensitive soul (identified only as Stenhouse 1) on Palmyra’s Trip Advisor website found time recently to mourn not only the ruined temples of Bel and Baal Shamin, UNESCO Heritage buildings exploded by the fanatics of the Islamic State, but also a more recent piece of Palmyrene history, the once grand old Hotel Zenobia, turning his thoughts all the while to the people who had once worked there. In six brief sentences, Stenhouse 1 says it all:
"There is nothing left of this hotel now. I hope that the lovely staff who welcomed us there are safe and well. Once peace returns, Palmyra will rise again. It’s a fascinating place and this hotel will be rebuilt. It had the most incredible location. You could literally breakfast in the ruins." April 1, 2016.
please feel free to email me at lachlansear [at] gmail.com if you wish to purchase any of these images
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 4 to November 8, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 4 to November 8, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no studio name. There are no indications as to the identities of the people in the photograph, although the man looks like a Chelsea Pensioner.
Although the card was not posted, someone has used a pencil to write a date on the divided back:
29th. May 1940.
The Capture of Lille
So what else happened on Wednesday the 29th. May 1940? Well, the Germans captured Lille, as well as Ostend and Ypres.
The Dunkirk Evacuation
Also on that day, 33,558 service personnel were evacuated from Dunkirk.
The Sinking of British Destroyers
Also on the 29th. May 1940, the British destroyers Grafton, Grenade and Wakeful were sunk during the Dunkirk evacuation.
Mary Anderson
The day also marked the death of the American stage and film actress Mary Anderson.
Mary was born in Sacramento, California on the 28th. July 1859.
Mary Anderson - The Early Years
Mary Antoinette Anderson was the daughter of Charles Henry Anderson, an Oxford-educated New Yorker, and his wife, Antonia Leugers; the latter had been disowned by her Philadelphia Catholic family after the couple had eloped to California.
Shortly after Mary was born, the couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where her father enlisted in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. He was killed in action at Mobile when she was three.
Mary was educated at the Ursuline convent and the all-girl Presentation Academy in Louisville. She was an unenthusiastic pupil except for an interest in reading and acting Shakespeare. Encouraged by her stepfather, Dr Hamilton Griffin, at 14 she was sent to New York for ten lessons with the actor George Vandenhoff, her only professional training.
Mary Anderson's Stage Career
In 1875, Mary made her first stage appearance at a benefit performance at Macauley's Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky in the role of Shakespeare's Juliet.
The manager, Barney Macauley, was sufficiently impressed to extend the booking to a week as Juliet, with further roles including Julia in Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback, Bianca in Henry Hart Milman's Fazio, and R. L. Sheil's Evadne.
Further engagements at St Louis, New Orleans and John McCullough's theatre in San Francisco led to a contract with John T. Ford.
Starting as Lady Macbeth in his Washington theatre in 1877, she began an extensive US tour, culminating with a six-week engagement in Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Lady of Lyons at the 5th. Avenue Theatre, New York. Critical review was mixed, but she was immediately popular with the public as "Our Mary."
From this point she enjoyed a twelve-year career of unbroken success, with regular New York performances and US tours. In 1879 she went on a voyage to Europe, meeting Sarah Bernhardt.
In 1883, after starring in an American production of W. S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea, she went on the London stage at the Lyceum Theatre. Mary remained in England for six years to perform to much acclaim, including at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon. In her first season there she starred in Gilbert's Comedy and Tragedy as well as in Romeo and Juliet in 1884.
In 1887 in London she appeared in The Winter's Tale in the double role of Perdita and Hermione (the first actress to include this innovation). This production ran for 160 performances, and was taken back to the United States.
Mary invited writer William Black to appear in the production, but, even in a non-speaking role, he froze up and interrupted the performance.
In 1889 she collapsed on stage due to severe nervous exhaustion during a performance at Albaugh's Theatre in Washington. Disbanding her company, she announced her retirement at the age of 30.
Some commentators, particularly in the British press, ascribed this turn of events to hostile press reviews on her return to the U.S. The author Willa Cather went further and blamed a specifically hurtful review from a close friend.
Mary Anderson - The Later Years
Ordered to rest after her breakdown, Mary Anderson returned to England. In 1890 she married Antonio Fernando de Navarro (1860–1932), an American sportsman and barrister of Basque extraction, who was a Papal Privy Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape.
She became known as Mary Anderson de Navarro. They settled at Court Farm in Broadway, Worcestershire, where she cultivated an interest in music, and became a noted hostess with a distinguished circle of musical, literary and ecclesiastical guests.
Mary also gave birth to three children, one son who died at birth, another son, Alma Jose "Toty" Maria de Navarro (1896–1979) and a daughter, Mary Elena de Navarro, in her happy marriage.
A devout Roman Catholic, she had a chapel built in her attic, with stained-glass windows designed by Paul Woodroffe. She has been cited as a model for characters in the Mapp and Lucia novels of E F Benson, either the operatic soprano Olga Bracely or Lucia herself, as well as the prototype for the heroine of William Black's novel The Strange Adventures of a House-Boat.
She resisted encouragements to return to the theatre, but did a number of fund-raising performances during the Great War in Worcester, Stratford and London. The latter included roles as Galatea, and Juliet and Clarice in W. S. Gilbert's play Comedy and Tragedy.
Mary published two books of her memories, the 1896 A Few Memories and the 1936 A Few More Memories, and collaborated with Robert Smythe Hichens on a 1911 New York stage adaptation of his novel, The Garden of Allah.
The Death and Legacy of Mary Anderson
Mary died at her home in Broadway, Worcestershire, in 1940, at the age of 80. She was survived by her son and daughter.
Land donated by Anderson in Mount St. Francis, Indiana to the Conventual Franciscan Friars is now the Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality. The center serves as the headquarters for the Province of Our Lady of Consolation and home to the Mary Anderson Center, an artists' colony.
In 1989, the portion of US Route 150 that adjoins the donated property was named the Mary Anderson Memorial Highway. A figure based on Anderson appeared on the Louisville Clock.
The house and farm that Mary and Antonio Navarro purchased and extended in the town of Broadway, Court Farm, is recognised as featuring one of the best preserved Edwardian gardens.
It was left to her son, Toty de Navarro, who lived there with his wife, Dorothy, their son Michael and Dorothy's long-time Cambridge friend, Gertrude Caton Thompson. As in the years when Mary lived there, it was often filled with visiting artists and musicians, including Myra Hess and a young Jacqueline du Pré.
When one moves 3/4 of the way across the country, can best friends survive? If these two are any indication, they can still thrive.
Rowan - mine, the shorter one on the right, but the older of the two - and Jessica were born 8 days apart and grew up together here in Massachusetts. Rowan is an only child, and Jessica has always been the closest thing she'll have to a sibling; Jessica has two brothers, but again, Rowan is as close as she will ever get to having a sister.
From baby story time at the local library to Brownies to joint family trips to amusement parks to celebrating every birthday together, their lives were interwoven... until we found out Jessica's family was going to move to Texas shortly before the girls turned 9 in 2006.
Saying goodbye was one of the hardest things, but her family promised Jessica she could come back the following summer to return to Girl Scout Camp Bonnie Brae with Rowan, where they'd both had their first week-long-away-from-home experience together.
In 2007, true to the promise, Jessica returned and both went off to camp together, then we spent some time with her revisiting some of her most-missed places in Massachusetts... a tradition that has continued every summer since. Sometimes she spends a week before or after camp, sometimes their schedules keep the time outside of camp brief, but we always make sure we fit in a few things...
1. Ice Cream - I have photos of the two of them laughing hysterically (and older one with ice cream all over their faces) from each year.
2. Chef Orient - the restaurant they're visiting in this photo. I have an adorable photo of the girls at Jessica's third birthday, decked out in fancy dresses and feather boas, on this same bridge. During this visit in 2008 (a few months before they would turn 10), we found out this was still one of the places Jessica missed badly, so we now have annual photos taken on this bridge showing their changing heights (and fashion sense).
3. Late night giggling, songs, sitting in the way-back of our station wagon in the back-facing-seats, making faces at the cars behind them, more giggling, hugs, crazy dances, did I mention giggles?
4. At least one meal prepared solely by the two of them. (My favorite night ;-))
5. Did I mention the *giggling*??
6. Quiet time when they both are together, but doing different things, those moments that you realize this is more than just friends playing together, but two friends who are close enough to spend 2-3 weeks in constant company and still get along yet secure enough to know that doesn't mean they have to spend every single moment of that time chained at the hip.
7. Um, more giggling.
8. Hearing story upon crazy story on the two-hour ride home from camp, and those songs!
9. Time going by much too quickly and often tears at the airport, but the reassurance that Jessica will be back the following year.
10. And the winter portion of things - stalking the mailman each January waiting eagerly for the summer camp brochure to finally show up so we can begin planning the next adventure.
The Thirty-Fourth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 16 to November 18, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Fifth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 25 to April 27, 2016.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 4 to November 8, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The northbound signal at CPF-679, showing a clear indication at sunrise. This shot was taken from the Main St crossing in Dupont, PA. Milepost 679 on CP's Sunbury Subdivision. June 28, 2011. The signals were moved to this location from the old D&H signal tower, partially visible above the tracks.
The Twenty-ninth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from May 27 to May 31, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
A fading sign gives an indication of Kirton Lindsey's station better days when once there was double track until the 1980's when the line was singled and probably that's when the footbridge went to.
With the landslide at Scunthorpe the line is currently seeing an upsurge in freight traffic , 66175 has just emerged from the western end of Kirton Tunnel whilst working the 6H61 0615 Immingham - Drax biomass.
The loco itself still looks very tidy from its recent naming - Rail Riders Express at Toton on the 20th March . The locos naming was supposed to coincide with a relaunch of the Rail Riders Club at Butterley but due to Covid 19 that had to be cancelled .
20 6 20
via WordPress ift.tt/2EmPeBH
Soft hands belong to those who want an easy life but they can also be an indication of sickness or thyroid problems, especially if the skin feels like cellophane stretched over a gel filling.
Softness also occurs during pregnancy and in the hands of vegetarians so it seems to signify a low level of iron in the blood.
Hot sweaty hands signify possible thyroid or glandular disorders.
Hot dry hands can indicate blood pressure, kidney disorders, and fever.
Cold hands indicate poor circulation, shock, or fever.
Clammy hands denote a sluggish liver.
Cold patches suggest uneven circulation due to heart disorders, especially when some parts of the fingers are warm and others are cool.
Color
If a hand changes color, it can indicate a health problem. Here are a few common ones.
Red: A smoker
Pale: Poor circulation or anemia
Gray/lilac/bluish: Heart trouble
Yellow: Liver trouble
The Lines
Tiny pits along the life line indicate backache, slipped discs, and other spinal problems.
If the problem is in the neck area, these will appear on the upper part of the line. If the lumbar region is painful, the pits show up much further down the line, beside or around the mount of Venus.
Chains on the head line indicate headaches or migraines.
Islands on this or the heart line can relate to problems with the eyes, ears or head.
A break can indicate a head injury. A truly strange head line with huge islands is a sign of mental illness.
A strange formation on the percussion that looks like a pair of tongs grabbing the end of the headline relates to insomnia.
Flakiness at the start of the heart line under the Mercury mount is a sign of heart trouble.
Any disturbance or island under Saturn/Jupiter where the line starts to bend upward is an indication of breast problems.
Feathering along the line can mean a shortage of potassium, which leads to depression.
Dots, pits, blue marks, grilles, discoloration, redness or anything else that is strange on any line can mean inflammation in some area of the body.
Disturbances low down on the mount of Neptune indicate problems for women.
If there is a triangle formation there which suddenly fills up with tine broken bits of line or which becomes red, pregnancy may be the reason!
A single wart represents a temporary problem. If this is on the palm, the person is his own worst enemy, but if it is on the back of the hand, someone else is causing the problem.
Once again, relate this to the part of the hand or to the finger in question.
Fingernails
Fingernails take around six to eight months to grow out from root to tip, so they show health or current or recent health and emotional problems.
Lateral dents show a period of illness or an upset when the nail was forming.
Longitudinal ridges suggest problems with bones and ligaments; the corresponding finger will show you the part of the body that is affected.
Jupiter fingernail on or near the head
Saturn fingernail the shoulders, spine, ribs or pelvis
Apollo fingernail the arms and legs
Mercury fingernail the forearms, wrists, lower legs, ankles and feet
Old palmistry books talk of “Hippocratic nails” or “watch glass nails.” If you imagine an old pocket watch the kind that used to hang on a chain the glass on the front was usually a convex or lens shape.
Nails of this shape revealed that the person was suffering from tuberculosis.
A young woman sat down and gave me her hands. I always start by looking at the back of the hand, so the first thing I saw was a full set of watch-glass nails.
This was a real first for me, and I commented that old palmistry texts would have said that she had TB. I have also seen this nail type in cases of lung cancer.
Sometimes bunches of tiny, shiny warts appear on some area of the hands especially on the sides of the hands and this can be a warning of cancer or other tumors.
Changes in the color or temperature of the hands can alert one to potential heart problems.
The post What hands say about health? appeared first on Buzz People.
History of Kraków
First indications of the existence of Krakow approximately stem from the 7th century. In the next following centuries the tribe of Vistulans (Wislanie) populated Krakow, after they centuries ago in the as "Lesser Poland" or Malopolska known region had settled down. From the year 965 stems the first document from Krakow, as Abraham ben Jacob of Cordova, a Jewish merchant, in his book referred to the trading center of Krakow.
In 1000, the Diocese of Krakow was founded and in 1038 declared capital of the Piast dynasty. The Wawel castle and several churches were built in the 11th century and thus the town rapidly grew. 1241 the Mongols invaded the city and burned down Krakow without exception. 1138 Krakow became the seat of the senior prince. 1257 Kraków was awarded its town charter and a city map was drawn up, which remained until today. This one included the arrangement of the checkerboard street configuration with a centrally located market. On the market following the seat of the city government was built. From the historical trading functions until today only the Cloth Halls remained. But on the market not only trade agreements were closed but also courtly and urban festivities celebrated. Furthermore, the urban center served for executions. The defensive walls were built, which surrounded the city and linked it to the Wawel. In the south of Wawel Castle in 1335 the city of Kazimierz was created. By Royal command it was surrounded by defense walls and the churches of St. Catherine, of Corpus Christi and the "Na Skalce" were built. End of the 15th century, Jews settled the later Cracow district. 1364 the Cracow Academy of King Kazimierz Wielki was founded, the famous Polish Jagellonen-University.
With the last king of Jagellonian dynasty, Krakow flourished. The Wawel castle was rebuilt in Renaissance style, the well known Zygmunt chapel was built and the Cloth Halls as well as the patrician houses have been restored. During the reign of King Sigismund III. Vasa the baroque style received introduction in Krakow. The Baroque University Church of St. Anne and the Church of Saints Peter and Paul were built in this period. In 1607 Warsaw was declared headquarters of the King, but Krakow retained its title of the Royal capital. Furthermore, it remained the place of coronations and funerals. Middle of the 17th century, the city was devastated by the Swedes, what at the beginning of the 18th century was produced again.
After the first partition of Poland, Krakow became a frontier town. Austria declared the settlement Podgorze separated city. After the second division in 1794, began the Polish national uprising. After its decline and the third partition of Poland the town fell to the Austrians, which on Wawel Hill caused numerous devastations and adapted buildings to the wishes and needs of the Army. 1809 Cracow was affiliated to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. After the defeat of Napoleon, Krakow in the Vienna Convention of 1815 was declared Free City of Kraków. Then the remains of folk hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko and of Prince Jozef Poniatowski were brought back to the city. 1820-1823 on the rise of St. Bronislava a hill in honor of the leader of the popular uprising was built. Instead of the city walls, which were largely destroyed, they laid out supporting beams. 1846 Krakow lost its independence and the Austrians erected again on the Wawel barracks and they surrounded the Wawel with fortification complexes. However, Austria but has proved less tyrannical and so the city enjoyed a certain degree of growing cultural and political freedom. 1918 Krakow became the independence back.
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, in Krakow lived about 260,000 inhabitants, of which 65,000 belonged to the Jewish religion. During the war, also Krakow became witness of German war crimes. The for the greater part Jewish district of Kazimierz was eradicated. The Jews from now on lived in ghettos where they either were deported from there to Auschwitz or immediately shot. In spite of the plundering of the Nazis, Krakow became no scene for military combat operations and thus the only large Polish town escaping this fate. Therefore, its old architecture still almost completely is intact.
After the surrender of Germany and the Polish liberation, hastened the Communist government to inspire the traditional life and the city with a large steel plant in Nowa Huta. But the intensive rebuilding of the economy and industry rather promoted an ecological disaster. Buildings that had survived the war undamaged were now devoured and destroyed by acid rain and toxic gases. Carbon dioxide emissions grew so powerful that this has remained a serious and grave problem of the city. After the fall of the Communists and the fall of the Iron Curtain Krakow has benefited greatly from tourism and has adapted itself to a large extent to the Western culture.
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 4 to November 8, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
An exhibition co-organized by WIPO and Turkey was held on the sidelines of the WIPO Assemblies, which met in Geneva from October 3 to 11, 2016.
The event entitled “Turkish Culture and Geographical Indications” showcased a snapshot of Turkey’s rich culture and geographical indications and was inaugurated on October 4, 2016.
It featured examples of Turkey’s protected geographic indications, including Afyon marble, Antep Kutnu cloth, Gaziantep mother-of-pearl inlaying and Safranbolu Turkish delight. The inauguration also featured a performance of traditional Turkish music.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
My place of worship is nature. It is mysterious. It is ever changing. It is a gift I can partake in any time of day and night. I particularly like marshlands and sitting with the seabirds and other animals/birds/fish. To me, they are beauty and serenity and I respect each and every one of them deeply. The way all of the systems work together - the tides, the predators and prey, the seasons and migratory patterns are all an indication to me of a higher power. When I feel this happening around me, I can be in no other state but one of awe.
portrait site: www.cordiamurphyportraits.com
nature porfolio: www.cordiamurphyphotography.com
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
WIPO Director General Daren Tang speaks at the opening of the Worldwide Symposium on Geographical Indications on September 6, 2021.
Taking place from September 6-8, 2021, the Symposium provided a forum for exchanging ideas and perspectives on issues relating to the use and protection of geographical indications, while offering technical insights and information on recent developments in the field.
On the sidelines of the Symposium, a Virtual Exhibition on Geographical Indications opened its "doors". The Exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to discover WIPO’s work in the field of geographical indications, as well as examples of geographical indications from member states.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Third Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 16 to March 20, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-Second Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 24 to November 26, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Thirty-First Session of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from March 17 to March 21, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.