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Hội An is a city of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is located in Quảng Nam Province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Hội An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.The city possessed the largest harbour in Southeast Asia in the 1st century and was known as Lâm Ấp Phố (Champa City). Between the seventh and 10th centuries, the Cham (people of Champa) controlled the strategic spice trade and with this came tremendous wealth. The former harbour town of the Cham at the estuary of the Thu Bồn River was an important Vietnamese trading centre in the 16th and 17th centuries, where Chinese from various provinces as well as Japanese, Dutch and Indians settled. During this period of the China trade, the town was called Hai Pho (Seaside Town) in Vietnamese. Originally, Hai Pho was a divided town with the Japanese settlement across the "Japanese Bridge" (16th-17th century). The bridge (Chùa cầu) is a unique covered structure built by the Japanese, the only known covered bridge with a Buddhist temple attached to one side.
ETYMOLOGY
Hội An translates as "peaceful meeting place". In English and other European languages, the town was known historically as Faifo. This word is derived from Vietnamese Hội An phố (the town of Hội An), which was shortened to "Hoi-pho", and then to "Faifo".
HISTORY
The early history of Hội An is that of the Cham. These Austronesian-speaking Malayo-Polynesian peoples created the Champa Empire which occupied much of what is now central and lower Vietnam, from Huế to beyond Nha Trang. Various linguistic connections between Cham and the related Jarai language and the Austronesian languages of Indonesia (particularly Acehnese), Malaya, Cambodia and Hainan has been documented. In the early years, Mỹ Sơn was the spiritual capital, Trà Kiệu was the political capital and Hội An was the commercial capital of the Champa Empire - later, by the 14th century, the Cham moved further down towards Nha Trang. The river system was the transportation for goods between the highlands, inland countries of Laos and Thailand and the low lands.In 1535 Portuguese explorer and sea captain António de Faria, coming from Đà Nẵng, tried to establish a major trading center at the port village of Faifo. Hội An was founded as a trading port by the Nguyễn Lord Nguyễn Hoàng sometime around 1595. The Nguyễn lords were far more interested in commercial activity than the Trịnh lords who ruled the north. As a result, Hội An flourished as a trading port and became the most important trade port on the South China Sea. Captain William Adams, the English sailor and confidant of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is known to have made at least one trading mission to Hội An (around 1619). The early Portuguese Jesuits also had one of their two residences at Hội An.
In the 18th century, Hội An was considered by Chinese and Japanese merchants to be the best destination for trading in all of Southeast Asia, even Asia. Japanese believed the heart of all of Asia (the dragon) lay beneath the earth of Hội An. The city also rose to prominence as a powerful and exclusive trade conduit between Europe, China, India, and Japan, especially for the ceramic industry. Shipwreck discoveries have shown that Vietnamese and Asian ceramics were transported from Hội An to as far as Sinai, Egypt.Hội An's importance waned sharply at the end of the 18th century because of the collapse of Nguyễn rule (thanks to the Tây Sơn Rebellion - which was opposed to foreign trade).
Then, with the triumph of Emperor Gia Long, he repaid the French for their aid by giving them exclusive trade rights to the nearby port town of Đà Nẵng. Đà Nẵng became the new center of trade (and later French influence) in central Vietnam while Hội An was a forgotten backwater. Local historians also say that Hội An lost its status as a desirable trade port due to silting up of the river mouth. The result was that Hội An remained almost untouched by the changes to Vietnam over the next 200 years.
Today, the town is a tourist attraction because of its history, traditional architecture and crafts such as textiles and ceramics. Many bars, hotels, and resorts have been constructed both in Hội An and the surrounding area. The port mouth and boats are still used for both fishing and tourism.
WEATHER
Calm mild weather is now limited to the season of May/June - end of August when the seas are calm and wind changes direction and comes from the South. The remainder of the year the weather is intermittent between rain & cold and hot & mild. Popular activities such as visiting offshore Cù lao Chàm islands are only guaranteed to be likely during the short season of end of May to end of August, which is the high season for domestic tourism.
HERITAGE AND TOURISM
In 1999, the old town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port of the 15th to 19th centuries, with buildings that display a unique blend of local and foreign influences. According to the UNESCO Impact Report 2008 on Hội An, tourism has bought changes to the area which are not sustainable without mitigation. Due to the increased number of tourists visiting Hoi An a variety of activities are emerging which allow guests to get out of the old quarter and explore by motorbike, bicycle, Kayak or motorboat. The Thu Bon River is still essential to the region more than 500 years after António de Faria first navigated it and it remains an essential form of food production and transport. As such kayak and motorboat rides are becoming an increasingly popular tourist activity.
MUSEUM
The city has four museums highlighting the history of the region. These museums are managed by the Hoi An Center for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation. Entrance to the museum is permitted with a Hoi An Entrance Ticket.
The Museum of History and Culture, at 13 Nguyen Hue St, was originally a pagoda, built in the 17th century by Minh Huong villagers to worship the Quan An, and is adjacent to the Quan Cong temple. It contains original relics from the Sa Huynh, Champa, Dai Viet and Dai Nam periods, tracing the history of Hoi An's inhabitants from its earliest settlers through to French colonial times.
The Hoi An Folklore Museum, at 33 Nguyen Thai Hoc St, was opened in 2005, and is the largest two-storey wooden building in the old town, at 57m long and 9m wide, with fronts at Nguyen Thai Hoc St and Bach Dang St. On the second floor, there are 490 artifacts, organised into four areas: plastic folk arts, performing folk arts, traditional occupations and artefacts related to the daily life of Hoi An residents.
The Museum of Trade Ceramics is located at 80 Tran Phu St, and was established in 1995, in a restored wooden building, originally built around 1858. The items originating from Persia, China, Thailand, India and other countries are proof of the importance of Hội An as a major trading port in South East Asia.
The Museum of Sa Huỳnh Culture, is located at 149 Tran Phu St. Established in 1994, this museum displays a collection of over 200 artifacts from the Sa Huỳnh culture - considered to be the original settlers on the Hội An site - dating to over 2000 years ago. This museum is considered to be the most unique collection of Sa Huỳnh artefacts in Vietnam.
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The star is a Guarani design from lowland Bolivia. The interior design from the star is from the highlands. The borders designs are woven in typical textiles from Calcha in highland Bolivia. This was woven with doubled strands of sewing cotton.
The influence of Farmers Markets in Vancouver has proliferated in recent years – not only are vendors aiming to reduce food miles, they are providing economic incentive to city dwellers interested in urban agriculture, urban chicken coops and more sustainable small business models.
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Reservist from 38 Brigade Group’s Influence Activities Company conducts patrols and executes key leader engagements in the fictional village of Bayan during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 19 at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright on May 11th, 2019.
Image By: Private Jordyn Anderson
Garrison Wainwright Imaging
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A Thematic Synthesis to Explore Factors that influence people with Multiple Sclerosis in their decision to Accept or Decline Provision of a wheelchair – Preliminary Findings by Tracey Elder, postgraduate researcher in the School of Health and Population Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative condition which affects the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Mobility problems are a major concern for most people with MS, the difficulty to walk safely can be variable, particularly during the relapsing remitting phase of Multiple Sclerosis, patients often make decisions about their future mobility needs based on their past experience (Boeije and Janssens, 2004) and therefore are reluctant to acknowledge a change in condition. When forced with the decision to consider a wheelchair people with MS are also forced to consider other aspects of disability and reappraise how their lifestyle, hopes and aspirations for the future may also change and this can cause a personal crisis (Somerset et al., 2002). It is important that health professionals understand the wider issues surrounding wheelchair provision.
The current project utilised a synthesis of nine qualitative studies to investigate what factors influence people with MS to accept or decline the provision of a wheelchair. However saturation has not yet been met and further articles are being identified that meet the criteria by hand searching and using snowball techniques.
This study demonstrates some of the barriers to accepting a wheelchair and also explores how quality of life can be enhanced by providing expert health professionals from a variety of disciplines, accurate diagnostic and prognostic information and psychological support to adjust and accept Multiple Sclerosis and the changes it brings.
The poster aims to illustrate how conflicted, confused and complicated a person with MS may feel when considering a wheelchair.
la petite fille seule... C'est l'histoire d'une petite fille toute seule au milieu des autres...
C'est l'histoire de celle que l'on appelait la fille du diable...
C'est l'histoire de celle qui n'avait pas d'amies...
C'est l'histoire de celle qui avait peur, toute seule au milieu des garçons...
C'est l'histoire de celle que l'on disait différente alors qu'elle aurait tellement voulu être comme les autres filles...
D'un côté de la grande salle de catéchisme il y avait les filles , de l'autre les garçons, et au milieu toute seule il y avait la fille de la laïque...
La chaise était grande, elle était petite...
Elle n'a jamais compris, elle ne s'est jamais consolé...
Elle ne pardonnera jamais...
Elle vivra avec, c'est tout...
Bien obligée...
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La petite fille a retrouvé une pièce du puzzle...
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture: Mark Sackett, Dawn Stackhouse (@MSNBCYourBiz)
Challenge #16
Make a picture entirely for yourself.
— Jim Naughten
Jim adds...
“Imagine its going to hang in a gallery and you are the only person who will ever see it. No peers, friends, family, or anyone else will see it. I often use this process to visualise a project or story, free of any outside influence or judgement. You may just find your voice.”
Meme thingy from fox-orian on DeviantArt. fox-orian
Here is what is on mine (in case you can't identify something):
Bekki L, Emile Autumn, Sylvia K, Alice in Wonderland, my favourite place in London, Sleeping Beauty, Rocky Horror, Tim Burton, Brian Froud, A Softer World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vermillion Lies, Alice Cooper, Johnny, Lucy, The Science of Sleep, Will (representing my family), Molly Crabapple, Sandman (r...epresenting Neil Gaiman as well), Julia Kuo, The Dresden Dolls, Somewhere in Dreamland, Beth Hommel and her photography, 'Squee' by Jhonen Vasquez and 'The End of Mr. Y' (representing Scarlett Thomas).
Reservist from 38 Brigade Group’s Influence Activities Company conducts patrols and executes key leader engagements in the fictional village of Bayan during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 19 at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright on May 11th, 2019.
Image By: Private Jordyn Anderson
Garrison Wainwright Imaging
WT07-2019-0013-006
Representatives from universities and organizations rappel off a 64-foot tall tower during their visit to Cadet Summer Training (CST), Fort Knox, Ky., July 13, 2022. The Centers of Influence (COI) visit introduces civilian leaders to Army ROTC and the training Cadets receive at CST. | Photo by Kyle Crawford, U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs
Chinese influenced Korean noodles (짜장면 or 炸醬麵)made from Maangchi's recipe which can be found here.
www.maangchi.com/recipe/jjajangmyun
My sauce turned out thicker than the pictures. Next time, less flour, less black bean paste, more water. Wondering if there is a way to make home-made black bean paste instead of buying it pre-made. MSG was listed as one of the ingredients in the pre-made black bean sauce I bought.
The Paris Exhibition influenced art-deco designs in the Water Street entrances. African children carrying riches, an anchor and scales. It is not known why Herbert Tyson Smith, Thompson and Capstick executed this theme. 1932 was over a century after the slave trade had been abolished. Unlike the frieze on the nearby Town Hall they cannot be a 'celebration' of 'The African Trade'. Before closing in the 2000s, this was Barclay's main Liverpool Bank, inherited from one of their acquisitions, Martins Bank. It had been Martins headquarters, the only national bank headquarters outside London. For a time during the war, Britain's gold reserves were kept here rather than in London, eventually moving on to Canada.
A tremendous 1932 building by amongst others, Herbert Rowse, who also worked on India Buildings. Rowse studied under Reilly at the University School of Architecture , travelling through America before practicing. He brought the grand American office blocks of the thirties to Liverpool. The building incorporates an 8th floor boardroom, a roof garden and far and away the best banking hall of all the splendid examples in Liverpool (surely crying out for some kind of use involving renewed public access). If you get the chance to see inside the hall on an open architecture weekend, fly from Sydney rather than miss the chance to see it. ( www.google.co.uk/search?q=martins+bank,+liverpool&esp... )
Most of the upper floors were designed as lettable offices, independent of the bank, all now converted to apartments accessed through the subsidiary entrances and corner stairwells. The decoration is typically 1930s, cut back to a discreet if not quite minimalist level. The tremendous bronze doors in the main entrance are worth a closer look as is the building's rear, a tri-form window bay in the Exchange Passage elevation.
Reservists from 38 Brigade Group’s Influence Activities Company conduct patrols and execute key leader engagements in the fictional village of Bayan during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 19 at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright on May 11th, 2019.
Image By: Private Jordyn Anderson
Garrison Wainwright Imaging
WT07-2019-0013-0019
Photographer: Kári Sverriss. Hár/Makeup: Margrét Sæmundsdóttir Model: Anna Thora Alfredsdottir Assistant: Hjalti Rafn Guðmundsson.
I see historical artefacts as art: dereliction, archaic buildings, machinery. I first engaged with this love with the Detroit photographs of Romain Meffre and Yves Marchand. Their photos are particularly evocative because they represent the lives the workers lived and their legacy. The factories clashed perfectly with the opulent hotels and theatres, showing that physical legacy will be the same as that of industrial machinery.
I love steam engines, objects that are elegant, powerful and functional. My 'Junction' project shows this; in my mono-prints of steam engines I have tried to portray the rough raw power that I see in them as well as recording stations as the bubble of stillness amidst the power and speed of the engines.
The Bauhaus movement and William Morris, who believed in the beauty and utility of art, influence me. The exhibition 'Art Turning Left' at the Tate inspired me, from French propaganda posters to artists’ collectives. The aesthetic of my 'Ideal World' project is influenced by the Guerilla Girls and Banksy with the bold compositions found in political posters.
I have been consistently drawn to portraiture as a means of representing my ideas. Faces are the single most recognisable symbols for human beings. The portraits by Maggi Hambling have influenced my painting style. I also love Mark Rothko’s colours, Paul Klee’s compositions and Gerhard Richter’s style. I love working with oil paint and palette knives, and instead of canvasses I prefer to use cardboard or wood, so as to retain a rough aesthetic.
Culture, People and the life in these places are very influenced by both Buddhism and Hiduism! Lepchas from Bhutan, Bhutias from Tibet and Nepalis from Nepal form significant part of the population apart from crowd of the eastern plains of India. Here in I tried to capture the essence of Sikkim.
Sikkim borders Nepal, Bhutan and China.. Nathu La is the point through which China and India Interact on this frontier.
Susan Athey has spent her career at the intersection of economics and technology, shaping the way we understand markets, digital platforms, and the power of data. A pioneering economist, she has influenced everything from auction theory to the role of artificial intelligence in decision-making. Her work doesn’t stay confined to academia—it has helped shape corporate strategy, public policy, and even the foundations of modern tech regulation.
Athey’s research spans a wide range of topics, but at its core is a drive to understand how digital platforms shape economic behavior. She is the first woman to win the John Bates Clark Medal—awarded to the most influential American economist under 40—she has long been recognized as a leader in the field. She has advised major tech firms, including Microsoft, on machine learning applications and algorithmic market design. But her role is not just one of insight—it is one of action.
When I photographed Athey at her home near Stanford on February 20, 2025, she had recently completed her tenure as an appointee in the Justice Department, where she played a central role in shaping modern antitrust policy. Just as the news broke that the Trump administration planned to retain the 2023 Merger Guidelines, it became clear how significant her contributions had been. As a principal author of these guidelines, she helped establish the economic rationale for blocking mergers that allowed dominant firms to entrench their power—whether by acquiring complementary products that could be leveraged to sustain monopolies or by enabling major digital platforms to eliminate competitive threats.
Her team at the DOJ pursued major monopolization cases, taking on industry giants like Live Nation/Ticketmaster, UnitedHealth, Google, and Apple. One of the most consequential victories came in a case exposing Google’s multi-billion-dollar payments to Apple to maintain search defaults—an arrangement that reinforced Google’s dominance in online search. The success of these cases underscored the growing role of economic analysis in defining the limits of corporate power in the digital age.
Her home reflected the balance she maintains between rigorous intellectual work and a rich personal life. Books filled the rooms, covering economics, policy, and technology, but also literature and philosophy. Her husband, Nobel laureate Guido Imbens, was there, and the two economists moved easily between topics—discussing research, policy, and art.
Athey is not just an observer of economic systems; she is a force in shaping them. Whether designing better algorithms for online marketplaces, crafting legal arguments in high-stakes regulatory battles, or mentoring the next generation of economists, her impact is undeniable. She operates with a rare mix of precision and pragmatism—able to model an abstract problem with mathematical rigor, but always with an eye toward real-world consequences.
In a digital age where power is increasingly concentrated, Athey’s work is a reminder that economics is not just about theory—it is about accountability, fairness, and the systems that shape our daily lives.
The Dome
Facts About the Dome
•Height, from base to weather vane: 121'
•Diameter at base: 40'
•Construction begun: 1785
•Interior work completed: 1797
•Wood used in dome construction: Timber from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, supplied by Dashiell family of Cypress Swamp, Somerset County.
•Architect of the dome: Joseph Clark
•Possible model for design of the dome: Schloßturm, the dome of the free-standing tower next to the palace of Karl-Wilhelm, Markgraf of Baden, in Karlsruhe, Germany
History of the State House Dome
When the Continental Congress came to Annapolis to meet in the Old Senate Chamber from November 1783 – August 1784, they found a State House which was still unfinished. Although the Old Senate Chamber was complete, the roof was not and it had leaked during the last few winters, damaging the upstairs rooms. The dome—or cupola—atop the State House was variously described as inadequate, unimpressive, and too small for the building and, it, too, leaked.
In order to rectify the situation, Joseph Clark, an Annapolis architect and builder, was asked to repair the roof and the dome. Clark first raised the pitch of the roof to facilitate the runoff of water and covered it with cypress shingles. The crowning achievement of Clark’s work on the State House was, of course, the extraordinary dome which he designed and built. It is not known where Clark’s inspiration for the unusual design of the dome came from, but it is very similar to one in Karlsruhe, Germany called the Schloßturm.
By the summer of 1788, the exterior of the new dome was complete. It was constructed of timber and no metal nails were used in its construction and, to this day, it is held together by wooden pegs reinforced by iron straps forged by an Annapolis ironmonger.
Although the exterior of the dome was completed by 1788, the interior was not completed until 1797. Tragedy struck the project in 1793 when a plasterer named Thomas Dance fell to his death from the inside of the dome. By 1794, Joseph Clark was completely disillusioned with the project and left it to John Shaw, the noted Annapolis cabinetmaker, to oversee completion. Over the years, John Shaw did much of the maintenance work on the State House, built various items for it and, in 1797, made the desks and chairs which furnished the Old Senate Chamber.
The First Dome: 1769-1774
Just as the Articles of Confederation did not effectively govern the country, the first dome of the State House at Annapolis did not survive more than a decade of Maryland weather. In 1769, the General Assembly of Maryland passed an act to erect a new state house, securely covered with slate tile or lead. The architect was Joseph Horatio Anderson, and the undertaker or builder of the project was Charles Wallace. According to William Eddis in 1773, the work was carried on with great dispatch and when completed would “be equal to any public edifice on the American continent.”
The exact date of the completion of the first dome or cupola is not known but evidence suggests that it was completed by the year 1774. In a 1773 Act of Assembly, Charles Wallace was instructed to fix an iron rod pointed with silver or gold at least six feet above the cupola. The General Assembly also recommended that the roof be covered with copper because the slate originally specified would require frequent repairs and cause other inconveniences. According to Charles E. Peterson’s “Notes on Copper Roofing in America to 1802”, it was more than likely that local copper was put on the roof to advertise the new industry of Maryland.
The Second Dome: 1785-1794
According to the Intendent of Revenue, Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer, the first dome of the State House was a contradiction of architectural design. A survey of the timbers in 1784 revealed that they were so decayed by water damage that a new dome would be required.
“It was originally constructed contrary to all rules of architecture; it ought to have been built double instead of single, and a staircase between the two domes, leading up to the lanthorn. The water should have been carried off by eaves, instead of being drawn to the center of the building, to two small conductors, which are liableto be choked by ice, and overflowed by rains. That it was next to impossible, under present construction, that it could have been made tight”.
On February 24, 1785 Jenifer placed a notice in the Maryland Gazette for carpenters work to be made to the dome and roof under the execution of Joseph Clark
“The work We are a Doing is to put a Roof on the Governor’s House and we are going to take the Roof of the State house and it is a going to Raise it one story higher and the Doom is to be Sixty foot higher then the old one”.
Clark raised the pitch of the dome to facilitate the runoff of excess water, the chief reason the timbers rotted in the original dome.
“The Annapolis dome is in its proportions like the original Karlsruhe tower. Possibly its more classical feeling is a result of the universal trend of architectural styles rather than the influence of the altered Schloßturm. Yet the arched windows below the architrave in Annapolis, one with the lower part closed, are like the windows below the Architrave in Karlsruhe in all of which the lower parts are closed. The horizontal oval windows below the main curving section of the dome in Annapolis resemble the vertical ovals in the equivalent part of the Karlsruhe tower. The small square windows above the balustrades and the architraves themselves in both buildings are similarly placed.”
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
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R-Kilt in hemp from Ontario Canada beside a statue of one of the North American First Peoples, in the Waverley Bar, Dumfries.
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Alec "Aka" Dickinson, of the band Brother
Photographed performing at the 156th Scottish Highland Gathering & Games, organized by The Caledonian Club of San Francisco and held at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California.
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