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Fortune Global Forum 2018
October 16th, 2018
Toronto, Canada
3:30 PM
THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER: DOING BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is no longer part of the economy. It is the economy. How can traditional brick-and-mortar firms reinvent themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces to avoid the fate of brands once thought of as everlasting but which are now nonexistent? And how are new platforms – from e-commerce to shared services – rewriting the rules of the game? A conversation on how businesses can manage expectations for digitally empowered customers, and how technology is being used to enhance the customer experience.
Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid al Futtaim
Andrea Stairs, General Manager, Canada and Latin America, eBay
Ning Tang, Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Moderator: Phil Wahba, Senior Writer, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
Leeville, Louisiana
on Bayou LaFourche
LaFourche Parish
Some of the greatest fishing is right here.
Leeville was settled by flood victims. On October 1, 1893, a hurricane wiped out the area's main settlement, Caminadaville, which sat on a spit of land bordered on three sides by the Gulf and on the fourth by swamp. Nearly half of Caminadaville's inhabitants perished in the storm, most by drowning, some when the buildings they had taken refuge in collapsed.
Survivors sailed up the bayou in their damaged canots and began buying land from an orange-grower named Peter Lee, who was selling plots for $12.50 each. For sixteen years, they fished, planted rice, and held fais do-do dancing parties in homes with covered verandas.
Then, in 1909, the Leeville Hurricane struck. (A contemporary newspaper account described survivors of that storm subsisting on drowned rabbit.) Six years later, a third hurricane forced residents to flee north once more. According to local legend, the storm surge carried one house from Leeville nine miles inland. The owner simply bought the plot underneath it and moved back in.
In the nineteen-thirties, Leeville rebounded briefly. Oil was discovered in the area, and by the end of the decade there were ninety-eight producing wells in town. The pay was good and regulation nonexistent. Blowouts routinely rained sulfur and brine onto the houses, into the cisterns, over the trees. Tin roofs corroded and vegetable gardens shrivelled up. When the wells ran dry, oil production moved offshore and Leeville was again deserted.
There were no more jobs, and the town itself had begun to wash away. Where once men in straw hats picked oranges and harvested rice, today there is mostly open water.
from: www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15339115_ITM
Officially, there are no Serbs in Prizren. They were chased out by Albanians during the March, 2004 riots. This guy claims to belong to that nonexistent group.
The striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis, is an omnivorous mammal.
Its diet consists mostly of insects such as beetles, grasshoppers and crickets as well as earthworms, snails, crayfish, wasps and ants. It preys on vertebrates like frogs and small mammals including voles, mice, moles, rats and squirrels.It also eats bird eggs. Plant matter the skunk eats include blackberries, raspberries, black cherries, blueberries, grains, corn and nuts. Skunks eat mostly insects and mammals during the spring and summer. During the fall and winter, more plant matter is consumed. In settled areas, skunks also seek human garbage. Less often, skunks may be found acting as scavengers, eating bird and rodent carcasses left by cats or other animals.
Skunks are one of the primary predators of the honeybee, relying on their thick fur to protect them from stings. The skunk scratches at the front of the beehive and eats the guard bees that come out to investigate. Mother skunks are known to teach this to their young.
Most predatory animals of the Americas, such as wolves, foxes and badgers, seldom attack skunks – presumably out of fear of being sprayed. The exception is the great horned owl – the animal's only serious predator – which, like most birds, has a poor-to-nonexistent sense of smell.
Crepuscular animals are those that are active primarily during twilight, that is during dawn and dusk.
The young are born in May or early. Skunks tend to have litters of 4 to 8 with 2 and 10 being extremes.
After an eight week nursing , the litter then hunt with their mothers and eventually they disperse.
A Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui), sometimes called a Zen garden, is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and/or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. To maintain such gardens means that the plants, rocks, or other focal points are on occasion moved, turned or removed altogether. The gravel is occasionally raked smooth and re-raked to create new lines if weather or human elements disturb the lines. Rock garden creation and maintenance is considered to be an art form. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated position.
It's a beautiful Saturday morning, at the moment. The sun is out! It's presence has been fleeting as of late. Well actually its presence has been very much nonexistent for the past two months to be more accurate. The shot above is a pretty apt
representation of what spring has looked like for us here in the Pacific NW. Liquid sunshine.
Created this shot in the back yard yesterday after I got home from work. Used a snooted SB600 for backlighting, after I spritzed water all over the branches and blooms with a spray bottle. Then in photoshop I created a rain overlay. It was between rain showers when I ventured out to do this. Much easier on me and all that electronic stuff. Thus the need for a overlay. I wish I had picked up the dog poop back there before hand. Land mines present made for a less than pleasant experience , having to move back and forth adjusting the light.
Have a great day! I'm going out to see the sun!
Intellectual property (IP) is a widely accepted engine for prosperity in middle-income and developing countries. However, IP enforcement is lax or nonexistent in many middle-income countries, hampering incentives for innovation and broad based economic growth. An improved IP regime is not only good for the United States and its allies, but also for economic development more broadly. Join us for a discussion with a panel of experts on the critical role of IP as a missing link in the development conversation, and how the United States should combine its development, diplomacy, and trade policies to promote positive changes in the IP regimes of middle income and developing countries.
Stella's tiny Eiffel Tower charm on her pull is her favorite "small" thing :)
Sorry for the poor pics, the light is nonexistent today :(
024
Fortune Global Forum 2018
October 16th, 2018
Toronto, Canada
3:30 PM
THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER: DOING BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is no longer part of the economy. It is the economy. How can traditional brick-and-mortar firms reinvent themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces to avoid the fate of brands once thought of as everlasting but which are now nonexistent? And how are new platforms – from e-commerce to shared services – rewriting the rules of the game? A conversation on how businesses can manage expectations for digitally empowered customers, and how technology is being used to enhance the customer experience.
Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid al Futtaim
Andrea Stairs, General Manager, Canada and Latin America, eBay
Ning Tang, Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Moderator: Phil Wahba, Senior Writer, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
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Fortune Global Forum 2018
October 16th, 2018
Toronto, Canada
3:30 PM
THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER: DOING BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is no longer part of the economy. It is the economy. How can traditional brick-and-mortar firms reinvent themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces to avoid the fate of brands once thought of as everlasting but which are now nonexistent? And how are new platforms – from e-commerce to shared services – rewriting the rules of the game? A conversation on how businesses can manage expectations for digitally empowered customers, and how technology is being used to enhance the customer experience.
Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid al Futtaim
Andrea Stairs, General Manager, Canada and Latin America, eBay
Ning Tang, Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Moderator: Phil Wahba, Senior Writer, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
The Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010
The weather was very cooperated, no wind and about 45 deg in Half Moon Bay
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Full moon craziness
Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent.
The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions:
* A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans.
* Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides.
* In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse. So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated.
"Publishers Anonymous." Christmas Diversions. The New Statesman and Nation 48, no. 1242 (25 December 1954): 858-59. Parody advertisements by the editors for nonexistent books (PDF).
Helena's original freckles had become almost completely nonexistent after head swaps to two different bodies, so I retouched them while I had the watercolor pencils and fine tipped brushes out. They look very pronounced in this closeup, but in actual size and normal lighting they are only faintly visible. For me, as far as freckles are concerned, the lighter the better, since they end up getting magnified and darkened tenfold in photographs. I want her looking sun-kissed, not polka-dotted or like she's got chicken pox!
024
Fortune Global Forum 2018
October 16th, 2018
Toronto, Canada
3:30 PM
THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER: DOING BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is no longer part of the economy. It is the economy. How can traditional brick-and-mortar firms reinvent themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces to avoid the fate of brands once thought of as everlasting but which are now nonexistent? And how are new platforms – from e-commerce to shared services – rewriting the rules of the game? A conversation on how businesses can manage expectations for digitally empowered customers, and how technology is being used to enhance the customer experience.
Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid al Futtaim
Andrea Stairs, General Manager, Canada and Latin America, eBay
Ning Tang, Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Moderator: Phil Wahba, Senior Writer, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
So there's now a long traffic island all the way down the middle of the street, where the massive pillars from which are suspeded the overhead cables for the nonexistent trams.
They didn't speak any Russian, and my Tajik was almost nonexistent at that time, but I knew enough to realise that "Surat" meant "photograph". They posed in front of the sturdy Volga sedan which had been carrying us through the mountains.
such a horrbile picture. warping and distortions and nonexistent composition, but the point is i cleaned my room (first time in a while)! it still looks messy but its alot better than before... i can actually get from one side to another now (and my desk is cleared of papers, which is very nice).
lets see how long i can keep it like this...
the vignetting is supposed to draw attention away from the really crooked door upper door frame, but it doesnt do that great of a job. and i almost crashed my computer stitching together this panorama. which was kinda surprising
Vintage West Bend metal salt and pepper shakers. Pre-owned, well used and vintage 1950's. The graphics are faded on the pepper and almost nonexistent on the salt. There are lots of scratches and scuffs. The top is missing paint. The bottom reads West Bend Made in the USA. They measure approximately 4 inches high and 2.5 inches in diameter.
This Stromberg WA3-219 ("Mode
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling an
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling and production of such a low-volume carburetor. Was there a strike at Holley or Carter that reduced the supply of 1920s and BBSs...? One interesting tidbit: The WA3 has the largest venturi of any 1bbl used from the factory on a slant-6 engine.
I've tried a few of these over the years. Haven't made one run quite right. Kits and parts are almost nonexistent. But the casting and build qu
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling and production of such a low-volume carburetor. Was there a strike at Holley or Carter that reduced the supply of 1920s and BBSs...? One interesting tidbit: The WA3 has the largest venturi of any 1bbl used from the factory on a slant-6 engine.
I've tried a few of these over the years. Haven't made one run quite right. Kits and parts are almost nonexistent. But the casting and build quality are quite excellent, typical of Stromberg carburetors of the era.
Apparently,I'm standing on what used to be a paved RW at some nonexistent now aerodrome.
'Cap Cana', a large development area nearby Punta Cana airport, and the same name town.
I went out with Matty to shoot some photos for an interview. We wanted to do something different, so we tried to incorporate Matty's love of the outdoors and his creativity into skating nonexistent "spots". We found this pile of concrete rubble and rigged up a super sketchy landing.
Pick your favorite angle.
I keep telling Halo that he is wasting his time using his Steve McQueen Bullet hair gel and Cologne, after his morning shower to then come down on the a windy beach....But he takes no notice.....As he thinks it gives him the King Of Cool image.....Mind you....Molly not a lot better......With the amount of time she takes titivating in the bathroom those days.......Leaving me fuming waiting outside the bathroom door for my turn......And that is simply not true for Molly and Halo to say that I am worse than the whole CraZy Gang put together with the time I spend in the bathroom getting ready....(Apparantly making us late for the beach today).......As for my singing in the shower......Umm......I think perhaps it’s time we should change the subject you two .....And for me to show you how a real King Of Cool rides a surf board in style.....But first I think we will just wait awhile and see if the wild surf waves calm down a bit......What do you mean Halo that if the waves get any smaller they be nonexistent.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
Lots and lots of company this week — the trail is packed with section- and thru-hikers and the shelters are full every night! Plenty of trail magic too! Two days of hunger were narrowly avoided when a section-hiking friend gave me a lift to the grocery store after I shipped my food to a nonexistent shop in Port Clinton. And a day later, ran into a gang of dedicated day hikers on the Pinnacle ("best view on the AT in PA," they say) in the fog and rain. We could barely see the slippery rocks, much less the view, but they loaded me up with some much-appreciated snacks. Having fun so far! Wish you were here!
Practicing my (nonexistent) drawing skills. I copied the Marilyn images and quotes out of the book "The Niagara Photographs," which is beautiful and happened to be sitting by my bed.
Added lyrics from the Beatles' "She Loves You" because I was thinking about all Marilyn's ex-husbands and how lucky they were.
That's a drawing of my cat in the upper-left corner.
Done in ultra-fine black sharpie.
Intellectual property (IP) is a widely accepted engine for prosperity in middle-income and developing countries. However, IP enforcement is lax or nonexistent in many middle-income countries, hampering incentives for innovation and broad based economic growth. An improved IP regime is not only good for the United States and its allies, but also for economic development more broadly. Join us for a discussion with a panel of experts on the critical role of IP as a missing link in the development conversation, and how the United States should combine its development, diplomacy, and trade policies to promote positive changes in the IP regimes of middle income and developing countries.
The latest model. Lil started talking about it at lunch and the because of my gadget fetish (only partially justified by the excuse of a professional obligation to study, catalog, play with, buy, show-off, fiddle with, hack, talk on walks all manner of mobile technology), we looked at one at a small phone store. Lil then offered to take me to a nearby Vodaphone store to look into what I could get. Being a foreigner, my ability to own a slick Japanese phone is basically nonexistent, but perhaps there was something that could serve as a specimen from an otherworldly place. Before too long, I had managed to convince Lil to buy this particular model for herself!
my kids are known to try new foods when they are served to them by candlelight. green and brown things are virtually invisible when candles are around, onions nonexistent
Barbara Home Steward and Orin Good Fogle with Hermit Roy Ozmer on Pelican Key (now named Comer Key)
Robert Roy Ozmer (1899-1969) was perhaps the most literate of the Everglades hermits, a newspaperman, actor, sailor, and artisan among other previous careers. According to his widow, he read widely, had traveled extensively, and enjoyed a "keen mind." As the student-authors put it: "Roy Ozmer was a hermit not because he didn't like people but because of a personal problem." That problem was alcoholism. He had separated himself from his family and lived on the island in hopes of curing himself. "I've foregone society," he was quoted as saying, "but if the world wants to come out and share a cup of coffee or talk over a problem, it's all right with me." Several photographs show Ozmer with a jaunty beret; he left poems and drawings as well.
Roy Ozmer...has the public clamoring at his door
December 1, 1957
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A daring Florida couple quit their jobs and sold all their worldly goods then moved into a 12'X14' hut (no electricity or plumbing) on a 3-acre island in the Gulf of Mexico to fulfill a dream: exploring The Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades by canoe -- covering 3,500 miles -- during their 30-month sojourn there, 1957-1960.
University of Florida, Class of 1952: Barbara Home Stewart (BA, Psychology) is featured with her husband Orin Good Fogle in the video Everglades Odyssey, which portrays the couple exploring the Everglades when development of that area was almost nonexistent.
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Florida Everglades Hermits, 1940's to 1980 www.hermitary.com/articles/everglades.html
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
10/02/09
i found this quote a little while ago and it has quickly become one of my favorites. it honestly sums up everything in life.
"nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. if you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. and don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. in any case, always remember what jean-luc godard said: 'it's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.'"
--jim jarmusch
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Leeville Cemetery
The angel overlooks Lefort Leeville Cemetery. Water flows over the area during high tides and rain.
Leeville, Louisiana
on Bayou LaFourche
LaFourche Parish
Leeville was settled by flood victims. On October 1, 1893, a hurricane wiped out the area's main settlement, Caminadaville, which sat on a spit of land bordered on three sides by the Gulf and on the fourth by swamp. Nearly half of Caminadaville's inhabitants perished in the storm, most by drowning, some when the buildings they had taken refuge in collapsed.
Survivors sailed up the bayou in their damaged canots and began buying land from an orange-grower named Peter Lee, who was selling plots for $12.50 each. For sixteen years, they fished, planted rice, and held fais do-do dancing parties in homes with covered verandas.
Then, in 1909, the Leeville Hurricane struck. (A contemporary newspaper account described survivors of that storm subsisting on drowned rabbit.) Six years later, a third hurricane forced residents to flee north once more. According to local legend, the storm surge carried one house from Leeville nine miles inland. The owner simply bought the plot underneath it and moved back in.
In the nineteen-thirties, Leeville rebounded briefly. Oil was discovered in the area, and by the end of the decade there were ninety-eight producing wells in town. The pay was good and regulation nonexistent. Blowouts routinely rained sulfur and brine onto the houses, into the cisterns, over the trees. Tin roofs corroded and vegetable gardens shrivelled up. When the wells ran dry, oil production moved offshore and Leeville was again deserted.
There were no more jobs, and the town itself had begun to wash away. Where once men in straw hats picked oranges and harvested rice, today there is mostly open water.
from: www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15339115_ITM
Atlanta Braves baseball from 20 September 2019 (the night they clinched the division crown). The new park (opened in 2018) gets panned a little because it's usually pretty hot in Georgia and a heck of a lot of seats are in direct sun.
It's a relatively generic stadium (in the new mold of generic stadiums), but it's nice. The area outside the stadium (bars/restaurants) is actually a bit more interesting/unique than the stadium itself.
The biggest drawback is that the Atlanta Braves no longer play in Atlanta. (That and parking is almost nonexistent up there in Marietta near the stadium. We were scratching our heads looking for the actual parking lots.)
As for the game...it was a great game. First time in my life I actually got to see a division-clinching game. (They'd clinched a playoff spot a few days before.)
Vintage West Bend metal salt and pepper shakers. Pre-owned, well used and vintage 1950's. The graphics are faded on the pepper and almost nonexistent on the salt. There are lots of scratches and scuffs. The top is missing paint. The bottom reads West Bend Made in the USA. They measure approximately 4 inches high and 2.5 inches in diameter.
Between 1975 and 1983, tens of thousands of people went missing in Argentina’s “Dirty War.” The exact number of the tortured and murdered in state-sponsored detentions is impossible to determine due to the discreetness of the disappearances and disposal of the bodies. Free speech was nonexistent; the members of the media and press who spoke out frequently became part of the missing. It was in this environment of fear that street art became a public voice, and in the decades that followed it has continued to be part of an activist culture of art, especially in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. This week, filming started on a feature-length documentary called White Walls Say Nothing (Paredes blancas no dicen nada in Spanish) that aims to capture the history and contemporary vibrance of Argentine street art.
Vandalism, even tagging, is rarely prosecuted in Buenos Aires, and street artists paint out in the open. Home and business owners regularly allow their buildings to be covered in murals and street art, an openness that goes back to the time of economic and political downturn in the early 2000s, a time where just two weeks saw five different presidents. Street artists tried to add some life and happiness to the city with their work, and many in the city embraced it as the return of their free speech.
Beeville, Texas
Bee County was created in 1857 from parts of five neighboring counties. The first county seat was located seven miles east of this site, and the first commissioners court was held on the banks of Medio Creek in February 1858. The city's earliest courthouse consisted of a box frame structure. In 1912, local architect W. C. Stephenson designed this, the county's fourth courthouse. A native of Buffalo, New York, Stephenson aided in the design of the death mask of President William McKinley. He was the architect of several Beeville buildings, including the Rialto Theater, two churches and several houses, and later designed the Classical Revival McMullen County courthouse. W. C. Whitney, builder of three other Texas courthouses, contracted to build the Bee County courthouse for $72,050. Whitney died during construction and W. C. Stephenson's partner, Fritz Heldenfels, completed the project. Stephenson drew upon the strong contemporary influence of the French Beaux Arts School with a level of grandeur previously nonexistent in Bee County. Some original Beaux Arts features such as the cast stone balustrade originally outlining the roof were later removed, and the 1943 addition partially obscured the symmetrical plan and façade of the edifice. The Bee County courthouse is a fine example of the Classical Revival style. Of particular significance are the grand portico and projecting pediment entry with Corinthian columns and dentils along the roofline. The Chicago-style windows, comprised of one glass pane flanked by two narrower ones, with transoms above, are noteworthy. Also unusual is Stephenson's lady of justice; unlike most such symbols, she is not depicted as blind. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2000
Originally built between 1793 and 1797 during the Second Spanish Period, this Spanish Colonial and Neoclassical-style cathedral is the fourth church to occupy a prominent position at the heart of the city of St. Augustine. The original church, built of flammable materials, stood from 1565 until 1586, when it was burned during an attack by English Privateer Sir Francis Drake. Not even a year later, the church was rebuilt of palm logs, with a straw roof, which succumbed to fire in 1599. In 1605, thanks to a tithe from Spain, a timber church was constructed, which stood until a failed English attack on the city in 1702 by James Moore, then-governor of Carolina colony. There were attempts to rebuild the church during the First Spanish Period, starting in 1707, but these went nowhere, and the money intended for the church’s reconstruction were misallocated by corrupt officials. Instead, during the remainder of the First Spanish Period, mass was held in the St. Augustine Hospital. Following the transfer of governance of Florida to the British in 1763, the need for a new Catholic church was nonexistent, as the catholic population of the colony fled to other Spanish colonies. At the start of the Second Spanish Period in 1784, the need for a new church became more apparent, and work on the current cathedral’s Coquina stone walls began in 1793. The facade of the church features Neoclassical elements around the front doorway, with the Spanish Colonial style being employed on the roofline and limited fenestration on the front facade. The church stood in its original configuration until a fire in 1887 destroyed the timber roof structure and did major damage to the interior. Following the fire, Henry Flagler led the effort to have the cathedral rebuilt, with James Renwick, Jr. designing an expansion of the old building, giving it a rectangular cruciform layout, and adding the Spanish Renaissance-style bell tower and European-style transept to the building. The interior was rebuilt to feature exposed decorative timbers that supported the roof structure, and a decorative polychromatic tile floor. The building has since received a few more additions, which house a chapel, service areas, and offices, as well as a building to the rear of the cathedral along Treasury Street, built in the Mediterranean Revival style, which houses the offices of the Diocese of St. Augustine. Today, the cathedral remains a prominent landmark in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark as part of the St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District in 1970.
Description: 3D red cyan anaglyph from NARA 111-B-5544 (526539) - the file is NARA's standard medium-res file, but posted in tif format on Wikimedia Commons. Both sides of the stereograph have been restored, upscaled, and slightly sharpened.
Link to file at Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Government_corral_-_NARA_...
NARA Title: Government corral
Date: Circa 1863-1865
Notes: A stereoscopic view of the Union cavalry depot at Giesboro Point in Maryland, situated on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Nation's Capital. Tens of thousands of horses were issued from here between 1863 and 1865, and thousands of sick and broken down horses were returned here to recuperate, over 25,000 subsequently dying. In fact, there appears to be a dead horse in this photo, lying just over the fence at center.
And it wasn't just horses that died here, many of the civilian workers, who seemed to be mostly African-American "Contrabands" (freed slaves) fell victim to the foul smells and polluted working conditions at the Giesboro depot. During one period in 1863, five to ten workers were dying each day.
The original NARA file is likely the only stereograph of Giesboro posted online, and unfortunately, the 3D is not the best, and NARA's 300 dpi scan is awful - zoom-in and fine detail is nonexistent. It's really a shame, as I'm sure the glass negative has plenty of additional detail. One thing that can be seen, and it's rare in Civil War photos - real clouds seem to have been captured. I've tried to preserve these instead of wiping the sky clean, often the only practical solution when restoring these old stereographs.
Below are several excerpts to provide additional background information on Giesboro; the first is general info on the size and scope of the depot, the second describes the mysterious disease that affected many of the workers; and lastly an article about the "Great Stampede," in which over five thousand horses engineered their escape into the District and surrounding countryside, one night in December 1863.
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Report of the Secretary of War.
Published 1866
CAVALRY BUREAU
"A report from General Ekin of the operations of the quartermaster's department in connection with the cavalry bureau, and especially of the construction and operations of the principal cavalry depot at Giesboro', is submitted herewith. It gives a history of probably the largest depot ever organized for the supply of animals to an army.
To systematize and regulate the purchase and supply of horses to the cavalry, then actively engaged in the field in operations attended with great destruction of horses, a cavalry bureau was organized under General Orders No. 236, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, July 28, 1863.
The principal depot for the supply of horses for the armies in the Atlantic States was established at Giesboro', on the eastern branch of the Potomac, opposite the Capitol. Other depots were established at St. Louis, Missouri; Greenville, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware.
The principal depot was at Giesboro', occupying a farm of about 625 acres.
Within three months after commencing operations in the summer of 1863, provisions were made for the care of 15,000 animals, and within six months the depot had capacity for 30,000. The largest number present at any one time was about 21,000. Stables, stock-yards, corrals, forage-houses, workshops, storehouses, mess-houses, and quarters for the operatives and officers were constructed. A large steam mill for grinding grain and cutting hay and straw and steaming feed was erected. Wharves with berths for three large steamships, water-works with reservoir, 27,000 feet of mains and steam pumps for raising the water, and all the other conveniences for the safe-keeping, handling, and feeding of 21,000 animals, were constructed. The estimated cost of the buildings and other constructions is $1,225,000. There were in all received, issued, died, or sold at this depot to the 30th of June, 1866, 208,659 horses, of which 196,036 were cavalry horses. 25,958 horses died at the depot, most of which had been returned from the armies in the field broken down and disabled. 50,372 horses were sold from this depot to the 30th of June, 1866, at which time 32 horses remained on hand.
The depot has been since entirely broken up, the property sold, and the site returned to the owners from whom it had been rented."
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Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 10, Published 1863
"THE EPIDEMIC AT GIESBORO', NEAR WASHINGTON
Last week we referred to a disease that had broken out among the contraband laborers at the Government corral at Giesboro,' near Washington. According to recent reports the disease is becoming more and more virulent, and the deaths number five to ten daily. It is not improbable that, as we suggested last week, the disease is dependent upon the impure exhalations and urinous odor that abound where so many horses are kept, especially as no effective disinfectant is employed to neutralize the foul emanations.
The first symptoms of the disease are said to be a slight chill, accompanied by a painful or distressing local sensation either in the hand, arm, foot, knee or back. A stupor follows the chill, after which the disease assumes its most virulent stage. Severe pain is felt in the head and breast; great prostration of the muscular strength attends almost invariably; petechiæ, or spotted eruption of the skin, follows, and the tongue becomes black. The last symptom of the disease is that of vomiting - a most disgusting substance, resembling feces, being thrown from the stomach. In from six to twelve hours after being attacked, the disease generally leaves the patient a corpse.
Many of these symptoms are very similar to those of the disease which a few months ago prevailed in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and in other parts of the country, under the names of "Spotted Fever," and "Scarlatina Maligna." A disease which was very likely of the same general character as this, also prevailed among the negro population of this city in 1819-1821 under the name of "The Negro Fever."
As to the treatment of the disease, the indications would seem to point unmistakably to prompt and decisive stimulation. Preventive measures should not, however, be overlooked. It is represented that bad diet, irregular labor, and low, marshy ground, are the incipient cause of the epidemic at Giesboro'; and until these causes of sickness are removed, or rendered inoperative, we cannot expect a more favorable report from that locality. The use of efficient disinfectants would undoubtedly aid in removing the causes of the disorder...."
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The Weekly Pioneer and Democrat
Saint Paul Minn. Territory
January 1, 1864
GREAT STAMPEDE OF GOVERNMENT HORSES NEAR WASHINGTON.
From the Washington Star, Dec. 12.
“The stampede of the horses in the stockyard at Camp Stoneman (Giesboro Point) night before last, is described as a very exciting affair. It appears that the horses were not fresh ones, but had been worn down at the front and recruited and were sent to this camp preparatory to again being sent to the front, and that among them a large number had been placed in the enclosure on that evening. The enclosure was a rail fence about five feet high, and was regarded as a strong one; but the horses, when they got to frolicking and crowded against it with such force as to throw it down. At the time—near eleven o’clock—the watchmen were on duty, but the horses breaking down the enclosure in two places and were bursting forth in such immense force, they found it impossible to stop them. Indeed, the stampede was made in such a mass and with such violence that it was a foolhardy experiment for any number of men less than an army to attempt to stop the frightened animals, and away they went in two masses, numbering over five thousand altogether—one taking the road towards the city, and the other down the country.
The people living along the road as well as the cavalry patrol hearing the racket, were apprised of the affair some minutes before they saw the approaching host of horses, and attempted at first to check them, but ineffectually, and away they went, some as they became exhausted, taking to the fields and woods. Great consternation was occasioned, especially along the Marlboro road, and we hear that some persons who came out in the road narrowly escaped with their lives. Three young men who were on the way to the city, and met the drove, one man, wiser than his comrades, rode into a fence corner, leaving the others to continue their way, when on came the drove, making tremendous dust, and the tramp of their feet sounding similar to thunder.
The travelers were instantly engulphed, but manfully kept their horses headed towards Washington until they had plunged three or four files deep in the rear of the advancing column of horse flesh, when finding that it was impossible to go further, and that their lives were in danger, they with difficulty turned their horse’s heads, and putting spurs to them, they were soon in the front rank, the others closely pressing upon them for some miles, when they managed to escape by a by-road.
Some of the pickets on the roads in Prince George’s, it is said, hearing the sound, thought that it was an advance of the rebels, and fired their pieces and ran to the forts for refuge.
The most exciting scene, however, was at the Navy Yard bridge, where the guards attempted to stop them, and in a short time they had the bridge blocked up, when those behind crowding on and not getting through, divided and jumped into the branch [Anacostia River], where a number were drowned, others swimming the branch in safety. A large number attempted to swim the branch above the bridge, and some were also drowned here. A number of citizens were soon out, and the boys went in and extricated many of the terror-stricken animals.
There are still about six hundred of the horses missing, over eleven hundred having been picked up in the city yesterday, a large number at Bladensburg, and a still larger number at Marlboro’ and Port Tabaco, which it is thought will be sent to the depot to-day. Lieut. Ball, who has charge of the depot, believes that the loss will be less than one hundred horses, when the scattered ones are all collected, but others are of the opinion that the loss will prove to be nearer one thousand.”
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The Library of Congress has a couple nice prints of Giesboro, by Andrew Russell, at these links:
(1) tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/ppmsca/08200/08...
(2) tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/ppmsca/08200/08...
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/
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