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The fifth person to receive the Freedom of the County Borough of Middlesbrough was Sir Lowthian Bell Bart who was awarded freedom on 2 November 1894. A portrait of Sir Lowthian Bell Bart FRS 1826-1904 is hung in the Civic Suite in the Town Hall. It was painted by Henry Tamworth Wells RA and was presented in 1894 by Joseph Whitwell Pease MP on Tuesday 13 November in the Council Chamber at 3.00pm. Joseph Pease was Chairman of the Sir Lowthian Bell presentation committee.

It was presented to the Corporation of Middlesbrough by friends in Great Britain, Europe and America as a record of their high esteem and to commemorate his many public services and those researches in physical science by which he has contributed to the development of the staple industries of his own country and the world.

ISAAC LOWTHIAN BELL - from "Pioneers of The Cleveland Irontrade" by J. S. Jeans

THE name of Mr. Isaac Lowthian Bell is familiar as a " household word " throughout the whole North of England. As a man of science he is known more or less wherever the manufacture of iron is carried on. It is to metallurgical chemistry that his attention has been chiefly directed; but so far from confining his researches and attainments to this department alone, he has made incursions into other domains of practical and applied chemistry. No man has done more to stimulate the growth of the iron trade of the North of England. Baron Liebig has defined civilisation as economy of power, and viewed in this light civilisation is under deep obligations to Mr. Bell for the invaluable aid he has rendered in expounding the natural laws that are called into operation in the smelting process. The immense power now wielded by the ironmasters of the North of England is greatly due to their study and application of the most economical conditions under which the manufacture of iron can be carried on. But for their achievements in this direction, they could not have made headway so readily against rival manufacturers in Wales, Scotland, and South Staffordshire, who enjoyed a well-established reputation. But Mr. Bell and his colleagues felt that they must do something to compensate for the advantages possessed by the older iron- producing districts, and as we shall have occasion to show, were fully equal to the emergency, Mr. Isaac Lowthian Bell is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Bell, of the well-known firm of Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell, who owned the Walker Ironworks, near Newcastle. His mother was a daughter of Mr. Isaac Lowthian, of Newbiggen, near Carlisle. He had the benefit of a good education, concluded at the Edinburgh University, and at the University of Sorbonne, in Paris. From an early age he exhibited an aptitude for the study of science. Having completed his studies, and travelled a good deal on the Continent, in order to acquire the necessary experience, he was introduced to the works at Walker, in which his father was a partner. He continued there until the year 1850, when he retired in favour of his brother, Mr. Thomas Bell. In the course of the same year, he joined his father-in-law, Mr. Pattinson, and Mr. R. B. Bowman, in the establishment of Chemical Works, at Washington. This venture was eminently successful. Subsequently it was joined by Mr. W. Swan, and on the death of Mr. Pattinson by Mr. R. S. Newall. The works at Washington, designed by Mr. Bell, are among the most extensive of their kind in the North of England, and have a wide reputation. During 1872 his connection with this undertaking terminated by his retirement from the firm. Besides the chemical establishment at Washington, Mr. Bell commenced, with his brothers, the manufacture of aluminium at the same place this being, if we are rightly informed, the first attempt to establish works of that kind in England. But what we have more particularly to deal with here is the establishment, in 1852, of the Clarence Ironworks, by Mr. I. L. Bell and his two brothers, Thomas and John. This was within two years of the discovery by Mr. Vaughan, of the main seam of the Cleveland ironstone. Port Clarence is situated on the north bank of the river Tees, and the site fixed upon for the new works was immediately opposite the Middlesbrough works of Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan. There were then no works of the kind erected on that side of the river, and Port Clarence was literally a " waste howling wilderness." The ground on which the Clarence works are built where flooded with water, which stretched away as far as Billingham on the one hand, and Seaton Carew on the other. Thirty years ago, the old channel of the Tees flowed over the exact spot on which the Clarence furnaces are now built. To one of less penetration than Mr. Bell, the site selected would have seemed anything but congenial for such an enterprise. But the new firm were alive to advantages that did not altogether appear on the surface. They concluded negotiations with the West Hartlepool Railway Company, to whom the estate belonged, for the purchase of about thirty acres of ground, upon which they commenced to erect four blast furnaces of the size and shape then common in Cleveland. From this beginning they have gradually enlarged the works until the site now extends to 200 acres of land (a great deal of which is submerged, although it may easily be reclaimed), and there are eight furnaces regularly in blast. With such an extensive site, the firm will be able to command an unlimited "tip" for their slag, and extend the capacity of the works at pleasure. At the present time, Messrs.. Bell Brothers are building three new furnaces. The furnace lifts are worked by Sir William Armstrong's hydraulic accumulator, and the general plan of the works is carried out on the most modern and economical principles. As soon as they observed that higher furnaces, with a greater cubical capacity, were a source of economy, Messrs. Bell Brothers lost no time in reconstructing their old furnaces, which were only 50 feet in height ; and they were among the first in Cleveland to adopt the Welsh plan of utilising the waste furnace gases, by which another great economy is effected. With a considerable frontage to the Tees, and a connection joining the Clarence branch of the North-Eastern Railway, Messrs. Bell Brothers possess ample facilities of transit. They raise all their own ironstone and coal, having mines at Saltburn, Normanby, and Skelton, and collieries in South Durham. A chemical laboratory is maintained in connection with their Clarence Works, and the results thereby obtained are regarded in the trade as of standard and unimpeachable exactitude. Mr. I. L. Bell owns, conjointly with his two brothers, the iron -works at Washington. At these and the Clarence Works the firms produce about 3,000 tons of pig iron weekly. They raise from 500,000 to 600,000 tons of coal per annum, the greater portion of which is converted into coke. Their output of ironstone is so extensive that they not only supply about 10,000 tons a- week to their own furnaces, but they are under contract to supply large quantities to other works on Tees-side. Besides this, their Quarries near Stanhope will produce about 100,000 tons of limestone, applicable as a flux at the iron works. Last year, Mr. Bell informed the Coal Commission that his firm paid 100,000 a year in railway dues. Upwards of 5,000 workmen are in the employment of the firm at their different works and mines. But there is another, and perhaps a more important sense than any yet indicated, in which Mr. Bell is entitled to claim a prominent place among the " Pioneers of the Cleveland Iron Trade." Mr. Joseph Bewick says, in his geological treatise on the Cleveland district, that " to Bell Brothers, more than to any other firm, is due the merit of having fully and effectually developed at this period (1843) the ironstone fields of Cleveland. It was no doubt owing to the examinations and surveys which a younger member of that firm (Mr. John Bell) caused to be made in different localities of the district, that the extent and position of the ironstone beds became better known to the public." Of late years the subject of this sketch has come to be regarded as one of the greatest living authorities on the statistical and scientific aspects of the Cleveland ironstone and the North of England iron trade as a whole. With the Northumberland and Durham coal fields he is scarcely less familiar, and in dealing with these and cognate matters he has earned for himself no small fame as a historiographer. Leoni Levi himself could not discourse with more facility on the possible extent and duration of our coal supplies. When the British Association visited Newcastle in 1863, Mr. Bell read a deeply interesting paper " On the Manufacture of Iron in connection with the Northumberland and Durham Coal Field," in which he conveyed a great deal of valuable information. According to Bewick, he said the area of the main bed of Cleveland ironstone was 420 miles, and estimating the yield of ironstone as 20,000 tons per acre, it resulted that close on 5,000,000,000 tons are contained in the main seam. Mr. Bell added that he had calculated the quantity of coal in the Northern coal field at 6,000,000,000 tons, so that there was just about enough fuel in the one district, reserving it for that purpose exclusively, to smelt the ironstone contained in the main seam of the other. When the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes visited Darlington in the spring of 1872, they spent a day in Cleveland under the ciceroneship of Mr. Bell, who read a paper, which he might have entitled "The Romance of Trade," on the rise and progress of Cleveland in relation to her iron manufactures; and before the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, when they visited Saltburn in 1866, he read another paper dealing with the geological features of the Cleveland district. Although not strictly germane to our subject, we may add here that when, in 1870, the Social Science Congress visited Newcastle, Mr. Bell took an active and intelligent part in the proceedings, and read a lengthy paper, bristling with facts and figures, on the sanitary condition of the town. Owing to his varied scientific knowledge, Mr. Bell has been selected to give evidence on several important Parliamentary Committees, including that appointed to inquire into the probable extent and duration of the coal-fields of the United Kingdom. The report of this Commission is now before us, and Mr. Bell's evidence shows most conclusively the vast amount of practical knowledge that he has accumulated, not only as to the phenomena of mineralogy and metallurgy in Great Britain, but also in foreign countries. Mr. Bell was again required to give evidence before the Parliamentary Committee appointed in 1873, to inquire into the causes of the scarcity and dearness of coal. In July, 1854, Mr. Bell was elected a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. He was a member of the Council of the Institute from 1865 to 1866, when he was elected one of the vice-presidents. He is a vice-president of the Society of Mechanical Engineers, and last year was an associate member of the Council of Civil Engineers. He is also a fellow of the Chemical Society of London. To most of these societies he has contributed papers on matters connected with the manufacture of iron. When a Commission was appointed by Parliament to inquire into the constitution and management of Durham University, the institute presented a memorial to the Home Secretary, praying that a practical Mining College might be incorporated with the University, and Mr. Bell, Mr. G. Elliot, and Mr. Woodhouse, were appointed to give evidence in support of the memorial. He was one of the most important witnesses at the inquest held in connection with the disastrous explosion at Hetton Colliery in 1860, when twenty-one miners, nine horses, and fifty-six ponies were killed; and in 1867 he was a witness for the institute before the Parliamentary Committee appointed to inquire into the subject of technical education, his evidence, from his familiarity with the state of science on the Continent, being esteemed of importance. Some years ago, Mr. Bell brought under the notice of the Mining Institute an aluminium safety lamp. He pointed out that the specific heat of aluminum was very high, so that it might be long exposed to the action of fire before becoming red-hot, while it did not abstract the rays of light so readily as iron, which had a tendency to become black much sooner. Mr. Bell was during the course of last year elected an honorary member of a learned Society in the United States, his being only the second instance in which this distinction had been accorded. Upon that occasion, Mr. Abram Hewitt, the United States Commissioner to the Exhibition of 1862, remarked that Mr. Bell had by his researches made the iron makers of two continents his debtors. Mr Bell is one of the founders of the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain, and has all along taken a prominent part in its deliberations. No other technical society, whether at home or abroad, has so rapidly taken a position of marked and confirmed practical usefulness. The proposal to form such an institute was first made at a meeting of the North of England Iron Trade, held in Newcastle, in September, 1868, and Mr. Bell was elected one of the first vice-presidents, and a member of the council. At the end of the year 1869 the Institute had 292 members; at the end of 1870 the number had increased to 348; and in August 1872, there were over 500 names on the roll of membership. These figures are surely a sufficient attestation of its utility. Mr. Bell's paper " On the development of heat, and its appropriation in blast furnaces of different dimensions," is considered the most valuable contribution yet made through the medium of the Iron and Steel Institute to the science and practice of iron metallurgy. Since it was submitted to the Middlesbrough meeting of the Institute in 1869, this paper has been widely discussed by scientific and practical men at home and abroad, and the author has from time to time added new matter, until it has now swollen into a volume embracing between 400 and 500 pages, and bearing the title of the " Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting." As a proof of the high scientific value placed upon this work, we may mention that many portions have been translated into German by Professor Tunner, who is, perhaps, the most distinguished scientific metallurgist on the Continent of Europe. The same distinction has been conferred upon Mr. Bell's work by Professor Gruner, of the School of Mines in Paris, who has communicated its contents to the French iron trade, and by M. Akerman, of Stockholm, who has performed the same office for the benefit of the manufacturers of iron in Sweden. The first president of the Iron and Steel Institute was the Duke of Devonshire, the second Mr. H. Bessemer, and for the two years commencing 1873, Mr. Bell has enjoyed the highest honour the iron trade of the British empire can confer. As president of the Iron and Steel Institute, Mr. Bell presided over the deliberations of that body on their visit to Belgium in the autumn of 1873. The reception accorded to the Institute by their Belgian rivals and friends was of the most hearty and enthusiastic description. The event, indeed, was regarded as one of international importance, and every opportunity, both public and private, was taken by our Belgian neighbours to honour England in the persons of those who formed her foremost scientific society. Mr. Bell delivered in the French language, a presidential address of singular ability, directed mainly to an exposition of the relative industrial conditions and prospects of the two greatest iron producing countries in Europe. As president of the Institute, Mr. Bell had to discharge the duty of presenting to the King of the Belgians, at a reception held by His Majesty at the Royal Palace in Brussels, all the members who had taken a part in the Belgium meeting, and the occasion will long be remembered as one of the most interesting and pleasant in the experience of those who were privileged to be present. We will only deal with one more of Mr. Bell's relations to the iron trade. He was, we need scarcely say, one of the chief promoters of what is now known as the North of England Ironmasters' Association, and he has always been in the front of the deliberations and movements of that body. Before a meeting of this Association, held in 1867, he read a paper on the " Foreign Relations of the Iron Trade," in the course of which he showed that the attainments of foreign iron manufacturers in physical science were frequently much greater than our own, and deprecated the tendency of English artizans to obstruct the introduction of new inventions and processes. He has displayed an eager anxiety in the testing and elucidation of new discoveries, and no amount of labour or cost was grudged that seemed likely, in his view, to lead to mechanical improvements. He has investigated for himself every new appliance or process that claimed to possess advantages over those already in use, and he has thus rendered yeoman service to the interest of science, by discriminating between the chaff and the wheat. For a period nearly approaching twenty- four years, Mr. Bell has been a member of the Newcastle Town Council, and one of the most prominent citizens of the town. Upon this phase of his career it is not our business to dwell at any length, but we cannot refrain from adding, that he has twice filled the chief magistrate's chair, that he served the statutory period as Sheriff of the town, that he is a director of the North-Eastern Railway, and that he was the first president of the Newcastle Chemical Society. In the general election of 1868, Mr. Bell came forward as a candidate for the Northern Division of the county of Durham, in opposition to Mr. George Elliot, but the personal influence of the latter was too much for him, and he sustained a defeat. In the general election of 1874, Mr. Bell again stood for North Durham, in conjunction with Mr. C. M. Palmer, of Jarrow. Mr. Elliott again contested the Division in the Conservative interest. After a hard struggle, Mr. Bell was returned at the head of the poll. Shortly after the General Election, Mr. Elliott received a baronetcy from Mr, Disraeli. A short time only had elapsed, however, when the Liberal members were unseated on petition, because of general intimidation at Hetton-le-Hole, Seaham, and other places no blame being, however, attributed to the two members and the result of afresh election in June following was the placing of Mr. Bell at the bottom of the poll, although he was only a short distance behind his Conservative opponent Sir George Elliott."

"Isaac Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet FRS (1816-1904), of Bell Brothers, was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, Co. Durham.

1816 February 15th. Born the son of Thomas Bell and his wife Katherine Lowthian.

Attended the Academy run by John Bruce in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh University and the Sorbonne.

Practical experience in alkali manufacture at Marseilles.

1835 Joined the Walker Ironworks; studied the the operation of the blast furnaces and rolling mills.

A desire to master thoroughly the technology of any manufacturing process was to be one of the hallmarks of Bell's career.

1842 Married Margaret Elizabeth Pattinson

In 1844 Lowthian Bell and his brothers Thomas Bell and John Bell formed a new company, Bell Brothers, to operate the Wylam ironworks. These works, based at Port Clarence on the Tees, began pig-iron production with three blast furnaces in 1854 and became one of the leading plants in the north-east iron industry. The firm's output had reached 200,000 tons by 1878 and the firm employed about 6,000 men.

1850 Bell started his own chemical factory at Washington in Gateshead, established a process for the manufacture of an oxychloride of lead, and operated the new French Deville patent, used in the manufacture of aluminium. Bell expanded these chemical interests in the mid-1860s, when he developed with his brother John a large salt working near the ironworks.

In 1854 he built Washington Hall, now called Dame Margaret's Hall.

He was twice Lord Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Member of Parliament for North Durham from February to June 1874, and for Hartlepool from 1875 to 1880.

1884 President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

In 1895 he was awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, 'in recognition of the services he has rendered to Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, by his metallurgical researches and the resulting development of the iron and steel industries'.

A founder of the Iron and Steel Institute, he was its president from 1873 to 1875, and in 1874 became the first recipient of the gold medal instituted by Sir Henry Bessemer. He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1884.

1842 He married Margaret Pattison. Their children were Mary Katherine Bell, who married Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet.

1904 December 20th. Lowthian Bell died at his home, Rounton Grange, Rounton, Northallerton, North Riding of Yorkshire

1904 Obituary [1]

"Sir ISAAC LOWTHIAN BELL, Bart., was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne on 15th February 1816, being the son of Mr. Thomas Bell, an alderman of the town, and partner in the firm of Messrs. Losh, Wilson and Bell, of Walker Iron Works, near Newcastle; his mother was the daughter of Mr. Isaac Lowthian, of Newbiggin, Northumberland.

After studying at Edinburgh University, he went to the Sorbonne, Paris, and there laid the foundation of the chemical and metallurgical knowledge which he applied so extensively in later years.

He travelled extensively, and in the years 1839-40 he covered a distance of over 12,000 miles, examining the most important seats of iron manufacture on the Continent. He studied practical iron-making at his father's works, where lie remained until 1850, when he joined in establishing chemical works at Washington, eight miles from Newcastle. Here it was also that his subsequent firm of Messrs. Bell Brothers started the first works in England for the manufacture of aluminium.

In 1852, in conjunction with his brothers Thomas and John, he founded the Clarence Iron Works, near the mouth of the Tees, opposite Middlesbrough. The three blast-furnaces erected there in 1853 were at that time the largest in the kingdom, each being 47.5 feet high, with a capacity of 6,012 cubic feet; the escaping gases were utilized for heating the blast. In 1873 the capacity of these furnaces was much increased.

In the next year the firm sank a bore-hole to the rock salt, which had been discovered some years earlier by Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. in boring for water. The discovery remained in abeyance till 1882, when they began making salt, being the pioneers of the salt industry in that district. They were also among the largest colliery proprietors in South Durham, and owned extensive ironstone mines in Cleveland, and limestone quarries in Weardale.

His literary career may be said to have begun in 1863, when, during his second mayoralty, the British Association visited Newcastle, on which occasion he presented a report on the manufacture of iron in connection with the Northumberland and Durham coal-fields. At the same visit he read two papers on " The Manufacture of Aluminium," and on "Thallium." The majority of his Papers were read before the Iron and Steel Institute, of which Society he was one of the founders; and several were translated into French and German.

On the occasion of the first Meeting of this Institution at Middlesbrough in 1871, he read a Paper on Blast-Furnace Materials, and also one on the "Tyne as Connected with the History of Engineering," at the Newcastle Meeting in 1881. For his Presidential Address delivered at the Cardiff Meeting in 1884, he dealt with the subject of "Iron."

He joined this Institution in 1858, and was elected a Member of Council in 1870. In 1872 he became a Vice-President, and retained that position until his election as President in 1884. Although the Papers he contributed were not numerous, he frequently took part in the discussions on Papers connected with the Iron Industry and kindred subjects.

He was a member of a number of other learned societies — The Royal Society, The Institution of Civil Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute, of which he was President from 1873 to 1875, the Society of Chemical Industry, the Royal Society of Sweden, and the Institution of Mining Engineers, of which he was elected President in 1904.

He had also received honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the Durham College of Science, and the University of Leeds. In 1885 a baronetcy was conferred upon him in recognition of his distinguished services to science and industry. In 1876 he served as a Commissioner to tile International Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, where he occupied the position of president of the metallurgical judges, and presented to the Government in 1877 a report upon the iron manufacture of the United States. In 1878 he undertook similar duties at the Paris Exhibition.

He was Mayor of Newcastle in 1854-55, and again in 1862-3. In 1874 he was elected Member of Parliament for Durham, but was unseated; he sat for the Hartlepools from 1875 to 1880, and then retired from parliamentary life. For the County of Durham he was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff in 1884. For many years he was a director of the North Eastern Railway, and Chairman of the Locomotive Committee.

His death took place at his residence, Rounton Grange, Northallerton, on 20th December 1904, in his eighty-ninth year.

1904 Obituary [2]

SIR LOWTHIAN BELL, Bart., Past-President, died on December 21, 1904, at his residence, Rounton Grange, Northallerton, in his eighty-ninth year. In his person the Iron and Steel Institute has to deplore the loss of its most distinguished and most valuable member. From the time when the Institute was founded as the outcome of an informal meeting at his house, until his death, he was a most active member, and regularly attended the general meetings, the meetings of Council, and the meetings of the various committees on which he served.

Sir Lowthian Bell was the son of Mr. Thomas Bell (of Messrs. Losh, Wilson, & Bell, iron manufacturers, Walker-on-Tyne), and of Catherine, daughter of Mr. Isaac Lowthian, of Newbiggin, near Carlisle. He was born in Newcastle on February 15, 1816, and educated, first at Bruce's Academy, in Newcastle, and afterwards in Germany, in Denmark, at Edinburgh University, and at the Sorbonne, Paris. His mother's family had been tenants of a well-known Cumberland family, the Loshes of Woodside, near Carlisle, one of whom, in association with Lord Dundonald, was one of the first persons in this country to engage in the manufacture of soda by the Leblanc process. In this business Sir Lowthian's father became a partner on Tyneside. Mr. Bell had the insight to perceive that physical science, and especially chemistry, was bound to play a great part in the future of industry, and this lesson• he impressed upon his ions. The consequence was that they devoted their time largely to chemical studies.

On the completion of his studies, Lowthian Bell joined his father at the Walker Iron Works. Mr. John Vaughan, who was with the firm, left about the year 1840, and in conjunction with Mr. Bolckow began their great iron manufacturing enterprise at Middlesbrough. Mr. Bell then became manager at Walker, and blast-furnaces were erected under his direction. He became greatly interested in the ironstone district of Cleveland, and as early as 1843 made experiments with the ironstone. He met with discouragements at first, but was rewarded with success later, and to Messrs. Bell Brothers largely belongs the credit of developing the ironstone field of Cleveland. Mr. Bell's father died in 1845, and the son became managing partner. In 1852, two years after the discovery of the Cleveland ironstone, the firm acquired ironstone royalties first at Normanby and then at Skelton in Cleveland, and started the Clarence Iron Works, opposite Middlesbrough. The three blast-furnaces here erected in 1853 were at that time the largest in the kingdom, each being 47.5 feet high, with a capacity of 6012 cubic feet. Later furnaces were successively increased up to a height of. 80 feet in 1873, with 17 feet to 25 feet in diameter at the bosh, 8 feet at the hearth, and about 25,500 cubic feet capacity. On the discovery of a bed of rock salt at 1127 feet depth at Middlesbrough, the method of salt manufacture in vogue in Germany was introduced at the instance of Mr. Thomas Bell, and the firm of Bell Brothers had thus the distinction of being pioneers in this important industry in the district. They were also among the largest colliery proprietors in South Durham, and owned likewise extensive ironstone mines in Cleveland, and limestone quarries in Weardale. At the same time Mr. Bell was connected with the Washington Aluminium Works, the Wear blast-furnaces, and the Felling blast-furnaces.

Although Sir Lowthian Bell was an earnest municipal reformer and member of Parliament, he will best be remembered as a man of science. He was mayor of Newcastle in 1863, when the British Association visited that town, and the success of the gathering was largely due to his arrangements. As one of the vice-presidents of the chemical section, he contributed papers upon thallium and the manufacture of aluminium; and, jointly with the late Lord Armstrong, edited the souvenir volume entitled " The Industrial Resources of the Tyne, Wear, and Tees." In 1873, when the Iron and Steel Institute visited Belgium, Mr. Bell presided, and delivered in French an address on the relative industrial conditions of Great Britain and Belgium. Presiding at the Institute's meeting in Vienna in 1882, he delivered his address partly in English and partly in German, and expressed the hope that the ties between England and Austria should be drawn more closely.

On taking up his residence permanently at Rounton Grange, near Northallerton, Sir Lowthian made a present to the city council, on which he had formerly served for so many years, of Washington Hall and grounds, and the place is now used as a home for the waifs and strays of the city. It is known as Dame Margaret's Home, in memory of Lady Bell, who died in 1886. This lady, to whom he was married in 1842, was a daughter of Mr. Hugh Lee Pattinson, F.R.S., the eminent chemist and metallurgist.

Sir Lowthian earned great repute as an author. He was a prolific writer on both technical and commercial questions relating to the iron and steel industries. His first important book was published in 1872, and was entitled " Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting : An Experimental :and Practical Examination of the Circumstances which Determine the Capacity of the Blast-Furnace, the Temperature of the Air, and the Proper Condition of the Materials to be Operated upon." This book, which contained nearly 500 pages, with many diagrams, was the direct outcome of a controversy with the late Mr. Charles Cochrane, and gave details of nearly 900 experiments carried out over a series of years with a view to finding out the laws which regulate the process of iron smelting, and the nature of the reactions which take place among the substances dealt with in the manufacture of pig iron. The behaviour of furnaces under varying conditions was detailed. The book was a monument of patient research, which all practical men could appreciate. His other large work—covering 750 pages—was entitled " The Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel." It was issued in 1884, and in it the author compared the resources existing in different localities in Europe and America as iron-making centres. His further investigations into the manufacture of pig iron were detailed, as well as those relating to the manufacture of finished iron and steel.

In 1886, at the instance of the British Iron Trade Association, of which he was then President, he prepared and published a book entitled " The Iron Trade of the United Kingdom compared with other Chief Ironmaking Nations." Besides these books and numerous papers contributed to scientific societies, Sir Lowthian wrote more than one pamphlet relating to the history and development of the industries of Cleveland.

In 1876 Sir Lowthian was appointed a Royal Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and wrote the official report relating to the iron and steel industries. -This was issued in the form of a bulky Blue-book.

As a director of the North-Eastern Railway Company Si Lowthian prepared an important volume of statistics for the use of his colleagues, and conducted exhaustive investigations into the life of a steel rail.

The majority of his papers were read before the Iron and Steel Institute, but of those contributed to other societies the following may be mentioned :— Report and two papers to the second Newcastle meeting of the British Association in 1863, already mentioned. " Notes on the Manufacture of Iron in the Austrian Empire," 1865. " Present State of the Manufacture of Iron in Great Britain," 1867. " Method of Recovering Sulphur and Oxide of Manganese, as Practised at Dieuze, near Nancy," 1867. " Our Foreign Competitors in the Iron Trade," 1868; this was promptly translated into French by Mr. G. Rocour, and published in Liege. " Chemistry of the Blast-Furnace," 1869. " Preliminary Treatment of the Materials Used in the Manufacture of Pig Iron in the Cleveland District" (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1871). " Conditions which Favour, and those which Limit, the Economy of Fuel in the Blast-Furnace for Smelting Iron " (Institution of Civil Engineers, 1872). "Some supposed Changes Basaltic Veins have Suffered during their Passage through and Contact with Stratified Rocks, and the Manner in which these Rocks have been Affected by the Heated Basalt " : a communication to the Royal Society on May 27, 1875. " Report to Government on the Iron Manufacture of the United States of America, and a Comparison of it with that of Great Britain," 1877. "British Industrial Supremacy," 1878. " Notes on the Progress of the Iron Trade of Cleveland," 1878. " Expansion of Iron," 1880. " The Tyne as connected with the History of Engineering " (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1881). " Occlusion of Gaseous Matter by Fused Silicates and its possible connection with Volcanic Agency : " a paper to the third York meeting of the British Association, in, 1881, but printed in the Journal of the Iron and Steel• Institute. Presidential Address on Iron (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1884). " Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel, with Notes on the Economic Conditions of their Production," 1884. " Iron Trade of the United Kingdom," 1886. " Manufacture of Salt near Middlesbrough" (Institution of Civil Engineers, 1887). " Smelting of Iron Ores Chemically Considered," 1890. " Development of the Manufacture and Use of Rails in Great Britain " (Institution of Civil Engineers, 1900). Presidential Address to the Institution of Junior Engineers, 1900.

To him came in due course honours of all kinds. When the Bessemer Gold Medal was instituted in 1874, Sir Lowthian was the first recipient. In 1895 he received at the hands of the King, then. Prince of Wales, the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts, in recognition of the services he had rendered to arts, manufactures, and commerce by his metallurgical researches. From the French government he received the cross of the Legion of Honour. From the Institution of Civil Engineers he received the George Stephenson Medal, in 1900, and, in 1891, the Howard Quinquennial Prize which is awarded periodically to the author of a treatise on Iron.

For his scientific work Sir Lowthian was honoured by many of the learned societies of Europe and America. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875. He was an Hon. D.C.L. of Durham University; an LL.D. of the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin; and a D.Sc. of Leeds University. He was one of the most active promoters of the Durham College of Science by speech as well as by purse; his last contribution was made only a short time ago, and was £3000, for the purpose of building a tower. He had. held the presidency of the North of England Institution of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and was the first president of the Newcastle Chemical Society.

Sir Lowthian was a director of the North-Eastern Railway Company since 1865. For a number of years he was vice-chairman, and at the time of his death was the oldest railway director in the kingdom. In 1874 he was elected M.P. for the Borough of the Hartlepools, and continued to represent the borough till 1880. In 1885, on the advice of Mr. Gladstone, a baronetcy was conferred upon him in recognition of his great services to the State. Among other labours he served on the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade, and formed one of the Commission which proceeded to Vienna to negotiate Free Trade in Austria-Hungary in 1866. For the County of Durham he was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff in 1884. He was also a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire and for the city of Newcastle. He served as Royal Commissioner at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876, and at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. He also served as Juror at the Inventions Exhibition in London, in 1885, and at several other great British and foreign Exhibitions.

Of the Society of Arts he was a member from 1859. He joined the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1867, and the Chemical Society in 1863. He was a past-president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Society of Chemical Industry; and at the date of his death he was president of the Institution of Mining Engineers. He was an honorary member of the American Philosophical Institution, of the Liege Association of Engineers, and of other foreign societies. In 1882 he was made an honorary member of the Leoben School of Mines.

In the Iron and Steel Institute he took special interest. One of its original founders in 1869, he filled the office of president from 1873 to 1875, and was, as already noted, the first recipient of the gold medal instituted by Sir Henry Bessemer. He contributed the following papers to the Journal of the Institute in addition to Presidential Addresses in 1873 and 1874: (1) " The Development of Heat, and its Appropriation in Blast-furnaces of Different Dimensions" (1869). (2) " Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting : an experimental and practical examination of the circumstances which determine the capacity of the blast-furnace, the temperature of the air, and the proper conditions of the materials to be operated upon " (No. I. 1871; No. II. 1871; No. I. 1872). (3) " Ferrie's Covered Self-coking Furnace" (1871). (4) "Notes on a Visit to Coal and Iron Mines and Ironworks in the United States " (1875). (5) " Price's Patent Retort Furnace " (1875). (6) " The Sum of Heat utilised in Smelting Cleveland Ironstone" (1875). (7) "The Use of Caustic Lime in the Blast-furnace" (1875). (8) "The Separation of Carbon, Silicon, Sulphur, and Phosphorus in the Refining and Puddling Furnace, and in the Bessemer Converter " (1877). (9) " The Separation of Carbon, Silicon, Sulphur, and Phosphorus in the Refining and Puddling Furnaces, in the Bessemer Converter, with some Remarks on the Manufacture and Durability of Railway Bars" (Part II. 1877). (10) " The Separation of Phosphorus from Pig Iron" (1878). (11) " The Occlusion or Absorption of Gaseous Matter by fused Silicates at High Temperatures, and its possible Connection with Volcanic Agency" (1881). (12) " On Comparative Blast-furnace Practice" (1882). (13) "On the Value of Successive Additions to the Temperature of the Air used in Smelting Iron " (1883). (14) "On the Use of Raw Coal in the Blast-furnace" (1884). (15) "On the Blast-furnace value of Coke, from which the Products of Distillation from the Coal, used in its Manufacture, have been Collected" (1885). (16) "Notes on the Reduction of Iron Ore in the Blast-furnace" (1887). (17) "On Gaseous Fuel" (1889). (18) " On. the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron " (Pittsburg International Meeting, 1890). (19) " On the American Iron Trade and its Progress during Sixteen Years" (Special American Volume, 1890). (20) " On the Manufacture of Iron in its Relations with Agriculture " (1892). (21) " On the Waste of Heat, Past, Present, and Future, in Smelting Ores of Iron " (1893). (22) " On the Use of Caustic Lime in the Blast-furnace" (1894).

Sir Lowthian Bell took part in the first meeting of the Institute in 1869, and was present at nearly all the meetings up to May last, when he took part in the discussion on pyrometers, and on the synthesis of Bessemer steel. The state of his health would not, however, permit him to attend the American meeting, and he wrote to Sir James Kitson, Bart., Past-President, a letter expressing his regret. The letter, which was read at the dinner given by Mr. Burden to the Council in New York, was as follows :— ROUNTON GRANGE, NORTHALLERTON, 12th October 1904.

MY DEAR SIR JAMES KITSON,-Four days ago I was under the knife of an occulist for the removal of a cataract on my right eye. Of course, at my advanced age, in deference to the convenience of others, as well as my own, I never entertained a hope of being able to accompany the members of the Iron and Steel Institute in their approaching visit to the United States.

You who knew the regard, indeed, I may, without any exaggeration, say the affection I entertain for my friends on the other side of the Atlantic, will fully appreciate the nature of my regrets in being compelled to abstain from enjoying an opportunity of once more greeting them.

Their number, alas, has been sadly curtailed since I first met them about thirty years ago, but this curtailment has only rendered me the more anxious again to press the hands of the few who still remain.

Reference to the records of the Iron and Steel Institute will show that I was one of its earliest promoters, and in that capacity I was anxious to extend its labours, and consequently its usefulness, to every part of the world where iron was made or even used; with this view, the Council of that body have always taken care to have members on the Board of Management from other nations, whenever they could secure their services. Necessarily the claims upon the time of the gentlemen filling the office of President are too urgent to hope of its being filled by any one not a resident in the United Kingdom. Fortunately, we have a gentleman, himself a born subject of the United Kingdom, who spends enough of his time in the land of his birth to undertake the duties of the position of Chief Officer of the Institute.

It is quite unnecessary for me to dwell at any length upon the admirable way in which Mr. Andrew Carnegie has up to this time discharged the duties of his office, and I think I may take upon me to declare in the name of the Institute that the prosperity of the body runs no chance of suffering by his tenure of the Office of President.— Yours faithfully, (Signed) LOWTHIAN BELL.

The funeral of Sir Lowthian Bell took place on December 23, at Rounton, in the presence of the members of his family, and of Sir James Kitson, Bart., M.P., past-president, and Sir David Dale, Bart., past-president. A memorial service was held simultaneously at the Parish Church, Middlesbrough, and was attended by large numbers from the North of England. A dense fog prevailed, but this did not prevent all classes from being represented. The Iron and Steel Institute was represented by Mr. W. Whitwell, past-president, Mr. J Riley, vice-president, Mr. A. Cooper and Mr. Illtyd Williams, members of council, Mr. H. Bauerman, hon. member, and the Secretary. The Dean of Durham delivered an address, in which he said that Sir Lowthian's life had been one of the strenuous exertion of great powers, full of bright activity, and he enjoyed such blessings as go with faithful, loyal work and intelligent grappling with difficult problems. From his birth at Newcastle, in 1816, to the present day, the world of labour, industry, and mechanical skill had been in constant flow and change. Never before had there been such a marvellous succession of advances, and in keeping pace with these changes Sir Lowthian might be described as the best scientific ironmaster in the world. He gave a lifelong denial to the statement that Englishmen can always " muddle through," for he based all his action and success on clearly ascertained knowledge.

The King conveyed to the family of the late Sir Lowthian Bell the expression of his sincere sympathy on the great loss which they have sustained. His Majesty was pleased to say that he had a great respect for Sir Lowthian Bell, and always looked upon him as a very distinguished man.

Immediately before the funeral an extraordinary meeting of council was held at the offices of Bell Brothers, Limited, Middlesbrough, when the following resolution was unanimously adopted :— " The council of the Iron and Steel Institute desire to place on record their appreciation of the loss which the Institute has sustained by the death of Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., a past-president and one of the founders of the Institute. The council feel that it would be difficult to overrate the services that Sir Lowthian rendered to the Institute in the promotion of the objects for which it was formed, and his constant readiness to devote his time and energies to the advancement of these objects. His colleagues on the council also desire to assure his family of their most sincere sympathy in the loss that has befallen them." Find a Grave.

Isaac Lowthian Bell was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 16th of February 1816. He was the son of Thomas Bell, a member of the firm of Losh, Wilson and Bell Ironworks at Walker. Bell was educated at Dr Bruce’s Academy (Newcastle upon Tyne), Edinburgh University, and the University of the Sorbonne (Paris).

In 1850 Bell was appointed manager of Walker Ironworks. In the same year he established a chemical works at Washington with Mr Hugh Lee Pattinson and Mr R. B. Bowman (the partnership was severed in 1872). In 1852 Bell set up Clarence Ironworks at Port Clarence, Middlesbrough, with his brothers Thomas and John which produced basic steel rails for the North Eastern Railway (From 1865 to 1904, Bell was a director of North Eastern Railway Company). They opened ironstone mines at Saltburn by the Sea (Normanby) and Skelton (Cleveland). Bell Brothers employed around 6,000 workmen. They employed up to the minute practises (for example, utilizing waste gases which escaped from the furnaces) and were always keen to trial improvements in the manufacture of iron. In 1882 Bell Brothers had a boring made at Port Clarence to the north of the Tees and found a stratum of salt, which was then worked. This was sold to Salt Union Ltd in 1888.

Bell’s professional expertise was used after an explosion at Hetton Colliery in 1860. He ascertained that the cause of the explosion was due to the presence of underground boilers.

In 1861 Bell was appointed to give evidence to the Commission to incorporate a Mining College within Durham University. Durham College of Science was set up 1871 in Newcastle with Bell as a Governor. He donated £4,500 for the building of Bell Tower. Large collection of books were donated from his library by his son to the College.

Bell served on the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade. He was a Justice of Peace for County of Durham, Newcastle and North Riding of Yorkshire, and was Deputy-lieutenant and High Sheriff for Durham in 1884. In 1879 Bell accepted arbitration in the difficulty with the miners during the General Strike of County Durham miners

Between 1850 and 1880 Bell sat on the Town Council of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1851 he became sheriff, was elected mayor in 1854, and Alderman in 1859. In 1874 Bell was the Liberal Member of Parliament for North Durham, but was unseated on the ground of general intimidation by agents. Between 1875 and 1880 he was the Member of Parliament for the Hartlepools.

Bell was an authority on mineralogy and metallurgy. In 1863 at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Newcastle, he read a paper ‘On the Manufacture of Iron in connection with the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield’ (Report of the 33rd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Newcastle upon Tyne, 1863, p730).

In 1871 Bell read a paper at a meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, Middlesbrough on ‘Chemical Phenomena of Iron smelting’. (The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1871 Vol I pp85-277, Vol II pp67-277, and 1872 Vol I p1). This was published with additions as a book which became an established text in the iron trade. He also contributed to ‘The Industrial Resources of the Tyne, Wear and Tees (1863)’.

In 1854 Bell became a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers and was elected president in 1886. Bell devoted much time to the welfare and success of the Institute in its early days.

During his life Bell was a founder member of the Iron and Steel Institute (elected President in 1874); a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Chemical Society of London; a member of the Society of Arts, a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; President of the Society of Chemical Industry; and a founder member of the Institution of Mining Engineers (elected President in 1904)

Bell was the recipient of Bessemer Gold Medal, from Iron and Steel Institute in 1874 and in 1885 recieved a baronetcy for services to the State. In 1890 he received the George Stephenson Medal from The Institute of Civil Engineers and in 1895 received the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts for services through his metallurgical researches.

Bell was a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) of Durham University, a Doctor of Laws (LLD) of Edinburgh University and Dublin University, and a Doctor of Science (DSc) of Leeds University.

Bell married the daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson in 1842 and together they had two sons and three daughters. The family resided in Newcastle upon Tyne, Washington Hall, and Rounton Grange near Northallerton.

Lowthian Bell died on the 21st of December 1904. The Council of The Institution of Mining Engineers passed the following resolution:

“The Council have received with the deepest regret intimation of the death of their esteemed President and colleague, Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart, on of the founders of the Institution, who presided at the initial meeting held in London on June 6 th 1888, and they have conveyed to Sir Hugh Bell, Bart, and the family of Sir Lowthian Bell an expression of sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. It is impossible to estimate the value of the services that Sir Lowthian Bell rendered to the Institution of Mining Engineers in promoting its objects, and in devoting his time and energies to the advancement of the Institution.”

Information taken from: - Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions, Vol XXXIII 1906-07

V Sattui Winery, St. Helena, California, USA

History of the V Sattui Winery:

Dario Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Dario believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Dario began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Dario pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Dario had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Dario had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Dario remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Dario continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Dario had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Dario with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Dario enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Dario had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Dario lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Dario began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Dario refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Dario's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Dario Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.

The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.

Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.

Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert Kåre Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.

The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.

The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.

Credits: ESA–S. Sechi

Picture Spring/Make a Wish

Lately there have been a lot of signs that I'm headed in the right direction, that maybe wishes do come true, maybe we really can make our dreams happen. The photo goddesses have been shining their light my way. I've had 4 Shutter Sisters and 1 Mortal Muse feature in the past week. On top of that, I've just been booked to shoot local events featuring revelers attending for an online magazine a couple time a month. I shoot my first event this Saturday at the PIFA festival in Center City. If you're dancing in the flashmob, let me know, and I'll do my best to catch your moves! I'll also be out with the party-goers on Cinco de Mayo too. So if you've got any tips for me, advice or practical knowledge to help things go smoothly, send 'em my way. I'd like to keep thing happening for me, keep the ball rolling in the right direction, and keep my tendency to self-sabatage safety buried deep in the ground.

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The notorious chimp.

In my young hood days I used to visit Kolkata zoo regularly. This is my visit after a long time. Over the course of last ten years or so there have been some remarkable changes in planning for public display. Many new species have been incorporated, the most remarkable one being yellow anaconda and some exclusive species of birds and mammals. Alipore zoo is now successfully breeding giraffe and anaconda in captivity.

I usually don’t like taking random photographs in zoos except very special experience or incidence. It was no exception this time.

This is a female chimp, known to be an expert underhand thrower of articles towards the visitors with an outstanding precision. “She had befooled many a times with her lightening speed’- said the guide. I knew that the greater apes are well designed to throw stones, but never have had such experience before.

The moment I reached within forty yards of her open enclosure, she started collecting some dry soil in her hand. The guide warned me to be extremely careful for the reason she targets mostly the cameramen, she probably dislikes most. I ignored this out of my inexperience. So I took my first cool shot with soil in her hand, and then thought to adjust my shutter speed quickly, before I take an action shot. The next incidence happened like a flash. Before I could barely move my camera, she rushed in a range of 20 yards or so and perfectly targeted my camera. I was lucky enough to somehow save my lens without much damage. Thanks to God, my reflex worked a little bit. I had enough experience that day as I share with you my friends. I had my firsthand practical knowledge of how they are so close to the hunting skills in our early ancestors!

In summer 2018 eight selected Girl Scouts from across the country joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA) environmental crew for two weeks at Olympic National Forest. The Scouts, along with three SCA volunteer chaperones, camped out in the forest from July 29 to August 11 and completed key environmental service projects while learning additional skills related to ecology and preserving habitats. It was the only crew of its kind this year in the entire United States.

The purpose of this unique opportunity is to expand the participants’ leadership skills and practical knowledge of the natural environment. The young women traveled from a wide variety of places including: Maine, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Alaska.

Several professional Olympic National Forest employees, primarily women, collaborated with the Scouts across several disciplines including: wildlife biology, botany, recreation, archeology, silviculture and fire. The schedule and projects were coordinated by Nicole LaGioia, the Olympic National Forest Recreation Manager for Hood Canal Ranger District.

San Francisco

Italian winemaker Vittorio Sattui arrived in San Francisco in 1882 with his new bride, Kattarina, to begin their life in America. Born in Genoa, Vittorio, like his father before him, was by trade a baker from the small hilltown of Carsi. In San Francisco, Vittorio at first worked as a baker, making wine in his spare time, while Kattarina took in washing. Soon the industrious Sattui family had saved enough money to start a boarding house in the Italian colony of North Beach.

Vittorio continued to make wine, serving it to his patrons at the boarding house. By 1885, the reputation of Vittorio's wines allowed him to quit the bakery and devote himself full-time to his real passion, winemaking. Vittorio quickly established a thriving commercial venture (located at 722 Montgomery, now Columbus Avenue) called St. Helena Wine Cellars, taking the name of the small, bucolic, Napa Valley town were he obtained his grapes. Vittorio always said, "there is nothing like St. Helena grapes!" He would personally select the grapes during the harvest and then haul them by horse-drawn wagon to Napa for transfer to San Francisco by ferry.

When Vittorio moved his expanding winemaking business and family (Kattarina and Vittorio eventually had six children) to the Mission district at 2507 Bryant Avenue, near the corner of 23rd Street, he adopted the new name, V. Sattui Wine Company. Vittorio continued to ferry his grapes from St. Helena, crushing them at his new winery. The V. Sattui Wine Company's high quality wines were sold directly to the customers and delivered to their houses in barrels and demijohns (usually one to 25 gallon sizes) throughout the Bay Area by horse-drawn wagon. Eventually, Vittorio's clients reached as far north as Oregon and Washington state. The family business thrived.

But in 1920, Prohibition sounded the death knell for Vittorio Sattui's family business. "I'll do nothing against the law." Vittorio said, and V. Sattui Wine Company lay dormant for the next sixty years, a dream deferred and half-forgotten.

Napa Valley

Daryl Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Daryl believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Daryl began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Daryl pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Daryl had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Daryl had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Daryl remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Daryl continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Daryl had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Daryl with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Daryl enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Daryl had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Daryl lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Daryl began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Daryl refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Daryl's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Daryl Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

Chat Moss

AT THE February meeting of Eccles and District History Society, Mr James Goodier, an 80-years-old farmer, of Irlam, took as his subject "Memories of Chat Moss."

The idea of reclaiming Chat Moss for agricultural purposes originated with William Wakefield of Liverpool, who leased the land for a period of 99 years from the de Trafford family in 1798. Wakefield did little to put in his ideas into practice, however, and, in 1805, he sold his interest to William Roscoe.

William Roscoe, a prosperous Liverpool businessman, was for a short term, a Member of Parliament, and had been associated with William Wilberforce in the successful campaign to abolish the slave trade.

He was convinced that the semi-liquid bogland of Chat Moss could be drained. His men worked hard to bring this about.

CROPS

Unfortunately, he did not have the practical knowledge to support his enthusiasm and, after 15 years, the project went bankrupt. The plan was then divided between J.A. Borron of Warrington, who took 1,300 acres, and Edward Baines, who took the remainder. Baines was at the time editor and proprietor of the Leeds Mercury. Some time later crops began to be raised, pioneer farmers being John Richards, Hugh Shaw, William Leigh, Edward Evans, and others.

Manchester Corporation bought the land from the de Traffords in 1897, and it was used for many years for the disposal of the city's waste.

The "night soil," as it was euphemistically called, presumably because it was collected in the night, was shipped along the River Irwell to a wharf at Irlam, unloaded, with shovels and forks on to trucks, and distributed over the Moss by a grid system of narrow gauge railways. The trucks were pulled by horses shod with "pattens" to stop their feet sinking. Later, John Richards introduced a "mini" steam engine.

Drainage was effected originally, by digging a network of V-shaped trenches. It is on record that the Duke of Bridgewater was interested in this - he wanted the water for his canal. As could be expected, modern technique has led to much greater efficiency.

The system now in use is electrically controlled, and involves long lengths of polythene pipes, perforated at intervals.

For a hundred years the work of reclaiming Chat Moss went on. Generations of dedicated men - fathers, sons and grandsons, persevered in what often seemed an impossible task. Few of them, if any, gained much profit: but many farmers of today must be very proud of the rich fertile countryside which their ancestors won from nature, and which daily supplies markets as far afield as Covent Garden, London.

In paying tribute to the pioneers, Mr Goddier concluded by quoting Jonathan Swift:

"Whoever can make an ear of corn or a blade of grass grow on a spot where none grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together."

Most likely from Eccles and Patricroft Journal in late 1960s or early 1970s.

@ Chinatown, Washington D.C.

The Province is providing over $628,000 to support a two-year pilot project for the viticulture technician diploma program at Okanagan College, developed in partnership with the BC Wine Grape Council.

The diploma is designed to provide hands-on, theoretical and practical knowledge that will allow students to eventually work as part of a vineyard management team. The program is structured around the viticulture growing season, providing opportunities to develop and apply skills like: canopy management, pest control, pruning, training vines and sensory evaluation.

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"The ACE internship has been incredible! As a Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) I created an Abandoned (ABD) Well and Final Abandonment Notice (FAN) tracking system for the Oklahoma Field Office, but also traveled throughout Oklahoma inspecting abandoned well sites. This country is beautiful! The biodiversity does not disappoint, and I’ve found myself in a different eco-region every other week or so. After the inspections, I recorded the results in the Automated Fluid Mineral Support System (AFMSS) and proceeded with the appropriate paperwork to advance ABD wells to the next step. I enjoyed learned the “cradle to grave” process of an ABD well, and have found it to be practical knowledge for working in Oklahoma’s oil industry.

This internship opens many doors to its participants. Although I worked with abandoned wells, others are tasked with a variety of jobs. Besides working on my own project, I shadowed a Natural Resource Specialist, NEPA specialist, a Land Law Examiner, an Archaeologist, and a Planning & Environmental Specialist. I think this was really beneficial for me to understand the big picture of what the Tulsa office does and how the BLM system works here. Lastly, I got the opportunity to go on a Wild Horse and Burro tour (see photos below)!

I feel I’ve become a well-rounded NRS. Thank you, ACE!"

-Alicia Autio, BLM New Mexico Intern

In summer 2018 eight selected Girl Scouts from across the country joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA) environmental crew for two weeks at Olympic National Forest. The Scouts, along with three SCA volunteer chaperones, camped out in the forest from July 29 to August 11 and completed key environmental service projects while learning additional skills related to ecology and preserving habitats. It was the only crew of its kind this year in the entire United States.

The purpose of this unique opportunity is to expand the participants’ leadership skills and practical knowledge of the natural environment. The young women traveled from a wide variety of places including: Maine, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Alaska.

Several professional Olympic National Forest employees, primarily women, collaborated with the Scouts across several disciplines including: wildlife biology, botany, recreation, archeology, silviculture and fire. The schedule and projects were coordinated by Nicole LaGioia, the Olympic National Forest Recreation Manager for Hood Canal Ranger District.

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V Sattui Winery, St. Helena, California, USA

History of the V Sattui Winery:

Dario Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Dario believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Dario began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Dario pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Dario had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Dario had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Dario remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Dario continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Dario had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Dario with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Dario enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Dario had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Dario lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Dario began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Dario refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Dario's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Dario Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

Tried to mimic a David Hobby shot which I think came out well. (is it?)

David Hobby (born January 30, 1965) is an American photographer and author of the Strobist.com lighting blog, a site which promotes lighting techniques — such as off-camera flash — among photographic enthusiasts, often with an emphasis on the practical knowledge rather than the gear.

Archimedes is a main supporting character from The Sword in the Stone. He is Merlin's pet owl who has the ability to speak like a human. He was voiced by Junius Matthews and currently by Andre Stojka.

Little of Archimedes's past is known. At some point, he became the pet owl of Merlin, and gained the ability to speak. Archimedes is known for being somewhat grouchy and sarcastic, especially in the morning. Though he is loyal to Merlin, he is not afraid to point out the Wizard's shortcomings and often does. He is however, very well educated, and possesses a great deal of practical knowledge.

Archimedes is based on Merlin's talking owl, from the book The Sword in the Stone, which the film was based on. Like the movie, the book version of Archimedes can talk and teaches Wart to fly.

Archimedes first makes an appearance with Merlin in Merlin's cottage. He scoff's at Merlin's idea that someone will join them for tea. Later, when Wart does appear, he snidely reminds Merlin about his limits, when Merlin states that he can see everything in the future, as Merlin had no clue who the person was that would be joining them.

Archimedes accompanies Merlin as Merlin heads to Sir Ector's castle. Merlin introduces Archimedes as a "highly educated owl," which sends Sir Ector into hysterics, much to the offense of Archimedes. The next day, Archimedes protests that Merlin should return to the woods, as Sir Ector has placed the two of them in a crumbling tower, referred to as the "guest room." It rains that night, and Archimedes is soaked due to the numerous leaks in the tower. After Merlin sees Sir Pelinore come with news, Archimedes is sent to listen in on what the news is. In the dining room, Archimedes overhears the men speak of an upcoming tournament, where the winner would become king.

The next morning, Archimedes is forced to remind a forgetful Merlin of where they are. The two then watch as Wart helps Kay practice his jousting. When Merlin scoffs at the idea that jousting is a science, Archimedes points out that Wart likes the sport just as much as the rest do. Merlin then reveals his plan to use magic to help Wart learn the value of an education.

Archimedes later accompanies Merlin as the wizard gives Wart a lesson. Merlin forgets the spell he intended to cast, and awakens a sleeping Archimedes for the spell. Archimedes is shown to be very cranky early in the morning, and finds a nice tree to sleep in, while Merlin and Wart swim through the moat as fish. Archimedes doesn't get much rest, as he is soon forced to come to the rescue of Wart, who is being chased by a giant pike. After Wart and Merlin are human again, Merlin slyly notes that Archimedes cared a lot about Wart's safety. This leads Archimedes to excuse himself on the basis that young perch is his favorite dish, and that he intended to eat Wart.

Archimedes is next seen after Wart is fired as Kay's squire. Merlin begins Wart's education in earnest by talking about very complicated theories. Archimedes sees that Wart is getting confused and forcibly takes over Wart's education. Archimedes is shown to be much more practical than Merlin. He first tasks Wart with reading a mountain of books, but when he discovers that Wart can't read or write, Archimedes teaches him. During a break, Merlin demonstrates a model airplane. Archimedes believes that it won't work, and becomes hysterical when the plane crashes, due to it being caught in Merlin's beard.

When Merlin turns Wart into a sparrow, so that Wart can fly as he dreamed, Merlin begins to explain the concept of flight using Archimedes's wings as a model. Archimedes quickly stops this, and decides to teach Wart to fly himself, as Archimedes is a bird. He teaches Wart to fly by making him do it. Everything is going well, when a hawk appears and tries to eat Wart. Archimedes attempts to delay the hawk, and Wart is able to dive into a chimney to escape. When Archimedes sees that Wart is now in the hands of Madam Mim, Archimedes flies off to warn Merlin. Archimedes next appears as the Wizard's Duel is about to start, and he explains the premise to Wart. Alongside Wart, he watches the duel, and occasionally yells out advice to Merlin.

After Merlin becomes angry with Wart and goes to Bermuda, Archimedes stays with Wart, accompanying him to London to the tournament. He goes with Wart as Wart attempts to find a sword for Kay. When Wart attempts to retrieve the Sword in the Stone, Archimedes warns him against pulling it. Later, he witnesses Wart being officially recognized as the rightful king, and shows a mixture of happiness and disbelief.

After the coronation, Wart begins to feel unprepared for the duties of king. Archimedes tries to help Wart run away, but they are unsuccessful as the castle is surrounded by cheering subjects. Merlin magically reappears, to guide Wart again. Presumably, Archimedes stayed with Wart and Merlin.

Kansas Cosmosphere

Thanks to the inspired writings of rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth, several small, amateur rocket societies were created in Germany. The most organized and influential of these groups was the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (the Society for Space Travel), founded in 1927.

Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (VfR), a forum through which enthusiasts across the country exchanged practical knowledge about rocket development and spaceflight. The group soon attracted the membership of a young engineer named Wernher von Braun.

In the later 1920's through the early 1930's, the VfR became world renowned for its research and experimentation in rocketry. But the Great Depression" that gripped the world in the 1930's became a major obstacle for the VfR. When Hitler came to power in 1933, it appeared the rocket engineers and their dreams of building a large, liquid fueled rocket would never become a reality. World events would soon change this perception.

Spaceflight pioneer Hermann Oberth, seen here working on a liquid fueled rocket engine, became von Braun's mentor. Oberth published two books that influenced an entire generation of German space enthusiasts.

Inspired by the writings of Oberth, a young Wernher von Braun joins the VfR.

The Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving is a four-day training that gives participants the practical knowledge to design and implement a preservation plan for their audiovisual collections. The fourth edition of the Winter School took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision from Tuesday 15 until Friday 18 January 2019.

"The ACE internship has been incredible! As a Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) I created an Abandoned (ABD) Well and Final Abandonment Notice (FAN) tracking system for the Oklahoma Field Office, but also traveled throughout Oklahoma inspecting abandoned well sites. This country is beautiful! The biodiversity does not disappoint, and I’ve found myself in a different eco-region every other week or so. After the inspections, I recorded the results in the Automated Fluid Mineral Support System (AFMSS) and proceeded with the appropriate paperwork to advance ABD wells to the next step. I enjoyed learned the “cradle to grave” process of an ABD well, and have found it to be practical knowledge for working in Oklahoma’s oil industry.

This internship opens many doors to its participants. Although I worked with abandoned wells, others are tasked with a variety of jobs. Besides working on my own project, I shadowed a Natural Resource Specialist, NEPA specialist, a Land Law Examiner, an Archaeologist, and a Planning & Environmental Specialist. I think this was really beneficial for me to understand the big picture of what the Tulsa office does and how the BLM system works here. Lastly, I got the opportunity to go on a Wild Horse and Burro tour (see photos below)!

I feel I’ve become a well-rounded NRS. Thank you, ACE!"

-Alicia Autio, BLM New Mexico Intern

"The ACE internship has been incredible! As a Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) I created an Abandoned (ABD) Well and Final Abandonment Notice (FAN) tracking system for the Oklahoma Field Office, but also traveled throughout Oklahoma inspecting abandoned well sites. This country is beautiful! The biodiversity does not disappoint, and I’ve found myself in a different eco-region every other week or so. After the inspections, I recorded the results in the Automated Fluid Mineral Support System (AFMSS) and proceeded with the appropriate paperwork to advance ABD wells to the next step. I enjoyed learned the “cradle to grave” process of an ABD well, and have found it to be practical knowledge for working in Oklahoma’s oil industry.

This internship opens many doors to its participants. Although I worked with abandoned wells, others are tasked with a variety of jobs. Besides working on my own project, I shadowed a Natural Resource Specialist, NEPA specialist, a Land Law Examiner, an Archaeologist, and a Planning & Environmental Specialist. I think this was really beneficial for me to understand the big picture of what the Tulsa office does and how the BLM system works here. Lastly, I got the opportunity to go on a Wild Horse and Burro tour (see photos below)!

I feel I’ve become a well-rounded NRS. Thank you, ACE!"

-Alicia Autio, BLM New Mexico Intern

n this video Dr.Charlene Robelle Locaylocay and Dr.Karla Motol – Mallari explains UPHSD regulations and course details.

DOCTORS:

Dr.Charlene Robelle Locaylocay

Executive assistant Dean

University of Perpetual Help System DALTA

Dr.Karla Motol – Mallari

Vice Chairman – Obstetrics

University of Perpetual Help System DALTA

The Philippines is a tropical country located in South East Asia region, the medium of communication is english the cos of living almost like india.

The Philippines medical education follows American standard of health education, so the University of Perpetual Help System Dalta in manila, philippines follows a same standard of education which is accredited by

commission of Higher Education in Philippines, which is also ISO certified, and that has been existed past 45 years.

The university has Autonomous status, it is only given to the long, tradition of integrity, reputation, commitment of excellence and sustainability of operations. The University of Perpetual Help System Dalta School of Medicine is the center of excellence in medical education, training research and community service. Our goal is to produce competent and quality facilities.

Once you entered our medical program you have to first clear the Pre-Medicine program, which is a Bachelor Degree. After that you enter MD medicine, which is a 4 year curriculum base. Our curriculum is out come based education standard which is an American education standard.

In first year, you need to pass basic sciences, which is composed of Gross anatomy, Histology, Neuroanatomy, Physiology, Bio-Chemistry and Preventive medicine Communal health services. Those subjects were first introduced to you as first year medical student.

As a fresh student we offer an unique course called Pedagoji, which is offered free to fresh men, just to give them an idea about how to learn medicine. Which gives an idea about teaching and learning strategy.

Once you comes to second year, The second year subjects are Basic Science and as well as Clinical Sciences. In second year students will be given subjects like case studies they will be introduced to how to diagnose

deceases, physical examination as well as management. During this time we assist a student by objective structural clinical examination, multiple choice questions also be given as well as laboratory works.

After cleared all your second year subjects, You have a comprehension exam. The comprehensive exam will test how you learned for the past two years in medical school. You need to appear in NMAT exam, which only contain 200 MCQs. After clearing this exam you will then enter into your MD program.

In third year all subjects are purely clinical sciences, which will focus in different branches of medicine, after completing third year you have another comprehensive exam just to reflect on mat how you ensure your course, after you moved on to fourth year automatic clinical clerkship program.

It is a 52 week clinical rotations on a different departments, which will then given to you for medical and clinical exposure on different patients.

Our medical school has a base hospital a LEVEL 3 treasury hospital, we provide credited residency training program in different special case like internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology so this departments will helps you to test your theoretical knowledge and improve your practical skills.

Once you go to the hospital you will routine in different specialty departments, so you will be enhanced, developed in your theoretical knowledge and clinical skills. We have four major departments such as internal medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. You have rotated in those major departments for 8 weeks or 2 months and 2 weeks in minor departments like Otolaryngology, ophthalmology, psychology, radiology and anesthesia. In preventive medicine and community health you will be rotated for 4 weeks.

During your clerkship rotation you will be part of the health care team and also supervised by intern and attending physician. During that period you have the opportunity of doing minor procedures such as intravenous injection etc. You can also assist in major procedures like Dora synthesis

and Para synthesis. So during this rotations you have to go on duty for 24 hours and in some days it will be assigned in the out-patient department, Emergency room, Intensive care unit and also during this rotations you will be a part of case conferences case discussions with all attending physicians. These all discussions could helps to improve and enhance your theoretical and practical knowledge.

The one other major department is obstetrics and gynaecology which is an project of residency medical training of UPHSD. When you rotate for that department we teach you how to handle normal spontaneous delivery and ask you to assist in major operations like cesarean section.

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The University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (UPHSD) founded in 1975 provides high quality education in the fields of education, hospitality and technology. It's quality education has attracted international students from all over the globe. With more than 1000 faculties, it educates more than 20,000 students.

UPHSD offers Doctor of Medicine or MD degree which is equivalent to MBBS in Indian System of Education and MD in American System of Education. The Medical Degree and the Medical School are recognized by World Health Organization(WHO), CHED, etc

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University of Perpetual Help Indian Students

Internationally Recognized Medical Degree

University of Perpetual Help System DALTA, Manila, Philippines is listed in WHO(World Health Organization) and MCI (Medical Council of India). The list of other Philippines Medical Universities which are approved by both MCI and WHO are given above. Students who complete their medical graduation at UPHSD are eligible for leading international medical exams such as USMLE (for clinical practice in the USA) and FMGE in India.

High-Quality Medical Education

The University of Perpetual Help uses Dale's Cone of Learning as part of their educational methodology allowing their students to demonstrate and teach what they have learned. University of Perpetual Help System DALTA Student Karl Emmanuel Mercader topped 2017 Physician License Examination.Due to this, the popular choice among Indian students for MD (MBBS) in Philippines from 2018 was UPHSD medical college because of its high quality education. UPHSD conducts their semester exams in Multiple Choice Question Pattern. This forces students to think rather than memorizing the subject which happens in case of subjective examination pattern like that of Indian medical colleges.

Affordable Medical Education

There are no donation / Capitation Fees at Perpetual Medical College, Philippines. Tuition fees range between 19 to 21 Lakhs Indian Rupees based on the fluctuations in Philippines Peso Currency and Indian Rupees. All the cities including its capital city, Manila has a low cost of living enabling middle-class Indian students to afford medical education.

MBBS Scholarship In Philippines Medical Colleges

Philippines Medical colleges do not provide Scholarships for international Students which includes Indian medical students. Fence Education Consultancy provides Scholarships to below middle class students who score more than 90% in exams.

In-campus Hostel Accommodation and South Indian Food

Fence Education Consultancy Inc. being the exclusive partner for many states in India, has its hostel campus located inside the Perpetual Medical University campus. The hostel serves both Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian food to their students.

Effective Hands-on Practice

95% Filipinos are literate and speak English, which makes it easy to communicate to patients and understand/diagnose their problems. As UPHSD is located in Manila, it has huge flow of inpatients and outpatients which would help students to understand various diseases, diagnosis and treatment during clerkship. All medical centres in the Philippines allow students to touch and diagnose patients. One of the main reason why Phillpines Physicians dominate in US is because of high student/cadaver ratio. This helps students to dissect cadaver and thereby enhances the practical knowledge which is essential for clearing exams like USMLE, FMGE, etc. Moreover, Philippines have a similar tropical climate like Indian subcontinent which makes the disease spectrum similar to that of India.

For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, it also became, at some stage, a Wall of Fame in a city...

Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view.

The trial, done on the technical camera and developed and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.

I'll upload some now and then...

as they are not easy to scan.

AAhh well, when I have some time, FUN!

As a photographer, your main tools are:

- you, as a person with a creative mind.

- your eyes, using the visual literacy.

- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).

- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!

I wish you all the best and

THANX, M, (*_*)

Paul and my Hasselblad, his doesn't have the pentaprism, mine does because I'm not fond of the 'normal' Hasselblad reversed mirror view, LOL.

GREAT LARGE and View On Black

V Sattui Winery, St. Helena, California, USA

History of the V Sattui Winery:

Dario Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Dario believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Dario began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Dario pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Dario had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Dario had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Dario remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Dario continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Dario had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Dario with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Dario enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Dario had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Dario lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Dario began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Dario refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Dario's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Dario Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

Induction coil by Heinrich Ruhmkorff, 1850s. In addition to the hammer interrupter (right), it had a mercury interrupter by Fizeau (left) that could be adjusted to change the dwell time.

Scan made by Kogo - Scanned from Bibliothek allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens für Militäranwärter Band III (Library of General and Practical Knowledge for Military Candidates, Volume III), 1905, Deutsches Verlaghaus Bong & Co, Berlin * Leipzig * Wien * Stuttgart

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff's induction coil. The mechanisms at the ends are interrupters, vibrating switches that interrupt the DC current flowing in the primary winding of the coil to create the flux changes necessary to induce high voltage in the secondary winding. This coil has two interrupters; the one at the right end is a common "hammer" interrupter with metal contacts. The one on the left is a type invented by Fizeau that uses a metal needle dipping into mercury, covered by a layer of alcohol to suppress the formation of sparks, resulting in higher voltages.

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Fashion, like thinking with our senses, is being physically in the moment. That is how it inspires, refreshes and entertains us. When fashion feels good, it is often a color or design statement that responds to a dream. Feeling good and looking good raises our spirit.

With a sensual approach you are more open to possibilities and potential. Sensual Thinking is how to create your life with purpose. Your style is a response to what feels right. The fashion you wear may be personal, but everybody notices it.

Get ready to unleash the artist within you in a creative space with an artist-cum-photographer as good as Abir Roy. This workshop will give you the space to explore a wide possibility of images within the genre of sensual photography and help you gain hands-on practical knowledge.

It will also provide an opportunity to learn to experiment with lighting & camera configurations. Understanding the secrets of post processing will help enhance your images with a creative touch and aids you in creating a rather vibrant story.

ABOUT THE MENTOR

Abir’s journey of becoming a photographer is interesting. He always wanted to do something creative – see things from a different perspective. He is a self taught photographer who firmly believes in practice. His style of photography is preferably based on editorials. He believes in story-telling in a single frame or set of sequential images with a particular thematic ambience.

WHAT IS UNIQUE?

Master the art of Sensual Photography during a guided workshop where you work with an expert, who has years of experience

Head to a professional photo studio for a deeper understanding of the power of sensual lighting and how to create the ideal set for your clients

Learn post processing techniques: Discuss how to retouch a photo with software to amp up the finished result

Work with a model and makeup artists as you test out your newfound skills during a practice photo shoot

WHAT WE COVER

Lighting

Sets

Careers in Fashion

Posing and expression

Pricing your products

Moodboards

The supermodel experience

Post-production workflow

The psychology of sensual photography

Branding

Advertising

Colour Correction

WHAT YOU BRING

Camera

Tripod (Optional)

Light source such as flash

WHAT WE PROVIDE

Studio Setup

Makeup Artist

Models

Food

Mentor

V Sattui Winery, St. Helena, California, USA

History of the V Sattui Winery:

Dario Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Dario believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Dario began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Dario pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Dario had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Dario had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Dario remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Dario continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Dario had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Dario with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Dario enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Dario had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Dario lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Dario began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Dario refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Dario's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Dario Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

V Sattui Winery, St. Helena, California, USA

History of the V Sattui Winery:

Dario Sattui remembers visiting Vittorio, his great-grandfather, who continued to live upstairs at the long dormant Bryant Street winery until his death at age 94. "As a small child, my first recollection was the aroma of wine emanating from the old building as soon as I entered," he says. He played among the barrels and ovals in the cellars, stories of the old family wine business ringing in his ears. It was then, Dario believes, that the dream of reopening the winery began.

In 1972, after two years in Europe beyond college, Dario began his apprenticeship at various Napa Valley wineries. He still had his dream, the same dream he'd had as a child. Dario pledged he "would reestablish V. Sattui Winery to its former glory."

But just how to do this was the problem. Dario had almost no capital and little practical knowledge of the wine industry. So he dedicated himself to developing the tools and skills he'd need to make the dream become a reality. Soon Dario had developed a business plan and began looking for prospective investors. Later, he found a parcel of land for sale that had a small walnut orchard with an old house on it. Dario remembers bringing prospective investors to the property telling them, "'Here is where we will build our winery,' all the while afraid that the people living on the property would throw me off for trespassing." Since he couldn't afford to purchase the property outright, he managed to get a lease-option for $500 a month. "The house was in such bad condition we lived in my VW bus for more than a month while making it suitable enough to live in."

Time passed as Dario continued to look for investors, but there were no takers. With his last $500, he paid for one more month on the property. Dario had only raised half the capital he needed to begin the winery, but he managed during that "last" month to talk a Napa real estate broker into buying the property, building a small winery on it, and then leasing it to Dario with an option to purchase it back sometime in the future. Still short of funds, Dario enlisted investors without money, but with the skills needed to help him create the winery building. That summer, July of 1975, they began construction, and it was finished in early 1976.

Renting the winemaking equipment he needed, using his great-grandfather's hand-corking machine and Vittorio's original design for the wine labels, the winery was open for business.

When Dario had lived in Europe, he'd remembered seeing small, family-run neighborhood delis filled with freshly made foods and wonderful selections of cheese. He was able to convert this memory into what was to become the perfect match for great wine, V. Sattui's famous Cheese Shop and Deli. Years passed and the struggle continued. Slowly, the winemaking process improved and success came. However, in those first few years, times were hard and Dario lived frugally, sometimes spending his nights sleeping on the floor of the winery so he could put what money he had into the new business. The original winery building is now the Tasting Room, Cheese Shop and Deli and Gift Shop.

As business grew, Dario began to be able to accumulate the best equipment available.

By 1985, V. Sattui Winery was able to build a beautiful stone winery amid the venerable 250 year-old oaks, reminiscent of the late 19th century wineries in Italy and France. With its two stories, tower, wine caves and underground aging cellars, its completion was a fitting tribute to help celebrate the centennial of Vittorio's dream. That same year, the 34-acre vineyard adjacent to the winery became available.

Renamed Suzanne's Vineyard, after his wife, it was soon joined by Carsi Vineyard in Yountville, followed in 1993 by the 556-acre Henry Ranch property in the Carneros grape-growing region, and then in 1998, a 128-acre ranch in Solano County. These, along with other acquisitions, will in the near future allow V. Sattui Winery to supply over 85% of its grape needs from five very distinct microclimates.

From the very beginning, Dario refused to compromise on the quality of the wine. The production and retailing concept offers insight into the reasons for V. Sattui Winery's success. Dario's vision has always been to fully integrate the process of winemaking from the grape to the consumer. This vertical control over all aspects of viticulture, winemaking, and sales is the future for V. Sattui Winery. It is because of Dario Sattui's dream that it has been able to provide the finest wines possible while continuing to sell them at a fair price directly to its customers.

Techne

One angle in one mirror is not enough, movement is never mute, it’s a language. It’s a series of energetic shapes, like words writing sentences, like poems, like prayers, like spells.

(Suspiria, 2017)

Techne is a project that explores visual performativity of the body in space. This concept is framed by rave culture, a subculture described by Simon Reynolds as being based around sensations and fascination rather than truth and meaning. As with most subcultures, rave culture is a fluid construct in that it is part of a societal structure of humans. The footage showcases performers displaying three movements that transcend into each other. While the movements were chosen by the performers themselves, they built upon prior approaches in order to achieve these during three preparation workshops. The movements manifest the subjective narration of each performer. The individual body stands in relation to the plural body and therefore creates the fluid information of the space in time.

Techne refers to the Greek term formulating practical knowledge. Raving, which among other things describes the act of dancing to techno music, might in fact be one way of practicing Techne. It is a self-reflective understanding of emotions, mediated and expressed through the body. The medium knows the message.

The installation invites the viewer to step in and decide which perspective to take on. Not only will they therefore miss out on two other perspectives, but they will also be in a state of constant observation created through small performative interventions. It challenges the viewer as the subject, while simultaneously revealing how different angles of a representation open up its ontological event horizon. What is caused by the change of perspective in a performative space and how much of it can even be considered representational?

The texts are transcriptions of conversations that happened during the process of interviewing music and rave related people. The main focus here is on the individuals experience of music, the subcultural function of raves and the relationship between technology and music. While all the interviews are similar at the core, they also complement each other. Critical subjects like sexism, racism and drug abuse are themes that are essential in the discussion surrounding rave culture. Each conversation partner therefore brings their personal relationship with the culture in and offers a different angle on it.

Techne is a work made possible through a collaborative effort. It would not have been possible without the incredible communal energy of every person that participated in the project. I cannot express how thankful I am for the trust and passion each of them gave.

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In summer 2018 eight selected Girl Scouts from across the country joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA) environmental crew for two weeks at Olympic National Forest. The Scouts, along with three SCA volunteer chaperones, camped out in the forest from July 29 to August 11 and completed key environmental service projects while learning additional skills related to ecology and preserving habitats. It was the only crew of its kind this year in the entire United States.

The purpose of this unique opportunity is to expand the participants’ leadership skills and practical knowledge of the natural environment. The young women traveled from a wide variety of places including: Maine, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Alaska.

Several professional Olympic National Forest employees, primarily women, collaborated with the Scouts across several disciplines including: wildlife biology, botany, recreation, archeology, silviculture and fire. The schedule and projects were coordinated by Nicole LaGioia, the Olympic National Forest Recreation Manager for Hood Canal Ranger District.

In summer 2018 eight selected Girl Scouts from across the country joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA) environmental crew for two weeks at Olympic National Forest. The Scouts, along with three SCA volunteer chaperones, camped out in the forest from July 29 to August 11 and completed key environmental service projects while learning additional skills related to ecology and preserving habitats. It was the only crew of its kind this year in the entire United States.

The purpose of this unique opportunity is to expand the participants’ leadership skills and practical knowledge of the natural environment. The young women traveled from a wide variety of places including: Maine, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Alaska.

Several professional Olympic National Forest employees, primarily women, collaborated with the Scouts across several disciplines including: wildlife biology, botany, recreation, archeology, silviculture and fire. The schedule and projects were coordinated by Nicole LaGioia, the Olympic National Forest Recreation Manager for Hood Canal Ranger District.

More than 60 Team Members from the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand and area hotels gathered at Hilton Boston Logan Airport to host 40 hospitality students from Fisher College. Together they mentored students - providing practical knowledge and insights into the hospitality industry. Sessions were followed by a reception showcasing industry best practices and recent trends in food and beverage. Hosts for the afternoon included Rob Palleschi, global head, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Mark Fallon, general manager, Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Chris Rule, director of human resources, Hilton Boston Logan Airport. They were joined by Janet Kuser, vice president for academic affairs, Fisher College.

More than 60 Team Members from the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand and area hotels gathered at Hilton Boston Logan Airport to host 40 hospitality students from Fisher College. Together they mentored students - providing practical knowledge and insights into the hospitality industry. Sessions were followed by a reception showcasing industry best practices and recent trends in food and beverage. Hosts for the afternoon included Rob Palleschi, global head, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Mark Fallon, general manager, Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Chris Rule, director of human resources, Hilton Boston Logan Airport. They were joined by Janet Kuser, vice president for academic affairs, Fisher College.

"The ACE internship has been incredible! As a Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) I created an Abandoned (ABD) Well and Final Abandonment Notice (FAN) tracking system for the Oklahoma Field Office, but also traveled throughout Oklahoma inspecting abandoned well sites. This country is beautiful! The biodiversity does not disappoint, and I’ve found myself in a different eco-region every other week or so. After the inspections, I recorded the results in the Automated Fluid Mineral Support System (AFMSS) and proceeded with the appropriate paperwork to advance ABD wells to the next step. I enjoyed learned the “cradle to grave” process of an ABD well, and have found it to be practical knowledge for working in Oklahoma’s oil industry.

This internship opens many doors to its participants. Although I worked with abandoned wells, others are tasked with a variety of jobs. Besides working on my own project, I shadowed a Natural Resource Specialist, NEPA specialist, a Land Law Examiner, an Archaeologist, and a Planning & Environmental Specialist. I think this was really beneficial for me to understand the big picture of what the Tulsa office does and how the BLM system works here. Lastly, I got the opportunity to go on a Wild Horse and Burro tour (see photos below)!

I feel I’ve become a well-rounded NRS. Thank you, ACE!"

-Alicia Autio, BLM New Mexico Intern

Definition: Technical:

1. Of, relating to, or derived from technique.

2.

a. Having special skill or practical knowledge especially in a mechanical or scientific field: a technical adviser.

b. Used in or peculiar to a specific field or profession; specialized: technical terminology.

3.

a. Belonging or relating to a particular subject: technical expertise.

b. Of, relating to, or involving the practical, mechanical, or industrial arts or the applied sciences: a technical school.

4.

a. Abstract or theoretical: a technical analysis.

b. Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science; scientific.

5. According to principle; formal rather than practical: a technical advantage.

6. Industrial and mechanical; technological.

7. Relating to or based on analysis of market indicators, such as trading volume and fluctuations in securities prices, rather than underlying economic conditions such as corporate earnings, inflation, and unemployment: a technical correction in the stock market.

Idea: I was pretty confused with this one, because everyone seems to take this to mean technology, but it doesn’t. So with that definition in mind I realised that this tree could be made out of just about anything that was systematically placed or worked to form the shape of a tree in a far more skilled/difficult manner, or it could be number meaning no 6 "Technological". I thought I’d cover both.

This is my "Technological" or "Technology" tree.

Process: I made this tree from a whole lot of CDs that I placed on a table to form the shape of a stylised tree. Then I turned off the lights and tried to use the camera flash from above them to get a the best colour and light reflections from the CDs. The hardest part was getting the flash angle right.

Co. F, 14th N. J. Infantry

Portrait and Biological Record of Southeastern Kansas, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties, Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States and The Governors of the State of Kansas. Chicago, Biographical Publishing Co. 1894.

Alonzo Applegate, a practical and successful general agriculturist cultivating a finely improved farm of two hundred acres located in Centreville Township, Linn County, Kan., has been a leading citizen of this part of the state for about a score of years. Our subject is a native of New Jersey, and was born, April 8, 1842, near Tom’s River, Ocean County. His parents, Moses and Eurphmia (Heyer) Applegate, were both born in New Jersey, the mother being a native of Morris County. The Applegates were of sturdy Scotch ancestry, but the paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Applegate, was a long time resident of New Jersey. In that state he spent his declining years, and died at an advanced age.

The Heyer family was descended from a long line of German forefathers, thrifty, hard-working and upright people. The mother, after a life of faithfulness to her husband and family, passed away in the state of her birth in the year 1875. Three children of the parents survived to adult age, Alonzo, Peter C. and James. The father was by occupation a farmer, and upon the old homestead our subject gained much of the practical knowledge which has aided him upward in the struggle of daily life. He spent the years of youth in assisting his parents and receiving instruction in the home schools of the district.

Upon May 16, 1861, were united in marriage Alonzo Applegate and Miss Sarah W. Moore, the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania, December 26, 1843. The parents of Mrs. Applegate, Michael and Elizabeth (Mears) Moore, were also natives of the Quaker State, where they spent the first part of their married life. They afterward located in New Jersey, and finally removed to Linn County, Kan., in 1867. This state was their permanent home—with the exception of the three years spent in Missouri—until 1892, when they returned to New Jersey, where they now reside. Of their large family of twelve sons and daughters, eleven survived to reach adult age, and are in the order of their birth: Joseph, Nathan, Sarah, Ann, Rachael, Fannie, Mary, Elizabeth, Lewis, John and Carrie. John Died in Centreville Township, Linn County, in 1874.

Our subject was married in Ocean County, N. J., and with his excellent wife was making his home in his native state, when, in 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth New Jersey Infantry, and remained in the service of the Government for one year, at the end of which time he was discharged for disability. During the twelve month Mr. Applegate had courageously participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburgh. Constantly exposed to the perils of the battlefield and vicissitudes of the weather, he was taken ill with typhoid fever and was discharged on account of his feeble condition from the hospital at Newark, N. J.

Our subject returned to Ocean County and engaged in the pursuit of farming near his old home until the fall of 1873. Emigrating to Kansas he for four years rented and worked land in Centreville Township, then homesteaded forty acres where he now resides. In these passing years he has been financially prospered, and has increased his homestead by the addition of one hundred and sixty acres. He has brought his land up to a high state of cultivation, has improved his property with excellent and commodious buildings and he now ranks among the prosperous and substantial citizens of the county.

Twelve children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Applegate, one of whom passed away in infancy and one in early childhood. The surviving sons and daughters are: Alonzo E., who married Jane Randall; Sarah, the wife of John Wonderly, Jr.; Effie, the wife of Wesley Hale; Edith the wife of Eugene Shoemaker; Moses, who married Miss Clara Elington; Fannie, Michael, Ona, Jesse and Pearl. The brothers and sisters enjoy a wide acquaintance and the affectionate regard of a large circle of old-time friends. Politically our subject is a Republican and has ever been interested in local and national issues, and, a liberal-spirited and patriotic citizen, is an important factor in matters of mutual welfare. Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, and is a ready aid in good work and benevolent enterprises.

More than 60 Team Members from the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand and area hotels gathered at Hilton Boston Logan Airport to host 40 hospitality students from Fisher College. Together they mentored students - providing practical knowledge and insights into the hospitality industry. Sessions were followed by a reception showcasing industry best practices and recent trends in food and beverage. Hosts for the afternoon included Rob Palleschi, global head, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Mark Fallon, general manager, Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Chris Rule, director of human resources, Hilton Boston Logan Airport. They were joined by Janet Kuser, vice president for academic affairs, Fisher College.

"The ACE internship has been incredible! As a Natural Resource Specialist (NRS) I created an Abandoned (ABD) Well and Final Abandonment Notice (FAN) tracking system for the Oklahoma Field Office, but also traveled throughout Oklahoma inspecting abandoned well sites. This country is beautiful! The biodiversity does not disappoint, and I’ve found myself in a different eco-region every other week or so. After the inspections, I recorded the results in the Automated Fluid Mineral Support System (AFMSS) and proceeded with the appropriate paperwork to advance ABD wells to the next step. I enjoyed learned the “cradle to grave” process of an ABD well, and have found it to be practical knowledge for working in Oklahoma’s oil industry.

This internship opens many doors to its participants. Although I worked with abandoned wells, others are tasked with a variety of jobs. Besides working on my own project, I shadowed a Natural Resource Specialist, NEPA specialist, a Land Law Examiner, an Archaeologist, and a Planning & Environmental Specialist. I think this was really beneficial for me to understand the big picture of what the Tulsa office does and how the BLM system works here. Lastly, I got the opportunity to go on a Wild Horse and Burro tour (see photos below)!

I feel I’ve become a well-rounded NRS. Thank you, ACE!"

-Alicia Autio, BLM New Mexico Intern

The Province is providing over $628,000 to support a two-year pilot project for the viticulture technician diploma program at Okanagan College, developed in partnership with the BC Wine Grape Council.

The diploma is designed to provide hands-on, theoretical and practical knowledge that will allow students to eventually work as part of a vineyard management team. The program is structured around the viticulture growing season, providing opportunities to develop and apply skills like: canopy management, pest control, pruning, training vines and sensory evaluation.

Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017JTST0128-001045

Edgar Smith Yergason was born in the town of Windham on the 10th day of September, 1840. He remained in his native town in attendance upon the district school and at the Pine Grove Seminary in South Windham, until he had fully completed his education, and in 1859 went to Hartford and engaged in service as a clerk with the dry goods firm of Talcott & Post. His connection with the house continued twenty-two years, during which period he acquired a most thorough and practical knowledge of the business in all its branches.

During the presidential campaign of 1860, Mr. Yergason was one of the thirty-six young republicans of Hartford who on the evening of March 7th, organized the original "Wide Awake" club, an organization which spread over the whole country, and undoubtedly elected Abraham Lincoln President of the United States. Mr. Yergason as a young man was an ardent republican and patriot, and at the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he early enlisted and served as a private in Company B, of the Twenty-second regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.

At the expiration of his term of service he returned to the store and remained in the employ of Talcott & Post until the two partners separated in 1880, when he joined the last named gentleman in the formation of the firm of William H. Post & Company, whose extensive establishment in the line of carpets and interior house decorations, in the city of Hartford, has a reputation co-extensive with the country itself. As a professional decorator Mr. Yergason is a gentleman of excellent taste and executive ability, and he personally superintends this entire department of the firm’s extensive business. He has made and executed contracts for the most elaborate decorations in the private residences of the wealthiest citizens of Washington, New York, Brooklyn, Albany, Providence, and other metropolitan cities, - competing for the business with the most noted decorators of New York and Philadelphia.

The recent decoration of the White House at Washington by the firm of Wm. H. Post & Co., under the exclusive management of Mr. Yergason, has been commended by connoisseurs at the capitol as the finest example of artistic taste in the line of interior decoration to be found on the continent. Referring to the effect produced in the "Blue Room" of the executive mansion by Mr. Yergason’s treatment of it, one of the government officials publicly states his belief that "it is to-day the most beautiful room in the world." It is no small compliment to the house of Wm. H. Post & Co. when it is selected to produce the finest possible effects in the dwellings of the wealthiest citizens of the land, and the home of the chief magistrate himself.

Mr. Yergason is an attendant at the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, is a member of Robert O. Tyler Post, G. A. R., and of the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. He married in Hartford Miss Emeline B. Moseley, third daughter of the late D. B. Moseley, who was editor, as well as proprietor and founder, of the Religious Herald, the organ of Connecticut Congregationalists. They have three children.

Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891 Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding Hartford Conn. Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company 1891

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E.S.Yergason donated the 'Cannonball Tree Trunk' which is on display in the Capitol Building in Hartford, Connecticut. This tree is from the Battlefield of Chickamauga, scene of the last major Confederate victory of the American Civil War, on the border between Georgia and Tennessee. Even though half of the participants died in that battle, no one from Connecticut did. In fact, no one from Connecticut was even there; except, apparently, an interior decorator named E.S. Yergason. Strangely, he removed the tree trunk, shipped it a thousand miles, and donated it to the state of Connecticut to “show the horrors of war.” .

My thanks to Stephen Wood at Connecticut Museum Quest for this info: www.ctmuseumquest.com/?page_id=2170

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Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...

Each flower is a masterpiece!

The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.

Comp in camera.

As a photographer, your main tools are:

- you, as a person with a creative mind.

- your eyes, using the visual literacy.

- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).

- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!

- sense and sensibility...

THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)

Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.

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Children of Class 1 had a very interesting activity recently. They were taken by their teachers on a visit to the neighbourhood. The ‘Neighbourhood Walk’ gave them practical knowledge about real life. The activity also helped to foster values like respect for all, keeping places clean and being polite.

They visited Chandan Public Park, The police station, Temple, Shanti Asiatic School, SAL Hospital and even the saw the TV tower. This completed the circuit of facilities present in the school neighbourhood in terms of a park, a police station, a place of worship, a hospital and recreation.

The children were very excited and curious. Their disciplined and polite behaviour during their neighbourhood walk is a lesson for all of us.

Academy of Dental Careers, Inc. was founded by a group of Utah dentists in 1997. The foundation for Academy of Dental Careers is to provide practical hands on training in a nurturing environment that prepares students for the dental field. In 2007 some of the Board Members of Academy of Dental Careers changed and further resources were put into providing the highest standard of education. We are committed to our students and know that our exceptional reputation rests on our ability to effectively prepare them for a lifetime career in Dentistry.

Each team member at Academy of Dental Careers, Inc. offers years of experience, practical knowledge, and are current with the technology being used in dental practices today. They enjoy working with students and are committed to each student’s success.

We are now offering programs in Salt Lake City, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada at the following locations:

Salt Lake City, Utah

Phone: (801) 664-0617

Address: 6783 So. Redwood Rd. Ste. #201, West Jordan, UT 84084

www.dentalcareeracademy.com

Las Vegas, Nevada Campus

Phone: (702) 755-9424

Address: 9500 West Flamingo Rd. Ste. #200, Las Vegas, NV 89147

www.dentalcareeracademy.com

(Las Vegas Campus located at Smile Reef Pediatric Dentistry)

A friend of mine working in London came across a length of the original Ferranti main and let me have piece.

For the 10,000-volt transmission from Deptford, after careful appraisal of available cables with the two forms of dielectric then regarded as the most suitable for high voltage, namely rubber and jute, Ferranti decided on Fowler-Waring jute-insulated concentric-type cable. With the consent of the railway companies these were run along the parapet walls of the track, but there were many breakdowns due to deterioration of the cables and to their susceptibility to catch fire, causing the London Electric Supply Corporation considerable financial loss. The problem was difficult and urgent. What was the point in having generating units with their boilers and auxiliaries ready to run at Deptford if there was no reliable means of getting the current to London? Ferranti decided to make suitable mains himself and chose wax-impregnated paper as the insulating medium. This was not only a startling innovation but a decision of historical importance, being the start of all paper-insulated high voltage cables in the world. The work is described in Ferranti's own words in a letter to his son (Sir) Vincent dated 3 March 1910:

"The sample of main which I sent you was a piece cut from the extra high tension main which I invented in 1888 and of which we made some thirty miles for laying between the Deptford generating station and the various distributing stations in London. The inner conductor consisted of a copper tube, as you will see, and was insulated by means of ordinary brown paper soaked in ozokerite or black earth wax, which was a residue obtained in candle making. The effectiveness of the insulation was the result of the very large number of layers of this wax-coated paper which were interposed between two conductors. The outer copper tube was slipped over the roll of paper and then the whole main was drawn through a die in a heavy tube draw bench and so squeezed very tightly down upon the paper. This made a solid structure from a mechanical point of view and thoroughly protected the paper. The outer conductor was then insulated in the same way and fitted tightly into the outside wrought iron pipe which was used as a means of protection. These mains were made in 20-ft. lengths, and the system of jointing is shown in the accompanying specification. The joint between the inner conductors was effected by pushing a rod up two adjoining ends: the insulation was joined by turning two cones and forcing the cones over each other. The outer conductor and the outer protecting tube were each joined by sleeves which were burnished into position by means of a circular burnishing tool used for rolling parts together. These mains were set to work on 10,000 volts pressure in 1889 and were the first extra high-tension mains which I believe were ever laid underground. Practically all mains are now insulated with layers of paper wound round and round and most high-tension supplies used for transmission to towns are in the neighbourhood of 10,000 volts, there only being a few supplies using underground mains work¬ing on much higher tension. The outer conductor of the Deptford mains was earthed at Deptford so as to ensure that no part with which one could possibly come into contact would be at much of a pressure above the earth. This provision was strenuously opposed by the Board of Trade in the early days, and it was only by actually doing it in London without their permission that I demonstrated that it was the right thing to do, when the regulations were altered, making the earthing of the exterior conductor in concentric mains compulsory—the exact reverse of the previous regulations. It is interesting to note that although these mains were made in a great hurry and with some¬what faulty appliances, and with a great want of knowledge, notwithstanding that, at least half the quantity of mains originally laid down are still supplying London on 10,000 volts today, the remaining portion of these same mains being still in use but working at a lower pressure."

Soon after Ferranti's departure from the London Electric Supply Corporation Ltd in 1891 the directors of the newly-formed British Insulated Wire Company, Prescot, took the opinion of W. H. (later Sir William) Preece, F.R.S, Chief Engineer to the Post Office, as to the value of Ferranti's patents, and received a report in favour of their purchase. At a special meeting of the shareholders it was decided to increase the Company's capital by £50,000, and not only to acquire the patents but also to insure Ferranti's life. On completion of the Agreement for Purchase in August 1891, Ferranti joined the Board and it was soon found that his practical knowledge and experience were of the greatest value. In 1893, as the result of Ferranti's considerable influence with his old company, the British Insulated Wire Company obtained an order from the London Electric Supply Corporation for two 30-yd. experimental lengths of 11 kV flexible paper-insulated cable. Ferranti had envisaged such cables in his patent 2315 of 1888 and when they were made they formed a landmark in the history of cable development, since they were the first flexible paper-insulated cables to be employed at such high voltage anywhere in the world.

The cables proved to be satisfactory on test, and in 1896 fifteen miles of 11kV cable of the 'flat-strip-outer' type, with 0.25 sq. in. conductors, were ordered by the London Electric Supply Corporation for replacements in the Deptford main; where it remained in service for over thirty years.

As part of the Dean’s Business Scholar program, students have been actively involved with a development project in collaboration with the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. Lloyd Clarke, Business Advisor, New York State Small Business Development Center visited students this spring semester to guide them in this joint project.

Lloyd has 21 years of experience as an SBDC business advisor specializing in business and marketing plans. He has conducted many business seminars using motivational techniques that encourage entrepreneurs. His prior experience as plant manager, director of distribution, and terminal manager for Continental Trailways brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his counseling skills.

Lloyd has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Baruch College and several post graduate Certificates in Communications and Multimedia from N.Y.U.

For more information about the Dean's Business Scholars program, contact Gioia Bales, Associate Dean at (516) 463-5703.

The Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving is a four-day training that gives participants the practical knowledge to design and implement a preservation plan for their audiovisual collections. The fourth edition of the Winter School took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision from Tuesday 15 until Friday 18 January 2019.

Alchemical treatises. Manuscript: England, late Fourteenth Century. MS Hunter 110 (T.5.12): Illustrated opening from Albertus Magnus' The Secret of Philosophers (folios 67v - 68r)

The craft of alchemy developed significantly in the Thirteenth Century and it is consequently the subject matter of a large number of surviving late medieval manuscripts. This literature incorporates a spectrum of works, ranging from those dealing with technical metallurgical matters to those couched in mystical language concerning the transmutation of base metals into gold. This manuscript is a compendium of texts. Included are works by the thirteenth century Dominican scholar Albertus Magnus, William de Furnivall’s On the Sublimation of Arsenic, a copy of the Mappae Clavicula, a dictionary of alchemical terms, and anonymous treatises on salt and divination. The opening displayed to the left is from Albertus Magnus’s Straight Path in the Art of Alchemy. It is illustrated with simple diagrams of furnaces, used to ‘sublime’ or distil various substances. The illustrations in alchemical works are often unsophisticated, but nonetheless essential in books that were intended to be used in intensely practical ways.

The first part of Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale provides a fascinating account of the workings of an alchemist’s laboratory with its unending and elusive experimentation. Although Chaucer refers to the craft as a ‘slidynge science’, he takes great delight in listing the strange names of the chemicals and processes, and obviously had some practical knowledge of chemistry.

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