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Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (146 years ago) after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000.
The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a ghost town by 1915 (107 years ago). The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Bodie State Historic Park is partly supported by the Bodie Foundation.
History
Discovery of gold
Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. Bodey died in a blizzard the following November while making a supply trip to Monoville (near present-day Mono City), never getting to see the rise of the town that was named after him. According to area pioneer Judge J. G. McClinton, the district's name was changed from "Bodey," "Body," and a few other phonetic variations, to "Bodie," after a painter in the nearby boomtown of Aurora, lettered a sign "Bodie Stables".
Gold discovered at Bodie coincided with the discovery of silver at nearby Aurora (thought to be in California, later found to be Nevada), and the distant Comstock Lode beneath Virginia City, Nevada. But while these two towns boomed, interest in Bodie remained lackluster. By 1868 only two companies had built stamp mills at Bodie, and both had failed.
Boom
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp comprising a few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately 7,000–10,000 people and around 2,000 buildings. One legend says that in 1880, Bodie was California's second or third largest city, but the U.S. Census of that year disproves this. Over the years 1860-1941 Bodie's mines produced gold and silver valued at an estimated US$34 million (in 1986 dollars, or $85 million in 2021).
Bodie boomed from late 1877 through mid– to late 1880.[19] The first newspaper, The Standard Pioneer Journal of Mono County, published its first edition on October 10, 1877. Starting as a weekly, it soon expanded publication to three times a week. It was also during this time that a telegraph line was built which connected Bodie with Bridgeport and Genoa, Nevada. California and Nevada newspapers predicted Bodie would become the next Comstock Lode. Men from both states were lured to Bodie by the prospect of another bonanza.
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada, by way of Aurora, Wellington and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by armed guards. After the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint there, or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
Districts and amenities
s a bustling gold mining center, Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including a Wells Fargo Bank, four volunteer fire companies, a brass band, railroad, miners' and mechanics' union, several daily newspapers, and a jail. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences.
As with other remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestine, red light district on the north end of town. There is an unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She is credited with giving life-saving care to many, but after she died, was buried outside the cemetery fence.
Bodie had a Chinatown, the main street of which ran at a right angle to Bodie's Main Street. At one point it had several hundred Chinese residents and a Taoist temple. Opium dens were plentiful in this area.
Bodie also had a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary. It is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation to keep the air temperature steady during the cold winters and hot summers. The cemetery includes a Miners Union section, and a cenotaph erected to honor President James A. Garfield. The Bodie Boot Hill was located outside of the official city cemetery.
On Main Street stands the Miners Union Hall, which was the meeting place for labor unions. It also served as an entertainment center that hosted dances, concerts, plays, and school recitals. It now serves as a museum.
Mining town
The first signs of decline appeared in 1880 and became obvious toward the end of the year. Promising mining booms in Butte, Montana; Tombstone, Arizona; and Utah lured men away from Bodie. The get-rich-quick, single miners who came to the town in the 1870s moved on to these other booms, and Bodie developed into a family-oriented community. In 1882 residents built the Methodist Church (which still stands) and the Roman Catholic Church (burned about 1930). Despite the population decline, the mines were flourishing, and in 1881 Bodie's ore production was recorded at a high of $3.1 million. Also in 1881, a narrow-gauge railroad was built called the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company, bringing lumber, cordwood, and mine timbers to the mining district from Mono Mills south of Mono Lake.
During the early 1890s, Bodie enjoyed a short revival from technological advancements in the mines that continued to support the town. In 1890, the recently invented cyanide process promised to recover gold and silver from discarded mill tailings and from low-grade ore bodies that had been passed over. In 1892, the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant approximately 13 miles (20.9 km) away at Dynamo Pond. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower (97 kW) and 3,530 volts alternating current (AC) to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation marked the country's first transmissions of electricity over a long distance.
In 1910, the population was recorded at 698 people, which were predominantly families who decided to stay in Bodie instead of moving on to other prosperous strikes.
Decline
Historical population
Census Pop. %±
18805,417—
1890779−85.6%
190096523.9%
1910698−27.7%
1920110−84.2%
1930228107.3%
194090−60.5%
19500−100.0%
1951-2018 (est.)0
The first signs of an official decline occurred in 1912 with the printing of the last Bodie newspaper, The Bodie Miner. In a 1913 book titled California Tourist Guide and Handbook: Authentic Description of Routes of Travel and Points of Interest in California, the authors, Wells and Aubrey Drury, described Bodie as a "mining town, which is the center of a large mineral region". They referred to two hotels and a railroad operating there.[ In 1913, the Standard Consolidated Mine closed.
Mining profits in 1914 were at a low of $6,821. James S. Cain bought everything from the town lots to the mining claims, and reopened the Standard mill to former employees, which resulted in an over $100,000 profit in 1915. However, this financial growth was not in time to stop the town's decline. In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped.
The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all non-essential gold mines in the United States during World War II. Mining never resumed after the war.
Bodie was first described as a "ghost town" in 1915. In a time when auto travel was on the rise, many travelers reached Bodie via automobiles. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article in 1919 to dispute the "ghost town" label.
By 1920, Bodie's population was recorded by the US Federal Census at a total of 120 people. Despite the decline and a severe fire in the business district in 1932, Bodie had permanent residents through nearly half of the 20th century. A post office operated at Bodie from 1877 to 1942.
Ghost town and park
In the 1940s, the threat of vandalism faced the ghost town. The Cain family, who owned much of the land, hired caretakers to protect and to maintain the town's structures. Martin Gianettoni, one of the last three people living in Bodie in 1943, was a caretaker.
Bodie is now an authentic Wild West ghost town.
The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 the state legislature authorized creation of Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained. Bodie has been named as California's official state gold rush ghost town.
Visitors arrive mainly via SR 270, which runs from US 395 near Bridgeport to the west; the last three miles of it is a dirt road. There is also a road to SR 167 near Mono Lake in the south, but this road is extremely rough, with more than 10 miles of dirt track in a bad state of repair. Due to heavy snowfall, the roads to Bodie are usually closed in winter.
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survived, with about 110 structures still standing, including one of many once operational gold mills. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once was a bustling area of activity. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Littered throughout the park, one can find small shards of china dishes, square nails and an occasional bottle, but removing these items is against the rules of the park.
The California State Parks' ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
In 2009 and again in 2010, Bodie was scheduled to be closed. The California state legislature worked out a budget compromise that enabled the state's Parks Closure Commission to keep it open. As of 2019, the park is still operating, now administered by the Bodie Foundation.
In fiction
Bodie was the setting for the young reader's novel Behind the Masks, by Susan Patron.
Kathleen Haun's historical novel No Trees for Shade (2013) is set in Bodie in 1880.
Key incidents in Chapter One of James Rollins' tenth Sigma Force novel, The Sixth Extinction (2014), span nearby Mono Lake, the secret military testing site neighboring Bodie Park, and the ghost town itself, where terrorists attack a National Park Service Ranger and details unfold about both the area's significance to the rest of the plot.
Bodie is the setting for the Kristiana Gregory book Orphan Runaways (1998).
(Wikipedia)
Bodie ist eine Geisterstadt in Kalifornien östlich der Sierra Nevada an der Grenze zu Nevada in den Vereinigten Staaten. Sie entstand nach 1859 als Goldgräbersiedlung und wurde in den 1930er Jahren aufgegeben. Dank der geringen Luftfeuchtigkeit blieben viele Gebäude, Gerätschaften und Autos relativ gut erhalten. Das Ensemble gilt heute als besterhaltene Geisterstadt der USA.
Aufstieg
William S. Bodey (manche Quellen sprechen auch von Waterman S. Bodey) hatte 1859 in Mono County in der Sierra Nevada, ca. 20 Meilen nördlich des Mono Lake, Gold gefunden. Noch im selben Jahr starb er vermutlich bei einem Schneesturm, nachdem er sich in die nächste Stadt aufgemacht hatte, um neue Materialien und Lebensmittel zu holen. Seine Familie jedoch gründete an dieser Stelle die Stadt Bodie und begann 1861 mit dem Goldabbau. Die geänderte Schreibweise war beabsichtigt, um eine falsche Aussprache als „Body“ (= Leiche) zu vermeiden.
Die Geologie der Region ist geprägt durch Andesit mit großflächigen Brekzie-Gängen mit hohem Silicium-Anteil und schmalen Quarzit-Gängen. In beiden Strukturen ist freies Gold in feinen Anteilen gemischt. Weitere Mineralien sind Pyrit und ein relativ hoher Silber-Anteil. Nachdem die Standard Company, die die Goldmine in Bodie betrieb, 1876 auf eine sehr profitable Goldader gestoßen war, wuchs die Stadt rasant an. Nur vier Jahre später lebten bereits 10.000 Einwohner in Bodie.
Karte der Stadt und der Bergwerksansprüche von 1879
Die Stadt entwickelte sich westlich unterhalb der Hügelkette, in der die Bergwerke entstanden. Das größte Bergwerk wurde von Standard Mines betrieben und unterhielt eine Seilbahn vom Schachtausgang in den Hügeln an den Stadtrand zum firmeneigenen Erzbrecher. In Bodie gab es während dieser Blütezeit der Stadt 65 Saloons entlang der Hauptstraße, zahlreiche Bordelle, ein Chinesenviertel mit einem taoistischen Tempel und einer Opiumhöhle, eine Eisenbahn, mehrere Zeitungen, sieben Brauereien und Kirchen verschiedener Religionen.
Aber auch das Verbrechen hielt Einzug. Morde, Überfälle und Postkutschenraub waren beinahe an der Tagesordnung. Bodie genoss einen schlechten Ruf und galt in dieser Zeit als eine der wildesten und gesetzlosesten Städte des Westens.
Überliefert ist das Zitat eines kleinen Mädchens, das mit seinen Eltern nach Bodie ziehen sollte und in sein Tagebuch schrieb: „Goodbye God, I’m going to Bodie!“ („Auf Wiedersehen Gott, ich ziehe nach Bodie!“).
Die erfolgreichsten Bergbau-Unternehmen in Bodie waren Standard mit $18.000.000, Syndicate mit über $1.000.000, Bodie Tunnel mit über $200.000, Bechtel Cons. mit rund $200.000 und Mono mit $122.000.
Niedergang
Nach wenigen gewinnbringenden Jahren warf die Mine kaum noch Profit ab, auch weil der Goldpreis stark gefallen war und sich der Betrieb so immer weniger lohnte. Der große kalifornische Goldrausch, der 1849 begonnen hatte, war vorüber. Weil Bodie sonst keine Einnahmequellen zu bieten hatte, sank die Bevölkerungszahl in der Folgezeit rapide.
Um die Jahrhundertwende gab es noch einmal einen kleinen Aufschwung, der jedoch den Niedergang nicht aufhalten konnte. 1917 wurde die einzige Eisenbahnlinie demontiert und die Schienen wurden verschrottet. Bodie hatte aber immer noch einige wenige Einwohner bis in die Mitte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
Nach einem Großbrand im Jahre 1932, der zahlreiche Häuser, bis auf die wenigen, bis heute verbliebenen Gebäude, zerstörte, war das Schicksal der Stadt jedoch besiegelt. Das Geschäftsviertel im Stadtzentrum wurde von dem Brand völlig zerstört. Das 1877 eröffnete Postamt schloss 1942.
Die Mine wurde in den folgenden Jahren zunächst noch weiter betrieben; die Arbeiter kamen aus den Nachbarstädten. In den sechziger Jahren wurde dann der Goldabbau vollständig aufgegeben und die Mine geschlossen.
Die gleichnamige Goldgräberstadt Bodie im Okanogan County, (US-Bundesstaat Washington), in der die Bodie Mine betrieben wurde, ereilte das gleiche Schicksal. Von dieser Geisterstadt sind nur noch wenige zerfallene Häuser erhalten.
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Der explosionsartige Aufstieg und der rapide Niedergang von Bodie werden anhand der amtlichen Einwohnerzahlen deutlich, die der Bezirk Mono County regelmäßig erhoben hat:
Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Bodie
1860 2
1876 30
1877 500
1878 1500
1879 7000
1880 10000
1881 3000
1882 2000
1887 1500
1888 500
1890 595
1900 965
1910 698
1920 120
1921 30
1926 50
1932 100
1940 20
1962 10
Bodie State Historic Park
Seit 1962 ist Bodie ein State Park. Es sind noch ungefähr 170 Gebäude vorhanden, die das große Feuer von 1932 verschont hat, u. a. eine Kirche, die Schule, ein Bankgebäude aus Ziegelsteinen, eine Bar, ein Laden und mehrere Wohnhäuser sowie das große Minengebäude.
Viele der Einrichtungsgegenstände stehen noch unverändert da, als hätten die Bewohner den Ort gerade erst verlassen. Auf dem kleinen Friedhof vor der Stadt sind die Grabsteine ehemaliger Bewohner zu sehen. Die Zapfsäulen einer alten Tankstelle sind ebenso noch vorhanden wie ein paar rostende Autowracks aus den 30er Jahren. Einige Gebäude können betreten werden. Für die alte Mine werden Führungen angeboten.
Die Parkverwaltung sorgt für eine behutsame Erhaltung des Originalzustandes. Es ist strengstens untersagt, Dinge aus dem Park mitzunehmen.
National Historic Landmark
Der Bodie Historic District ist seit 4. Juli 1961 ein National Historic Landmark.
California Historical Landmark
Der Rest der Kleinstadt ist ein California Historical Landmark.
Lage und Anfahrt
Die Ortschaft liegt nördlich des Mono Lake an einer etwa 20 Kilometer langen Stichstraße, die zwischen Lee Vining und Bridgeport vom U.S. Highway 395 abzweigt. Für die Erhaltung von Bodie verlangt die Parkverwaltung einen kleinen Betrag von den Besuchern. Da im Bodie State Park keinerlei Geschäfte existieren, wird die Mitnahme von Getränken im Sommer empfohlen.
Die letzten fünf Kilometer der Anfahrt vom Highway 395 nach Bodie sind nicht mehr asphaltiert und führen über eine Schotterstraße. Die Sommer in der Sierra Nevada sind heiß und die Winter sehr kalt mit sehr viel Schnee. Im Winter sind die Zufahrtswege oft so hoch verschneit, dass Bodie nur auf Skiern oder mit Schneemobilen erreichbar ist. Selbst Allradfahrzeuge mit Schneeketten bleiben Jahr für Jahr stecken.
(Wikipedia)
Kerikeri stone store and Kemp House (and surroundings) - 08 October 2013
The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s oldest surviving stone building.
Part of the first Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden store house. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by mason William Parrott, carpenter Ben Nesbitt and a team of Māori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, (though these unfortunately corroded the sandstone). Initially it had a wooden belfry on one side.
The Stone Store was intended to be the base of the Church Missionary Society’s trading post, selling produce from the farms at Te Waimate mission to ships, and European goods to Māori. Marsden planned to build a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this was eventually built at te Waimate instead. Stone was used to protect wheat from rats, for defence against Māori and to reduce the risk of fire.
Stone Store
By the mid-1830s the mission stations could not compete with the private enterprise of other European settlers, either as traders or farmers, and the store was not profitable.
The building was converted into the mission library by Bishop Selwyn in the early 1840s. Following the sacking of Kororareka in the Flagstaff War, it was briefly taken over by Governor George Grey for use as a magazine and barracks. After the cessation of hostilities in 1845, the stone store was leased to become the centre of Kauri gum trading operation, and then in 1863 it was used to house a boys' school. The building was sold to the Kemp family in 1874, and was used as a general store, although it increasingly became a tourist attraction. The Stone Store was purchased from the Kemps by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1975. Conservation work was done in the 1990s. The store, together with the neighbouring Mission House now form a small museum.
The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822[1] as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand’s oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House.
Samuel Marsden established the Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers, who lived in the Bay of Islands under the protection of Hongi Hika, the chief of the local tribe, the Ngapuhi. In November 1819, Marsden purchased 13,000 acres (53 km²) from the Ngapuhi.
Marsden instructed the Reverend John Butler to erect buildings for the mission station under the shelter of the Ngapuhi Pa or fortress of Kororipo at Kerikeri, (Marsden, himself, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika left for Britain). Using Māori and skilled European labour, Butler had completed the centre piece Mission House by 1822, (despite being interrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets, and Kororipo being used as a base for the subsequent Ngapuhi military campaign in the Musket Wars).
Mission House
Butler’s house was a weatherboard clad, two-storey Georgian design with a verandah and two chimneys. It was built primarily from Kauri. At some point in the 1830s, a skilling was added, and the verandah was replaced with an enlarged design in 1843. In the 1920s a bathroom was added behind the kitchen.
Butler was sacked in 1823, and George Clarke occupied the building until the early 1830s, by which time the Ngapuhi had abandoned Kororipo, but the mission station was strong enough to feel no need for protection.
The house was occupied by James and Charlotte Kemp in 1832 and although initially part of an expanded mission presence, (including the Stone Store), it was later purchased by the Kemps, and stayed in that family for 142 years, until Ernest Kemp donated it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976.
The Trust has restored the building to an approximation of its 1843 appearance, (although the verandah was higher, and the roof was not shingled). Together with the Stone Store, the Mission house is now a museum open to the public.
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Some of you may not know this, but I write crossword puzzles as a semi-profitable hobby. Because the market has shrunk, most of my sales are to a publication for librarians, but I take pride in making every puzzle fun and solvable.
AT&T has a "crossword puzzle" game on their site (my.att.net) and it is just atrocious. I've seen computer-generated puzzles with no human interaction before, but usually they're trained a bit better than this!
21-across: Archaic Second Person Singular Past Of Do<hm>1</hm> (DIDST. And yes, the <hm></hm> tags are part of the clue.)
47-across: Lbrary Masters (MSINLS. That would be Master of Science in Library Science. And yes, the clue misspelled "Library".)
14-down: Angles formed by two straight lines in the same plane (PLANEANGLES. Answers should never, ever appear in the clue directly. Unless you're Myles Freaking Callum or Liz Freaking Gorski and you know exactly what you're doing.)
23-across: Professional Military Knowledge (PMK. Not interesting, just stupid.)
3-down: Garboard Strake* (STRAKES. And yes, the asterisk was part of the clue. And no, "Garboard" does not mean "More Than One", which would upgrade this clue to moronic.)
53-down: Grammatical Case Indicating Motion Out Of A Place (ELATIVE. I'd be elated if the person who makes money from this crap were indicating motion out of this galaxy.)
And finally, because there are way too many fish in this barrel:
8-down:
Yes, that's right, there is NO CLUE for 8-down. Which is too bad, because at least "Incorrectly timestamps" or "Wastes of a Friday night?" would be better clues for MISDATES.
If I have a choice between solving puzzles like these or bleeding to death from an abdominal wound, someone please swing a pickaxe at my pupik.
Select from photos in this album to create a slide show to convince local businesses that serving people with disabilities is profitable.
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One of the most frequent questions asked by advocates and industry alike is “what is the value of the inclusive tourism market?”. There are surprisingly few studies that have examined this question. Below is an updated extract from an article that presents a summary economic estimate studies (Darcy & Dickson, 2009).
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This panel explored different investment opportunities and learnt why all foreign investors agree that Bosnia and Herzegovina is an attractive opportunity that cannot be missed. The country’s strategic geographic position, investor-friendly legal environment, favourable trade agreements, competitive tax and customs systems, low operating costs, and talented people make it a destination full of potential for profitable investments.
In his welcoming speech, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Denis Zvizdić introduced the country’s great investment potential. He was followed by Sir Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD President, who described some of the Bank’s wide-ranging activities to promote sustainable growth and innovation in the Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to encourage potential and existing investors to the country, and so is at the disposal of investors at every phase of their projects; from starting a business and selecting a location, to networking with relevant institutions and stakeholders, implementing the project and expanding business.
This special session focused on specific areas in which Bosnia and Herzegovina has enormous investment potential. Boosted by planned strategic investments, these focus areas can yield high profits and generate overall economic growth. Areas of specific interest include the energy sector, metal processing and automotive industry, furniture manufacturing, food processing, the tourism industry, and IT sector.
The audience heard success stories about private sector initiatives, and how abundant resources can be turned into profitable investment projects with the potential for further growth. Specific examples include:
- Bit Alliance, an association of 58 major IT companies with more than 2800 experts.
- Olympic Centre Jahorina, host of Winter Olympic Games in 1984 and Youth Olympic Games in 2019, recognised as the most promising winter resort in the Western Balkans region.
- Prevent Group, the largest private sector company in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a global contract manufacturer with strong sales and logistics expertise.
- MS&Wood, a design-oriented solid wood manufacturer which has won awards at many international fairs.
- Mljekara Livno (Livno Diary), the brand owner of “Livanjski cheese”, a high-fat solid cheese with a specific flavour that is widely recognised as a top quality product.
Moderator
Charlotte Ruhe
Managing Director, Central & South Eastern Europe, EBRD
Keynote
Suma Chakrabarti
President, EBRD
Denis Zvizdić
Chairman, Council of Ministers of BiH
Speakers
Edin Deljkic
President, Bit Alliance
Igor Gordic
Representative, Olympic Centre Jahorina
Almir Jazvin
Member of Supervisory Board, Prevent Group
Zdravko Markov
Commercial Manager, Mljekara Livno
Dino Osmanbegovic
Advisor to the Management Board, MS&WOOD d.o.o.
Doing business in Africa can be profitable and risky at the same time. Small or big businessman, he/she will only become successful only if he will learn/undergo coaching and mentoring. The bigger the business is, the bigger the loss. The loss and gain of one's business depends on their sizes. But with expert management, some things may turn around. Small business will earn a lot and big businesses will sink big time.
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About a year ago Renault was considering launching a luxury sub-brand to help it improve the profitability of its models and tap into the strong demand for premium autos in major markets, particularly China. At the Frankfurt Auto Show this week, we got our first taste of Renault’s new luxury sub-brand in the form of the Initiale Paris concept.
Initiale Paris is the name Renault will use for its future upmarket range, similar to how fellow French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën uses the DS name for its own premium offerings. However, while DS-branded cars are typically standalone models, Initiale Paris will be a range-topping trim for regular Renault models, at least initially. In fact, the Initiale Paris concept is a preview of Renault’s next-generation Espace MPV.
Luxury comes in the form of premium materials, such as aluminum and fine woods, but also from chrome detailing, a two-tone exterior hue, LED headlights, a floating center console in the cabin and an advanced user interface. The vehicle also sports a custom Bose sound system with 32 speakers!
Power comes from a 1.6-liter turbodiesel engine, which is mated to a six-speed dual-clutch transmission and drives the front wheels. Renault is exploring two new directions with the engine: twin-turbocharging technology and shift-by-wire technology for the gearbox. The latter has allowed designers to make the gearstick slimmer and the floating center console now has no cables to conceal.
A further highlight of the engine used for the Initiale Paris concept is the use of optimized steel pistons to reduce friction. Steel pistons dilate less than aluminum pistons, resulting in enhanced piston-to-cylinder wall clearances at high temperatures. Lower friction between pistons and cylinder walls means lower fuel consumption. And to keep them light, the steel pistons are hollowed out. The design is exactly the same as that used in Renault’s Formula One engine.
The first Initiale Paris-branded model is due in 2015.
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Kerikeri stone store and Kemp House (and surroundings) - 08 October 2013
The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s oldest surviving stone building.
Part of the first Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden store house. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by mason William Parrott, carpenter Ben Nesbitt and a team of Māori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, (though these unfortunately corroded the sandstone). Initially it had a wooden belfry on one side.
The Stone Store was intended to be the base of the Church Missionary Society’s trading post, selling produce from the farms at Te Waimate mission to ships, and European goods to Māori. Marsden planned to build a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this was eventually built at te Waimate instead. Stone was used to protect wheat from rats, for defence against Māori and to reduce the risk of fire.
Stone Store
By the mid-1830s the mission stations could not compete with the private enterprise of other European settlers, either as traders or farmers, and the store was not profitable.
The building was converted into the mission library by Bishop Selwyn in the early 1840s. Following the sacking of Kororareka in the Flagstaff War, it was briefly taken over by Governor George Grey for use as a magazine and barracks. After the cessation of hostilities in 1845, the stone store was leased to become the centre of Kauri gum trading operation, and then in 1863 it was used to house a boys' school. The building was sold to the Kemp family in 1874, and was used as a general store, although it increasingly became a tourist attraction. The Stone Store was purchased from the Kemps by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1975. Conservation work was done in the 1990s. The store, together with the neighbouring Mission House now form a small museum.
The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822[1] as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand’s oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House.
Samuel Marsden established the Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers, who lived in the Bay of Islands under the protection of Hongi Hika, the chief of the local tribe, the Ngapuhi. In November 1819, Marsden purchased 13,000 acres (53 km²) from the Ngapuhi.
Marsden instructed the Reverend John Butler to erect buildings for the mission station under the shelter of the Ngapuhi Pa or fortress of Kororipo at Kerikeri, (Marsden, himself, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika left for Britain). Using Māori and skilled European labour, Butler had completed the centre piece Mission House by 1822, (despite being interrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets, and Kororipo being used as a base for the subsequent Ngapuhi military campaign in the Musket Wars).
Mission House
Butler’s house was a weatherboard clad, two-storey Georgian design with a verandah and two chimneys. It was built primarily from Kauri. At some point in the 1830s, a skilling was added, and the verandah was replaced with an enlarged design in 1843. In the 1920s a bathroom was added behind the kitchen.
Butler was sacked in 1823, and George Clarke occupied the building until the early 1830s, by which time the Ngapuhi had abandoned Kororipo, but the mission station was strong enough to feel no need for protection.
The house was occupied by James and Charlotte Kemp in 1832 and although initially part of an expanded mission presence, (including the Stone Store), it was later purchased by the Kemps, and stayed in that family for 142 years, until Ernest Kemp donated it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976.
The Trust has restored the building to an approximation of its 1843 appearance, (although the verandah was higher, and the roof was not shingled). Together with the Stone Store, the Mission house is now a museum open to the public.
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The 1985 Transport Act required deregulation of local bus services outside London and allowed any operator to register any bus service that it believed could be operated profitably. Additionally, local authorities that ran their own bus services were required to create arms length bus operating companies. Deregulation Day was to be Sunday 26 October 1986 and operators were required to register the services they intended to operate commercially by 27 March 1986.
Rossendale Borough Council set up its arms length company, Rossendale Transport Limited, from 27 March 1986 which registered a commercial network of mostly Monday to Saturday services including a new route between Bacup and Rochdale in competition with GM Buses Limited. GM Buses was awarded contracts by Lancashire County Council to run many of the evening and Sunday services in the Borough of Rossendale. Rossendale Transport's tender to run the Bacup to Todmorden service was successful and it was also awarded Greater Manchester PTE contracts to run services in Rochdale.
A fleet of fifty buses and coaches was transferred to Rossendale Transport Ltd on 26 October 1986 which included three Leyland Atlanteans (175/6/9) that had been acquired from Hyndburn Transport on 21 October:
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Financial District, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The Bennett Building, constructed in 1872-73 and enlarged in 1890-92 and 1894, is a major monument to the art of cast-iron architecture. Ten stories high with three fully designed facades fronting Fulton, Nassau, and Ann Streets, it has been described as the tallest habitable building with cast-iron facades ever built. Commissioned as a real estate investment by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the publisher of the New York Herald newspaper, the Bennett Building was originally a six-story French Second Empire structure.
Designed by the prominent architect Arthur D. Gilman, whose Boston City Hall was instrumental in popularizing the Second Empire style in America, the Bennett Building appears to be the architect's only extant work in the style in New York. Gilman was also an important pioneer in the development of the office building, and the Bennett Building is the sole survivor among the major office buildings he designed. Second Empire office buildings flourished in Lower Manhattan after the Civil War; this is one of two such buildings with cast-iron fronts still standing south of Canal Street. In 1889, the Bennett Building was acquired by John Pettit, a leading real estate investor who commissioned architect James M. Farnsworth to enlarge the building to its present size. Farnsworth replicated the Gilman's richly textured, ornate design, including the distinctive curving corners linking the facades and the crisply articulated details that are particularly well suited to the medium of cast iron.
The James Gordon Bennett. Jr. and the New York Herald
Founded in 1835 by James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795-1872), the New York Herald was "the most interesting, entertaining, and popular newspaper in [mid-nineteenth-century] America" — and the most profitable.2 Written in a straightforward manner atypical of the period, the Herald was noted for its unprecedented emphasis on local news.
It maintained an extensive network of reporters and correspondents in the chief European and American cities and kept a fleet of dispatch boats to intercept steamers bringing the latest news from Europe. It was the first paper in America to employ a corps of reporters to cover Congress; the first to make extensive use of stenography to print verbatim reports of interviews and political speeches; the first to treat the arts, sports, and religion as news; the first to print a regular column analyzing financial trends; the first to make extensive use of the telegraph; and the first to remain completely independent of any political party.
Its war coverage was unparalleled: during the Mexican War the paper initiated an overland express route that made it the nation's prime source of news from the Texas frontier, and during the Civil War its sixty-three correspondents reported on every aspect of the war. The Herald also devoted considerable coverage to society news and sensational crimes, laying the foundation for such popular publications as Joseph Pulitzer's World later in the century.
In April 1867, the management of the Herald passed to the founder's only son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Bora in New York in 1841, the younger Bennett had been raised largely in Europe and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique. He returned to the United States in 1861 to serve in the Union navy and, following his military service, began training at the Herald. In 1867, with financial support from his father, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., began publishing the Evening Telegram, a light journal featuring gossip and entertainment news.
On January 1, 1868, he assumed complete stewardship of the Herald as the paper's editor and publisher. Under James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the Herald became noted for its excellent coverage of foreign events and for sponsorship of expeditions to exotic locales, such as reporter Henry M. Stanley's search for Dr. David Livingstone in Africa in 1871. In the 1880s Bennett established London and Paris editions of the Herald; the Paris edition continues today as the International Herald Tribune.
In addition to his newspaper interests, Bennett derived a large income from the Commercial Cable Company, an international telegraph company, which he established in 1883 in partnership with John A. Mackay.4 Including the considerable real estate he inherited from his parents, it is estimated that Bennett made and spent over $30,000,000 from his various enterprises. He died in his villa in Beaulieu, France, in 1918. After Bennett's death the New York Herald, Evening Telegram, and Paris edition of the Herald were sold to publisher Frank Munsey.
The Downtown Office District and the Bennett Building
In 1842, after moving the Herald several times, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., acquired a new building at the northwest corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets, in the heart of the newspaper and printing district that was growing up around Nassau Street.
(That same year Bennett's chief competitor, Moses Beach, moved the Sun to a new building on the southwest corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets). As the newspaper grew, Bennett purchased additional buildings on Fulton, Nassau, and Ann Streets until he owned all the property encompassing 135-139 Fulton Street, 93-99 Nassau Street, and 30-34 Ann Street. However, by the mid-1860s the paper had outgrown these quarters.
In 1865, after a fire destroyed Barnum's Museum at Broadway and Ann Street on the opposite end of the block from the paper, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., acquired the property and erected a new fireproof headquarters for the Herald, designed by Kellum & Son, that was "the most modern and costly newspaper building in New York."
The five-story Herald Building (1865-67, demolished) and the adjacent National Park Bank Building at Broadway and Fulton Streets (Griffith Thomas, 1866-67, demolished) were among the earliest harbingers of the movement to replace the older downtown office buildings, "which were little more than private houses on a large scale, [with] modern specialized structures."
The post-war buildings usually incorporated elevators and employed the most up-to-date building techniques which made possible the construction of taller, more fire-resistant (often termed "fireproof') buildings.
The majority were designed in the then fashionable Second Empire style, characterized by its use of French Renaissance ornament and mansard roofs. The most notable of these new buildings was Arthur Gilman, Edward Kendall, and George B. Post's Equitable Building (1868-72) at Broadway and Cedar Streets, which many scholars regard as the first skyscraper." Other Second Empire style office buildings included Griffith Thomas's Kemp Building (1870) at William and Cedar Streets, Alfred B. Mullett's Post Office Building (which also housed courts and offices) at City Hall Park (1868-75), and
Henry Fernbach's Staats-Zeitung Building (1870-73) at Chatham Street and Tryon Row.
By the 1870s Nassau Street was one of the busiest office streets in the city. In June 1872, a few days after his father's death, the younger Bennett had the noted architect Arthur D. Gilman file plans for the Bennett Building, to be built on the former Herald Building site. It was to be a mansarded, cast-iron-fronted, elevator building which was to have six stories of offices above a street-level basement."
According to an advertisement which appeared several times in the Herald in 1873, the elevated floor above the basement was designed to house a bank or insurance company offices while the street-level basement offices were "especially adapted to insurance, money brokers, merchants, lawyers, large law firms businesses where security from fire to legal documents is a desideratum." The building was ready for occupancy by May 1873.13
Cast-iron Office Buildings and the Design of the Bennett Building
Today the Bennett Building is notable as one of the few remaining post-Civil War office buildings in Lower Manhattan and as one of only two cast-iron-fronted office buildings south of Canal Street from the period. Cast iron had been adopted by the architectural profession and began to reflect the Italianate style prevalent among commercial buildings in the 1850s. New York examples included the Cary Building (King & Kellum, 1856-57) at 105-107 Chambers Street, and the Haughwout Store (John Gaynor, 1856) at 488 Broadway, both designated New York City Landmarks.
These buildings, as well as most other Italianate cast-iron buildings in New York, were used for mercantile purposes.
In the late 1860s and early 1870s, cast-iron buildings began to be executed in the recently imported Second Empire style. In addition to mercantile buildings like the Lord & Taylor store (James H. Giles, 1869) at 901 Broadway, a designated New York City Landmark, the style also appeared in other prestigious building such as hotels (Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway, Stephen Decatur Hatch, 1869-71, a designated New York City Landmark), and exchanges (Real Estate Exchange, 59-65 Liberty Street, architect undetermined, c. 1875, demolished). Office buildings in the style included the Bennett Building, Kemp Building, Seaman's Bank for Savings Building at 74-76 Wall Street (R.G. Hatfield, 1870, demolished), and the New York Life Insurance Company Building at 346 Broadway (Griffith Thomas, 1870, demolished).
Today the only survivors among the Second Empire style cast-iron office buildings that once flourished in
Lower Manhattan are the Bennett Building and the 287 Broadway Building, a small cast-iron-fronted office building designed in a combination of the Italianate and Second Empire styles by John B. Snook in 1871-72 (a designated New York City Landmark).
Described soon after its completion as "one of the most substantial and beautiful [buildings] in the city," the Bennett Building is distinguished by its richly textured, ornate design and its inventive, crisply articulated detailing.
The building has three fully designed cast-iron facades fronting on Fulton, Nassau, and Ann Streets and was originally crowned by a towered mansard. Corner pavilions framed the facades which are articulated with paneled pilasters, cornices, and segmental arch window openings above a rusticated basement story (now completely concealed by shopfronts).
Columns and entablatures (originally capped by arched pediments) frame the four first-story office entrances, two on Nassau and one each on Fulton and Ann Street. The deeply recessed windows are capped by molded labels and framed by paneled pilasters with boldly modeled consoles and paneled dosserets used in place of conventional capitals.
Gilman's free treatment of the orders, which adds greatly to the plasticity of the facade, is unlike anything he attempted in his Second Empire masonry designs, and is particularly well suited to the medium of cast iron. Other notable features of Gilman's design include the sensitive handling of the rounded corners which link the facades and treatment of the horizontal cornices which contribute to the rich shadow patterns that give the facade character.
Arthur D. Gilman
The architect of the Bennett Building, Arthur Delavan Gilman (1821-1882), was an important architectural theorist and designer who played a significant role in the early development of the skyscraper and the popularization of the Second Empire style in America. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Gilman rose to prominence in 1844 with a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston (later published in the North American Review) which provided an important critical basis for the American adoption of the Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival styles as exemplified in the work of the English architects Charles Barry and Augustus W.N. Pugin.
After a trip to Europe during which he spent some time studying architecture in England, Gilman began practicing architecture in Boston and was for a time associated with Edward C. Cabot. His early work consisted primarily of churches, notably the
Arlington Street Church, Boston (1859-61), one of the earliest American buildings to consciously evoke the country's Colonial heritage.
In the 1850s Gilman was influenced by French academic design theories. Second Empire Paris was the model for his plan of Boston's Back Bay (1856), "where his spacious mansions set new standards of style."
From 1859 to 1866. Gilman worked in partnership with Gridley J. Bryant; their designs for Boston City Hall (1862-65), Boston City Hospital (1861-64, demolished), and Horticultural Hall (1865, demolished) have been credited with popularizing the Second Empire mode in the United States. In 1866 Gilman moved to New York, where, working first with Edward Hale Kendall and later with Thomas C. Fuller, he had a influential role in the design of the New York State Capitol building.
In addition to his trend-setting Equitable Building and the Bennett Building, Gilman also designed impressive Second Empire office buildings in Boston for the Equitable Life Assurance Company (1873, demolished) and in New York for Drexel, Morgan & Co. (the Drexel Building, 1872, demolished). A resident of Staten Island during his years in New York, Gilman designed the handsome Gothic Revival St. John's (Episcopal) Church on Bay Street in Clifton, Staten Island (1869-71), a designated New York City Landmark.
The 1890s Addition In 1882, the Real Estate Record & Guide noted that Mr. Bennett had been "a little too previous" in his erection of the Bennett Building, which had been built "when prices were at their highest," immediately prior to the Panic of 1873. By the time economic conditions had improved, a number of new office buildings, notably the Tribune Building, the Morse Building (1880-81, 1889-90), and Temple Court (1879-80), had been erected which were "nearer the law courts, and better for lawyers and public offices, while Ann and Fulton Street [had proven to be too far] for the exchange or brokerage business of Wall street and below."
By 1889, the building had become "run down," and its mechanical systems (especially the elevators) were out-moded. In October 1889, Bennett sold the Bennett Building to John Pettit, a prominent builder and real estate developer.
The following year Bennett commissioned McKim, Mead & White to design a new building (1892-95, demolished) for the Herald at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Broadway at West 35th Street, in the midst of the theater district.
Pettit had been involved in building and improvement in the business district since the 1870s and had erected "over one hundred and fifty of the best class of commercial buildings."
As a realtor Pettit specialized in converting old stores, factories, and warehouses in the downtown district into modern office buildings. Almost invariably these projects were designed and supervised by James Farnsworth, a specialist in business building design who had designed Temple Court and the Morse Building in partnership with Benjamin Silliman during the 1880s.
At the Bennett Building, Farnsworth renovated the interiors, installed new plumbing and mechanical systems, removed the mansard roof, reconstructed the seventh story and added three full stories and a two-story masonry penthouse, raising the building to ten full stories plus the penthouse.
The exterior of the addition was faced with cast iron which replicated the articulation of the lower stories. When it was completed in 1892, the building had 600 offices and counted among its tenants a congressman, bankers, manufacturers, architects, publishers, and a branch of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company.
J.M. Farnsworth had his offices at the Bennett Building in 1892-97.
Two years after this alteration was completed, Pettit acquired the adjoining lot at 28 Ann Street where he had Farnsworth construct a twenty-five-foot-wide, eleven-story (ten-story plus basement) addition to the Bennett Building.
This addition had a three-bay-wide cast-iron front which replicated the design of the older portions of the building with some slight changes of detail. Although cast iron was less commonly used as a facade material in the 1890s than it had been in the 1870s and early 1880s, it continued to be used in New York until the early 1900s, especially for additions to pre-existing buildings.
The Bennett Building is remarkable in its use of two bearing wall cast-iron fronts along Fulton and Ann Streets and a non-bearing wall cast-iron front on Nassau Street which extend to a height of ten and eleven stories. According to Donald Friedman, a structural engineer who is the author of Historical Building Construction:
Cast iron was usually used for a single non-bearing wall, and occasionally for one non-bearing wall and one bearing wall, as in the Haughwout Building. The original design [of the Bennett Building] was six stories and an additional seventh story within a mansard roof. Most cast iron front buildings are five or six stories. The 1890s enlargement, which removed the mansard and continues the cast iron facades up to a tenth floor, makes the Bennett Building probably the tallest occupiable building with cast iron facades ever built.
Later History
In 1898, during the height of a financial depression which gravely impacted on the real estate market and building trades, John Pettit disappeared from Manhattan. After several years of litigation, his creditors finally foreclosed on the Bennett Building, which was acquired by George B. Wilson in 1906.
Wilson's family continued to own the building through the 1940s, by which time it was being used for manufacturing as well as for offices and stores. In 1949 the property passed to Jackadel Associates, who undertook a number of alterations to bring the building up to code, notably moving the south entrance on Nassau Street to the basement (street) level, closing the north Nassau Street entrance, and moving the Ann Street entrance to basement level.
In 1951 the Dorlen Realty Company acquired the building. Dorlen held the property until 1983, when it was acquired by the Haddad & Sons Limited. The Haddads undertook a number of alterations, including moving the building's main entrance from Nassau Street to Fulton Street, replacing the second-story windows, introducing new storefronts on Fulton Street and the south end of the Nassau Street front, and erecting a new canopy with signage for the stores extending along all three fronts. ENT International Realty, Inc. acquired the Bennett Building in 1995.
Description
The Bennett Building is located on an slightly irregular L-shaped lot which extends seventy-five feet along Fulton Street, 117 feet along Nassau Street, and 100 feet along Ann Street. A narrow light court rises above the first story on the west side of the building. The lower six stories (erected in 1872-73) were built with bearing wall construction on Fulton and Ann Streets; the top four stories and two-story penthouse (constructed in 1890-92) were erected with cage construction, as was the twenty-five-feet wide, eleven-story extension erected on the western end of the Ann Street facade in 1894.
Fully designed cast-iron facades were used for the street fronts; the western side walls and penthouse are faced with brick. The designs of the later portions of the building replicated the earlier articulation, but the windows are slightly wider and the decoration slightly more florid on the 1894 extension.
Base
The ground story of the Bennett Building was originally treated as a high basement with rusticated cast-iron piers separating the bays filled with shopfronts. In the 1980s the storefronts on Nassau Street and Fulton Street were brought forward about two feet and the original piers were enclosed (and are no longer visible) within the stores; on Ann Street the facade remains flush with the original street wall, but the original shopfront infill has been replaced and the piers and lintels are completely concealed with facing materials.
In the 1980s the main entrance to the building was moved to the third bay (reading west to east) of the Fulton Street facade. The freight entrance is in the third bay (reading west to east) of the Ann Street facade. In the 1980s the street-level entrance in the third bay (reading south to north) of the Nassau Street facade was modified to provide access to a stairwell leading to a second-story retail space.
Upper Stories
Above the commercial base, the Bennett Building's Second Empire facades are articulated with paneled pilasters, molded cornices, and arched window and door frames. Large paneled pilasters and projecting cornices accent the rounded corners which link the facades and the original entrance bays on the second story (originally the first story) at the western corner of the Fulton Street and fourth bay of the Ann Street facade and the third and tenth bay (reading south to north) of the Nassau Street facade.
The entrances are framed by projecting columns and entablatures. (On Ann Street the column bases have been removed and the columns are supported on steel brackets).
On Nassau Street the entrance bays retain their original arched cast-iron surrounds with Corinthian columns flanking the doors. No original entrance doors survive; these would have been recessed behind the wall plane. The third bay on Nassau Street contains a single plate glass window to permit light to enter the stairwell. The other second-story entrances have been enclosed and contain rectangular windows set in wood surrounds.
The segmental-arch window frames on the upper stories are capped by molded labels and framed by paneled pilasters with boldly modeled consoles and paneled dosserets used in place of conventional capitals. In the 1980s the original transoms and sash were removed from the tall second-story window openings which currently contain single-pane show windows set in wood surrounds. Above the second story, the building retains its deeply recessed two-over-two wood sash.
The building is crowned by a dentiled entablature surmounted by an openwork parapet.
The 1894 Ann Street Addition
The iron facade of the three-bay-wide 1894 extension is almost identical in design to the older portions of the building except that the second-story windows are trabeated, the molded brackets incorporate floral motifs which extend as pendants onto the paneled pilasters, and escutcheon-shaped tie bolts are used in place of projecting cornices on the corner piers.
Side walls
The western elevations of the building incorporate a light court and are faced with brick which has been painted a cream color. The wall of the Ann Street addition and the walls facing the light court have window openings with two-over-two sash.
A portion of the wall adjacent to the Fulton Street facade has been given a trompe 1'oeil treatment to imitate two bays of the cast-iron architectural detail on that facade.
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Kerikeri stone store and Kemp House (and surroundings) - 08 October 2013
The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s oldest surviving stone building.
Part of the first Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden store house. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by mason William Parrott, carpenter Ben Nesbitt and a team of Māori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, (though these unfortunately corroded the sandstone). Initially it had a wooden belfry on one side.
The Stone Store was intended to be the base of the Church Missionary Society’s trading post, selling produce from the farms at Te Waimate mission to ships, and European goods to Māori. Marsden planned to build a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this was eventually built at te Waimate instead. Stone was used to protect wheat from rats, for defence against Māori and to reduce the risk of fire.
Stone Store
By the mid-1830s the mission stations could not compete with the private enterprise of other European settlers, either as traders or farmers, and the store was not profitable.
The building was converted into the mission library by Bishop Selwyn in the early 1840s. Following the sacking of Kororareka in the Flagstaff War, it was briefly taken over by Governor George Grey for use as a magazine and barracks. After the cessation of hostilities in 1845, the stone store was leased to become the centre of Kauri gum trading operation, and then in 1863 it was used to house a boys' school. The building was sold to the Kemp family in 1874, and was used as a general store, although it increasingly became a tourist attraction. The Stone Store was purchased from the Kemps by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1975. Conservation work was done in the 1990s. The store, together with the neighbouring Mission House now form a small museum.
The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822[1] as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand’s oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House.
Samuel Marsden established the Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers, who lived in the Bay of Islands under the protection of Hongi Hika, the chief of the local tribe, the Ngapuhi. In November 1819, Marsden purchased 13,000 acres (53 km²) from the Ngapuhi.
Marsden instructed the Reverend John Butler to erect buildings for the mission station under the shelter of the Ngapuhi Pa or fortress of Kororipo at Kerikeri, (Marsden, himself, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika left for Britain). Using Māori and skilled European labour, Butler had completed the centre piece Mission House by 1822, (despite being interrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets, and Kororipo being used as a base for the subsequent Ngapuhi military campaign in the Musket Wars).
Mission House
Butler’s house was a weatherboard clad, two-storey Georgian design with a verandah and two chimneys. It was built primarily from Kauri. At some point in the 1830s, a skilling was added, and the verandah was replaced with an enlarged design in 1843. In the 1920s a bathroom was added behind the kitchen.
Butler was sacked in 1823, and George Clarke occupied the building until the early 1830s, by which time the Ngapuhi had abandoned Kororipo, but the mission station was strong enough to feel no need for protection.
The house was occupied by James and Charlotte Kemp in 1832 and although initially part of an expanded mission presence, (including the Stone Store), it was later purchased by the Kemps, and stayed in that family for 142 years, until Ernest Kemp donated it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976.
The Trust has restored the building to an approximation of its 1843 appearance, (although the verandah was higher, and the roof was not shingled). Together with the Stone Store, the Mission house is now a museum open to the public.
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Disabled Army veteran, new farmer and owner-operator of Prado Recreation Inc. Ruben Llamas, leases more than 585 acres from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where his family and employees farm more than half of that and maintain the rest as a dog training facility, where the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Natural Resources and Conservation Service NRCS has helped him improve the health of the land and the profitability of the farm with the replacement of six new tractors, a loader, and technical assistance in the basin of the Prado Dam area, in Chino, CA, on Oct. 21, 2022. The facility is 36 miles east of Los Angeles, 11 miles south of Ontario, in what is known as the Inland Empire.
Sergeant Llamas served in the U.S. Army for 13 years as a Combat Engineer and a Scout. He was assigned to the U.S. Army 578th Brigade Engineer Battalion and the California Army National Guard 18th Calvery Regiment. He and his wife have six children; two are serving in the U.S. Army, one in the U.S. Coast Guard, and one is considering enlisting herself.
The basin’s range of environments and topography supports a wide variety of training grounds for sporting dogs, rescue tracking dogs, obedience training, and the ability to provide kennel facilities and the maintenance of waterfowl habitats and outdoor recreation areas. The farm fields of grasses and natural meadows provide nesting. Their seeds feed migrating birds near a hunting club and the broader wetlands. Hunting dog trainers use the forests, fields, meadows, ponds, and islands to train dogs to find game birds for hunters.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers controls the approximately 4,500-acres Prado Dam area. Their lease is for more than 500 acres near the dam and Highway 71.
They purchased the business 16 years ago. The land ranges from farm fields to wetlands and woodlands. Three counties with about 15 million people surround the area.
The farm produces alfalfa, corn, and other forage crops for silage sold to local dairies. Winter crops are wheat, winter wheat, oats, and ryegrass. In the summer, they grow sorghum, corn, milo, and various types of grass. All the fields at different stages of growth are used for hunting dog training, as it provides cover for waterfowl and challenges to rescue dogs in training.
Ruben Llamas is a new farmer who wants to be as profitable as possible and develop his best practices. To help him, Llamas discovered the USDA Natural Resources and Conservation Service online at usda.gov. He called the nearest NRCS Field Office in Redlands, CA. District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos answered the phone and immediately helped him with the information and ways to begin networking. To better understand Llamas’s farm and conservation needs Campos went to see him at the farm in the Prado Dam basin. Llamas was hesitant to provide information to the government and work with them but decided to try it. He now compares his experience with USDA to be similar to a bank customer and their banker.
The business came with 40-year-old tractors that were unreliable, produced higher emissions, and were expensive to maintain. Thanks to the USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP and the USDA assistance with the application process, he qualified for the replacement of six tractors and a loader. Now, there is no problem operating any of them at any time. The robust and reliable equipment accomplishes twice the work in half the time and does it with 30 percent less fuel, says Llamas.
NRCS EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to producers to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits such as improved water and air quality, conserved ground and surface water, increased soil health and reduced soil erosion and sedimentation, improved or created wildlife habitat, and mitigation against drought and increasing weather volatility.
Equally as old were the irrigation systems. So, next, the pump and mainline, and distribution pipe needed improvement. To test the system Tomas and another specialist came to test the irrigation system. He recommended larger lines and a smaller pump for lower energy costs and better efficiency.
“The field representative, they’re always there, ready to help, says Llamas. With whatever question I have, they will help me.”
During the winter, the lower wetlands and farm fields become flooded with rainwater. The water attracts local and migratory birds. They come to eat, rest and leave the soil richer from their time there.
In the lowest field, seasonal flooding made it difficult to farm. Aguilar-Campos responded by asking a USDA soil specialist to examine the land. Compost was the recommendation, resulting in consistent farming and increased yields.
Because of the varying soils, Aguilar-Campos had a soil analysis performed. It showed that composting would help. The compost revitalized the soil to the point that certain crops needed 30 percent less water, and corn required 18 percent less water. Another result is that weed suppression has improved, so chemical use is down from an already sparing use.
Ruben Llamas says, “It’s been a really great relationship. I mean, I got seven pieces of equipment, so it’s been really, really good.”
For more information about EQIP, go to nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/eqip-environmental-quality-incentives
For more information about NRCS Conservation Practice 533 Pumping Plant please see efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/api/CPSFile/14941/533_NC_CPS_Pumping_Plant_2011
For more information about NRCS Conservation Practice 430, Irrigation Pipe, please see nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Irrigation_Pipeline_430_Overview_9_2020.pdf
For more information about NRCS Conservation Practice 443 Irrigation System please see nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Irrigation_System_Surface_And_Subsurface_443_Overview.pdf
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About a year ago Renault was considering launching a luxury sub-brand to help it improve the profitability of its models and tap into the strong demand for premium autos in major markets, particularly China. At the Frankfurt Auto Show this week, we got our first taste of Renault’s new luxury sub-brand in the form of the Initiale Paris concept.
Initiale Paris is the name Renault will use for its future upmarket range, similar to how fellow French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën uses the DS name for its own premium offerings. However, while DS-branded cars are typically standalone models, Initiale Paris will be a range-topping trim for regular Renault models, at least initially. In fact, the Initiale Paris concept is a preview of Renault’s next-generation Espace MPV.
Luxury comes in the form of premium materials, such as aluminum and fine woods, but also from chrome detailing, a two-tone exterior hue, LED headlights, a floating center console in the cabin and an advanced user interface. The vehicle also sports a custom Bose sound system with 32 speakers!
Power comes from a 1.6-liter turbodiesel engine, which is mated to a six-speed dual-clutch transmission and drives the front wheels. Renault is exploring two new directions with the engine: twin-turbocharging technology and shift-by-wire technology for the gearbox. The latter has allowed designers to make the gearstick slimmer and the floating center console now has no cables to conceal.
A further highlight of the engine used for the Initiale Paris concept is the use of optimized steel pistons to reduce friction. Steel pistons dilate less than aluminum pistons, resulting in enhanced piston-to-cylinder wall clearances at high temperatures. Lower friction between pistons and cylinder walls means lower fuel consumption. And to keep them light, the steel pistons are hollowed out. The design is exactly the same as that used in Renault’s Formula One engine.
The first Initiale Paris-branded model is due in 2015.
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Home maintenance is a green exercise, but additionally can also preserve the capital value of your property.The essential elements of home maintenance should be followed routinely. Proper home maintenance, not only saves you money, but helps the environment. The waste produced from your neglected house, is filling up the landfills when this could be prevented, by following simple home maintenance procedures.Prevention of damage is far cheaper then repairing damage.Here is a basic list: 1. Here's something that's simple and easy to do, but most homeowners try to avoid. Fix anything that is damaged or broken, non functioning. 2. Turn your air conditioner and heating system on, and make sure that it is working properly. This would require listening for any strange noises and to check the return air filter to see if it's dirty, clean or replace the air filters on a monthly or bimonthly basis, depending on usage. 3. If your home has an attic or crawlspace, grab a flashligh
t, poke your head inside the access hole and give these areas a quick visual inspection. This should be done every six months or at the minimum, annually. 4. Check your washers for any corrosion around the water pipes and the condition of the hoses as they have a habit of exploding at the most inconvenient time, and is a very common occurrence and can be the cause of thousands of dollars of damage.5. Check dryer vents. Make sure the dryer vents are clear and not blocked with lint. To check this, simply turned the dryer on, placing your hand over the dryer vent which will be located on the outside of your house to make sure that air is coming out. If there isn't any air coming out, you will need to clean out the dryer duct venting pipes. Similarly check your range hood ducting. Do the filters need cleaning, is there a good airflow throughout the ducting. 6. Make sure your lawn sprinklers are working properly. Simply turn the sprinkler system on and make sure that ever
y sprinkler is watering in the right direction and working properly. If your sprinklers are spraying excess water onto your home, driveway or sidewalk, you should consider changing the sprinkler heads or lowering the water pressure on each individual sprinkler.For winter time in cold climates you may need to blow out the water to save pipe bursting from freezing stagnant water left in the pipes.7. Clean and inspect your kitchen appliances. This should be done on a monthly basis. Keeping kitchen appliances clean and properly maintained isn't only good home maintenance, its good hygiene and keeps the cockroach/rodent population down. 8. Make sure all electrical outlets and switches are operating properly on an annual basis. Look for any discolouring around the electrical switches or outlets. This could be the sign of electrical damage and should be repaired as soon as possible, to prevent possibility of shorts, which could have disastrous results. 9. Inspect the exterior of
your home. You will be looking for any water, termite or mould damage. If you have timber fascias checked the corners to see if they are opening up. Check for any signs of water penetration and deal with these pronto as this can be a costly repair if left unattended. 10. Your roof should be checked, on an annual basis at the minimum. You will be looking for any loose, damaged or broken tiles, to prevent roof leaks from damaging your home's interior. Metal roofs check the flashing are in good shape and not showing signs of rust. Any lead flashing need to be inspected for signs of deterioration.. 11. Make sure that your doors and windows open and close easily and with little effort. Sometimes a little bit of graphite or grease can prolong the life of your windows and doors. If these elements of our would and are of a paint finish, you need to keep right on top of any paint peels or blistering otherwise a much bigger bill will be waiting to you. 12. Get a yearl
y inspection done of your home, even by a professional builder and work out your maintenance program over the next months or years to suit your budget and set asides meshing in with job urgency. This home inspection exercise, can save you money and the environment, so quit procrastinating and get on top of your investment. Being proactive is much more efficient than being retroactive when it comes to home maintenance.
July 18, 2013. Andover, MA.
Hundreds of employees from the supermarket chain, Market Basket, rallied outside of the company’s board of directors meeting convened to decide the fate of its CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas. The Demoulas family has run Market Basket for decades, and has been feuding over the company for nearly as long. Critics, including the CEO's cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, accuse the leader of fiscal mismanagement; supporters, including a vocal group of Market Basket employees, say Arthur T. has led the company to growth, profits and high worker morale. Following 12 hours of debate Thursday, Arthur T. Demoulas remained president of the Market Basket supermarket chain. The family-owned company’s board adjourned a contentious meeting at 10 p.m. without acting on a motion for Demoulas’s removal. It was unclear whether the shareholders would continue to press for his ouster. The board meets again on Aug. 22. For now, the stalemate ends a bitter feud over the Tewksbury-based supermarket chain, which has remained highly profitable despite near constant infighting for more than 20 years.
© 2013 Marilyn Humphries
The early 1960's was a time of great change for Detroit. The economic recession that had set in in 1958, had cut great swathes from the profitability of the 'Big 3' auto makers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler Corporation. It had also meant the end for many of the smaller independents, and critically wounded the others.
The other great change it had wrought was the introduction of the 'compact' US models, Corvair, Falcon and Valiant. These models gained share at the expense of the mid-scale, Big-3 brands, and also the offerings in the full-size classes.
These larger model were not forgotten about though. many of them gained space-age names, and used their extra size and market position to become more glamorous. Perhaps, also playing a part, was the rejection of such excessive styling. Though the fins had shrunk from the ultimate excess of the 1959 Cadillac, other stylistic features were still unrestrained. Chrysler had continued to evolve their 'forward look', first shown in 1957. For the 1961 Polara though, the cars reversed the rake of the fins, scalloping them out and framing the tail light, like a rocket-pod. At the front, a wide, concave grille with dual headlamps smoothed out and modernised the 'face'. Most of the central body still exhibited the form launched in 1960.
The companion 'Matador' model was discontinued, whilst the shorter-wheelbase 'Junior Dodge', the Dart, received the front end change, but with a more modest sweep of chrome on the rear flanks, joined by low-mounted tail lamps.
The pattern was set though, and volumes of full-size Dodges fell precipitously. Only 14,032 Polara were sold in the US for the 1961 model year.
As unappreciated as they were at the time, they now mark the end of an era in full-size US stylistic excess, and cut a fine line in a historic car show today.
This Lego miniland-scale 1961 Dodge Polara Hardtop and Convertible have been modelled for Flickr LUGNuts 69th Build Challenge, - 'The Summer of '69', celebrating vehicle of all makes and from any country made through the 1960's.
A tablet has been erected naming the railway "The Innocent Railway" on the basis that the line never suffered a fatal accident.
Thomas explains:
Dr Robert Chalmers, reflecting on the E & D trains jogging their leisurely and profitable way round the southern outskirts of Edinburgh and comparing them with trains on more sophisticated railways wrote, 'In the very contemplation of the innocence of the railway you find your heart rejoiced. Only think of a railway having a board at all the stations forbidding the drivers to stop by the way to feed their horses!' The name The Innocent Railway entered the history books and the legend grew that the line was so called because it never killed or injured a passenger. In fact injuries, whether to passengers alighting from trains in motion or to pointsboys taking chances at loops were numerous; the manager himself got a leg injury that left him with a limp for life.[5]
Robertson says:
Its familiar and affectionate soubriquet of the "Innocent Railway" was not due, unless inaccurately, to the legend that no-one was ever killed on it, but rather to an air of old-fashioned unreality which stood by the leisurely horse-drawn tradition long after it had been abandoned elsewhere.
Robert Chalmers, who coined the nickname, gently enjoyed himself at its expense:
By the Innocent Railway you never feel in the least jeopardy; your journey is one of incident and adventure; you can examine the crops as you go along; you have time to hear the news from your companions; and the by-play of the officials is a source of never-failing amusement.
Robertson goes on to observe that a driver was killed in 1840 and two children were killed in 1843 and 1844, citing Parliamentary Papers 1841, 1843 and 1846.[22]
A public information plaque at the entrance to the path states that,
You are standing on one of Scotland's pioneering Railways. The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway was nicknamed "The Innocent Railway" because it was originally horse-drawn in an age which thought steam engines dangerous. It was built to transport coal from the Dalkeith area to Auld Reekie. To the surprise of the promoters, however, the public rapidly took to this convenient novelty and soon 300,000 passengers were carried annually. Thereafter, passengers became as important as freight to the railways. Open carriages, wagons and converted stagecoaches were the first rolling stock. Among its engineering features were an early tunnel, a cast iron beam bridge and an outstanding timber viaduct on masonry piers. The first two still survive. The viaduct at Thornybank, Dalkeith was finally demolished in the 1960s.
The early 1960's was a time of great change for Detroit. The economic recession that had set in in 1958, had cut great swathes from the profitability of the 'Big 3' auto makers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler Corporation. It had also meant the end for many of the smaller independents, and critically wounded the others.
The other great change it had wrought was the introduction of the 'compact' US models, Corvair, Falcon and Valiant. These models gained share at the expense of the mid-scale, Big-3 brands, and also the offerings in the full-size classes.
These larger model were not forgotten about though. many of them gained space-age names, and used their extra size and market position to become more glamorous. Perhaps, also playing a part, was the rejection of such excessive styling. Though the fins had shrunk from the ultimate excess of the 1959 Cadillac, other stylistic features were still unrestrained. Chrysler had continued to evolve their 'forward look', first shown in 1957. For the 1961 Polara though, the cars reversed the rake of the fins, scalloping them out and framing the tail light, like a rocket-pod. At the front, a wide, concave grille with dual headlamps smoothed out and modernised the 'face'. Most of the central body still exhibited the form launched in 1960.
The companion 'Matador' model was discontinued, whilst the shorter-wheelbase 'Junior Dodge', the Dart, received the front end change, but with a more modest sweep of chrome on the rear flanks, joined by low-mounted tail lamps.
The pattern was set though, and volumes of full-size Dodges fell precipitously. Only 14,032 Polara were sold in the US for the 1961 model year.
As unappreciated as they were at the time, they now mark the end of an era in full-size US stylistic excess, and cut a fine line in a historic car show today.
This Lego miniland-scale 1961 Dodge Polara Hardtop and Convertible have been modelled for Flickr LUGNuts 69th Build Challenge, - 'The Summer of '69', celebrating vehicle of all makes and from any country made through the 1960's.
The house with the Atlanteans (Profitable house with a tea shop Trade House "D. and A. Rastorguev" Solyanka, 1882, architect VN Karneev). The object of cultural heritage. The house is located in Moscow on the territory of historic White City Kulishki tract. Included in the five quarters attractions "Khitrovka"
The old "house with the Atlanteans" Solyanka risk of becoming a victim of the bureaucrats and vandals. Left unguarded, the former estate of merchants Rastorguev became a haven fringe that disfigured interiors and figures of Atlantis, clearing the glass furniture and taken away burnings staged several times.
Variations on a theme «...with a film across Moscow»
Camera: Konica C35 EFP
Film: Kodak Professional TRI-X 400 FILM (expiry date is not known, but certainly more than 10 years)
Photo taken: 30/03/2016
Scanned copy of the original negative, without any processing. In the mode «as is»
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500
(All of the pictures from this film shown on the standard process D-76, scanned without modifications and filters in RAW-DNG application VueScan, invert in Lightroom.)
Increasing profitability with ground cover
Story by BOB McGUFFICKE AND JEFF LOWIEN
Soil and water are the essence of agriculture for grazing and cropping but these factors can be greatly influenced by maintaining good ground cover.
Ground cover is a very good indicator of both the production and sustainability of pastures and crops and includes growing and dead plants and litter.
Litter plays a vital role in reducing rainfall runoff, evaporation and minimising extremes of soil temperatures. Adequate levels of litter can reduce evaporation by 50 per cent and reduce temperatures in the top 5 cm of soil by up to 20 degrees C compared to bare soil in hot summer conditions.
It is also the major food source for micro-organisms, with high levels of microbial activity resulting in increased organic matter, cycling of nutrients and improvements in soil structure and water infiltration.
Most soil organisms are in the top 5 cm of soil and their activity depends on suitable soil temperature and moisture, and adequate litter.
Research on the North West slopes has shown that maintaining adequate ground cover is very important for improving the water cycle for sustainable grazing systems. The water cycle is a balance between evapotranspiration (water use by plants and evaporation), runoff and deep drainage.
Whilst you cannot control the rainfall you receive, many of your on-farm management decisions can influence the effectiveness of rainfall.
Evapotranspiration represents about 93 per cent of annual rainfall on the North West Slopes. In a 700 mm rainfall zone with low ground cover up to 520 mm can be lost as evaporation from the ground surface.
Research has shown that this evaporation can be halved if ground cover, including plant litter, is increased from 40 per cent to 70 per cent.
Also by increasing ground cover, runoff is reduced (70mm/year) and by using deep rooted perennials a further 5mm/year is gained by less deep drainage. Add these figures and it is possible to achieve an extra 300mm of effective rainfall for additional growth resulting in increased profits for you from improved pasture or crop production.
With climate change occurring and the possibility of lower rainfall, this extra effective rainfall would be worth its weight in gold.
Ground cover is the most effective way to maximise water infiltration by minimising rainfall runoff and soil erosion. Adequate ground cover is vital to maintaining healthy soil and vegetation and productive pastures.
Research has shown that at least 70 per cent ground cover is needed on the North West Slopes to minimise soil degradation and sustain production. This figure increases in steeper slopes and more erodible soil types and in the Tablelands grazing situation should be at least 95 per cent.
Contact: Bob McGufficke, Inverell 6722 1388 or Jeff Lowien, Glen Innes 6730 1927.
Story first published in Agriculture Today 2009 www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/news/agriculture-today
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You can't achieve your best in this business without learning the all-important art of connecting. Dean Lindsay's Cracking the Networking CODE presentation, based on his best selling business book Cracking the Networking CODE, is filled with fresh insights and practical tips on how to build meaningful, profitable, win-win relationships for business and life. Cracking the Networking CODE is recommended reading by the United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine. Whether you have a black belt in business growth through connecting or are completely new to the concept, you will enjoy Dean's humorous yet highly practical approach to meeting, connecting, and developing long-term relationships with others.
"Perhaps the most powerful way to leverage and multiply your talent and ability is by expanding your personal and business network. This book shows you how."
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Author, Getting Rich Your Own Way
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Dean serves as Guest Lecturer to UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs as well as the International Call Management Institute.
Dean Lindsay helps build Priceless Business Relationships. Priceless Business Relationships are the key to: Teamwork and Productivity, Solid, Customer Care, Servant Leadership, Retention and Morale, Organizational Success, Quality Referral Generation, Recruiting Quality Professionals
and MORE SALES
Dean sees an important connection between sales, motivation, solid customer care and leadership. All are achieved by effectively positioning ideas, recommendations, solutions, products, services - even ourselves - as PROGRESS in minds of those we wish to inspire to action. All must be positioned as Progress and NOT Change. It is natural to resist change but we embrace PROGRESS. All progress is change but not all change is PROGRESS. Dean helps you become a Progress Agent and "BE PROGRESS".
Dean is a featured contributor to Executive Travel, Sales and Service Excellence and the American Management Association's Moving Ahead magazine as well as the nationally distributed audio publication Selling Power Live.
His speaking and consulting style is refreshingly daring, imaginative, and a lot of fun (Be sure and watch Dean's speaker demo).
Dean Lindsay's best selling business book, Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships is Recommended Reading by the United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine.
Dean's writing has been endorsed Ken Blanchard - author of The One Minute Manager and Brian Tracy along with many others. Jay Conrad Levinson - the author of Guerrilla Marketing, thought so much of Dean's book on building priceless business relationships that he wrote the book's foreword.
A cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas, Dean presently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for UNT's Department of Marketing and Logistics and the Board of Directors of the UNT Alumni Association.
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Working and Winning in a World of Change
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Spotlighted as an OUTSTANDING SPEAKER by the International Association of Speakers Bureaus and Recognized as a ‘Sales-and-Networking Guru’ by the Dallas Business Journal, Dean Lindsay delivers killer keynotes, breakouts, general session presentations, and interactive boot camps that Empower PROGRESS in Sales, Service and Workplace Performance.
Dean serves as Guest Lecturer to UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs as well as the International Call Management Institute.
Dean Lindsay helps build Priceless Business Relationships. Priceless Business Relationships are the key to: Teamwork and Productivity, Solid, Customer Care, Servant Leadership, Retention and Morale, Organizational Success, Quality Referral Generation, Recruiting Quality Professionals
and MORE SALES
Dean sees an important connection between sales, motivation, solid customer care and leadership. All are achieved by effectively positioning ideas, recommendations, solutions, products, services - even ourselves - as PROGRESS in minds of those we wish to inspire to action. All must be positioned as Progress and NOT Change. It is natural to resist change but we embrace PROGRESS. All progress is change but not all change is PROGRESS. Dean helps you become a Progress Agent and "BE PROGRESS".
Dean is a featured contributor to Executive Travel, Sales and Service Excellence and the American Management Association's Moving Ahead magazine as well as the nationally distributed audio publication Selling Power Live.
His speaking and consulting style is refreshingly daring, imaginative, and a lot of fun (Be sure and watch Dean's speaker demo).
Dean Lindsay's best selling business book, Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships is Recommended Reading by the United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine.
Dean's writing has been endorsed Ken Blanchard - author of The One Minute Manager and Brian Tracy along with many others. Jay Conrad Levinson - the author of Guerrilla Marketing, thought so much of Dean's book on building priceless business relationships that he wrote the book's foreword.
A cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas, Dean presently serves on the Executive Advisory Board for UNT's Department of Marketing and Logistics and the Board of Directors of the UNT Alumni Association.
For More Info or to contact Dean Lindsay, log onto: www.DeanLindsay.com
Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971) is an American actress. One of the most profitable and iconic actresses of the 1990s, she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition. After appearances in film and on television, Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers (1988), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film. She later appeared in the coming of age drama Mermaids (1990), earning a Golden Globe nomination, and in the same year appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Burton's dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands (1990), and shortly thereafter with Keanu Reeves in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Wimbledon is the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. Its success as a draw and a money-maker is one indication that tennis is a booming spectator sport. Attendance was 484,391 for the two-week event in 2015. Its revenues were $238.8 million in 2015 for the All-England Club, which sponsors the event. The profit was $44.9 million for that two-week event.
Good Causes
Ninety percent of the Wimbledon profits go to the Lawn Tennis Association, the governing body for the sport in England. The U.S. Open, another of the four major professional tennis championships, had revenue in 2015 of $253 million. Attendance was 691,280. The United States Tennis Association’s regional districts (17) receive a portion of the proceeds to continue work in support of grassroots tennis.
Corporations
Money from the media and sponsors paid to the Association of Tennis Professionals, which operates the global men’s tour, increased 215 percent in six years. In 2014, its revenue was $37.4 million. All tennis events like The Championships—the official name for Wimbledon—and the ATP World Tour Finals have corporations and brands to help pay for the event. Wimbledon calls its helpmates Official Suppliers rather than sponsors.
These brands pay for tournament essentials, including the event itself, the compiling and dissemination of statistics, billboards and more. At these events, sponsors foot the bill for activities that engage fans too. These could include fans being able to see the re-stringing of a racket or an interactive booth where they get to see how their serve stacks up against the pros. They might also be able to enter a contest to win a prize.
Players
Tennis is a sport in which individuals are front and center, and they are rewarded handsomely. Roger Federer made $79 million in 2015 and Rafael Nadal earned $64 million, Females in tennis are at the top of the list of sportswomen who have the most lucrative endorsements. In 2016, Serena Williams earned $28.9 million through her play and sponsors and Maria Sharapova, second on the earnings list, made $21.9 million.
The Future
Despite the success of Wimbledon and other tournaments, tennis organizers are not complacent. They want to keep up with the times. Tennis is an entertainment as well as a sport. When people have a choice between biking, hiking or playing tennis, for example, proponents of the sport want them to choose tennis. Some organizations are setting their eyes on getting more people in their 20s to hit the courts. Ways to increase the numbers of players of any age include more online booking for court time as well as websites that help people find partners.
With the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open—the four majors—plus just the ATP tour, tennis spans the globe. Cities the latter group has taken its players to include Houston, Monte Carlo, Marrakech, Barcelona, Budapest, Munich, Geneva and Madrid. Tennis can give brands wide exposure.
–Tory Kiam, Board of the NYJTL
David Wood gives his "Practical Tips for Profitable Growth in the Symbian Ecosystem" presentation in the Berlage Zaal at SEE2010.
Kerikeri stone store and Kemp House (and surroundings) - 08 October 2013
The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s oldest surviving stone building.
Part of the first Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden store house. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by mason William Parrott, carpenter Ben Nesbitt and a team of Māori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, (though these unfortunately corroded the sandstone). Initially it had a wooden belfry on one side.
The Stone Store was intended to be the base of the Church Missionary Society’s trading post, selling produce from the farms at Te Waimate mission to ships, and European goods to Māori. Marsden planned to build a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this was eventually built at te Waimate instead. Stone was used to protect wheat from rats, for defence against Māori and to reduce the risk of fire.
Stone Store
By the mid-1830s the mission stations could not compete with the private enterprise of other European settlers, either as traders or farmers, and the store was not profitable.
The building was converted into the mission library by Bishop Selwyn in the early 1840s. Following the sacking of Kororareka in the Flagstaff War, it was briefly taken over by Governor George Grey for use as a magazine and barracks. After the cessation of hostilities in 1845, the stone store was leased to become the centre of Kauri gum trading operation, and then in 1863 it was used to house a boys' school. The building was sold to the Kemp family in 1874, and was used as a general store, although it increasingly became a tourist attraction. The Stone Store was purchased from the Kemps by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1975. Conservation work was done in the 1990s. The store, together with the neighbouring Mission House now form a small museum.
The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822[1] as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand’s oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House.
Samuel Marsden established the Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers, who lived in the Bay of Islands under the protection of Hongi Hika, the chief of the local tribe, the Ngapuhi. In November 1819, Marsden purchased 13,000 acres (53 km²) from the Ngapuhi.
Marsden instructed the Reverend John Butler to erect buildings for the mission station under the shelter of the Ngapuhi Pa or fortress of Kororipo at Kerikeri, (Marsden, himself, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika left for Britain). Using Māori and skilled European labour, Butler had completed the centre piece Mission House by 1822, (despite being interrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets, and Kororipo being used as a base for the subsequent Ngapuhi military campaign in the Musket Wars).
Mission House
Butler’s house was a weatherboard clad, two-storey Georgian design with a verandah and two chimneys. It was built primarily from Kauri. At some point in the 1830s, a skilling was added, and the verandah was replaced with an enlarged design in 1843. In the 1920s a bathroom was added behind the kitchen.
Butler was sacked in 1823, and George Clarke occupied the building until the early 1830s, by which time the Ngapuhi had abandoned Kororipo, but the mission station was strong enough to feel no need for protection.
The house was occupied by James and Charlotte Kemp in 1832 and although initially part of an expanded mission presence, (including the Stone Store), it was later purchased by the Kemps, and stayed in that family for 142 years, until Ernest Kemp donated it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976.
The Trust has restored the building to an approximation of its 1843 appearance, (although the verandah was higher, and the roof was not shingled). Together with the Stone Store, the Mission house is now a museum open to the public.
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One of SMT's most important acquisitions was that of the Coastline Bus Service in 1936. With it came highly profitable services, experienced staff and a fleet of mainly Leyland vehicles - most of which SMT had serviced themselves in the years prior to the take-over.
H209W had originally been Coastline L4, a Leyland Tiger with Brush body ordered by Coastline but received at the time of take-over. After the war SMT undertook a major re-bodying project and many buses of 1930's vintage were selected for re-build. H209 was thus given a 35 seat Alexander body in 1954 so extending the life of this fine vehicle. Two of its compatriots also were rebuilt with all remaining at Musselburgh depot and used regularly on the Seton Sands and Wallyford routes. These were loud machines with a distinctive engine roar - befitting their 'Tiger' status !
H209 is seen at Edinburgh bus station just off St Andrew Square, in 1957, note the huge tenements of St James Square in the background. Within a few years H209 would be eclipsed by 'flat-faced' underfloor buses - similar to Monocoach B482W seen behind. Both buses being en-route for Seton Sands via Portobello, but curiously showing different route numbers, I suspect the rear vehicle is showing the correct number. Note the garage plate on H209 still shows a space for another letter. Code WA was dropped in favour of 'W' for Musselburgh based buses in 1955. Note also the 'SY' registration - for many years given to vehicles registered in Midlothian (back then Musselburgh was in that county), and these Tigers were the only SMT buses to carry such registrations.
This panel explored different investment opportunities and learnt why all foreign investors agree that Bosnia and Herzegovina is an attractive opportunity that cannot be missed. The country’s strategic geographic position, investor-friendly legal environment, favourable trade agreements, competitive tax and customs systems, low operating costs, and talented people make it a destination full of potential for profitable investments.
In his welcoming speech, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Denis Zvizdić introduced the country’s great investment potential. He was followed by Sir Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD President, who described some of the Bank’s wide-ranging activities to promote sustainable growth and innovation in the Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to encourage potential and existing investors to the country, and so is at the disposal of investors at every phase of their projects; from starting a business and selecting a location, to networking with relevant institutions and stakeholders, implementing the project and expanding business.
This special session focused on specific areas in which Bosnia and Herzegovina has enormous investment potential. Boosted by planned strategic investments, these focus areas can yield high profits and generate overall economic growth. Areas of specific interest include the energy sector, metal processing and automotive industry, furniture manufacturing, food processing, the tourism industry, and IT sector.
The audience heard success stories about private sector initiatives, and how abundant resources can be turned into profitable investment projects with the potential for further growth. Specific examples include:
- Bit Alliance, an association of 58 major IT companies with more than 2800 experts.
- Olympic Centre Jahorina, host of Winter Olympic Games in 1984 and Youth Olympic Games in 2019, recognised as the most promising winter resort in the Western Balkans region.
- Prevent Group, the largest private sector company in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a global contract manufacturer with strong sales and logistics expertise.
- MS&Wood, a design-oriented solid wood manufacturer which has won awards at many international fairs.
- Mljekara Livno (Livno Diary), the brand owner of “Livanjski cheese”, a high-fat solid cheese with a specific flavour that is widely recognised as a top quality product.
Moderator
Charlotte Ruhe
Managing Director, Central & South Eastern Europe, EBRD
Keynote
Suma Chakrabarti
President, EBRD
Denis Zvizdić
Chairman, Council of Ministers of BiH
Speakers
Edin Deljkic
President, Bit Alliance
Igor Gordic
Representative, Olympic Centre Jahorina
Almir Jazvin
Member of Supervisory Board, Prevent Group
Zdravko Markov
Commercial Manager, Mljekara Livno
Dino Osmanbegovic
Advisor to the Management Board, MS&WOOD d.o.o.
The early 1960's was a time of great change for Detroit. The economic recession that had set in in 1958, had cut great swathes from the profitability of the 'Big 3' auto makers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler Corporation. It had also meant the end for many of the smaller independents, and critically wounded the others.
The other great change it had wrought was the introduction of the 'compact' US models, Corvair, Falcon and Valiant. These models gained share at the expense of the mid-scale, Big-3 brands, and also the offerings in the full-size classes.
These larger model were not forgotten about though. many of them gained space-age names, and used their extra size and market position to become more glamorous. Perhaps, also playing a part, was the rejection of such excessive styling. Though the fins had shrunk from the ultimate excess of the 1959 Cadillac, other stylistic features were still unrestrained. Chrysler had continued to evolve their 'forward look', first shown in 1957. For the 1961 Polara though, the cars reversed the rake of the fins, scalloping them out and framing the tail light, like a rocket-pod. At the front, a wide, concave grille with dual headlamps smoothed out and modernised the 'face'. Most of the central body still exhibited the form launched in 1960.
The companion 'Matador' model was discontinued, whilst the shorter-wheelbase 'Junior Dodge', the Dart, received the front end change, but with a more modest sweep of chrome on the rear flanks, joined by low-mounted tail lamps.
The pattern was set though, and volumes of full-size Dodges fell precipitously. Only 14,032 Polara were sold in the US for the 1961 model year.
As unappreciated as they were at the time, they now mark the end of an era in full-size US stylistic excess, and cut a fine line in a historic car show today.
This Lego miniland-scale 1961 Dodge Polara Hardtop and Convertible have been modelled for Flickr LUGNuts 69th Build Challenge, - 'The Summer of '69', celebrating vehicle of all makes and from any country made through the 1960's.