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my first wedding photography session - evening reception
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
Temple of Promise
Dreamers Guild
A Temple’s purpose is to provide a safe space where the diverse and essential needs of the soul can take root and grow or surrender and find solace. This year, the Temple of Promise welcomes participants through an archway soaring 97 feet overhead. Once inside, the structure curves in on itself, tapering in width and height down to just 7 feet tall. Along the way, alcoves formed by the supporting arches, as well as wooden sculptures reminiscent of stones in a stream, create altars and semi-private spaces for individuals and smaller gatherings. The lines of the curved wooden walls draw the eye inward and create a canvas for written messages and mementos. As the path continues to curve, it opens into the contemplative altar and the heart of the Temple: a grove of three sculpted trees. The branches are initially bare. Participants will write messages on long strips of cloth and attach them to the trees, creating the gentle shade of Weeping Willows, increasing as the week progresses.
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This is a shot of Twin Sisters Rock (the "other twin" is eclipsed by the southern most one, but there are two pillars, I promise. :) )after sunset. This gnarled old tree was a pretty cool thing to put in the foreground, not to mention the several geo-caches in it. :) It was a cool spot for sure! It is a pretty unique place at the mouth of the Wallula Gap with a pretty short trail that is easy to walk. WARNING!: And don't plan on staying there for any period of time after sunset! The park closes at dusk and a resident on the edge of the park enforces it strictly... he got out a massive spotlight and would send us blinking signals. Then he aimed his car at us, turned on the high beams and then again turned on the spotlight... After this, he yelled at us asking if we needed a little incentive to get our butts moving.... So yeah, don't try to do night photography. :)
You can view more information on the park here.
Thanks to Gary Paulson, Rick Scheibner and Grant Meyer for getting the group together for this cool little meet-up. I had a lot of fun and saw some pretty cool new things! Thanks guys!
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Taken on September 2, 2012
Nikon D90
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens
Tiffen UV filter
Exposure Bias: 0EV
Exposure: 1/5 sec.
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
16mm
A close friend invited my out to dinner the other night.. she kept on telling me about this amazing white wine that she loves and that i should try.. Personally I'm not a white kinda guy.. but only one zip of this sauvignon bonk and I was hooked.. the rest is history ;)
- Free plug for Sandalford Wines.. You guys own me!
Pss...shhh.. I promise my New Zealand friend's I will never drink another Aussie wine again.. hehehe ;))
Flower buds are like the promise of beauty. Each one hold so much potential, just like each of us. I see these buds and know there is a promise of more beauty to come. I hope to reach my potential and help others reach theirs too.
We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
As promised here is a bit of the uni work I am currently working on. I am doing an illustrative book on a news story from within the last year (don't want to give too much away, so look out for other uploads!)
NOTE: I've just been told comment was disabled. NO idea why! Sorry guys. Not sure if it's still disabled, perhaps someone can let me know? Thanks and again - apologies.
There's something brave, yet fragile about the first buds of Spring. It brings so much energy. Energy for new beginnings be it a new job, a new project or a new job. Spring is a time for life, for growing.
This is a hit and run. Sorry friends but I promise to catch up soon. I just had to share this Spring shot with you. I took it a few years ago with my Kodak but it remains one of my favourites.
See you all soon!
Much love x
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Promise Fulfilled, Accomplishment Achieved at WSSU Commencement on May 14
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- For Jeanette Valentine, earning her bachelor’s degree in business administration will be fulfilling on many levels.
Valentine, 50, is one of the approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are expected to participate in WSSU’s Spring Commencement exercises on May 14 at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Stephen A. Smith, noted journalist, media personality and motivational speaker, will be the keynote speaker.
Commencement will mark a special satisfaction not just because Valentine, a travel audit officer in WSSU’s accounting department, will be graduating with her 24-year-old son William R. Valentine. It’s because of a long-time promise fulfilled. Valentine made the promise to her mother back in 1978. Her mother and father never graduated from high school. When Valentine’s mother, who was battling cancer, asked her to promise she would graduate college, Valentine did. Valentine’s mother died two weeks before she graduated high school. Valentine was devastated over losing her mother.
“I started school at WSSU that year, but it lasted only one semester. I didn’t have the drive. I was still too distressed and overcome by my mother’s death. I couldn’t focus on school,” Valentine said.
Instead, Valentine got married, had two children and eventually went to work at a few jobs before coming to work at WSSU in 2006. In 2007, she decided to return to school since her children were adults. At the same time, her son who graduated high school in 2004 was thinking about returning to college after quitting previously. By fall 2007, both with full-time jobs returned to school at WSSU. He was an exercise science major and she was in the School of Business and Economics.
“He was so career focused on his job and he was doing well. But I kept pushing him and telling him he had to get a degree. I was thrilled he came back to school and that we were in school at the same time. It was exciting,” said Valentine.
Eventually Valentine saw her son was distracted by work. They talked and it was he who asked they agree to push each other so they could graduate at the same time.
That time is now. Valentine is thrilled they are graduating together. She says it feels like she has kept the promise made to her mother times two.
“In addition to the accomplishment, it may be quite an emotional day,” Valentine said.
Valentine is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for collegiate schools of business as well as Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for Adult Learners in Continuing Higher Education. She plans to pursue her master’s degree at Liberty University.
Extraordinary Journey
It will be a festive ending to an extraordinary journey for Jerrica Scott, 24, of Winston-Salem. For Scott, commencement will symbolize the end of a passage marked by limitations, fear and uncertainty. It will be a celebration of a personal renaissance, driven by a theme that anything is possible with faith, passion and purpose.
“No matter how bad things may look, you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of others if you work really hard and know things can change. Soon things may look different, then not so bad, better, even good.”
Scott’s journey is verification of her belief. She entered WSSU to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in elementary education six years ago as a single teen-aged mom. During that time as a full-time student, living on her own with her young daughter, she worked full-time, changed majors multiple times, quit school, got married, had another child, returned to school, made up a semester of credits lost when she quit and found her way back to the major that gave her the purpose.
“Just before I started my freshman year, I could hear people saying now that I had a baby as a teenager, my life was over or I wouldn’t get very far,” noted Scott. “Because I got pregnant in high school and had a baby in my first year of college, it didn’t mean I would be a failure. I did not want to be the stereotype of a young single mom who would work only at fast food restaurants or be on welfare the rest of her life.”
Although Scott was determined, she became distracted during her second year.
“I was failing classes miserably. I was living on my own and I was 18 years old. I felt lost and beaten, so I quit school,” Scott said who worked as a waitress. “Then one day, my manager told me the biggest thing he regretted was not finishing school. So if you don’t want to be waiting tables for the rest of your life, you need to go back to school. “
That was the turning point for Scott. She also thought about her mother, a cosmetologist, who always stressed the importance of education and often expressed interest in wanting her children to be greater than she. Scott soon quit her job and returned to school. Her best friend and others helped her find her way back to the major that aligned with where her talents and passions had always been -- elementary education.
“My best friend told me this is what I suppose to be doing. She told me we are going over there right now and you are going to get enrolled back into school. I just thank her,” said Scott.
Then she met a good man who cared about her and her daughter. It was like an unattainable dream. They soon married. Her second daughter was born in 2010. Now in school and completely focused on her education, Scott delivered the baby on a Friday and returned class on Monday.
Scott is currently working as a substitute teacher and searching for a fulltime permanent teaching job. She is also going to be the “first in my family to graduate college.”
Multiple Job Offers Early in Her Senior Year
Information technology major Kristen Dunlap, 21, of Charlotte, has accomplished a standout achievement, even before she completed her last year of college. In this challenging economy, she had two job offers from Fortune 500 companies one before her senior year, the other early in her senior year. She selected one position which she will begin this summer.
Dunlap attributes her success to internships, which she began participating in back in her freshman year. That first one was a summer research experience for undergraduate WSSU computer science students at WSSU, funded by NASA. She used, GIS visualization tools to visualize North Carolina weather patterns. The goal of the summer program was to expose students to researching skills and help to develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills.
For her second year, Dunlap interned at the NASA Langley, Va., facility where she worked as a liaison between the technology and client teams for the database tracking system used to manage NASA’s contractual projects.
For summer 2010, she was an intern at Altria Client Services in Richmond ,Va., where she worked on data archiving to consolidate previous and current information to migrate to a new system.
“You can never underestimate the value of internships. I started utilizing the WSSU Career Services office in my second year. My parents always told me to be aggressive at seeking job opportunities. I didn’t want to be a person to work hard for four years and have no job in the end,” Dunlap said.
She will start her new job at Altria Client Services as an IT assistant analyst.
The Entertainment Mogul
Erikka Rainey, 22, of Philadelphia wants to be a female Sean “P-Diddy” Combs. In fact, she has wanted to be an entertainment mogul from a very young age. As a child, she dabbled in music and even took classes, but by age 14, she knew wholeheartedly that she wanted to be on the business side of the music industry.
“When I first learned about P-Diddy, I knew that was where I wanted my future to be,” said Rainey. “I look up to P- Diddy because I’m working to be the first female to start a record label, then restaurants, clothing lines and television shows.”
When she sees a famous entertainer, she wonders what sort of things they did in their career to get famous. If not famous, she wonders what it would take to make them famous. While at WSSU she jumped at every opportunity to market and promote musical artists and events. She worked with Hidden Beach Recordings to promote events for a new CD. She passed out flyers and did social media and internet marketing for jazz artist Monette Sudler of Philadelphia this past summer.
“If there’s one thing I live by, it’s take advantage of all opportunities. Don’t close yourself off to anything. You never know what you will learn that can be the key to your future,” Rainey said.
An honor student, Rainey will be attending New York University’s (NYU) music business program in the fall. She plans to maintain at least one home in New York City after graduate school when her career kicks off.
As always NEoN celebrates its festival with a late night party. Acts include Plastique Fantastique, Verity Brit & Musician U, Fallope & The Tubes and Resident DJ RHL. With a pop up bar and performances amongst our large group exhibition the vast factory space West Ward Works, this night promises to be a visual audible delight.
Plastique Fantastique (UK)
A performance fiction envisaged as a group of human and non-human avatars delivering communiqués from the past and the future. The communiqués are channelled through installations, writing, comics and sound and moving image work and performances, addressing technology, popular and mass media and sacred cultures and also human-machine animals and non-human entities and agents. Over several years, numerous people have produced Plastique Fantastique but there is also a core group producing the performance fiction. Plastique Fantastique was first presented by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan and developed with long-term collaborators Alex Marzeta and Vanessa Page, and more recently with Mark Jackson. For NE0N 2017, this group will call forth and trap a bit-coin-fairy-spirit to ask it seems questions. The performance – Plastique Fantastique Protocols for the Society for Cutting Up Mun-knee-snakers (S.C.U.M.): I-Valerie-Solaris-AKA-@32ACP-Amazon.co.uk-recommends-‘Pacific-Rim’ may/may-not shoot b1t-c0in-f@iry-sp1r1t) – uses drone-folk-songs, moving image projection, reliquaries and ritual to manifest the block-chain-spirit.
David Burrows, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page and Mark Jackson will be performing.
Rites of the Zeitgeber, Verity Brit & Musician ‘U’ (UK)
9 channel video installation, live score performed by musician ‘U’
The Zeitgeber (‘time giver’ or ‘synchroniser’) is honoured by a triadic henge of stacked CRT monitors in which past durations collide with future vacuums. Strange extra-terrestrial topographies are traversed across geological time and the internet. Curious substances are unearthed and lost languages resurrected. Fragments from Mina Loy, J. G. Ballard and Henri Bergson emerge amongst an archaeology of media from Super 8, VHS, to HD. Time bends from matter, history is up-set and the clock is obsolete.
Verity Birt an artist based in London. She studied an MA in Moving Image at the Royal College of Art (2013–2015) and BA in Art Practice at Goldsmiths University of London (2008–2011). She is involved with collaborative research groups; The Future is a Collective Project, Reconfiguring Ruins and a founding member of women artists collective Altai. This summer, Verity was artist in residence at BALTIC and The Newbridge Project in Newcastle. Previous exhibitions include: Our House of Common Weeds; Res. Gallery, London (2017); Relics from the De-crypt | Gossamer Fog Gallery London (2017), Altai in Residence, Experiments in Collective Practice, Dyson Gallery, London (2017); Chemhex Extract, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (2016); Feeling Safer, IMT Gallery, London and Gallery North, New York (2016); Come to Dust, Generator Projects, Dundee (2016)
Fallopé & The Tubes (UK)
A weirdo-punk performance band. Each live show features live humans! film and visuals! costumes! sculpture! visual props! and music/a sequence of sounds!
Fallopé and The Tubes is a fluctuating live musical and performative event with contributions from Sarah Messenger, Ruby Pester, Nadia Rossi, Rachel Walker, Catherine Weir, Emma McIntyre and Skye Renee Foley. The group are made up of Scottish based artists and musicians that are also filmmakers, festival organisers, librarians, boatbuilders and more who work collaboratively to devise live performances. Drawing influence from a wide range of fringe and mainstream musical genres, exploring sexuality, elements of social satire, self promotion and leftist political ideologies.
The group was established in January 2014 at Insriach Bothy, Aviemore and have developed their practice during numerous residency experiences across Scotland. By living and working together ‘off grid’ the group have developed experimental techniques to create a collective energy. Fallopé & The Tubes draw influence from a wide range of fringe and mainstream musical genres, as well as sexuality, elements of social satire and self promotion and leftist political ideologies. Soakin Records
DJ RHL (UK)
Resident NEoN DJ has been entertaining us since 2010. Djing for about 25 years, he predominately plays Techno but you often find him playing anything dance music related. Spinning old school vinyl sets containing an eclectic mix of old and new stuff. RHL just likes making people dance. Check here for past performances.
Accompanying DJ RHL is ‘The Wanderer‘ aka Naomi Lamb. Naomi works layers of diverse video loops into an ever evolving collage colours textures and shape and intuitively mixies visuals live. She improvises, freestyles and channels the room, customising the ephemeral moving collage in response to the tone of the happening.
For the past 20 years Naomi has been a prolific live video art performer utilising techniques and process that is often associated with the ever growing subculture of VJing and presents under the name of ‘The Wander’. Naomi has an intimate knowledge of not only the process of live video performance but also an wide reaching connections within the VJ community and has performed at many of the leading outdoor music and art festivals in New Zealand with a debut at two English Festivals this summer and she is super please for her first time mixing it up in Scotland to be at NEoN. “
AGK Booth
Yuck ’n Yum hereby invites you to attend the Annual General Karaoke booth at this year’s NEoN at Night. The AGK is a fiercely contested karaoke video competition, getting creative types to make videos that will shock, delight and confound its audience. First staged back in 2010, over the years the AGK has built up a sizeable back catalogue of singalong anthems encompassing everything from pop classics to the most extreme avant garde out there. Now Yuck ’n Yum will bring the AGK archive to NEoN revellers in an audiovisual extravaganza that will overturn everything you ever thought you knew about karaoke convention. This November, Yuck ’n Yum together with NEoN are making a song and dance about it.
About the Artists Yuck ‘n Yum is a curatorial collective formed in Dundee 2008. Until 2013 its main raison d’etre was to make zines and distribute art. The AGK booth is the first of three projects that will kick start a period of activity after a couple of years of hibernation.
Yuck ‘n Yum are Andrew Maclean, Gayle Meikle, Ben Robinson, Alexandra Ross, Alex Tobin, Becca Clark and Morgan Cahn.
WEST WARD WORKS
Guthrie Street
DD1 5BR
Images: Kathryn Rattray Photography
Promise Fulfilled, Accomplishment Achieved at WSSU Commencement on May 14
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- For Jeanette Valentine, earning her bachelor’s degree in business administration will be fulfilling on many levels.
Valentine, 50, is one of the approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are expected to participate in WSSU’s Spring Commencement exercises on May 14 at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Stephen A. Smith, noted journalist, media personality and motivational speaker, will be the keynote speaker.
Commencement will mark a special satisfaction not just because Valentine, a travel audit officer in WSSU’s accounting department, will be graduating with her 24-year-old son William R. Valentine. It’s because of a long-time promise fulfilled. Valentine made the promise to her mother back in 1978. Her mother and father never graduated from high school. When Valentine’s mother, who was battling cancer, asked her to promise she would graduate college, Valentine did. Valentine’s mother died two weeks before she graduated high school. Valentine was devastated over losing her mother.
“I started school at WSSU that year, but it lasted only one semester. I didn’t have the drive. I was still too distressed and overcome by my mother’s death. I couldn’t focus on school,” Valentine said.
Instead, Valentine got married, had two children and eventually went to work at a few jobs before coming to work at WSSU in 2006. In 2007, she decided to return to school since her children were adults. At the same time, her son who graduated high school in 2004 was thinking about returning to college after quitting previously. By fall 2007, both with full-time jobs returned to school at WSSU. He was an exercise science major and she was in the School of Business and Economics.
“He was so career focused on his job and he was doing well. But I kept pushing him and telling him he had to get a degree. I was thrilled he came back to school and that we were in school at the same time. It was exciting,” said Valentine.
Eventually Valentine saw her son was distracted by work. They talked and it was he who asked they agree to push each other so they could graduate at the same time.
That time is now. Valentine is thrilled they are graduating together. She says it feels like she has kept the promise made to her mother times two.
“In addition to the accomplishment, it may be quite an emotional day,” Valentine said.
Valentine is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for collegiate schools of business as well as Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for Adult Learners in Continuing Higher Education. She plans to pursue her master’s degree at Liberty University.
Extraordinary Journey
It will be a festive ending to an extraordinary journey for Jerrica Scott, 24, of Winston-Salem. For Scott, commencement will symbolize the end of a passage marked by limitations, fear and uncertainty. It will be a celebration of a personal renaissance, driven by a theme that anything is possible with faith, passion and purpose.
“No matter how bad things may look, you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of others if you work really hard and know things can change. Soon things may look different, then not so bad, better, even good.”
Scott’s journey is verification of her belief. She entered WSSU to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in elementary education six years ago as a single teen-aged mom. During that time as a full-time student, living on her own with her young daughter, she worked full-time, changed majors multiple times, quit school, got married, had another child, returned to school, made up a semester of credits lost when she quit and found her way back to the major that gave her the purpose.
“Just before I started my freshman year, I could hear people saying now that I had a baby as a teenager, my life was over or I wouldn’t get very far,” noted Scott. “Because I got pregnant in high school and had a baby in my first year of college, it didn’t mean I would be a failure. I did not want to be the stereotype of a young single mom who would work only at fast food restaurants or be on welfare the rest of her life.”
Although Scott was determined, she became distracted during her second year.
“I was failing classes miserably. I was living on my own and I was 18 years old. I felt lost and beaten, so I quit school,” Scott said who worked as a waitress. “Then one day, my manager told me the biggest thing he regretted was not finishing school. So if you don’t want to be waiting tables for the rest of your life, you need to go back to school. “
That was the turning point for Scott. She also thought about her mother, a cosmetologist, who always stressed the importance of education and often expressed interest in wanting her children to be greater than she. Scott soon quit her job and returned to school. Her best friend and others helped her find her way back to the major that aligned with where her talents and passions had always been -- elementary education.
“My best friend told me this is what I suppose to be doing. She told me we are going over there right now and you are going to get enrolled back into school. I just thank her,” said Scott.
Then she met a good man who cared about her and her daughter. It was like an unattainable dream. They soon married. Her second daughter was born in 2010. Now in school and completely focused on her education, Scott delivered the baby on a Friday and returned class on Monday.
Scott is currently working as a substitute teacher and searching for a fulltime permanent teaching job. She is also going to be the “first in my family to graduate college.”
Multiple Job Offers Early in Her Senior Year
Information technology major Kristen Dunlap, 21, of Charlotte, has accomplished a standout achievement, even before she completed her last year of college. In this challenging economy, she had two job offers from Fortune 500 companies one before her senior year, the other early in her senior year. She selected one position which she will begin this summer.
Dunlap attributes her success to internships, which she began participating in back in her freshman year. That first one was a summer research experience for undergraduate WSSU computer science students at WSSU, funded by NASA. She used, GIS visualization tools to visualize North Carolina weather patterns. The goal of the summer program was to expose students to researching skills and help to develop their problem solving and critical thinking skills.
For her second year, Dunlap interned at the NASA Langley, Va., facility where she worked as a liaison between the technology and client teams for the database tracking system used to manage NASA’s contractual projects.
For summer 2010, she was an intern at Altria Client Services in Richmond ,Va., where she worked on data archiving to consolidate previous and current information to migrate to a new system.
“You can never underestimate the value of internships. I started utilizing the WSSU Career Services office in my second year. My parents always told me to be aggressive at seeking job opportunities. I didn’t want to be a person to work hard for four years and have no job in the end,” Dunlap said.
She will start her new job at Altria Client Services as an IT assistant analyst.
The Entertainment Mogul
Erikka Rainey, 22, of Philadelphia wants to be a female Sean “P-Diddy” Combs. In fact, she has wanted to be an entertainment mogul from a very young age. As a child, she dabbled in music and even took classes, but by age 14, she knew wholeheartedly that she wanted to be on the business side of the music industry.
“When I first learned about P-Diddy, I knew that was where I wanted my future to be,” said Rainey. “I look up to P- Diddy because I’m working to be the first female to start a record label, then restaurants, clothing lines and television shows.”
When she sees a famous entertainer, she wonders what sort of things they did in their career to get famous. If not famous, she wonders what it would take to make them famous. While at WSSU she jumped at every opportunity to market and promote musical artists and events. She worked with Hidden Beach Recordings to promote events for a new CD. She passed out flyers and did social media and internet marketing for jazz artist Monette Sudler of Philadelphia this past summer.
“If there’s one thing I live by, it’s take advantage of all opportunities. Don’t close yourself off to anything. You never know what you will learn that can be the key to your future,” Rainey said.
An honor student, Rainey will be attending New York University’s (NYU) music business program in the fall. She plans to maintain at least one home in New York City after graduate school when her career kicks off.
Lemony, "Feels so goooood to get off my little feet!"
Miss Carousella, "Oh look ...another dolly pram full of dollies! Even a cabbage patch doll and cookie monster too!"
New Girl, "I haven't a name yet! Maybe call me Katy Perry - I'll melt your popsicle ...hehe!
Please welcome another new girl! She is a Simply Lilac custom with a dyed scalp. Love her little teeth!
A real antique doll buggy! It is a Wyandotte early pressed steel toy baby doll carriage 1930s
Yes, I still have a few more pics from when the girls were all dressed to model shop dresses. Why not - it was a lot of work dressing them all! :)
Caterpillar in the tree
How you wonder who you'll be
Can't go far but you can always dream
Wish you may and wish you might
Don't you worry,hold on tight
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly fly away
this was the first butterfly i saw this year :)) and i haven't seen another since this photo was taken in may...
i don't know if i write this too often but: THANK YOU! thank you for 5000 views and for your kind comments yesterday. you have lighted up my day.
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly" - Anonymous
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1. What was the last big change that you did to your hair? Are you often experimental when it comes to those kind of things? Or do you usually just stick to what you know suits you best?
I'm not very experimental with my hair. i remember that i wanted to cut my hair and then it looked horrible and i wanted long hair again :D so, i'm scared now to change anything.
2. Is there anything you are looking forward to doing this summer? If so, what are your plans?
YES :) i'm going to eckernförde with one of my best friends and two other people i know. okay, i think nobody knows eckerförde, it's a small village at the sea in germany, but i'm sure it's gonna be great <3
3. What type of people do you usually NOT get along with?
i always try to be tolerant but i don't get along with people who always make other people feel small. and i hate these people who always show how "cool" they are.
4. Do you have an interest that is uncommon to most people? How many people, if any, do you share this same interest with?
Photography. That means I often nerve my friends with "Wait! I have to take a photo of it!" or just "This could be a nice photo!" :D
5. Do you have any motto in life? Or any quote/sayings that you believe in or follow?
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain"
6. What is your nationality? Are you proud of your nationality? Do you believe in national or ethnic pride?
I'm german. And I don't really care about where I come from. But I feel very german when the soccer world cup begins :DD
7. What do you think is the biggest misconception about the place that you're from?
People sometimes think that all german haven't changed since 1940. And we don't eat Sauerkraut the whole day.
8. What do you think is your biggest personality flaw? How does this affect your relationship with other people?
I always care too much about what other people say or think about me. That's why i'm sometimes a little shy (:
9. What's one movie you're looking forward to seeing right now? If you do not have one, what's the last movie you saw and how did you find it?
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows Part two!! :D
10. How good are you at handling money? Do you find it harder to save or spend? How often do you find yourself broke?
I think I'm good at handling money. Of course it's not easy to save it but i never have 'no money'
Divers 2024 - Terracotta Army and the First Emperor of China
Thanks to a unique setting and a collection of extraordinary objects, Terracotta Army. And the First Emperor of China promises to catapult you 2200 years back in time, to the land they call the Middle Kingdom. After great success in Naples and Milan, the exhibition is coming to Tour & Taxis in Brussels.
( Divers albums de photos prisent en 2024 .
Various albums of pictures taken in 2024 . )
I remember being told the story of Noah's ark, the rainbow, and how that was God's promise to Noah (and, well, creation). I think I've never really separated God/rainbows in my head. I can't see them as just a natural phenomenon, water and light...
Promise, my Volks SD Luna One-Off model painted by Rumina from a 2014 release arrived home today!
I was quick to remove her default Volks glass eyes (as pretty as they are) so that I could replace them with these 18mm Dollflower Kunzite eyes.
I can't believe how much I love this look on her, I might have stumbled upon her "default" look immediately by accident! Still, I look forward to experimenting with her look a little bit more in the future. <3
On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, Joan Hill, a 38-year-old Houston, Texas, socialite, became violently ill for no readily apparent reason. Her husband, Dr. John Hill, at first indifferent, later drove her at a leisurely pace several miles to a hospital in which he had a financial interest, passing many other medical facilities on the way. When checked by admitting physicians, Joan's blood pressure was dangerously low, 60/40. Attempts to stabilize her failed and the next morning she died. The cause of death was uncertain. Some thought pancreatitis; others opted for hepatitis.
Joan's father, Ash Robinson, a crusty and extremely wealthy oilman, remained convinced that his daughter had been murdered. Neither was he reticent about naming the culprit: John Hill. When, just three months after Joan's death, Hill married long-time lover Ann Kurth, Robinson threw thousands of dollars into a crusade to persuade the authorities that his son-in-law was a killer. Noted pathologist Dr. Milton Helpern, hired to conduct a second autopsy, cautiously volunteered his opinion that Joan Hill might have been poisoned.
Under Robinson's relentless badgering, prosecutors scoured legal textbooks, searching for a way to indict Hill. They came up with the extremely rare charge of "murder by omission," in effect, killing someone by deliberate neglect. Assistance came in the unexpected form of Ann Kurth. Hill had ditched her after just nine months of marriage. What Kurth told the district attorney bolstered their decision to indict Hill.
Jury selection began on February 15, 1971. Because of the defendant's undeniably handsome appearance, Assistant District Attorney I.D. McMaster aimed for a predominantly male, middle-class panel, one he thought likely to frown on a wealthy philandering physician. His opponent, chief defense counsel Richard Haynes, quite naturally did his best to sit jurors that he thought would favor his client. In this first battle McMaster emerged a clear victor, securing a jury made up of eleven men and one woman. Haynes wasn't that perturbed. In a long and eventful career he'd overcome bigger obstacles, earning a statewide reputation second to none for tenacity and legal acumen. Not for nothing had he acquired the nickname "Racehorse." It promised to be a memorable contest.
Ehemaliges Gasthaus Zur Gräfin
Objekt ID: 39673, Unterer Stadtplatz 14, 16, 18
Katastralgemeinde: Kufstein
Written by Mag. Michael Fritz
Coat of arms of Kufstein districts: Endach, Kufstein, Kufstein-Kaisertal, Kufstein -Stadtberg, Mitterndorf, Morsbach, Thierberg, Weissach, Zell
In the Tischoferhöhle (cavern) in the Kaisertal in 1906 several arrowheads from around 30,000 BC were found. This represents the oldest find of human traces in Tyrol. From the early Bronze Age can be partially derived traces of settlement, in this cave probably being a bronze workshop, as evidenced by various archaeological finds.
Under Roman rule Kufstein was divided into the provinces of Noricum and Rhaetia, the border being formed by the river Inn. In addition to the Roman road from Veldidena to Rosenheim, investigations also revealed two Roman settlement centers in Zell and Langkampfen.
788 Kufstein was first mentioned in the Indiculus Arnonis next cell. This indicates that Zell had survived the turmoil of the Migration Period as a settlement. About the place the Bavarian land acquisition in Tyrol was initiated and also the mission efforts from Salzburg began in Kufstein.
Kufstein belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria and later, in addition to Kitzbühel and Rattenberg, represented a "district court." Was the place in the 11th century still referred to as a village, so Kufstein got in the 13th century the status as a market. For the first time in 1205 also the "castrum" (Castle) was mentioned in a document. The raising to the status of a market and the construction of the castle make the importance of this settlement clear: Through Kufstein, both the waterway over the Inn and the road to Rosenheim led. Was at this time in addition to the Duke of Bavaria also the diocese of Regensburg owner of the castle, so the dukes were able to prevail until 1213 as the sole ruler.
Due to the marriage between the last Görzer Countess of Tyrol, Margarethe Maultasch, with Ludwig von Brandenburg, Kufstein 1342 came as a bridal gift for the first time to Tyrol, but had to be ceded 1369 in the peace of Schärding again to Bavaria. As a result, the development of the settlement and the castle was greatly encouraged by the Bavarians, so that Stephan III. from Bavaria Kufstein in 1393 raised to the city. In addition to the freedoms, the biggest advantage for the population was above all the staple and the selling right. 1415 further reinforcements were made at the castle and from 1480 a trench tax introduced, which was intended for the expansion of the city fortifications. The Ensemble Castle Town was from this time considered impregnable.
1503 broke out the Bavarian War of Succession, which offered for the House of Habsburg the opportunity to bring Kufstein to Tyrol. Emperor Maximilian stood on the side of Albrecht of Upper Bavaria, who promised him for his help against Duke Ruprecht of the Palatinate the district courts of Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Upper Bavaria and already handed over as a pledge. But Hans von Piezenau gave the castle and town of Kufstein to the advancing Palatine troops. Emperor Maximilian responded to this challenge and arrived on October 1, 1504 in front of the city with sufficient artillery. 3 days later, the shelling began, which did not have any effect on the castle, but severely damaged the city. Then Kufstein was handed over to the Habsburgs on October 12th. Only the use of the two big culverins from the Innsbruck armory, "Purlepaus" and "Weckauf", which had been brought on rafts to Kufstein, shot within three days the complex ready for the storm. When Piezenau now wanted to hand over the fortress, the emperor did not accept this offer and on 17 October stormed the castle. The captain and 17 defenders were executed in the episode. In the peace of Cologne, the handover of the 3 courts was confirmed.
Immediately, the fortress and the city were repaired. Instead of the existing keep, a round tower was built to meet the needs of the time, which was equipped with cannons and was able to spread the entire valley. After the peasant wars on Kufstein had passed without conflict, the city was very popular with the Anabaptists, who were severely persecuted by church and secular authorities. By 1580, 22 Kufstein people were executed for their religious beliefs and many others had to emigrate.
In a fire disaster in 1546 a large part of the city was destroyed, which was triggered by a carelessness of passing through papal troops.
In 1555 King Ferdinand I ordered the fortress to be rebuilt. In particular, the city walls were fortified by innumerable bastions and towers.
In the run-up to the Thirty Years' War, a hill was built between Zahmen Kaiser and Kufstein, but was never needed during the war.
In the meantime, with the weekly market and the two fairs a lively economic life had developed in Kufstein: On the one hand, trade flourished, which was strongly promoted by the Staple right, on the other hand, more and more craft enterprises were brought to life. So at that time there were 4 breweries in Kufstein alone.
In the War of Spanish Succession in 1703 the city and fortress Kufstein was threatened by the Bavarians. Under the command of Field Marshal Gschwindt the suburb was lit. The fire overcame the city walls, destroying the city and finally reaching the big tower of the fortress. There were stored large quantities of gunpowder, which exploded and devastated the entire complex. Part of the 500-man crew fled with the population over the Inn, the advancing Bavarians could take the fortress and only by the Ilbesheimer contract Kufstein came back to Tyrol.
In 1782, under the direction of the court architect Gumpp the fortress was again expanded. Above all, the Josefsburg was richly equipped with casemates.
In the 3rd Coalition War, the fortress was taken by the French under General Deroy and came in the peace of Bratislava 1805 to Bavaria. During the Tyrolean freedom fight, the Tyrolean shooters tried several times unsuccessfully to take the fortress. Unlike the fortress, however, they had taken the city by storm and the population suffered from the reprisals of both warring parties. After Napoleon's defeat, Kufstein returned to Tyrol on July 7, 1814.
This war had greatly changed Kufstein: the economic power had almost come to a standstill and the construction took a long time. The fort itself had lost much of its military importance and served from then on only as a garrison and the Emperor's Tower as a state prison. In 1865 the prison was closed and in 1888 the last garrison left.
From 1849 onwards, the city once again enjoyed a boom by the Kink family, which at that time set up a cement plant, donated a hospital and had the former moat filled up, which allowed the city to expand and connect the suburbs with the city.
1858 the railway line Rosenheim Kufstein Innsbruck was opened, 1867 the Brenner railway. As a result, while the inland navigation lost its right to exist, but Kufstein developed into an extremely important customs station.
The first kindergarten in Tyrol was founded in 1870, with the first Kindergärtnerinnenbildungsanstalt (Nursery School Teacher Educational Establishment) in Austria also starting here.
Geschrieben von Mag. Michael Fritz
Wappen von Kufstein Ortsteile: Endach, Kufstein, Kufstein-Kaisertal, Kufstein -Stadtberg, Mitterndorf, Morsbach, Thierberg, Weissach, Zell
In der Tischoferhöhle im Kaisertal wurden 1906 mehrere Pfeilspitzen aus der Zeit um 30.000 vor Christus gefunden. Dies stellt den ältesten Fund menschlicher Spuren in Tirol dar. Aus der frühen Bronzezeit lassen sich schon teilweise Besiedelungsspuren ableiten, wobei sich in dieser Höhle wahrscheinlich eine Bronzewerkstatt befand, wie verschiedenste archäologische Funde belegen.
Unter römischer Herrschaft war Kufstein auf die Provinzen Noricum und Rätien aufgeteilt, wobei der Inn die Grenze bildete. Neben der Römerstrasse von Veldidena nach Rosenheim, ergaben Untersuchungen auch zwei römische Siedlungskerne in Zell und Langkampfen .
788 wurde erstmals Kufstein im Indiculus Arnonis neben Zell genannt. Dies deutet daraufhin, dass Zell die Wirren der Völkerwanderungszeit als Siedlung überstanden hatte. Über den Ort wurde die bayrische Landnahme in Tirol eingeleitet und auch die Missionsbestrebungen von Salzburg aus, nahmen ihren Anfang in Kufstein.
Kufstein gehörte zum Herzogtum Bayern und stellte später neben Kitzbühel und Rattenberg ein „Landgericht" dar. Wurde der Ort im 11. Jahrhundert noch als Dorf bezeichnet, so erhielt Kufstein im 13. Jahrhundert den Status als Markt. Erstmals wurde auch 1205 das „castrum" (Burg) urkundlich erwähnt. Die Markterhebung und auch die Errichtung der Burg machen die Bedeutung dieser Siedlung deutlich: Durch Kufstein führte sowohl der Wasserweg über den Inn als auch die Strasse nach Rosenheim. War zu dieser Zeit neben dem Herzog von Bayern auch das Bistum Regensburg Besitzer der Burganlage, so konnten sich die Herzöge bis 1213 als alleinige Herrscher durchsetzen.
Durch die Ehe zwischen der letzten Görzer Gräfin von Tirol, Margarethe Maultasch, mit Ludwig von Brandenburg, kam Kufstein 1342 als Brautgeschenk erstmals zu Tirol, musste aber 1369 im Frieden von Schärding wiederum an Bayern abgetreten werden. In der Folge wurde der Ausbau der Siedlung und der Burg von den Bayern stark gefördert, sodass Stephan III. von Bayern Kufstein im Jahre 1393 zur Stadt erhob. Der größte Vorteil für die Bevölkerung war neben den Freiheiten vor allem das Stapel und Niederlagsrecht. 1415 wurden weitere Verstärkungen an der Burg vorgenommen und ab 1480 eine Grabensteuer eingeführt, welche für den Ausbau der Stadtbefestigung vorgesehen war. Das Ensemble Burg Stadt galt ab dieser Zeit als uneinnehmbar.
1503 brach der bayrische Erbfolgekrieg aus, der für das Haus Habsburg die Möglichkeit bot, Kufstein an Tirol zu bringen. Kaiser Maximilian stellte sich auf Seiten Albrecht von Oberbayern, der ihm für seine Hilfe gegen Herzog Ruprecht von der Pfalz die Landgerichte Kufstein, Kitzbühel und Oberbayern versprach und bereits als Pfand übergab. Hans von Piezenau übergab aber Burg und Stadt Kufstein den anrückenden pfälzischen Truppen. Kaiser Maximilian reagierte auf diese Herausforderung und traf am 1. Oktober 1504 vor der Stadt mit ausreichender Artillerie ein. 3 Tage später begann der Beschuss, der zwar gegen die Burg keine Wirkung zeigte, die Stadt aber stark beschädigte. Daraufhin wurde Kufstein am 12. Oktober an den Habsburger übergeben. Erst der Einsatz der zwei großen Feldschlagen aus dem Innsbrucker Zeughaus, „Purlepaus" und „Weckauf", welche auf Flößen nach Kufstein gebracht worden waren, schossen binnen drei Tagen die Anlage sturmreif. Als Piezenau nun die Festung übergeben wollte, akzeptierte der Kaiser dieses Angebot nicht und ließ am 17. Oktober die Burg stürmen. Der Burghauptmann und 17 Verteidiger wurden in der Folge hingerichtet. Im Friedensschluss von Köln wurde die Übergabe der 3 Gerichte bestätigt.
Sofort wurden die Festung und die Stadt wieder Instand gesetzt. Anstelle des bisherigen Bergfriedes wurde nun ein den Erfordernissen der Zeit entsprechender Rundturm errichtet, der mit Kanonen bestückt wurde und das gesamte Tal bestreichen konnte. Nachdem die Bauerkriege an Kufstein ohne Konflikte vorübergegangen waren, machte sich in der Stadt ein starker Zulauf zu den Wiedertäufern breit, die von kirchlichen als auch von weltlichen Behörden stark verfolgt wurden. Bis 1580 wurden 22 Kufsteiner wegen ihrer religiösen Überzeugung hingerichtet und viele andere mussten auswandern.
Bei einer Brandkatastrophe wurde 1546 ein großer Teil der Stadt zerstört, welche durch eine Unachtsamkeit durchziehender päpstlicher Truppen ausgelöst wurde.
1555 wurde durch einen Befehl König Ferdinands I. die Festungsanlage wiederum ausgebaut: So wurde vor allem die Stadtmauer durch unzählige Bastionen und Türmen verstärkt.
Im Vorfeld des 30 jährigen Krieges wurden eine Schanze zwischen Zahmen Kaiser und Kufstein errichtet, die aber im Kriegsverlauf niemals benötigt wurde.
In der Zwischenzeit hatte sich in Kufstein mit dem Wochenmarkt und den 2 Jahrmärkten ein reges wirtschaftliches Leben entwickelt: Einerseits florierte der Handel, der durch das Stappelrecht stark gefördert wurde, andererseits wurden immer mehr Handwerksbetriebe ins Leben gerufen. So befanden sich zu dieser Zeit allein 4 Bierbrauereien in Kufstein.
Im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg wurde 1703 die Stadt und Festung Kufstein von den Bayern bedroht. Unter dem Kommando von Feldmarschall Gschwindt wurde die Vorstadt angezündet, wobei das Feuer die Stadtmauer überwand, die Stadt zerstörte und schließlich bis in den großen Turm der Festung kam. Dort wurden große Mengen Schießpulver gelagert, welche explodierte und die gesamte Anlage verwüstete. Ein Teil der 500 Mann zählenden Besatzung floh mit der Bevölkerung über den Inn, die nachrückenden Baiern konnten die Festung einnehmen und erst durch den Ilbesheimer Vertrag kam Kufstein zurück an Tirol.
1782 wurde unter der Leitung des Hofbaumeisters Gumpp die Festung wiederum ausgebaut. Vor allem wurde die Josefsburg mit Kasematten reich ausgestattet.
Im 3. Koalitionskrieg wurde die Festung durch die Franzosen unter General Deroy eingenommen und kam im Frieden von Pressburg 1805 zu Bayern. Während des Tiroler Freiheitskampfes versuchten die Tiroler Schützen mehrmals erfolglos die Festung einzunehmen. Im Gegensatz zur Festung hatten sie aber die Stadt im Sturm erobert und die Bevölkerung litt unter den Repressalien beider Kriegsparteien. Nach der Niederlage Napoleons kam am 7. Juli 1814 Kufstein wieder zu Tirol.
Dieser Krieg hatte Kufstein stark verändert: die wirtschaftliche Kraft war beinahe zum Erliegen gekommen und der Aufbau dauerte lange. Die Festung selbst hatte ihre militärische Bedeutung stark verloren und diente fortan nur mehr als Garnison und der Kaiserturm als Staatsgefängnis. 1865 wurde das Gefängnis geschlossen und 1888 zog die letzte Garnison aus.
Ab 1849 nahm die Stadt wiederum einen Aufschwung durch die Familie Kink, welche zu dieser Zeit ein Zementwerk errichtete, ein Krankenhaus stiftete und den ehemaligen Stadtgraben auffüllen ließ, wodurch sich die Stadt ausdehnen konnte, bzw. eine Verbindung zwischen Vorstadt und Stadt hergestellt wurde.
1858 wurde die Bahnlinie Rosenheim Kufstein Innsbruck eröffnet, 1867 die Brennerbahn. Dadurch verlor zwar die Innschiffahrt ihre Daseinsberechtigung, aber Kufstein entwickelte sich zu einer extrem wichtigen Zollstation.
1870 wurde der erste Kindergarten Tirols gegründet, wobei auch die erste Kindergärtnerinnenbildungsanstalt Österreichs hier ihren Anfang nahm.
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