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Our second cohort of Affiliate Trainee Teachers joined us at the School for a week on intensive training.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
Romance is alive in Second Life! Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Here are our favorite romantic places in Second Life. For one day, grab your friend, lover or partner, get dressed up and head to these beautiful settings.
Fair Chang Expo Live music venue is a beautiful setting for live music, romance and dinner for two.
Phatland is one of favorites! Jazz and sophisticated lounge music always puts us in the mood for romance.
Phantom Rose Opera also has romantic places to chill for couples. Go over to the river and lake area for a private pavilion setting with dance pose ball.
Pillow Talk is a retail store high in the clouds, but it is a romantic setting for couples to shop. Try the poses out and it will definitely put you in the mood for love.
Avilion Ballroom is the natural choice for a ballroom dance. Valentine's last year featured heart balloons and romantic holiday setting.
Abul Kalam Khan, a paitwala, Small scale fish farmer is going to village street for selling his Yearling Brood. Kalam also get training from AIN project on how to improve aquaculture business and ensuring quality. Bagerhat, Bangladesh. 24 September 2017
A visit to Charlecote Park for an afternoon visit to this National Trust property in Warwickshire. Near Stratford-upon-Avon. A deer park with a country house in the middle of it.
Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.
The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.
From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from who's extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.
From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.
Laundry and Brewhouse and Stables and Coach House.
Also Tack Room & Second-Hand Book Shop.
Grade I Listed Building
Laundry and Brewhouse and Stables and Coach House Immediately South of Charlecote Park
Listing Text
CHARLECOTE
SP2556 CHARLECOTE PARK
1901-1/10/25 Laundry, brewhouse, stables and
05/04/67 coach house immediately S of
Charlecote Park
(Formerly Listed as:
Outbuildings at Charlecote Park)
GV I
Laundry, brewhouse, coach house, stables and deer
slaughterhouse. Laundry and brewhouse: C16 with later
restoration. Brick laid to English bond with limestone
dressings and high plinth; steeply pitched old tile roof with
octagonal brick ridge and internal stacks. L-plan.
Stables: C16 with early C19 cladding and interior alterations.
Brick laid to Flemish bond with diaper pattern in vitrified
headers; old tile roof.
EXTERIOR: laundry/brewhouse wing: south side of 2 storeys plus
attic; 5-window range; 2 cross-gables. To right, 2 entrances
have 4-centred heads and plank doors and flank 2 C19
round-headed coach entrances with keystones and paired doors.
Double-chamfered mullioned windows of 2, 3 or 8 lights with
leaded glazing. Left end has entrance to brewhouse and blocked
windows. Lead rainwater goods.
Slaughterhouse for deer attached to east end; gabled
single-storey structure with modillioned brick cornice; north
entrance has grille to overlight and to south an entrance and
2-light window.
Stables: 2 storeys; 8-window range with cross-wing and cupola
to left of centre. Moulded stone plinth and first-floor drip
course; stone-coped brick parapet. Wing breaks forward with
coped gable; elliptical-arched carriageway with moulded
responds and arch and groin vault; oriel has 1:2:1-light
transomed windows over panels (central panel has Lucy Arms)
and pierced parapet copied from gatehouse (qv).
Ground floor to left of wing: 2 coach house entrances as above
and entrance with single-chamfered Tudor arch with label mould
and fanlight to paired panelled doors and a 3-light
ovolo-mullioned window with 4/4 sashes to right. To right of
wing: 2 similar stable entrances but with plank doors each
with similar window to left.
First floor has 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows
with decorative leaded glazing and returns to drip, 3 to left
and 4 to right. South end similar, with 3-light windows.
Rear has plain arch to carriageway with 2-light window above
and small stack; to left of wing C16 brick to ground floor
with C19 brick corbelled out above; to right some C16 diapered
brick with ashlar opening to 8/8 sash and attached loose-box
block with stone-coped parapet over 3 Tudor-headed entrances
with overlights to plank doors; coped gable with finial;
attached brick gate pier with plank gate; 2 loose boxes in
gabled rear range.
INTERIOR: brewhouse has mostly C18 brewing equipment, water
pumps, coppers and stalls. Laundry has hearth and coppers; 3
segmental-headed recesses to one wall; slaughterhouse has
channels to brick/flag floor and a hoist.
Stables: full-height tack room has fittings including gallery
to 3 sides and bolection-moulded fireplace; stables to south
have stop-chamfered beams and posts; stable and loose-box
partitions; loft above has wall posts supporting 5 trusses
with braced tie beams, collars and struts, that to north with
lath and plaster infill, one with plank partition; double
purlins, wind braces and riven rafters.
The brewhouse is a particularly interesting survival complete
with equipment; the deer slaughterhouse is a rare example of
its kind.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 228-9; Charlecote Park:
guidebook: 1991-: 38-44).
Listing NGR: SP2594556378
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Coach House
Breaking Cart Late 19th Century
After barely cresting the first of the two main hills, 532 storms up the second uphill stretch past the old D&H gantry at Moot Town Rd crossing as it climbs towards the summit at Tunnel
Second Beach, Newport
•Whittredge, Worthington
•American, 1820-1910
•c. 1878/1880
•Oil on Canvas
•Dimensions:
oOverall: 76.8 × 127.6 cm (30¼ × 50¼ in.)
oFramed: 108 × 158.4 cm (42½ × 62⅜ in.)
•Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Juliana Terian in memory of Peter G. Terian
•2004.58.1
•On View
Overview
Worthington Whittredge was one of the most artistically experimental painters of America’s Hudson River school. A contemporary of other key school figures such as Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and Frederic Edwin Church, Whittredge created landscapes that were still critically and popularly admired in the 1870s and 1880s, long after the earlier style had fallen out of fashion. Unlike many of his fellow painters, Whittredge had firsthand knowledge of European landscape painting, and he was especially receptive to the aesthetics of French Barbizon and impressionist art. In painting this radiant and freely brushed work, the artist demonstrated his mastery of these newer styles of landscape painting and created one of the outstanding American landscapes of the era.
By the time Whittredge painted Second Beach, it had long been one of the favored recreational sites of wealthy Americans who built their lavish summer homes in the town of Newport, Rhode Island. Here we see fashionably dressed figures testing the waters and enjoying the splendors of a beautiful day; in the background a horse-drawn carriage ferries others from one end of the beach to the other. Stopped in time and fixed indelibly through the clarity of artistic vision, this scene was recorded by Whittredge with a sensibility that perfectly matched its ineffable beauty.
Inscription
•Lower Left: W.Whittredge.
Provenance
Thomas Barlow Walker [1840-1928], Minneapolis, by 1925; T.B. Walker Foundation, Minneapolis; gift 1976 to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 24 May 1989, no. 31); private collection; Juliana [Mrs. Peter] Terian, New York; purchased 27 May 2004 through (David Nisinson Fine Art, New York) by NGA.
Exhibition History
•1909—Possibly Exhibition of Paintings and Sketches by Worthington Whittredge, The Century Club, New York, 1909, no. 3, as Bishop Berkeley’s Seat—Newport, R.I..
•1945—The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1945, no. 163, repro., as Third Beach, Newport.
•1948—The Coast and the Sea. A Survey of American Marine Painting, Brooklyn Museum, 1948-1949, no. 128, as Third Beach, Newport.
•1953—Painters of Ohio’s Past, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio; Dayton Art Institute; Akron Art Institute; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 1953, no. 41, as Third Beach Newport.
•1957—Early New Jersey Artists, 18th and 19th Centuries, Newark Museum, 1957, no. 104, as Third Beach, Newport.
•1960—The Hudson River School, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, 1960-1962.
•1963—Four Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1963-1964, unnumbered catalogue, as Third Beach, Newport.
•1965—The Seashore: Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1965, no. 35, repro., as Third Beach, Newport.
•1969--Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910): A Retrospective Exhibition of an American Artist, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Albany Institute of History and Art; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1969-1970, no. 30, repro. (shown only at Utica).
•1970—The American Arts: A Celebration, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970.
•1976—American Marine Painting, Virginia Museum, Richmond; Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, 1976, no. 38, repro.
•1980—American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, fig. 140.
•1982—Quiet Places: The American Landscapes of Worthington Whittredge, Adam Davidson Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 31, repro.
•1986—The Eden of America: Rhode Island Landscapes, 1820-1920, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1986, no. 27, repro.
•1987—American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
•1990—Worthington Whittredge Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1990.
DATE: 4-2-15
LOCATION: Ellington T-38s, NBL, Bldg 9, Bldg 30 - MCC.
SUBJECT: Tour of ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet with guests Tony Parker and Boris Diaw from the San Antonio Spurs.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett
Second Life holiday parties was an incredible mix of trance, dnb, electronica, dark psy, goa, minimal, proggy, acid, experimental, industrial, noize, tribal, jazz, live music, country, blues, reggae, salsa, classical, opera, and Christmas music. I heard it all and then some.
I love music of all kinds. If it's good, it's worth listening to, so don't start with the nose-up-in-the-air over your favorite genre. Believe me... good music will always find an audience. An audience of sophisticated listeners will stop to listen to any good sound... even if it isn't part of your normal repertoire.
What is amazing is that dj's and musicians around the world know this, and they borrow from all genres to create their own personal sounds.
Here in Second Life, we get the results from around the world. World music mixes with the trendy sounds of the day, and we get the sounds that we love so much.
I want to thank all the dj's, musicians, club owners and event makers in SL. You guys made a holiday scene like no other. APPLAUSE & BRAVO ::::
Special thanks to you <3:
... and kisses to ::
Xavier
Aosh
Ronnie
Stig
Mackenzie
Lou
Leo
Professor
Grease
Hallow
Nos
Thomm
Finny
Donna
IPR365
Arora
8Wall
Space
Shad
Healer
Queen
Stefan
Jen
Max
Xavier
Zod
Tina
Melt
WET
Sully
Sylvain
Alb
Web
Without you guys, the party scene would be dull indeed!
<3 <3 <3
2009... here we goooooo!
I organize Task force to update PoIC manual. Ten months after the first meiosis. It took some time to accumulate ideas. :)
ATSUGI, Japan (Jan. 8, 2014) A P-8A Poseidon prepares to taxi at Naval Air Facility Atsugi during an orientation flight for Japanese media. The P-8A is the most advanced long range anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft in the world and is the U.S. Navy's replacement platform for the venerable P-3C Orion, which has been in service for 50 years. The P-8A deployed for the first time with VP-16 in Dec. 2013, to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, as part of the Navy's long-range plan to rotate newer and more capable aircraft forward to ensure the U.S. is best postured to honor its security commitments to Japan and to contribute to regional security and stability. (U.S. Navy photo/RELEASED)
In the game Second Life, I play the avatar Juushika Redgrave.
A very laidback outfit for a very laidback day. The day before was super busy for me (yay for traffic at the club! nay for Juu overworking herself as a result >_<), so this was a take it easy outfit for a day spent doing nothing in particular. The jeans are a new purchase from Linx, a new-to-me store that was a nice find. They have a tilted waistband, which I absolutely love. The texture work on them is wonderful: realistically jean-like without feeling rough. They are a skinny-cut fit, and I left them unmodified--I don't wear skinny jeans often, but I like the look here. The tank if from TorridWear, and is one of the oldest and most-worn items in my inventory. It's a bit low-cut, but simple and incredibly comfortable. Looks great with almost any pair of pants. The tattoo is also a well-worn favorite, from LAME. It's probably my favorite star tat in game.
Clothes
Shirt: Easy Street-Tank (Black) by TorridWear
Pants: Straight 77 Stretch Jean by Lixz
Socks: Cashmere Socks Cool Black by LaynieWear
Shoes: Flare Oxfords - Black by Shiny Things
Body
Eyes: Eyes - Greens - Sage by Soda
Skin: Mature Freckled Brood Glitz Nimbus by Sin Skins
Hair: Halftail - Red by 0 Style
Accessories
Tattoo: Full Star Body Tattoo by Lame
Glasses: Emily by Persenickety
Collar: Amethyst Collar (Slim) by Amethyst
Whiskers: Plenty Black Whiskers by Gritty Kitty
Neko Parts: Anisa's Neko Ears and Tail by Anisa @ OTCR (ears modded to include Industrial piercing by DEEKS)
DATE: 4-2-15
LOCATION: Ellington T-38s, NBL, Bldg 9, Bldg 30 - MCC.
SUBJECT: Tour of ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet with guests Tony Parker and Boris Diaw from the San Antonio Spurs.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett
DATE: 4-2-15
LOCATION: Ellington T-38s, NBL, Bldg 9, Bldg 30 - MCC.
SUBJECT: Tour of ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet with guests Tony Parker and Boris Diaw from the San Antonio Spurs.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett
[Pumpkin] Layered Crop Tee - Thrasher
Blueberry - Cake - Maitreya/Belleza/Slink - Black
Magika - Cream Soda
The roller chick took its maiden flight this morning. Just as was packing my gear away, thinking photo sessions are over, a second chick popped its head out the entrance hole......nice to meet and greet you, youngster!
DATE: 4-2-15
LOCATION: Ellington T-38s, NBL, Bldg 9, Bldg 30 - MCC.
SUBJECT: Tour of ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet with guests Tony Parker and Boris Diaw from the San Antonio Spurs.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett
One of very few snapshots I ever took when I was in Teen Second Life (just before transferring to the main grid (December 2008)).
A snapshot I took of the entire Teen Grid (yes, the whole map). When people told me that the main grid was supposally huge compared to the tsl map, they weren't kidding. I didn't think they meant that it literally was that massive.