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Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, part of Kiev Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city (Russian: ????????? atomograd) in the Soviet Union at the time and its population was around 50,000 before the accident. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.Along with its prime goal as being home to nuclear power plant's employees, Pripyat had been viewed as a major railroad and river cargo port in northern Ukraine. The urban nomenclature was quite typical for the time. There were traditional ideological names on the city map such as Lenin Avenue, International Friendship Street, Heroes of Stalingrad Street, etc.
There also were some street names that had local bearings, e.g. Embankment Street, Builders Avenue, and Enthusiasts Avenue. Lesya Ukrainka Street has cultural implications: it bears the name of one of the greatest poets of Ukraine. The standard Soviet theme was also included in the naming scheme: Igor Kurchatov Street was named after the "Father of the Soviet Atomic Bomb".
Pripyat had a defined city centre where the city hall (or city council), the largest shopping centres, major recreational and public catering facilities and the Polissya hotel were located.
The official evacuation note:
"For the attention of the residents of Pripyat! The City Council informs you that due to the accident at Chernobyl Power Station in the city of Pripyat the radioactive conditions in the vicinity are deteriorating. The Communist Party, its officials and the armed forces are taking necessary steps to combat this. Nevertheless, with the view to keep people as safe and healthy as possible, the children being top priority, we need to temporarily evacuate the citizens in the nearest towns of Kiev Oblast. For these reasons, starting from April 27, 1986 2 p.m. each apartment block will be able to have a bus at its disposal, supervised by the police and the city officials. It is highly advisable to take your documents, some vital personal belongings and a certain amount of food, just in case, with you. The senior executives of public and industrial facilities of the city has decided on the list of employees needed to stay in Pripyat to maintain these facilities in a good working order. All the houses will be guarded by the police during the evacuation period. Comrades, leaving your residences temporarily please make sure you have turned off the lights, electrical equipment and water off and shut the windows. Please keep calm and orderly in the process of this short-term evacuation."
Example of pan-retinal photocoagulation treatment for diabetic retinopathy in Africa. Photo shows treatment at one burn width apart. Oedema surrounding the burns makes them look more confluent than they are.
Photo: Anthony Hall.
Published in: Community Eye Health Journal Vol. 24 No. 75 SEPTEMBER 2011 www.cehjournal.org
De segmenten worden door de robotarm van de loopband opgetild om op hun plaats gezet te worden in de tunnelwand. Met een duimstok wordt gemeten of het segment goed is aangebracht.
Fotograaf: Jurriaan Brobbel
A kingbright PSA08-11HWA 16-segment display with decimal point. Red segments, common anode configuration.
The High Level Segment of the Governing Council of the Community of Democracies took place on March 5, on the occasion of the 28th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Given the occasion, the meeting dealt intensively with topics related to human rights, and hosted three United Nations Special Rapporteurs: SR on Promoting the Rights to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye; SR on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Michel Forst; and SR on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Maina Kiai. Special Rapporteurs presented their latest reports and insights and discussed them with Ministers and High Level Participants.
Ten days after pan-retinal photocoagulation (PRP). Note regression of new vessels.
Photo: Anthony Hall.
Published in: Community Eye Health Journal Vol. 24 No. 75 SEPTEMBER 2011 www.cehjournal.org
WTDC-17 Plenary - High Level Segment H.E. Mr Marek Ondrousek
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade
Czech Republic
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We came across an interesting oddity from the realm of consumer electronics: a fake seven-segment LED display. Just for fun, we made our own version too.
Read more about this project here.
Midtown, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Engine Company Number 23, built in 1905-06, was designed by Alexander H. Stevens in a straightforward Beaux-Arts style that served as a model for subsequent firehouse design. The symmetry of the three story facade, its materials — Indiana limestone and red brick laid in Flemish bond with dark headers, and its consistently ample fenestration successfully combine to give it its official character.
The repetition of architectural elements and their functions — segmental door and window heads, compatible window head and entablature, the sill course, keystones, bracket stone and key consoles — combine to create a sophisticated and cohesive facade design. From this firehouse this engine company has continued to fulfill its mission of protecting the lives and property of the citizens of New York.
Neighborhood History & Context
Engine Company 23 (Plate 1) is the only edifice on this section of West 58th Street still housing a function directly related to its original purpose. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contemporary landbooks indicate that private stables stood on many of the lots along the street's north side. There were commercial liveries as well: the Bennett Livery Stable was at 221 West 58th Street; there was a small livery on the northwest corner at Seventh Avenue; and on the southwest corner there was the Central Park Livery Stables.
On Seventh Avenue just north of the small livery there was a Riding Academy. The presence of a firehouse on this block was appropriate and compatible: the steam engine, the hose and the fuel wagons, and the chief's buggy were all horse drawn; and as much as the residents nearby required stabling for the horses they hired and/or maintained for their own use, they relied upon the protective presence of the Fire Department (Plate 2).
The warehouses west toward the Hudson River and the tenements to the south and northwest were equally or more susceptible to fire as the first class residential buildings and hotels along Fifth Avenue and Central Park South.
History - Engine Company 23
Engine Company 23 was organized on October 6, 1865, two months after New York City's paid, professional Fire Department was established. Each of the older volunteer companies was replaced by a resident professional company. Originally Engine Company 23 was Harry Howard Volunteer Company 36, a company established in 1810 as Equitable Company 36 in response to the demands of the fledgling fire insurance industry. Equitable 36 changed its name about 1858 when Howard, the popular Chief Engineer of the volunteer department, suffered a paralytic stroke in performance of duty.
Engine Company 23 has been on West 58th Street more than 100 years. The current building at West 58th Street is its second home; the company moved from West 68th Street, between Broadway and Tenth Avenue (now Amsterdam), to a new firehouse at 233 West 58th Street (demolished 1939) in 1884.2
A glance through the Company 23 log books suggests the routine of firehouse life' as well as the difficulties of the fireman's vocation. The daily routine of deliveries (oats, straw, bran, meal and salt; coal for the furnace, coal for the steamer), the maintenance of the apparatus (horses exercised, stalls flushed, harness repaired, wagon axles greased, and the steam kept up), the round of hydrant and building inspections (serving notices for blocked tenement fire escapes or non-compliant use of kerosene), may have been somewhat alleviated by the regimented goings and comings (watch reliefs, one hour meal times or a visit to the barber) or by the evening theater inspections (the Majestic and Carnegie Hall) — ever since the disastrous fire at The Brooklyn Theatre in December 1876.
The logs record the occasional, miscreant fireman (hounded by creditors or intoxicated and unfit for duty) as well as the responses to Departmental damage surveys — collisions and hose cuttings perpetrated by the Metropolitan Street Pail way. Certainly there were times — July 4 th for example — when the company knew that it would be busy.
But it was the sudden interruptions of this routine which more than balanced the tedious hours of preparation: the time the pole pin broke on the way to a fire and the horses separated from the apparatus (making Company 23 six minutes late at the site of the fire); or in December 1904 with the heroic rescue of Miss May Grant from an upper story of a burning building at 164 West 54th Street by Firemen Rau and Harney. There is no reason to believe that firehouse life became any less arduous after 1907 and the introduction of motorized apparatus (Plate 3).
Entries in the company's log book are evidence that the 1884 firehouse was in poor condition by 1904: the wooden apparatus floor was rotted away and caving in; the horse stall drains leaked into the basement; a new furnace was needed; and there was plaster loss on the apparatus story and third story.
A new firehouse was begun in 1905. Special Order (#78) from Fire Department Headquarters, dated June 30, 1906 notified the force that Engine Company 23 would be in its new quarters down the street "from and after 8 o'clock AM, July 2, 1906."
General Firehouse Design
Only after 1853 and the publication of Marriott Field's City Architecture was a general effort made to differentiate architecturally the firehouse, with its associations of civic responsibility, from the conventional urban stable building type. Field advocated a more heroic architecture and appropriate symbolic ornament — flambeaux, trumpets, hooks, ladders and hose.
The city's Fire Department contracted with the firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Son to design firehouses from 1880 to 1895. Except for the last, a French Renaissance-inspired battalion headquarters (1895) near the center of municipal government (Engine Company 31, a designated New York City landmark), the firm's straightforward use of materials — brick, stone, iron and terra cotta — and sparely integrated ornament affirmed that the LeBruns' sequence of variants upgraded the basic stable elevation with a sense of sober purpose consistent with the disciplined companies of professional firefighters who resided within them.
When subsequently the Fire Department awarded individual firehouse commissions to prominent, individual firms, firehouse elevations assumed a more elaborate character. The Beaux-Arts facade of Flagg's Engine Company 33 (1898, a designated New York City landmark), is a good example. Although the department continued to commission individual architects, by 1904 a program of 'in-house' firehouse production was introduced by Alexander H. Stevens, departmental Superintendent of Buildings. Engine Company 23 is one of these and Stevens is credited with its design, a design which appears to inform subsequent firehouse designs well into the 1920s (Plate 4).
In the context of the neighboring stable fronts Engine Company 23's facade demonstrates how far the firehouse had evolved within the urban stable type. A survey of the lot carried out in 1904 shows the lot to have been vacant though flanked by brick stables — to the west a stable of two stories and to the east the recently completed Helen Miller Gould stable designed by York & Sawyer(1901-02).
Stevens' three story facade is rendered in a utilitarian Beaux-Arts style, a synthesis of the LeBruns' earlier architectural sobriety and the recent, more elaborate commissions, particularly Horgan & Slattery's Engine Company 6 (1902-03) on Beekman Street. The symmetry, the choice of materials —brick dressed with ashlar limestone, and the generous scale of Engine Company 23's elevation suggest a public structure. The uniform height and breadth of the upper story fenestration indicate an official function not apparent on the elevations of the private and public stables along this section of West 58th Street.
Though devoid of Field's recommended ornamental allegory, Stevens' relatively spare facade denotes a sense of civic pride and duty.
The Architect
Very little is known of Alexander H. Stevens, his background or his architectural training, except that he was Superintendant of Buildings for the Fire Department in the early years of this century. Among his duties he was responsible for the renovation of existing firehouses. He may have assembled the programmatic specifications for the commissions that the Department awarded architects outside the department and subsequently supervised the work through construction. The similarity of the four firehouses he is credited with designing — Hook & Ladder Company 28 and
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Engine Company 69 at 248-50 West 143rd Street (1903-04); Hook & Ladder Company 8, 10-14 North Moore Street (1904-05); Hook & Ladder 23 and Engine Company 80, 503 West 139th Street (1904-05); and Engine Company 23 — is not surprising.
All are three stories with limestone basements and limestone dressed brick above. Although there is a slight variation in the articulation of individual facades, the general composition of a broad, centrally vertical bay, and the vocabulary of ornament are the same. Remarkable, however, is their similarity to the basic composition of Horgan & Slattery's Engine Company 6, when pared of its considerable and elaborate Beaux-Arts embellishment.
Description
The home of Engine Company 23 is constructed of load bearing brick with iron cross-bridging. It is three stories on a full basement (Plate 5). The facade, Indiana limestone and red brick laid in Flemish bond with dark headers, is articulated as a single, vertical bay comprising the apparatus entrance and above it the windows of the second story officers' room and third story chief's office.
Flanking these broad central elements are relatively narrow apertures: the personnel entrance on the left of the apparatus door and a window (now blocked) on the right; and on both the second and third stories a window on the left and toilet roam window on the right. All of these have deep reveals.
The bay containing a service entrance of the adjacent thirteen story apartment building at 221 West 58th Street is set back from the building line, creating a return (approximately five feet) of what had been the firehouse's western party wall.
The first story is faced with ashlar limestone above a granite water table. The segmental-arched apparatus entrance is the central and dominant element. Its intrados and the lower portion of its extrados are protected by wrought-iron plates extending down to the granite spur stones. The window (now blind) embrasure to the right (Plate 6) has become a flat niche and contains a seated lion, sculpted in marble, supporting with his right paw a shield on which "23" is displayed in low relief.
Two gold colored metal lanterns flank the apparatus door. Three bronze plaques have been affixed to the ashlar to the right of the apparatus entrance, two of them one above the other, between the entrance and the flat niche and the third to the right of the flat niche.
The ashlar wall surface is capped by a limestone belt course on which "23 ENGINE 23" is affixed in raised, bronze numbers and letters. A large bronze plaque occupies the central position of the limestone frieze above this course.
The large second story window's ashlar surround is keyed into the adjacent bond. Thick limestone mullions subdivide it into a wide central window and two narrow side windows, each with a transom above. Hie windows are one over one, double-hung sash; the transoms pivot horizontally.
A large, limestone scroll keystone and two conventional brackets support the balconet above. The sides of these brackets are articulated with panels containing horizontal reeding. Both of the small flanking windows are one over one, double-hung sash.
Like the window below, the large third story window's limestone surround is both keyed into the adjacent brick bond and subdivided by limestone mullions. Again the sash configuration is one over one, double-hung and the transom lights pivot horizontally. But unlike the window below, this window is defined by an earred architrave interrupted only by the large limestone key console.
The balconet supports the projecting architrave blocks to which the ends of the long, wrought iron grille fronting the window are attached (Plate 7). The pattern within the grille is a foliated one; the central medallion frames an open work fleur-de-lis. A flagpole projects out from below this iron grille. This window is flanked by two smaller windows also; they have one-over-one, double-hung sash. The entablature is limestone. Except for its limestone coping and limestone end blocks the parapet is of brick.
A pair of halogen lamps has been placed to the upper left and the upper right of the ground story ashlar. A second pair of halogen lamps has been placed at the extreme ends of the frieze above and attached to each of these is a spotlight directed up toward the flagpole. The physical fabric of the firehouse facade has remained unchanged.
Subsequent History
Engine Company 23 has resided at 215 West 58th Street since 1906 and it is from this firehouse that "2-3" has sped to fight some of the most notable fires in New York City.
Those in recent memory include: the steamship Normandie, 1940; the Empire state Building airplane crash, 1945; the Times Tower, 1960; Mayflower Hotel, 1960; the 23rd Street and Broadway loft building fire in which twelve firemen lost their lives, 1966; the Telephone Company at Third Avenue and 13th Street, 1975; the Trump Tower when under construction, 1980, — Engine Co. 23's Firemen Wehr and Pierotti rescued the crane operator trapped high above the burning site and subsequently were decorated; 499 Park Avenue, 1983; and the MGM transformer vault fire at Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street, 1989.
- From the 1989 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Welcome to the Lower Crooked Wild and Scenic River, which was designated a Federal Wild and Scenic River in 1988. Located along the Crooked River National Back Country Byway, the 8-mile Chimney Rock segment boast diverse scenery and wildlife and provides access to year-round recreational activities.
For more information contact call 541-416-6879 or visit www.blm.gov
Photo: Gavin Hoban, BLM, December 19, 2017
The steel girders that closed the centre span were lifted and fixed in place earlier this week. Concrete deck panels were lowered into position using gantry cranes positioned at the end of the centre span. Soon, crews will start pouring concrete to cast those panels in place.
الجامع العُمري الكبير Omari mosque Beirut / Lebanon
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