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A booklet from a correspondence course from the 1920s. Blogged (with link to whole booklet in PDF format) here.
Finally organized all the recipe tear sheets I have been saving... into nice sheet protectors and binders.
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Lìjiāng (simplified Chinese: 丽江; traditional Chinese: 麗江) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometres and had a population of 1,244,769 at the 2010 census.
HISTORY
Lijiang City replaced the former administrative region of Lijiang Prefecture. It was under the rule of the Mu family (木氏) local commanders (土司) during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
The Baisha Old Town was the political, commercial and cultural center for the local Naxi people and other ethnic groups for 400 years from the year 658 AD to 1107 AD. The Dabaoji Palace of the Baisha Fresco, very close to the Baisha Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute, was built in the year 658 AD in the Tang Dynasty (618 AD to 960 AD).
In ancient times, the Baisha Old Town used to be the center of silk embroidery in the southwest of China and the most important place of the Ancient Southern Silk Road, also called the Ancient Tea and Horse Road or Ancient tea route. The Ancient Southern Silk Road started from Burma, crossed Lijiang, Shangri-La County, Tibet, journeyed through Iran, the Fertile Crescent, and ultimately to the Mediterranean Sea.
Naxi women were well known for their hand-made embroidery before 1972 during the Great Cultural Revolution. The most famous Naxi masters were arrested and put in jail, some of them died in jail during the Cultural Revolution because they did hand-made embroidery only for the Naxi Emperors when they were young.
GEOGRAPHY
Lijiang is located in the northwestern portion of Yunnan and borders Sichuan. It is in a region where the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau converge.
Owing to its low latitude and high elevation, the city centre of Lijiang experiences a mild subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). Winters are mild and very dry and sunny (>70% possible sunshine), although average lows in December and January are just below the freezing mark; January, the coolest month, has a 24-hour average temperature of 6.0 °C. Spring begins early and remains dry and sunny until late May, when there is a dramatic uptick in frequency and amount of rainfall that lasts until late September. Summers are warm, rainy (more so than it is sunny) and damp, with June, the warmest month, averaging 18.4 °C. Autumn sees an abrupt reduction in rainfall and return to sunniness. The annual mean temperature is 12.70 °C, while precipitation averages 968 mm, around 80% of which occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 32% in July to 80% in December, the city receives 2,463 hours of bright sunshine annually.
OLD TOWN
The world famous Old Town of Lijiang is located in Lijiang City. It is a UNESCO Heritage Site.
The town has a history going back more than 800 years and was once a confluence for trade along the old tea horse road. The Lijiang old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges. The old town of Lijiang differs from other ancient Chinese cities in architecture, history and the culture of its traditional residents the Nakhi people, therefore people there are called 胖金哥 and 胖金妹 (pàng jīn gē, pàng jīn mèi, male and female respectively). The town was ruled by the Mu Family during the portions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a period of nearly 500 years.
Overlooking Lijiang Old Town is Lion Hill and at its summit is the Wangu Pavilion, which is a wooden building that stands 33 m tall and boasts 10,000 dragon carvings. The pavilion is constructed on 16 columns each of 22 m in height. The pavilion is a masterpiece of Qing Dynasty architecture that has been extensively restored following the designation of Lijiang Old Town as a UNESCO Heritage Site.
From Lion's Hill it is possible to view the entire Li River valley, including both the old city and new city of Lijiang. Looking Northwest, the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is dominates the horizon.
The Old Town is a maze of winding cobblestone streets. It is extremely easy to get lost as there is no grid, but each turn takes one to some new interesting spot, and it's not hard to eventually find one's way out of the maze and back to familiar territory. The layout of the town was established to conform to the flow of 3 streams in adherence to Feng Shui design, so there was water and waste disposal for the inhabitants. The Old Town has fast become a destination for young Chinese artists, students, and adventurers. Most recently, it has become a favored Spring Break destination for students. "Bar Street" is a line of clubs with live music, dancing, and revelry. The Old Town has a multitude of shops, some a bit tourist oriented, but several showcasing handcrafts, individual artists, and local manufacturers of interesting personal products.
There are dozens of restaurants, from snacks to high end dining, all very reasonably priced, cheap by Western standards.
Accommodations are varied, but the most interesting are the large number of boutique hotels run by individuals and families. These boutique hotels are in old traditional houses converted to rooms, courtyards, and gathering places, and designs all trend to traditional Chinese sensibilities. There are new high end hotel and condominium developments starting construction from 2011 forward, so there is a definite push to make the destination one for all tastes and not just young adventurers.
NEARBY
Some tens of miles north of Lijiang is the Baishui Terrace (白水台 Baishuitai, literally "White Water Terrace"), an area where spring water flows over a sinter terrace, leaving behind travertine. Lijiang is also close to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (玉龙雪山).
A few miles north of Lijiang is the village of Baisha, famous for the Baisha Fresco and the Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute.The Fresco was built in the Ming Dynasty 600 years ago, the Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute was built 800 years ago, it is the headquarters of the Naxi embroideries and also, a school for the Naxi embroiderers. There are many Naxi embroidery masters, teachers, students and local farmers there. Their embroidery arts can be found there.
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The very first day of service for the fleet of four brand new Optare Solo SR minibuses that Arriva Yorkshire have purchased specially for the York Local services, and here is the 3rd bus, YD63 VDJ, waiting time at the South Bank terminus before heading back to Fulford on route 26. These buses replace the white hired Optare Solo minibuses. Although not the very first photo of these buses (Chubbs has photos of them in the yard), it is the first of them in service in York. This rear view shows the revised light cluster arrangements and simplified appearance of the new 2014 type Optare Solo SR (this being one of the first of this type to enter service)
The Bund (simplified Chinese: 外滩) is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
The City God Temple or Chenghuang Miao (Chinese: 上海城隍庙) is a temple located in Shanghai, China, within the old walled city. Today the "City God Temple" not only refers to the large temple complex, but also the traditional district of commerce in the city, surrounding the temple. There are over a hundred stores and shops in this area, and most of these store buildings are nearly a century old. The temple connects to the Yuyuan Garden, another landmark of the old city.
More information about the Bund.
The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. It was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. Magnificent commercial buildings in the Beaux Arts style sprung up in the years around the turn of the 20th century as the Bund developed into a major financial center of East Asia. Directly to the south, and just northeast of the old walled city, the former French Bund (the quai de France, part of the Shanghai French Concession) was of comparable size to the Bund but functioned more as a working harbourside.
By the 1940s the Bund housed the headquarters of many, if not most, of the major financial institutions operating in China, including the "big four" national banks in the Republic of China era. However, with the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war, many of the financial institutions were moved out gradually in the 1950s, and the hotels and clubs closed or converted to other uses. The statues of colonial figures and foreign worthies which had dotted the riverside were also removed.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the thawing of economic policy in the People's Republic of China, buildings on the Bund were gradually returned to their former uses. Government institutions were moved out in favour of financial institutions, while hotels resumed trading as such. Also during this period, a series of floods caused by typhoons motivated the municipal government to construct a tall levee along the riverfront, with the result that the embankment now stands some 10 metres higher than street level. The Bunds revitalization began in 1986 with a new promenade by the Dutch Architect Paulus Snoeren and has dramatically changed the streetscape of the Bund. In the 1990s, Zhongshan Road (named after Sun Yat-sen), the road on which the Bund is centred, was widened to ten lanes. As a result, most of the parkland which had existed along the road disappeared. Also in this period, the ferry wharves connecting the Bund and Pudong, which had served the area's original purpose, were removed. A number of pleasure cruises still operate from some nearby wharves.
In the 1990s the Shanghai government attempted to promote an extended concept of the Bund to boost tourism, and land value in nearby areas, as well as to reconcile the promotion of "colonial relics" with the Socialist ideology. In its expanded form, the term "Bund" (as "New Bund" or "Northern Bund") was used to refer to areas south of the Yan'an Road, and a stretch of riverfront north of the Suzhou River (Zhabei). Such use of the term, however, remains rare outside of tourism literature.
From 2008, a major reconfiguration of traffic flow along the Bund was carried out. The first stage of the plan involved the southern end of the Bund, and saw the demolition of a section of the Yan'an Road elevated expressway, including removal of the large elevated expressway exit structure that formerly dominated the confluence of Yan'an Road and the Bund. A second phase involved the year-long restoration of the century-old Waibaidu Bridge at the northern end of the Bund. In a third stage, the former 10-lane Bund roadway was reconstructed in two levels, with six lanes carried in a new tunnel. The vacated road space was used to widen the landscaped promenade along the waterfront. The new concrete bridge that was built in 1991 to relieve traffic on Waibaidu Bridge was rendered obsolete by the new double-levelled roadway, and demolished.
The Bund was re-opened to the public on Sunday 28 March 2010 after restoration.
Text form the Wikipedia article the Bund.
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A pic from the rebuild of my '94 Bontrager OR Race frame as a single speed.
► My boys Sam & Edrin, their little cousin Hakim and a stranger are at the "simplify your journey" showcase at the departure hall, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). This is captured the night when seeing their Auntie Jae off to London last month.
Yeah, it's a tagline of the IATA (International Air Transport Association) that serves the airline industry. Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Malaysia Airport Berhad (MAB) and SITA (specialists in air transport communications and IT solutions) are collaborating in bringing a simpler travel experience for passengers.
Much deeper than that, I think I had better work harder to simply my journey to the eternity. The fact that matters is, our final day is closing in by the tick of second.
Hey folks,
Have a good life!
Tran Thi Doanh is a painter whose carefully crafted works of art, especially in lacquer, capture Vietnamese society in timeless brilliance
For visitors who want to discover the essence of Vietnam, the paintings of Tran Thi Doanh will leave a strong impression.
I stumbled upon an exhibition of her works during an afternoon walk in Hanoi in late April. Her beautiful paintings, carefully crafted pictures of rural village life, street vendors, and hill tribe people in turbans and embroidered robes can be likened to a mini-documentary of Vietnam, past and present.
The viewer is easily drawn to her oil and water color paintings because of the simplification of the color. Form is expressed tonally, with dapples of color delineating areas of light and shade. Those exhausted by the heady tropical heat in Hanoi will find great relief in Mrs. Doanh's works, which convey a sense of peace, love and beauty.
"My life-long goal is to create beautiful pictures," she said.
Some of her works reflect the intimate role of the family institution in Vietnam: people are held together in the face of change. Her paintings are also the story of human destiny; through her works viewers can see different pieces of life with which they can identify - the village gate, the trees, or the rice fields.
Born in Kim Hoang Village in Ha Tay province, Mrs. Doanh acquired the quintessence of art through her father, who was himself a painter.
"As art is our family's tradition, I grew up with it. My father was my first teacher," she said.
While in secondary school, she "fell in love" with Picasso. Later, she became interested in Gauguin, Van Gogh and Modigliani. Her Vietnamese idols in art are Nguyen Gia Tri and Nguyen Sang (who are very famous for their lacquer paintings), and To Ngoc Van, Bui Xuan Phai and Luong Xuan Nhi, all of whom are masters of oil painting.
At Hanoi Fine Arts University, her major was in oil painting, and she taught herself to paint with water colors, on silk and paper as well as canvas. Lacquer, however, is her favorite medium - and perhaps the greatest challenge - because in lacquer techniques, the full elements and details of the work will not appear until the last phase, sometimes with "a lot of surprises", as she said.
With her father and elder brother - who is also an artist - she learned the laborious art of lacquer painting, which some researchers say dates as far back as the third and fourth centuries. This particular form of art is believed to have begun in China, where people collected the lacquer substance from a tree which produces a sap suitable for painting.
It is a very meticulous work to produce a lacquer painting, and the process can take several months to complete. The painting is done on a piece of wood, or template. It is covered with a piece of cloth glued to it using the sap of the lacquer tree and then coated with a layer of the sap mixed with earth. The board is then sand-papered and recoated with a layer of hot sap.
After polishing, this gives a smooth and shining black surface.
The painter uses hot lacquer to draw the outline of a picture and the colors are applied one by one, layer upon layer. Each coat dries slowly.
The final process consists of polishing and washing the picture. This may seem like brutal treatment for a work of art, but it is done with great care, said Mrs. Doanh.
This process leaves a brilliant surface on the painting.
Lacquer paintings are also very durable. An oil painting may show cracks in the paint after a period of time, but the lacquer painting will last unchanged for several hundred years.
Art Mecca Mrs. Doanh is one of around 6,000 artists who live in Hanoi, considered by many to be the Art Mecca of Asia.
"Painters in Vietnam are well recognized. Certainly not all of them, but we have many famous painters whose works are kept in museums and private collections all over the world," she said.
Some of the best known are Girl with White Lily, an oil painting of To Ngoc Van; Thuy of Tran Van Can; and Bui Xuan Phai's set of paintings depicting Hanoi streets.
The Vietnam Arts Museum displays many fine pieces, some famous, some not. All painters can make a living through their works in the country, said Mrs Doanh, but the most famous artist may not be the richest. "We have many painters who are very rich because their paintings are bought by foreigners. If you ask 10 Vietnamese about Thanh Chuong, I'm sure there will be at least six of them who know him and will tell you how rich he is. Still, he doesn't have many awards, but the foreigners love his paintings. "
Vietnamese paintings are displayed at national and international events, including the APEC meeting in Hanoi last November. Vietnamese painters have a good relationship with foreign counterparts who they meet through cultural exchange events.
Mrs. Doanh is now in France ( May 2007 ) to display her works at the invitation of Ateliers D'Artistes de Belleville (Friendly Exchange Culture and Arts Association of Belleville) in Paris. It is her second trip outside Vietnam, the first one being to China, where she stayed for a month.
Mrs. Doanh said she has heard a lot of good things about Thailand and would like to come here to display her works as well. "Through paintings, people from different countries can understand each other's culture and way of life," she said.
"Painters are the ones who create beauty. They are the link between the past and present ... and they help people to protect their national heritage."
(Editor's Note: Mrs. Doanh's paintings can be viewed at Quan Thanh Temple on Thanh Nien Street and at the White Lotus Gallery, No 71Bl, Hang Trong Street, Hanoi.)
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Addendum from the UGVF Gallery :
After her display in Belleville , Mrs Doanh has shown her works at the UGVF Gallery ( with others artists from the Paris-Hanoi-Art Collective )
Found a more simple way to achieve the wheel driven drive for the carousel. This one works much smoother.
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The simplified health history on this 1-page application lists more than a dozen possible warning flags for one or all currently offered, FDA-approved, vaccines for Covid-19. Personal identification and contact details go on the top, signature and date on the bottom. In-between are the screening questions. Upon presenting yourself and vaccine card from initial vaccination against Covid, the person asks for preference about which arm to use for the injection and also asks for brand of vaccine preferred, since each has slightly difference history and basis. Recommendations made in October 2021 were for Moderna and Pfizer recipients to wait 6 months after initial set of vaccinations before coming back for booster (1/2 the volume of the initial injection dose). For Jansen the recommendation is to wait 2 months from (single-dose formulation) before coming back for booster dose. Both P. and M. were derived by using the mRNA (messenger RNA) route, the newest technique. Jansen used the older method of "virus vector" to create a profile for the body to activate its immune response in a safe way.
For the first few weeks of the booster campaign the priority was on health care and other high-risk populations like elderly (weaker immune response, usually) and immuno-compromised people. But with the advent of the Omicron variant late in November 2021 now the booster (and initial vaccination) campaign encourages ALL eligible people to get full vaccination, followed by booster.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.~Henry David Thoreau
This photo was turning out to be a complex one with all the different colors. So i took the colors away.
Note the button placket back of the Danger, Curves Ahead top (2nd from left) from a recycled mans Façonnable shirt. Adding in a Shapes skirt in a stripe that has the reds and purples that coordinate with the DCA sleeveless tops and the linen knit layer.
Patterns are the Ebb & Flow top (I used the Ebb button front over the Simpify Your Life top with cut-on sleeve and sleeve cuffs. Lengthened/added a horizontal seam (front & back) and used the lower portion of the Ebb top, lengthened.
A photo from this past summer taken at The Inner Harbor and adjusted with the Topaz Simplify addin for PShop.. The more I work with this filter the more I like it!
Blackberry capture, CNX2 to bring out colors and sharpen, Topaz Simplify to make it look like a painting.
What's for lunch?? maybe sushi!! ;-)
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BEST SEEN LARGER I can see I'm going to get re-addicted (is that a proper word?) to buzzlite simplifier plug in for photoshop.
Shot with a Nikon D80 with the Nikon 18-135 zoom, and edited in Lightroom with the Topaz Simplify Plugin for the artsy look.
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