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Third trimester started 2 days ago. Have I mentioned that in about 3 months I'll have a new model to take photos of?
The third annual March Against Monsanto was held in close to 400 cities in more than 40 countries from the Americas to Africa and Europe. In Dublin there was a protest meeting at the Garden Of Remembrance.
Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Greater St. Louis, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand.
Monsanto's role in agricultural changes, biotechnology products, lobbying of government agencies, and history as a chemical company have made the company controversial.
Missing Minneapolis. Found this while searching for another photo on a backup drive. Taken last Halloween in downtown Minneapolis just after snapping this one. surlygrrrl, i'm counting on you to correct me if I have the location wrong. :)
07/05/2016. Ladies European Tour 2016. Lalla Meryem Cup, Royal Dar Es Salam De Rabat, Rabat, Morocco. May 5-8. Noora Tamminen of Finland during the third round. Credit: Tristan Jones
Met Brake No. 387 has been brought into the shed for some tlc in place of Car 54. The door locks have been removed for inspection and part replacement.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and
Third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius
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তিন নম্বর লাইনে আছি ও থাকতে চাই!
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আমরা তিন রকম পদ্ধতিতে জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে পারি।
প্রথম - ভেবে, যেটা সবথেকে সঠিক।
দ্বিতীয় - অনুসরণ করে, যেটা সবথেকে সহজ।
তৃতীয় - অভিজ্ঞতা থেকে, যেটা সবথেকে কঠিন।
- কনফুসিয়াস
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Quick piece from last year
Part Of The Ongoing Chillingham Road Board Project On The Newcastle Metro System
On Tuesday, September 30 GlaxoSmithKline presented Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with a $1 million gift. This donation will be matched by Children’s Hospital to create the GlaxoSmithKline Hope for Families Fund, a permanent endowment that will help children and young adults with relapsed cancers gain access to innovative new therapies at the Hospital. Specifically, the fund will provide assistance to patients from low-income or needy families for travel and living expenses they may incur while receiving care at Children’s Hospital.
“We are thrilled and honored to be able to ease the financial burden for children and families who need the extraordinary care that Children’s Hospital provides,” said Dan Phelan, chief of staff, GlaxoSmithKline. “Improving the lives of people around the world is at the heart of our work at GlaxoSmithKline. The combined efforts of developing innovative medicines and vaccines alongside our work with communities can have a genuine impact on society. We are excited to work with Children’s Hospital to help patients receive the care they need.”
The Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital is dedicated to eradicating childhood cancer through a bench-to-bedside program of discovery translated into new therapies. Currently, the program provides care to patients from across the nation and around world. Often children and family members need to stay for days, weeks and sometimes months to receive treatment.
“We are extremely grateful to GlaxoSmithKline for this remarkable donation,” said Steven M. Altschuler, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “Corporate philanthropy is critical to furthering our mission to provide the very best family-centered care possible. When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the whole family is affected, and often consumed with emotional, logistical and economic stress. This fund will help to ease the financial burdens these families face, and allow them to focus on the health of their child.”
“As our portfolio of new drugs for childhood cancer grew, we became concerned about the financial burden placed on families traveling to Children’s Hospital,” explained John M. Maris, M.D., acting chief of the Division of Oncology and director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Children’s Hospital. “Some might decide to forgo treatment because of limited financial ability. The Hope for Families Fund will allow all children with relapsed cancers to access Children’s Hospital’s services, regardless of their families’ financial means.”
The Hope for Families Fund will benefit needy children facing the most difficult-to-cure cancers. The fund will reimburse travel expenses including gas, plane tickets, taxi fares, and provide food vouchers, hotels and other necessary travel expenditures for the patient and a parent or family member. A special committee will select the families that will benefit from the fund based on those demonstrating the most pressing financial need.
The Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital aims to provide the most skilled, compassionate care available. State-of-the-art facilities enable the Cancer Center to offer comprehensive, family-centered care from more than 40 nationally and internationally renowned pediatric oncologists. Their combined expertise spans every major form of childhood cancer. Each year, the Cancer Center treats 500 new patients and follows more than 4,000 patients, making the program one of the largest pediatric cancer programs in the world. Recently, the program has focused heavily on developing new drugs for childhood cancer, and the national referral-basis for these unique clinical trials led to the need for a program such as the Hope for Families Fund. Therefore with the help of GlaxoSmithKline, Children’s Hospital is moving one step closer to insuring all children with cancer are provided the best possible care.
The Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital is a Phase I institution and leader within the Children’s Oncology Group. Working with other elite institutions in this collaborative group, as well as with several other cooperative networks, enables Children’s Hospital researchers to fast-track novel therapies that require testing in children. Perhaps even more importantly, there is a broad laboratory and gene-hunting program at Children’s Hospital that is discovering the new therapies that are now making their way to the clinic. A commitment to advancing treatment begins with basic and translational research. The Center’s leadership role within Children’s Oncology Group allows them to offer cutting-edge treatment not available at other institutions from the pediatric oncology experts who translate basic science into these new treatments.
About GlaxoSmithKline: GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. For company information and details of the company’s updated product development pipeline, visit GlaxoSmithKline at www.gsk-us.com.
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, Children's Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country, ranking third in National Institutes of Health funding. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought the 430-bed hospital recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit www.chop.edu.
Melrose, Bronx, New York City, New York, United StatesThe Bronx Borough Courthouse, occupying a prominent site on 161st Street between Brook and Third Avenues, was built between 1905 and 1915. Designed by Michael J. Garvin, a local architect, the courthouse is a fine example of a classically-inspired Beaux-Arts style civic structure. Built to serve various borough courts, the courthouse also came to symbolize the county status which the Bronx achieved in 1914.The Bronx was one of the last boroughs to be developed. The area was primarily farmland until the 3rd Avenue El reached 169th Street in 1888 and rapid urbanization began. In the early 1860s the site of the Bronx Borough Courthouse was apparently an open "square" with only a shea and watering trough in the middle. On the edges were low-scale brick and wood frame structures used mostly as homes, boarding houses, and hotels. By 1888 the courthouse site was covered with small wood-frame buildings. Just a block south at 160th and 3rd Avenue stood the Morrisania Town Hall which until 1905 doubled as a police station.By 1900 the Bronx was the fastest growing borough; the once rural area now had a population approaching 500,000. A small brick building which housed the Civil and Police Courts was located on the southeast corner of 158th and 3rd Avenue. This soon proved to be inadequate and it was determined that a new courthouse was needed for the Municipal and Magistrate's Courts and the Coroner's Office, and the 161st Street site was ultimately agreed upon. Construction funds of $300,000 were appropriated in 1904. Construction began early in 1905 and it was thought that the building would be complete within two or three years.The courthouse commission had been given to Michael J. Garvin, a Tammany Hall Democrat who had served as the first Commissioner of Buildings for the Bronx and as Secretary to the President of the Borough. A native of the Bronx, Garvin was born in Morrisania of Irish parents on January 31, 1861.He attended public school and Manhattan College before beginning a long association with Joseph M. Dunn, formerly of Renwick & Sands, architects of St. Patrick's Cathedral.Rather than a two or three year construction period at art estimated cost of $800,000, the courthouse took ten years to complete .and cost two million dollars. The delays caused both ridicule and indignation. Stephen Jenkins, writing in The Story of the Bronx: 1639-1912, (1912) stated that he could not remember when the Courthouse was not under construction and that if it were ever completed it would probably take as long as the Manhattan County Courthouse (1912-1927) and be as costly as the State Capitol Building in Albany. There were also charges of corruption and protests from local citizens (during this period Borough President Louis F. Haffen was charged with corruption and ousted from office). In 1913 the' Aldermen were directed to investigate the delays. Their report, submitted on June 8, exonerated Garvin and blamed the lengthy construction time on the piecemeal contracting out of work. Other reasons given for the delays and high costs were inflation, poor work which had to be done over, political squabbling over the appropriation of extra funds once the initial $800,000 was depleted, and controversy over the quantity and type of granite to be used on the upper floors.Ironically, the delayed completion of the Courthouse coincided with a most significant event: the Bronx's attainment of county status. Consequently, though the interior was unfinished and there was little furniture, the courthouse officially opened on January 6, 1914, as a symbol of the new powers and responsibilities of Bronx County. In accordance with the recommendations of the Bar Association in 1913, the courthouse also accommodated the Supreme, Surrogate and County Courts as well as the District Attorney's Office.There were speeches and much fanfare at the opening sessions of each of the Courts. County Counselor Louis O. Van Doren, at the opening of the Supreme Court commented:May this Courthouse and this chamber be from now on the centre from which shall radiate oyer this community Justice and equity..New York University Chancellor Emeritus Henry MacCracken designed the new county seal -- a five-pointed star (the Bronx being represented by the northern-most point) with a motto from the "Vulgate": "The world is waiting for the law of God." MacCracken noted that:It was selected because the chief function of the new County is to maintain the Courts of law with places of records for legal purposes."The Courthouse consequently came to symbolize the county status of the Bronx.Stylistically the courthouse is in the Beaux-Arts classical tradition which was so popular for civic architecture at the turn of the century and into the 1920s. Examples of the style, cultivated by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France, may be seen in such works as Carrere and Hastings' New York Public Library, Cass Gilbert's U.S. Custom House and John R. Thomas's and Horgan and Slattery's Surrogate's Court and Hall of Records, all in Manhattan.The Bronx Borough Courthouse occupies the entire irregular five-sided block on which it ir situated. The block is bounded by Third Avenue on the south and east, Brook Avenue on the west, and East 161st Street on the north; these streets intersect here in this commercial section of the south Bronx.The four-story granite courthouse building, which may be viewed from all sides, roughly conforms to the shape of the block, although designed in a symmetrical manner with projecting central pavilions at the north and south elevations. The main entrance facade is oriented to East 161st Street. The two-story base, above a heavy water table, is faced with rusticated stone bands, punctuated by deeply recessed windows and by double-height arched entrances on the north and east elevations. The stone bands and mortar channels form stylized voussoirs above the first-story windows, while at the arched entrances these elements form archivolts. Oversized keystones with torch motifs are in the arches.The upper two stories form an architectural unit, faced with granite laid in srooth courses of alternating twelve-inch and eight-inch bond. Two-story pilasters flank the window bays and form corner piers. The central pavilion on the 161st Street elevation has two window bays flanking monumental columns which frame the recessed central section with its arched window opening.In front of trie opening is a figure by J.E. Roine carved in Tennessee marble depicting "Justice"--jnblindfolded but holding the traditional attributes of a s^ord and tablet.There seems to have been some discussion as to whether or not Justice should be blind-folded. She was completed without the bIind-fold. Roine, a sculptor and metal engraver, was born in Mantes, France in 1857. He was a student of Leopold Morice, the sculptor who completed the bas relief over the principal door at St. Etienne in Tours and the statue Republique at the Place de la Republique in Paris. In 1886-94 Roine spent time in New York where he participated in the decoration of several churches. Returning to France, Roine apparently entered the employ of Louis Richards the American sculptor. Richards applied several times for the commission to complete the statue of Justice for the Courthouse but was rejected. Roine soon thereafter submitted his own model and was awarded the commission.The central pavilion on the south elevation facing Third Avenue has two-story piers flanking arched openings at the third floor and rectangular openings at the fourth floor.A full entablature with triglyph and metope frieze and modillioned cornice encircles the building. Above is a paneled parapet, shielding an attic story, which follows the line of the central pavilions. In the pavilion section on the north elevation is a panel with the inscription "Bronx Borough Court House" flanked by miniature pavilion sections surmounted by small domes.When the new County Courthouse was finished in 1934, a designated New York City Landmark at 851 Grand Concourse, the "Old Borough Courthouse}' became the Criminal Court of the City of New York-Bronx Branch. In 1977 this Court moved to 161st Street, and Sheridan Avenue and a year later the Bronx Borough Courthouse was vacated, and is now sealed at the ground floor with cinder block.The Courthouse is a fine example of Beaux-Arts Classicism. It is one of the few buildings of this style and this era in a borough which developed rapidly and late. In "its use of forms and materials, it displayed civic pride and symbolized the strength and authority of government. In addition, it is the only direct symbol of the Bronx's attainment of county status.- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
This third party square hood is my dream accessory, I looked for, but not found in Voigtlander orginally made. Such is quite common in FUJI X-Pro series lenses. It provides a modern and clean look, without much protruding parts on the lens front.
This hood (3d printing) is made of brass with black paint finish. It fits so well on the lens, that almost looks like original matching the lens design. You can see and feel the thickness of the hood in above photo. The glossy texture is good and match well with the lens, but see some imperfection around the edges, not sure about the robustness, need to observe .... but some brassing may be good ?
A perfect combo ! .... need to test it out
The lens can fit for using original Voigtlander hood - LH-12 and LH-4N