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Unity Day activities included displays, demonstrations, artifacts and food sampling from different groups in 21 ethnic or cultural booths.
We made a White Russian for our unity cocktail. The three ingredients each represented different aspects of our relationship which, once combined, could never be separated.
Photos by Cahoots Photography
Unity Temple
Oak Park, Illinois
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I am heading to Chicago this week on business and will catch up with some college friends for a Frank Lloyd Wright weekend ... can't wait!
This is a closeup portrait of a Unity Rider taken during the opening parade at Unity Park in Winona, Minnesota on June 5, 2010. The parade opened the Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming in Winona. Copies of this image without the watermark can be purchased. Contact me for information.
Led by Unity College students, over 500 Common Ground Fairgoers raise local organic pumpkins in a massive 350 to celebrate local agriculture solutions to climate change.
Photo by Megan Mallory.
This action was one of 2,000 events that are happening in over 175 countries on September 24th. The day is being organized by 350.org in partnership with hundreds of organizations around the world.
The whole world is getting into motion for Moving Planet -- millions of people are biking, skating, marching and embodying a beautiful array of creative ways to get moving without fossil fuels. www.moving-planet.org
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania National Guard held its fouth annual Unity Day Celebration Sept. 15, 2011 on the installation, in recognition of the cultural diversity throughout the Pennsylvania National Guard and state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Food, music, displays and clothing from a variety of cultures and ethnicities were featured. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Tom Cherry/Released)
Note: Pics taken on 20.6.14 at around noon.
Upto 45% extra source of brightness added to all pic using computer techniques
Short video clip
Quote from Times of India Goa dtd 18.6.14
Miramar's 'Unity Statue' to regain lost glory
PANAJI: For decades now, the 'Unity Statue', which forms the centre of Miramar Circle, has stood in anonymity, covered under layers of clumsily painted blobs of black oil paint. As part of desperately-needed restoration measures, when a sculptor, employed by the Corporation for the City of Panaji (CCP), finally began to scrape off the paint last month, the bronze that the statue is made of has finally begun to shine through.
And Goans, particularly Panjimites, are finally set to discover the long forgotten fact of the material the statue is made of.
"Most of our statues erected in public places are made of bronze. This bronze of the statues needs to be oxidized to protect it over time. But authorities usually resort to a shortcut of applying black oil paint as this process takes a shorter time then oxidizing the statues and is inexpensive," said Sachin Madega, a Mapusa-based sculptor, who is carrying out the restoration at Miramar.
Madega discovered that several coats of black oil paint had led the statue to lose its well-defined structure. The sculptor began 15 days ago by using welding equipment to heat the paint to make it easier to scrape it off.
"There were at least six layers of paint and we had to then use paint remover and nitric acid to wipe off the paint further. During the next few days, we will do the oxidizing. A bronze brown paint has to be polished into the statue using a brush to finish off the restoration," Madega said.
The restoration involves close to 10 hours of work over a period of one month.
The statue, which has faced much neglect over the years, signifies Goa's liberation in 1961 from close to four centuries of Portuguese rule. The 'Unity Statue' replaced a statue of Alphonso de Albuquerque which was torn down by freedom fighters during the state's liberation movement.
The two muscular men of the statue, who seemed to reach out to the sky with nothing in their clenched fists for years now, will also have a torch like the one they originally held, when the restoration work is completed this month.
The torch designed by Madega has already been fitted onto the statue.
It is, in fact, this torch which led the CCP to order the restoration, after Panaji-based historian Sanjeev Sardessai pressurized the state authorities to give meaning again to the statue by placing the missing object in the statues' hands.
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Unity Statues Bronze Miramar Circle torch bearers
Sculptor: V M Cuncoliencar, Goa
Replaced the Statue of Afonso de Albuquerque in 1972
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania National Guard held its fouth annual Unity Day Celebration Sept. 15, 2011 on the installation, in recognition of the cultural diversity throughout the Pennsylvania National Guard and state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Food, music, displays and clothing from a variety of cultures and ethnicities were featured. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Tom Cherry/Released)
"We, the citizens of Singapore
pledge ourselves as one united people,
regardless of race, language or religion,
to build a democratic society,
based on justice and equality,
so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
progress for our nation."
The illustration in this poster shows 4 rangers (representing the 4 major races of Singapore) of different colours working together to defeat a common enemy (in this case, a monster made up of threats and crises faced by our nation). This artwork is inspired by well-known comic superhero teams as they all possess and promote the idea of unity.
A bit ironic. They sing unity after unifying. Jesse Michaels (of Operation Ivy) joined his former band members to sing Unity. Vic, who was standing right behind me said, "Wow, you don't see that every day." It was a special night.
A drawing I made a couple years ago
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Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Oak Park, Illinois.
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These have come out lovely, the epitome of X-Pro film style with lovely colours and that slight green-turquoise tint. I have boosted the saturation slightly at the scanning stage to accentuate this.
Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim and (Expired) Scotch Chrome 800/3200 (Cross Processed)
Processed: AG Photographic
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania National Guard held its fouth annual Unity Day Celebration Sept. 15, 2011 on the installation, in recognition of the cultural diversity throughout the Pennsylvania National Guard and state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Food, music, displays and clothing from a variety of cultures and ethnicities were featured. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Tom Cherry/Released)
1905-08, Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1905, after the original Unity Church burned down, the Universalist congregation of Oak Park, Illinois turned to architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design them a new structure. The result was Unity Temple. Wright was not only living in Oak Park, but was a Unitarian - which faith then had many beliefs in common with Universalism. The congregation needed a space of worship, as well as a community room. There were several immediate problems that the architect had to work with in order to satisfy the client. The budget for the Universalist congregation was rather small for its needs: $40,000 US dollars; and the proposed building site was long, but not very wide. Additionally, the building site stood on a busy street. And finally, the architect was expected to design not only the structure, but furniture and stained glass for the building. Charles E. Roberts, an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright, served on the church's building committee and was a key figure in seeing that Wright's vision for the church became a reality. For Roberts, Wright also remodeled Roberts' home and the Charles E. Roberts Stable.
To accommodate the needs of the congregation, Wright divided the community space from the temple space through a low, middle loggia that could be approached from either side. This was an efficient use of space and kept down on noise between the two main gathering areas: those coming for religious services would be separated via the loggia from those coming for community events. This design was one of Wright's first uses of a bipartite design: with two portions of the building similar in composition and separated by a lower passageway, and one section being larger than the other. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is another bipartite design.
To reduce noise from the street, Wright eliminated street level windows in the temple. Instead, natural light comes from stained glass windows in the roof and clerestories along the upper walls. Because the members of the parish would not be able to look outside, Unity Temple's stained glass was designed with green, yellow, and brown tones in order to evoke the colors of nature. The main floor of the temple is accessed via a lower floor (which has seating space), and the room also has two balconies for the seating of the congregation. These varying seating levels allowed the architect to design a building to fit the size of the congregation, but efficiently: no one person in the congregation is more than 40 feet from the pulpit. Wright also designed the building with very good acoustics.
The design of Unity Temple represents a leap forward in design for Wright. In recounting his experiences with Unity Temple, he stated that this design was the first time he ever realized that the real heart of a building is its space, not its walls. Indeed, architectural historians have commented on Wright's genius in creating and manipulating space in his designs; in his book The Master Builders, Peter Blake entitled the section on Wright "The Mastery of Space."
In addition to being very accomplished with making the most out of the space he had, Wright also found the concept of "Unity" was very prominent mainly because of how he managed to fuse together space, experience and the material world. This was key to Unity Temple which has both a common meeting area and the congregation of church-goers. The sanctuary space gives the best example of this according to practicing architect Robert McCarter.
The building was completed in 1908 and officially dedicated on September 26, 1909. The original Universalist (now Unitarian Universalist) congregation still owns and uses Unity Temple, although a separate and secular organization, the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, is in charge of the building's multi-million dollar restoration effort. Chicago restoration architect Gunny Harboe is in charge of the restoration with CTLGroup providing the engineering and materials technology expertise. In April 2009, Unity Temple, due to water seepage, was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 most endangered historic places.
This is one in a set of HDR photos taken along the self-guided walking tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's neighborhood in Oak Park, Illinois. The set includes many of his designs and a few other examples of homes designed in the same period.