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[Funeral of Edward W. Bok]
No full texteye-level views;Edward William Bok was born 9 October 1863 in Den Helder, Netherlands. He become a noted author and publisher of "The Ladies Home Journal" and was involved in many social causes and philanthropic activities, including the creation of the Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens). Mr. Bok passed away on 9 January 1930 at his winter home in Mountain Lake Colony in Lake Wales, Florida. A funeral was held on 10 January 1930 inside the Singing Tower and Mr. Bok was interred in front of the tower
Mountain Lake Sanctuary Director's Report from 29 December to 5 January 1934
No full textThis is the weekly director's report made by Major Harry M. Nornabell, then director of Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens), to the American Foundation. The report details weather conditions for the week, the condition of the gardens and birds, a visitor and staff count, and details of a New Year's Day wedding of two couples from Orlando that took place after the midnight carillon concert on New Year's Eve. Major Nornabell also mentions a visit from Rilla Evelyn Jackman, likely the author of American Arts (1928) and former arts educator at Syracuse University.Computer generated transcript is available upon request
[Letter 1930 January], New York City [to] Mrs. Edward W. Bok, Merion, Pennsylvania
No full textThis is a letter from H. Van Buren Magonigle, an architect and author best known for his memorials, to Mary Louise Curtis Bok upon hearing the news of Edward W. Bok's death. Mr. Bok was the former editor of Ladies' Home Journal and the founder of the Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens). Mrs. Bok was his wife and the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The stationary on which the letter is written folds at the top. The letter is hand written in black ink. In the upper right corner in black ink 'C' may indicate a response was sent. Mr. Magonigle's name is written out in pencil below his signature by an unknown hand. 'One hundred and one Park Avenue' is printed in raised letters.Computer generated transcript is available upon request
Pericardial Masses, Cysts and Diverticula: A Comprehensive Review Using Multimodality Imaging
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Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI
No full textFrom Sherman Alexie\u27s films to the poetry and fiction of Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko to the paintings of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and the sculpture of Edgar Heap of Birds, Native American movies, literature, and art have become increasingly influential, garnering critical praise and enjoying mainstream popularity. Recognizing that the time has come for a critical assessment of this exceptional artistic output and its significance to American Indian and American issues, Dean Rader offers the first interdisciplinary examination of how American Indian artists, filmmakers, and writers tell their own stories.
Beginning with rarely seen photographs, documents, and paintings from the Alcatraz Occupation in 1969 and closing with an innovative reading of the National Museum of the American Indian, Rader initiates a conversation about how Native Americans have turned to artistic expression as a means of articulating cultural sovereignty, autonomy, and survival. Focusing on figures such as author/director Sherman Alexie (Flight, Face, and Smoke Signals), artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, director Chris Eyre (Skins), author Louise Erdrich (Jacklight, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse), sculptor Edgar Heap of Birds, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, sculptor Allen Houser, filmmaker and actress Valerie Red Horse, and other writers including Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and David Treuer, Rader shows how these artists use aesthetic expression as a means of both engagement with and resistance to the dominant U.S. culture. Raising a constellation of new questions about Native cultural production, Rader greatly increases our understanding of what aesthetic modes of resistance can accomplish that legal or political actions cannot, as well as why Native peoples are turning to creative forms of resistance to assert deeply held ethical values.https://repository.usfca.edu/read_books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Assessing historical church tower asymmetry using point cloud spatial expansion
No full textChurch towers are key cultural heritage. In theory, towers are vertical, while facade elements are symmetrically positioned around the tower axis. However, during service of a structure, building and lifetime conditions cause deviations, with associated risks. Laser scanning point clouds can be used to assess the structural state but a universal approach was missing. The proposed algorithm first estimates the tower inclination, and tests which multi-axis representation best represents the course of the tower. Next, point cloud spatial expansion recovers relative distances and deviations of facade elements. The resulting procedure was applied to assess two Dutch medieval towers including the Old Church in Delft and the St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, respectively. As results of analysis, significant asymmetry was found with a 1.4° deviation of the multi-modal axis of the St. Bavo Church tower together with variations of 0.1%–1.5% for facade slopes, while 0.1°–3.1° radial deviations were found in the position of the turrets of the Old Church tower.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Optical and Laser Remote Sensin
Tower Fall, Tower Creek, Yellowstone Nat. Park, Wyo.
No full textTOWER FALLS ON TOWER CREEK, YELLOWSTONE NAT. PARK, WYO. Though less frequented than some more noted portions of Yellowstone Park, no section of it will reward the visitor with more magnificent mountain scenery or more spots bewitching in their sylvan beauty than the part lying to the N. and N. E. of the Grand Canyon. Public auto grounds and the cabins and lodge of Camp Roosevelt near Tower Falls, 19 miles N. of Canyon Junction, afford convenient starting points for excursions to Specimen Ridge, the Buffalo Ranch, Cooke City and the Grasshopper Glacier, Tower Falls or any other of the places of interest easily to be reached from this point. Of these, Tower Falls or any other of the places of interst easily to be reached from this point. Of these, Tower Falls or any other of the places of interest easily to be reached from this point. Of these, Tower Falls itself is one of the nearest at hand. It lies just above the mouth of Tower Creek, which, in wearing its deep, narrow canyon through the volcanic strata has left great towers and pinnacles of rock projecting toward the sky, several of them at the very brink of the falls themselves. The waters, leaping through the monumental gateway, fling themselves in a sheer, white sheet from a height of 132 ft. into a cavernous basin partly concealed from view between gigantic rocks and among graceful evergreen trees. Lieut. G. C. doane, of the Washburn Expedition, in his official report to the government, described Tower Falls with terse eloquence. "Nothing can be more chastely beautiful," said the Army officer, "than this lovely cascade, hidden away in the dim light of overshadowing rocks and woods, its very voice hushed to a low murmur, unheard at a distance of a few hundred yards. Thousands might pass within half a mile and not dream of its existence." (Elev. 6,400 ft. Lat. 45° N.; Long. 111° W.
Work & Days
No full textReleased in September, 2010, Works & Days, has garnered unusual critical attention for a first book. Known for his book reviews and op-ed pieces as well as for his scholarly work in the areas of American Indian studies and visual and popular culture, Dean Rader has produced a debut collection that is an ambitious and funny series of poems that judge Claudia Keelan has described as a primer for MFA programs everywhere. Divided into three sections-- Works, &, and Days --Rader\u27s poems map the intersecting roads of the personal and the cultural. The first section, Works, contains poems about works that shape how the author sees the world, like the poetry of Wallace Stevens, popular music, the art of Robert Motherwell, the mysteries of Havana, Hesiod\u27s ruminations on duty and the divine, and Frog and Toad. & is a more playful experimental section that connects the themes of Works (poems about Michael Jackson, pumpkins, Dorothea Lange, and Frog and Toad) with the autobiographical final section. Days begins with the poet\u27s 30th birthday and marks each subsequent birthday until his 41st, which loops back to the path of Works with a final closing poem inspired by the Estonian composer Arvo Part (and, of course, Frog and Toad).https://repository.usfca.edu/read_books/1004/thumbnail.jp
Improved quantification of exergy destruction in mechanical cooling tower considering all tower inlet parameters
No full textThe present work establishes an improved experimentally validated analysis to predict performance and exergy-related parameters of a mechanical draft cooling tower involving wooden splash fills. Unlike earlier studies, which accounted for the effect of at most three tower inlet parameters for the exergy analysis, the present study simultaneously considers all five inlet parameters affecting the tower exergy performance. To simultaneously predict outlet air and water conditions, an optimization algorithm involving discrete functions of dry- and wet-bulb temperatures is used in conjunction with the mathematical model derived from mass and energy conservations within the control volume involving Bosnjakovic correlation. From practical point of view, five inlet parameters such as dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, water temperature, water, and air flow rates are selected for the exergy analysis. Thereafter, the influence of all inlet parameters on the tower performance is analyzed on various important exergy-related factors. The quantitative analysis reveals that the inlet air humidity, water inlet temperature, and the inlet water mass flow rate significantly influence the air and water exergy changes. The present study also reveals that among the five inlet parameters, the water temperature, air humidity, and air mass flow rate are primarily responsible for the exergy destruction. Furthermore, it is observed that the second law efficiency is mainly governed by the inlet air flow rate. The present study is proposed to be useful for selecting the tower inlet parameters to improve exergy performance of mechanical cooling towers
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