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The boundary markers of the original District of Columbia are the 40 milestones that marked the four lines forming the boundaries between the states of Maryland and Virginia and the square of 100 square miles (259 km2) of federal territory that became the District of Columbia in 1801 (see: Founding of the District of Columbia). Working under the supervision of three commissioners that President George Washington had appointed in 1790 in accordance with the federal Residence Act, a surveying team that Major Andrew Ellicott led placed these markers in 1791 and 1792.  Among Ellicott's assistants were his brothers Joseph and Benjamin Ellicott, Isaac Roberdeau, George Fenwick, Isaac Briggs and an African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker.

Today, 36 of the original marker stones survive as the oldest federally placed monuments in the United States.  Thirteen of these markers are now within Virginia due to the return of the portion of the District south and west of the Potomac River to Virginia in 1846 (see: District of Columbia retrocession).

Geography

The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square  in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and Hunting Creek (later the site of the Jones Point Lighthouse). The sides of the square were each  long.  The specified orientation results in a diamond shape for the District's original boundaries on most maps.

The north-south axis of the District's current boundaries extends southward from the District's north corner near East-West Highway (Maryland Route 410), travels between 17th and 18th Streets, N.W., and continues south across the National Mall to the far shore of the Potomac River; the east-west axis is between the present Constitution Avenue and C Street, N.E. and N.W.

These axes are not the lines used to define the four geographical quadrants of the District (N.E., N.W., S.E., and S.W.), commonly appended to Washington street addresses, which are delimited generally by North Capitol Street, East Capitol Street, South Capitol Street, and the National Mall.  The center of the square is west of the Ellipse and north of the Mall, within the grounds of the headquarters of the Organization of American States.

In 2011, the District of Columbia geographic information system (GIS) program completed a project to map the District's boundary using Global Positioning System (GPS) and contemporary survey technology at an accuracy of +/-  horizontally and +/-  vertically. The GIS program's survey found that (listed in the order in which Andrew Ellicott's team performed the initial boundary survey):

 Along the northwest boundary, the stones are outside the existing boundary ranging from  to
 Along the northeast boundary, the stones are inside the existing boundary ranging from  to
 Along the southeast boundary, the stones are outside the existing boundary ranging from   to

The overall accuracy of the historic survey and the survey using 2011 technology produced remarkably similar results. For example, the distance between Southeast stones numbers 6 and 7 is , almost exactly one mile ().

The stones are located alongside streets, in public parks, deep in the woods and on personal property.  Homeowners with stones on their property are generally willing to let the curious take a closer look if they are respectful.

Placement of the boundary stones
 On March 30, 1791, President George Washington issued a proclamation that established ″Jones's point, the upper cape of Hunting Creek in Virginia″ as the starting point for the federal territory's boundary survey. Acting in accordance with instructions in the proclamation, the survey team then began its work at the square's south corner on the shoreline of the point, which was at the southeast corner of Alexandria, Virginia.  On April 15, 1791, officials dedicated the south corner stone in an elaborate Masonic ceremony at a point that Andrew Ellicott had determined.

The survey team then cleared a corridor along the boundary route to facilitate surveying, traveling clockwise from the point and placing sandstone boundary markers at the four corners and at intervals of approximately one mile. The markers were quarried near Aquia Creek in Virginia. Most weighed about a half-ton at their emplacement; the four cornerstones were slightly larger. The Virginia stones were set in 1791, and the Maryland ones in 1792.  The map on the web page "Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia" identifies the location of each of the four corner stones, and those of the still-in-place intermediate stones.

The side of a boundary marker that faced the federal territory was inscribed "Jurisdiction of the United States" and with the distance in miles and poles from the previous corner stone. The opposite side was marked with the name of the border state: Virginia or Maryland. The remaining sides were marked with the year that the team placed the stones and with the variation ("Var.") of the compass needle at that place.

On January 1, 1793, Andrew Ellicott submitted to the commissioners a report that stated that the boundary survey had been completed and that all of the boundary marker stones had been set in place.  Ellicott's report described the marker stones and contained a map that showed the boundaries and topographical features of the Territory of Columbia. The map identified the locations within the Territory of the planned City of Washington and its major streets, as well as the location of each boundary marker stone.

The following images show the sides of the Southeast No. 6 boundary marker stone on August 17, 2011:

Protection and historical designations

Protection
In 1906, Fred E. Woodward read a paper to the Columbia Historical Society that described the history, location and conditions of each of the remaining boundary stones, together with photographs of each.  His paper concluded by recommending that the stones be protected by placing small fences around each one.
In 1909,  Ernest A. Shuster of the United States Geological Survey wrote an article for the National Geographic Magazine that described his visits to the 36 remaining boundary stones and that urged their protection and preservation.

In 1915, various local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) began to place fences around each of the markers. The DAR also placed at the exact center of the original federal territory a marker stone that was located about a half of a mile from the White House and was near the DAR's Memorial Continental Hall.

Historical designations
One Virginia boundary marker was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and another in 1980.  In 1991, the remaining Virginia boundary markers were added to the National Register in response to a Multiple Property Submission that the Virginia DAR had submitted.  In 1996, 23 marker stones along the boundary between the District of Columbia and Maryland were added to the National Register in response to registration forms that the District of Columbia government had submitted for each of the stones. Each of the District's registration forms referenced the documentation in the Multiple Property Submission for the Virginia markers.

Virginia
Southwest 9. This boundary marker in Falls Church, Virginia was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and further was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark, in 1976 at the instigation of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation, which gave the stone its name: Benjamin Banneker: SW-9 Intermediate Boundary Stone. It was the first of the boundary markers to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

South Corner. This boundary marker in Virginia was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, together with Alexandria's Jones Point Lighthouse. In 1794, the marker replaced the marker that officials had dedicated during the 1791 Masonic ceremony.

Southwest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8;  West Corner;  Northwest 1, 2, and 3. These boundary markers in Virginia were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 1991 in response to the Multiple Property Submission cited above.

District of Columbia and Maryland
Northwest 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; North Corner; Northeast 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9;  East Corner; Southeast 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9.  These boundary markers, located along the border between the District of Columbia and Maryland, were added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1996.

Preservation efforts
In 1976, the National Capital Planning Commission published a report that described the history and condition of each boundary stone.  The report recommended that measures be taken to assure the stones' preservation. In 1990 and 1991, a  resurveying team to celebrate the boundary markers' bicentennial located two of the then-missing stones.

In 1995, the Northern Virginia Boundary Stones Committee, whose establishment the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) had requested, issued a list of recommendations intended to document and preserve the 14 boundary stones that were located in Virginia. The Committee included representatives of the State of Maryland and of Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.

In 2008, the NVRC announced that four Virginia local governments, including Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church, had agreed to help fund a project to protect and preserve the boundary stones by providing matching funds to a Transportation Enhancement Grant that the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) had received from the Federal Highway Administration (FHA). The announcement stated that the NVRC was working on an agreement with the DDOT, the National Park Service and the FHA to administer the project.

However, the preservation project had not yet begun by 2012.  It appeared that the DDOT no longer had the funds that had been allocated for the project. In the meantime, teams of volunteers had begun to landscape and repaint the fences surrounding the stones. In addition, the District of Columbia DAR restored the Northeast No. 7 boundary marker and its fence in 2012.

In 2014, the National Park Service, the historic preservation staff of the District of Columbia Office of Planning, the DDOT and the DAR initiated an effort to rehabilitate the boundary markers that were located along the District's contemporary boundaries. As part of the project, in January 2015 a DDOT crew unearthed a stone buried in 1962 that had replaced Southeast No. 8, with the intention of cleaning and restoring the marker. However, in 2016, the stone was replaced by a new stone that presumably replicated the appearance of the original stone when the original was new.

List of boundary stones
The 36 extant and four missing boundary stones are tabulated in sequence below, beginning at the southern corner and proceeding clockwise, in the same order as the stones were placed.  The tables also contain the year that each stone was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Southern corner

Southwestern side

Western corner

Northwestern side

Northern corner

Northeastern side

Eastern corner

Southeastern side

Plaques
Explanatory plaques that are not attached to fences accompany several boundary marker stones, including:

Historical markers
In 2005, the Arlington County, Virginia, government erected historical markers near the Southwest Nos. 6 and 8 boundary marker stones of the original District of Columbia.

Missing boundary markers
Four of the forty original boundary markers were not in or near their original locations in late 2016. Three of these had been replaced with substitute markers.

District of Columbia entrance markers

A group of entrance markers, erected later along major roads that travel into the District of Columbia, are located on or near the boundary of D.C. and Maryland. Three pairs of marker stones and another single stone are known collectively as the Garden Club of America Entrance Markers. They are all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

One pair of markers is located within Westmoreland Circle at the junction of Western Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue NW. These markers are between the Northwest No. 5 and Northwest No. 6 boundary markers of the original District of Columbia.
Two similar markers flank Wisconsin Avenue at Western Avenue in Friendship Heights, near the Friendship Heights Metro Station. These markers are between the Northwest No. 6 and Northwest No. 7 boundary markers of the original District of Columbia.
Another pair of markers is located within Chevy Chase Circle, at the junction of Western Avenue and Connecticut Avenue. These markers are between the Northwest No. 7 and Northwest No. 8 boundary markers of the original District of Columbia.
A single marker is located within a traffic island at the intersection of Georgia Avenue, Alaska Avenue and Kalmia Road NW. The marker is located inside the triangular island's southeast corner, near the intersection of Georgia Avenue to the east and Kalmia Road to the south.

 The marker was formerly located inside a median in the center of Georgia Avenue, just north of the Avenue's intersection with Kalmia Road and Alaska Avenue. This marker is between the former site of the Northeast No. 1 and the present site of the Northeast No. 2 boundary markers of the original District of Columbia.

Another D.C. entrance marker stands in a traffic circle (Blair Circle) near downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, at the junction of Eastern Avenue NW, 16th Street NW, N. Portal Drive NW and Colesville Road. The marker is between the North Corner boundary marker and the former site of the Northeast No. 1 boundary marker of the original District of Columbia.

See also

 History of Washington, D.C.
 Index of Washington, D.C.-related articles
 List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia
 List of Registered Historic Places in Virginia
 Outline of Washington, D.C.

References

External links

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 Boundary Stones Committee, DC Daughters of the American Revolution
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Maps, photos and satellite images
 Locations and individual photographs of 40 boundary marker sites from .
 Locations and individual photographs of 27 boundary markers from zhurnaly.com
 District of Columbia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution: "Location of Boundary Stones (Mile Markers)" from dcdar.org
 1906 Map of All D.C. Boundary Stones in \

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National Register of Historic Places in Falls Church, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Broadway.com at 10: Top 10 Stage Superstars of the Decade
by Kathy Henderson • May 18, 2010
In the same way that Angelina or Clooney can "open" a movie, a very short list of theater actors have the star power to attract producers (and audiences) on the strength of their name and talent alone. Broadway.com's tenth anniversary is the perfect time to pay tribute to 10 stage superstars of the past decade—and to thank them for their loyalty to the Great White Way.
1. Nathan Lane
To borrow a lyric from his Tony-winning character Max Bialystock, Nathan Lane reigns as "the king of old Broadway." After his triumph in The Producers (2001), Lane could have coasted through his pick of musical revivals, but he's insisted on stretching his outsize talent in an impressive series of shows with nothing in common beyond his desire to bring them to Broadway: his own adaptation of The Frogs (2004), a smash-hit revival of The Odd Couple (2006), a black-comedy turn in Butley (2006), David Mamet's satirical November (2008), an acclaimed revival of Waiting for Godot (2009) and now an irresistible performance as Gomez in the new musical The Addams Family. Wow! Where Nathan goes, audiences follow.
2. Patti LuPone
"Iconic" is one of those clichéd adjectives that gets slapped on all kinds of performances, but it's tailor-made for the work of Patti LuPone. In the 30 years since she thrust her arms skyward in Evita Peron's victory pose, LuPone has put her mark on plenty of larger-than-life dames. This distinctive actress disappeared from Broadway for much of the 1990s, then came roaring back in a pair of revivals perfectly suited to her brassy persona. After playing a proudly tarted-up, tuba-playing Mrs. Lovett in the 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd, she earned a Best Actress Tony Award in 2008 as Momma Rose in Gypsy—putting the fear of God in her stage kids and camera-wielding audience members at the same time.
3. Kristin Chenoweth
Broadway fans can count themselves lucky that Kristin Chenoweth turned down a Metropolitan Opera scholarship to pursue her passion for musical theater. After stealing the show (and winning a Tony) as Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the Oklahoma-born soprano put her stamp on a role that dozens of actresses have played since—with her performance as their model—popular witch Glinda in the megahit Wicked. Though she's achieved Hollywood success, including a sly turn as drunken nympho April on Glee, Chenoweth has continued to stretch herself onstage in The Apple Tree, Music in the Air (at Encores!) and now an utterly endearing star turn in Promises, Promises. Here's hoping she's back in New York to stay.
4. Harvey Fierstein
A true man of the theater, Harvey Fierstein makes everything he does look easy, an impressive feat when you consider that his four Tony Awards include Best Play and Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy), Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray) and Best Book of a Musical (La Cage aux Folles). Fierstein has kept up his prolific pace for almost 30 years, most recently as book writer and star of A Catered Affair and on tour as Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof. (Heck, he even missed opening night of Broadway's acclaimed La Cage revival because he was working in D.C.!) In addition to his gifts as a writer and actor, Fierstein has mentored countless young stage artists—he's a superstar and a mensch.
5. Hugh Jackman
Just call him Broadway's ambassador to the world. Hugh Jackman got his start onstage in his native Australia, conquered London in Oklahoma!, then proved his star power in The Boy from Oz, never missing a Broadway performance in the exhausting role of song-and-dance man Peter Allen. Inevitably, this sexy Tony winner became a big movie star, but Jackman continued his one-man campaign to keep theater on the cultural front-burner, hosting the Tonys and inserting Broadway-style razzmatazz as host of the Oscars. Producers would gladly mount any show starring Jackman, but the actor surprised everyone last fall by choosing to play a violent Chicago cop in an unknown play, A Steady Rain, raking in $1 million a week alongside Daniel Craig. Plus, in real life, he's a sweetheart!
6. Liev Schreiber
When you've mastered Shakespeare before age 30, with Hamlet, Iago, Henry V and Macbeth among the notches in your Bard belt, what's left? For Liev Schreiber, the answer has come in a series of high-stakes, high-profile Broadway play revivals offering roles tailor-made for his distinctively deep voice and dangerous stage presence. Schreiber won a Tony for David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross as fast-talking real estate huckster Ricky Roma, then revived Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio as a morally bankrupt deejay. This season, he turned Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge into a red-hot ticket as tragic dockworker Eddie Carbone opposite Scarlett Johansson. With each role, Schreiber (also a busy movie actor) sets the bar higher for himself.
7. Laura Linney
A child of the theater (she's the daughter of playwright Romulus Linney), Laura Linney has shown a steadfast loyalty to the stage for 20 years. While racking up three Oscar nominations and winning three Emmys, most recently for her strong-willed Abigail in John Adams, she also managed to earn three Tony nominations (for The Crucible, Sight Unseen and now Time Stands Still). Linney doesn't hesitate to venture out of her comfort zone, donning French finery to play Marquis de Mertueil in a 2008 Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. And after making her TV series debut as a cancer patient in Showtime's The Big C, she'll be back on Broadway in the fall for a return engagement as a battle-scarred photographer in Time Stands Still. Now that's loyalty!
8. Angela Lansbury
"I'm still here! Look who's here!" Okay, Angela Lansbury didn't sing this particular Sondheim ditty, but it certainly applies to her remarkable theatrical career. A full review would take pages (and, in fact, Broadway.com did that last year, before she won her fifth Tony for Blithe Spirit), so let's just cover the current decade: At age 82, Lansbury returned to Broadway in 2007 for her first full production in more than 20 years, nabbing a Tony nomination opposite Marian Seldes in the demanding two-hander Deuce. Last June, she tied Julie Harris' record for Tony wins with a priceless performance as Noel Coward's Madame Arcati. Now she's up for Tony #6 as another Madame (Armfeldt) in Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Broadway is Angela's kingdom, and we're delighted to be her subjects.
9. Audra McDonald
She sings like an angel, she can break your heart at a glance, she's equally excellent in plays and musicals, she's a Tony magnet—that about sums it up for Audra McDonald! Although three of her four Tonys were won in the '90s, McDonald belongs on our millennial list because of the range she's shown in the past decade: the tragic musical heroine in Marie Christine, Lady Percy in Henry IV, a Tony win as Ruth Younger opposite Sean Combs in A Raisin in the Sun, a thrilling performance as Lizzie Curry in 110 in the Shade and a sweetly romantic Olivia in Twelfth Night, during her 2009 summer hiatus from TV's Private Practice. What's next? With Audra, the sky's the limit.
10. Mary-Louise Parker
An actress who defies easy labels, Mary-Louise Parker brings an unpredictable quality—in a good way!—to every part she plays. TV audiences have warmed to her cool charisma as Nancy Botwin in Weeds and her Emmy-winning performance as Harper Pitt in the miniseries version of Tony Kushner's Angels in America. But Parker comes fully and quirkily alive onstage, as she proved in a Tony-winning turn as a math genius in Proof, a wife on the run in Reckless and the finder of a Dead Man's Cell Phone. Even when a production misfires, as in a 2009 Hedda Gabler revival that divided critics, audiences can't get enough of Mary-Louise. Won't somebody please send her the next Pulitzer Prize-quality script?
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Towers Of Islam
Muslims in many lands hear the sonorous call to prayer sounded from minarets.
For fourteen hundred years the Muslim faithful have heard the call to prayer—"this perfect summons"—issue from the air around them. First it came from a low rooftop a few steps from the simple dwelling of Muhammad, the Prophet, in Medina. Then the sonorous Arabic cadences began to fall from a variety of towers, each of which reflected in its line and proportion the art of those distant places drawn into religious accord by the spread of Islam. Five times each day—at dawn, at midday, in the late afternoon, just after sunset, and during the evening—the voice of the muezzin speaks to four hundred million followers of the message of God brought to the world by the Prophet, calling from the minaret, enjoining the faithful to their duty.
From spare mud towers and roofs in poor villages, and from soaring towers of such magnitude and ornament that men come from half a world away to stand before them enchanted, the holy call is breathed upon the air, and its sinewy cantillation stirs the devout heart in the most labyrinthine byway. Whether it is round, square, polygonal, or a combination of these forms; whether it has only a rude porch or an imposing gallery; whether it is plain or ornate, the minaret is the symbol of Islam.
A Christian seeing the slender towers of the Middle East rise in the pale whiteness of the desert light might well assume that the minaret is an obligatory structure in Muslim worship. It is not. K. A. C. Creswell, the leading British scholar of Muslim architecture, has observed that "in the time of Muhammad no such thing as a minaret was known." He dates the first minarets, those at Damascus, from 673 A.D., 41 years after the death of Muhammad. It should be noted that the call to prayer can be cried in the streets or from the roof of the mosque (from the Arabic word masjid, meaning "the place of prostration"), and that mosques in villages and outlying places rarely have minarets.
However, the minaret as the setting for the call to prayer now has the force of fourteen centuries of tradition behind it and it would be hard today to conjure the image of a mosque without several towers looming from its corners. The traveler who first is impressed by the number of minarets to be seen in large Muslim centers may upon a second, and closer, look be taken by their variety. This difference in design and form serves well to illustrate a historic continuum of Islam—unity in diversity.
Although their variations seem endless to the untrained observer, minarets generally fall into one of four characteristic types as isolated by Talbot F. Hamlin of the Columbia School of Architecture.
Those of Cairo and Syria usually have several galleries with the tower diminishing at each gallery. The top is capped with a bulbous dome. Sometimes the lowest section is square.
The minarets of Morocco and Spain are generally large square towers, richly decorated, with a smaller pavilion at the top. The usual building material is brick, laid with relief patterns on all sides. The gallery of the lower stage serves for the call to prayer.
The Persian minaret rises in a high, slender, tapered, round turret. Often, pairs of these minarets flank a great entranceway. Usually the gallery is placed very high, and the tower is capped by a low dome. The entire minaret is frequently covered with green, blue, and yellow glazed Persian tile.
The fourth type, the Turkish minaret, is also slender and tapered, and may be round or polygonal. But unlike the Persian minaret, on which it may be based, the Turkish type has two, and even three, galleries. It is uniformly capped with a slim wooden cone. It makes no use of color and is frequently built of white marble.
The minarets of India, while not a distinct type, have impressive elements. They show the influence of native Hindu architectural styles as well as the influence of Persian minarets. Hamlin has noted that "the forms are, nevertheless, treated with that peculiar delicacy and restrained richness typical of Mogul work."
Some insight into the tradition of the minaret can be gained by examining the meaning and use of the word in Arabic. Creswell in his masterwork on Muslim architecture writes: "Three words have been employed in Arabic to denote minarets: midhana, sauma'a, and manara. The first is derived from adhan, the call to prayer, and simply means the place where the call to prayer is pronounced. The second appears to have been the name given by the Arabs to hermits' towers. All Syrian church towers and minarets built before the thirteenth century are square, and in this connection it is especially interesting to find that this word is employed throughout North Africa, where minarets are nearly always of this type. It was carried into Spain by the Arabs and has been incorporated into the Spanish language as zoma. The third term, manara, literally means 'a place where fire (nar) burns.' For this reason it was applied to the Pharos [the historical lighthouse at Alexandria], at the top of which a fire burnt at night, then to lighthouses generally, and then, by analogy, to mosque towers, our word minaret being derived from it."
The first use of a tower for the call to prayer appears to have been in Damascus where the early Muslims prayed in the sacred enclosure of a Syrian church which had once been a pagan temple. The first minarets, as such, were constructed when the Mosque of 'Amr was rebuilt and enlarged in 673 A.D. When Islam burst out of Arabia, Egypt was one of the first countries to fall before its epic force. The conquest of Egypt was completed in 640-641 A.D., just eight years after the death of Muhammad. The Mosque of 'Amr was built in 641-642 A.D., and in 32 years the Muslim congregation of Cairo (then, Fustat) outgrew it. Hence, the need for a larger place of worship. The four towers added to the enlarged structure were patterned after the towers of the Syrian church used by the Muslims at Damascus. Creswell, after years of cautious and thorough study, sealed the matter with scholarly care:
"The typical Syrian church tower in pre-Muslim times, especially in the Hauran, the region first conquered by the Arabs, was a square stone shaft, sometimes slightly tapering. ... We can now say with confidence that the idea of the minaret arose in Syria under the Umayyad dynasty.. .."
The minaret as a symbol of Islam was secured as early as 707-709 A.D. when the Mosque of Medina was rebuilt and enlarged. This was the mosque built by Muhammad. Four minarets were incorporated in the enlarged structure, and it was panelled with marble and polychrome mosaics, according to contemporary accounts.
Probably the strangest of all minarets still standing is that at Samarra. It is a helicoidal tower standing apart from the mosque and looks like a scaled-down Tower of Babel. An ascending ramp circles the truncated cone just as in the nineteenth-century Biblical, steel engravings of the Tower of Babel by Dore and others. Oddly enough, the Babylonian zikkurats (temple towers) were pyramidal and usually built upon a square base. Ascending and continuous staircases ran "round and round" (Herodotus) the outside. The Muslim innovation was to build such a tower (minaret) upon a circular base.
It has been observed that the religion of Islam is not, as some people believe, a profound departure from the other religions which originated in the Middle East—Judaism and Christianity. The three share much in common. As Islam rose and swept from China to Spain, it was far more tolerant of other religions than is commonly understood. Often the conquerors permitted Christian worship to continue while a part of a church was taken over for the obligatory Friday noon congregation prayer of Muslim practice.
One may find a vague irony in the fact that the minaret was adopted from the towers of a building used first for pagan worship, then for the worship of Christ. However, there is a more profound and responsible view which is exemplified in the writings of Kenneth Cragg, a Christian student of the implications in the "call of the minaret" heard five times daily by more than four hundred million people from Morocco to Indonesia.
"Two of the most sacred mosques of the Islamic world," Cragg writes, "look down from their sanctuaries eastward toward the trees of old Gethsemane. From its olive-covered slopes the Garden of Agony looks westward to the domes and minarets of the ancient skyline. In the still dawn the muezzin can be heard calling to prayer across the valley where Jesus communed with His spirit until midnight and went forth the Christ of the Cross, the Saviour of the World. Through all their history, since the minarets were raised, the two faiths have been that near, that far."
No less varied than the architecture of the minaret is the cantillation of the muezzin as he calls out (sometimes through a loudspeaker; and sometimes today through the disembodiment of a recording) across the rooftops of thousands of villages and cities. The chant rises and falls with microtonal nuance, the length of phrase may be short or spun out with embellishment, the style may be florid or spare. And the words and phrases may vary or convolve upon repetitions. But the burden of the call is essentially the same from place to place and from prayer to prayer.
Cragg has translated the familiar sentences of the call of the minaret as follows:
God is most great, God is most great, I bear witness that there is no god except God: I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of God. Come ye unto prayer. Come ye unto good .... Prayer is a better thing than sleep. Come ye to the best deed. God is most great. God is most great. There is no god except God.
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Metropolitan Vancouver's overall vacancy rate for purpose-built rental housing has fallen to 0.7 percent for bachelor, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units in the newest survey from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
The federal housing agency also reported that the average rent is up 6.4 percent to $1,223.
The vacancy rate was 1.4 percent for units of three or more bedrooms.
"Strong demand for rental accommodation in Vancouver outpaced addition to supply, pushing rents higher and vacancies lower for purpose-built and condo rental apartments," CMHC housing analyst Robyn Adamache said in a statement.
These statistics only covered purpose-built rentals with three more more units and not private apartments rented by condo owners or basement suites in single-family homes.
The overall regional vacancy rate of 0.7 percent is down from 0.8 percent last year.
The highest vacancy rate, 1.7 percent, was in the Tri-Cities area. The lowest, 0 percent, was on the University Endowment Lands, which is home to UBC's Point Grey campus.
The lower vacancy rate and higher average rent this year were attributed to significant employment and population growth and rising entry-level home prices.
"Strong demand for rental accommodation outpaced new additions to the supply, pushing the vacancy rates lower for both primary rental apartments and rental condominum apartments," CMHC stated in a report on the market.
This has occurred even though starts of purpose-built rental housing have reached record highs. The number of purpose-built rental units increased by 922 units over the year.
There were 15,7333 new households formed in the region over the past year as a result of "migration and natural increase".
In the West End/Stanley Park area, the one-bedroom private apartment vacancy rate fell from 0.6 percent to 0.5 percent over the year. But in the English Bay area, the rate rose from 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent for a one-bedroom unit. In the downtown zone, the rate for a one-bedroom unit fell from 0.7 percet to 0.4 percent.
In the city of Vancouver, the highest one-bedroom vacancy rate was 2.3 percent in the area defined as "Westside Kerrisdale". Nowhere else in Vancouver did it reach one percent for a one-bedroom unit.
Average prices for a one-bedroom ranged from $955 in Marpole to $1441 in English Bay.
The lowest rent in the region for a one-bedroom unit was $762 in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows, followed by $849 in Delta, $855 in Surrey, and $889 in Langley City and the Township of Langley.
In 2016, there were an estimated 1,516 condo units added to the rental market, according to CMHC. The investor-held condo vacancy rate fell from 0.9 percent to 0.3 percent over the year, with the average rent in a private condo reaching $1,625.
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Harry Louis Nathan, 1. Baron Nathan (* 2. Februar 1889 in London; † 23. Oktober 1963 ebenda) war ein britischer Politiker (Liberal Party, Labour Party). Er bekleidete unter anderem das Amt des Ministers für zivile Luftfahrt.

Leben und Tätigkeit
Nathan war ein Sohn des Friedensrichters Michael Henry Nathan und seiner Frau Constance. Er besuchte die St Paul's School. Anschließend schlug er die Rechtsanwaltslaufbahn als Solicitor ein und arbeitete für die Kanzlei Herbert Oppenheimer Nathan and Vandyk. Ehrenamtlich übernahm er die Leitung des Brady Working Lads' Club, dem ältesten und größten Londoner Klub für Jungen jüdischen Glaubens.

Als Teilnehmer am Ersten Weltkrieg, in dem er in Gallipoli, Ägypten und Frankreich zum Einsatz kam, erreichte Nathan den Rang eines Majors.

In den 1920er Jahren engagierte Nathan sich als Berater für die British Zionist Organization und verschiedene jüdische Körperschaften in Palästina.

Bei den Wahlen von 1924 kandidierte Nathan erstmals für das britische Unterhaus. Er trat für die Liberal Party im Wahlkreis Whitechapel and St. George an, wurde aber nicht gewählt. 1929 gelang es ihm schließlich für den Wahlkreis Bethnal Green North East ins Unterhaus einzuziehen. Bei der Wahl des Jahres 1931 konnte er seinen Sitz verteidigen.

1934 verließ Nathan die Liberal Party und schloss sich der Labour Party an. Bei den Wahlen des Jahres 1935 trat er für die Labour Party im Wahlkreis Cardiff South an und verfehlte seinen Wiedereinzug ins Parlament mit 541 Stimmen.

1937 gelang es Nathan schließlich anlässlich einer Nachwahl in Wandsworth Central als Vertreter der Labour Party für diesen Wahlkreises ins Unterhaus zurückzukehren. 1940 trat er von seinem Unterhaussitz zurück um auf diese Weise Ernest Bevin ein Aufrücken auf denselben zu ermöglichen.

Am 28. Juni 1940 wurde Nathan als Baron Nathan, of Churt in the County of Surrey, zum erblichen Peer erhoben. Entsprechend rückte er vom Unterhaus ins Oberhaus auf. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs amtierte er als Chairman des National Defense Public Interest Committee.

In der Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bekleidete Nathan verschiedene hohe Regierungsämter: Vom 4. Oktober 1946 bis 31. Mai 1948 war er Minister für zivile Luftfahrt in der Regierung von Clement Attlee, zuvor war er von 1945 bis 1946 einige Monate Lang Staatssekretär im Kriegsministerium (Under-Secretary of State for War) gewesen. Seit 1946 war er zudem Mitglied des Privy Council, dem britischen Kronrat.

Von den deutschen Nationalsozialisten wurde Nathan als einer der bekanntesten Juden im öffentlichen Leben Großbritanniens angefeindet. Im Frühjahr 1940 wurde er vom Reichssicherheitshauptamt auf die Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. gesetzt, ein Verzeichnis von Personen, die im Falle einer erfolgreichen Invasion und Besetzung der britischen Insel durch die Wehrmacht von dieser nachfolgenden SS-Sonderkommandos mit besonderer Priorität ausfindig gemacht und verhaftet werden sollten.

In den 1950er Jahren nahm er Aufgaben wie den Vorsitz über das Regierungskomitee für das Zollgesetz (governmental committee on the law of customs) und Vorsitzender des Komitees zur Untersuchung des Gesetzes und der Praxis der wohltätigen Trusts (Committee to investigate the law and practice of charitable trusts), das in einer Gesetzesnovellierung mündete.

1960 wurde er zum Mitglied (Fellow) der British Academy gewählt.

Familie
Nathan heiratete 1919 Eleanor Joan Stettauer. Sie war von 1947 bis 1948 die zweite Frau, die dem London County Council vorstand. Mit ihr hatte er eine Tochter, Joyce Constance Ina Nathan (1920–2013), die 1943 Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, 1. Baronet, heiratete, und einen Sohn Roger Nathan (1922–2007), der 1963 seinen Adelstitel erbte.

Schriften
 Liberal Points of View (zusammen mit Harold Heathcote Williams)
 Liberalism and Some Problems of To-day, 1929 (zusammen mit Harold Heathcote Williams)
 Free Trad To-day, 1929.
 Medical Negligence, 1957.

Literatur
 Greville Janner, Derek Taylor: Jewish Parliamentarians, 2008.
 Harford Montgomery Hyde: Strong for service: the life of Lord Nathan of Churt, 1968.
 Fred Sklonik, Michael Berenbaum: Encyclopaedia Judaica. Band 15, S. 9.

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Lucerne, 24 September 2018 – The traditional watch and jewellery house in Lucerne expands its cult collection with a motorsport watch – the TAG Heuer Formula 1 Bucherer BLUE EDITIONS. The special edition of this striking blue timepiece arose out of a collaboration with the designers from TAG Heuer. It will be available exclusively in the Bucherer online shop from 24 September 2018.
The latest model from the Bucherer BLUE EDITIONS collection is aimed at the trendy young man who has motorsport in his blood. The TAG Heuer Formula 1 Bucherer BLUE EDITIONS stands out thanks to its sporty yet elegant blue dial with hand-applied indexes and a rotating aluminium bezel with a 60-minute scale. Featuring a diameter of 43 mm as well as a robust and resistant stainless-steel case, the automatic watch with a power reserve of 38 hours is the ideal companion for every occasion. In addition to the stainless-steel bracelet, this special edition features a blue rubber strap, giving it a second, trendier look.
This timepiece was designed in collaboration with TAG Heuer and bears testimony to the enduring partnership between the two companies. "It was a great opportunity for TAG Heuer to work with Bucherer on this special edition. This watch is another step in the longstanding collaboration for the development of our business around the world," says CEO of TAG Heuer, Jean-Claude Biver.
The Bucherer BLUE EDITIONS watch collection comprises 18 exclusive timepieces that Bucherer created in cooperation with 12 renowned watch manufacturers.
For 130 years, Bucherer has offered its customers a large selection of outstanding timepieces from first-class watchmakers. Its unique relations with the most distinguished brands in the industry are the fruit of many years of continuous collaboration, rooted in know-how, mutual respect and exceptional technical expertise. These rare partnerships produced the 18 men's and ladies' watches from the exclusive Bucherer BLUE EDITIONS collection, which Bucherer developed jointly with the watchmakers Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Carl F. Bucherer, Chopard, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines, H. Moser & Cie., Panerai, Piaget, TAG Heuer and Tudor. The central theme of the collection is the colour blue. For countless artists over the centuries, blue has been a source of inspiration, reminding us of the sky and sea. It has also become a symbol of the company Bucherer, and hence an identifying feature of the Bucherer brand.
Founded in 1888, the family company Bucherer has one of the most distinguished traditions in Europe's watch and jewellery industry, and over the last 130 years has established for itself an exclusive reputation with its range of exquisite jewellery and prize-winning creations. Its boutiques also offer the company's international clientele a wide range of luxury watches from renowned brands. Bucherer is present at 32 exclusive locations in Europe: with 14 stores in Switzerland, 10 in Germany, a flagship store in Vienna, the world's largest watch and jewellery store in Paris, a store in Copenhagen, Denmark and four boutiques in London. In January 2018, Bucherer also announced its takeover of the US luxury watch retailer Tourneau, which has 28 stores across the US. The company employs over 2,400 staff and is currently managed by Jörg G. Bucherer, meaning it has now been under the stewardship of the Bucherer family for three generations. The Bucherer headquarters remain in Lucerne to this day.


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The Survival Of The Smartwatch
By : Nolan Lewis | March 19, 2017
Despite its questioned credibility, the smartwatch has inched its way into Baselworld 2017.
Not-so-smart! Experts predicted that the debut of smartwatch was the next big thing in terms of horology. Was it? Despite a huge launch as an electronic organizer that was meant to be worn on the wrist—the ultimate tool in effortless time-management, it failed to make a mark. Why? Rather than make our lives any simpler, it just added to sensory clutter. No one liked resetting Twitter notifications on their desktop, iPad, smartphone and smartwatch all at the same time. It just added to the stress, rather than helped us get our act together.
That was a few seasons ago. Then we went back to a phase of questioning, where we reverted to our simplistic analogs and the fashion police declared that the smartwatch was decidedly uncool, only to be worn only by gym bunnies who were trying too hard! The old world sophisticated dependability of a classic timepiece couldn't be shaken by some millennial gimmick.
So, it comes as a surprise that at the 2017 edition of Baselworld—the Mecca of horology trade events—a lot of big names in the industry have subtly been pushing the smartwatch with technological tweaks, practical applications on the Android platform, cosmetic changes and other bells-and-whistles.
We're still not sure if the smartwatch will ultimately survive, given the bad rep—but here's a list of luxury labels who believe that the gizmo truly deserves a second chance. www.baselworld.com
As is the case for all watches, only time will tell:
Huawei Smart Watch for Women
Considering the past collaborations with Samsung for the crystal-studded Gear S and Huawei, for the latter's Watch Jewel, we should have seen this one coming. The Austrian manufacturer of cut glass, Swarovski finally seems to have come into its own in the complicated world of tech, when it cryptically announced the launch of its own smartwatch, just days before the commencement of the current edition of Baselworld. The specifics as of now are sketchy, but we are hoping that the matter will become crystal-clear as Baselworld 2017 unfurls. www.swarovski.com
Movado will be unveiling a series of, and not just one smartwatch this year. The time-wear group—that also holds licensing agreements with luxury fashion labels Hugo Boss and Tommy Hilfiger, has confirmed that it will be unveiling smartwatch editions for both brands, at Baselworld 2017. Movado's debutantes will feature innovations like customizable dials and watch hands, Google Assistant support, an always-on display and a fitness tracking app. www.movado.com
The Swiss watch manufacturer is still sage in presuming that the smartwatch may just, in the end, not work out, and its sanest feature in the TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 is the custom automatic watch head module, which means that you will be able to switch from the Android Wear 2.0-packing body for a traditional automatic movement body. At a starting price of $ 1,650 it is also one of the high-end smartwatches currently available in the market. www.tagheuer.com
Nolan Lewis
For someone who began his media career as a freelance journalist, Nolan Lewis is now quite convinced that life as a media hack isn't as glamorous as it is made out to be. Over a year of living life in the fast lane, late night networking events and crazy deadlines writing for, and editing magazines later, he has added the digital media to his portfolio and is now Consulting Editor (Digital) for Eat Stay Love and Blackbook magazines.


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Yes, it was that good
I thought that waiting a few days might mean I was able to write about the FA Cup final in a more considered manner. In the euphoria of such a victory, it's easy to work in hyperbole and over-exaggerate something as the greatest or the best. But four days after Arsenal's epic 2-1 victory over Chelsea, it doesn't feel like heat-of-the-moment exaggeration to say that it was one of Arsenal's best ever FA Cup final performances. It really was as good as it seemed on Saturday.
Before the semi-finals, it looked like a long-shot for Arsenal to win the cup knowing they'd have to beat two of Manchester City, Tottenham and Chelsea. But playing at Wembley and playing in this tournament does something to Arsenal. Whereas they often look nervous and uncomfortable in big European games or big away games in the Premier League, in the FA Cup, Arsenal play like the top dogs. Recent successes in the competition has given the team a belief that they'll find a way, especially at Wembley. There's no scrambled minds thinking about European qualification or away goals, it's just straight knockout. While Arsenal can be incredibly frustrating, on a given day they have the quality to beat anyone.
And that anyone on Saturday was the team chasing the double, the team that are the deserved champions of England and the team that has perfected the in-vogue 3-4-3 formation. It may have only finished 2-1, but the score-line flattered Chelsea. Arsenal were dominant and aggressive and imposed their game on the opposition, making it impossible for the Blues to get into a rhythm during the 90 minutes. The lauded N'golo Kante struggled to get near Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey, while Eden Hazard did a Theo Walcott-esque disappearing act.
Everyone who played was superb. Everyone did a job defensively and put a shift in, but equally looked vibrant and lively in attack. All of Arsene Wenger's big selection decisions paid off with Danny Welbeck up front and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain filling at left-wing back. But the biggest (quite literally) was to pick Per Mertesacker at centre-back. When everyone played so brilliantly, it seems almost unfair to single out one man, but the BFG is deserving of some serious praise.
Even a big Mertesacker fan, like myself, was concerned about him starting the cup final. Forget mentally, it was going to be a huge challenge physically for him to last the whole game having not started a match for 13 months and having played less than 40 minutes in the whole season. He was also starting in a system he'd never appeared in before, alongside a youngster he'd not started a game with before and a left-back doing a job at centre-half. All of this just makes his performance even more remarkable and, for me, makes it one of the greatest performances by a captain in any FA Cup final. His reading of the game was first class, his stifling of Diego Costa went a long way to blunting Chelsea's attack, and his organisation was vital in a make-shift back-line. I was so chuffed for him as he is someone who has always been an easy target for unfair criticism. He's a brilliant defender and a brilliant man to have as club captain.
Along with everyone playing well, Arsenal were going to need a bit of luck to go their way to win the game, and it did with the opening goal. Anthony Taylor got the offside decision right, but there was definitely a strong hint of handball in the way Alexis Sanchez blocked Kante's clearance before finishing. Anthony Taylor then unexpectedly endeared himself to Arsenal fans even more by correctly sending off Victor Moses for two yellow cards, the second coming for a dreadful dive. Having Anthony Taylor as the referee was another reason for a lack of confidence going into the game given some of his previous performances refereeing Arsenal, but overall he was excellent on the biggest day of his career.
Despite playing so well, Arsenal missed some great chances and having been pegged back to 1-1 against ten men, could have been overcome by nerves and fear again. But they roared back into the lead brilliantly with 11 minutes to go. Another one of Arsene Wenger's decisions paid off as Olivier Giroud came straight onto the field and chipped a perfect cross across the box with his first touch. Aaron Ramsey arrived perfectly to nod the ball into the net and spark bedlum in the red half of Wembley. It was one of those moments that will live forever with every Arsenal fan that was there. And for someone who is often criticised, it's hard to complain at a player who has now scored two winners in FA Cup finals. Take a bow, Aaron.
The win secured a place in the record books for Arsene Wenger as he became the most successful manager in FA Cup history. Seven FA Cup wins is a ridiculous achievement, and one that I can't see being beaten for a very long time. It also moved Arsenal ahead of Manchester United as the most successful team in the FA Cup ever with 13 trophies. It might not be the Premier League or the Champions League, but the FA Cup matters. It has given me the best moments of the season as a fan with trips to Preston and Southampton alongside the Wembley games. Being a football fan is also about making memories, and there's no doubting that Arsenal fans made a damn good one on Saturday, and that was because of the FA Cup.
Of course since the final, there has been confirmation that Arsene Wenger is staying at the club for another two years. After the defeats to Bayern Munich, West Brom and Crystal Palace, Arsenal looked like a broken team. Unless Arsene Wenger ever writes his reveal-all autobiography, which would probably be the greatest football book of all time, we'll never truly know what happened in that period that derailed the team so dramatically and so damagingly. It looked like he had reached the point of no return, and while I was desperate for him to be able to turn it round, I couldn't see how that was possible and, for the first time, felt like this summer could be the right time for a parting of ways.
But football changes quickly, and after the magnificence of the performance on Saturday and the upturn in form, albeit too late to get into the Champions League, Arsene Wenger staying seems like a decent option. Certainly in terms of trusting the board to actually have the know-how to pick a successor, Wenger staying is definitely the better option. For fans of other clubs moaning that Arsenal don't know how lucky they are as the vast majority of clubs would kill to win three FA Cups in four years, they're right. It does seem ridiculous for fans to moan about the manager in that situation. But for those who follow the club closely and passionately, the club is in a unique and baffling situation. Nowhere else at the top level does the manager possess so much power in the footballing side of the club, and isn't really held accountable by those supposedly in power above him. For the size of club that Arsenal are and the money the club has coming in, they have under-achieved this season, and haven't made any genuine progress in the league for years now. It's a situation that has been allowed to fester and came to a head all too obviously this season.
While the outcome might not be what some were hoping for, at least there is now clarity that Arsene Wenger will be the manager next season and the club can get on with doing business in a hugely important summer. Existing players need contracts sorted, some need to be shipped out, and important additions need to be made. Alongside the announcement of the new contract for the manager have been quotes from the owner and chief executive about the ambition being to win the league. In the set-up of the staff to assist Arsene Wenger, and in the transfer market, Arsenal now have to show that that ambition really is there, and it isn't just a sound-bite to please supporters. Actions must speak louder than words.
Ultimately, the only way to truly unite the fan base again is by performances on the pitch, as Saturday proved. In a difficult and challenging season, there have been a few times when I've wondered exactly why I put myself through supporting Arsenal as it's not been much fun and there's been a toxic undercurrent among fans. But why do fans keep doing it? For days like Saturday, when Arsenal provide you with emotions and joy you just can't find anywhere else.
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Tesco has refuted allegations that its chief operating officer sold £202,000 of shares in the knowledge the retailer's stock market value was set to plummet.
Bob Robbins sold the shares in Tesco on January 4, eight days before the retailer's share price plummeted 16% in one day, wiping £5bn off its value, after it issued a profit warning on Thursday.
A Tesco spokesperson told the BBC: "At the point Bob sold his shares no decision had been taken on the outlook statement and that was the element of Thursday's statement that moved the share price.
Internet director Ken Towle also sold 155,000 shares on December 22.
Tesco reported a like-for-like sales fall of 2.3% excluding VAT and petrol for the six weeks to January 7. The retailer admitted poor range and service had contributed to the poor performance and said it needs "to do a bigger and better job in the UK".


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PlayStation 4 Oculus Rift Rival May Be Unveiled at GDC Next Month
Ready for a PlayStation 4 VR helmet?
By Matt Peckham @mattpeckhamFeb. 21, 2014
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An attendee wears an Oculus Rift HD virtual reality head-mounted display at he plays EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer virtual reality dogfighting shooter game.
PlayStation 4 owners, listen up, because it sounds like those grapevine tales of a virtual reality headset for Sony's console that'd square off with Oculus VR's Rift could finally pan out at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month.
TechRadar cites "an inside source" who's laid hands on the "helmet" (TechRadar's term), and who says Sony's finally ready to come clean about its existence. "The quality and resolution are really, really good," says TechRadar's tipster, adding "People will definitely be impressed with what Sony's built."
Put March 17 on your calendar then, if you haven't already: That's when GDC 2014 takes place in San Francisco, running through the 21. Unlike the spectacle that defines (and undermines) a trade fair like E3, GDC is put on by professional game developers, for professional game developers. It's the most highly esteemed annual games show.
In the future, we'll probably plug wireless receivers into our heads (or give vacancy to neurally interfaced nanites) when we want to visit imaginary vistas, but today, the cheapest, most effective way to provide wraparound visual immersion in a computer-generated world is by wrapping clumsy headgear around our craniums — gear that blasts high definition visuals displayed on tiny screens at our eyeballs. We've been doing it for decades, to one degree or another, with short-lived products that seemed like grand ideas at the time. The technology's crude by Star Trek standards, but then we're talking about the difference between faking out the brain and literally rewiring it.
Establishing an audience for quirky products is a mix of guesswork, timing and luck. Platforms like Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Kinect sold tens of millions of units because Nintendo and Microsoft managed to fire consumers' imaginations with promises of mechanically simple, futuristic motion-control for next to nothing, price-wise.
If Sony's about to unveil a VR headset, it has a two-trick challenge: convincing the world it's developed technology that rivals — or betters — what Oculus VR's been up to, and marketing the technology with sufficiently alluring software to unlock hearts and wallets.
The former's largely a matter of specifications and execution — you either have them or you don't. The latter's the real trick, just as it will be for Oculus VR when the Rift finally shifts from development into consumer product mode (supposedly this year).
If we're going to accept the notion that we have to wear fashion-evil hardware on our heads to kick the ball a little further down the simulated field, the price is pairing that technology with mind-bending software. Novelty won't cut it. The games have to use the technology in ways that make sense. The technology-software interface has to work in ways that won't give us whiplash. The hardware has to be comfortable for extended play sessions (VR experiences that involve wearing a helmet are by definition not casual). And the price has to be mass market, not boutique, if you want to be more than a niche bragging-rights trophy for futurism wonks.
I haven't given Oculus Rift a shake yet, but I'm familiar with its raves as well as the many celebrity game industry endorsements. I guess you'd have to say I'm skeptical, no matter how well-executed Oculus VR's riff on a very old workaround idea turns out to be, for the same reasons Eye Toy creator Richard Marks was about head-mounted VR devices when I interviewed him about wearable interfaces in the mid-2000s: People don't like to wear stuff in an everyday capacity that's much off the spectrum of cultural norms. It's kludgy, and kludgy doesn't sell. Bear in mind that we're talking about headgear that looks radically weirder than something as innocuous as your average pair of stereoscopic 3D glasses. And we all know how well the latter's done.
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Matt Peckham is TIME's video games, science tech and music tech correspondent based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has appeared in Variety, The Washington Post, The New York Times and others.


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Restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro got hacked recently, compromising thousands of credit cards. Oopsies. But business doesn't stop just because you got hacked, so in the short term the company is resorting to some old-school tech so that it can keep taking plastic.
P.F. Chang's has already reported this incident to the card companies. We provided manual credit card imprinting devices to all P.F. Chang's China Bistro branded restaurants in the continental U.S. to prevent any further potential exposure of our guests' credit and debit card information.
The company operates roughly 200 locations in the United States and they all had to be rushed one of those old manual imprint machines with the slider and the carbon copy receipts. And the sound. Remember the sound?


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People live better in big houses and in big clothes. I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast. We have to change! I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. Give me time and I'll give you a revolution. I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Mass-market fashion is very modern
I think the idea of mixing luxury and, very now no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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I never look at other people's work. I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. Give me time and I'll give you a revolution. I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late. Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
Looking to the future with optimism
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good. I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good. Abstinence from coffee, tobacco. Adventists has afforded a near-unique opportunity.
Clothes can transform your mood and confidence
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.
Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity. I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy. I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to. You have to stay true to your heritage, that's what your brand is about.
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. Every day I'm thinking about change. The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. For me, art is about learning. I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed.
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The Chinese government has ordered local Bitcoin exchanges to refuse new inflows of cash, in a fresh effort to block the virtual currency boom in the nation.
Bitcoin prices went down sharply on the news, dropping 46% from Monday, and 60% since the historic peak of late November, to hit US$425 at BTCChina, the world's largest bitcoin exchange by volume.
Exchanges in other countries also reported drops, with Japan-based MtGox seeing the exchange rate for one bitcoin fall from $717 to as low as $480 in Wednesday's trade.
Shanghai-based BTCChina and other bitcoin exchanges in the country rely on third-party providers to handle the transactions for bitcoin trading as they are not licensed to handle clearing services that enable investors to deposit and withdraw their money.
Earlier this month, China banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin due to the risks involved, but kept individual trading legal.
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Alan Carter (born September 13, 1959) is an American television director, producer, editor, and screenwriter. In the 1980s and 1990s, Carter worked as a music video editor. His big client was Phil Collins. He began working on television when he edited a David Copperfield Magic Special for CBS in 1993, winning his first of two Emmys.

Filmography

Director

2011-2015 The Voice (TV Series) (154 episodes)

2015 The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special)

2015 The 41st Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Movie)

2011-2014 Shark Tank (TV Series) (50 episodes)

The Biggest Loser (TV Series) (5 episodes, 2009 - 2011) (director - 1 episode, 2013)

2012 The 38th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special)

2010-2011 Minute to Win It (TV Series) (60 episodes)

2011 The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special)

2010 The 2010 Miss Universe Pageant (TV Special)

2010 The 36th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special)

2009 The Newlywed Game (TV Series) (1 episode)

2009 2009 CMT Music Awards (TV Movie)

2008 Macy's Passport Celebrity Catwalk Challenge (TV Special)

2008 Heroes: Countdown to the Premiere (TV Movie documentary)

2008 2008 ALMA Awards (TV Movie)

2008 Last Comic Standing (TV Series) (1 episode)

2008 2008 CMT Music Awards (TV Special)

2008 Your Mama Don't Dance (TV Series)

2008 Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (TV Series) (6 episodes)

2007 Clash of the Choirs (TV Mini-Series)

2007 Phenomenon (TV Series) (5 episodes)

2007 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards (TV Special)

2007 2007 CMT Music Awards (TV Special)

2007 The 2007 Miss America Pageant (TV Movie)

2006 Great Performances (TV Series) (2 episodes)

2006 VH1 Big in 06 Awards (TV Movie)

2006 CMT Giants-Reba (TV Series) (1 episode)

2006 Fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (TV Special)

2006 The One: Making a Music Star (TV Series)

2006 The CMT Music Awards 2006 (TV Special)

2006 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special)

2006 The 11th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (TV Movie documentary)

2006 Moving Image Salutes Ron Howard (TV Movie)

2006 Gretchen Wilson: Undressed (TV Movie)

2005 Brad Paisley's Muddi Gras (TV Movie)

2005 But Can They Sing? (TV Series)

2005 Dancing with the Stars (Dance Off) (TV Movie)

2005 My Kind of Town (TV Series)

2005 Miss Universe 2005 (TV Special)

2005 Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty (TV Movie)

2005 The CMT Music Awards (TV Special)

2005 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special)

Paris By Night 88, 90, 92 to 106, 108, 111, 120, 123, 129 (Vietnamese musical variety show)

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Living people
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American television directors
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco benefit from the dedication of our generous supporting organizations. These member-based special interest groups draw individuals together around social opportunities, as well as specific areas of the collections. Participants enjoy a variety of educational and social opportunities, including exclusive events, lectures, and trips.
Auxiliaries of the Fine Arts Museums
Consisting of five membership groups, the Auxiliaries comprise volunteers who raise funds to help support the goals of the Fine Arts Museums. Their activities include the coordination of Bouquets to Art, the largest annual fundraiser for the Museums, in addition to smaller initiatives and social... View More
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The San Francisco Ceramic Circle (SFCC) is a museum affiliate group of pottery and porcelain collectors and of others interested in ceramic art. The SFCC supports the museums' ceramic collections with a program of lectures, and assists with funding purchases for the collections.SFCC lectures on... View More
Textile Arts Council (TAC)
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Nestled on 165 acres in the Texas Hill Country, Jester King Brewery & Kitchen is dedicated to conservation, sustainability, and stewardship of our land. Several acres are allocated to our working farm, with progress being made towards food crops that can be used in our kitchen as well as beer production.
Jester King was born on the idea of creating a union of time, place, and people. To achieve this on our farm, we broke ground to grow as many ingredients for our restaurant and brewery while maintaining stewardship of our land. Our goal is to find a balance in yielding from the land while returning needed nutrients back to the soil so that we may always exist in symbiosis. We use techniques such as the implementation of native grasses to trap and hold water into our aquifers, holistic grazing of animals for natural fertilization, and avoiding the use of pesticides in favor of promoting biodiverse systems which regulate themselves.
NIGERIAN DWARF Goats
Foraging browser, remediator of land, great horned beast, the goat. Our large herd of Nigerian Dwarf goats are respected coworkers and live their best life out here in the Texas Hill Country. Reputed as ornery creatures, these animals exhibit only kindness when shown respect. Though the smallest of all dairy goats, this West African breed can endure the summer heat. The herd is a matriarchy, the current ruling Queen is Luna… long may she reign."
In order to share the 165 acres of land at Jester King, we have begun building a trail network that will web itself throughout our sprawling lands of untouched wilderness. So far we have achieved a half-mile loop, which circles our initial farm installation. From this path, you may see our vineyard, inaugural berm, meet the goats, and look off into the future of our ranch. We've also built a two-mile trail. We worked hard in 2020 to clear the trail and create signage for all of our guests to enjoy. Learn more about our nature trail here. Our trails are open at all times business is! Grab a beer and take a walk.
In June 2019, House Bill 1325 was signed into law by Governor Abbott to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp (cannabis containing less than 0.3% THC). This was the first time hemp was able to be farmed in Texas in 80+ years. Our farm has been growing hemp ever since, and we offer a wide range of CBD and THC products in the Jester King Shop located in the Pole Barn.
Established at the end of 2018, close to 100 fruit trees were planted on half an acre of the property. Focusing on what will grow in the Texas Hill Country, we have planted medlar, paw paw, fig, Asian persimmon, pomegranate, plum, apricot, and pluot. A wild design has been implemented, allowing biodiversity to reign in the orchard and giving everything a shot to see what can sustain itself. What does flourish will be used in our kitchen and our brewery.


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