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Making Business Cards, Part Four

A few nice make business cards images I found:


Making Business Cards, Part Four
make business cards
Image by prehensile
Rounding the corners with manly pink corner punch

3 Finger Sustainability Salute from Andrew at "Towards Meaningful Reporting"_5942

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3 Finger Sustainability Salute from Andrew at "Towards Meaningful Reporting"_5942
business reports
Image by \!/_PeacePlusOne
Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop, held in the conference room of the China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation (CECIC), organized by BEC - Business Environment Council, China Environmental Awareness Program, China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation, included the introduction of the McMaster Institute's "ISR" concept, and the "Peace Plus One" 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol.




800 Pixel size images are suitable for viewing and sharing on the internet.
800像素大小的图片适合放在互联网上观赏和分享。


Contact the McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce for information on the PEACE PLUS ONE - WORLD SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT
www.SustainabilitySymbol.com
如果您想要了解更多“和平+壹——世界可持续发展工程”的相关信息,请联系麦克马斯特可持续发展商务研究所。 www.SustainabilitySymbol.com


If you would like a larger, printable copy of any of these pictures, simply make a donation to
www.sustainabilitysymbol.com/donate/ and make sure you INDICATE PHOTOGRAPH FILE NAME AND NUMBER with each donation!!
如果您想获得更大像素、适于印刷的照片,请在下面网页上做一次简单捐助www.sustainabilitysymbol.com/donate/
同时在捐助时确定您留下了照片文件名及号码




Don't forget to add your name, and address to the comment box indicated in the online donation form, so we can provide authorized, written permission for you to use the images.
请不要忘记将您的姓名和地址添加到在线捐助表格上的评论文本框内,这样我们可以为您提供图片使用授权及书面许可。



If you like what we do, please support the effort, this is how we raise money to encourage eco-civilization in China and around the world_\!/
如果您喜欢我们所从事的活动,请支持我们,这是我们为在中国及全世界促进生态文明筹措资金的途径。


For more information, visit: www.PeacePlusOne.cn
www.SustainabilitySymbol.com

欢迎您了解更多信息,请访问以下网址www.PeacePlusOne.cn
www.SustainabilitySymbol.com "


Photo Courtesy: McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
图片集锦:麦克马斯特可持续发展商务研究所


Photographer: Philip McMaster (unless otherwise noted)
Please credit and link back to www.SustainabilitySymbol.com



图片作者:菲利普 麦克马斯特

请在使用图片时注明图片作者,并附加图片来源网址的链接www.SustainabilitySymbol.com


Ore processing at Rustenberg
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Image by bbcworldservice
Business Daily reported from the Impala Platinum mine and processing plant at Rustenberg in South Africa in March and April 2009.

Platinum mining is one of South Africa's most important industries - the metal is is used throughout the world in catalytic converters for cars, for instance.


The smelting works at Rustenberg 1
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Image by bbcworldservice
Business Daily reported from the Impala Platinum mine and processing plant at Rustenberg in South Africa in March and April 2009.

Platinum mining is one of South Africa's most important industries - the metal is is used throughout the world in catalytic converters for cars, for instance.

Cool Business Week images

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National Small Business Week 2010
business week
Image by ShashiBellamkonda
National Small Business Week 2010 (cc) Shashi Bellamkonda <a href="http://www.shashi.name" >www.shashi.name</a> Social Media Swami <a href="http://www.networksolutions.com" >Network Solutions</a> Please use and credit as above.

Carbon fiber business card by Pure Metal Cards

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Carbon fiber business card by Pure Metal Cards
business card design
Image by Pure Metal Cards
Carbon fiber business card by Pure Metal Cards


Carbon fiber business card by Pure Metal Cards
business card design
Image by Pure Metal Cards
Carbon fiber business card by Pure Metal Cards

card + card

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card + card
business card size
Image by kvanhorn
old card / new card...

ok, the second one isn't "me", but actually, it really is.

(i'm so impressed the dayglow pink came across in the photo)

view large for the text.

New Orleans, LA (Lower Garden District)

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New Orleans, LA (Lower Garden District)
business magazine
Image by JasonParis
Local pride on Magazine Street!

Die lange Karawane der Schnäppchenjäger

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Die lange Karawane der Schnäppchenjäger
business presentation
Image by Hannes Treichl
Read the story connected with this picture on my blog >>

PS: Thanks, Karl, for your agreement to use your gorgeous picture!


CoB_SharkTank_2012_193
business presentation
Image by Rowan University Publications

Fashion magazine publishing

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Fashion magazine publishing
business magazine
Image by London College of Fashion short courses
An introduction to the business of magazine publishing including an overview of basic editorial functions, magazine design and the commissioning and art direction of fashion and style photography. You'll put your new found knowledge into practice by conceptualising, planning and designing your own magazine.


Page 2, Sino-Foreign Management Magazine
business magazine
Image by \!/_PeacePlusOne
Article In Chinese, from SINO-FOREIGN MANAGEMENT

www.sustainabilitysymbol.com/3-finger-philosophy-featured...


ORIGINAL ARTICLE in CHINESE: www.zwgl.com.cn/article_info.asp?nid=913

Cool Business Intelligence images

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Executive Dashboard
business intelligence
Image by CTSI-Global
Business Intelligence by CTSI-Global

Meetings: Worthwhile or waste of time? Here's how to find out.

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Meetings: Worthwhile or waste of time? Here's how to find out.
opening a business
Image by opensourceway
Image source:
www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/4092440399/

Read the article on opensource.com
Meetings: Worthwhile or waste of time? Here's how to find out.
Panera's experiment in human nature: Let customers decide what to pay

Created by Libby Levi for opensource.com


The democratization of comics
opening a business
Image by opensourceway
Read the article on opensource.com
The democratization of comics

Created by Libby Levi for opensource.com

Cool Business To Business images

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business card canvas triptych
business to business
Image by saaleha
I couldn't just stop at puzzles and organisers ( saaleha.com/2010/12/20/puzzling-business/ ).

I made these 'canvasses' by interlocking and taping 20 business card cubes per rectangle.

I then photoshopped a picture I took of the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo to fit over all three canvasses.

You'd probably get better results printing on photo paper, but for a cheap and dirty decor fix, our b&w toner printer did the job.

I edged each canvas with washi tape to hide some of the roughness from the cubes.

Cool Business For Sale images

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24 flavors of failure
business for sale
Image by haven't the slightest
not too long ago, this was Gabby's. Movie rentals, soft serve and homemade cinnamon buns could be found here.

University of Glasgow, Research map

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University of Glasgow, Research map
business intelligence
Image by jisc_infonet
This image is part of a larger collection on Flickr containing images created as part of work undertaken by 11 projects participating in the Business Intelligence Programme funded by Jisc between March 2011 and August 2012. Further information can be found on www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/business-intelligence/.

The case study produced by the project can be found on bit.ly/bi-glasgow.


University of Glasgow, Theme wizard 3
business intelligence
Image by jisc_infonet
This image is part of a larger collection on Flickr containing images created as part of work undertaken by 11 projects participating in the Business Intelligence Programme funded by Jisc between March 2011 and August 2012. Further information can be found on www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/business-intelligence/.

The case study produced by the project can be found on bit.ly/bi-glasgow.

Cool Business Portal images

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Beautiful Faces of Balata
business portal
Image by Beautiful Faces of Palestine
Dear friends, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen!


I would like to express my appreciation for your interest and participation in the "Beautiful Faces of Balata" » exhibition. It was a great pleasure to share this moment with you.

It is not to be taken for granted that people who have suffered injustice manage to retain a great level of confidence and hope.

However, it is precisely this what I have been able to witness at the camp. People retain hope and are trying courageously to cope with their dire situation.

If people become politically conscious in a constructive way, it seems to me this is to a large part due to the persistent presence of international organisations and their services.

I would like to contribute to this increasing awareness.

Through the touring exhibition project as an partially realised activity of the Balata info Portal (BIP) we are aiming at creating awareness about living conditions inside the Balata Refugee Camp as well as about ongoing activities, programs, achievements and future projects.
In order to accomplish this, Mahmud Subuh (Yafa Cultural Center Balata) and I have great hopes for the Balata Info Portal-Project.

The BIP seeks to improve project and PR work of NGOs through a centralised access point of information and imagery. The project fulfils a dual purpose:

it is a forum in which information about ongoing activities, programs, aims, achievements and future projects will be exchanged and it is a platform in which organisations will be able to present their own profile, projects and activities.

I would like to present the project draft to you and would like to kindly ask you to consider support the project in the following fields:

1. The exhibition needs to be expanded with additional photography and relocated touring through the West Bank and Israel.

2. Implementing the Balata Info Portal-Project

The exhibition will go on tour through the West Bank and to some locations in Israel (Yafa, Tel Aviv). It is under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) and the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria-Foundation

If you would like to read more about BIP pleased feel free to download following documents.
Project Proposal » palpics.info/downloads/BIP_Proposal.doc
Matrix Visual Overview » palpics.info/downloads/BIP_objectives.doc
Info Flyer » palpics.info/downloads/Balata_InfoFlyer.pdf
Business Card "Beautiful Faces of Palestine" » palpics.info/downloads/PalPics_Card.pdf


Wireless Toronto portal
business portal
Image by Matthew Burpee
Monday, April 14, 2008, 7:30pm
Wireless Toronto Meeting, Breakout Portal Discussion

Brainstorming by Dory (mostly) and Matthew
1. Profile Neighborhood: flickr photos, map mashups, Torontoist, Blog.TO, craiglist miss connections, garage sales
2. Profile Local Person or thing: Open Guest Curator for page - business, food, kind of like a guest column for a magazine.
3. Profile Events: RSS, Postings, city councilor websites.
4. Social: Chat, wall, user agreement.

Design sketch: flickr.com/photos/citizenziggy/2450035746/in/photostream/

Social Business Boot Camp 2010

A few nice business license images I found:


Social Business Boot Camp 2010
business license
Image by Gangway Advertising
(CC) Licensed under a creative commons share-alike. Use freely but give attribution to Gangway Advertising and www.gangwayadvertising.com.

Cool Business Address images

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Gwen Ifill Delivering the Keynote Address for the MLK Symposium at the University of Michigan (Jan. 18, 2010)
business address
Image by cseeman
Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS's “Washington Week,” co-anchor for the "PBS NewsHour" and author of the best-selling book: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, presenting the Keynote Memorial Lecture of the University of Michigan's MLK Symposium. The Lecture was at the University of Michigan's Hill Auditorium on Monday January 18, 2010. She was introduced by Lester Monts, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan, and Bob Dolan, Dean of the Ross School of Business.


Gwen Ifill Delivering the Keynote Address for the MLK Symposium at the University of Michigan (Jan. 18, 2010)
business address
Image by cseeman
Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS's “Washington Week,” co-anchor for the "PBS NewsHour" and author of the best-selling book: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, presenting the Keynote Memorial Lecture of the University of Michigan's MLK Symposium. The Lecture was at the University of Michigan's Hill Auditorium on Monday January 18, 2010. She was introduced by Lester Monts, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan, and Bob Dolan, Dean of the Ross School of Business.

Santa Cruz Surf Shop Window 80's

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Santa Cruz Surf Shop Window 80's
starting own business
Image by Judi Oyama
Santa Cruz Surf Shop window display. collage with a VHS Video playing. Worked the shop from buyer, manager, airbrushed, graphic designer to start my own business straight out of college. Still have my business decades later.


“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” -Pablo Picasso
starting own business
Image by ⊙△⊙
second teaser!

Girl with the balloon in this picture is my friend's sister, who gave me this project. She's a fashion designer and will start her own business within a couple of months. Thankfully I was entrusted to capture her beautiful dresses in pictures, also her portrait! :)

Well, I'm still working on it -on the sideline of doing my studio assignments (you know, a routine of architecture student)! So, sorry for the second teaser, promise it will be the last teaser tho -this is just for fun :) I will upload the photo set as soon as possible with some best pictures from the photoshoot we had ;)


xprotara12-1
starting own business
Image by j. Verspeelt
nikon f65 expired fuji sensia 100 cross processed

i did these for an esthetics student that is starting her own business

Cool Sample Business Plan images

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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - guard - Arlington National Cemetery - 2012
sample business plan
Image by Tim Evanson
An honor guard walks in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., in the United States. The memorial actually has no official name, but Arlington caretakers continue to refer to it by the clunky "Tomb of the Unknowns." Nearly everyone else uses the other name.

Soldiers on duty before the Tomb wear no rank insignia, so as not to appear to outrank the Unknown (whose rank was not known, of course) in the Tomb. Only the Relief Officer and the Assistant Relief Officer wear rank insignia, as they are only in front of the Tomb for a few moments while overseeing the changing of the guard.

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Law Enforcement Officers have laid the wreath you see here. Several other groups have also laid wreaths at the Tomb during the day, which you can partially see behind the Tomb.

Arlington's first Amphitheater was constructed of wood in 1874, and soon proved far too small. Congress authorized construction of the Memorial Amphitheater on March 4, 1913. Ground-breaking occurred on March 1, 1915, and President Woodrow Wilson placed the cornerstone on October 15, 1915. It was dedicated on May 15, 1920.

Originally, the main entrance to Memorial Amphitheater had a rectangular granite plaza in front of it, from which some short marble steps led down to a slightly elliptical granite plaza surrounded by a marble balustrade. From this overlook, you could see a rectangular grass lawn 20 feet below. But this soon changed...

Memorial Amphitheater was altered forever the year after its dedication. In 1917, America entered World War I. More than 1.3 million Americans served in Europe during the war, and more than 116,516 died. Just 4,221 were unidentified or missing; the missing (3,173) were the vast majority of them. Nonetheless, 1,100 "unidentified" American war dead was a burden on the national conscience, and the media focused heavily on grieving mothers with no body to bury. Some American generals suggested in 1919 that a "Tomb of an Unknown Soldier" be created in the United States. The idea didn't gain traction at first, but in 1920 both England and France held huge public ceremonies honoring their unknown dead. These received much press attention in the United States, and on February 4, 1921, Congress enacted legislation establishing a similar memorial. Some proponents of the memorial originally proposed burying the unknown soldier in the crypt beneath the Capitol Rotunda -- a crypt originally planned for George Washington (but politely declined by his family). Worried that the Capitol might become a mausoleum, Congress instead chose Arlington National Cemetery as the site for the new memorial. On March 4, 1921, with just hours left in his presidency, President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation into law.

In the United States, preparation for the "Tomb of the Unknown Solider" was frantically under way. The newly-formed American Legion (a congressionally-chartered veterans' lobby group) was pressing as late as May 1921 for the body to be buried in the Capitol Crypt. This debate was not resolved until mid-July, and by then very little time remained to create the monument. Where to build the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery continued until October, when it was decided that the view from the Memorial Amphitheater's plaza was the most appropriate site.

The Tomb was cut unto the center of the short steps which led down to the granite overlook. Diggers buried downward until they reached the level of the lawn below. They then continued another 20 feet below the surface. The subsurface shaft was 16 feet from east to west and 9.5 feet from north to south, and filled with solid concrete. This formed the footings for the vault above. The footings had to be that deep and that large because tons of marble were going to be placed on top of them, and the memorial could not be permitted to sink or become destabilized. The vault itself was lined with marble. The vault's walls ranged in thickness from 7 feet at the bottom to 2 feet, 4 inches at the top. A plinth (or "sub-base") was set on top of the vault walls. The plinth serves as the base of the memorial proper, and also helps to conceal the rough, unfinished top of the vault walls. The plinth was made of three finished, rectangular pieces of marble which fitted over the vault walls like a collar. These are on the north, south, and west sides of the vault, and were the only part of the substructure visible in 1921. (They remain visible today; you can just see them in this image.) Four rectangular marble pieces form the actual base of the memorial. These were mortared to the top of the plinth. A rectangular marble capstone with curved sides was placed on top of the base. The capstone was pierced with the a hole to permit the coffin to be lowered into through the base, through the plinth, and to the bottom of the grave vault. The bottom of the vault was lined with 2 inches of French soil, taken from various battlefields in France.

The World War I unknown was interred as scheduled on November 11, 1921. More than 100,000 people attended the ceremonies, including the Premier of France, Aristide Briand; the former Premier of France, Rene Viviani (who led France through the war); Marshal Ferdinand Foch (who was Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in France); President Warren G. Harding, former President William Howard Taft, and former President Woodrow Wilson. One thousand "gold star mothers" (women who had lost a son in the war) attended the ceremony, as did every single living Medal of Honor winner. The entire United States Cabinet was there, and so was the entire United States Supreme Court. Every member of the House and Senate was present (although they had to stand in the colonnade). A large number of military personnel also attended the dedication. These included General John Pershing, who had led American forces in Europe; Lieutenant General Nelson Miles, former Commanding General of the Army; Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty of the United Kingdom; General Armando Diaz, Marshal of Italy; General Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude of Belgium; Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, commander of British forces in Italy; Arthur Balfour, former Prime Minster of the United Kingdom; and Tokugawa, Prince of Japan. Also conspicuous was Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Nation, in full battle regalia and headdress.

President Harding bestowed on the unknown soldier the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross (the latter was never awarded again). General Jacques presented the Croix de Guerre, Belgium's highest military honor. (He took from his own chest the medal, which had been bestowed on him by King Albert.) Admiral Beatty bestowed the Victoria Cross, which had never before been given to a foreigner. Marshal Foch bestowed the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre with palm, France's highest military honor. General Diaz gave the Gold Medal for Bravery, Prince Bibescu of Romania gave the Virtuta Militaire, Dr. Dedrich Stephenek of Czechoslovakia presented the Szechoslovakia War Cross, and Prince Lubomirski of Poland gave the Virtuti Militan. When the coffin was ready for lowering into the vault, Chief Plenty Coups removed his war bonnet and tenderly placed it and his coup-stick on the coffin. He raised his hands to the sky. "I place on this grave of this noble warrior this coup stick and this war bonnet," he said, "every eagle feather of which represents a deed of valor by my race. I hope that the Great Spirit will grant that these noble warriors have not given up their lives in vain and that there will be peace to all men hereafter." An artillery battery fired, and the coffin began to be lowered. An answering a battery of fire came from the ''USS Olympia'', an American destroyer lying at anchor in the Potomac River. "Taps" were played. Once the coffin lay on the floor of the vault, the centerpiece of the capstone was put in place and the tomb sealed.

But all that existed was the base. The actual cenotaph, which you see here, did not yet exist.

Congress authorized completion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in July 1926. The Secretary of War held a design competition, with judges from Arlington National Cemetery, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the Commission of Fine Arts. Only architects of national standing were permitted to enter the competition, and 74 submitted designs. Five were chosen as finalists, and required to submit plaster models of their proposals. Architect Lorimer Rich and sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones won the competition. Their design imitated a sarcophagus, but really was a solid block of marble. The design included a thin rectangular base to go on top of the existing capstone. Then there was the "die block" (the main monument), on top of which was a capstone. The die block featured Doric pilasters (fake columns) in low relief at the corners. On the east side (facing the Potomac River) was a sculpture in low relief of three figures, representing female Victory, Valor (male, to her left), and Peace (female). The north and south sides were divided into three sections by fluted Doric pilasters, with an inverted wreath on the upper portion of each section. On the west side (facing the amphitheater) was the inscription: "Here Rests In Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But To God." It is still not clear who came up with the phrase, but it had been used on crosses marking the graves of unknown soldiers in Europe as early as 1925. The judges asked that the approaches to the Tomb be improved as well. Clarence Renshaw designed the steps. The balustrade was removed, and the short series of steps extended outward and downward until they reached the lawn. A small landing exists two-thirds of the way down, after which the steps continue (wider than before). Congress approved funding for the memorial and new steps on February 29, 1929, and a contract to complete the Tomb was awarded on December 21, 1929. Quartermaster General Brig. Gen. Louis H. Bash oversaw the construction, which was done by Hegman and Harris.

The Vermont Marble Company provided the marble. This proved very problematic. The Yule Marble Quarry at Marble, Colorado, was chosen as the quarry. A year passed before suitable pieces of marble could be located at the quarry and mined. Three pieces had to be mined before a piece suitable for the 56-ton die block was found. Three pieces were mined and discarded before a fourth piece was found for the 18-ton base. But once the base arrived at Arlington, workers discovered an imperfection in the marble which caused it to be discarded. A fifth, sixth, and seventh piece of marble was then mined, but only the eighth piece was suitable and brought to the cemetery. Amazingly, a piece for the 14-ton capstone was found on the first try.

Work began on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in September 1931, but stopped for three months after a flaw in the base was found. Work resumed in December, and all three pieces were in place on December 31, 1931. Fabrication was completed on-site, with sculptor Jones working five days a week. The Tomb was completed and opened to the public on April 9, 1932. There was no dedication ceremony, and the memorial has never been officially named.

Unfortunately, the Tomb began to fall apart almost immediately. Chips and spalls (pieces broken off after heating and contracting) were found coming off the base in 1933. By 1963, a huge horizontal and secondary vertical crack had appeared in the die block -- probably caused by the release of pressure after the marble was mined. Acid rain and pollution have caused the marble sculptures to wear down appreciably, such that today they are only about half as sharp as they once were. Although there is no likelihood that the monument will collapse, debate continues to rage as to whether the monument should be replaced.

Beginning on July 2, 1937, the U.S. Army began permanently stationing an honor guard at the Tomb. The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment ("The Old Guard") formally took over these duties on April 6, 1948. It is guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long. The guard is changed once every hour, on the hour. Out of respect for the dead, the guard carries his rifle on the outside shoulder -- away from the Tomb. The guard is not permitted to speak or break his march, unless someone enters the restricted area around the Tomb. If this happens, the guard must come to a halt and bring his rifle (loaded with live ammunition) to port-arms. This is usually enough to make the person move back. (No one has ever gone further than the sharp slap of the rifle in the guard's hands.)

In June 1946, Congress approved the burial of unknown American from World War II at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Thirteen American unknowns were exhumed from cemeteries in Europe and Africa and shipped to Epinal, France. Maj. Gen. Edward J. O'Neill, U.S. Army, chose one of these caskets on May 12, 1958, as the "trans-Atlantic Candidate unknown." This casket was transported by air to Naples and placed aboard the USS Blandy. Two American unknowns were disinterred from the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii and four American unknowns disinterred from Fort McKinley American Cemetery in the Philippines. The six unknowns were taken by air to Hickam Air Force Base. On May 16, 1958, Col. Glen Eagleston, U.S. Air Force, selected a "trans-Pacific Candidate unknown," which was placed aboard the USS Canberra. The Blandy and Canberra rendezvoused off Virginia in May 1958, at which time the trans-Pacific Candidate unknown was transferred to the Canberra. Hospitalman First Class William R. Charette, the Navy's only active enlisted holder of the Medal of Honor, then placed a wreath at the foot of the casket on his right. (The other remains were buried at sea.) This individual became the World War II Unknown.

In August 1956, Congress approved the burial of a Korean War unknown at the Tomb. The remains of four unknown Americans from the Korean conflict were exhumed from the National Cemetery of the Pacific. On May 15, 1958, Master Sergeant Ned Lyle placed a wreath on the fourth casket to choose the Korean War Unknown. (The other three unknowns were reinterred in the National Cemetery of the Pacific.)

Because so much time had passed, the World War II and Korean War unknowns were chosen at the same time. The Unknown of Korea was transported aboard the Canberra at the same time as the "trans-Pacific Candidate unknown."

After the World War II Unknown was chosen, both the WWII and Korean War remains were taken back to the Blandy, which transported them to Washington, D.C. Like the World War I Unknown, they lay in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol. Both were interred in vaults on the west side of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day, May 30, 1958. Rather than enlarge the WWI vault, new vaults were dug in the plaza on the west side of the Tomb.

Congress authorized the entombment of a Vietnam War casualty in 1973. But with advances in identification of remains, no unknown remains could be found. Pressure from Vietnam veterans' groups was making the issue politically potent by the early 1980s, especially with Republican Ronald Reagan in office as president. And that's where the scandal began... In May 1972, 24-year-old U.S. Air Force pilot Michael Blassie was shot down in South Vietnam close to the Cambodia border. In October 1972, American ground patrols found Blassie's identity card, some American money, shreds of a USAF flight suit, and some skeletal remains near where Blassie went down. The I.D. card and money went missing soon thereafter. Pentagon officials declared the remains "likely to be" Blassie's, but no firm identification was ever made. By 1980, only four sets of Vietnam War-era remains could be declared unidentified, and one of these were the Blassie remains. In 1980, for unknown reasons, an Army review board ruled that the bones were not Blassie's. Soon thereafter, all documents in the file were removed and destroyed.

On May 8, 1984, the no-longer-"likely" remains were declared "unknown." The Vietnam Unknown was selected by Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Allan Jay Kellogg, Jr. (a Medal of Honor recipient) at Pearl Harbor on May 17, 1984. The unknown's remains were transported by the USS Brewton to Alameda Naval Base in California. They arrived on May 23, 1984, and were transported by automobile to nearby Travis Air Force Base on May 24. The remains were transported by air to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on May 25, and lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda from May 25 to May 28. They were interred in a new vault in front of the Tomb on May 28, 1984. President Reagan presented the Medal of Honor to the unknown soldier.

The possibility that the remains were Blassie's was first raised by a man investigating missing-in-action cases. The story broke into the press in January 1998, and in April the two U.S. Senators from Missouri and Blassie's family were demanding answers. After a high-level Pentagon review, the Secretary of the Army recommended on April 26 that the remains be disinterred. The Secretary of Defense ordered exhumation on May 6, and the remains came above ground on May 13. A DNA sample was obtained from the remains on June 15, and on June 29 the remains were identified as Blassie's. Blassie was buried in his home town of St. Louis on July 10, 1998, with handfuls of soil from Arlington National Cemetery. The following month, Blassie's family asked to keep the Medal of Honor, but the Pentagon refused -- saying it was intended to go to the unknown, not to Blassie (who had not won it). In June 1999, with no further unidentified Vietnam War remains available, Pentagon officials said they would keep the vault empty. The Vietnam War crypt was rededicated on September 16, 1999.

Interestingly, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier caused some major changes to D.C. as well as Arlington National Cemetery.

The final piece of "Arlington National Cemetery" as we know it today came with the construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge, Memorial Drive, and the Arlington Memorial Entrance in 1932. The bridge, the drive, and the entrance were designed as a single project and were dedicated on January 16, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The U.S. Commission on Fine Arts required that the bridge act as a symbolic link between North and South.

In fact, the famous McMillan Commission (which established the National Mall and set the locations of the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials) had proposed the bridge in 1901, but no action had been taken. When President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1921, so many people swarmed over Highway Bridge (now the 14th Street Bridges) that it caused a three-hour traffic jam! Harding's own car had to abandon the roadway and take to the grass shoulder to get to the cemetery on time. Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes had to walk across the bridge to make it.

The outcry over the feeble, inadequate bridges across the Potomac led to the construction of Memorial Bridge. Congress authorized its construction on February 24, 1925.

The legendary architectural firm of McKim, Meade & White -- which built some of the most notable buildings of the 20th century, like the New York Public Library, Manhattan Municipal Building, Washington Arch in Washington Square, NYC's Pennsylvania Station, the Algonquin Club in Boston, Boston Public Library, Rhode Island State House, Harvard Business School, the West Wing and East Wing of the White House, the National Museum of American History, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bank of Montreal Head Office, and the American Academy in Rome -- designed the bridge. The Neoclassical bridge is 2,163 feet long, with nine arches. It is made of reinforced concrete clad in North Carolina granite. At the time, extensive commercial river traffic used the Potomac River from the Great Falls of the Potomac (just upriver from Washington, D.C.) all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge was built with a draw span in the center to accommodate this traffic. (It still exists, but has been abandoned.)

Flanking the eastern ends of the bridge are two monumental Neoclassical equestrian statues. "The Arts of War" by Leo Friedlander stands on the bridge itself. As you face the bridge, "Valor" (a man riding a horse accompanied by a woman with a shield) is on the left and "Sacrifice" (a woman symbolizing the earth looks up at the god Mars on a horse) is on the right. Another set of equestrian statues adorns the entrance to Rock Creek Parkway, which is just to the north of Arlington Memorial Bridge. These are "The Arts of Peace" by James Earle Fraser. As you face the parkway, on the left is "Music and Harvest" (a winged horse paws the air between a man with a sheaf of wheat and a sickle and a woman with a harp). On the right is "Aspiration and Literature" (a winged horse Pegasus is flanked by a man holding a book and a woman holding a bow). Both sets of statues, which are each 17 feet tall and made of gilded bronze, were commissioned in 1925 but were not erected until 1951. They were cast in Italy -- a gift to the people of the United States from the people of Italy.

The bridge ended in Washington Circle, and from there Memorial Drive connected the bridge to the cemetery gates. Along Memorial Drive are numerous memorials and monuments: the Seabees Memorial, the Armored Memorial, the United Spanish War Veterans Memorial (known as "The Hiker"), Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd monument, the 101st Airborne Division Memorial, and the 4 Infantry (IVY) Division Monument. (Today, the Arlington Cemetery station on Metro's Blue Line is right next to the Seabees Memorial.)

Memorial Drive ends in the Hemicycle. Carved from the hillside that culminates in Arlington House, the Hemicycle is a Neoclassical semicircle 30 feet high and 226 feet in diameter. In the center is an apse 20 feet across and 30 feet high. In total, the Hemicycle covers 4.2 acres. The Hemicycle was constructed of reinforced concrete, but faced with granite from Mount Airy, Virginia. The walls range from 3 feet, 6 inches thick at the base to 2 feet, 6 inches at the top. The accent panels and coffers in the apse are inlaid with red Texas granite. The Great Seal of the United States is carved in granite in the center of the apse, while on either side are seals of the Department of the Army (south) and the Department of the Navy (north). Along the facade of the Hemicycle were 10 false doors or niches -- some up to five feet deep, others just indentations in the wall -- which were supposed to contain sculptures, memorial reliefs, and other monuments. The apse itself held a fountain, but that was supposed to be replaced with a major memorial in time.

But the Hemicycle is a dead end. You can't stop and admire the apse. Instead, the road diverges here, north and south, passing through wrought iron gates. The north gate is the Schley Gate -- named after Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, son of Civil War Commanding General Winfield Scott and hero of the Battle of Santiago Bay during the Spanish-American War. The south gate is the Roosevelt Gate, named for President Theodore Roosevelt. In the center of each gate, front and back, is a gold wreath 30 inches in diameter. Each wreath cradles the shield of one of the armed services that existed in 1932: The Marine Corps and Army on Roosevelt Gate, the Navy and Coast Guard on Schley Gate. (The Air Force did not exist until 1947.) Each gate is divided into 13 sections by wrought iron fasces, and above six of the sections are iron spikes topped by gold stars. The granite pillars at the end of the retaining wall and the pillars on each side of each gate are topped by granite funeral urns. Also on the granite pillar of each gate is a gilded lamp.

On top of the Hemicycle was a pedestrian walkway and a terrace some 24 feet wide. Originally, access to the walkway and terrace was granted only by going to the far end of the Hemicycle (near the wrought iron gates), through a pedestrian gate, and up some stairs. Above each arched entrance to the pedestrian stairs was a granite eagle. But this never actually happened: The pedestrian gates were locked for more than 50 years!

The Hemicycle was never actually completed. Intended to be Arlington National Cemetery's ceremonial gate, it just....dead-ended. The apse and niches were never filled. There was nothing on the other side. There was no way to use the Hemicycle without crossing dangerous highways. Plop. There it is. Indeed, by the 1980s, the Hemicycle was in serious disrepair. It had never been used for any purpose, and Arlington officials largely ignored it.

Originally, the exterior rear wall of the Hemicycle was flat. But in the early 1980s, women veterans began pressing for a memorial to women in the armed services. In 1988, the National Capital Memorial Commission, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the Fine Arts Commission approved the use of the Hemicycle as a site for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial. It was the first time a memorial to the living -- rather than the dead -- had been placed on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. Marion Gail Weiss and Michael Manfredi won a national design competition for the memorial, and the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts voted unanimously for this design on April 6, 1995. The memorial was built in 1997.

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Women in Business Leadership Event
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NIU Business students featured here.

The Women in Business Leadership Event was sponsored by NIU Business alumnus Cynthia Crocker (Drake Hotel-Chicago, 10.4.12). Cynthia Crocker established the Crocker Program for Emerging Business Leaders in the NIU College of Business.


NIU Business Graduation Reception
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Dean Denise Schoenbachler congratulates NIU Business students and their families.

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Embassy Announces Women's Economic Empowerment Fund
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On May 23, 2012, Ambassador Rick Olson, the U.S. Embassy’s Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, hosted an event to launch a million fund for projects to support women’s economic empowerment. In attendance were over 100 guests from the Embassy community, ISAF and international partners, prominent Afghan businesses, Afghan women entrepreneurs, and NGOs that support women’s economic empowerment. The Embassy released six new requests for proposals under this fund, which solicit project ideas from private firms, NGOs, academic institutions, and other entities that can implement projects to support several goals.

These requests for proposals can be found at kabul.usembassy.gov/pdprp.html


Embassy Announces Women's Economic Empowerment Fund
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Image by U.S Embassy Kabul Afghanistan
On May 23, 2012, Ambassador Rick Olson, the U.S. Embassy’s Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, hosted an event to launch a million fund for projects to support women’s economic empowerment. In attendance were over 100 guests from the Embassy community, ISAF and international partners, prominent Afghan businesses, Afghan women entrepreneurs, and NGOs that support women’s economic empowerment. The Embassy released six new requests for proposals under this fund, which solicit project ideas from private firms, NGOs, academic institutions, and other entities that can implement projects to support several goals.

These requests for proposals can be found at kabul.usembassy.gov/pdprp.html

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Congratulations to all of our Faculty of Business & Economics Monash University 2012 Dean's Student Award winners.


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Congratulations to all of our Faculty of Business & Economics Monash University 2012 Dean's Student Award winners.

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Just landed in Vancouver this afternoon for a few days of business meetings. On Lightgazer's suggestion I headed straight to to top of my hotel and fired off this HDR... Next few days are going to be tight but will make every effort to get out and shoot when I can.



1956 John Deere Model B
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John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont in 1804. In 1837 he built the first steel plow, using steel from an old sawmill blade. By 1842 more than 100 plows were built. By 1852, Deere & Co. were located in Moline, Illinois and was producing 4000 plows per year. John Deere passed away in 1886 and the company was taken over by his son.

In 1918 Deere & Co. acquired the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company and were instantly in the tractor business.

John Deere's most popular tractor, the Model A, began production in 1934. This spawned a popular line of two-cylinder tractors including the B, G, L, LA, H, and M.

John Deere continues to produce tractors today and is one of the leading manufacturers in the modern industry.

Telephone Switchboard Operators - a vintage circa 1914 photo (cropped)

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Telephone Switchboard Operators - a vintage circa 1914 photo (cropped)
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Over 50 women telephone switchboard operators and their supervisors. During this period (circa 1914), only young women (not men) were hired for this type of work at a Salt Lake City, Utah company. Men were not considered "polite" enough for this kind of work :)

This image comes from a group of vintage images that I purchased -- all are scanned from contact prints made from the original 8x10 glass negatives. I have performed extensive restoration work on each image, but trying to be true to the original.

FREE for Personal Use Downloads: This image is offered through a Creative Commons license. You can also obtain PRINTS or a commercial use license and downloads of up to 13-megapixels (4168 x 3246 pixels). NOTE: Personal use requires a credit and a link to my Web site: ''The Stock Solution'', where you can also find many more free downloads.

Breaking the rules: Can a photographer create his own unique style and following by breaking one of the basic rules of composition? Phil Koch did. Please check out the new 'Horizons' gallery i recently created for 18 of Phil's best images, and get some ideas on how you might bust out of your rut.

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