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'Furious' franchise ups the ante, again
Muscles. Cars. Muscle cars. Flaming muscle cars. A wrecking ball the size of a house. A demolition derby on Fifth Avenue. A nuclear submarine.
"I will admit, there were a lot of toys," said director F. Gary Gray.
Gray's toy box – "The Fate of the Furious" — which opens Friday, April 14, is the seventh sequel in a franchise that dates back to 2001 and has become the biggest in the history of Universal Pictures (which dates back to 1912). Each installment has tried to outdo the previous one in terms of fabulous cars and fabulous heists, exhibiting little regard for the critics — "or physics," Gray conceded. But the results have been precisely the thing that may keep the big screen alive, and drag people out of their living rooms.
"If you're at home watching a drama with Meryl Streep, that's cool," Gray said. "But when you go out to the theater you want to see a wrecking ball slamming into cars. You know what I mean? You want to grab your laptop and watch 'My Dinner With Andre'? Thumbs up. But if you make it out to an IMAX theater, you better get a wrecking ball and a submarine. And that's part of the fun of this movie."
Returning for episode 8 is the usual cast of daredevils — Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), Dom (Vin Diesel), Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) and Tej Parker (Ludacris).
Notably absent, of course, is Paul Walker, who played Brian O'Conner in most of the films and who died in 2013, but appeared in "Furious 7" (2015), largely through the use of CGI. (Brian and girlfriend Mia, played by Jordana Brewster, are now "retired.") One of the things that has marked the franchise, despite its raison d'etre being hot cars, hot bodies and speed, is a feeling of family among the cast. Sure, they're actors playing an ad hoc family. But Gray says the camaraderie is genuine.
"I'm the new guy on the block," said Gray, who in 1995 made the cult fave "Friday," and in 2015 directed "Straight Outta Compton" one of the best-reviewed movies of recent years. He also directed Diesel in "A Man Apart" (2003), Johnson in "Be Cool" (2005), and in 2003 made "The Italian Job," starring both Statham and a series newcomer, Charlize Theron. "But even though I've worked with half the cast already, they've been working with each other, in some cases, 15 years-plus. And you can feel the family thing woven throughout the franchise. And you can also feel it off screen."
In some ways, he said, it helps. "And in some ways you have to direct through it – and what I mean by that is they are so used to being together, sometimes you have to pry them apart."
In "Fate of the Furious," they're certainly pried apart: Dom and Ortiz are on their honeymoon in Cuba when Dom is approached by the villainous Cipher (Theron) with an offer he can't refuse: Turn on the team or … else. When he and his longtime colleagues are dispatched to retrieve a missing electromagnetic pulse weapon, Dom goes rogue, steals the weapon, and leaves Hobbs to be arrested and sent to prison (where he runs into Deckard, and their uneasy alliance begins).
"You've never seen Dom go up against the family like this," Gray said, "so in some case they're going against their instincts and that affects the directing style as well."
Fans of "Fast & Furious" like their interpersonal narratives, but they really like action and "Fate of the Furious" delivers that, including the aforementioned submarine, cars outrunning torpedoes, cars racing across Icelandic ice and an epic set piece in Manhattan. "Our writer, Chris Morgan, had a lot of fun dreaming this stuff up," Gray said. "And filming in Cuba was next to impossible. They don't have the infrastructure for a movie this size. Shooting in Iceland, just the math – 40 cars racing 100 mph on melting ice, making sure the ice wasn't going to collapse underneath it. That all took a lot. Things people would take for granted took a lot. But that's what makes it a moviegoing experience."
One day, one of the movie's tractor trailers fell through the surface "because the ice wasn't strong enough," Gray said. "These were things we had to calculate. How do you get a car up to a certain speed driving through Times Square? How do you get a helicopter flying over Havana, given that there hasn't been an American airship flying over Havana in over 60 years? Even Obama's plane couldn't fly over Havana; he had to land in the outskirts." Creatively, it was a feat, but logistically it was something else, "let alone having some of the biggest stars in the world, coordinating their schedules, having them fly in from all over the world to do what amounts to two minutes on film, was a massive, massive undertaking."
"It's crazy, I know, but so much fun," he said. "And the question is, where do you go after you have cars falling out of airplanes and jumping out of buildings and things like that? Wrecking balls. And submarines."


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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Vintage Photo (Monochrome)
This is for the challenge at "Make It Colourful" and "Crafts and ME"........Monochrome! Was quite a challenge to do, but oh so fun, particularly with that awesome cupid I just purchased over there!I even did the inside of card in Mono,added a picture of that at bottom of pics! I actually purchased a few digi's, but lost them yesterday when my computer crashed! Was able to go back to my account, but lost the daffodil digi that was oh so cute! Anyway, can't cry over spilled milk.......this was fun to make, and loved the challenge and that AWESOME cupid! Will be back to buy more, you should check them out, fun store! Thanks for stoppin' by and takin'a peek at my cupid!! Teresa*
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wonderfully vintage, Teresa! you did a great job with the image, and your paper choices with all that distressing is just PERFECT for our challenge! thanks so much for joining us at Make it Colourful this week! xoReplyDelete
This is wonderful Teresa. I just love what you have done with cupid and the colours are perfect! Thanks so much for joining us at Make it Colourful. hugs xxooReplyDelete
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[Zara kimono jacket + Alice and Olivia leather leggings + Sam Edelman boots + Kain t-shirt + vintage squash blossom necklace]
We pass a big farm. Its outbuildings are anchored on a sea of swaying wheat, its white clapboard is molten in the late, hazy light. All three of us, even Carlton, keep quite as we pass. There is something familiar about this place…
…Cows graze, autumn trees cast their long shade. I tell myself we are farmers, and also somehow rich enough to drive a convertible. The world is gaudy with possibilities…
…When I ride in a car at night, I believe the moon is following me…
"We're home," I shout as we pass the farm. I don't know what I am saying. It's the combined effects of wind and speed on my brain.
-Michael Cunningham, my literary idol, from his novel A Home at the End of the World, from which is taken one of my favorite short stories of all time, White Angel.
In rereading this magnificent work, I was struck at how closely the first page mirrors the 4 trips I make each week, back and forth to Saratoga for work. Your brain can grow long, nimble legs on rides like that. Sometimes, I don't know where it gets off to. I'll wait in the car, in the driveway, long after I've taken the keys from the ignition, summoning it back.
It's repetitive, isn't it? This conversation I'm having with myself about the (mal)adjustment of this move. It's just where my head is at: knocking around between these biweekly bookends of intimidating introspection. I see the cows, conferring, heads bowed, with steamy breath; I know the molten white of sunset on snow. I've been followed by the moon. And on each return, each steep ascent—I feel like I'm approaching the end of the world. It's beautiful and scary, all at once.
p.s. Before you approach the above novel, do yourself a huge favor and pick up my bible, the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. Too many fantastic works of magic to even begin to go into here. Then come back and tell me your favorite.
p.s.s. if you don't give a rip, but you like the jacket, here's another kimono jacket from Mara Hoffman in one of my favorite posts.


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Last Friday Twitter user @Saurik posted the above image to his account along with this tweet:
As Glass is, according to Google, supposed to be a more closed and secure platform the media had an absolute field day with this. Many Google employees chimed in on various news sites and simply added to the confusion with such eloquent statements like:
"This is not rooting. Nothing is rooted. There is no root here! This is 'fastboot OEM unlock'."Advertisement
Another Google employee commented in another way:
"Yes, Glass is hackable. Duh."
Luckily Saurik himself took to his website to clear things up with one of the best blog posts I've ever seen. I will talk about some of the insights he offered about the security issues that are raised by Glass, along with his root methods. If you have a decent chunk of free time then I recommend you check out his post yourself. Without further ado, let's get into what this hack means for the future of Glass!
Several statements made by Google soon before Saurik made his post, revealed that Glass would not be nearly as open as the Android OS it was based on. Applications would be served solely through a web based API, and every application would require Google's stamp of approval, a system oddly reminiscent of Apple's App Store. While those security measures may seem slightly over the top, it just makes sense to limit access to a brand new type of device that can quite literally see and hear everything you do.
Despite the initial appearance of being a closed system, further examination shows that Google has deliberately left a few back alleys open for aggressive Devs to take advantage of. Debug mode, something which any android modder is rather familiar with, is actually included within the device's stock software. It doesn't even require jumping through hoops to access, and it's conveniently located in plain sight on the settings menu. Just a simple tap can enable it.
For most android devices root is enabled by connecting a device through ADB mode, turning on USB debugging, and unlocking the bootloader -by entering a code like Unlock, or OEM- and finally flashing a rooted image to the device's ROM. Many people including the Google Employee I quoted above, assumed this was how Saurik was able to root his Glass so quickly. He was, however, unable to do so as Google has not yet released the stock images for Glass' OS and he didn't have enough information on the device specs to create a custom Kernel.
So how did Saurik manage to bite into the tasty, tasty root of his device? Why, by taking advantage of an old unpatched exploit of course! Exploits are the second most common method of achieving root, and as Glass is based on android 4.0 Saurik correctly assumed that an old ICS update might do the trick. A Google search revealed that an exploit had been discovered by someone named Bin4ry. Saurik worked a little technical magic and boom, he had root access! Of course, it wasn't quite that simple but any technical description I could ever give will pale in comparison to Saurick's. So, if you are curious how it works or want to root Glass yourself, then follow the link provided.
So what does all this mean for you? Probably nothing if you are like me and 99% of the other folks who read this with no beautiful Glass Explorer edition strapped to your face.
Saurik did mention a rather unlikely scenario where someone had a smartphone and a USB OTG cable literally up their sleeve being able to hack into your Glass with this exploit. This does strike me as rather unlikely considering how rare the explorer eddtions are (I would be very surprised if this exploit makes it into the final retail editions.)
The one thing that this discovery might do, is light a fire underneath Google's rear-end and encourage them to implement some sort of security system on glass. Strangers would not be able to gain access to your device, or send overly nice emails to people you hate, if some sort of security measures were implemented for the Glass system. Sauric also mentions a camera activation indicator would help people discover if their device had been tampered with. I really hope Google does add some external indication of camera usage, as constantly walking past people who may or may not be videotaping you could very well turn you into this. Perhaps even just a blinking LED, or something?
Do Glass's potential security issues make you nervous? Or do you think the whole issue is overblown? Let us know in the comments down below.


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Lebanon's President, Michel Suleiman, reiterated Sunday the need for holding elections on time, saying not doing so would be a "big sin," and voiced opposition to extending the mandate of Parliament as the country prepares for parliamentary consultations to name the next prime minister.
Sleiman also said the next government would be tasked with overseeing the upcoming elections and safeguarding Lebanon from the repercussions from the crisis in neighboring Syria.
"If holding the elections based on the '1960 law' is a big mistake, not holding the polls and extending [Parliament's terms] is a big sin," he told reporters after meeting Cardinal Beshara Rai in Bkirki.
"The [parliamentary] elections must be held on time at any price," he said.
Many of the political parties in the country oppose the so-called '1960 law,' – a qada-based, winner-takes-all voting system used in the 2009 parliamentary elections – but have yet to agree on a new voting system to replace it.
Weeks before the resignation of the government, Sleiman and the country's prime minister signed a decree calling for the elections to be held on June 9 on the basis of the "1960 law," in a move that was slammed by the March 8 alliance.
Last week Sleiman suspended Cabinet sessions after ministers failed to pass the formation of an elections committee to oversee the upcoming elections on the basis of the "1960 law."
The March 8 coalition regarded the formation of the committee as a step toward holding the polls under the "1960 law."
The president, who has described the divisive law as "dead but waiting to be buried," acknowledged Sunday that the vast majority of Lebanese opposed the "1960 law" but said they were just as keen on holding the polls.
"Most of the Lebanese do not want the '1960 law' but all the Lebanese want the elections and want to [see] the rotation of power," he said.
His comments come a day after Rai accused some lawmakers of secretly seeking to hold the elections based on the "1960 law."
Suleiman, who later attended an Easter Mass, also said he opposed extending the mandate of Parliament.
"I will not sign a decree to extend the term of Parliament," he said.
Talk of extending the Parliament's term has surfaced in recent weeks given the lack of consensus on a proposal to replace the amended version of the 1960 law.
Suleiman blamed Lebanon's political rivals and Parliament for the political deadlock in the country and insisted he would not go for extending the terms of current lawmakers.
"Extension [of Parliament] is something that is rejected," he said, adding: "There is nothing that prevents holding the elections on time."
Commenting on the formation of a new government, Sleiman said the next Cabinet would be tasked with "holding the elections, preserving civil peace and security in Lebanon and limiting the repercussions of the Syrian crisis on the country."
The president has set April 5 and 6 as the dates to poll parliamentary blocs and independent lawmakers on their choice for a new prime minister-designate, who would in turn form a Cabinet.
Sleiman Sunday also separated the question of resuming National Dialogue among rival political leaders and the issue of forming a new government.
"[National] Dialogue is a separate issue to the formation of the Cabinet and I will call for a Dialogue session," he said.
Some parties in the country have argued that National Dialogue should be a prelude to the formation of the next government.
However, sources close to the president have told The Daily Star that Sleiman favors nominating a prime minister-designate first, followed by a resumption of National Dialogue, and the formation of the Cabinet.
Via SyndiGate.info
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Wall Street wrapped up another impressive week with a big rally that put the Dow Jones industrial average near the 1,700 mark. The Dow rose 24.89 points Friday, to a record 1,697.71.
The session was dominated by large institutions. At the start prices easily began extending a rally that started again on Thursday. By early afternoon, the Dow was up more than 17 points, mainly because stock index futures had risen so high that institutions stopped buying the futures and switched to stocks.
This week, which was shortened by the Washington's Birthday holiday, the Dow rose 33.26 points despite a 20-point loss on Wednesday. This follows increases of 51.03, 42.43 and 41.06 points in the previous three weeks. The Dow passed 1,600 only two weeks ago.
Felix Wrobleski, chief economist at L.F. Rothschild Unterberg Towbin, thinks the hope of lower interest rates, and not the economy, is the driving force behind the market's lengthy rally.
KN Energy, which rejected a takeover bid by Mesa Limited Partnership, tumbled $5.12 to $18.12. Mesa withdrew its offer Friday.


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Wiki Commons - The Dutch colonial empire 1598-1975.
Light green: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) / Dutch East India Company
Dark green: Vereenigde Westindische Compagnie (WIC) / Dutch West India Company
Yellow: Territories occupied during the 19th century
In 1935, the Dutch colonial empire was stripped of it's former colonies South-Africa, Ceylon, Goldcoast and Guyana, but the Dutch East Indies + Suriname + the 6 Netherlands Antilles islands still comprised an area of 2.080.000 sq/km and with a population of 69 million (1940: 80 million), it was after the British and French, the third most populous colonial empire in the world.
The Dutch East India Company eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade. Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English (later British) East India Company, the VOCs nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC. The VOC enjoyed huge profits from its spice monopoly through most of the 17th century.
Duration of the most imporant (fmr) overseas possessions:
Important cities founded by the Dutch:
Dutch explorers chronologically (1580-1750)
Geographical remains
NB: And the non-geographical but famous word: 'Yankee' derived from Jan-Kees.
National Maritime Museum website - Four-days battle - 2nd Anglo-Dutch War in 1666.
Wiki Commons - The Dutch fleet destroys the English fleet at it's home base in Chatham. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Read about: The Raid on Chatham
List of colonies, factories and forts
>x< North-America
(Dutch West India Co. operating area)
* Jemseq - Nieuw-Brunswijk (Aug. 1674 - Sep. 1674)
* Dutch Arcadia
United States of America
colony Nieuw-Nederland/New Netherlands
* Capital: Nieuw-Amsterdam/New York City (1626-1664/1665-1667)
New York State:
* Fort Nassau (Castle Island)Pennsylvania:
* Fort Beversreede (Philadelpia)Connecticut:
* Fort Goede Hoop (Hartford): Fort Goede Hoop, Fort Huis ter HopeDelaware:
* Prinseneiland, Moordenaarseiland (Murderer's Island, Prince's Island): Fort Wilhelmus.Maine:
* Pentagouet: 1674 - Sep. 1674.New Jersey:
* Fort Nassau (Gloucester)
Link: Dutch Settlements in New York
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province on the East Coast of North America of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The capital New Amsterdam (New York), was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on upper New York Bay.The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British control in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second AngloDutch War. In 1673 the Dutch re-took the area, but later ceded it (in return for Suriname) under the 1674 Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
>x< Caribbean - Central America
(Dutch West India Co. operating area)
Puerto Rico
* San Juan de Puerto Rico (1625- 2 Nov. 1625 to Spain)
The Dutch occupied only the town and the fort of Canuela in the bay entrance. The fort of Canuela is retaken by the Spanish after three weeks. The Morro Fortress remain in the Spanish hands.American and British Virgin Islands
* Sint Kruis (Saint Croix) Dutch east part- English west part (1625-1650)Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (Dutch West Indies)
* Aruba (1634-1805/1815 >>)
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes), also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (ABC Islands), in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten (SSS Islands), in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands. Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, with the other islands (BES-islands) joining the Netherlands as "special municipalities", officially public bodies. The name 'Netherlands Antilles' is still sometimes used to indicate the islands which are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.Trinidad en Tobago
colony Nieuw-Walcheren/Tobago (1628-1637/1654-1666/1667-1672/1676-1677)
* Fort Nieuw-Vlissingen
In 1628 a Dutch ship with 68 colonists landed in the island (called by them Nieuw Walcheren). They founded a fort called Fort Flushing near todays Plymouth. In 1629 and 1632 more ships arrived from Zeeland to strengthen the small Dutch settlement. The history of this first colony had a tragic conclusion on 1 January 1637 when a Spanish expedition destroyed the settlement and massacred the colonists. In September 1654, a Zeelandian expedition under Pieter Becquart founded a settlement at Lampsins Bay on the opposite side of the island. This new settlement was named Nieuw Flushing. The island was divided between the Dutch and the Courlanders. By 1658, 1.200 men peopled the Dutch colony. On 6 December 1677, a new French fleet totaling 21 ships under DEstrées landed in Tobago. This marked the end of the Dutch attempts to make Tobago a permanent Dutch colony.Honduras
* Trujillo (15 Jul. 1633-20/21 Jul. 1633 to Spain)
>x< South-America
(Dutch West India Co. operating area)
* CaracasColombia
* Santa Marta (16 Feb. 1630-21/22 Feb. 1630 to Spain)Dutch Guyana
colony Suriname (1667-1975)
* Capital - Paramaribo
First colonization around 1650 by the English. Disputes arose between the Dutch and the English. In 1667, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Suriname conquered from the English, resulting from the Treaty of Breda. The English were left with New Amsterdam, which later became New York City. Slavery was abolished by the Netherlands in Suriname in 1863, but the slaves in Suriname were not fully released until 1873, after a mandatory 10 year transition period during which time they were required to work on the plantations for minimal pay and without state sanctioned torture. As soon as they became truly free, the slaves largely abandoned the plantations where they had suffered for several generations, in favor of the city, Paramaribo. In 1973, the local government, led by the NPK (a largely Creole, meaning ethnically African or mixed African-European, party) started negotiations with the Dutch government leading towards full independence, which was granted on 25 November 1975.colony Dutch Guyana(1616-1814)
* Essequibo (1616-1814)
* Berbice (1627-1814)
* Demerara (1752-1814)
* Pomeroon
* Stabroeck (Georgetown - now capital of Guyana):
Although Christopher Columbus sighted Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498), the Dutch were the first to establish colonies: Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752). The British assumed control in the late 18th century, and the Dutch formally ceded the area in 1814.Guyana (French-Guyana) (1660-1664 en 1676)
* Fort Ceperou, S. Louis, Fort Cayenne (Cayenne)Brazil
colony Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)
* capital: Mauritsstad: (Fort Ernestus, Fort Ernest, Fort Altena, Fort Waerdenburgh, Fort Driehoek)
* Recife: (Fort Bruyn/Fort do Brun, Fort Buraco, Fort S. Antonio do Buraco)Amazonas settlements (Amazone Delta):
* Fort Nassau
Half of the Portuguese capitanias were taken. Bad policy and lack of vision by the Dutch West India Company after 40 years of Dutch rule eventually led to reinstatement of Portuguese rule.Chile
* Castro
>x< Africa
(Dutch East and West India Co. operating area)
* Arguin (1633-1678/1724-1728)Sierra Leone
* Tasso island (1664)Liberia
* Kaap MountSenegal
* PortudalGoldcoast
colony Dutch Goldcoast/Ghana (1598-1871)
* capital: Elmina (1635-1871)
* Fort Amsterdam (Ghana) (near Cormantin) (16651721/1785-1867 treaty with Engeland)Togo
* Klein-Popo (1731-1760)Benin
* Groot Popo (1680-..)Nigeria
* Benin (1705-1736)Annobon (1641-../..-1778 Portuguese, 1778-1968 Spanish)
Sint Helena (1645-1659)
Sao Tomé and Principe
* Sao Tomé (1641-1648)Equatorial-Guinea
*Corisco island (mandj): Factory (1642-1648 and 1680)Congo
* Loango (Boary) WIC trading post in ivory and copper (1648-1686 and 1721-1726)Gabon
* Mayumba (Majombo - Nyanga provice): factoryAngola
* São Paulo de Luanda (Luanda) - Fort Aardenburgh (26 Aug. 1641-21/24 Aug. 1648)
colony Kaapkolonie/South-Africa (1652-1802)
* Kaapstad (Cape Town) - capital established in 1652.
* Fort de Goede Hoop (built in 1633)
In 1647, a Dutch vessel was wrecked in the present-day Table Bay at Cape Town. The marooned crew, the first Europeans to attempt settlement in the area, built a fort and stayed for a year until they were rescued. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) decided to establish a permanent settlement. The VOC, had no intention of colonising the area, instead wanting only to establish a secure base camp where passing ships could shelter, and where hungry sailors could stock up on fresh supplies of meat, fruit, and vegetables. To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. The British seized the Cape in 1795 to prevent it from falling into the hands of Napoleonic France, then briefly relinquished it back to the Dutch (1803), before definitively conquering it in 1806. British sovereignty of the area was recognised at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Around 1800, the Dutch colony was 145.000 km2 and had 18.000 inhabitants.
* Walvisbaai and other areas (1793)Mozambique
*Delagoa Bay: Fort Lydsaamheid (1721-1730)Madagascar
* AntongilbaaiRéunion
colony Mauritius (1638-1658 /1664-1710)
* Fort Frederik Hendrik
Portuguese sailors first visited it in 1507 and established a visiting base leaving the island uninhabited. Five ships of the Dutch Second Fleet were blown off course during a cyclone while on their way to the Spice Islands and landed on the island in 1598, naming it in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands. In 1638, the Dutch established the first permanent settlement. Because of tough climatic conditions including cyclones and the deterioration of the settlement, the Dutch abandoned the island after nearly a century in 1710. When it was discovered, the island of Mauritius was the home of a previously unknown species of bird, which the Portuguese named the dodo, as they appeared to be not too bright. By 1681, all dodos had been killed by the settlers or by their domesticated animals. An alternate theory suggests that the imported wild boars that were set free destroyed the slow-breeding dodo population.Comoren
* NzwaniNieuw-Amsterdam island/Île Amsterdam
This island was discovered by the Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano on March 18, 1522, along his first world circumnavigation. Elcano did not name the island, however. Having found the island unnamed, the Dutch captain Anthonie van Diemen named it Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch for New Amsterdam) after his ship in 1633.Île St. Paul
The first detailed description of it (and possibly the first landing) was by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696.
>x< Asia
(Dutch East India Co. operating area)
* Mokka (1620-1757)Oman
* Muskate (1674)Iraq
* Basra (1645-1646 / 1651-..)Iran (Persia)
* Isfahan (of Ispahan): trading post (1623-1747)Pakistan
* Sindi (1652-1660)India
Dutch India 16051825
colony * Suratte 1616-1795Malabar (Southwest coast of India)
* Cranganore of Cranganor (Kodungallor) (1662)Coromandel (Eastcoast of India)
* Golkonda (1662-1733)
colony * Hougli/Chinsura (1656-1814)
** Map of Dutch India **
Bangladesh (Bengalen)
* Pipely (1635-..)Maldives (1645-1796)
In the mid-seventeenth century, the Dutch, who had replaced the Portuguese as the dominant power in Ceylon, established hegemony over Maldivian affairs without involving themselves directly in local matters, which were governed according to centuries-old Islamic customs.
colony Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (1658-1796)
The king of Kandy Rajasinghe II made a treaty with the Dutch in 1638 to get rid of the Portuguese who ruled most of the coastal area of the island. In 1638 the Dutch attacked in earnest but ended with an agreement (which was disrespected by both parties), and not until 1656 that Colombo fell. By 1660 the Dutch controlled the whole island except the kingdom of Kandy. A mixed Dutch-Sinhalese people known as Burgher peoples are the legacy of Dutch rule. During the Napoleonic Wars Great Britain, fearing that French control of The Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, occupied the coastal areas of the island (which they called Ceylon) with little difficulty in 1796. In 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens the Dutch part of the island was formally ceded to Britain, and became a crown colony.
* Fort Galle (Barstions: Zon, Maan, Ster, Zwart) - Before the Dutch took Colombo from the Portuguese, Galle was their headquarters.
Link: Dutch forts in SriLanka
Link: Dutch street names Colombo
* Baungdwet, Baung Dwet (Bandel) Arakan (Mrauk-U): trading office ca.1608-1631 1634- ?.Thailand (Siam)
* Ayutthaya: factory (1613-1767)Cambodia
* Ponomping (Phnom Penh)Malaysia
* colony Malakka (Malay peninsula)
In 1641 the Dutch defeated the Portuguese to capture Malacca with the help of the Sultan of Johore. The Dutch ruled Malacca from 1641 to 1798 but they were not interested in developing it as a trading centre, placing greater importance to Batavia (Jakarta) in Indonesia as their administrative centre. However they still left impressive architectural heritage and one can still find many people from Dutch descendance. Malacca was ceded to the British in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen on Sumatra.Singapore
The Dutch East India Co controlled the Sultan of Johor - who controlled the island of SingaporeIndonesia
colony Dutch East Indies (Nederlands Oost-Indië)/Indonesia. From 1602 - December 27, 1949* 1968*[/B]
* Capital: Batavia/Jakarta (1619-1963)
The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, was the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia. During the 19th century, Dutch possessions in the archipelago and its hegemony were expanded, reaching their greatest extent in the early 20th century. Traditional rulers who survived the colonial military conquests were installed as regents and indigenous aristocracy became an indigenous civil service. They were placed under a Dutch hierarchy of Dutch officials; the Residents, the Assistant Residents, and District Officers. This indirect rule did not disturb the peasantry and was cost-effective for the Dutch; in 1900, only 250 European and 1,500 indigenous civil servants, and 16,000 Dutch officers and men and 26,000 hired native troops, were required to rule 35 million colonial subjects. From 1910, the Dutch created the most centralised state power in Southeast Asian history with the capital in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta).colony Netherlands New-Guinea (1882-1969)
* Capital: Hollandia, now Jayapura (1952-1963)
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(Dutch East India Co. operating area)
Vietnam (Tonkin/Annam)
* Ke-cho (Hanoi): trading office (1636-1699)China
* Kwantoeng, Canton (Guangzhou, Kanton): trading office (1749-1803)Pescadores islands (1620-1624)
After the attempt to conquer Macao in 1622, the Dutch settled in the Pescadores islands (building a fort in Makung) between Formosa and China. In 1624 a Chinese attack compelled them to move on nearby Formosa.
colony Formosa/Taiwan (1624-1662)
* Fort Zeelandia
In 1624, the Dutch established a commercial base on Taiwan and began to import workers from Fujian and Penghu (Pescadores) as laborers, many of whom settled. They made Taiwan a colony with its colonial capital at Tayoan City (present day Anping, Tainan). The military presence was concentrated at a stronghold called Castle Zeelandia. Chinese naval and troop forces of Southern Fujian defeated the Dutch in 1662, subsequently expelling the Dutch government and military from the island after they ruled for 38 years.
* trade monopoly Deshima, Decima (Nagasaki): (1641-1857)
>x< Oceania
(Dutch East India Co. operating area)
discovered in 1606 * Nieuw-Holland/Australia - Capt. Willem Janzoon on the Duyfken; First European to set foot on Australian soil.
discovered in 1616 * Tonga islands - Capt. Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht made a short visit to the islands to trade - with Dutch explorers Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu) and in 1643 with Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Ha'apai).
discovered in 1642 * Tasmanië/Tasmania - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman - named it 'Van Diemensland', later the English named it after him.
discovered in 1642 * Nieuw-Zeeland/New-Zealand - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman - no futher colonization but temporary settlement.
discovered in 1643 * Fiji - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman.
discovered in 1722 * Paaseiland/Easter Island - Capt. Jacob Roggeveen on 5 april (Easter sunday)
discovered in 1722 * Samoa - Capt. Jacob Roggeveen.
>x< Europe
discovered in 1596 * Spitsbergen/Svalbard - whaling colony with many settlements.
Willem Barentsz made the first indisputable discovery of Spitsbergen/Svalbard in 1596, in an attempt to find the Northern Sea Route. From 1611, Spitsbergen became a base for whaling. Smeerenburg was one of the first settlements, established by the Dutch in 1619. Smaller bases were also built by the English, Danish and French. At first the outposts were merely summer camps, but from the early 1630s, a few individuals started to overwinter. Whaling at Spitsbergen lasted until the 1820s, when the Dutch, British and Danish whalers moved elsewhere in the Arctic.discovered in 1596 * Bear island/Bjørnøya - discovered by the Dutch explorers Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk on 10 June 1596.
discovered in 1607 * Jan Mayen
In January the Noordsche Compagnie (Northern Company), modelled on the Dutch East India Company, had been established to support Dutch whaling in the Arctic. Two of its ships reached Jan Mayen in July 1614. The captains of these shipsJan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath (Golden Cat) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom (Orange Tree) named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island. But later it was named after the captain. Jan Mayen first appeared on Willem Jansz Blaeus 1620 edition map of Europe, originally published by Cornelis Doedz in 1606. He named it Jan Mayen after captain Jan Jacobszoon May of the Amsterdam-financed Gouden Cath, perhaps because he[who?] was by that time based in Amsterdam.Russia
explored in 1594 * Nova Zembla
Explorer Willem Barents reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya in 1594 (and gave it it's name) and in a subsequent expedition of 1596.discovered in 1643 * Sachalin (Capt. Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries - first European to make an account)
discovered in 1643 * Koerillen/Kuriles (Capt. Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries - first European to make an account)
In the summer of 1643, the ship Castricum sailed by the southern Kuril Islands, visiting Kunashir, Iturup (named 'Staten Island', and Urup, which they named 'Company Island' and claimed it for the Dutch Republic. The ship passed between the islands of Iturup and Urup, the strait between the islands being later named 'De Vries Strait' after its discoverer, and entered the Sea of Okhotsk.
Belgium (1815-1830) - In this period Belgium was incorporated in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Check this excellent website for more info: www.colonialvoyage.com
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Buitenzorg Palace
Bogor, Indonesia
The original palace was built in 1744 as a country retreat for the Dutch Governors. This building was substantially damaged by an earthquake in 1834, triggered by the volcanic eruption of Mount Salak. The palace was rebuilt into its present form in 1856 - this time with only one story instead of the original three, as a precaution against further earthquakes. Till 1942, Buitenzorg Palace served as the official residence of the Dutch Governors-General. After the Indonesian independence, the palace was used by President Sukarno, but then largely neglected by Suharto when he came to office. The grounds of the estate contain several buildings - the largest of which is the main palace and its two wings.
The Palace is surrounded by the largest and most famous botanical gardens of South-East Asia. An area of 284,000 square metres (28.4 hectares). The garden was built by Governor-General Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff. The extensive grounds of the presidential palace were later converted into a botanical garden by the German-born Dutch botanist, Professor Casper George Carl Reinwardt. The gardens officially opened in 1817 as 's Lands Plantentuin ('National Botanical Garden') and were used to research and develop plants and seeds from other parts of the Indonesian archipelago for cultivation during the 19th century. This is a tradition that continues today and contributes to the garden's reputation as a major center for botanical research.Today the garden contains more than 15,000 species of trees and plants located among streams and lotus ponds. There are 400 types of exceptional palms to be found along the extensive lawns and avenues, helping the gardens create a refuge for more than 50 different varieties of birds and for groups of bats roosting high in the trees.
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Koningsplein Palace
Jakarta, Indonesia
Istana Merdeka is a palace complex in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. At first there was only one building in this complex, the Weltevreden Palace (Istana Negara). The Weltevreden Palace was originally built as the residence for a Dutch businessman, J. A. van Braam. Rijswijk and Molenvliet (presently known as Harmonie), the location chosen as the time was the most exclusive neighborhood in Weltevreden area, the New Batavia. During its early years, only the State Palace stood in this complex.
The government used this building as the center of all administration and as the official residence of the Governor-General during a stay in Batavia, in occasion of events such as the Indies Council Meeting held every Wednesday. The Governor-Generals preferred to live in Bogor Palace in Bogor, due to the cooler and more adaptable temperatures in the hillsides of Bogor. The mansion of van Braam was bought due because of a need for the Dutch government to centralize power. However, Daendels Palace (currently Ministry of Finance) in Lapangan Banteng (formerly known as Waterloo Square) was not completed yet.
Upon the completion of Daendels Palace, plans to centralize power changed, and the mansion of van Braam officially became the residency of the governor-general, and Daendels Palace housed administrative buildings. Hotel van den Gouverneur-Generaal (Hotel of the Governor-General) became the official name of the van Braam mansion. During the Colonial era, important events took place in this building. Some of which include the declaration of the cultuur stensel system by the Governor Graaf van den Bosch, and the ratification ceremony of the Lingarjati Treaty on March 25, 1947.
During mid-19th century, the palace does not suffice the accommodation of its administrative purposes, and under orders from J.W. van Lansberge, a new building that today become the Koningsplein Palace (Merdeka Palace) was built within the complex in 1873 during the Governor General Loudon administration, and finished in 1879 during Governor General Johan Willem van Landsberge administration. This neoclasical building, designed by Drossares, was built in southern part of the complex directly facing Koningsplein (now Merdeka Square).
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Daendels or Waterlooplein Palace (1809)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Construction of this architectural gem was commissioned by Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels. As a governor general, Daendels stimulated the move southwards of Batavia; the densely populated walled city was unhealthy and many inhabitants suffered from malaria and cholera. The area of Weltevreden, several kilometres south of Batavia, originally a country estate, was developed and would turn into a highly fashionable area. Halfway Batavia and Weltevreden, the new accommodation for the club Harmonie was constructed.
In Weltevreden, on the Paradeplaats, a new Government House was erected; since Daendels did not wish to inhabit the old country estate (known as the Van der Parra estate), officially assigned to the governors general. The Government House is a building constructed in the period 1809-1827 in Batavia, 'capital' of the Dutch colony in the East-Indies. Construction was ordered by governor general H.W. Daendels (1808-1811) and completed by governor general L.P.J. du Bus de Ghisignies (1826-1830).
The building has been preserved and is located on present Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta Pusat, which was known in the nineteenth century as Paradeplaats and since 1828 as Waterlooplein. Modelled in the Empire style, the proportionate Witte Huis (White House) measures 160 meters lengthwise. The pillars on the first story are Doric, whereas those on the second level are Ionic in style. In the past, the building hosted many state functions and even served as a post office, a printing office and a high court. Today, it houses the Indonesian Ministry of Finance.
Read more on this subject: master thesis Art History - mrs. M. van Reenen
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Governors Palace
Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Palace of the Governor built in 1700, expanded in 1765 and still in service for the Governor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Governors Palace
Paramaribo, Suriname
This palace of the Governor General, now presidential palace, was built in its recent form in 1730 by governor-generaal De Cheusses. It's surrounded by a palm-garden.
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Governors Palace or Stadhuys
Malacca, Malaysia
The most imposing relic of the Dutch period in Melaka is the massive red town hall and governors' residence, built between 1641 and 1660. It displays all the typical features of Dutch colonial architecture. Today the Stadthuys houses the musty but informative History and Ethnography Museum. The first governor appointed to Malacca was Jan van Twist and the Dutch began building the Stadthuys to serve as the residency for the new governor as well as an administration centre and town hall. The Stadthuys was raised on the very same spot where the Portuguese governor's house had been, which was too badly damaged to be of any use to the Dutch. Its construction was carried out by skilled Javanese and Chinese craftsmen. The Stadthuys of Malacca is a reproduction of the former Stadhuis (town hall) of the Dutch town of Hoorn. However, the former Stadhuis of Hoorn only existed from 1420 until 1796. - Read more
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The Governor's Museum, also known as Muzium Yang Di-Pertua Negeri or Muzium Tuan Yang Terutama, is one of the many museums in Malacca. Formerly called Seri Melaka, the museum is housed in the former official residence and office of the Dutch Governor of Malacca on St Paul's Hill. The building was used as the official residence of the Tuan Yang Terutama, which is the title of the governor, until September 1996. The museum showcases the personal belongings of the various governors of Malacca since independence, beginning with the first Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh.
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Governors Palace
Cochin, Kerala, India
Bolgatty Palace built by the Dutch in India, Bolgatty Palace is located in the scenic island popularly known as Bolgatty island in Kochi, Kerala. Built in 1744 and was later extended and lush green gardens were landscaped around it. The building was then the Governor's palace for the Dutch and later to the British.
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Governors Residence
Chinsurah, Bengal, India
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Governors Palace
Colombo, Sri-Lanka
Built during the second half of the 17th century as the residence of Count August van Ranzow, the Dutch East India Company's governor in Colombo, this attractive old building at 95 Prince Street is one of the few surviving remnants of Colombo's Dutch colonial heritage - now Sri Lanka Dutch Era Museum.
Palace of the Governor-General in Galle, Sri Lanka, built: 1684
Governors Palace (1684)
Galle, Sri Lanka
This building was built in 1684 for Dutch governors; more likely it housed both the garrison officers and the VOC Commandeur, as by this date the Dutch seat of government had shifted from Galle to Colombo, finally captured from the Portuguese in 1656. In 1684, the Commandeur of Galle was one Nicolaas van der Meulen. The lower billiard room of what is now the New Oriental Hotel (NOH) - now sadly damp and crumbling - bears the date 1686. Galle was always a major Dutch military base: in 1695 Christopher Langhan stated that "generally a garrison of 200 men is stationed here".
By as early as 1667, as a transhipment port Galle had become second only to Batavia on Java as the VOC's main commercial centre in its Asian dominions. Directly adjoining the NOH to the north on its Church Street side is the single-storied former Dutch Commissariat store, a relatively modest structure built circa 1656 and since 1986 the home of the Dutch Museum. Like the multi-cultural Dutch colonial society that created them, the NOH and other surviving VOC-era buildings in Galle Fort are not really typical Dutch, but rather combine a mix of Dutch/European and Asiatic influences. A classic example of this architectural ambivalence is the Grote Kerk, the Dutch Reformed Church, standing just south of the NOH on the other side of Middle Street, which was completed in 1754.
Read more: Preserving the Spirit of a Forgotten World -Anecdotal glimpses of the New Oriental Hotel, Galle Fort by J. Simpson
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Governors Palace or The Tuynhuys
Kaapstad/CapeTown, Zuid Afrika/South-Africa
Palace of the Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company in the Cape Colony/South-Africa, built in 1700. The building was renovated and enlarged numerous times until 1751 when it was first recorded that the building was being used as a summer residence by the Governor, a custom which the historical record seems to bear out for all the Dutch Governors that century. By 1790 the building was known as The Governor's House in the Company's Gardens ('Het Governiurs Huys in de Compagnies Tuyn') and by this time - as reflected in the drawings of Josephus Jones circa 1790 - the gardens side of the building already had its rococo balusters with its stucco drapes and Greco-roman sculptures. From a design perspective, the building, incorporating both Louis XVI-style Neo-classicism and Baroque elements, was influenced by 18th Century Dutch and Dutch East Indies architecture of the time. Similar facades, windows, doors and fanlights can be seen in Colonial buildings built in the same period in places such as Amsterdam and Batavia (modern-day Jakarta).
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Je hebt alleen het sterretje achter (henry?) Hudson vergeten betekenis te geven. Hoewel ik het al denk te weten, namelijk dat Hudson een Engelsman in Nederlandse dienst is. Hij was trouwens ook de ondekker van Nieuw Amsterdam (New York) voor degenen die het nog niet wisten.
Mijn leraar die als hobbie boeken repareren heeft had mij een keer een bosatlas laten zien uit het jaar 1900. Daar stond nog een wereldkaart in van de koloniën van heel Europa. Met kleurtjes voor elk land.
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Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
1634-1805/1815 - today part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Palace of the Governor
The palace is on the same spot where the first fort was built in 1635. In the subsequent two years, the first dwelling of the representative of the West India Company, the Director, was added to it. This precursor of the Government's Palace was a two-storied wooden building, for which most of the material had been brought from Amsterdam. Not much later, the wooden building was replaced by a stone residence which forms the core of the present Palace. In 1765, the extension took place with an open gallery on the harbor side and the building remained in this state for approximately a hundred years
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Fort Amsterdam
Strategically built on the point (Punda) of the eastern finger of land at the harbor entrance. Fort Amsterdam was named after the Chamber of Amsterdam, a department of the Netherlands West Indies Co, which was in charge of the administration of Curaçao. This fort was built in 1635. Fort Amsterdam was the most important of Curaçao's eight forts, and is included in UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites. Embedded in its southwest wall is a cannonball fired by Captain Bligh's troops. Today the complex houses the Governor's residence, the Ministry, several government offices, and the United Protestant Church, which includes a museum.
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Penha building
Built in 1708, surrounded by Heerenstraat, Breedestraat and Handelskade, with the ridge perpendicular to Breedestraat. Three storeys with roof, covered with red pantiles. The "Penha" Building is a typical example of Iberian influences in basically Dutch architecture. The building is heavily decorated and the top gables are an abundant interpretation of the Dutch bell-gable. The building is restored in 1956
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The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת מקווה ישראל-עמנואל), in Willemstad, Curaçao, is the oldest synagogue in the Americas. It is commonly known as the Snoa (short for esnoga, an old Portuguese word for synagogue). The community (congregation Mikvé Israel) dates from the 1650s, and consisted of Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands and Brazil. In the nineteenth century there was a breakaway Reform community (Emanu El); the two merged to form the present community in 1964. The community is now affiliated to Reconstructionist Judaism. The first synagogue building was purchased in 1674; the current building dates from 1730. The other Netherlands Antilles island with a historical synagogue is Sint Eustatius, where the ruins of the Honen Dalim synagogue of 1739 still stand impressively on the 'Synagoge Pad.'
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Founded in 1752, Otrabanda's Basilica Santa Ana was elevated to basilica and co-cathedral status by Pope Paul VI in 1975. The basilica also served as a pro-cathedral between 1843 and 1958.
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Java, Indonesia
Capital of the Dutch East Indies from 1619-1949 (330 years).
In 1610, the Dutch East India Co was granted permission to build a trading post on Java island, close to the javanese city of Jayakatra. After a conflict with the local powers, Jan Pietersz. Coen founded the city of Batavia in 1619. He built the city on the ruins of the destroyed city of Jayakatra.
Long before Calcutta or Singapore were developed, this city was one of the largest and weathiest cities in the East. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city inhabited 50.000 people. In the second half of the 19th centuty, the city had 100.000 inhabitaints and at the end of the Dutch colonial rule in 1950, the city had 1 million inhabitants.
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Stadhuis/TownHall, built from 1707-1710/now museum Fatahillah.
Former City Hall of Batavia, known in the past as Stadhuis. This building was the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, and later of the Dutch Colonial Government. The current building was constructed in 1707 by the city government, replacing the former city hall built in 1627. Governor General Abraham van Riebeeck inaugurated it in 1710.
The building contains 37 ornate rooms. There are also some cells located beneath the front portico which were used as dungeons. A Javanese freedom fighter Prince Diponegoro, who was arrested, was imprisoned here in 1830 before being banished to Manado, North Sulawesi. Another freedom fighter earlier imprisoned here around 1670 was Untung Suropati from East Java.
The building is located in front of a public square, which in the past was known as Stadhuisplein, the City Hall Square. The square is now known as Fatahillah Square (Indonesian: Taman Fatahillah). In the center of the square is a fountain which was used as a water supply during colonial era. The square was also used as the place of executions.
In 1970, the Fatahillah Square was declared a Cultural Heritage. The Jakarta History Museum was inaugurated on March 30, 1974 as the center for collection, conservation and research for all kinds of objects of cultural heritage related to the history of the City of Jakarta.
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Supreme Court, built in 1870, now Museum Seni Rupa
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Willemskerk/Gereja Immanuel, Built from 1835-1839. Protestant church (now Lutheran)
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Post Office in the old town/Kantor Pos Kota
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Cathedral/Gereja Kathedral
Cathedral I is situated at Weltervreden and baptized at February 1810. In 1826, this church was burned into ashes. Then Cathedral II was established on February 1830. In 1882, added two towers in the front of the church. But again, the beautiful church became ruins on May 1890. In 1891, a new church was built. On April 21, 1901 the church was officially opened.
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De Javasche Bank/Bank Indonesia
Built by Cuypers en Hulswit, built in 1909 - The Amsterdam architect Eduard Cuypers, a younger nephew of Piere Cuypers, was the founder and name giver of the most successful commercial architectural office in the first decades of the twentieth century.
It was the director of the board of the Javasche Bank (later Bank Indonesia) who asked him to travel to the Indies in 1909 and he convinced him to establish a second office in Batavia. Eduard Cuypers was asked by the Bank for the design of several bank buildings. Eduard Cuypers lived and stayed in Amsterdam and in Batavia office he associated him self with Marius Hulswit and in 1910 the technical engineer A.A. Fermont joint in. The building, in Jakarta-kota, the 'Javasche Bank', was finished in 1910 and until 1929 the architectural office realized 14 buildings for this bank firm.
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Vml Chartered Bank
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Nationaal Museum
Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap, gebouwd in 1862, nu Nationaal Museum van Jakarta. Dit zijn twee gebouwencomplexen met binnenhoven.
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Museum Tekstil
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Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (NHM)/Bank Mandiri
Gebouwd in 1929
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Typisch Nederlandse ophaalbrug uit 1628
Landhuis Reinier de Klerk
Gebouwd in 1760, nu Nationaal Archief/Arsip Nasional.
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Stadsschouwburg/Gedung Kesenian
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Gereja Ayam
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De Nederlandse erebegraafplaats Menteng Pulo in Jakarta.
Kantoor NV. De Bouwploeg (1910)
Medische Hogeschool / Universitas Indonesia - Fakultas Kedokteran
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Wajang museum
Wayang Museum, built yr. 1640: Dutch 'Old' Church, re-constructed yr. 1732: Dutch 'New' Church.
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Dutch Art Society building (Kunstkring)
Has been transformed into a restaurant and bar recently. Before that it was used to house the Immigration department for central Jakarta.
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The National Gallery of Indonesia
building which located in Koningsplein Cost No. 14 (now Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur No. 14. Jakarta Pusat), founded in the year 1902.
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Station/stasiun Kota
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De Uitkijk
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Paleis Weltevreden/Istana Merdeka
Bijgebouw Paleis Weltevreden
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Daendels Paleis, Jalan Lapangan Banteng Timur
Volksraad/Gedung Pancasila
Gebouwd in 1835, aan het vml Hertogspark; nu Ministerie van BZ.
Lembaga Biologi Molekul Eijkman (Biomoleculair Instutuut Eijkman)
Huis van Raden Saleh/Museum nasional sejalah
Ziekenhuis St. carolus (1919)
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital is located at Jalan Diponegoro No. 71, Central Jakarta. The building was built in around 1919 until 1926 with European architectural design. At first, the name of the hospital was Central Burgerlijke Ziekeninriching and commonly known as CBZ. Now the hospital status is Central Public Hospital (RSUP/RSCM). The historical aspect of the hospital is the health concern from the colonial government especially towards the natives.
KPM, 1918 (Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij)
Hoofdpost&telegraaf kantoor/Kantor Pos
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Aerial of Station Kota on the left.
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Javasche Bank, now Bank Indonesia, Jalan Braga. Architect: Thomas Karsteen, built in 1931.
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Ir. Charles Proper Wolff Schoemaker commissioned this cathedral in 1921. Located on Jalan Merdeka no. 14.
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Palace of the Dutch resident (governor).
Gedung Pakuan (Pakuan Building), built in 1864 and finished in 1866. The architectural style is 'Indische Empire Stijl' (Gaya Empire Hindia). Now is used as West Java Governour residential.
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Savoy Homann Hotel
Sovoy Homann Hotel, has been maintained as the city's landmark hotel. The oldest part of the hotel dates back 1880. In 1938 the Savoy Homann got its new design, the classic Art Deco design. Some of the rooms have been left in original state, and offer the unique experience of staying in exactly the same room that Charlie Chaplin stayed in 1925.
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The Art-Deco-style Preanger Hotel.
The famous Preanger Hotel of Bandung, first built in the 1880s and subsequently redesigned with Art Deco flourishes in the 1920s by the famed architect, Professor Wolfe Shoemaker. The young Sukarno who was his student at the Technische Hogeschool (now Institut Teknologi Bandung), is believed to have assisted Shoemaker in the endeavour. The hotel was renovated again in the 1980s.
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Gedung Merdeka
Built in 1895 for a club house for rich people, named the Concordia Society. In 1921, Societeit Concordia Building was rebuilt in a more functional and structural modern architecture (Art Deco) by designer C. P Wolff Schoemaker. It was renovated again in 1940 with new international style architecture with the help of Architect A. F Aalbers.
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Gedung Sate
A neo-classical building mixed with native elements that served as a governmental office under Dutch administration and now serves as the governor's office of the West Java province in Indonesia. Located in Bandung, the building was designed by a Dutch architect J. Gerber.
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Aerial of the large Gedung Saté-complex, with left the old Post Office (Now Post Museum)
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Wisma Sawunggaling, Jalan Sawunggaling
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Braga street
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Nederlandsch Indische Escompto Mij at Jalan Asia Afrika 51 Bandung. Architect : J Van Gent, built between 1928-19331.
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'De Driekleur'
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Jaarbeurs (Annual Fair main building)
Soccer game on the AloenAloen square (1925)
Aerial, with the Annual Fair.
Atjehstraat - Merdikaweg - Bilitonstraat - Sumatrastraat - Borneostraat - Bangkastraat
This view from 1920's gives a good view of the north east district of the center. The KNIL (Dutch Army) War Department building, right from the middle, is the one that catches attention, in the Kalimantan Street. On the left the Palace of the Army commandant (in the Aceh street) and the Molukkenpark (Taman Maluku), and the HBS (now it is SMU 3 Building) on the right of Bilitonstraat (Belitung Street). In the front of the War Department is the Insulindepark (now Taman Lalulintas), surrounded by all kinds of building and houses of KNIL officers. Behind the War Department are buildings of the the Jaarbeurs, first built in 1920. Down left in the picture is the intersection between Aceh Street and Merdeka Street (BIP). At the background, in the left corner is the Department of Government buildings, betterknown as Gedung Sate.
Department of War
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Weblink with an inventarisation of all the old buildings in the city of Bandung.
CPW Schoemaker designed this store in 1925, located on Jalan Braga Bandung.
Geology museum
Build in 1928 with Art Deco style by Menalda van. Schowenberg. This museum hosts the Pithecanthropus erectus or Java man.
Kantor Pos Besar Bandung (formerly Posten Telegraaf Kantoor)
Jalan Asia Afrika. Built in 1928 by J Van Gent with Art Deco Style.
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Waar andere koloniale machten dit soort gebouwen in de eigen hoofdstad bouwde lijkt het erop dat Nederland het mooiste voor de kolonies bewaarde.
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Onze ambitie lag eind 19e eeuw denk ik (los van de burgerlijke bouwcultuur in NL) bouwkundig gezien meer in de overzeese gebiedsdelen. Dat is misschien ook logisch aangezien de Gouverneur-Generaal in Nederlands-Indië als onderkoning veel macht had al was het maar voor een aantal jaren. Onze zuiderburen bouwden vanwege Leopold II met hun geld in de korte tijd als koloniale macht al hun grootste en bekendste bouwwerken in Brussel (Triomfboog, Paleis Laken, Congo Museum etc.). De Engelsen daarentegen bouwden net als de Nederlanders schitterende gebouwen in steden als Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Colombo, Singapore en Hongkong. De Fransen lieten ook een hoop na en bovendien hadden zij het geluk dat de Franse stijlen zich vanzelf verspreidden en werden overgenomen in de rest van de wereld.
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Hudson was een Engelsman in VOC dienst en daarom telt hij niet helemaal mee als Nederlndse ontdekkingsreiziger.
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Misschien leuk om hier te vermelden: De nederlandse architectuur in Denemarken. Enkele belangrijke bouwwerken zijn in de 17e eeuw ontworpen door nederlandsche architecten.
Bijvoorbeeld Kronborg. Een werelderfgoed. Architekt: Hans van Paesshen
Rosenborg Slot. Architect: Willum Cornelissen
Dat zijn twee hoogtepunten in het culturele imperialisme der nederlanden. Er zijn vele en vele meer alhier.
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Overigens staan er binnen Nederland ook genoeg mooie paleizen hoor, zoals Soestdijk of De Haar.
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Dutch Palace in Cochin, Kerala, India:
Hier kwamen wij Nederlanders vroeger ook, de backwaters in Kerela:
De Beemsterpolder als model wel overduidelijk!
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I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't give a shit!
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wat een leuke thread! goed idee!
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Tijden mijn stage in Kaapstad, heb ik ook een paar foto's geschoten.
In Longstreet/ Langstraat vind je de meeste koloniale gebouwen.
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Stellenbosch. Ongeveer een uur rijden van Kaapstad. De naam dank zich aan de heer Van der Stel.
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Zo´n tien jaar geleden kwam ik in Yogyakarta fort Vredeburg tegen, hier een google'tje...:
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Prachtige foto's van Zuid-Afrika.
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Fort ElMina aan de Afrikaanse Goudkust (Ghana) Tot de verkoop in 1872 hoofdkwartier van de Nederlandse Goudkust.
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Bij de opening van deze thread dacht ik (naïef dat ik ben) dat ik geen 'disclaimer' in hoefde te plaatsen.
Als je een foto van een slavenfort niet aankunt, dan geldt dat dus ook voor potentieel moreel verwerpelijke bouwwerken als het Colosseum of de Piramiden.
Deze thread is bedoeld als inventarisatie van de Nederlandse (overzeese) stedebouw en architectuur. Deze thread is dus NIET bedoeld voor politieke of morele discussies.
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- What should the EU do to protect the Eurozone countries in the event that individual countries drop the Euro?
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Dozio's of Mayo
Dozio's of Mayo, where the South of Switzerland meets the West of Ireland... Over 25 years ago when Danilo Dozio and Helen Grady met little did we know that one day we'd be married with a family, making cheese using ancient recipes from Canton Ticino in the South of Switzerland, with beautiful, creamy Irish milk in County Mayo!
Living in Ireland, one of the things we missed about Switzerland was the cheese, in particular the delicious regional cheese from Ticino, where Danilo grew up. It became our dream to set up a dairy and make Furmagella and Zincarlin, 2 types of cheese from that area. We were confident that traditional Swiss recipes and high quality grass based Irish
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After 4 years of research, building, sourcing equipment and funding, doing business, hygiene and cheese courses and experience on Swiss cheese farms, we finally set up our dairy in Helen's home village of Carracastle, 5 km from Charlestown, in East Mayo.
On a frosty morning at the end of November 2016 we began collecting milk from a neighbouring dairy farm with a herd of 55 Frisian cows and we made our first batch of ELLA, Irish Furmagella. ELLA is a semi-hard cheese with a mild, buttery taste which leaves you wanting more!
Not long after we began making ZING, Irish Zincarlin. ZING is a soft cheese, hand-rolled into logs and available in Natural, Black Pepper & Garlic, Sun-dried Tomatoes and Ginger & Chili. The first 2 flavours are eaten in Switzerland, but the other 2 are our own Irish twist on the recipe! We are fully approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (approval no. 2113), are HACCP compliant and pasteurise each batch of milk in our dairy.
Our cheese is now available in shops and restaurants in counties Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Galway, instantly recognisable by the colourful dots on the packaging, as if to say "dots-e-o" for Dozio. Last November we joined the Food Academy - the mentoring we received and the support from other small producers was a great encouragement to us. We hope to increase our sales through the Food Academy and
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We are half-way through the year, and it's time to take a close look at the Top 7 Dental Websites of 2018. Each of these seven websites have been selected because of their fresh, attractive designs, professional look, smart navigation, quick page-load speeds and overall user experience.
Feel free to click on the image to take a closer look at the details of the project and how these websites came to be.
Smile Atelier
Beverly Hills Cosmetic Dental Specialist
Use of Colors
- The use of black represents sophistication
- The mix of black and white showcases balance
Analysis of Design Elements
- Responsive, unique display on various devices;
- Hamburger menu, trendy and compact;
- Interactive elements in the header;
- Animation of content elements as you hover over;
- Use of images with overlay to highlight services
Westlake Smile Studio
Use of Colors
Dr. Mimi envisioned a clean and organized dental website. The light colors are friendly and inviting to visitors of their website. Bright imagery with a soft palette represents the spa-like atmosphere Westlake Smile Studio recreate in their office. The featured services are visible on every page for easy access.
Marketing Aspect
This clean and appealing website takes no time in engaging the visitor, prospective patient. Contact information is clearly presented on the front page as is an appointment scheduling form.
Bates Dental
Use of Colors
We adopted a neutral color palette with deep undertones that complement the existing color scheme within the office itself. Shades of dark brown and beige give authority to Dr. Bates and the practice, which he has committed to operating with excellence in care. It also helps the practice appear more established and powerful – something new patients often look for in a dental care provider. Since this practice prides itself on providing a wide-range of in-office procedures, the website gives the impression that Bates Dental has the expert care a patient is searching for – no referrals necessary.
Analysis of Design Elements
We made the best use possible of every space within the Bates Dental website without confusing the eye. Instead, we used the full width of the screen to captivate the attention of the viewer while minimizing the appearance of navigation menus. The small menu sits discreetly to the side, encouraging the viewer to instead move through the site in a way that highlights featured information. The parallax scroll effect intrigues visitors with imagery that appears stationary behind foreground text.
Smile Moderne
Use Of Colors
This website has a slick and modern look using light blues and sparkling whites, two colors that together send a few messages that can be important to a dental patient. White is the color of purity and professionalism, but also has some undertones of 'high tech' thanks to the association with laboratories. The light blue sends a subtle feeling of comfort and compassion but also boosts that high-tech feel with a slick and futuristic integration with the white tones. This site suggests that the facility it represents is dedicated to the latest tech in the practice of dentistry.
Analysis Of Design Elements
This design isn't just young; it's slightly forward-looking, even futuristic in its design. While all of the elements involved are common in website design, it's their implementation and presentation that keeps things slick and moving on this site. From a human perspective, it's clear that this practitioner wants to welcome you to his site and get to know you so that the two of you can design a plan for your oral health together.
Neil Hadaegh
Dentistry Beverly Hills
Use of Colors
Beverly Hills is a city that is very sleek and sophisticated. We opted for a dark color scheme with a black background that complements the nighttime shots of Los Angeles that are exhibited on the website. When used tastefully, a dark, black color scheme is both classy and timeless – much like Beverly Hills itself.
Analysis of Design Elements
This is a highly visual website with many modern design elements. Most notably, visitors will notice the scrolling header images on the home page that fade one into another. These pictures show off shots of Beverly Hills, helping locals and out-of-towners alike learn what to expect from a visit to this office. Scrolling patient reviews catch the eye of site visitors, and a link to the practice blog helps give the practice a more personable and friendly reputation.
Irvine Endodontics
Use Of Colors
The initial impact a visitor receives when they visit this website is a splash of brightly colored links to sites that will verify the Irvine Endodontics reputation in the community. The video background creates interest and draws the patient in, but its gray-scale presentation doesn't detract from the impact of those links, or the bright orange make-an-appointment button at the bottom. The color selection for this appointment link is based on research that shows that orange and yellow drive visitors to action, in this case, clicking that link.
Analysis Of Design Elements
There are a few subtle things at play with the design of this website, some of them less obvious than others. After you've been introduced to the office, it isn't the last time you're presented with a set of eyes that encourages connection. While the image of the microscope showcases the technology they use in their procedures, it also is presented in a way that is suggestive of a pair of eyes focused on the viewer. The shape of the microscope's design is reminiscent of an old friend with compassion for your plight and passes that sense of comfort to the visitor.
Chu Dental Group
Use Of Colors
Warm, inviting oranges and earth tones run through this website, colors that are psychologically associated with enthusiasm and warmth. Beige is known to evoke ideas of dependability and relaxation, and we feel these aspects come together in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and achieves its goal effortlessly. The rich browns used to showcase the various services they provide combined with the subtle autumn tones in the images themselves inviting viewers to investigate and find out what the office can do for them.
Analysis Of Design Elements
This website is laid out in a way that is as accessible and inviting as the Chu Dental Group itself. Their phone numbers are listed at the top along with an attractive presentation of links to information about the treatments offered by their clinic. Everything in it engenders the sense of ease and comfort the client was looking for, with a smooth flow of design and color that is rare even in the most well-designed websites. It also does an excellent job of presenting the unique approach the facility takes, introducing their philosophy, the doctor, and Macie the on staff therapy dog, capping it all off with a set of testimonies from their clients.


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Inkjet Archival Pigment Print, 30"x20", 2013.
In collaboration with painter, King Farish. (click image to enlarge)
Field Painting is a photographic project by King Farish and John Lui who met at Vermont Studio Center.
"Our studios were in the same building and every time I walked by King's studio I would stop in my tracks and marvel at King's painting process, or more specifically, the moments between art production. While King's painting process is predicated upon the accumulation of materials, it is just as much an exercise in restraint. I often find him in his studio, reading a magazine while literally, "waiting for paint to dry" through the multiple layers of canvas. When I look at his studio I sense a consciousness in how paint cans, cinder blocks, and planks of wood are laid out within his working space. What piqued my interest the most was the canvas being draped over a ladder to dry. It possessed that otherworldly and mysterious presence I find so alluring and elusive. The resulting image is an exploration of our two practices coming together."
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Middle East, February 28, 2018. Solutions for intelligent vehicle access by means of virtual smartphone key are making car rental more convenient for customers and rental companies alike. Continental's "Key as a Service" technology enables a rental experience with keyless vehicle access and engine start authorisation.
The core component of all Continental's smart access systems is the virtual smartphone key, which consists of a tamper-proof data record. This key gains access only after successful one-time authentication, which is then sent to the smartphone via a wireless interface. For the Smart Device Integrated Access solution, the system uses multiple Bluetooth Low Energy modules in the vehicle to enable the authorised smartphone to be located from both inside and outside. As soon as an authorized virtual key is detected, the system issues permission to open the vehicle and start the engine.


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The antilog is the inverse, or opposite, of a logarithm. Basic calculators will not have a button for the antilog. This function is usually only available on a scientific calculator. If your calculator doesn't have many buttons, chances are, you won't be able to find the antilog. Scientific calculators have many buttons and each button will have several different functions. The main function of each button is printed directly onto it. Secondary functions will be written on the back panel either immediately above or below the button. Some calculators have so many functions that they may have more than one secondary function per button. In this case, the colour of the writing of the function dictates which button you need to press first to access it. This may be a "Func," "Inv" or "Shift" button.
Look at the label of each button. This will be stamped directly onto the button. You need to find a button that says "LOG-1," "10x," or "ALOG."
Look at the secondary functions of each button if your calculator, if you do not see a specific antilog key. If you find the symbol printed above or below a button, check out the colour of the text, because this will tell your which button you need to press first to access the function. The shift/function keys are usually colour coded. Press the access button and then press the button to which the antilog symbol relates.
Try guessing a combination if the antilog symbol does not appear on your calculator. If you have an "Inv" button and a "LOG" button, then press these two button in sequence to see if this will give you the inverse of a logarithm, which is an antilog.
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