Snowboard made by Aleksey Ostatnigrosh of GROMEL is multi-colored with art deco circular designs throughout. The board is fabricated from an ash vertical laminated wood core, carbon fiber, fiberglass, rubber, stainless steel and a P-Tex racing base. Each of GROMEL's boards are hand made, by the donor of the board, Aleksey Ostatnigrosh who emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1994. Ostatnigrosh was one of two founders of the first Russian snowboard production company, GROMEL, in 1986. Working in their parent's apartments, Ostatnigrosh and Alex Melnikov were pressed for space and after several moves ended up renting a store front on Gorky Street, in the heart of Moscow. According to the donor, in 1993, after the fall of socialism, private companies were "advised to buy protection" and GROMEL wasn't big enough to afford it. They sold their company to a bigger, better protected company but no snowboards were ever produced. Moving to the US allowed Ostatnigrosh to forge a career as an IT developer and continue to craft his custom made snowboards. In 2008, Ostatnigrosh began crafting his snowboards as a piece of sports equipment but also as works of art, using a unique top sheet created from exotic wood veneers and hand painted elements and refusing to use computer equipment in his graphic designs. he is heavily influenced by early 20th Century art styles such as Constructivism, Cubism and Art Deco.
This lab coat belonged to Dr. Mani Menon, an Indian American surgeon trained in India and the United States. His professional career led him to Detroit, Michigan. Together with Raj Vattikuti and Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, they established the Vattikuti Urology Institute to innovate robotic surgery. By implementing robotic surgery, the recovery time and results of many patients have significantly improved. Since his first robotic prostatectomy at the Vattikuti Urology Institute, Dr. Menon has worked to become known worldwide for pioneering robotic surgery for prostate cancer and many of his innovations have made robotic prostatectomy the surgical standard in handling prostate cancer patients.
This Orlando basketball shirt was collected in a remote part of the Sonoran Desert near the Mexican border. The past 20 years has seen a rise in unauthorized border crossing, border enforcement procedures, and debates about who and how migrants should be let into the country.
As the US federal immigration enforcement strategy known as Prevention Through Deterrence (PTD) increased the security presence around urban ports of entry in the mid-1990s, there was a shift in undocumented migration towards more remote regions of the American Southwest. Those making the perilous journey through this inhospitable desert landscape faced extreme temperatures (summer temperatures as high as 100° F/38° C and winter temperatures approaching freezing), rugged terrain, abuse from coyotes (human smugglers), and the risk of getting caught by the Border Patrol.
The site this was found most likely served as a way station used by human smugglers or a site of Border Patrol apprehension. Typical items found at these sites include personal hygiene products such as this comb, as well as backpacks, excess clothes, as well as empty water bottles.
