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U.S. Senator Mark Udall discusses the obstruction of his Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act shortly after the vote on Wednesday, July 17, 2014.
Libraries are agents for development, giving communities access to information in order to support education, health, economic security and development. Taking, as its starting point, recent research which looks at user perceptions of the benefits of public access to technology in libraries, and the opportunities public libraries offer for policymakers to meet development goals, this workshop will explore a number of questions around the theme of public access in the community. What policies are needed to ensure that public access is facilitated? What partnerships need to be made with the private sector to help bring technology into the community?
Day 4
16 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
Stone Circle Access visits take place outside the normal opening times at Stonehenge, and are very early in the morning or late in the evening, and are not offered during the normal opening times.
For those of you who have not visited this sacred site, we should mention that the complex is roped off. Visitors observe the stones from a distance and are not permitted within the temple complex. Our special access tours allow you to be amongst the stones. Your guide will bring to life its many myths, legends and rich and fascinating history.
We have arranged with English Heritage for you to experience a unique guided visit to this ancient sacred site - beyond the fences and after the crowds have gone home. Walk amongst the stones and experience the magical atmosphere within the inner circle.
Stonehenge Sunset and Sunrise Trips from London and Salisbury
Stonehenge Guided Tours: www.StonehengeTours.com
Aerial view new elevated connector road above Footscray Road with Melbourne CBD and Port of Melbourne container terminal. The new road runs from the Maribyrnong River to CityLink and provides improved port access for the road freight industry.
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Deputy Minster Thembi Siweya addresses the community of Schweizer Reneke, in the North West to promote access to information among the youth.
This opportunity presents Brand South Africa a chance to promote constitutional awareness, pride and patriotism among South Africans to contribute to social cohesion and nation brand ambassadorship. [Photo: GCIS]
Washington DC, November 15 2016. A diverse crowd of around three thousand fired up activists variously affiliated with over a hundred different groups gathered in front of offices occupied by the Army Corps Of Engineers (and other agencies including the GAO...) for a rally and march to protect the midwestern plains water and land that rightfully belongs in perpetuity to Native American people. A core group of speakers travelled here from the Dakotas to lead the action. There is some slim hope that President Obama can be persuaded in the waning days of his presidency to refuse 'right of way' on Federal lands for the Dakota Access Pipeline. There was a sad, poignant vibe to the event because the DAPL poisonous snake will almost certainly be 'fast tracked' by the incoming Trump administration. President Elect Donald J. Trump is an investor in the pipeline. The company largely responsible for the pipeline project is headed by a very rich Texan folk music enthusiast/opportunist/OK guitar player who seems to have little understanding of what most folk musicians are trying to express.
Scotland’s 18 higher education institutions have today (23 July) guaranteed that care experienced applicants who meet minimum entry requirements will be guaranteed an offer of an undergraduate place at university. This bold, sector-wide move will be in place for the next admissions cycle, starting this autumn for people looking to start university in autumn 2020, and is aimed at driving a significant increase in the number of care experienced people going to university.
So I was really bored to day and decided to lurk the back streets photographing their back doors!!!!! Welcome to Rear Door Access. Going to creat a group for your rear door access photos!!
St Nicholas, Landwade, Suffolk
An elusive church, difficult to pin down, difficult to find and difficult of access. For a start, St Nicholas isn't a parish church at all. It sits beside the remains of Landwade Hall, which was partly destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War. Pevsner isn't very kind about the bit that was left, but it looks lovely to me. The Landwade Hall estate was part of the parish of Fordham in Cambridgeshire, but the church had long been a chapel of ease for the parish of Exning in Suffolk.
Exning and the part of Newmarket north of the town centre were an island of Suffolk within the county of Cambridgeshire until as recently as 1895, when the Cambridgeshire parish of Newmarket All Saints was moved into Suffolk to join the two bits together. One of the options at the time of the revision of English Counties in 1974 was to move Newmarket and Exning completely into Cambridgeshire. However, this was voted down in a local referendum, and Newmarket and Exning remain semi-detached parts of Suffolk. The corridor connecting them is only a hundred yards wide.
A further attempt to tidy up the border between the two counties came in 1994. The changes affected a number of parishes, but the amount of land changing hands in each case was actually very small. In total, two people were moved from Suffolk into Cambridgeshire, and ten people came the other way. These were all living in the former grounds of Landwade Hall, and with them came their church.
One of the curiosities here is that you can sense the border, new as it is. Landwade Hall is secret and wooded, you can hear the call of pheasants and the impatient whinny of horses in the adjacent paddock. Back on the road, you cross the railway bridge into Cambridgeshire and are immediately confronted with the vast Turners distribution warehouses, and beyond them the nightmarish A11 and A14. No county in the British Isles has been affected so much by human habitation as Cambridgeshire. 92% of the land area is under buildings, industry or farming. Of the remaining 8%, hardly any of it is covered by trees, since Cambridgeshire is also the least wooded county in Britain. Even Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have more wild areas. Cambridgeshire is even less wooded now that it has lost Landwade.
The lane through the woods up to the cottages is not sign-posted, apart from one reminding Turners' drivers that it wouldn't be a terribly good idea to go up there, and when you get up to the cottages the driveway to the Hall is also not signposted. From this point you are on a private road without a public right of way. There is, however, a public footpath which runs up to the church from the road. This leaves the main road about 100m further north of the lane to the cottages. Beside it is the former gatehouse, but I am told that the gate there is quite often locked.
Reaching the Hall is like stepping out of time. The church sits behind the Hall, you are on private land, and at this point it is worth saying that St Nicholas church is in private ownership. This is an unusual state of affairs, but not unique - in Suffolk the same is true of the Estate churches at Ickworth and Hengrave. For centuries, Landwade Hall was the home of the Cotton family, and that is why you will want to come here, for the church is also their mausoleum.
The exterior of the church is not particularly pretty, since it has been cemented over, but it is interesting as an example of a small church that was all built in one go. It dates from the mid-15th century, but is not ennobled with a clerestory and nave aisles like its contemporary at Denston. The window tracery is Perpendicular, but that is about it.
The church is kept locked, but if you can gain access you step into an open, light, aisleless space. A small image niche is set beside the opposite door. There are some 15th century benches which must have been installed when the church was built. The rood screen retains its rood beam, and rises full length to it. However, it is hard to see where a rood loft might have been, and there is no surviving evidence of a stairway up to it. Indeed, because there are two chancel aisles, it is strung between two pillars. Further, there is very little clearance space between the rood beam and the ceiling.
The nave windows contain a sequence of heraldic shields commemorating the various marriages of the Cottons. Several also have good 15th century figures in them, and there are more in the chancel aisles. None are complete, and there must once have been more, but they are rather striking in their surroundings of clear glass. The only modern glass is Francis Spear's east window, a 1966 depiction of St Nicholas calming the waters from a boat, with a barrel full of children at his feet.
All this provides the setting for the Cotton memorials, some of the best in Suffolk. They are in the chancel and in the chancel aisles. In the south aisle is the biggest, to Sir John Cotton, who died 1620. His inscription reads: Here lyeth the bodye of Sir John Cotton knight the son and heire of Sir John Cotton he married three wives the first Elizabeth daughter to Sir Thomas Carrell esq of Warneham in Sussex, the second Elizabeth daughter to Sir Humfrey Bradburne knight of Bradburne in the county of Darby, by whome he had noe issue, the third was Anne daughter to Sir Richard Haughton Baronet of Haughton Towre in the county of Lancaster by whom he had issue, James, John and Katherine, which James and Katherine died in the life time of there father, he departed this life in the 77th year of his age Anno Domini 1620 and lieth in a vault in the south ile of this church made by himself. Sir John lies in front of it with one of his wives, presumably Anne. The monument is surrounded by its original iron railings, as is the one to its right to Sir John Cotton of 1689, presumably the son of the first Sir John, given that he must have been quite old by the time he married his third wife. Given that the two monuments are from either side of the Commonwealth, they are surprisingly similar. A third Sir John, who died in 1712, is quite different, being very white and classical.
In the north aisle, there is a grand six-poster memorial to a still earlier Sir John, who died in 1593. There are other memorials here too, but like those in the chancel they have mostly lost their inscriptions. The most striking chancel memorial is the long altar tomb endways on to the east, as at Burgate. You have to keep your wits about you so that you don't fall over it. There is also a brass inscription in the chancel, in the south east corner to another Cotton, this one for a change called William.
Perhaps most memorable for me on this beautiful sunny day in February 2018 was the vast sea of snowdrops and aconites sprawling across the grounds of Landwade Hall, perhaps the most spectacular display of them that I have ever seen.
Another photo of the rec center at Al Asad. This place has about a dozen TVs, video games, internet/phone access, and even a night club. Yes, it was pretty crazy of a place.
- Lightweight, thin and slim
- Access to all buttons and ports
- Work with 3rd party headphones and docks
- Easily snaps on and off
A French Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé and Afghan police truck block the road after French and Afghan policemen secured the area for an inspection of local electrical infrastructure March 14. (Photo by Maitre Christian Valverde, French Navy)
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
The event kicked-off with a special roundtable discussion between USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. Other featured speakers included technology innovator Esther Dyson and representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division wait in defensive positions after performing a night time static line parachute drop in support of airdrop operations during Large Package Week at the Sicily Drop Zone outside of Fort Bragg, N.C., Feb. 6, 2016. Large package week is a lead up to Joint Operational Access Exercise 16-5 that prepares Army and Air Force units for worldwide crisis and contingency operations. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Gregory Brook)
MTS Access is MTS' curb-to-curb paratransit service, operated under the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act, serving transit riders who are unable to use or access the MTS system due to a disability. This fleet of 2000 El Dorado National Aerotech buses has been replaced with newer buses.
Stone Circle Access visits take place outside the normal opening times at Stonehenge, and are very early in the morning or late in the evening, and are not offered during the normal opening times.
For those of you who have not visited this sacred site, we should mention that the complex is roped off. Visitors observe the stones from a distance and are not permitted within the temple complex. Our special access tours allow you to be amongst the stones. Your guide will bring to life its many myths, legends and rich and fascinating history.
We have arranged with English Heritage for you to experience a unique guided visit to this ancient sacred site - beyond the fences and after the crowds have gone home. Walk amongst the stones and experience the magical atmosphere within the inner circle.
Stonehenge Sunset and Sunrise Trips from London and Salisbury
Stonehenge Guided Tours: www.StonehengeTours.com
ILRI celebrates International Open Access Week from October 23-25 2019. www.ilri.org/open-access-week
On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and NYC MOPD Commissioner Victor Calise hosted the 3rd Annual Access to Independence Transportation Expo in NYC! Joined by Commissioner Meera Joshi of the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, the event celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Learn more here on.nyc.gov/1Jis3hx
Training sessions on open access at the Joint Executive Board and Member Representatives’ Meeting of the European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (EFPSA). The training was a part of the FOSTER (Facilitate European Science Training for European Research) project training programme. The programme helps students to foster open science in their daily workflows, supporting EU objectives on responsible research and innovation and optimising research visibility.
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Telok Pandan Besar, aka Besar Beach - Bako National Park near Kuching (Borneo)
There is no easy trail access to this beach.
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Near Qingdao (about 30 km east of town) is Laoshan, one of the famous Taoist mountains of China. Laoshan, being the tallest mountain on the Chinese seaboard, affords dramatic views of mountain and sea when the air cooperates (which it didn’t quite do when I visited).
One of the nice things about Laoshan is that it’s a national park and traffic is restricted to official buses that shuttle people between the various tourist areas of the park. (I often wonder if such a system would help preserve the U.S. national parks – and I think it would help – but the downside is that it severely limits access of movement to folks who are interested in camping in the U.S. parks, something that I don’t know that they can do here in China. At any rate, I digress…)
Laoshan is essentially broken into three clusters. The lower region near the sea has a boardwalk that gives very nice views of sea and mountain. The stroll here is easy and only about 30 minutes long. At the end, you reach the Taiqing Palace, a Song Dynasty Taoist palace with a history of over 1,000 years. The palace was established by the first Song Dynasty emperor. (Actually, I think he just elaborated on a temple to consecrate it as one of the most famous Taoist sites in China.)
In the upper region of Laoshan (reachable by a strenuous hike or, for older & more out-of-shape folks like I, a cable car), you will find the Jufeng trail and Bashui He trail. The Jufeng trail is the highlight of Laoshan. It’s a 3-4 hour circuit that is designed in the shape of a bagua (Taoist symbol to ward off spirits). There are “gates” at each tip of the bagua. The length of the trail takes you past wind- and water-worked granite and sweeping vistas of the mountain. (I have to admit…I didn’t hike the entire trail; it was pretty strenuous and quite hot that day. If I did a quarter of it, I would have been impressed.) The Bashui trail is also at the peak of the mountain. The highlight of that trail is a hermit’s cave. It’s supposedly a two hour trek to reach the cave and return.
Laoshan is a nice diversion from the city and good for a day trip. Make sure you have lots of water and something to eat. There are vendors all over the place, but prices are gouged as they are at most tourist spots.
Getting to Laoshan is quite simple. From downtown Qingdao, take the 304 bus from Zhan Qiao (the base of the Huilan Pavilion, or the previous stop near the train station) to the Laoshan tourist center. It’s about a 2 hour bus ride (thanks to about 50 stops). The admission to Laoshan is a bit steep now; around 120 or 150 RMB, but it’s not a bad price to pay.
I’ve lived in China for almost three years now; about two years in Shanghai and one year in Tianjin. Shandong province is the province that’s on the sea between the two cities. (From Shanghai to Tianjin by train is around 5 hours; by plane, 2 hours.) Qingdao, probably the most well-known city in Shandong, is a charming city, to say the least. In my opinion, it’s exceptionally photogenic – with very nice beaches, great architecture, good geography/topography, and terrific food.
Qingdao also happens to be known for the most famous of Chinese beers (Tsingtao), which is actually a company started by the Germans. (For what it’s worth, Chinese beers are quite watery and Tsingtao is somewhat like the Budweiser of Chinese beers. That being said, I’m happy to drink an ice cold Tsingtao on a hot summer day whereas I wouldn’t say the same thing about a Budweiser.
So what to make of Qingdao then? Before colonial powers swept in and started chopping up China piecemeal, Qingdao was basically a sleepy fishing village. During the Ming dynasty, a battery was built here. In 1898, the Germans seized control of Qingdao when two missionaries were killed. (Personally, it seems alarming to me that a country could lose a city because two foreigners happened to be killed – and China sure lost a lot that way during the 19th century. I guess that’s the downside to outmoded military technology; the Europeans and Americans basically plundered China…) At any rate, Qingdao was ceded to the Germans for 99 years, but that didn’t last long, thanks to World War I.
During the 15-20 years that the Germans did have control of the town, they managed to build a handful of churches (still standing) and missionaries, in addition to the aforementioned Qingdao brewery. Because of that, a lot of the European architecture has a heavy German influence and there are still a few random signs of German heritage around town.
From the Germans, Qingdao didn’t land directly with the Chinese. It spent 8 years under Japanese control (1914-1922) before being returned to the Kuomintang (aka General Chiang Kai-Shek’s clan). The Japanese took control once again in 1938 (as they swept through northeast China and across half the country) before losing it for the last time in 1945 at the end of World War II. Since then, it’s been in Chinese hands. (Brief history courtesy of Lonely Planet.)
Contemporary Qingdao certainly makes its way as a tourist destination – and it’s a fine one at that. The population (per my LP from 2011) lists it at 1.73 million. The city has a few areas that are quite appealing to tourists: the Old Town (the heart of the city) off the beach and just east of the railway station downtown, Badaguan (which means “eight passes”) is a hilly area with a lot of nice residential architecture to the east of the Old Town. Other than that, there are a lot of parks, a beer street, churches, and a 40 km. scenic walk (which, obviously, most people do not cover from end to end) along the shore which goes by all of the beaches in the area.
All in all, Qingdao is the type of town that, if you get the chance to visit, I think you would find yourself thinking it would be great to return again and again.
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Learn more about First Landing State Park here: www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/first-landing#general_in...
The gentle Yakima River winds through massive basalt cliffs and rolling desert hills for 27 miles. The canyon offers excellent wildlife watching, plant viewing, fishing in a Blue Ribbon trout stream, family-friendly rafting and camping. The BLM manages over 9,000 acres in the Yakima River Canyon area, including four developed river access sites: Umtanum (a footbridge at the site provides the only pedestrian access to the west side of the river within the Yakima River Canyon), Lmuma Creek, Big Pines, and Roza (the main take out for all river floaters due to the Roza dam a half mile downstream of the site.)
Know Before You Go:
-The recreation sites are open YEAR ROUND.
-There are overnight ($15/site) and day-use ($5/vehicle) fees.
-Reservations for campsites may be made at recreation.gov from May 15 to September 15.
-The Umtanum Recreation Site contains six RV/tent campsites.
-Lmuma Creek contains seven RV/tent campsites.
-Big Pines contains 41 (38 RV and three walk in only) campsites.
-Roza contains six RV/tent campsites.
-Roza also has a concrete boat launch to accommodate motorized boat users for use downstream of the boat launch.
-Amenities at all four sites include: picnic tables and fire rings, vault toilets, a river put-in/take-out site and garbage collection.
-Hookups and potable water are not provided at any site.
-Cellular phone coverage is limited in many areas of the Yakima River Canyon.
Directions: From Ellensburg, Washington, take Hwy 821 (Canyon Road) south into the Yakima River Canyon. Umtanum is located at milepost 16, Lmuma Creek is located at milepost 12, Big Pines is located at milepost 10 and Roza is located at milepost 7, a half mile above Roza dam and about 25 miles south of Ellensburg.
Point of Interest: Located just south of Ellensburg, the non-motorized trails at Ringer Road offer visitors glimpses of the wildlife and birds that inhabit the riparian areas next to the Yakima River.
Contact:
Wenatchee BLM Field Office
915 N. Walla Walla Ave.
Wenatchee, WA 98801
(509) 665-2100
Photo by Jeff Clark/BLM
Highway 101 in southwest Oregon is not only the main artery, but also the sole access to and from California and local business areas of many who live in or near the Brookings-Harbor communities. You may have heard of two large sinkholes that opened and blocked use of the highway. The set of pictures here, shot yesterday to explain the situation then. The orange "barrels" may seem confusing...they seem that way to the user, too...but what they accomplish is allow southbound users to use the other lane, which is closed to northbound users...who quickly find they can get where they were going by using the parking lot of the strip mall east of the highway.
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
The event kicked-off with a special roundtable discussion between USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. Other featured speakers included technology innovator Esther Dyson and representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
The event kicked-off with a special roundtable discussion between USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. Other featured speakers included technology innovator Esther Dyson and representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.