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The Richard H. Simons Rainforest was created in 2000 thanks to a generous grant from Mr. Robert M. Kramer, trustee of the Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust. Our rainforest showcases plant diversity and has a paved path to allow for easy access to the many scenic locations found within its two acres. A meandering stream with waterfalls and cascades, flows throughout many areas of the rainforest. The stream is fed by water that is pumped from Glade Lake. The water is then gravity fed down the stream bed and later flows back into the lake where it is recycled.
Our rainforest is meant to showcase a globally imperiled habitat that is thought to house at least half of all species on earth. The Fairchild rainforest, at just over two acres, is a tiny example of what is known as a tropical rainforest which are typically found much closer to the equator. Using the current global rate of rainforest destruction, one and half acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, meaning an area similar in size to our rainforest would be destroyed in less time than it would take to read this sentence. With the incredible amount of plant and animal diversity found in the rainforests, it is possible that species are being lost before they are even being discovered.
Rainforests consist of four levels: the emergent level, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. The emergent level is the very top of the forest and is above the canopy. It contains only the fastest growing and tallest trees that have broken through the canopy, as well as, butterflies, bats, monkeys and birds of prey. Below the emergent level is the canopy which contains the majority of plant, insect and animal life found in the forest. Some estimates claim that 50% of all plant species in the world are found in the rainforest canopy. Forest canopies were not begun to be explored until the 1980s and still have not been thoroughly researched. It is thought that millions of species still remain undiscovered. Below the canopy is the understory where only 5% of the forest sunlight penetrates. Predators such as boa constrictors and jaguars are found here along with a multitude of insects, snakes, lizards and birds. Beneath it all one finds the forest floor. A rainforest’s floor is relatively barren of plant life due to the low amount of light that reaches the forest floor. The floor does contain a large amount of decaying plant and animal material that is recycled back into nutrients which are then taken up by the roots of the towering plants above.
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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Environmental groups protest against agrichemical company Syngenta's pesticides which kill bees - London 01.07.2014
Organised by online campaign group 38 Degrees, around 150 environmental activists - many dressed as bees and beekeepers - from Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Natural Beekeepers Alliance, the Soil Association, Greenpeace, Pesticide Action network, Bug Life, Client Earth, and the Environmental Justice Foundation protested outside Downing Street against agrichemical company Syngenta, which has applied to the Dept for Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) for an exemption to use neonicitinoid pesticides in the UK which are currently banned in the EU following recent research which showed that neonicitinoid pesticides are killing bees and many other pollinators absolutely crucial to worldwide crop pollination. The toxic chemical has also been detected in the bodies of animals further up the food chain such as birds, mice, foxes etc., and a presumtion must be made that this chemical is now finding it's way into human bodies.
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Bert Barriga, a member of the Philippines team, shares his experience from the Beyond Access 2012 with officials from the Davao City government.
In April 2015, the Beyond Access team headed to Nigeria to meet with partners on the Beyond Access project there. Learn more about the project — and the five fantastic implementing partner NGOs — on our website: beyondaccess.net/projects/nigeria/
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
April 14, 2023 - Albany, NY - In the wake of multiple attacks on abortion access — including a federal court ruling in Texas restricting access to abortion medication and Florida's passage of a 6-week abortion ban — Governor Kathy Hochul joined with Attorney General Letitia James, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and other legislative and advocate leaders to vow to continue fighting to protect abortion rights. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
At the entrance to the boardwalk out to the Tyndall AFB beach, Florida "proper behavior is requred, no nudity is permitted"
Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th and 17th century structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Access to the Castle is sometimes restricted by higher-than-usual levels of water in the Loch, at which times the site effectively becomes a temporary island.
It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall
Not a glamorous photo, just one of the bride supports covered with 'artwork'. Took it partly to test the lens, but also to show how the industrious graffiti artists cut into an access panel then locked it off from less industrious 'artists' with a bike lock.
A combination of my bridge project with the studio 26 assignment of deep depth of field and testing out a borrowed 16-35 f4 lens. 16mm, f9, ISO 250, 1/80 sec exposure, focus on the graffiti. Everything not overexposed is in focus.
April 14, 2023 - Albany, NY - In the wake of multiple attacks on abortion access — including a federal court ruling in Texas restricting access to abortion medication and Florida's passage of a 6-week abortion ban — Governor Kathy Hochul joined with Attorney General Letitia James, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and other legislative and advocate leaders to vow to continue fighting to protect abortion rights. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
Mind's Eye: Art-Making Workshop with Jessica Jones
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
Visitors with low vision and blindness experimented with paper and collaborated to make group sculptures. This special workshop was led by Jessica Jones, artist and teacher at the Lavelle School for the Blind and leading figure in Joe Lovett’s groundbreaking film, Going Blind.
Photo: Filip Wolak
Learn more about Guggenheim Mind's Eye Programs at www.guggenheim.org/mindseye
The Shongololo Express's unique touring concept eliminates interminable hours traveling long distances in a tour bus and alleviates the daily chore of packing and unpacking suitcases. Traveling comfortably and securely during the night, Shongololo Express trains save guests precious holiday time, arriving each dawn at a new and exciting destination.
There is a fleet of air-conditioned touring vehicles which is transported in special wagons on the train. Professional multi-lingual guides (English, French & German spoken on board) are on hand to drive guests on inclusive, scheduled excursions. Their experience and wealth of knowledge assist passengers to gain the most from each day's programme.
Shongololo Express provides a very special touring experience for travellers. From a warm welcome and transfer to the train at the start of the journey, to an exciting and varied program of touring, superb breakfasts and dinners on board, and a lounge full of new friends each evening - all these combine to create an unforgettable holiday.
From left to right: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, President Van Rompuy, Commission President Barroso.
We stayed at the Pool Access rooms at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua in December 2014. Check out the amazing room. You can swim directly from your room to the pool bar and back. Spacious rooms with wonderful amenities.
The bath tub is amazing. You have to use it when you are here.
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
MADHOUSE RE-EXIT ;
Access All Areas;
Directed by Nick Llewellyn ;
Set Design by Joanna Scotcher ;
Lighting Design by Katherine Graham ;
Costume Design by Carley Hague ;
Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK ;
12 March 2018 ;
Credit and Copyright Helen Murray ;
Podiumsdiskussion: Dr. Oliver Grundei (Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Schleswig-Holstein). Foto: Jürgen Haacks, CAU
This contraflow cycle lane leads up a plank ramp in to a skip.
Update (2009). As discussed under another photo of mine, this probably is not a contraflow cycle lane so much as a false one-way street with a segregated entrance. Hope that clarifies.
The session is around how to create Learning Spaces for the Information Society as new Classroom concept, mobile learning, home learning access and how multistakeholder collaboration can support the deployment of an infrastructure to create such spaces in the context of achieving WSIS +10 Targets.
Day 1
13 May 2013
ITU/J.M. Planche
Alec Finlay
Monday 4 - Thursday 7 November, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Various Locations
Across Dundee
NEoN is bringing the Travelling Gallery to town, Day of Access exhibition will pop up in various locations across the city.
Travelling Gallery is delighted to be working with Alec Finlay to support Day of Access, a powerful campaign which encourages estates to open their land to allow access for people affected by disability. By using hill tracks and four-wheel drives, people who have never been able to immerse themselves in wild nature are driven into the heart Scotland’s beautiful wild landscape.
The Day of Access campaign passionately believes that everyone should have the opportunity to experience wild nature. Travelling Gallery will act as the campaign bus touring Day of Access across Scotland; presenting information and artworks and allowing a space for discussions. Documentation from the pilot Day of Access, including work by young photographer Sam McDiarmid, will be exhibited in an art installation created by Finlay.
The themes of disability, access and ecological remediation are explored in Finlay’s poems and artwork. Pages from books exploring illness, pain, walking and healing, including A View from the Front Line by Maggie Keswick Jencks, are used as paper for thoughtful drawings and commanding words “THERE CAN NEVER BE AN EXCESS OF ACCESS”.
Alongside his own work Alec has invited other artists and poets to exhibit including Hannah Devereaux, Alison Lloyd, Ken Cockburn and Mhairi Law; each bringing their own creativity and experience to the project. The work is collaboratively displayed like a scrap book or diary pinned on a garden trellis, alongside other domestic apparatus and soft furnishings, such as blankets, a clothes horse, and hankies.
About the Artist:
Alec Finlay (Scotland, 1966) is an internationally-recognised artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Much of Finlay’s work considers how we as a culture, or cultures, relate to landscape and ecology. Through permanent and temporary interventions, integrative web-based projects, and publications, Finlay weaves together generous experiential works, often collaborative, sometimes mapped directly onto the landscape, embedded socially or accessed online. Recently Finlay’s work has focussed on place-awareness and ecopoetics.
Tour dates in Dundee:
Monday 4 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Boomerang Community Centre, 10 Kemback St, Dundee DD4 6ET
Tuesday 5 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Morrisons, 1 Afton Way, Dundee,DD4 8BR
Wednesday 6 November, 10:00am-4:00pm, please note the gallery will be closed to the public on this day.
Baldragon Academy, 69 Harestane Rd, Dundee DD3 0LF
Thursday 7 November, 11:00am-9:00pm
Wellgate Centre Main Entrance on Panmure Street
Access for visitors:
A maximum of 20 people can visit at one time
The doors are at the front left-hand side of the vehicle
An inbuilt manual ramp is available to aid access for wheelchair users* and pushchairs
Handrails are available at the doorway and by the short internal gradient at the entrance to the gallery (1:9)
The interior of the gallery is level
* Wheelchairs up to 120cm long and 70cm wide
Photography Kathryn Rattray
Sign: $8 Bridge River Access. Port Orford cedar technical committee meeting at the Biscuit Fire. Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: October 19, 2006
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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The curved wall and high level branding give this design a custom look, which will stand out from other exhibition stands at an event. Complete with seating area.
Alec Finlay
Monday 4 - Thursday 7 November, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Various Locations
Across Dundee
NEoN is bringing the Travelling Gallery to town, Day of Access exhibition will pop up in various locations across the city.
Travelling Gallery is delighted to be working with Alec Finlay to support Day of Access, a powerful campaign which encourages estates to open their land to allow access for people affected by disability. By using hill tracks and four-wheel drives, people who have never been able to immerse themselves in wild nature are driven into the heart Scotland’s beautiful wild landscape.
The Day of Access campaign passionately believes that everyone should have the opportunity to experience wild nature. Travelling Gallery will act as the campaign bus touring Day of Access across Scotland; presenting information and artworks and allowing a space for discussions. Documentation from the pilot Day of Access, including work by young photographer Sam McDiarmid, will be exhibited in an art installation created by Finlay.
The themes of disability, access and ecological remediation are explored in Finlay’s poems and artwork. Pages from books exploring illness, pain, walking and healing, including A View from the Front Line by Maggie Keswick Jencks, are used as paper for thoughtful drawings and commanding words “THERE CAN NEVER BE AN EXCESS OF ACCESS”.
Alongside his own work Alec has invited other artists and poets to exhibit including Hannah Devereaux, Alison Lloyd, Ken Cockburn and Mhairi Law; each bringing their own creativity and experience to the project. The work is collaboratively displayed like a scrap book or diary pinned on a garden trellis, alongside other domestic apparatus and soft furnishings, such as blankets, a clothes horse, and hankies.
About the Artist:
Alec Finlay (Scotland, 1966) is an internationally-recognised artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Much of Finlay’s work considers how we as a culture, or cultures, relate to landscape and ecology. Through permanent and temporary interventions, integrative web-based projects, and publications, Finlay weaves together generous experiential works, often collaborative, sometimes mapped directly onto the landscape, embedded socially or accessed online. Recently Finlay’s work has focussed on place-awareness and ecopoetics.
Tour dates in Dundee:
Monday 4 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Boomerang Community Centre, 10 Kemback St, Dundee DD4 6ET
Tuesday 5 November, 10:00am-4:00pm
Morrisons, 1 Afton Way, Dundee,DD4 8BR
Wednesday 6 November, 10:00am-4:00pm, please note the gallery will be closed to the public on this day.
Baldragon Academy, 69 Harestane Rd, Dundee DD3 0LF
Thursday 7 November, 11:00am-9:00pm
Wellgate Centre Main Entrance on Panmure Street
Access for visitors:
A maximum of 20 people can visit at one time
The doors are at the front left-hand side of the vehicle
An inbuilt manual ramp is available to aid access for wheelchair users* and pushchairs
Handrails are available at the doorway and by the short internal gradient at the entrance to the gallery (1:9)
The interior of the gallery is level
* Wheelchairs up to 120cm long and 70cm wide
Photography Kathryn Rattray
Longmont bicycle. My bike barely fit through here -- I squeezed against the black car when walking through this gap. A wheelchair user wishing to cross the street here would be required to go up the sidewalk two or three car-lengths down to the street. These cars were parked in front of the trail next to 655 Rider Ridge Road in Longmont.