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Divers Day - 13 - NOLA 2018
Living With Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond
Katrina Exhibit Opens in Louisiana State Museum
Combining eyewitness accounts, historical context, immersive environments and in-depth scientific exploration, 'Katrina and Beyond' enables visitors to understand the 2005 storms, Katrina and Rita, and their impact on Louisiana, the Gulf Coast and the nation. It is a story of how a culture - the rich, varied world of New Orleans and coastal Louisiana - has learned to live with the fragility of its environment and how the storms of 2005 gave rise to a new vision for the region.
When it hit southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. But the disaster wasn't entirely the result of natural causes. Levees and floodwalls - the man-made barriers built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it - failed. Their collapse in a dozen or more locations, plus tidal surges from the the low-lying eastern edge of New Orleans, flooded 80 percent of the city. By the time the waters receded and the survivors regrouped, Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, had claimed more than 1,400 lives and caused billions of dollars worth of property destruction.
Designed by the Boston-based firm ExperienceDesign that worked with the Museum's historians, curators and exhibit designers, 'Living with Hurricanes' stretches across four galleries, each telling one aspect of the story using artifacts and rich media - sound, video and computer graphics.
Gallery One illustrates Louisiana's history with water, from the Mississippi River's benefits to the threats of coastal storm surges and floods. Visitors will move through the 'Evacuation Corridor,' overhearing residents' voices weighing their options as Katrina approaches. A state of the art 'Storm Theater' shows Katrina's full fury with moving and dramatic footage of the hurricane's onslaught.
Gallery Two takes visitors past a leaking floodwall and into an attic and onto a roof of a house surrounded by rising floodwaters where they can view the inundated city surrounding them. They'll hear a firsthand account of a St. Bernard Parish family's rescue and view artifacts, histories and photographs.
Throughout the galleries are compelling artifacts, including music legend Fats Domino's baby grand piano found in his flooded Ninth Ward house, a Coast Guard rescue basket and seats from the heavily damaged Louisiana Superdome where thousands of people sought refuge and rescue. The objects serve as touchstones in recalling the days after the storm.
The forensics of Katrina unfold in Gallery Three where science and innovative displays come together. A large interactive table map shows the paths of Katrina and Rita and the sequence of floods that overwhelmed the region. Visitors will discover how the levees failed through digital animation. Additional displays illustrate the realities of eroding wetlands, disaster management, engineering and the science of predicting and tracking hurricanes and tropical weather patterns and phenomena.
Gallery Four celebrates recovery and promotes preparedness and showcases the ingenuity of Louisianans in rebuilding their lives and communities. The gallery will be updated regularly to reflect advancements in flood protection and coastal restoration and new strategies for living with hurricanes.
In addition to the running videos throughout the exhibit there will be interviews with a number of key individuals who had a part in the rescue and recovery efforts, including National Guard Commander Gen. Russel Honore whose troops helped restore order after a week of chaos.
Divers Photo of the day 13 in New-Orleans with no particular subject
Diverses photos prisent en Nouvel-Orleans (jour : 13) sans sujet reel.
( Deux semaines a Nola pour la ville et pour WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV
Two weeks Nola for the city and for WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV )
Took a visit to the site of the derelict and abandoned St. Johns Hospital site in Chelmsford this week with PHOENIXLIBRA - had a great time walking about and exploring one of the many large buildings.
The hospital closed its doors for the last time on 19th November 2010 after being gradually decommissioned since 2007.
This is one of the rooms near the Chapel.
Nikon D7000
Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 11mm
F8 @ 2 second exposure
ISO 100
Giottos tripod
Yongnuo RF603-N wireless triggers
Tweaked in Adobe Camera RAW, opened in CS5 and two layers created one converted to mono using Silver Efex Pro, the other tweaked in Topaz Adjust - the Mono layers opacity was reduced to 63%
70 early childhood teachers attended a six hour hands-on teacher training workshop conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski. Teachers were introduced to approximately 90 children's literature titles that can be incorporated into the early childhood classroom to reinforce science, language arts, math, art, social studies, and cultural concepts. Teachers conducted a wide-array of hands-on explorations to investigate: shapes and patterns, building with blocks and other materials, animal camouflage, exploring the characteristics of meal worms, and plant concepts. Teachers had a fantastic time and expanded upon their content knowledge as they built structures, made animal camouflage masks, made a sprouting bird seed necklace, explored with bubbles and more. For more information about Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski's teacher training workshops see her site at www.drdianateachertraining.com
Arctic Exploration
ca. 1850-1875
Captain Henry Kellet left tins of roast beef and ox cheek soup in his Dealy Island cache in 1853; Captain Francis McClintock left the boots and saw behind at Melville Island in 1852-53; and Captain George Nares’ crew used the decorated dinner plate during his 1875 search for the North Pole.
Collection of Glenbow Museum.
PI-21144, PI-21074, PI-21142, PI-21042, R 2288.1
North American Rayon Corp was a one time a HUGE complex that produced rayon and polystyrene products from the 20's through the 90's. The North American and the neighboring Bemberg plants have sat abandoned for over a decade. A local told me that In the early 2000's the North American plant was incinerated in a fire that took 8 days to extinguish. Only a few buildings remain.
Most of the land has been redeveloped for big box stores which now sit adjacent to these harbingers of what once was America's strength- manufacturing. Much like my own hometown, and so many other American towns, Elizabethton manufactures nothing of note. The only jobs that remain are retail jobs that don't pay a living wage. Yay for free trade!!! Let's keep crushing the American economy.
While I do enjoy industrial exploration immensely, sites like these are a poignant reminder something has gone terribly wrong with the American economy. Our way of life is crumbling right before our eyes, just like these beautiful, great behemoths of manufacturing and industry.
Pattern: Exploration Station by Stephen West
Yarn: Madelinetosh Merino Light & Hedgehog Fibers Sock
Needles: 4mm
Exploration Days, canoeing & Kayaking
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
St. John's Asylum was built in 1852 and closed in 1989, leaving the remaining walls home to over 130 years of history.
This place is a pretty famous site for urbex-ers, but as developers progress with their work to turn this huge site into housing, the floors have rotted away and the finer details are all disappearing.
Not long left until this all vanishes...
St. John's Asylum was built in 1852 and closed in 1989, leaving the remaining walls home to over 130 years of history.
This place is a pretty famous site for urbex-ers, but as developers progress with their work to turn this huge site into housing, the floors have rotted away and the finer details are all disappearing.
Not long left until this all vanishes...
Taken on May 5, 2013 at Fortress Explorations at the Mediterranean Harbor at Tokyo DisneySea (Tokyo Disneyland Resort, Urayasu, Japan)
Date: 8-13-10
Location: Lunar Test Site - adjacent to existing "Mars Hill"
Subject: Photo-documentation of DESERT RATS 2010 vehicle & suit dry runs and preparations
Photographer: Lauren Harnett
NASA’s Mars Exploration rover Spirit acquired this false color image at 11:48 local true solar time on Mars on the rovers 746th Martian day, or sol (Feb. 26, 2006), after using the Rock Abrasion Tool to bush the surfaces of rock targets informally named “Stairs”(left) and “Crawfords” (right). Small streaks of dust of dust extend for several centimeters behind the small rock chips and pebbles in the dusty, red soils. Because the rover was looking southwest when this image was taken, the wind streaks indicate that the dominant wind direction was from the southwest.
The targets Stars and Crawfords are on a rock outcrop located on top of “Home plate.” The outcrop is informally named “James ‘Cool Papa’ Bell” after the Negro Leagues Hall of Famer who played for the Pittsburg Crawfords and the Kansas City Stars. To some science team members, the two-brushed spots resemble the eyes of a face with rocks below and between the eyes as a nose and layered rocks at the bottom of the image as a mouth.
The image combines frames taken by Spirits panoramic camera through the camera’s 753-nanometer, 535-nanometer and 432 nanometer filters. It is enhanced to emphasize the color differences among the rocks, soils, and brushed areas. The blue circular area on the left, Stars, was brushed on sol 761(Feb 22, 2006). The one on the right, Crawford was brushed on sol 763 (Feb.25, 2006).