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using QGIS, Python and Postgres/PostGIS.
Inspired by this question on GIS Stack Exchange about world building. Using QGIS / Python / PostGRES / PostGIS to create a random world.
Starting with a voronoi lattice, used a flood-fill algorithm to make each city spread outwards into uncontested neighbouring areas.
This image was automatically generated on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 01:00:07 PM EDT from a source image by Yenpo Chou. For more information about GlitchBot, please visit my homepage.
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There is a lot of detail in the image, I love the strong orange colors.
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Rundl power plant (Click here to see all the shots of Kraftwerk Rundl)
In 1900 it was decided to build the first power plant of the region to supply the city of Brixen with electric current: an isolated plot of land near the town of Schabs, down in the canyon of Rienz river, was chosen as the site for hydroelectric power station "Rundl". A couple of years later, on December 18th 1903, electric lights illuminated the city centre for the first time. Unfortunately in the 1940s the newly built dams rendered this power plant useless: turbines and other machinery were removed and the buildings were soon abandoned. As of today, Kraftwerk Rundl is still at its place, looking like a fairytale castle and standing in the middle of overgrown trees. The roar of the the river flowing violently and the loneliness of the site make this a spooky - but fascinating - location.
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Centrale elettrica Rundl (Clicca qui per vedere tutte le foto della Kraftwerk Rundl)
Intorno all'anno 1900 si prese la decisione di costruire la prima centrale elettrica della zona, allo scopo di alimentare la città di Bressanone: come sito venne scelto un terreno isolato poco lontano dal paese di Sciaves, in fondo alla gola del fiume Rienza. Un paio di anni più tardi, il 18 dicembre 1903, le luci elettriche illuminarono per la prima volta il centro cittadino grazie all'energia prodotta dalla centrale idroelettrica "Rundl". Sfortunatamente già negli anni '40 la costruzione delle nuove dighe rese superfluo l'impianto: turbine e macchinare furono presto rimossi e gli edifici vennero abbandonati. Oggi la centrale elettrica Rundl è ancora al suo posto, seppur immersa nella fitta vegetazione: nonostante ciò mantiene inalterato il suggestivo aspetto da "castello delle fiabe". Il rombo del fiume che scorre impetuoso a fianco della centrale e il luogo isolato in cui si trova la rendono un posto senz'altro spaventoso, ma anche affascinante...
In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.
Through a grant from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, PREM has helped rural women form several cooperatives and taught its members how to plant a vitamin-rich tree called Moringa and how to clean, dry and sell its leaves. Used as medicine or a dietary supplement by societies around the world, Moringa also supports biodiversity and prevents soil erosion.
The cooperatives are made up of local women who come together to share ideas, and they give women an opportunity to build leadership skills, strengthen community bonds, and participate in economic decisions that affect the community.
PREM is one of over 120 civil society organizations that has been awarded a grant by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality since 2009. In the last six years, the Fund for Gender Equality has successfully awarded USD $64 million to grantee programmes in 80 countries. To date, such programmes have reached over 10 million women, girls and boys as direct beneficiaries.
Photo: UN Women/Joe Saade
Read more about the Fund for Gender Equality: www.unwomen.org/en/trust-funds/fund-for-gender-equality