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Hurricane Nadine has shown increased signs of life today, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed above Nadine early this morning at 0821 UTC (4:21 AM EDT). A rainfall analysis from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments is shown on the right. Of particular interest is an area of intense rainfall near Nadine's center shown close to the edge of the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) swath. Nadine became a hurricane at 11 a.m. EDT on Sept. 28, 2012, about 6 1/2 hours after this TRMM image was captured.
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I photograph Portraits of my face while lowering the exposure compensation and increasing the contrast in order o create these dark and unsettling of my self some what a resemblance to a mugshot however the dark shadows around my eye crevices seem to take away the humane feature of my face eyes.
Once edited I edited several copies of my face and crushed, folded and mixed my image to create the surreal images and rather dark.
As the Army continues to increase the expeditionary nature of its force, PM Tactical Network is equipping the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, with on-the-move WIN-T Increment 2 equipment. This will be the first unit to be equipped with the Tactical Communications Node-Lite (TCN-L) and Network Operations and Security Center-Lite (NOSC-L). Previously, this was an at-the-halt WIN-T Increment 1 unit, but the unit is now receiving the on-the-move tactical network communications capability. The 2/25 ID is postured to rapidly deploy in support of military contingencies or humanitarian and disaster response throughout the Pacific, and the mobile WIN-T Inc 2 and it's new "Lite" network configuration items will better support the unit's high mobility requirements.
As part of the Army's tactical network, the TCN provides beyond-line-of-sight and high-bandwidth line-of-sight network communications, both on-the-move in a convoy, at the quick halt, and at the stationary command post. Soldiers use the NOSC to monitor, manage and provide enhanced security to the tactical network. The Lite versions of these configurations provide the same networking and network management capabilities as their much larger predecessors, with significantly reduced system complexity. Previously, these WIN-T vehicle configuration items were integrated on five-ton Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTVs). Due to feedback from airborne, air assault and units with high mobility requirements, the Army has now integrated these configurations onto High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)s, which can be sling loaded by a Chinook helicopter across the battlefield or rolled onto an Air Force C130 aircraft, providing significantly increased agility and operational flexibility. (U.S. Army Photos)
The brand-new, state-of-the-art building at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women increases corrections capacity in British Columbia and provides a safe operating environment for both staff and inmates.
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Hmmm........ Another silly increase in the Flickr Pro membership fee. Once again a 50% ! increase on last years subscription. Sadly after 10 years I'm going to revert to the free account.
Increased the Exposure by One Stop. Otherwise it's as it was shot at f/4, ISO 200, Velvia, Auto WB, Hoya Polarizing filter.
Access to a vaccine for Newcastle Disease (ND) has transformed the lives of communities in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha state.
Local inhabitants, who have traditionally bred poultry, would often experience the death of their flock during an outbreak of ND. The deadly disease has been known to kill entire flocks when an outbreak occurs.
A vaccine against ND was introduced in this district with the help of the Bhodal Milk Producers Cooperative Society (BMPCS), an Odisha based NGO, which in turn was supported by the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed). The vaccine has played a key role in saving the birds and has contributed to increased income and intake of protein in families.
Forty-six-year-old Jitray Marandi from Pandupal village is a farmer. He also rears livestock and gathers Mahua flowers, which are not only a food item for the locals but are also used for brewing country spirit, locally called Mahuli. He first heard of the vaccine about two years ago from Govardhan Naik, the local vaccinator and rural health worker. Having witnessed the death of his chickens year after year, he was keen to try anything that would stop the outbreaks.
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Increase of adaptive capacities to climate change by promoting new agricultural technologies. (Sadac-Agro LLC, Sadaclia village, Basarabeasca district, Republic of Moldova)
The overall objective is to develop resilience capacity of the household to climate risk factors (drought) using conservation tillage systems and to increase the efficiency of pesticides and mineral fertilizers administration by implementing an automatic GPS navigation system.
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This is a photograph from the 3rd annual running of the Trim AC 10 Mile Road Race and Fun Run which was held in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 5th February 2017 at 12:00. The race attracted over 1,200 participants which shows a 100% increase on last year's participation. The event shows growth year on year mirroring the growing popularity of the race. The race started on the Trim/Athboy road on the town's ring road and proceded to take an anti-clockwise loop out towards the village of Dunderry and townland of Kilbride before returning back to the Trim Industrial Estate for the finish. The route is held on quiet country roads with some hills at 3, 6, 8 mile segments.
Our full set of photos from mile 1 and the finish are at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157679859593016
The weather for this year's race was perfect for racing. There was a hard frost overnight but this brought clear bright skies and crisp air. There was no real wind to speak of.
Waterstops were provided at the 4.5 and 7 mile marks on the course. All access roads were well stewarded. The event was sponsored by Bewleys 1840 and many local business establishments. Credit must go to the Trim AC team for their flawless organisation. If the first three years of this year are anything to go on then this race will continue to grow. For runners around the North Leinster area this 10 mile race serves as a perfect training progress stepping stone to the Bohermeen Half Marathon which will take place in March 2016 and is located only 15 minutes drive from Trim.
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Our Flickr photographs from the 2016 race: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157664217257512
Our Flickr photographs from the 2015 race: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157650166189770
Boards.ie Discussion Thread on the 2017 race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057673405
10 Mile Road Race Timelapse Video of the Route: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jp84CrctQM
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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Daniel Boone National Forest Archaeologist Wayna Adams successfully increased the capacity of the heritage program through partnerships. With this increased capacity, she created virtual heritage education products, enhanced government to government relations with Tribes, and completed an unprecedented number of cultural resource assessments.
Daniel Boone National Forest Archaeologist Wanya Adams has faced the challenges of documenting and protecting eastern Kentucky’s past with a broad array of modern technologies and skills. In a year marked by telework and virtual meetings, Adams's planning skills and technical expertise enabled the DBNF to remain grounded in its work and goals.
Under Adams’ guidance, the DBNF Heritage Team conducted the cultural resources assessments necessary to clear thousands of acres of timber sales, over a hundred miles of road and trail maintenance, and numerous recreation infrastructure projects in Fiscal Year2021. She supported Districts in setting ambitious schedules for these assessments and personally reviewed each report to maintain consistency and quality in the compliance documentation submitted to the Kentucky State Society Historic Preservation Office and Tribes.
Her attention to detail at this stage decreased turnaround time incompliance and ensured the steady progression of these projects. These projects have in turn supported tourism and resource extraction activities in the economically depressed counties of eastern Kentucky and have helped to mitigate pandemic-related impacts.
Even with this already hefty workload, Adams worked to make a variety of heritage and conservation education materials available to the public through video, web content, and on-the-ground science and humanities education. She was instrumental in adapting the annual Living Archaeology Weekend (LAW) for a virtual audience. As part of the LAW steering committee, she secured regional funds to develop a video series that recorded American Indian and pioneer technology demonstrations.
She also developed a Leave No Trace public service announcement that highlighted the role stewardship practices play in preserving cultural sites around the Red River Gorge.
Adams has supported heritage education efforts both nationally and globally by working with the University of Kentucky to fund the digitization of heritage records so that heritage professionals have access to key documents wherever they may be based. Much of her outstanding work has been accomplished by expanding partnership agreements, supporting volunteers, and engaging with tribes.
She manages over ten active agreements with universities, the state historic preservation offices, and other partners that have enhanced the DBNF’s capacity to conduct archaeological field schools and surveys, complete site evaluations, and support undergraduate and graduate student research.
Working with partners and Forest Service employees, Adams has increased protections to heritage resources that are integral to the identities of underserved racial groups and economically depressed communities. She has also coordinated on-the-ground meetings with the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and is actively working to enhance government-to-government relations to expand tribal access to Forest resources and increase protections for sites of religious significance.
Under Adams’ guidance, the DBNF Heritage Team has responded to the challenges of the past year with creativity and innovation. From an ambitious pace of work to creating a brand-new slate of virtual heritage education resources, Adams has strengthened partnerships, invested resources, and achieved milestone after milestone in her mission to serve the public.
Ecovolis program has proven successful in dramatically increasing bicycle use in Tirana, which, formerly, was a city without a developed bicycle culture. Ecovolis program is the first project in Albania that provides low-income adults with commuter bicycles as well as a donating program for children bicycles. The program recently completed two major steps, opening new bike stations in the city of Durrës and integrating Tourist Information Point Service to the bicycles stations' structure.
History
The Tirana Community Bicycle Albania project won financial support from the George Soros Open Society Foundation Albania (OSFA). An even larger contribution came from the US-based Pedal for Progress organization, which donated 450 bicycles. Sixty of these were used road bikes, which were modified and painted by local technicians to serve as public bikes in the Ecovolis scheme. Another portion was set aside to donate to children and to activists and volunteers at PASS. Still another portion were diverted to the project's Eco Bicycle Shop, a social enterprise which sells bikes for USD 50-150 and reinvests profits for the service and maintenance of Ecovolis bicycles. The main objective of the program was to introduce the community to an inexpensive, environmental friendly form of transport -- the bicycle; to sell used bikes at low prices; to donate bikes to the children of needy families and to PASS volunteers; to establish a bike sharing-scheme in the city (Ecovolis); and to employ financially disadvantaged people and young students to operate the bike-sharing scheme.
System
Each Ecovolis station is staffed by two employees in two shifts and contains 30 -- 60 bicycles. In order to use the bicycles it is required to provide a personal identification document (such as passport or ID card) or by subscribing to the Ecovolis membership Card.
The first black and red bicycles, (also the colors of the Albanian flag) were donated from US-organization Pedal for Progress, (which collect and donate used bicycles). As these bicycles were of different types, converting them for safe and comfortable public use took months of work. The price per bicycle varies from 60 US$ to 90 US$ each. The bicycle is equipped with a front bicycle basket, a behind carrier, a comfortable saddle and a public fender with the Ecovolis sign.
The bicycle stations also provide touristic information to the visitors and a list of the city attractions. Moreover, being a non-profit social enterprise, during particular days the program offers free bicycle service, cycling courses, donations of bicycles and helmets for children in need, bike tours and a bicycle recycle program.
I live in the city centre and based on experience I can say without doubt that the homeless problem is increasing at an alarming rate. Today I counted seven tents, occupied by homeless people, in this public park. A few months ago there were two. However, there was little sign of what might be described as anti-social behaviour.
Within the park there is a memorial and a plaque which refers the the "Croppy's Acre" as the official name is currently the "Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park".
[WHAT I SAID IN OCTOBER 2018]
The good news is that this park now appears to be safe to visit and the decision to have it open twenty four hours a day must have solved the anti-social problems that had resulted in it being closed to the public for extended periods of time.
[WHAT I SAID BACK IN NOVEMBER 2016]
There are two separate parks which may be related but in general most tourist guides are unaware of this fact to the extent that some claim that Anna Livia is located in the park beside the the Museum Luas Tram Stop.
The major park, the one normally associated with the museum, is officially the Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park while the smaller park featuring Anna Livia and a small pond is the Croppies Memorial Park. The distinction is important because the larger park has been closed to the public for extended periods.
For many years due to anti-social behaviour, mainly drugs related, the major memorial park was off-limits to the public. There was also problems with homeless people occupying parts of the park. Even today, there was a tent towards one corner of the park. One cannot blame the homeless for taking advantage of the available space.
On Tuesday, 14th June at 2:00 p.m. the Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7 was once again open to the public but I did not get a chance to visit until today [November 7 2016]. Having been conditioned to the park being always closed I found the fact that the gates were partly opened a little bit unsettling and as I was the only person [if one ignores the tent and one person who left immediately I arrived] in the park I was a bit worried that an official might come along and lock the gates without informing me. This has happened to me in the past elsewhere.
Following discussions in 2013 with the Office of Public Works it was agreed that the management of the 4.3 acre Park would transfer from the Office of Public Works to Dublin City Council.
Dublin City Council’s Parks and Landscape Services have carried out an extensive works programme to upgrade the park and make it more accessible for the citizens of Dublin and visitors to the city.
The works include a new circulatory path system, upgrading of the existing pedestrian gates and the provision of a new pedestrian gate at the south west end of the park. Existing memorial structures have been upgraded and general landscape improvement works have been carried out. The total cost of the works, were in the order of €120,000.
To be fair the park was in excellent condition when I visited today but the presence of a tent was a bit worrying as was the careless attitude to properly opening the gates.
The name ‘Croppy’ was used in Ireland in the 1790s and was a reference to the rebels who closely cropped their hair to mimic the French Revolutionaries of the period who cut their hair in contrast to the aristocracy who wore powdered wigs.
Historically the Croppies Acre was located on land under common pasturage and part of what was termed ‘Oxmantown Green’.
In the 17th century, a portion was later presented to the Viceroy, the Duke of Ormond to build a palace, however this was never built and the site was sold to the City Authorities for a Barracks. Built in 1704, it served as a military base for 250 years, it was formally the Royal Barracks and later Collins Barracks.
The Esplanade where the Croppies Acre is located today was fully constructed by the 1850s, complete with boundary walls and ornate railings. During the Great Famine, the Esplanade was the site of a food kitchen. By the 1900s, the land was levelled to form two football pitches for the military. In 1997, the Decorative Arts Section of the National Museum was opened in Collins Barracks and the Memorial Park was subsequently designed and laid out in 1998.
I changed my diet slightly. My goal was to increase my protein-to-carbohydrate ratio in my diet, since traditionally that ratio has been overwhelming in favor of the kinds of calories that do not build muscle.
This mostly takes the form of just a few changes: I eat soy nuts and beef jerky instead of corn chips with lunch; I eat fruit when I have a (rare) craving for sweets at work; I pass on morning donuts when people bring them; I skip french fries and the like when we eat out. It's been about a week doing this. It's not bad and although it's too early to say for sure, I'm pretty sure it's changing things already. Distance from the weaker version of myself.
I have an interview tomorrow with another organization within Isilon. It's more of a programmer position than I've ever had before. It's on a much smaller team. It's new technologies. I'm hoping the interviews go well. Distance from my current job.
I find myself working harder, more often, and feeling good about it. I come home and do what Cori calls "nesting" -- organizing things, cleaning the kitchen (jesus that job is just never done), etc. I'm doing yardwork, going to the gym, and shooting photos instead of brewing beer and playing video games. I'm not sure the former is better than the latter, but it's distance.
A friend stopped working at Isilon a while ago, and another got too busy to come to lunch once a week. As a result my old crowd of work friends has slowly been disintegrating. I'm partly to blame there, spending more time with folks on my future team than with the old hands. I mean to change that, but I see Jake outside of work, right? Sigh.
But Cori and I seem closer than ever. It has always seemed so effortless with her, and lately more than ever.
Photoshop's Refine Edge brought me out of the background here and let me put the pattern in the background. The dim circle on the right is an artifact of Content Aware Fill getting rid of a light fixture and me being too lazy to fix it after I noticed it too late.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 26) Sailors attach a control arm to the horizontal stabilator of an F/A 18E Super Hornet from the "Golden Dragons" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 192 in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Washington is deployed around South America as a part of Southern Seas 2015. The eighth deployment of its kind, Southern Seas 2015 seeks to enhance interoperability, increase regional stability, and build and maintain regional relationships with countries throughout the region through joint multinational and interagency exchanges and cooperation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jaime Marcial/Released)
The Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) held the conference, “Increasing Productivity and Unleashing Growth” at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad on May 26-27th, 2012. This conference also marked the final round of the Competitive Grants Program that was launched by PSSP in January 2012 for Pakistani PhD and graduate students studying locally and abroad on economic development issues of Pakistan. The finalists presented in front of the Research Advisory Committee, donor heads, professors and students from local universities. The event also consisted of plenary sessions on Pakistan’s various economic growth issues by renowned academics from all over the world, such as Dr. Jock Anderson, Dr. Regina Birner and Dr. David Spielman.
Increasing access to voluntary family planning services is key to the success of Millennium Development Goal 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. With renewed country interests and commitments, now is a crucial moment to ensure this important, cost-effective intervention is part of a scaled up global maternal health response. Maureen Norton, senior technical advisor with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Jessica Bowers, portfolio director for Every Mother Counts; Jonathon Cooper, country director of Marie Stopes Uganda; Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, senior director of CARE’s Health Equity Unit; and Sarah Craven, chief of UNFPA’s Washington Office spoke at the Wilson Center on July 31 about achieving this goal.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-role-family-planning-impro...
Governor Murphy, Senator Bramnick, and Acting Department of Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan tour Chatham High School and highlight Increased funding for legislative district 21 at Chatham High School on Friday March 25, 2022(Edwin J. Torres/NJ Governor’s Office).
Mayor Ed Murray and Councilmember Tim Burgess unveiled a proposal that increases sidewalk construction throughout Seattle by utilizing more cost-effective designs and materials. Additionally, the City is proposing to develop new public-private partnerships to incentivize sidewalk construction.
“To be a truly walkable city, we need to provide safer pathways to schools, parks, transit and shops,” said Murray. “This innovative approach stretches our dollars to meet this need across Seattle by significantly reducing sidewalk construction costs. Everyone – from schoolkids to seniors – should have the opportunity to walk their neighborhoods safely.”
Using lower-cost materials, such as stamped and stained asphalt, sidewalk construction costs can be reduced dramatically. A traditional concrete sidewalk with curbs and storm sewers can cost $300,000 per block-face or more.
Over the next nine years, the Seattle Department of Transportation is planning to construct 250 blocks of new sidewalks – both lower-cost and traditional – for the same price as 150 blocks of concrete sidewalks. The plan is contingent on new revenue.
SDOT will install new low-cost sidewalks at the following locations in 2016:
* North Seattle: At least seven blocks on 30th Ave. NE between NE 130th St. and NE 137th St.
* Southwest Seattle: Two blocks near Arbor Heights Elementary School
* Broadview Neighborhood: Partnering with Seattle Public Utilities on sidewalk improvements and storm water control elements
* Southeast Seattle: Two blocks (locations under evaluation)
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The interior is divided vertically into three sections, which increase in brightness from the bottom upwards. The lowermost portion of the benches for the church visitors is kept relatively dark and in the design symbolizes the suffering of the world. The second section, located above, is kept white and blue, and reserved for the emperor. The uppermost portion of the indirect and hidden illuminated ceiling painting is dedicated to God and eternity.
The ceiling fresco "Life of Saint Nepomuk" is considered one of the masterpieces by Cosmas Damian Asam. The high altar of the Asam Church is framed by four spiral columns. At the high altar, these four columns are used as a reference to the four-Bernini columns over the grave of St. Peter in St. Peter's in Rome. At the top is God, the Saviour. Below the tabernacle, a relic of John of Nepomuk is kept. Two angels, sculpted by Ignaz Günther, flank the gallery altar and were added at a later date.
Compared to a usually very strictly divided baroque churche the Asamkirche has shows some peculiarities due to its status as a private chapel: The church altar is situated in the west, not the east as usual. In addition, the crucifix opposite the pulpit was hung too low. In Baroque churches it was to hang above the pulpit, so that the preacher had to look up to Jesus Christ.
With an investment in Lithuanian mobile phone provider Bite, the EBRD helped the company revitalise its activities in neighbouring Latvia in 2009. Bite entered the Latvian market, dominated by two strong competitors, as a third big actor, with the explicit aim to increase competition.
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Sept. 13, 2016) Increased aircraft and emergency vehicle presence were visible outside Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Sept. 13, 2016 as medical personnel and emergency response teams ensured preparedness for a mass casualty incident.
The two-part exercise, held as a training platform for military and civilian medical and law enforcement personnel in the event of a real world disaster or attack, included an active shooter and explosive device scenario, as well as a simulated hazardous materials spill.
(Department of Defense photo by Reese Brown)
Shifts in rainfall patterns, increasing temperatures, and other impacts of climate change are threatening agricultural productivity and food security in many parts of the world. On May 7, Kevin Henry shared highlights from CARE and the United Nations University’s “Where the Rain Falls” project, an eight-country study on the complexities of changing rainfall patterns and their effects on food security and human mobility; Stephanie Hanson explained One Acre Fund’s work with women small-holder farmers in East Africa; and Susan Bradley discussed activities and lessons learned from USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-farmer%E2%80%99s-dilemma-c...
Increased Concessions For Tertiary Students - Newman College Melbourne Team
Newman College Takes Student Welfare To Parliament
Six young University students will be in the chambers of Parliament House, Spring Street, this July, pushing for improved support for those attending higher education.
As a team, they have written a piece of proposed legislation entitled “Increased Concessions For Tertiary Students Bill” which they will debate as part of the 25th YMCA Victoria Youth Parliament.
Team members James Lenehan and newly elected 2011 Youth Premier Amy Bryans say that many students find trying to obtain a degree and financially stay afloat, a very difficult task.
“Seeing as university study is a full-time job as it is, students are time starved as well as literally starved” says James.
“By allowing these concessions for students we can invest in their future and take the burden off those who are struggling to cope” says Amy.
James (18) and Amy (19), will join Newman College team members Matthew Thomas (18), Humphrey Riorden (19), and Christian Pagliaro (18) along with 115 other young Victorians from schools, universities, YMCA’s and community groups from across the state for the six day residential event this July.
The team recently attended the 2011 Youth Parliament Training Weekend at Lady Northcote Campsite, Bacchus Marsh which gave them the opportunity to learn about issues brought forward by other teams, participate in public speaking, media training, elect Chamber Leaders and learn about parliamentary etiquette in preparation for the 25th Annual Youth Parliament.
Delivered by YMCA Victoria in conjunction with the Office for Youth, the program includes three days of debating in the Parliamentary Chambers in Spring St. Melbourne, as well as an official reception at Government House hosted by Governor Alex Chernov AO QC and his wife.
All bills passed by the Youth Parliament are given the assent of the Youth Governor and then handed directly to a representative of the Government at the Closing Ceremony, who then hands it on to the appropriate Government Ministers for consideration.
To date, more than 25 Youth Parliament Bills including drug testing for drivers, over the counter availability of the morning after pill, and last year replacing glass with plastics in Melbourne’s King Street nightclubs have gone onto become Victorian legislation.
The Newman College team will be debating in the chambers of Parliament House on Monday 11th July Tuesday 12th July and Thursday 14th July 2011, between 9:30am-4pm. Open to the public.
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Increasing access to voluntary family planning services is key to the success of Millennium Development Goal 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. With renewed country interests and commitments, now is a crucial moment to ensure this important, cost-effective intervention is part of a scaled up global maternal health response. Maureen Norton, senior technical advisor with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Jessica Bowers, portfolio director for Every Mother Counts; Jonathon Cooper, country director of Marie Stopes Uganda; Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, senior director of CARE’s Health Equity Unit; and Sarah Craven, chief of UNFPA’s Washington Office spoke at the Wilson Center on July 31 about achieving this goal.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-role-family-planning-impro...
Increasing access to voluntary family planning services is key to the success of Millennium Development Goal 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. With renewed country interests and commitments, now is a crucial moment to ensure this important, cost-effective intervention is part of a scaled up global maternal health response. Maureen Norton, senior technical advisor with USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Jessica Bowers, portfolio director for Every Mother Counts; Jonathon Cooper, country director of Marie Stopes Uganda; Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, senior director of CARE’s Health Equity Unit; and Sarah Craven, chief of UNFPA’s Washington Office spoke at the Wilson Center on July 31 about achieving this goal.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-role-family-planning-impro...
Big day for BC!
British Columbia and China signed a historic agreement today to deepen their mutually beneficial trade, investment and cultural connections.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/04/china-and-bc-sign-agreemen...
Nereid Monument
Nereidenmonument von Xanthos
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
In 2023 the museum received 5,820,860 visitors, an increase of 42% from 2022. It was the most popular attraction in the United Kingdom according to ALVA, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.
The museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public in 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. The museum's expansion over the following 250 years was largely a result of British colonisation and resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, or independent spin-offs, the first being the Natural History Museum in 1881. The right to ownership of some of its most well-known acquisitions, notably the Greek Elgin Marbles and the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, is subject to long-term disputes and repatriation claims.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all national museums in the UK it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.
History
Sir Hans Sloane
Although today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster. During the course of his lifetime, and particularly after he married the widow of a wealthy Jamaican planter,[ Sloane gathered a large collection of curiosities, and not wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II, for the nation, for a sum of £20,000.
At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71,000 objects of all kinds including some 40,000 printed books, 7,000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.
Foundation (1753)
On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his royal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. The British Museum Act 1753 also added two other libraries to the Sloane collection, namely the Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dating back to Elizabethan times, and the Harleian Library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the "Old Royal Library", now the Royal manuscripts, assembled by various British monarchs. Together these four "foundation collections" included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving manuscript of Beowulf.
The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. Sloane's collection, while including a vast miscellany of objects, tended to reflect his scientific interests.[ The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element, and meant that the British Museum now became both National Museum and library.
Cabinet of curiosities (1753–1778)
The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £20,000. The trustees rejected Buckingham House, which was later converted into the present day Buckingham Palace, on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location.
With the acquisition of Montagu House, the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759. At this time, the largest parts of collection were the library, which took up the majority of the rooms on the ground floor of Montagu House, and the natural history objects, which took up an entire wing on the second state storey of the building. In 1763, the trustees of the British Museum, under the influence of Peter Collinson and William Watson, employed the former student of Carl Linnaeus, Daniel Solander, to reclassify the natural history collection according to the Linnaean system, thereby making the museum a public centre of learning accessible to the full range of European natural historians. In 1823, King George IV gave the King's Library assembled by George III, and Parliament gave the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the museum's library would expand indefinitely. During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1,000 printed plays. The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the museum acquired for £8,410 its first significant antiquities in Sir William Hamilton's "first" collection of Greek vases.
Indolence and energy (1778–1800)
From 1778, a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands. The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the museum's reputation; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.
The museum's first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens. A list of donations to the museum, dated 31 January 1784, refers to the Hamilton bequest of a "Colossal Foot of an Apollo in Marble". It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.
Growth and change (1800–1825)
In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays. After the defeat of the French campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculptures and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British consul general in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture. Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the first purpose-built exhibition space, the Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman sculpture, in 1805. In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK. In 1816 these masterpieces of western art were acquired by the British Museum by Act of Parliament and deposited in the museum thereafter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia, Greece in 1815. The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich.
In 1802 a buildings committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65,000 volumes, 19,000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawings. The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today. The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished and work on the King's Library Gallery began in 1823. The extension, the East Wing, was completed by 1831. However, following the founding of the National Gallery, London in 1824, the proposed Picture Gallery was no longer needed, and the space on the upper floor was given over to the Natural history collections.
The first Synopsis of the British Museum was published in 1808. This described the contents of the museum, and the display of objects room by room, and updated editions were published every few years.
The largest building site in Europe (1825–1850)
As Sir Robert Smirke's grand neo-classical building gradually arose, the museum became a construction site. The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London. Although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.
In 1840, the museum became involved in its first overseas excavations, Charles Fellows's expedition to Xanthos, in Asia Minor, whence came remains of the tombs of the rulers of ancient Lycia, among them the Nereid and Payava monuments. In 1857, Charles Newton was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In the 1840s and 1850s the museum supported excavations in Assyria by A.H. Layard and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh. Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of Ashurbanipal's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the museum a focus for Assyrian studies.
Sir Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), a trustee of the British Museum from 1830, assembled a library of 20,240 volumes, which he left to the museum in his will. The books arrived in January 1847 in twenty-one horse-drawn vans. The only vacant space for this large library was a room originally intended for manuscripts, between the Front Entrance Hall and the Manuscript Saloon. The books remained here until the British Library moved to St Pancras in 1998.
Collecting from the wider world (1850–1875)
The opening of the forecourt in 1852 marked the completion of Robert Smirke's 1823 plan, but already adjustments were having to be made to cope with the unforeseen growth of the collections. Infill galleries were constructed for Assyrian sculptures and Sydney Smirke's Round Reading Room, with space for a million books, opened in 1857. Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.
Roughly contemporary with the construction of the new building was the career of a man sometimes called the "second founder" of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Anthony Panizzi. Under his supervision, the British Museum Library (now part of the British Library) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris. The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.
Until the mid-19th century, the museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography. A real coup for the museum was the purchase in 1867, over French objections, of the Duke of Blacas's wide-ranging and valuable collection of antiquities. Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World.
Scholarship and legacies (1875–1900)
The natural history collections were an integral part of the British Museum until their removal to the new British Museum of Natural History in 1887, nowadays the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. With the departure and the completion of the new White Wing (fronting Montague Street) in 1884, more space was available for antiquities and ethnography and the library could further expand. This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries.
The William Burges collection of armoury was bequeathed to the museum in 1881. In 1882, the museum was involved in the establishment of the independent Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) the first British body to carry out research in Egypt. A bequest from Miss Emma Turner in 1892 financed excavations in Cyprus. In 1897 the death of the great collector and curator, A. W. Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3,300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1,500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30,000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.
In 1898 Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed the Waddesdon Bequest, the glittering contents from his New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor. This consisted of almost 300 pieces of objets d'art et de vertu which included exquisite examples of jewellery, plate, enamel, carvings, glass and maiolica, among them the Holy Thorn Reliquary, probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry. The collection was in the tradition of a Schatzkammer such as those formed by the Renaissance princes of Europe. Baron Ferdinand's will was most specific, and failure to observe the terms would make it void, the collection should be
placed in a special room to be called the Waddesdon Bequest Room separate and apart from the other contents of the Museum and thenceforth for ever thereafter, keep the same in such room or in some other room to be substituted for it.
These terms are still observed, and the collection occupies room 2a.
New century, new building (1900–1925)
By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased to the extent that its building was no longer large enough. In 1895 the trustees purchased the 69 houses surrounding the museum with the intention of demolishing them and building around the west, north and east sides of the museum. The first stage was the construction of the northern wing beginning 1906.
All the while, the collections kept growing. Emil Torday collected in Central Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D. G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence excavated at Carchemish. Around this time, the American collector and philanthropist J. Pierpont Morgan donated a substantial number of objects to the museum, including William Greenwell's collection of prehistoric artefacts from across Europe which he had purchased for £10,000 in 1908. Morgan had also acquired a major part of Sir John Evans's coin collection, which was later sold to the museum by his son J. P. Morgan Jr. in 1915. In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated via the London Post Office Railway to Holborn, the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and a country house near Malvern. On the return of antiquities from wartime storage in 1919 some objects were found to have deteriorated. A conservation laboratory was set up in May 1920 and became a permanent department in 1931. It is today the oldest in continuous existence. In 1923, the British Museum welcomed over one million visitors.
Disruption and reconstruction (1925–1950)
New mezzanine floors were constructed and book stacks rebuilt in an attempt to cope with the flood of books. In 1931, the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures. Designed by the American architect John Russell Pope, it was completed in 1938. The appearance of the exhibition galleries began to change as dark Victorian reds gave way to modern pastel shades.
Following the retirement of George Francis Hill as Director and Principal Librarian in 1936, he was succeeded by John Forsdyke.
As tensions with Nazi Germany developed and it appeared that war may be imminent Forsdyke came to the view that with the likelihood of far worse air-raids than that experienced in World War I that the museum had to make preparations to remove its most valuable items to secure locations. Following the Munich crisis Forsdyke ordered 3,300 No-Nail Boxes and stored them in the basement of Duveen Gallery. At the same time he began identifying and securing suitable locations. As a result, the museum was able to quickly commence relocating selected items on 24 August 1939, (a mere day after the Home Secretary advised them to do so), to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych Underground station and the National Library of Wales. Many items were relocated in early 1942 from their initial dispersal locations to a newly developed facility at Westwood Quarry in Wiltshire. The evacuation was timely, for in 1940 the Duveen Gallery was severely damaged by bombing. Meanwhile, prior to the war, the Nazis had sent a researcher to the British Museum for several years with the aim of "compiling an anti-Semitic history of Anglo-Jewry".
After the war, the museum continued to collect from all countries and all centuries: among the most spectacular additions were the 2600 BC Mesopotamian treasure from Ur, discovered during Leonard Woolley's 1922–34 excavations. Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo (1939) and late Roman silver tableware from Mildenhall, Suffolk (1946). The immediate post-war years were taken up with the return of the collections from protection and the restoration of the museum after the Blitz. Work also began on restoring the damaged Duveen Gallery.
A new public face (1950–1975)
In 1953, the museum celebrated its bicentenary. Many changes followed: the first full-time in-house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, the Friends organisation was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973. In 1963, a new Act of Parliament introduced administrative reforms. It became easier to lend objects, the constitution of the board of trustees changed and the Natural History Museum became fully independent. By 1959 the Coins and Medals office suite, completely destroyed during the war, was rebuilt and re-opened, attention turned towards the gallery work with new tastes in design leading to the remodelling of Robert Smirke's Classical and Near Eastern galleries. In 1962 the Duveen Gallery was finally restored and the Parthenon Sculptures were moved back into it, once again at the heart of the museum.
By the 1970s the museum was again expanding. More services for the public were introduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of Tutankhamun" in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most successful in British history. In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum. This left the museum with antiquities; coins, medals and paper money; prints and drawings; and ethnography. A pressing problem was finding space for additions to the library which now required an extra 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) of shelving each year. The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.
The Great Court emerges (1975–2000)
The departure of the British Library to a new site at St Pancras, finally achieved in 1998, provided the space needed for the books. It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000. The ethnography collections, which had been housed in the short-lived Museum of Mankind at 6 Burlington Gardens from 1970, were returned to new purpose-built galleries in the museum in 2000.
The museum again readjusted its collecting policies as interest in "modern" objects: prints, drawings, medals and the decorative arts reawakened. Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK. The Weston Gallery of Roman Britain, opened in 1997, displayed a number of recently discovered hoards which demonstrated the richness of what had been considered an unimportant part of the Roman Empire. The museum turned increasingly towards private funds for buildings, acquisitions and other purposes. In 2000, the British Museum was awarded National Heritage Museum of the Year.
The British Museum today
Today the museum no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library. The museum nevertheless preserves its universality in its collections of artefacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern. The original 1753 collection has grown to over 13 million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.
The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857. For almost 150 years researchers came here to consult the museum's vast library. The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras. Today it has been transformed into the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre.
With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin. The Great Court, opened in 2000, while undoubtedly improving circulation around the museum, was criticised for having a lack of exhibition space at a time when the museum was in serious financial difficulties and many galleries were closed to the public. At the same time the African collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family – with the donation valued at £25 million.
As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with nearly 4,500,000 individual object entries in 2,000,000 records, many of them illustrated, online at the start of 2023. There is also a "Highlights" database with longer entries on over 4,000 objects, and several specialised online research catalogues and online journals (all free to access). In 2013 the museum's website received 19.5 millions visits, an increase of 47% from the previous year.
In 2013 the museum received a record 6.7 million visitors, an increase of 20% from the previous year. Popular exhibitions including "Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum" and "Ice Age Art" are credited with helping fuel the increase in visitors. Plans were announced in September 2014 to recreate the entire building along with all exhibits in the video game Minecraft in conjunction with members of the public. A number of films have been shot at the British Museum.
(Wikipedia)
The Nereid Monument is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in Lycia (then part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire), close to present-day Fethiye in Mugla Province, Turkey. It took the form of a Greek temple on top of a base decorated with sculpted friezes, and is thought to have been built in the early fourth century BC (circa 390 BC) as a tomb for Arbinas (Lycian: Erbbina, or Erbinna), the Xanthian dynast who ruled western Lycia under the Achaemenid Empire.
The tomb is thought to have stood until the Byzantine era before falling into ruin. The ruins were rediscovered by British traveller Charles Fellows in the early 1840s. Fellows had them shipped to the British Museum, where some of them have been reconstructed to show what the east façade of the monument would have looked like.
According to Melanie Michailidis, though bearing a "Greek appearance", the Nereid Monument, the Harpy Tomb and the Tomb of Payava were built in accordance with main Zoroastrian criteria "by being composed of thick stone, raised on plinths off the ground, and having single windowless chambers". The Nereid Monument was the main inspiration for the famous Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Rediscovery and reconstruction
The monument is thought to have stood until the Byzantine era, and then to have been destroyed by local Christians for its stones and metals.
The ruins and sculptures were rediscovered in the early 1840s by an expedition led by the British archaeologist, Charles Fellows, and also including George Scharf. Fellows' immediate conclusion was that the monument was to Harpagus, who is the main figure in Lycian history recorded by Herodotus, placing it in the 6th century BCE. Although it was soon realised that the style of the architecture and sculpture meant that it must date from at least a century later, it was only in the late 20th century that a consensus was reached that the tomb must date from around 390 to 380 BCE, and was probably the tomb of Arbinas.
Fellows arranged for the shipping of the remains to the British Museum. Without detailed records of where each item was found, the Museum had to rely on expedition drawings, marks on the stones, and the composition and style of the sculpture to estimate how the blocks and sculptures fit together. The current reconstruction of the East façade in the museum dates from 1969. It is in room 17 of the Museum, which also houses many other parts of the monument.
(Wikipedia)
Das British Museum (BM, deutsch: Britisches Museum) in London ist eines der größten und bedeutendsten kulturgeschichtlichen Museen der Welt. Das Natural History Museum war einst Teil des British Museum und ist seit 1963 eigenständig. Die British Museum Library war früher die größte Bibliothek des Landes. 1973 bildete sie den Grundstock für die neu gegründete British Library.
Geschichte
Das Museum entstand, als 1753 der Arzt und Wissenschaftler Sir Hans Sloane seine sehr umfangreiche Literatur- und Kunstsammlung dem Staat übereignete. Das Parlament beschloss, diese Sammlung unter dem Namen British Museum zu erhalten und zu pflegen. Das Museum wurde im Montagu House, einem Herrenhaus im ehemaligen Londoner Stadtteil Bloomsbury, eingerichtet und öffnete seine Pforten am 15. Januar 1759. Wegen der stetig wachsenden Sammlung und steigenden Besucherzahlen wurde 1824 der Umzug in ein größeres, neu zu errichtendes Gebäude beschlossen. 1850 war der Umzug abgeschlossen und die Gebäude hatten im Wesentlichen ihre heutige Gestalt. Den wichtigsten Impuls zur modernen Ausweitung der Sammlungsbestände erhielt das Museum mit der Anstellung von Augustus Wollaston Franks, zunächst 1851 als Assistent für die damals neugeschaffene Abteilung für britische und mittelalterliche Geschichte, dann von 1866 bis 1896 als deren Kurator. Für die Museumshistorikerin Marjorie Caygill wurde Franks zum „vermutlich wichtigsten Sammler in der Geschichte des Britischen Museums“. Im Laufe der Zeit wurden verschiedene Teile der Sammlung aus Platzgründen in andere Gebäude verlegt.
Im Sommer 2023 sah sich das Museum und Direktor Hartwig Fischer mit Vorwürfen konfrontiert, bei einer Diebstahlserie im Museum, bei der einer der Kuratoren der Antikensammlung beschuldigt wird, bis zu 2000 Objekte entwendet und verkauft zu haben, nicht angemessen auf Hinweise reagiert zu haben, die den Fall aufdeckten. Fischer erklärte am 25. August 2023 seinen Rücktritt als Direktor des Museums. Bereits im Juni 2020 hatte der Antikenhändler Ittai Gradel das Museum informiert, dass Objekte aus dem Museum bei eBay zum Verkauf angeboten würden. Gradel äußerte gegenüber dem Museum 2021 den Verdacht, dass nur jemand mit Zugang zum Depot des Museums die Diebstähle verübt haben könne und dass Peter Higgs, Kurator an der Abteilung für griechische und römische Altertümer, für die Diebstähle verantwortlich sei. Der stellvertretende Direktor des Museums, Jonathan Williams, wimmelte Gradel mehrfach hochmütig ab. Dem Kuratorium des Museums wurde derweil versichert, dass eine gründliche Untersuchung keine Unregelmäßigkeiten festgestellt habe.
Struktur
Im Geschäftsjahr 2017/2018 standen den Einnahmen in der Höhe von 104,4 Millionen Pfund (davon 53,5 Millionen Pfund staatlicher Zuschuss) Ausgaben von 101,2 Millionen Pfund gegenüber.
2019 wurde das British Museum von rund 6,24 Millionen Personen besucht. 2022 betrug die Besucherzahl etwa 4,10 Millionen Menschen.
British Museum Press (BMP) ist mit 55 bis 60 neuen Publikationen pro Jahr einer der größten Museumsverlage der Welt. Der Verlag gehört der 1973 gegründeten British Museum Company.
Mit Ausnahme von wenigen Monaten im Jahr 1972 war und ist der Eintritt in das British Museum stets kostenfrei. Das in der Great Russell Street befindliche Museum ist mit Hilfe der Londoner U-Bahn über die Stationen Holborn (Central, Piccadilly Line) oder Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) zu erreichen. Die einst eigene Station British Museum ist seit 1933 geschlossen.
Gebäude
Das klassizistische, 1848 fertiggestellte Museumsgebäude hat einen quadratischen Grundriss mit 3 Stockwerken und wurde von Robert Smirke entworfen. Für die große Büchersammlung des Museums wurde 1857 im Zentrum des Hofs der runde Lesesaal mit einer Kuppel von 42,5 Meter Durchmesser eröffnet, entworfen von Sidney Smirke, dem jüngeren Bruder von Robert Smirke. Darum herum wurden im Hof Büchermagazine errichtet.
Nachdem die Bücher 1997 in das neue Gebäude der British Library im Londoner Quartier St. Pancras überführt worden waren, wurde der Hof wieder frei und nach einem Plan des Architekten Sir Norman Foster umgestaltet. Das Dach des Innenhofes ist eine Stahl-Glas-Konstruktion, die aus 1656 Paar Glasplatten besteht und im Jahre 2000 von dem österreichischen Stahlbauunternehmen Waagner-Biro fertiggestellt wurde. Der Innenhof ist mit 7.100 Quadratmetern Hoffläche der größte überdachte öffentliche Platz in Europa. Gleichzeitig wurde der Lesesaal renoviert und in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzt. Im Jahr 2000 wurde der neu gestaltete Hof eröffnet, der Lesesaal mit einem Bestand an 25'000 Büchern, die sich thematisch auf die Bestände des Museums bezogen. 2007 wurde der Lesesaal geleert und bis 2013 als Ausstellungsraum benutzt. Seit Ende 2013 ist er geschlossen, die zukünftige Nutzung ist offen.
Sammlungen
Das Museum beherbergt heute etwa acht Millionen Objekte, die die gesamte Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit von ihrem Anfang bis zum heutigen Tag dokumentieren. Berühmt ist es unter anderem für seine Sammlung ägyptischer Mumien, den Stein von Rosette und die Elgin Marbles. Manche Ausstellungsstücke kann man auch anfassen, jedoch nur zu bestimmten Ausstellungszeiten. Wie in jedem Museum befindet sich der größte Teil der Sammlung nicht in den Ausstellungsräumen, sondern wird in Magazinen unter dem Museum aufbewahrt. Die Tonträgersammlung, die ab 1905 aufgebaut wurde, ist heute Teil des British Library Sound Archive. Die Fachbibliotheken des Museums umfassen derzeit etwa 350.000 Bände. Die Sammlungen des Museums umspannen einen Zeitraum von zwei Millionen Jahren und sind in rund 94 Einzelsammlungen gegliedert.
Abteilungen des British Museum
Frühgeschichte und Europa
Naher Osten
Altes Ägypten und Sudan
Griechische und römische Antiken
Afrika, Ozeanien und Amerika
Asien
Münzen und Medaillen
Drucke und Zeichnungen
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Das Nereïdenmonument von Xanthos ist ein gegen Ende des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. in der antiken Stadt Xanthos in Lykien in der heutigen Türkei errichtetes Grabmal. In den 1840er Jahren wurde es unter der Leitung von Charles Fellows ausgegraben und nach London verschifft. Dort wurde eine Front als Teilrekonstruktion im British Museum wieder aufgebaut.
Beschreibung
Die Front des Grabmals wurde aus originalen Teilen im British Museum wiederaufgebaut, wobei die Höhe des Sockels erheblich reduziert wurde. Das Grabmal hatte die Form eines kleinen Tempels ionischer Ordnung von 4 × 6 Säulen auf einem hohen Sockelunterbau. In den Interkolumnien standen Skulpturen, unter ihnen die namengebenden Statuen von Nereiden. Zahlreiche Friese zierten das Monument: zwei Friese befanden sich auf dem Sockel, ein Fries schmückte den Architrav – ein eigentlicher Fries als Bauglied fehlt –, ein weiterer die Cellawände. Der große, untere Fries am Sockel stellt verschiedene Kampfszenen dar, jede Seite des kleineren, oberen Frieses, der ursprünglich durch zwei Steinlagen von dem oberen abgesetzt war, zeigt den Kampf um eine Stadt, ihre Eroberung und Übergabe. Auch der Architravfries zeigt Kampfszenen, außerdem aber auch Bärenjagden, Opferszenen und die Vorbereitung eines Festmahls. Opferszenen und Bankett waren auch das Thema des Cellafrieses. Im Giebel der Ostseite sitzt sich ein Herrscherpaar gegenüber, umgeben von kleineren Begleitfiguren, die als Kinder des Paares gedeutet werden. Nach dem wenigen, das von der Westseite erhalten ist, war dort der Zug in eine Schlacht dargestellt. In der Cella befanden sich ursprünglich steinerne Klinen für die Toten.
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Cultured oyster production in Virginia is increasing dramatically, with three times as many oysters planted in 2010 than in any previous year. As more and more halfshell oysters are produced, growers need to create new demand in order to keep the industry thriving. That is why the new buzzword in oyster marketing is "differentiation" as Virginia Sea Grant Business and Marketing Specialist Dan Kauffman explained at the recent Differentiated Halfshell Marketing Workshop sponsored by Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Tech, Virginia Marine Products Board, and Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Workshop keynote speaker Robb Walsh summed up the idea of differentiation by comparing oysters to wine. Whereas consumers are accustomed to expecting different tastes from wines from different vineyards and regions, the same has not been as true for oysters—at least in the U.S.—says Walsh. Speakers Shore Gregory and Chris Sherman of Island Creek Oysters explained that oysters from different locations, even within the same bay, can have drastically different tastes. They backed up the claim with a tasting of oysters from the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay, the Eastern Shore Seaside of Virginia, and Duxsbury Bay, Massachusetts.
The workshop drew over 60 oyster growers, industry representatives, and others to learn more about how differentiation can help them market their products. "Duxbury Bay is very salty," explained Gregory, "and our oysters are grown on the bottom," so they pick up "earthy" flavors from the mud. Other oysters are described as more "meaty" or "brothy." By creating recognizable brands, Gregory and Island Creek Oysters founder Skip Bennett argued that growers can expand demand for different types of oysters and grow the overall market.
The workshop program was rounded out by presentations from restaurant chefs and owners, supermarket managers, and a seafood distributor, who each gave their take on what oyster consumers are looking for and how growers can optimize their marketing efforts. Specific ideas for branding and marketing using social media were also dicsussed. The event ended with another tasting, this time of seven types of oysters from different parts of Chesapeake Bay.
Zofiówka Sanatorium is a defunct mental health facility in the town of Otwock in Poland, built at the beginning of the 20th century. In the Second Polish Republic, the sanatorium complex was expanded with more buildings and staff. Zofiówka initially had 95 beds, but this number had increased to 275 by 1935. The Jewish history of Zofiówka has come to its tragic end in the course of the Holocaust following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.
Construction
The history of the old Jewish sanatorium starts at the beginning of the 20th century. Back then, the institutionalized treatment of mental disorders was in its infancy. In 1906, Polish-Jewish neurologists Adam Wizel, Samuel Goldflam, Ludwik Bregman and Adolf Weisblat formed the "Society for Poor Jews with Nervous and Mental Illnesses" (Polish: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Ubogimi, Nerwowo i Umysłowo Chorymi Żydami). The sanatorium's director was Dr. Stefan Miller.A year later, a donation by the philanthropist Sophia Endelman enabled the purchase of 17 hectares of land and in 1908 the first building of a new sanatorium was built by the association there. An important part of the treatment was restoring patients to society by enabling them to practice employment. In its isolation ward (part of the hospital reserved for the most difficult patients), the mother of famous Polish poet, Julian Tuwim, Adela Tuwim was placed before World War II.
Holocaust history
In late 1940, the asylum fell within the so-called ‘medical zone’ formed by the Germans in the newly established Jewish ghetto of Otwock. The institution was still working during the early stages of the occupation of Poland, but the conditions dramatically worsened. Almost 400 patients were sentenced to a slow and torturous death by starvation as part of the Nazi extermination Aktionen. Zofiówka ended its existence at the same time as ghetto in Otwock.
On the morning of 19 August 1942, the Ukrainian Trawnikis supervised by the Germans, gathered the patients and the hospital crew in the first pavilion. Some 100-140 victims were shot on the spot, the rest were put on the Holocaust train to Treblinka along with Otwock’s Jewish population of 7,000.[2] Only a few doctors, who managed to escape to Warsaw by ambulance, survived. Some of the staff people committed suicide. In 1943 Zofiówka served Germans as Lebensborn, the institution of charity care. The facility also dealt with the Germanization of Polish children, and bringing them up for adoption to families in Germany.
After World War II
Zofiówka returned to its original medical purposes after the Soviet takeover, but patients were mainly children and young people. Between 1985 and mid 90’s, the facility was used in treating neuropsychiatric disorders associated with drug addiction. This continued on until the decision was made to finally close it.
In 2015, the Internet viral video called 11B-X-1371 was found to have been filmed at the abandoned facility, though by whom and when, exactly, are not known.
During the latest 5 years, number of chinese and indian restraunts increases in Tokyo. And those restraunt owners also chinses or india in many cases. Especially, those chinese resutrant provides authentic style of chinese. Becasue of geographical reason, there are many chinese shops traditionaly in Tokyo. But menu of such chinese resutrant is arranged by Japanese sence, and tastes is also mixtures of Japanese and Chinese tastes. In some case, there are some recipe it does not exists in China. Gomoku soba (photo above) is also one of them.
I have visited Hong Kong and Taiwan for several times. But I have never seen gomoku soba (above) or similar menu. Above menu is lunch set menu; gomoku soba, small rice and small almond jelly.
Generally gomoku soba is more expensive than typical ramen, becasues seafood and vegitable is over noodle. ex) cuttlefish, prawn, dark edible mushroom, bok choy, dried cloud ear mushroom and other. Soup is a little slimy becasue of potato starch.Tastes is not bad. But price is expensive(price is 900 yen). I think fair value of gomoku soba is 600 - 700 yen (7-8 USD). Generaly rent of shop in Roppongi is expensive so that resutrant is also force to set higher price than other area of simillar restruant. Many restraunt located in such area make efforts to add value from other aspects of tastes and quality , like shop interior, using organic food, natural food as ingredients, adding sweats, adding small rice, , set price free of rice and miso soup, and etc. I think restraunt (china kitchen) fail to add value to typical gomoku soba. I suggest to set lower price for gomoku soba set at least 800 yen.
But this restraunt is gettting popularirty among employees working near offices. I do not know reasons. That is curious.
I live in the city centre and based on experience I can say without doubt that the homeless problem is increasing at an alarming rate. Today I counted seven tents, occupied by homeless people, in this public park. A few months ago there were two. However, there was little sign of what might be described as anti-social behaviour.
Within the park there is a memorial and a plaque which refers the the "Croppy's Acre" as the official name is currently the "Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park".
[WHAT I SAID IN OCTOBER 2018]
The good news is that this park now appears to be safe to visit and the decision to have it open twenty four hours a day must have solved the anti-social problems that had resulted in it being closed to the public for extended periods of time.
[WHAT I SAID BACK IN NOVEMBER 2016]
There are two separate parks which may be related but in general most tourist guides are unaware of this fact to the extent that some claim that Anna Livia is located in the park beside the the Museum Luas Tram Stop.
The major park, the one normally associated with the museum, is officially the Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park while the smaller park featuring Anna Livia and a small pond is the Croppies Memorial Park. The distinction is important because the larger park has been closed to the public for extended periods.
For many years due to anti-social behaviour, mainly drugs related, the major memorial park was off-limits to the public. There was also problems with homeless people occupying parts of the park. Even today, there was a tent towards one corner of the park. One cannot blame the homeless for taking advantage of the available space.
On Tuesday, 14th June at 2:00 p.m. the Croppies Acre 1798 Memorial Park, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7 was once again open to the public but I did not get a chance to visit until today [November 7 2016]. Having been conditioned to the park being always closed I found the fact that the gates were partly opened a little bit unsettling and as I was the only person [if one ignores the tent and one person who left immediately I arrived] in the park I was a bit worried that an official might come along and lock the gates without informing me. This has happened to me in the past elsewhere.
Following discussions in 2013 with the Office of Public Works it was agreed that the management of the 4.3 acre Park would transfer from the Office of Public Works to Dublin City Council.
Dublin City Council’s Parks and Landscape Services have carried out an extensive works programme to upgrade the park and make it more accessible for the citizens of Dublin and visitors to the city.
The works include a new circulatory path system, upgrading of the existing pedestrian gates and the provision of a new pedestrian gate at the south west end of the park. Existing memorial structures have been upgraded and general landscape improvement works have been carried out. The total cost of the works, were in the order of €120,000.
To be fair the park was in excellent condition when I visited today but the presence of a tent was a bit worrying as was the careless attitude to properly opening the gates.
The name ‘Croppy’ was used in Ireland in the 1790s and was a reference to the rebels who closely cropped their hair to mimic the French Revolutionaries of the period who cut their hair in contrast to the aristocracy who wore powdered wigs.
Historically the Croppies Acre was located on land under common pasturage and part of what was termed ‘Oxmantown Green’.
In the 17th century, a portion was later presented to the Viceroy, the Duke of Ormond to build a palace, however this was never built and the site was sold to the City Authorities for a Barracks. Built in 1704, it served as a military base for 250 years, it was formally the Royal Barracks and later Collins Barracks.
The Esplanade where the Croppies Acre is located today was fully constructed by the 1850s, complete with boundary walls and ornate railings. During the Great Famine, the Esplanade was the site of a food kitchen. By the 1900s, the land was levelled to form two football pitches for the military. In 1997, the Decorative Arts Section of the National Museum was opened in Collins Barracks and the Memorial Park was subsequently designed and laid out in 1998.