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Notice how the number 5 is right-side-up on hte inverted F16. This will be the last in the series, I swear! Shot using 40D + 1.4x extender + 300mm f/2.8
The Smurfit-Stone Building (left), at 150 North Michigan Avenue, also known as the Stone Container Building, and formerly known as the Associates Center and One Parke Place, was built in 1983 on the former site of the John Crerar Library. Designed by Sheldon Schlegman of A. Epstein and Sons International, the 582-foot tall skyscraper is noted for its unusually slanted roof. The stated 41 floors do not actually include five unused levels in the building; they are located in the narrowest portion at the very peak of the diamond. Although the building looks as though it is split down the middle, the two sides are only slightly disjointed until nearing the top, where there is a gap between them. Three years after it's completion, the building played a central role in Touchstone Pictures hit film, Adventures in Babysitting.
One Prudential Plaza (center), formerly known as the Prudential Building, was built in 1955 as the the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company. Designed by Naess & Murphy, , a precursor to C.F. Murphy & Associates and later Murphy/Jahn Architects, it was the first new downtown skyscraper built in Chicago in 21 years, and the last building ever connected to the Chicago Tunnel Company's tunnel network. When finished the 44-story structure, facaded in vertical strips of limestone and ridged aluminum, had the highest roof in Chicago with only the statue of Ceres on the Chicago Board of Trade higher. Its mast served as a broadcasting antenna for Chicago's WGN-TV.
Two Prudential Plaza (right) was built in 1990 to the design of Steven T. Wright with the firm, Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl. The 995-foot tower was, at the time of completion, the world's second tallest reinforced concrete building. Its distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north & south sides, a pyramidal peak rotated 45°, and an 80-foot spire. One and Two Prudential Plaza were sold in May 2006 for $470 million to BentleyForbes.
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park's outdoor performing arts venue, was constructed between 1999 and 2004 to the design of Frank Gehry. The bandshell, built partially atop the park's indoor performing arts venue, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, is the home of the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the Grant Park Music Festival, the nation's only remaining free outdoor classical music series. Gehry's design features a 120-feet-high billowing "headdress" of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frames the proscenium opening and connects to an overheard trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which mimics the acoustics of a concert hall by distributing enhanced sound equally to the 4,000 fixed seats, and over the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people.
BP Pedestrian Bridge, or simply BP Bridge, is a girder bridge spanning Columbus Drive to Millennium Park between the trellis system over the Jay Pritzker Pavilion's great lawn and the Lurie Garden northward to Daley Bicentennial Plaza. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, it opened along with the rest of Millennium Park on July 16, 2004. Named for BP (British Petroleum), who donated $5 million to the Park's construction, the 925-foot long, 20-foot wide, winding footbridge serves not only as a connector, but as a viewing platform and a berm sound barrier, blocking noise on the eight-lane road below.
Millennium Park, a 24.5-acre section of northern Grant Park was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on land that had been occupied by Illinios Central Railroad's railyards since 1852. The park also features the Crown Fountain and Cloud Gate.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (right), President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, meets with Greta Thunberg (second from left), climate activist from Sweden, and Alexandria Villaseñor (left) and Xiye Bastida, climate activists from the United States.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
30 August 2019
United Nations, New York
Photo # 818838
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Glaciers and ice caps cover about 10% of the world’s landmass. These are concentrated in Greenland and Antarctica and contain 70% of the world’s freshwater. Unfortunately, most of these resources are located far from human habitation and are not readily accessible for human use. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), 96% of the world’s frozen freshwater is at the South and North Poles, with the remaining 4% spread over 550,000 km2 of glaciers and mountainous icecaps measuring about 180,000 km3 (UNEP, 1992; Untersteiner, 1975; WGMS, 1998, 2002). Groundwater is by far the most abundant and readily available source of freshwater, followed by lakes, reservoirs, rivers and wetlands. Analysis indicates that: - Groundwater represents over 90% of the world’s readily available freshwater resource (Boswinkel, 2000). About 1.5 billion people depend upon groundwater for their drinking water supply (WRI, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, 1998). - The amount of groundwater withdrawn annually is roughly estimated at 600-700 km3, representing about 20% of global water withdrawals (WMO, 1997). - A comprehensive picture of the quantity of groundwater withdrawn and consumed annually around the world does not exist. Most freshwater lakes are located at high altitudes, with nearly 50% of the world’s lakes located in Canada alone. Many lakes, especially those in arid regions, become salty through evaporation, which concentrates the inflowing salts. The Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Great Salt Lake are among the world’s major salt lakes. Rivers form a hydrologic mosaic, with an estimated 263 international river basins covering 45.3% (231,059,898 km2) of the earth’s land surface, excluding Antarctica (UNEP, Oregon State University et al., in preparation). The total volume of water in the world’s rivers is estimated at 2,115 km3 (Groombridge and Jenkins, 1998).
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The availability of oxygen is one of the most important indicators of the condition of a water body, because dissolved oxygen, or DO, (the amount of oxygen dissolved in water) is necessary for most aquatic organisms, including fish and invertebrates. Some species have very defined lower limits of DO that they can tolerate. Increases in DO can indicate improvements in water quality, such as has occurred in many parts of the world in the last 30 years. Over the two decades, rivers in Europe and Australasia have shown a significant statistical reduction in biological oxygen demand concentrations, (an indicator of the organic pollution of freshwater), suggesting positive trends. There was no change in the assessed results for North America, although there was a tighter data distribution, indicating the data available for 1991-2000 is less variable than for previous periods.
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The United Nations Headquarters site in Manhattan covers approximately sixteen acres from 42nd to 48th Streets between First Avenue and the East River. Among the buildings on the premises are the marble-framed 39-storey Secretariat (to the left); the General Assembly building topped with a shallow dome; the Dag Hammarskjöld Library (to the left of the Secretariat); and the building housing the Council Chambers and Conference Rooms which lies on the river's edge. 23/Aug/1985. UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
I was inspired by Nation's Pride - a fictional propaganda film from Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino. I needed a tower from Normandy to my other build. :) It turnes out that the tower in the film is in fact the town hall tower from Gorlitz, at Polish border.
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United Nations-led International Support Mission in Ligeria (UNISML) force intercepted two trucks attempting to smuggle illegal arms into Ligeria.
Note: Ligeria is a fictional country.
GA Historical Marker Gordon county
CHEROKEE NATION
During the early 1800’s, northern Georgia was heart of the sovereign, independent Cherokee Indian Nation. By this time the Cherokee were the most progressive Indian tribe in North America. In 1821, they became the first American Indians with a written form of their native language, invented by Sequoyah, an uneducated Cherokee.
New Echota, the Cherokee national capital, was located 10 miles north. There a constitutional government of executive, legislative, and judicial branches ruled the Nation. Once the largest town in the area, New Echota consisted of houses, stores, taverns, a Council house, Supreme Courthouse, and a printing office which published a nation bilingual newspaper, the CHEROKEE PHOENIX.
Most of the 17,000 Cherokee were farmers and lived in small log cabins but some grew very wealthy and owned great plantations such as the Vann House, located 27 miles north.
In 1838, at gunpoint, the Cherokee were rounded up and imprisoned by state and federal armies. Later that year they were forced to what is now Oklahoma. Four thousand Cherokees died on the terrible march west known as the “Trail of Tears.”
064-32 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1983
Pacific Rim National Park
Vancouver Island BC
Canada
Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a beach by the action of winds, tides or waves. Most driftwood is the remains of trees, that have been washed into the ocean, due to flooding, high winds, or other natural occurrences, or as the result of logging.
Displayed here you see the beach of the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island. It is the area of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations who are already living here for ages.
The sitting man is carving a woman's head sculpture. Wood carving is still a way of living for this tribe and one can find this beautiful native art everywhere on the island.
The First Nations Leaders Gathering is about fostering relationships, addressing problems, creating solutions and celebrating successes. The gathering has many opportunities for First Nations community leaders to meet about issues of importance to communities and to network with other leaders from across the province.
This year’s gathering offers face-to-face opportunities to continue on the path towards building a fair, just and equitable partnership where we are working together to close socio-economic gaps as part of our journey towards reconciliation.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/stories/first-nations-leaders-gathering-2016
Student Nations are regional student associations at a university. A similar phenomena, outside northen Europe, are the fraternities at American universities, but it's imperfect comparison. The nation system was once a widespread concept in Europe, but now they only exist by some degree in Sweden and Finland.
This building is inspired by Norrland Nation in Uppsala, where I am quite involved. I tried to recreate a scene from the early 1900s. The scene captures a typical day of student life with alcohol, love, an infamous horse incident, fencing and so on.
It was the winning entry for Swebrick's contest "Staden vi byggde" (The City We Built)
Despite the fact that I've just done pretty good shoots, a sunset and sunrise; both of which produced a pretty darn good pic, i've decided to dig a little further back (only by a day or two!) for today's pic. On friday i went for a random hour-and-a-half drive round the countryside near my folks place, and came across this tree., i'm so glad that the sun decided to hid behind some clouds and give me a nice glow show.
ABOUT
- 3-Shot HDR
- ISO100, f/8.0, +2/3EV, 1/250s, AEB(-2,0,+2)
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- Canon 400D, Sigma 10-20mm f/4.0-5.6 DC EX HSM
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- Petrol
PROCESSING
- Hdr Combined in Photomatix
- Curves, unsharp mask and border applied in GIMP
- Soft Screen Layer also applied in GIMP
In observance of United Nations Day, a concert of Portuguese-language music is being performed in the General Assembly Hall this afternoon. The concert features Dulce Pontes of Portugal, Tito Paris of the Republic of Cape Verde, and Carlinhos Brown of Brazil. Lisbon television personality Isabel Angelino is acting as emcee.
Marcolino Moco, Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries, addressing guests at today's traditional celebration of United Nations Day.
Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Photo Date: 24/10/1997
NICA ID: 301304
United Nations, New York
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France.
Joan was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428, she requested to be taken to Charles, later testifying that she was guided by visions from the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine to help him save France from English domination. Convinced of her devotion and purity, Charles sent Joan, who was about seventeen years old, to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She arrived at the city in April 1429, wielding her banner and bringing hope to the demoralized French army. Nine days after her arrival, the English abandoned the siege. Joan encouraged the French to aggressively pursue the English during the Loire Campaign, which culminated in another decisive victory at Patay, opening the way for the French army to advance on Reims unopposed, where Charles was crowned as the King of France with Joan at his side. These victories boosted French morale, paving the way for their final triumph in the Hundred Years' War several decades later.
After Charles's coronation, Joan participated in the unsuccessful siege of Paris in September 1429 and the failed siege of La Charité in November. Her role in these defeats reduced the court's faith in her. In early 1430, Joan organized a company of volunteers to relieve Compiègne, which had been besieged by the Burgundians—French allies of the English. She was captured by Burgundian troops on 23 May. After trying unsuccessfully to escape, she was handed to the English in November. She was put on trial by Bishop Pierre Cauchon on accusations of heresy, which included blaspheming by wearing men's clothes, acting upon visions that were demonic, and refusing to submit her words and deeds to the judgment of the church. She was declared guilty and burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, aged about nineteen.
In 1456, an inquisitorial court reinvestigated Joan's trial and overturned the verdict, declaring that it was tainted by deceit and procedural errors. Joan has been revered as a martyr, and viewed as an obedient daughter of the Roman Catholic Church, an early feminist, and a symbol of freedom and independence. After the French Revolution, she became a national symbol of France. In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church and, two years later, was declared one of the patron saints of France. She is portrayed in numerous cultural works, including literature, music, paintings, sculptures, and theater.
My good habit of photographing museum labels deserted me when I was in front of this marvelous piece.
I will return to the museum, retrieve the usual information and report back.
Portland Art Museum
Portland, Oregon
Jean-Yves Le Drian (at lectern), Minister for Foreign Affairs of France and President of the Security Council for October, speaks to journalists following a Security council meeting on the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel.
UN Photo/Cia Pak
30 October 2017
United Nations, New York
Photo # 740855
Portrait of conservationist and United Nations Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
21 September 2015
United Nations, New York
Photo # 643362
Signs of The World Cup.
Gihembe Refugee Camp
UNHCR
Byumba Province
Gihembe, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 14, 2006.
Verbatium from The UNHCR COUNTRY OPERATIONS PLAN OVERVIEW
Pages 11 & 12
Country: Rwanda
Planning Year: 2006
Beneficiary Population #2: Camp Based Congolese Refugees / Asylum Seekers
(a) Number and characteristics of beneficiaries
Congolese refugees are sheltered in Kiziba and Gihembe camp. In the course of 2005, some 7,000 still temporarily housed in Nyagatare and Nkamira transit centres are expected to be transferred to a new camp in Byumba province. This will bring the total camp-based population to 45,000 assuming that at the same time a total of 3,000 Congolese will return spontaneously in 2005 still. The vast majority of Congolese refugees (94%) are from North Kivu having fled DRC between 1996 and 2004. Projected figures for 1 January 2006 are as follows:
Age Group Male (in %) Female (in %) Total (in %) 0-4 4,752 22% 5,016 19% 10,080 21% 5-17 10,368 48% 11,088 42% 21,600 45% 18-59 5,832 27% 9,504 36% 14,880 31% 60 and > 648 3% 792 3% 1,440 3% 21,600 45% 26,400 55% 48,000 100%
(b) Main locations and types of settlement Kiziba camp (Kibuye province) and Gihembe camp (Byumba province) are home to about 38,500 Congolese refugees where UNHCR provides comprehensive protection and assistance including non-food items, health services, primary and secondary education and income generating activities. WFP provides food to all refugees. A new site (insert name) is being developed in 2005 in Byumba province which will be able to host up to 10,000 Congolese refugees.
(c) Assumptions and constraints
Refugees will be transferred from the transit centres in Gisenyi and Cyangugu to the new site in Byumba in 2005. Some 3,000 Congolese decide to repatriate spontaneously when assistance is phased out in said transit centres. About 500 urban
refugees will be transferred to the new site. Refugees are issued identify cards (photo ID) in 2005 following a comprehensive registration. Resettlement will continue in 2006. The needs are for 3,600 persons to be resettled, whereas the office at current levels can process a maximum of 1,000 refugees. Half of them are expected to be camp-based Congolese. The Congolese refugees are a very complex caseload due to cultural ties to both Rwanda and DRC. Military recruitment of refugees (youths in particular) could happen again in 2006. This is highly contingent upon the evolution of the situation in DRC. In the worst case, the Government of Rwanda could launch another “voluntary” repatriation operation in 2005 or 2006, as happened in 2002. Severe shortage of land and level of poverty precludes local settlement or selfsufficiency for the refugees, who are generally peasant farmers.
C-FJHQ/UN234 de Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 Trans Capital Air. Transit stop at Shannon while being ferried from Aqaba, Jordan to Canada after United Nations service. Shannon Airport 23 March 2014
Volkan Bozkir (left), President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Secretary-General António Guterres stands during a moment to collectively reaffirm the commitment to the United Nations Charter during the observance ceremony in commemoration of United Nations Day.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
26 October 2020
New York, United States of America
Photo # 848954