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The Jaguar programme began in the early 1960s, in response to a British requirement (Air Staff Target 362) for an advanced supersonic jet trainer to replace the Folland Gnat T1 and Hawker Hunter T7, and a French requirement (ECAT or École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique, "Tactical Combat Support Trainer") for a cheap, subsonic dual role trainer and light attack aircraft to replace the Fouga Magister, Lockheed T-33 and Dassault Mystère IV. In both countries several companies tendered designs: BAC, Hunting, Hawker Siddeley and Folland in Britain; Breguet, Potez, Sud-Aviation, Nord, and Dassault from France. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in May 1965 for the two countries to develop two aircraft, a trainer based on the ECAT, and the larger AFVG (Anglo-French Variable Geometry).
Cross-channel negotiations led to the formation of SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l'Avion d'École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique – the "European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft") in 1966 as a joint venture between Breguet and the British Aircraft Corporation to produce the airframe. Though based in part on the Breguet, using the same basic configuration and an innovative French-designed landing gear, the Jaguar was built incorporating major elements of design from BAC, notably the wing and high lift devices.
Production of components would be split between Breguet and BAC, and the aircraft themselves would be assembled on two production lines; one in the UK and one in France, To avoid any duplication of work, each aircraft component had only one source. The British light strike/tactical support versions were the most demanding design, requiring supersonic performance, superior avionics, a cutting edge nav/attack system of more accuracy and complexity than the French version, moving map display, laser range-finder and marked-target seeker (LRMTS). As a result, the initial Br.121 design needed a thinner wing, redesigned fuselage, a higher rear cockpit, and after-burning engines. While putting on smiling faces for the public, maintaining the illusion of a shared design, the British design departed from the French sub-sonic Breguet 121 to such a degree that it was effectively a new design.
A separate partnership was formed between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca to develop the Adour afterburning turbofan engine. The Br.121 was proposed with Turbomeca's Tourmalet engine for ECAT but Breguet preferred the RR RB.172 and their joint venture would use elements of both. The new engine, which would be used for the AFVG as well, would be built in Derby and Tarnos.
Previous collaborative efforts between Britain and France had been complicated – the AFVG programme ended in cancellation, and controversy surrounded the development of the supersonic airliner Concorde. Whilst the technical collaboration between BAC and Breguet went well, when Dassault took over Breguet in 1971 it encouraged acceptance of its own designs, such as the Super Étendard naval attack aircraft and the Mirage F1, for which it would receive more profit, over the Anglo-French Jaguar.
The initial plan was for Britain to buy 150 Jaguar "B" trainers, with its strike requirements being met by the advanced BAC-Dassault AFVG aircraft, with France to buy 75 "E" trainers (école) and 75 "A" single-seat strike attack aircraft (appui). Dassault favoured its own Mirage G aircraft above the collaborative AFVG, and in June 1967, France cancelled the AFVG on cost grounds. This left a gap in the RAF's planned strike capabilities for the 1970s at the same time as France's cancellation of the AFVG, Germany was expressing a serious interest in the Jaguar and thus the design became more oriented towards the low-level strike role.
With the cancellation of both the BAC TSR-2 tactical strike aircraft and Hawker Siddeley P.1154 supersonic V/STOL fighter, the RAF were looking increasingly hard at their future light strike needs and realizing that they now needed more than just advanced trainers with some secondary counter insurgency capability. At this point, the RAF's proposed strike fleet was to be the American General Dynamics F-111s plus the AFVG for lighter strike purposes. There was concern that both F-111 and AFVG were high risk projects and with the French already planning on a strike role for the Jaguar, there was an opportunity to introduce a credible backup plan for the RAF's future strike needs – the Jaguar. As a result, by October 1970, the RAF's requirements had changed to 165 single-seat strike aircraft and 35 trainers.
The Jaguar was to replace the McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR2 in the close air support, tactical reconnaissance and tactical strike roles, freeing the Phantom to be used for air defence. Both the French and British trainer requirements had developed significantly, and were eventually fulfilled instead by the Alpha Jet and Hawker Siddeley Hawk respectively. The French, meanwhile, had chosen the Jaguar to replace the Aeronavale's Dassault Étendard IV, and increased their order to include an initial 40 of a carrier-capable maritime version of the Jaguar, the Jaguar M. From these apparently disparate aims would come a single and entirely different aircraft: relatively high-tech, supersonic, and optimised for ground-attack in a high-threat environment.
A Haitian child eating a MannaPack meal.
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Shunned by his squadron of Cormorant elites, Cory finds understanding and acceptance with Yetta, a rare beauty from among the ‘visually misunderstood’ Muscovy branch of the duck clan.
Gabe stands and reads the protests letter to gain a better idea of the significance of the monument as a sign of Hungary's corrupt and authoritarian government.
A surprisingly chipper Elvis Costello was second on the bill to Ray Davies at the free concert - and he played this song, by far my favourite !
For last Saturday's Rolling Stones photographs see here
Hyde Park, London, UK
Nov 13, 2019 -- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plum Island Animal Disease Center where African Swine Fever (ASF) research is conducted by lead scientist Dr. Manuel Borca, and Senior Scientist Dr. Douglas Gladue, are patent holders of four promising platforms for live-attenuated African swine fever vaccines. They are working hard to find solutions to contain ASF and prevent its spread if it ever came to the USA, including understanding disease transmission, determinants of virulence and preventive vaccines. The scientists along with their research leader Dr. Luis Rodriguez, work at the Plum Island animal disease center, near Orient Point, NY, a high-security laboratory located off the coast of Long Island in NY operated by the Department of Homeland Security where high-consequence pathogens, not present in the US are studied. Dr. Borca and Dr. Gladue have studied the ASF virus and discovered several viral genes that are necessary for the virus to cause disease. Using advanced genetic engineering to remove these genes from the virus they have created viruses that when inoculated in animals do not cause disease but instead induce protection. Four of these viruses are excellent vaccine candidates that protect 100% of vaccinated animals with a single vaccine shot. Three of these vaccine candidates have been licensed from ARS to vaccine manufacturers for further development, and a fourth platform is currently undergoing licensing. The hope is that at least one of the vaccine candidates will be fully developed and ready to be used as part of a strategy to prevent and controls this devastating disease.
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a devastating and deadly animal disease that is currently decimating the world’s population of pigs and threatening food security for billions of people worldwide. As its name indicates African swine fever originated in Africa but has affected other regions of the world over the years, including the Iberic peninsula and several countries in the Caribbean, where after decades of work and millions of animals destroyed, the disease was eradicated. Now the disease has escaped Africa again starting in 2007 with an outbreak in the Republic of Georgia that extended to the Caucasus region, parts of Europe, Russia and more recently to China and several countries in South East Asia. There is no vaccine available for ASF and disease outbreaks are currently controlled by on-farm biosecurity measures, animal quarantine, and slaughter.
The USDA Plum Island Animal Disease Center, work to protect against foreign agricultural diseases that could impact the nation's farm economy and export markets... and your food supply. In Addition to ASFV, Plum Island studies foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) and Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island. USDA activities at Plum Island are carried out by scientists and veterinarians with the department's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island. In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined us on the island, taking responsibility for the safety and security of the facility. Staff commute to work on one of two contract ferries from NY and CT.
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USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
So many students complain about math and yet do we hear of math being delivered in more engaging and inventive ways to make it more interesting?
A Mentor Paperback--as a geeky kid I bought dozens of books from Mentor (New American Library) on history, art and science. They had stiff paper covers laminated with a thin plastic that tended to split, crack and peel. Does anybody else remember this?
This edition "On Understanding Science," was published in 1951. Author James B. Conant is a "famous scientist" who "explains science and its role today." No creationism in this tome.
Personally, I like the surrealistic cover.
The Unisphere, a 12-story high, spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth, was built as the theme symbol for the 1964 World's Fair. The Theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence. It was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe."
Designed by landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, the Unisphere was donated by the United States Steel Corporation and constructed by that company's American Bridge Division. It's the world's largest global structure, rising 140 feet and weighing 700,000 pounds. Some sources say the Unisphere weighs 900,000 pounds, a figure which includes the additional weight of its 200-ton inverted tripod base.
Built on the structural foundation that supported the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair's Perisphere, Unisphere is centered in a large, circular reflecting pool and is surrounded by a series of water-jet fountains designed to obscure its tripod pedestal. The effect is meant to make Unisphere appear as if it is floating in space.During the fair, dramatic lighting at night gave the effect of sunrise moving over the surface of the globe. Additionally, the capitals of nations were marked by uniquely designed lights that held four bulbs each. When one would burn out, another would rotate in place so that the bulbs would not have to be changed during the two-year run of the Fair. None of these lighting effects are still in operation.
Three large orbit rings of stainless steel encircle Unisphere at various angles. These orbit rings represent the tracks of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, and Telstar, the first active communications satellite. America was at the height of the Space Age when Unisphere was constructed, and the rings serve as reminders of America's early space achievements.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadow Park or Flushing Meadows Park, occupies 1,255 acres between the Van Wyck Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway, stretching from Flushing Bay to Union Turnpike. The site, originally known as the Corona Ash Dumps, was cleared by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in preparation for the 1939-1940 World's Fair, and later used for the 1964-1965 World's Fair. Iconic remnants from the two fairs include the New York State Building, the Unisphere, and the New York State Pavilion. The US Open tennis tournament takes place in Flushing Meadows Park at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, and the New York Mets play their home games in Citi Field at the north end of the park. Shea Stadium, the Mets' previous home, once stood adjacent to Citi Field.
The Unisphere with its surround pool and fountains was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on May 16, 1995
Last night, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company performed four works to music by John Coltrane, Philip Glass, and Johannes Brahms. Lar Lubovitch has long been considered a master of musicality and his choreography illustrates his understanding of the intricate rhythms and patterns of the songs.
-Cherylynn Tsushima
Photo Cherylynn Tsushima; Property of Jacob's Pillow Dance
Alternative history and theories: The Greek map of North America was Hades, "Ottawas". The name Hades I am now suggesting and understanding, was pronounced "Ahh-Tee-Wahs", as in Ottawas, Otheos.
Ahh-Tee Osirian-Greek-era, "Osirian Place" pre-flood, Osirian epoch of time
Eos, "Wahs" the Dawn of the Gods
"Place of the Osirian Dawn of the Gods"
Hades in the Greek Alphabet and Phonetics, Oht-tee-wahs, in English alphabet and phonetics
A primary question has always been, "If Greece was a mariner nation, where are the maps?" And I repeat my amateur opinion that the various mythologies and their images/statues were used to disguise the navigational passages over difficult and vast stretches of earth, over ocean and lands. If a Greek mariner ship was pirated on the open seas, what would the attackers find? I strongly suggest that the pirates would probably find a complete set of ceramic jars painted with ornate mythology imagery. Those were the maps, useless to anyone who is not taught their secrets.
Correct me if I am wrong on this next part , but I believe that upon the defeat of the Titans, (probably the story of a world-cataclysmic event like a flood), the Olympian God Zeus and his brothers divided the known world, with Hades taking the Underworld, the "Otherword", Poseidon the land beneath the waves, and Zeus everything else (the "over-world").
For this reason, I believe the figure of Hades most definitely is the East Coast of North America.
Where are the women Goddesses in this neat arrangement? Initially, among the Olympians as I understand it, they didn't have a dominant role.
Coincidences, phenomeni, Puzzles, all teasing the imagination:
If you could take the legends one further step, it is as if the "defeat of the Titan Gods" was in fact, the "world flood cataclysms", wherein "Mother Earth" completely destroyed the realm of all previous Gods and Goddesses, i.e., the Titans, Teutonics, Totonakas.
It is a possibility that the Olympian takeover from the Titans marked the diminishment of matriarchal societies, and the elevation of patriarchal societies. While the names Ottawa, and Otheos could be Egyptian and Greek, and certainly the name "Hades" is Greek, there is an even more ancient Goddess called Eos, the Dawn Goddess. Prior to the Hades name identifying the Greek God, I ask would the name "A-at-Eos", "Ot-teh-was", the "Place of Eos", the Matriarchal Queendom of Eos, also pre-date the Patriarchal Hades? And is "Eos", the same as "Ewa", and "Eve"?
Ottawa. Place of the Dawn Goddess, co-opted by "Hades", Male God of the Underworld?
Avernus. Queendom of Eve, Ewa, Eos?
Avebury. Temple of Eve, Ewa, Eos?
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Furthest West in this image is the three-headed dog, Cerberus, the guardians at the entrance to the Underworld, the Kingdom of Set. In one of my theoretical naming interpretations, I believe Cerberus became "Lake Superior". Coincidentally, Toronto is in this Cerberus area, and I believe was named after the "Jackal God", keeping with the mythology figure which was in the "Kingdom of the Underworld", the "Otherworld".
Note: the State of Maine is almost center in this image, and I should mention that the naming origin of "Maine" has never been completely agreed upon. As mentioned before in other threads, I believe Maine, and Montauk, Mantoloking, Manhasset, Mianus, even Manhattan, all may have derived from the Egyptian name: Menna, or Mena, Myena, "Country in the West". It also may have been the name of the first Pharaoh of the first Dynasty, "Mena".
Bermuda, by the way, is in the area of the left kneecap.
Only my amateur, non-academic opinions, but there is no doubt in my mind, that ages and epochs of time before the Greek-cultural peoples occupied these areas, the Egyptian cultural peoples were here, and they shared with the Babylonians, the Persians, the Asiatics, Pictish Tribes of Scotland, Celts of Spain and Ireland, Siberians, Nordics, and probably 1000 other cultures who arrived in these areas.
I am still developing this topic, more to come. I hope the reader does not mind my speculation, backed up by historical "coincidences" which may be fact.
Detail of the Head of Hades, aka Otheos, Ottawa, overlaying Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec
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See also, "Ancient Roads/Habitats, Surrounding Bermuda"
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The exhibition "Understanding AI" shows how neural networks are structured and offers visitors the opportunity to train neural networks themselveswith via interactive stations.
Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
Park Plaza Cinema Theatre. Demolished! Cinematreasures.org shows this Theatre to have opened in 1966 as a Single Screen Theatre. It was later sectioned into 2 Screens. And eventually, it was used as a Dollar Theatre. And closed in 1991. I believe it tried another go of it some time during the mid to late 1990's, but could'nt make it. analogkid281 notified Me that today, nothing but grass & weeds are in the place of where the Theatre once stood. For Alot more photos of this Theatre, go to:... www.cinematour.com/tour.php?db=us&id=4658 ... From Adam Martins' Collection......
Open: May 26, 1966.
Closed: February 28, 2002.
Demolished: 2008.
Photo Taken: November 1999 (Film camera)
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The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 18 Spetember 2018, to continue support of the 'Edified Generation' scholarships' programme.
The Chinese Embassy greatly supports the development of education in Rwanda and strives to do this through helping disadvantaged students under Imbuto Foundation’s scholarship programme – Edified Generation.
Imbuto Foundation and the Chinese Embassy have signed MoUs in support of the scholarship programme since 2013.
Dr. Melissa Miller of California Department of Fish and Wildlife conducts necropsy of otter to determine cause of death. Photo courtesy of CADFW.
A series of AI-generated portraits of some upper class girls enjoying themselves at a summer party..
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
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"Understanding the Holy Trinity" - Sketchnote of Deacon Al's homily this morning where he described the central mystery of our faith - the Holy Trinity - as something that the human intellect is not capable of comprehending. To describe this, he told the famous legend of St. Augustine's encounter with a boy on the beach who was using a seashell to empty the sea into a small hole in the sand.
There was a lot of concern among the occupiers tonight.
Among the couple of hundred diehards the weather was a constant in discussions.
A relentless rain fell on Occupied Chicago.
A driving wind brought deep chills.
Though the climactic conditions brought the numbers of demonstrators down by almost half from yesterday...
those that were there seemed strong and filled with the conviction that what they were doing was right and just and would ultimately effect some change.
The conversations were more serious and cerebral.
On the twenty sixth day of the occupation it's become apparent...
it has become a siege.
Many people expressed a concern that the bad weather would stop the momentum of growth that the occupation has seen.
Some people thought that it would weed out those with less motivation and conviction.
Others feared only that the tough conditions would be the demise of the entire endeavor itself.
Tough times are the measure of any movement.
I say now is the time to make a thrust...
now is the time to recruit reinforcements like never before.
It's not enough that the supporters of the movement show up...
everyone's got to bring someone next time.
Sieges are brutal and demoralizing on those laying the siege.
It would be wise to consult Master Sun Tzu on such matters.
Though this is a movement commited to nonviolence, the expertise of those who know how to command an army and occupy ground should be heeded.
In Chapter Two of 'The Art of War' Master Tzu says:
'When you engage in actual fighting, if the victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped. If you lay siege to a town you will exhaust your strength.'
Perhaps it wasn't wise to lay plans for an exposed occupation in the northern hemisphere at the end of September.
No army exposed to the elements could survive a Chicago winter in fighting form.
It is what it is.
History books are filled with stories of the folly of such manuevers and prolonged siege will make weary the strongest of forces as the failed generals of time have shown.
Still... the ground has been taken and the best must be made of it.
Where can a decisive victory be had?
Some decisive victory is needed right away.
Should the occupation maintain it's position on LaSalle and Jackson and at the same time occupy another position?
A position more north?
A position in the retail district?
That's where the action's going to be in the coming weeks.
I believe small advance parties should be sent out...
to test the occupation of other sites...
to see what impact can be made.
Should the marchers begin sending out sentries to survey the field for positions of advantage?
Manuevers should be calculated in secrecy and implemented to the surprise of all observers.
The authorities know full well the barbarism of a Chicago winter.
They're counting on it to do their work for them...
so they can keep their hands clean.
Rally in the words of Hannibal...
the first to ride elephants over the Alps...
'We will either find a way or we will make one.'
Now is the time for decisive action.
Don't give up any occupied ground.
Occupy more.
Social transformation due to artificial intelligence is already in full swing. In order to get our bearings with it, we need a basic understanding of this technology. Understanding AI presents the most important technical aspects of artificial intelligence as well as concrete examples of how they are used. Here visitors can discover how machines and their sensors “perceive” the world in comparison to humans, what machine learning is, or how automatic facial recognition works, among other things. They can also learn about various social and ethical issues such as deep fakes (deceptively genuine-seeming pictures or videos made automatically using neural networks), the effects of using digital methods for profiling, and the hidden side of our everyday electronic devices such as smartphones.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as CTAM, the industry marketing organization, today announced a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organizations’ collective content protection efforts.
Derek N. Benner, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which oversees the IPR Center, and Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a virtual ceremony to commemorate the partnership.
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as CTAM, the industry marketing organization, today announced a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organizations’ collective content protection efforts.
Derek N. Benner, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which oversees the IPR Center, and Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a virtual ceremony to commemorate the partnership.
A Louse Is Not A Home (listen to the song here)
Peter Hammill
Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad;
sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have.
There's a line snaking down my mirror :
splintered glass distorts my face,
and though the light is strong and strange
it can't illuminate the musty corners of this place.
There is a lofty, lonely, Lohengrenic castle in the clouds --
Yes, I draw my murky meanings there,
but seven years' dark luck is just around the corner
and in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair.
A cracked mirror mid the drapes of the landing :
split image, labored understanding ----
I'm only trying to find a place to hide my home ....
I've lived in houses composed of glass
where every movement is charted,
but now the monitor screens are dark
and I can't tell if silent eyes are there.
My words are spiders upon the page,
they spin out faith, hope and reason ----
but are they meet and just, or only dust
gathering about my chair?
Sometimes I get the feeling that there's
someone else there :
The faceless watcher makes me uneasy,
I can feel him through the floorboards,
and His presence is creepy ----
He informs me that I shall be expelled ....
What is that but out of and into :
I don't know the nature of the door that I'd go through,
I don't know the nature of the nature
that I am inside ....
I've lived in houses of brick and lead
where all emotion is sacred,
and if you want to devour the fruit
you must first sniff at the fragrance
and lay your body before the shrine
with poems and posies and papers ----
or, if you catch the ruse, you'll have to choose
to stay, a monk, or leave, a vagrant.
What is this place you call home?
Is it a sermon or a confession?
Is it the chalice that you use for protection?
Is it really only somewhere you can stay?
Is it a rule-book or a lecture?
Is it a beating at the hands of your Protector?
Does the idol have feet of clay?
Home is what you make it, so my friends all say,
but I rarely see their homes in these dark days.
Some of them are snails and carry houses
on their backs;
others live in monuments which, one day,
will be racks --
I keep my home in place with sellotape
and tin-tacks,
but I still feel there's some other Force here :
He who cracks the mirrors and moves the walls
keeps staring through the eye-slits of the portraits
in my hall;
He ravages my library and taps the telephone --
I've never actually seen Him,
but I know He's in my home
and if he goes away,
I can't stay here either.
I believe -- er -- I think --
well, I don't know ......
I only live in one room at a time,
but all of the walls are ears, all the windows, eyes :
Everything else is foreign,
'Home' is my wordless chant :
mmmmmaah!
Give it a chance!
I am surrounded by flesh and bone,
I am a temple of living,
I am a hermit, I am a drone,
and I am boning out a place to be.
With secret garlands about my head
unearthly silence is broken :
the room is growing dark, and in the stark light
I can see a face I know ----
could this be the guy who never shows
the cracked mirror what he's feeling,
merely mumbles prayers to the ground where
he's kneeling :
"Home is home is home is home is home is home is me!"
All you people looking for your houses,
don't throw your weight around, you might
break your glasses
and if you do, you know you just can't see
and then how are you to find the dawning
of the day?
--- Day is just a word I use to keep the dark
at bay,
and people are imaginary, nothing else exists
except the room I'm sitting in,
and, of course, the all-pervading mist ---
sometimes I wonder if even that's real ....
Maybe I should de-louse this place;
Maybe I should de-place this louse;
Maybe I'll maybe my life away
in the confines of this silent house.
Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad;
sometimes I think I'll disappear; sometimes I think .....
The Marine transit insurance is meant for covering potential threats regarding loss, damage and theft during transportation through one country to another. This policy is specifically designed after considering the legal boundaries of two different countries. You can buy a Marine transit insurance policy for particular cargo, a vessel or the entire fleet of ships.
History of the Museum
Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.
The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.
After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.
The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.
The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.
The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.
On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.
With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.
In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.
This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.
The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.
The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.
The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.
Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.
Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.
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