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In March 2025, I photographed Dr. Catie Cuan, a rare kind of technologist—one who does not merely study movement but inhabits it, shaping our understanding of both human and robotic motion in ways that feel at once inevitable and revolutionary. To witness her at work is to see someone in deep conversation with machines, coaxing out a language of movement that is not just efficient but expressive, not just technical but emotional.
A trained dancer and mechanical engineer, Cuan is a pioneer in ‘choreorobotics,’ a field that merges artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and art. Her career has been a dance in itself, moving fluidly between performance, research, and entrepreneurship, all in pursuit of a singular question: how can robots move in a way that feels alive?
Cuan holds a PhD and a Master’s of Science in robotics and AI from Stanford, where she is also a postdoctoral researcher leading the art and robotics efforts at the new Stanford Robotics Center. Her dissertation, “Compelling Robot Behaviors through Supervised Learning and Choreorobotics,” explores how machine learning can teach robots to move in ways that evoke presence—where motion itself carries meaning. During her doctoral research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Google, and Stanford University, she led the first multi-robot machine learning project at Everyday Robots (Google X) and Robotics at Google, now part of Google DeepMind.
But Cuan is not content to leave her work in the realm of academia. She has spent years choreographing robots, treating them not as rigid automatons but as performers capable of communicating through motion. She has held residencies at the Smithsonian, the Exploratorium, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, TED, Everyday Robots (Google X), the RAD Lab, and ThoughtWorks Arts, working with nearly a dozen different robotic platforms—from the industrial ABB IRB 6700 to small, interactive tabletop machines. Her performances reimagine robots not as servants or tools, but as collaborators, capable of moving with grace, intention, and even artistry.
Cuan’s vision is as much about rethinking robotics as it is about rethinking humanity’s relationship to machines. Her work suggests that the way a robot moves can influence the way we feel about it—that movement is not just a function of engineering but of psychology, of storytelling, of something deeply embedded in how we perceive life itself. In healthcare, she envisions robots that move with a bedside manner, adjusting their motion to put patients at ease. In entertainment, she imagines robots that can dance, that can anticipate and respond to human motion as a partner rather than an operator. Her work, at its core, is about breaking down the binary between the organic and the artificial.
Photographing Cuan, I saw someone who carries these ideas not just in her mind but in her body. Her own movements are precise yet fluid, deliberate yet spontaneous, as though she is always attuned to the forces of motion around her. In that moment, it was clear: she is not just designing how robots move—she is teaching them how to be seen, how to be understood, how to exist in a world that has, until now, only made space for the living.
Expanding and strengthening trading relationships abroad means real jobs here at home. The Government of British Columbia is acting to make sure that B.C. businesses are first in line to take advantage of the growing market opportunities in Asia. The upcoming Jobs and Trade Mission to China, Japan and Korea will open up new doors, connect B.C. businesses with Asian demand, and keep B.C.’s economy strong and growing.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2013/10/growing-markets-in-asia-an...
As part of the Atmosphere to Electrons initiative, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) developed a 3-year collaborative research plan to develop and field test wind turbine controls. New control systems, such as the advanced feedforward control system that incorporates lidar and is currently under development at NREL, will help researchers improve simulations and increase the understanding of the physics impacting wind plant performance. The plan developed by the two laboratories identified collaborative field testing of wind plant controls at SNL's Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility.
Expanding and strengthening trading relationships abroad means real jobs here at home. The Government of British Columbia is acting to make sure that B.C. businesses are first in line to take advantage of the growing market opportunities in Asia. The upcoming Jobs and Trade Mission to China, Japan and Korea will open up new doors, connect B.C. businesses with Asian demand, and keep B.C.’s economy strong and growing.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2013/10/growing-markets-in-asia-an...
Wings still up a little, but starting to accept our presence as non-threatening! Eventually she settled down, having made her position abundantly clear. 😀
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
~ Richard Bach from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony with the Tent Partnership for Refugees, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 12, 2022. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
THE IMAGES PRODUCED MUST BE CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING MY PSYCHOLOGY..THE FILTERING OF THE MUNDANE AND THE WORKPLACE HALFWIT HAS ITS USES BY THE FILTERING THROUGH THE CHOAS INTO THE COSMOS AS AN AESTHETIC PROCESS
TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITHIN A STRICT AND SEVERELY RESTRAINED FRAMEWORK YET ALLOWING A REGIMENTAL FREEDOM OF HIGHLY CONTROLLED YET ARBITRARIAL DEVELOPMENT TO FLOURISH AND CRYSTALISE....
A REASONABLE ANALOGIE WILL BE TO SUGGEST THAT THAT MY WORKING METHOD IS THAT OF THE HUNCHBACK WITHI DRIVING A VEHICLE IN PITCH DARK WITHOUT HEADLAMPS AND ARRIVING AT EXACTLY WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE AT ALL TIMES IN A PARALLEL CONTINUUM OF BOUNDLESSNESS..
HOWEVER RECKLESS OR INANE OR IRRATIONAL THE BEHAVIOUR,IT WILL ONLY SERVE AS A SLAVE TO THE IMAGE THAT WILL BE REALISED THROUGH SUCH BAHAVIOUR...NOTHING MATTERS BUT THE IMAGE...IT IS AKIN TO A TYPE OF HOLY GRAIL WHEREBY I RISK DESTROYING THE FOUNDATION OF MY EXISTENCE PURELY TO ACHIES=VE AN IMMORTALITY THROUGH THE INNER AESTHETE THAT DWELLS WITHIN LIKE A PARASITE THAT FEEDS OFF OF A HIGHER "SOURCE ENERGY" FOR ITS CREATIVE NOURISHMENT...
TO BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE "WAR ZONE" OF THE WORKPLACE AND ITS ATTENDANT HALFWITS OF THIS CESSPOOL OF OBSEQUIOUS DUPLICITY AND EXECUTE MY SELF-OBSERVATIONS TO A HIGH DEGREE OF IMAGINATIVE DISCIPLINE AND DEDICATED UNDERSTANDING AND EXECUTION IS TESTAMENT TO MY SERIOUSNESS OF DEVOTION TO THE CLOWN....
Kwibuka20 Global Conversation: “Genocide: A Preventable Crime”. A Global Conversation on Understanding Early Warning of Mass Atrocities 20 years after the Genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda (organised by the Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect)
Statements by:
·H.E. Mrs. Mathilde Mukantabana, Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States of America;
·UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson;
·Lt. Gen. The Hon. Roméo Dallaire;
·Eugenie Mukeshimana, Rwandan genocide survivor;
·Dr. Stephen Smith, Kwibuka20
Moderated by Dr. Simon Adams, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider
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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It is nearly ten years since I started the Kent church project, and in that time have visited 292 churches, give or take, and seen and photographed inside most of them. And in that time, I have gone from knowing nothing about churches to having a basic understanding, meaning I need to revisit those I visited early on to record the features I missed.
Lenham is a large market village, and seems to be in rude health, as finding a parking space on a weekday morning was difficult, but it was nearing lunchtime, and the village is blessed with two fine pubs on the village square, and also has a new fish restaurant which was already producing fine aromas.
St Mary stands a little of the square, its tower dominating the view.
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A village centre setting where the church is approached from the north. This side shows ragstone and flint construction. Although the building contains work of earlier periods it is on the whole a fourteenth-century structure. The memorable feature is the size of the internal door which fills the tower arch - although it is not as old as it at first appears. On the south wall of the nave is a faded mural of St Michael. The pulpit is Elizabethan with a slightly later tester that carries the date 1622. Next to the pulpit is a good window in the style of Kempe, signed in the inscription with the `greyhound` symbol of H.W. Bryans who set up his own studio in competition. The other glass is mid-nineteenth century and of poor quality. The lectern, of wood, with nicely carved feet, may be as early as the fourteenth century, and has a crude and rural feel about it. The medieval stalls, which are returned along the west side of the chancel arch, are much restored. On the north wall of the chancel is an extremely strange monument which shows a fourteenth-century priest lying obliquely in two halves! The Royal Arms over the north door date from the reign of Queen Anne.
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LENHAM.
NORTHWARD from Boughton Malherb, close at the foot of the chalk-hills, lies Lenham, written in the book of Domesday, Lerham and Lertham, no doubt corruptly for Leanham, by which name it is called in most of the antient charters and deeds, as well before as since that time. It takes its name from the stream which rises in it, and ham, which signifies a town or village.
The western part of this parish is in the lath of Aylesford, hundred of Eyhorne, and the western division of this county, that is all of it which lies westward of a line drawn from the centre of Chilston-house, northward to the east end of the church, and thence to Warren-street, on the summit of the chalk hills.
The residue of it, including that part of it called East Lenham, is in the lath of Shipway, and hundred of Calehill, and the eastern division of the county.
THE PARISH of Lenham is of large extent, being upwards of five miles in length from east to west, and four in breadth from north to south, where it encompasses the whole width of the valley from the chalk to the quarry hills. However healthy it may be it is far from being a pleasant situation, owing to its untoward soil, which towards the south and west is mostly a deep sand; near the foot of the chalk hills a cludgy chalk mixed with flints, the whole a poor unfertile country, the fields of which are in general large, having but few trees round them, and those of a stunted unthriving aspect; above these hills northward is Downe-court and Warren-street, beyond which the parish extends more than a mile, as far as Ashden and Syndal, in the valley between Hollingborne and Doddington, a poor country and a flinty barren soil.
The town of Lenham stands in the valley between the quarry and chalk hills, which is here about two miles wide, rather nearer the latter, in a damp and moist situation, owing to the springs which rise near it, of which further mention will be made hereafter. It is rather a dull and unfrequented place, and of but little traffic, in short I cannot give a better description of it than in the words of the inhabitants themselves, who, on travellers passing through it, and enquiring if it is Lenham, in general make answer, "Ah, Sir, poor Lenham."
The church stands at the south end of it, and being westward of the line which separates the two divisions of the county, the town itself, as well as the parish, is esteemed to belong to West Kent, and all the parish business is transacted at the Maidstone sessions accordingly; the market, which was granted to the abbot of St. Augustine's, as has been mentioned before, to be held within his manor here, has been discontinued many years, but in 1757 there was an attempt made to revive it for the buying and selling of corn, and other such commodities, and it was ordered by the lord of the manor to be held on a Friday weekly, but I am informed it has been but little resorted to. The fair, which has been mentioned as having been granted likewise to the abbot, is now held yearly by the alteration of the stile on June 6, for horses and cattle, and there is another fair held on October 23, for the like purpose. A market is likewise held at Sandway, in this parish, for bullocks, upon every Tuesday after Allhallows-day, Nov. I, until Christmas.
Near the foot of the chalk hills lie the three estates of Shelve, on the opposite or southern part of the parish, where the soil is mostly a barren sand, there are several small heaths or fostalls; through this part of the parish the high road from Ashford runs over Lenham, formerly called Royton heath, and by Chilston park pales and Sandway, over Bigon-heath, towards Leeds castle and Maidstone; southward of this heath the parish extends westward, taking within its bounds the estate of Ham, the house of which has been rebuilt in a handsome manner within these few years, and thence southward to Runham-place, Platt-heath, and Leverton-street, at the boundary of it, near the quarry hills, where it joins to Bought on Malherb.
The western and south-east parts of this parish are watered by two several streams, for at the eastern extremity of the town of Lenham, at Streetwell, there rises a spring, which is accounted the head of the river Stour, which flowing from thence southward by Royton-chapel, at about a mile distance from its rise, receives into its stream two other small ones from the north-west, which rise in the grounds at Chilston, at a small distance from each other, and then flowing in one stream through the hamlet of Water-street south-eastward, it turns a mill in its way to Little Chart, and so goes on in its way to Ashford and Canterbury.
A head of one of the branches of the river Medway likewise rises at Ewell, adjoining to Bigon-heath, in the western part of this parish, whence it is frequently called the river Len; from hence this stream directs its course first westward, then northward by Runham, and so on to Holme mill in Harrietsham, in its way towards Leeds-castle and the main river at Maidstone.
LENHAM has been supposed by several of our learned antiquaries, among whom are Camden, Lambarde, and Gale, to have been the Roman station, mentioned in the 2d iler of Antonine, by the name of Durolevum, corruptly, as they say, for Durolenum, and the latter, in the British language, signifying the water Lenum, induced them, together with the situation, to conjecture this place to have been that station.
And Camden is further confirmed in this opinion, from this place being situated on a circular way of the Romans, which formerly, as Higden of Chester affirms, went from Dover through the middle of Kent. (fn. 1)
The aqua Lena, or the spring at Streetwell here, so, called perhaps from the strata of the Romans, which led hither, is thought to have been meant by the water Lenum, and that this, might give name to this station; and indeed Roman remains have been from time to time discovered from Keston, by Comb Bank, Stone-street, Oldberry camp, Ofham, Barming, Maidstone, Boxley, &c. in a continued and almost strait line, to within a few miles of this place and Charing.
¶But there having never been any Roman antiquities found at Lenham, induced Mr. Somner and others to look elsewhere for this station. That learned antiquarian, as well as Mr. Burton and Dr. Thorpe, have fixed it at or near Newington, in the great road from Rochester to Canterbury, near which great quantities of urns, and other relics of Roman antiquity, have been dug up.
Cosplay Leipzig
Leipziger Buchmesse 2011
Leipzig Book Fair 2011
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Mikiyo (___) 350699 as Su "Wolkenstürmer" McGee from Steampunk
Zipp (Natalie) 022848 as Matilda Sterling from Steampunk
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From the Second survey diary
Onboard the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen we are currently performing an ecosystem survey that will help to increase our understanding about the living resources of the continental shelf, species assemblages and their linkages with the environment. To do so, we are conducting different studies during these 14 days of survey including acoustic assessment of pelagic fisheries, stratified assessment of demersal fisheries, sea-bottom impact of bottom trawling, oceanographic measures, plankton biomass estimation and sampling, marine mammals, birds and turtle’s distribution and the exploration of the sea-mountain and canyons off Cape Lopez. All these activities will generate a great amount of data that will need to be processed and analyzed once at land.
During the survey onboard the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, we will assess fisheries resources and we will collect benthos samples, both inside and outside the Marine Park with the intention of monitoring changes in the ecosystem between a recently closed fishing zone, previously exploited, and a contiguous currently trawled area. Results from this and following surveys will help us to understand how ecosystems recover after the closure of fishing activities and what effects can bring the creation of new Marine Parks on the marine biodiversity of West Africa. Preliminary results from trawl catches suggest bigger size and higher species diversity inside the park, than outside. One distinguished difference is that inside the park we got several big royal spiny lobsters (Panulirus regius).
So far we have conducted almost 50 bottom trawl stations. In many trawl hauls 20 to 40 different species have been identified. Most of these have been below 30 cm, but occasionally some big individuals have been caught. One African brown snapper (Lutjanus dentatus) was above 1 m long and weighted almost 20 kg. A Gorean snapper (Lutjanus goreensis) was close to 1 m long and 12 kg. One day we got a big Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) during the trawl, it seemed to be in good shape and after measuring we could release it again to the sea.
Raul Vilela and Kathrine Michalsen
(cruise leaders)
The Coca-Cola Pavilion
New York World's Fair 1964-1965
"Peace through Understanding"
The two-story elliptical building exhibits five of the most spectacular places in the world. In the center court, the Coca-Cola Tower rises 120 feet in the air and contains the world's largest electronic carillon, with 610 bells.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Aug. 4, 2015) Afghan National Army 205th Corps Commander Brig. Gen. Dawood Shah Wafadar and Train, Advise and Assist Command - South Commander U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Paul Bontrager conduct an aerial battlefield familiarization flight of key terrain in southern Afghanistan to gain situational awareness and shared understanding of the area. The ANA is responsible for security in the area and works closely with coalition partners from TAAC-S as part of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. (U.S. military photo by Lt. Kristine Volk, Resolute Support Public Affairs/Released)
This is a highly detailed, original watercolor painting of the Chicago Cubs 1940 uniform. It was created as part of a collection of 17 pieces of original art celebrating the history of the uniforms of the MLB Chicago Cubs. This original painting, and more than 1500 other NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA football and CFL uniform paintings, is available for sale at our Heritage Sports Art website.
To get a good understanding of the art, the history behind this whole project and what the art looks like when it's framed, check out our Chicago Cubs Artwork YouTube video.
You can also read several Chicago Cubs history posts at our Heritage Jerseys and Uniforms blog including a history of every home stadium the Cubs have ever played in - and also several hundred other NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA football and CFL posts too.
Mardi Gras 2010
We were delighted be part of Cardiff Mardi Gras once again this year – the annual celebration of diversity with a mission to change attitudes and increase understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities.It was held held at Cooper’s Field, Cardiff on Saturday 4 September. Our Outreach Bus was staffed by our LBGT Staff Network, OUT-NAW, and was visited by more people again this year. We were extremely grateful to those who took time to answer our questionnaire about our engagement with the LGBT community and for views on the best ways of communicating with people about the Assembly elections and the referendum on the Assembly’s powers in 2011.We’re analysing all your answers right now and they are an invaluable contribution to our communication planning for 2011. A number of people also came along for a chat on how best to contact their Assembly Members, the Equality of Opportunity Committee, to discuss our work more generally or to meet the Presiding Officer, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, who spent a considerable amount of time meeting visitors and enjoying, as we all did, the lively atmosphere on the field.It was, indeed, a day to celebrate diversity in Wales.
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Roeddem yn falch o fod yn rhan o wyl Mardi Gras Caerdydd eto eleni – y dathliad blynyddol o amrywiaeth, gyda chenhadaeth i newid agweddau a chynyddu dealltwriaeth o’r cymunedau lesbiaidd, hoyw, deurywiol a thrawsrywiol (LGBT). Cynhaliwyd yr wyl yn Cooper’s Field, Caerdydd ddydd Sadwrn 4 Medi. Cafodd ein Bws Allgymorth ei staffio gan ein Rhwydwaith Staff Lesbiaidd, Hoyw, Deurywiol a Thrawsrywiol, OUT-NAW, ac ymwelodd mwy o bobl a hi eto eleni. Roeddem yn ddiolchgar iawn i’r rheini a dreuliodd amser yn ateb ein holiadur am ein hymgysylltiad a’r gymuned Lesbiaidd, Hoyw, Deurywiol a Thrawsrywiol ac am farn ar y ffyrdd gorau o gyfathrebu a phobl ynghylch etholiadau’r Cynulliad a’r refferendwm ar bwerau’r Cynulliad yn 2011.Rydym ar hyn o bryd yn dadansoddi eich atebion i gyd ac maent yn gyfraniad gwerthfawr i’n cynlluniau cyfathrebu ar gyfer 2011.Daeth nifer o bobl hefyd draw am sgwrs ynglyn a’r ffordd orau o gysylltu a’u Haelodau Cynulliad, y Pwyllgor Cyfle Cyfartal, i drafod ein gwaith yn fwy cyffredinol neu i gyfarfod a’r Llywydd, yr Arglwydd Dafydd Elis-Thomas, a dreuliodd gryn amser yn cyfarfod ag ymwelwyr ac yn mwynhau’r awyrgylch fywiog ar y maes. Bu heb os yn ddiwrnod i ddathlu amrywiaeth yng Nghymru.
ពួកគេក៏បានជួយក្នុងកិច្ចខិតខំប្រឹងប្រែងនេះ ដោយដាំកូនឈើថ្មី 200 ដើម នៅក្នុងព្រៃ។
អ្នកចូលរួមសិក្ខាសាលា “YSEALI Generation: EARTH" រួមមានយុវជនយុវនារីអាយុពី 18-25 ឆ្នាំ មកពីប្រទេសប្រុយណេ កម្ពុជា ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ឡាវ ម៉ាឡេស៊ី មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា ហ្វីលីពីន សិង្ហបុរី ថៃ និង វៀតណាម។
ចំណុចផ្ដោតសំខាន់នៃកម្មវិធីនេះ គឺដើម្បីធ្វើឲ្យមានការយល់ស៊ីជម្រៅទៅ លើបញ្ហាប្រឈម ផ្នែកបរិស្ថាន ដែលតំបន់អាស៊ាន និងតំបន់ដទៃទៀតកំពុងមាន។
“YSEALI Generation: EARTH" participants explore the community forest campaign in Tbeng Village where villagers have taken up to the protect their ecosystem.
They also assist in reforestation efforts by planting 200 new trees in the forest.
The U.S. Embassy brings together 72 young Southeast Asian leaders to Siem Reap for the workshop aiming to to foster a deeper understanding of challenges to the environment facing the ASEAN region and beyond.
Participants include young people between the age of 18-25 from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
Memorandum of Understanding signing between The Qingdao Municipal Health Bureau (QMHB) and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in London, 27 February 2014.
Global Understanding & Friendship Beyond Borders
Being in Rotary is not a part in our life. It’s our life
It was a great feeling when you have the opportunity to wear rotary logo on your shirt. It’s time to take responsibility on your shoulders to serve your community.
When I joined rotaract movement way back in 2024, I never realized that I will represent RI Dist. 3230 as a goodwill ambassador to become a Member of the GSE Team to RI Dist 1880, North Bavaria & Saxony, Germany, during May /Jun. 2013
We the GSE team Sasi, Sharanya, Soundarya and myself Dinesh headed by Rtn. Sabu Balagopal had many meetings to sketch ourselves from Jan to May 2013 before our departure to Germany. We discussed over mails, regular meetings, get together with Rtns, dist conference thought us how big is the opportunity for us and how should we prepare ourselves to take our 3230 brand to fly high with colors.
40 to 4
Departed from Chennai with 40 degree summer and landed in Leipzig via Frankfurt and cool 4 degree of Germany welcomed us. Wow how cool it was…
We received warm welcome from Albrecht Hartge, GSE chair of RI Dist 1880,Germany with his team. We enthusiastic 5 people was looking forward to our next 30 days. Yes we were much excited.
We experienced and learned many things in Germany starting from history. architecture, historical churches, museums, city visits etc.
We had good opportunity to visit World Headquarters of Audi where they hosted our Indian National flag to welcome us. Rotary power is great. We extended our visits to
Vocational Visits and Networking opportunities
•Berlin- Parliament, Indian Embassy,Charlie Point,Historic wall, Olympic Stadium etc.
•Hosted by TV stations, Radio channels. Our show in German O+TV (www.otv.de/ambergweiden-rotary-club-verbindet-kontinente-...)
•Companies and manufacturing units of Volkswagen, Porshe,
•Great experience by spending in a silver mine
•Visits to University of Leipzig, Regensburg, Frieberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nurnberg to initiate International Youth Exchnage and youth forum
•Joint rotary meetings with Leipzig, Frieburg, Dresden, Bayreuth, widen, Cham,Schwandoff, Regensburg, Erlangen, Nurnmberg etc
•Visits to German Supreme Court and meeting with Judges
•Meeting Mayor and deputy mayors
Home stays- The home away from home
One of the life time experience where sharing proud things about country, learning the new culture and family values of the hosts, late night dinner talks, going out like one family. Overall we never missed our Indian hospitality in Germany.
Rotaractors
As a rotaractor from our district I had good opportunities to visit all the rotaractors in host clubs, I have received invitation to speak in President elect training seminar(PETS) where I had the opportunites to share about our RI dist 3230 Rotaract council and I shared our flag with all the rotaract club members. They were very kind to us and interested to hear about our rotaract activities and they felt excited to hear our numbers 23000 rtrs.
1880 Dist conference, Culture and arts
We presented our 3230 GSE team in a grand manner where we showed about video of India and Tamilnadu and also we performed cultural activities of India with Vande Matharam song by Saranya and Soundarya followed by solo folk dance by Dinesh and karate performance by Sasi. Finally audience felt happy when we performed our group dance with Tamil folk, Bollywood and Hollywood where our team leader also joined in dance performance. On seeing this we received warm invitations from all the rotary clubs . We performed in 7 clubs
Rotary and team Spirit
We had good chance to show our sporting skills. Yes Sasi and me (Dinesh) participated in Dragon Boat Race as part of Rotary clubs of Erlangen Fundraising efforts and finished 2nd in one of the race. Rotary raised 24000 euros for community projects
Future after GSE
We had great time in Germany studying vocation, experiencing culture, learning professionalism etc. It will be a starting point to shape my future . GSE created a platform to think beyond our comfort zone, hard work, team work, communication, networking etc. I believe in sharing and learning and this journey never ends
Coming year I am planning to create strategy to work with our RI 3230 District rotaract council to strengthen our rotaract zone in city plus and upcountry where lot of young people like me longing for opportunities. They need a platform.. I am willing to provide that. Also will build up IT assistance, social networking, planning New generation projects with my Parent club RC of Gudiyattam
After the GSE experience I expanded my Sports for Development Projects to Serve Young People with curriculum like Life skills, Service Learning, Adolescent health, Physical recreation and social learning to reach 10000 kids in 2 years. This will be my next major project and I would like to joint with other rotary clubs to spread the word to reach the unreached
More than 600 alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs gathered in Islamabad to share their experiences and to commit to building trust and understanding between the United States and Pakistan. This third annual event of the Pakistan–U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN) Islamabad Chapter attracted politicians, parliamentarians, scholars, journalists, professionals, and students –all of whom are alumni of various exchange programs to the United States.
My understanding is that is now known as Broadstone Plaza or the Broadstone Gate and the original plan is described below:
"The Broadstone Gate will provide a key access to the Grangegorman site once complete and is being developed as part of the Luas Cross City works. It will be finished as a public plaza and the access will provide a major linkage between Grangegorman and Dublin city."
"The plaza is situated off Constitution Hill on the site of the old royal canal at the former Great Weatern Railway Station commonly known as Broadstone, and will mark a prominent entrance to the Grangegorman urban quarter."
"Under the Grangegorman Masterplan, the primary urban path through Grangegorman – St Brendan’s Way will link with the Broadstone Gate which when completed will reach as far as Prussia Street. The link with Broadstone can also be seen as an extension to the 18th century historic spine of Dublin City which covered Dublin Castle across Grattan Bridge, along Capel Street/Bolton Street, Henrietta Street and King’s Inn."
The new pedestrian/cyclist link between Grangegorman and Constitution Hill was officially opened in November. This link in its current format is temporary until site development in that area is completed. The initial opening hours for the link are Monday – Friday, from 7am – 4pm and on Saturdays, from 7.30am – 2pm. I have been advised by the Grangegorman Development Agency that it intends to expand these opening hours soon.
As you can see from my photographs the Plaza Area is currently a building site but I am hoping that it will be complete within a few months.
ពួកគេក៏បានជួយក្នុងកិច្ចខិតខំប្រឹងប្រែងនេះ ដោយដាំកូនឈើថ្មី 200 ដើម នៅក្នុងព្រៃ។
អ្នកចូលរួមសិក្ខាសាលា “YSEALI Generation: EARTH" រួមមានយុវជនយុវនារីអាយុពី 18-25 ឆ្នាំ មកពីប្រទេសប្រុយណេ កម្ពុជា ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ឡាវ ម៉ាឡេស៊ី មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា ហ្វីលីពីន សិង្ហបុរី ថៃ និង វៀតណាម។
ចំណុចផ្ដោតសំខាន់នៃកម្មវិធីនេះ គឺដើម្បីធ្វើឲ្យមានការយល់ស៊ីជម្រៅទៅ លើបញ្ហាប្រឈម ផ្នែកបរិស្ថាន ដែលតំបន់អាស៊ាន និងតំបន់ដទៃទៀតកំពុងមាន។
“YSEALI Generation: EARTH" participants explore the community forest campaign in Tbeng Village where villagers have taken up to the protect their ecosystem.
They also assist in reforestation efforts by planting 200 new trees in the forest.
The U.S. Embassy brings together 72 young Southeast Asian leaders to Siem Reap for the workshop aiming to to foster a deeper understanding of challenges to the environment facing the ASEAN region and beyond.
Participants include young people between the age of 18-25 from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
My understanding is that sampans are small flat bottomed wooden boats used in Asia for transportation or for fishing near the coast or on rivers, and they don't all look like the one seen here. In Aberdeen, the sampans are typically fitted with old tires all around to protect them from being damaged in collisions. Sampans don't all have motors – most are propelled wit oars, sail or poles – but the ones we saw in Aberdeen all seemed to be motorised.
FRENKEL, Dann; SMIT, Berend. Understanding molecular simulation: from algorithms to applications. 2 ed. São Diego: Academic Press, 2002. xxii, 638 p. (Computational science series, 1 [Academic Press]). ISBN 0122673514. Inclui bibliografia e índice; il. tab.; 24x16cm.
Palavras-chave: FISICA MOLECULAR; FISICA MODERNA.
CDU 539.21 / F879u / 2 ed. / 2002
This is a page layout painting I did in photoshop, it's not quite done, I need to do something else with the font and make it look more like a page layout than just a painting. Thoughts and crits are welcome : )
Robert Girrier, President, Pacific Forum, USA capture during the session: Understanding Asia’s New Balance of Power at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, September 12, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Pakistan edges closer to implosion and the nation's elite remain mired in in-fighting. The Insider Brief attempts to explore why Pakistan's elite have been unable to come to a national consensus.
Read about it here: (Geopolitical) Reality Bites
The Insider Brief | www.pakintel.com
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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