NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participates in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. (USDA photo by Tom Witham)

Understanding the importance of six months of exclusive breastfeeding. Photo taken for Suaahara Program.

They say children are like snowflakes, each one is unique. The one-size-fits-all parenting style, thus, seems passé. Comprehending children’s psychology is paramount for every parent, but not easy. And the fact that every child is different and special makes the process even more complex and perplexing. At times, things could misfire as well, leading to a lifelong emotional disconnect between the child and the parents.

Dr. Deepak Raheja, a well-known child psychologist in Delhi, rightly points out, “Understanding a child’s thinking pattern, traits and personality is crucial on the part of parents in order to nurture the kid into an emotionally-balanced and healthy adult.”

According to Dr. Deepak Raheja, the three primary contexts that shape a child’s psychology perspective towards life are:

Social: A child’s relationship and comfort level with parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, or friends.

Cultural: The traditions, culture, values or guidelines put into practise in the house or in the society that a child grows in.

Socioeconomic:The lifestyle, class, financial backing and social status of the child’s family.

Dr. Deepak Raheja lists down a few simple psychology tips for parents to ensure their children’s right emotional and mental growth.

Observe your children:The key to understanding a child is to take interest in his or her choices, expressions, actions, temperament, and so on. Do not judge your kids, or compare them with other children else you may mistakenly end up sowing the seeds of inferiority complex in them.

Give your children the time they deserve:Ensure to make time for your children while you juggle between home and work. Spending quality time together with your kids is paramount to actually discover their personality. For this, you could try talking, playing, colouring, shopping, watching TV, or cooking their favourite dish with them.

Your undivided attention will make your children feel safe:Plan activities with them in a way that it enables you to dedicate a good amount of your time exclusively to them.

Keep a check on the environment your children are growing in: Everything, right from a child’s brain development and cognitive skills to attitude and language is largely shaped by the atmosphere and company around him.

Be a good listener to your kids: The best way to do that is to initiate a conversation on a topic of your children’s interest and get them talking. Listen attentively,while also paying attention to all the non-verbal cues like their expressions, body language or expressions.

Ask them open-ended questions: The right kind of questions will encourage them to think and express elaborately rather than a mere ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Practise the same if the children ask you a question in return.

Understand your children’s emotional quotient:Consider your kids as adults and never take their emotions or feelings for granted. Valuing children’s emotions and their capacity to handle sentiments is important.

Stop assuming and start asking: Make it a habit of talking to your children about how they feel or want things around them. For instance, just because a child isn’t complaining wouldn’t mean he or she is happy.

Dr Deepak Raheja states that minor behavioural issues, such as stubbornness or rudeness is common in kids and can be worked upon with the above mentioned tips. However, if not handled on time in an appropriate way, the problems may escalate into something as serious as childhood psychological disorders. It might include:

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

“Poor judgement and lack of awareness about the psychology of children can lead parents to take poor decisions that can affect their children severely.” says Dr. Deepak Raheja.

He further advises parents to seek help from skilled child psychologists before the situation worsens. Speaking to a specialist is always better than making wild guesses about children’s personality. If you, as a parent, feel the need to learn more tips to contribute to the development of your child’s conscience in the right manner, then get in touch with Dr. Deepak Raheja today.

The best psychiatrist in Delhi, Dr. Deepak Raheja reviews mental health, psychological or emotional problems cautiously. You could visit www.hopecareindia.com /and book an appointment with Dr. Deepak Raheja to adapt a realistic approach on raising a confident child.

What is the child psychology?

Child psychology is one of the many branches of psychology and one of the most frequently studied specialty areas. This particular branch focuses on the mind and behavior of children from prenatal development through adolescence.

What is child development in psychology?

A significant proportion of theories within this discipline focus upon development during childhood, as this is the period during an individual's lifespan when the most change occurs. Developmental psychologists study a wide range of theoretical areas, such as biological, social, emotion, and cognitive processes.

How can we communicate with children?

Let your kids know you're listening

When your children are talking about concerns, stop whatever you are doing and listen.

Express interest in what they are saying without being intrusive.

Listen to their point of view, even if it's difficult to hear.

Let them complete their point

before you respond.

How do you raise a child?

The five strategies to raise moral, caring children, according to Making Caring Common:

Make caring for others a priority.

Provide opportunities for children to practice caring and gratitude.

Expand your child's circle of concern.

Be a strong moral role model and mentor.

Guide children in managing destructive feelings.

Sometimes a single image can change one's understanding of a person, place or thing.

Here, seeing a photo of Joe Knowles standing next to his car, one of the most advanced vehicles of the era, transformed my view of the pioneering reality star who was known in his day as The Nature Man from coast to coast.

Yes, Americans are notorious for living beyond their means, and that may have been the case here. Or perhaps Joe Knowles was just enjoying the rewards of his hard work.

As newspapers of the era liked to point out, Joe Knowles became famous for his ability to abandon the trappings of civilization and survive in the wilderness, but he was equally well adapted to the comforts and luxuries of city living.

Proving a point about humankind's ingenuity under primitive conditions was Knowles' passion, but he was also a hard-working entrepreneur and promoter. This photo suggests that Knowles not only made good money but was able to hang onto it.

As soon as Knowles returned from the forests of the Siskiyous in 1914, he began making personal appearances in Oregon and California to demonstrate his survival skills. In time he added a tame bear to his act. Then he landed a movie deal that took him back to the Siskiyous, There, his encounters with a cougar and perilous rapids put him back in the headlines.

Turning up In New York, Knowles announced the next chapter in his wilderness adventures: he would mentor two intrepid women in his woodcraft! To prove he was serious, Knowles sat for a publicity photo with the two "Eves" that graced the pages of many a publication.

This twist was hardly surprising. By then, several women had already made their own bids for the limelight by publicly professing their intention to emulate The Nature Man on their own. Almost from the outset, the press had evinced a coy preoccupation over how Knowles's female imitators might be attired on Day One. Victorian prudishness had receded far enough by the teens of the 1900s that reporters could write that Knowles planned to enter the forest nude, though not far enough that they could publish photos of Knowles in the altogether. Today, some might call that state of affairs titillating.

The story behind Joe Knowles' announcement that Elaine Hammerstein (a cousin of the hugely famous Oscar Hammerstein II) would be joining him in the Adirondacks for a reprise of his earlier exploits in the woods is surely worthy of a movie. Nothing in Elaine's basic biography even hints that such a feat might have interested her. Nothing more appeared about the project in the New York press after the splash of the announcement. An item in a Western newspaper reported that an early winter had forced the two of them to call off their plans. Joe himself said that Elaine found her grass skirt not up to the challenge of keeping her warm.

When America's entry into the Great War in 1917 muted the public's enthusiasm for Joe Knowles' nature act, he reinvented himself as the West's leading instructor on woodlore at scout gatherings.

It was his first such event that brought him to the North Beach Peninsula for the first time around 1916. By 1917 Joe Knowles had settled in the village of Seaview, where was immediately hailed as a regional celebrity and accomplished artist. In other words, he was the classic local character. Knowles was famous for being famous, making him a celebrity, but unlike many of that ilk, he had solid accomplishments to his name. By then, "Knowles" had entered the American lexicon as a metaphor for nudity or a penchant for roughing it.

His stature led him to secure numerous commissions, including a series of murals in 1924 for the newest theater in Astoria, Oregon, which was just then rebuilding its downtown after a devastating fire. That year he also painted portraits of the chief justices of the Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington. The former was received with great fanfare in the press and in real life.

It's at that juncture that we catch up with Joe Knowles standing next to his flashy new car in Portland. This was as much a publicity shot for Knowles as it was for the auto dealership.

© Alan Davey 2024 All rights reserved.

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About the Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine

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By

David Conwill

Updated

August 27, 2024

in Classics, Hemmings Classic Car, Magazine

Too Much, Too Soon – 1925 Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine

The creative genius of car enthusiasts and the cold calculations of businessmen are the age-old yin and yang of the automobile industry. Think of the car enthusiast as an artist, driven to create the purest expression of his or her vision in steel, glass, and rubber–regardless of expense. The businessmen are there to make sure that the unfettered vision doesn’t bankrupt the company. Both the artist and his or her fans may decry the artificial limitation on mechanical genius, but the graveyard of the car business is littered with nameplates that went too far, too fast, and were unable to sustain themselves.

By the time he was approached to append his appellation to the eponymous company in 1921, Eddie Rickenbacker’s car-enthusiast credentials were already well-established: He first rose to prominence as a race-car driver in the 1911-’17 era, having appeared in every Indianapolis 500 race before World War I, and as a driver for the factory teams of Peugeot and Maxwell.

During the war, he was the United States’ “Ace of Aces,” having shot down a confirmed 26 enemy aircraft at the controls of his Nieuport and SPAD biplanes. He was promoted to the rank of major at the end of his service, but throughout his life preferred the rank he felt he had earned, that of captain. By 1918, “Captain Eddie” was already a household name in America.

Rickenbacker wasn’t merely a good driver and pilot. Before his skill at the wheel was recognized, Rickenbacker had seen to his education via a correspondence course in engineering. An early internal-combustion enthusiast, he had also worked for the Columbia Buggy Company selling its Firestone-Columbus automobiles.

Further, Rickenbacker was already associated with General Motors founder Billy Durant, thanks to a marketing arrangement wherein Rickenbacker promoted GM’s Sheridan division. In 1922, he would actually marry Durant’s ex-daughter-in-law. So when Barney Everitt, William Metzger, and Walter Flanders– three men with enormous experience in the auto industry– joined with Rickenbacker, they were getting far more than just a famous name.

Everitt, Metzger, and Flanders are best remembered for the E-M-F Company, which was eventually folded into Studebaker– though that was far from their only accomplishment. They were, respectively, a body man, a salesman, and a production man. All three had good reputations as auto executives, though their companies usually did not survive long after their personal leadership had departed. Rickenbacker was, sadly, not to be an exception.

Captain Eddie himself had initially wished to stay in aviation after the war. Unfortunately, the postwar recession, combined with a glut of surplus aircraft, meant that the fledgling aircraft industry was struggling. Instead, he reverted to his prewar enthusiasm for the automobile. In the 1920s, the line between automotive technology and aviation was far thinner than today, and the disciplines cross-pollinated liberally.

What Rickenbacker wanted in his own new car was to bring the high-performance technology of military aircraft and racing cars to the street. He was not alone in this, with the Chevrolet brothers (who had previously sold their family name to Durant) making similar plans at the same time to turn their Frontenac racing team into a producer of road cars. Rickenbacker got further, however, and while Frontenac was forced to produce speed parts for the Ford Model T, Rickenbacker really did produce what the company termed “a car worthy of its name.”

The biggest technical triumph of the original Rickenbacker Six was its “tandem flywheel.” Captain Eddie had been impressed by the smoothness of the liquid-cooled inline engines of his German opponents in the skies over France. When he was able to inspect the inner workings of crashed or captured airplanes, he discovered that their crankshafts had flywheels at both ends, greatly reducing the vibration transmitted outside of the engine.

What most people remember about Rickenbacker, however, was its pioneering use of four-wheel brakes in the medium-price field. Even the prototype chassis, displayed at the 1922 New York Auto Show, had front-wheel brakes present, a major departure for the time. In June of 1923, both Duesenberg and Rickenbacker announced that four-wheel braking would now be standard. For Duesenberg, a race-bred, high-performance, luxury car, this was not much of a surprise. For a less-expensive car like Rickenbacker, it was remarkable in the extreme.

Other companies soon followed suit, though Studebaker actually launched a smear campaign attempting to paint front brakes as unsafe, and Rickenbacker felt the pressure to continue to update its product line. For 1925, the year of our feature car, the original 58-horsepower, 218-cu.in. straight-six was upgraded to a 236-cu.in. engine with seven main bearings, producing 68 horsepower. The six-cylinder engine was also joined by an L-head, 80-horsepower, 268-cu.in. straight-eight with nine main bearings. The six retained the traditional 117-inch wheelbase, but the eight received a lengthened 121.5-inch wheelbase. The lines were otherwise quite similar.

This “Vertical Eight Superfine,” as the new-for-1925 eight was called, was an excellent car–smooth and powerful. The details are outstanding for a car at its price point, right down to the “hat-in-the-ring” logo, borrowed from the United States Army Air Service’s 94th Pursuit Squadron, Rickenbacker’s own unit, cast into the rear axle housing where only someone crawling underneath the car could see it. In bringing luxury-car features to the mid-price field, it was arguably five years ahead of the competition.

Unfortunately, just as the company seemed to be finding its footing, Flanders–a crack production specialist who had helped Ford Motor Company on its way to the moving assembly line– was killed in a car accident. At the same time, dealers began fleeing the fold, possibly due to Studebaker’s hatchet job (though it wouldn’t stop newcomer Chrysler from adopting four-wheel hydraulic brakes that year) or possibly due to word of the kind of executive infighting that had brought down other efforts by the founders of E-M-F.

It was in this environment that Captain Eddie left the automotive firm bearing his name in 1926. Soon after, he would buy the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he would own until 1945, and embark on a career as an aviation executive that would keep his name in the public eye until his death in 1973.

Rickenbacker, the company, kept trying, promoting its Super Sport boat-tailed coupe as the fastest four-passenger automobile for sale (faster models from the likes of Duesenberg seated only two) and introducing dual-carburetor engines for 1927. But it was not enough, and the firm did not survive to sell 1928 models.

It is said that after the company folded, Captain Eddie personally repaid all debts he had guaranteed for the company, despite a bankruptcy discharge, burnishing his reputation as an ethical businessman. Everitt went on to help found the Verville Aircraft Company in the same Detroit factory building that had housed Rickenbacker. Metzger also got into aviation, helping form Stinson Aircraft in 1926.

As an interesting aside, the tooling for both the six-cylinder and eight-cylinder 1927 Rickenbackers was sold to a Danish businessman in Germany named Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen who had planned to produce the engines for sale to European automakers. When no orders were forthcoming, Rasmussen instead shopped his designs to Audi, in which he was the majority shareholder. This resulted in the Rickenbacker 6-70 becoming the Audi Type-T “Dresden” and the eight-cylinder Rickenbackers becoming the Audi Type-SS “Zwickau.” Both were produced until 1932.

That makes the four-passenger coupe on these pages a rarity to begin with. In fact, it is believed by the Rickenbacker Club of America to be the only surviving 1925 eight-cylinder coupe. It should come as no surprise, then, that for the past 48 years it has been a part of the Automobile Gallery of the Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The Automobile Gallery has as its nucleus the collection of pharmaceutical heir J.K. Lilly III, and the Rickenbacker was acquired by Lilly in 1966.

We spoke with Director of Collections and Exhibits Jennifer Madden, and she told us that Lilly acquired the car from a Dearborn, Michigan, collector named J. Walter Heater. We don’t know if there is a connection, but Heater was an executive with a Detroit firm called Fleet Supply Corp. (“parts and supplies for trucks, trailers, and cars”). The address for Fleet Supply, 2896 Central Avenue, was less than a mile from the still-extant former Rickenbacker factory at 4815 Cabot Street–could that have sparked Heater’s interest in finding a Rickenbacker?

Heater found the car in 1960 in what the Detroit Free Press described as “an abandoned garage on Ferry Park Avenue near the Lodge Freeway.” The previous owner, a man named Gauss, was a retired Army engineer. According to a letter in the car’s file at the Heritage Museums, Gauss had sold his home and actually lived in the car in his garage for 15 years!

Heater restored the Rickenbacker, completing the job in 1962. The coupe was immediately recognized as Grand Champion at the Henry Ford Museum’s Old Car Festival in the division for cars built between 1917 and 1925. While it was in his care, it was reunited with Captain Eddie for a television show apparently called On the Street.

Sometime around 1966, Heater and Lilly happened to encounter one another, and Heater told Lilly about his Rickenbacker. The two men corresponded that summer regarding the car, and eventually it was settled that Lilly would purchase it for $5,000 (a little more than $37,500 adjusted for inflation).

Heater even offered to drive the Rickenbacker from Dearborn to Boston for Lilly to take delivery. In a letter, he noted “it runs very well at 55-60 mph, which means two days on the road from here.” Eventually, it was settled that Heater would meet a representative of Lilly’s in Syracuse, New York, about half way between the two men. Heater apparently took the Greyhound home.

It’s not recorded why the Rickenbacker caught Lilly’s fancy. Perhaps it was just the excellent restoration that the car still wears today–having been museum-kept since 1969 and undriven since sometime in the 1970s, although the museum intends to get it driving again soon. It is worth noting that the Lilly family’s roots are not in Boston, or Cape Cod, but rather in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Rickenbacker name and the speedway are icons. It’s not impossible that Lilly, who was six when this car was built, recalled the excitement associated with Captain Eddie and his airplane-inspired car way back when.

Though it survived only a brief six model years, and only an estimated two dozen examples remain, the Rickenbacker is well remembered today, thanks to its technical sophistication and its association with one of America’s greatest aviation heroes. If you are lucky enough to see or experience one, linger awhile and soak in the details, quality construction, mechanical elegance, and handsome styling. You will be glad you did.

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The Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics (ICOL) hosted a talk by James Paul Gee, Regents' Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Literacy Studies in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU.

“From Grammar to Society”

The core grammar of any natural language fixes certain rather abstract aspects of meaning by "rule" (social conventions rooted in a human "instinct" for grammars of a certain sort). This aspect of grammar is largely irrelevant to applied linguistics. So, what is the role of grammar for those of us who study language in its social, institutional, and cultural settings? Gee offers in this talk a theory of grammar, discourse, and society that underlies an approach to discourse analysis with relevance to the understanding of controversial issues in society.

This public event was hosted by the Department of English at ASU and was free of charge.

ASU Tempe campus

Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018

Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

Maaike Arts

Lawrence Grummer-Strawn

Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation

Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies

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Understanding child psychology: Parent should learn and understand how to deal with children so that they get good values in their life. They should know what they should do in front of kids and what they should not. Because children learn from what they see ...In this video Pujya Niruma gives good tips on how parents should deal with children.

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The church, which stands at the top of a hill overlooking the village of Alkham, dates back to the 13th century. Alterations and additions were made in the 14th century and Victorian era. The most recent restoration work having been completed by 1968. It was in the parish of St.Anthony, Alkham that the Moseling family lived for several generations, and in this churchyard that many of them are buried. Most of them have unmarked graves, apart from that of Harriet Ann Moseling, nee Wood, (1851-1894), first wife of John Moseling, Parish Clerk. The headstone of Harriet's grave now stands against the east wall of the porch.

John Moseling (1845-1922), a Master Blacksmith and the last to serve as village blacksmith, was appointed the Parish Clerk and Sexton of St.Anthony's in 1868. A note appears in the Churchwardens book of that year stating:

"Mr John Moseling appointed as Parish Clerk and Sexton - salary £7-0-0d per annum on the understanding that he does these duties with his uncle Mr.John White. The duties of the Clerk - to attend when there are services in the church and see that arrangements are made for them, supposing those services to be not more than three in the week, besides funerals, marriages and christenings. To wash the surplices as heretofore. To receive notice and inform the clergyman of services. Duties of Sexton - to sweep out the church once a month, and clean it thoroughly once a year and dust it thoroughly twice a year. To keep the churchyard paths and drains clean and cut the grass and weeds. To toll the bell according to custom".

In 1902 John applied for an increase in salary as he had extra work with more Services and the consequent increase in church cleaning - it was still the same salary as 1868. It was proposed that he be relieved of his work in the churchyard without diminution of salary - the motion was carried. The Vicar agreed to open the church and prepare for early Holy Communion on Sundays and Holy days himself. It is noted in the parish records that John approved of this arrangement. In 1904 he received £9-1-6d and in 1905 £9-0-0d. On 10th April 1917 he wrote a letter resigning his post of Parish Clerk, after 49 years service. A proposal was put to the Vestry meeting to canvas the village to raise a testimonial to be presented in cash to John; what this amounted to we are not told.

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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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An education Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Education Minister Peter Fassbender and Xian Lianping, Director-General, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.

Minister Fassbender continues BC's commitment to education collaboration, signing a Memorandum of Understanding which builds on the previous announcement by Minister of Advanced Education Andrew Wilkinson in March 2015. The minister began his visit to The People's Republic of China and Japan on May 30 to promote BC's education programs, reinforce the Province's commitment to international education and strengthen BC's relationships with both countries.

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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.

Copyright Museum of Natural History

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This photograph was taken at the Understanding Clifford's Tower event which took place at Clifford's Tower and the Hilton Hotel, York, on Sunday 25th January 2015.

Photograph taken by Sam Johnson.

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This morning we are responding to a fire at a block of flats near Grovelands Road, Reading. We will update this post with our updates from the scene. Updates from Thames Valley Police can be found on their Twitter feed: twitter.com/ThamesVP

9:51am update

At 2:51am on Wednesday, 15 December, we received reports of a fire at a block of flats in Grovelands Road, Reading.

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service crews from Caversham Road, Wokingham Road, Theale, Whitley Wood, Wokingham, Bracknell, Ascot, Crowthorne, Slough, two pumps from Newbury and the Aerial Ladder Platform and Incident Command Unit were sent to the scene, together with seven officers and crews from Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service.

Upon arrival, firefighters found a fire within a four-storey block of flats, affecting all levels. Sadly, one person is believed to have died, and there are a number of others who are as yet unaccounted for.

Please avoid the area while emergency services respond to this incident. Thank you for your understanding.

1:00pm update

Crews remain on scene at an incident in a low-rise building in Grovelands Road, Reading. Please continue to avoid the area while emergency services respond to the incident. Thank you for your understanding.

UPDATE - READING FIRE

Our crews remain on the scene of the incident off Grovelands Road, Reading. Following an extensive search yesterday, during which all rescue opportunities were exhausted and confirmed that sadly, if there was anyone else in the building, we do not expect there to be any further survivors.

The building itself is a block of low-rise flats, comprised of four storeys and is traditionally built from brick and timber, without cladding.

A fire engine, alongside the Aerial Ladder Platform and Incident Command Unit are still in attendance. They will be remaining on scene to assist with extinguishing any hot spots from the fire and we are working with our partners to put in place safe systems of work for the ongoing recovery work.

From the assessment on scene today, it has been established that gaining safe access could take quite some time due to the deterioration in the structure of the building from the fire. Based on this, we expect to remain in attendance over the coming days.

This is an incredibly challenging time and we’d like to reassure those affected by this incident, the families of those impacted and the wider community that we are working incredibly hard, alongside colleagues from the Police.

Separately, the Fire Investigation will be underway once access to the building is confirmed as safe to enter.

We’d like to thank our residents for their continued co-operation, patience and support and further updates will be provided once the building has been confirmed as safe to enter.

By Monrovia Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama.

1st Grade

"protect our environment"

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Picture made at La Défense, Paris, 2011.

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"Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall understand fully."

--Paul (A.D. 1st cent.). 1 Corinthians 13:12

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.

Copyright Museum of Natural History

www.wien-konkret.at/kultur/museum/naturhistorisches-museu...

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean Pierre Lacroix, visited Malakal on August 2, 2017 where he met with the state authorities in Central Upper Nile State.

The deputy Governor of the state, John Odhong, told the peacekeeping chief that the state government is currently engaged in inter-communal dialogue among the Internally displaced persons leaving in the UN protection of civilian site in Malakal.

He outlined the state government priorities to the UN delegation. “State government priorities are peace security, production and we encourage all citizens in central Upper Nile state to engage in peace building so as to close the gap and create more understanding and co-existing among the communities to be productive, and the state government is encouraging the citizens in the state to engage in agriculture during this rainy season so that next year they will have their own food to survive on”

At the same meeting, the speaker of the Upper Nile state Assembly, Peter Col Wal, said peace remains essential for stability in the state. He urged the UN mission in the country, to support peace activities in the state.

The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, accompanies the Peacekeeping operations chief, who commended the state government for acknowledging the role of the mission in the area.

“We appreciate your efforts in visiting the POC and talking to the people inside the POC, and I think it is an example I would like to take to the people in Juba, once again on behalf of UNMISS I just want to thank you for your cooperation you have shown.”

Mr. Lacroix returns to Juba this morning ending his three-day visit to the country.

UN Photo: Isaac Billy

Milan highlights:

Torre Velasca by BBPR from 1958 / Understanding Jacques Herzog's devastating criticism of the EXPO in Milan by visiting the EXPO in Milan / Edward Burtynsky's Aqua Shock photos at the Pallazzo della Ragione / Campari Spritzer at the Camparino in Galleria / sleeping to the sound of thunder and torrentuous rain / Armani Silos, both the exhibited fashion and also the close to 25 young, male custodians all dressed in Armani black attire / Superstudio Radical Art and Architecture exhibition at PAC / Fondazione Prada conceived by OMA/Rem Koolhaas / Bellini, Caravaggio, Veronese and Piero della Francesca at the Pinacoteca di Brera / Selfie Galore in front of the Duomo / Pizza / The Navigli and Tortona neighborhoods / P8 Jazz Radio with a live recording of Oscar Peterson Trio in Japan from the mid-1960's, red wine in a plastic cup and the new book from Michel Houellebecq in a hotel bed late at night ...

Understanding Weather by O.G. Sutton

First published 1960

Reprinted 1961

Cover design by Derek Birdsall

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.

Copyright Museum of Natural History

www.wien-konkret.at/kultur/museum/naturhistorisches-museu...

It is not uncommon for people to feel they lack an understanding of tooth whitening processes. There's nothing like an informative article to point you in the direction of the most effective teeth-whitening strategies. It is just a matter of having the correct information to get the results you want. This article contains many of the ideas and methods you need to take action today.

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The Catriona McDonald was built in Forster by Alf Jahnsen for David McDonald Brown in 1956; she was registered in 1956. David “Mac” Brown referred to his boat as simply Catriona. Her sail number was CYC 25

When Brown sold the Catriona McDonald in 1960 to Dr. R. and Mrs P. Roxburgh she was renamed Phyllis Graham and was allocated the sail number 63.

Russell and Phyllis Roxburgh sold the Phyllis Graham to John Hebden in April 1976. She was subsequently sold to and James and Joan Coxon in September 1976 and her name was officially named Catriona in November 1976. It is believed that her sail number was changed to A50 but this is uncertain.

To further confuse the story, David “Mac”Brown had a second boat built by Alf Jahnsen in Forster– this was the Catriona M and used the sail number CYC 25; he also referred to her as the Catriona

Research: The assistance of David Leslie Brown (Son of David "Mac" Brown) is greatly appreciated.

Acknowledgements. The assistance of Mori Flapan (Mori Flapan boatregister) by providing access to his extensive database is greatly appreciated.

All Images in this photostream are Copyright - Great Lakes Manning River Shipping and/or their individual owners as may be stated above and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or used in any way without prior written approval.

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25 February 2011 - Steve Tvardek, Head of the Export Credit Division of the OECD at the signing Ceremony of the OECD Aircraft Sector Understanding (ASU). OECD headquarters, Paris, France.

For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/trade/xcred

Photo: Andrew Wheeler/OECD

Session 1: Engaging the Private Sector

Understanding how companies and markets can create more economic opportunities, and the barriers that constrain the creation of additional jobs and self-employment opportunities is essential to addressing the current challenges of youth underemployment and unemployment.

This session discussed how three private sector organizations are putting youth at the centre of agricultural transformation.

Q&A

MasterCard Foundation YAW2017 - Day two 17/02/2017

Kigali, Rwanda

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Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

~ Lemony Snicket

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

~ James Joyce

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

~ Lloyd Alexander

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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, and Numar Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary OLADE, signs the Memorandum of Understanding between the International Atomic Energy Agency and The Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) on the Cooperation in the Area of Energy at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 9 September 2022.

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

OLADE:

Numar Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary

Medardo Cadena, Director of Energy Projects and Studies

Guillermo Koutoudjian, Director of Energy Security, Integration and Access

Gabriela Malvasio, Press and Communications

IAEA:

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General

Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director-General

monday 16th february 2015

we concluded part 2 by asserting that each entangled alter-universe which extends to constitute our understanding-with (and comprehending of) pure singleness - propagates (and is propagated by) its own proper time and space.

we also claimed that the auto-extending differentials which constitute alter-universes, must have a profound understand-with the others from which they derive their difference(s). (inasmuch as each is constituted as nothing but its difference from the others.) we furthermore claimed that each differential feels this profound understanding-with as the (effective) force of its own otherness. all force is the force of otherness - of our entangled self at a distance.

we also claimed provisionally that energy is force relative to time. (force is actually theoretical, - the condition of our understanding-with prior to time; while energy is really physical, because it is temporally extensive). we also asserted that if we comprehend space as the differential extending of pure singleness, then time extends as the reiteration of that extending.

energy, mass and entanglement.

let us then comprehend the mass of a thing, not as the property of a particulate thing, but rather as the energy of our own understandings-with that thing. in other words for example, we do not feel the force of gravity of the planet on which we stand, rather we comprehend our ownmost alter-universal understandings-with the earth and everything, as the temporal energy called ‘gravity’ - but which is in fact our ‘self in the distance’ all around. we assume that the mass of a thing is relative to our energetic comprehendings of that thing in the context of every other thing.

infinite degrees of darkness

as pure singleness, we are entangled in every possible way, and at every possible moment, with every possible alter-universal condition. in other words and so to speak, this infinity of alter-universal conditions varies from infinitely primitive, to not quite so infinitely primitive, to primitive but infinitely complex, to infinitely complex but not yet visible, to visible but infinitely primitive, to quite comprehensive but not yet visible, to visible but not a comprehensive thing, to a comprehensively sensible existing thing…. ∞

let us assert that dark matter is the pre-existence of infinitely complex entanglements of alter-universes, which are not yet visible as comprehensive things.

for the rest of this text, we will be concerned with the justification of all these various claims. in it we will try to illustrate schematically, some of the primitive alter-universal conditions which constitute our comprehending - hoping to show eventually how they can become comprehensible as things.

tuesday 17th february 2015

the elementary moment

our comprehending is this - pure singleness extends as understanding-with alterity; and it does so as an infinitely variable entanglement of alter-universes. each n-fold alter-universe has a basic pattern of mutual understanding-with (of the others of its constitution), which governs how its differentials are entangled. we call this pattern the ‘elementary moment’, and although it extends prior to the time of the alter-universe, by its auto-reiteration, it is the basis of proper time.

pure singleness extends as the sum total of all possible entangled, reiterating, elementary moments.

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wednesday 18th february 2015

let us comprehend pure singleness as the elementary moment of a two-fold alter-universe. each differential (coloured red and violet for our benefit) is nothing but the extending of the other. this is how they are entangled.

inasmuch they are nothing but a simple extending of alterity, the constitution of each differential is (each understands itself as) nothing but a spacing from the other. we understand space as and with the the very otherness of the other. each is real as the auto-understanding of the other.

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let us comprehend pure singleness as the moment of realisation of a two-fold alter-universe. by this, we do not mean to imply that there is anything like a brain which has a 'moment of realisation'. rather, we mean a moment constituted by the differentials of an alter-universe, for which each becomes real as the other. it is the realising of the elementary moment.

each is real as the auto-understanding of the other

rehto eht of gnidnatsrednu-otua eht sa laer si hcae

continued in part 4.

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68/11/25 Los Angeles, Bhagavad-gita 2.1-10

Tamala Krsna: “Sanjaya said, Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his eyes brimming with tears, Madhusudana, Krsna, spoke the following words [Bg. 2.1]. The Supreme Personality said, ‘My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come u...

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Paula Tucci and Priscilla Squires of Understanding Disabilities, with Joel Swets, executive director of Cummings Foundation

Gabriela Perez

Loos Museum, based on analysis of the Muller House. Gabriela reinterpreted the theatrical aspects of the house by turning them inside out. The house is formally expressive on the outside, but the central "stage" space is a cube.

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Fennella Barber, Director, China-Britain Business Council and Xu Jing , Director, Beijing International Brand Management Centre sign a Memorandum of Understanding for establishing London Fashion Centre, 27 June 2011.

Gabriela Perez

The central "stage" space can only be found through a circulation around the whole building. Only after observing, do you become the subject to be watched.

The Geneva Summer Schools Understanding Global Governance course flyer (back).

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

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