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Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New Yotk City, New York, United States
The Unisphere, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, was the centerpiece and visual logo of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, symbolizing the theme of "Peace Through Understanding." It was designed by the noted landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, who had devised the geometric, Beaux Arts-inspired layout of Flushing Meadows Park which formed the basis of the plan for this World's Fair as well as the earlier 1939-40 World's Fair. The Unisphere, which was commissioned to celebrate the dawn of the space age, was constructed and donated to the park by the United States Steel Corporation after successfully meeting several engineering challenges.
Robert Moses had hired Gilmore D. Clarke to lay out the plan of the 1939-40 World's Fair -- a series of major and minor boulevards and paths radiating out from a central point containing the Trylon and Perisphere, with major axes terminating at focal points that contained major pavilions, fountains, and sculpture. In 1961, Clarke returned to modify the 1939 plan for the 196465 fair, placing the Unisphere at the same prominent position as the earlier Trylon and Perisphere. The Unisphere remains at this location.
The 140-foot-high stainless steel Unisphere towers over a circular reflecting pool containing fountains that spray water twenty feet in the air. The sphere is covered with representations of the continents, showing the major mountain ranges in relief, and is encircled by three giant rings denoting the first manmade satellites, which had been launched in the late 1950s. The capital cities of the world are marked by lenses which, during the fair, were backed by flashing lights.
In late 1993 and early 1994, the Parks Department restored the Unisphere, including the reflecting pool and its fountains, and new floodlighting was installed. The sphere itself was cleaned and stabilized, and the surrounding landscape was rehabilitated as part of a 3.6 million dollar restoration project at the park. The Unisphere remains one of the most prominent structural and landscape features of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as well as a striking visual reminder of the second of New York City's great World's Fairs.
The Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The 1,255 acre Flushing Meadows - Corona Park was originally a vast swamp with a freshwater creek running through it. The first Europeans to occupy the area in the seventeenth century, attracted by its fertile ground and rich salt marshes, used the navigable Flushing Creek to transport their goods to the markets of New York.
Despite the development of the surrounding area as a suburb of New York City, the Flushing Meadows themselves remained unspoiled at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1907, developer Michael Degnon, who was building a huge industrial park in Long Island City, devised an ambitious plan to construct another large industrial park in the Flushing Meadows and to create a great port along Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.
He began purchasing the land and contracted with the New York City Department of Sanitation and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the removal of ashes, street sweepings, and excavated material to the site, which soon became known as the Corona Dump. In 1913, the State of New York authorized the dredging of Flushing Creek and Flushing Bay; soil from the dredging was also used as fill for the site.
By 1916, 600 acres had been filled in. However, Degnon's plans for the Flushing Meadows were halted with the United States' entry into World War I. After the war, the impetus for the industrial development of Flushing Meadows had been lost, but the area continued to be used as a dump.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia became the ninety-ninth mayor of the City of New York in January 1934 amid the Great Depression. He chose the popular New York State Park Commissioner, Robert Moses, as his new city Park Commissioner. Moses had a reputation as a progressive and as the builder of great parks and parkways, such as Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.
Moses accepted the position of Park Commissioner on the condition that the existing five independent Park Departments, one for each borough, be consolidated into one department with himself as the sole Commissioner. A combination of several City and State appointments gave Moses control over all existing and proposed parks and parkways in the New York metropolitan region, with the exception of areas outside of New York State.
Among Moses's many accomplishments in New York City during the 1930s were enormous new waterfront recreational facilities at Orchard Beach in the Bronx and Rockaway Park in Queens, as well as several new swimming pool complexes scattered throughout the city and the construction or renovation of hundreds of parks and playgrounds.
Since the 1920s, when he was a member of the Metropolitan Park Conference, Moses had envisioned the Flushing Meadows as the site of a grand park to be part of a vast new greenbelt stretching across Queens into Nassau County. While his appointment as the City's Park Commissioner brought him closer to fulfilling this dream, the cost of land acquisition and improvements was beyond the means of the Depression-plagued City. When George McAneny, the chairman of the board of the Title Guarantee and Trust Bank and the president of the City Club, presented the concept of an international fair, Moses immediately recommended the "Corona Dump" as an appropriate site. Moses saw a World's Fair as the opportunity to fund the creation of the new park and greenbelt.
The City would acquire the land and lease it to the Fair Corporation, which would then raise the funds needed to convert the dump and the surrounding swamp into an appropriate site for the fair through the sale of bonds. At the conclusion of the fair, the City would take back the improved site, which would serve as the foundation for the new park. In addition, a certain percentage of the fair's profits would be dedicated to the building of the park.
By the end of 1935, the Corporation was formed and the Flushing site was officially chosen. The City of New York purchased the land and installed the infrastructure needed to support both the temporary fair and the future park. The irregular terrain was leveled and graded, thousands of trees were planted, and utility lines were installed. A complicated new drainage system for the Flushing area placed a branch of the Flushing Creek into an enormous conduit and formed two lakes in the park.
Gilmore D. Clarke, one of the foremost landscape architects of the day, created the landscape design of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
Gilmore D. Clarke, Landscape Architects
Gilmore D. Clarke was born in New York City and studied landscape architecture and civil engineering at Cornell University, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1913. He served as an engineer in the army during World War I. During the 1920s, he served on several local, state, and federal commissions as landscape architect, including the Architectural Advisory Board for the United States Capitol, the New York State Council of Parks , and the Westchester County Park Commission, among many others.
For his work in Westchester County, which included the Rye Beach Playland, the Saw Mill River Parkway, and the Bronx River Parkway, Clarke was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor in Landscape Architecture from the Architectural League of New York in 1931. By the time of the Great Depression, Clarke was the most popular landscape architect in public works in America.
His career advanced during the 1930s. Robert Moses hired him in 1934 as the Consulting Landscape Architect to the New York City Park Department, and in 1935 he became a member of the Board of Design for the 1939 New York World's Fair. He was also a member of the National Commission on Fine Arts and the New York State Planning Council. His projects for the New York City Park Department included the Central Park Zoo, the Henry Hudson Parkway, Astoria Park in Queens, and Orchard Beach in the Bronx, as well as renovations to Bryant and City Hall Parks. He taught landscape
architecture at Cornell University from 1935 to 1950, serving as the Dean of Architecture from 1939 until his retirement in 1950, and wrote several articles for trade periodicals.
In 1935, Clarke joined Michael Rapuano, an engineer and landscape architect, establishing the New York civil engineering and landscape architectural firm Clarke & Rapuano, Inc. Clarke was president of the firm from 1962 to 1972, when he retired. Later in his career, Clarke worked as a consultant on the construction of the United Nations Headquarters in New York and became a trustee for the American Museum of Natural History. Besides Clarke's own modifications of the fairgrounds for the 1964-65 World's Fair and his design of the Unisphere, the firm Clarke & Rapuano designed many of the fair's statues, pools, and fountains, and one exhibit, the Garden of Meditation.
The 1939-40 and 1964-65 World's Fairs
Clarke's geometric Beaux-Arts plan for the fair's northern section is composed of several major and minor boulevards and paths radiating out from a central point with major axes terminating at focal points containing major pavilions, fountains, and sculpture. This central point was the location of the Trylon and Perisphere and is now the location of the Unisphere. This formal plan was contrasted with the more naturalistic southern section, which has two artificial lakes and randomly arranged paths. The northern section was intentionally made very level to permit the fair's temporary architecture to dominate the landscape.
The theme of the fair was "Building the World of Tomorrow." The fair's president, Grover A. Whalen,was able to attract an impressive roster of foreign exhibitors to the fair in a period of financial stress and gathering war clouds, as well as persuading the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris to bestow its official endorsement upon the New York fair, giving it additional prestige.
Although the fair received generally good reviews, attendance fell short of expectations, and the New York World's Fair Corporation was forced to declare bankruptcy at the end of its second and final season in 1940. The fair grossed only 48 million dollars for the Corporation, while its expenses exceeded 67 million dollars. Although the funds Moses was counting upon to create his new park did not materialize, the partially landscaped site left behind by the fair was adequate to support a scaled-down Flushing Meadows Park, which opened in 1941
In 1959, planning began on the second of New York City's great fairs, which would be held for two years beginning in 1964, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the 1939 fair, and which was to occupy the same Flushing Meadows site as the earlier fair.
By this time, Moses' reputation was on the wane, but he was again appointed president of the Fair Corporation. Once again, his motive was to extract enough profit from the fair to finally construct the park that he hoped would be the crowning glory of his long career. Gilmore D. Clark was retained to adapt the 1939 landscape plan to the new fair. The second fair was to be mainly a forum for the exhibition of developing technology, particularly as it related to space exploration, computers, and nuclear energy.
In 1961, the New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation announced that the theme of the fair, "Peace through understanding in a shrinking globe and in a expanding universe," would be symbolized by a large, stainless steel armillary sphere, to be called the Unisphere.13 This would be built on the site of the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939-40 Fair.
The Design and Construction of the Unisphere and its Site
Designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, the Unisphere was engineered, fabricated, and donated to the fair by the United States Steel Corporation . Its components were manufactured by the company's American Bridge Division at Ambridge and Harrisburg, Pa., and assembled at the World's Fair site. The original published rendering of the Unisphere closely resembles the structure as eventually built, except for a different arrangement of fountains.
The pool and the fountains were designed by Gilmore D. Clarke's landscape architecture firm, Clarke & Rapuano, with J. Samuel Hamel of the engineering firm Hamel & Langer serving as a consultant. Both firms worked together to produce many of the fair's other pools and fountains.
Clarke's design for the Unisphere -- a steel cage composed mainly of curving structural members, which represent the lines of latitude and longitude supporting representations of the continents and three suspended orbital rings -- presented several engineering challenges. As an open structure, virtually every part is visible and exposed to the moisture, salt air, and high winds of the local climate. The USS engineers chose stainless steel as the Unisphere's major element because of its weatherproof qualities and resistance to corrosion. They studied different surface textures for the land masses to determine which would look best at various viewing distances.
After testing various materials including stainless steel mesh, non-directional textured stainless steel sheeting was chosen for the land masses. To show elevation, the sheeting was built up in contours.
Despite the enormous loads that the Unisphere's shape imposes on its curving structural members, these could not be too thick, cross-braced, or irregularly spaced without compromising Clarke's proposal to feature accurate representations of the earth's meridians and parallels. In addition, the concave inner surfaces of the land masses trap the wind and create an enormous amount of drag on the structure.
The distribution of its weight and the effects of the wind had to be considered and a stress transfer pattern created to insure that the Unisphere would retain strength and stability at all times. By varying the sectional dimensions of the meridians and parallels, the engineers were able to achieve structural stability without compromising the design. The three polished steel orbit rings are anchored to the superstructure by aircraft cable. Altogether, the Unisphere contains a mile and a half of meridians, parallels, and orbit rings. The 700,000 pound globe is supported by an inverted tripod base made out of a low-alloy, high strength steel and weighing 200,000 pounds, anchored to the foundation by steel bolts having a minimum yield strength of 100,000 pounds per square inch. The poured concrete foundation incorporates the Perisphere's piling ring, which remained intact underground from the 1939-40 World's Fair. It was reinforced with 600 additional 100-foot piles.
The Unisphere as the Logo of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
As the fair's centerpiece, the Unisphere played an important role in the marketing of the fair. Images of the Unisphere were featured prominently in most of the Corporation's advertising for the fair, as well as on official World's Fair souvenirs, such as mugs, pencil sharpeners, scale models, and bumper stickers. World's Fair telegrams, featuring an image of the Unisphere, could be sent anywhere in the United States for a discount price of one dollar, provided they included one of eleven pre-written texts extolling the wonders of the fair. Many companies with exhibits, concessions, or booths at the fair, incorporated the Unisphere into their printed and filmed advertisements.
The Unisphere's image and the word "Unisphere" were both registered as official trademarks of the Fair Corporation, and the legal trademark symbol had to appear in the immediate vicinity of any pictorial representation of the structure, and immediately following any use of the word "Unisphere." In addition, the Corporation copyrighted a simplified representation of the Unisphere on an orange and blue background as its official logo.
Description
The 140-foot-high, 700,000-pound stainless steel globe, which is 120 feet in diameter, sits upon a twenty-foot high base and contains more than 500 major structural pieces. It is covered with representations of the continents, showing the major mountain ranges in relief, and is encircled by three giant rings denoting the first manmade satellites, which had been launched in the late 1950s. The globe tilts from the vertical at an angle of 231/2 degrees, the normal tilt of the earth.
The circles which make up the armillary sphere1 represent the lines of latitude and longitude. The capital cities of the world are marked by lenses which, during the fair, were backed by flashing lights.
The Unisphere sits in a circular reflecting pool 310 feet in diameter and is encircled by a double ring of fountains. The floor of the pool is of poured concrete, and incorporates drains, piping, and the fountain casings. Altogether there are ninety-six fountainheads, arranged in pairs. They spray vertically to a height of twenty feet.
The pool's bulkhead is made of cast concrete sheathed in rose-colored granite. An aluminum plaque faces each of the park's four major walkways, which converge at the Unisphere. These plaques, which were donated by U.S. Steel, contain descriptive information about the structure. The Unisphere is floodlit at night from towers located just beyond the edges of the walkway that encircles the reflecting pool.
The Unisphere after the 1964-65 World's Fair
Attendance in the two seasons of the fair was well below expectations. At its conclusion, the fair had 11.6 million dollars on hand, and owed 23 million dollars. Most of the 11.6 million dollars was used to demolish the pavilions of bankrupt exhibitors, clean up the fair site, and help restore Flushing Meadows Park in an adaptation of Clarke's Beaux-Arts design. For the last time, Moses' dream of a creating a great new city park had eluded him.
When the restored Flushing Meadows-Corona Park reopened to the public in 1967, the Unisphere remained as a permanent element of the park.20 Its visual prominence, especially to motorists traveling along the major expressways that ring the fairgrounds, makes it a major Queens landmark. However, the lack of maintenance over time began to take its toll on the structure and its site. By the 1970s, the fountains were shut down; the pool floor and bulkhead were graffiti-scarred; and the Unisphere itself was covered with grime.
In 1989, the respective fiftieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the openings of the two New York World's Fairs, the Parks Department began a 3.6 million dollar rehabilitation project in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Among the projects were the restoration of the Unisphere and its pool and fountains. Structural repairs to the sphere included replacement of the inner and outer cables and all loose rivets, and tightening and/or replacing all nuts and bolts. The globe was cleaned with a special solution and water under high pressure.
The original 96 spray jets in the fountain at the base of the Unisphere were restored and two new 200 horsepower pumps and a timer were installed. The work, which was funded by the office of the Queens Borough President, was finished and the fountains were restarted on May 31, 1994. The Unisphere remains one of the most prominent structural and landscape features of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as well as a striking visual reminder of the second of New York City's great World's Fairs.
- From the 1995 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Members of the Iowa Council for International Understanding meet with Assistant Secretary of State Ann Stock at the U.S. Department of State on February 17, 2011. The members were in Washington, DC attending the annual National Council for International Visitors’ (NCIV) National Meeting.
This year marks NCIV’s 50th anniversary and its half century partnership with the US Department of State. Members and volunteers from 90 community based organizations around the country spent three days sharing best practices, exchanging ideas and learning more about the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) exchanges.state.gov/ivlp one of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Premier Exchange Programs.
The Iowa Council for International Understanding hosts International Visitors who travel to the United States on this program. They arrange professional meetings, cultural activities and home hospitality for visitors from around the world.
04 October 2012, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and Mongolia bolstering joint efforts to defeat hunger, increase agricultural production and improve rural livelihoods. The agreement has a duration of five years and lays out priority areas for cooperation, including: sustainable livestock development, agriculture, forestry management, disaster preparedness, improvement of food supply chains and food safety, aquaculture, agricultural statistics and south-south cooperation.
Minister Brendan O’Connor and the United States Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey L. Bleich, on behalf of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding boosting bilateral cooperation in the fight against transnational crime.
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She understands how important it is to me to grab a shot here and there during our hikes and I understand how important it is to her to have some treats in payment.
Advisors and leaders in Task Force Southeast receive a brief about the capabilities AH-64E Apache attack helicopter on Advisor Platform Lightning, March 29. Understanding the capabilities helps leaders employ the aircraft more effectively during operations. (US Army Photo by Maj. Matt Fontaine)
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The knowledge of material engineering brought a huge change to human life. Because of this technology, we have the ability to build ships travelling across oceans, make aircraft flying in the sky, and send people away from the earth. However, all of these successes cannot be achieved without the understanding of materials. Based on this understanding, composite materials have been developed in order to overcome more engineering challenges.
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A new initiative to promote Interfaith understanding was launched by the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Archbishop of Dublin on Friday (February 2).
Five Marks of Interfaith Understanding offers a practical way for Irish church goers to reach out to their neighbours of all faiths to dispel the mistrust that sometimes leads to the isolation of minority religious groups.
The Five Marks initiative is inspired by Dublin City Interfaith Forum’s Interfaith Charter, which was launched with the support of the Lord Mayor of Dublin in December 2016. The latest initiative is the brainchild of Archbishop Michael Jackson, with the support and backing of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF) and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mícheál MacDonncha.
In an era when terrorism plagues Europe and the wider world, the initiative aims to build trust among communities, enabling people of faith to come together to prevent the kinds of conditions that lead to alienation of minorities, and the terrible consequences that sometimes result.
It comes at a vital time in Ireland, as the country negotiates increasing social and religious diversity, and as the profile of the Irish population is broadened and enriched, DCIF says. The organisation’s chairperson, Hilary Abrahamson, said that both the charter and the five marks initiative confirm their dedication to harmony in Dublin. The organisation hopes it will be the first of many such initiatives inspired by the principals set out in its Interfaith Charter.
Speaking at the launch, the Lord Mayor said that diversity is one of Dublin’s great strengths. “As Lord Mayor, I am particularly happy to support this important initiative of Archbishop Jackson’s. Inspired by the important work of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, particularly its Interfaith Charter, these Five Marks of Interfaith Understanding set out clear and practical actions to promote trust, understanding and cooperation between the various communities that make up our city. In these troubled times, it is vitally important that we stand together, rather than apart; and in full understanding that our diversity is one of our great strengths in Dublin City, an aspect of our City’s life that I am most proud of as Lord Mayor,” he said.
“I commend Dublin City Interfaith Forum for inspiring this most important work. I hope that it will inspire others in our various faith communities to follow this example, and to set in motion similar practical initiatives to promote greater understanding throughout our diverse city,” he added.
Archbishop Jackson spoke of the importance of the Dublin City Interfaith Charter which he said actively safeguarded the beliefs, customs and practices associated with religious beliefs and connected the dignity and value of each human being with the different communities of belief.
“The Five Marks of Inter Faith Understanding initiative is local. It is designed to be attainable. It is an invitation to the people of the diocese for which I have responsibility to express our faith in simple engagement with others who are Other from us and from whom we, in turn, are Other. It is based in the assertion in Genesis 1.27 that we are, like others, made in the image and likeness of God. The Five Marks initiative is designed to introduce and to engage people in understanding, leading towards advocacy; in moving from fear of change to celebration of diversity. Acceptance is the first step in each of these. Parishes, schools and colleges will actively be encouraged to participate. On completion of these Five Marks of Inter Faith Understanding, the relevant community will receive a physical copy of The Charter to display in the church, entrance hall or meeting room,” the Archbishop explained.
Accepting that the Five Marks of Interfaith Understanding come from the Christian tradition he said there was an invitation to other Faith traditions to create similar Marks that are suitable to their traditions.
The Five Marks are: that short passages from the Old and New Testaments be used in church and printed on the service sheet for five successive Sundays to show willingness to respect and understand World Faiths from a Christian perspective; that during the same period the intercessions and prayers in church services include prayers for peace and understanding across cultures and Faith Traditions; that we seek to meet with people of other World Faiths, while recognizing that we to them are an Other Faith, and plan to create and share a civic and social space as people of faith together; that we organize a social event inviting people of Other Faiths to share faith and food; and that we invite a group from an Other World Faith to visit our place of worship and ask questions and seek to visit their place of worship.
“These are humble beginnings. These are first steps. My hope would be that other Faith traditions explore if something similar is possible for them and that we actively compare notes as things develop, using the resources of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum … We are at the early stages. My hope is that we can develop it together and move forward in Inter Faith understanding in 2018,” the Archbishop concluded.
Understanding Sunday: Pentacon 29mm / 2.8 MC Auto (M42)
PENTACON auto MC 29mm f/2.8
Pentacon 29/2.8 comes in a straight line from the Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestegon 29mm f/2.8. Produced in the years 1970/1991. During this period changed several times. Initially, a copy of the version of Meyer Orestegon 29mm f/2.8, then the electric version, and in the end version of the MC - There are also non-electric versions of the MC. It is a wide-angle lens with a very good f/2.8. Version of what I test is one of the last what was produced. Great multilayer coatings MC. The quality of workmanship as good as the old lenses Meyer. The lens has only 6 aperture blades. In a digital camera to take pictures with this lens requires a lot of attention already. Pictures are not sharp - just above f/11 we can talk longer with acceptable results. All the magic of color lenses Meyer here almost disappeared. You have to make an effort for it to have a picture in itself is a beautiful thing.
Focal length [mm]: 29
Maximum aperture: 22
Minimum Aperture: 2.8
Fixing: M42x1
Minimum distance [m]: 0.25
Filter Diameter [mm]: M55x0.75
Number of diaphragm blades: 6
Diameter [mm]: 64
Length [mm]: 53
Weight [g]: 210
Ref: m42lens.blogspot.com/2014/04/pentacon-auto-mc-29mm-f28.html
Marco Sosa, the Danteum. 4/4 Study model for a conceptual model of the danteum. When all the spaces are deployed, a final room appears in the middle of the space, belonging to the empire. While the main path of the building is diacronic, the empire allows this sincronic vision of all the spaces at once [as mentioned here undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/3sss/papers_pdf/22_kan...].
Learn more about LASIK, Candidate for LASIK, Misconception about LASIK, Pre – operation advice's From Dr. Niteen Dedhia ( Lasik Surgeon In Mumbai ).
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I am Dr. Niteen Dedhia I am Ophthalmologist practicing in city of Mumbai & I am the Medical director of Ojas Eye Hospital & we have two clinics in Mumbai one in Bandra and one in Kandiwali
0:24 Understanding LASIK with Dr. Niteen Dedhia
What is LASIK
LASIK is the procedure which is carried out on the Front surface of the eye called the cornea and it changes the curvature of the cornea so as to allow the light rays to be properly focus on the retina and this always any individual to see clearly without glasses.
0:50 Candidate for LASIK
Any individual who is above the age of 18th years and is wearing glasses is a candidate for LASIK. If you want to get rid of your glasses or contact lens then LASIK is the procedure of your choice. This procedure is very beneficial for those individual who are into career of sports or who feel that glasses would endurance in their career like or in their profession especially pilots or those who are working individual like models for them LASIK is good option. Also any other individual who is very conscious about their look LASIK would be the treatment of choice. It takes only about 10 – 15 second of laser and whole procedure would take about 10 – 15 min and both eyes are done at the same sitting.
1:55 Misconception about LASIK
What are the common Misconception about LASIK?
There is one common misconception in that there is fear among people to get LASIK procedure done that something will go wrong and something will happen to their eyes but this is just misconception. There should be no fear in getting this procedure done. It is very safe, there are no stitches taken, there is no bleeding happening inside the eye and it is external laser procedure. Also there is misconception that number might come back again. So this is very very rare. Number does not come back again It is Permanent procedure and very rarely in those condition Where number are very high more than -10 or +7 then there should be some regretion in no. and in touch the laser can be done and the it can be correct whatever is the number which is left behind. So other then It is very safe with procedure and it gives excellent result
3:13 Pre–operation advice's
It is very important to do the test before doing LASIK procedure to do pre – evolution and pre - assessment of the eye and if the doctor gives a go ahead signal or if he says there is no problem to have the procedure done. Then be rest assured it will give you best result so if you wish to get LASIK done and do not get hesitate and just go ahead because it is very safe and it gives you Excellent result and you should remove all kind of misconception you have about it and I am sure you will be happy to get rid of Glasses permanently and forever.
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Clearing out the loft today. Came across a binder full of these:
I had them at school, probably in my second year, which would be late 1967 or early 1968.
Beautiful. hand drawn artwork from before the age of Photoshop.
Packed full of explanations of all the basic scientific principles. I learnt an incredible amount from these.
Performed by Afoutayi Dance Company and designed to promote an understanding of the Vodou religion and pay tribute to the Haitian water deity Simbi Dlo, the spirit known as Sweet Water and counterpart of Mami Wata. Choreographed by accomplished Haitian dancer, actress, and storyteller Djenane Saint Juste, the program features a procession, rhythmic dancing, and drumming accompanied by singing and storytelling. The event is sponsored by the Joan and John Jay Corley Fund for Performance.
TEDxStuttgart 2017 "New Understanding" am 23. September 2017 in der Phoenixhalle im Römerkastell.
Foto: Martin Naujocks
A Participian at the Session: Understanding Neural and Digital Networks with Princeton University at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Walter Duerst
The McGee group is going to the ends of the earth to understand how precipitation patterns respond to climate change. Recognizing that past changes provide unique opportunities to test our understanding of the climate system, the group is building high-resolution records of past precipitation changes in sensitive regions around the world using natural precipitation archives such as lake deposits and stalagmites. In the past two years this work has taken the group to shorelines preserving records of large ancient lakes in the deserts of the western U.S. and subtropical South America, to caves in the Yucatan peninsula and deep inside islands in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, and onto a drill rig sampling deeply buried lake sediments in the high tropical Andes.
Images courtesy: Nguyen Hieu & Do Trung Hieu
Based on the information collected during my ethnographic work focusing my attention on the everyday understandings of dengue fever, and paying particular attention to the different ways in which the subjects that have had dengue described the experience of being unwell, I decided to re-work (collaboratively) all the information gathered so far, to create elements that reflect the ideas of how dengue fever is understood in various different contexts.
Promoters of public health have not taken into consideration the points of view of the patients or those who have had the disease. They design campaigns based on an entomological and clinical point of view, following a standard template where you see health staff –dressed in laboratory coats– talking about environmental hygiene and the purposes of sanitation. In addition, humour doesn’t play a role in the design of the campaigns.
In order to collaboratively create an intervention that reproduces the way Luis Fernando and Sara experienced the disease (you can find information about the ways in which they described the experience of being unwell by accessing my PhD blog: www.anthropologyartscience.blogspot.com), we asked Alejandro Uribe, Sarita Álvarez and Juan Camilo Ortega for their help. They are part of Bimana, a collective of artist that creates a variety of large-scale interventions and performances combining a solar balloon, plastic bags, kites, makeup, prosthetics design, and special effects. The idea was to create a fictional character, or a comic anti-hero, that would appear in the public space of the city, creating an active dialogue with different peoples.
Acknowledgments:
I am extremely grateful with the subjects of this ethnography Sara and Luis Fernando. Special thanks to the ‘Bimana Producciones’ team (Alejandro Uribe, Sarita Álvarez and Juan Camilo Ortega), the kite-flyer Andrés Ramírez and the actor Emilio Arango. I would also like to thank the rest of the people that helped during the public experiment: Pablo López, Lucía Tobón, Sara Ibarra, Susana Valencia, Hernán Marín, Mario Valencia, and Gustavo Ramírez.
To see more about this project, please refer to these websites:
Understanding Fibromyalgia-A few things you should know about the disease:
What is Fibromyalgia:
Fibromyalgia is nothing but a disease which is described by dislocation of muscles around the joints and pressure pain as well as back pain and some other symptoms like fatigue; sleep disturbances; morning stiffness; poor concentration; lack of drive; swelling of hands; feet and face. Many other Fibromyalgia symptoms are characterized by many other things as well. It is not equated with the term “rheumatism”. Rheumatism arthritis is considered as an important diagnosis. Main Fibromyalgia symptoms are chronic pain in different body regions and persistent fatigue (general weakness; poor concentration) to the extent of exhaustion (fatigue syndrome) and sleep disorders. Back; neck; chest and joints are mainly affected by this disease and sometimes headaches are caused by it too. These symptoms should occur over a period of at least three months. No Fibromyalgia treatments are beneficial in this case
Supplementary Fibromyalgia symptoms:
Some of the frequently found accompanying Fibromyalgia symptoms include sore hands; feet or face parts; stiffness in the morning; bowel problems; being depressed; anxious etc. A number of patient feel the pain mainly in foreground but rest of the patients suffer from fatigue or tension and the main problem they face is that they cannot concentrate on anything and take longer time to be recovered from stress. Fibromyalgia treatments need to be started as early as possible
More Fibromyalgia symptoms that have been seen in patients:
Some other Fibromyalgia symptoms are being numb; leg contraction; extreme nervous issues; tremors in hands; irritation of the bladder; decreased sexual interest. Huge number of patients also experienced hoarseness and sweating; irritable nature; difficulty in finding words; changes in mood; pain in spine. Pain areas alter very frequently and it is common in most cases: e.g. in the first day the pain is faced in right hand and left foot and in the second day it is experienced in right foot and the left hand. Fibromyalgia can make people fatigued and depressed and tired in a short period of time. Muscle and joint pain on the whole body can also be associated with the disease. Since 2008 the drug Pregabalin has been used for Fibromyalgia treatments
Treatments for Fibromyalgia:
The Fibromyalgia treatments plan is considered as multimodal therapy by findings of modern pain research. Improvement and maintenance in the ability to function properly was the main action in this case. Now the quality is enhanced and the rate of Fibromyalgia symptoms has been decreased. The patients can easily complete the treatment as recommended because sometimes the symptoms can stay lifelong and the treatment might have very small amount of side effects. The effectiveness should be guaranteed for a long term basis.
14 June 2017, Rome Italy - Gen. Tullio Del Sette, Arma dei Carabinieri of the Italian Republic. Signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Gen. Tullio Del Sette, Arma dei Carabinieri of the Italian Republic and FAO Director-General Jose' Graziano da Silva, FAO headquarters (Australia Room).
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
This is one of my favourite views in the whole of NZ - the expansiveness I felt from this view point on my first trip to NZ in 2002 is probably the driving force behind my decision to pack up in Melbourne, Australia and move to this part of the world. Home is now in Queenstown which is about 50km as the crow flies from here.
Understanding Exposure and Understanding Close-Up Photography together with the perfect picture...
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Frederike Kaltheuner - University of Amsterdam
The increasing prevalence of analytics and Big Data in both the private and public sector present novel challenges for privacy. In this presentation, an example of the concept of predictive privacy harms will be provided. What does it actually mean to predict (individual) behaviour? How do predictive analytics work? And how can predictive analytics turn into predictive privacy harms?
One of the most clichéd examples to illustrate the novel nature of this challenge is the notorious case of the Target pregnancy case. In 2012, the New York Times reported how the retail chain Target uses data mining to predict pregnancies in its female customers - regardless of whether this information has been shared with friends or family. While this example has been exhausted to such an extent that it almost amounts to a cliché, it is nonetheless an interesting starting point to investigate how we talk about and interpret predictive privacy harms in public discourse.
Douglas Lamont, senior official performing duties of secretary of the Army for Civil Works, gets a briefing on the deteriorating Chickamauga Lock and its replacement lock project Feb. 28, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tenn., from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and Tennessee Valley Authority officials. Lamont visited to gain a better understanding of aging infrastructure. The Tennessee Valley Authority owns the dam while the Nashville District operates and maintains the lock. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)
Remember when your shopping for those shoes that you aren't purchasing a fashion accessory but instead a piece of sports gear. Because of this it isn't a good idea to buy these shoes based on fashion but rather on the way they fit your feet. Try them and get comfortable with them, take as long as necessary before making a decision. Also keep in mind that leather will stretch so what's right from the store being a bit large once they are broken in.
Men's soccer shoes are made a number of sports shoe companies, not all the shoes are of the exact same quality, so be sure to compare the various retailers and manufacturers. Most manufacturers of these shoes will offer something for every level of player. They might also supply childrens and toddlers shoes. For more info, Visit here: www.stockxshoes.com/Stockx-Sneakers-c114583/
Based on the information collected during my ethnographic work focusing my attention on the everyday understandings of dengue fever, and paying particular attention to the different ways in which the subjects that have had dengue described the experience of being unwell, I decided to re-work (collaboratively) all the information gathered so far, to create elements that reflect the ideas of how dengue fever is understood in various different contexts.
Promoters of public health have not taken into consideration the points of view of the patients or those who have had the disease. They design campaigns based on an entomological and clinical point of view, following a standard template where you see health staff –dressed in laboratory coats– talking about environmental hygiene and the purposes of sanitation. In addition, humour doesn’t play a role in the design of the campaigns.
In order to collaboratively create an intervention that reproduces the way Luis Fernando and Sara experienced the disease (you can find information about the ways in which they described the experience of being unwell by accessing my PhD blog: www.anthropologyartscience.blogspot.com), we asked Alejandro Uribe, Sarita Álvarez and Juan Camilo Ortega for their help. They are part of Bimana, a collective of artist that creates a variety of large-scale interventions and performances combining a solar balloon, plastic bags, kites, makeup, prosthetics design, and special effects. The idea was to create a fictional character, or a comic anti-hero, that would appear in the public space of the city, creating an active dialogue with different peoples.
Acknowledgments:
I am extremely grateful with the subjects of this ethnography Sara and Luis Fernando. Special thanks to the ‘Bimana Producciones’ team (Alejandro Uribe, Sarita Álvarez and Juan Camilo Ortega), the kite-flyer Andrés Ramírez and the actor Emilio Arango. I would also like to thank the rest of the people that helped during the public experiment: Pablo López, Lucía Tobón, Sara Ibarra, Susana Valencia, Hernán Marín, Mario Valencia, and Gustavo Ramírez.
To see more about this project, please refer to these websites:
alejandrovalenciat.com/alejandrovt/serotipo.html
anthropologyartscience.blogspot.com/
*Photo by Mario H. Valencia: www.mariohvalencia.blogspot.com/