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From the 70's. 8 cassette tapes and 8 slide rolls. Sitting in the family archive of weird things until I plucked it for usage. Potential sampling gold mine.
Our Association was organized in 1975 with an objective of "to promote within our community an understanding of and appreciation for our local heritage”. In 1979 and 1980 Hay Creek acquired the historic Joanna Furnace property from Bethlehem Steel and have broadened our mission to include the preservation and restoration of this treasured 18th & 19th century iron making community.
Today the organization is 1,000 members strong and relies on volunteer efforts and donations to preserve the history of the Hay Creek Valley. We invite you to visit us by "stepping back in time" and reliving the important history that surrounds our community.
HAY CREEK APPLE FESTIVAL
It's the peak of apple harvesting time. During this beautiful fall season, the Hay Creek Apple Festival offers a wonderful day with some great family fun. All ages will enjoy the brisk fall air and savor the delicious array of homemade Hay Creek apple specialties.
Every imaginable apple food is available throughout the day. . . from fresh cider to fritters, pies, tarts and dumplings and so much more. And, you can start the day with an all-you-can-eat apple pancake breakfast, served from 7 am to 11 am. The apple cider press will be featured with continuous demonstrations and fresh apple cider for your purchase. Traditional apple foods like "Schnitz und Knepp" (apples, dumplings and ham) and apple butter are always a special treat; as well as Mabel's Kettle Soup, cooked to perfection over the open fire. Additional festive foods and beverages will be served. Numerous family activities round out the festival. These family events include scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, early American games, hay and pony rides. The children will especially love a ride on the Apple Barrel Express. Visitors can also shop at the flea market area that offers over 100 vendors with crafts, flowers, fall items and an array of unexpected items for anyone's interest.
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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.
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666."
Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18
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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...].
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.
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
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TEDxStuttgart 2017 "New Understanding" am 23. September 2017 in der Phoenixhalle im Römerkastell.
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Research, Concept, Direction
Guru Kamalini Dutta
Dancers
Bharatanatyam
Dr. Sridhar Vasudevan
Purvadhanashree
Kathak
Divya Goswami
Hemanta Kumar Kalita
Music Composers
Rakesh Pathak
K Venkateshwaran
Dr. Sridhar Vasudevan
We speak of the spiritual core of classical Indian dance but it is rare for artists to reach beyond stories with the aspiration of tapping into the cosmic. Kashmir Shaivism expresses a profound non-dualistic understanding of the universe — viewing life as filled with rasa/enjoyment. This philosophy of inclusiveness is the need of the day and its interpretation through Bharatanatyam and Kathak in a production by Anugraham — Classical Art Community called Rango’ntaratma on April 1 at 6:45 pm at Kamani Auditorium was an eye-opener for most.
Rango’ntaratma is the central sutra of the Shiva Sutras which define the inner consciousness of the individual as the performance arena where life is played out. Every individual is an actor who assumes multiple roles in his/her life. Manifesting this in performance has been the driving inspiration behind Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt’s year long creative efforts envisioning the theme and working with four superb dancers to bring to life the concepts of this wonderful sutra — Naada, Bindu, Kalaa and Rasa.
The production reveals the hidden concepts of some of these mythological symbols. The journey begins from the formless and unfolds in various forms accessible to sensory perceptions.
Full disclosure: Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt is my kalyanamitra and I have watched with awe as she has immersed herself into the process of developing the concepts and directing the dancers over many months.
- Guru Sharon Lowen, in The Asian Age
Found this great packaging in the Chinese supermarket on Leith Walk. Real poetry here:
Sunflower seeds basking in the morning sun,
absorbing all the night's dew.
Seeds swelling with fragrant oil
as the golden autumn approaches.
The flowers' faces bowing
under their increasing weight.
Picking gently at dawn,
only the choicest, plumpest seeds.
Baking slowly under charcoal heat
with nothing artificial added.
Locking in the natural color, flavor and fragrance.
Appreciating the kernels' natural taste.
Understanding Nature's essence!
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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
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.
Antonio Quintella (MBA33) Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse Americas, Credit Suisse speaking during the 'Understanding emerging markets' panel session at the Global Leadership Summit, 5 July 2010
Understanding Exposure and Understanding Close-Up Photography together with the perfect picture...
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#WalkInRed is an online/virtual social media campaign that takes place each year during the month of April. The idea is for #ActuallyAutistic individuals and allies to post selfies wearing red shoes, socks, lipstick, nail polish, other clothing or anything else red like food, toys, printed signs, etc. These images are meant to act as a positive beacon; making a typically blue month much happier through #love. 2015 is the first of many flashblogs and tweetstorms in the name of equality, understanding and #acceptance.
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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.
I was tagged by trykemom for this.
1. I don't know if I can think of 16 things of interest to share with you.
2. I'm a compulsive person, in bad ways and good ways.
3. Things that annoy me include not having respect for others, bad spelling, insincerity, litter dropping and tail-gating. Oh, and a special mention goes out to all those people who assume everyone on a train is delighted to listen to the crappy, tinny pop blaring out of their mobile phone. Get some headphones!
4. I have spent way too much money on photographic equipment.
5. In large social gatherings (which, to me, means more than about 8 people) I'll be the one sat in the corner just listening.
6. I love music but hate dancing.
7. I don't smile much but that doesn't mean I'm a miserable person.
8. I can't remember exactly when I got into cooking but it has to be one of the best ways of relaxing and enjoying myself.
9. I play the guitar. I am mostly self taught which partly explains why I'm not very good at it.
10. I hated school and couldn't wait to leave.
11. My secondary school was an all boys Catholic school run by an order of Brothers. It served as one of the cornerstones of my becoming a devout atheist.
12. I wish I hadn't taken my Dad's advice and gone straight from school into a "safe" job.
13. I have never managed to finish a crossword. My brain just doesn't seem to be wired that way.
14. I am an only child.
15. If pushed I'd say my favourite colour is blue. Or maybe green.
16. I spend a fair amount of time despairing at the state of humanity. But from time to time I do see glimmers of hope. Quite often here on flickr.
I would like to tag Rosie. Hope you don't mind Rosie...No obligation :-)
Using a simulator made by Haagen, we can simulate the affects of smoke movement within a building. This is one of many tools used to train firefighters and fire officers in the use of positive pressure ventilation.
The Delegation of the European Union to the United States in cooperation with the Association of European Rail Industry (UNIFE) hosted a ceremony and reception celebrating the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNIFE and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) at the EU Delegation Headquarters on November 5, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
(Photo by www.MomentaCreative.com)