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DUP MLA for North Antrim and Chair of the Assembly's Agriculture Committee Paul Frew chairs a symposium on Agriculture & Climate Change at Queens University. The symposium was organised by final year Agricultural Technology students.
More fun with the Deep Dream Generator, taking my own photos as base images and seeing where it goes.
This one was using ‘Full Fathom Five’ from The Tempest.
PMX 667 was one of a batch of twenty low floor Irizar i3 bodied Mercedes Benz buses which were received by OSEA for use on services in the region of Paralimni, Agia Napa and the surrounding areas. Here it is seen at Paralimni Bus Station on February 23rd 2024 prior to working a journey on route 101 to Agia Napa Marina.
Tobyhanna Army Depot
June 17, 2019
Reviewing Officer: Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, U.S. Army CECOM Commanding General
Outgoing Commander: Col. Nathan M. Swartz
Incoming Commander: Col. John W. McDonald
Photographer: Thomas Robbins
Well, a sign that autumn was on it's way as we were moving away from the summer!
Taken on Tuesday 2nd September, the location here is Wythenshawe Park, near the corner of Princess Parkway, Palatine Road and Wythenshawe Road.
STELLA MARIS & VEMAOIL XX have turned to the south since we left the Bay.
A voyage from Queensway Quay (Gibraltar) out into the Strait of Gibraltar and back.
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The 28th Infantry Division hosted a change-of-command ceremony Sept. 16, 2012, at the installation. Brig. Gen. John L. Gronski took over command of the division from Maj. Gen. Randall R. Marchi, who will move to the Pennsylvania National Guard's Joint Force Headquarters and serve as deputy adjutant general-Army. The ceremony also featured a change of responsibility for the division's command sergeant major with the non-commissioned officer sword passing from Command Sgt. Maj. Brian W. Todero to Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher S. Kepner. The 28th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Keystone Division, is the oldest division in the U.S. Army and was nicknamed the "Bloody Bucket" division by German forces during World War II due to its distinctive red insignia. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Palermo/Released)
Damon Lamar Reed, 2005, exterior, Neighborhood Housing Services, North Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, USA, mosaic
Climate Corporate Governance for Financial Institutions - Building resilience to climate change risk
During the past decade, with extreme weather causing hundreds of USD billions of
losses per year and the changing climate intensifying the adverse effects of wasteful
practices, environmental considerations have overtaken economic concerns as the
main sources of global risk, according to the World Economic Forum.
Financial regulators and the European Union are responding with recommendations
and guidance on the disclosure of climate-related financial risks to help integrate
sustainability into investor portfolio management. Credit rating agencies are
developing new ways to anticipate how climate-related risks could impact businesses
and financial institutions.
But is this enough?
To assess whether the financial sector is adequately equipped, the EBRD is brought
together representatives from financial institutions to share their practical experience
of the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of climate-related risk management.
The event discuseed ways to achieve an effective investor-led climate response
via climate corporate governance, standards-based climate finance, climate risk
management, climate-related capital market products.
2nd annual Bringing Women Together networking event – Inspired by Change
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, March 6, 2012
Proudly presented by TELUS, Best Buy Canada, BC Hydro, SAP, Deloitte and Sauder School of Business
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More than 50 years old, 37422 still provides the horses for moving trains around the uk. Seen here at Great Yarmouth with a Rail Head treatment train. In the adjacent platform is Swiss built Stadler 755424
Friday 30th October 2020
Tobyhanna Army Depot
June 17, 2019
Reviewing Officer: Maj. Gen. Randy S. Taylor, U.S. Army CECOM Commanding General
Outgoing Commander: Col. Nathan M. Swartz
Incoming Commander: Col. John W. McDonald
Photographer: Thomas Robbins
Change Islands is an outport community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The community spans two small islands of the same name which lie off the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland between Notre Dame Bay and the Labrador Sea. The community of Change Islands is located primarily on the larger South Island, today hosting approximately 200 residents, though most of the public buildings are on the North Island.
Pottery tomb figure of a singer (Han Dynasty), unearthed near Guanghan, Sichuan, in November 1994.
Last week’s photo shoots were of Tianfu Square (at night) and a day trip to Huanglongxi Ancient Town southeast of Chengdu. This week, I changed it up a little and went to a museum that I’d been wanting to visit for quite some time (but, honestly, was just too lazy to go to until now).
Sanxingdui (literally, “three star mound(s)”) is an archaeological site/museum. To give you perspective, I’ll make a few comparisons. The easiest (and less impressive) comparison is to the Jinsha Archaeological Site within the Chengdu city limits.
Jinsha is a very nice site in its own right, and has a lot of source material that dates from around 2,500-3,000 years ago. The Jinsha site was more recently discovered (2001) than the Sanxingdui site (early 20th century; excavations began in earnest in 1986). At Jinsha, things just feel like “leftovers.” I mean to say…there doesn’t feel like anything that the world at large necessarily needed to know about – though some of the art there, the skeletal remains, etc. are incredibly interesting if you have an interest in human history. However, I digress. The main point I should make regarding Jinsha and Sanxingdui is that it’s believed that the sites are from a related culture, though the timing is off by about 500 years (if I remember right from the signage at Jinsha).
The other comparison I will make is to China’s most famous archaeological site: the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an. Those are more important from a nationalistic point of view, I suppose, in that they were made (or ordered to be made, to be more precise) by China’s first emperor circa 200 BC. Aside from that, the terracotta army is quite impressive.
I feel Sanxingdui is much more important to human history, though, and I say this for a few reasons. First, it predates China (as a “nation-state”) by about 1,000 years. Almost everything that has been unearthed here is from roughly the 12th or 13th century BC (per carbon dating). Finding this site was (rightfully so) a huge shock in the archaeological record. It wasn’t known that people were in this area, if I’m not mistaken, and that they were as advanced as they were.
As you can see from the collection, this is a people who were highly advanced, had a monetary system (based on the knowledge of cowry shells, etc.), religious practices, and a high technical skill with bronze and other alloys. The masks from Sanxingdui are the most famous part of this collection and are still in such good shape 3,000 years later that they could honestly be placed in any museum in the world. They’re truly quite impressive.
Another reason I say so little is known of the people who lived here is that, while this museum is of exceptional quality – architecturally, in presentation, in every aspect – there is so little background information provided about the people’s origins. We can see how they lived, what was important to them, and other things, but the one thing that is missing is…where they came from. I continually found myself saying, “Wow,” over and again throughout the afternoon here.
Getting here is relatively easy now. A bus goes from Xinnanmen long distance bus station in downtown Chengdu (leaving at 9:30 a.m.) and takes you directly to the Sanxingdui parking lot, about 50 km (at most) towards the northeast on the Mianyang freeway. The closest town is Guanghan, and the cost of the ticket, for a round trip ride, is 50 RMB. (The bus returns at 2:40 p.m., which gives about 4 hours to see the entire museum and grounds.)
Upon getting to the visitor center, you have to pass through security scanners (in each of the three other buildings, too, for that matter). After paying the very reasonable 80 RMB admission, you pass through security yet again and are finally in the museum/site proper. I don’t recall much information available at the visitor center, but I may have just missed it. In retrospect, it would be very nice to have some informational videos – even if they were just to say much isn’t known about the history of the people. It could have given suppositions of life in video format, or even focused on the discovery of the site. (Again, maybe they’re already there, and I missed them…but, I don’t think so.)
Upon leaving the video center, the first of the three buildings you arrive at is the Comprehensive Gallery. This gallery is wonderful in that it has actually been built into one of the three mounds. (I’m not 100% sure that this is one of the three original mounds; perhaps it’s a replica of the mound. Either way, it was a good use of the land.) The comprehensive gallery consists of five areas that, for the most part, focus on earthenware and stone ware artefacts that were unearthed in the pits. The relics are well-presented, well-labeled, and well-maintained. Besides earthenware and stoneware, there are also plenty of artefacts made of jade, some of bronze, some of gold foil, and so on. The comprehensive gallery ends with a display of bronze money trees that were (are?) important in Chinese culture.
After finishing in the Comprehensive Gallery, my second stop was to go to the Cultural Relics & Restoration Gallery. This is the smallest of the three, and most comprehensive (in terms of presenting artwork from all of Chinese history) of the three galleries. There are plenty of pieces here from the Song, Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. I went through here in a bit of a hurry, so am not certain whether or not the relics in this hall are local to the Chengdu plain or not. I think they are.
Hurrying along, I found my way outside and passed the Echo Altar (sacrificial stage) and quickly wandered around the Bronze Hall before going in. I was enjoying the landscape at the site as it’s spring and magnolias are in bloom all around the grounds, along with rapeseed (a little), and a lot of landscaped flowers along the way.
The Bronze Hall is the highlight of the Sanxingdui site. It almost exclusively contains nothing but masks. You would think it gets a little redundant after a while, as most of the masks are similar (exaggerated pupils, though two or three have protruding pupils), mostly of bronze, and all with the sparse signage that they were excavated from either pit #1, #2, or #3 in the 13th-12th century BC. However, like the Comprehensive Gallery, the Bronze Hall is an architecturally pleasing building that presents the masks in six different sections, also ending with a large (3.5 times the original size) replica of a bronze money tree.
Feeling completely satisfied with Sanxingdui, and fresh out of galleries to visit, I left the Bronze Hall and walked the grounds towards the main exit. There is a restaurant and shopping area on the way out (though I didn’t stop to eat or buy anything). I did take a very quick glance into the gift shop, but wasn’t really excited by anything I saw offhand.
After a little more photographing, I made it back to the bus with about 45 minutes to spare. All in all, it was a perfect day out of town at a museum, and I was also thrilled that there weren’t too many people out here. I couldn’t have asked for much more from this experience.
I finished the day off at Tai Koo Li, eating Thai food at Lian (in a very early preparation for an upcoming holiday in May). Before the May holiday, though, the goal of getting out to shoot every weekend continues. Monday (today), March 14th was spent in Pingle, another ancient town, which was completely underwhelming…especially after last week’s shoot at Huanglongxi and yesterday’s shoot at Sanxingdui. Fortunately, there is plenty more to photograph between now and May.
File name: 08_06_027118
Title: Changing room
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Locker rooms; Athletes
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gen. James D. Thurman turns over command of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea to Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti during a change of command ceremony at Knight Field on United States Army Garrison Yongsan, South Korea, Oct. 2, 2013. U.S. Army Photo/Sgt. Brian Gibbons