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722_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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After a relatively good night's sleep at the Tingri Friendship Hotel, we woke to more low cloud and a greasy chapati breakfast.
Leaving the others to walk back up to EBC still hopeful of a Qomolangma sighting, Fran and I decided to cut our losses and to walk down towards Rongbuk Monastery.
Our stroll took us alongside the rocky glacier route of the Rongbuk River valley, dotted with yaks. At the sacred water well, we picked up Tashi, a local Tibetan man who chatted to us as we walked on towards the monastery. About 10 minutes in, he became very insistent we stop and look back.... thereby ensuring we did get a sighting of Mount Everest, peaking out of the lower cloud base. Tu-de-chay Tashi!
At Rongbuk Monastery we pottered around the monastery kora, still getting the occasional sighting of Mount Everest / Qomolangma, and then returned to the tent camp, helping a lady carry her three thermoses of water for the final stretch.
I'd been a bit woozy all morning, and spent most of the exciting off road return drive to the Friendship Highway sleeping in the front seat. Too tired to keep my eyes open to take in the amazing scenery, the river crossings, and towing another jeep out of a bog.
At (Old) Tingri we rejoined the tarmac, and checked in to the Snow Leopard Guesthouse where we had a late lunch and a lazy afternoon to wash, repack and stroll the length of town which stretches along the main highway.
As the light faded, the cloud lifted and we were treated to a very atmospheric view of snow capped Himalayan peaks, including (somewhere!) the elusive Mt Everest
After noodle soup for supper, we made the most of the evening's hot water and hit our beds for a comfier night's sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C-Tsang
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongbuk_Monastery
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingri_%28town%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_318
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Highway_%28Tibet%29
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049_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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171_CFBC_KleinEaster2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church North Klein Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Donna Carson)
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Jerry Robertson is the chief technology officer and co-founder of BOLT System, a Nashville, Tennessee-based provider of cloud-based fleet management software. Before founding BOLT with his wife, Gayle, Jerry served as vice president at business services software giant Oracle. Before Oracle, he served as CEO of a supply chain management software producer.
272_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Lily Liu, Founder and CEO of PublicStuff, LLC launches their product at DEMO Fall 2010. Their product, PublicStuff, is an online and mobile system that enables agencies (municipalities, universities, facility / operations, et.) to deliver better services and improve communications.
Enterprise Technologies key component is efficiency. Companies seek to exploit cloud based infrastructure and related technologies to lower costs. With that, CIO's are looking to bring simple ways for employees to work from anywhere at anytime.
Join DEMO to reveal some of the hottest companies capitalizing on these trends. The following companies that are pitching their products are:
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FN Connect Secure from Federated Networks
Integrate from Integrate.com LLC
Profitably from Profitably
PublicStuff from PublicStuff LLC
Zingaya from Zingaya
Capture ID Mobile Scanner from Rocky Mountain Ventures Company
Double Dutch from Double Dutch
meeting-eXpert from Meeting Sciences, Inc.
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Photos by Stephen Brashear
I think these peaks may include one or all of Mt Lhotse (8,516 m), Mt Makalu (8,485 m), and Mt Cho Oyu (8,201 m) - Everest is off stage left (David Grau's stunning photo of the same range)
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After a relatively good night's sleep at the Tingri Friendship Hotel, we woke to more low cloud and a greasy chapati breakfast.
Leaving the others to walk back up to EBC still hopeful of a Qomolangma sighting, Fran and I decided to cut our losses and to walk down towards Rongbuk Monastery.
Our stroll took us alongside the rocky glacier route of the Rongbuk River valley, dotted with yaks. At the sacred water well, we picked up Tashi, a local Tibetan man who chatted to us as we walked on towards the monastery. About 10 minutes in, he became very insistent we stop and look back.... thereby ensuring we did get a sighting of Mount Everest, peaking out of the lower cloud base. Tu-de-chay Tashi!
At Rongbuk Monastery we pottered around the monastery kora, still getting the occasional sighting of Mount Everest / Qomolangma, and then returned to the tent camp, helping a lady carry her three thermoses of water for the final stretch.
I'd been a bit woozy all morning, and spent most of the exciting off road return drive to the Friendship Highway sleeping in the front seat. Too tired to keep my eyes open to take in the amazing scenery, the river crossings, and towing another jeep out of a bog.
At (Old) Tingri we rejoined the tarmac, and checked in to the Snow Leopard Guesthouse where we had a late lunch and a lazy afternoon to wash, repack and stroll the length of town which stretches along the main highway.
As the light faded, the cloud lifted and we were treated to a very atmospheric view of snow capped Himalayan peaks, including (somewhere!) the elusive Mt Everest
After noodle soup for supper, we made the most of the evening's hot water and hit our beds for a comfier night's sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C-Tsang
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongbuk_Monastery
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingri_%28town%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_318
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Highway_%28Tibet%29
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301_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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On the 23rd March 1940 Bristol Blenheim L4873 flying out of RAF Upwood on a formation flying exercise with two other Blenheims became lost in cloud .
The two other aircraft found clear sky and returned to base but the pilot and crew of L4873 became increasingly disorientated in the cloud .
Eventually, it is presumed, they decided to try and descend under the cloud cover to try and get a fix on thier position.
Instead of finding the cloud base they found the shoulder of Foel Wen in the Berwyn Mountains ,North Wales. The aircraft was utterly destroyed on collision with the mountain.
A teardrop shaped impact crater can still be clearly seen , its shape indicative of the angle of descent .
A substantial amount of still painted (in part) aircraft fragments can be seen amongst the deep grass . Fuselage parts showing signs of impact crumpling , wing sections less damaged but now heavily corroded.
The three man crew were all killed
Sgt. Maurice Charles Cotterell Pilot
Sgt Ronald Jesse Harbour Observer
AC2 Kenneth Charles Winterton WO+AG
In this shot the crater can be seen with Ian next to the largest collected pool of wreckage . The other fragments are difficult to see embedded in the grass and ground covered with a light dusting of snow .
I wasn't happy at all with how this turned out, but I've posted it for Sohvimus as it's a natural conclusion of this shot.
It's a beautiful move, and it really needs to be seen in motion to fully appreciate it. It also tops out at 6,500ft so it's only seen in the 'full' display (as opposed to the alternate 'rolling' and 'flat' displays reserved for inclement weather and low cloud base).
004_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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071_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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289_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Taken from a DJI Mini 2 drone at 70m altitude, only because the cloud base was at about 80m! Horribly grey, drizzly day meant a bit of enhancement in post-processing
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Rendezvous with Houston Methodist biennial gala at the Hilton Americas-Houston. Chaired by Cam and Rod Canion and Elizabeth and Peter Wareing, honoring the John S. Dunn Foundation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Sanford I. Weill and Emily Attwell Crosswell. Celebrating Houston Methodist’s 96-year commitment to leading medicine in research, education and patient care. (photo by Richard Carson)
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383_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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I missed a couple of nice days earlier this month to get bright & sunny pics of our village. The forecast for the rest of the month is less than ideal so I settled for Low Vis shot of the village. Cloud base was about 200' above the village when I set out to take the pic, by the time I got to the top of the tip it was starting to dribble & the cloud base was sinking rapidly. Against all the odds, this is the best of the 3 pics I got ;o)
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202_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Lawrence Coburn, CEO and Co-Founder of DoubleDutch and Mathew Spolin, CTO and Co-Founder of DoubleDutch pitch their new product at DEMO Fall 2010. DoubleDutch can help any company, brand or community launch their own mobile, geosocial app.
Enterprise Technologies key component is efficiency. Companies seek to exploit cloud based infrastructure and related technologies to lower costs. With that, CIO's are looking to bring simple ways for employees to work from anywhere at anytime.
Join DEMO to reveal some of the hottest companies capitalizing on these trends. The following companies that are pitching their products are:
Connect from Vonata
eM Client 2.7 from eM Client Inc.
FN Connect Secure from Federated Networks
Integrate from Integrate.com LLC
Profitably from Profitably
PublicStuff from PublicStuff LLC
Zingaya from Zingaya
Capture ID Mobile Scanner from Rocky Mountain Ventures Company
Double Dutch from Double Dutch
meeting-eXpert from Meeting Sciences, Inc.
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Follow DEMO on twitter:
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Photos by Stephen Brashear
150_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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431_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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I attended the "Introduction into alpine soaring" course of the Swiss gliding association in Samedan / Engadin this year.
During the first week the weather was difficult to fly with the exception of Friday when a mountain wave let us get up to 5000 m a.m.s.l. with permission of air traffic control. Thank you Skyguide !
The second week was mostly sunshine and good thermals and ridge lift.
I learned to climb slopes and ride the narrow but intense mountain thermals.
Seeing other gliders and avoiding collisions is crucial as they are sometimes difficult to spot. Luckily most gliders are nowadays equipped with the FLARM collision warning system - the little display on top of the instrument panel.
Digicam
509_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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187_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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252_GHP_SenateCruz_23aug19.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership State of the Senate address and luncheon with Senator Ted Cruz at the Hilton Americas April 23, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Utility, Inc. develops the smartest body-worn technology in the world, incorporating real-time communications for the best situational awareness possible during the most critical times. Unlike other police body cameras, BodyWorn™ has automatic recording triggers based on policies, officer down reporting and alerting, live video streaming, and secure automatic wireless offload to AWS cloud storage. Utility’s BodyWorn video, audio and metadata can be accessed through its cloud-based digital evidence management solution, AVaiL Web™. Utility’s other solutions, Rocket IoT™ in-car video and Smart Redaction™ application for releasing video to the public, also leverage AWS cloud storage. Providing mission critical mobile intelligence.
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002_GHP_AnnualMeeting_31Jan19.CR2 -- Greater Houston Partnership 30th Anniversary and 2019 Annual Meeting with the Partnership's incoming Chair, Scott McClelland, and President and CEO, Bob Harvey addressing the organization's top priorities January 31, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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383_GHP_Diversity_25Oct22 - The Greater Houston Partnership Houston DiverseCity Summit, an inspiring one-day convening to advance equity and inclusion in the greater Houston region held at the Marriott Marquis October 25, 2022. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Great forest and loch walk today (keeping low because of rain and low cloud base) around Loch Ard.. 7.68 miles so was not too 'ard'!
Cappuccinos and pastries after down at Callander.. 😁
085_GHP_Airports2018.JPG - Greater Houston Partnership State of the Airports address at the Hilton Americas December 14, 2018 at Partnership tower. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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045_GHP_Airports_5Oct22 - Greater Houston Partnership State of the Airports with Mario C. Diaz, Director of Aviation, Houston Airports held at the Marriott Marquis October 5, 2022. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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024_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Immaculate Conception / Inmaculada Concepcion / Purisima Concepcion
18th Century
Ivory head and hands mounted on softwood, fully carved (detallado) body.
Hands now missing.
Nose may have been repaired.
Provenance:
Collection of Dr. Porfirio J. and Mrs. Socorro R. Callo
Purchased at auction from Sloan's Auction House of Boston, MA
(Auction tag still present on base of image)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Andelson
Exhibited at the Allen Memorial Art Musuem, 9 February 1981
Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH
The Virgin is depicted here as a young woman with her arms bent in the attitude of prayer. The hands, now missing, would have been joined together in front of her torso terminating into a graceful fold. The Virgin's gown crosses her body laterally at the knees, folds gracefully backwards and folds at the Virgin's left elbow.
The image may have been painted at one time consistent with many surviving image of the Purisima. However, all traces of polychromy are now gone.
The Virgin stands on a cloud base surrounded by winged cherubims. The clouds are carved in the archaic "ensaymada" (brioche) style. Holes at each side of the base indicates where the horns of the crescent moon would have been placed now missing. The eponymous "SUKSUK" or tuck found on 17th and 18th century images of the Virgin is present in the back.
Jerry and Gayle Robertson run BOLT System, a Nashville, Tennessee-based provider of cloud-based fleet management software. When developing the fleet management system for trucking firms, they applied lessons learned when they worked as executives in the high tech industry. They also researched the industry and talked to shippers, fleet operators and drivers, and took on one other task that proved effective as it was unusual and complex. They started – and ran – a trucking company to fully test the system. Jerry even got a CDL and drove trucks.
rapid vertical convection giving rise to wisps of cloud scudding about at very low altitude below the main cloud-base.
... and Tibetan tent party starting up in the foreground
I think these peaks may include one or all of Mt Lhotse (8,516 m), Mt Makalu (8,485 m), and Mt Cho Oyu (8,201 m) - Everest is off stage left ( David Grau's stunning photo of the same range)
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After a relatively good night's sleep at the Tingri Friendship Hotel, we woke to more low cloud and a greasy chapati breakfast.
Leaving the others to walk back up to EBC still hopeful of a Qomolangma sighting, Fran and I decided to cut our losses and to walk down towards Rongbuk Monastery.
Our stroll took us alongside the rocky glacier route of the Rongbuk River valley, dotted with yaks. At the sacred water well, we picked up Tashi, a local Tibetan man who chatted to us as we walked on towards the monastery. About 10 minutes in, he became very insistent we stop and look back.... thereby ensuring we did get a sighting of Mount Everest, peaking out of the lower cloud base. Tu-de-chay Tashi!
At Rongbuk Monastery we pottered around the monastery kora, still getting the occasional sighting of Mount Everest / Qomolangma, and then returned to the tent camp, helping a lady carry her three thermoses of water for the final stretch.
I'd been a bit woozy all morning, and spent most of the exciting off road return drive to the Friendship Highway sleeping in the front seat. Too tired to keep my eyes open to take in the amazing scenery, the river crossings, and towing another jeep out of a bog.
At (Old) Tingri we rejoined the tarmac, and checked in to the Snow Leopard Guesthouse where we had a late lunch and a lazy afternoon to wash, repack and stroll the length of town which stretches along the main highway.
As the light faded, the cloud lifted and we were treated to a very atmospheric view of snow capped Himalayan peaks, including (somewhere!) the elusive Mt Everest
After noodle soup for supper, we made the most of the evening's hot water and hit our beds for a comfier night's sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C-Tsang
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongbuk_Monastery
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingri_%28town%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_318
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Highway_%28Tibet%29
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LLNL's fall 2022 hackathon featured an Amazon Web Services DeepRacer machine learning competition, in which participants used a cloud-based racing simulator to train an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
One of the most majestic sights in the Highlands. A golden eagle hunting right at the foot of the cloud base, occasionally drifting higher out of sight only to re-emerge a few seconds later. Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highlands
303_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Dartmouth Royal Regatta air display. The RAF Aerobatic Display Team were confined to low-altitude formation flying by a low cloud base and I took several still shots of them and made this short video from some of them.
265_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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430_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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