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The jets roared over the Transamerica Pyramid about a minute after the sailboats arranged themselves as here. Again, the confluence is imagined through the miracle of Photoshop.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah.
The nearest communities are Jensen, Utah, and Dinosaur, Colorado. The park contains over 800 paleontological sites and has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Abydosaurus (a nearly complete skull, lower jaws and first four neck vertebrae of the specimen DINO 16488 found here at the base of the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation is the holotype for the description) and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915. In April 2019, the International Dark-Sky Association designated Dinosaur National Monument an International Dark Sky Park.
The rock layer enclosing the fossils is a sandstone and conglomerate bed of alluvial or river bed origin known as the Morrison Formation from the Jurassic Period some 150 million years old. The dinosaurs and other ancient animals were carried by the river system which eventually entombed their remains in Utah. The pile of sediments were later buried and lithified into solid rock. The layers of rock were later uplifted and tilted to their present angle by the mountain building forces that formed the Uintas during the Laramide orogeny. The relentless forces of erosion exposed the layers at the surface to be found by paleontologists.
The dinosaur fossil beds (bone beds) were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working and collecting for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He and his crews excavated thousands of fossils and shipped them back to the museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for study and display. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the dinosaur beds as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915. The monument boundaries were expanded in 1938 from the original 80-acre (320,000 m2) tract surrounding the dinosaur quarry in Utah, to its present extent of over 200,000 acres (800 km²) in Utah and Colorado, encompassing the spectacular river canyons of the Green and Yampa.
The plans made by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on a ten-dam, billion dollar Colorado River Storage Project began to arouse opposition in the early 1950s when it was announced that one of the proposed dams would be at Echo Park, in the middle of Dinosaur National Monument. The controversy assumed major proportions, dominating conservation politics for years. David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society led an unprecedented nationwide campaign to preserve the free-flowing rivers and scenic canyons of the Green and Yampa Rivers. They argued that if a national monument was not safe from development, how could any wildland be kept intact? On the other side of the argument were powerful members of Congress from western states, who were committed to the project in order to secure water rights, obtain cheap hydroelectric power and develop reservoirs as tourist destinations. After much debate, Congress settled on a compromise that eliminated Echo Park Dam and authorized the rest of the project. The Colorado River Storage Project Act became law on April 11, 1956. It stated, "that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of the Act shall be within any National Park or Monument." Historians view the Echo Park Dam controversy as signaling the start of an era that includes major conservationist political successes such as the Wilderness Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain.
According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 70,851, a decrease of 2.4% from 2000.
Much of Wilmington's economy is based on its status as the most populous and readily accessible city in Delaware, a state that made itself attractive to corporations with business-friendly financial laws and a longstanding reputation for a fair and effective judicial system. Contributing to the economic health of the downtown and Wilmington Riverfront regions has been the presence of Wilmington Station, through which 665,000 people passed in 2009.
Wilmington has become a national financial center for the credit card industry, largely due to regulations enacted by former Governor Pierre S. du Pont, IV in 1981. The Financial Center Development Act of 1981, among other things, eliminated the usury laws enacted by most states, thereby removing the cap on interest rates that banks may legally charge customers. Many major credit card issuers, including Bank of America (formerly MBNA Corporation), Chase Card Services (part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., formerly Bank One/First USA), and Barclays Bank of Delaware (formerly Juniper Bank), are headquartered in Wilmington. The Dutch banking giant ING Groep N.V. headquartered its U.S. internet banking unit, ING Direct (now Capital One 360), in Wilmington. The United Kingdom's HSBC has their American operations headquartered in Wilmington. Wilmington Trust is headquartered in Wilmington at Rodney Square. Barclays and Capital One 360 have very large and prominent locations located along the waterfront of the Christina River. In 1988, the Delaware legislature enacted a law which required a would-be acquirer to capture 85 percent of a Delaware chartered corporation's stock in a single transaction or wait three years before proceeding. This law strengthened Delaware's position as a safe haven for corporate charters during an especially turbulent time filled with hostile takeovers.
Wilmington's other notable industries include insurance (American Life Insurance Company [ALICO], Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Delaware), retail banking (including the Delaware headquarters of: Wilmington Trust, PNC Bank, Wachovia Bank, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Citizens Bank, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, and Artisans' Bank), and legal services. A General Motors plant was closed in 2009. Wilmington is home to one Fortune 500 company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. In addition, the city is the corporate domicile of more than 50% of the publicly traded companies in the United States, and over 60% of the Fortune 500.
Delaware chartered corporations rely on the state's Court of Chancery to decide legal disputes, which places legal decisions with a judge instead of a jury. The Court of Chancery, known both nationally and internationally for its speed, competence, and knowledgeable judiciary as a court of equity, is empowered to grant broad relief in the form of injunctions and restraining orders, which is of particular importance when shareholders seek to block or enjoin corporate actions such as mergers or acquisitions. The Court of Chancery, as a statewide court, may hear cases in any of the state's three counties. A dedicated-use Chancery courthouse was recently constructed in Georgetown, Sussex County, which has hosted high-profile complex corporate trials such as the Disney shareholder litigation.
Delaware has among the strictest rules in America regarding out-of-state legal practice, allowing no reciprocity to lawyers who passed the bar in other states.
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Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Spherical Panorama shot at the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers in downtown Milwaukee, WI USA.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Jan. 8, 2013.
I've been wanting to capture a scene where night and day meet for a while now, but it wasn't until today that all the pieces came together - sunrise, moon in the right place in the sky, the right type and amount of cloud cover, and last but certainly not least, me standing there with camera in hand. I couldn't pick a favourite from these six, so I've posted them all.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Special for a financial newspaper: unknown neighbourhoods in European cities. Great assignment, would love to do more of those!
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.