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Based on population pressures the GLOBIO2 model has assessed the current and future human impacts on Great Ape habitat in Africa (Chimpanzee, Bonobo and Gorilla). The analysis shows a vast reduction of some of the world's remaining wilderness areas. (this poster prepared for the UNESCO GRASP meeting in November 2003).
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Staggering amount of trash on the sandy beach on the bank of the Ganges river, across from the Ghats of Varanasi (India)
This is a popular spot for the Hindu pilgrims to take their Holy Dip.
Unfortunately there is no trash collection, and India people are still dumping lots of trash on this beach, including plastic trash.
For more info about Varanasi, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi.
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This is the environment you see at UNC. You see many different people here and that's what makes it so great and diverse.
Visitors walk along Neabsco Creek Boardwalk in Woodbridge, Va., on Sept. 20, 2020. The boardwalk opened in 2019 and offers a 0.75-mile walk across acres of wetlands. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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... it's time for a Tusker beer ...
... een koel bierke in een pittoresk huisje in de Gabbra woestijn.
Aan de muur een ware kalender 2010 met plezante pentekeningen over het watertekort in de wereld. Hij wordt uitgegeven door de overheid van Kenia, om de mensen bewust te maken van de waarde van het water!
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
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A mining bee hovers above its nest on a bare patch of soil in Annapolis, Md., on May 30, 2020. Native bees like those from the genus Andrena build solitary nests in the ground. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Series of Photographs for my University project of 'Environments'. I've chosen to look at the natural human body, with aspects of a natural landscape brought into the photos.
The Soviet development model for Central Asia was based on building large-scale irrigation schemes enabling the region to become a major cotton producer and expanding the mining and processing industry. Industrial operations in the region paid little attention to the environment and public health, resulting in the accumulation of pollutants in the local environment. Today, not only active industrial facilities constitute a threat to environment, and often to security as well, so does the legacy of past operators.
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As I went for a walk in the woods today, I started to notice the traces we humans leave behind in nature. Combined this is a little documentation of the traces I found.
Change in the initial species richness in 2005 relative to 2001-2005 average (high-range climate change scenario). Studies predict species invasion will be profound in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Among others these changes could result in a significant turnover of species of more than 60% of present biodiversity. This has the potential to disrupt a range of marine ecosystem services including food provisioning.
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Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Kyle Breda heads to the next hole at A.L. Gustin Golf Course, Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Columbia, Mo. A new study conducted by MU researchers found golf courses are more environmentally healthy than they are perceived to be. (Danielle Dieterich / KOMU News)
Best in color or B&W? I've posted yesterday a color version of this photo. There are contrasting views, and I haven't a clear preference.
4:28 pm CEST -> The bare rocks and lunar landscape of Cap Faváritx are the best indication of the harshness of winter conditions in the northeast of Menorca.
Focal length: 12 mm
Aperture: f/9.0
Exposure: 1/30 Sec
ISO Speed: 80
Manfrotto 190CXPRO4 + 460MG
Viveza, Silver Efex Pro, Lightroom
VIDEO, Rocking Christmas Songs - youtu.be/Q5IF6iWf5W4
The VanDusen Garden Festival of Lights is a Christmas event that many nature-lovers have been waiting for to start the holiday season.
One of the guiding principles of the VanDusen Garden has always been to connect people to plants and the natural environment. Year-round, visitors have come here to appreciate and learn about conservation, gardening, plant lives and stories, nutrition, pollination, adopt a tree, birding in the garden and many more.
The VanDusen Garden is also a popular spot for wedding couples getting hitched.
Although there are more than 100 events happening all year, don’t think that during winter the garden would be in hibernation. No, December happens to be the busiest time of the year.
To celebrate Christmas and the Yuletide season, the garden comes alive with more than a million light bulbs illuminating all vegetation and the surrounding enclave. 1.4 million lights to be exact.
Nancy Wong, VanDusen Garden’s Public Relations Director, proudly pointed out that volunteers counted each light bulb every year and made sure they were working before putting them on.
The Festival of Lights is an extremely popular event. Families come in droves.
On the first day of the festival (Dec 02), there was a long lineup of people wanting in before the garden officially opened at 4:30 PM. In fact, visitors were advised to purchase tickets in advance at Tickets Tonight or in person at the Garden Shop at VanDusen Garden as early as Nov 1st.
Once visitors entered the garden, many of them seek out the popular Dancing Lights at Livingstone Lake in which a continuous series of strobe lights was synchronized to rock versions of familiar Christmas songs that reverberated with the audience, adults and kids alike.
Music is the universal language, no loss in translation there. It signifies the joyous season and everyone is excited to be there. Dancing Lights plays every half-hour and it has become one of the main attractions of the Festival of Lights experience.
After the light show, visitors began to explore different areas of the garden and there were plenty for them to see and enjoy - Santa’s Living Room, Gingerbread Wood, Make-a-Wish Candle Shrine, Sparkling Spruce in the centre court, Candy Cane Express model train etc.
Roaming along the brightly-illuminated Candy Cane Lane, you would likely hear a singing choir that draws you nearer or encounter two Christmas Gnomes, Svend and Jens eager to entertain.
Svend joked often in a heavy Swedish accent while Jens played his quiet and abiding partner. Their routine worked out very well I must say.
It’s the Winter Light season (not Lights, in honor of director Ingmar Bergman) and with Svend and Jens close by, you are reminded of the Swedish filmmaker’s world-famous troupe of actors including Liv Ulman, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom and others. Ja!
After an hour or two, you just might feel hungry and it is a perfect time to have dinner at the garden. Both light fare and full meals are available at the VanDusen Garden. Dinner is also served every night at the Shaughnessy Restaurant during the Festival of Lights. Reservations are recommended.
Ho-Ho-Ho, Santa’s rocking in his chair too!
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Ray Van Eng is an award-winning photographer, journalist, online publisher, screenwriter and movie & TV producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.
FENDI BAGUETTE BAG ANNIVERSARY | FENDI POP-UP
New York, New York
situation
“It’s not a bag, it’s a Baguette,” quipped Sarah Jessica Parker in “Sex in the City,”—forever immortalizing it as a fashion staple. Conceived by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the prominent fashion clutch is commemorating its 25th anniversary and is the feature for the Fendi winter 2022 capsule.
To celebrate, Fendi unveiled a New York pop-up boutique, situated at 90 Prince St. in the heart of SoHo. This 1,850 square-foot space was transformed to showcase the Fendi Baguette collection. Teaming with agency Innercity (IC-YA), Britten WoodWorks would craft the essential elements to transform a vacant storefront into a playful pop-up befitting the Fendi brand.
The principal feature would be oversized reproductions of the Baguette itself, fitted for product merchandising display. True to Britten’s capabilities, creating this larger-than-life design adds amusing dimension to the space.
solution
Using formed plywood as the core interior and Brittens's Foam3D™ elements to construct the compound curves and edges, Britten WoodWorks crafted outsized replicants of the iconic handbag—detailed down to the flap, clasp, and signature sleek edges.
Spanning 10’ high and 12’ wide and equipped with floating shelves and ready-to-wear racks, each Baguette was integrated with 3000K LED lighting to house and highlight the collection’s pieces.
Configured in three sets of match pairs, two in jewel-tone green, two in light pink, and two in Tiffany blue, each were color-matched to the exacting hues of the rest of the Fendi interior.
impact
By entrusting Britten WoodWorks, Fendi conveyed its aspirations for a phenomenal pop-up and its brand perception. The finished detailed interior cemented Britten WoodWorks as a complete idea-to-install fabricator and capable partner to shoulder the weighty brand presence of Fendi.
The results demonstrate Britten WoodWorks' ability to produce refined finish details that match highly stylized brand expectations with the technical demands of retail merchandising. From concept to installation in just four weeks, expediate skilled work is another benefit of partnering with Britten, Inc.
britteninc.com/portfolio/fendi-baguette-bag-anniversary
The results demonstrate Britten WoodWorks ability to produce refined finish details that match highly stylized brand expectations with the technical demands of retail merchandising.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Premier John Horgan stepped outside to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse. Hundreds of people gathered around the legislative lawns and the Royal BC Museum to view this once in a lifetime experience.
A nomad bee from the genus Nomada search for the nests of mining bees on a bare patch of soil in Annapolis, Md., on May 30, 2020. Nomada are a type of cuckoo bee that practices brood parasitism of mining bees and other ground-nesting bees. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
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A colleague of min has this fantastic Norwegian design icon, a Tandberg Sølvsuper (translated to Silversuper) radio and amplifier. Unfortunately he's been having some problems with it. He told me the audio was "scratchy, then dropped out." It's always hard to tell what's wrong by peoples description, but it sounded like the speaker contacts where loose, or maybe just dirty.
I unscrewed the cabinet, a combination of wood and aluminium. Only four easily accessible screws to get to the components, hurrah. They knew how to make stuff repair friendly back then!
Now the strange thing is that as I poked around I couldn't find anything wrong. The only issue was that only two out of four speaker outputs had audio (but what audio, my god what a quality!). I have a pair of old Bang & Olufsen speakers with the same specs as the Tandberg amp (4-8 ohm), and they sound FANTASTIC when plugging my portable cd player to the input marked PHONO (after pressing down the limiter button). But if I tried connecting it to the TAPE input I got absolutely nothing.
I have a neighbour that has alot of experience repairing electronics, and he pointed out that it could be the cable/contact itself, and sure enough, when measuring the resistance on the white and red phono jacks and matching them to the five pins on the DIN-plug, we found that the middle is ground, but only two of the other four pins got a signal, so no wonder there where only sound in two speakers.
What threw me off at first is that there is actually a little audio in the two speaker outputs that are supposed to be dead, but this is pretty normal in older amplifiers. The audio signal can "bleed" over to other parts of the circuit, usually only noticable if you crank everything up full volume.
Anyways, everything seemed quite fine, but I used a tiny screwdriver to try to scrap off any dirt on the contacts, and that seemed to do the trick, improving the conductivity of the contact = better sound and less scraping.
I also cleaned up all the buttons and knobs on it, as a bonus.
Brought it back and my colleague was really happy with it, he has tested it and it works great.
Sometimes a simple poking is enough. True for making babies AND fixing amplifiers. :)
A carpenter bee hovers long enough for a closeup in the backyard of a participant in the RiverSmart Homes program in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Sampling boat at location close to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA