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A surprisingly chipper Elvis Costello was second on the bill to Ray Davies at the free concert - and he played this song, by far my favourite !
For last Saturday's Rolling Stones photographs see here
Hyde Park, London, UK
A Mentor Paperback--as a geeky kid I bought dozens of books from Mentor (New American Library) on history, art and science. They had stiff paper covers laminated with a thin plastic that tended to split, crack and peel. Does anybody else remember this?
This edition "On Understanding Science," was published in 1951. Author James B. Conant is a "famous scientist" who "explains science and its role today." No creationism in this tome.
Personally, I like the surrealistic cover.
Leipziger Buchmesse 2015 / Leipzig Book Fair 2015
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CALISTO (___) 492830 as Harley Quinn from Batman
Dickerliebhaber96 (Nico) 655114 as Joker from Batman
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Leipziger Buchmesse 2016 / Leipzig Book Fair 2016
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chatterbox (Sophia) 501877 as Maris Pollitax & Quint from (Literature)
Collectress (Emily) 540981 as Quintinius Verginix [Quint] from Klippenlandchroniken (Fantasy)
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The Annual Iftar Gathering at the U.S. Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission Residence
On June 22nd Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Leslie Tsou hosted the U.S. Embassy’s annual shared society and interfaith Iftar gathering. Joined by Ambassador David Freidman, DCM Tsou welcomed leaders from all faiths and diverse Arab and Jewish communities, Israelis and Palestinians, in celebration of the holy month of Ramadan. With a message of partnership and tolerance, commitment to achieving the goal of peace and reconciliation, community representatives and partners gathered to share an Iftar meal in the spirit of unity and understanding. Ambassador Freidman and DCM Tsou also awarded Certificates of Excellence to a group of Arab high school students who recently came back from the U.S. upon completing a year at American high schools as part of the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program, funded by the U.S. State Department. The certificates were given to them in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the community and for fostering mutual understanding during their stay in the U.S. The evening began with Sheikh Ashraf Abu Shmeisi chanting a compelling recitation of the breaking the fast prayer, which was followed by an open-air dinner setting accompanied by beautiful Arabic and Ramadan music played by the “Azzam” ensemble.
The exhibition "Understanding AI" shows how neural networks are structured and offers visitors the opportunity to train neural networks themselveswith via interactive stations.
Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl
In 1901 Paul Bonatz finished his architectural education at Munich Technical University and became the assistant of Theodor Fischer at Stuttgart Technical University. In 1908 he took Fischer’s seat. Bonatz’s architectural understanding and style was inspired by Fischer and tended towards classicisim. Bonatz improved his principles in a modern way and created a refined monumentalism using simple shapes. This style can be seen in his early projects like the Hannover City Hall and Stuttgart Terminal, as well as his bridge designs of the 1930s. He was a leader and supporter of the Second Nationalist Architecture style while in Turkey in the 1940s and took part in jury committees for competitions including those of Anıtkabir and İstanbul Radio House. Bonatz also taught at ITU Architecture Faculty between 1946 and 1955, and is renowned for important projects such as the Saraçoğlu Houses and the opera building in Ankara.
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Paul Bonatz, 1901’de Münih Teknik Üniversitesi’nde öğrenimini tamamladıktan sonra, Stuttgart Teknik Üniversitesi’nde Theodor Fischer’in asistanı olarak çalıştı ve 1908’de onun yerini aldı. Mimari anlayışı, Fischer’in yanında klasisizm doğrultusunda şekillendi; Bonatz, bu ilkeleri modernleştirerek uygulamayı sürdürdü. Hannover Kent Salonu ve Stuttgart Garı (1917) gibi büyük ölçekli yapılarında gözlenen rafine anıtsallık, 1930’larda tasarladığı köprülerde de kendini gösterdi. Türkiye’de bulunduğu 1940’larda, İkinci Ulusal Mimarlık akımını destekledi. 1945-1955 yıllarında İTÜ Mimarlık Bölümü’nde ders veren ve Anıtkabir ile İstanbul Radyoevi gibi projelerde jüri üyeliği yapan Bonatz, Saraçoğlu Memur Evleri ve Ankara Opera Sahnesi gibi önemli projelere imza attı.
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CUSTOMS MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT AND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF KUWAIT. The purpose is to sign the United States – Kuwait Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Technical Cooperation. The signing participants are CBP Acting Commissioner McAleenan and DG Al Jalawi signing their counterpart’s copy of the agreement. Kuwait General Administration of Customs, Director General Al Jalawi provides opening remarks.
Photographer: Donna Burton
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 18 Spetember 2018, to continue support of the 'Edified Generation' scholarships' programme.
The Chinese Embassy greatly supports the development of education in Rwanda and strives to do this through helping disadvantaged students under Imbuto Foundation’s scholarship programme – Edified Generation.
Imbuto Foundation and the Chinese Embassy have signed MoUs in support of the scholarship programme since 2013.
Dr. Melissa Miller of California Department of Fish and Wildlife conducts necropsy of otter to determine cause of death. Photo courtesy of CADFW.
"Understanding the Holy Trinity" - Sketchnote of Deacon Al's homily this morning where he described the central mystery of our faith - the Holy Trinity - as something that the human intellect is not capable of comprehending. To describe this, he told the famous legend of St. Augustine's encounter with a boy on the beach who was using a seashell to empty the sea into a small hole in the sand.
Spartan Soldier:
"Understanding types of artwork is simple, they say if it hangs on a wall it's a painting,
and if it casts a shadow and you can walk around it then it's a sculpture; however understanding the definition of artwork and why it can provoke thought or emotion may be more complex.." ~Tomitheos
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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Young Historians Project presents A Hidden History:
Between 2018-2021, the Young Historians Project (YHP) engaged in a pioneering research project to recover the hidden history of African women who worked in Britain's healthcare sector during the 20th century. Recruitment for the health service from the colonies of the British Empire began in the period after the Second World War. However, nurses, doctors and other medical professionals from Africa trained in Britain before this, as higher education was generally not available in the colonies.
Despite their long history of work within the health service in Britain, the role of African women is rarely highlighted in discussions of the history of the NHS or of health work more generally. This project has covered new ground and expanded the understanding of this history.
During this project, YHP undertook extensive research on the history of African women in Britain, and conducted oral history interviews with 35 women who worked within Britain's healthcare sector during the 20th century. We have designed accessible learning outputs to ensure others can learn about this important history, including a docuseries, online research hub, e-book, podcast series, as well as this commemorative mural. This project was funded by the Heritage Fund, and undertaken in partnership with Ghana Nurses Association, Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association and the Black Cultural Archives. To access our project's learning outputs, visit: younghistoriansproject.org/research-hub
About the Young Historians Project YHP is a non-profit organisation formed by young people of African and Caribbean descent, working to encourage other young people to engage with Black British
history. YHP works on dynamic projects, documenting pivotal and often overlooked historical moments. We hope that through this and future projects more young
people of African and Caribbean heritage will rediscover history and develop the skills to become the historians of the future. For more
information, and to access our learning resources, visit: younghistoriansproject.org
Each one, Teach one
About the artist Heritage Interpreter and Bristol based artist, Michele Curtis painted this mural with assistance from consultant artist Nadia Lloyd. Michele is the artist and architect behind the Seven Saints of St. Paul's creative and digital place making project, and the Iconic Black Britons initiative developed to celebrate Black British history through art.
This isn't just Black History; this is Britain's History!
This mural showcases four African women who have connections to the South-West of England, and worked within Britain's healthcare service.
Princess Tsehai Selassie
Princess Tsehai, the fourth child of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1919. From 1935, Italy - ruled at the time by Mussolini's fascist regime-launched an invasion of Ethiopia, and the Royal Family fled to Bath, England and ruled in exile at Fairfield House. At just 15, Princess Tsehai gave an impassioned plea to the League of Nations on behalf of her besieged home nation. This garnered her international fame. Tsehai continued to speak on peace and use her status positively. She gave a speech for the Women's Peace Crusade, and was the only woman to speak at the Conference on African Peoples, Democracy and World Peace in 1939, held in London. As a sponsor in the creation of the Ethiopian Women's Welfare Work Association (EWWWA), she worked to ensure the expansion and provision of health and welfare to Ethiopian people. During the family's exile, Princess Tsehai pursued her passion for healthcare and acquired training to bring back to Ethiopia in hope it would benefit her people. She completed her training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and later Guy's Hospital, becoming a state registered children's nurse. Once the Royal Family were able to return. to Ethiopia in 1941, she married Lieutenant-General (later Brigadier-General) Lij Abiye Abebe, and moved with him to Welega Province when he was appointed governor there. Tragically, the Princess died following complications during childbirth in 1942. Emperor Haile Selassie founded the Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital in her memory, which also served as a nursing school until the Ethiopian Revolution in 1974.
Bijou Bidwell a.k.a. 'Aunty Bijou' Bijou Bidwell was born on the 29th of March 1927 in Freetown. Growing up, she was taught at St.
High School, where she became school spokesperson. Then known as Bijou Peters, she studied at Brice a career in nursing, soon Anglican Primary School and later Methodist Girls known, would prove a dering a State Registered Nurse (SRN) and later a State Certified Midwife (SCM) from 1947. 'Aunty Bijou as she soon became ol Royal Infirmary and Kings College Hospital to pursue I and talented nurse, rising to the level of Nursing Sister at the Royal Victoria Hospital (today the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital) in 1955, before marrying Dr Ernest Bidwell in 1956. The Bidwells had two daughters, Oremie and Alaphia. Aside from nursing, Aunty Bijou had a love of gardening and her c and was an avid writer. She wrote for a range of Gambian newspapers such as Daily Observer, where she used her voice to speak for the voiceless, particularly on issues of gendered violence and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Even as she grew older, her passion for fighting injustice and standing up for the marginalised did not waver. Her legacy lives on through the foundations she laid for future activists who work to end practices such as FGM to this day
Hannah Jawara (nee Mahoney) Hannah Jawara (nee Mahoney) was born in Gambia in 1924. She was the daughter of Sir John Mahoney, the first speaker of the Gambian Legislative
Council. From 1942 to 1946 she worked as a nursing assistant at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul, Gambia. The following year, she travelled to England to study nursing at the Bristol Royal Infirmary qualifying as a State Registered Nurse (SRN) in 1950. Upon her return, she was appointed superintendent of the Basse Health Centre. In 1955 she married Gambia's future prime r Dawda Jawara. But Hannah had her own political ambitions and in 1960, she became the first woman to stand for election to the House of Representatives, where she placed third. Hannah was also an activist for women's rights. She co-founded the Gambia Women's Federation which promoted education for girls. After separating from her husband, she turned to literature, publishing the feminist play 'Rebellion' under the pseudonym Ramatoulie Kinteh. Her works focused on Gambian women and culture. She died in London in 1981.
Olugbemisola Kolade
Olugbemisola (Olu) Kolade, was born in Britain and moved to Nigeria at the age of six. She has spent the majority of her life thus far in Nigeria and was educated there. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science she worked in software consultancy for a number of years. She also married and had two children while living in Nigeria. In 2015, at the age of 35, she moved back to the United Kingdom-a part of her had always wanted to return. Upon her arrival in the UK she began working at the Royal United Hospital, Bath as Project Support Officer, assisting on projects. She has continued to progress as a member of the administrative and clerical staff, and currently holds the role of Transformation Support Officer. She aspires to be a Project Manager in her own right.
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Made possible with Heritage Fund and YHP
Bath hospital mural celebrates African women in healthcare
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as CTAM, the industry marketing organization, today announced a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organizations’ collective content protection efforts.
Derek N. Benner, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which oversees the IPR Center, and Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a virtual ceremony to commemorate the partnership.
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Sound quality and understanding speech is important, especially in a classroom. If a child can't hear what is being taught, it's hard to learn. This school had a big problem and a small budget to work with. Shown are our Echo Eliminator recycled cotton acoustical panels.
They were able to find some great deals on the Echo Eliminator panels through our Discount Soundproofing Warehouse.
Read the whole problem and solution on our Sound Proofing Blog: Classroom Acoustics on a Budget
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Asheville are working with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to learn more about rare pitcher plants.
Pitcher plants have a modified leaf in the shape of a pitcher. The pitcher is lined with tiny, downward-facing hairs. In many pitcher plants, an insect is attracted to the pitcher's scent, begins climbing down, and the hairs prevent it from reversing course, leaving its only option to go deeper, until it comes to the pool of enzymes, is digested, and feeds the plant. However, in other pitcher plants, the plants get others to do much of this work. In the purple pitcher plant, which is found in western North Carolina, the pool of water at the base of the pitcher is home to a community of life, with 165 species found living within its pitchers. In these cases, it's this community of life that does the digesting, and the plant absorbs nutrients released as these other species feed and grow.
The purple pitcher plant hybridizes with the endangered mountain sweet pitcher plant, which uses enzymes to digest insects. Two different pitcher plants. Two different feeding strategies. What happens in their offspring? That's one of the questions the researchers hope to answer. By periodically collecting and examining water from the pitchers, they'll gain an understanding of how both communities of life and enzyme solutions vary among the purple, mountain sweet, and hybrid pitcher plants.
KASHMIR PRESS CLUB TO COLLABORATE ON ISSUES OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE THROUGH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM WITH AGAHI
JOURNALISTS TRAINED FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND RESPONSIBLE REPORTING
Mishal Pakistan, a strategic communication policy design social enterprise in collaboration with the Center for International Media Ethics, Zigron Training, Center for Investigative Journalists in Bosnia-Sarajevo, Naya Jeevan conducted a workshop on Investigative Journalism and Responsible Reporting in Kashmir Press Club in Mirpur Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The initiative, known as Agahi covered areas such as; Investigative Journalism and Ethics, Anti-Money-Laundering and Terrorist Organisation Funding, Journalism and Society “Millennium Development Goals’’, Reporting in Terrorism and Conflict, Social Media and Safety Training. The initiative was launched in Multan Press Club on August 22nd 2011.
Talking to the gathering of the members of the media, Syed Abid Hussain Shah, President of the Kashmir Press Club, Mirpur expressed his gratitude for creating an opportunity for the journalists and emphasised the need for for more training and assured his support from the press club for improving the state of media in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. There is a need to upgrade the skills of the journalists on new media tools such as social media and crowd sourcing journalism, he further added.
Mishal Pakistan and Kashmir Press Club, signed a memorandum of understanding on capacity building and training initiatives. The initiative aims to empower the journalist community by creating learning platforms through interactive workshops, seminars and courses in specific sectors.
On the session, Puruesh Chaudhary, Ambassador to Pakistan on Media Ethics on behalf of the Center for International Media Ethics emphasized on the formulation of a unified ethics policy for the entire journalistic community to be adopted, implemented and adhered to counter special interest groups and sensationalism. The session dealt with the problems being faced by journalists, which also underscored the need for a joint code of conduct for reporters and cameramen.
Journalists in Mirpur proactively discussed issues such as lack of training, non-supportive management, unavailability of basic resources, pressure groups, wages and the absence of a unified code of conduct.
The trainers highlighted socio-economic disparities which included gender/social discrimination, access to clean drinking water, environment, health and education that continue to impact the community and stressed on how investigations into such areas can reflect the changing needs and priorities.
There was a special session on safety for journalists on how to journalists can also acquire the knowledge of life saving, as journalists are usually the first people to reach a place of accident or an act of terrorism.
Mishal Pakistan Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Amir Jahangir in his closing remarks announced two scholarships in collaboration with the Kashmir Press Club who wish to enroll for the Masters Programme in Mass Communication, Journalism or Media Studies at any public sector universities or any other degree awarding institution in Azad Jammu Kashmir and other parts of Pakistan. The Kashmir Press Club will help Mishal in identifying the most deserving candidate for this scholarship.
Agahi, aims to utilize institutionalized, sustainable media structures in Pakistan to raise the bar of journalistic standards through training to increasing responsible, balanced reporting and investigative journalism. The initiative is being carried in collaboration with the Press Clubs in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and Azad Kashmir; In these series of interactions with the stakeholders a special Journalism Awards is being created to identify the most respectful and responsible journalists in investigative journalism.
The workshop was attended by more than 50 press club members. The Kashmir Press Club was founded in 1978 and has more than 70 full time members and almost 100 affiliated members.
As it has been said by others, primarily a couple TG webcomic creators out there, "The best lies are based upon truth."
For this one, I drew my inspiration off a picture from dj bridget that was up on flickr a while ago (no longer - you snooze, you lose - She's a bona-fide collector's item, I'm just one of several thousand copies of an over-produced common popular character that's still turning up on eBay, but not fetching much. ^_^;), where she was sporting a rather nice outfit, but showing off a look that could be best described as a "deer in the headlights" look - The look one of us has when they've been caught by someone who doesn't know they dress up.
And so, the story begins - For some of you, it happened when your significant other walked in on you. For some, maybe it was a roommate. For just about all of us somewhere around the beginning of this journey, it's been a family member, most likely your parents, who came home early, and caught you in the act of expressing your more beautiful side.
You got careless, complacent. You let down your guard. Perhaps it took you longer than you thought to get dolled up and ready. Or even worse still, plans changed or were canceled, and one (or both) of your parents came home early.
Perhaps it was the sound of the garage door opening that lulled you out of your moment. Or, even worse, you heard the front door, or the door from the garage into the family room open.
At that moment, you're wracked with an all-too-impending sense of fear. Your world is about to be turned upside down and inside out. If you had the power, you'd pray for time to stop. You'd give anything to have super-human speed, just to get out of your pretty outfit, hide the wig, the jewelry, scrub off the makeup, perhaps eradicate the fragrance you were wearing.
Alas, it's too late for you. You hear the footsteps down the hall, and the doorknob turn, or, if you didn't close your door all the way, it's starting to open, and you damn near twist your ankle trying to get to the door while still wearing your high heels, in a vain effort to hold it closed. But, it's too late.
The door opens...
You've been caught....
It's the nightmare you've dreaded. Your parents never knew, and you're at a loss for words to explain...
The familiar feelings of shame and guilt are building up inside of you...
A look of shock, non-comprehension, a lack of understanding.
"What the?! ________, what are you DOING?! WHY are you dressed up like THAT?!"
"HOW LONG have you been doing this?! A year? Two years? Longer?!"
"What if... What if the neighbors found out?! Oh, if your dad knew about this, it would just kill him!"
"Do you know what you're doing is a SIN?!"
"Do you want your friends to think you're gay?! You're not gay, are you? Please tell me you're not gay!"
"I want you to get out of those clothes NOW!! GO!! Wipe that stuff off your face! No son of mine is going to be a transvestite, damnit!"
Maybe you've been meaning to tell your parents at some point or other, but you never had the time, or you've been too afraid to tell them. In any case, you were caught, giving in to what you wanted to do, what you had to do, and your chance to make them understand just got blown to hell. There's no way on Earth they'll ever be able to understand.
So, you get better at hiding it. You wait for times when you know they're going to be gone for hours. You long for them to go on a trip by themselves for a few days. You've practiced applying makeup until you can get a look together in 30, maybe 45 minutes. You find creative places to stash your "other" wardrobe, perhaps renting public storage somewhere.
Still... You're on your guard. You can never be truly comfortable, not as long as you're not yet out on your own.
We've all been there at some point or other starting out... Right?
Welcome to Act II, where the road to independence is a journey that's unlike any you've taken before, but it is a journey that you have to take, and you're taking the first few steps...
(I'm serious, I don't have that collectible value. Moreover, a figure of me would most likely be used in some kind of "Chibi Project" torture test. ^_^;)
History of the Museum
Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.
The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.
After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.
The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.
The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.
The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.
On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.
With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.
In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.
This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.
The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.
The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.
The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.
Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.
Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.
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The World Heritage Convention sets out the responsibilities of the States Parties to identify, protect and manage natural and cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). While appropriate conditions for proper protection are nearly always generated at State level, most of the obligations associated with World Heritage inscriptions are usually met at the level of specific sites and this is best achieved with the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders. Their knowledge of the Convention and their understanding of the World Heritage system has a significant impact on the protection of OUV.
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Location
Xanthos is not far from Patara and a trip to Letoon or Xanthos from Kalkan, Kaş or Fethiye could easily be combined with a trip to the beach and/or ruins there. It is located near the village of Kınık on a hillside in a beautiful natural site overlooking the Eşen river. From this elevation one receives a supreme view of the Xanthos Valley surrounded by the spectacular Taurus Mountains. It is easy to find by car, just off the main highway and well-marked. Xanthos' landscape is quite beautiful, especially in spring.
Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
Made up of two neighboring settlements located in the southwestern part of Anatolia, respectively within the boundaries of Antalya and Muğla Provinces, Xanthos-Letoon is a remarkable archaeological complex. It represents the most unique extant architectural example of the ancient Lycian Civilization, which was one of the most important cultures of the Iron Age in Anatolia. The two sites strikingly illustrate the continuity and unique combination of the Anatolian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations. It is also in Xanthos-Letoon that the most important texts in Lycian language were found. The inscriptions engraved in rock or on huge stone pillars on the site are crucial for a better understanding of the history of the Lycian people and their Indo-European language.
Xanthos, which was the capital of ancient Lycia, illustrates the blending of Lycian traditions with the Hellenic influence, especially in its funerary art. The rock-cut tombs, pillar tombs and pillar-mounted sarcophagi in Xanthos are unique examples of ancient funerary architecture. Their value was already recognized in Antiquity and they influenced the art of neighboring provinces: the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is for instance directly influenced by the Xanthos Nereid Monument. The fact that some architectural and sculptural pieces of the sites were taken to England in the 19th century, including the Monument of Harpy, the Tomb of Payava and the Nereid Monument, led to their word-wide recognition, and consequently the Xanthos marbles became an important part of the history of ancient art and architecture.
East of the Xanthos River (Eşen Çayı), the first monumental zone includes the old Lycian Acropolis, which was remodeled during the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. At that time, a church was built at the northeast corner, while an advanced defensive structure fortified the western side of the citadel along the river. Directly north of the Acropolis stands a very beautiful theatre that dominates the Roman agora. This area also features great Lycian funerary monuments imitating woodwork, which are characteristic of the archaeological landscape of Xanthos and rise up spectacularly from the ruins. There is a second, more complex archaeological zone that extends between the Vespasian Arch to the south and the Hellenistic Acropolis to the north. The lower part of the town, which includes the Hellenistic Agora and Byzantine churches, was located in this part of the site.
Letoon, on the other hand, was the cult center of Xanthos, the ancient federal sanctuary of the Lycian province and Lycian League of Cities. As many inscriptions found at the site demonstrate, the federal sanctuary was the place where all religious and political decisions of the ruling powers were declared to the public. The famous trilingual inscription, dating back to 337 B.C., features a text inLycian and Greek as well as an Aramaic summary and was discovered near the temple of Apollo. In the sanctuary of Letoon, three temples are dedicated to Leto, Artemis and Apollo. In addition, the site includes the ruins of a nymphaeum dating back to Hadrian, built on a water source that was considered sacred.
Criterion (ii): Xanthos-Letoon directly influenced the architecture of the principal ancient cities of Lycia such as Patara, Pınara, and Myra, as well as the neighboring provinces. The Halicarnassus Mausoleum, which was ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is directly influenced by Xanthos’ Nereid Monument.
Criterion (iii): Xanthos-Letoon bears exceptional testimony to the Lycian civilization, both through the many inscriptions found at the two sites and through the remarkable funerary monuments preserved within the property. The longest and most important texts in the Lycian language were found in Xanthos-Letoon. The inscriptions, most of which were carved in rock or on huge monoliths, are considered exceptional evidence of this unique and long-forgotten Indo-European language. The rock art tombs, pillar tombs and pillar-mounted sarcophagi represent a novel type of funerary architecture. The rich series of Lycian tombs in Xanthos and Letoon enable us to fully understand the successive acculturation phenomena that took place in Lycia from the 6th century onwards.
Integrity
The inscribed property includes all the necessary attributes, mainly original monuments and archaeological remains, which convey its Outstanding Universal Value. All components remain largely intact and are not affected by the negative effects of tourism or modern settlements.
Today, the only factor threatening the integrity of the property is the paved road that has crossed the antique city for many years. Within the framework of the revised Conservation Legislation put into force in 2004, the Regional Council for Conservation of Cultural Heritage decided to close this road in 2010. In addition, wire fence was used to surround the area. However, as these measures could not be implemented efficiently, further action is necessary to ensure that the integrity of the property is no longer impacted. These include the rerouting of the road according to suggestions made in the Conservation Plan.
Authenticity
Xanthos-Letoon has retained the authenticity of its features, largely due to the property’s distance from any modern settlement.
The monuments revealed during archaeological excavations have gone through important restoration and conservations works, which have not impacted their authenticity in terms of design and layout. The most important project was the reconstruction of the temple of Leto in its original setting between 2000 and 2007. The architectural pieces that belonged to the temple of Leto, which were found during excavations carried out since 1950s, enabled the successful completion of this project. Some important restoration, conservation and consolidation works were also carried out on the Early Christian Church and monumental nymphaeum.
Protection and management requirements
The Antique City of Xanthos and Letoon was registered as a 1st degree archaeological site and is subject to National Conservation Legislation. The inscribed property is also within the boundaries of “Environment Protection Zone”, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. The Regional Conservation Council and Special Environmental Protection Agency approved the conservation plan for Xantos in 2001 and the related Regional Conservation Council approved the Conservation Plan for Letoon in 2006. Both planning tools have been implemented and require systematic monitoring and review to ensure their efficiency for the management of the property.
The monuments and archaeological remains within the sanctuary of Letoon are threatened by seasonal rising of the ground water table. Mitigation efforts were made in 2006 with the construction of water channels to lessen the level of water during excavation works. Another issue for Letoon is the visual pollution created by many greenhouses in the fertile alluvial lands of the site. As for Xanthos, the presence of the paved road cutting through the site requires additional measures to be fully addressed.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has started works for the preparation of a Landscaping Project for Xanthos and Letoon that will address the issues of the property, including environmental control and the preservation of the monuments. Within the framework of this project, the site of Letoon will be equipped with recreation and promenade areas. This project will also address questions of visitor management, develop awareness-raising policies, and aim to actively involve both the local communities and the visitors.
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History;
The history of Xanthos is quite a violent - the Xanthosians twice demonstrated the fierce independence of the Lycian people when they chose to commit mass suicide rather than submit to invading forces. The Xanthosian men set fire to their women, children, slaves and treasure upon the acropolis before making their final doomed attack upon the invading Persians. Xanthos was later repopulated but the same gruesome story repeated itself in 42 BC when Brutus attacked the city during the Roman civil wars in order to recruit troops and raise money. Brutus was shocked by the Lycians' suicide and offered his soldiers a reward for each Xanthosian saved. Only 150 citizens were rescued.
We made our houses graves
And our graves are homes to us
Our houses burned down
And our graves were looted
We climbed to the summits
We went deep into the earth
We were drenched in water
They came and got us
They burned and destroyed us
They plundered us
And we,
For the sake of our mothers,
Our women,
And for the sake of our dead,
And we,
In the name of our honor,
And our freedom,
We, the people of this land,
Who sought mass suicide
We left a fire behind us,
Never to die out...
Poem found on a tablet in the Xanthos excavations, translated by Azra Erhat
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Neuroscience is undoubtedly the hottest topic in advertising research at the moment. It generates high hopes for understanding consumer behaviour from a completely new perspective. From reading the brain’s activity, can you find out what really drives choices and consumer preferences beyond what people are able and willing to tell you on a questionnaire and in focus groups? Can brain imaging even reveal hidden desires and covert mechanisms that consumer themselves are not aware of? In sum, can neuroscience give us access to what people really think and feel?
As I said, the hopes for neuromarketing are high and thus no wonder recent years have seen a huge boom not only in academic studies but also in commercial companies popping up all around the world offering neuro-studies to the advertising and marketing world. To get a better understanding of this rapidly evolving area DDB hosted last week the first of its Brainsurgery workshops for clients and staff titled “Neuromarketing – Neuroscience or Neurononsense?” Two renowned neuroscientists from Goldsmiths, University of London, DDB’s academic partner, attacked this question from two complementary perspectives.
Dr Lauren Stewart kicked off the evening with a ‘bluffer’s guide to neuroscience’, briefly explaining the general principles by which the brain works, i.e. how information is transmitted and processed in the brain and what the relevant brain structures are that you often find in colourful images on the science pages of the popular press. Dr Stewart’s own expertise is in structural (MRI) and functional brain imaging (fMRI) and she gave a brief but nevertheless very thorough account of how these state-of-the-art neuro-imaging techniques work and what they can tell us about consumers’ minds. This distinction between brain and mind was quite an interesting point she made which subsequently triggered a few questions from the audience. “The mind is what the brain does”, is the quote that I wrote down by which she was hinting at the fact that, yes, with modern neuroscience we can observe biological activity but we still need to know what this activity means in psychological terms. A red blob on an fMRI image in a particular brain area can indicate that the pleasure centre of the brain is active while seeing a TV ad. But it is no less plausible that the emotional reaction related to this red blob is actually disgust or maybe it just means the brain is ‘on’? Observing brain activity is only part of the message, the other half is finding out what this activity stands for. This is precisely why academic neuroscientists are always very careful to control their results with behavioural data, rigorous statistical analyses, and appropriate experimental control conditions – scientific practice that commercial studies need to adopt as well if they want to be credible.
The second talk of the evening by Prof Joydeep Bhattacharya, head of the EEG lab at Goldsmiths, then went straight into the current battlefield of neuromarketing. Prof Bhattacharya used the metaphor of ‘forced marriage’ to investigate how well modern neuroscience and marketing go together in reality. Both disciplines are interested in understanding and explaining human behaviour and both are very keen to learn about its implicit and underlying mechanisms. Quite a few recent academic studies have aimed at ‘mind reading’, that is analysing brain signals with advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to predict the future behaviour of a consumer. Admittedly, most of these studies were lab studies in a controlled environment but their results are nonetheless impressive; well, you can judge for yourself:
a)From an EEG signal it is possible to predict which of two very similar human faces a participant would like better; and this is before the participant actually makes the explicit decision. (Lindsen et al., 2010, NeuroImage)
b)Testing Coca-Cola vs. a no-name cola brand, the fMRI signal of participants in a brain scanner tells us that the brain’s reward system is involved when products are judged by their attractive packaging and that packaging seems to be more important than price and familiarity with the brand (Reiman et al., 2010, Journal of Consumer Psychology)
c)The medial orbitofrontal cortex is a structure that is associated with the willingness to pay (is the brain’s mythical button that marketers are so desperate to find?). It is the same structure that is active when we experience social reward, when we are looking at beautiful faces or when we anticipate a pleasant taste (Plassmann et al., 2007, Journal of Neuroscience).
No doubt, this all seems to be very relevant to marketing and advertising but Prof Bhattacharya also pointed to a few issues that made him speak of a forced marriage between neuroscience and marketing. The problems seem to start when neuroscientific results - that usually take a long time and require a lot of money - need to be produced under the financial and time pressures of the commercial world. Typically, there is very little time to test sufficient numbers of people and perform the rigorous statistical analyses that are a firm requirement for publishing in top academic journals. And then studies run in the commercial realm are hardly ever published (which, from an academic perspective, is at complete odds with the huge claims that some neuro-companies make). That means no-one can replicate those results, no peer-community can help to detect ambiguities and flaws in the experimental design or analysis, and worst of all, no-one can learn from the many commercial neuromarketing studies that are run around the globe. The danger of this practice is that neuromarketing as a discipline, unlike biomedical applications of neuroimaging techniques, doesn’t advance as much as it could, despite the huge interest and the huge sums of money that are currently invested in it. Of course, you can understand why big brands don’t want to give away the results of expensive neuromarekting studies that are intended to provide them with a market advantage over their competitors. But unless the bulk of commercial neuromarketing studies are published and made fully transparent, at least at some point in time, it is difficult to say what the potential of neuromarketing as a discipline really is; and that is not only an unfortunate situation from an academic perspective but it directly relates to how much you can trust the results of the next neuromarketing study that your own company is about to pay for.
this was a fun assignment. the baton rouge protest seemed to have a rather
impressive turnout, i'd estimate low 4 figures. anyway here are the photo
descriptions:
1817 - entering capitol park
1864 - a wide shot of the protesters from the park
1900 - a sign that seems to be mocking how often obama says "uh"
1903 - a shot of several signholders on the steps of the state capitol, with
one above all saying "vote liberals out"
1913 - this sign helpfully explains that TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already
1939 - a bunch of signs from the back still
1957 - sign reads: "bankers: go to jail. do not pass go. do not collect
$200,000,000"
1965 - sign reads "socialism is not an american value"
1969 - a moderately cryptic-looking sign that simply reads "who is john
galt". not the first or last atlas shrugged reference
1975 - liberty does not equal socialism
1979 - a four-panelled sign with various slogans
1986 - one of my favorite signs reads, "warning i'm a bitter christian
clinging to my gun"
1999 - sign reads: "if i quit my job, will i make more money?"
2004 - sign reads: "i voted for palin. i'm a right-wing extremist"
2009 - wider shot of the sign in 2004, with sign-holder
2022 - young man holds sign reading "just another right-wing extremist"
2034 - some hold-outs from mardi gras hold signs, one which says "throw me
something pelosi!"
2057 - sign reads "4 trillion debt, 9000 socialist earmarks stop!"
2058 - a Baton Rouge Tea Party sign with teabags hanging on it
2068 - sign reads "i love big oil, quit taxing it!"
2073 - dapper gentlemen holds sign reading "god save our nation!"
2089 - young man with sign: "proud member of homeland security's right wing
radicals"
2104 - sign reads "calculis [sic] is easy. Tax forms impossible"
2107 - "say no to obama's politics"
2130 - i love big oil again, and "stop pork barrel spending"
2133 - the first sign that finally indicates that maybe there are SOME
non-republicans here
2147 - sign reads: "common sense, not common cents"
2148 - sign reads "stop out of control spending" with a dollar being flushed
down a toilet
2177 - a wide shot of some signholders, this time from closer to the front
of the action
2181 - a little girl's sign reads "dont steal my future!"
2184 - a trio of signs, including one that has obama in a green felt cap and
the slogan "robbin' hood"
2204 - a single hand waving a small american flag reaching up above the
chaos
2224 - sign reads "the constitution is not an instrument of blah blah blah,"
you read it.
2225 - a lady holds a sign reading "i'm with stupid [right arrow] he paid
his mortgage" it should be noted that there is no one stage right. photo
2333 shows this irony a bit better.
2231 - an anti-acorn sign
2264 - a little girl holds a sign reading "you are not entitled to what my
daddy has earned"
2303 - a wide shot of the crowd at its peak, and from near the front
2313 - a little girl, sister of the one from 2264, holds a sign saying "my
daddy wanted to be here but he's at work!"
2324 - yet another sign from these girls reads "my daddy works hard for his
money, let him keep it!"
2333 - wide shot of the lady holding the "i'm with stupid" sign from 2225
2398 - another sign from these girls. i'm guessing daddy made them, but i
didn't ask.
2415 - the little girl holds up the flip side of the previous sign, which
has just an american flag on it.
2438 - a sign that seems to suggest that obama, like Mr. T, just wanted to
take our pocket change.
2457 - a sign asking whether you'd prefer to drink tea or kool-aid
2497 - another wide shot of the cheering crowd, just before the end of the
last speaker
2516 - a little girl with a sign reading "10 years old and already $30,000
in debt!"
2538 - the same little girl and her mother booing something the speaker said
2555 - sign reads "obamanomics: chains we can believe in"
2575 - young woman holds sign reading "Oh Crap!" with the O in the obama
style.
2583 - same woman appears to be bowing under the burden of her sign's
weighty message
2625 - sign reads "higher taxes so other can sit on their [insert democrat
donkey]"
2635 - another trio of signs, including one that reads "we the people are
now owned by the chinese"
2693 - wide shot of the crowd slowly starting to disperse
2711 - a better shot of the little girl with the "my daddy wanted to be
here" sign
2739 - a little boy holds up a sign reading "socialism is coming!"
2774 - a little girl holding two signs
2783 - the same girl, dressed as an indian, with two signs
2793 - an empty baby stroller with signs piled all over it
2811 - the same baby stroller, with the family carrying signs and loading a
little girl into the stroller
2816 - a lady holding a sign reading "barney frank is a heterophobe"
2822 - woman with sign "tax protest is patriotic"
2854 - a pair of children with signs, "keep your hands out of my piggy bank"
and "a bully took my lunch money"
2871 - a dog wearing a shirt reading "i didn't read the bill either"
2958 - same dog, face shot
3024 - a little girl in a stroller with a canopy reading "libery until
death"
3036 - a loyal huffpo reader holding a sign tossing some of the religious
right's rhetoric back at them
3067 - a little boy standing alone holding a sign reading "stop spending my
future!"
3129 - a young family poses with signs
3144 - the empty lectern after everyone left
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Further to the 2011 Memorandum of Understanding witnessed by Premier Christy Clark, 2014 Forestry Asia Trade Mission delegates visited the Shanghai Industrial Investment Company's luxury subdivision in the Shanghai suburb of Qingpu. Over 80 single-family wood frame homes have been built in a park-like setting, as a result of the MOU. The fact that billionaire Bill Gates lives in a wood house is being used as a marketing tool to prospective buyers.
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UNICEF’s director for West and Central Africa, Gianfranco Rotigliano, visited the office. He does not care much for meetings so we went straight out to get a better understanding of the situation of children. Over three days we drove from Conakry to Bamako in Mali. Along the way we visited schools and health centres in towns and villages. It was abundantly clear that the health system is not working and that major reform is needed. The education system also needs reform, but fortunately for that we have, with a coalition of donors, a solution.