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Located 18 km north & west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at a location where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, one of the world's oldest, largest, and best preserved buffalo jumps can be found. Head-Smashed-In — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — has been used continuously by aboriginal peoples of the plains for nearly 6,000 years.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an archaeological site known around the world as a remarkable testimony of the life of the Plains People through the millennia. The Jump bears witness to a method of hunting practiced by native people of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 years.
Due to their excellent understanding of the regional topography and bison behaviour, native people hunted bison by stampeding them over a precipice. They then carved up the carcasses and dragged the pieces to be butchered and processed in the butchering camp set up on the flats beyond the cliffs.
In 1981, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump as a World Heritage Site placing it among other world heritage monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge and the Galapagos Islands. For more information on UNESCO, go to www.unesco.org.
This 360° panorama was stitched from 35 photographs with PTGUI Pro, processed with Color Efex, then touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 20000 × 10000 (200.0 MP; 1.02 GB).
Location: Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump, Alberta, Canada
Former Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Bhutan Chief Justice Sonam Tobgye in London, 6 February 2013.
Cosplayers at Leipziger Buchmesse / Leipzig Book Fair 2014
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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Nicholas Rinaldi and an Iraqi interpreter speak with an Iraqi citizen while on a dismounted patrol through the Al Uruba district of Mosul, Iraq, April 20, 2009. Rinaldi is assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. U.S. Army photo by Kamaile O. Chan.
FileMaker and Understanding PHP | PART 3 | FileMaker Pro 16 Videos | FileMaker 16 Training Most Recent Upload https://goo.gl/Dbn9fm Get up to speed with the FileMaker Pro 16 Video Training Course! Top Rated Course by FileMaker Expert, Richard Carlton. http://learningfilemaker.com/fmpro16.php Experience Richard's dynamic and exciting teaching format, while learning both basic, intermediate, and advanced FileMaker development skills. With 26 years of FileMaker experience and a long time speaker at FileMaker's Developer Conference, Richard will teach you all the ins and outs of building FileMaker Solutions. The course is 50 hours of video content! Richard has been involved with the FileMaker platform since 1990 and has grown RCC into one of the largest top tier FileMaker consultancies worldwide. Richard works closely with RCC's staff: a team of 28 FileMaker developers and supporting web designers. He has offices in California, Nevada, and Texas. Richard has been a frequent speaker at the FileMaker Developers Conference on a variety of topics involving FileMaker for Startups and Entrepreneurs, and client-server integration. Richard is the Product Manager for FM Starting Point, the popular and most downloaded free FileMaker CRM Starter Solution. Looking for FM Starting Point free software download: http://www.fmstartingpoint.com Richard won 2015 Excellence Award from FileMaker Inc (Apple Inc) for outstanding video and product creation, leading to business development. RCC, Filemaker Videos, and LearningFileMaker.com are headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. http://www.rcconsulting.com/ Please feel free to contact us at support@rcconsulting.com FileMaker Pro is simply a powerful software used to create custom apps that work seamlessly across iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac, and the web Transform your business with the FileMaker Platform Free FileMaker Training Videos Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/FileMakerVideos 50 Hour FileMaker Pro 16 Video Training Course-FileMaker 16 News-Online FileMaker 16 Training Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpQqLLDcZ8I Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpQqLLDcZ8I&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBTMCfjM6LLwBAwGf_yXfvd_&index=13 Top 10 New Features in FileMaker 16-FileMaker 16 News-FileMaker 16 Instructional Videos-FileMaker 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urh8iHOCxkg Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urh8iHOCxkg&t=130s&index=1&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBTMCfjM6LLwBAwGf_yXfvd_ Sharing your Database with Other Devices and Users-FileMaker 16 News-FileMaker 16 Database Sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF82vkYtCtA Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF82vkYtCtA&index=8&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBTMCfjM6LLwBAwGf_yXfvd_ Introduction to FileMaker WebDirect 16-FileMaker 16 News-Online FileMaker 16 Training Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZKIpBjMAM Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZKIpBjMAM&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBSVV1-4pFG4SHAhCIP3Yy-I&index=17&t=10s FileMaker Behavior Change-Go To Object-FileMaker 16 Video Training-FileMaker 16 News-FileMaker Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwFjZem3AM Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwFjZem3AM&index=15&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBQVDIUvoRkcvrMLi7sTZmj5 A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data Official site provides the SDK, Developer's Guide, Reference, and Android Market for the open source project http://learningfilemaker.com/FIAS.html Here is a video introduction to iOS App Training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVxQe_yAshw For more Free FileMaker videos check out ...http://www.filemakervideos.com Download the FileMaker Pro 16 & FileMaker GO 16 for mobile devices training videos at http://www.learningfilemaker.com Download FileMaker Go 16 video training at http://learningfilemaker.com/FMGO-16/fmgo16.php Download FileMaker 16 Full Video Training Bundle at http://learningfilemaker.com/subscription.php FileMaker Video Training Review-FileMaker 16 Video Course Review-FileMaker Pro 16 101 Course Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6Uor0KmKo Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6Uor0KmKo&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBT8tNHuzF6cOKC_37zCTQl6&index=18 Learn how to use FileMaker to create an app with the FileMaker Training Series FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc. Please Comment, Like & Share All of Our Videos. Feel Free to Embed any of Our Videos on Your Blog or Website. Follow Us on Your Favorite Social Media https://www.facebook.com/FileMakerVideos https://twitter.com/filemakervideos https://plus.google.com/+FileMakerVideos/videos #WhatisFileMaker16 #FileMakerPro16Training #FileMaker16VideoTutorial #FileMakerPro16Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZ9O7948ko&list=PLjTvUZtwtgBQVDIUvoRkcvrMLi7sTZmj5&index=28
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
She understands how important it is to me to grab a shot here and there during our hikes and I understand how important it is to her to have some treats in payment.
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1964/1965 New York World's Fair
New York City, NY
Image description from Ford Times article "Snacking Your Way around the Fair", author Lars Morris:
"Tacos at the International Plaza"
Image source: Ford Times (May 1965)
© The Ford Motor Company
Illustration: Harvey Kidder
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The brain has to learn everything from scratch when you are born and things you now give for granted are actually very complex processes your brain put in place to explain the world around you.
Your own image reflected in a mirror is one of this examples. Babies finding their way around them are fascinated from what they learn and that intrigues me.
Understanding emerging markets panel from left: Moderator Hélène Rey Professor of Economics; HE Amr Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Governor and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority; Antonio Quintella (MBA33) Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse Americas, Credit Suisse; Stephen Olabisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director
and Chief Executive Officer, First Bank of Nigeria and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business at the Global Leadership Summit, 5 July 2010.
Director Huh Jung's thriller was selected as the opener of the London Korean Film Festival 2013.
On 6th November 2013, the London Korean Film Festival celebrated its eighth anniversary with a Special Premiere Gala at Cineworld in Haymarket. Hundreds of VIPs joined us at the Gala and the reception afterwards including Director Huh Jung and actor Son Hyun Joo and many who have continued to support the London Korean Film Festival over the years.
Film makers and producers joined the evening as well as film enthusiasts. Before the film screening, the President of the Republic of Korea, President Park Geun-hye attended the Gala, she was accompanied by Lord David Puttnam and UK Secretary of State for Culture Maria Miller MP from DCMS. Before the speeches, a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the cultural and creative industries between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland was also signed.
International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Nemat Shafik and the authorities of Mauritius signed a Memorandum of Understanding today on Mauritius’ support for the IMF’s new Africa Training Institute. The Memorandum specifies the contribution that Mauritius is providing, which covers the costs of accommodating and training over 200 sub-Saharan African country officials per year through two-week courses, as well as housing and equipping the Institute. The Australian Agency for International Development and the Chinese authorities have also pledged financial support for the Institute, which will start operations in June 2013 and serve the whole of sub-Saharan Africa (see Press Release No. 12/422). Mauritius already hosts a Regional Technical Assistance Center for Southern Africa, known as AFRITAC South.
“Mauritius is one of only a handful of leading middle-income countries in the world that partner with the IMF to support capacity development activities. With its financial support for AFRITAC South and the Africa Training Institute, the government of Mauritius signals its clear vision toward becoming a knowledge hub for Africa, especially on macroeconomic issues,” Ms. Shafik said at a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C.
The Africa Training Institute will offer courses and seminars for officials from central banks, ministries of finance, and other government agencies from across sub-Saharan Africa. Training will cover macroeconomic policymaking and financial programming, public finance, exchange rate and monetary policies, economic integration, and financial sector issues, including banking supervision. The training will complement the activities of the IMF’s Regional Technical Assistance Centers in Africa (AFRITACs), and other regional initiatives.
Through these course offerings the Africa Training Institute will help us address existing training gaps. Moreover, the Africa Training Institute will also help us meet the large demand for IMF training from sub-Saharan Africa, while bringing the region’s training volume on par with those of other regions. We hope that in the period ahead the Africa Training Institute will deliver more courses than the current contributions allow, and the IMF and the government of Mauritius will continue efforts to mobilize funds from other donors to scale up the operations.
The IMF offers technical assistance and training to member countries in addition to economic and financial surveillance, and lending operations. The IMF’s technical assistance helps member countries develop more effective institutions, legal frameworks and policies to promote economic stability and growth, while training strengthens the capacity of member countries’ officials to analyze economic developments and formulate and implement effective policies. In the year ending April 30, 2012, some 7,800 officials from member countries attended IMF training courses at headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at various locations around the world, including donor-supported regional training centers in Austria, Kuwait, and Singapore.
This photograph was taken at the Understanding Clifford's Tower event which took place at Clifford's Tower and the Hilton Hotel, York, on Sunday 25th January 2015.
Photograph taken by Sam Johnson.
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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Kamel Bennaceur, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines of Tunisia at the World Economic Forum - Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development 2014 / Benedikt von Loebell
When you do your economic calculations nowadays you will agree with me that what you can get now is significantly less than what you have been capable to acquire with the identical quantity of income 5 or six years ago. And this is not the end, the cash that gets to your pocket nowadays is...
A question from a Flickr friend about this bridge prompted me to post this shot. It is my understanding that people could walk on it for some time after the trains had ceased to cross it. It has since been deemed unsafe for people to walk on it.
This also shows more details of the "Roche de Boeuf" rock.
Here is a history tidbit I posted previously (from waterville.org):
Waterville residents were excited when the Lima-Toledo Traction Company announced in 1907 that an interurban line through the village was being planned with cars expecting to reach Toledo in the miraculous time of 20 minutes. Grandest of all was the news that the longest reinforced concrete railroad bridge in the world would be built at the historic site of the Roche de Boeuf, an outcropping of rock in the Maumee River just south of the village where native Americans were said to have gathered in earlier times. For the next 30 years the red interurban cars raced across the bridge, one of the cars actually winning a race against an airplane in 1930, rocketing along at nearly 100 miles an hour. The railway line went out of business in 1937, but the decaying old bridge remains standing today as a testament to engineering history.
Please join us for a conversation on Arctic Transformation: Understanding Arctic Research and the Vital Role of Science, co-organized by the Senate Arctic Caucus and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Featuring opening remarks by
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
And
Senator Angus King (I-ME)
With a keynote address by
Dr. John Holdren
Chair, Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Director of Office of Science and Technology, The White House
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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8:30 am: Welcome Remarks by
Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
8:35 am: Opening Remarks by
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
And
Senator Angus King (I-ME)
9:00am: Session I: Improving Understanding of Arctic Environmental Change and Impact
Featuring
Dr. Larry Hinzman
Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mr. Richard Glenn
Executive VP, Lands & Natural Resources, Arctic Slope Regional Cooperation
Mr. George Roe
Research Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Paul Mayewski
Director and Distinguished Professor, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Introduced by
Dr. Martin Jeffries
Program Officer and Science Advisor, Office of Arctic and Global Prediction, Office of Naval Research
10:30 am: Session II: Keynote Address: Highlights and New Initiatives from President Obama's Visit to the American Arctic
Featuring
Dr. John Holdren
Chair, Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Director of Office of Science and Technology, The White House
11:00 am: Session III: Arctic Science Gap Analysis: Enhancing U.S. and International Science and Research Collaboration
Featuring
Dr. Kelly K. Falkner
Director, Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
Dr. John Farrell
Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Dr. Catherine Cahill
Deputy Director, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration
Moderated by
Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
12:00 pm: Conference Concludes
Following President Obama's historic visit to the American Arctic, please join us for a timely conference on the vital role of science which seeks to better understand the profound and stunning changes that are occurring in the Arctic. Scientific research and collaboration informs our understanding on the impact of climate change on the most northern latitudes while also informing approaches to safely operating in and sustainably developing the economic potential of the region. Our keynote speakers will discuss the vital role of science leadership in the Arctic and will examine the most pressing gaps in our understanding of this dynamic region.
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This photograph was taken at the Understanding Clifford's Tower event which took place at Clifford's Tower and the Hilton Hotel, York, on Sunday 25th January 2015.
Photograph taken by Sam Johnson.
Governor Phil Murphy signs a memorandum of understanding and tours Hacker U in Tel Aviv on Sunday, October 21st, 2018. Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.
Jin Ha Lee and Rachel Price
Most of the literature on music users’ needs, habits, and interactions with music information retrieval (MIR) systems focuses on particular demographics or testing the usability of specific interfaces/systems. In order to improve our understanding of how users’ personalities and characteristics affect their needs and interactions with MIR systems, we conducted a qualitative user study across multiple commercial music services. Based on the empirical user data, we have developed seven personas. These personas offer a deeper understanding of the different types of MIR system users and the relative importance of various design implications for each user type. Implications for system design include a renegotiation of our understanding of desired user engagement, especially with the habit of context-switching, designing systems for specialized uses, and addressing user concerns around privacy, transparency, and control.
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The McGee group is going to the ends of the earth to understand how precipitation patterns respond to climate change. Recognizing that past changes provide unique opportunities to test our understanding of the climate system, the group is building high-resolution records of past precipitation changes in sensitive regions around the world using natural precipitation archives such as lake deposits and stalagmites. In the past two years this work has taken the group to shorelines preserving records of large ancient lakes in the deserts of the western U.S. and subtropical South America, to caves in the Yucatan peninsula and deep inside islands in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, and onto a drill rig sampling deeply buried lake sediments in the high tropical Andes.
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Now that I have a general understanding how this Sinar F1 works and no longer mess up any of the basic steps involved in taking a photograph, I decided to tackle the next problem: Taking control of the development process.
More specifically, applying the wisdom of the Zone System which on paper I already master to perfection. It was time for some practical experiments. The following recount is mostly for my records so that I can refer to it later.
For this scene, I decided to go with a dark background. The light background I used before turned out to be tricky. I never really achieved an acceptable level of white. The results were always somewhat blotchy and uneven which is mostly attributable to a lack of light in my macro setup. This I figured would be an advantage with a dark background.
I first wanted to take a photo of my Pentax LX but this being an all-black camera body there wouldn't have been enough separation from the background so I settled with the chrome OM-2 instead.
I tried to keep the flood lights focused on the camera and have as little light as possible fall on the black backing paper. This was already more difficult than expected. The paper is slightly textured (as can be seen in the area right in front of the camera). I had the vague hope I could preserve that texture when placing the background on zone III. According to my spot meter, this required 1/8sec at f/11.
My next problem was finding the brightest spot in the scene. I went for the right front edge of the camera adjacent to the film rewind crank. This was what my eyes told me.
The meter indicated 1/8sec, again! Since the meter meters for zone V, and I wanted the brightest area to be on zone VII, I would now have to do N+2 development to raise the brightness two zones. Obviously, I would have preferred an N+1 development.
I also had to take into account, as always, the bellow extension factor. I have no good way to measure this currently. I placed a little object in the scene and compared its size on the ground glass. It was roughly half size which according to the standard formula for determining the effective f-stop (Ef = f * (M+1) with M being the magnification and f the f-stop selected on the lens) would mean one more stop of light would be required. I now had my shutter speed (1/4sec) and f-stop (f/11) I wanted to use.
f/11 isn't very far stopped down on LF but I figured I could get the depth-of-field necessary by tilting the front standard to cut the angle between the film plane and the camera body in half. This mostly worked except that with the plane of focus being parallel to the camera now, I still would have needed a lower f-stop to get the front of the lens in focus. I totally forgot about that when finding the optimum angle of the front standard. I find out-of-focus areas in front of the plane of focus quite disturbing and this shot makes it pretty obvious why.
Anyway, since everything was set now, I took two identical shots. I developed the first sheet by itself so that I could develop the second one differently if adjustments were necessary (a wise decision as it turned out).
Finding the proper development parameters was why I did the whole thing in the first place. I don't even yet know what my normal development times should be so I assumed HC-110 (dilution H) at 6 minutes. The rule of thumb would be that a one stop push would require an increase of development time by somewhere between 15% and 20%. I went with 20% so a two-stop push would bring development time up to 10:15 minutes. This is what I went with.
Now for the observations: The two-stop push did in fact increase the overall range, as expected. Except that I seem to be off by at least one zone as far as the highlights go. The brightest parts are the diffuse reflections in the upper portion of the body. This is clearly not zone VII, but maybe VIII or even IV. A 15% increase in development is therefore more in order here. Total development time would therefore be 8:15 minutes, a full two minutes less! This hypothesis I will test with the second negative that is still resting undeveloped in the film holder.
On the other hand, the excessive development times did not harm the dark background. This was what worried me most at first because my eyes were telling me that the backing paper wasn't really as dark as I wish it had been. The placement on zone III clearly worked and the two-stop push during development did not make the background noticeably brighter.