Record-breaking snow in the capital prompts stay-home advice and weather warnings

Yeah, sure, stay home and stay warm, but let's not forget how this record-breaking snow is a sign of worsening climate change. It’s only going to get worse.

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Record-breaking snow in the capital prompts stay-home advice and weather warnings

Yeah, wild how a storm flips routine into chaos overnight. Nature doesn’t negotiate; cities built for speed crumble under stillness. Stay grounded, not just safe.

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Breaking News - Amaravati : రాజధానిలో 12 బ్యాంకులకు 28న శంకుస్థాపన

అమరావతి ఆర్థిక రంగంలో మరో చారిత్రాత్మక ఘట్టానికి వేదిక కానుంది. ఈ నెల 28న కేంద్ర ఆర్థిక మంత్రి నిర్మలా సీతారామన్ చేతుల

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Hà Nội đặt mục tiêu xây dựng Thủ đô xanh, thông minh và bền vững thông qua 5 giải pháp trọng tâm.

Mô hình tăng trưởng mới sẽ lấy khoa học công nghệ, đổi mới sáng tạo và chuyển đổi số làm động lực chính để hiện thực hóa khát vọng này. Đây là định hướng quan trọng được trình bày tại Đại hội Đảng bộ TP. Hà Nội lần thứ 18.

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Sunrise greeting at the first grand temple of the Khmer Empire

Mornings are the most pleasant time to visit Bakong Temple. The large stone temple gets very hot later in the day.
Bakong was the first mountain type of temple architecture design in the Khmer imperial era. It served as a state temple for king Indravarman I, in the first dedicated Khmer imperial capital at Hariharalaya.
Today this is the Roluos Group of temples east of Siem Reap City, Cambodia. Other well-known temples here is Preah Koh and Lolei.

Large Hindu influence
The temple was dedicated to Shiva, and its main consecrated image was a lingam called Sri Indresvara. This step pyramid mountain temple draws inspiration from other large Hindu temples in the region built around the same time. Most notably the fantastic Borobudur temple in Java, outside Yogyakarta.
Bakong temple was the last large construction in Hariharalaya. Indravarman’s son and heir Yasovarman I moved the capital to Phnom Bakheng in the early 900s. Bakheng Hill is just south of what we today call Angkor Thom, the big (capital) city.

For those interested in comparative historical timeline, this temple was finished as a state temple in 881CE. In Norway, the first unification of the kingdom under one superior king established the first larger Nordic kingdom.

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Prasat Bei – Trio of one out of four

Prasat Bei – ប្រាសាទបី – means three temples. On top of a small laterite platform of 10 x 24 meter there are these three towers, where the central one is fairly complete and in order. This temple tower rises 10 meter high.

The two flanking temple towers are not in that good condition, and the north one closest to the city moat around Angkor Thom was probably never properly finished. There are still some lintels with carvings left to see.

This is the largest in a quartet of temple sites on the west side of the Southern gate to Angkor Thom. Just to the east and west of this temple is the rather rudimentary remains of Sâk Krâop Temple I and II. Closer to the main road into Angkor Thom is Prasat Bay Kaek East – ប្រាសាទថ្មបាយក្អែក.

Among the earliest Angkor Thom temples
The temple was built for the Hindu god Shiva during the reign of Yasovarman I early in the 900s. This great King was the god king who moved the Khmer capital from Hariharalaya to Yaśodharapura, the area where we today find most of the most famous constructions and temples of Angkor Empire. The first central location of the new capital was built on the nearby Phnom Bakheng.

This temple is 1,5 kilometre north of Angkor Wat. It is worth visiting to get an idea of the design of the first Angkor imperial capital and its temples.

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Glasgow Positions Itself as UK’s ‘3D Content Creation Capital’ with New Industry-Academic Partnership

Glasgow has today launched a major new initiative to formally position itself as the UK’s capital for 3D content creation, backed by a powerful new partnership between the city’s world-leading academic institutions and its most innovative creative studios.

The groundbreaking collaboration brings together the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow School of Art, and the City of Glasgow College, along with a host of industry partners (including Float Digital, ISO Design, Lateral North, and Soluis) to establish the new 3D Content Creation Working Group. The initiative aims to harness the city’s immense talent pool and drive sustained economic growth in a sector that is increasingly vital to the global creative economy.

For the games industry, this announcement is a significant validation of the skills and technologies it has long championed. The city’s rich heritage in game development and animation, with world-class studios such as Wild Child Animation, Blazing Griffin and Screen Burn Interactive leading the thriving indie scene, has been a cornerstone in building the very expertise that this new initiative seeks to promote.

The move has been further strengthened by the recent news that Los Angeles-based animation and visual effects specialist Halon Entertainment is establishing a new studio in Glasgow.

A ‘Creative Powerhouse’ Looking to the Future

The new working group will focus on identifying commercial opportunities and co-developing innovative solutions that leverage the combined strengths of academia and industry in research, innovation, and skills development.

Professor Gordon Hush, Head of the School of Innovation and Technology at The Glasgow School of Art, described the move as preparation for a: “twenty-first-century industrial revolution” that marries technological innovation with the power of imagination.

Alison Bell, Dean of the Faculty of Creative Industries at City of Glasgow College, added:

Glasgow has long been a creative powerhouse, and the emergence of this new working group is a timely and exciting step forward… By collaborating across education and industry, we can ensure that Glasgow continues to lead in creative innovation, attracting global investment and creating high-quality jobs for the future.

This strategic focus on 3D content creation – encompassing everything from immersive digital environments to interactive experiences – is a clear acknowledgement of the ‘More Than Games’ philosophy. It recognises that the talent and tools pioneered in the games sector are now critical drivers of innovation in film, architecture, healthcare, and beyond.

This new partnership signals a confident and unified vision for Glasgow’s future, with the games ecosystem sitting firmly at its heart.

UofG, GSA and CoGC have, over several years, been collaborating on a range of projects focused on 3D visualisation, including:

  • UofG’s Innovate UK-funded Project Mobius, where City of Glasgow College’s 3D animation students supported the development of Virtual Reality(VR)  applications, which enable teaching interventions that would simply not be possible without immersive technology.
  • A Master’s programme in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy jointly delivered by The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow.
  • The EU-funded EMOTIVE project, where 3D animation students from the City of Glasgow College recreated the life of the slave Verecunda, contributed to The Hunterian Museum’s Verecunda VR experience.
  • A collaboration between The Hunterian Museum, Historic Environment Scotland and the City of Glasgow College ‘Rediscovering the Antonine Walls Distance Stones’ where 3D animation students from the College were involved in a competition to make 3D models from scans of the distance stones which then went on to be used by the College’s stonemasonry students to produce to-scale reconstructions which are now in-situ along the Antonine Wall.
  • UofG’s Innovate UK-funded Museums in the Metaverse project has created a two-sided Virtual Reality platform for the curation of, and interaction with, virtual 3D museum objects, in partnership with Soluis Tech, National Museums Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland and The Hunterian, with the collaboration of Float and Lateral North.

You can read the entire press release on the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce website.

Photo by Stephen O’Donnell on Unsplash

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Washington Monument at night with the American flag waving prominently against a cloudy sky, showcasing national pride and historical significance.

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