It feel good just to take a picture. I haven't in so long thats why i am making it a goal to at least take my camera around more places. I miss taking photos.

update: It's great being back in school and Nassau Community College really is not bad at all. I manage to always find really close parking spots. At least i'm not in buffalo anymore. My life is pretty consistent I study a lot & hang out with my boyfriend. In school I am taking 17 credits and my biology class is basically two classes because my lab and lecture are both different teachers. :[ On the bright side I love gaining knowledge and studying is okay with me as long as I'm slightly interested in it. I really just love biology.<3

comments are welcomed. critiques/suggestions are even better :]

Direct scan of a vintage "book of answers."

Feel free to use this texture in all your work, but please don't resell or distribute the original or slightly altered original as your own work! T4L-Agree

Archive of Spatial Knowledge is a curated collection of spatial memories hosted on an experimental digital platform. It gathers idiosyncratic spatial and social memory of individuals and groups who were forcefully displaced from the geographies of their origin or are denied representation and the possibility to build historical and cultural continuity in the locations of their current residence. The archive uses a mobile software application, as a tool to allow its contributors to attach their stories to geographic locations, creating a protected pool of knowledge overlaid on the physical landscape. At the same time, the archive functions as a spatial intervention. Using the same digital tool, the viewer of the archive can access the erased knowledge on location, to juxtapose invisible stories and the reality of physical spaces. The archive‘s first edition addresses the issues of spatial justice in and around the Russian occupied regions of Georgia.

Photo: Carla Zamora

" Knowledge enlivens the soul "

The Dhammakaya is the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha and “vijja” is the true knowledge; together, “vijja Dhammakaya” means the true and supreme knowledge illuminated by the Dhammakaya vision. This knowledge is the core principle of Buddhism that will lead to extinguishing of suffering and attainment of the state of supreme bliss known is Nibbana. for Ceremony, at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, read more at www.dhammakaya.net/blog/2013/09/18/96-Years-of-Dhammakaya...

Knowledge

Instead of Adam and Eve, lion and lioness want to gain knowledge. Experts say, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was lavishly decorated with mosaics and murals.

Here's a story on a Navy website about my Uncle Al and his experience as a Marine in WWII and Korea:

Veteran passes knowledge on to NJROTC, Lincoln Sailors

Photo by JO1(SW) Joaquin Juatai

More than 60 years after assaulting the beaches of Makin, Alfred Schade enjoys a quieter time aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Schade said regardless of how much time has passed that carriers are still "old hat" to him.

By JO1(SW) Joaquin Juatai

USS Abraham Lincoln

Friday, November 18, 2005

Almost universally Americans acknowledge the deeds of the “Greatest Generation,” as heroic and vital to the existence of our nation. Yet many of the youth of today do not know where battles in places with names like Kwajalein or Guadalcanal happened or what they meant.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Sailors had a unique opportunity to talk with a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War when Alfred Schade, a former U.S. Marine, recently came on board as an escort with the Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.

The silver-haired Schade still carries himself confidently and said being on a carrier was “old hat,” to him. He spent his time in the Corps during WWII in both carrier and island-based flight operations as an aviation machinist’s mate and aerial gunner in the SBD “Dauntless,” serving aboard USS Coral Sea, an escort, or “Jeep,” carrier.

“In the Marine Corps, you know, the air wing actually makes the beach heads with the line company, or the ‘grunts,’” said Schade. “We were the third wave so on my birthday, Nov. 20, 1943, we took Makin [in the Gilbert Islands]. At that point, the Seabees came in and built an airstrip for us.”

Schade’s first assignment was to repair SBD “Dauntless” aircraft, a carrier or land-based dive bomber, that had been used in the battle to take the island of Midway.

“The first thing we had to do was almost rebuild them to get them into flying shape,” he said.

When his squadron reached Makin after helping take the island they received new planes.

As an aerial gunner fighting and fixing in the Pacific campaign, Makin learned a skill most enlisted personnel don’t even dream of today—he learned to fly the mighty warplane he was also plane captain of.

“Being a gunner in an SBD, the pilot, for the most part, taught the gunners how to fly. We had a full set of controls in the back,” Schade explained.

“The gunner was trained to pilot the airplane and most of the time when we were on a mission the pilot was the navigator,” he added. “When he would pull his plotting board out from under the instrument panel it would cover the stick, and so the gunner then would fly the airplane.”

After his time in the Corps, part of which he had the distinction of being the youngest sergeant, Schade continued his flight education, receiving his pilot’s license, instructor’s license, instrument rating, multi-engine rating and A&P (aircraft mechanic) rating.

“I had all the FAA ratings that were available at the time,” said Schade.

In 1948, Schade opened his own business purchasing surplus warplanes and rebuilding them as general aviation aircraft.

“Brand new Corsairs and P-51s were available for $1,500. So you can see that there was quite an opportunity there, but there were some negative aspects too,” said Schade. “Because of all the surplus planes that were on the market, in one year more than eight general aviation aircraft manufacturers went out of business.”

Schade’s business suffered too, so he went to work for North American Aircraft Corporation’s space division and spent 32 year working on projects such as the Apollo program and the Challenger Space Shuttle. But Uncle Sam wasn’t finished with him yet. “After hiring on with North American as an engineer, less than 60 days after I was employed, I was getting ready for work one morning and there was a postman asleep on my doorstep,” explained Schade. “I woke him up and said, ‘are you looking for someone?’

“He handed me a telegram and I opened up the telegram and it said, ‘you will report to the nearest Marine base for active duty.’”

Schade had been recalled along with many active and inactive veterans (he was in the Marine Corps Reserves) in order to form a full division to fight in the Korean War.

“[General] MacArthur had a plan to put a Marine division north in Korea at Inchon and then penetrate down towards the south to Pusan and sort of ‘rescue’ the 8th Army,” said Schade. “But he couldn’t get a full division of Marines.

He added that at the time, President Truman was trying to eliminate the Marine Corps so the force was down to less than two full divisions. In order to fulfill Marine Corps requirements all active and inactive reserves were recalled.

“I can recall that when the ship was being loaded in San Diego for its eventual trip to Inchon, some of the inactive reserves were brought in with handcuffs because they didn’t feel they were qualified or in a condition should be called up for active duty,” said Schade. “Nevertheless that’s how MacArthur got his full division of Marines and we did make the Inchon landing and secured Kempo Aerodrome and then secured Seoul and then we went back to Japan for 30 days of leave.”

Schade returned to Korea and took part in the drive into the north and the Chosin Reservoir.

This time around, Schade’s training as an aviation mechanic proved to be not as valuable as his availability as a “grunt” or a land company Marine.

“I was a fire team leader,” he said. “I had five guys under me. The first guy carried a Browning automatic rifle (BAR). I carried a Thompson submachine gun, a carbine and a 45-caliber pistol. But the object of that fire team was to keep that BAR firing at all times, so there were four backups behind the BAR rifleman.”

At the Chosin Reservoir, Schade and his fellow Marines saw some of the worst fighting and worst weather to date. Forced to withdraw by foot back to the North Korea coast to be evacuated, the 1st Marine Division fought defensively in temperatures of up to 75 degrees below zero.

“The daytime temperature was about 35 degrees below zero. That’s why so many Marines walking back lost their legs and feet to frostbite,” said Schade.

“I was in Korea for one year of combat,” he added. “You might say that I was destined not to die in either war because with all the close calls we had in combat and flying I was never injured. I don’t understand why not, but I guess I lucked out.”

After his second stint in the service, Schade returned to his career at North American.

Now he is an active member of the Estrella Warbird Museum in Paso Robles, Calif. The museum has 17 Navy aircraft and one Air Force jet; his most recent project.

Schade once brought an Air Force T-37 from a base in Texas to the museum where he helped oversee the reassembly of the craft. He is also involved, through the museum, with encouraging the youth of today to learn more about the history of the military who fought to ensure their freedom.

“One thing we’ve noticed in our museum is that for some reason young people aren’t interested in military affairs,” Schade added. “If we can motivate some of these people (NJROTC cadets) to stay in the military and especially the Navy, then we’re happy and proud to be able to do it.”

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North Platte Community College hosted its annual Inter-High Scholastic Competition and TECH-Knowledge & Skills Discovery Day on Wednesday at the North and South Campuses of the college.

The theme for Inter-High Day this year is “Spotlight on Success.” Students from 28 area schools took nearly 900 tests in the Inter-High Scholastic competition. In the TECH-Knowledge and Skills competition, more than 120 students represented 21 high schools.

Awards were presented to the top three individual finishers in all categories. They also received a certificate for up to three credit hours of free tuition to be used at MPCC this summer. First place winners were awarded with $500 Mid-Plains Community College Area scholarships. The schools also competed in divisions.

Results of NPCC’s Inter-High Day are:

Accounting:

First - Megan Stokey, North Platte High School

Second - Megan Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Third - Carissa Rayburn, Brady

Art:

First - Alissa Rosentrater, Wallace

Second - Amber Nelson, Elwood

Third - Brooklyn Nordhausen, Wauneta-Palisade

Athletic Training:

First - Maegan Hiatt, Hershey

Second - Sage Schmidt, Medicine Valley

Third - Brittany Lawrence, St. Patrick’s

Biological Science:

First - Jordon Laubry, Eustis Farnam

Second - Jocy Nelson, Sutherland

Third - Calyn Werkmeister, Maywood

Business Communications:

First - Libby Jensen, Dundy County Stratton

Second - Abby Daffer, Southwest

Third - Sam Staggs, Sutherland

Chemistry:

First - Megan Kelley, Southwest

Second - Alec Fox, Paxton

Third - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Dramatic Arts:

First - Alex Roc, McCook

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Karni Doyle, Callaway

Fire Science/EMS:

First - Kris Kopetzky, South Platte

Second - Chris Werth, Eustis Farnam

Third - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Grammar & Composition:

First - Grace Magill, Arnold

Second - Christi Christner, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Bailee Clark, St. Patrick’s

Health Occupations:

First - Sabine Vanhaaren, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Jamie Smith, St. Patrick’s

Third - Taylor Ellison, Callaway

History:

First - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Second - John Klintworth, Medicine Valley

Third - Joey Anderjaska, Hayes Center

Information Technology:

First - Jared Brosius, St. Patrick’s

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Nathaniel Maxcy, Sutherland

Introduction to Business:

First - Cody Ballew, Elwood

Second - Dawson Brunswick, McCook

Third - Chance Kennicutt, Wallace

Literary Analysis:

First - Justin Hardwick, Paxton

Second - Rebekka Ralston, Sutherland

Third - Izzy Fox, Dundy County Stratton

Mathematics:

First - Megan Siebrandt, McCook

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Isaac Langan, McCook

Music Performance (Instrumental)

First – Sohyeon Yi, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third - Brandon Montgomery, Brady

Music Performance (Vocal):

First - Nathan Rick, Hitchcock County

Second - Rachel Gordine, McCook

Third - Alisha Heelan, Garden County

Music Theory:

First – Josie Burke, Sutherland

Second – Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third – Mason Harouff, Hayes Center

NPCC Facts:

First - Cheyanne Loeffler, Paxton

Second - Valerie Most, Brady

Third - Alexis Franzen, Brady

Personal Finance:

First - Cassandra Medina, Sutherland

Second - Marley Sandberg, Sutherland

Third - Ian Bridge, North Platte High School

Physics/Engineering (session one):

First - Cody Trump, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Kyle Halsted, North Platte High School

Third - Chet Krajewski, Garden County

Physics/Engineering (session two):

First - Lane Vasa, Arthur County

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Dakota Seng, Callaway

Word Processing:

First - Brooke Scott, Hitchcock County

Second - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Third - Rebecca Lorens, Dundy County Stratton

Results by Division are:

Division 1 –

First – St. Patrick’s

Second – Sutherland

Third – McCook

Division 2 –

First – Cody-Kilgore

Second – Medicine Valley

Third – Hitchcock County

Division 3 –

First – Wauneta-Palisade

Second – Arnold

Third – Elwood

Results of NPCC’s TECH-Knowledge & Skills competition are:

Autobody:

First – Aaron Stegman, Garden County High School

Second – Joel Anderson, Garden County High School

Third – Jon Jackson, Franklin High School

Automotive/Diesel:

First – Philip Hammer, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Building Construction (teams):

First – Walker Wolff, Ivan Rosfeld, Austin Wobig and Wyatt Galloway of Cody-Kilgore High School

Second – Lucas French, Jayson Rezek, Nick Hahn and Calvin Carsten of Sutherland High School

Third – Brock Alexander, Caleb Kleewein, Justin Cosler and Clancey Barnum of Stapleton High School

Electrical:

First – Tyler Daniels, Franklin High School

Second – Walker Wolff, Cody-Kilgore High School

Third – Ivan Dobesh, North Platte High School

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning:

First – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Blaker Morrissey, Maxwell High School

Welding:

First – Dillon Schultz, North Platte High School

Second – Colton Thompson, North Platte High School

Third – Trevor Hanna, Stapleton High School

Agricultural activities have long been recognised as being a shaper of the rural landscape and environment which exist in Ireland today. Historically, farmers have engaged in protection of the land out of necessity to maintain their production capacity through generations. Our knowledge and appreciation of soils is continually growing however. The role of soils and the key functions they provide is increasingly being recognised and there is a new impetus from all soil users for enchanced protection of a key natural resource.

Critical to the successful management of our soil resource is knowledge on the location of our soils, and their associated properties. The Irish Soil Information System project has gathered together existing information and data from previous soil survey work in Ireland and augmented it with a new field campaign, leading to the production of a new national soil map at a scale of 1:250,000, as well as a collection of tools to access and interact with the data.

An extensive range of soil types (or series) have been identified in Ireland, each of them different in properties, with different environmental and agronomic responses. For each, the properties have been recorded in a database that can now be used to satisfy the information required both for soils management and effective policy implementation. Importantly the database can also be used to provide the public with the means to enquire and learn about the precious soil resources of Ireland. The following website provides a series of tools and descriptive information seeking to help all users engage with the soils information resource now available to us. (Provided by the Irish Soil Information System.)

For more information about the Soils of Ireland, visit;

gis.teagasc.ie/soils/index.php

and the sponsors...

www.teagasc.ie/

www.landis.org.uk/

North Platte Community College hosted its annual Inter-High Scholastic Competition and TECH-Knowledge & Skills Discovery Day on Wednesday at the North and South Campuses of the college.

The theme for Inter-High Day this year is “Spotlight on Success.” Students from 28 area schools took nearly 900 tests in the Inter-High Scholastic competition. In the TECH-Knowledge and Skills competition, more than 120 students represented 21 high schools.

Awards were presented to the top three individual finishers in all categories. They also received a certificate for up to three credit hours of free tuition to be used at MPCC this summer. First place winners were awarded with $500 Mid-Plains Community College Area scholarships. The schools also competed in divisions.

Results of NPCC’s Inter-High Day are:

Accounting:

First - Megan Stokey, North Platte High School

Second - Megan Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Third - Carissa Rayburn, Brady

Art:

First - Alissa Rosentrater, Wallace

Second - Amber Nelson, Elwood

Third - Brooklyn Nordhausen, Wauneta-Palisade

Athletic Training:

First - Maegan Hiatt, Hershey

Second - Sage Schmidt, Medicine Valley

Third - Brittany Lawrence, St. Patrick’s

Biological Science:

First - Jordon Laubry, Eustis Farnam

Second - Jocy Nelson, Sutherland

Third - Calyn Werkmeister, Maywood

Business Communications:

First - Libby Jensen, Dundy County Stratton

Second - Abby Daffer, Southwest

Third - Sam Staggs, Sutherland

Chemistry:

First - Megan Kelley, Southwest

Second - Alec Fox, Paxton

Third - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Dramatic Arts:

First - Alex Roc, McCook

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Karni Doyle, Callaway

Fire Science/EMS:

First - Kris Kopetzky, South Platte

Second - Chris Werth, Eustis Farnam

Third - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Grammar & Composition:

First - Grace Magill, Arnold

Second - Christi Christner, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Bailee Clark, St. Patrick’s

Health Occupations:

First - Sabine Vanhaaren, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Jamie Smith, St. Patrick’s

Third - Taylor Ellison, Callaway

History:

First - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s

Second - John Klintworth, Medicine Valley

Third - Joey Anderjaska, Hayes Center

Information Technology:

First - Jared Brosius, St. Patrick’s

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Nathaniel Maxcy, Sutherland

Introduction to Business:

First - Cody Ballew, Elwood

Second - Dawson Brunswick, McCook

Third - Chance Kennicutt, Wallace

Literary Analysis:

First - Justin Hardwick, Paxton

Second - Rebekka Ralston, Sutherland

Third - Izzy Fox, Dundy County Stratton

Mathematics:

First - Megan Siebrandt, McCook

Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade

Third - Isaac Langan, McCook

Music Performance (Instrumental)

First – Sohyeon Yi, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third - Brandon Montgomery, Brady

Music Performance (Vocal):

First - Nathan Rick, Hitchcock County

Second - Rachel Gordine, McCook

Third - Alisha Heelan, Garden County

Music Theory:

First – Josie Burke, Sutherland

Second – Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley

Third – Mason Harouff, Hayes Center

NPCC Facts:

First - Cheyanne Loeffler, Paxton

Second - Valerie Most, Brady

Third - Alexis Franzen, Brady

Personal Finance:

First - Cassandra Medina, Sutherland

Second - Marley Sandberg, Sutherland

Third - Ian Bridge, North Platte High School

Physics/Engineering (session one):

First - Cody Trump, Cody-Kilgore

Second - Kyle Halsted, North Platte High School

Third - Chet Krajewski, Garden County

Physics/Engineering (session two):

First - Lane Vasa, Arthur County

Second - David McCown, Maxwell

Third - Dakota Seng, Callaway

Word Processing:

First - Brooke Scott, Hitchcock County

Second - Tristan Johnson, Arnold

Third - Rebecca Lorens, Dundy County Stratton

Results by Division are:

Division 1 –

First – St. Patrick’s

Second – Sutherland

Third – McCook

Division 2 –

First – Cody-Kilgore

Second – Medicine Valley

Third – Hitchcock County

Division 3 –

First – Wauneta-Palisade

Second – Arnold

Third – Elwood

Results of NPCC’s TECH-Knowledge & Skills competition are:

Autobody:

First – Aaron Stegman, Garden County High School

Second – Joel Anderson, Garden County High School

Third – Jon Jackson, Franklin High School

Automotive/Diesel:

First – Philip Hammer, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Building Construction (teams):

First – Walker Wolff, Ivan Rosfeld, Austin Wobig and Wyatt Galloway of Cody-Kilgore High School

Second – Lucas French, Jayson Rezek, Nick Hahn and Calvin Carsten of Sutherland High School

Third – Brock Alexander, Caleb Kleewein, Justin Cosler and Clancey Barnum of Stapleton High School

Electrical:

First – Tyler Daniels, Franklin High School

Second – Walker Wolff, Cody-Kilgore High School

Third – Ivan Dobesh, North Platte High School

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning:

First – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School

Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School

Third – Blaker Morrissey, Maxwell High School

Welding:

First – Dillon Schultz, North Platte High School

Second – Colton Thompson, North Platte High School

Third – Trevor Hanna, Stapleton High School

Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Knowledge Fair at CIAT's heaquarters in Colombia.

"And above every possessor of knowledge, There is one more learned"

(Qur’an Yusuf – Joseph 12:76).

Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Knowledge Fair at CIAT's heaquarters in Colombia.

Camera: Polaroid SX-70 Sonar One Step w/ ND Filter

Film: Impossible Project PX600 UV+ Black Frame

Technique: Double Emulsion Lift onto Noble VAT Paper

'Roid Week - Day #3 - Image #2

"In the grand tradition of generals and surrealists, we have been playing games. People learn things better through the open-ended, empathetic participation in knowledge-making that games allow. Just dispensing information to people-- though at times enlightening-- can also encourage apathy or forgetfulness. Lately, we have been using games to critically examine the dynamics and assumptions of larger social givens.Our new game SET was inspired by toy collectors, tourists, and museum curators. Throughout the game, players "play" by intervening and reorganizing existing groups of objects, thus questioning categories by constructing and redrawing them. In foregrounding the player's relation to the categories, SET explores the value of one's authorship in the production of knowledge. While games often risk normalizing power relationships by setting social roles and rules in stone, we have tried here to do just the opposite."

People learn things better through the open-ended, empathetic participation in knowledge-making that games allow. Just dispensing information to people-- though at times enlightening-- can also encourage apathy or forgetfulness. A project developed by Erik Carver and Marisa Jahn, SET is a game that critically examines the dynamics and assumptions of larger social givens. It's a game inspired by toy collectors, tourists, and museum curators. Throughout the game, players "play" by intervening and reorganizing existing groups of objects, thus questioning categories by constructing and redrawing them. In foregrounding the player's relation to the categories, SET explores the value of one's authorship in the production of knowledge. While games often risk normalizing power relationships by setting social roles and rules in stone, SET tries to do just the opposite.

--

Erik Carver

Erik Carver is an architect and artist. He is a founder of the Institute for Advanced Architecture (advancedarchitecture.org)-- an organization dedicated to advancing architecture through research, exchange, and exhibition-- as well as the Common Room exhibition space (common-room.net) and the interdisciplinary art group Seru. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Erik has worked for the firms of Diller+Scofidio, Laura Kurgan, and Lyn Rice before starting his own practice. These designs have included a student center renovation, an art museum, apartment renovations, a vacation home, exhibitions, a performance space/bar, an expo pavilion, schools, offices and an interpretation center.

His work has appeared in Volume magazine, Art in America, and Nature, and he has shown work and lectured at venues including Exit Art, the Ise Foundation, and Columbia's Neiman Gallery, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), CAVS (MIT), Basekamp (Philadelphia), the Contemporary Art Center (North Adams, MA), and Pond (San Francisco).

Marisa Jahn

Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn is an artist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes natural and social systems. In 2000, Jahn has co-founded Pond: art, activism, and ideas (www.mucketymuck.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to showcasing experimental art. Jahn has presented and exhibited work in museums, galleries, and spaces at venues such as The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), ISEA/Zero One 06/08 (San Jose, CA), MoKS (Estonia), the Moore Space (Miami), the Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami), in galleries and public places in Tokyo, Honduras, Estonia, Turkey, North America, and Taiwan. Jahn's work has been reviewed in Art in America, Frieze, Punk Planet, Clamor, San Francisco Chronicle, the Fader, Artweek, Metropolis, the Discovery Channel, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She has received awards and grants such as the Robert & Colleen Haas Scholarship, MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship (2005-8), CEC Artslink, and is an artist in residence at the MIT Media Lab (2007-9) and at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2008). She received her BA from UC Berkeley and an MS from MIT's Visual Arts Program. She lives between Boston and New York, where she functions as the Immediator of art-activist campaigns for The Church of Stop Shopping/Reverend Billy. www.marisajahn.com, www.mucketymuck.org

The knowledge centre on the edge of the first phase of Masdar in Abu Dhabi.

Oxford University, Oxford, UK. This was shot with film and printed from a negative last century!

Afiche realizado para la clase de serigrafia brindada por Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw y Jon Paul Bail en la Free University of San Francisco.

Poster made for Chuck Sperry's, Chris Shaw's and Jon Paul Bail's class on Screen Printing at the Free University of San Francisco.

Gracias a Melanie Cervantes por las fotos!

freeuniversitysf.org/

Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Knowledge Fair at CIAT's heaquarters in Colombia.

On of the roads to knowledge is the one that links my Kindle and my computer. Kindle are really awesome ereaders.

For the dailyshoot nº663.

Subject:

Make a photograph of a path, road, or trail that leads the viewer's eye through the frame.

To the best of my knowledge, the orange and yellow swords are fanmade images; which is totally cool, I just included them here because you'll see them in a lot of galleries and I wanted people to know what the actual source was ~and that I wasn't missing official art. They're cannibalized from the images in the Nintendo Power Link to the Past guide. I put the original images next to them. They are not from the German guide, as some places state.

18MAR12 SLYNNLEE-7027

The Big Fish, the Salmon of Knowledge This is one of the coolest public art sculptures I've ever seen. I particularly liked that the scales of the fish contain various newspaper clippings, photos, and drawings that illustrate aspects of Belfast's rich history and culture. It's wonderfully conceived and beautifully done.

2013 World Water Week.

Sunday: New Knowledge, New Practice for Resilient Water Security, K11.

Photo: Thomas Henrikson.

The first-ever ICC Knowledge Assembly took place in Paris on 27 May 2019.

July 4th Flyer Template PSD

July 4th Flyer Template PSD designed to advertise a 4th of July Party inside a night club / pub / bar.

The design is well sorted in folders, and all the elements can be removed or rearranged as you please. You don’t need a good knowledge of Photoshop to edit...

xtremeflyers.com/july-4th-flyer-template/

Polaroid Styles

Sometimes all it takes is a little local knowledge to reveal some hidden gems around where I grew up in Northen New South Wales.

Killen Falls is a short drive inland from Lennox Head and definitely a place I will make sure I re-vist.

On another note some locals were actually catching some fish in the reservoir that the falls pools into!

Taken in FNC Australia. Best Viewed Large!

Mobile Photography with my OnePlus 5T

Tribal Carpets of Afghanistan

To write effectively and intelligently about carpets from the tribal areas of Afghanistan and the former central Asian States of the USSR would require many years of experience and personal knowledge of these carpet making regions. Unfortunately, we don't qualify in any of these areas, but I do have a number of reference books written by experts in the field- and the following is a compilation of observations from these volumes.

This clause will only serve to help put the background of the carpet making areas in central Asia in some perspective, and to help identify some of the more recognizable afghan rug designs and characteristics of carpets from these areas. When one considers the source of carpets from Afghanistan and the Former States of the USSR one must realize that the tribal peoples of the mountains really dont comprehend or honour modern geopolitical borders. Specific tribes exist on both sides and across the modern borders as if they didnt exist. The Baluchi tribes for example, extend from Eastern Iran through Western Afghanistan and into Pakistan. Similarly, the Turkoman tribes extend all across the northern borders.

Herat, in the Western part of Afghanistan, has a history of over two thousand five hundred years and was once occupied by Alexander the Great, and subsequently invaded by Mongols led by Genghis Khan and then Tamerlan in the 13th century. Herat was considered part of the Persian Empire, and the Persian influence in carpet making in Herat is still seen.

Types Of Carpets

There are many names for the type of weavings found in Afghanistan and Central Asia. For example, in Herat and the Northern Turkmen tribes an ensi (or engsi) is a rug designed to serve as an internal tent door. This same design is called a Hatchli (or Hatchlu) in Iran, and a purdah (or purdhu) in other parts of Afghanistan - all of them referring to a door curtain or closure.

A young tribal girl who has been taught the art of carpet weaving from a young age would probably have the following carpets and weavings in her dowry:

One Main Carpet (ghali) 9ft.10in. x 7ft.

Two small rugs (dip ghali) 6ft. x 3ft.

One engsi

One decoration for over the engsi (kapunuk)

12 small personal belonging bags 2ft.x1.5ft. and 4ft.x 1.5 ft. (mafrash & torba)

two large bedding bags (chuval or Juwal) always made in pairs

three decorated tent-bands (aq yup) 50 ft long and 2 inch to 1 ft wide

Materials: The material used for making tribal rugs are basically what these nomads have at their immediate disposal: wool from their sheep which is used in the warp and weft as well as the pile. Some tribes use goat hair for overbidding the sides (selvedges) or rugs. Camel hair is especially prized for the field areas of prayer carpets. When possible the sheep are driven into streams to wash them prior to shearing. The wool is then sorted by color and quality and then combed and spun. The wool is then dyed one person can generally can generally spin one kilo per day.

Dyes: Natural dyes are still used, but since the 1950s pre-dyed wool yarn (using synthetic dyes) readily found in the towns and villages are often substituted for or combined with the natural dyes. The wild colors (some almost iridescent) often found in many Afghan carpets are surely synthetics. In natural dying, the yarn is presoaked in a fixing bath of alum, copper sulfate, ferrous sulfate, tin or urine. The yarn is then transferred to a dye bath and soaked until the desired color is obtained. The yarn is then washed and hung out to dry. Dying was usually done by the men. Natural dyes fade beautifully and often show as uneven coloring (abrash). Abrash (meaning speckled or marbled) is commonly the result of a weaver running out of wool and having to dye another lot or buying a similar color from elsewhere. Abrash in no way detracts from the value of a tribal carpet, but is a desirable characteristic of a tribal weaving. Naturally dyed wool will fade right through whereas synthetic dyes will fade only on the tips where the light hits it. A newer tribal carpet can be "mellowed" by placing it in the direct sun for several days.

Natural dyes originate from the following materials:

Reds: Madder - Root of Madder Plant - (ranges from reds to orange and purple)

Cochineal: produced from the female shield louse (Blue /red tone)

Lac Deep purple: from the excretions of a scale insect native to India Kermes. From an insect which breeds on the Kermes oak

Blues: Indigo plant (Dyers Wood)

Black: Can be achieved by using a very dark blue or by use of a bath of tannic acid, acorn cups, pomegranate skin, oak galls, and then adding to a bath iron sulphate to make the color fast. This can produce a weakness in the black wool which in carpets 50 to 100 years old can be seen as worn black areas where the remaining pile is still OK.

Yellow: Many sources including; Dyers weed; Saffron; wild chamomile; tanners sumac; buckthorn; pomegranate tree; isperek (a flowering larkspur)

Green: Obtained from walnuts and olive leaves? Or by blending blue and yellow agents

Brown: Can be natural undyed wool or by dying with fresh or dried pods of the walnut, oak guls or acorn cups.

Looms: Tribal carpets are almost always done on the horizontal or ground loom. This is due to the fact that the nomads rarely remain in one location for more than two months. The horizontal loom can be easily dismantled and packed on an animal to the new location and then staked out on the ground again. A Turkoman woman will usually take at least six months to finish a carpet 6ft.6in. by 4ft. The loom therefore can be set up and taken down four to six times before a carpet or Kelim is finished. This often results in different tensions in the warp threads and is the reason why tribal rugs often have an irregular shape. While this irregularity is part of the charm of a tribal rug, carpets which do not lie flat should be avoided

"Out of all of the confusions in life it seems that love is the hardest to understand."

Bon or Bön is the term for a Tibetan religious tradition or sect, being distinct from Buddhist ones in its particular myths, although many of its teachings, terminology and rituals resemble Tibetan Buddhism. It arose in the eleventh century and established its scriptures mainly from termas and visions by tertöns such as Loden Nyingpo. Though Bon terma contain myths of Bon existing before the introduction of Buddhism in Tibet, "in truth the 'old religion' was a new religion."

DEFINITIONS OF BON

As Bon only arose in the eleventh century through the work of tertons, Sam van Schaik states it is improper to refer to the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet as Bon:

Though some people call the old pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet ‘Bon’, it is unlikely that before Buddhism the Tibetans had a clear sense of practising a religion as such, or a specific name for these practices. In fact, the Bonpo religion only started to take shape alongside the revival of Buddhism in the eleventh century. And when the scriptures of the Bonpo started to appear in Tibet, it was mainly through the work of tertons.

HISTORY

FOUNDATION

Three Bon scriptures, mdo 'dus, gzer mig, and gzi brjid relate the mythos of Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche. The Bonpos regard the first two as gter ma rediscovered around the eleventh century and the last as nyan brgyud (oral transmission) dictated by Loden Nyingpo, who lived in the fourteenth century. In the fourteenth century, Loden Nyingpo revealed a terma known as The Brilliance (Wylie: gzi brjid), which contained the story of Tonpa Shenrab. He was not the first Bonpo tertön, but his terma became one of the definitive scriptures of Bon religion. It states that Shenrab established the Bon religion while searching for a horse stolen by a demon. Tradition also tells that he was born in the land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring which is traditionally identified as Mount Yung-drung Gu-tzeg ("Edifice of Nine Sauvastikas"), possibly Mount Kailash, in western Tibet. Due to the sacredness of Tagzig Olmo Lungting and Mount Kailash, the Bonpo regard both the swastika and the number nine as auspicious and as of great significance.

Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche visited Kongpo and found people whose practice involved spiritual appeasement with animal sacrifice. He taught them to substitute offerings with symbolic animal forms made from barley flour. He only taught according to the student's capability with lower shamanic vehicles to prepare; until with prayer, diligence, devotion and application they could incarnate to achieve sutra, tantra and Dzogchen.

Bon teachings feature Nine Vehicles, which are pathway-teaching categories with distinct characteristics, views, practices and results. Medicine, astrology, and divination are in the lower vehicles; then sutra and tantra, with Dzogchen great perfection being the highest. Traditionally, the Nine Vehicles are taught in three versions: as Central, Northern and Southern treasures. The Central treasure is closest to Nyingma Nine Yānas teaching and the Northern treasure is lost. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche elaborated the Southern treasure with shamanism.

"A CAVERN Of TREASURES" (mdzod phug)

"A Cavern of Treasures" (Tibetan: མཛོད་ཕུག, Wylie: mdzod phug) is a Bonpo terma uncovered by 'Shenchen Luga' (Tibetan: གཤེན་ཆེན་ཀླུ་དགའ, Wylie: gshen chen klu dga') in the early 11th century. Martin identifies the importance of this scripture for studies of the Zhang-Zhung language:

- For students of Tibetan culture in general, the mDzod phug is one of the most intriguing of all Bon scriptures, since it is the only lengthy bilingual work in Zhang-zhung and Tibetan. (Some of the shorter but still significant sources for Zhang-zhung are signalled in Orofino 1990.)

18th CENTURY

The Dzungar people invaded Tibet in 1717 and deposed a pretender to the position of Dalai Lama who had been promoted by Lhabzang, the titular King of Tibet. This met with widespread approval. However, they soon began to loot the holy places of Lhasa, which brought a swift response from the Kangxi Emperor in 1718, but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars not far from Lhasa.

Many Nyingmapas and Bonpos were executed and Tibetans visiting Dzungar officials were forced to stick their tongues out so the Dzungars could tell if the person recited constant mantras, which was said to make the tongue black or brown. This allowed them to pick the Nyingmapas and Bonpos, who recited many magic-mantras. A habit of sticking one's tongue out as a mark of respect on greeting someone has remained a Tibetan custom into modern times.

19th CENTURY

In the 19th century, Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen, a Bon master whose collected writings comprise eighteen volumes significantly rejuvenated the tradition. His disciple Kagya Khyungtrul Jigmey Namkha trained many practitioners to be learned in not only the Bon religion, but in all Tibetan schools.

According to the Bonpo, eighteen enlightened entities will manifest in this aeon and Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, the founder of Bon, is considered the enlightened Buddha of this age (compare yuga and kalpa). The 33rd lineage holder of Menri Monastery, Menri Trizin Lungtog Tenpei Nyima and Lopön Tenzin Namdak are important current lineage holders of Bon.

More than three hundred Bon monasteries had been established in Tibet prior to Chinese annexation. Of these, Menri Monastery and Shurishing Yungdrung Dungdrakling Monastery were the two principal monastic universities for the study and practice of Bon knowledge and science-arts.

GEOGRAPHY

Ethnic Tibet is not confined culturally to the Tibet Autonomous Region. The broader area of ethnic Tibet also includes, to the east, parts of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan; to the west, the Indian regions of Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti and the Baltistan region of Pakistan; the extreme north-west of Assam; and to the south, Bhutan, Sikkim, and parts of northern Nepal, such as Mustang and Dolpo and the regions in northeastern Nepal inhabited by Sherpa and Tamang peoples.

GODS

Bonpos cultivate household gods in addition to other deities:

- Traditionally in Tibet divine presences or deities would be incorporated into the very construction of the house making it in effect a castle (dzongka) against the malevolent forces outside it. The average Tibetan house would have a number of houses or seats (poe-khang) for the male god (pho-lha) that protects the house. Everyday [sic] the man of the house would invoke this god and burn juniper wood and leaves to placate him. In addition the woman of the house would also have a protecting deity (phuk-lha) whose seat could be found within the kitchen usually at the top of the pole that supported the roof.

Another set of deities are the White Old Man, a sky god, and his consort. They are known by a few different names, such as the Gyalpo Pehar called "King Pehar" (Wylie: pe har rgyal po). Pehar is featured as a protecting deity of Zhangzhung, the center of the Bon religion. Reportedly, Pehar is related to celestial heavens and the sky in general. In early Buddhist times, Pehar transmogrified into a shamanic bird to adapt to the bird motifs of shamanism. Pehar’s consort is a female deity known by one of her names as Düza Minkar (Wylie: bdud gza smin dkar, Stein1954 in Hummel 1962).

PRESENT SITUATION

According to a recent Chinese census

an estimated 10 percent of Tibetans follow Bon. When Tibet was formally recognized as part of the PRC, there were approximately 300 Bon monasteries in Tibet and the rest of western China. According to a recent survey, there are 264 active Bon monasteries, convents, and hermitages.

The present spiritual head of the Bon is Lungtok Tenpa'i Nyima (b. 1929), the thirty-third Abbot of Menri Monastery (destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, but now rebuilt), who now presides over Pal Shen-ten Menri Ling in Dolanji in Himachal Pradesh, India, for the abbacy of which monastery he was selected in 1969.

A number of Bon establishments also exist in Nepal; Triten Norbutse Bonpo Monastery is one on the western outskirts of Kathmandu. Bon's leading monastery is the Menri Monastery in Dolanji, India (Himachal Pradesh).

Many Bon elements are in the Hangui (韩规) religion of the Pumi people.

RECOGNITION

Lobsang Yeshe, Fifth Panchen Lama, recognised as the fifth Panchen Lama by the 5th Dalai Lama, was a member of the Dru family, an important family of the Bon religion. Under Lozang Gyatso, Bon became respected both philosophically and politically. However, the Bonpo remained stigmatised and marginalised until 1977, when they sent representatives to Dharamsala and the 14th Dalai Lama, who advised the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration to accept Bon members.

Since then, Bon has had official recognition of its status as a religious group, with the same rights as the Buddhist schools. This was re-stated in 1987 by the Dalai Lama, who also forbade discrimination against the Bonpos, stating that it was both undemocratic and self-defeating. He even donned Bon ritual paraphernalia, emphasizing "the religious equality of the Bon faith."

However, Tibetans still differentiate between Bon and Buddhism, referring to members of the Nyingma, Shakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools as nangpa, meaning "insiders," but to practitioners of Bon as "Bonpo," or even chipa ("outsiders").

WIKIPEDIA

Sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz

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Carved Sculpture Title: “Book of Knowledge One"

Original Published Name: “Books of Knowledge 15-16” and “Books of Knowledge 17-18"

Materials: Recycled Book, Paper, Glue & Acrylic

Size: 9.5” by 8.5”

Date Carved: December 2013

Carved from two out of date reference, children's encyclopedias from 1947, this piece focuses on various stories and images of interest as the artist found them in their original position, making this a unique art piece.

Sealed shut, the artist left images preserved in their original printed location within each book. This art insures the reader a glimpse into the media from yesteryear, a perspective that will inspire, mesmerize and create intrigue with style that is a unique a one-of-a-kind item for display.

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