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Image from title page of "You and Your Union," ILGWU Education Department, 1935.
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Six more of the books I've completed as part of the series of twenty-five. I have twenty-one of the books completed (as of today) with the other four two be finished by the end of the week. I have a few more pieces to figure out for the installation of the work. Things are going well so far.
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Progress in any scientific discipline can be envisioned as a tree. The more established and successful the discipline, the more branches on the tree.
The highest prestige and recognition in most scientific disciplines comes from extending the tree, or adding new branches. The problem is that each new branch develops its own language , and what results is not a tree of knowledge but a tower of babble.
Activity is concentrated on the furthest reaches of specialized branches, where new offshoots are likely to emerge. As the tree grows, research disciplines become more and more specialized, and communication more and more rare, and more difficult, as researchers focus all of their attention on their slender branch.
This is a sketch of an idea. Would love your comments
"All truth and knowledge is important, but amidst the constant distractions of our daily lives, we must especially pay attention to increasing our gospel knowledge so we can understand how to apply gospel principles to our lives. As our gospel knowledge increases, we will begin to feel confident in our testimonies and be able to state: I know it.'" (Anne M. Dibbs). Model Kelsey Garry. (Photo by Karen Petitt)
The Twenty-Fourth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 22 to April 26, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
My knowledge of the county where I spent the first 25 years of my life, is largely restricted what you could see from the main roads through it, or where Shreeves Coaches would do tours too. Therefore I know the A12 and 143 very well, but away from those, not so good.
I grew up in a household that did not own a car, I am the only one to have passed a driving test, so any exploration would have to be where there was a railway station nearby, or where a coach might call.
Before my current interest in churches, I would see signs pointing down leafy lanes towards the parish church, and I would not be tempted. I knew there was such a sign from the small stretch of dual carriageway near to Saxmundham.
Having been to Snape, I turned onto the A12 intending to go north, but instead turned west following the signs to Benhall.
Down a long, straight lane, lined with mature trees and carpeted with golden leaves that had just fallen: i reach the end and can see no church, but a hand painted sign points the way right, and a hundred yards away, hidden behind trees sits St Mary.
I like a church with a gallery; even better if is open, or accessible. All round a fine and tidy, well kept church, and despite only a minute drive from the main road, is a million miles away.
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One of the great things about being a harmless Suffolk eccentric is that you get to meet other harmless Suffolk eccentrics. I hadn't known Aidan Semmens very long, and Benhall was part of one of our first jaunts together. This site was on its first, fresh legs, and he was writing about churches for what in those days was still called, quaintly, Eastern Counties Newspapers. We would bounce ideas off each other to the advantage of both our work, and may one day even get round to writing that book we kept talking about. However, Benhall stalled us in our creative endeavours, because on that occasion we couldn't get into the church.
When I first wrote on this site about finding this church locked, in what was otherwise an area of open churches, I had a wry e-mail from the Archdeacon of Sudbury, telling me that, in fact, Benhall church was open daily from 9 am - 5 pm. However the door is heavy and some people find it difficult to open. The hand has to be turned to the right and the door pushed forward. Neither Aidan or I had ever laid claims to being macho, and so we enrolled on an intensive fitness programme at the local gym, limbering up to open stiff doors. But in fact it would be more than eight years before I came back to Benhall.
Benhall is one of those parishes bisected by the A12. Unhappily, this cuts the church off from its village centre, but both village and church are in rather lovely settings, St Mary being reached down a long, straight high-hedged lane from the busy road. I freewheeled along, enjoying the birdsong and the emerging sunshine as July stuttered into life. Soon, the noise of the traffic fell away behind me, but as I approached the church a lunatic dog erupted in the garden across the road. I dare say that I was the first stranger it had seen all day, but its slavering barking suggested that it thought I was definitely up to no good.
At first sight, St Mary is an entirely Victorian confection; the double-breasted east end consists of the original, repointed chancel, and a north transept and chancel aisle, both with 19th century windows. The style is similar to Somerton, across the county. The northern extensions were to contain an organ, vestry and schoolroom. On the eastern face of the original chancel, an internal memorial has been placed, rather ill-advisedly; the Victorians sometimes seem rather embarrassed by these, although they normally just banished them to the west end of the nave. Mortlock thought that the tower showed signs of being early, with late Saxon work at three of the corners; but, as he says, the 19th Century touch is so overwhelming elsewhere, there is no reason to think it original. It certainly doesn't look older than about 150 years. As I wandered around the church taking photographs, the dog kept up its hellish litany, verging on the apoplectic whenever I came back into view. I wondered if it did this for church services as well - if so, Benhall weddings must be fun. I found that by jumping up and down and waving my arms I could raise its anger to absolute fever pitch. However, reasoning that if it broke through the fence and rushed across the road, the smile would be on the other side of my face - if, indeed, I still had a face at all - I decided to curtail my amusement and have another go at that south door.
There is a substantial south porch, with the first inkling that this church is something rather interesting after all; a large, Norman doorway. It shows signs of being recut, but is in its original place, and is perhaps the clearest inclination of the date of the superstructure of the building. The door opened easily. The interior is clean, light and well-kept, a pleasing balance between old brick floors and early 19th century furnishings. This is essentially a Georgian interior, from the days of the Rector John Mitford, brother of the more famous Mary. The pre-ecclesiological features include a gallery, a double decker pulpit looking along the ranks of box pews, and a curious birdbath font on a stubby stem. The clear glass of the windows benefits the nave, filling it with a simple, restful light.
To step past the organ in the transept, and into the chancel, is to enter a part of the building with a quite different feel. Unfortunately, the fitted carpet makes a view of the church's brasses and floor slabs impossible - there are three sets of brasses to members of the Duke family, and Sam Mortlock was most impressed by them when he came here in the early 1990s. I don't know when the carpet was fitted, but it did occur to me that if I had bothered to come back to Benhall sooner then I would have seen them as well. The striking memorial on the north wall of the chancel is to another Duke, Sir Edward, who died in the 1730s. An antiquarian, he used the opportunity to record almost 150 years worth of his forebears, which must make him very popular with his own ancestors if any of them are genealogists.
Benhall church is a simple, restful place, off the beaten track and probably little-known. But I was glad I'd come back, and as I waved the dog a cheery goodbye, he whined and put his head between his paws, perhaps reasoning that he might have to wait some considerable time before he had any more fun.
Simon Knott, September 2008
Using a laptop or a pc is a far-fetched reality for rural youth even until today. The photo shows that these young people are eager to learn how to use technology.
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2007 was notable for me as I completed my Psychology degree. What now? All this knowledge in my head and on a shelf ...
12/52 Multiple Exposure 20/03/2014
My first attempt at a double exposure never even knew I had this in camera! Yet another button I can play with :-)
Garrett Brown with a modern Steadicam arm mechanism.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
» Garrett Brown: Inventing the Future -- And a Few Handy Gadgets
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from May 30 to June 3, 2016.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
© Knowledge Society 2015. Photograph by Rick Stevens
The Knowledge Nation 100 luncheon – on 10 December at Doltone House in Sydney – celebrated the Knowledge Nation 100. The Knowledge Nation 100 are the rock stars of Australia’s new economy – the visionaries, intellects, founders and game changers building the industries and institutions that will underwrite the nation’s future prosperity.
The luncheon was addressed by the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP.
A night in Barcaldine, wonderful town Barcaldine, kind of the hub of the outback for me, can go many directions. Of course Barcaldine was about to enter a big weekend, given it was the Labour Day weekend and the history that surrounds that in #barcaldine. This is the tree of knowledge, it was doing a blue and gold sort of thing rotation, too hard to figure out so ended up grabbing some video timelapse stuff. Got a few light trails on a wonderful night in this town, after dining at the Witches' Kitchen, great meal there, but book early.
Linda George
Street-level research fights air pollution problem
Linda George’s phone lit up with calls from reporters and government officials when news broke earlier this year about high levels of toxic metals in a Portland neighborhood. Her detailed studies of urban air quality have made the Portland State environmental science professor a go-to source.
Now her expertise is being put to use in for an in-depth study of the city’s air pollution problems.
George is the lead scientist in a new, collaborative effort to test and track air quality at select locations in Portland. It’s a joint project, funded by PSU’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions with matching support from the City of Portland and Multnomah County.
The results could have far-reaching impact, not only on how toxins are regulated in the region but also on overall public health.
"PSU's research will provide the kind of real-time, neighborhood-level analysis that is important for policymakers to consider as we move forward with future decisions," said Steve Novick, a Portland city commissioner. Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury called George’s work “vital to our public health agencies.”
George, who received her environmental sciences PhD from PSU in 1991, has found that sweet spot that helps define the university’s mission of serving the community: She focuses on basic research that has direct applications for improving quality of life in Portland and the region.
“She combines experience as a practitioner and as an academician,” says Robert Liberty, director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions. “She cares a lot about community engagement and health, and that’s not true for a lot of scientists.”
Public attention has focused on Portland’s air quality after reports that high levels of arsenic and cadmium – potentially dangerous toxins – had been discovered in moss, air and soil in an area near a southeast Portland glass plant.
George, who has been working on air quality issues for three decades, says she’s not surprised that tests revealed obvious problems with the city’s air. “We’ve known this has been happening for a long time,” says George, who found high levels of air pollution on the east side of Interstate 5 several years ago. “Oregon has chosen not to do much about it. It was a disaster waiting to be discovered.”
For the new project, George will deploy her students to collect and analyze air samples in six locations around the Portland Metro region. She will be looking for “variables” that offer clues to why some areas of the city are more polluted than others and how metals disperse into the environment.
Wind direction? Topography? Tree cover?
Once you determine the variant, and what produced it, she says, “then you can look at how to mitigate the problem.”
She expects full results within two years. The findings could extend well beyond the six areas studied and prompt even more research on regional air quality, George says.
“Now there’s a lot more interest” in urban air quality, she says. “It’s going to lend itself to all sorts of other collaborations.”
At Portland State University, we believe knowledge works best when it serves the community.
Copyright City of Philadelphia. Photograph by Samantha Madera.
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Garrett Brown explains the second pre-Steadicam prototype, with a parallelogram mechanism.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
» Garrett Brown: Inventing the Future -- And a Few Handy Gadgets
a third of my desk is covered in books. the other thirds in laptop and other in printer.
"The Reader" is a really good book. I bought it yesterday and finished in it 3 and a half hours.
erm... cheesy title. no memory cards were harmed in the making of this picture. the last statment was a completele lie. i might have just erased every picture before by accidentally reformating the memory card D; i should stay away from buttons i don't know. but apart from my lack of knowledge of technology -.-"
today was a rather drama filled day. after freaking out over a phone call that had just been an accident and having a friend have her relationship totally destroyed by an outside bystander by lunch we were wondering why boys didn't really have cooties and memories never disappeared.but it comes down to simple things, like your funny friends, that kiddo you joke around with that makes you smile even if its with a little guilt for fear of rebound (rebound scares us all) but its the little smiles the little poke and the sticking your toungue out when someone pokes your nosie that really makes your day. God gives you friends because theyre the little angles that are really there to make life better.
studying studying studying. economic growth models, geographic politics, and how to take over the world. its all harsh and greedy. happiness can be achieved by other things that the supreme dominance over the global market. i wonder how many of these people are alcoholics who have been divorced have shot some drugs up in their time and spent their money in gold latrines just because there is simply nothing more they can do with it.
i don't envy them.
i'd rather have the friend who says things with me at the same time and laughs synchronized with me, the friend that burst into mamma mia in the middle of a conversation just because it popped into her head, the friend who messes with you and calls you funny things because your short and its actually kinda funny. friends who tell you their life isn't amazing either and they'd rather be cuddled up with a box of chocolate and ice cream. i'd rather have those who rely on the little things to get them through the day no matter how much they want to cry.
I thank God for friends for laughs for those moments that make us feel broken and those who have the tape to fix it.
A knowledge of Manx gaelic is sure to enrich your sense of wellbeing and of the place in which we live... such as through knowing where to look for a "Hill of Testicles"!
There are a few 'Slieu Maggle' / 'Slieu ny Maggle' around the Isle of Man, as it is a relatively common name.
Unlike other landscape features which derive their name from its appearance, it is believed that Slieu Maggle gets its name due to what happened to rams here:
'Probably so called because the shepherds brought the mountain lambs together to be cut.'
[A. W. Moore, 'Manx Names']
This Slieu Maggle (as it appears on modern maps, though it is 'Slieu ny Maggle' in some older books of Placenames) is in Kirk Michael, looking across from the Sartfield Road, before the crossroads towards Druidale or West Baldwin.
Hopefully this will serve as a good example of how a bit of Manx can open your horizons, giving you a deeper connection to the Isle of Man and our past.
A good place to find out more would be the Learn Manx website:
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
I LOVE SOUTHALL! ~ Inspiration at the entrance of Southall Library; it seems quite appropriate to step over this threshold, no?
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Here is the list of foods that will fight with acid in your body:
Salad
You could do worse than to eat a salad every day. Salad is a primary meal for acid re fluxers, although tomatoes and onions should be avoided, as well as cheese and high-fat dressings.
Dressings that have some acid or fat...
Computer-generated artist's impression of the finished Knowledge Gateway. Located three miles east of Colchester town centre, it has excellent transport links by road, rail and air. Find out more at www.essex.ac.uk/business.
Yesterday morning I drove the 18 miles from my home to Hog Pen Gap on the Richard Russell Scenic Highway where the Appalachian Trail crosses it at an elevation of 3,450 feet above sea level. I found a shady spot for my folding chair, and waited for the expected crowds to arrive. I did not have the lenses, filters and other equipment to do justice to the sun, moon and corona – you’ll find many other photographers online who did a much better job of that. I was more interested in trying to preserve a record of the community experience of the event in that one spot.
I met families from all over the Southeast, and we all waited patiently for the almost two minutes of totality that this spot afforded. It did not get as dark as I expected, and, for some reason, we did not see an approaching “wall of darkness” running across the landscape at 1,800 miles per hour from our vantage point as I had read and hoped. I was able to see and, I hope partially capture, something of the 360 Degree "Sunset Effect" . One eclipse scientist writes that the orange, glowing effect happens on the horizon because the sun is still shining outside the path of totality.
Nobody around me got hysterical or dropped to their knees in awe – things were much more mellow than that at Hog Pen Gap. I have to confess that, despite what I had heard and read from many sources about their previous experiences with total eclipses, I did not find it to be “soul shattering” or “life changing”. I’m hoping maybe that just means my life was just fine before the eclipse and my soul did not need to be shattered.
I think my experience was captured best by a poem by Ron Rash, "Eclipse", that was commissioned by National Public Radio (reprinted with permission by the poet):
This afternoon in Clemson, South Carolina,
we raise our eyes as our ancestors did,
but know that what we see is not a sign
of some calamity, a god’s displeasure,
yet as the sun and moon and earth align
something those before us felt survives,
eclipses all our knowledge and we share
the wonder as day and night become one.
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I have finally got around to visiting the inside of the new Library of Birmingham. Around 18 days after it first opened!
Got in just before 4pm, and left before 5pm.
Level 2: Knowledge Floor.
More laptop use!
These are part of a series of twenty-five altered books I am working on. It combines a set of encyclopedias with found objects from nature. The work will be displayed in mid-August at the container art show in Vancouver.
2016 Oct 26-27
Zanzibar
With the support of FES-TZA, IDWF conducted a workshop from Oct 26-27 on knowledge base for migrant domestic workers.
There were 37 domestic workers' participants: 7 domestic workers came from Tanzania mainland and 5 migrants domestic workers who are working in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Dubai & Qatar.
Lulu, a part-time domestic worker, was able to present on how they are trying to organise themselves and to make connection with migrant domestic workers in the Gulf countries.
Source & photos: Vicky Kanyoka
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
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100 Things Astros Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of the Houston Astros. Whether you're a die-hard booster from the days of the Colt .45’s or a new supporter of Dallas Keuchel and Jose Altuve, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. It contains every essential piece of Astros knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.