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The Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, addressing the luncheon © 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.
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OBJECT: business center on Krestovsky Prospect
PLACE: Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2015
Knowledge Capital is a center for the creation of new intellectual values through interaction and collaboration, and a core facility at Grand Front Osaka, the multi-purpose complex of commercial facilities, offices, hotel and service apartments.
"What Color is your city" on the one hand is a progress report about the Japanese National Project on innovative Robot Service. On the other hand it's a pilot experiment of social art for graphical interpretation of latent urban structures and attractions through digitally visualizing casual behavior of visitors and habitants in cities, using the Japanese-friendly tool “Uchiwa.”
credit: Osaka Institute of Technology
The Ingoldsby Legends - a strange little book containing strange little stories such as 'The Spectre of Tappington', 'Raising the Devil' and 'The Buccaneers Curse'.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa made an inspection tour of the construction site of the “Knowledge Park” (former Tripoli Market) in Pettah yesterday (Augsut 6) morning. The complete cost is estimated to be around 7 million US dollars where knowledge-based industries will be allowed to setup of their operations. The first stage construction work in the 25 acre land plot has now been completed. Mahinda Chinthana future vision envisages to make Sri Lanka a knowledge hub in Asia. The government expects to earn a revenue of one thousand million US dollars from the information sector by the year 2016. In order to achieve this target the knowledge park complex will also be developed as a city consisting business research institutions.
දැනුම පදනම් කරගත් කර්මාන්ත සිදු කිරීමේ මධ්යස්ථානයක් ලෙස ඉදිකෙරෙන පිටකොටුව, නොලේජ් පාර්ක් සංකීර්ණය ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ඊයේ (06) ලක් කෙරිණි. මරදාන ආසන්නයේ පිහිටා ඇති අක්කර 25කින් සමන්විත ට්රිපෝලි මාර්කට් නැමැති පැරණි ගොඩනැඟිල්ල පිහිටි ස්ථානයේ මෙහි ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු සිදු කෙරෙන අතර එහි පළමු අදියර යටතේ මේ වන විට අක්කර 12ක ඉදිකිරීම් සිදු කර ඇත. මහින්ද චින්තන ඉදිරි දැක්මට අනුව ශ්රී ලංකාව ආසියාවේ දැනුමේ කේන්ද්රස්ථානය බවට පත් කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර තිබෙන අතර වර්ෂ 2016 වන විට තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ කර්මාන්තයෙන් ඩොලර් බිලියනයක අපනයන ආදායමක් ලබාගැනීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වේ. ඒ යටතේ නවීන පන්නයේ අපනයන පහසුකම් සහිත ව්යාපාර පර්යේෂණ ආයතන සහිත නගරයක් ලෙස මෙය සංවර්ධනය කෙරේ. විෂයානුබද්ධ ඉහළ අධ්යාපනය ලැබූවන් සඳහා රැකියා අවස්ථා පුළුල් කිරීම ඉන් අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ. දැනුම පදනම් කරගත් ව්යාපාරික ස්ථාන පිහිටුවීම සඳහා ලාබ ලැබීමේ චේතනාවකින් තොරව සමාගම් කිහිපයක්ද එක්ව කටයුතු කරන අතර එම සමාගම් සන්ධානය ට්රේස් යන නමින් හඳුන්වයි.
அறிவைப் பயன்படுத்தும் தொழில் துறைகளின் மத்திய நிலையமாக உருவாகிவரும் புறக்கோட்டை நிர்மாணிக்கப்படும் கைத்தொழில் நிலையமான ‘நொலேஜ் பார்க்’ கட்டிடத் தொகுதியை ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ அவர்கள் நேற்று (ஆகஸ்ட் 6) பார்வையிட்டார். புறக்கோட்டைக்கு சமீபமாக 25 ஏக்கர் நிலப்பரப்பு கொண்ட திரிப்போலி மார்க்கட் என்றழைக்கப்படும் பிரதேசத்தில் இக்கட்டடத் தொகுதி உருவாக்கப்பட்டு வருகின்றது.
(Photos by: Nalin Hewapathirana)
If school backpacks can transmit as much knowledge to their owners as they seem able to hold to their owners, the 252 girls and boys at Queen’s Nursery and Primary School next to UN House in Juba, some only marginally bigger than their bags, have a bright future.
To promote girl power and progress on the International Day of the Girl Child, female police officers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan visited the school and offered a variety of inspirational activities and revelations.
“Believe it or not, but I was once a small girl just like you! If you look around you, the other uniformed women here have also been children, dreaming of becoming adults. Now we have grown up and become what we wanted to be, by studying hard and following our dreams,” the peacekeeping mission’s Police Commissioner Unaisi Lutu Vuniwaqa confided –even before reaching her main message:
“All of you can become whatever you decide that you want to be. Your future is in your hands, just work hard to make the most of your education,” she added, and stressed that boys and men have an important role to play in supporting and allowing girls to flourish and reach their full potential.
A show of hands, prompted by the Police Commissioner, demonstrated that South Sudanese schools and law enforcement agencies won’t suffer from a lack of future candidates as the pupils of Queen’s School become fully fledged adults.
These preliminary findings were quickly confirmed by 14-year-old Lili John and one year younger Stella Gibson.
“Today is important because going to school gives us knowledge, and I want to become a teacher,” Lili said, still a bit unsure about what subject she would like to teach.
Truck drivers in the country are unlikely to be able to welcome Stella to their fold, but may still get to know her in another capacity.
“A police officer, that’s what I want to be. A strong one,” she added for clarification.
Patience is a necessary virtue for anyone nurturing learning children or putting criminal individuals back on the straight and narrow path of a righteous life. The same will be true for those wishing the mango tree sapling planted on Thursday’s occasion to grow fast to provide the school site with much-needed shade as quickly as possible.
The little fellow, unless it was a girl to mark the day, maybe 20 centimeters tall, was at least given a cheerful start to life, with students, teachers, community leaders and UN police officers willing it on by dancing and singing the infectious and quite possibly recently composed tune “Shake, shake, the mango tree, one for you and one for me.”
Stoical, discerning mango lovers may, however, one day be in luck and see their shares of the spoils grow significantly. Chances are that the little newcomer may soon be accompanied by another 45 tree saplings recently donated to the school by the UN Mission’s environmental engineers. That gift was part of the Carbon Sink Joint Project between UNMISS and the government of South Sudan.
Photo: UNMISS / Eric Kanalstein
i spent some time searching around instructables for a cheap laptop stand and realized that this was all i really needed in the short term...maybe next week i will engineer something a little more functional
Mark Weislogel
NASA’s go-to problem solver
Liquids in zero gravity don’t pour, don’t spill and don’t drip. But PSU mechanical and materials engineering professor and former NASA scientist Mark Weislogel found a way to make them behave.
An expert in fluid dynamics, Weislogal has designed numerous experiments performed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He and his students used complex mathematics to design a coffee cup that allows liquids to be sipped instead of sucked from a tube. That’s great news for coffee-loving astronauts, and the science behind it has implications for space travel that are out of this world.
At Portland State University, we believe knowledge works best when it serves the community.
~ Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes. ~
I dedicated this picture for Val Spring. Her work is amazing and her personality is beyond beautiful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Val.
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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Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
"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)
Image from title page of "You and Your Union," ILGWU Education Department, 1935.
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An elderly Tibetan, sitting at a corner in a small monastery, reads a magazine using the light from the adjoining window. Shot on the way to the Kagyu monastery.
Bylekuppe, Karnataka, India
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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 ...
This week’s quote is "What we know is not much, what we do not know is immense.", mis-attributed to the learned French philosopher and Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ.
Reportedly the last words of Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, the great French mathematician and astronomer, were:
"Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose, ce que nous ignorons est immense."
which translates in English as:
"What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense."
One of these boxes represents what I know, while the other represents what I do not know. I wonder if you will be able to work out which is my intention, and why. (Big clue: I like to be proactive.)
Quote 40 of 40.
Thanks to the people at PSC for organising and running this "40 quotes" project. It's been fun. I trust you enjoyed it, too.
© 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.
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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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
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.
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.
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
Seven Out Superfund site in Waycross --Joan McNeal for Channel 22
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
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