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Small Group Discussion: Localizing Agricultural Value Chains for Shared Prosperity
The world’s agricultural economy exceeds $2 trillion, yet much of the production, processing, and manufacturing for high value food products that could be energizing developing economies instead takes place in developed countries, reducing opportunities for local livelihood improvement and economic growth. Some companies have identified an opportunity to strengthen their own businesses and invest in local livelihoods by keeping high-value processing and manufacturing in the low-income countries where their agricultural products are sourced. Others are localizing their supply chains, ensuring that food products they sell within developing countries are made using locally sourced ingredients. These trends can empower smallholder farmers, strengthen small- and medium-sized enterprises, and mitigate the climate footprint resulting from the transportation of goods across the globe, while at the same time reducing companies’ sourcing and production costs. To ensure that localized supply chains and value chains can function sustainably, businesses must cultivate ecosystems that support this type of business environment and the human capital needed for growth and prosperity.
In this session, participants will:
• Explore the economic, environmental, and social opportunities that can be achieved through local value chains and the partnerships that can make these possible.
• Examine case studies of successful efforts to localize supply chains serving domestic markets and create value chains in low-income countries to serve global markets.
MODERATOR:
Don Seville, Co-Director, Sustainable Food Lab
PARTICIPANTS:
Blanca Juti, Chief Corporate Relations Officer, Heineken
Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen
Magatte Wade, Founder and CEO, Tiossan
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View of localized damage to corrugated-paper ("Air Cell") asbestos pipe insulation. Image also shows stitching of pipe insulation's canvas covering. Literally miles of the hand-stitched canvas pipe coverings were present in a vast network of tunnels and trenches; that's alot of sewing.
Although, it's assumed that the canvas coverings were probably received from the manufacturer as "pre-sewn sleeves" and then perhaps pulled over the sectional pipe insulation like a sock, then the stitches were pulled tight and finished.
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The Owl of Athena was also used in this instance, as a localized navigation map of Greenland, the Avernus Basin, and Labrador, which coincides with other Greek, Egyptian, and Irish mythology images meant to safely guide travelers over land and sea . It was probably used in many other locations as well.
See also the Avernus image...
www.flickr.com/photos/10749411@N03/5249386712/in/photostr...
Not a surprise, but the eyes of the Owl image are also the eyes of Hades image of Eastern North America, shown earlier.
While many of my theories I am 110% sure of, I am only 95% sure of this idea.
The lines of the owl are too close, and the "google eyes" match too well, the Hades eyes mentioned earlier.
The ancient adage was "As Above" (in the celestial heavens), "So Below" (on Mother Earth), and "As Within" (the human body itself). For this reason, I am now strongly suggesting that the Owl Figure was one of many interpretations of the features found on the moon, as well as mirroring the geographic landscape on earth, and certainly being the anthropomorphic form of Athena, the Greek version of the Moon Goddess. I am certain that these ideas have been a million times repeated, and I am just the latest.
As the Avernus Basin flooded surrounding Greenland, and all habitats at lower levels were lost, a new map was needed to show the navigation around the multiple islands and channels from the Atlantic area towards the Arctic Ocean.
The ancient message to me is clear. Past this channel area, you are entering the realm of night and death, so beware! Do not cross this area or face danger.
It also strongly indicates that some form of ancient Northwest passage existed for ships, to "cross into the other ocean", meaning the Pacific, through these series of channels. All passageways appear to have been filled with sediment, and the transit points became useless.
From the website called, "The Owl Pages", I have the following wonderful quote...
"In the mythology of ancient Greece, Athene, the Goddess of Wisdom, was so impressed by the great eyes and solemn appearance of the Owl that, having banished the mischievous crow, she honoured the night bird by making him her favourite among feathered creatures. Athene's bird was a Little Owl, (Athene noctua)."
www.owlpages.com/articles.php?section=Owl+Mythology&t...
...and another wonderful quote from the same location...
"In Roman Mythology, Proserpine (Persephone) was transported to the underworld against her will by Pluto (Hades), god of the underworld, and was to be allowed to return to her mother Ceres (Demeter), goddess of agriculture, providing she ate nothing while in the underworld."
One last item, or two... If you look real close, there are two owl versions shown. The one depicted in the Greek coin has a slightly upright tail, the other has a "soft tail" flush down. The first one has eyes tweaked at about 20 degrees down from horizontal, the second one is horizontal with the Greenland overlay.
Here is what is even more amazing to me. The first Owl, "upright tail Greek coin version" ALSO overlays the portion of Greenland west of the original overlay towards Baffin Bay! The second Owl overlay image, which was used in the original overlay, has the tail figures transcending over the "Davis Strait" towards Labrador and "Leopold Island".
It is as if there was an early map version with head and body transcending towards Labrador across the "Davis Strait", and a later map version with an Owl body entirely in Greenland, and only the legs transcending towards Labrador! Amazing!
Side Notes: This also rings an etymology bell, in that Nashua, New Hampshire and Iowa, may both be named after Athene Noctua.
Anyways, I am only 95% certain on this theory, it makes explicit sense yet I can't be sure, and it will take true academics and scientists possibly 20 years to verify the navigation reasons for this image. I hope all enjoy the similarities.
At the San Jose airport: the Burger King has "gallo pinto," a typical costa rican dish of rice and beans, on the breakfast menu.
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Creating Localized Language Style Guides Workshop at TEDSummit: A Community Beyond Borders. July 21-25, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED
Here it is…my last big vacation of 2015. It also happened to be the longest of the year. I’ve actually put off editing these pictures (until this week – mid-January 2016). I’ve been putting this off because, honestly, I have very mixed emotions about the trip.
I have absolutely nothing but good things to say about India and all the Indians I met there – better things yet to say about Indian cuisine. However, I didn’t travel alone, and that caused quite a bit of headaches. So, I’ve been lazier than usual about going through these. However, in looking at them, I’m starting to dwell only on the good side, and hopefully will show that here. (I won’t mention anything else about what or why I didn’t enjoy the trip. Honestly, I hope to go back to India again sometime. It’s the 7th largest country in the world and has a lot to see…)
This particular trip was 13 days…and very localized. We only visited two states: Rajasthan (RJ) and Uttar Pradesh (UP). Also Delhi, though I didn’t go out in Delhi and don’t have a single picture to show for it. In those two weeks, we took the following tour, in this order: landed in Delhi (at 3:00 a.m.) on September 26. At 7:30 a.m., we were on a bus to our first destination: Rajasthan.
The first week we spent in Rajasthan visiting each of these cities for approximately two days: Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, and Udaipur. (I found myself thinking, “There sure are a lot of ‘purs’ here…just like there are a of ‘zhous’ in China – Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Zhouzhou. ‘Pur,’ like ‘zhou,’ apparently means “town.”) Rajasthan is hot. Damn hot. Even in late September the daytime temperatures seemed to soar close to 40 degrees. At least 35, for certain… Rajasthan has a lot of desert terrain and many castles. Quite a few old palaces are out in Rajasthan, so it can tend to have a bit of a romantic feel to it.
After finishing in Rajasthan, we went over to Uttar Pradesh for literally one afternoon seeing the Taj Mahal in Agra, before shuffling off to the holy city of Varanasi (one of Hinduism’s most famous – if not the most famous – cities). From Varanasi, we took an 18 hour train ride (during which I apparently ate something so nasty that it stayed with me…for close to three months). Note to readers: Try to avoid eating on Indian trains. After another two days in Delhi, we flew back around 4:00 in the morning on October 9. For now…back to the beginning in Jaipur.
Jaipur is famously called the Pink City. A lot of the old town architecture is pink, so…well, you get the idea. It’s named for its founder, Jai Singh II (1688-1744), a great warrior-astronomer who assumed power at age 11 upon his father’s death.
The following is from Lonely Planet India: “Jai Singh could trace his lineage back to the Rajput clan of Kachhawas, who consolidated their power in the 12th century.” Their capital was at Amber (which is pronounced ahm-AIR…not AM-burr) about 10 kilometers northeast of town. This is northern India’s first planned city, if LP is being honest with me.
All I hope you get out of that is that this is an area with close to a millennium of “important” history to India, but the city of Jaipur as we see it now is only about 300-400 years old. Jaipur currently has a population of about three million. There’s an Old City (Pink City) which is where most of the tourists head – including yours truly – a new city, and….that’s about it. For my purposes (and in an attempt at brevity), I’ll say we went to the Central Museum (Albert Hall) south of the Old City. We also visited Hawa Mahal, Tripolia Bazaar (and Gate), and Jantar Mantar in the Old City. Other than that, we went to Amber Fort for a few hours.
Things started innocuously enough. We had left Delhi at 7:30 in the morning and gotten to Jaipur about 5 hours later. We had one stop on the bus for breakfast. I don’t recall what I ate…some type of curry, of course, but I don’t recall which. It may have just been mutter paneer. It was, however, delicious, and I didn’t feel hungry at all again until dinner.
The bus. Bus transportation in India, by the way, is rather interesting. Sometimes they are private buses (the small kind that only hold 8-12 people), sometimes sleeper buses, sometimes regular coaches…but the regular coaches didn’t seem too common. There doesn’t seem to be any uniformity in India about this.
Anyway, the bus dropped us off right next to Amber Fort. Since this was one of the small 8-12 person jobs, it could pretty much stop and go where it pleased, it seems, and this one didn’t actually take us to Jaipur.
As soon as we got off the bus here, we hired a tuk tuk (san lun che, for you Chinese readers) that took us down to the Old City. There, we switched to another one that took us the 2-3 kilometers west of the Old City to the more quiet and residential Bani Park where our hotel (the Hotel Anuraag Villa, which turned out to be about the nicest one we stayed in) was located. The second tuk tuk driver is the one we hired to take us around that afternoon and the next day. For the first day, I paid 500 rupees (~50 RMB/$8) for 4-6 hours’ work. We checked in and he waited patiently as we ate lunch in the backyard of the hotel.
Our driver took us first to the Central Museum (Albert Hall) where we spent an hour or two in mid-afternoon. The museum itself isn’t too bad. It has standard fare: tribal dress, Buddhist sculptures, even an Egyptian mummy. The building itself, though, is worth seeing. Anyway, an hour here was more than enough time.
From there, we went to the Sun Temple (I think that’s what it’s called) where I enjoyed the late afternoon sun (and rather smoggy view, though not quite as smoggy as Chinese cities I’m accustomed to). After that, we ended up going to a rather nice restaurant that cost about 2500 rupees (250 RMB/$40) for two. I splurged. It was fantastic.
After a night of sleep that may or may not have transported me to an alternate universe (I sleep more deeply than most bears), I woke up ready to go the next morning. I hired the same tuk tuk driver to haul us around, and we went first to the Old City (Hawa Mahal, the Tripolia Bazaar, Jantar Mantar, and Amber Fort…plus another fort in the middle of the water whose name I’ve forgotten). Though the time was a little shorter than the previous day, I paid him 750 rupee, since he actually drove us around farther. That’s still just under $15, so I had no problem with that.
Hawa Mahal (Palace of the Winds) is the most recognizable architectural building in the Pink City (though it’s technically just outside the Old City). It’s a five story building that was built by Sawai Pratap Singh in 1799 to “enable ladies of the royal household to watch the life and processions of the city.” There are nice views of Jantar Mantar and the City Palace to the west and the Siredoori Bazaar directly across the street.
Jantar Mantar is an observatory that was built by Jai Singh in 1728. “Jantar mantar” is derived from the Sanskrit “yanta mantr,” which means “instrument of calculation.” There are some rather large, interesting, and certainly eclectic sculptures, all for measuring time among the heavens.
Amber Fort was the highlight of Jaipur for me. The Kachhawaha Rajputs ruled from here for over 800 years. This fort was built beginning in 1592 by Maharaja Man Singh using war booty. It’s a royal palace built from pale yellow and pink sandstone with various courtyards. If you walk up the hill, you will enter the fort through the Suraj Pol (Sun Gate) and find yourself in Jaleb Chowk (Main Square) where the armies presented to the king. Walking up the stairs from Jaleb Chowk will bring you to the second courtyard and Diwan-I-Am (Hall of Public Audience) with its double row of columns. The maharaja’s apartments are located around the third courtyard, which you enter through Ganesh Pol. On one side of the interior courtyard is the Jai Mandir (Hall of Victory) which has many mirrored tiles. On the opposite side of Jai Mandir, across Maota Lake (a very small decorative pond, really) is Sukh Niwas (Hall of Pleasure). The fourth courtyard has the zenana (women’s quarters), which were designed so the maharaja could make his nightly visits without the other women knowing about it. In all, the fort/palace and the views from the fort are wonderful. I won’t say “breathtaking” or “stunning,” but certainly worth the visit.
Once I bade farewell to the tuk tuk driver, we wandered around the Old City a little longer before heading over to the hotel for dinner and to see a puppet show (that was not free, but wasn’t advertised as costing anything; they basically try to shame you into “donating” when they’re done). After that, we headed to the train station for a midnight ride across the state on Indian Railways…the first of five train rides throughout these two weeks.
If anyone has seen Slumdog Millionaire, you saw Indian Railways in action…with people riding ON the cars, among other things. I didn’t see anything quite like that, but…the lowest class passenger cars were quite crowded. We were always in first- or second-class sleepers which, to me, didn’t differ too much from the style of sleeper cars in China, though they weren’t quite as nice. They were…very close to the same, at least from my experience.
So, goodbye Pink City and hello Golden City. Jaisalmer was a twelve hour ride due west from Jaipur, and we arrived sometime mid-morning. More to come…
Experts from around the world came together to share insights and challenges around localizing education, specifically local educational resources (OER). This workshop was led by Jennryn Wetzler, Senior Program Designer in the Collaboratory at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Learn more: eca.state.gov/collaboratory
Localized rain shows dumping their load on Vancouver English Bay during the sunset creates unique light rays passing through the rain drops.
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This is the finished localized test strip printer (V2.0)
Parts:
2 x dollar store vinyl clipboard (1 x top, 1 x bottom)
1 x 1/2 in. MDF BASE 10 1/2 in. x 18 5/8 in.
1 x 1/2 in. MDF BOTTOM RAIL 3/4in. x 18 5/8 in.
8 x Pan head screws
4 x Rubber feet
Ms. Beverly Nkirote, Programme Officer, Network For Adolescents and Youth of Africa (NAYA Kenya) © UNFPA
Localized in Sao Luis our Travel agency specialized in tailor made trips off beaten path all over Brazil and along the Route of Emotion from Sao luis to Jericoacoara passing by the Lencois Maranhenses national park. All our trips are unique designed around your tastes, interests and budget, with an absolute commitment to quality.
Localized in Sao Luis our Travel agency specialized in tailor made trips off beaten path all over Brazil and along the Route of Emotion from Sao luis to Jericoacoara passing by the Lencois Maranhenses national park. All our trips are unique designed around your tastes, interests and budget, with an absolute commitment to quality.
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Ms. Abdullah Anbar Anan Titir, Research Specialist, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) © UNFPA
Experts from around the world came together to share insights and challenges around localizing education, specifically local educational resources (OER). This workshop was led by Jennryn Wetzler, Senior Program Designer in the Collaboratory at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Learn more: eca.state.gov/collaboratory
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I was surprised to see this ironwood tree in Joshua Tree National Park; didn't know they grow here. A nearby sign explained... They apparently grow just in this one location, on a bajada at the base of the mountains seen in the distance, because this area is warm enough and gets enough moisture to support the ironwood.
This area is called the Colorado Desert. It's not a part of the nearby Mojave Desert, but rather a small subdivision of the Sonoran Desert. While it does have some of the same plants and animals as the Sonoran, it lacks its signature plant, the saguaro.
Ironwood trees are fairly common in the Sonoran Desert to the west of Tucson, and there's even an area set aside where they're featured...Ironwood Forest National Monument, which is adjacent to Saguaro National Park's western district, and is administered by the BLM.
Seen on the Bajada Trail.
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ARE YOU ABLE TO LOCALIZE 16 CHESTNUT FRONTED MACAWS, 2 CHESTNUT EARED ARACARIS AND A PARAKEET IN ONE SINGLE TREE?? AMAZING!!
San Jorge de Sumaco Bajo Reserve – NEW 2017
Coordinates -0.572991, -77.343620
Altitude range from 450 to 600 mts. o.s.l. (1485 to 1980 ft. o.s.l)
400 acres of Tropical Forest in Eastern Ecuador.
A magnificent pristine prehistoric forest surrounded by several protected areas including the enormous Sumaco - Galeras National Park.
550 bird species are presently inventoried with an amazing collection of wild creatures and is situated in one of the most diverse climate steps in Ecuador.
This new reserve offers beautiful crystal rivers, several streams and springs, and a hilly area between the flat land thus providing a multitude of options for natural history, birdwatching and bird & wildlife photography.
Its location is close to several bird hot spots with the perfect central area to develop great trips around the surroundings, such as Limoncocha, Payamino, Bigal River, Napo River, Parrot Leks, Napo Galeras and Sumaco roads.
Best Birdwatching , Natural History and Bird Photography Tours in the World! www.sanjorgeecolodges.com
Photo taken at San Jorge de Sumaco Bajo reserve.
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Experts from around the world came together to share insights and challenges around localizing education, specifically local educational resources (OER). This workshop was led by Jennryn Wetzler, Senior Program Designer in the Collaboratory at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Learn more: eca.state.gov/collaboratory
This is V1.1 of the Localized Test Strip Printer.
-With roomlight off and safelights on
-The photographic paper is laid in the LTSP (localized test strip printer) below the top mask and on top of the bottom saw tooth ruler.
Experts from around the world came together to share insights and challenges around localizing education, specifically local educational resources (OER). This workshop was led by Jennryn Wetzler, Senior Program Designer in the Collaboratory at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Learn more: eca.state.gov/collaboratory
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Localized in Sao Luis our Travel agency specialized in tailor made trips off beaten path all over Brazil and along the Route of Emotion from Sao luis to Jericoacoara passing by the Lencois Maranhenses national park. All our trips are unique designed around your tastes, interests and budget, with an absolute commitment to quality.
This richly illuminated fourteenth-century German homilary is particularly interesting for its rare bifolium of drawings bound in at the front of the book. The headgear worn by the nuns in the drawings is characteristic of Cistercensian and Premostratensian nuns in northern Germany as early as circa 1320. Evidence for dating and localization is also found in the manuscript's relationship with a second homilary in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 185). Despite minor codicological differences--page layout, textblock dimensions, and ruling--it seems likely that the two homilaries were composed as a set in one scriptorium. The drawings at the beginning of the Walters manuscript were inspired by miniatures within the book and are very similar to the style of Master of Douce 185, recently identified as a collaborator of the Willehalm Master. Although the Walters homilary lacks internal evidence for localization, it can be attributed to the lower Rhine on the basis of general affinities between work of this region and English art. The Walters homilary is stylistically close to the small ivory book illustrated with fourteen paintings of the Passion in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no.11-1872), which has Westphalian and north German characteristics. Palette, figural drawings, the use of checkered spandrels, large ivy-leaf terminals, and ape marginalia in the Walters homilary are also close to fragments of an antiphonary from Westphalia scattered in German collections (Düsseldorf, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. D. 37a, b, c and Hamm, Städtisches Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Mss 5474-5476). A second group of stylistically related manuscripts can be found in a two-volume antiphonary from the Dominican nunnery of Paradise near Soest (Düsseldorf, Universitätsbibliothek, Mss. D.7 and D.9).
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
This map shows a measure of the precision of the localization of students and employees on EPFL campus. The red dots have a better precision than the blue dots.
The precision is the best in the Rolex Learning Center, and generally in the buildings. Outside the buildings (e.g., on the way to the Rolex Learning Center, along the Math building), localization is worse. In the center top of the picture, a line of blue dots looks like in the Civil engineering building but corresponds most probably to people waiting at EPFL metro stop, in the center top top of the picture.
Confidence factor (cF), definition: A confidence factor cF defines a square around each x–y coordinates. The device is estimated to be inside this confidence square centered at the measurement with sides 2·cF x 2·cF with 95% probability. To know more about cF.
WiFi data used in this image have been collected between May 16 and May 25 2012 with the Cisco Context Aware Mobility API with the Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE). To know more about the data.
This map has been generated by Antonin Danalet, using the student work by Yoan Pétremand and Marc Rufener, from the Geographical Information System course given at EPFL by François Golay. Labs were supervised by Timothée Produit.
The background uses OpenStreetMap and EPFL pedestrian network (green lines).
WiFi data and EPFL pedestrian network data are available for research.
Necrotizing granulomas localized around an airway. This is a common finding since the tubercle bacilli enter the lung via the airways except in miliary tuberculosis where entry is via the blood vessels.
Group: Backbone Campaign and the Localize This! Action Camp participants
Facebook event page HERE
Racism: The Elephant in the Room (or Park)
Seattle, Washington, August 17, 2015 - People are invited to participatein a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the"elephant in the room".
On Monday, August 17, 2015, from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, at Westlake Parkin Seattle, the public is invited to join us in learning about racismand white privilege through visually rich, interactive art andengagement in positive dialog and seek skills for addressinginstitutional racism.
At 2 pm, the action moves from Westlake to the City Council chambers. There, activists will challenge City Council members to combatinstitutional racism by protecting Hookah Lounges, predominantly ownedby people of color and currently under attack. They will also call onthe Council to reject zoning that will permit the construction of anexpanded juvenile detention center, misleadingly called the "King CountyFamily and Children's Justice Center," stop the city-sponsoredgentrification of areas in the city that are home to people of color,and to end police brutality.
This interactive art exhibit and challenge to the City Council arecoming from a collection of activists who are from the Pacific Northwestand around the country that met at a Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp. As a group, we are predominantly white activists who are looking inwardsand reaching out to our peers to join us in this action. We arechallenging ourselves and others to move beyond denial and defensivenessto commit to taking one concrete step towards racial justice and toshare our challenge.
Find more at hashtags #ICommit2 and #SEARacismHear.
email: info@backbonecampaign.org
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Group: Backbone Campaign and the Localize This! Action Camp participants
Facebook event page HERE
Racism: The Elephant in the Room (or Park)
Seattle, Washington, August 17, 2015 - People are invited to participatein a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the"elephant in the room".
On Monday, August 17, 2015, from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, at Westlake Parkin Seattle, the public is invited to join us in learning about racismand white privilege through visually rich, interactive art andengagement in positive dialog and seek skills for addressinginstitutional racism.
At 2 pm, the action moves from Westlake to the City Council chambers. There, activists will challenge City Council members to combatinstitutional racism by protecting Hookah Lounges, predominantly ownedby people of color and currently under attack. They will also call onthe Council to reject zoning that will permit the construction of anexpanded juvenile detention center, misleadingly called the "King CountyFamily and Children's Justice Center," stop the city-sponsoredgentrification of areas in the city that are home to people of color,and to end police brutality.
This interactive art exhibit and challenge to the City Council arecoming from a collection of activists who are from the Pacific Northwestand around the country that met at a Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp. As a group, we are predominantly white activists who are looking inwardsand reaching out to our peers to join us in this action. We arechallenging ourselves and others to move beyond denial and defensivenessto commit to taking one concrete step towards racial justice and toshare our challenge.
Find more at hashtags #ICommit2 and #SEARacismHear.
email: info@backbonecampaign.org
Necrotizing granulomas localized around an airway. This is a common finding since the tubercle bacilli enter the lung via the airways except in miliary tuberculosis where entry is via the blood vessels
This is a crazy one.
I can't remember when I first read about the Mandela Effect, but I do remember the Berenstain Bears one, because I remember my mom reading those books to us, and she pronounced it "Berensteen" (which is how some people pronounce "stein").
But she had not kept any of the books we had as children, so I was not able to personally verify anything. I just shrugged it off. But you keep reading stories of these kinds of things.
Now it's happened to our family, but ONLY our family, and I understand the effect a lot better now.
Here's what happened.
In our years-long quest to collect a good ensemble of G1-like Transformers, I had picked up the Power of the Primes Dinobots. They're OK, but they have this problem in that they were designed to be a combiner, forming Volcanicus. As a result, they're not that great. I have a picture of him somewhere in this stream.
Anyway, when Hasbro started re-releasing the Dinobots as part of the Studio Series, Zoe asked if we could get them because she loves the Dinobots. So I started collecting these ones. At some point in that journey, I got it in my head that Swoop was the last in the series, and I told Zoe, Victoria, and Caleb that multiple times. So when Swoop came out, I picked him up, gave him to Zoe, and she had all of them displayed in her room. At some point she moved them onto a shelf in the playroom.
Well, not too long ago I got a pre notice from Big Bad Toy Store for Studio Series Snarl. And I thought, "That's weird, he was already released. I wonder why they're re-releasing him." About a week later I was looking at the dinobots and noticed there was no Studio Series Snarl. So I got Zoe and we spent about a half hour looking all over the house for him. And we were both CERTAIN that we'd seen him either in her room, or in the playroom, or in some other place, but we could not find him. Caleb also was positive he'd seen him. Victoria was worried she might be the only sane one in the house.
After failing to find him, I started to think that maybe we'd created our own Mandela Effect. Fortunately, Big Bad Toy Store keeps a really long record of your orders. I was able to go back through and see all my orders from them back to the first TF I ever got from them. There was no Studio Series Snarl. We figure what must've happened is that Zoe displayed the old Power of the Primes Snarl with the new Studio Series, until she moved them into the playroom, at which point the old Snarl went to live with the other Dinobots in Caleb's room. And somehow I just got confused over the years and thought I'd already ordered him when clearly, that never happened.
Once we cleared that up, I put in an order for him, and he arrived today. So now, finally, we have the complete set of Dinobots.
I would love to document this as a case study, if anyone knows any Ph.D's studying the Mandela Effect. I mean we were as sure as sure could be that we had this funky piece of plastic. But it just wasn't so.
Group: Backbone Campaign and the Localize This! Action Camp participants
Facebook event page HERE
Racism: The Elephant in the Room (or Park)
Seattle, Washington, August 17, 2015 - People are invited to participatein a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the"elephant in the room".
On Monday, August 17, 2015, from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, at Westlake Parkin Seattle, the public is invited to join us in learning about racismand white privilege through visually rich, interactive art andengagement in positive dialog and seek skills for addressinginstitutional racism.
At 2 pm, the action moves from Westlake to the City Council chambers. There, activists will challenge City Council members to combatinstitutional racism by protecting Hookah Lounges, predominantly ownedby people of color and currently under attack. They will also call onthe Council to reject zoning that will permit the construction of anexpanded juvenile detention center, misleadingly called the "King CountyFamily and Children's Justice Center," stop the city-sponsoredgentrification of areas in the city that are home to people of color,and to end police brutality.
This interactive art exhibit and challenge to the City Council arecoming from a collection of activists who are from the Pacific Northwestand around the country that met at a Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp. As a group, we are predominantly white activists who are looking inwardsand reaching out to our peers to join us in this action. We arechallenging ourselves and others to move beyond denial and defensivenessto commit to taking one concrete step towards racial justice and toshare our challenge.
Find more at hashtags #ICommit2 and #SEARacismHear.
email: info@backbonecampaign.org
Group: Backbone Campaign and the Localize This! Action Camp participants
Facebook event page HERE
Racism: The Elephant in the Room (or Park)
Seattle, Washington, August 17, 2015 - People are invited to participatein a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the"elephant in the room".
On Monday, August 17, 2015, from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, at Westlake Parkin Seattle, the public is invited to join us in learning about racismand white privilege through visually rich, interactive art andengagement in positive dialog and seek skills for addressinginstitutional racism.
At 2 pm, the action moves from Westlake to the City Council chambers. There, activists will challenge City Council members to combatinstitutional racism by protecting Hookah Lounges, predominantly ownedby people of color and currently under attack. They will also call onthe Council to reject zoning that will permit the construction of anexpanded juvenile detention center, misleadingly called the "King CountyFamily and Children's Justice Center," stop the city-sponsoredgentrification of areas in the city that are home to people of color,and to end police brutality.
This interactive art exhibit and challenge to the City Council arecoming from a collection of activists who are from the Pacific Northwestand around the country that met at a Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp. As a group, we are predominantly white activists who are looking inwardsand reaching out to our peers to join us in this action. We arechallenging ourselves and others to move beyond denial and defensivenessto commit to taking one concrete step towards racial justice and toshare our challenge.
Find more at hashtags #ICommit2 and #SEARacismHear.
email: info@backbonecampaign.org
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A seminar on “Localizing the Open Government Partnership: Pushing the Boundaries of Local Governance” on 4 May 2018 at the 51st ADB Annual Meeting highlighted the growing role of CSO engagement with governments to strengthen the implementation of the Open Government Partnership across national and subnational levels.
Learn more here.