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Zhou Bowen, Vice-President; President, JD Artificial Intelligence, JD.com, People's Republic of China capture during the Session "Why 5G Matters" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 1, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
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All colors have been introduced now, so the novelty has worn off :) Now I just want to hurry up and be done! Done in garter stitch with slip stitch patterning. The pattern is from Kim Smith of Knitting Matters.
I know it is hard to tell how large this wave is in this pictures. The rocks in the foreground are around 15' above the water. The wave face is probably every bit of 30'+. This was taken at Sharks Cove (Pupukea) on the North Shore of Oahu. I have pictures taken in the summer of people jumping off those rocks into the water. I'll have to post those some time, just to give a bit of scale to the picture.
Tom Bettag and Leslie Walker's Laughing Matters class looked at satyrical journalism during the fall, 2017 semester. The students had a blast!
ORLANDO, Fla. – Dozens of Soldiers from the 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) joined members of veteran services organizations to honor the families of fallen heroes during the 6th Annual Operation: Love Letters event conducted March 24, 2018, at St. John Vianney Catholic School in Orlando.
Hosted by the Orlando Survivor Outreach Services, a U.S. Army community support program dedicated to helping families cope with grief from losing loved ones who have served their country. Operation: Love Letters provides a forum of fellowship for family members to share their memories of the deceased through food, games, music, arts and crafts. Conceived in Orlando in 2013, this local activity has transformed into a U.S. Army sponsored flagship program for the entire nation with international reach.
The event commenced with full military honors as the 143d ESC’s color guard and the Patriot Riders Guard led the opening ceremony in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star-Spangled Banner. The color guard then set up a Fallen Comrade table and conducted a “13 Folds” ceremony to honor all American service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Miles Espaillat, the youngest of three sons of Maj. Gen. Francisco Espaillat, lit the candle on the Fallen Comrade Table. Espaillat’s father served as the commanding general of the 143d ESC from 2014-2016. He died of a heart attack April 7, 2017, while serving as general officer for the Office of the Chief of the Army Reserve.
After the opening ceremony, the family members shared their most cherished memories of their son, daughter, parent or spouse. Some brought framed photos while others baked their loved ones’ favorite dessert. The 143d ESC Soldiers joined several family members in creating crafts and writing love letters.
Representatives from the USO, Veterans Affairs, Operation Military Matters and the Orlando Vet Center also attended the festivities to share the many free resources such as grief counseling, care packages, and financial assistance tailored to families coping with the loss of a loved one.
Operation: Love Letters concluded with its most cherished tradition as Soldiers, families and volunteers gathered at the school’s courtyard to release dozens of balloons with messages addressed to their fallen heroes.
Photo and Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC
My "Printable Matter" book for an upcoming workshop. In this workshop I teach alternative printing techniques to create a unique artist book.
Rosalie stands in front of the world's tallest greeting card by Paul Storm - Greeting Card to the World (ArtPrize 2010), Grand Rapids, Michigan
From the base of Chinese strokes, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, interesting teaching, to help students sum up the composition of Chinese characters, understanding parts and radical, and find their commonalities and differences.
Chinese characters play an important role in Chinese culture. Learning Chinese characters can help students better understand Chinese and speed up their learning of Chinese so that they can read Chinese newspapers and magazines. In addition, Chinese calligraphy art is an important derivation of Chinese characters, and mastering Chinese characters can open the door to understanding Chinese calligraphy. Whats more, if you want to pass the HSK test and go to a Chinese University, Chinese must be mastered.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture is a distinctive school known for its excellence in teaching Chinese language and culture to foreigners. Our college employs professional teachers who use the latest teaching methodology supported by a conducive learning environment. We also offer lectures on selected subjects and related language-study activities.
College services are available to a range of international and overseas students. Our courses are designed to meet our students; needs. In addition to regular and extra-curricular classes, we provide many opportunities to practice the language and immerse one's self in the local culture.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture coordinates Advanced Learning programs with well-known Universities throughout China. International students who have studied Mandarin and successfully completed the HSK examination will be recommended to these universities to study for a Bachelor's or Master's degree or a PHD.
KCEL has not only been honored as the best mandarin school on Go Kunming website, it also serves as the training base for International Chinese teachers in Hanban, those who are professional and talented ensure our teaching of high quality. Teachers in KCEL have a good command of Mandarin, and they can speak English fluently, there are weekly teaching training courses for them at the same time. KCEL is a campus worth trusting as the World Bank, UNESCO and New Zealand embassy all appointed KCEL to teach their staff Chinese.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture offers various activities to exercise language, culture study, culture exchange, research programs, business, and trade contact and conference services. Meanwhile, our school arranges characteristic cultural, scientific and recreational activities, including day-trips, social events and weekends away.
We hope we have the pleasure of welcoming you to our College!
Learn to Read and Write Mandarin Chinese
1. Learn Pinyin. Pinyin is a kind of Chinese writing system. The letters of Pinyin originate from the Rome alphabet, not the Chinese characters. Pinyin is very useful for Chinese learners, even if you haven't learned traditional Chinese characters, you can learn to read and write mandarin with Pinyin. There are many Chinese textbooks with Pinyin, as well as learning materials. Although Pinyin is derived from the Rome alphabet, English native speakers cannot get hang of its pronunciation immediately. Therefore, it is very important to have a correct pronunciation guidance when learning Pinyin.
2. Learn to read Chinese characters. Although recognizing Chinese characters is not a necessity for learning Chinese, many people are attracted by Chinese characters because Chinese characters will make them feel closer to traditional Chinese culture. However, in fact, it is not easy to recognize Chinese characters. In order to understand the contents of the Chinese newspapers, an ordinary Chinese reader needs to familiarise himself with about 2000 Chinese characters - and this is just the beginning. It is said that there are more than 50000 Chinese characters (though some of them are no longer used). The greatest advantage of recognizing Chinese characters is that you can learn more about other cultures, including Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. These languages, though different from Chinese in pronunciation, use Chinese characters (or simplified versions of Chinese characters) in writing.
3. Learn to write Chinese characters. Once you learn to read Chinese characters, you may be interested in the writing of Chinese characters. Learning chinese writing is a complex skill. It requires patience and a little sense of art. The first step in learning Chinese characters writing is to learn the "basic unit", that is, the independent radicals, which form the basis of Chinese characters. There are 214 radicals in Chinese, some radicals are single words, others are just part of complex Chinese characters. When writing Chinese characters, the stroke order is very important. You must follow certain rules - for example, from top to bottom, from left to right, first horizontal and then vertical. If the stroke is not correct, then the word you write is wrong.
4. Read Chinese. If you want to improve the level of Chinese reading, you need to read at least 15-20 minutes a day. First of all, you can read some children's books (basically with Pinyin) to improve your reading level, and of course, you can also find some good materials on the Internet to read. You can also use the Chinese you learned in your daily life. You can try to read the Chinese tags on food, or ask a waiter at a restaurant for a Chinese menu. Once you have improved your reading level, you can get some Chinese newspapers (Chinese version) and try your best to read the articles. This is also a good way to help you understand Chinese culture and current affairs in China.
5. Learn to write Mandarin Chinese every day. In order to improve your Chinese writing level, you can write something in Chinese every day, no matter in Pinyin or in Chinese character. One way is to write a Chinese diary every day, write something about the weather, write what you feel or what you have done every day. If you are brave enough, find some friends who speak Chinese to help you check if there are any mistakes. Or you can also find a Chinese pen pal to write to each other. This is a win-win way, you can improve your Chinese level, and your pen pal can improve his or her English level. You can also ask your pen pal to help you modify your letter and send it back to you in reply. The last way to practice Chinese writing ability is to make a Chinese list, such as shopping lists, or Chinese tags for the household objects.
www.learnchineseinkunming.com/chinese-reading-and-writing...
Serena Lew of Global Environment Centre speaks during a panel discussion on "“Black gold” for climate mitigation? The rediscovered carbon stocks in tropical wetlands and peatlands" at Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 18, 2017.
Photo by CIFOR
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Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
MURALS THAT MATTER: ACTIVISM THROUGH PUBLIC ART at National Building Museum West Lawn along 5th between F and G Street, NW, Washington DC on Friday afternoon, 18 September 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Gallery Place Murals 8: Black Lives Matter, by Luther Wright of LW Arts and Design
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Gallery Place Murals 11: One Under the Sun, by Shani Shih
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Elvert Barnes BLACK LIVES MATTER ART at elvertbarnes.com/BLMArt
Elvert Barnes PUBLIC ART 2020 at elvertbarnes.com/PublicArt2020
Elvert Barnes Friday, 18 September 2020 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/18September2020
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Black Lives Matter Plaza begins to be removed on March 10, 2025. Activist Nadine Seiler is there - she curated and protected the art there from the beginning, and holds the history of the plaza.
This picture was taken at CukeUp! 2014, and is of Aslak Hellesøy giving a talk on Taking Cucumber to the next level. The number of teams adopting Cucumber around the world is steadily increasing. This has created a lot more work for the team behind Cucumber. This keynote explains what the Cucumber core team is doing to make sure the Cucumber ecosystem will stay healthy for years to come. You can find out by watching this SkillsCast recording (film, code, slides) of Aslak's talk here: skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4420-aslak-hellesoy-4420
PS, the SkillsCast recording is only available to Skills Matter members, but their membership is free and signing up takes only a few seconds...(Aslak's talk is definitely worth it!).
CukeUp! 2014 is a fast-paced conference co-organised by Skills Matter and Cucumber Limited - the company behind Cucumber. Together, we've been assembling the community since 2011 for this intense conference - this year we've added a day of workshops to allow you explore topics in their entirety.
You can find all the skillscasts recordings (film, code, slides) of all talks held at CukeUp! here: skillsmatter.com/conferences/1816-cukeup-1816#program
Security personnel staff a vehicle checkpoint near where a Black Lives Matter message hangs on the side of the Greenpeace building in Washington, D.C. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a black man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. During an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white American police officer, kept his knee on the side of Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down. During the last three minutes, Floyd was motionless. After Floyd's death, demonstrations and protests against racism and police brutality were held across the US and the world, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the movement and gathering restrictions put in place by governments to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
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Nottingham, June 2020
Forest Recreation Ground
A moving and challenging demonstration. Peaceful but emotional.
#blacklivesmatter
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Sri Dewi Titisari of South Sumatra Government, center, speaks during a panel discussion on People and peat: Livelihoods in context at Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 18, 2017.
Photo by CIFOR
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CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren speaks during the youth session titled "Youth and peatlands: Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Forestry Students Association IFSA" at Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 18, 2017.
Photo by CIFOR
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If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
whats the matter.... Violets - regular plant food not good enough (?) -
another one of those random tins I found somewhere - I really need to find a place to do a cool display - as - there is just boxes and boxes of this stuff - under my bed..in my closet...etc
This picture was taken at CukeUp! 2014, and is of Konstantin Kudryashov discussing Moving away from Legacy code with BDD. Konstantin describes how Greenfield projects are awesome – you can develop highest quality application using best practices on the market. But what if your bread actually is Legacy projects? Does it mean that you need to descend into darkness of QA absence? Does it mean that you can’t use Agile or modern communication practices like BDD? You can find the answers on this SkillsCast recording (film, code, slides) here: skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5102-moving-away-from-legacy...
PS, the SkillsCast recording is only available to Skills Matter members, but their membership is free and signing up takes only a few seconds...(Konstantin's talk is definitely worth it!).
CukeUp! 2014 is a fast-paced conference co-organised by Skills Matter and Cucumber Limited - the company behind Cucumber. Together, we've been assembling the community since 2011 for this intense conference - this year we've added a day of workshops to allow you explore topics in their entirety.
You can find all the skillscasts recordings (film, code, slides) of all talks held at CukeUp! here: skillsmatter.com/conferences/1816-cukeup-1816#program
The church of Santa Anna, a few meters from the popular Plaza Catalunya, has an intimate, almost clandestine, look. As a matter of fact during Napoleon’s invasion it was closed by the French, and it seems that it was used by the Catalan resistance against the invaders.
It is a place hidden from people, and even, one might say, from time, and you get into it by crossing a little square, completely surrounded by modern buildings. It has two doors, one that opens on to Santa Anna Street and the other onto Ribadeneyra street, and both are shut during the night giving more protection and mystery to the building.
The church is part of an old convent and still keeps part of the original buildings attached, a beautiful cloister with a garden and a chapter room.
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Two classes of students at the Newhouse School launched a project in April examining housing in the city of Syracuse. The work was inspired by a recent report — Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing — by Central New York Fair Housing (CNYFH), a major nonprofit that works to assure equal opportunity in where we live and how we live. The report indicates much remains to be done to assure equal access in Syracuse, which has been rated the ninth most segregated city in the U.S.
The student project, which continues to be updated, profiles a number of city residents, and also explains in depth how CNYFH and others advocate for housing rights.
The project debuts in timely fashion. April is National Fair Housing Month, which celebrates the passing of the Fair Housing Act. View stories at myhousingmatters.com. The project was administered by Newhouse professors Steve Davis and Emilie Davis in the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism.
Through a collaboration including Newhouse’s Urban Affairs Reporting class, an Advanced Editing Class and CNY Fair Housing, we put faces on the data from the report to tell real people’s stories — residents directly touched by the identified disparities.
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Here are a few of the Black Lives Matter murals in downtown Raleigh that were created after the death of George Floyd. These can be found on South Salisbury Street in Raleigh, NC.
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A slew of Santa Rosa CityBus routes crowd around the Sonoma County Transit Route 30 as the driver wastes time on a trivial matter. Meanwhile the Gillig and 3 New Flyer's for Santa Rosa have to wait patiently until the Route 30 using a 2005 Orion V-CNG decides to get lost down B Street.
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