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The harvest, seedlings and suggested donation boards are in the process of being prepared for produce boxes, planting and display on CSA pick up day at Huerta del Valle (HdV), in Ontario, California, on Nov. 13, 2018. Here chives are seen.
The 4-Acre organic Community Supported Garden and Farm in the middle of a low-income urban community, where Co-Founder and Executive Director Maria Alonso and USDA NRCS Redlands District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos work closely as she continues to improve the farm operation. The site also serves as a showcase for students and other producers who may need help with obtaining low-emission tractors, micro-irrigation, and high tunnel âhoop houses.â
USDA NRCS has helped with hoop houses to extend the growing season, low-emission tractor replacement to efficiently move bulk materials and a needed micro-irrigation system for this San Bernardino County location that is in a severe drought condition (drought.gov). Huerta del Valle is also a recipient of a 4-year USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Community Food Projects (CFP) grant and a USDA funded California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). She and her staff grow nearly 150 crops, including papayas and cactus. CSA customers pick up their produce on site, where they can see where their food grows. To pay, they can use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. The price of a produce box is based on the customerâs income.
Alonsoâs inspiration came from her desire to provide affordable organic food for her child. This lead to collaborators that included students and staff from Pitzer College's âPitzer in Ontario Programâ and the Claremont Colleges, who implemented a project plan and started a community garden at a public school. Shortly after that, the City of Ontario was granted $1M from the Kaiser Permanente Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Zone initiative. Huerta del Valle was granted $68,000 from that grant for a three-year project to increase the scale of operation. The city of Ontario supported the project above and beyond the grant by providing a vacant piece of land next to a residential park and community center. Alonso says that this spot, nestled near an international airport, two major interstate highways, suburban homes, and warehouses, is a âgreen space to breathe freely.â
She far exceeded Kaiser's expectations by creating 60 10â X 20â plots that are in full use by the nearby residents. Because of the demand, there is a constant waiting list for plots that become available.
As the organization grew, it learned about the NRCS through an advertisement for the high-tunnel season extension cost-sharing program. The ad put them in touch with the former district manager Kim Lary who helped Huerta del Valle become federal grant ready with their Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) and System for Award Management (SAM) registrations and connected the young organization to NRCS as well as the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District (IERCD.) Since then, Alonso has worked closely with them sharing her knowledge with a broader community including local colleges such as the Claremont Colleges and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).
Cal Poly Pomona is an example where education institutions help the community. Cal Poly Pomona Plant Science Nursery Manager Monica Salembier has produced plant seedlings (plant trays) for transplant at HdV for many years. Aaron Fox and Eileen Cullen in the Plant Science department have hosted HdV in their classes and brought many groups on tours of the farm to learn about sustainable urban growing practices.
The shaded picnic tables in the center of the garden have been the site of three USDA NRCS workshops for regional farmers, students, and visitors. The site also serves as a showcase for students and other producers who may need help with obtaining low-emission tractors, micro-irrigation, and high tunnel âhoop houses.â
Alonso says, âevery day is a good day, but especially at the monthly community meetings where I learn from my community.â
For more information, please see www.usda.gov and www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/community-supported-agriculture
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Departmentâs focal point for the nationâs farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and service supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Natural Resources Conservation Service has a proud history of supporting Americaâs farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
As the USDAâs primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.
And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.
For more information, please see www.usda.gov.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Since March 2019, over 28,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey have received Turkish language courses through a brand-new “Blended” learning model, mixing conventional and e-learning methods. This learning project plans to provide 52,000 Syrians between ages 18 to 57 with good quality Turkish language skills to empower them for social, economic and cultural integration to the society and enable self-reliance among this vulnerable community.
But this instruction has now gone entirely to distance learning, a model that could be adapted in times of COVID-19.
Read more: bit.ly/2R9YJId
Across the region, UNDP country offices are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting governments to keep their citizens safe.
Photos: Levent Kulu / UNDP Turkey
Facilitated by: Svenja Ruger (President, The Value Web ApS) With: Pratik Kunwar (Advisory Council, Kathmandu Hub) speaking in the Impact Skills Workshop: Design Thinking and Project Planning session at the Global Shapers Annual Summit 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2023. World Economic Forum Headquarters, Villa Mundi – Oak Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Marc Bader
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Trinity Hall is framed in the construction process of the new physical science building on Monday, September 16, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Facilitated by: Svenja Ruger (President, The Value Web ApS) With: Pratik Kunwar (Advisory Council, Kathmandu Hub) speaking in the Impact Skills Workshop: Design Thinking and Project Planning session at the Global Shapers Annual Summit 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2023. World Economic Forum Headquarters, Villa Mundi – Oak Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Marc Bader
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation. In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will: • Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues. • Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world. Panel Discussion: MODERATOR: Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex PANELISTS: Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A. Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP) Panel Discussion: PANELISTS: Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation PARTICIPANTS: Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
主視覺設計 Designer｜曹廷瑄 Ting Hsuan Tsao
動畫 Animator｜莊仲凱 Kyle Jhuang
創意總監 Creative Director｜楊森 Sam Yang
企劃統籌 Project Planning｜姚資竑 Tzu Hung Yao
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2, 2011 - First Lt. Claire Cvetkovski, officer-in-charge of the Georgia Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) Women's Initiative Training Team (WITT) meets with the Logar director of women's affairs (DOWA). Cvetkovski along with the other with members of GA ADT 1 WITT discussed upcoming projects planned for the month of July. Additionally, GA ADT 1 supplied the DOWA and her staff with internet equipment and service for two computers to enhance her professional development and capabilities.
For more about the ADT: issuu.com/georgiaguard/docs/2010_annual_report/36
Kaliningrad-Königsberg - "Herz der Stadt" Projekt ist abgeschlossen - 17. September 2014Kaliningrad-Königsberg - 'Heart of the City' Project is Completed - September 17, 2014Калининград-Кёнигсберг - «Сердце города» Проект завершен - 17 сентября 2014
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DEUTSCH/GERMAN/НемецкийDer Sieger des Architektur-Wettbewerb 'das Herz der Stadt, ist St. Petersburg 'Studio 44'
Auf der Grundlage von Projekt-Management hat die Stadt einen Entwicklung-Vorschlag für die Projektplanung Bereich im zentralen Teil der Stadt verpflichtet. Die Bekanntgabe der Ergebnisse des internationalen Wettbewerbs "Das Herz der Stadt" fand am Mittwoch, 17. September 2014. Das Organisationskomitee Arbeit überprüft 19 Bewerber aus 14 Ländern. Die Jury erhielt die Listen 'Architektur' und 'politischen': die erste Gruppe zusammengeschlossenen Experten auf dem Gebiet der Architektur und neue Urbanität in historischen Städten, während die zweite Gruppe brachte Führung und Profil-Beamten aus Kaliningrad und der umliegenden Region.
Infolgedessen wurde der dritte Platz im Wettbewerb von 'Trevor Skempton' des Vereinigten Königreichs und der schwedischen Firma 'Hosper' geteilt. Der zweite Preis ging an die kombinierten Französisch-Moskau-Konsortium 'Bureau Devilliers' und 'Off-Grid Studio'. Wiederum war die Entscheidung der Jury auf das Siegerprojekt fast einstimmig. Die Gewinner des internationalen Wettbewerbs erhielt das Werk von 'Studio 44' und die ' Institut der territorialen Entwicklung ' mit Sitz in St. Petersburg, Russland.
Der Anführer der kombinierten Projekt war der Kopf von 'Studio 44', dem berühmten russischen Architekten Nikita Yavein. In den letzten Jahren schuf seine Firma eine Reihe von ikonischen Designs Projekte für den nördlichen Hauptstadt, gerichtet den Plan für den Wiederaufbau des Ladoga Power Plant, entwarf den Ostflügel des Generalstabsgebäude an der Eremitage-Komplex, und gewann den Wettbewerb für die Entwicklung Das historische Zentrum von St. Petersburg.
Der Siegerentwurf für die 'Herzen der Stadt' Projekt bietet für die Transformation der Abschnitt zwischen der 'Plaza', das Standesamt auf Shevchenko Street, die 'Fischerdorf', und die DCM Gebäuden, in einen modernen öffentlichen Raum, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Fußgängerbewegung zu jeder Zeit des Jahres, unabhängig von der Witterung. Transport-Analyse von der Firma St. Petersburg schlug Umleitung im Bereich vehicular Verkehrsströme, gekoppelt mit dem Bau der Umwege. 'Studio 44 und Institute der territorialen Entwicklung' prominentesten Funktion 'Plan' ist die Beseitigung der erhöhten Autobahnbrücke [ehemals die Grünebrücke] ihre Ersatz mit zwei Fußgänger und Straßenbahnen Brücken durch Kant Insel [Kneiphof].
Für die meisten der ehemaligen Altstadt (die aktuelle Pregel südlich von Moskowski Avenue) Autoren des Projekts vorgeschlagen Wiederbelebung der historischen Gitterblöcke von Königsberg. Dieses Gebiet wird in kleine Parzellen, auf denen Besitzer in der Lage, niedrigen Gebäuden in einem fest definierten Stil zu bauen aufgeteilt werden. Ihre Erdgeschosse mit öffentlichen Funktionen belegt werden. Für Kant Insel [Kneiphof] schlug die Architekten keine Konstruktion.
Die Frage des Wiederaufbaus der Königsberger Schloss und Beibehaltung des Haus der Räte [Haus der Sowjets oder 'Monster'], den Vorschlag von 'Studio 44 und Institut für Raumentwicklung' war positiv gelöst. An der Stelle des Schlosses-Stiftung ist die Errichtung eines Gebäudes mittlerer Höhe geplant, der einen Konzertsaal und ein Museum der modernen Kunst aufnehmen wird. Das Haus der Sowjets, wird wiederum eine Vielzahl von Räumen mit öffentlichen Aufgaben beherbergen.
Auf der Grundlage das Siegerprojekt wird die Stadtverwaltung diesen Plan als das offizielle Lösungsbuch für Innenstadt-Entwicklung verwenden. Die Arbeit der letzten Phase des Projektes 'Herz der Stadt' werden in der Kunstgalerie Kaliningrad aus Freitag, September 19, zum 7. November 2014.
Der Leser wird darauf hingewiesen, dass offene internationale Wettbewerb zur Entwicklung eines Konzepts für Gebäude im historischen Zentrum von Kaliningrad ursprünglich im Januar 2014 angekündigt wurde. Die Teilnehmer wurden gebeten, Detaillösungen für die 10 Hektar im Bereich der ehemaligen Königspalast von Königsberg [Königsberger Schloss]. Allgemeinere Lösungen wurden für den historischen Kern der Stadt über eine Fläche von 56 ha, sowie das gesamte Gebiet des Projektes (insgesamt 160 ha) gesucht. Aktion wird in zwei Phasen und wird im November 2014, vervollständigt werden, um an den zugewiesenen Regionalbudget von 26 Millionen Rubel zu halten. In diesem Fall Sozialaktivisten kritisierte die Ankündigung des Wettbewerbs und erklärte ihre Absicht, Appell an [Kaliningrad] Gouverneur Nikolai Tsukanov, so dass er die Spezifikationen des Projektes technische Änderungen vornehmen kann.
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Русский/RUSSIAN/RUSSISCHПобедителем архитектурного конкурса «Сердце города» стала питерская «Студия 44»
На основе её проекта руководство города разработает непосредственный проект планировки территории в центральной части города.Объявление результатов международного конкурса «Сердце города» состоялось в среду, 17 сентября 2014. Свои работы в адрес оргкомитета направили 19 участников из 14 стран. Жюри было представлено «архитектурным» и «политическим» списками: в первом собрались эксперты в области архитектуры и градостроительства в исторических городах, в то время как во второй вошло руководство и профильные чиновники Калининграда и области.
В результате третье место в конкурсе разделили Тревор Скемптон из Великобритании и шведская компания HOSPER. Второй приз достался французско-московской заявке бюро Devilliers и Off-the-grid studio. В свою очередь, решение жюри по поводу проекта-победителя оказалось практически единогласным. Победителем международного конкурса была объявлена работа петербуржцев из «Студии 44» и Института территориального развития Санкт-Петербурга.
Руководителем объединённого проекта выступил глава «Студии 44» — знаменитый российский архитектор Никита Явейн. За последние годы его компания создала ряд знаковых проектов для Северной столицы — выполнила план реконструкции Ладожского вокзала, приспособила восточное крыло Главного Штаба под музейный комплекс Эрмитажа, а также стала победителем конкурса концепций развития исторического центра Петербурга.
Проект-победитель «Сердца города» предусматривает трансформацию территории между «Плазой», ЗАГСом на улице Шевченко, «Рыбной деревней» и зданием ДКМ в современное общественное пространство с акцентом на комфортное пребывание пешеходов в любое время года и любую погоду. Транспортные решения работы петербуржцев предполагают разгрузку территории от потоков транзитного транспорта вкупе со строительством магистральных обходов. Наиболее ярким предложением «Студии 44» и Института территориального развития Санкт-Петербурга в этом плане выступает ликвидация эстакадного моста и его замена на два пешеходно-трамвайных моста, идущих через остров Канта [кнайпхоф].
Для самой бывшего Альтштадта (нынешняя набережная Преголи в районе Московского проспекта) авторы проекта предложили возродить историческую сетку кварталов Кёнигсберга. Этот земельный участок будет разбит на небольшие лоты, на которых собственники смогут возводить малоэтажные здания в строго определённой стилистике. На их первых этажах должны будут размещаться помещения с общественными функциями. Остров Канта, по задумке архитекторов, застраиваться не должен.
Вопросы возрождения Королевского замка и сохранения Дома Советов в заявке «Студии 44» и Института территориального развития Санкт-Петербурга решены положительно. На месте фундамента замка планируется возвести сооружение средней этажности, которое вместит концертный зал и музей современного искусства. В Доме Советов, в свою очередь, разместятся разнообразные помещения с общественными функциями.
На основе проекта-победителя руководство города впоследствии разработает непосредственный официальный проект планировки территории в центральной части города. Со работами заключительного этапа «Сердца города» можно будет ознакомиться в Калининградской художественной галерее с пятницы, 19 сентября до 7 ноября 2014.
Напомним, что международный открытый конкурс на разработку концепции по застройке исторического центра Калининграда был объявлен в январе 2014 года. Участники должны предложить детальные решения для участка в 10 гектаров в районе бывшей Королевской горы. Более общие решения понадобятся для исторического ядра города, площадь которого составляет 56 гектаров, и для общей территории проекта (всего ― 160 гектаров). Мероприятие будет проходить в два этапа и завершится в ноябре, на его проведение из областного бюджета выделили 26 миллионов рублей. При этом общественники раскритиковали уже объявленный конкурс и заявили о намерении обратиться к губернатору Николаю Цуканову с тем, чтобы внести изменения в техническое задание.
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ENGLISH/ENGLISCH/Английский The winner of the architectural competition "the heart of the city is St. Petersburg "Studio 44"
On the basis of its project management, the city has undertaken a development proposal for the project planning area within the central part of the city. The announcement of the results of the international competition "The Heart of the City" took place on Wednesday, 17 September 2014. The organizing committee's work reviewed 19 applicants from 14 countries. The jury was given the "architectural" and "political" lists: The first group brought together experts in the field of architecture and new urbanism in historic cities, while the second group brought together leadership and profile officials from Kaliningrad and the surrounding region.
As a result, the third place in the contest was shared by "Trevor Skempton" of the UK and the Swedish company "Hosper". The second prize went to the combined French-Moscow consortium "Bureau Devilliers" and "Off-the-Grid Studio". In turn, the jury's decision on the winning project was almost unanimous. The winner of the international competition was awarded to the work of "Studio 44" and the "Institute of Territorial Development" based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The leader of the combined project was the head of 'Studio 44', the famous Russian architect Nikita Yavein. In recent years, his company created a number of iconic designs projects for the northern capital, directed the plan for reconstruction of the Ladoga Power Plant, designed the eastern wing of the General Staff Building at the Hermitage Museum complex, and won the development competition for the historic center of St. Petersburg.
The winning design for the "Heart of the City" project provides for the transformation of the section located between the "Plaza", the Registry Office on Shevchenko Street, the "Fishing Village", and the DCM buildings, into a modern public space, with an emphasis on pedestrian movement at any time of the year, regardless of the weather. Transportation analysis by the St. Petersburg firm suggested rerouting the area's vehicular transport flows, coupled with the construction of detours. "Studio 44 and Institute of Territorial Development's" most prominent plan feature is the elimination of the elevated highway bridge [formerly the Grünebrücke or Green Bridge] and its replacement with two pedestrian and tram bridges running through Kant Island [Kneiphof].
For most of the former Altstadt (the current Pregel Quay south of Moskovsky Avenue) the project's authors proposed reviving the historic grid blocks of Königsberg. This land will be divided into small lots on which owners will be able to build low-rise buildings in a strictly defined style. Their ground floors will be occupied with public functions. For Kant Island [Kneiphof], the architects proposed no construction.
The question of rebuilding the Königsberg Royal Palace [Königsberger Schloss] and retaining of the House of Councils [House of the Soviets or "Monster"], the proposal by "Studio 44" and the "Institute of Territorial Development" was positively resolved. At the site of the castle's foundation the construction of a medium height building is planned, which will house a concert hall and a museum of modern art. The House of the Soviets, in turn, will accommodate a variety of spaces with public functions.
On the basis of the winning project, the city's administration will use this plan as the official guide for central city development. The work of the final phase of the "Heart of the City" project will be on display at the Kaliningrad Art Gallery from Friday, September 19, to November 7, 2014.
The reader is reminded that the open international competition to develop a concept plan for building within the historic center of Kaliningrad was originally announced in January, 2014. Participants were asked to design detailed solutions for the 10 hectares in the area of the former Königsberg Royal Palace [Königsberger Schloss]. More general solutions were sought for the city's historic core, covering an area of 56 hectares, as well as the entire area of the project (totaling 160 hectares). Action will pass in two phases and will be completed in November 2014, in order to hold to the allocated regional budget of 26 million rubles. In this case, social activists criticized the announcement of the competition and stated their intention to appeal to [Kaliningrad] Governor Nikolai Tsukanov, so that he can make technical amendments to the specifications of the project.
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The railway station Montesanto SEPSA is a terminal station in the centre of the city of Naples. It marks the final stop of the “Cumana” and “Circumflegrea” railway lines, as well as the interchange station between these lines and the funicular railway line of San Martino, Line 2 of the Napoli Metro (through underground – station Montesanto) and Line 1 of the Napoli Metro (Dante station). www.costruirespa.it
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The Cumana railway is a commuter railway in Campania, southern Italy, connecting Naples by two separate routes with Torregaveta, near Cuma in the town of Bacoli (about 15 km west of Naples). The route follows the coast for about 20 km from the main terminal in the populous downtown area of Montesanto to Torregaveta via the stations of Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Fuorigrotta, Mostra, Bagnoli, Pozzuoli, Arco Felice, Baia and Fusaro. en.wikipedia.org
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The Circumflegrea railway is a commuter railway line that connects Naples city centre with the northern Phlegraean Fields, a suburban area located west of the city. Trains run every 20 minutes between Montesanto and Licola; only a few trains continue to the terminus at Torregaveta. en.wikipedia.org
Photo: The Helix Bridge, shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 85mm 1.2 L II USM + HDR Photomatix
Location: Singapore
The Helix Bridge , previously known as the Double Helix Bridge , is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It was officially opened on April 24, 2010 at 9 pm, however only half was opened due to ongoing construction at the Marina Bay Sands.[1] It is located beside the Benjamin Sheares Bridge and is accompanied by a vehicular bridge, known as the Bayfront Bridge. The entire bridge was opened on July 18, 2010 to complete the entire walkway around Marina Bay.
The bridge complements other major development projects planned in the area, including the highly-anticipated Integrated Resort Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer, Gardens by the Bay and the 438,000 m² business and financial centre which will be ready by 2012.[2]
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The design consortium is an international team comprising Australian architects the Cox Group and engineers Arup, and Singapore based Architects 61. The bridge is expected to be a focal point for the community, linking cultural, recreational and entertainment facilities in the area and complements the overall pedestrian scheme of Marina Bay. The bridge also functions as a gallery where children's paintings and drawings are exhibited for public viewing.
Canopies (made of fritted-glass and perforated steel mesh) are incorporated along parts of the inner spiral to provide shade for pedestrians. The bridge has five viewing platforms sited at strategic locations which provide stunning views of the Singapore skyline and events taking place within Marina Bay.[3] At night, the bridge will be illuminated by a series of lights that highlight the double-helix structure, thereby creating a special visual experience for the visitors.[4]
There are two pairs of coloured letters c and g, a and t on the bridge which are lit up at night in red and green. They represent cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine, which are the four bases of DNA.
The Land Transport Authority claims it is a world's first in architectural and engineering bridge design.[5]
The construction of the bridge was undertaken by the collaboration by Sato Kogyo Pte Ltd and TTJ Design and Engineering Pte Ltd. Both companies has their full support to help to create this bridge. Sato Kogyo specialize in building a concrete span bridge which is located parallel with the Helix bridge while TTJ Design and Engineering lead in the fabrication and erection of the Helix bridge.
Key personnel in the project from TTJ Design and Engineering was Mr Teo Hock Chwee, MD, Mr Srirama Raju, DGM, Mr Gaynel Velasco, PM, Mr Teo Teck Heong, GM, Mr Arnel Alcorin, APM, Mr Tiung Chee Wee, Eng and many others who has contributed in this whole span of the bridge.
The Helix is fabricated from Duplex Stainless Steel material, where approximate 650T material is used to fabricated the bridge. This do not include around 1000T of carbon steel material used in temporary structure and also helping the bridge to get the helix shape.
Hundred of workers has contributed in the completion of the bridge.
Source from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Helix_Bridge
FREE SPEECH IN CANADA
Derek will always defend the indispensable Canadian right to freedom of expression. Freedom of speech is foundational to our democracy.
As Prime Minister, Derek will repeal Bill C-16 immediately. This bill enshrined “compelled speech” into Canadian law. It also severely infringes on parental rights and on women’s sex-based rights to private spaces.
Derek will also make federal grants to universities conditional upon proof that all recipients respect free speech and free inquiry on campus.
Derek is concerned by online censorship and algorithmic bias by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. If elected Prime Minister, Derek will introduce legislation to make it illegal for an online platform to ban a user unless the user has been documented breaking Canadian law.
Derek will also introduce legislation to amend the Canada Elections Act to kill the “gag law” aspect of its third-party advertising regulations. Derek will do this because Canada should never, ever become a country where people fear to publish or speak opinions that run afoul of those that govern them. He believes that political parties should not have a monopoly on political commentary. That is a right that belongs to all of us.
FREE SPEECH IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA
The politically correct intolerance of “cancel culture” is out of control and must be stopped. One victim of the Liberal-lite/Red Tory elites’ version of “cancel culture” is Richard Décarie, who was barred without explanation from this CPC leadership contest, almost certainly because of his outspoken positions. Jim Karahalios has also been disqualified—twice. In the lead-up to the last election, a number of potential CPC nomination candidates were also “canceled” by CPC HQ for similar reasons, either officially or through other tactics. Under Derek’s leadership, the “canceling” of the candidacies of principled conservatives will end. Free speech will be our guiding policy, not political correctness.
RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE
Derek is unapologetically pro-life, and he declared himself as such when he was a candidate in the 2019 election. As a new Member of Parliament, Derek is a member of the Parliamentary pro-life caucus in Ottawa.
Click here to read Derek Sloan’s 12 Point Pro-life Plan.
RESPECT FOR CONSCIENCE FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
No doctor, health practitioner, or any health facility shall be compelled to perform or refer for MAID or abortion. Provinces that fail to ensure freedom of conscience for their health care professionals will see equalization payments clawed back until they comply with the federal requirement for conscience rights.
A STRONG CANADA THROUGH A STRONG DEFENSE
Derek will ensure that we meet our NATO commitment of defense funding of 2% of our GDP within 5 years.
A SAFE CANADA—FIGHTING TERRORISM
Derek will reintroduce changes to the Citizenship Act along the lines of Stephen Harper’s Bill C-24 (2014), allowing both the revocation of the citizenship of Canadians who acquired that citizenship under false representation or fraud and the revocation of the Canadian citizenship of dual citizens who have been convicted of terrorist offences.
Derek will classify ANTIFA a terrorist organization due to their history of violence here in Canada and abroad.
MARIJUANA
Derek will raise the age, nation-wide, to a mandatory minimum of 25 years. This is the age which science shows a young brain is fully developed and less likely to be harmed by marijuana use.
IMMIGRATION
Derek will reduce target immigration levels from 350,000 a year to 150,000 a year, putting us near the average for developed countries. He will secure our borders by reforming our system to make it easier to turn away false refugee claimants and increasing border patrol budgets. Illegal refugee crossings will be closed and phoney asylum seekers from the USA will be deported.
Derek will increase the private sponsorship refugee quota and fast-track victims of religious persecution.
THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CARBON TAX
Derek will repeal Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax cash grab, a tax which is being forced on Canadian provinces and was recently ruled unconstitutional by the Alberta Court of Appeal.
CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY
Derek believes that the primary and most fundamental responsibility of Canada’s federal government is to protect the interests of Canadians and our nation’s sovereignty above all other concerns.
Derek will stop the practice of signing on to UN treaties that undermine the legitimacy and authority of Canadian institutions. Canada should not have signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). UNDRIP misconstrues Canada’s existing Indigenous rights regime. UNDRIP creates uncertainties that undermine Canada’s national economic interests. UNDRIP will undermine First Nations communities seeking energy projects to bring prosperity to their communities. Derek Sloan will oppose efforts to legislate UNDRIP into Canadian law.
Derek will take Canada out of the Paris Agreement, which sets unrealistic targets. Efforts to comply with it will handicap Canada’s economy. Derek will also rescind Canada’s signature of the UN Migration Compact because we must be in control of our borders.
ENERGY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Derek will send a strong message to the world that Canada supports its energy industry and wants the industry to bring back private investment. He will fight for all aspects of the energy sector and allow all Canadians to benefit from oil and gas while we transition to other, renewable forms of energy. Instead of attacking Canada’s energy sector and its workers, we should be helping them.
Derek will repeal Bill C-69, the “no more pipelines” bill. This bill adds uncertainty to project planning and politicizes the development process. Thanks to Bill C-69, companies looking to invest in Canada can follow all the rules and do all the right things but still not have their projects approved after years of planning.
Derek will also repeal Bill C-48. Bill C-48 is a direct attack on Alberta and Saskatchewan. It limits oil tankers along the BC coast and prevents Canadian oil from getting to international markets. This bill is unfair to Canadians who rely on the oil industry for their paycheck.
FIREARMS
Derek supports the removal of non-victim, non-violent firearm offences from the Criminal Code. Derek will entrench property rights in Canadian law and conduct a complete review of the Firearms Act and related regulations to ensure the right of firearms owners to their private property. He believes that ownership and use of firearms for protection is a civil right, notwithstanding court interpretations that say otherwise.
Derek supports the repeal of firearms legislation that has not provided any evidence of benefit to public safety, including former bills C-71 (2019), C-42 (2015), C-68 (1995), C-17 (1991), and C-51 (1977).
Derek will also cancel Trudeau’s gun grab. He believes that that money would be better spent on support for police and anti-gang units, action against rural crime, and policing our borders to stop the smuggling of the illegal weapons that are used in most gun crimes in Canada.
...so take good care of them..................
Youth entrepreneurs in training discover in depth the social realities facing the inhabitants of Sítio Joaninha (video clip), which is the target for five different social development projects planned to be initiated in 2008 by these 25 young people from Hummingbird’s Youth Capacity Building Programme. The five projects will focus on health, nutrition, social communication, income generation and the environment.
Please visit and bookmark our latest Blog, ASAS do Beija-Flor (WINGS of Hummingbird), to follow developments with this important project.
The regional TA will support the Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program in addressing market gaps while strengthening financing for home improvement and upgrading housing and access to water supply and sanitation through the provision of loan loss guarantees, targeting these end-use specific loans. The TA addresses bottlenecks by providing a first-loss guarantees on loans that partner financial institutions extend to MFIs, specifically targeted at home improvement and improving access to water and sanitation In addition, the TA will also provide capacity building to MFIs covering: (i) product development, project planning and implementation with the targeted micro-borrowers; (ii) training of MFI staff; (iii) establishing guidelines for climate-resilient model housing and materials; and (iv) creating local language content knowledge-dissemination and training materials. Given the requirements of the TA providers; the TA has been designed and is being implemented on a regional basis.
Read more on:
Building Community Resilience through Microfinance in Lagging Peri-Urban Settlements
It's been a few weeks and I finished another notebook. I decided to switch it up again this time with the standard classic.
I have been using primarily graph-style paper for the last few editions here ever since switching from the Shelterwood series so I decided to use classic lined.
I have been going through notebooks more quickly lately and I think that is due to my small studio.
During the course of my day, I write down the things I think are important or what I want to accomplish. It is less of a to-do list and more of a historical record of what I did.
Now with my studio, I have been sketching out shoot ideas and project plans complete with diagrams. It's been a while since I just sketched designs freehand, but it feels great.
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This team of Sandians kicked off Habitat for Humanity’s first of several renovation projects planned in Livermore. (Photo by Catherine Dawson)
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Here in its entirety is the full route of the much talked about, but never built East London River Crossing. The road would have been a direct continuation of the A406 North Circular Road, heading southwards, and after bridging the Thames, would have snaked further south to eventually terminate at a junction on the A2. The fact that a comparable route is still being discussed to this day highlights how important such a road would be to the communities of East London on both sides of the river. Taken from an A-Z London Street Atlas from 1990. My thanks to SouthWest Philip on SABRE for kindly sending the atlas to me free of charge.
To view a larger version of the scan, please click on this link: www.flickr.com/photos/crackers250/11669928085/sizes/k/in/...
The new Science Building has completed its construction and is awaiting its opening on Friday, January 29, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Project inspector, Scott Yost, checks project plans during inspection work on the Schoolyard Creek fish passage project near SR 530 in summer 2019.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Donisthorpe Leicestershire, built of grey sandstone in 1838 in perpendicular style. consists of a west porch and embattled tower which has a clock and 1 bell, aisleless nave and. shallow altar chapel.
This parish was formerly in Derbyshire, later being transferred to Leicestershire
The nave was restored in 1889—90, followed by further restorations in 1891, at a total cost of £700, and again in 1898: At that time there were 500 sittings, 200 being free.
Plans are now afoot to make the building "suitable for the 21st century".
www.stjohnschurchdonisthorpe.org.uk/st-johns-transformati...
As well as showing a section of the M23's unbuilt northern half, this strip map also shows some interesting junction numbering of the motorway while it was still under construction. After being built the M23's junction numbers ran to Junction 11 at it's southern end, but here, that junction is shown as number 9, with the other junctions heading north correspondingly two lower than their modern-day equivalents. The numbering stops at Junction 5, modern-day Junction 7 where the motorway ends too. Ringway 3 would have passed to the south of Croydon and so the explanation of the lower numbers wouldn't suggest a terminus on that route as the motorway here heads too far north, but not far enough for Ringway 2. An interesting conundrum indeed! Taken from an Esso Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland from 1973.
Tree surgions and SSE linesman accompanied our load. The UK transport project planning was by Teahan Convoi Service. This load was escorted by Teahan, Convoi Assist & Thames Valley Police.
www.huffingtonpost.com/visit-florida/a-banyan-tree-and-th...
The tree came to the inventor’s Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber.
The banyan was not the answer. But it remained, growing to an acre in diameter, and becoming one of more than 1,000 plants from around the world ornamenting 25 acres dedicated mostly to the man who invented the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons’ home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford’s winter home. The combined Edison and Ford estates, museum, laboratory, and shops are open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
The botanical specimens, many of them labeled for easy identification, offer shade for strollers - and sometimes a touch of the exotic. It is not every day one sees an African sausage tree bearing hot-dog shaped fruit.
Edison, of course, is more extensively associated with his inventions. He held more than 1,000 United States patents, and he submitted patent paperwork for a record 65 consecutive years. Among his lesser known creations: the talking doll, the electric train, alkaline batteries, a fruit preserver, and a stencil pen, the grandfather of today’s tattoo stylus.
“Really cool,” said Aaron Summers, a visitor from San Diego. “I didn’t realize how many patents Edison actually had.”
A 15,000-square-foot, air-conditioned museum details the world’s busiest inventor’s extraordinary career, which stretched from 1869 - when he was 22 years old - virtually to 1931, the year he died.
Among hundreds of items and documents in the museum is Edison’s original custom Model T, a gift from Ford. A more personal artifact is the frame Edison built for the phonograph he was devising. Hard of hearing, Edison rigged the phonograph to the frame, which he would bite to feel vibrations and “hear” the music. The wizard’s teeth marks are visible in the wood.
The museum’s newest exhibit chronicles the camping adventures of Edison, Ford, Firestone and turn-of-the-century naturalist and environmental writer John Burroughs. The “vagabonds,” as they referred to themselves, camped throughout Florida and the United States.
Also on display is “Edison After 40,” an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It includes images from Edison’s middle and later years. In counterpoint, “The Child Wizard” shows early images of Edison as a youth, as captured in Michael Dooling’s award-winning book, Young Thomas Edison.
And not to be missed are the entertainment artifacts: phonographs, movie projectors, nickelodeons and films.
“I learned a lot of new things. So many inventions. I loved the phonographic demonstrations,” said Susan Wood, who is from England.
More than 200,000 visitors per year come to the property, where Edison and his family spent winter seasons starting in 1885. For $2,750, the inventor bought the property from the family of Jacob Summerlin, a legendary Florida cowman known as the King of the Crackers.
“This house is a dream . . . and we are living in Fairyland,” Edison’s wife Mina wrote of the Florida retreat, which was dubbed “Seminole Lodge.” At its edge, the broad Caloosahatchee River whispers against a restored limestone-and-coquina seawall.
Edison was perhaps “green” before the word became fashionable. Some of his words on the subject are posted in the museum: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Edison wrote that in 1931.
Ford bought property next door to his mentor in 1916. As a youth, the motor company founder worked at an Edison company in Detroit. The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines. The two entrepreneurs met at a convention in 1896, and Edison encouraged the younger man. The two proved to be kindred spirits. The automaker purchased property next to Edison in 1916, naming it “The Mangoes.”
The entrepreneurs spent hours sitting on their porches, discussing projects, planning trips to the Everglades, listening to Mina play the piano, and perhaps playing Parcheesi, Edison’s favorite game.
“It was interesting to learn how good of friends they actually were,” said Eric Rye, visiting from Sarasota.
Guests had to stay in line, though. The Edisons had seven rules, one in particular noting that discretion was important: “Don’t fail to retire to your room for part of each day - so that the family may squabble without embarrassment.”
— By Jon Wilson, VISIT FLORIDA
Text of Monument of Tlatelolco:
"August 13, 1521 --
Heroically defended by Cuauhtémoc, Tlatelolco fell to the power of Hernán Cortés. It was neither a triumph nor a defeat. It was the painful birth of the mestizo nation that is the Mexico of today."
On the site of the traditional Aztec market, on an island near the end of the causeway leading north from the Templo Mayor, Cortez finally crushed the Aztec empire. The Aztecs held out for 80 days, but in the end the dead bodies were so thick it was impossible to walk.
As Cortez wrote:
"They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us, and our allies fighting with us were armed with swords and bucklers, and slaughtered so many of them on land and in the water that more than forty thousand were killed or taken that day."
Now part of the Plaza of Three Cultures, the site includes this partially excavated Aztec temple, a Catholic church (where Saint Juan Diego was baptized), and the former Ministry of Foreign Relations building. In an echo of the slaughter of the Aztecs by Cortez in 1521, many thousands of students were massacred here in 1968, just a few days before the Olympics.
Added June 2013: visited again (in a heavy rain). The pathway through the ruins has been greatly upgraded and restoration work on the pyramid was underway. For much of the 20th century the site was buried under the Estacion de Carga Nonoalco-Tlatelolco (a railroad freight terminal) and was only "rediscovered" during excavation for a housing project. The housing project plan was modified and currently surrounds the site.
Developers who built Plano's $3 billion Legacy West project are eyeing a vacant corner of Downtown Dallas for a major mixed-use project.
Builder KDC has teamed up with landowner Hoque Global to plan the more than 20-acre skyscraper campus on the south side of Downtown Dallas.
Located between Dallas City Hall and Interstate 30, the 8-block urban project would include office towers, retail and hotel space. It's one of the largest developments ever proposed for Downtown at 8,000,000 million square feet at build out.
KDC officials say they included the Dallas Smart District site in potential locations offered for digital retailer Amazon's new $5 billion second corporate headquarters complex.
Award winning international architect Pelli Clarke Pelli has designed the dramatic campus.
The centerpiece of the project is an office skyscraper piercing the clouds at 1,121 feet tall ... making it the tallest tower in Dallas, the new tallest in Texas, and the tallest outside New York City and Chicago!
DallasTowers.net: dallas.towers.net/2017/11/03/dallas-smart-district-projec...
Dallas Morning News: www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/10/18/bold-s...
D Magazine: www.dmagazine.com/business-economy/2017/10/8-million-squa...
Dallas Bisnow: www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/construction-developm...
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Attempting to implement the GTD system. Still having problems processing and project planning but gotta keep at it!
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
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Terrance Farrow, mechanic trainee, receives his 2012 EAGLE diploma from Maj. Patrick Dagon, deputy commander for the Nashville District, during the Nashville District's 2012 EAGLE Class graduation held on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 at the Jack C. Massey Business Center at Belmont University. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)
www.huffingtonpost.com/visit-florida/a-banyan-tree-and-th...
The tree came to the inventor’s Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber.
The banyan was not the answer. But it remained, growing to an acre in diameter, and becoming one of more than 1,000 plants from around the world ornamenting 25 acres dedicated mostly to the man who invented the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons’ home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford’s winter home. The combined Edison and Ford estates, museum, laboratory, and shops are open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
The botanical specimens, many of them labeled for easy identification, offer shade for strollers - and sometimes a touch of the exotic. It is not every day one sees an African sausage tree bearing hot-dog shaped fruit.
Edison, of course, is more extensively associated with his inventions. He held more than 1,000 United States patents, and he submitted patent paperwork for a record 65 consecutive years. Among his lesser known creations: the talking doll, the electric train, alkaline batteries, a fruit preserver, and a stencil pen, the grandfather of today’s tattoo stylus.
“Really cool,” said Aaron Summers, a visitor from San Diego. “I didn’t realize how many patents Edison actually had.”
A 15,000-square-foot, air-conditioned museum details the world’s busiest inventor’s extraordinary career, which stretched from 1869 - when he was 22 years old - virtually to 1931, the year he died.
Among hundreds of items and documents in the museum is Edison’s original custom Model T, a gift from Ford. A more personal artifact is the frame Edison built for the phonograph he was devising. Hard of hearing, Edison rigged the phonograph to the frame, which he would bite to feel vibrations and “hear” the music. The wizard’s teeth marks are visible in the wood.
The museum’s newest exhibit chronicles the camping adventures of Edison, Ford, Firestone and turn-of-the-century naturalist and environmental writer John Burroughs. The “vagabonds,” as they referred to themselves, camped throughout Florida and the United States.
Also on display is “Edison After 40,” an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It includes images from Edison’s middle and later years. In counterpoint, “The Child Wizard” shows early images of Edison as a youth, as captured in Michael Dooling’s award-winning book, Young Thomas Edison.
And not to be missed are the entertainment artifacts: phonographs, movie projectors, nickelodeons and films.
“I learned a lot of new things. So many inventions. I loved the phonographic demonstrations,” said Susan Wood, who is from England.
More than 200,000 visitors per year come to the property, where Edison and his family spent winter seasons starting in 1885. For $2,750, the inventor bought the property from the family of Jacob Summerlin, a legendary Florida cowman known as the King of the Crackers.
“This house is a dream . . . and we are living in Fairyland,” Edison’s wife Mina wrote of the Florida retreat, which was dubbed “Seminole Lodge.” At its edge, the broad Caloosahatchee River whispers against a restored limestone-and-coquina seawall.
Edison was perhaps “green” before the word became fashionable. Some of his words on the subject are posted in the museum: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Edison wrote that in 1931.
Ford bought property next door to his mentor in 1916. As a youth, the motor company founder worked at an Edison company in Detroit. The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines. The two entrepreneurs met at a convention in 1896, and Edison encouraged the younger man. The two proved to be kindred spirits. The automaker purchased property next to Edison in 1916, naming it “The Mangoes.”
The entrepreneurs spent hours sitting on their porches, discussing projects, planning trips to the Everglades, listening to Mina play the piano, and perhaps playing Parcheesi, Edison’s favorite game.
“It was interesting to learn how good of friends they actually were,” said Eric Rye, visiting from Sarasota.
Guests had to stay in line, though. The Edisons had seven rules, one in particular noting that discretion was important: “Don’t fail to retire to your room for part of each day - so that the family may squabble without embarrassment.”
— By Jon Wilson, VISIT FLORIDA
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
At M56 Junction 5, there is a short spur to Manchester Airport. This short stretch of motorway was to be part of something far bigger, as this scan, showing the motorway pointing northwards indicates. The Manchester Outer Ring Road wouldn't have run via today's M60 route, but would have in fact headed further south from a point between M60's Junctions 5 and 6. It would have gone to the west of the Roundthorn Industrial Estate, to M56 Junction 5 which has plenty of space for the motorway and extra slip roads, along the existing spur and the handily named Ringway Road, and then linked up to the A555 dual carriageway crossing the A34. From there it would have gone to the south of Hazel Grove and linked up with the unbuilt A6(M) Stockport Bypass which would have gone north to M60 Junction 25, and thus complete the route. M60 Junction 25 is the site of another unbuilt motorway, the M63 Bredbury Bypass which has featured previously in this album along with the A6(M). Taken from a Bartholomew Motorway Atlas of Britain from the mid 1970s.
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Key questions
* What is Social Software? Is an answer to that question useful to us?
* How are these tools different than email or discussion boards?
* What compenents can be added to weblogs to enhance their appeal and effectiveness? Do these raise special challenges?
Tom Coates (PlasticBag, Yahoo) definition of Social Software is Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation (this mediation may be distributed or centalised, top-down or bottom-up/emergent).
Then again, there's Clay Shirky's definition: "Social software is stuff that gets spammed."
Jon Udell (InfoWord) writes about The Social Enterprise. We are social animals for whom networked software is creating a new kind of habitat. Social software can be defined as whatever supports our actual human interaction as we colonize the virtual realm. The category includes familiar things such as groupware and knowledge management, and extends to the new breed of relationship power tools that have brought the venture capitalists out of hibernation.
The buzzword of "Web 2.0" caught on in 2005 as an attempt to describe a shift from the Web (1.0) as a system where the web was used primarily to "read" (consume) largelt statiuc content (web pages). The next digit is what some are calling the "Read/Write" web where there are now web-based tools for not just reading/consuming content, but ones where mere mortals can create content.
Fortunately Others Are Keeping Track...
* Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications (Virtual Karma)
* Tom O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0?
There are way to many examples to list in one place. We take just a weak slice at the pile below. But what is interesting is how many of these are designed to be able to share their contentn elsewhere (RSS syndication), provide tools so their content can be published to weblogs (via weblog APIs), and use the concept of user-based loose categorization, or tagging, as both an individual roganizing scheme, and a way of organziing common content across numerous individuals.
Media Containers/Collections
Sites where people can store and share images, music, video.
* Images: Using blog like features (chronological organization, comments) flickr, fotolog, BuzzNet
Shared Writing Environments
Wikis spring to mind as a profiund social software, places on the web where anyone can be an author.
Wiki Pedagogy Usurping official authorizing practices in the public domain poses fundamental - if not radical - questions for both academic theory and pedagogical practice... The particular pedagogical challenge is one of control: wikis work most effectively when students can assert meaningful autonomy over the process. This involves not just adjusting the technical configuration and delivery; it involves challenging the social norms and practices of the course as well (Lamb, 2004).
* Wide Open Spaces: Wikis Ready or Not - Brian's EDUCAUSE Review article.
* Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning - don't miss this ELI session by Steve Greenlaw and his students on an outstanding application of this form.
* Vicki Davis is using WikiSpaces with high school students to great effect.
* 3rd and 4th Graders using wikis
* Course Advisor Wiki "the course review catalog that anyone can edit!"
Maybe it is Web 2.5 but new variants have emerged that are less wiki-like and more like an online Word Processer. For an overview of some of these online "office suites", see Innerphaze's Ajax Office Review.
* Writely
Social Bookmarks
Online collections of individually bookmarked (and annotated) web sites. Combined with user based classification (tagging) new patterns and ways of discovering content emerge by looking at what a larger number of people are marking as important on the web.
* 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking - from the helpful folks at EDUCAUSE.
* weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/delicious.html - excellent screencast on the nitty gritty of folksonomies by Jon Udell.
Information Organizers
* List makers Remember the Milk
* Goal Setting: 43 Things
* Project Planning: Backpack, Basecamp
Our Blogged Bits...
* Alan blogs Me 2.0, Web Decimal Conundrum, and Zeldman Snorts Ajax and Hits Web 3.0
See more examples and resources in the network tag stream.
Image Credits: Mock-up of SciFi book cover created by Alan Levine, derived from Creative Commons licensed flickr blue robot image by "jspad"
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Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Overview of the construction process of the new physical science building that continues on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Hello flickr,
I’ve been off for a long time doing exams and courseworks. All my exams finally ended on last Friday. I can not begin to tell you how much stressful it was but nevertheless I’m free now!
I slept the whole day on Friday after the exam, recovering for some of the sleep-hours that I’ve skipped before. I had a wedding to shoot during the weekend. It was a friend’s sisters wedding and I had a lot of fun photographing pretty much everything. The whole place was filled with colours, melodious songs, kids running around, guests greeting each other and what not. I shall post something from the wedding soon along with a lot more details and behind-the-scenes-funny-stories.
I’ve also been to my back to my country this April. It was a 10 days trip. Yepp, right before my exams started. Although the bad timing did affect my exams quite harshly, I was glad to see everyone back there after about 2 and a half years. I’ve got a lot of images from there too which I will get around posting.
I’ll get back to my 365 and will try to catch up as soon as I can. :)
This image is from this spring. I have quite a bit to post from this day too actually haha :)
And at last, I have a lot of different projects planned. Lots and lots of new ideas. I hope summer is going great for you all :)
AOC staff and contract partners hold Dome Restoration Project planning kick-off meeting November 7, 2013.
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So like I said yesterday I was fed up with my growing hair. I can seriously say I failed trying to grow it.Especially whilst browsing through all my images of last year I decided that I look better without.
I'm feeling weird about ending this 365 and this year for that matter. It feels like leaving and saying goodbye to a loved one, but I'm not leaving. I have new projects planned for next year. I just hope they will be even more exciting then this year has been. It's been a turbulent year IRL as here in the Flickrverse.
Still have no idea what to do for my last shot....
The latest current NASA project is named OSIRIS REx. The project involves Acquiring Answers from Asteroid number 1999 RQ36. This asteroid is the largest known extraterrestrial threat to life on earth. That's one of the reasons to study it up close and friendly...
Here's a quote: "OSIRIS-REx will also provide the knowledge that will guide humanity in deflecting any future asteroid that could collide with Earth, allowing humanity to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs."
And another quote: "RQ36 is both the most accessible carbonaceous asteroid and the most potentially Earth-hazardous asteroid known." Bolding is by me...;))
Scientific Objective
4. Measure the Yarkovsky effect on a potentially hazardous asteroid and constrain the asteroid properties that contribute to this effect.
Please note that this effect, which I have not described here, leads to it changing its orbit around the sun so it can just possibly be more likely to collide with the earth.
NOT GOOD...
Read More Below...
This poster is inside the front entrance of the University of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory building in Tucson, Arizona. I don't know if the water bottle is part of the exhibit or not...
OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
Regolith: An unconsolidated residual or transported material that overlies the solid rock on the earth, moon, or a planet.
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I suggest viewing this on black by clicking once on the image.
Description of Project
www.arizona.edu/features/osiris-rex-wins-uas-largest-gran...
OSIRIS-REx Wins UA's Largest Grant Ever
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The team is led by Michael Drake, director of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. will manage the mission for NASA. Lockheed Martin will build the spacecraft.
View the video on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6XbYLGWmOs
Video courtesy of NASA.
The OSIRIS-REx mission is budgeted for approximately $800 million, excluding the launch vehicle.
The target asteroid – named 1999 RQ36 after the year it was discovered – measures 575 meters (one-third of a mile) in diameter. 1999 RQ36 is a time capsule from the early solar system rich with organic compounds that may have seeded life on Earth.
"OSIRIS-REx will explore our past and help determine our destiny," said Drake. "It will return samples of pristine organic material that scientists think might have seeded the sterile early Earth with the building blocks that led to life. Such samples do not currently exist on Earth. OSIRIS-REx will also provide the knowledge that will guide humanity in deflecting any future asteroid that could collide with Earth, allowing humanity to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs."
OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
Scheduled for launch in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx mission will return the first samples ever taken from a special type of asteroid holding clues to the origin of the solar system and likely organic molecules that may have seeded life on Earth.
OSIRIS-REx also will investigate an object potentially hazardous to humanity. 1999 RQ36 has a one-in-1,800 chance of impacting the Earth in the year 2182.
Spending longer than a year exploring 1999 RQ36 before acquiring samples, OSIRIS-REx will provide geologic context essential to expanding our understanding of the asteroid-comet continuum. The mission will provide near-live coverage of 1999 RQ36 operations and sample return to Earth. Samples will return to Earth in the year 2023.
The return to Earth of pristine samples with known geologic context will enable precise analyses that cannot be duplicated by spacecraft-based instruments. Pristine carbonaceous materials have never before been analyzed in laboratories on Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx instrument suite will include: the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) by the University of Arizona; the OSIRIS REx Visible-Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument by NASA Goddard; the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) by Arizona State University; and the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) by the Canadian Space Agency.
The team includes the University of Arizona, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lockheed Martin, Arizona State University, KinetX, the Canadian Space Agency, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center, along with science team members from across academia.
NASA New Frontiers is a program to explore the solar system with frequent, medium-class spacecraft missions that will conduct high-quality, focused scientific investigations designed to enhance our understanding of the solar system.
"OSIRIS-REx will usher in a new era of planetary exploration," said Dante Lauretta, the mission's deputy principal investigator and an associate professor at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "For the first time in space-exploration history, a mission will travel to, and return pristine samples of a carbonaceous asteroid with known geologic context. Such samples are critical to understanding the origin of the solar system, Earth, and life."
"OSIRIS-REx will have an extraordinary impact on the University of Arizona and our entire state," said UA President Robert N. Shelton. "For decades, our Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has made immeasurable contributions to our knowledge of the universe. This mission will continue and advance that tradition, with unique opportunities for our students and researchers."
Extensive characterization by the Arecibo Planetary Radar System, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based telescopes in Arizona and elsewhere have resulted in exceptional knowledge about the asteroid. 1999 RQ36 orbits the sun every 1.2 years, crossing the Earth's orbit every September. Its shape and rotation rate are well known, allowing OSIRIS-REx to make a safe, albeit short, touchdown.
"Our spacecraft will sneak up to RQ36 over the course of weeks," Lauretta said. "Once the two objects are traveling in sync, OSIRIS-REx will extend its sample collector, touch the surface for five seconds, collect well over 60 grams of sample, and get out of there."
Using an injection of ultra pure nitrogen, the OSIRIS-REx sample-collecting device will stir up dirt and small gravel to be captured and sealed for return to Earth. The samples are returned to the surface of the Earth using hardware and procedures successfully demonstrated on the Stardust mission, which returned samples from comet Wild 2 in 2006.
UA planetary science professor William Boynton is the mission instrumentation scientist, and Peter Smith, a professor in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and principal investigator on the Phoenix Mars Mission, is the instrument scientist for the three on-board cameras. Heather Enos, project manager for the TEGA instrument on Phoenix, serves as the project planning and control officer. Chris Shinohara, science operations manager for the Phoenix Mission, will perform a similar role for OSIRIS-REx.
All mission science operations will be performed on the UA campus. Anna Spitz from the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center leads the Education and Public Outreach program. In addition to outstanding science and educational opportunities, OSIRIS-REx will provide a significant boost to the Arizona economy; approximately $200 million will be spent in Tucson and across Arizona.
Visit the NASA website for details and a video animation of the OSIRIS-REx mission.
Visit the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
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spring fever
yay. don't you love spring?! and this one has started with bright and warm sunny days.
and yes that deserves another jump shot. lol. i guess that this project 52 is going to be know more as my jumping project :-)
planning a more active presence around here, even considering starting a new 365 :-) but not sure yet if i'm ready to go at it again. i want the new one to be better not the first. also i'm considering a 365 made of not just selfies.. not sure. i just miss shooting daily.. so i'm considering my options. suggestions are welcome :-)
*and finally i have my 52 weeks project up to date