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Wesley & Valerie (Wiseth) Brekke, Sandy & Beth - June 17, 1989 - Pennington County History Vol. II, 1991 - p. 73.
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A lightweight simulator version of NASA's Resource Prospector undergoes a mobility test in a regolith bin at the agency's Kennedy Space center in Florida. The Resource Prospector mission aims to be the first mining expedition on another world. Operating on the moon’s poles, the robot is designed to use instruments to locate elements at a lunar polar regions, then excavate and sample resources such as hydrogen, oxygen and water. These resources could support human explores on their way to destinations such as farther into the solar system.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Hand drawn flower illustrations by the "Audubon of Botany", Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940). Mary was a female American artist and naturalist known for her almost a thousand watercolors of North American wildflowers. She started experimenting with painting flowers at the age of eight. During her family summer trips to the Rocky Mountains of Canada, she developed her interest in botany and painting. Mary Vaux Walcott and her brother also studied mineralogy. Her success in painting a rare blooming mountain arnica encouraged her to concentrate on botanical illustrations. Mary Vaux Walcott also became an active mountain climber and photographer because she spent many years exploring the difficult terrain in the Canadian Rockies. As a remarkable botanist artist and an unconventional woman, she was elected as the president of the Society of Woman Geographers in 1933. We have digitally enhanced hundreds of her wildflower watercolor paintings into high resolution printable quality. They are free to download and use under the creative commons license.
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Here are some new human resource management titles that have been purchased over the past couple of months. Place your cursor over a book's cover to receive more information. Click on the "Check for availability" link in the note to see a book's status in the Library's online catalog.
Water is the single most important natural resource underpinning Nepal’s economy and livelihoods. Inclusive, sustainable management of water resources in Nepal depends on addressing climate change and protecting healthy, biodiverse ecosystems.
The USAID Paani program will enhance Nepal’s ability to manage water resources for multiple uses and users through climate change adaptation and the conservation of freshwater biodiversity. Focusing primarily at the watershed, basin, and national scales, USAID Paani will reduce threats to freshwater biodiversity and increase the ability of targeted human and ecological communities in the Karnali, Mahakali, and Rapti river basins to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change through improved water management.
The program will play a pivotal role in shaping Nepal’s management of critical water resources between now and 2020. It will apply an integrated, whole-of-basin perspective to freshwater biodiversity conservation and sustainable water management in the three critical river basins in Mid-Western and Far-Western Nepal in response to changing climate conditions. Paani is part of USAID’s on-going investment in strengthening natural resource management in Nepal. It is a sister project to the USAID-funded Nepal Hydropower Development Project (NHDP) and complementary projects funded by the US Forest Service and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). It will build upon USAID/Nepal’s experience in terrestrial conservation, extending successful community-based models for reducing threats to key species and building resilience from Nepal’s high mountain slopes to the rich waterways in some of the most pristine natural habitat on the planet.
The families in Taule are benefiting from a solar-powered water pump that lifts 10,000 - 12,000 liters of water 68 meters from the river to the village's terraced fields. The eight member Sitaram Agriculture Group received 80,000 NRP ($800) in grants from USAID's KISAN and the Chhinchu-10 Village Development Committee. They also borrowed 27,500 NRP ($275) to construct the water tank, half of which they have already repaid.
The USAID Paani program has visited several small irrigation schemes supported by USAID KISANI. KISANI research has found that irrigation is the number one constraint limiting farmers' livelihoods.
Photo credit: Satyam Joshi/USAID
The harsh light doesn't help to soften the reality of this image. In many countries waterfalls like this are treasured; in modern Cambodia development comes before aesthetic considerations. Note the excavators for scale.
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Coorparoo history: Queensland Places – Coorparoo
Chermside, a residential suburb on Gympie Road, is 11 km north of central Brisbane. Australia's first drive-in shopping centre, with 700 car spaces, opened in Chermside in 1957.
The Chermside area was originally known as Downfall Creek, the suburb's present northern boundary. Seeking a more attractive name, residents decided on Chermside when it was announced that Sir Herbert Chermside would become Governor of Queensland in 1902, with the name formally adopted the following year.
Chermside was originally an agricultural district. The sale of farm lots began slowly in 1865 and continued until 1868, most lots being 15-20 acres. Lands along Gympie Road witnessed considerable volumes of passing traffic after the opening of the Gympie goldfield in 1867, with Cobb and Co ferrying goods and prospectors to the northern workings. German immigrants established a German Quarter near the corner of Hamilton and Webster Roads. The land was unspectacular, roughly timbered and considered to be in need of improvement.
It took until the 1870s for signs of permanent settlement to appear: a general store in Gympie Road (1870), a Methodist church (1877) and a post office (1879). Blacksmiths and coachbuilders later operated along Gympie Road, and several slaughteryards began operation along Downfall Creek, in turn leading to byproduct industries including fell-mongering and leather tanning. Downfall Creek became the administrative centre of the Nundah local government division in 1884, the more populous urban area around Nundah township having constituted itself as the Toombul division.
In 1899 the soft drink manufacturer, George Marchant, acquired land along Downfall Creek, east of Gympie Road, as a spelling paddock for his horses. He later donated the land to Kedron Shire after the shire had been directed by the State Government to provide municipal open space for its community.
A local lodge built the Alliance Hall near the corner of Gympie and Rode Roads, and the building also served as a public hall and place of worship until several church faiths constructed their own buildings. In 1900, nearly opposite the hall, the Downfall Creek school opened. The Chermside School of Arts and Technical College was formed in 1909, acquiring the Alliance Hall and building up a stock of library books.
In 1911 the Australian census recorded over 400 people in Chermside, and other authorities suggest a figure of 1000 in the district (including Aspley and Chermside West). A horse-bus service from Aspley to the Wooloowin railway station began in 1912, converting to a motorised service in 1923. From a different direction, the city tram service advanced toward Chermside from Kedron Park to the Lutwyche Cemetery from 1925. The decisive and final extension was along Gympie Road to Hamilton Road in the middle of Chermside in 1947.
A Church of England was constructed in 1914, and a more commercial place of assembly – the Dawn picture theatre – opened in 1928. Motor cars as well as buses used the Gympie Road, persuading a Chermside butcher to rent part of a local farrier's premises and install petrol pumps and a roadside mechanic.
From World War I land along Downfall Creek, east of Marchant Park, was used for military exercises. In 1941 the Commonwealth acquired the land for the Chermside Army Camp, bringing a huge influx of population and associated services. At the end of the war some of the military barracks were used to relieve the housing shortage, and the military's presence is remembered with the naming of the 7th Brigade Park, east of Marchant Park.
The 1947 extension of the tramline opened Chermside to residential expansion, and in that year the census recorded a population of nearly 4500 people. Many new homes were built by the Queensland Housing Commission and the War Service Homes Commission to accommodate the growth. A short way west of the tram terminus temporary prefabricated wards were constructed in 1952 for the Brisbane Chest Hospital, servicing tuberculosis patients. Seven years later a high-rise chest hospital opened, later diversifying into cardiac and other services and being renamed the Prince Charles Hospital.
By then Chermside was on the metropolitan map. Right at the end of the tram line the Allan and Stark department store opened Australia's first private-enterprise drive-in, free standing shopping centre, preceding Myer's Chadstone centre (Melbourne) by two years. The opening was given state-wide publicity and national reportage by the Melbourne columnist, Keith Dunstan. The drive-in centre, enlarged several times and reinforced by a Kmart centre (1971) 1 km northwards, is classified as a regional shopping centre. Today it includes a three-story department store, hundreds of specialty shops, cinemas and a bowling alley, as well as a major bus station. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Chermside's community infrastructure was completed with several new churches, a municipal library, a service reservoir, fire station and additional local reserves. Rose gardens along Gympie Road succumbed to road widening in 1968. Hamilton Road was upgraded in 2008 allowing motorists to travel a direct route from Chermside to McDowell complete with a purpose-built 'fauna bridge' for possums and wallabies to use.
Wavell Heights State school, located in Chermside, was severely damaged by fire in 2011.
Queensland's first children's hospice, Hummingbird House, was constructed on the campus of Wesley Mission Brisbane's Wheller Gardens site in Chermside, and scheduled for opening in 2016.
Chermside history: Queensland Places – Chermside
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The Boone Store and Warehouse in Bodie, California. Built in 1879 to serve as a general store, its siding was made from pounded-out 5-gallon kerosene and gasoline cans -- creative re-use in a harsh, resource-poor environment.
The only lighting here comes from the full moon.
For more on Bodie, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie,_California
La Push, Washington, on Aug 22, 2018.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Thunder Road project addresses four fish barriers that block more than 22 acres of fish habitat. This conservation planning effort lead to an unusual partnership where the Quileute Tribe requested access to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife(WDFW) fish passage biologist and engineers through a NRCS/WDFW Contribution agreement. This partnership resulted in a coordinated effort to bring conservation actions to life in a remote location. The Thunder Road Project addressed the need for floodplain connectivity to restore natural flow of water across floodplain, restore access to off-channel fish habitat in wetlands and stream complex. The project also improved the roadway and reduced sediment runoff from tribal members using road to access the river during the wet season (peak fishing season). The conservation plans identified aquatic habitat, water quality, and plant pest resource concerns, along with a social resource concern related to the Tribe’s use of the degraded Thunder Road for fishing and recreational access. Additionally, conservation planning determined soils information was needed and resulted in a Soil Survey mapping effort on the Reservation. Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funding in two successive years was used to provide the Tribe financial assistance. The tribe used State Salmon Recovery Funding Board funding to provide the balance of the implementation cost. EQIP 2015 contract included invasive species control aquatic organism passage and access road improvement=$60,964. EQIP 2016 contract included aquatic organism passage and access road improvement = $117,101. Featured personnel: USDA NRCS Tribal Liaison for Washington State Robin Slate, West Area Biologist Rachel Maggi, Quileute Tribal Council Vice Chair Tony Foster, Quileute Tribal Water Quality Biologist Nicole Rasmussen, and WDFW Fish Passage Biologist Melissa Erkel. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
City Cleanup Corp at work on Staten Island during City Hall In Your Borough week on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Wednesday 30 September 2020, saw the attestation ceremonies of Greater Manchester Police's latest special constables.
The socially distanced ceremonies saw them swear the Police Oath in front of magistrate Stephen Paine JP and assume their powers as constables.
Dr. Eamonn O’Neal, High Sheriff of Greater Manchester joined Special Constabulary Chief Officer Mike Walmsley MBE and Chief Superintendent Stuart Ellison welcomed the new recruits to the force.
The special constabulary works alongside the regular force with special constables having the same powers and responsibilities as full time officers.
The role of special constable is part-time and voluntary. The history of the office can be traced back many centuries.
Greater Manchester Police’s Special Constabulary is an integral part of the wider Policing family, providing a flexible, visible, responsive and committed resource which assists us to improve the service we deliver to the people.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
Name: Jennifer Leban
School: Sandburg Middle School
Town: Elmhurst
State: Illinois
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To the right when you walk in the doorway... storage.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello conducted an off-site visit to the Advanced Training Center to speak to CBP's Human Resource Management (HRM) group about leadership.
Photographer: Jim Tourtellotte
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On July 29th, Veterans for Peace-111 and the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center brought anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to Bellingham. I attended her talk, and sat down for a private interview with her a few days later.
I wrote the following article on the talk and our interview. It appeared in abridged form in the August 12th, 2009 issue of Bellingham's 'Cascadia Weekly.'
Read the full article below or check out Cascadia's version here:
www.cascadiaweekly.com/cw?/content/articles/cindy_sheehan...
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Cindy Sheehan Wages A War on War
By Alexander Kelly
Cindy Sheehan knows the sufferings of a mother.
For more than two centuries, millions of mothers have watched their children leave home to serve in the United States military. Like Casey, Sheehan’s son, they were recruited, trained and shipped in the thousands near and abroad to serve some known or obscured U.S. interest.
In our culture, we expect the mothers of these soldiers to feel proud of their children’s service and show unwavering support for the fulfillment of their duty. While a large number of them do, pride is hardly alone among the emotions dominating their hearts. Fear, anxiety and helplessness also grip them. For Cindy Sheehan, it was enough to keep her up at night.
Cindy is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan, an American soldier who served in the Iraq War. On April 4th, 2004, Cindy’s worst nightmare came true. While watching television that evening, CNN reported that Casey and seven others had been killed during an effort to rescue American troops. Casey’s death led his mother on a mission to understand what motives brought us to the war in Iraq, what is keeping us there, and a realization of the deep meaning of her son’s service and sacrifice. She became a warrior against war and an advocate for a peaceful U.S. foreign policy.
Five years and three months later, American forces still occupy Iraq, and Cindy Sheehan still hasn’t given up. Late last month, Veterans for Peace Chapter 111 and the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center’s Executive Director, Marie Marchand, brought Sheehan to Bellingham. On a hot July day, 200 people came to hear her speak at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church.
The evening marked the final stop of a four-month tour. Last April, Cindy set off to promote the message of her latest book, Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution. The result of four years of tireless activism, Myth America represents Cindy’s effort to identify and plainly convey ten established premises that allow American imperialism to persist unchallenged. Our culture’s blind acceptance of these myths killed her son, Sheehan says, and if we fail to expose and do away with them, untold more American youths will be lost to an early and unnecessary death.
Prior to the loss of her son, Sheehan was not an anti-war activist. After Casey was killed, she began speaking out against the war, but didn’t become the focus of national media attention until she sought to confront George Bush himself. Sheehan recalls the exact moment.
Unable to sleep, she was sitting at her computer at three in the morning on August 3rd, 2005. While sharing her grief via email to a list of 300 supporters, the voice of the man who killed her son came over the radio. “I want to tell you his exact words,” Sheehan told the Bellingham audience. “’The families of the fallen can rest assured their loved ones died for a noble cause.’”
Bush’s statement came three months after the Downing Street Memo was leaked to the British media. Practically ignored by mainstream American press, the document contained the details of a discussion between senior officials of the British government. Included was a statement made by Richard Dearlove, then the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Dearlove related Bush’s intent to justify an American invasion of Iraq on the basis of unconfirmed intelligence regarding possession of nuclear weapons and ties to terrorist groups. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw confirmed the president had already decided to take military action, but making a legal case for the invasion was difficult.
With full knowledge of the memo, Bush’s comment devastated Sheehan. “Not only were they [Casey and the others] tragically killed, but George Bush came on and said they died for a noble cause,” she typed to her readers.
When the press failed to inquire exactly what the soldiers died for, Cindy decided it was her turn to ask questions. “The press didn’t ask him what was the noble cause,” she continued typing. “What’s wrong with me? I have a voice.” Three days and 1800 miles later, Sheehan found herself setting up camp along with six others in Crawford, TX, three miles away from George Bush’s vacation ranch.
Sheehan’s modest protest exploded into the most publicized anti-war demonstration the country had seen since the beginning of the Iraq war. Cindy admits she didn’t expect Camp Casey to become so significant. The protest drew international media attention, attracting 15,000 Americans during its 26 days, and for a brief moment, succeeded in uniting America’s anti-war movement.
Though Bush brought his vacation in Crawford to an early end without answering her questions, Cindy knows why her son was sacrificed in Iraq. In an interview with Veterans for Peace, she asked, “Was it freedom and democracy? Bullshit! He died for oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East.”
Sheehan was pleased with the national discussion Camp Casey stirred up, but it did not bring peace in Iraq. It also failed to move in the direction Sheehan began to hope for. Cindy intended to rally the country to bring an end to the Iraq war. Instead, she felt the movement was taken advantage of by political opportunists.
“Unfortunately, I believe that the energy of the movement, the Camp Casey and the anti-war movement, was co-opted and misused by democrats and organizations that support democrats,” she declared.
Before Camp Casey, Sheehan worked with Progressive Democrats of America. Over time, she began to sense they were using the anti-war movement for their own benefit. After Casey’s death, when John Kerry ran for president in 2004, Sheehan held her nose while she gave him her vote, knowing well enough that he was not an anti-war candidate.
Her faith in the Democratic Party suffered another blow when Kerry conceded to the suspicious voting outcome in Ohio. She recalls the hopeless situation of the Green and Libertarian candidates demanding a recount themselves. “They had no hope of coming out on top, but they thought that with a democracy, every vote should count,” she explains.
Eventually, Sheehan began speaking out against Democrats who did not support a platform focused on ending the Iraq war.
After countless beatings from the left in the media and on liberal blogs, in 2007, Cindy left the Democratic Party. When the results of the 2008 Presidential election were in, Cindy was surprised at the flood of congratulatory emails and phone calls she received. The show of support made her feel misunderstood.
Cindy lamented, “I never did this to get democrats elected. I did it to end the occupations and now those haven’t ended, and the fact that they’re getting worse is very frustrating to me. Many people have fallen back to sleep thinking that a regime change means anything different is going to happen.”
The realization that a Democratic candidate does not equal an anti-war candidate occurred slowly in Sheehan over the last few years. In her newest book she argues against the conventional lines that divide our society. The divisions between race, religion, geography and two-party politics, are illusions, Sheehan writes. They serve the elite by having the convenient effect of distracting us from the only division that really matters.
“The only relevant division in this country is the class division. All other divisions are artificial and imposed upon us by the robber class to divide and conquer,” Cindy says. “We in the robbed class have way more in common with each other than we do that separates us.”
“It’s not about the person in charge,” Sheehan says. “It’s not about Republicans, its not about Democrats, it’s not about George Bush, it’s not about Barack Obama. It’s the system that we battle against. So if we change regimes, it doesn’t mean that we stop.”
Wall Street, the corporate media, the current form of U.S. Government. Sheehan tells the audience that all of these are part of the robber class. They exist to make a profit, Sheehan says, no matter the cost to the rest of us. Whether they admit it or not, they would sooner send the rest of us to our deaths than give up an opportunity for profit. “After Casey was killed, I used to think that profit was a consequence of war,” Cindy confesses. “But now I know it’s a reason for war. It doesn’t really matter if Goldman Sachs candidate A wins or Goldman Sachs candidate B wins.”
Sheehan’s revolution is not a violent one. She wants to free us from the oppressive grip of the Robber Class. She asks people to focus on their local communities. “That’s where we have the greatest success,” she pleads. With half-closed fists, she invokes the old adage, ‘Think Globally. Act Locally.” Major positive change never occurs from the top down in this country, she says. “It only happens in a grass roots movement that pulls the Robber Class to us.”
Before the talk began, Cindy announced that the following day, she would return home to exercise and devote herself to her children and grandchildren. She will also continue to produce her radio show, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, and focus her efforts on a new set of myths, tentatively titled Myth America 2. Apparently, Cindy Sheehan does not surrender.
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Epilogue
The talk began shortly after 7 P.M. I arrived at 6:15 with my friend Chris Crow, who photographed the event. For thirty minutes, we canvassed the church, guessing at the light and looking for the best angles for photographs of the talk. At around 6:30, Katelyn showed up, followed by three good activist friends of mine.
A few minutes before Cindy was introduced, I fiddled in my chair, joining a discussion of nonsense and commenting on the crowd of ‘usual suspects’ that regularly gathers for ‘peace’ events. After a few moments, Cindy appeared.
She is a blonde woman, of slightly taller-than-average height and is smiling as she enters the room. The crowd applauds and smiles back. She walks not with airs of importance or distinction, but as a simple woman ready to tell the story about the death of her son; the moment that changed her life.
As she speaks, she doesn’t bother with note cards, and she is unafraid to embark on the occasional meandering tangent. Though she has done this numerous times, there is something authentic, seemingly unrehearsed about this. She has acquired more than her share of anecdotes over her last four years of dealing with media, politicians and groups like ours.
As the talk comes to a close, the audience rises for applause. At that moment, there is a sense of adoration among the crowd. It was as if we were all waiting for her to finish talking in order to shower her with our support. Seated in the front row, I risk a glance behind me, and for a moment, even in the July heat, I feel a brief chill. Quickly, I count the number of people in the crowd under the age of 30.
Ten or so, it seems.
In a community of 75,000, known nationwide for its progressive politics, literally a handful of young adults came to hear a peace activist speak. As I recall Casey Sheehan’s final age, just weeks away from 25, I become terrified by what I see. Or what I do not see.
In a culture where powerful forces, in all media, work to seduce our sons and daughters into believing it is honorable to fight and die for whatever reasons our leaders allege, how can we hope to reach the audience who needs it most? If my generation is not available to hear the message, how may we hope to save our country from the devastating consequences of the decisions made by its unscrupulous leaders?
I cannot help but wonder – did Casey Sheehan ever hear someone with his mother’s conviction speak?
I did.
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Commercialising Eros
A discussion with Jacob Appelbaum (us), Zach Blas (us), Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (il/de) and Aliya Rakhmetova (hu)
Moderated by Gaia Novati (it/de)
Includes the live performance / Mit der Performance Watch Me Work by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz and Kate Erhardt (za)
Saturday, Feb 4, 13:30–15:30, K1
This panel sheds light on the interferences and tensions between sex and business, analysing practices and strategies of technology entrepreneurship and networking models, online sexual imagery and queer virality. Moreover, it stresses the aspect of conscious reflection on bodily practices as opposed to simply consuming, focusing on how queer communities and sex workers use IT in their communication and how they try to break usual stereotypes through online and offline actions. A conscious reflection and practice of sexuality can be the way to imagine a different model of “commercialising eros”, mobilising communities, generating advocacy, and more broadly, shaping culture.
The panel is part of reSource Sex, which reflects on the interference and overlapping between sex business and ‘alternative’ porn, aiming to explore and discuss the open interzona which exists in between the often male-oriented mainstream porn, and the more narrow scene of queer and alt porn communities.
Zach Blas is an artist and writer working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and the political. His on-going project, Queer Technologies, is a collective that produces critical applications, tools, and situations for queer technological agency, interventions, and social formation. Zach has exhibited at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, England, Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Fe Arts gallery in Pittsburgh, File Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, and the 2010 Arse Elektronika Festival in San Francisco, where he was the recipient of a Prixxx Arse Elektronika. He has participated in residencies on “Art and Resistance” at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Chiapas, Mexico, “On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling- Acting Together” at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, and “Devisualize” at the Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain. Rhizome.org has recently interviewed him, and he has published in a Mínima, E-misférica, Version, and Schlossplatz³ and has articles forthcoming in The Fibreculture Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Reclamations Journal, and networkpolitics.org. His work has been written about in Wired, Canon Magazine, and the South Atlantic Quarterly. He is one of the founding members of the Public School Durham and a PhD student in Literature, Information Science + Information Studies, Visual Studies, and Women?s Studies at Duke University. He also holds an MFA from UCLA, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BS from Boston University. Visit www.zachblas.info or www.queertechnologies.info for more information.
Commercialising Eros
A discussion with Jacob Appelbaum (us), Zach Blas (us), Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (il/de) and Aliya Rakhmetova (hu)
Moderated by Gaia Novati (it/de)
Includes the live performance / Mit der Performance Watch Me Work by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz and Kate Erhardt (za)
Saturday, Feb 4, 13:30–15:30, K1
This panel sheds light on the interferences and tensions between sex and business, analysing practices and strategies of technology entrepreneurship and networking models, online sexual imagery and queer virality. Moreover, it stresses the aspect of conscious reflection on bodily practices as opposed to simply consuming, focusing on how queer communities and sex workers use IT in their communication and how they try to break usual stereotypes through online and offline actions. A conscious reflection and practice of sexuality can be the way to imagine a different model of “commercialising eros”, mobilising communities, generating advocacy, and more broadly, shaping culture.
The panel is part of reSource Sex, which reflects on the interference and overlapping between sex business and ‘alternative’ porn, aiming to explore and discuss the open interzona which exists in between the often male-oriented mainstream porn, and the more narrow scene of queer and alt porn communities.
Zach Blas is an artist and writer working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and the political. His on-going project, Queer Technologies, is a collective that produces critical applications, tools, and situations for queer technological agency, interventions, and social formation. Zach has exhibited at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, England, Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Fe Arts gallery in Pittsburgh, File Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, and the 2010 Arse Elektronika Festival in San Francisco, where he was the recipient of a Prix Ars Elektronica. He has participated in residencies on “Art and Resistance” at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Chiapas, Mexico, “On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling- Acting Together” at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, and “Devisualize” at the Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain. Rhizome.org has recently interviewed him, and he has published in a Mínima, E-misférica, Version, and Schlossplatz³ and has articles forthcoming in The Fibreculture Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Reclamations Journal, and networkpolitics.org. His work has been written about in Wired, Canon Magazine, and the South Atlantic Quarterly. He is one of the founding members of the Public School Durham and a PhD student in Literature, Information Science + Information Studies, Visual Studies, and Women?s Studies at Duke University. He also holds an MFA from UCLA, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BS from Boston University. Visit www.zachblas.info or www.queertechnologies.info for more information.
Architect: Unknown
Location: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
Don't know anything about this place. It just caught my eye as I was driving by. It looks like it may have been a school at one time, and has now been converted into a resource centre for job training, public assistance, etc. Not sure, though. It was Sunday and closed when I was there.
December 3, 2014 - Washington DC., The World Bank Group, Inter-American Development Bank, and Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University launch a new resource guide for development practitioners on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls across a range of development sectors.
Welcoming Remarks: Caren Grown, Senior Director for Gender, World Bank Group
Special Guest: Carlos Andrés Gómez, award-winning poet, actor, storyteller, and author of Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood
Moderator: Mary Ellsberg (moderator), Director of the Global Women’s Institute at GW
Panelists:Arup Banerji, Senior Director for Social Protection, World Bank Group; Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education, World Bank Group; Heidi Lehmann, Senior Director of Women’s Protection and Empowerment, International Rescue Committee; Susan Markham, Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, USAID; Andrew Morrison, Chief of Gender and Diversity Unit, Inter-American Development Bank
linux virgin, 2005
Karla Grundick und Mistress Koyo
Video, 14:30 min is shown in the exhibition Dark Drives: Uneasy Energies in Technological Times
The Sexuality of Machines
is a discussion with Sergio Messina (it), Karla Grundick (de) and Julianne Pierce (uk)
Moderated by Gabriella Coleman (us)
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012, 11:00–12:30
Since the 1990s, some experiences in the queer and activist scene showed how to transfer an experimental hacker and DIY attitude from technology to the body and to the broader concept of sexuality. The hacker ideas of sharing, openness, and the hands-on imperative all became a challenge to imagine a different kind of sexuality – and pornography – beyond rigid dichotomies and patriarchal structures. With the increasing use of social media and chan boards, the reflection of sexuality and the experimentation on pornography is entering progressively into the realms of abstraction: bodies become fetishes, identity is objectified into an anonymous “sign”, and the interaction via machines is the tool of desire. However, DIY porn is becoming an aesthetics and practice open to everyone rather than a field of study among specialists – or a successful niche market within the porn business. Digital amateur porn disrupts social codes to unpredictable effects.
The discussion is part of reSource Sex, wich reflects on the interference and overlapping between sex business and ‘alternative’ porn, aiming to explore and discuss the open interzona which exists in between the often male-oriented mainstream porn, and the more narrow scene of queer and alt porn communities.
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The Mount Gravatt district comprises three suburbs adjoining Logan Road, extending from Nursery Road (the boundary with Holland Park) southwards to the western branch of the Bulimba Creek (the boundary with Eight Mile Plains). 'Mount Gravatt' is a rise (195m) to the west of Logan Road in a reserve that was set aside in 1893. It adjoins a Griffith University campus which leads westwards to a larger reserve, Toohey Forest Park, which includes 'Toohey Mountain' in Moorooka. This extensive swathe of open space belies the relative scarcity of local open space in the post-World War II Mount Gravatt suburbs that grew along Logan Road, now comprising Mount Gravatt (west of Logan Road), Mount Gravatt East and Upper Mount Gravatt (south of Broadwater Road). (In the 1920s the area now comprising Holland Park was known as Lower Mount Gravatt.)
Lieutenant George Gravatt (1815-43) was for a few months in 1839 the Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, and for his short-lived leadership received the compliment of having Mount Gravatt named in his honour.
Logan Road, formerly Slacks Track and Slacks Road, was the route from Brisbane to southern settlements such as Beenleigh. (The Slack family settled at Slacks Creek in the 1850s.) Until the opening of railways in 1885 it was a much frequented route. In 1865 farm lots along Slacks Road were sold and the beginnings of a closer-settlement emerged: the German Bridge Hotel (1865, Holland Park), a provisional school (1874) and a post office (1877). The first church, Congregational, was opened in 1880. A ribbon village along Logan Road from Nursery Road to Selborne Street included the Mount Gravatt Hotel, post office, Underwood's store and the State primary school. A horse bus took residents from Mount Gravatt to the Woolloongabba tram terminus (1887).
Development along Logan Road was set back when the Beenleigh railway (1885) took away much of its traffic, and Mount Gravatt settled into several decades of rural life. Extension of the tram line from Greenslopes to Holland Park (1926) left Mount Gravatt too far from the terminus until another extension in 1951 to Selborne Road.
In 1915 the Mount Gravatt showground was reserved, creating a space that inhabitants would treasure for decades as a gathering place and a reminder of their rural origins. The first annual show was in 1918. In the 1920s soldier settlement farms were allotted in Lower Mount Gravatt (north of Nursery Road), and a Catholic church (1921) joined the pre-existing Congregational and Anglican buildings. A soldiers' memorial hall was opened in 1923, and development further south along Logan Road required the opening of Upper Mount Gravatt school in 1929. In the 1930s Mount Gravatt reached the status of an outer suburb when a crematorium in Nursery Road was opened and the Brisbane City Council acquired the site of the Toohey Forest Park.
Almost immediately after World War II the Chester estate near Selborne Street was subdivided for housing and the Housing Commission began building north-west of Creek Road. In 1951 the tram service was extended, terminating there at a new shopping centre on Logan Road. Schools followed the postwar housing boom: at Upper Mount Gravatt the St Bernard's Catholic school was opened in 1953, the Mount Gravatt East State primary school opened in 1955 and the Mount Gravatt high school opened in 1960. Another Catholic primary, St Agnes', opened in 1962 in Mount Gravatt. The ethnic composition also changed, as Lutheran farm folk moved to a new church and their old building was acquired by the Greek community. Suburban modernity arrived with the opening of the Big Top drive-in shopping centre (1960), the first of four Logan Road drive-ins opened between 1960 and 1981. Central Fair (1966) has a supermarket and 22 shops, and Mount Gravatt Plaza (1981) has a discount department store, supermarket and 37 shops. Both are at Logan Road and Creek Street. The largest, Garden City (1970) in Upper Mount Gravatt, has a department store, two discount department stores and 210 other shops.
At one stage there was a possibility of a fifth when the Brisbane City Council proposed to dispose of the showground for a Myer shopping centre development. Nine years and a Privy-Council decision later, in the teeth of determined local opposition, the development was withdrawn.
Mount Gravatt primary school changed from a rural outpost to an over-crowded suburban school in 25 postwar years. Its attendances numbered 112 (1945), 1005 (1959) and 1660 (1972). A teachers' college was opened on the western part of Mount Gravatt reserve in 1967, later converting to a campus of Griffith University. In 2013 the State government announced plans to close nine schools including Old Yarranlea State School, located on the grounds of the Griffith University campus.
Further beyond the present boundary of Mount Gravatt, but at the time an outlying part, a stadium was erected south of the cemetery for the 1982 Commonwealth Games. It later became the temporary home of the Brisbane Broncos and also hosted a number of Davis Cup tennis matches. The Mount Gravatt Outlook Reserve is east of the university campus.
Numerous feeder bus lines brought residents to the Logan Road tram terminus. In 1966 the Brisbane City Council took over the feeder buses, joining them to their own bus network when the tram service ended in 1969. South-east suburban growth was soon too much for Logan Road or its buses, and a freeway (begun 1973) reached Klumpp Road, Upper Mount Gravatt, in 1980, ending at Slacks Creek in 1985. By then Mount Gravatt was a mature suburb, populations having stabilised or beginning to decrease as young family members moved out to newer subdivisions. In the late 1990s a dedicated busway was added on the eastern side of the southeast freeway, providing much quicker travel times to and from the city.
Mount Gravatt history: Queensland Places – Mount Gravatt
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I was downtown street shooting with a couple of other photographers and I had noticed Brandon on another block. I wished I'd been able to aim my camera at him but he was walking too fast and I missed him.
A short while later, I spotted him coming down the block we were now on and I quickly fired off a few shots as he walked by. He got a couple of feet past me and turned around and asked what I was taking pictures for. I explained that I do street shooting as a hobby and we talked a little bit. I then told him about my 100 Strangers project and asked if he would mind me taking his picture again and posting it. He agreed. The daylight was fading and I didn't have my flash with me. Truth be told, even if I had my flash, my fingers were so cold at this point I probably wouldn't have pulled it from my bag.
Brandon is an artist and he was on his way to see the movie Red Tails. He gave me his contact information and he was back on his way to the movie.
Thank you, Brandon, for being number 19 in my 100 Strangers Project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at 100 Strangers Flickr Group
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Karla Grundick und Mistress Koyo
Video, 14:30 min is shown in the exhibition Dark Drives: Uneasy Energies in Technological Times
The Sexuality of Machines
is a discussion with Sergio Messina (it), Karla Grundick (de) and Julianne Pierce (uk)
Moderated by Gabriella Coleman (us)
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012, 11:00–12:30
Since the 1990s, some experiences in the queer and activist scene showed how to transfer an experimental hacker and DIY attitude from technology to the body and to the broader concept of sexuality. The hacker ideas of sharing, openness, and the hands-on imperative all became a challenge to imagine a different kind of sexuality – and pornography – beyond rigid dichotomies and patriarchal structures. With the increasing use of social media and chan boards, the reflection of sexuality and the experimentation on pornography is entering progressively into the realms of abstraction: bodies become fetishes, identity is objectified into an anonymous “sign”, and the interaction via machines is the tool of desire. However, DIY porn is becoming an aesthetics and practice open to everyone rather than a field of study among specialists – or a successful niche market within the porn business. Digital amateur porn disrupts social codes to unpredictable effects.
The discussion is part of reSource Sex, wich reflects on the interference and overlapping between sex business and ‘alternative’ porn, aiming to explore and discuss the open interzona which exists in between the often male-oriented mainstream porn, and the more narrow scene of queer and alt porn communities.
Certified Human Resource Professionals & Certified Human Resource Managers (CHRPs & CHRMs), Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, April 2015 batch.
Dorena Genetic Resource Center staff. DRGC's 50th anniversary celebration. Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: August 24, 2016
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
From the news release for the event:
"The USDA Forest Service’s Dorena Genetic Resource Center is celebrating 50 years of serving as a regional service center for Pacific Northwest tree and plant genetics.
Dorena GRC houses disease-resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and a national tree climbing program for the Forest Service. Their program is known internationally as a world leader in development of populations of trees with genetic resistance to non-native diseases.
The public is invited to the 50th celebration on Thursday, August 25 at the Cottage Grove-based center located 34963 Shoreview Road. The Open House and public tours are scheduled from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tours of the center will include:
Genetic Resistance Trials
Inoculation ‘Fog’ Chamber
Tree Improvement Activities of Grafting, Pollination, & Seed Production
Port-Orford-cedar Containerized Orchards
Native Species Plant Development
Seed and Pollen Processing
Tree Climbing
A special guest at the event will be Jerry Barnes, the first manager at Dorena when established in 1966. All guests will be able to enjoy viewing informative posters about the programs and activities at the Center. ..."
For more see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/umpqua/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD513088
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
This is the Hewlett Gulch Trail, in the Poudre Canyon area, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. It was the start point of the Hewlett Gulch Fire on May 14. This mountain ridge saddle had a scenic view of the Roosevelt National Forest. It is also tinder dry and at a place where the slopes tend to funnel wind through this low point. The blackened areas clearly show the spread of the fire influenced by wind, terrain and available fuel. At its peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires pushed by 50 mph winds. When the last embers were cooled, more than 12-square miles lay blacked at a cost of approximately 3.2 million dollars to fight. The aerial distribution of straw has successfully kept the Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, clean and clear. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. Unmitigated areas have turned famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
UN Iraq Press Release
Baghdad Water Conference: UN calls for action to improve water resources management, critical to Iraq’s future prosperity and to global food security
Baghdad, 13 March 2021 - Growing water scarcity requires immediate action to improve local and national resource management as well as enhance regional cooperation, the UN warned at the 1st Baghdad International Water Conference. Modern technology, public awareness on conservation and improved resource management can help overcome the increasing challenges in the future.
The two-day conference, organized by the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, brings together senior officials from the Government of Iraq, representatives from international organizations including the UN, as well as international experts and diplomats. It aims to find ways to overcome future challenges relating to water availability, exchange scientific and policy expertise on water resource management, promote exchange of modern technologies, and raise awareness on conservation. Discussions will also focus on Iraq’s water situation and cooperation with neighboring countries, as well as capacity building in Iraq for improved management of water resources, the role of international organizations in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), and planning and investment in the sector.
Speaking at the opening session today, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq/Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Irena Vojackova-Sollorano emphasized that water is not only a critical source of livelihood for Iraq but also an important driver of peace, sustainable development and future prosperity.
“This international conference is important for Iraq and the region. Water must be shared at all levels: globally; regionally; between countries; and between men and women at the community level. It must be a source of cooperation rather than conflict,” she said.
Known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, the land between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Iraq’s history and civilizations were built around water. This heritage is being imperiled today by population growth, increased consumption, decrease in availability of fresh surface water and other factors, including conflicts.
Addressing the conference through a video link, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. QU Dongyu, stated that the transformation of agri-food systems is at the heart of FAO’s mandate to provide safer, more affordable and healthier diets for the world’s rapidly growing population. Noting that “Water is the essence of life and at the core of the agri-food systems," he highlighted three related concepts of paramount importance: Water Governance Frameworks, Innovation and Capacity Development.
Stating that FAO strongly advocates for the adoption of science-based natural resource management practices that harness the power of innovation and digital technologies, he noted “Innovation is not only about new technologies, it is also about financing, networking and new business models to accelerate the transformation process. It combines human creativity, technology, science and entrepreneurship by engaging all stakeholders, from national and regional authorities, civil society, academia and the private sectors.”
In her remarks, Ms. Vojackova-Sollorano outlined UN engagement with the Government of Iraq on several strands of work covering water, sanitation, hygiene, water resources management, water quality and management of water-related disasters. The UN is further responding to the humanitarian needs of refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees and other vulnerable citizens as well as helping the government address structural problems and facilitate regional cooperation.
Dwindling water reserves call for immediate action, Ms. Vojackova-Sollorano said, adding: The UN family in Iraq stands ready to provide advice and technical support to help improve water management for all Iraqis.
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