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This event brought together a panel of three leading economists—Thomas Piketty, Kevin Murphy, and Steven Durlauf—to discuss the sources of the rise in inequality in advanced industrialized countries over the past 40 years, the problems it poses, and effective responses. Nobel laureate James Heckman moderated the panel and guided the discussion.
This event was cosponsored by the Becker Friedman Institute, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, and the Center for the Economics of Human Development.
- See more at: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/understanding-inequality-and-what...
A soil scientist is a person who is qualified to evaluate and interpret soils and soil-related data for the purpose of understanding soil resources as they contribute to not only agricultural production, but as they affect environmental quality and as they are managed for protection of human health and the environment. The university degree should be in Soil Science, or closely related field (i.e., natural resources, environmental science, earth science, etc.) and include sufficient soils-related course work so the Soil Scientist has a measurable level of understanding of the soil environment, including soil morphology and soil forming factors, soil chemistry, soil physics, and soil biology, and the dynamic interaction of these areas.
A description of the soils is essential in any soil survey. Standard technical terms and their definitions for soil properties and features are necessary for accurate soil descriptions. For some soils, standard terms are not adequate and must be supplemented by a narrative. Some soil properties change through time. Many properties must be observed over time and summarized if one is to fully understand the soil being described and its response to short-term environmental changes. Examples are the length of time that cracks remain open, the patterns of soil temperature and moisture, and the variations in size, shape, and hardness of clods in the surface layer of tilled soils.
For more information about describing and sampling soils, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/field...
or Chapter 3 of the Soil Survey manual:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/The-Soil-Su...
For additional information on "How to Use the Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils" (video reference), visit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_hQaXV7MpM
For additional information about soil classification using USDA-NRCS Soil Taxonomy, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/keys-...
or;
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/soil-...
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Fire watch refers to manually monitoring property that is at risk of experiencing fire incidents. The fire watch guard is required to ensure that should such an event occur, all the interested parties and relevant authorities are notified. Fire watch is closely controlled by Chapter 15 of the National Fire Protection Association regulations. Here is more on the specific requirements stipulated for property owners and fire watch services alike.
1. Monitoring of Automatic Systems
One of the most important fire watch requirements revolves around ensuring that property is secured with automated monitoring systems. This includes things like smoke detectors, fire alarms, and automatic fire extinguishing sprinklers.
As a property owner, manager or even renter, you have to regularly inspect these to ensure that they are in good condition. The number of times or regularity with which you have the inspections performed is determined by jurisdictional legislation. However, the more often you have them checked the better.
2. Active Watch if Systems Are Down for More Than 4 Hours
According to the National Fire Protection Association, a manual fire watch should be instituted if automated watch systems are determined to have failed for more than 4 hours. This could be anything from failed alarms to clogged piping in the sprinkler system.
As you plan to have the systems back up and running, you are required to have acting fire watching round the clock. This ensures that should anything happen while the repairs are being done, a fire will not catch residents unaware.
3. Continuous Patrol and Inspection for Signs of Fire
Another one of the most serious fire watch requirements is that those involved in the fire watch must run continuous patrols. It could be that you get a group together to do it or you decided to go the professional route and hire a fire watch company.
Whatever the case, the National Fire Protection Association requires that the patrols be maintained until the other systems are completely repaired. The aim is to look for any warning signs of fire whether it is smoke, smoldering materials, or straight up fire.
This requirement is particularly important to implement on what the association refers to as hot sites. These are properties that, either due to their location or nature of activities performed there, are at higher risk of suffering fire incidents. Factories are the best example here. With these, the continuous patrol of every square foot of the property is paramount.
4. Must Remain in Effect Until Automatic Systems are Restored
Finally, the National Fire Protection Association requires that the patrols be maintained until all the automated systems are fully restored. It doesn’t matter whether it takes hours or weeks to do this. Once proper authorities have done their inspection of the systems and certified them as functional, you are free to call off the constant watch if you wish to.
Conclusion
After all is said and done, fire watchers are a real investment to any property. It doesn’t matter whether you are running a hot site at risk of fire or your automated systems happened to have failed. It is important to understand and comply with the regulations and fire watch requirements according to the National Fire Protection Association. This helps you stay on the right side of the law while also protecting your investment and saving lives.
AHF's Latino Outreach & Understanding Division (LOUD) hosted their 3rd annual SOMOS Gala to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday October 21st at the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The formal gala dinner and ceremony honored the contributions of both individuals, organizations, and Celebrity honoree Olga Tañon for their contribution to the advancement and well-being of Latino communities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
At the ceremony of signing a Memorandum of Understanding Leigh Turner said, "The UK has allocated up to £2.1 Million (29 Million UAH) to the design and construction of the Sealed Radioactive Sources Centralised Store. We expect this important facility to be completed in 2011. The design and construction of the facility will meet all Ukrainian and international radiation safety standards."
Another quote about dogs from my calendar That I had to find a flickr use for. I hope you like it as well.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Surviving cancer and using art as a tool for healing, reflection and understanding has infused my art with a sense of energy and optimism that has a universal appeal. The process of making the art as well as the meaning of it, are both an integral part of the end result and for me there is always a battle to harmonize between the two – to evoke the emotion of the piece and to empower the viewer.
I love combining traditional and new media painting techniques where one feeds off the energy of the other. The visual collaboration of both medias often celebrates a bold expressionism and optimistic edge regardless of subject matter.
My work has evolved from a mashing of referenced pop art and iconic imagery into elaborate multilayered portraits and scenes that depict a more personal interpretation of my life experience, battles and passions. My goal is to lead the observer to dramatic action, putting them on the edge between what we know and what is unknowable. I’ve learned that something new will always come about when you push hard enough and the result is the revelation of a “new identity”.
The motivation for me to keep going is to gain an understanding of how this “new identity or rebirth or truth” actually reflects my life as well as the world we live in – or not.
Martin Creed
Work No. 2630 UNDERSTANDING, 2016
Red Neon, Steel
Approx dims: 21 3/5 x 50 x 2 1/8 ft / 658.6 x 1524 x 66 cm. Base 25 x 25 feet at top / 33 x 33 feet at bottom
Presented by Public Art Fund, May 4 – October 23, 2016 at Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Courtesy the artist, Gavin Brown’s enterprise New York/Rome, and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
© Martin Creed 2016
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I did take pictures of live people on April 4 as well as the monuments of those who are no longer among the living.
After spending the morning in Highgate, I decided to take another London Walks tour in the afternoon. This one was their British Museum walk. I can't say I recommend it since the guide was very stodgy and dry but she did show the highlights I probably wouldn't have found on my own.
This is one example - the Rosetta Stone.
Well I shouldn't say it's the Rosetta Stone so much as the Rosetta Stone through glass. But since I couldn't get to the front of it, I did the next best thing. I shot the reflections on the Rosetta Stone in a sort of candid.
This look is pretty typical of those I saw of people walking away from the stone.
Students are taken out to collect bedding and be introduced to prison dorm as part of the mock project.
30 students and teachers from Po Leung Kuk Ho Yuk Ching (1984) College joined a pilot community education project to experience prison life.
The Correctional Services Department (CSD) launched the Reflective Path program in June 2015. The program covers what happens to accused criminals, from mock court hearings, simulated intake procedures at the prison, to being confined in custody and solitary cells. It aims to enhance understanding among students of how the judicial system and correctional services work.
See the video at youtu.be/0RB05MoeMqU
30/09/2015, Ma Hang Prison, Stanley, China.
This studio aimed to develop and further a students' understanding of architecture by studying the intersection of at, design and materials science. Three primary exercises helped develop student’s techniques of drawing, making and organizing structures. This course was specifically created to play off students' non-architectural education by introducing a domain of investigation whereby students learned to design through the lens of cross-disciplinary experimentation.
Throughout the semester students investigated generative art, design and materials science through the lens of “pattern formation” and attempted to extract principles, learned techniques and developed strategies for design. By studying the formation of materials students explored both the fundamental science as well as new advances in research to understand the building blocks of matter, organizational patterns, processes of material creation and micro-to-macro material behavior. To draw comparison, students also researched both contemporary and historic works of generative art and design to understand the rules, logic and components of the work and how high-level patterns emerge from local interaction. These seemingly opposite fields converged and become precedents for three exercises: 1. Generative drawings, 2. New material formations and 3. Living objects / growing structures.
Learn more at arts.mit.edu
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Shot on 5D, by DP Alex MacDonald with Nikon primes - alexmacd.co.uk
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Of the ten sephirot crystals, understanding is rather important for a society to come and accept each other they must know the way each other lives. Understanding the villain is the way the hero overcomes his foe and finally either converts him to good or destroys him for the good of all! Understanding is the way to friendship and unity as well as true fellowship, when we don't understand someone we will fear them completely or refuse to associate with them! Someone who opens up to all knowledge of the world and of the spirit he will be able to be at peace with them for as long as they accept him and he too in return!
also with the green of fields as a background :)
the more I take these open air shots the more I understand how I love to be into the nature
Marco Sosa, the Danteum. 2/4 Study model for a conceptual model of the danteum. Out of 'hell' comes purgatory, sliding out of the square on a golden section proportion. Purgatory has a lesser density than hell.
TEDxStuttgart 2017 "New Understanding" am 23. September 2017 in der Phoenixhalle im Römerkastell.
Foto: Martin Naujocks
At the Martire Business & Communications Center, representatives from Sacred Heart University signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan University of Economics. In attendance were were SHU President John J. Petillo, and Japan University of Economics President Asuka Tsuzuki. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 9/11/18
This shot is darker than I like. I'd hoped the kid's blonde hair would render brighter. Little patches of sun probably skewed the metering.
Shot with a Nikon FE2 and Voigtländer 40mm f2 SLII on Fompan 400 developed in D76.
On May, 2023, Argonne opened its doors to thousands, showcasing its wide-ranging research to people of all ages with interactive games, hands-on science activities, and tours of one-of-a-kind research facilities.
This photo was taken during a tour of the Energy Plaza at Argonne.
The Open House offered visitors nearly 100 inspiring activities and tours spanning four science themes: Creating the Tools of Science, Improving Public and Personal Health, Saving the Planet, and Understanding the Universe.
To find out more, visit this article - Thousands celebrate Argonne’s transformational science at Open House »
Also, visit our Open House hub page - Open House highlights »
On May, 2023, Argonne opened its doors to thousands, showcasing its wide-ranging research to people of all ages with interactive games, hands-on science activities, and tours of one-of-a-kind research facilities.
The Open House offered visitors nearly 100 inspiring activities and tours spanning four science themes: Creating the Tools of Science, Improving Public and Personal Health, Saving the Planet, and Understanding the Universe.
To find out more, visit this article - Thousands celebrate Argonne’s transformational science at Open House »
Also, visit our Open House hub page - Open House highlights »
Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
Edwidge Danticat read from her work and then joined with Aja Monet in a conversation as part of the Lannan Foundation's Readings and Conversations series live at the Lensic Theater.
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Learn more about this event here.
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Photo copyright Don Usner. For use, contact donusner@lannan.org.
Myeongnyun-dang at the Confucian Temple in Sungkyunkwan University. I translate it (rather clumsily) as 'the Hall of Understanding Human Relationships'. Mengzi says that understanding human relationships is the purpose of education and the basis of good government. If he were alive today, he'd probably be a sociologist.
The Myeongnyun-dang was rebuilt in 1606 after being destroyed by the Japanese during the Imjin wars. The tablet dates from the same year. The calligraphy is that of Zhu Zhifan 朱之蕃, the Chinese imperial envoy to Korea.
Was ist künstliche Intelligenz? Und was wissen wir eigentlich über die menschliche Intelligenz? Wie intelligent kann künstliche Intelligenz im Vergleich dazu sein? Wichtiger noch: Welche Auswirkungen werden die Fortschritte in diesem Bereich auf unsere Gesellschaft haben? Antorten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen gibt die Ausstllung Understanding AI im Ars Electronica Center.
Foto: Ars Electronica / Birgit Cakir
MIT Media Lab "Understanding Networks" conference, Oct 12-13th, 2011.
Leica M9-P with 35mm Summilux Aspherical
When a man gets married, he should first and foremost recognize that he has his work cut out for him. A wife’s most basic needs in marriage are to be cherished, to be known and to be respected. Here’s a list of things a wife would expect her husband to understand about her.
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