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Edify's STUMP one-week mission trip reaches out to Brisbane's Fortitude Valley to connect with community and services in the area. A proven model in Sydney, Edify plans to plant the program in Brisbane, to run alongside the Sydney base.
Dr. Michael Watson- Administrator, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and Matthew Rhoads, Acting Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine, discuss with Dr. Kirk Johnson- Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History, and his team, Washington D.C., June 17, 2025. Every day, experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources by identifying pests intercepted on incoming shipments at ports of entry or found around the country. To support this critical work, APHIS signed a memorandum of understanding with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to co-locate APHIS entomology and botany experts with other Federal and Smithsonian experts already working at the museum. This move will not only consolidate vital knowledge in one place, but it will also give APHIS experts access to the museum’s resources, including their extensive arthropod collection, which is a critical pest identification tool. (USDA Photo by Christophe Paul)
Emily Bell - director Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Meredith Broussard - Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Nicholas Diakopoulos - University of Maryland
Andreas Graefe - Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Justin Myers - automation editor Associated Press
Can a robot do my job? Understanding the growing trends in the world of computational journalism.
With the Associated Press, amongst others, using automated journalism techniques to publish many of their finance and sports stories, and machine learning re-writing headlines for Buzzfeed in real-time, we are living the age of computational journalism. This panel brings together a group of world-class researchers examining the key trends of algorithmic accountability, automated journalism, artificial intelligence and the possibility of designing a new programming language for journalists. Hear about their current research projects and listen to a discussion about these cutting-edge trends and what they mean for the future of journalism.
Organised in association with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
A promo designed to help raise PLEDGES towards the production of a series of important films for the Alzheimer's/dementia charity SPECAL.
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Shot on 5D, by DP Alex MacDonald with Nikon primes - alexmacd.co.uk
Sound by Marc Wojtanowski - recordist.me
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!
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.
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.
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
The Intellectual Pursuit: What They Read in 2025
In a world teetering between war and uncertainty, young academic women turn to books—not as mere escape, but as a way to confront reality, to seek wisdom in the echoes of history, and to understand the weight of the present. They read in dimly lit libraries, at café tables littered with half-drunk cups of tea, in quiet university archives where dust clings to forgotten volumes. They are drawn to words that unravel complexity, books that demand contemplation, and authors who have wrestled with the same existential questions that haunt their minds today.
Here is what they read.
1. Existential and Philosophical Works
In times of crisis, philosophy becomes a mirror—reflecting both the weight of the world and the possibilities of thought. These books challenge, unsettle, and offer a way to navigate uncertainty.
Simone Weil – Gravity and Grace (moral clarity and reflections on human suffering)
Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism (a timeless study of power, ideology, and authoritarianism)
Byung-Chul Han – The Burnout Society (a philosophical take on modern exhaustion and performance-driven culture)
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation (a critique of reality and illusion in an age of digital manipulation)
Albert Camus – The Plague (a novel that mirrors today’s existential and ethical dilemmas)
Søren Kierkegaard – The Concept of Anxiety (an exploration of freedom, dread, and the human condition)
These thinkers guide them through uncertainty, offering both discomfort and clarity—challenging them to see beyond the immediate chaos.
2. Poetry and Literature of Longing, Loss, and Human Experience
Sometimes, only poetry and fiction can capture what analysis cannot—the deep, wordless truths of grief, love, exile, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit.
Anne Carson – Nox (a fragmented, deeply personal meditation on loss and memory)
Paul Celan – Todesfuge (haunting post-Holocaust poetry that lingers between beauty and horror)
Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet (a lyrical guide to solitude, art, and self-discovery)
Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (poetry-infused storytelling on identity and survival)
Virginia Woolf – The Waves (a novel that reads like a long poem, exploring time, consciousness, and human connection)
Clarice Lispector – The Hour of the Star (a sparse, existential novel that lingers long after the last page)
These books are read slowly, lines underlined in pencil, phrases whispered to oneself in quiet moments.
3. Political Thought and Social Critique
Understanding the present requires looking at the past and tracing the patterns of history, power, and resistance.
Naomi Klein – Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (on misinformation, conspiracy culture, and the fracturing of reality)
Timothy Snyder – On Tyranny (20 lessons from history on how democracy is lost—and how it can be protected)
Achille Mbembe – Necropolitics (on the politics of death, control, and who gets to exist in modern power structures)
Olga Tokarczuk – Flights (a novel that blurs fiction and philosophy, exploring movement, exile, and identity)
Rebecca Solnit – Hope in the Dark (on why history is shaped by those who refuse to give up)
These books are read with urgency—annotated, discussed, debated. They provide frameworks for understanding the unfolding crises of today.
4. Science, Psychology, and the Search for Meaning
In times of uncertainty, some turn to the mind and the universe—to trauma studies, quantum physics, and new ways of seeing.
Carlo Rovelli – The Order of Time (a poetic examination of time and its illusions)
James Bridle – New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (on the unpredictability of AI, climate change, and human systems)
Bessel van der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score (on trauma, memory, and how the body stores experiences)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking human and non-human relationships in a time of ecological crisis)
These books stretch their understanding beyond politics and poetry—into the unseen forces that shape the self and the cosmos.
This sign at a basic school pretty much says it all. After spending eleven months teaching I have a posthumous understanding how much teachers do build their pupils future. Well there are lots of cultural and home things too, but teachers play a bigger part than I ever imagined.
I also know now why my grade 11 English teacher, fresh from college, cried and left the room when all her pupils demonstrated zero interest in reading what ever it was we were supposed to be reading. I will admit I was not the best teacher, and teaching is not my gift. I once told my pupils whom were struggling to understand that the area of a right triangle is half, this was after spending weeks on fractions, of a rectangle to just make their maize fields rectangles so they wouldn't have to worry about not understanding triangles. If you think that's mean, don't worry most my pupils don't speak English so they weren't offended and those that do speak English thought it was funny, probably because those, about eight, that speak English also understood what I've taught them and knew I wasn't talking to them. I enjoyed the experience of teaching but have no desire to try and convince any pupils anywhere to learn anything again, maybe engineering is for me?
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 »
Hoofprint Workshop is pleased to present UNDERSTANDING OBLIVION, a solo show featuring new work by Aaron Coleman. In a departure from his more traditional printmaking practice, Coleman uses collage and unorthodox materials to assemble a monumental triptych, returning the space to its former state: a chapel. But this is no sanctuary! Hand-painted elements, direct application of rust, and repurposed proofs all coalesce to give the viewer a sense of visual overload: the stuff of existence is tearing apart at the seams.
Aaron S. Coleman is an artist and educator living in Dekalb, Illinois. He makes mixed media prints using mezzotint, lithography, intaglio, relief and serigraphy. He combines imagery from comic books and stained glass windows to raise questions concerning misconstrued belief systems and twisted moral values in our society.
He has exhibited at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, China and was invited to participate in the 6th and 7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro in Alijo, Portugal. Aaron’s work can be found in the collections of The University of Colorado, Wichita State University, the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan, The Yekaterinburg Museum of Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Ewing Gallery Collection. Aaron is a husband, a dog lover and a workaholic.
I cannot find much information about this memorial but my understanding is that it was designed and erected in order to commemorate the attack by the 2nd Bat. Dublin Brigade on the Custom House in 1921.
The Burning of the Custom House in Dublin took place on 25 May 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. The Custom House was the centre of Local Government in the British administration in Ireland. It was occupied and then burnt in an operation by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), involving over 100 volunteers. The action was a propaganda coup for the forces of the Irish Republic but was a military disaster for the IRA in the Irish capital. Five of its volunteers were killed (along with three civilians) and over 80 captured.
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.
The memo of understanding Quennell has filed to intervene on behalf of his own appeal
New National Socialist type legislation: The following article provokes some chilling thoughts. It is amusing that the city of Saskatoon was largely founded by people who made their fortunes bootlegging and running whorehouses. Less amusing is to reflect that before the Jews in Germany were taken to the camps, their property was expropriated quite legally. It began with laws similar to this.
Province adds crimefighting tool
Saskatchewan News Network; Regina Leader-Post, November 04, 2005
REGINA (SNN) -- The provincial government is trying to crack down on crime in Saskatchewan with new legislation that allows police to seize property gained through or used in illegal activity.
Justice Minister Frank Quennell announced the proclamation of the Seizure of Criminal Property Act Thursday, calling it another step in the government's plan to "make the province a hostile environment for organized crime.
"We have a growing problem with gangs and with organized crime," he said. "I think people tend to think that gangs, as we understand them in Saskatchewan, aren't organized crime, they're not in business. Even where that's true, it won't be true for long."
Under the act, the chief of police in a jurisdiction can make an application in civil court to have property seized which is believed to be the gains of crime or is being used to carry out a crime.
In the event the person suspected of being in possession of such property is a member of a criminal organization, police must only be able to show that person has been previously convicted of engaging in organized crime. Police must only be able to show that the property was more likely than not gained through crime.
In the case of an individual criminal, there must be some proof that the property is the result of or being used in crime.
It is then up to the alleged criminal to prove the property isn't more likely than not the result of crime.
If the property is indeed deemed to be criminally linked, it will become property of the provincial government and sold, with the proceeds to cover the police force's legal bills.
Quennell said similar legislation is already in place in Ontario and Manitoba and has gone through first reading in the B.C. legislature.
Regina Police Service deputy chief Clive Weighill said even though the province doesn't have the large-scale crime syndicates that some provinces and states do, the legislation will be important in the fight against crime.
"One of the methods we have in stopping crime is taking away the ill-gotten gains from crime," he said. "If someone is selling drugs and the gains they're getting from it keeps disappearing on them and they have to keep reinvesting to buy their drugs and reinvesting to buy their property again, it certainly does put a dent in their activity."
He said it won't, however, be used on a regular basis.
"There would be a lengthy investigation done before we would even contemplate using this so it would only be a few times in a year," he said.
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2005
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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 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles demostration.
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 »
MIT Media Lab "Understanding Networks" conference, Oct 12-13th, 2011.
Leica M9-P with 35mm Summilux Aspherical
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
Leipzig Book Fair 2014
Leipziger Buchmesse 2014
Cosplayers
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Firi_Akira (Rita) 143966 as Clover Field / Yotsuba from Zero Escape (Virtues Last Reward)
Photos posted are 1024x768 pixels in size. Higher resolution (3000x2000) for models only, sorry.
Thank you for any group invites which I will gladly accept. However, if I can't check the content of such groups ("This group is not available to you") I'd rather not add any of my photos. Thanks for your understanding.
watching this pair was a fabulous sight, so much trust shared by both of them, a very tender moment.
I was so happy to find this in the box of cookbooks, I loved this booklet as a kid. The pics were so cool to me then, I used to look at it all the time, and as I looked through it I vividly remembered every last one
Washington, D.C. (February 2, 2022) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, joined by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, and Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi, signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Department of Energy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The MOU outlines a new effort to accelerate work to strengthen Puerto Rico’s grid resilience and advance new initiatives to enhance the island’s energy future. (DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum)
From left, Professors John Boschen, John Merrick, Dick Ash, Deborah Hewitt and Larry Ring. Photo by Buddy Norris
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 18 Spetember 2018, to continue support of the 'Edified Generation' scholarships' programme.
The Chinese Embassy greatly supports the development of education in Rwanda and strives to do this through helping disadvantaged students under Imbuto Foundation’s scholarship programme – Edified Generation.
Imbuto Foundation and the Chinese Embassy have signed MoUs in support of the scholarship programme since 2013.
Better data is becoming available on economic activity within countries, often much exceeding the available information of economic activity across countries. This creates new research opportunities for testing economic theory, analyzing market structures and the sources of market segmentation, and making predictions of how economic shocks propagate across space. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from urban economics, industrial organization, health economics, and international trade to study production and trade within and across countries.
Marco Sosa. 2nd floor view. Marco's design proposal included a diachronic path that used the fibonacci series [in recognition of the golden section] to create a series of labyrinths that had to be deciphered to discover the next space. The alternative synchronic path happened under the previos path, discovering the solution to the puzzle.
Mayor Newsom attends ribbon cutting ceremony at the Cisco Globalization Center East and signs Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cisco.
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
My understanding is, this is where Anniston's earliest settlers bought the land that eventually made up Anniston, Alabama. It was a beautiful building in its prime but after housing a labor union, it went neglected by the city for years until it became structurally unsound and had to be demolished in 2012. What a crying shame. Anniston's police department now sits on this site, but a corner stone of the building still sits on the corner, and bricks from this building are being used in a botannical garden being built.