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Understanding CInema; Monday 24 June 2019; Juan Daza-Pulido © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
On a quiet cobblestone street, an orange tabby cat leans gently against a proud pigeon, their unlikely friendship radiating warmth. The cat’s soft expression and the pigeon’s shimmering feathers create a moment of tender harmony, as if the world pauses just to admire them. Despite their differences, they share a silent understanding—comfort, trust, and companionship found in the most unexpected places. Together, they turn an ordinary day into a story of gentle connection and heart-warming peace.
The McGee group is going to the ends of the earth to understand how precipitation patterns respond to climate change. Recognizing that past changes provide unique opportunities to test our understanding of the climate system, the group is building high-resolution records of past precipitation changes in sensitive regions around the world using natural precipitation archives such as lake deposits and stalagmites. In the past two years this work has taken the group to shorelines preserving records of large ancient lakes in the deserts of the western U.S. and subtropical South America, to caves in the Yucatan peninsula and deep inside islands in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, and onto a drill rig sampling deeply buried lake sediments in the high tropical Andes.
Images courtesy: Nguyen Hieu & Do Trung Hieu
2022-09-12: Vincent Nmehielle, Secretary-General, African Development Bank along with Hassan Abdallah, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt during the Signing Ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding between the AfDB and Egypt.
Spooky Technology explores creative research opportunities around our understanding of the invisible technologies in our everyday lives, from objects with ‘intelligence’ to systems in our homes that talk to us (and each other). The project focuses on creating an inventory of spooky technologies, presented in the form of a print-on-demand book, from which we can extract possibilities, insights, and opportunities. To do this, we are reviewing work across art, design, HCI, psychology, human factors research, and other fields, that has been done in this field, or adjacent to it, both historically and more recently.
We often hear that the technologies in our everyday lives would appear to be ‘magic’ and potentially terrifying to people in the past—instantaneous communication with people all over the world, access to a vast, ever-growing resource of human knowledge right there in the palm of our hand, objects with ‘intelligence’ that can sense and talk to us (and each other). But rarely are these ‘otherworldly’ dimensions of technologies explored in more detail. There is an often unspoken presumption that the march of progress will inevitably mean we all adopt new practices, and incorporate new products and new ways of doing things into our lives—all cities will become smart cities; all homes will become smart homes. But these systems have become omnipresent without our necessarily understanding them.
They are not just black boxes, but invisible: entities in our homes and everyday lives which work through hidden flows of data, unknown agendas, imaginary clouds, mysterious sets of rules which we perhaps dismiss as ‘algorithms’ or even ‘AI’ without really understanding what that means. On some level, the superstitions and sense of wonder, and ways of relating to the unknown and the supernatural (deities, spirits, ghosts) which humanity has felt in every culture throughout history have not gone away, but started to become transferred and transmuted into new forms.
What creative research opportunities are there at this intersection? This project aims to investigate these opportunities, in the process enabling students to gain familiarity with an under-explored dimension of our relationship with technology.
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Working with a team of 12 students over Summer 2020, we collected and reviewed work across art, design, HCI, psychology, human factors research, and other fields, both historically and more recently. Our aim was to produce, collaboratively, a set of examples, from which we can extract possibilities, insights, and opportunities. This was coupled with forays into writing on the supernatural, gathering and surveying first-person experiences, and interviewing multidisciplinary experts.
The result of our work is a 282-page book and a companion website (see spookyte.ch].
It offers a reflection on how we negotiate our collective frictions with contemporary technology and the beliefs and rituals that emerge. The effects — from small-to-large, subtle-to-overt, existent-to-speculative — are charted through six sections of this book.
The content (where possible) is available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and copies have been made available to features creatives and artists.
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It’s worth recalling that in December 2016, the Commissioner for Human Resources Science and Technology, H.E. Dr Martial De Paul Ikounga signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Professor Etienne Ehouan Ehile.
AAU is the voice of higher education in Africa and has been a lead agency in implementing the continental vision since its founding under the OAU. The African Union Agenda 2063 calls for an education and skills revolution to meet the human resource needs for actualising Africa’s social-economic development. As such, the African university occupies a strategic role in ensuring that our education systems are oriented towards promoting innovation, critical thinking, pan Africanism and entrepreneurial orientations while addressing Africa’s challenges and optimising on its opportunities.
The partnership between the AUC and the AAU over the last decade has witnessed the strengthening of the African higher education space through the promotion of intra-African academic mobility, harmonisation of qualifications for mutual recognition across the Member States; and promotion of a culture of continuous quality improvement through the AU’s African Quality Rating Mechanism.
The AAU has been able to mobilise African academia to appropriate the continental vision of Agenda 2063, and it has helped to build accountable leadership and quality in research and scholarship
GOAL: To increase engagements between the AAU and North America and the Diaspora
Objectives
• Mobilize funds for the advancement of Higher Education in Africa.
• Promote and develop relations between the African Academic Diaspora and African Higher Education Institutions (HEI).
• Promote sister university collaborations
• Promote and develop research and education networks among African Higher Education Institutions and their North American counterparts
• Promote corporate and non-profit America to support African Higher Education Institutions
• Sensitize potential development partners to the education needs of African HEIs
• Promote student and staff exchange
• Promote a role for Higher Education in US-Africa relations
• Develop and implement comprehensive international Initiatives for senior leadership at public research universities to facilitate seamless integration of international dimensions into the learning, discovery and engagement missions of our AAU institutions.
• Foster the development of globally competent students, internationally engaged faculty, and institutions capable of addressing global challenges.
• Identify critical issues, gather information, and create opportunities for AAU members to discuss challenges and share knowledge with their NA counterparts.
• Serve as the leading advocate for advancing the broad interests of the AAU in NA
• Support the development of innovative approaches and solutions to African Higher Education
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education (MSTTE) and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (UWI) signed a Memorandom of Understanding (MOU) to mark the implementation of a project related to a Centre for Workforce Research Developement (CWRD).
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Ever woken up to find dark circles under the eyes and trying every rule in the book to conceal them? Well, it happens to the best of us.
The baggy eyes, dark rings under the eyes make us appear pale, ill or odd.
Even though it may seem like a cosmetic issue, there are many underlying reasons of the same, understanding which is important before opting for a treatment.
Let us take a look at some of the pointers to get a better understanding:
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Portrait of Kenneth Apollo Bagamuhunda, Director General, Customs & Trade, East African Community; Mohan Vivekanandan, Group Executive, Origination and Client Coverage, Development Bank of Southern Africa and Bernard Mono, Head of Finance at East Africa Development Bank during Africa Investment Forum 2019 - Memorandum of Understanding with the East African Community on November 12, 2019, at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The War on Drugs (A Deeper Understanding Tour) @ The Anthem, Washington, DC on Monday, October 23, 2017.
#ADeeperUnderstanding #Tour #Setlist:
In Chains
Holding On
Pain
An Ocean in Between the Waves
Strangest Thing
Nothing to Find
Knocked Down
Buenos Aires Beach
Eyes to the Wind
Burning
Red Eyes
You Don't Have to Go
Under the Pressure
Clean Living
Encore:
Up All Night
Thinking of a Place
Like a Hurricane (Neil Young cover)
Access to high-quality, inclusive child care has a profound influence on children’s language skills and identity. First Nations children, families and communities benefit greatly from culturally based early learning and child care opportunities rooted in self-determination and in the implementation of First Nations’ laws, teachings and practices.
As teachers can we just give students work and set them free? Or do students need direction all the time?
The global sanitation crisis continues to affect the lives of 2.4 billion people who lack access to safe sanitation. In India alone, over 520 million practice open defecation, which severely increases the risk of neonatal mortality, stunting and contracting infectious diseases.
Although lack of latrines or using them has been widely cited in the mass media as a key factor driving open defecation, very few quantitative studies have focused on it. To address this evidence gap, 3ie is supporting several impact evaluations of interventions to promote latrine use in rural India. We are also committed to supporting the use of quality research evidence to inform decision-making.
In solidarity with World Toilet Day 2017, 3ie organised a panel discussion on the use of evidence to inform India’s sanitation policies and programming on 17 November.
HANDS Seminar on impact assessment of MARVI workers at Mövenpick Hotel, Karachi.Wherein Prof.A G Billoo, Dr.Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, Senator Dr Karim Ahmed Khawaja, Mr. Iqbal Hussain Durrani. Secretary, Health Department,Prof.Rasheed Juma, Dr.Yasmeen Qazi and other dignitaries from Health and Population Welfare Department, Development partners, Diplomats, Public Health Professionals, NGOs representatives, Professional Associations and Media Professionals took part.