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Meigs Terminal Building
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For Day 1 of my 31 Days of Chicago History project (for more on the project, see the main set page here) I wanted to choose something relatively recognizable, but also something of which people did not have a good knowledge. Although I knew some of the recent history, I did not have a good feel for the Century of Progress and wanted to use it as a means to explore that portion of Chicago history more thoroughly. This is a photo of the remaining terminal building, which has been converted to general purpose office space and a location for private events.
Northerly Island is located in the Lake to the South of Roosevelt Road. Although still called Northerly Island it is currently a peninsula. That said, Northerly Island was indeed created as an island back in 1920 as part of Burnham’s plan for Chicago. After 5 years of construction, the island was completed and covered with trees and paths as an escape from the dense city to the west. Only 3 years after its completion, the site was chosen as the centerpiece for the city’s bid to host the World’s Fair in 1933. Called the Century of Progress, the Fair was hosted on the Centennial of the city’s incorporation. The fourth star of the Chicago Flag was added to commemorate this event. The Century of Progress featured a “rainbow city” to differentiate it from the previous “White City” at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition at the 1893 World’s Fair. It seems that many of the most popular buildings at the fair were sponsored by Auto manufacturers and railroads, highlighting their cutting edge technology and models. A major fan favorite was the Skyride which carried fairgoers several hundred feet above the grounds in rocket-like cars. By the time the fair closed in 1934, nearly 40 million visitors had attended. A photo of the fair from the Library of Congress: [upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Century_of_Pr...]
Until recently, Northerly Island was more commonly known as Meigs Field. The island was converted to an airfield several years after it was made a peninsula in 1948. The field was used by local businessmen and was a favorite of Illinois politicians – a short flight to Springfield from the heart of the city was far better than a traffic-filled drive to one of the city’s major airports and exceedingly better than three hours behind the wheel to the armpit of Springfield. This is where one of my favorite of Chicago stories comes into the picture. In the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley decided that the airport would be closed and reverted to park space for the city. This would be as part of his planned Lake Shore Drive work and consolidation of the area museums and parks into today’s museum campus. However, under aggressive pressure from the state’s political elite, Daley bowed to a 10 year extension of the lease through 2006.
The events of September 11th provided the mayor with the scapegoat he needed. In the professed interest of security from plane-based attacks on the city, the Mayor ordered demolition crews to sneak onto the field in the night hours of 31 March 2003. They used their equipment to cut dramatic X’s into the runway, effectively closing the airport. No notice had been given to the FAA. When the “work” was discovered in the morning, one flight already inbound had to be rerouted, and 16 planes were stranded at the facility. Although the Federal Government and downstate politicians were none-too-pleased, Daley suffered little from the fiasco, being forced to pay a $33,000 slap-on-the-wrist fine. You have to see this photo from the Mayor’s “aesthetic work” on the runway: [upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Meigs_field_r...]
Now Northerly Island has reverted to park land as it was once created. It is also the focus of a 20 to 30 year plan to remake the area as a focal point for recreation in the city, similar to the landmark work at Millennium Park. The design is gorgeous and the brainchild of incredible Studio Gang Architects – the creator of the Aqua… more on them later in the month. Northerly Island also provides a unique view of the city’s skyline. The old control tower is also still on the site.
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The Roots of Knowledge Windows in the Utah Valley University Library in Orem, Utah, were unveiled on November 18, 2016. It is an epic work of art that took Holdman Studios over 10 years to complete.
As part of the required course knowledge pupils need to be able to outline the process involved in taking a square wooden blank and preparing it for turning between centres. These pictures depict that process chronologically.
Stage 1 * Preparation of wooden blank. Cut to size. Sand square. Mark across diagonals. Centre punch the centre point. Use spring dividers to mark circumference. Repeat on other end.
Stage 2 * Plane off corners down to circumference line. This takes cross section from square to octagon. This reduces force on cutting toll in initial prep of blank. Mount between fork [driven] centre and dead [or live ] centre at tailstock end. Apply grease a dead centre end. apply force from tailstock end to force fork into material at driven end. Adjust toolstock height to suit. Check for clearance.
Stage 3 * Roughout using scraper to diameter. Use combination of gouges and skew chisels to add beads and other decorative detailing as required. Ensure spindle speed is appropriate for material and cross section under consideration. Obey all safety instructions.
The Ingoldsby Legends - a strange little book containing strange little stories such as 'The Spectre of Tappington', 'Raising the Devil' and 'The Buccaneers Curse'.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa made an inspection tour of the construction site of the “Knowledge Park” (former Tripoli Market) in Pettah yesterday (Augsut 6) morning. The complete cost is estimated to be around 7 million US dollars where knowledge-based industries will be allowed to setup of their operations. The first stage construction work in the 25 acre land plot has now been completed. Mahinda Chinthana future vision envisages to make Sri Lanka a knowledge hub in Asia. The government expects to earn a revenue of one thousand million US dollars from the information sector by the year 2016. In order to achieve this target the knowledge park complex will also be developed as a city consisting business research institutions.
දැනුම පදනම් කරගත් කර්මාන්ත සිදු කිරීමේ මධ්යස්ථානයක් ලෙස ඉදිකෙරෙන පිටකොටුව, නොලේජ් පාර්ක් සංකීර්ණය ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ඊයේ (06) ලක් කෙරිණි. මරදාන ආසන්නයේ පිහිටා ඇති අක්කර 25කින් සමන්විත ට්රිපෝලි මාර්කට් නැමැති පැරණි ගොඩනැඟිල්ල පිහිටි ස්ථානයේ මෙහි ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු සිදු කෙරෙන අතර එහි පළමු අදියර යටතේ මේ වන විට අක්කර 12ක ඉදිකිරීම් සිදු කර ඇත. මහින්ද චින්තන ඉදිරි දැක්මට අනුව ශ්රී ලංකාව ආසියාවේ දැනුමේ කේන්ද්රස්ථානය බවට පත් කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර තිබෙන අතර වර්ෂ 2016 වන විට තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ කර්මාන්තයෙන් ඩොලර් බිලියනයක අපනයන ආදායමක් ලබාගැනීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වේ. ඒ යටතේ නවීන පන්නයේ අපනයන පහසුකම් සහිත ව්යාපාර පර්යේෂණ ආයතන සහිත නගරයක් ලෙස මෙය සංවර්ධනය කෙරේ. විෂයානුබද්ධ ඉහළ අධ්යාපනය ලැබූවන් සඳහා රැකියා අවස්ථා පුළුල් කිරීම ඉන් අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ. දැනුම පදනම් කරගත් ව්යාපාරික ස්ථාන පිහිටුවීම සඳහා ලාබ ලැබීමේ චේතනාවකින් තොරව සමාගම් කිහිපයක්ද එක්ව කටයුතු කරන අතර එම සමාගම් සන්ධානය ට්රේස් යන නමින් හඳුන්වයි.
அறிவைப் பயன்படுத்தும் தொழில் துறைகளின் மத்திய நிலையமாக உருவாகிவரும் புறக்கோட்டை நிர்மாணிக்கப்படும் கைத்தொழில் நிலையமான ‘நொலேஜ் பார்க்’ கட்டிடத் தொகுதியை ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ அவர்கள் நேற்று (ஆகஸ்ட் 6) பார்வையிட்டார். புறக்கோட்டைக்கு சமீபமாக 25 ஏக்கர் நிலப்பரப்பு கொண்ட திரிப்போலி மார்க்கட் என்றழைக்கப்படும் பிரதேசத்தில் இக்கட்டடத் தொகுதி உருவாக்கப்பட்டு வருகின்றது.
(Photos by: Nalin Hewapathirana)
Welcome to Poultry India 2015 – KNOWLEDGE-DAY Technical Seminar at Hyderabad.
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CAMERA: Canon NEW F1
LENS: Canon fd lens 85mm f/1,8 S.S.C. + Multiprizma 4-section
FILM: Kodak color ISO 400 36 exp.
FILM DEVELOPMENT: author's manual film development
Digibase c41 MIDI kit [8min 15sec 30 °C] diluted bleaching
FILM SCANNED: OpticFilm Plustek 7400 with SilverFast Software
SHOOTING DATE: 05/2015
DEVELOPER DATE: 09/2015
TECHNIQUE: Multiple Exposure unedited.
NUMBER OF EXPOSURES: 2
NO POST-PROCESSING
OBJECT: business center on Krestovsky Prospect
PLACE: Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2015
If school backpacks can transmit as much knowledge to their owners as they seem able to hold to their owners, the 252 girls and boys at Queen’s Nursery and Primary School next to UN House in Juba, some only marginally bigger than their bags, have a bright future.
To promote girl power and progress on the International Day of the Girl Child, female police officers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan visited the school and offered a variety of inspirational activities and revelations.
“Believe it or not, but I was once a small girl just like you! If you look around you, the other uniformed women here have also been children, dreaming of becoming adults. Now we have grown up and become what we wanted to be, by studying hard and following our dreams,” the peacekeeping mission’s Police Commissioner Unaisi Lutu Vuniwaqa confided –even before reaching her main message:
“All of you can become whatever you decide that you want to be. Your future is in your hands, just work hard to make the most of your education,” she added, and stressed that boys and men have an important role to play in supporting and allowing girls to flourish and reach their full potential.
A show of hands, prompted by the Police Commissioner, demonstrated that South Sudanese schools and law enforcement agencies won’t suffer from a lack of future candidates as the pupils of Queen’s School become fully fledged adults.
These preliminary findings were quickly confirmed by 14-year-old Lili John and one year younger Stella Gibson.
“Today is important because going to school gives us knowledge, and I want to become a teacher,” Lili said, still a bit unsure about what subject she would like to teach.
Truck drivers in the country are unlikely to be able to welcome Stella to their fold, but may still get to know her in another capacity.
“A police officer, that’s what I want to be. A strong one,” she added for clarification.
Patience is a necessary virtue for anyone nurturing learning children or putting criminal individuals back on the straight and narrow path of a righteous life. The same will be true for those wishing the mango tree sapling planted on Thursday’s occasion to grow fast to provide the school site with much-needed shade as quickly as possible.
The little fellow, unless it was a girl to mark the day, maybe 20 centimeters tall, was at least given a cheerful start to life, with students, teachers, community leaders and UN police officers willing it on by dancing and singing the infectious and quite possibly recently composed tune “Shake, shake, the mango tree, one for you and one for me.”
Stoical, discerning mango lovers may, however, one day be in luck and see their shares of the spoils grow significantly. Chances are that the little newcomer may soon be accompanied by another 45 tree saplings recently donated to the school by the UN Mission’s environmental engineers. That gift was part of the Carbon Sink Joint Project between UNMISS and the government of South Sudan.
Photo: UNMISS / Eric Kanalstein
My knowledge of the county where I spent the first 25 years of my life, is largely restricted what you could see from the main roads through it, or where Shreeves Coaches would do tours too. Therefore I know the A12 and 143 very well, but away from those, not so good.
I grew up in a household that did not own a car, I am the only one to have passed a driving test, so any exploration would have to be where there was a railway station nearby, or where a coach might call.
Before my current interest in churches, I would see signs pointing down leafy lanes towards the parish church, and I would not be tempted. I knew there was such a sign from the small stretch of dual carriageway near to Saxmundham.
Having been to Snape, I turned onto the A12 intending to go north, but instead turned west following the signs to Benhall.
Down a long, straight lane, lined with mature trees and carpeted with golden leaves that had just fallen: i reach the end and can see no church, but a hand painted sign points the way right, and a hundred yards away, hidden behind trees sits St Mary.
I like a church with a gallery; even better if is open, or accessible. All round a fine and tidy, well kept church, and despite only a minute drive from the main road, is a million miles away.
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One of the great things about being a harmless Suffolk eccentric is that you get to meet other harmless Suffolk eccentrics. I hadn't known Aidan Semmens very long, and Benhall was part of one of our first jaunts together. This site was on its first, fresh legs, and he was writing about churches for what in those days was still called, quaintly, Eastern Counties Newspapers. We would bounce ideas off each other to the advantage of both our work, and may one day even get round to writing that book we kept talking about. However, Benhall stalled us in our creative endeavours, because on that occasion we couldn't get into the church.
When I first wrote on this site about finding this church locked, in what was otherwise an area of open churches, I had a wry e-mail from the Archdeacon of Sudbury, telling me that, in fact, Benhall church was open daily from 9 am - 5 pm. However the door is heavy and some people find it difficult to open. The hand has to be turned to the right and the door pushed forward. Neither Aidan or I had ever laid claims to being macho, and so we enrolled on an intensive fitness programme at the local gym, limbering up to open stiff doors. But in fact it would be more than eight years before I came back to Benhall.
Benhall is one of those parishes bisected by the A12. Unhappily, this cuts the church off from its village centre, but both village and church are in rather lovely settings, St Mary being reached down a long, straight high-hedged lane from the busy road. I freewheeled along, enjoying the birdsong and the emerging sunshine as July stuttered into life. Soon, the noise of the traffic fell away behind me, but as I approached the church a lunatic dog erupted in the garden across the road. I dare say that I was the first stranger it had seen all day, but its slavering barking suggested that it thought I was definitely up to no good.
At first sight, St Mary is an entirely Victorian confection; the double-breasted east end consists of the original, repointed chancel, and a north transept and chancel aisle, both with 19th century windows. The style is similar to Somerton, across the county. The northern extensions were to contain an organ, vestry and schoolroom. On the eastern face of the original chancel, an internal memorial has been placed, rather ill-advisedly; the Victorians sometimes seem rather embarrassed by these, although they normally just banished them to the west end of the nave. Mortlock thought that the tower showed signs of being early, with late Saxon work at three of the corners; but, as he says, the 19th Century touch is so overwhelming elsewhere, there is no reason to think it original. It certainly doesn't look older than about 150 years. As I wandered around the church taking photographs, the dog kept up its hellish litany, verging on the apoplectic whenever I came back into view. I wondered if it did this for church services as well - if so, Benhall weddings must be fun. I found that by jumping up and down and waving my arms I could raise its anger to absolute fever pitch. However, reasoning that if it broke through the fence and rushed across the road, the smile would be on the other side of my face - if, indeed, I still had a face at all - I decided to curtail my amusement and have another go at that south door.
There is a substantial south porch, with the first inkling that this church is something rather interesting after all; a large, Norman doorway. It shows signs of being recut, but is in its original place, and is perhaps the clearest inclination of the date of the superstructure of the building. The door opened easily. The interior is clean, light and well-kept, a pleasing balance between old brick floors and early 19th century furnishings. This is essentially a Georgian interior, from the days of the Rector John Mitford, brother of the more famous Mary. The pre-ecclesiological features include a gallery, a double decker pulpit looking along the ranks of box pews, and a curious birdbath font on a stubby stem. The clear glass of the windows benefits the nave, filling it with a simple, restful light.
To step past the organ in the transept, and into the chancel, is to enter a part of the building with a quite different feel. Unfortunately, the fitted carpet makes a view of the church's brasses and floor slabs impossible - there are three sets of brasses to members of the Duke family, and Sam Mortlock was most impressed by them when he came here in the early 1990s. I don't know when the carpet was fitted, but it did occur to me that if I had bothered to come back to Benhall sooner then I would have seen them as well. The striking memorial on the north wall of the chancel is to another Duke, Sir Edward, who died in the 1730s. An antiquarian, he used the opportunity to record almost 150 years worth of his forebears, which must make him very popular with his own ancestors if any of them are genealogists.
Benhall church is a simple, restful place, off the beaten track and probably little-known. But I was glad I'd come back, and as I waved the dog a cheery goodbye, he whined and put his head between his paws, perhaps reasoning that he might have to wait some considerable time before he had any more fun.
Simon Knott, September 2008
I have no knowledge about tractors other than being able to link the manufacturer to the colour they make them. This is a red Massey Ferguson. For this reason, I called this photograph.... (building the suspense).... Massey Ferguson.
John Deere is dark green, Klaas light green and New Holland is blue. I distrust blue tractors. Diane's dad is a farmer and she once told me his New Holland combine harvester caught fire while he was driving it. Two years later I discovered it wasn't a New Holland at all. And that New Holland's combines are yellow, not blue. But it was too late, it was stuck in my mind. Every time I drive past a blue tractor now I flinch, waiting for the inevitable explosion.
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Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
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Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
"All truth and knowledge is important, but amidst the constant distractions of our daily lives, we must especially pay attention to increasing our gospel knowledge so we can understand how to apply gospel principles to our lives. As our gospel knowledge increases, we will begin to feel confident in our testimonies and be able to state: I know it.'" (Anne M. Dibbs). Model Kelsey Garry. (Photo by Karen Petitt)
Mark Weislogel
NASA’s go-to problem solver
Liquids in zero gravity don’t pour, don’t spill and don’t drip. But PSU mechanical and materials engineering professor and former NASA scientist Mark Weislogel found a way to make them behave.
An expert in fluid dynamics, Weislogal has designed numerous experiments performed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He and his students used complex mathematics to design a coffee cup that allows liquids to be sipped instead of sucked from a tube. That’s great news for coffee-loving astronauts, and the science behind it has implications for space travel that are out of this world.
At Portland State University, we believe knowledge works best when it serves the community.
2007 was notable for me as I completed my Psychology degree. What now? All this knowledge in my head and on a shelf ...
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Project : “gliSSSSSSSSSendo”
Location: Catharinaplein
With his technical knowledge, his creative forces and his inventive talent UliK developed a construction that allows musicians to glide through space. With his knowledge of stage- and costume-design, his musical choices and his feel for good entertainment he produced a magical show with the innovative brass band Fanfare Le SNOB.
Since the 1994 Fanfare Le SNOB (the abbreviation for “Service de Nettoyage des Oreilles Bouchées” (trans. cleaning service for blocked ears)) produces performances exploring the sound spectrum of brass instruments. Rooted in excellent musicianship their joy and enthusiasm for street performances is part of their magic.
The eye and ear opening performance of UliK and Le SNOB induces its subject from musical term “glissando”, which can be translated as “gliding”. In the case of the performance “gliSSSSSSSSendo” there are nine monk-like figures in long black robes and burning hats gliding through darkness in urban space, carried away by their music. The musical program comprises brass band traditionals as well as contemporary compositions by Philipp Glass or Michael Nyman.
Source: www.gloweindhoven.nl
Catherine Mulligan, Co-Director, Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom during the Session: "The Globalization of Knowledge" at the World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
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Garrett Brown explains the second pre-Steadicam prototype, with a parallelogram mechanism.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
» Garrett Brown: Inventing the Future -- And a Few Handy Gadgets
ILO Senior Specialist on OSH Francisco Santos O'Connor discusses the ILO Convention 176 during the Inter-Regional Knowledge Sharing on Child Labour and Working Conditions in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) held in Manila, Philippines from 28 to 30 May 2019.
Experts and global actors from Africa, Asia, and South America joined the 3-day forum provided a venue to exchange knowledge, technologies, practices and challenges to put forward concrete solutions to address child labour and poor working conditions in the ASGM sector.
To learn more, visit bit.ly/asgm2019
Photo © ILO/G. Carreon
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For millions of Californians, the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes were a wake-up call to learn more about earthquakes. We interviewed two UCLA experts to debunk some common myths, get some tips for preparedness and learn how researchers are “turning disaster into knowledge.” Click here for the story, and more tips: ucla.in/2PFK9db
Nat Parker and Michael Gray
Developed ticketless apps for transit
One morning at his bus stop, Michael Gray saw every person step onto the bus using TriMet’s mobile ticketing app, created by GlobeSherpa—his and co-founder Nat Parker’s company.
“I was like a proud papa beaming inside, seeing this thing we created and seeing people using it,” Gray says.
Parker and Gray started GlobeSherpa over beers after class in Portland State’s Master in International Management program. Parker earned his master’s in 2010 and Gray in 2011.
“There were some really amazing professors at PSU that helped us think systematically about entrepreneurship, to make it a real life pursuit,” Parker says. The two master's students didn’t want to create an esoteric product; they wanted to make something useful. GlobeSherpa took many forms as Parker and Gray sought both profitability and value.
“Mobile payments are something to solve everyday problems,” Parker says. “Everybody has horror stories about buying tickets. Our demographic is everybody.”
After topping 850,000 TriMet tickets, the entrepreneurs are looking to create apps for the “integrated city experience”—commuting, events, attractions, and parking.
And the young company, which this year won the Technology Association of Oregon’s start-up Technology Company of the Year award, has now gone national. They are working with Valley Metro in Phoenix, Ariz., Virginia Railway Express in the Washington, D.C., area, and with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Their products span ticketing and enforcement apps to back office software for businesses to analyze sales and customize products.
“At its heart, entrepreneurship is so creative,” Parker says. “It gives you the opportunity to think outside the box.”
“The entrepreneurship experience has been awesome,” Gray adds. “It’s been difficult, constantly bringing new challenges, but it’s a rush.”