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Imagine I offered you a choice of four gifts:
* The original Mona Lisa
* The keys to a brand new Lamborghini
* A million dollars in cash
* A parachute
You can pick only one. Which would you choose? Before you decide, here's some information that will help you to make the wisest choice: You have to jump 10,000 feet out of an airplane.
Does that help you to connect the dots? It should, because you need the parachute. It's the only one of the four gifts that will help with your dilemma. The others may have some value, but they are useless when it comes to facing the law of gravity in a 10,000-foot fall. The knowledge that you will have to jump should produce a healthy fear in you—and that kind of fear is good because it can save your life. Remember that.
Now think of the four major religions:
* Hinduism
* Buddhism
* Islam
* Christianity
Which one should you choose? Before you decide, here's some information that will help you determine which one is the wisest choice: All of humanity stands on the edge of eternity. We are all going to die. We will all have to pass through the door of death. It could happen to us in twenty years, or in six months, . . . or today. For most of humanity, death is a huge and terrifying plummet into the unknown. So what should we do?
Do you remember how it was your knowledge of the jump that produced that healthy fear, and that fear helped you to make the right choice? You know what the law of gravity can do to you. In the same way, we are going to look at another law, and hopefully your knowledge of what it can do to you will help you make the right choice, about life's greatest issue. So, stay with me—and remember to let fear work for you.
The Leap...
After we die we have to face what is called "the law of sin and death." We know that Law as "The Ten Commandments." So let's look at that Law and see how you will do when you face it on Judgment Day.
Have you loved God above all else? Is He first in your life? He should be. He's given you your life and everything that is dear to you. Do you love Him with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength? That's the requirement of the First Commandment.
Or have you broken the Second Commandment by making a god in your mind that you're comfortable with—where you say, "My God isn't a God of wrath, he's a God of love and mercy"? That god does not exist; he's a figment of the imagination. To create a god in your mind (your own image of God) is something the Bible calls "idolatry." Idolaters will not enter Heaven.
Have you ever used God's name in vain, as a cuss word to express disgust? That's called "blasphemy," and it's very serious in God's sight. This is breaking the Third Commandment, and the Bible says God will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Have you always honored your parents implicitly, and kept the Sabbath holy? If not, you have broken the Fourth and Fifth Commandments. Have you ever hated someone? The Bible says, "Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer."
The Seventh is "You shall not commit adultery," but Jesus said, "Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" (the Seventh Commandment includes sex before marriage). Have you ever looked with lust or had sex outside of marriage? If you have, you've violated that Commandment. Have you ever lied? Ever stolen anything, regardless of value? If you have, then you're a lying thief. The Bible tells us, "Lying lips are abomination to the Lord," because He is a God of truth and holiness. Have you coveted (jealously desired) other people's things? This is a violation of the Tenth Commandment.
Little Jessica....
So that is God's moral Law that we each will face. We will be without excuse when we stand before God because He gave us our conscience to know right from wrong. Each time we lie, steal, commit adultery, murder, and so on, we know that it's wrong. So here is the crucial question. On Judgment Day, when God judges you, will you be found innocent or guilty of breaking this Law? Think before you answer. Will you go to Heaven or Hell? The Bible warns that all murderers, idolaters, liars, thieves, fornicators, and adulterers will end up in Hell. So where does that leave you?
Perhaps the thought of going to Hell doesn't scare you, because you don't believe in it. That's like standing in the open door of a plane 10,000 feet off the ground and saying, "I don't believe there will be any consequences if I jump without a parachute." To say that there will be no consequences for breaking God's Law is to say that God is unjust, that He is evil. This is why.
On February 24, 2005, a nine-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Homosassa, Florida. Three weeks later, police discovered that she had been kidnapped, brutally raped, and then buried alive. Little Jessica Lunsford was found tied up, in a kneeling position, clutching a stuffed toy.
How do you react?...
How do you feel toward the man who murdered that helpless little girl in such an unspeakably cruel way? Are you angered? I hope so. I hope you are outraged. If you were completely indifferent to her fate, it would reveal something horrible about your character.
Do you think that God is indifferent to such acts of evil? You can bet your precious soul He is not. He is outraged by them. The fury of Almighty God against evil is evidence of His goodness. If He wasn't angered, He wouldn't be good. We cannot separate God's goodness from His anger. Again, if God is good by nature, He must be unspeakably angry at wickedness.
But His goodness is so great that His anger isn't confined to the evils of rape and murder. Nothing is hidden from His pure and holy eyes. He is outraged by torture, terrorism, abortion, theft, lying, adultery, fornication, pedophilia, homosexuality, and blasphemy. He also sees our thought-life, and He will judge us for the hidden sins of the heart: for lust, hatred, rebellion, greed, unclean imaginations, ingratitude, selfishness, jealousy, pride, envy, deceit, etc. Jesus warned, "But I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" (emphasis added).
The Bible says that God's wrath "abides" on each of us, and that every time we sin, we're "storing up wrath" that will be revealed on Judgment Day. We are even told that we are "by nature the children of wrath" (emphasis added). Sinning against God comes naturally to us—and we naturally earn His anger by our sins.
Instant Death...
Many people believe that because God is good, He will forgive everyone, and let all sinners into Heaven. But they misunderstand His goodness.
When Moses once asked to see God's glory, God told him that he couldn't see Him and live. Moses would instantly die if he looked upon God. Consider this: [God] said, I will make all my goodness pass before you . . . And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by.
Notice that all of God's glory was displayed in His "goodness." The goodness of God would have killed Moses instantly because of his personal sinfulness. The fire of God's goodness would have consumed him, like a cup of water dropped onto the surface of the sun. The only way any of us can stand in the presence of God is to be pure in heart. Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."11 But as we've seen by looking at the Law, not a single one of us is "pure in heart."
These are extremely fearful thoughts, because the God we are speaking about is nothing like the commonly accepted image. He is not a benevolent Father-figure, who is happily smiling upon sinful humanity. In the midst of these frightening thoughts, remember to let fear work for you. The fear of God is the healthiest fear you can have. The Bible calls it "the beginning of wisdom."
Again, your knowledge of God's Law should help you to see that you have a life-threatening dilemma: a huge problem of God's wrath (His justifiable anger) against your personal sins. The just penalty for sin—breaking even one Law—is death, and eternity in Hell. But you haven't broken just one Law. Like the rest of us, you've no doubt broken all these laws, countless times each. What kind of anger do you think a judge is justified in having toward a criminal guilty of breaking the law thousands of times?
Let's See...
Let's now look at those four major religions to see if they can help you with your predicament.
Hinduism
The religion of Hinduism says that if you've been bad, you may come back as a rat or some other animal. If you've been good, you might come back as a prince. But that's like someone saying, "When you jump out of the plane, you'll get sucked back in as another passenger. If you've been bad, you go down to the Economy Class; if you've been good, you go up to First Class." It's an interesting concept, but it doesn't deal with your real problem of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell.
Buddhism
Amazingly, the religion of Buddhism denies that God even exists. It teaches that life and death are sort of an illusion. That's like standing at the door of the plane and saying, "I'm not really here, and there's no such thing as the law of gravity, and no ground that I'm going to hit." That may temporarily help you deal with your fears, but it doesn't square with reality. And it doesn't deal with your real problem of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell.
Islam
Interestingly, Islam acknowledges the reality of sin and Hell, and the justice of God, but the hope it offers is that sinners can escape God's justice if they do religious works. God will see these, and because of them, hopefully He will show mercy—but they won't know for sure. Each person's works will be weighed on the Day of Judgment and it will then be decided who is saved and who is not—based on whether they followed Islam, were sincere in repentance, and performed enough righteous deeds to outweigh their bad ones. So Islam believes you can earn God's mercy by your own efforts. That's like jumping out of the plane, and believing that flapping your arms is going to counter the law of gravity and save you from a 10,000-foot drop. And there's something else to consider.
The Law of God shows us that the best of us is nothing but a wicked criminal, standing guilty and condemned before the throne of a perfect and holy Judge. When that is understood, then our "righteous deeds" are actually seen as an attempt to bribe the Judge of the Universe. The Bible says that because of our guilt, anything we offer God for our justification (our acquittal from His courtroom) is an abomination to Him, and only adds to our crimes. Islam, like the other religions, doesn't solve your problem of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell.
Christianity
So why is Christianity different? Aren't all religions the same? Let's see. In Christianity, God Himself provided a "parachute" for us, and His Word says regarding the Savior, "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Just as a parachute solved your dilemma with the law of gravity and its consequences, so the Savior perfectly solves your dilemma with the Law of God and its consequences! It is the missing puzzle-piece that you need.
How did God solve our dilemma? He satisfied His wrath by becoming a human being and taking our punishment upon Himself. The Scriptures tell us that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Christianity provides the only parachute to save us from the consequences of the Law we have transgressed
Back to the Plane...
To illustrate this more clearly, let's go back to that plane for a moment. You are standing on the edge of a 10,000-foot drop. You have to jump. Your heart is thumping in your chest. Why? Because of fear. You know that the law of gravity will kill you when you jump. Someone offers you the original Mona Lisa. You push it aside. Another person passes you the keys to a brand new Lamborghini. You let them drop to the floor. Someone else tries to put a million dollars into your hands. You push the person's hand away, and stand there in horror at your impending fate.
Suddenly, you hear a voice say, "Here's a parachute!" Which one of those four people is going to hold the most credibility in your eyes? It's the one who held up the parachute! Again, it is your fear of the jump that turns you toward the good news of the parachute.
In the same way, knowledge of what God's Law will do to you produces a fear that makes the news of a Savior unspeakably good news! It solves your predicament of God's wrath. God loves you so much that He became a sinless human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
The Savior died an excruciating death on the cross, taking your punishment (the death penalty) upon Himself. The demands of eternal justice were satisfied the moment He cried, "It is finished!" The lightning of God's wrath was stopped and the thunder of His indignation was silenced at Calvary's bloodied cross: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." We broke the Law, but He became a man to pay our penalty in His life's blood.
Then He rose from the dead, defeating death. That means that God can now forgive every sin you have ever committed and commute your death sentence. If you repent and place your trust in Jesus, you can say with the apostle Paul: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
So you no longer need to be tormented by the fear of death, and you don't need to look any further for ways to deal with the dilemma of sin and God's wrath. The Savior is God's gift to you. The gospel is unspeakably good news for the entire, sinful human race! God Himself can "justify" you. He can cleanse you, and give you the "righteousness" of Christ. He can make you pure in heart by washing away your sins. He can shelter you from His fierce wrath, in the Rock of Ages that He has cleft for you. Only Jesus can save you from death and Hell, something that you could never earn or deserve.
Repent (Luke 13:5) of your sins (turn from them), and put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14) as you would put on a parachute—trusting in Him (Psalm 62:8) alone for your salvation. That means you forsake your own good works (Isaiah 64:6) as a means of trying to please God (trying to bribe Him), and trust only in what Jesus has done for you. Throw yourself on the mercy of the Judge. The Bible says that He's rich in mercy (Ephesians 2.4) to all who call upon Him, so call upon Him (Isaiah 55:6) right now. He will hear you if you approach Him (John 6:44) with a humble and sorrowful heart.
Sometimes all it takes is a little local knowledge to reveal some hidden gems around where I grew up in Northen New South Wales.
Killen Falls is a short drive inland from Lennox Head and definitely a place I will make sure I re-vist.
On another note some locals were actually catching some fish in the reservoir that the falls pools into!
Taken in FNC Australia. Best Viewed Large!
2013 World Water Week.
Sunday: New Knowledge, New Practice for Resilient Water Security, K11.
Photo: Thomas Henrikson.
Our Daily Challenge: Knowledge
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Tribal Carpets of Afghanistan
To write effectively and intelligently about carpets from the tribal areas of Afghanistan and the former central Asian States of the USSR would require many years of experience and personal knowledge of these carpet making regions. Unfortunately, we don't qualify in any of these areas, but I do have a number of reference books written by experts in the field- and the following is a compilation of observations from these volumes.
This clause will only serve to help put the background of the carpet making areas in central Asia in some perspective, and to help identify some of the more recognizable afghan rug designs and characteristics of carpets from these areas. When one considers the source of carpets from Afghanistan and the Former States of the USSR one must realize that the tribal peoples of the mountains really dont comprehend or honour modern geopolitical borders. Specific tribes exist on both sides and across the modern borders as if they didnt exist. The Baluchi tribes for example, extend from Eastern Iran through Western Afghanistan and into Pakistan. Similarly, the Turkoman tribes extend all across the northern borders.
Herat, in the Western part of Afghanistan, has a history of over two thousand five hundred years and was once occupied by Alexander the Great, and subsequently invaded by Mongols led by Genghis Khan and then Tamerlan in the 13th century. Herat was considered part of the Persian Empire, and the Persian influence in carpet making in Herat is still seen.
Types Of Carpets
There are many names for the type of weavings found in Afghanistan and Central Asia. For example, in Herat and the Northern Turkmen tribes an ensi (or engsi) is a rug designed to serve as an internal tent door. This same design is called a Hatchli (or Hatchlu) in Iran, and a purdah (or purdhu) in other parts of Afghanistan - all of them referring to a door curtain or closure.
A young tribal girl who has been taught the art of carpet weaving from a young age would probably have the following carpets and weavings in her dowry:
One Main Carpet (ghali) 9ft.10in. x 7ft.
Two small rugs (dip ghali) 6ft. x 3ft.
One engsi
One decoration for over the engsi (kapunuk)
12 small personal belonging bags 2ft.x1.5ft. and 4ft.x 1.5 ft. (mafrash & torba)
two large bedding bags (chuval or Juwal) always made in pairs
three decorated tent-bands (aq yup) 50 ft long and 2 inch to 1 ft wide
Materials: The material used for making tribal rugs are basically what these nomads have at their immediate disposal: wool from their sheep which is used in the warp and weft as well as the pile. Some tribes use goat hair for overbidding the sides (selvedges) or rugs. Camel hair is especially prized for the field areas of prayer carpets. When possible the sheep are driven into streams to wash them prior to shearing. The wool is then sorted by color and quality and then combed and spun. The wool is then dyed one person can generally can generally spin one kilo per day.
Dyes: Natural dyes are still used, but since the 1950s pre-dyed wool yarn (using synthetic dyes) readily found in the towns and villages are often substituted for or combined with the natural dyes. The wild colors (some almost iridescent) often found in many Afghan carpets are surely synthetics. In natural dying, the yarn is presoaked in a fixing bath of alum, copper sulfate, ferrous sulfate, tin or urine. The yarn is then transferred to a dye bath and soaked until the desired color is obtained. The yarn is then washed and hung out to dry. Dying was usually done by the men. Natural dyes fade beautifully and often show as uneven coloring (abrash). Abrash (meaning speckled or marbled) is commonly the result of a weaver running out of wool and having to dye another lot or buying a similar color from elsewhere. Abrash in no way detracts from the value of a tribal carpet, but is a desirable characteristic of a tribal weaving. Naturally dyed wool will fade right through whereas synthetic dyes will fade only on the tips where the light hits it. A newer tribal carpet can be "mellowed" by placing it in the direct sun for several days.
Natural dyes originate from the following materials:
Reds: Madder - Root of Madder Plant - (ranges from reds to orange and purple)
Cochineal: produced from the female shield louse (Blue /red tone)
Lac Deep purple: from the excretions of a scale insect native to India Kermes. From an insect which breeds on the Kermes oak
Blues: Indigo plant (Dyers Wood)
Black: Can be achieved by using a very dark blue or by use of a bath of tannic acid, acorn cups, pomegranate skin, oak galls, and then adding to a bath iron sulphate to make the color fast. This can produce a weakness in the black wool which in carpets 50 to 100 years old can be seen as worn black areas where the remaining pile is still OK.
Yellow: Many sources including; Dyers weed; Saffron; wild chamomile; tanners sumac; buckthorn; pomegranate tree; isperek (a flowering larkspur)
Green: Obtained from walnuts and olive leaves? Or by blending blue and yellow agents
Brown: Can be natural undyed wool or by dying with fresh or dried pods of the walnut, oak guls or acorn cups.
Looms: Tribal carpets are almost always done on the horizontal or ground loom. This is due to the fact that the nomads rarely remain in one location for more than two months. The horizontal loom can be easily dismantled and packed on an animal to the new location and then staked out on the ground again. A Turkoman woman will usually take at least six months to finish a carpet 6ft.6in. by 4ft. The loom therefore can be set up and taken down four to six times before a carpet or Kelim is finished. This often results in different tensions in the warp threads and is the reason why tribal rugs often have an irregular shape. While this irregularity is part of the charm of a tribal rug, carpets which do not lie flat should be avoided
Bildungsauftrag Bücherhalle: durch die Art der Leihrückgabe werden auch Verweigerer wie altmodische Buchleser zur Auseinandersetzung mit moderner Technik gezwungen.
This is definitely Warrington Bank Quay Station, and I think it is about 1987, but my lack of knowledge about the various classes of first generation British Railways electric locomotives leaves me floundering a bit. So it is a slight stab in the dark when I say that this unidentified named loco is a Class 86 - but I really am not sure. You might be able to help....
I have recently bought some collections of railway negatives and slides, (with copyright assigned to me), mainly dating from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, of which this is just one. Many are unlabeled, so I have to do a little detective work to determine date and location as best I can. I will post some of the more interesting ones occasionally.
Unknown 35mm Camera & Lens
Film: Unidentified Kodak Colour Negative Film
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The Thirty-Second Session Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 28 to December 2, 2016.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The 2017 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference Competition Medalists were announced Friday, June 23, 2017 at Freedom Hall in Louisville.
Health Knowledge Bowl
Team J (consisting of Alaina Gosche, Madison Jones, Jessica Holman, Alexis Herr)
High School Vanguard-Sentinel CTC-Sentinel Campus
Gold Tiffin, OH
Health Knowledge BowlTeam G (consisting of Julia Garaffa, Matthew Natividad, Parth Patel, Palak Shah)
High School Somerset County Academy of Medical Sciences
Silver Bridgewater, NJ
Health Knowledge BowlTeam D (consisting of Macy Williams, Samantha Baker, Ashley Phipps, Andrea Blochberger)
High School Eldon Career Center
Bronze Eldon, MO
Health Knowledge BowlTeam B (consisting of Megan Keene, Alexandra Stephens, Bryant Phelps, Taylor Haynes)
College Central Georgia Technical College
Gold Macon, GA
Health Knowledge BowlTeam D (consisting of Bryana Pyle, Rachel Miller, Sarah Duggan, Wesley Stiles)
College Tennessee College of Applied Tech-Murfreesboro
Silver Murfreesboro, TN
Health Knowledge BowlTeam F (consisting of Sarah Shepherd, Ashley Hobson, Sarah Brown, Hannah Johnson)
College Wilkes Community College
Bronze Wilkesboro, NC
Barbara Roberts
Teaching women to be leaders
Gov. Barbara Roberts’ connections to Portland State run deep. Her husband, Frank Roberts, taught here for more than 30 years, plus she was on the staff at the Hatfield School of Government for four years. After her historic term as the first woman to be the state’s governor, Roberts helped start a PSU program aimed at teaching women to be leaders.
PSU offers a unique springboard, Roberts says, because of its insistence that students “don’t just learn from books or from professors,” but by working in government and watching how leaders operate. “More than anything, it’s that hands-on attitude that has made PSU’s programs so strong.”
Roberts took an unlikely path into the upper corridors of power in Oregon. From a one-room schoolhouse in Yamhill County, she went on to become a key spokesperson for the developing field of disability rights after her son was diagnosed with autism.
Her activism gave her a reputation as a champion for disenfranchised communities, including homeless, abused children and the elderly. She was elected to the Oregon House before running successfully for Secretary of State. In 1991, she became Oregon’s first female governor.
After leaving elective politics, she helped launch the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at PSU, now known as the Center for Women’s Leadership. The center teaches college women public speaking, planning, organizing and other skills necessary to become leaders.
“There’s little question PSU has played a major role in the Portland area and the state, turning out new leaders, new thinkers and the new workforce,” Roberts says.
At Portland State University, we believe knowledge works best when it serves the community.
If the student hasn't the background knowledge (schema) to make connections to a text, then comprehension becomes a real challenge.
A teacher's job is to help provide background knowledge before they start reading.
I created this using a screen capture from a music video and ComicLife software.
Open Space during the conference on change and Knowledge Management by KMI
Composite photo, Deb's Knowledge Management and Change Management at the Westin, Gateway, Arlington, VA
FRAME an Energized Approach to Adaptive Change,
Smart Process AND Lasting Results
knowledge is power and knowledge is more none knowledge as knowledge is the objectivity of understanding that we cannot understand ist die verfluchte wahheit dass jede wahrheit immer nur die warheit einer wahrheit ist eine lüge ist
#draw365 #artjournal by @peter_seelig
I love this photo! I felt like a real photographer whilst doing this! I really enjoyed confusing all my friends and getting them all involved (everyone was throwing paper XD.)
Got tomorrow of school cus teachers are striking for some reason -probably some pension reason -.- - but me, ruth and angel are meeting up to take photos... SO EXCITED! were planning it as we speek and I have a few ideas :3 (anyone got a bed sheet) *chuckle emoticon
House of Knowledge, by Jaume Plensa, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in the process of being packed up to be (one assumes) shipped off to wherever it's on show next.
For photos of it while the exhibition was open see here:
In Hindu mythology the light signifies goodness and vitality. A traditional Puja is performed after sunset in all the homes. Ghee diyas (lamps) are lit in front of the deities, Naivedya of traditional sweets is offered to the Goddess and devotional songs- in praise of Goddess Laxmi are sung across all traditional Hindu homes. It is almost history today due to hectic life and urbanization.
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Forbidden Knowledge / Heft-Reihe
cover: Pete Von Sholly
Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
(Berkeley / USA; 1978)
ex libris MTP
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north-central Argentina began in October 2018 and ended in April 2019. This region experiences some of the world’s largest and most destructive thunderstorms. CACTI’s goal was to help fill in knowledge gaps about how large regional convective storms form, grow, and organize.
Terms of Use: Our images are freely and publicly available for use with the credit line, “Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.”
Image courtesy of Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Scientia Potentia Est (Francis Bacon)
Knowledge is power. Library Arnhem, Rozet building.
You go, girls!
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
~ Albert Einstein
Swift Hall was the second building erected for the Engineering Department at the University of Cincinnati. Constructed in 1926, Swift Hall was designed by Harry Hake to be fireproof, made of steel and concrete, red wire-cut brick and Terra cotta trimming. The building was the last word in architecture, design and construction methods as new inventions changed the fabric of construction.
Swift Hall, named after the generous benefactor John B. Swift, housed the electrical engineering department for the expanding engineering department. Swift was the president of the Eagle Pitcher Lead Company and donated $150,000 in memory of his brother who had been a graduate of the University. Another generous donation by John Emery enabled the University to build the building.
Like other engineering programs across the United States, the University of Cincinnati's Engineering Department competed in the burgeoning world of technology. Through the persistence of UC instructor Paul Herget, who became an astronaut, the University beat out East Schools like Yale to obtain one of the first computers utilized in colleges. The computer was an IBM 650 and allowed UC’s Engineering Department to develop the first program to teach computer programming to the visually impaired as well as those with disabilities.
In 2002 and 2003 Swift Hall, along with other buildings at UC, were renovated to include computer-based classrooms, offices and meeting spaces. Currently Swift Hall houses the Main Campus Newspaper, the News Record, offices and classrooms. On a fun side note: astronomer Paul Herget later helped design the Pringle Potato Chip.
Oringinally completed in 1926, Swift Hall is adjacent to the Steger Student Life Center and houses classrooms, lecture halls, and offices for various UC programs. glaserworks, as Architect of Record worked closely with the University and with design firm Moore Ruble Yudell to create some of UC’s earliest high-tech "digital" classrooms. These electronic classrooms have been designed to comply with specific guidelines supporting teaching and learning with technology. Nearly every student has an unobstructed view of high definition video images projected from a computer, laptop, VCR, DVD, or document camera augmented with excellent sound quality. Lighting and shades are automatically controlled for optimum viewing and note-taking. In the larger lecture rooms, multiple screens allow simultaneous viewing and recording of side-by-side images for comparison or examination i.e. a scanned photo downloaded from the web shown adjacent to a physical specimen placed under the document camera.
DLECTRICITY 2012 Installation
Artists: NewD Media: Gabe Hall, Daniel Land,Audra Kubat, Gabe Rice
Projection-mapped 3D animation, dynamic optical illusions, and dimensional cinema tell the human story of knowledge by bringing the face of our Library to life in mythic scale. From Cave Painting to Ancient Greece; the tragic destruction of the Library of Alexandria to the invention of books, the dawn of electricity, and the rise of the Internet.
www.dlectricity.com/the-exhibition/projects/7-knowledge-i...
SOOC
At the time I took this I didn't have much knowledge or interest in Stagecoach and so imagined this was a fairly standard thing to see. What I wasn't to know was that I'd never again see an InterConnect purple branded 64 plate Scania that had come from, of all places, Grimsby! Yes, it then set off with a 53 which today is the preserve of fairly unremarkable all-ADL Enviro 300s and - if Stagecoach really want to spice things up - the odd Eclipse... but a Scania decker?! I guess it could have been commonplace for 2018, but even so I'm glad I got a picture of it!
5.2.18
Colombia & Ecuador
Dance:
Estampas Negras Colombian Folkloric Dance Group preserves and teaches the traditional dances of Colombia in New York City.
Music:
Ecuadorian Hip Hop outfit GeoPro joins poets from ACES, a New York based and internationally connected collective of artists, theatre practitioners and educators whose aim is to explore social issues, build community, and create cross cultural dialogue through performance and other artistic mediums. Followed by Diego Obregón & Grupo Chonta. Obregón has played the bombo and cununo with the famed marimbeño Don Silvino Mina and setting up a renowned marimba-buidling workshop in Cali. Throughout his musical career Diego has played with groups such as Raíces Negras, Los Bogas del Pacifico, Grupo Naidy, La Cumbiamba eNeYé amongst others.
Films:
We Paint Houses, With Paint!/¡Se pinta casas, con pinta! (Colectivo El Deposito/Juan Zabala, Ecuador, 2008, 8 min, Spanish)
Grafitti artists in Quito cleverly subvert a law that requires all exterior house walls to be painted!
Guarida / The Hideout (Nancy Burneo Salazar. Ecuador, DVD 2009, 18 min, Spanish with English ST)
In a workshop with Lado Sur, a hip hop collective from the south of Quito, the group recreates the takeover a space and its conversion into a center for hip hop culture.
FreKuencia Kolombia (Vanessa Gocksch, Colombia, 2009, 58 min, Spanish with English ST)
Explores the traditional forms of Colombian music and its relation to Hip Hop. By way of interviews, events, situations and landscapes, the documentary uncovers a youth that constructs from exclusion a movement of hope and truth. As we witness their efforts to self-produce, organize and multiply knowledge, we realize their necessity to perpetuate, communicate, give and exist. Through the lyrics of Tribu Omerta , Por Razones de Estado, Zona Marginal, and others, we discover the lucid consciousness of a youth that through art, seeks to awaken and renew its society. Click here for more info.
Co-presented with AfroColombia New York.