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The Twenty-Fifth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from July 15 to July 24, 2013.
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The fear we had regarding the condition was due to the lack of knowledge and Dr. Banga was not only a great physician but also a great teacher in our eye. He explained that our son was suffering from Hypospadias- one of the most common birth defects in males and occurs in about one in every 250 boys. He also explained that “although it is the common condition people has made it a taboo which led to the lack of education about the subject. That’s the reason many families come to him saying they never heard about such condition.”
All this info is basic and reflects my current knowledge. I am largely self taught, but flickr has helped immensely. Feel free to point out flaws in what I say. I am by no means an authority on the subject.
I took this before I started to really appreciate what good equipment can achieve. The photo is of a spectacular sunset from my Lincoln Ridge Apartment. The clouds were scattered around the sky in a nice pattern and the light from the setting sun was still visible. I had to capture this picture...and this was the best my SD550 could do. How did I take it and a similar vertical shot?
I used the balcony as a tripod, used vivid colors (to boost the saturation bascially) and the slow synchro mode. Turning up the ISO on these camera typically results in lots of noise (and besides I barely knew what ISO was in August last year).
What is wrong with this picture you ask? Besides the exaggerated saturation, the picture only works in medium size. Try looking at the large or original sizes and the lack of detail becomes apparent. If you want to frame this, forget about it. It is not a good picture, but of course better than no picture...
What would I do today? First, I'd run and get my tripod. Tripods are a must for crisp low light shots, and it works especially well from the no-hassle environment of your balcony. The tripod provides absolute stability for the shot (assuming you don't kick it). That being said make sure to use remote release other the mere act of pressing the button may shake the camera. There are two options to avoid this: (1) use a timer or (2) buy a remote release device that plugs into the camera. Since your camera is firmly attached to the tripod and therefore stable, you can reduce the ISO to 100 and avoid noise/grainy issues (seeing pixels when you see the picture big basically).
Then I'd start playing in the Tv mode and have the camera automatically select an appropriate Aperture. However, the camera frequently selects inadequate aperatures so make a mental note of your Tv setting and move to Manual mode and use this as a starting point. I'd also experiment with cloudy WB and higher saturation. Finally, I'd play with my zoom to frame the picture differently. Not only did my SD550 have poor zoom range, but zoomed picture quickly get blurry without a tripod.
An advanced point and shoot can achieve all this. The only problem with the S3 IS is that it has limits on aperature, and these limitations make low light shoots hard in certain situations. For instance the S3 IS had a limit of f/8 aperature (the amount of light the camera allows into the lense). This is a problem if you want to shoot objects that are very dark or take traffic shots. It is also a problem with flare (since the lights get way to bright). But I'd probably be fine in this shot. So why bother getting a dSLR like my Rebel XTi?
First, the images are much higher quality even if you select the same setting. To see this try looking at one of my night images in original size shot with the S3 IS and the Rebel. Even shots that I consider high quality with the S3 IS do not even come close in detail. Why? The Rebel has a much bigger sensor and much higher quality lenses. This holds for all shots, but it most noticable in difficult light settings.
Second, what if I did not have my tripod? The remedy is then to increase the ISO, however, if you do this on a S3 IS the shot gets extremely grainy (i.e. pixelated). Sure, the S3 IS is a IS camera i.e. image stabilization, but in practice this does not buy you much. In contrast, the Rebel XTi does an excellent job of controlling noise at high ISO so I would simply go to ISO 800 or ISO1600 and try to stabilize against the wall of the balcony. You can also buy IS lenses for the Rebel (which sadly I don't have....to $$$ basically) or lenses with wider aperature (like my f/1.4 lense) - more on that later.
Why is an IS lense useful? Basically you can only handhold a shot at say 50 mm (how much you zoom) at a shutter speed of 1/50. In a low light shot you need to open the shutter long enough to allow enough light in so that your shot is not dark, but you are handholding and if you need to handhold for more than 1/50 you will get a blurry and useless shot (it is just impossible to hold the camera steady for that long). With a IS lense the lense adjusts for the movement and you may be able to get a crisp shot at a much slower shutter speed (which allows more light to enter). People say that you can improve 3-4 steps, that is from 1/50 to 1/20-1/15.
What does high ISO do? It increases the sensitivity of the camera to light and allows you to absorb more light all else constant. The benefit of this is that you can use a faster shutter speed and this increases the likelihood of getting a sharp shot. Examples tend to help so I will give one. Lets say I want to shoot the wall in my room. I put the camera in Av mode (to keep the aperture fixed) and it says 1/13 @ f/2.8 at ISO 100. This lense is 50mm fixed so using the rule of thumb I mentioned above, 1/13 will not result in a crisp shot (you can try using the continuous mode and snapping about 10 and keeping the crispest). An IS lense would help improve the shot, but my lense is (sadly not IS). So I increase the ISO to ISO 400 and down to 1/125 @ f/2.8. Now I can easily get a crisp shot. The downside is more noise; an easy way to notice this is do look at the sky in a night shot. However, with the Rebel graininess is negligible at ISO400.
What does a wider aperture do (lower f/stop)? It allows more light to enter and thereby reduces the time the shutter needs to be open (and increases the chance of getting a crisp shot). In example above I could reduce the f/stop further. For instance, at f/1.4 and ISO 100 I get a shutter speed of 1/50; the higher aperature (annoying aperature and f/stop go in different directions) allows me to avoid increasing the ISO.
The problem is that the basic lense on a Rebel XTi is cheap and is neither IS nor has a particulary low f/stop (3.5 with no zoom). It is easily overwhelmed in low-light shots. However, as you start decreasing the f/stop and move below f/2.2ish your DOF (depth of field - baiscally your lense will focus on some object and blur the background). So whereas my f/1.4 lense helps with low-light (especially indoor shots) to is key to pick the right place to focus (I now fondly refer to this lense as 'el lente loco' :))
So if you want to take high quality night shots or shots in low light get a dSLR like the Rebel XTi. You may be thinking, when do I really need these capability? Think about indoor shots. Often flash fails (and the flash on P&S's like my SD500 is poor in any event) and often it washes out the subtle natural light. Note! Flash would do nothing in the shot above (why? the range of the flash is very limited). Think about the time around dusk and dawn or if its overcast or what about shots inside a store. What if you zoom a lot especially in less than ideal light? There are so many shots I can now take with the Rebel that I could not even dream about with either the SD550 or the S3 IS (which is way better than the SD550) The only downside I see is price and the bulky size. You don't need to know much; just stick it in the auto mode (P is better) and start shooting and then learn by experimeting.
To make a long story longer: consider an example. I've always been a car freak and car photos - especially shot of moving cars - have always fascinated me. One experiment I had recently was taken shot of a moving car at night. This is hard given the low light and the motion of both cars. Increasing the ISO to 1600 (max for the Rebel) and reducing the f-stop to f/1.8 allowed me to get a decent shot at 1/60 (just right for a 50mm lense; I snapped about 4 as the Chysler 300C sped past and one was crisp). Given the high aperture it was also important to manual select the focus point and point it at the car.
There was one problem (and I had figured this out by testing on other cars). The shot was too dark. One solution was to increase the exposure to +1. This increases the demands for light and all else constant reduces the shutter speed (and the chance of getting a crisp shot). Check out the graininess of the shot. The is pretty crisp and sharp, but you can see the noise even in the large size. Try this shot with a point and shoot once....it is illustrative and you will not get close. Even the lense that came would the Rebel would be out of luck.
Expert from Africa participate at the Inter-Regional Knowledge Sharing on Child Labour and Working Conditions in the Artisinal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) held in Manila, Philippines from 28 to 30 May 2019. 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.
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Rare in use is my Nikon F100 especially with black and white film and ambient light!
Accidental shot during great coffe chat with a friend of mine!
CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Tracey Curtis (left) grades Staff Sgt. Joseph O'Connor (right) as demonstrates his leadership communication skills during the New York Army National Guard's Best Warrior Competition here April 5. About a dozen New York Army National Guard Soldiers from various units across the state took part in the three-day competition, which tests troops' physical fitness, military knowledge, endurance, marksmanship, land-navigation abilities and other soldier skills. O'Connor is a Buffalo resident and member of the 427th Brigade Support Battalion. Curtis is an Ashville N.Y. resident and belongs to Joint Force Headquarters, New York. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Drumsta, Joint Force Headquarters, New York)
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Servicemembers and DOD civilians participate in Exercise Saber Junction Phase II at Grafenwohr, Germany. The Command Post Exercise draws together different services in an effort to better understand the difficulties and challenges of foreign consequence management as it relates to natural disaster assistance and a simulated follow on industrial chemical spills.
Is Knowledge subject to decay? Yes it is, because it is bound by causes and conditions. Only wisdom isn't. And wisdom can arise from the awareness of the impermanence of all things.
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The Twenty-Fourth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 22 to April 26, 2013.
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What Is Theosophy?
The Secrets of The Universe Laid Bare By The Accumulated Wisdom Of The Ages
The question “What is Theosophy?” must have risen to the lips of some thousands of persons during the last three or four years, if the world is anything like what it used to be, and it is only reasonable to suppose that in nearly as many instances as the question has been put the answer has not been forthcoming, or, at least, that no satisfactory solution has been proffered. From the vastness of the subject and its utter newness to Western minds this state of things is not very much to be wondered at, but apart from that, the extreme difficulty of giving anything approaching an intelligible explanation of the word to minds permeated with WEstern ideas and moulded by Western thought and associations is so great as to render the task well nigh hopeless. Theosophy was unknown to Western intelligence – except in the form of the wildest and most improbable narratives, and those of the most fragmentary character – till some 14 years since, when Madame H. P. Blavatsky, a Russian lady who had spent the greater part of her previous life picking up strange stores of still strangers knowledge among the speculative peoples of the far East, settled in New York, and commenced the diffusion of her ideas in regard to her occult knowledge. Her most active disciple was a Colonel Olcott, in conjunction with whom the Theosophical Society was formed for objects stated below. A singular fact came out in reference to this very singular organization not very long ago; it appears that Madame Blavatsky, the president-founder, is practically the Theosophical Society one and indivisible, for while the members may be expelled to any extent, the president-founder cannot be removed, the consequence being that notwithstanding the possible loss of every single member, the society can never suffer annihilation as long as Madame Blavatsky lives, the wishes of the rest of the organization to the contrary. Theosophy has apparently produced the first and only society which it is impossible to suppress or abolish. Madame Blavatsky is now located in London, where her teachings have been met with more amusement than reverence, but the president-founder appears proof against any amount of that kind of “argument,” and disposes of it as being of as little value as the wanton smoke-curls of the weed she loves so well. Among the orthodox and the indifference – who may be placed upon pretty much the same plane as far as honest inquiry is concerned – theosophy has made no convert, but in the ranks of the ever-increasing class of speculative thinkers who have been forced to abandon the old traditional creeds the “new” gospel has received a large number of earnest followers, perhaps the most noticeable being Mrs. Annie Besant, whose succession to theosophical ranks proves – if it proves anything – that there is “something in it” worthy of investigation. In America, where the cult has taken a firmer root, the theosophists claim Edison, the great electrician, as one of their disciples, and his certificate of membership is enrolled among the society’s archives.
The subject was laid before the Croydon Socratic Society on Tuesday night, at their usual meeting at West Croydon, by no less an authority than Mr. Herbert Burrows, who, in addition to being a highly-valued friend of the society and a fellow socialistic worker with Mrs. Besant, is also an enthusiastic theosophist and a brilliant young thinker in more than one branch. The Socratics are a more than ordinarily hard-headed body, but it was plain to see that on Tuesday evening there was a lack of sympathy with the subject that boded trouble ahead, as the sequel showed. Mr. Burrows first spoke of the difficulties of handling a subject which comprehended the concentrated knowledge of the East extending over a period of possibly 20,000 years in about forty minutes, and expressed the opinion that he was quite prepared to find at the concussion fo the lecture that his hearers only matter of doubt was as to whether he was a fool or a madman, or a combination of both. He then passed on the deal with the question in the way most suited to the assembly, namely, from it scientific aspect, and remarked that theosophy was utterly and entirely opposed to the Darwinian theory, and that it dealt with the more recondite forces and laws of nature in respect of which Western investigators were as ignorant as Newton’s child upon the seashore, aye, and more so, because, to speak figuratively, they had not even the knowledge to pick up the stones. Wisely keeping clear of the phenomenal portion of his subject – for theosophical wonder-working, even if it were possible to him, would be no more convincing of the truth of theosophy than the working of a material miracle was proof of any sort of moral truth – he explained in passing that theosophy claimed to be the underlying truth of which all the great and varied religious systems were but the exoteric side, and that the Theosophical Society had been founded to accomplish three objects, (1) To be the nucleus of a universal brotherhood; (2) To promote the study of Aryan and other Eastern literatures, religions, and sciences; and (3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the physical powers latent in man. Now, Western science failed to accomplish the latter object in some very essential particulars, and that principally because its investigations were conducted on imperfect lines, while theosophy, working upon an entirely different lines, not only agreed with the conclusions of the Western scientist, but could find a passage beyond the dead wall which blocked the path of all our scientists at a certain point, and beyond which wall no single Western investigator had yet been able to penetrate. What was the reason of this? Possibly because Western scientists started on too limited a basis. Personally he had long ago been led to the conclusion – from the study of Huxlye’s treaties on protoplasm forces, and from Professor Huxley’s own showing the material physical sciences of the body proved rather a barrier than an assistance to the study of the powers of nature. For example, when a note of music was struck it was accompanied by numbers of other miner sounds which it was impossible for the ear to distinguish because of its inherent of its inherent defects, while at the same time the existence of the minor notes had been demonstrated ad nauseam. A defect of this kind must prove an obstacle to true investigation because of its misleading results. If that were the case man practically knew nothing at all about the forces which were behind those of which we do know or fancy we know something. This naturally led to the conclusion that if our senses were only refined and acute enough it would be possible to perceive and understand the unseen forces of nature. On the other hand, the scientists of the West, everyone of them, however profound their investigations, were met at one point in their inquiries by a dead wall which they found it impossible to pass, in a very large class of phenomena, which they found to be absolutely inexplainable by their modern science.
Theosophy boasted that it could pass this wall by reason of the storehouse of actual mental knowledge, not mere theory only, which had been stored in the minds of a few men in India and of late years in Tibet, and handed on from one to the other for thousands of years. These men were investigators themselves, and they made a secret of their knowledge for obvious reasons, because by virtue of their knowledge there were few of the processes of nature that were secret to them; they asserted that they could explain phenomena whose solution was regarded as hopeless, and that simply and entirely by their knowledge of the laws of nature. In these things they owned no supernatural influences – there is no personal god in theosophy, which is purely pantheistic – but could give a rational explanation from the phenomena of nature, according to the laws of nature, though doubtless not according to the laws of Western scientists, and by this means they claimed to obtain a clue to both the spiritual and physical nature of man. The western scientist, up to a certain point, could state how certain phenomena were manifested, but the theosophist went further, and could tell why these things were. Science was absolutely unable to explain phenomena such as hypnotism, clairvoyance, and mesmerism to anything like an adequate extent and while he knew the majority of people dismissed these things as a result of trickery and fraud, they were nevertheless established facts, and rapidly establishing themselves as practical agents of surgical treatment. Apart from that theosophy could give a clear and adequate reason why for these things, and until people could give a better explanation it was both foolish and unphilosophic for people to deny that theosophy could do so.
Mr. Burrows then divided into an intensely interesting disquisition with regard to the numerous laws of nature whose existence and demonstration is known to our modern scientists, but which have entirely baffled them in their efforts to comprehend and tabulate the same. For instance, by means of a definite arrangement of a violin, a turning for, a strong light, and a sort of sheet suspended after the style of a “magic lantern” sheet, it was found that a note of music possesses distinct and unmistakable colours, which vary with different notes. Another instrument, the pendulagram, demonstrates that a musical note possess force. The apparatus is constructed upon vibrating principles, and is fitted with a universal-jointed pen. Upon a certain note being struck certain spiral curves are recorded by the pen. Strike another not, and a different class of spirals is produced; strike the first not again, and the spirals are produced similar to those registered on the first occasion. Now, why are these spiral? That is what theosophy alone can tell, and the man who has this knowledge can practically control the forces of nature! The materialist failed to surmount the wall that stopped him, and why? Partly because he failed to recognize that there was no rigid line of demarcation between the spiritual and the material part of man. Judging by the state of clairvoyance, when the physical material senses of man were in a certain sense paralysed, the intelligent, spiritual, mental faculties of man were sharpened. Man dealt in two worlds, the outward visible world, and the inward invisible world. The latter could only come into play when the other was deadened, or, in other words, purified and refined of the presence of the material outer world. Taking another line, he showed that the theosophist and the Western scientist, by widely differing methods, agreed, step by step, that under the whole nature lay some widely-diffused basic force, and that while the Western could only tell the relation between things – as in the molecular theory – the theosophist could explain the essence of the things themselves, or rather, could get behind the relation of the things and explain why they were so related. This method, produced to its natural conclusion, must lead up to the explanation of the spiritual nature of man, and thus theosophy was seen to comprehend the great truths that underlie all the great religions of the world.
At this stage the speaker left the relatively-scientific part of the question – which is at once its explanation and its raison d’eire – and passed on to deal with the teachings of theosophy, which is much more easy to follow. The very name is a clue, for “theosophy” (knowledge of or about God – the term God being universally accepted, not in the sense of a personal anthromorphic God, but as including the whole of both the known and the unknown) implies knowledge or wisdom respecting the absolute. It is sometimes also called the wisdom-religion because it professes to have had from time immemorial the knowledge of all the laws governing the spiritual, the moral, and the material. The reason why this knowledge has not been imparted to all is obvious – a man with such knowledge would have the lives and interests of his fellows who were not equally enlightened entirely at his disposal. The existence of three abnormal powers has been recognised, as a matter of fact, in plain, practical, prosy Germany, where stringent laws have already been passed against the exercise of hypnotic powers – such as those demonstrated by the Rev. Arthur Tooth at Woodside the other day – by unqualified persons. It is easily seen that if such laws are necessary to restrain the persons who do not fully comprehend the feeble powers they undoubtedly possess, the necessity would be vastly greater in the case of persons who have exhaustive knowledge of far greater powers. Hence in the interests of the race, the theosophists say, the knowledge is jealousy guarded in a few minds, although it is acquirable by anyone who will go through the long and tedious mental, physical, and spiritual training necessary to that end, for theosophists hold that the knowledge they possess can only be obtained by the careful refinement of the spiritual entity from the obscurations of the material physical, a process involving purity of word, thought, idea, and action. It is claimed that the theosophist has ascertained by actual experience that man, instead of consisting simply of body, soul, and spirit, is a septenary, or seven-partite being. The first division is the physical body, which acts as the vehicle for all the other principles; then there is the vital principle common to all animals; and the next is the astral, or the double or phantom body. Theosophists believe that the adept (a person who has attained to the higher knowledge) can separate his higher spiritual principle from the physical, and travel whither he will in the guise of the astral body, leaving the physical in a state of trance. The fourth, which forms the last of what is called the lower principles, is the seat of the animal desires and passions. Teh three higher principles consist (1) of the mind or intelligence (which has two aspects, one towards the lower and one towards the higher) ; (2) the spiritual soul, which forms the vehicle for (3) the spirit itself. Now, with regard to this “spirit” may be introduced one of the vital principles of theosophy. It is believed as an actual fact that the spirit in man is the only real and permanent part of his being, the rest of his nature being variously compounded, nad consequently always resolving into other compounds. The spirit of every man is said to spark fo the Divine Whole, whence it comes by cyclic or evolutionary procedure through every form of matter till it reaches its highest form – self-consciousness – in man. From the human enthrallment the spirit, according to its efforts while in that condition, passes at the death of the body towards the higher (i.e. towards re-absorption in the Divine Whole), or else downwards into the lower forms of matter, thence to “work out its own salvation,” or return to self-consciousness in the human. In its upward course the divine spark is u undergoing repeated incarnations through the vegetable, mineral, animal, and human states ; in each of these it is latent, but it is only manifest in man. The spirit retains its individuality during the whole progress from its origin to its reunion to the Divine, and exists successively in various races and planets.
The discussion that ensued beggars description from the fact that nearly everybody who spoke seemed to have failed to grasp the bearings of the subject. This was only natural under the circumstances – the explanation of a single page of a theosophical “educational” tract is sufficient to make a man’s hair curl if he has not been initiated – but the lecturer dealt lightly with his critics in his reply. The latter, by the way, did not commence till nearly 11 o’clock, and was principally devoted to the removal of misconceptions. From a quantity of propagandist leaflets – on of which (“Karma as a Cure for Trouble”) strangely reminded one of a patent medicine puff – it was seen that the practical side of theosophy is of no little importance from teh social point of view. One of the essentials to spiritual development is “the entire eradication of selfishness in all forms, and the cultivation of broad, generous sympathy in and effor for the good of others,” and another stipulates for “the careful performance of every duty belonging to one’s station in life, without desire for reward, leaving results for Divine law.” Apart from this, theosophy professes to explain the contrast and unisions of the world’s faiths and the common foundations underlying them all ; the existence of evil, suffering, and sorrow; social and individual inequalities, contrasts, and antithesis; accidents, misfortunes, and untimely deaths; the failure of conventional religions to greatly extend their areas, reform abuses, reorganize society, expand to the idea of brotherhood, abate discontent, diminish crime, elevate humanity, and adequately realise in individual lives the ideal they professedly uphold. These form only a small portion of the large order theosophists are ready to fill, but if they can only get believers in their strange tremendous system to go heartily in for spiritual development on the lines mentioned above, there are plenty of folks in this world who will be glad to find a place for them.
SDIM0358 - the feature set of the sigma sd 15 camera enables the photographer to rely on their knowledge of traditional film techniques, and not depend on complicated or gimmicky proprietary camera settings when taking a picture. This is because the ssd-15 is a digital analog of a film camera. The foveon sensor itself is analogous in purpose as well as design to traditional film as well. It has no Bayer filter between the image and the sensor to mitigate distortion. And the registration of red green and blue occurs at every pixel location. Practically speaking this means no moire pattern, the purple fringing thing you get with every other digital camera is non-existent on a sigma. It also results in images that have a depth or multidimensional feel reminiscent of film where color was literally recorded at different depths in the film medium itself. All digital cameras, except sigmas, register only one color at each pixel site. These cameras then interpolate for the other colors using their onboard software and record an approximate estimate of the other colors. This approach works but is a computation of the image not a direct recording of the image. Furthermore, this means that it requires 3 pixel locations on a traditional sensor to record what foveon can register with just one. As with all cameras, the sigma must transmit the final image recording through a analog to digital converter to yield a downloadable image. Here a 14 bit converter allows amazing dynamic range. I find that the Sigma foveon-sensored SD15 camera works well in a light range denoted by ISO speeds of 50-400. This is where traditional film photography was best suited too. Setting a sigma to ISO 50 yields a beautiful artifact free image, like no other. If you are curious about trying Foveon, or have questions, contact me. Most reviewers do not understand the sigma camera product and are neither artists or photographers, they are technologists. So their perspective does not include this aspect of the experience.
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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2018-11-16: Dr. Victor Oladokun, Director, Communication & External Relations, African Development Bank addressing during the Eminent Speakers Lecture. In frame, (L-R) Graca Machel, First Lady of South Africa; Mr. Charles O. Boamah, Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group and Dr. Celestin Monga, Chief Economist and Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, African Development Bank
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
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
~ Chaim Potok
“A Little Knowledge Goes a Long Way”…
Tea is nearly 5,000 years old and was discovered, as legend has it, in 2737 b.c. According to legend, the Shen Nung, an early emperor was a skilled ruler, creative scientist and patron of the arts. He was called “The Divine Healer.”
Teapots were not used immediately upon the discovery of tea. From the 8th century CE, tea leaves were rolled by hand, dried and then ground into a powder. At first, this powder was mixed with salt and formed into cakes that would be dropped into bowls of hot water to form a thick mixture. Eventually the powder was left in its loose form, to be mixed in a bowl with boiling water and whipped into froth in Japan in the early 9th century CE.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in China, leaf infusion as we know it now became popular. The earliest examples of teapots come from this period of the YiXing region of China.
For my Flickr groups…
កម្មវិធី "កម្មវិធីស្តីពីការសំរេចបាននិងភាពឆ្នើមក្នុងការបង្រៀន (TEA)" បានបញ្ជូនលោកគ្រូអ្នកគ្រូ ថ្នាក់អនុវិទ្យាល័យ និងវិទ្យាល័យ ពីប្រទេសផ្សេងៗ ទៅសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក រយៈពេល៦សប្តាហ៍ ដើម្បីចូលរួមកម្មវិធីអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ជំនាញរបស់ពួកគេ។
កម្មវិធី TEA នេះ បានផ្តល់អោយលោកគ្រូអ្នកគ្រូ ដែលបង្ហាត់មុខវិជ្ជាភាសាអង់គ្លេស ការសិក្សាសង្គម គណិតវិទ្យា និងវិទ្យាសាស្ត្រ នូវឱកាសដ៏កំរមាន ក្នុងការពង្រីកចំណេះដឹង ពង្រឹងជំនាញក្នុងការបង្រៀន និងផ្តល់ការយល់ដឹងបន្ថែមអំពីសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក។
The pre-departure orientation for new TEA participants was held on January 7 at the Embassy's Information Resource Center.
Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) brings international secondary level teachers of English, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), social studies, math, or science to the United States for a six-week professional development program.
This program provides Cambodian teachers with unique opportunities to develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills, and increase their knowledge of the United States.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
"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.