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When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Once a year, only the selected and fortunate few in the world experience TED in the US (www.ted.com). TED is a gathering of the world’s smartest minds and leading thinkers where solutions are being discussed to shape our collective future.
This year, TEDxJakarta brings you the TED day experience in the form of a slightly delayed screening of the second day of TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder (http://conferences.ted.com/TED2011) that will also take place in March 2011.
This event will be a screening of never-seen-before videos and not available to public talks from speakers such as Bill Gates and JR. They will be sharing their ideas in the topics of: Deep Mystery, Worlds Imagined, Knowledge Revolution, Radical Collaboration.
About TEDxLive
TEDxLive is an extension of the TEDx program, launched by TED in 2010. TEDxLive events are TEDx events built around the live webcast of TED Conferences. TEDxLive events enable TED enthusiasts all over the world to experience live sessions of the TED Conference; events can be simple viewing events, and may also host live speakers.
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This God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles is also the older son of Lord Shiva. Lord Ganesha is also called Vinayak ( knowledgeable ) or Vighneshwer (god to remove obstacles). He is worshipped, or at least remembered, in the beginning of any auspicious performance for blessings and auspiciousness.
His fourth hand's palm is always extended to bless people.
A unique combination of his elephant-like head and a quick moving tiny mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intellegence, and presence of mind.
A small section of "The Great Train Story" featuring scale model replicas of many of Chicago's buildings.
It's been a long time since my last visit to MSI, but wow, it's amazing. I was overwhelmed with the amount of awesome exhibits/photo ops, and I'm already looking forward to getting back to explore in more detail.
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erm... cheesy title. no memory cards were harmed in the making of this picture. the last statment was a completele lie. i might have just erased every picture before by accidentally reformating the memory card D; i should stay away from buttons i don't know. but apart from my lack of knowledge of technology -.-"
today was a rather drama filled day. after freaking out over a phone call that had just been an accident and having a friend have her relationship totally destroyed by an outside bystander by lunch we were wondering why boys didn't really have cooties and memories never disappeared.but it comes down to simple things, like your funny friends, that kiddo you joke around with that makes you smile even if its with a little guilt for fear of rebound (rebound scares us all) but its the little smiles the little poke and the sticking your toungue out when someone pokes your nosie that really makes your day. God gives you friends because theyre the little angles that are really there to make life better.
studying studying studying. economic growth models, geographic politics, and how to take over the world. its all harsh and greedy. happiness can be achieved by other things that the supreme dominance over the global market. i wonder how many of these people are alcoholics who have been divorced have shot some drugs up in their time and spent their money in gold latrines just because there is simply nothing more they can do with it.
i don't envy them.
i'd rather have the friend who says things with me at the same time and laughs synchronized with me, the friend that burst into mamma mia in the middle of a conversation just because it popped into her head, the friend who messes with you and calls you funny things because your short and its actually kinda funny. friends who tell you their life isn't amazing either and they'd rather be cuddled up with a box of chocolate and ice cream. i'd rather have those who rely on the little things to get them through the day no matter how much they want to cry.
I thank God for friends for laughs for those moments that make us feel broken and those who have the tape to fix it.
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
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Using a laptop or a pc is a far-fetched reality for rural youth even until today. The photo shows that these young people are eager to learn how to use technology.
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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)
I have finally got around to visiting the inside of the new Library of Birmingham. Around 18 days after it first opened!
Got in just before 4pm, and left before 5pm.
Level 2: Knowledge Floor.
More laptop use!
From the autumn 2016 trip to Vietnam:
If ever there were a good way to finish up a trip, this particular Sunday in October would be it. Before arriving in Hanoi, I honestly had exceptionally low expectations. A bit like Saigon, if you are to go online and try to look up a list of places to visit – basically a tourist’s stock photography checklist, as it may be – you don’t find much that’s appealing. Well…I didn’t, anyway, and as a result, I had pretty low expectations for Hanoi.
The charm and beauty of Hanoi, however, isn’t in any one particular place. It’s in the experience of the entire city. (I’d say the same for Saigon, but multiply that a few times for Hanoi.) On this day in the Old Quarter in particular, I kept finding myself thinking, “Oh, my God, I shouldn’t be this lucky as a photographer…” Today ended up being mostly about people, with a little food and historical locations mixed in.
As I mentioned in the last set of posting, today would start off a bit sad with Junebug leaving for China a day before I would. So, we were checked out of our room by 6:00 in the morning or so. The breakfast at the Art Trendy was wonderful. Buffet with a mix of made-to-order omelets mixed in. Strong work, Art Trendy, strong work…
When June left, I really had nothing to do since it was still six in the morning and I was temporarily homeless as I had to switch hotels. So…I sat around the lobby for about two hours (possibly slightly awkward for the poor girls working there, but oh, well; I had to sit somewhere).
Around 8:00, I finally dragged my old bones out of the hotel and walked the five to ten minutes down the street to the Aquarius, where I politely asked them to hold my non-camera bag until I come back around 1:00 in the afternoon to check in.
After that, I was finally off with my cameras to enjoy an early Sunday morning in the bustling Old Quarter. On the street where the hotel is situated are a number of restaurants where locals were jammed in to enjoy noodles, steamed buns, and the like. It was wonderful to be among that crowd (though someone tried to scold me ever so slightly for taking pictures of people eating).
Since this was right next to St. Joseph’s Cathedral – and it was Sunday morning – I found my way back into the church where we crashed the wedding the afternoon before and realized that I almost got locked into Sunday mass while walking around taking pictures. So…I stayed. I prayed. And my prayer was answered when I realized the side doors and even the back door were open. (Ok…I didn’t really think I was locked in a church, but it did feel like it a little bit.)
Upon exiting the church, a handful of frames under my belt, I walked along the lovely streets photographing shops and people. At Caphe, I piggybacked on someone else’s photo shoot – it looked like they were doing a promo for the place, or possibly just a personal shoot for five women, though I have a feeling it was the former. At any rate, I was quite pleased with that little set and am presenting quite a few of those here, even if they’re a little redundant.
My ultimate goal with this wandering was to find my way to the Hanoi Hilton. Now, I’m not taking about the hotel chain, of course, but rather the prison that U.S. prisoners of war sarcastically called the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. (This is the prison where Senator John McCain was interred while a POW, and there are one or two pictures to that effect here.)
This prison has a particularly interesting history (and morbid since…well…it’s a prison). It’s about a hundred years old and was founded by the French colonialists around the turn of the 20th century. During the first 50 years of its history, the French imprisoned Vietnamese insurgents and those who wanted independence. In the eyes of the French…renegades (hence the imprisonment). In the eyes of the Vietnamese – especially the current government – patriots and national heroes. If they were truly freedom fighters, then I would probably side with the current government on that one.
The French even had a guillotine installed here and overcrowding was a major problem. There were plenty of escape attempts, and more were successful than you may think, which is a little peculiar.
After the battle of Bien Dien Phu and the ejection of the French from the north (and before the U.S. got involved in the south), the prison changed hands and was under control of Ho Chi Minh. During the Vietnam War, it became one of the main prisons for U.S. POWs, as I alluded to above.
The propaganda claims that the Vietcong were absolutely humane and decent with U.S. prisoners, allowing them to observe their religious rites (Christmas celebrations, etc.), allowed prisoners to smoke and enjoy leisure (board games, basketball, etc.), and claimed they were well-fed.
This is certainly how it’s presented in the prison/museum currently. If you were to go online, though, and try to find a contrary report, you would find that this was all coerced and staged to make it appear as if things were on the up and up. (For anyone curious, per my Vietnamese friends, the general education in Vietnam today is how terrible the French and U.S. were for colonizing and torturing the country and keeping it from its independence.)
So, what’s the truth of what really happened? Who knows? Outside of firsthand accounts, it’s impossible to know for certain and even then, memory can be a tricky thing. I tend to like to say the truth is always somewhere between two opposing viewpoints, no matter what the topic may be.
From an impartial and purely photographic point of view, the prison, currently a museum/memorial, is an interesting place to spend an hour or two. Some of the exhibits seem a bit cheesy, but some are quite tasteful and well done. There’s also an informational video. You’ll have to see this with a bit of imagination (the prison, that is), as at least half of it has been leveled for high rise buildings. At least there’s some tangible piece of it left to visit, including the main gate (Maison Centrale).
After about two hours here at the Hanoi Hilton, I walked over towards the Opera House to get a few daytime shots but, really, to get lunch at El Gaucho. I was looking forward to a proper steak. The prices were astronomical (though justifiable based on what I ate), though I just opted for a steak salad. It was so good I contemplated going back for dinner, but had other plans.
With a happy stomach, I went back to finally check in at the Aquarius Hotel and got my workout huffing up six flights of stairs each time I went out. I relaxed here for a few hours until 4:00 when a dear friend of mine came to town to see me.
Ngan and I had an ice cream at Baskin Robbins right in front of St. Joe’s before heading over to the Temple of Literature. This is a temple dedicated to education and, bless my soul, it’s a place where university graduates come for graduation pictures.
On this particular day – a warm, sunny, late Sunday afternoon – it was packed with college students. And it was beautiful to see that many people happy, full of hopes and dreams, and dressed in either cap and gown or traditional Vietnamese clothes. In short…I had a field day shooting for an hour here.
Around 5:00, Ngan had to head back to school, and I went back to my hotel. I had one more meeting. Hoa, who traveled around Thailand & Cambodia with me in May, flew back to see me this evening. She picked me up at 6:00 on her scooter and rode me all around Hanoi by evening.
She started by taking me to Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum (which I consider a lot more photogenic in its setting than the Great Gangster’s Mausoleum on Tiananmen Square). This one, at least, was in a parklike setting. At evening, it’s well-lit and you can find people relaxing in the grass in front of it. During the day, you can visit and there are quite a few buildings behind the mausoleum that you can also see.
After a few minutes here, Hoa took me by West Lake – the largest lake in Hanoi, as I mentioned yesterday – and just drove me around for over an hour, it seemed. My impressions that Hanoi (even out of the Old Quarter) seemed to be a good place to live – though I’d be concerned about the air pollution – and people here seemed to be happy. Also…Vietnamese really love their coffee.
We finally returned to the Old Quarter for dinner at one of the famous restaurants she recommended and she treated me to a wonderful dinner. I can’t recall what we ate (the Vietnamese names of it, anyway), but it was nice.
After dinner, she drove me over towards the Opera House and then, finally, we stopped by Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of the Quarter and walked around the lake. It was getting close to 10:00 by this time, and I wanted to get back to the hotel to get a few hours sleep before waking up for my early flight in the morning. Hoa came to the airport with me to see me off.
If ever there were a great way to finish a great trip, this was it. I absolutely loved Vietnam – honestly, a lot more than I imagined I would, even with every single person I know who’d ever come here saying what a fantastic country this is – and would gladly come back. This seems to be one of the kinds of countries that you would never get tired of or, if you did, it would sure take a long time. With that, I’ll bid goodbye to Vietnam for now with the hopes that I’ll someday return to this land of amazing food, landscapes, and people.
As always, thanks for dropping by and viewing these pictures. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments and I’ll answer as I have time.
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
The Forty-Fifth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from December 5 to December 9, 2022 in hybrid form – with delegates and observers attending physically in Geneva, Switzerland, and via remote participation from around the world.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
** The 9 part multi-composite series for the 9th December!
And this is the point things started to get interesting... just about to leave as well when local knowledge revealed that there was a working which may be of interest, now coming up from the south, this time from Kings Norton and again from an On-Track siding. But with yet another VSTP allocated, the working number, 6xxx, gave away nothing and it was the second such allocation in an hour, the 1st, 6xxx being for the track machine seen earlier; this time, with light moderating slightly as a little cloud cover was available for a short time, so it was pulled over, the working comes up from the south along the north--bound platform 3 line at the station. This time is appears its the 1st time for a view of a set of RHTT, Rail-Head Treatment Train units, being hauled by a Colas class 56 loco, and at rear another such unit; serendipity indeed as something much more mundane was expected. Ats the end of the, official, leaf fall season and it appears that both the Sandite units and, today, the 8th, the locos themselves, 5 DRS class 20s, are all on the move back to their respective sidings to be stored for next year; today the 56s were bring a set of the Sandite units up to York and, miraculously, serendipity squared, a working of 3 DBS locos turned up heading south to the Masbrough Freight Depot. It must be many a year that such classic traction has been seen, all together, passing along the freight lines here at MAsbrough Station, though I guess in the past with steam moves on all four lines, that event could be easily usurped. But still, the whoops of delight when the three present at the location saw 2x56s being passed by what turned out to be 2x60s plus a 66, was palpable and certainly made the wait worthwhile. COming up form the south is the 6xxx, Kings Norton On Track Plant Dept to York Thrall Europa working and is slowing for a stop at the MAsbrough north-end signal whilst heading south, just poking into the picture on the left and actually at the same time!, is DB Shenker class 60, 60091 'Barry Needham which is followed by class 66, 66003 and bringing up the rear, another class 60, 60092 and they are on the 0Z57, Belmont Down Yard to Masbrough Freight Depot working. At right, slightly 'fudged' to take out the approaching 56s in the distance, the 3 units of the 0Z57 working can be seen, with the sun having popped out once more... Bah!!!
Some information regarding the class 60 unit, 60091-
Number: 60091
Class: 60
Depot: WQ - EWS HQ Acceptance Trials/Awaiting Decision
Pool: WQAA - DBS Locomotives Stopped Serviceable Group 1A - Headquarters (WQ)
Livery: DL - Deutsche Bahn Cherry Red with DB Schenker Branding
Builder: Brush Traction, Loughborough
Built: 03/02/1992
Works Number: 993
60091 Named: 03/02/1992 Unamed: 30/06/2014
An Teallach
60091 Named: 30/06/2014
Barry Needham
Barry Needham was the train driver at Great Heck and the plaque reads-
'Barry Needham - EWS Coal train controller tragically killed at great heck 28 February 2001. A true railwayman admired for his high regard to safety, his integrity and his good humour'...
Garrett Brown explains the second pre-Steadicam prototype, with a parallelogram mechanism.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
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Manxtown.
This former locality has disappeared from maps and knowledge but it deserves to be remembered as it is the only locality in SA where residents of the Isle of Man (Manx) settled. Linkages between Scotland and the Isle of Man were strong and so the Manx families soon merged into the Scots families. Although the Isle of Man is midway between Great Britain and Ireland the closest land is Scotland. It was a Scot, Malcolm Murray, Earl of Dunmore and Duke of Athol who took control of the Isle of Man in 1406. He and his ancestors held the role of Lords of Man until an act of the British Parliament took control for the English monarch in 1765. So the Scots ruled the Isle of Man for 350 years but now the Queen is Lord of Man. The ancient parliament on the Isle of Man is called the Tynwald. Due to overpopulation many settlers left the Isle of Man in the 1840s and 1850s and a sizeable number came to SA and established Manxtown. The Wheatsheaf Hotel was licensed here in 1859; and a school under the direction of Mr Ascoli opened in the same year with 51 pupils. Mr McCreeth provided the schoolroom and Mr Duffield of Shady Grove provided support. In 1875 when the new Education Act came into force the licensed schools of the district had varying enrolments. Manxtown had 80 students, just a little behind Woodside which had 87 enrolments. A proposal for a state school was considered for some years but nothing happened and the Manxtown School closed around 1882. Gradually reference to Manxtown dwindled as the population dwindled and few references were made to it after the mid 1920s. But the names of Manx families continues in the district today. One of the first Manx settlers in 1858 was the Parr family. Other common Manx names to be found in the Adelaide Hills are Gale; Farragher (he was the blacksmith in Woodside in 1875); Cashen; Kelly; Hutchens; Kay; Cowley; Freer; etc. The most common Manx names on the Isle of Man are: Kelly, Quayle, Cain ,Corlett, Christian, Clague, Moore, Farragher, Cannell, Quirke, Kneale and Shimmin. People with these surnames could well be of Manx ancestry but not necessarily so.
Murdoch Hill.
Near Inverbrackie was the former locality of Craigdarroch. It was settled by John Murdoch of Scotland who arrived in SA with his wife Margaret in 1839 on the Indus. Also on that ship was William Smillie, son of the founder of Nairne. John Murdoch died soon after arriving and his wife Margaret registered the name of Craigdarroch in 1841. By 1844 she had five occupation licenses or leaseholds in the district. After she died in 1865 her children with the name of Mitchell continued to run Craigdarroch in the district for many years. In the 1880s gold was discovered on the Craigdarroch property (Bird in the Hand and New Era mines). At Murdoch Hill a Primitive Methodist church was erected in 1866 with the foundation stone being laid by one of Margaret Murdoch’s sons-in-law, Mr. Mitchell. The church still operates as the Uniting Church. A tiny cemetery is adjacent. A state school opened at Murdoch Hill as the one at nearby Manxtown closed. The Murdoch Hill School operated from 1882 until 1944 in the Methodist Church.
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===Trivia===
-The "Farol do Saber" (Lighthouse of Knowledge) was conceived by Rafael Greca, in his mandate as 77th Mayor of Curitiba, as a way to facilitate access to books and, later, the internet.
-The first Lighthouse of Knowledge was inaugurated in the neighborhood Vista Alegre, on November 19, 1994, under the name of Machado de Assis.
-The name and architecture of the building were inspired by the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria.
-The units turned on their headlights at night and also served as City Guard posts, giving security to the neighborhoods they belonged to, and comfort and safety to nearby residents.
-There are 41 units spread throughout the neighborhoods of the city of Curitiba (The one in the photo is located in Atuba).
-The architectural project has a built area of 88 square meters, a ten meter high lighthouse tower crowned with the figure of a rooster, symbolizing the light, intelligence and the mind always awake (In some traditions, daring, hope and rebirth).
-Only one unit does not follow the format of the others, the Lighthouse of Knowledge Gibran Khalil Gibran, better known as the Arab Memorial.
-The Farol das Cidades (Lighthouse of the Cities), despite having the same architecture, has a collection focused on urban planning.
-There is no specific date and no official reason, but all units had their headlights turned off permanently, the Machado de Assis unit was the last one to deactivate it.
-Most units are no longer used as guard posts.
-There are Lighthouses of Knowledge outside Curitiba - using only the same architecture and/or objective of those of Curitiba - in the Paranaenses cities of Ribeirão do Pinhal, Boa Vista da Aparecida e Paranavaí, in São Luís of Maranhão and even one abroad, in The Hague, Holland.
The Thirtieth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from May 30 to June 3, 2016.
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