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4 November 2017 – On the occasion of World Tsunami Awareness Day, traditional games were organized around the Hoa Kiem Lake at the heart of Ha Noi city, to raise awareness on the risks of tsunamis and disaster prevention measures.
The innovative education-entertainment initiative is part of the “Schools of Son Tinh” campaign, targeting school-age children and youth. It is supported by the Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority, the Government of Japan, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
“Although traditional and folk games are very popular in Viet Nam, the disaster preparedness education through these methods is new. Youth and students will be equipped with the knowledge and skills that may potentially save their lives,” said UNDP Country Director in Viet Nam Caitlin Wiesen.
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Photos: Phan Huong Giang/UNDP Viet Nam
3rd May 2016
Portugal – H.E. Prof. Manuel Heitor, Minister, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
Knowledge Societies, Capacity Building and e-Learning
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GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP. 10th United Nations Inter-Agency Round Table on Communications for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12-14 February 2007. Gerolf Weigel (SDC).
Participants of the Knowledge Translation for Global Health Summer Institute participated in a Niagara Foot demonstration with Dr. Tim Bryant at the HMRC.
aroundperranuthnoe.blogspot.com St. Martin was above fourscore years old, when God was pleased to put a happy end to his labours. Long before his departure he had knowledge of his approaching death, which he clearly foretold to his disciples. Being informed that a scandalous difference had arisen amongst the clergy at Cande, a parish at the extremity of his diocess, at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne in Touraine, upon the borders of Poitou and Anjou, he went thither to compose the disturbance, attended as usual by a great number of his disciples. Having remained there some time, and settled all things to his satisfaction, he was preparing for his return, when he was seized with his last sickness, and found, on a sudden, his strength fail him. As soon as he was taken ill, he called his religious brethren about him, and told them that the time of his departure was come. At this news they all with tears and with one voice said to him: “Father, why do you forsake us? or to whom do you recommend us? The ravening wolves will fall upon your flock. We know you desire to be with Jesus Christ; but your reward is secure; nor will be a whit diminished by being deferred a while. Have pity on our necessity, who are left amidst great dangers.” The servant of God, moved with their tears, wept also, and prayed thus: “Lord, if I am still necessary to thy people, I refuse no labour. Thy holy will be done.” As if he had said, says St. Sulpicius: My soul is uncouquered by old age, weakness, or fatigues, and ready to sustain new conflicts, if you call me to them. But if you spare my age, and take me to yourself, be the guardian and protector of those souls for which I fear. By these words he showed that he knew not which was clearest to him, either to remain on earth for Christ, or to leave the earth for Christ; and has taught us in prayer for temporal things, to submit ourselves with perfect resignation and indifference to the divine will, begging that God may direct all things in us and through us to his greater glory. The saint had a fever which lasted some days: notwithstanding which he spent the night in prayer, lying on ashes and hair cloth. His disciples earnestly entreated him that he would suffer them at least to put a little straw under him. But he replied: “It becomes not a Christian to die otherwise than upon ashes. I shall have sinned if I leave you any other example.” He continually held up his eyes and hands to heaven, never interrupting his prayer, so that the priests that stood about him, begged he would turn himself on one side, to afford his body a little rest. He answered: “Allow me, my brethren, to look rather towards heaven than upon the earth, that my soul may be directed to take its flight to the Lord to whom it is going.” Afterwards, seeing the devil near him, he said: “What dost thou here, cruel beast? Thou shall find nothing in me. Abraham’s bosom is open to receive me.” Saying these words, he expired on the 8th of November, probably in 397. 12 He died seven months after St. Ambrose, as St. Gregory of Tours assures us. They who were present wondered at the brightness of his face and whole body, which seemed to them as if it were already glorified. 13 The inhabitants of Poitiers warmly disputed the possession of his body; but the people of Tours carried it off. The whole city came out to meet it: all the country people and many from neighbouring cities flocked thither, with about two thousand monks, and a great company of virgins. They all melted into tears, though no one doubted of his glory. He was carried with hymns to the place of his interment, which was in a little grove at some distance from the monastery, where certain monks lived in separate cells. The place was then five hundred and thirty paces from the city, as St. Gregory of Tours informs us, though at present it is part of it, and the walls were carried so far as to encompass it in the beginning of the inroads of the Normans. St. Brice, St. Martin’s successor, built a chapel over his tomb, and St. Perpetuus, the sixth bishop of Tours, about the year 470, founded upon that spot the great church and monastery, the saint’s sumptuous tomb being placed behind the high altar. 14 These monks secularized themselves in the seventh century. Towards the close of the eighth, Pope Adrian I. at the request of Charlemagne, placed there regular canons, and Alcuin was shortly after appointed their abbot. 15 These canons were secularized in the reign of Charles the Bald, in 849, and have continued so ever since. The king of France, from the time of Hugh Capet, is the abbot and first canon; besides eleven dignitaries, and fifty-one canons, &c. here are ecclesiastical honorary canons, namely, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the archbishops of Mentz, Cologne, Compostella, Sens, and Bourges; the bishops of Liege, Strasbourg, Angers, Auxerre, and Quebec; and the abbots of Marmoutier, and St. Julian’s at Tours; and lay honorary canons, the dauphin, the dukes of Burgundy, Anjou, Brittany, Bourbon, Vendome, and Nevers: the counts of Flanders, Dunois, and Angouleme: also the earl of Douglas, in Scotland, before that family had changed its religion. The extraordinary devotion which the French and all Europe have expressed to St. Martin, and to this church for the sake of his precious tomb, would furnish matter for a large history. The Huguenots rifled the shrine and scattered the relics of this saint. But this church recovered a bone of his arm, and part of his skull. 16 Before this dispersion, certain churches had obtained small portions which they still preserve. The priory of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields at Paris is possessed of a part: two of his teeth are shown in St. Martin’s, at Tournay. The cathedral at Tours was built by St. Martin in honour of St. Maurice: but since the year 1096, bears the title of St. Gatian’s. Its chapter is one of the most illustrious in France; the bishop of Tours was suffragan to Rouen till he was made a metropolitan. A vial of sacred oil is kept at St. Martin’s; with which Henry IV. was anointed king instead of that from Rheims. St. Sulpicius relates that St. Martin sometimes cured distempers by oil which he had blessed, 17 and that this oil was sometimes miraculously increased. 18
on the night before Sankranti.
The women who gathered to do the 'Rangoli' in front of a temple. They spoke of how adding salt to the color makes it shinier and much more attractive. Hope the kiddo was listening :)
LexisNexis participated in AALL 2013 in Seattle. This is a wide angle shot of the booth. Among the things the LexisNexis team focused during the event were:
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03 October 2017, Manila, Philippines: Glimpse from Regional Knowledge Exchange. #Action2030 Photo: Cheryl Gagalac/UNDP Philippines
These three self portraits are from a project concentrating on the role of women in christianity, more specifically Catholicism. They show how women are stereotypically portrayed in the bible and more subtly in a society that has grown from Christian values.
This Photograph was taken on a Mamiya RB67 using Kodak Porta 160 film.
I actually like the drab monotonous mood of this piece. I was going to attempt to remove some of the noise, but decided that it's actually part of character of this photo.
Notice the note on the board...
irony.
12.6.1986 Spencer Street - Melbourne - Victoria ex VandSAR Joint Stock car Inman on Vline Train of Knowledge (p0105815_k)
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Although increasing numbers of women in the EBRD region are earning graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men still dominate the knowledge-intensive industries that draw on this talent pool. Gains by women entrepreneurs are even less evident in the knowledge economy in transition countries.
The panel discussion focused on impediments to female participation in the knowledge economy and ways to capitalise better on women’s potential as innovators, entrepreneurs and industry leaders.
The Forty-Sixth Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from February 27 to March 3, 2023 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.
Kevin Truong
Photos confront gay stereotypes
Kevin Truong’s story of morphing from Portland State economics major to globe-trotting chronicler of the gay experience reads like a cross between a coming of age novel and an artist’s manifesto.
The son of a Vietnamese immigrant, Truong grew up in east Portland, a restless youth who kept his own gay identity secret for years. After finally coming out—first to his PSU senior capstone professor, then to everyone—he followed through on a lifelong dream after graduation by joining the Peace Corps. He was stationed in Belize, a country where homosexuality is against the law.
“They said, ‘You just have to go back in the closet,’” Truong recounts. He tried, but quit after two months. “I couldn’t be in a country where it is illegal to be who I am.”
At one of those decisive crossroads in life, Truong moved to New York City and enrolled in a photography program at the Pratt Institute. He began shooting portraits of his friends, then expanded to the broader gay community.
He created a blog, posting the photos and brief stories of his subjects. The blog took off, and so did Truong—to London, Paris and an across-America road-trip, photographing gay men and posting them. He’s up to 450. The photos, he says, show gay men as they are—proud, playful, loving, professional, intense or serene—and help break down societal barriers.
It became The Gay Men Project, and is now the energetic 32-year-old’s life work. He raised more than $33,000 through Kickstarter and plans to embark on a round-the-world journey, interviewing and photographing people along the way.
Truong says he sometimes finds himself defending his work. Is it activism? Why only gay men and not the larger LGBT community?
"I do care about change," he says. "But I'm not a policymaker. I'm creating art. The world can do what it wants with it."
He was determined to find out whether this was the Tree of Life or the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And there was no other way than to climb that tree, get one of those juicy fruits and eat it. He moved fast, and we're glad He did it, because this story is getting long and somebody's photo stream is becoming humdrum.
(to be continued)
If you want to know how it all started, you can watch it here, but I wouldn't give a damn if I were you.
On October 14, Langara hosted its first-ever Energy Fair. Students and employees were invited to have a conservation conversation with campus and community partners; visit an info booth for energy saving tips and resources; and learn about energy management, sustainability, and recycling programs. Thanks to everyone for participating in our photo booth and prize draws. Special thanks to our event sponsor, FortisBC, and our partners, BC Hydro PowerSmart Program and Prism Engineering Ltd.
Photo by Leslie Kennah, www.rhizomemedia.ca
Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy (VOCTEC), under the leadership of Arizona State University (ASU), is a global program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). VOCTEC aims to improve the sustainability of renewable energy infrastructure and investments in developing countries by increasing awareness, knowledge and capacity of local stakeholders, primarily in decentralized clean energy technologies.
Photographer: Ambika Adhikari
Um . . . err . . . a little spelling knowledge would help.
Of course, in two years nobody will ever know, because this wall will be gone gone gone. Lefrak's gonna build apartments and condos here.
The Pastoralist Knowledge Hub (PKH) Partners’ Meeting on April 3, 2017 at FAO in Rome, brought together the partners of the Hub to not only review its progress, but to also share knowledge and exchange ideas on the development of pastoralism across the globe.
©FAO/Tonia Galasso
During the Jazz Age:
Daisy still had no knowledge that her 'boyfriend' David, the Prince of Wales, was in her house. It had been months since she had seen him. As Daisy was getting ready to leave home in her blue outfit, LaVern phoned from the theater where she was performing to tell her that Clara Bow had brought him there, claiming that he was in terrible condition, and saw to it that he took a bath and then went to sleep in one of the guest rooms.
For an instant, Daisy felt forlorn. His 'vacation' had given her rest from his pressure to say yes to his proposal of marriage--a marriage that Daisy had come to feel would be politically impossible, given the scandals that marked her life.
She also had come to feel alienated by some of the qualities that she had initially found refreshing: his lack of seriousness, his romantic nature, his carefree pastimes. Now, she saw in those qualities a deficit of intelligence and depth. Furthermore, Daisy felt she had seen a serious character flaw in him as he seemed indifferent to her torment as she faced the crisis of hoping to find her missing daughter Pammy.
"David," she thought, "Do I have to face him now?"
As if he sensed Daisy's anxiety, her cocker spaniel Alexander--Sandy--jumped up on the table next to her. As she petted him, Daisy said, "It's okay, Sandy. I won't let the blue of my outfit symbolize my mood. I just have to concentrate on the things that matter--and deal with His Royal Highness later...
TO BE CONTINUED.
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