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Last year, a colleague and I received funding to bring representatives from a number of aboriginal teacher education programs from across Canada to form an aboriginal knowledge exchange network. Today was our first meeting, a Symposium in Regina. Thanks to those that did all the work, it will be an impressive three-day event.
“Golden Moments; Bright Stories for Young Folks” fully illustrated, published by De Wolfe, Fiske and Co., Boston. Unknown editor or date. Various illustrators. Can be found for free at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22308.
BBBSS Class of 70 - Alumni 40th Reunion Project
"The Passage of Knowledge"
About the school: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Bintang_Boys'_Secondary_School
The Forty-Second Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from February 28 to March 4, 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-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The project envisages the involvement of disadvantaged groups both in the processing of organic waste, but also by planting trees on unused areas in the region.
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It takes patience to listen, and humility to realize that what we have come to know are just about the tip of the iceberg...and vanity of all vanities, we find the simple truth in that we seek,all along here in the Kingdom Within...
Dangerous Knowledge, Kem Bennett
Collins, London & Glasgow, 1957
fontana books, n°211
" Betrayal and its grim aftermath"
An officer of the Endicott Police Department, NY, suits up in an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) suit before beginning the long walk to a training IED during the Raven's Challenge June 24, 2015, in Oriskany, NY.
The 2015 Raven's Challenege in Oriskany brought together EOD units from the New York Army and Air National Guard, U.S. Army, police forces from across New York, and military and police forces from Canada. Over the course of the week long challenge the forces shared their unique specialties and knowledge, pooling resources to tackle multiple counter-IED exercises in a realistic training environment. (New York Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Harley Jelis/Released)
Madame Marie Temple of Knowledge Marie Castello (May 25, 1915 – June 27, 2008), who was known as Madam Marie, was an American Fortuneteller and Psychic Reader who worked on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, Boardwalk from 1932 until 2008. Madam Marie was the longest running tenant on the Asbury Park Boardwalk.
Castello was a fixture in Asbury Park for decades, telling fortunes on and off at her tiny booth on the boardwalk which is nicknamed The Temple of Knowledge. She read the fortunes of celebrities ranging from Judy Garland to Bruce Springsteen. According to accounts, Castello reportedly told Springsteen that he would be a huge success. Springsteen later jokes that she told all her musician clients the same thing.
Springsteen mentioned Castello in his 1973 song, "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", which earned her a certain amount of fame among his fans. Springsteen wrote in the song's lyrics of Castello, "Did you hear the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do." Castello was never arrested during her career, according to Asbury Park deputy mayor Jim Bruno. Bruno added that, "...Springsteen turned her into an icon." Also in his song Brilliant Disguise,in writing about his failing first marriage he sings, "As we stood at the altar the gypsy swore our future was bright, but come the wee-wee hours maybe baby the gypsy lied". Springsteen reportedly never forgot Madam Marie and often visited her when he was back in Asbury Park. "He always comes by to say hello...He knows where he came from," Castello told the Asbury Park Press in a May 2008 interview with reporter Bill Handleman.
Jimmy Wales Visit Korea.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his role in the creation of Wikipedia, a free open content encyclopedia launched in 2001. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, holding the board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he founded Wikia, a privately owned free web hosting service.
Although Wales has long been cited as the co-founder of Wikipedia, he disputes the "co-" designation, asserting that he is "the sole founder of Wikipedia". With others, Wales laid the foundation for Wikipedia's rapid growth and popularity.
The success of the project helped popularize Web 2.0, a trend in web development that aims to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. As Wikipedia expanded and its public profile grew, Wales took on the role of the project's spokesperson and promoter through speaking engagements and media appearances.
His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world's most influential people.Wales is the de facto leader of Wikipedia, whose role in the project has gained broad media attention and has led to controversy.
Source from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
Auschwitz- Birkenau Death Camp.
Auschwitz is probably one of the world’s most infamous places and no matter how much knowledge you may or may not have of history, nothing can prepare a person for the visit to such a place. The level of atrocities carried out are indescribable , the sadistic cruelty beyond comprehension by any reasonable individual. Initially established to house prisoners opposed to The Third Reich, Auschwitz was later the centre of the Nazis so called Final Solution of The Jewish Problem. At least one million, one hundred thousand people were murdered there, 90% were Jews from all over Europe. These people were herded together and transported in cattle wagons and shipped by rail to Auschwitz and Birkenau in the most inhumane conditions. Many never made it there.
Auschwitz was the original camp, a disused army barracks converted, this now houses the State Museum of Auschwitz with many harrowing exhibits of Nazi cruelty. It was here the SS tortured and starved prisoners and Dr Joseph Mengele carried out his experiments. Cyclone B was discovered here in an attempt to kill lice as this was becoming a problem as prisoners themselves and their conditions deteriorated. In experimenting with the chemical it was developed as a very quick and efficient way of killing humans by suffocation.
Birkenau is massive and was built as a killing factory. Seventy five per cent of arrivals were instantly condemned to death, by the flick of the finger of the SS Officer. These were gassed in the gas chambers built specially for this purpose. All children under fourteen and the infirm or disabled were immediately disposed of. The other twenty five per cent were the young and fit and they were put to work but three months was a long time to last. The diet had an intake of 1500 calories a day and the work was for fourteen hours a day, it didn’t take long just to starve to death, just three months for the young and strong.
No matter what a person’s political or religious views may be, nobody could be unaffected by a visit to Auschwitz- Birkenau and while it is important to pay respect to those who suffered, it is more important we never forget and insure this cannot happen again.
Archive of Spatial Knowledge is a curated collection of spatial memories hosted on an experimental digital platform. It gathers idiosyncratic spatial and social memory of individuals and groups who were forcefully displaced from the geographies of their origin or are denied representation and the possibility to build historical and cultural continuity in the locations of their current residence. The archive‘s first edition addresses the issues of spatial justice in and around the Russian occupied regions of Georgia.
photo: tom mesic
Osiris, Atlatl Godbee, Collected in Colombia
The ancient Egyptian God Osiris was associated with both the afterlife and a greenish skin, and at least indirectly with Honey Bees. While early entomologists liked to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge naming genera according to classical Roman, Greek or, in this case Egyptian deities, the name in this case might be less inaccurate. This is because some Osiris species have a rather afterlifely pallid coloration sometimes verging on yellow-green.
While there are 32 different species of Osiris, distributed from Mexico south to Argentina, almost nothing is known about the biologies of these nest parasites. There is one record of a young Godbee emerging from the nest of pollen carrying bees of the genus Paratetrapedia.
Morphologically, the genus is notable for the length of its sting. It is not just the sting shaft that is elongate. The ventral part of the apical abdominal segment is developed into a long, almost tubular structure through which the sting can project. An interesting additional feature is the enormous development of what is, in almost all other bees, a tiny strut at the base of the sting shaft. In Osiris this forms a very elongate structure that looks like an atlatl or spear-thrower. Perhaps these remarkable embellishments serve to drive the sting home if the cuckoo should invade a nest while the rightful occupant is inside, or be caught in flagrante delicto by the returning mother.
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Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
Further in Summer than the Birds
Pathetic from the Grass
A minor Nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass.
No Ordinance be seen
So gradual the Grace
A pensive Custom it becomes
Enlarging Loneliness.
Antiquest felt at Noon
When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify
Remit as yet no Grace
No Furrow on the Glow
Yet a Druidic Difference
Enhances Nature now
-- Emily Dickinson
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
JROTC Cadets compete in the JROTC Academic Bowl on June 24, in Washington D.C. JROTC teams from across the country met at the nation’s capital June 23-26 to demonstrate their academic knowledge and skills learned in JROTC throughout the year. | Amy Turner, U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs
Ms Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves, Director, Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal.
This session draws awareness to the need for governments to develop e-skills policies at the national level to ensure that every citizen has the necessary skills and ability to use ICTs. However, although governments are crucial players in an e-skilling a nation, e-Skilling is an ecosystem with different players who can all make a contribution to this national effort. The private sector is one such key player, and therefore, in the spirit of Private Public Partnerships (PPP), the private sector has a role to play in assisting governments in this task.
Day 2
13 May 2013
ITU/J.M. Planche
Many customers appreciate the unique knowledge contained in historic photos like this one from Dairy Queen.
this shot was quite easy to take; the man was very detached. the light was by my side; the evening shadows gave a mysterious effect.
Engraved plate from The Encyclopaedia Britannica - 9th edition - 1876-1889.
The 9th edition was a new, completely revised edition, enlarged to 24 volumes - sometimes called the ‘scholars’ edition’, with articles from over 2000 eminent contributors.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, for The Times Publications of London. 24 volumes red half leather, gilt spines and marbled endpapers and edges. About 20,000 pages 28cm x 22cm.
The interesting thing about knowledge is that we all have it. It's not something only certain people have. However, what makes knowledge so unique and exciting is when someone has the need to share what they know. David here has that. Not only have I learned so many random things from him, but I've enjoyed it! He tells me things i've never known before and now I find myself sharing that information to others now as well! So, Thank You David!
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by @Doug88888: flickr.com/photos/doug88888/4128370793
Quote from Steve Wheeler's post 'It Takes a Village' steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/it-takes-village.html