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My recent submission for the Nineteen Months photography project, which can be seen here: www.nineteenmonths.com/knowledge/
one of my favorite places visited in taiwan was the confucius temple in tainan. it's the first confucius temple and also the first formal education institution in taiwan, built in 1666 in the manchu dynasty.
it also has a friggin big tree that provides lovely shade for the locals.
2018-09-05: Simon Mizrahi, Acting Director, Communication and External Relations (PCER) addressing during Evaluation week 2018 Day -1.
"On Photographing Wild Birds"
Bill Walker
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007, 7:30pm
Milpitas Camera Club
Community Room of the Milpitas Police Dept.
1275 North Milpitas Blvd & Minnis Circle, Milpitas, CA
In this talk I will equip photographers with the tips, tricks, and knowledge they need to begin photographing the wild birds of the San Francisco Bay area. I'll discuss different kinds of birds and where to find them at different times of the day and the year, how to approach birds in the field, how best to use the sun to light birds, and how knowledge of bird behavior can help you make better images. Anyone interested in birds or photography is welcome!
Note: The Club meeting begins at 7:00pm with roughly 30 minutes of club business, my presentation should begin around 7:30pm.
Land Finance Hub Use and Registration Training at Jepara with the Indonesia Wood Furniture Association (APKJ/Asosiasi Pengrajin Kayu Jepara), 8 November 2022.
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Bad weather is here again and the car has been sitting since just before Christmas. So I figured it to be as good a time as any to fix something that was really irking the crap out of me…the sun visors.
All of the 79-85 Eldorado’s with light up mirrors (which most had) unfortunately have a problem with visorus saginitus. The visor is held up by a small winged plastic bushing-it wraps around the chrome visor arm, and locks into the plastic visor body with the winged part. This little plastic thing gets brittle over time and starts to crack, losing its grip on the stationary rod. This starts as an issue where they droop a little bit when the car has been sitting in the sun on a summers day but eventually gets bad enough that it happens at all temperatures and will just flop down with bumps in the road.
To my knowledge there’s no replacements for this winged bushing and even if there were I don’t know how you would go about replacing it with the way it’s installed on the visor arm. GM evidently saw the problem as the arm and bushing were revised in 1984 to be bigger but evidently to no avail-the passenger visor on my car sagged from the time I had bought the car and I had held it in place with a nail wedged into the metal trim surrounding the window that had to be removed when you wanted to use it…this didn’t compute with the fairer sex, so it’s safe to say eventually I’m going to find all of those finishing nails that have gone missing over the past couple of years the hard way…
My driver’s side visor was free of this problem but I just didn’t use it as I was afraid it would start doing the same thing. So I set to work finding a real fix
These popped up for sale on ebay, red visors from an ’87 DeVille. They looked like a winner, same general shape, same color and in good condition. After a couple of messages to get an idea on size, I ordered them. However, when they arrived, they were neither the bright red shown in the pictures, nor in as good of repair. They definitely needed to be reupholstered to be used. I gave them a dry run before wasting any more money, and they had a couple of other issues. The first was a different electrical connector which was no biggie. The second was much bigger, that they could only be used to block sun going forward. Trying to move it to the side caused them to either drop or raise at a 45 degree angle.
I figured this was caused by the design of the mount which is heavily angled. So there wasn’t much I could do about it. Until my ebay suggestions came up with visors from a Buick Reatta for sale-the same general style as the DeVille, but with a flat type of mount similar to the OEM Eldorado!
Now the guy wanted over 100 dollars for these and after my blunder with the DeVille visors I wasn’t about to sink that type of change in a maybe. So I headed over to the Reatta AACA message board to see if anyone had a dogged set of visors with good mounts that they wanted to sell, and the first post in the for sale section happened to be by a fella who was parting out a complete Reatta! Score!
I emailed the guy and he explained that the car was in a junkyard local to his house. A real gentleman, he was able to get the visor arms for free and didn’t even charge me the ride up from Florida. Thanks Mike! The car in question had a burgundy interior so the arms would need to be sprayed dark carmine to work for me. After cleaning and priming, SEM aerosol made quick work of that.
Unfortunately when they were removed from the Reatta, this condom thing that wraps around a metal bushing shredded, but I was able to basically replicate it with heat shrink tubing
The arms are easily removed from the visors when uninstalled from the car. Simply rotate the arm into the mirror side of the visor (as if you were pushing the visor back up into the roof) until it clicks and then yank it out. Install it into the new visor in the same position. I did some tests for proof of concept and when it seemed like I was on the right track, I got to work. Or at least to spending money. I ordered carmine foam-backed headliner material (Sunbrite 1872 for those interested, it was a great match) and headliner adhesive (which I ended up not needing for this job)
The visors themselves are like a clamshell and probably harder to crack open than a turnip. After enough brute force, a hammer, and a screwdriver, I was able to get them open (see the color difference as compared to the ebay picture above)
The material around the visor ended up not being glued to the face of it, only tucked tight and hot glued from the factory. I decided to do the same thing (So I have to write off the spray adhesive until I do a new headliner). I carefully removed the old fabric and made a template out of the new material
(should anyone do this in the future, it’s much more simple and less risky to only cut the general shape of the template out, you can cut the hole for the mirror and sun shade later)
The visors themselves also needed some help. The “ears” at the ends were super fatigued and loose, so I mixed up some resin and fiberglass to shore them up.
Once the visor bodies were sound, I had to come up with a way of re-joining the clamshell. I have no idea how GM did this in the first place but super glue doesn’t work. After a lot of searching I found out that these are likely made of Polyethylene. I bought this 3M DP8005 adhesive which claimed to bond it and tested it on a junk visor-seemed to do the trick. You need a special mixing tip in addition to this and I also had to get a gun that it fits into.
With that solved, I started hot gluing the material onto the visors. I had never done anything with headliner material before aside from stapling them up when they started sagging and I was really surprised with how compliant it was. In that, it basically looked factory with no runs or wrinkles despite not having a clue what I was doing.
Then, I bonded the two halves back together. Each one had to sit like this for a day, and early signs seem like it worked. Hopefully the adhesive will hold, time and temperature will tell.
Here’s a comparison of the original visors with the DeVille replacements. Mirrors swapped without issue. I also had to swap the power connector, meaning I had to cut the crimped on connector at the mirror end from the old visors and install in the new ones. Delphi 12020347 is the connector part, there’s no room inside the assembly for a butt connector (and I hate using them unless I have to)
And here they are installed!
The only complication on the install is that the plastic visor arms bolt in a slightly smaller bolt pattern than the originals. You can take any 2 of the 3 holes but not all 3 at once. Fortunately there’s plenty of meat to drill into to make another hole.
I’m sure a lot of people are reading this right now and saying I should have just stuck with the nail but in reality it wasn’t that bad. It might seem like a mess but everything above is a “worse possible scenario” in that I got fleeced on the visors I bought and had to change color, structurally repair them, rehab the Reatta visor arms, then bond them back together. If you’re fortunate enough to have a 79-85 E body with an interior color the same as an 85-88 Deville, and can get the visors from it, the only thing you need do is get a set of Reatta visor arms and swap them out (and obviously your electrical connector from your 79-85). They’re really close in size as far as fit, and look factory with the exception of the sunshade. You could delete that when reupholstering, but I always liked them.
It seems like GM changed all their lighted visor designs to basically the same thing in the late 80’s downsized cars. So there might very well be more vehicles than just Reattas that have the flat plastic visor arm. As far as longevity, I’ll definitely keep everyone posted but I will say that I’ve never really seen any of the “newer” Cadillacs or Buicks experiencing visor problems. The whole metal bushing with condom setup also feels much more sturdy then the OEM 79-85 stuff.
Oh, and on the bright side, I’ll only have to wear these puppies at night now.
Art Work by: Sam Rodriguez
"THE COMPOSITE KNOWLEDGE"
Opening Reception: July 20th, 2012 from 7:00-10:00pm
On View Through: August 18th, 2012
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In 1893 the Old Medical School Building opened its doors as the Louisville Medical College at the corner of West Chestnut and First Street. Well known Louisville architects at the turn of the century, Charles Julian Clarke and Arthur Loomis of the firm Clarke and Loomis, designed the building in their signature Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building stands as a testament to its time.
The “Old Medical College” began as a labor of love and still goes on in the same fashion. The building has gone through many changes since its inception. In 1901 the Medical Department at the University of Louisville was in dire financial straits and only the merging of all four medical colleges in town would alleviate the problem. As a result the four other medical colleges in Louisville merged and became under the care of University of Louisville. With the onset of World War I a shortage of students and faculty became apparent, until the economic growth of the 1920's.
In 1922-1923, the Louisville Medical College officially changed its name from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville to the University of Louisville School of Medicine, as it is known today.
Ten years later the Great Depression struck the country and in January 1937 floods infiltrated the Ohio River Valley. On January 22 downtown University of Louisville classes were dismissed but before the students left the building at First and Chestnut, they carried library books, journals and pictures that were being stored in the basement to the first floor to be saved.
With the emergence of World War II a contract was drawn between the US Government and the University of Louisville to prepare students for the Armed Forces. New curriculum was created that changed both the content and length of courses to accommodate the direction of military medicine. This was enacted with the knowledge that when the war was over students would return to the more accepted curriculum.
When the war ended instead of the predicted decrease interest in medicine there was an increase. With growing attendance and expansion of medicine The University of Louisville School of Medicine was rapidly becoming too large for its current home. In 1965 the school began moving out into newer facilities and soon the building became known as the 'Old Medical School'.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
I am a cradle-born Catholic whose grandparents immigrated to the USA from Italy, Poland, and Ukraine. My paternal grandfather died before I was born, and I never gained any knowledge about his faith, although my father was very active in the Catholic Church and attended mass faithfully along with my mother. My paternal grandmother took her Catholic faith to an extreme, often ignoring the people around her. My maternal grandparents did not attend Mass as I was growing up, although their eight children received the seven sacraments. I don't know why they didn't actively worship.
Since I viewed my faith through the eyes of a child, I didn't know how to defend it when I was seriously challenged during my college years by agnostics, atheists, and non-Catholic Christians. I turned 21 at the end of the 1960's and listened to the worldly view that told me to drop out of anything organized and established; it told me to make love, not war; it was a time of questioning and protesting. From age 21 to age 30, I turned my back on God. I no longer worshiped or prayed. I thought I was a "good" person, but I totally ignored God. I am so grateful to God that I survived that time.
I married in my late twenties and I had our first child by age 30. It was the miracle of bringing other souls into the world, and moving to a rural area that brought me back to God, and to the fullness of the Catholic faith. My husband was Christian, but not Catholic. Since we had made the decision to baptize our two children, we started attending Mass on a semi-regular basis. When we moved to rural Georgia and attended a small Catholic church, we no longer were just "Sunday Catholics" -- but were invited to take part in many activities as part of the "parish community."
My husband began to believe in the real presence of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine. He longed to receive Christ in the Eucharist, and after 3 years participating in the RCIA program, he made the decision to embrace the Catholic faith fully. It made a very significant difference in our marriage, and drew us closer in a way we had never been before.
I eventually took on the position of Director of Religious Education at our church. I knew so little of the faith even though I had received all the sacraments and attended catechism classes through the 6th grade. But as I mentioned before, I had the faith of a child even though I was an adult. I think that's what happens with so many fallen-away Catholics. They leave their faith without knowing the fullness of their faith. As they turn their backs on God, it becomes so natural to listen to what the world is teaching at the moment, and the world's message is not God's message. We search for what we think will give us fulfillment and happiness, but we are following our will, not God's will. We put the natural before or in place of the supernatural.
Love is what we need, and the purest and truest of all love is the supernatural love of God. Since God is perfect love, He knows how to love us by giving us free will, knowing that the gift of free will may turn us away from Him. We are not His slaves, but we are his adopted children through the most perfect sacrifice of His Son. I can not judge another if they don't choose God and rather believe in the natural. I can not judge others who believe in a God that differs from the God the Catholic Church teaches about.
So often I hear the bitter voices of people who have left the Catholic faith, who put down the Church, who ridicule the Pope. These voices are often featured on public radio. I also hear the voices of non-Catholics who believe the Catholic faith is a diabolic cult. There is a lot of judging by others against the Catholic faith, but their voices cry out often due to misunderstandings, or the result of what a person representing the faith did or said to them that damaged them. I know that God reveals Himself to us; we humans don't define who God is. God is not relative depending on one's thoughts or feelings at a given time. God is not limited by or locked into our past, present, or future time. He is eternal. We cannot fully grasp eternity even as our minds and machines develop to higher levels. We are here on Earth to be tested for our own good, and to prove our love for God since we have been given the promise of eternal life.
If we don't pray for the virtues, but continually choose the vices and continue down that path in our life through the moment of our death, we have chosen to lock God out. I totally believe that the Catholic Church through the Pope and the teaching magisterium opens our souls, hearts, and minds to the true and full offerings of the one true God of all creation throughout all time.
Knowledge center management and use training workshop was organized in Dessie town at the zonal office of agriculture's knowledge center on June 14-15 2014. Knowledge center managers from Amhara and Tigray took part in this training
CAMP CASEY, South Korea – More than 200 Soldiers from 210th Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division are competing in the Thunder Crucible, a team competition held October 28-29 on Camp Casey, South Korea. The event was designed to test Soldier’s mettle, teamwork and mastery of individual skills and knowledge including: the Army Physical Fitness Test, chemical defense, combat casualty care, tactical communications, weapons mastery skills, written tests on both Korean culture and the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program, vehicle preventive maintenance checks and services, and an intense obstacle course. The Thunder Crucible is an opportunity to highlight the demanding training required of 210th Field Artillery Brigade Soldiers as well as build espirit de corps within the brigade. (U.S. Army photo by 210th Field Artillery Brigade Public Affairs Team/Released)
2011, an Innovation Knowledge Centre (IKC) for Smart Infrastructure and Construction was set up, based in the Department of Engineering, but involving colleagues from across the University – in the Department of Architecture, the Computer Laboratory and Judge Business School. The IKC works with construction, infrastructure and technology firms. Its aim is ambitious: its founders believe that it could kick-start a new industry dedicated to smart infrastructure and construction in the UK.
The Toronto Zoo has a neat little path through the North American area that has signs explaining how First Nations Peoples have used various plants, animals, etc over time. It was Liam who insisted to take the trail, and I found it very interesting. My grandmother was of Aboriginal heritage. It's too far back for me to have any official status, but my mother has recently embraced the culture and endeavored to learn more about it.
Submitted for Scavenge Challenge #12 Ethnic/National Heritage
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1909 TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE CHIROPRACTIC INSTITUTE. Class and faculty of 1909. D.J. Hayden was president and dean. Perhaps this school was the one D.D. Palmer and Alva Gregory started in 1907.
Kasi, Zach, and I took a walk around old downtown Denton, TX today.. We went to the recycled book store and some antique stores and I found these interesting sights around...
This is my favorite of the four I put up today.... It's amazing to think that for almost any conceivable topic, there is someone out there who has studied it and put their thoughts on paper.... It makes me realize how little I really know...
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Paul Aschenbach, 1961, near Bailey/Howe Library, Univerity Of Vermont, Centennial, Burlington, Vermont, USA, sculpture
Zag - bit.ly/1rLfs23
Photo by Eric Ziegler
This blog post has a little more conceptual thought that will probably require time to read David Amerland's book, Google Semantic Search (see the reference below to get an idea of what I was reading to understand the thoughts in this blog post)
The knowledge graph is a semantic search concept that is all about interpreting what is seen in the internet. The same concepts can be applied to the enterprise, and to be honest is probably a lot easier to do. If I understand how the knowledge graph works, the knowledge graph is built by manually and automatically. The automatic part is completed by the level of trust sites are given and the level of trust of information the search engines find. The knowledge graph is grown over time as it determine what is most trustworthy.
One of the many thoughts I had on the concept of the knowledge graph in the enterprise is that it can be grown systematically based on employee profiles. The links to project sites, links to primary contacts, links to topics that are related are often found in employee profiles. So Building out an enterprise profile is key to creating a social network of connections. The profile is a key piece of information that can help the knowledge graph grow - growing through the connections of topics to employees and employees to employees and then back from employees to topics.This note was inspired by +David Amerland 's book, Google Semantic Search - Amazon location 1727
Prisoners with Guards @ LCC 2013-07-22
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 July 2013.
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From 2008 to 2012 the ILO collaborated with 16 microfinance institutions to test a range of approaches to foster social impact through the delivery of innovative financial and non-financial services. Eliminating child labour, fostering the formalization of enterprises, reducing vulnerability and enhancing business performance through improved working conditions – these are decent work objectives that MFIs addressed in the framework of the “Microfinance for Decent Work” (MF4DW) action research programme. The results highlighted one key message: that MFIs can achieve desired results if they identify an issue and then focus on that area to help their clients. On December 4, 2015, a knowledge sharing workshop was organized in New Delhi to discuss these findings.
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Shannon Pot - Exploring Sacred Faerie Sites and Mythological Sources. County Cavan, Ireland. (c) 2012 - photography by Leaf McGowan, technogypsie.com. The Shannon Pot is rich in folklore with many myths surrounding the origins of this wonderful place. One such legend tells the story of a young girl who was tempted to eat from the forbidden "tree of knowledge" that the magical druids had planted at the site. However, as she bit into the fruit a huge fountain of water sprang up, drowning the young girl and eventually cutting a swathe of water throughout the countryside. The girls name was Sionnon or Shannon and gives her name to the river that today continues to flow from this source.
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