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Today I attended the launch party for the International African American Museum’s Cultural Center for Family History. The museum is set to open in Charleston in 2020 and will be an internationally recognized museum focused on African American contributions and lives. Perhaps the museum’s most important feature, which is what was discussed and previewed today, is the Cultural Center for Family History.
This center will be staffed with a group of knowledgable people who will assist people of African-American descent to trace their ancestry back as far as possible. Documents, manuscripts and resources will be available in one spot making this seemingly overwhelming and many times impossible task more feasible and obtainable for all. It was an honor to attend and hear of the hard work that has went on behind the scenes. It is a truly exciting time for our history as a whole. Many of this country’s African American resident’s ancestors came over to Charleston or at least through here. Charleston is really the birthplace of it all and the museum could not be in a better location.
Afterwards, Toni Carrier, of Lowcountry Africana, Kimberly Morgan, her husband Jim, and friend Akosua Moore, Miss Rebecca Campbell and Michael Moore, the president of the new museum, and myself went to Saffron to further the discussion. Afterwords, Miss Rebecca offered us a tour of her family’s home, known as the Borough Houses.
35 Calhoun Street was built in 1852 and occupied by Irish immigrants. Willis Johnson, Sr., a freed man from Drayton Hall Plantation, purchased the property in 1939 and raised his family here. His sons, built the house behind this one in 1940. The homes are still owned by Johnson’s family. The Borough was a former African American section of Ansonborough. Housing projects were created in 1940 right near here and were a significant area for African American history in Charleston. With the discovery of toxic waste in 1992 the buildings were torn down a year later. These two houses are all that remains in the American section once known as “The Borough.”
The houses are available for a tour and in lieu of admission fee, Miss Rebecca asks that donations be made to the International African American Museum instead.
At PMA's Tech Knowledge Symposium, attendees learned about groundbreaking technologies leading companies in the industry are deploying today with real-world results. They connected with tech partners and gained trusted information about tools that can manage labor, speed workflow and eliminate redundancies.
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
Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
For over many years the internet has blossomed to include millions of hours of content cration.
Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering
legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, I am joining sites like Wikipedia and others. We must stop this bill from going through. Join the protest... If you don’t see this on January 18, 2012 contact your representitives. Tell them NOT TO RESTRICT the internet. Do this for the children of the world
SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.
Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they will fatally damage the free and open Internet.
Sincerely,
Daniel Russo
On December 30, Ambassador Heidt and Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron were on hand for a lecture at RUPP by world-famous scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Stephen Wolfram entitled “The Future of Computation and Knowledge.”
Dr. Wolfram is the founder and CEO of software company Wolfram Research, based in the United States, and the creator of the Wolfram Language, which powers the free “answer engine” Wolfram Alpha. The talk was organized by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports; the U.S. Embassy; the Cambodia Science & Engineering Festival; and the Cambodian Mathematical Society.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
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
Regional insights - benefits of accreditation
Local knowledge is invaluable in the travel assistance arena, learn from experts who will share unique insights into operations throughout the MENA region including the benefits of accreditation.
SPEAKERS
Dr Claudia Mika
CEO & Founder
Temos International Healthcare Accreditation
Dr. Nithya Aiyanar
Manager Quality improvement and patient safety
RAK Hospital
Are you a smoker? Then, you are consuming tobacco almost every day. Tobacco use is absolutely is a leading of preventable illness and death. Tobacco causes many different cancers and chronic lung diseases such as bronchitis, heart disease, and so many other serious health problems.
What is...
Darrell Grant
Internationally acclaimed jazz musician
As a gifted pianist, Darrell Grant has charmed audiences from the clubs of New York to the streets of Portland, playing with some of the best names in the business. As a Portland State professor of jazz studies, he motivates students like Meghan and Kanda (shown above) to "find their voice" and then share it with the world.
"Our students are incredibly entrepreneurial," he says. "They do their own labels, they do a lot of recording, a lot of performing." He instills his students with not only a deeper understanding of the influence of jazz, but also the pure joy that comes from playing, singing and listening to the music.
Grant founded Lair Hill Records and the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute, named for the renowned master of the "walking bass" and one Grant's mentors.
At Portland State University, we believe knowledge works best when it serves the community.
At PMA's Tech Knowledge Symposium, attendees learned about groundbreaking technologies leading companies in the industry are deploying today with real-world results. They connected with tech partners and gained trusted information about tools that can manage labor, speed workflow and eliminate redundancies.
I don't know why I took this photograph. Just got an idea while sitting in the office. I was done uploading this photograph before everybody came back from lunch. :) The tall building (blured out) in the background is NIC building on Jinnah Avenue, Islamabad
The American College would like to thank everyone who was in attendance along with our incredible speakers and presenters. It was each and every one of you that helped to make this Knowledge Summit the most successful yet.
We would also like to, once again, congratulate all of our graduates on their hard work and commitment to further help their clients. It is because of you that we are able to continue to provide the highest level of financial services education.
The pictures below contain only a sample of the numerous memories from Boston, please take a look and we hope to see you all again at our 2011 Knowledge Summit in Las Vegas!
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Blackdown Cadet Summer Training Base Summer 2011 Borden, Ontario`s Annual Sunset Ceremonial Review. Nicholas Bockstael taking his position on parade.