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I am not looking forward to this oral presentation. I hate assessment. :(
and now my fears, they come to me in threes
they fade, my friend, you say the strangest things
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Phil had to turn this in to school today..
Has to do an oral presentation on the subject too on something that interests him and that he may consider doing in the future..
I guess it's music eh? :0)
I've always said you can be anything you want to be..Just make sure it's something you love to do ...so why not?
This is Phil practicing on his new Amp
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He calls it messing around..I love to hear him play!
Today I had to do my oral presentation. I was sooo nervous. But my teacher and friends liked it (:
The words are from the beautiful song 'Night Bird'. It's been stuck in my head all day. I realllllly like it. You should really listen to Mary Seno's version.
This picture is really old. A year or so..
When a step sends us sliding on a glass land,
we learn wariness.
We’ll believe second, letting others take the lead;
examining the benefits of believing -
an environment much won.
As life’s afternoons disappear
and the daily dark comes so soon,
we mark any opposite with warning -
too busy alive, being one...
A thin divide,
we step out onto glass each waking day,
an average magazine couple
come in years to material age,
learning the new dozen mean words
we use along the red answer -
and that’s
only consistent
with how we see ourselves and our lives
on the hungry edge...
not much more than idea animals
of spot purpose and chance effect.
And that glass plane so square
we try to walk on...
Wouldn’t we stick suggested to what felt familiar?
Glass like ice, cold for space...
Beneath us lies a proper place
for hungry lives to go for nourishment...
We, an all-season age
entered upon
now huge minutes;
a found notice lay growing;
a solution of bread and fishes to hunger,
seeing the glass now clear and limitless beneath -
and that makes us question
what we’ve believed to be...
what we’ve believed to be
those fatal edges where the drop has horror to it...
Maybe they’re there – maybe not...
and even if they are – those limits so like walls
despite their opposite fall –
now we know, seeing clear beneath us,
that down there beneath us,
where we for so long
have lived apart
only on the sliding surface,
used to choring effort just to keep a level pace –
that down there beneath us...
grows the rest of us...
alive in this same life...
as much of us as any waking day can win,
and more than we can ever know...
and if we didn’t try to find that out –
what more we may become –
what opens up our afternoons,
multiplies our hunger in so many other ways -
even as our taste is satisfied by fishes
and miraculous bread...
if we didn’t try to find that out –
as worlds swing open wide –
where’s the fun in that?
© Keith Ward 2006
Re: "On A Glass Land" - Punctuation has been revised from the version of the poem appearing in my book "Hit Head On." Also, italics was added for this online version. Originally I added italics to simulate the way I deliver the poem in oral presentation, but it seemed to muddy the reading of it more than clarify a difficult poem; so I removed the "emphasis" italics.
The photo was taken at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, on Monday March 27. I'd completed the second weekend class in a course on Life Coaching - something that feels closer than anything encountered in my 50 years to being what I want to do when I grow up - and took Monday off too. There was percolating from the weekend goin' on. I drove west in the early morning, not knowing where I would end up or what I'd be doing exactly - just that I wanted to walk, to think, to contemplate, to take pictures, and to read the course materials. On impulse I turned off Route 81 and entered the city, and by following something undefined in me, parked near the college. I walked for a long time - through the campus, then out into residential streets. It was a mulling stroll, not my usual exercise walk (when I do walk, that is - I've been out of the habit lately). The rest of the morning was spent reading, most of the time outside in the sun, sitting in a chair in a grassy courtyard at the law school, the wind clicking the branches of the trees.
I'm on a glass land alright... It's not been once and done - discovering my layer habitat, then keeping that learning. Relearning, I've found, has had to be built into my way of living - reinforcement of knowing - or else it fades... unknowing.... "Life is always pulling you away from the understanding of life." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Don't I know it! :)
On the way back to my car I noticed the reflection in the window you see in the photo, stopping abruptly a few paces past the window, then walking backwards to bring the reflection again into view. I might wish for a shot where the window's crosspieces were more symmetrical. But then the reflection wouldn't be like this. I worked with what I had, and made it what you see, enhancing the color and bringing out the blacks and oranges more. The trees reflected in the window were distorted in the first place, the window making them more so. (Check it out on the larger size setting - the intricate lines and the colors are really cool.)
There's something about the photo that speaks to me... the separate panes too... It's not what I originally had in mind for a photo accompanying "On A Glass Land" - I'd thought I'd use something that was definitely evocative of a walking surface - something that would match the theme of there being a "beneath." This photo isn't like that. Literally, anyway. Yet it seems to work with the poem.
And that's one of the best qualities of life and living, ya know? The possibilities... The never knowing from one moment to the next what sure plan will marvelously transmute in a sense of wonder... and through that wonder, for that moment and maybe longer yet, it all feels different... the world... you... You know with certainty that the world and you and everything really is like this - the way you now see it... and potential fills where habit and daily plodding normally live...
There's the fun in that...
Wishing for a safe, fair, and exciting games.
10.1 in Rhythmic Gymnastics
I awarded an extra tenth of a point for oral presentation.
(first in a series)
The NAS Building's Interior: The Auditorium
The purpose of the auditorium was to provide a larger venue in which to hold the large scientific symposia, meetings, and lectures that could no longer fit in the Lecture Room or the Great Hall. In the century since the founding of the Academy, membership had grown as it broadened its membership to include new fields, such as the social sciences.
As with the east and west wings, the firm of Harrison and Abramowitz was chosen as architect for the auditorium. Harrison's acoustical advisor was Cyril M. Harris of Columbia University who was later elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (1975) and the National Academy of Sciences (1980). Harris later designed the acoustics of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera House, and Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. For the Academy auditorium, Harrison used a dome design similar to one he had designed for the Caspary Auditorium at Rockefeller University about fifteen years earlier. Unlike the Caspary dome, which is visible as a dome from the exterior, the Academy dome is housed within an enclosing hip-roofed rectangular structure that recreates the sense of mass conveyed by Goodhue's original building. This is reinforced by the simplicity of the north-facing windowless façade, the stonework of which harmonizes with the north faces of the wings flanking it. As with the east and west wings, continuity with the original structure was an overriding aesthetic objective, and was successfully attained.23
The interior of the dome features a novel surface made up of 70 adjoining diamond-shaped projections covered in plaster. These projections, which were fabricated in place, are arranged along cycloid-shaped curves. The resulting configuration of the interior wall and ceiling eliminates acoustic focal points and thus ensures an optimal distribution of sound. This interior shell is suspended from trusses above the ceiling, thus isolating the shell from the auditorium floor and exterior structures. Taken together, the arrangement of the triangular projections and the independence of the acoustical shell from much of the rest of the structure ensure an acoustic efficiency that makes the auditorium nearly ideal for oral presentations and an excellent setting for music.
first class today i had biologytest.
then i had a free period so i joined alice in her english class and we sat there analyzing how bad (some good) people are at english. haha.
then there was p.e. where we had high jump. i ran right into some stick or something on the thing and it cut right into my ribs. so i decided to lay down on the floor beside alice the rest of the class.
lunch.
english oral presentation. good.
math. zzzz.
this is also when alice went home because she wasn't feeling good, sad face.
social science. learned about the black death.
a guy bought me an ice-cream right before class but i never had the time to eat it so i put it by the window so it wouldn't melt during class... it did. thanks.
went home.
watched 90210.
went to the gym.
spinningclass. awesome. i wanted to die at one point but it was so good.
home, shower, eat.
and here i am.
now you know what i did today.
Thnx to ALLAH because The last couple of days has been very productive for me. Planetary Scientific Research Centre has selected my thesis paper for publication. They also invited me to give an oral presentation about my research to an International Conference on Electronics, Biomedical Engineering and its Applications, Dubai.
That's why I decided to start my photography again obviously after buying a new cam.
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Last Minute Homeworking.
Okay, so school starts tomorrow morning and I haven’t started on any homework! I was suppose to today but I fell sleep… :D HEHE anyways, I have not as much homework.. All I have is :
English Essay - Romeo and Juliet
English Trial Oral Presentation - Romeo and Juliet
Keep That Body Moving Assignment - Sport
Personal Growth Letter to the Editor stuff - Health
That’s pretty much it. I should of done my homework when I didn’t have work last week and some time this week.. but NOO I just had to leave it to the last minute.
AHH WEELLL, stress is sometimes good for me! :D
I want to disappear under my bed... But I'm too big... I realized about that taking the photo...
you can't imagine how many papers I have to do. In order of delivery (complexity):
Data structures - 7
Electronics - 2
Muchakucha + oral presentation - 6
Writing of technical documents, paper 5 - 10
Writing of technical documents, paper 2 - 7
Computer Graphics - 9
Administration of OS - 8
Seductions of the information - 6
NTCA - 3 (this is the short, wich is alredy done)
English for enginyiers - 4
AESI - 10
Ampliation of OS - 10²
Yes, this is to finsh before june (except ASO, is for the next month...)
And I don't remember if I have anything else...
I'm going to die!
hey guys. quick upload to update you :)
tomorrow is my last day of school for my entire life. i´m incredibly happy. then there will be only love and photography anymore ♥
my last exam (an oral presentation) is tomorrow and then i´m free.
i had a shoot yesterday. i get always creative when i have work (for schoolt) to do..it´s almost a joke. so i organised a shoot although i had to do my presentation. but when i´m in a stress situation i can´t handle it without calming myself down while shooting :)
hope you are well. tomorrow i will look at your stream.
keep your fingers crossed, please ♥
inspired by the colours of the blossoms.
-totally straightened my hair today :D i've really cut down :P
ok so i opened up flickr on a school computer today and i looked at one of my photos and the colours were really wrong! D: like really over saturated and bright but on my computer they are just right. so if anyone's viewing these and you're like 'um ew. what has she done to the colour?!!' then its most likely not the colouring i'm seeing when editing.
this means something but i can't put my finger on what it is yet.
i'm super duper busy. i have to read '1984' by George Orwell, 'The Crucible', 'A View From the Bridge', 'All My Sons' and 'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller. AND choose another book or essay by George Orwell and read it for my oral presentation. oh my goodness. plus a composition for music, a MAJOR photography thingy and keeping up with maths.
so yeah. sorry for that. even though probably no-ones even reading this :P but it actually made me feel better just writing that all down.
so i'm going to go read now :P i might fix this description later.
oh and PS: i promise i'll take pictures of other people and other things soon!! i'm just so busy and its really hard to find willing models but i will get around to it.
PPS: i'm not smoking in this picture fyi :P
This is Miss Indian Arizona 2024-2025 Isabella Newman, San Carlos Apache Tribe
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Isabella Kara Newman is representing the San Carlos Apache Tribe. She is the 23 - year-old daughter of Darice and Garrold Newman. Isabella graduated from Dartmouth College and received her Bachelor's degree in Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages with a minor in Government. She currently works as an executive assistant for the San Carlos Apache Tribe in the Office of the Chairman. Isabella would like to pursue law school to practice international indigenous law as an attorney. Isabella states, "I have a passion for history and understanding cultures around the world." Some of her accomplishments include Most Improved Player in pickleball and Cadet of the Year in her high school JROTC program. In her free time, Isabella enjoys reading, writing, playing pickleball, beading, and hanging out with her friends and family. 2024 - 2025 Miss Indian Arizona, Isabella plans to "Promote Achieving Confidence and Success through Education." Isabella won Miss Congeniality Award - Community Service Award - Essay Award - Evening Wear Award - Oral Presentation Award the Best Evening Wear award, and a $5,000 educational scholarship.
Miss Indian Arizona 1st Attendant Hannah Nockideneh is representing the Navajo Nation. she is the 21-year-old daughter of Lisa and Frank Nockideneh. Currently, Hannah attends Arizona State University and is majoring in Physics and Mathematics. She plans to continue her educational journey by earning a Ph.D. in physics. After graduate school, she would like to pursue a career as a particle physicist and hopes to someday be selected as the Nobel Prize winner in physics. Outside of her interest in physics and astronomy, Hannah enjoys beading, running, staying physically active, painting, and trying new places to eat. She states that her personal goals, "are to always learn something new and create good habits" such as undertaking beadwork and creating a healthy work-life balance. One of her accomplishments includes earning the Miss Indigenous ASU (2023-2024) title. Her platform, "Embrace education to transform our futures for Indigenous communities." Hannah Nockideneh won Best Talent and received a $2,500 educational scholarship.
Miss Indian Arizona 2nd Attendant Tonana Amber Ben is representing the Navajo Nation. She is the 21-year-old daughter of Brenlla Gilmore and Gerald Ben. Tohana is currently attending Arizona State University and majoring in Biomedical Sciences. Her educational goals are to successfully graduate college and pursue a doctorate in genetic research "to focus on how we can improve health and learn more about genetic diseases." Throughout Tonana's academic journey, she has been awarded the President's honors list and was an Education Forward Scholar. Other accomplishments include earning the title Miss Indian Arizona 1st Attendant 2023-2024 and being an elected member of the American Indian Science Engineering Society chapter at ASU. In her free time, Tonana enjoys sewing traditional clothes, running, playing intramural basketball at ASU with an all-native team she formed, and spending time with her dog Kora and cat Chitty. Tonana plans to "Promote cultural resilience amongst urban indigenous communities." and received a $2,000 educational scholarship
This year's theme was "Honoring Warrior Women." Celebrating the Legacy of Veronica Homer the 1st Miss Indian Arizona crowned in 1961.The Miss Indian Arizona Association congratulates all the winners and extends sincere thanks to all of the participants, their parents, our financial and In-Kind sponsors, and the many people who come out to enjoy the 63rd Annual Miss Indian Arizona Scholarship Program.
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"The annual parade & community celebration attracts over 30,000 people and provides an opportunity to showcase the history, participating school groups, bands, live musical entertainment, and great shopping. Plan on being in old town Scottsdale all day with your friends to experience Arizona’s old west entertainment. Groups and bus tours are welcome and there is plenty of parking for large vehicles.
"The Parada del Sol Historic Parade has been a Scottsdale, AZ tradition since 1953. The streets of Old Town Scottsdale welcome over 30,000 spectators and nearly 150 Parade entries marching down Scottsdale Road.
"Beginning immediately after the Parade, The Trail’s End Festival is a huge block party for all ages, featuring live concerts, food, and fun. And the KIDZ Zone with games, pony rides and much more will keep the lil cowpokes happy. There will be many food and merchandise vendors located throughout the area and food trucks featured during the Trail’s End Festival.
Scottsdale Parada del Sol 2025
Parada del Sol 2025
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-group presentation
-thesis paper
-exam
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-scheduling
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Ahead of tomorrow's very important oral presentation, Michael is having that dream again where he stands on stage without wearing his pants.
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No make-up on because I spent all day at home working on my oral presentation. Ugh.
Oh, and new tights from asos. They arrived earlier than expected. Yes!
what if I was wrong and no one cared to mention?
what if it was true, and all we thought was right was wrong?
I cannot wait for this album in May.
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-oral presentation
-group projects (2)
-group presentation
-thesis paper
-exam
-quiz
-scheduling
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Hometown: Great Neck, N.Y.
Degree: MD, Geisel School of Medicine
Haaris Beg spent most of his childhood shadowing physicians and volunteering at his local emergency room. At Geisel, he has been involved with a variety of research opportunities, including giving an oral presentation on melanoma at the 50th annual American Society of Dermatopathology conference, and compiling a database of hundreds of Barret’s esophagus patients who underwent ablative therapy at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the first retrospective review of its kind. On campus, Haaris served as co-president of the orthopedic surgery interest group, and volunteered at the Mascoma Good Neighbor Health clinic. In his spare time, Beg enjoys running, hiking, traveling, reading, and debating current affairs. He will be returning to his native New York City as an internal medicine resident at NYU after graduation, but intends to return to the Upper Valley whenever possible to enjoy outdoor activities.
Favorite place on campus: A bench overlooking the Green.
“This was my spot, no matter how frigid or humid, to unwind after a long day studying or in the hospital. It has the most beautiful view overlooking the Green up to Baker-Berry and is the center of campus for a reason. It always made me realize how fortunate I was to be here. It’s also a sturdy bench.”
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Here's another one I caught in the wild today! Judging by the Public Enemy reference (Public Enemy #1 and lyric), I'm guessing circa 1991, although the appearance of other bands lead me to believe that perhaps this folder may have been used since the mid- to late '80s.
Found on a quick Google; source appears to be LT Anderson (@RogueChangers on Twitter), although I couldn't find it in his immediate feed. I'm also not on Twitter, so I could only see a limited portion of his material.
Three elements of note for me:
1. The "Babe I love you!" quote at the top reminds me of how nice and neat the penmanship was of nearly every girl I knew back in jr. high and high school. The cursive letterforms were so well-rounded and all the strokes were done to the tee. Back then you could always tell a girl's handwriting from the boys.
2. I like how someone wrote "Motley Crüe Girls, Girls, Girls" (perhaps as a follow-up or addition to the rest of the bands on the folder), only to have it scratched out. Something tells me it was an unauthorized entry, judging by the handwriting.
3. "SCANTRON 884" is a direct reference to a Scantron test form that was commonly used for tests back then (as they probably still are today). I wonder if that was scrawled onto the folder as a quick reminder to get one for an upcoming test in class.
4. Speaking of reminders, it wasn't uncommon for people to write them on Pee-Chee folders back in the day. "START 2nd SPEECH APRIL 12 w/#10" seems to be another one, perhaps for an upcoming oral presentation?
The reinforced Filament Strapping Tape on the spine is also a nice touch—yet another testament to the things we students would do in order to preserve and protect our Pee Chees. A little bit went a long way.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture. Artists include
Ashleigh Barksdale, Kaitlin Bellune, Rhen Bennett, Caroline Cherry, Madilyn Davis, Sarah Heal, Nicole Hunnewell, Rylan Kearse and Madison Pate.
The Lee Gallery exhibits artwork of graduating students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program at the end of each semester. Students are required to present their final creative research in a professional exhibition and deliver an oral presentation about their work.
Cover images top left to bottom right: Caroline Cherry, Madison Pate, Sarah Heal, Madilyn Davis, Kaitlin Bellune, Ashleigh Barksdale, Nicole Hunnewell, Rhen Bennett and Rylan Kearse.
A total of 200 participants, 70 oral presentations, 170 scientific posters on display, two culinary demonstrations, more than a dozen specialized sessions, visits to laboratories and field trials from the cassava program at CIAT, a new president of the ISTRC, and a touching award ceremony. These are some of the figures that show how intense and productive were those four days of work in the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC), that was held from October 22 to 25 at CIAT’s headquarters.
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The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture. Artists include
Ashleigh Barksdale, Kaitlin Bellune, Rhen Bennett, Caroline Cherry, Madilyn Davis, Sarah Heal, Nicole Hunnewell, Rylan Kearse and Madison Pate.
The Lee Gallery exhibits artwork of graduating students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program at the end of each semester. Students are required to present their final creative research in a professional exhibition and deliver an oral presentation about their work.
Cover images top left to bottom right: Caroline Cherry, Madison Pate, Sarah Heal, Madilyn Davis, Kaitlin Bellune, Ashleigh Barksdale, Nicole Hunnewell, Rhen Bennett and Rylan Kearse.
Oh the zoo, oh the zoo....the zoo.. Where do I start? What mixed feelings I have. What interest and curiosity, fascination. What disappointment.
My trip to the zoo today was sparked by a research project I completed with two classmates for our biology class on the clouded leopard. That is a story unto itself. In brief, it turned out, the Woodland Park Zoo had a clouded leopard on display (though the particular leopard in the zoo was technically a different species from the one we did our project on -- though only recently “discovered” as a new species through morphological and molecular evidence in 2006, before 2006 the two species of clouded leopards were considered to be subspecies). Since we are required to do an oral presentation for our class with visuals, it seemed appropriate to try and get a real life visual of a real life cat so closely related to the one in our project. So, a trip to the zoo, home of so many uneasy feelings for me, was in order.
And what a trip! What an interesting, educational, and exhilarating trip. But my excitement did not stem from seeing so many animals, so distantly related geographically and genetically, all in one place, with enclosures planned to maximize potential viewings of the animal. Oh no, my excitement stemmed from being able to apply recently learned information about captive clouded leopard behavior to what we saw. Amazing. Utterly amazing, the connections between what we read in peer reviewed journals and what we saw at the zoo. First it must be stated that if you think we know a lot about our world, you are wrong. We know, in fact, very little. We have a lot of ideas, a lot of general things are known about a lot of different things, but when it comes down to specifics, the nitty gritty, the fact is, not a lot of research has been done. Think about it, 50 years ago we were still putting gorillas and chimps in concrete enclosures and feeding them hamburgers (gorillas are vegetarians). Before Goodall and Fossey, virtually nothing was known about their behavior. Seriously. We’ve had animals in captivity for much longer than we’ve been studying them in the wild. There’s nothing glamorous about crawling around on your hands and knees looking for scat you can collect and analyze, or by painstakingly measuring paw prints and comparing them to try and estimate a population. Studying animals in the wild is hard, often repetitive and boring, work. And it requires money, a one way flow of money because it doesn’t entertain, or provide something useful for humans. It’s just knowledge. Empty knowledge. And when these animals don’t do well in captivity, we don’t know why. We don’t even know what their needs are in the wild.
Please join me for a tour of a zoo. On your left you’ll see the jaguar enclosure. We don’t tell you, but we named this majestic animal Junior. Never mind his pacing in the back, despite his seemingly large enclosure (it's actually state of the art - one of the best). There’s a little bit of information about the jaguar to your right, but it’s mostly just a big picture of a jaguar swimming with a big printed Q & A about jaguars swimming (yes, they swim) and a little bit of information about how their habitat is threatened. Did you want to know more? Well, there isn’t any more information here. But there is a pretend tent set up of a field research station (this actually was pretty cool). Just snap some photos and move on. We’ve cleverly placed a covered, heated rock right next to the viewing window, so when it rains and the jaguar wants to rest, he’ll come right up to you.
Moving along, you might end up in the Tropical Rainforest, where you’ll see a pair of keel billed toucans. One of them will be singing, grabbing bits of fruit, partially swallowing them, and feeding these pieces to the other, but you won’t know why. There’s no information other than a plaque with pictures of other toucans and a couple of sentences about their sleeping patterns. You won’t know that this is actually a male and female courting each other. That the zookeepers are hoping they mate, and that they haven’t gone near the nesting box.
But let’s not get distracted. We’ve come here to see animals. That’s why we paid $15 to get in here. Not to read boring words, but to see real life exotic animals up close. Otherwise we’d just stay home and watch a movie. So let’s go look at the gorillas. In the Eastern enclosure, you’ll see three adults and a baby. Everybody loves babies, so let’s just focus on what’s important: the name of the baby! And you can walk right up to the baby and his mama. Ignore the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any material for them to make their bedding out of, and that the area immediately in front of the viewing glass is the only covered portion of this rainy day exhibit.
At one point you realize you’ve been hearing a loud roaring. You leave to seek out the source of this sound. You find the Sumatran Tiger. He is pacing around his enclosure built like an echoing amphitheater, with high rocks to create a large distance between you and the animal, and electric wiring around the top. The tiger quiets down and stops his pacing when everyone has left besides you. He sits quietly, peacefully even, at the top of his enclosure in the den area. You remember reading about captive animals’ stress levels when in hearing, seeing, or smelling range of their predators. Ignore the fact that you’ve been hearing this roaring at many other enclosures.
Finally, at long last, we reach our destination. The clouded leopard. Beautiful, endangered, with canines like the saber toothed tiger, our mid sized, incredibly shy feline. Very little is known about them. She’s sleeping, on a rock in the back. We can barely see her except for an outline of her back and some spots. We peer in. The enclosure is small. Not more than nine feet high (less?). She shifts her position in her slumber. Her tail moves. It’s like a rat’s. Long, skinny, naked, tapered. Like a rat’s? But clouded leopards have long thick tails. And then we realize: she’s fur plucking. Typical stress related behavior common in captive animals (particularly predators). But perhaps there is an explanation. Perhaps she’s got a fungus. We hear the tiger roar. A natural predator of the clouded leopard. So we go and find a keeper. It’s 20 minutes to closing, and he seems annoyed at our keeping him from whatever he was doing. But he tells us that her bare tail is in fact stress related. That her stress/hormone levels are not monitored, and that she’s being medicated and doing better. The fur’s growing back. Ok. The fur’s growing back. Go back to the clouded leopard. She might wake from her sleep, might stir and move, might give us a glimpse of her nocturnal self during daylight hours. We sit, we stare. We notice her fur is greasy, matted. The zoo is closing, but we don’t care. She’s breathing heavily. We wait. For an hour. Maybe more. And then she moves. We see the back of her head lift up, her shoulders move as she puts her weight on her front paws. She turns to us, yawns. Yawns again. Licks herself, and we catch another glimpse of her horrible tail. And then she curls back up, in a slightly different position, her tail wrapped around her. Success!
As we wander around the zoo, now an hour after it’s closed, it’s quiet. Peaceful. Animals that were hidden before have come out. The brother sloth bears are playing. Silently, their large lips curled in expression, interacting with each other. The tiger is silent. We walk by and see him quietly in his den, watching out over the quiet zoo grounds. We want to stay longer, to quietly observe as animals only should be observed. Not loudly pointed at and mocked. We quietly wander in our blissful awe, until we are spotted and we pretend we’ve been lost.
(please note that this is more of a criticism of people who go to zoos, and thus shape what the zoo has to offer, rather than the zoo itself. while I do have some ethical questions about zoos in general, I understand that there are limitations to what zoos can provide to their animals because of finances and a physical lack of space. And furthermore, if zoos provide the animals with enclosures that are more habitat-like, zoo goers will be less likely to see the animals, zoos will lose even more money, and ultimately, the animals will suffer. That's not to say that I think zoos are ok...it's just complicated!)
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture. Artists include
Ashleigh Barksdale, Kaitlin Bellune, Rhen Bennett, Caroline Cherry, Madilyn Davis, Sarah Heal, Nicole Hunnewell, Rylan Kearse and Madison Pate.
The Lee Gallery exhibits artwork of graduating students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program at the end of each semester. Students are required to present their final creative research in a professional exhibition and deliver an oral presentation about their work.
Cover images top left to bottom right: Caroline Cherry, Madison Pate, Sarah Heal, Madilyn Davis, Kaitlin Bellune, Ashleigh Barksdale, Nicole Hunnewell, Rhen Bennett and Rylan Kearse.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture. Artists include
Ashleigh Barksdale, Kaitlin Bellune, Rhen Bennett, Caroline Cherry, Madilyn Davis, Sarah Heal, Nicole Hunnewell, Rylan Kearse and Madison Pate.
The Lee Gallery exhibits artwork of graduating students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program at the end of each semester. Students are required to present their final creative research in a professional exhibition and deliver an oral presentation about their work.
Cover images top left to bottom right: Caroline Cherry, Madison Pate, Sarah Heal, Madilyn Davis, Kaitlin Bellune, Ashleigh Barksdale, Nicole Hunnewell, Rhen Bennett and Rylan Kearse.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture. Artists include
Ashleigh Barksdale, Kaitlin Bellune, Rhen Bennett, Caroline Cherry, Madilyn Davis, Sarah Heal, Nicole Hunnewell, Rylan Kearse and Madison Pate.
The Lee Gallery exhibits artwork of graduating students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program at the end of each semester. Students are required to present their final creative research in a professional exhibition and deliver an oral presentation about their work.
Cover images top left to bottom right: Caroline Cherry, Madison Pate, Sarah Heal, Madilyn Davis, Kaitlin Bellune, Ashleigh Barksdale, Nicole Hunnewell, Rhen Bennett and Rylan Kearse.
A total of 200 participants, 70 oral presentations, 170 scientific posters on display, two culinary demonstrations, more than a dozen specialized sessions, visits to laboratories and field trials from the cassava program at CIAT, a new president of the ISTRC, and a touching award ceremony. These are some of the figures that show how intense and productive were those four days of work in the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC), that was held from October 22 to 25 at CIAT’s headquarters.
Credit: ©2018CIAT/JuanMarín
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Text for Mine Detection Dog Center:
Established in 2001, with the help of the government of Germany and Mine Action Afghanistan, the Dog Training Center has become an integral part of YEMAC's clearance operations. In the field each dog works with a handler who directs the dog toward the area to be searched and gives orders during the search process. The dogs are trained to detect the smell of explosives and are most useful in areas where high levels of metal are present in the rocks as well as areas mined with plastic mines.
Often large areas of land are marked as contaminated while in reality only a small percentage contains landmines. A dog team is capable of determining the actual areas of contamination in less than half the time that a traditional team needs.
Most Yemeni minefields are small in size, making it unnecessary to deploy a full clearance unit of 54 men at one time. YEMAC, therefore, relies heavily upon its mine-detection dogs and currently operates eleven technical survey teams supported by mine dogs and dog handlers. While dogs cannot be used in all types of terrain, they have proven to be both faster and less expensive than manual teams under many circumstances.
TRAINING
The center has grown remarkably since its establishment. It now offers courses to train dog handlers, para-vets, dog trainers, and veterinarians. The center's laboratory facilities and technicians are so advanced that the Yemeni National Zoo has asked them for assistance. Additionally, a successful breeding program has led to the birth of several generations of puppies having been born in Yemen that have been trained at the center and are now working in the field.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Yemen's Dog Training Center is the largest and most successful of its kind in the Middle East. It is also the first in an Arab country to develop a breeding and training program.
Photograph by Simon Tauer
Text for MIne Risk Education (MRE):
MRE is an important element of YEMAC's efforts to prevent landmine casualties. The goal of this section is to educate populations living near mine-contaminated areas about the risks associated with landmines and how to minimize their risk of injury.
IMPLEMENTAION
The program is implemented over the course of several stages in collaboration with provincial authorities. Stage one of Mine Risk Education starts in the capital city with a large workshop and exhibition. Participants in the MRE workshop include security and health officials and provincial governors and council members. Efforts are made to ensure the event is covered by the media so as to reach as wide an audience as possible.
MRE instructors serve as guides at the informational exhibit, which contains models of landmines, videos, and posters, as well as information on safe behavior, recognition of mines/MRE, and mine incidents. When the workshop and exhibit end, the MRE teams travel to affected communities to educate villages about what the de-miners will be doing.
FIELD WORK
Upon arrival in the affected communities, MRE teams conduct specialized training for various target groups; such as, men, women and children. Due to high levels of illiteracy among women, female MREs give oral presentations to women. Children are given special presentations and are given written materials about how to reduce the risk of accidents.
Children are asked to draw pictures of mines, which helps them express their feelings about mines, and it is also useful for MRE instructors to assess how well the children understand the dangers of landmines. Meanwhile, men are taken to watch the de-mining efforts and are given a chance to ask questions about the de-mining process.
The photograph is of a Yemeni child holding an landmine education booklet designed and produced by YEMAC.
A total of 200 participants, 70 oral presentations, 170 scientific posters on display, two culinary demonstrations, more than a dozen specialized sessions, visits to laboratories and field trials from the cassava program at CIAT, a new president of the ISTRC, and a touching award ceremony. These are some of the figures that show how intense and productive were those four days of work in the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC), that was held from October 22 to 25 at CIAT’s headquarters.
Credit: ©2018CIAT/JuanMarín
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
On Oct. 14-16, 2013, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago organized the 2013 edition of the “Materials Modeling and Simulations for Nuclear Fuels” (MMSNF) workshop series in downtown Chicago.
Oral presentations included technical results and overviews of programs such as the Nuclear Energy Advanced Models and Simulations (NEAMS).
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