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For Zahrah Alghamdi, material and memory are inextricably intertwined. Many of her works involve large accumulations of material that seemingly layer the histories and cultures of the places from which they come. When Alghamdi, who grew up in the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia, visited Palm Springs, she was struck by the connection between the desert landscapes and architectures. For Desert X, she has created a sculpture that echoes and synthesizes the traditionally built forms from her country with the architectural organization she found in the Coachella Valley. The result takes the form of a monolithic wall comprised of stacked forms impregnated with cements, soils, and dyes specific to each region. It expresses a highly individualized language corresponding to feelings, emotions, and memories associated with place and time.
Zahrah Alghamdi (Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia, 1977) explores memory and history through traditional architecture in both medium and assemblage. Her laborious and meticulous process involves assembling particles of earth, clay, rocks, leather, and water. Her medium and process draw on the notion of “embodied memory” to translate and delineate themes of cultural identity, memory, and loss. Alghamdi represented Saudi Arabia in the 2019 Venice Biennale and participated in Desert X AlUla 2020.
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Para Zahrah Alghamdi, el material y la memoria están estrechamente entrelazados. Muchas de sus obras condensan grandes cúmulos de material cual si fuesen estratos superpuestos de historias y culturas de los sitios de donde provienen. Alghamdi creció en Al Bahah, en la región suroeste de Arabia Saudita, y cuando visitó Palm Springs quedó impresionada por la conexión entre los paisajes y las arquitecturas del desierto. Para Desert X, creó una escultura que sintetiza y hace eco a las formas de construcción tradicionales de su país con la organización arquitectónica que encontró en el Valle de Coachella. El resultado toma la forma de un muro monolítico compuesto por elementos apilados, impregnados de cemento, tierra y tinturas específicas de los procesos de edificación de cada región; expresando un lenguaje sumamente personal que atañe a sentimientos, emociones y recuerdos asociados a un lugar y a un tiempo.
Zahrah Alghamdi explora memoria e historia a través de la arquitectura tradicional como medio y montaje. Su trabajo y meticulosos procesos comprenden el ensamblaje de partículas de tierra, arcilla, rocas, cuero y agua. La noción de “memoria encarnada” sirve como base de producción y prácticas para traducir y delinear temas de identidad cultural, memoria y pérdida. Alghamdi representó a Arabia Saudita en la Bienal de Venecia 2019 y participó en Desert X AlUla 2020.
What Lies Behind the Walls
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Pierson Boulevard between Foxdale Drive and Miracle Hill Road, Desert Hot Springs
On view from sunrise to sunset
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Situated 31 miles or about 50 km south of Kuala Lumpur, Kisho Kurokawa’s new Kuala Lumpur airport synthesizes indigenous materials, forms and landscaping in an attempt to introduce diversity and complexity into a moribund typology.Looks like a disco, with all the reflections.
Route 66 State Park is a Missouri state park located on the former site of the town of Times Beach, Missouri, approximately 17 miles southwest of St. Louis. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin contamination that made national headlines.
Plagued with a dust problem in the early 1970s due to its 23 miles of dirt roads and lack of pavement funds, the city of Times Beach hired Russell Bliss, a waste hauler, to oil the roads. From 1972 to 1976, Bliss sprayed waste oil on the roads at a cost of six cents per gallon.
Bliss took a contract with a local company called IPC to dispose of toxic waste from Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company (NEPACCO), which operated a facility producing hexachlorophene. Some parts of the facility had also been used for the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, and the waste clay and water contained levels of dioxin some 2,000 times higher than the dioxin content in Agent Orange. IPC was paid $3,000 per load to remove the toxic waste. In turn, IPC paid Bliss $125 per load.
Bliss mixed the NEPACCO waste with used engine oil and first started spraying it in horse stables to control dust after discovering it worked well at his own home. In March of 1971 the spraying resulted in the death of 62 horses. The owners of the stable suspected Bliss, who assured them he had sprayed used engine oil. However, after other stables experienced similar problems, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began investigating. In late 1979, a NEPACCO employee confessed to the company's practice of disposing of dioxin.
On December 23, 1982, the EPA announced it had identified dangerous levels of dioxin in Times Beach's soil. At the time, dioxin was hailed as "the most toxic chemical synthesized by man." On February 23, 1983, the EPA announced the town's buyout for $32 million, and the site was quarantined. About 265,000 short tons of contaminated soil and debris from Times Beach and 28 other sites in eastern Missouri were incinerated at a cost of $110 million. After the cleanup, the incinerator was dismantled and the site was turned over to the State of Missouri, which turned the town into Route 66 State Park. Fields of wild grass, marshes and brush now grow where the homes of evacuated residents formerly stood. Deserted streets line the park and hint at what once was a resort community. The Park is now popular with bicycle riders and joggers, as well as Heron and other birds.
Bliss was never convicted for spraying dioxin, although he was convicted of tax fraud and served one year in jail.
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Photo showing Gerfried Stocker (AT) (Artistic Director Festival Ars Electronica) presenting the project Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio during Ars Electronica Gala at Brucknerhaus.
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Bruce Hua is a Dean’s Honored Graduate in the Department of Chemistry. He is graduating with an honors degree in biochemistry and a degree in physics through the Dean’s Scholars Honors Program. He is being recognized for his excellent academic performance—he graduates with a near-perfect 3.98 GPA (that means one B in four years) while completing two degrees—as well as for his research efforts in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Martin which culminated in an honors thesis “Preparation of Anticancer Intermediates En Route to (±)-Actinophyllic Acid and The Synthesis of Analogs of Known Binders to the Sigma-2 Receptor and PERK.”
Bruce began researching in the Freshman Research Initiative in the stream of Professor Martin, led by Dr. Kristen Procko. Bruce’s FRI stream, Synthesis and Biological Recognition, focuses on the design of small organic molecules that bind tightly and selectively to proteins, which is essential for the development of potent drugs that have minimal side effects. In this multidisciplinary stream, student researchers design and synthesize novel molecules that bind to proteins and learn to express, purify, and test the proteins of interest. Writes Dr. Procko, “[Bruce] demonstrated both high intellectual aptitude and the ability to work well with his hands. Bruce was able to fully understand complex concepts in organic synthesis prior to enrolling in organic chemistry.”
When finished with the FRI, Bruce continued in the organic chemistry lab of Professor Stephen Martin. Bruce worked on a number of projects beginning with helping prepare a pilot scale library based on using a multicomponent assembly process. He made several new compounds that were submitted for testing for potency and selectivity as sigma receptor binding ligands. His next made analogs of an intermediate in a recent synthesis of actinophyllic acid, discovering, that these compounds exhibit potent anticancer activity and operate by a novel mode of action. His work earned him a place as a co-author on a publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Writes Professor Martin, “One could tell at the outset that Bruce was an exceptional young individual with a basic curiosity and thirst for knowledge and a drive to accomplish something significant. He was one of the top students in [my FRI] stream, and when he asked to join our research group upon completion of the course, I was eager to integrate him into my group.”
Bruce has been recognized widely for his research. He was invited to give a presentation at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rice University, where he received the Outstanding Presentation Award. He was also awarded a CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship, and a UT Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship.
This fall, Bruce plans to attend Harvard University, where he plans to pursue a PhD in chemistry.
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Harrison Hou, ChE BSE Student, synthesizes nanobiotics, a new class of antibiotics created by the Kotov Research Group in the NCRC on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on May 3, 2017.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Senior Producer, University of Michigan
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Another method of linking up radio telescopes is through a technique called beamforming. In beamforming, dishes are not paired up (as they are in interferometry) but rather are all linked together to synthesize a single large telescope - also referred to as a beam. The larger the size of the array, the smaller the beam can become. Beamforming is of particular interest to SETI researchers as it allows them to focus in on the radio waves coming in from only a very small portion of the sky (such as those emanating from a single star in the sky). Beamforming is also of interest to other researchers, such as those interested in masers or pulsars (the highly magnetized remains of massive stars and stellar explosions.)
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Wonderfully weird in all its eccentricity. Superb costumes and outfits .
Steampunk fashion has no set guidelines but tends to synthesize modern styles with influences from the Victorian era. Such influences may include bustles, corsets, gowns, and petticoats; suits with waistcoats, coats, top hats and bowler hats (themselves originating in 1850 England), tailcoats and spats; or military-inspired garments. Steampunk-influenced outfits are usually accented with several technological and "period" accessories: timepieces, parasols, flying/driving goggles, and ray guns. Modern accessories like cell phones or music players can be found in steampunk outfits, after being modified to give them the appearance of Victorian-era objects. Post-apocalyptic elements, such as gas masks, ragged clothing, and tribal motifs, can also be included. Aspects of steampunk fashion have been anticipated by mainstream high fashion, the Lolita and aristocrat styles, neo-Victorianism, and the Romantic Goth subculture.
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany. She moved to Paris in 1930 and experienced her greatest achievements in photography while living in the city of lights. There, she was immersed in the flourishing art world and experimentation, surrounded by artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Bing came to be known as “Queen of the Leica” for her influential mastery of the hand-held camera that revolutionised the medium in the period. Fleeing the war, she emigrated to New York in 1941 and, although she retired from photography in 1959, her career was rediscovered in the late 1970s and was celebrated in a series of major retrospectives. She died in 1998, just a few days before her 99th birthday. Bing's work can be found in many major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bing's personal style synthesized the radical formal qualities of German Bauhaus photography with the concerns of the French Surrealists. Whereas the Bauhaus embraced technology as a symbol of progress, the Surrealists were more reluctant to celebrate modernity. They took their cameras to the city's shadowy alleys, where the past intruded upon the present like its unconscious alter ego. Bing captures the superimposition of old and new in this photograph of a disintegrating movie poster. The picture balances abstraction with concrete subject matter and exploits the spontaneity of the 35-millimeter camera.
Tomas Scheckter and Jack Owoc celebrating the announcement of Tomas / Team REDLINE Xtreme Racing qualifying.
Photo showing Pitter Pata Pata / John Brumley (US), Joana Lobo (PT), Rintaro Takashima (JP) at POSTCITY.
It is a system that synthesizes external physical activity and internal biosignals into localized haptics and kinetic wearables.
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Lahore, August 28, 2018: At an event held today, USAID’s Punjab Youth Workforce Development (PYWD) project presented its recently published Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Skills Gap Analysis Report — the most up-to-date account of current and future employment trends in four districts of Southern Punjab. The report synthesizes the findings of 7 studies/reports produced on skills gaps in the country, highlighting their relevance in today’s context, and bringing to light future job opportunities. The report also calls attention to newly emerging sectors in Multan, Bahawalpur, Lodhran and Muzaffargarh, including hospitality and healthcare. Present at the event were representatives from the private sector, vocational training providers including Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA), Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC), and donors supporting youth capacity-building initiatives in Pakistan.
Speaking at the event, USAID Deputy Mission Director Clay Epperson remarked, “This Skills Gap Analysis Report provides insight into the hiring trends of the market while understanding the needs of the job seekers. Through the PYWD Project, USAID is helping Pakistan maximize job creation in the productive sectors.”
The event provided a platform for TVET sector public-private stakeholders, including Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Punjab Skills Development Fund, TEVTA, PVTC, and Akhuwat, to discuss the findings of the Skills Gap Analysis and propose the best ways to increase youth employment in Pakistan.
During the seminar, USAID’s PYWD project and Allied Solar Private Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide self-employment opportunities for graduating students in solar panel installation.
USAID’s PYWD Project is providing skills-based training programs for 10,000 youth, including 35 percent females, between the ages of 16 and 29 in the southern Punjab districts of Multan, Lodhran, Bahawalpur, and Muzaffargarh. The three-year program complements the Government of Punjab’s policy to provide skill development opportunities for youth. In addition to contributing to Punjab’s overall economic growth, the project also fosters socially constructive attitudes among youth for increased stability and improved livelihoods.
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Credit: Alison Hathaway/ Clinton Global Initiative
CGI America 2014
Like many of their megacity counterparts, America’s small and mid-size cities are using technology to gather and synthesize data and are applying new analytical tools to improve social service delivery, community development, decision-making, and effective city planning and design. This session will explore how American cities—in partnership with individual citizens and a range of private sector firms—are deploying innovative technology strategies to impact social programs, transportation, and urban planning.
This pic shows a 3" foil pan containing an attempt to synthesize a rare Franklin fluorescing mineral, esperite - PbCa3Zn4(SiO4)4 :Mn.
The upper image shows the precipitate before it was heated by a MAPP gas torch. The bottom image shows it after it was heated with the torch.
Esperite fluoresces yellow/green under SW light. There's a bit of yellow in the heated sample....maybe esperite?
Shown in SW+MW light.
Exp 3.335
Entry in category 3. Locations and instruments; © CC-BY-NC-ND: Zenghui Wang
The evaporation under reduced pressure is a method to remove the solvent from a solution. Occasionally, I got this fabulous flask after an evaporation, the galaxy-shaped powder seemed to elucidate me the origin of the universe and life. Indeed, chemistry is one of the basic principles which 'synthesized' the whole universe. God shaped the whole world in the beginning, nowadays, chemists can also shape the world in a simple flask. As the famous book 'The Universe in a nutshell' by Dr. Stephen Hawking, now, it is the time for 'The Universe in a Flask'
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY SYNTHESIZED A SIMPLE COMPOUND KNOWN AS GUANIDINE THAT WAS FOUND TO BIND STRONGLY WITH CARBON DIOXIDE DIRECTLY FROM THE AIR AND FORM INSOLUBLE CARBONATE CRYSTALS THAT ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM WATER.
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ASF 2015, "Herding Cats: Synthesizing the Intelligence Community"
Rick Ambrose
James Clapper
Andrea Mitchell
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