Where Is Your Watershed?(North Saskatchewan River - Central Alberta)
Do you have your facts straight about your local watershed? Southern Albertans live in an area that is beautiful, diverse and an environment we should all know about. Learn more: CaringForOurWatersheds.com
Sea Point, Cape Town - We saw a Lady of the night (Day 7)
Cape Town, South Africa
Sea Point
Honeymoon - Day 7
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Bulawayo
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with, as of the 2012 census, a population of 653,337. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland. The capital of Matabeleland North is now Lupane, as Bulawayo is a stand-alone province.
Colloquially Bulawayo is also known by various names, these being the 'City of Kings', 'Skies', 'Bluez', 'Bulliesberg' or 'KoNtuthu ziyathunqa' – a isiNdebele phrase for a place that continually exudes smoke. This name arose from the city's historically large industrial base. The majority of the Bulawayo's population belongs to the Ndebele ethnic and language group.
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Tapiwanashe Katete interview
Former Watershed College student doing well in South African rugby
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
Public Lecture by Mark Plotkin, Co-Founder and President of the Amazon Conservation Team, and Brian Hettler, GIS and New Technologies Manager of the Amazon Conservation Team
Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century. In 1941, Schultes traveled to the Amazon rainforest on a mission to study how Indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. A new interactive online map, produced by the Amazon Conservation Team, traces the landscapes and cultures that Schultes explored in the Colombian Amazon. Plotkin and Hettler will share this map and discuss the relevance of Schultes’ travels and collections for science, conservation, and education in the twenty-first century.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Amazon Conservation Team and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
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Deep reading on Meghan Markle AKA The Markle.
I had high hopes of going deeper into the psychology of The Markle. Tell me what you think.
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Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:14 1 Background
00:03:23 1.1 Italy
00:07:05 1.2 Britain
00:11:04 2 Initial military operations
00:15:22 3 Axis success
00:15:32 3.1 North Africa
00:16:55 3.2 Balkans
00:19:54 3.3 East Africa
00:20:52 4 Middle East operations
00:21:02 4.1 Iraq
00:25:45 4.2 Operation Exporter
00:26:46 4.3 Iran
00:27:42 5 Gibraltar and Malta
00:30:22 6 Allied reply
00:30:31 6.1 North Africa
00:32:30 6.2 US involvement
00:35:09 7 Southern Europe
00:35:18 7.1 Italian campaign
00:39:48 7.2 Dodecanese Campaign
00:41:07 7.3 Invasion of southern France
00:41:58 8 Post-war conflicts
00:42:08 8.1 Trieste
00:42:41 8.2 Greece
00:43:07 8.3 Syria
00:44:05 8.4 Palestine
00:44:49 9 See also
00:45:13 10 Notes
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The Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre was a major theatre of operations during the Second World War. The vast size of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre saw interconnected naval, land, and air campaigns fought for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. The fighting in this theatre lasted from 10 June 1940, when Italy entered the war on the side of Nazi Germany, until 2 May 1945 when all Axis forces in Italy surrendered. However, fighting would continue in Greece – where British troops had been dispatched to aid the Greek government – during the early stages of the Greek Civil War.
The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939–1941 (1995). Regardless of the size of the theatre, the various campaigns were not seen as neatly separated areas of operations but part of a vast theatre of war.
Fascist Italy aimed to carve out a new Roman Empire, while British forces aimed initially to retain the status quo. Italy invaded Greece, and not until the introduction of German forces were Greece and Yugoslavia overrun. Allied and Axis forces engaged in back and forth fighting across North Africa, with Axis interference in the Middle East causing fighting to spread there. With confidence high from early gains, German forces planned elaborate attacks to be launched to capture the Middle East and then to possibly attack the southern border of the Soviet Union. In three years of fighting, Axis forces were defeated in North Africa and their interference in the Middle East was halted. The anti-Axis coalition then commenced the Allied invasion of Italy, resulting in the Italians deposing Mussolini and joining the Allies. A prolonged battle for Italy took place between Allied and German forces. As the strategic situation changed in south-east Europe, British troops returned to Greece.
The theatre of war had the longest duration of the Second World War, resulted in the destruction of the Italian Empire and altered the strategic position of Germany, resulting in German divisions being deployed to Africa and Italy and total German losses (including those captured upon final surrender) being over two million. Italian losses amounted to around 177,000 men with a further several hundred thousand captured during the process of the various campaigns. British losses amount to over 300,000 men killed, wounded, or captured, and total American losses in the region amounted to 130,000.
From Oxus to Euphrates: Sasanian Empire Symposium
Several experts participated in an all-day symposium on the legacy of the ancient Persian Sasanian empire (224-651 A.D.). The Sasanians ruled a large empire in Central and Western Asia, stretching from the Oxus River to the Euphrates and from the Hindukush to Eastern Arabia, for over 400 years (224-651 B.C.). Known as Iranshahr (the Domain of Iran), it was a powerful empire that engendered much of what came to be known as the Iranian culture in the medieval and modern periods.
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Masanga In The Park
I saw this fantastic marimba band playing Zimbabwean music at the Grove (8/10/08). I bought their CD and asked if I could put up the video I took, on here. They were very enthusiastic. Check out their website Masanga.com.
Day 22 : Marathon Man | Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man
Eddie is on tour with the most revealing performance of his career, Believe Me. Details and ticket links below or at
Thu, Sept. 20
Buffalo, NY
The Center for the Arts
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Fri, Sept. 21
Rochester, NY
Rochester Fringe Festival
Tickets:
Sat, Sept. 29
St Louis, MO
Touhill Performing Arts Center
Tickets:
Sun, Sept. 30
Louisville, KY
Brown Theatre
Tickets:
Tue, Oct. 2
Wilkes-Barre, PA
F.M. Kirby Center
Tickets:
Wed, Oct. 3
York, PA
Strand Theatre
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Thur, Oct. 4
Charlottesville, VA
The Paramount Theater
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Sat, Oct. 6
Richmond, VA
Altria Theater
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Sun, Oct. 7
Norfolk, VA
Chrysler Hall
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Tue, Oct. 9
Charleston, SC
Gaillard Center
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Wed, Oct. 10
Jacksonville, FL
Florida Theatre
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Thu, Oct. 11
Sarasota, FL
Van Wezel PAC
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Fri, Oct. 12
Miami, FL
Artsch Center
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Sun, Oct. 14
Clearwater, FL
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Tickets: Is it easier to be a comedian or run 27 marathons?
Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man follows the British comedian attempts to run twenty seven marathons in twenty seven days through South Africa to commemorate Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty seven years in prison.
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Stop talking and Start Planting | Plant for the Planet | Save Earth Save lives
It all started with a school presentation and today Plant-for-the-Planet is a global movement with an ambitious goal: to fight the climate crisis by planting trees around the world. Here you find out what has happened since the founding of the initiative and what we have planned for the future.
The children's initiative Plant-for-the-Planet is initiated
by 9-year-old Felix Finkbeiner.
Inspired by Wangari Maathai, who planted 30 million trees in Africa in 30 years, Felix formulated his vision:
Children could plant one million trees in every country on earth and thereby offset CO2 emissions all on their own, while adults are still talking about doing it. Each tree binds a CO2 intake of 10 kg per year.
The first tree is planted and Klaus Töpfer, former German Federal Minister of the Environment and executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) becomes official patron.
Felix promises UNEP that children in every country on earth will plant one million trees. In the following years, Plant-for-the-Planet developed into a global movement.
Felix introduces Plant-for-the-Planet to the world.
He becomes a UNEP Junior Board Member and gives speeches at important environment and climate events, e.g. in front of the European Parliament. Plant-for-the-Planet academies are organized in Germany and around the world. These are events organized by children for children at which they motivate each other to take action against the climate crisis. The children become active Climate Justice Ambassadors and pass on their knowledge and encourage other children to take on social responsibility and shape their future.
Even more children and trees
– and support from well known personalities.
At UNEP's children and youth conference in South Korea, 800 children adopt a declaration for the climate summit in Copenhagen. At the end, Felix asks the audience who else will plant one million trees in their country. Within minutes, hundreds of children from 56 different nations come on stage to signal their support for the vision of Plant-for-the-Planet.
To make the initiative even more known, the campaign entitled Stop talking. Start planting commences. The photographs with famous supporters such as Harrison Ford, apl.de.ap, Prince Albert of Monaco and Michael Otto can be seen worldwide.
We want 100%
of our energy to be from renewable sources.
The German Advisory Council on Global Change has developed an approach to solve the climate crisis: an upper limit for the allowed CO2 emissions until 2050. This global budget per head is spread evenly across all countries.
This means that we must reduce our CO2 emissions to zero by 2050. The technology for a carbon-free future has existed already for quite some time. With today's technology, it is possible to cater for all our energy needs with renewable sources by 2050, without the use of nuclear power plants.
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Jessup Events: Dr. Reggie Williams - Theology Spring Lecture
Faculty of Theology presents its annual lecture:
The Aryan Jesus: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Third Reich, and race relations today.
Dr. Reggie Williams Professor of Christian Ethics & McCormick Theological Seminary
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Why isn't my professor black? UCL panel discussion
There are just 85 black professors out of 18,510 in the UK and the number has barely changed in eight years. The percent of black professors (0.4%) shows a striking disparity with the proportion of black students, which has increased steadily each year and now stands at 6%.
What does it mean when the generation that produces knowledge is so unrepresentative of the generation that consumes it? This panel debate will be chaired by Professor Michael Arthur, UCL President and Provost. It will aim to ask difficult questions and explore even more challenging solutions.
Speakers:
Professor Michael Arthur, Chair, UCL President and Provost
Dr William Ackah, Panel Member, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Lisa Amanda Palmer, Panel Member, Newman University
Dr Shirley Tate, Panel Member, University of Leeds
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C̶o̶l̶e̶m̶a̶n̶, Panel Member, UCL
Deborah Gabriel, Panel Member, Founder and CEO of Black British Academics
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Emancipation in History and Memory - Panel Discussion
This event took place at the University of Virginia Rotunda on September 29, 2018.
Panelists:
Elizabeth R. Varon (Moderator)
Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History
Associate Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
Edna Greene Medford
Professor of History, Howard University
Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University
Richard S. Newman
Professor of African American History, Environmental History, and the Early American Republic, Rochester Institute of Technology
Presented by:
John and Amy Griffin
The Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity
The President's Commission on Slavery and the University
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia
John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
University of Virginia Bicentennial
University of Virginia Library
Lord John Alderdice: If Ireland can find Peace, what chance for Israel?
Lord John Alderdice addresses the value and the limits of 'lessons learnt' from the Irish Peace Process and the problems of implementing them in the Middle East. September, 2010.
Colonnade Walk Shopping Centre - near Victoria Coach Station, London
The Colonnade Walk Shopping Centre:
An innovative retail facility and leisure destination.
The Colonnade Walk Shopping Centre has become a quality retailing destination for local shoppers and a shopping tourist's delight for those visiting London, United Kingdom.
Combining retail and local attractions to offer a day out destination. Some guests spend hours at The Colonnade Walk Shopping Centre, and shoppers say their visit is valuable and enjoyable.
Buckingham Palace Road:
Buckingham Palace Road is a street in Victoria, London. It runs from the south side of Buckingham Palace towards Chelsea, forming the A3214 road and is dominated by Victoria Station.
In the 18th century, it was known as Chelsea Road and was often frequented by highwaymen, a reward of £10 being offered for the capture of one of the worst offenders in 1752. Towards the southern end, Victoria Station was opened in 1866 and the adjacent Victoria Coach Station was built in 1932 in the Art Deco style.[1] In 1938, the Empire Terminal of Imperial Airways opened opposite the coach station, designed by Albert Lakeman, also in the Art Deco style. It allowed passengers to check-in before boarding special trains from Victoria Station to Croydon Airport or Southampton Docks for the flying boat service. The terminal continued in service until the end of the 1970s, by which time there were dedicated rail or bus connections to Gatwick and Heathrow Airports. It is now the headquarters of the National Audit Office.[2]
Europe:
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits.[5] Yet the non-oceanic boundary between Europe and Asia—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—is arbitrary and amounts to a historical and social construct.
Canada:
Canada (/ˈkænədə/; French: [kanadɑ]) is a country which is located in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest country by total area, and the fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southern areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. It is highly urbanized with 82 percent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.
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Emancipation Proclamation from an International Perspective
On April 1, 2013, the Albert Schweitzer Institute and the office of Community Service hosted an expert panel that discussed the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation from an international perspective.
Panelists inlcuded:
Jeffrey Blom, Founder and President of the Global Sentry Group
Sasha Turner, Assistant Professor, History
Nina Brandi, Sophmore Nursing Student
October 02-2019 PWCS School Board Meeting
History of Tibet | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
History of Tibet
00:00:18 1 Geographical setting
00:01:00 2 Prehistory
00:01:55 3 Early history (c. 500 BC- AD 618)
00:02:02 3.1 Zhangzhung kingdom (c. 500 BC– AD 625)
00:02:50 3.2 Tibetan tribes (2nd century AD)
00:03:28 3.3 First kings of the pre-Imperial Yarlung Dynasty (2nd-6th century)
00:05:27 4 Tibetan Empire (618–842)
00:07:59 5 Era of Fragmentation and Cultural Renaissance (9th-12th century)
00:08:12 5.1 Fragmentation of political power (9th-10th century)
00:10:48 5.2 Tibetan Renaissance (10th-12th century)
00:13:18 6 Mongol conquest and Yuan administrative rule (1240–1354)
00:18:58 7 Tibetan independence (14th-18th century)
00:19:54 7.1 Family rule (14th-17th century)
00:20:05 7.1.1 Phagmodrupa (14th - 15th century)
00:22:11 7.1.2 Rinpungpa family (15th-16th century)
00:22:39 7.1.3 Tsangpa dynasty (16th-17th century)
00:23:08 7.2 Ganden Phodrang government (17th-18th century)
00:23:39 7.2.1 Beginnings of the Dalai Lama lineage
00:25:02 7.2.2 Rise of the Gelugpa school
00:28:41 8 Qing conquest and administrative rule (1720–1912)
00:29:27 8.1 Qing rule
00:29:35 8.1.1 Qing conquest
00:33:25 8.1.2 Expansion of control over Tibet
00:35:05 8.2 European influences in Tibet
00:36:55 8.3 British invasions of Tibet (1903−1904) and Qing control reasserted
00:39:17 9 iDe facto/i independence (1912–1951)
00:42:38 10 People's Republic of China rule (1950 to present)
00:49:52 10.1 Tibetans in exile
00:52:01 11 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Tibetan history, as it has been recorded, is particularly focused on the history of Buddhism in Tibet. This is partly due to the pivotal role this religion has played in the development of Tibetan and Mongol cultures and partly because almost all native historians of the country were Buddhist monks.