Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Human Rights and Nonviolence, Ing’s Peace Project
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have A Dream”
Artwork by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
I did this artwork in 2010. I enjoyed doing the research, reading Dr. King’s biography and his speeches. Dr. King was a great writer and orator. He could captivate the audiences with his great writing and presentation. I would like everyone who views my artwork on Dr. King to be able to read and have some understanding of his feelings. With his wit and energy he devoted himself to human rights and nonviolence. It is not only his family that lost and mourned his death for the world has lost a great man. Humanity had lost Dr. King’s ability to help bring progress to the world by achieving more civilized interaction for the human race as a whole.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, January 15, 2016
Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963
I Have a Dream Speech Martin Luther King’s Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
President Barack Obama & His First Inauguration Speech PortraitandDr. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have A Dream” two of my artworks displayed at Lincoln School auditorium for the cerebration of Dr. King’s Birthday event in 2015.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, January 15, 2016
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On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and speak against the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled “Beyond Vietnam“.
Thanks to Linda Leonard-Nevels , School Library Media Specialist of Malcolm X Shabazz High School, Newark, New Jersey. She came to our store. After her shopping I took advantage to explain to her about my Peace Project. Linda came back on Friday, October 1. 2014 and took six of my Peace Project posters to distribute to the teachers in her school for their students to write comments on my peace posters. She returned three of my Peace posters with student comments on Friday, December 12, 2014.
Working on artwork for Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students comments on “What does Peace mean to you?” I realized that this month on Monday, January 19 is Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day. I recalled that Dr. King received a Nobel Peace Prize on 1964. I am sure these students know this. I did research on Dr. King’s acceptance speech. I was impressed with his speech. Lately there is increasing conflict between the black youth and police. So, I decided to do some artwork on Dr. King’s Nobel Prize Acceptance speech in the same project of the Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students Peace comments.
I hope that young people today realize that it takes time for human progress and it takes all generations to be aware of human rights and put effort into improving the transition for all humanity to reach equality and harmony in our world.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Monday, January 19, 2015
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day
Monday, January 17, 2022
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
December 10, 1964 Oslo, Norway
I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award in behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice.
I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeing to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered. And only yesterday more than 40 houses of worship in the State of Mississippi alone were bombed or burned because they offered a sunctuary to those who would not accept segregation.
I am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.
Therefore, I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize.
After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time — the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.
Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama, to Oslo bears witness to this truth. This is a road over which millions of Negroes are travelling to find a new sense of dignity.
This same road has opened for all Americans a new ear of progress and hope. It has led to a new Civil Rights bill, and it will, I am convinced, be widened and lengthened into a superhighway of justice as Negro and white men in increasing numbers create alliances to overcome their common problems.
I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
I believe that even amid today’s motor bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
“And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.”
I still believe that we shall overcome.
This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.
Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity. I accept this prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood. I say I come as a trustee, for in the depths of my heart I am aware that this prize is much more than an honor to me personally.
Every time I take a flight I am always mindful of the man people who make a successful journey possible — the known pilots and the unknown ground crew.
So you honor the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as the freedom movement soared into orbit. You honor, once again, Chief (Albert) Luthuli of South Africa, whose struggles with and for his people, are still met with the most brutal expression of man’s inhumanity to man.
You honor the ground crew without whose labor and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could never have left the earth.
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who’s Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live — men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization — because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness’ sake.
I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owners — all those to whom beauty is truth and truth beauty — and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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The following are the Peace comments from Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students
Ing’s Peace Comments Poster 1
Ing’s Peace Project Poster 1
Comments By Malcolm X Shabazz Hight School’s Students
On “What does Peace mean to you?”
Organize by Linda Leonard-Nevels, School Library Media Specialist, Malcolm X Shabazz High School, Newark, New Jersey
December 2014
Ing’s Peace Comments Poster 2
From Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students
Ing’s Peace Project Poster 2
Comments By Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students
On “What does Peace mean to you?”
Organize by Linda Leonard-Nevels, School Library Media Specialist, Malcolm X Shabazz High School, Ms. Bongiovanni (English IV, 2014-2015),
Newark, New Jersey
December 2014
Ing’s Peace Comments Poster 3
From Malcolm X Shabazz High School’s Students
Dr. King and Gandhi’s Ing Artwork Display in Public for the First Time in 2021 and Kai, 5-year-old Street Artist on Halsey Street, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Ing & John’s Street Art & The International Street Art Part 19
The Halsey Street Festival, Part 4, Thursday, September 19, 2019,
On Halsey Street between Bleaker Street and New Street, Downtown Newark, New Jersey, USA
John Watts demonstrated pottery,
Ing’s Peace Project, Ing & John’s Artwork,
A lot of Merchants, Food, Music and Fashion Show
Photographs by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
A lady from local media station videoed and interviewed John.
This artwork is my – Finished “Peace” artwork 8
Shadow of Peace and La Asociación de Barranquiteños de NJ Inc., Puerto Rican Festival in Newark on August 6, 2011, organized by Carlos Maldonado Pastrana, President of La Asociación de Barranquiteños de NJ. Finished artwork, after the written comments by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Link to Peace Comes to 5th Annual Arts Music Fair Elwood Park Page:
I was very happy to see a lot more people participating in my Peace Project. I believe that peace is one of the essential conditions of life. Life without peace for one’s self causes an individual to be unhappy. Society without peace cause problems for everyone, particularly in countries such as Syria. Greedy leaders, politicians and corporations can create a great deal of harm to people around the world.
Humanity is now able to achieve highly advanced levels of technology. However, some are afraid of development in certain technologies, such as the robotics, which may have the potential to control human activity in direct ways. Humans produce high technologies including robotics, but all these technologies are dependent on the beliefs of those who create them. If the people who build them are peaceful, the products will likely benefit humanity and hopefully do no harm. On the other hand, if greedy people make the products, then everyone should worry. The things they create may be dangerous and intended to kill millions of people. Their nuclear weapons, armaments, or robots, can cause irreparable harm.
Older people, especially, should realize that they cannot take even one penny with them when they die. Being greedy will only gain them unhappiness and cause problems for others. History will record your actions for the children, grandchildren and future generations that look back at the legacy of your contributions to the world.
It is time to seek peace in ourselves, and spread harmony for all humanity. Now is the time for adults to cultivate peace in the hearts of the next generation so the whole world can grow in universal harmony.
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Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Thursday, April 9, 2020
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French artist JR (previously) is back in New York, transforming pockets of the city with his latest work. Installed on stacked shipping containers, “The Chronicles of New York City” is a compilation of images depicting more than 1,000 New York residents, who the artist photographed and reproduced for the large-scale work. Created in Williamsburg’s Domino Park, the black-and-white mural is JR’s biggest public project to date in the city. It overlooks the East River and features people living in all five boroughs gathered in a public space that mimics the newly built park.
Since opening his exhibition “JR: Chronicles” in October of 2019, the artist has been transforming areas throughout the city, like a space at the Kings Theatre in Flatbush and the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance in Bedford Stuyvesant. “The Chronicles of New York City” is the centerpiece of the exhibition, which is on view through May 3, 2020, at Brooklyn Museum, and is accompanied by audio recordings of those portrayed in the monochromatic mural. The public installation was a collaboration with architectural firm LOT-EK, which is known for its sustainable design and helped in creating the site.
“Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement, and street art, JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale, and wheat pasting them—sometimes illegally—in nearby public spaces,” says a statement about the exhibition. See where JR’s work pops up next by following him on Instagram and peek in his shop to check out what’s available for purchase.
Paola Delfín’s monochromatic murals found in Cancun, St. Petersburg, and cities worldwide all share a message of unity and community. The Mexico-based artist often creates impeccably detailed and stylized profile views, which show her subjects looking down or into the distance, joined by plants, grasses, and flowers of the local environment.
Her lifelike works center on ideas of women’s strength and their ability to build community, in addition to the ways families are bound together and remember their ancestors?—although Delfín tells Colossal she has a more personal connection to the Cancun mural, which depicts a couple staring forward as they cradle a small boat.
My family, uncle and aunt, are part of (the) pioneers. They moved to this city almost 40 years ago and watched it grow. They started a school. My uncle worked on a ship for many years. Now the younger generations are trying to bring more culture since this city transformed into a tourist paradise, and sometimes we forget this was the place where centuries ago the great Mayan culture (rose).
The artist finds murals challenging because of her desire to “leave something meaningful” for those who pass by her work. Before she begins creating in any location, she studies the history and culture of the neighborhood she’s working in and talks to its residents to learn their stories. For “Familia/Suku,” the artist spoke with Tampere residents to understand how immigrants and natives across generations form a community in the Finnish city. In the horizontal piece, Suham, an Iranian expat, leans toward elderly Maya, who has lived in the country for 50 years, while Suham’s daughter Sofia stands in front of them.
Head to Delfín’s Instagram for more of her large- and small-scale projects, and check out Street Prints to see her work in progress.
“La emperatriz“ for Shine Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photo by Michelle Tannu
“Familia/Suku” (2019), for Upeart Festival, Tampere, Finland
2019, for Proyecto Panorama, Cancun, Mexico. Photo by Gino Caballero
“Juntos” (2019), Paulino Navarro, Mexico City. Photo by Edgar Olguin
For Cinta Vidal, everything depends on how you look at it. The Barcelona-based artist is known for her gravity-defying projects that manipulate architecture and household objects to create inverted environments dissimilar to daily life. Like her smaller-scale inverted works, Vidal’s murals are concerned with human subjectivity and feature both peculiarly arranged architecture and objects like books, chairs, and even a canoe floating through the air. They cover walls throughout Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Barcelona, among other cities around the world.
Whether it be a young girl seated on an oversized globe or a man peering over a balcony that’s tipped at a 90-degree angle, the works consider how perspectives are informed by a subject’s position.
Everyone has their own view on the world, and my work is my way of expressing this idea: it’s impossible to view something from every perspective at the same time. There’s always a choice, a perception. In my work there also lies a desire to take things out of context, releasing them into the air and, by doing so, giving them new value.
The artist tells Colossal that once she chooses a location to paint a mural, she studies the areas nearby. Vidal intends each project to become part of the existing environment, often prompting her utilize the color already on the building’s surface as her background. “Paint(ing) a mural is about interact(ing) with the wall and everything that surrounds it,” she writes. To get the latest on the artist’s creations, follow her on Instagram.
Built in 1608, the Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte is a 142-step staircase in Caltagirone, Sicily made from thousands of ceramic tiles, one design per step, as a fitting tribute to a city known for its design and production of ceramics and terra-cotta sculptures. For centuries the stairs have been used as a backdrop for various festivals for which images of patron saints and other local themes are illustrated using thousands of flowers or candles. You can learn more about the La Scala Flower Festival over on My Modern Met, or the light festival called the Scala Illuminata. Photos by Andrea Annaloro. (via My Modern Met)
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The Halsey Street Festival,
Part 3, Thursday, September 19, 2019,
On Halsey Street between
Bleaker Street and New Street, Downtown Newark, New Jersey, USA
John Watts demonstrated
pottery,
Ing’s Peace Project, Ing &
Johns Artwork,
A lot of Merchants, Food, Music
and Fashion Show
Photographs by Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts
More people came to enjoy the activities that
The Halsey Street Festival presented. I brought my Peace Poster offering
to the participants of the festival to express their thought on “What does
Peace mean to You?” or to them.
I
brought Kai’s books for the boy to look at in case he got tired of adult
business.
I
was very glad to see more people were willing to record their thoughts on
Peace.
People were lined up to see john
throwing a large pot.
I was glad to see the group of young
women who are studying at NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) where I
graduated with a master’s degree in Polymer Chemistry in 1980.
This artwork is my – Finished
“Peace” artwork 8
Shadow of Peace and La Asociación de
Barranquiteños de NJ Inc., Puerto Rican Festival in Newark on August 6, 2011,
organized by Carlos Maldonado Pastrana, President of La Asociación de
Barranquiteños de NJ. Finished artwork, after the written comments
by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Link to Peace Comes to 5th Annual Arts Music Fair
Elwood Park Page:
“Miss. Newark, New Jersey”, & Other people
were watching John demonstrate pottery.
I brought Kai, our grandson’s desk
chair, and an Alphabet spelling board to the boy and offered him some
drink. He seemed to enjoy playing with
the Alphabet spelling board.
TOP
100 Urban Art 2019 – Best artworks and street artists of the year P 3, 4 & 5
We’re
at the beginning of 2020 and its time for the Streetart360 team to do a
retrospective on the most beautiful urban art murals painted in 2019. We’ve
selected 100 murals from around the world, some by renown artists and others by
new talents. We based our selection on the number of likes and shares they have
received on the StreetArt360 social network pages (Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Pinterest) Please use the comment section to give us your feed back
and remember to visit the artists social networks or websites. Thanks for
sharing this Top 100. We wish you all the best for 2020.
41.
Den Extralargos aka Eva Mena in Puerto Del Rosario, Canary
Islands, Spain
This year’s Amsterdam Light Festival, running November 28, 2019, to January
19, 2020, lights up the European city with illuminated art installations. The
festival, now in its eighth year, attracts tourists and engages locals at a
time when the city is cloaked in darkness for about sixteen hours each day.
Visitors to the Light Festival use a phone app to guide themselves through
Amsterdam’s city center, perusing twenty light works by artists from around the
world. This year’s show theme was “DISRUPT!” and artists reflected the concept
in pieces that ruminate on climate change, national history, technology, and
more. See some of our favorites here, by Masamichi Shimada, UxU Studio, Sergey Kim and others. You can explore the full line-up and
programming on the Amsterdam Light Festival website.
“Neighborhood” by Sergey Kim.
Photograph courtesy of the artist
“Nacht Tekening” by Krijn de Koning
“Atlantis” by Utskottet
“Surface Tension” by Tom Biddulph
and Barbara Ryan
More people came to enjoy the activities that The Halsey Street Festival presented. I brought my Peace Poster offering to the participants of the festival to express their thought on “What does Peace mean to You?” or to them.
Thanks to this person who was willingly to record her
thoughts on Peace.
John started his performance with a
pottery demonstration.
People love to take John’s pictures
as he is making his magic pottery.
I love the way John produced his pottery or anybody who can have control and discipline enough to achieve making beautiful objects. I love to work with clay making my sculptures where I do not have to follow the rule and be well disciplined. One of these days I am going to ask Master John to teach me how to throw on the wheel and produce the controlled pottery.
More people were interested in
recording their Peace comments on my Peace Poster.
People seemed to enjoy taking
pictures and watching John demonstrate pottery.
It is so lovely to see a mother
holding her child, who shows the happiness and comfort of being embraced by his
mother with joy.
“Miss. Newark, New Jersey”, stopped
her tour to write her comments about Peace.
Beautiful flowers and beautiful
people made the atmosphere of the festival vibrant and Peaceful. This is the kind of harmony we need when
people get together to celebrate life. (No
Fighting, No Conflict and No More Wars)
Please continue to view The Halsey Street
Festival Part 3
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Sunday, February
2, 2020
Link to Ing & John’s Street Art & The
International Street Art Part 15
TOP 100 Urban Art 2019 – Best artworks and street artists of
the year P 1 & 2
We’re at the beginning of 2020 and its time for the
Streetart360 team to do a retrospective on the most beautiful urban art murals
painted in 2019. We’ve selected 100 murals from around the world, some by
renown artists and others by new talents. We based our selection on the number
of likes and shares they have received on the StreetArt360 social network pages
(Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest) Please use the comment section to
give us your feed back and remember to visit the artists social networks or
websites. Thanks for sharing this Top 100. We wish you all the best for 2020.
Set within a district
of Victorian industrial buildings, the Toronto Light Festival is
a free 45-day festival occurring during this year’s winter months as a way to
creatively draw the city’s inhabitants out of their homes. Featuring 21 diverse
light installations built by local and international artists and thousands of
glowing bulbs, the festival covers a total of 13 acres in the city’s Distillery District. Installations range from a series of
lit figures appearing to jump from the roof of one of the historic buildings to
two red, geometric cats prowling an included alleyway, with several
multi-colored works in-between.
You can catch Toronto’s first ever
light art festival until March 12, or follow the festival on Instagram to catch snapshots of the glowing
installations.
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to Ing & John’s Street Art & The International Street Art Part 16
PBS News: November12-17, 2019, Why Jane Fonda
is putting herself on the line to fight climate change, Blockbuster da Vinci
exhibition showcases the master’s ‘endless curiosity’, and Why German divisions
remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall
Ing’s Peace
Project: Peace artwork 2
– The Peace and Art Parade and festival run by the Barat Foundation in
Newark on 10.23.2011, organized by Chandri and Gary Barat. Finished
artwork, after the written comments by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode November 17, 2019
On this edition for Sunday, November
17, public hearings in the ongoing impeachment inquiry enter a second week, a
long-awaited project in Italy that could help keep Venice afloat, and how
Australia is trying to save the almost-extinct koalas. Karina Mitchell anchors
from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG
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PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode November 16, 2019
On this edition for Saturday,
November 16, key takeaways from hearings in the impeachment inquiry. Also, a
look at Kernza, a little-known grain with several environmental benefits.
Karina Mitchell anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS
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Friday on the NewsHour, a second day
of public impeachment hearings, featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Marie Yovanovitch. Plus: President Trump’s longtime associate Roger Stone is
found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress, protests in Hong Kong
enter a new phrase, analysis of the latest political news with Shields and
Brooks and rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral. Stream your PBS favorites with the
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Thursday on the NewsHour, Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi accuses President Trump of committing bribery with his
handling of Ukraine policy. Plus: Controversial emails from presidential
adviser Stephen Miller, an exclusive look behind Taliban lines, fighting
superbugs, businesses try to retain older employees, a book on elitism, artist
Delano Dunn and student letters to the late Gwen Ifill. Stream your PBS
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Jane Fonda has been a household name
for decades due to her prolific acting career, both on-screen and on stage. She
has also drawn sustained attention for her enduring — and sometimes
controversial — activism. Judy Woodruff sits down with Fonda to discuss her
climate advocacy, what it’s like to spend the night in jail and how young
activists like Greta Thuneberg are shaping a new movement. Stream your PBS
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Blockbuster da Vinci exhibition showcases the master’s
‘endless curiosity’
The blockbuster exhibit of the year
celebrates Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years after his death. People are flocking to
the Louvre Museum in Paris to see the work of the master, who was born in
Italy, died in France and personified the expression Renaissance man. Jeffrey
Brown went to see firsthand why da Vinci’s art is drawing massive crowds.
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It’s been 30 years since one of the
20th century’s biggest historic events: the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although
the East German dictatorship subsequently collapsed, cultural and political
divisions remain, more than a generation after reunification. Special
correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on the wall’s legacy, the polarizing
issue of immigration and the lingering stain of anti-Semitism. Stream your PBS
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How did the US immigration debate
get to be so divisive? In this informative talk, historian and writer Paul A.
Kramer shows how an “insider vs. outsider” framing has come to
dominate the way people in the US talk about immigration — and suggests a set
of new questions that could reshape the conversation around whose life, rights
and thriving matters.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
In this powerful, personal talk,
author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the immigration
crisis at the US-Mexico border, bringing this often-abstract debate back down
to earth — and showing what you can do every day to create a sense of belonging
for immigrants. “This isn’t about kids and borders,” he says.
“It’s about us. This is about who we are, who we the people are, as a
nation and as individuals.”
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
For the past 20 years, photographer
and TED Fellow Jon Lowenstein has documented the migrant journey from Latin
America to the United States, one of the largest transnational migrations in
world history. Sharing photos from his decade-long project “Shadow Lives
USA,” Lowenstein takes us into the inner worlds of the families escaping
poverty and violence in Central America — and pieces together the complex
reasons people leave their homes in search of a better life.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
“Building a 30-foot-high
concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least
effective way to do border security,” says Congressman Will Hurd, a
Republican from Texas whose district encompasses two times zones and shares an
820-mile border with Mexico. Speaking from Washington, DC in a video interview
with former state attorney general Anne Milgram, Hurd discusses the US
government’s border policy and its controversial detention and child separation
practices — and lays out steps toward a better future at the border. (Recorded
at the TED World Theater in New York on September 10, 2019)
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official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Wanting to understand how Einstein
learned physics may, at first, seem as pointless as trying to fly by watching
birds and flapping your arms really hard. How do you emulate someone who is
synonymous with genius?
However, I think the investigation
can still bear fruits, even if you or I might not have the intellectual gifts
to revolutionize physics. Whatever Einstein did to learn, he clearly did
something right, so there’s merit in trying to figure out what that was.
How
Smart Was Einstein? (Did He Really Fail Elementary Mathematics?)
One of the most common stories about
Einstein is that he failed grade school math. I think this is one of those
ideas that sounds so good it has to get repeated, regardless of whether it is
true or not.
Unfortunately, it’s not true.
Einstein was a strong math student from a very young age. He himself admits:
“I never failed in mathematics.
Before I was fifteen, I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”
While the story about Einstein being
an early dullard is certainly false, it’s not the case that he was universally
regarded as a genius, either.
Einstein’s grades (highest grade =
6).
In college, Einstein often struggled
in math, getting 5s and 6s (out of a possible 6) in physics, but getting only
4s in most of his math courses (barely a passing grade). His mathematics
professor, and future collaborator, Hermann Minkowski called him a “lazy dog”
and physics professor, Jean Pernet, even flunked Einstein with a score of 1 in
an experimental physics course.
At the end of college, Einstein had
the dubious distinction of graduating as the second-to-worst student in the
class.
The difficulty Einstein had was
undoubtedly due in part to his non-conformist streak and rebellious attitude,
which didn’t sit well in an academic environment. This would follow him in his
future academic career, when he was struggling to find teaching jobs at
universities, even after he had already done the work which would later win him
the Nobel prize.
Einstein’s discoveries in physics
were truly revolutionary, which certainly earns him the title of “genius” by
any reasonable standard. However, the early picture of Einstein is more
complicated than that. All of this indicates to me, at least, that it can often
be very easy to judge the genius of someone after the fact, but perhaps harder
to predict in advance.
How
Did Einstein Learn Math and Physics?
Given Einstein’s enormous
contributions to physics, I think it’s now worthwhile to ask how he learned it.
Throughout the biography, I took
notes whenever his methods of learning and discovery were mentioned. Then, I
tried to synthesize these observations into several methods or behaviors that
appeared to have enabled both Einstein’s revolutionary discoveries and his deep
understanding of the subject matter.
1.
Learning comes from solving hard problems, not attending classes.
One thing that becomes apparent when
looking at Einstein’s early schooling was both his distaste for rote
memorization and attending classes. The physics professor that flunked him, did
so, in no small part, because Einstein often skipped class. As he claims, “I
played hooky a lot and studied the masters of theoretical physics with a holy
zeal at home.”
Einstein as a boy.
This habit of skipping classes to
focus on solving hard problems in his spare time was one cultivated by his
uncle, Jakob Einstein, who first introduced him to algebra. By the time he was
12, Einstein already had a, “predilection for solving complicated problems in
arithmetic,” and his parents bought him an advanced mathematical textbook he
could study from during the summer.
Einstein learned physics, not by
dutifully attending classes, but by obsessively playing with the ideas and
equations on his own. Doing, not listening, was the starting point for how he
learned physics.
2.
You really know something when you can prove it yourself.
How do you know when you really
understand something? Einstein’s method was to try prove the proposition
himself! This began at an early age, when Uncle Jakob, challenged him to prove
Pythagoras’s Theorem:
“After much effort, I succeeded in
‘proving’ this theorem on the basis of the similarity of triangles,” Einstein
recalled.
Isaacson explains that Einstein,
“tackled new theories by trying to prove them on his own.” This approach to
learning physics, which came naturally to Einstein, was driven by a strong
curiosity both to know how things actually work, and a belief that, “nature
could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”
What’s important to note here is not
only the method of proving propositions to learn physics, but also the drive to
do so. It’s clear that Einstein’s curiosity wasn’t merely to perform
adequately, but to develop a deep understanding and intuition about physical
concepts.
3.
Intuition matters more than equations.
Einstein was a better intuitive
physicist than he was a mathematician. In fact, it was only when he struggled
for years in developing general relativity, that he became more enamored with
mathematical formalisms as a way of doing physics.
An early influence which encouraged
this intuitive approach to physics was a series of science books by Aaron
Bernstein. These books presented imaginative pictures to understand physical
phenomenon, such as, “an imaginary trip through space,” to understand an
electrical signal and even discussing the constancy of the speed of light, a
matter which would later underpin Einstein’s discovery of special relativity.
Swiss education reformer Pestalozzi
emphasized learning through images, not by rote.
Einstein’s later education in Aarau,
Switzerland, was heavily influenced by the philosophy of Swiss educational
reformer, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Pestalozzi claimed, “Visual understanding
is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things
correctly,” adding, “the learning of numbers and language must definitely be
subordinated.”
Were these early influences causal
factors in Einstein’s later preferred style of visualization to solve physics
problems, or were they merely a welcome encouragement for a mind that was
already predisposed to reasoning in this way? It’s hard to tell. Whatever the
case, I think it can be argued that developing intuitions of ideas,
particularly visual intuitions, has an invaluable role in physics.
How does one develop those
intuitions? Einstein’s own thoughts were that “intuition is nothing but the
outcome of earlier intellectual experience.” Einstein’s hard work building
understanding through proofs and solving problems undoubtedly supported his
ability to visualize as much as it benefited from it.
4.
Thinking requires a quiet space and deep focus.
Einstein was a master of deep work. He had an incredible ability to
focus, his son reporting:
“Even the loudest baby-crying didn’t
seem to disturb Father,” adding, “He could go on with his work completely
impervious to noise.”
Although overlooked for academic
positions, it was his intellectually unstimulating job at the Bern patent
office, which gave him time and privacy to unravel the mysteries of relativity.
Einstein remarks:
“I was able to do a full day’s work
in only two or three hours. The remaining part of the day, I would work out my
own ideas.”
Einstein in his home office.
The obsessive focus Einstein applied
to solving problems as a young boy, eventually served him well in cracking
general relativity, culminating in an “exhausting four-week frenzy.” This
intensity sometimes impacted his health, with him developing stomach problems
in his strain to unravel the difficult mathematics of tensor field equations.
Einstein’s ability to focus, combined
with a reverence for solitude, allowed him to do some of his best work in
physics. Even as he aged, he still spent many hours on his boat, idly pushing
the rudder seemingly lost in thought, interrupted by bursts of scribbling
equations in his notebook.
5.
Understand ideas through thought experiments.
Einstein’s most famous method for
learning and discovering physics has to be the thought experiment.
Books such as this were Einstein’s
first introduction to the power of thought experiments.
One of his most famous was imagining
riding on a beam of light. What would happen to the light beam as he rode
alongside it at the same speed? Well, it would have to freeze. This, to
Einstein, seemed impossible by his faith in Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations.
But if the light doesn’t freeze, what must happen?
These thought experiments were built
on his intuitive understanding of physics, which in turn was built on his
experience with working through theories and problems. Their strength, however,
was to draw attention to contradictions or confusions that may have been missed
by a less intuitive physicist.
His ability to engage in thought
experiments even served him when he ended up being wrong about the underlying
physics. It was exactly this type of thought experiment that he suggested to
refute the current understanding of quantum physics in what is now known as the
ERP paper, which showed that quantum mechanics could create changes in a system
instantaneously, violating the speed of light. In this case, however,
Einstein’s intuition was wrong—quantum mechanical systems do behave in such
bizarre ways—which is now known as quantum entanglement.
6.
Overturn common sense … with more common sense.
Special and general relativity stand
out as being some of the most mind-bending scientific discoveries of all time.
With special relativity, Einstein discovered that there is no absolute
time—that two people moving at different speeds can disagree about the passage
of time—with neither being right or wrong. With general relativity, Einstein
went further, showing that gravity bends space and time.
Einstein at age 42, the year he won
the Nobel prize.
It would be reasonable to assume,
therefore, that to overturn such commonsense principles would require some
departure from common sense. However, Einstein’s genius was to reconcile two
commonsense principles—relativity and the constancy of the speed of light—by
discarding a third (the idea of absolute measurements of space and time).
Einstein’s talent, it would seem,
lay in his ability to defend what he thought were the most reasonable ideas,
even if that meant discarding ones which had a longer tradition of being
thought to be correct.
This skill of overturning
commonsense with other intuitions may have also eventually been behind his
inability to accept quantum mechanics, a very successful theory of physics that
he himself helped create. His intuitions about strict determinism, led him to
champion an unsuccessful and quixotic quest to overturn the theory for much of
his life.
This practice also suggests a method
for learning the many, counter-intuitive principles of math and physics—start
by building off of a different commonsense premise.
7.
Insights come from friendly walks.
While solitude and focus were
essential components of how Einstein learned and did physics, it was often
conversations with other people that provided his breakthroughs.
Albert Einstein with Michele Besso.
The most famous example of this was
a walk with longtime friend Michele Besso. During his struggles with special
relativity, he walked with his friend trying to explain his theory. Frustrated,
he declared that, “he was going to give up,” working on the theory. Suddenly,
however, the correct insight came to him and the next day he told Besso that he
had, “completely solved the problem.”
Discussing ideas aloud, sharing them
with others, can often put together insights that were previously unconnected.
Einstein made great use of this technique of discussing tricky problems with
friends and colleagues, even if they were merely a sounding board rather than
an active participant in the discussion.
8.
Be rebellious.
Einstein was never much of a
conformist. While his rebellious streak probably hurt his earlier academic
career when he was struggling to find work in physics, it is also probably what
enabled his greatest discoveries and accentuated his later celebrity.
This rebelliousness likely helped
him in learning physics as he pushed against the traditions and orthodoxy he
didn’t agree with. He hated the German educational system, finding in
Isaacson’s words, “the style of teaching—rote drills, impatience with
questioning—to be repugnant.” This rejection of the common educational method
encouraged him to learn physics on his own through textbooks and practice.
Later, the same rebelliousness would
be essential in revolutionizing physics. His research on the quantization of
light, for instance, had been first discovered by Max Planck. However, unlike
the older Planck, Einstein saw the quantization as being a physical
reality—photons—rather than a mathematical contrivance. He was less attached to
the predominant theory of the time that light was a wave in the ether.
Where many students would have been
happy to conform to predominant educational and theoretical orthodoxies,
Einstein wasn’t satisfied unless something made sense to him personally.
9.
All knowledge starts with curiosity.
“Curiosity has its own reason for
existing,” Einstein explains. “One cannot help but be in awe when one
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of
reality.”
Einstein, curious until the end.
This curiosity is probably Einstein’s
most defining quality, after his intelligence. His love of physics started as a
boy when he was given a compass and fascinated by the idea that the needle
moved because of an unseen force.
Curiosity was his motivation for
learning physics. Einstein, who could be quite lazy and obstinate when a matter
didn’t interest him, nonetheless had an intense passion for understanding the
things, “the ordinary adult never bothers his head about.” Curiosity was also,
in his own mind, the greatest reason for his accomplishments.
Einstein believed that, “love is a
better teacher than a sense of duty.” Love of learning and knowledge is,
perhaps, a more important skill to cultivate than discipline.
Learning
as Einstein Did
Einstein’s approach towards learning
cannot be entirely separated from who he was. Was his obsessive focus a result
of his intelligence or his curiosity? Did his ability to easily visualize
thought experiments come from encouragement in an unusual Swiss education
system, extensive practice or natural ability? Was his revolution in physics a
product of genius, rebelliousness, luck or maybe all three? I’m not sure there are
clear answers to any of those questions.
What is clear, however, was
Einstein’s reverence for nature and the humbled attitude to which he approached
investigating it. As he wrote:
“A spirit is manifest in the laws of
the universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of
which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”
And, so even if Einstein’s genius may lay outside the reach of most of us, his curiosity, humility and tenacity are still worth emulating.
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40+ Amazing Sand Sculptures That Breathes Life Into
Sand
If you’re at the
beach and done with swimming what can you do? Most will build sand castles and
sculptures, but some decide to go ahead and create art.
Sand art, or sand sculptures, in
particular, have been quite popular and competitions and exhibitions are
regularly held across the world. Of course, sand castles are the most known
form of sand sculptures as kids just love building them.
It turns out to create more
professional looking and detailed sand sculptures, just sand, and water will
suffice – but it’s important that special sculpture sand is being used in order
to maintain a stable structure.
Below is a list of 55 most amazing
sand sculptures across the world that will probably give you a whole new
perspective on using sand to build art.
1)
Wonderland
With a beautiful sand castle like
this, people would immediately want to jump in and accompany Alice on her
journey to Wonderland.
Sometimes, statues are just a little
bit too mainstream. Sand statues are just so much cooler! Someone made this
amazing sculpture in David Bowie’s honor. The king of pop rock would definitely
be proud.
Just look at the details of this
wonderfully crafted dragon! Everything has been meticulously created, from his
teeth up to his eyes and even the woman standing before the dragon’s very eyes.
A true work of art.
This beautiful sculpture of
Sheherazade was built in the Netherlands. The story of 1001 Nights or Arabian
Nights has been told over many centuries, and this is an amazing representation
of that story, created with sand.
Every year, the coastal city of
Ostend in Belgium organizes a summer sand sculpture festival. One year, the
main theme was Disney, so this welcoming Mickey Mouse was standing near the
entry to say hello to all visitors!
There is only one word to describe
this sand sculpture: beautiful. The details are incredible, as you can see the
ridges of the fingerprints, for example. And who wouldn’t want to welcome a
cute baby like this with both hands?
This picture was taken at an
Oktoberfest event in Germany. Aside from drinking lots of beer during the
festivities, you can apparently also spot great sand sculptures such as this
one!
These balls of sand are known as
‘sandglobes’, and putting them in formations such as these makes for a really
appealing structure. This particular work of art was created by sand artist
Naija Fatima.
If you’ve ever watched Game of
Thrones, you’ll immediately recognize these two. The sand sculpture version of
Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon looks amazing!
Not every sand sculpture needs to be
humongous and imposing, smaller pieces such as this one manage to capture the
finesse of sand art perfectly too. This small and charming sand city in
Australia looks like a real-life painting!
The Peace and Art Parade and festival run by the Barat
Foundation in Newark on 10.23.2011, organized by Chandri and Gary
Barat. Finished artwork, after the written comments by Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts
It took me a while to be able to
complete this project. I spent some time to compose this second finished
artwork for the Peace Project. The writings were the comments from the
people on “What does Peace mean to you?” at the Washington Park and some of the
people who participated in the Creation Nation Art and Peace Parade on Sunday,
October 23, 2011, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Link to Peace Project and Creation
Art Peace Parade Page:
On this edition for Sunday, November
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Ewan started vaping in early 2017.
He was 16 at the time and wanted to quit smoking to improve his boxing.
Despite being under age, he said,
“it was easy” to buy either cigarettes or e-cigarettes.
In May that year, Ewan was finding
it harder and harder to breathe.
His mother took Ewan to accident and
emergency on the night before his GCSE exams, because he was coughing and
choking in his sleep.
His lungs were failing and he very
quickly ended up on life-support in intensive care in Queen’s Medical Centre in
Nottingham.
“I thought I was going to
die,” Ewan told BBC News.
Ewan was getting worse. Even
ventilation could not get enough oxygen into his body and his life was in the
balance.
Image copyright Ewan Fisher Image
caption Ewan was attached to an ECMO machine to keep him alive
He was taken to Leicester and
attached to an artificial lung or ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation)
machine.
“This machine saved my
life,” he said.
Large tubes took blood out of Ewan,
removed the carbon dioxide, added oxygen and pumped the blood back into his
body.
“He had very serious respiratory
failure, he had to go to ECMO and that is a very big deal,” Dr Jayesh
Bhatt, a consultant at Nottingham University Hospitals, told BBC News.
Millions of images and videos are
uploaded to the internet each day, yet we rarely see shocking and disturbing
content in our social media feeds. Who’s keeping the internet “clean”
for us? In this eye-opening talk, documentarians Hans Block and Moritz
Riesewieck take us inside the shadowy world of online content moderators — the
people contracted by major platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google to rid
the internet of toxic material. Learn more about the psychological impact of
this kind of work — and how “digital cleaning” influences what all
of us see and think.
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misleading, sometimes dangerous content while maintaining an internet with
freedom of expression at its core? Misinformation expert Claire Wardle explores
the new challenges of our polluted online environment and maps out a plan to
transform the internet into a place of trust — with the help everyday users.
“Together, let’s rebuild our information commons,” she says.
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seeking out the people who are propelling fringe talking points into the heart
of conversation online and trying to understand how they’re making their ideas
spread. Go down the rabbit hole of online propaganda and misinformation — and
learn we can start to make the internet less toxic.
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Despite multibillion-dollar
investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely
ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator
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reaches a startling conclusion.
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5 mind blowing NASA
discoveries made in 2019. We take a look at these 5 mind blowing NASA
discoveries made in 2019. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has
been at the center of a number of public discoveries. So today, here at
unexplained mysteries, we will be highlighting the incredible breakthroughs of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to help show the overwhelming
support the agency has provided for the fields of science and technology. Thank
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BBC News: “If
I see someone with the same disability as I have, I encourage them to show the
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Manners from Zimbabwe makes artwork
using thrown away cans.
Zimbabwean Manners Mukuwiri recycles rubbish into art
Zimbabwean Manners Mukuwiri was
struggling to earn a living until he started turning rubbish into art.
People with disabilities can often
find it difficult to find work in the country, but his creations sell for up to
$800 (£615) and Manners is hoping to turn his hobby into a full-time career.
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22 Apr 2019
Fluorescent turtle embryo. Teresa
Zgoda & Teresa Kugler (Campbell Hall, New York, USA). First Place. Stereomicroscopy,
Fluorescence. 5x (Objective Lens Magnification).
For forty-five years, the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition has celebrated the microscopic world and, in the process,
allowed scientists and enthusiasts to show off the artistry of scientific
imagery. Passionate micro-photographers from nearly 100 countries submitted
over 2000 stunning pieces of microphotography to the competition. In the end,
the expert judging panel narrowed the field to the top 20 images with a photo
of a turtle embryo taking the top prize.
The colorful image, taken by
microscopy technician Teresa Zgoda and recent university graduate Teresa Kugler,
is the result of painstaking work done with precision and skill. Extensive image-stitching
was necessary to create the final photograph, as the size and thickness of the
turtle embryo meant that only a small portion of the turtle could be
photographed at one time. By stacking and stitching together hundreds of
photographs, the duo was able to create an image that is both scientifically
and artistically satisfying.
“Microscopy lets us zoom in on the
smallest organisms and building blocks that comprise our world–giving us a
profound appreciation for the small things in life that far too often go
unnoticed,” shared Kugler, “It allows me to do science with a purpose.”
The turtle wasn’t the only embryo in
the winning selection. Reproduction was a topic for many photographers. An
alligator and a California two-spot octopus embryo, as well as a pregnant
planktonic crustacean and mosquito larva also joined the top twenty. Away from
the animal kingdom, something as simple as a frozen drop of water was
transformed into a mesmerizing, abstract photograph. At the same time, a close
view of different flora helps us marvel at the beauty and precision of how
nature develops.
Whether using focus stacking, image
stacking, or confocal microscopy, the techniques employed help these scientists
bring their vision to life. And as technology continues to grow and evolve, we
can only expect even richer results. Take a look at the rest of the top 20
photos from the 2019 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition below and
view more finalists via their online gallery.
For
45 years, the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition has celebrated the
artistry of scientific imagery.
Alligator embryo developing nerves and
skeleton. Daniel Smith Paredes & Dr. Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar (Yale
University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, Connecticut, USA).
Third Place. Immunofluorescence. 10x (Objective Lens Magnification).
Small white hair spider. Javier Rupérez
(Almáchar, Málaga, Spain). Sixth Place. Reflected Light, Image Stacking. 20x (Objective
Lens Magnification).
Housefly compound eye pattern. Dr.
Razvan Cornel Constantin (Bucharest, Romania). 16th Place. Focus Stacking,
Reflected Light. 50x (Objective Lens Magnification).
Chinese red carnation stamen. Dr.
Guillermo López López (Alicante, Spain). Seventh Place. Focus Stacking. 3x
(Objective Lens Magnification).
Cuprite (mineral composed of copper
oxide). Dr. Emilio Carabajal Márquez (Madrid, Spain). Focus Stacking. 20x
(Objective Lens Magnification).
Vitamin C. Karl Deckart (Eckental,
Bavaria, Germany). 17th Place. Brightfield, Polarized Light. 4x (Objective Lens
Magnification)
Depth-color coded projections of
three stentors (single-cell freshwater protozoans). Dr. Igor Siwanowicz (Howard
Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA).
Second place. Confocal. 40x (Objective Lens Magnification).
Frozen water droplet. Garzon Christian
(Quintin, Cotes-d’Armor, France). Eighth Place. Incident Light. 8x (Objective
Lens Magnification).
Cristobalite crystal suspended in
its quartz mineral host. E. Billie Hughes (Lotus Gemology, Bangkok, Thailand).
18th Place. Darkfield. 40x (Objective Lens Magnification).
Mosquito larva. Anne Algar
(Hounslow, Middlesex, United Kingdom). 12th Place. Darkfield, Polarizing Light,
Image Stacking. 4x (Objective Lens Magnification).
A pair of ovaries from an adult
Drosophila female stained for F-actin (yellow) and nuclei (green); follicle cells
are marked by GFP (magenta). Dr. Yujun Chen & Dr. Jocelyn McDonald (Kansas
State University, Department of Biology, Manhattan, Kansas, USA). 11th Place.
Confocal. 10x (Objective Lens Magnification).
Blood vessels of a murine (mouse)
heart following myocardial infarction (heart attack). Simon Merz, Lea Bornemann
& Sebastian Korste (University Hospital Essen, Institute for Experimental
Immunology & Imaging, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). 20th Place.
Tissue Clearing, Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy. 2x (Objective Lens
Magnification).
BPAE cells in telophase stage of
mitosis. Jason M. Kirk (Baylor College of Medicine, Optical Imaging & Vital
Microscopy Core, Houston, Texas, USA). 10th Place. Confocal with Enhanced
Resolution. 63x (Objective Lens Magnification).
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September 22, President Trump hits the road as international issues take center
stage, the General Motors strike enters its second week, and a look at what
Peru is doing to reform a gold-mining industry that has decimated part of the
Amazon rain forest. Megan Thompson anchors from New York.
Friday on the NewsHour, new details
are being reported about a whistleblower complaint that might involve President
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Tanzania, for example, far from the company’s American headquarters, a
different picture emerges. Here everyone waits for red-and-white buses and
walks by red-and-white walls, and the children play with red-and-white
equipment in the playgrounds. The Coca-Cola logo is ubiquitous. But what is
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Bolivia’s
populist president has vowed to lift the fortunes of the rural poor. But high
on the Andean plateau, one remote community still has no access to clean
water—and one man has the awesome responsibility of ensuring his people are not
parched.
Narratively
| Michele Bertelli, Felix Lill, and Javier Sauras
It’s almost seven o’clock in the
morning. The thermometer does not dare to
peek above thirty degrees Fahrenheit but the sun bites every time it manages to
find its way through the clouds of the high Andean plateau. Jacinto Sirpa, a
peasant and member of the Aymara indigenous community, pulls down his
camouflage hat over a woolen cap. Everything about him has the flavor of the
Earth: chestnut coat, gray trousers, brown sneakers; a pair of beige gloves
protects his copper hands while he ropes his old donkey, loaded with four large
empty drums. Sirpa focuses his umber eyes, surrounded by wrinkles, on a distant
barren slope and starts walking. He has to reach the slope, one hour walking
from his home, to get some water. Just as he has done throughout his entire
life. The same journey he has been repeating for sixty years now; 22,000 days
without clean drinking water.
“I have never had drinking water,”
says the farmer, shyly. “I have never drunk clean water.”
Jacinto Sirpa Condori is not one of
a kind. Two million people don’t have drinking water piped into their houses in
Bolivia and half of the population lacks basic sanitation. Sirpa lives in a
rural community that is within the city of Viacha, two hours from La Paz, the
capital. Despite living so close to the Presidential palace, Sirpa’s life is
harsh. At 13,000 feet above sea level, even oxygen is a scarce resource.
***
The sun shines high in the sky, and Sirpa is back in his house of mud and straw. Using a
colander, he filters the water he just brought from the pond and prepares coca
tea. Sirpa knows better than anyone that the liquid he collects daily in the
wetlands is not potable. His loneliness says so.
Jacinta Sirpa on his way to his only
source of water – through a barren landscape, an hour away from home.
“These days my wife is sick, my
children are sick; it seems that the land is also tired and no longer bears
good fruits,” he says in a sad voice. Quiet, with simple and smooth movements,
he pours the mate tea on the ground before taking a small mouthful. It is an
offering to the Pachamama goddess so that she may look kindly upon him.
“Hopefully, one day we will have water, and maybe we could irrigate and sow the
fields. Do something.”
Sirpa believes in indigenous reciprocity
towards Mother Earth, to whom he always gives something when there is something
that he takes. However, these days he prefers to ask government institutions to
address his problem of water scarcity rather than praying to the goddess. After
leading the cattle to graze, the farmer uses one of the drums to wash himself.
Then, he slithers into a red-and-black poncho, takes his ceremonial instruments
and changes the camouflage hat out for a dark fedora. This year he has been
appointed “Uma Mallku” of his community: overseer of the waters. In the Aymara
society, Mallkus are rotating positions, their holder charged with ensuring the
community has enough water. From a shack, he pulls out two large, rolled-up
sheets, with documents and drawings, and gets back on track, crossing the
infinite vastness of the “Altiplano.”
Sirpa speaking to the community. As
the Uma Mallku, or Overseer of Water, he listens to the community’s concerns,
writes down their suggestions and takes them to the local authority. Then, he
will come back with answers from theofficials.
“Governmental institutions don’t
reach these places,” he says while strolling. In Central Coniri, the small
rural community where he lives, they feel forgotten. Recently, several of the
neighboring towns have inaugurated water wells and pipelines. According to a
joint study carried out by UNICEF and the World Health Organization,
twenty-four percent of the Bolivian population has gained access to improved
water resources in the last fifteen years. Yet in rural areas, only fifty-seven
percent of the population have pipelines installed and working in their plots.
This ongoing shortage has drawn farmers towards the city like water emptying
into a drain.
“Many have gone to the cities,” says
Sirpa. “If there is no water, people cannot live.”
The Uma Mallku looks tired but he is
relentless at heart. He will later gather his people to explain how the water
works are progressing. Sirpa will listen to their concerns, write down their
suggestions and take them to the local authority. Then, he will come back with
the answers from officials. He is caught in a crossfire. His neighbors are
angry because nobody is teaching them how to manage the water system that will
soon be built. The city has promised him to send someone to give courses on
technical issues, water pricing, sustainability and basic hygiene. Some of the
elders will have to learn how to use a faucet and about the perks of washing
their hands. Nothing has happened yet. In the belly of the “Altiplano,” time
stands still.
As the Uma Mallku, Sirpa is entitled
to wear a red and black poncho, ceremonial instruments, and a dark fedora. In
the Aymara society, Mallkus are rotating positions that ensure the proper
functioning of thecommunity.
In 1990, less than half of the
Bolivian population had water at home. Evo Morales, the current president of
Bolivia, remembers well the days of thirst; he is, like Sirpa, a son of Aymara
peasants and spent his early childhood in the high Andean plateau. He was born
one kilometer away from a water well and his mother had to walk every day to
bring water home. That may explain why one of his first acts after he came to
power was the creation of a Ministry of Water. He also promoted a resolution at the UN, in 2010, that designated access to safe water
and sanitation as an “essential to the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”
GDP growth
(6.8 percent in 2013), the Human Development Index, and the Gini Coefficient tell how Bolivia has progressed under Morales’ rule.
However, in his eagerness to exert control, the president changed the head of
the Ministry of Water—a precious political position—eight times in three terms.
A minister with a technical background, José Antonio Zamora, stayed in office
longer than anyone else (2012 – 2015). Although Bolivia has already reached the
Millennium Development Goals, Zamora says that “much remains to be done,”
especially in rural areas.
Since Evo Morales took office in
2005, water has been a main issue in Bolivia’s politics. Despite that, almost
two million people still live without access to a reliable source of water.
Here, Sirpa attends a meeting with leaders from other communities to speak
about waterscarcity.
“The president created the Agenda
2025, which sets specific targets for the elimination of extreme human poverty
and coverage of basic services, including obviously water and sanitation,”
Zamora explains. In 2025, Bolivia will turn 200 as an independent country and,
to commemorate the Bicentennial, Morales’ government created a comprehensive
development program. However, some of its points clash directly with Bolivia’s
economic model, which is based in the exploitation of its natural resources.
Sirpa, the quiet Andean peasant,
admires “el Evo,” as he calls him, but his life has not improved substantially
in the nine years Morales has been leading the country. Two of the neighboring
towns, Achica Arriba and Achica Baja, recently built new drinking water
distribution systems with money given by NGOs and international development
agencies. Now people from Central Coniri look at their nearby countrymen with
envy. That’s why Sirpa keeps on walking through the wasteland, carrying
blueprints and documents. He has to control, along with the members of his
community, the advances on the well they are digging.
***
Jacinto Sirpa Condori sits on the
ground, surrounded by his neighbors in the
shade of a huge blue drill. Women lay down and open their multicolored blankets
to prepare the feast. People from Central Coniri have gathered for an “apthapi,”
an Aymara tradition of meeting and sharing. Everybody has brought a little
something: there are boiled and freeze-dried potatoes, beans, yucca, fried
fish, cheese, chili peppers and llama meat.
In the shadow of a drill, people
from Central Coniri gather for an “apthapi,” an Aymara tradition of meeting and
sharing. Everybody has brought something to share; beans, yucca, fried fish and
even llama meat.
On the horizon glows the snow of the
glaciers, topping 20,000 feet-high peaks. Sirpa pays attention to the people
around him and patiently meets their demands. “We are drilling down to one
hundred feet and there is water,” he announces, smiling. “There is water!”
Michele, Felix and Javier worked on
“Bolivia’s Everyday Water War,” an interactive documentary that follows the
struggle in the Andean country to improve water access and sanitation.
Bolivia’s Everyday Water War is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation through the Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Program, a
media-funding project operated by theEuropean Journalism Center).https://www.facebook.com/bewwdoc; Twitter@beww_en.
Not so long ago, putting pen to paper
was a fundamental feature of daily life. Journaling and diary-keeping were
commonplace, and people exchanged handwritten letters with friends, loved ones,
and business associates.
While longhand communication is more
time-consuming and onerous, there’s evidence that people may in some cases lose
out when they abandon handwriting for keyboard-generated text.
Psychologists have long understood
that personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognize and come to
terms with their feelings. Since the 1980s, studies have found that “the writing cure,” which normally involves
writing about one’s feelings every day for 15 to 30 minutes, can lead to
measurable physical and mental health benefits. These benefits include everything from lower stress and fewer depression symptoms
to improved immune function. And there’s evidence that handwriting may better
facilitate this form of therapy than typing.
A commonly cited 1999
study in the Journal of Traumatic
Stress found that writing about a stressful life experience by hand, as
opposed to typing about it, led to higher levels of self-disclosure and
translated to greater therapeutic benefits. It’s possible that these findings
may not hold up among people today, many of whom grew up with computers and are
more accustomed to expressing themselves via typed text. But experts who study
handwriting say there’s reason to believe something is lost when people abandon
the pen for the keyboard.
Psychologists have long understood
that personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognize and come to
terms with their feelings.
“When we write a letter of the
alphabet, we form it component stroke by component stroke, and that process of
production involves pathways in the brain that go near or through parts that
manage emotion,” says Virginia Berninger, a professor emerita of education at
the University of Washington. Hitting a fully formed letter on a keyboard is a
very different sort of task — one that doesn’t involve these same brain
pathways. “It’s possible that there’s not the same connection to the emotional
part of the brain” when people type, as opposed to writing in longhand,
Berninger says.
Writing by hand may also improve a
person’s memory for new information. A 2017 study
in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that brain regions
associated with learning are more active when people completed a task by hand,
as opposed to on a keyboard. The authors of that study say writing by hand may
promote “deep encoding” of new information in ways that keyboard writing does
not. And other researchers have argued that writing by hand promotes learning and cognitive development
in ways keyboard writing can’t match.
The fact that handwriting is a
slower process than typing may be another perk, at least in some contexts. A 2014 study in the journal Psychological Science found that
students who took notes in longhand tested higher on measures of learning and
comprehension than students who took notes on laptops.
“The primary advantage of longhand
notes was that it slowed people down,” says Daniel Oppenheimer, co-author of
the study and a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. While
the students who typed could take down what they heard word for word, “people
who took longhand notes could not write fast enough to take verbatim notes —
instead they were forced to rephrase the content in their own words,”
Oppenheimer says. “To do that, people had to think deeply about the material
and actually understand the arguments. This helped them learn the material
better.”
Slowing down and writing by hand may
come with other advantages. Oppenheimer says that because typing is fast, it
tends to cause people to employ a less diverse group of words. Writing longhand
allows people more time to come up with the most appropriate word, which may
facilitate better self-expression. He says there’s also speculation that
longhand note-taking can help people in certain situations form closer
connections. One example: “A doctor who takes notes on a patient’s symptoms by
longhand may build more rapport with patients than doctors who are typing into
a computer,” he says. Also, a lot Berninger’s NIH-funded work found that
learning to write first in print and then in cursive helps young people develop
critical reading and thinking skills.
Finally, there’s a mountain of
research that suggests online forms of communication are more toxic than
offline dialogue. Most of the researchers who study online communication
speculate that a lack of face-to-face interaction and a sense of invisibility
are to blame for the nasty and brutish quality of many online interactions. But
the impersonal nature of keyboard-generated text may also, in some small way,
be contributing to the observed toxicity. When a person writes by hand, they
have to invest more time and energy than they would with a keyboard. And
handwriting, unlike typed text, is unique to each individual. This is why
people usually value a handwritten note more highly than an email or text,
Berninger says. If words weren’t quite so easy to produce, it’s possible that
people would treat them — and maybe each other — with a little more care.
Elemental Your life, sourced by science. A new Medium publication about health and wellness.
Mind time and clock time
are two totally different things. They flow at varying rates.
The chronological passage of the
hours, days, and years on clocks and calendars is a steady, measurable
phenomenon. Yet our perception of time shifts constantly, depending on the activities we’re
engaged in, our age, and even how much rest we get. An upcoming paper in the
journal European Review by
Duke University mechanical engineering professor Adrian Bejan, explains the
physics behind changing senses of time and reveals why the years seem to fly by
the older we get. (The paper, sent to Quartz by its author, has been
peer-reviewed, edited, and has been approved for publication but a date has not
yet been set.)
Bejan is obsessed with flow and, basically, believes physics principles can explain everything. He has written extensively about how the principles of flow in physics dictate and explain the movement of abstract
concepts, like economics. Last year, he won the Franklin Institute’s Benjamin Franklin Medal
for “his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions…and for constructal theory,
which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and
social systems.”
In his latest paper, he examines the
mechanics of the human mind and how these relate to our understanding of time,
providing a physical explanation for our changing mental perception as we age.
The
Mind’s Eye
According to Bejan—who reviewed
previous studies in a range of fields on time, vision, cognition, and mental
processing to reach his conclusion—time as we experience it represents
perceived changes in mental stimuli. It’s related to what we see. As physical
mental-image processing time and the rapidity of images we take
in changes, so does our perception of time. And in some sense, each of us
has our own “mind time” unrelated to the passing of hours, days, and years on
clocks and calendars, which is affected by the amount of rest we get and other
factors. Bejan is the first person to look at time’s passage through this
particular lens, he tells Quartz, but his conclusions rest on findings by other
scientists who have studied physical and mental process related to the passage of
time.
These changes in stimuli give us a
sense of time’s passage. He writes:
The present is different from the
past because the mental viewing has changed, not because somebody’s clock
rings. The “clock time” that unites all the live flow systems, animate and
inanimate, is measurable. The day-night period lasts 24 hours on all
watches, wall clocks and bell towers. Yet, physical time is not mind time. The
time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another.
Time is happening in the mind’s eye.
It is related to the number of mental images the brain encounters and organizes
and the state of our brains as we age. When we get older, the rate at
which changes in mental images are perceived decreases because of several
transforming physical features, including vision, brain complexity, and later
in life, degradation of the pathways that transmit information. And this shift
in image processing leads to the sense of time speeding up.
Clock time and mind time over a
lifetime. From Adrian Bejan.
This effect is related to saccadic
eye movement. Saccades are unconscious, jerk-like eye movements that occur
a few times a second. In between saccades, your eyes fixate and the brain
processes the visual information it has received. All of this happens
unconsciously, without any effort on your part. In human infants, those
fixation periods are shorter than in adults.
There’s an inversely proportional
relationship between stimuli processing and the sense of time speeding by,
Bejan says. So, when you are young and experiencing lots of new
stimuli—everything is new—time actually seems to be passing more slowly. As you
get older, the production of mental images slows, giving the sense that time
passes more rapidly.
Fatigue also influences saccades,
creating overlaps and pauses in these eye movements that lead to crossed
signals. The tired brain can’t transfer the information effectively when it’s
simultaneously trying to see and make sense of the visual
information. It’s designed to do these things separately.
This is what leads to athletes’ poor
performance when exhausted. Their processing powers get muddled and their sense
of timing is off. They can’t see or respond rapidly to new situations.
Another factor in time’s perceived
passage is how the brain develops. As the brain and body grow more complex and
there are more neural connections, the pathways that information travels are
increasingly complicated. They branch like a tree and this change in processing
influences our experience of time, according to Bejan.
The brain’s complexity changes our sense of time. From Adrian Bejan.
Finally, brain degradation as we age
influences perception. Studies of saccadic eye movements in elderly people show
longer latency periods, for example. The time in which the brain processes the
visual information gets longer, which makes it more difficult for the elderly
to solve complex problems. They “see” more slowly but feel time passing faster,
Bejan argues.
A
Lifetime to Measure By
Bejan became interested in this topic
more than a half century ago. As a young athlete on a prestigious Romanian basketball team, he noticed that time slowed down when he was rested and
that this enabled him to perform better. Not only that, he could predict team
performance in a game based on the time of day it was scheduled. He tells
Quartz:
Early games, at 11 a.m., were poor,
a killer; afternoon and evening games were much better. At 11 AM we were
sleepwalking, never mind what each of us did during the night. It became so
clear to me that I knew at the start of the season, when the schedule was
announced, which games will be bad. Games away, after long trips and bad sleep
were poor, home games were better, for the same reason. In addition, I had a
great coach who preached constantly that the first duty of the player is to
sleep regularly and well, and to live clean.
Now he’s experienced how “mind time”
changes over the much longer span of his whole life. “During the past 20 years
I noticed how my time is slipping away, faster and faster, and how I am
complaining that I have less and less time,” he says. It’s a sentiment he hears
echoed by many around him.
Still, he notes, we’re not entirely
prisoners of time. The clocks will continue to tick strictly, days will go by
on the calendar, and the years will seem to fly by ever faster. By following
his basketball coach’s advice—sleeping well and living clean—Bejan says we can
alter our perceptions. This, in some sense, slows down mind time.
This article was originally published on January 8, 2019, by Quartz, and is republished here with permission.
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What’s it like to grow up within a
group of people who exult in demonizing … everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper
shares details of life inside America’s most controversial church and describes
how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this
extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization,
along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across
ideological lines.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Be deliberate about cultivating
empathy for “enemies.”
Before getting into a conversation full of intense disagreement, you can lay
the groundwork for success by making deliberate efforts to understand the perspective
of groups with ideas you oppose. Whether Republicans or Democrats, city-dwellers
or rural farmers, consider the groups you tend to write off. Who are they?
Given their experiences, can you understand why they hold the positions they
do? What ideas do you share? When you’re intentional about searching for
understanding and common ground, you’ll be better at engaging people with
opposing ideas on the merits — instead of the mental caricatures humans often
form of one another.
Practice engaging when the stakes
are low. Remember that the strategies
mentioned in this talk aren’t natural; they’re skills we have to learn and
develop in ourselves. Disagreements are common, but the more intense the
disagreement, the harder it is to remain calm enough to engage effectively. To
practice, be on the lookout for low-stakes disagreements that appear in your life.
Answering an angry tweet from a stranger requires less time and emotional energy
than staying cool in a long conversation with a close friend about a divisive
subject. Reaching out when the stakes are low strengthens our ability to engage
when stress levels and potential costs are higher.
How can the US recover after the
negative, partisan presidential election of 2016? Social psychologist Jonathan
Haidt studies the morals that form the basis of our political choices. In
conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, he describes the patterns of
thinking and historical causes that have led to such sharp divisions in America
— and provides a vision for how the country might move forward.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
CivilPolitics.org educates groups and individuals who are trying to bridge
moral divisions by connecting them with scientific research into the political
domain.
HeterodoxAcademy.org is politically diverse group of social scientists, natural
scientists, humanists, and other scholars who share a concern about a growing
problem: the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.”
EthicalSystems.org makes the world’s best research available and accessible,
for free, to anyone interested in improving the ethical culture and behavior of
an organization.
Philadelphia-based
photographer and videographer Bruce W. Berry Jr. brings together images from the International
Space Station (ISS) in his new time-lapse video, The World Below. Berry used public content from NASA
to form the meditative short film that reads like a supersized version of
today’s popular drone landscape videos. The World Below offers a glimpse at the
vast scale of our planet, with portions of the ISS in-frame to provide
additional perspective. The film compares richly textured, abstracted
topography with dense networks of bright lights to showcase the powerful impact
of humans on the planet.
All video and time-lapse sequences
were taken by astronauts onboard the ISS. Berry then edited, color graded,
denoised, and stabilized the footage to create the seamless quality of the
final film. If you’re interested to learn the specifics of the clips’ locations,
the filmmaker lists them out to the best of his knowledge in the video notes.
Berry created a similar video in 2013, but
decided to create the newer version due to the wealth of content that has
become available since his original take. The ISS makes 14.54 orbits around the
Earth every day, providing ample opportunity for new views. You can see more of
Berry’s photography portfolio on his website,
and watch more videos on his Vimeo channel. (via Vimeo Staff Picks)
Photographer Natalie
Lennard, who works as Miss Aniela, creates lavish scenes centered around elegantly dressed
models. While each image might seem, at first glance, like a straightforward
luxury fashion shoot, further inspection reveals surreal details. A canary
yellow tulle gown morphs into birds, and ocean water splashes out of a painting
frame.
Miss Aniela’s fantastical scenes are
created using a combination of on-site shoots with practical effects, along
with extensive post-production and even bespoke C.G.I. (as for the 20,000 fish
forming the dress worn by a deep sea diver model in “She Shoal”). The
photographer explains that all images are shot on location with the model posed
and lit in-frame. “Sometimes I do not know whether the image will be largely
‘raw’ and not require overt surrealism added,” Aniela shares, “until I go
through the process to feel what is right for each piece.”
The U.K.-based artist has been
working as a fine art photographer for 13 years, getting her start with
self-portraits as a university student. In some works, she incorporates direct
references to paintings from the art historical canon. Aniela has been working
in her current style since 2011, and shares with Colossal that she has noticed
a rising interest in her work from art collectors, as the lines between fine
art and fashion are increasingly blurred.
You can explore more of Miss
Aniela’s immersive worlds on Instagram,
and go behind the scenes of production in her explanatory blog posts.
Fine art prints are available via Saatchi Art.
“What He Bequeathed” (2016)
“She Shoal” (2019)
“Poster & Plumage” (2016)
“Enter the Golden Dragon” (2018)
“Thawed Fortress” (2015)
“Gilt” (2016)
“Scarlet Song” (2013)
“Away with the Canaries” (2013)
“Pokerface” (2015)
Ing’s Peace Project
Finished “Peace” artwork
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Salon Creative Lounge Event,
presented by the International Women Artist’ salon,154 Stanton Street at
Suffolk, New York City, NY, on March 31, 2012, organized by Heidi
Russell. Finished artwork, after the written comments
by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
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In places around the world, supplies of groundwater
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Imagine that in
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Rajasthani paintings started around 16th – 19th century in western India. Ever
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during their elaborate dining? Rajasthan paintings are also known as rajput
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the border using fabric pearl colors & water proof solution of Papier Mache
for the antique look. Rajasthani paintings tell us a lot of tales from the
epics ” The Ramayana” and “Mahabharata”. Stories of love
and affection of Radhe Krishna are shown in a number of paintings. You can also
see a simple life of the rajasthanis portrayed in these beautiful traditional
Rajasthani paintings. In this post we have included 50 Beautiful and
Traditional Rajasthani paintings.
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Less than an hour’s drive south of Hungary’s capital
Budapest, Central Europe’s last and only wandering sand dunes surprise the
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a landscape one would only expect in Africa. Spring storms whip up giant clouds
of fine sand that darken the sun and loom over the low Kecskemet plain.
Italian photographer Massimo Listri has spent decades traversing the globe to document
the spectacular architecture, sculptural elements, and furnishings of historic
libraries. His new book, The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries, includes
views inside such rarefied locations as the Palafoxiana Library in Pueblo,
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Ing’s Garden:
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Photographs by
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts on Monday, August 19, 2019
Kai, our grandson, and his mother, came to visit us
on Monday, August 19, 2019
during the afternoon. Kai went to the backyard garden; he saw a Black Swallowtail Butterfly. He called me and his mother to see the
butterfly. This black swallowtail
Butterfly was quite big and stayed about twenty minutes. But the butterfly was so active moving around
the garden and jumping to different butterfly bush flowers. It went from one to the other so often that
it made it difficult to capture the photographs.
In December 2014, I incorporated black swallowtail
Butterfly photographs that I took during summer 2014 into my peace project. The finished artwork for the Essex
County 4-H Scholarship Awards is shown below.
Finished artwork of the Peace comments from Essex County
4-H Scholarship Awards’ attendants on “What does Peace mean to you?” organized
by Marissa Blodnik and Greg Walker on Saturday, November 15th, 2014
at Paul Robson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
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LGBTQ Youths Comment on Ing’s Peace Project & the
Photographs at Military Park on Friday, June 28, 2019
I took my grandson to ride his bicycle in the park on Friday, June 28, 2019, I saw two models, photographers and others. They were taking pictures for the LGBTQ events by Wisetastie Productions. Gmail: wisetastie@gmail.com
Shadow of Peace and LGBTQ youths
from Hetrick-Martin Institute in Newark, NJ, comments on “What does Peace
mean to you?” during fall and winter 2012, organized by Gabriela C. Celeiro,
bilingual counselor. Finished artwork, after the written comments
by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Organized by Gabriela C. Celeiro, Bilingual Counselor
I love flowers, they are
beautiful. I wait for the weather to change till spring then I can go to
my backyard garden. I cultivate my garden seeing the plants rising and
growing each day. Then the magic will come when the flowers show up to
greet me. I can spend hours in my little garden. To keep the beauty
of these flowers in winter when I long to see them I take a lot of
pictures. Thanks to the evolution of digital cameras I can take the
photographs and print to give to friends or make a slide show or movie.
When I sat wanting
to compose the finished artwork from the LGBTQ youth comments poster I thought
of something beautiful. I want this group of youths to feel beautiful just
like my beautiful flowers. When we feel beautiful then we feel good.
As long as we feel happy we can do a lot of things no matter what some
people say.
Below are the sections
of my finished artwork that show the written comments from the LGBTQ youth on
“What does Peace mean to you?” on my Peace Project Poster that accompanies
beautiful flower images that I took from our backyard garden.
You
Are Beautiful
Life
is precious
Life
is short
Enjoy
as much as you can
Try
to be independent
But
ask when you need help
Help
yourself as much as you can
And
help the others as much as you can
That
is life
As
long as you try your best
Then
you will be worthwhile
Be
kind and be happy
Because
you are beautiful
We
are all beautiful
And
we are all equal
Lead
your life in a harmonious and peaceful way
Because
you are beautiful to me
Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts, Thursday, March 28, 2013, 10:25 pm
Appreciate
simple things around you
Minimize
luxury life styles
Be
more concerned with conservation
Be generous and kind
Remove
ill thought
Broaden your knowledge
Learn
and do your best
Understand things beyond yourself
If
you are still dissatisfied
Then
sleep and after your rest
Try
again the next day
Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts, Saturday, February 9, 2013, 4:38 pm
Equality
for All
There
will be no Peace
Without
equality
If
the scale of justice
Is
unbalanced
There
are always reasons for oppressors
To
put others down
At
one time women could not own property
And
could not vote
And
slaves of all races could be sold like cattle
And
others historically were also treated wickedly
Humanity
has evolved
Using
our brains and our knowledge
To
progress and change
Change
we must!
Equality
is balance
Human
Rights is for all
And
equality is for all
This
will bring peace to the world
Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, March 29, 2013, 12:03 am
I am glad to know Gabby. I
appreciate her help bringing my Peace Project to the LGBTQ youth. I even
more appreciate her enthusiastic helping to educate the youth. It
requires a special kind of person to undertake the work that she does.
Thanks for the
attachments. I do love your composition about the LGBTQ youth. Your
writing helps the readers to understand the lives of this group of youths and
how they can get themselves into bad situations and become homeless. My
love and my heart go out to these youths. The help that you and your
organization offer to these youngsters is to be complimented and should be
recognized as a good example for others to follow.
I am glad that you have
the finished peace project artwork framed and exhibited.
Please let me know if
you would like to work on my peace project with the new classes and the new
group of youngsters again.
I hope you enjoy your
summer. Please stop by when you are near our shop.
All the
best,
Ing
PS. I hope you do not mind;
I posted your responses to my email on my website.
7.4.2013
The Hetrick-Martin Institute believes all young people, regardless of sexual orientation
or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve
their full potential. Hetrick-Martin creates this environment for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 12 and
24 and their families.
Through a comprehensive package of
direct services and referrals, Hetrick-Martin seeks to foster healthy youth
development. Hetrick-Martin’s staff promotes excellence in the delivery of
youth services and uses its expertise to create innovative programs that other
organizations may use as models.
HMI:Newarkis based on the services
for LGBTQ youth operated for over 30 years by the Hetrick-Martin Institute
inNew York City. Offering counseling and crisis management, health and wellness
programming, academic enrichment, job readiness and arts and cultural
programming, HMI has implemented its first out-of-state direct service program.
Provides after-school services to
LGBTQ youth in the City of Newark
•Mental Health & Supportive
Services: support groups for youth-related issues including relationships and
“coming out.”
•Health & Wellness: health
education groups and referrals for HIV testing, provided by community partners.
•Arts & Culture Programs:
service learning programs with a focus on leadership and team building.
Provides a safe and supportive
environment for Newark’s LGBTQ youth to reach their full potential
•By collaborating with family and
other support systems, we work to engage youth in their own growth and
development and get them involved as responsible citizens of their community.
•Available to young people and their
families.
•Open weekdays 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm,
year round.
•Open to youth between the ages of
12 to 21.
HMI: Newark (A Demographic
Snapshot)
•Multi-ethnic: 42% African
Americans, 27% Latin , 4% Caucasian, 4% West Indian, & 22% Other.
•Serve youth fromNewark, the
greaterEssexCounty, and beyond.
•Educational status comprising youth
from Junior High: 9%, High School: 82%, College: 7%, & Out of School: 2%.
•53% high school graduates
with 47% youth attending college next year.
HMI: Newark
Located in the Rutgers T.E.E.M.
Gateway/YES Center
200 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07101
For more information, please
contact Juan Williams, LMSW, Site Supervisor, HMI: Newark at jwilliams@hmi.org
or 347-501-2930.
Our Programs & Services
After
School Programs
Year-round, in a safe, supportive
environment, the Hetrick-Martin Institute’s After-School Services Department
provides its youth members (whether they are enrolled in school or not) a wide
range of group activities designed to develop social and interpersonal skills
and build confidence. Last year our After-School Department reached more than
2,000 LGBTQ youth and their families.
Arts and Culture programs foster self-expression through dance, film,
photography, painting, theater, and more.
Health and Wellness programs range from hands-on instruction in how to
cook healthy meals to learning more about STDs, fighting stress, and preventing
HIV.
Academic Enrichment programs help our LGBTQ youth prep for college, do
computer training, get help with homework, or join a book club (among countless
activities).
From the first moment a young person
enters HMI, one of our team of professional Supportive Services counselors is
there to:
Assess the safety of each youth.
Offer assistance in getting a meal at Café HMI, getting
clothing from our pantry, and finding housing.
Provide counseling sessions based on individual needs.
Individual, group, and family counseling are available.
Make referrals to LGBTQ-sensitive agencies.
Provide an opportunity for youth to develop and
strengthen the skills necessary to move toward self-sufficiency,
self-acceptance, and personal success.
Be a part of their care and their family.
Internships
HMI Youth Members can take their involvement
to the next level through our paid-internship and experiential programs. Learn More
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privacy policy.
Advocacy and Capacity Building
Advocacy: Educating Decision Makers
on Issues Affecting LGBTQ Youth; Providing a voice for those who often go
unheard.
HMI Staff works to provide information and best practices to address the needs
of the often disconnected population working with policy makers, government
institutions and the community-at-large, advocating on the behalf of LGBTQ
youth and those that support them.
Capacity Building: Training and
Resources With over 3 decades of
experience, HMI takes its best practices in LGBTQ youth service delivery
on the road! We offer workshops, trainings and seminars in how
to serve this unique population. Our trained staff will work with you and
your organization or community to provide a custom-designed training that
meets your specific needs. Workshop topics include, “Building Inclusive
Communities,” “Understanding Human Sexuality and Gender Identity,” “Working
with LGBTQ Adolescents,” and much more.
Ing’s “Peace Comes To You”Poem translated into Welsh By Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017
Sent: 09 October 2017 19:38 From: Lewis, Hywel Subject: poem
Pan fyddwch chi’n mwynhau diferion glaw,
Ddaw heddwch i chi, Pan fyddwch chi’n clywed adar yn canu,
Ddaw heddwch i chi, Pan welwch chi bysgod’n nofio mewn dwr glân,
Ddaw heddwch i chi, Pan fyddwch chi’n clywed plant yn chwerthin,
Ddaw heddwch i chi, A phan fyddwch chi’n hwmian wrth gerdded yn y goedwig
Ddaw heddwch i chi,, A phan fyddwch chi’n eistedd yn dawel yn gwylio’r haul yn codi a’i osod Gwrando ar y tonnau’n canu, Yna ddaw heddwch i chi, Gadewch i heddwch ddod atoch mewn gwahanol ffyrdd Gadewch i heddwch fod gyda ni holl.
Ing’s comments: I was very lucky when I went to Swansea, Wales in October 2017. A friend came to visit us with her three daughters and her sister with one daughter. They made us very happy from their visit and all of them read my “Peace Comes to You” poem aloud for me to record their voices. They also wrote their peace comments from my Peace Project “What does Peace mean to you?” on my large Peace Poster. The girls enjoyed drawing artwork and writing their expressions on Peace. I was doubly lucky to have Mr. Hywel Lewis, who works at the Swansea Library, being kind enough to translate my poem “Peace Comes To You” into Welsh. Mr. Lewis also read my poem both in Welsh and in English for me to record. John went to Swansea many times to visit his sister but was unable to find anyone to translate my Peace Poem. John is Welsh, I thought that it is important for me to have a Welsh translation for my Peace Poem. I already have my Peace Poem translated into 28 languages and the Welsh translation added to this number made the total 29. I was so lucky, happy and grateful to receive this help, that I felt much better even though I had bad cold for the entire time of my trip to the UK. Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem in English and Welsh translated into Welsh By Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg, pronounced Welsh pronunciation: [k?m?rai?, ? ??m?rai?] ( listen)) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages. It is spoken natively in Wales, by few in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina).[10] Historically, it has also been known in English as “Cambrian”,[11] “Cambric”[12] and “Cymric”.[13]
The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded that 19% of people aged three and over who live in Wales can speak Welsh, a decrease from the 20.8% recorded in 2001. An overall increase in the size of the Welsh population, most of whom are not Welsh speakers, appears to correspond with a fall in the number of Welsh speakers in Wales – from 582,000 in 2001 to 562,000 in 2011. This figure is still a greater number, however, than the 508,000 (18.7%) of people who said that they could speak Welsh in 1991. According to the Welsh Language Use Survey 2013–15, 24% of people aged three and over living in Wales were able to speak Welsh, demonstrating a possible increase in the prevalence of the Welsh language.[14]
For more information please visit the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem in English and Welsh translated into Welsh by Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017 and Swansea Bay, Swansea, Wales, UK
“Welsh orthography: Welsh is written in a Latin alphabet traditionally consisting of 28 letters, of which eight are digraphs treated as single letters for collation:
a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, l, ll, m, n, o, p, ph, r, rh, s, t, th, u, w, y
In contrast to English practice, “w” and “y” are considered vowel letters in Welsh along with “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”.
The letter “j” is used in many everyday words borrowed from English, like jam, jôc “joke” and garej “garage”. The letters “k”, “q”, “v”, “x”, and “z” are used in some technical terms, like kilogram, volt and zero, but in all cases can be, and often are, replaced by Welsh letters: cilogram, folt and sero.[75] The letter “k” was in common use until the sixteenth century, but was dropped at the time of the publication of the New Testament in Welsh, as William Salesbury explained: “C for K, because the printers have not so many as the Welsh requireth”. This change was not popular at the time.[76]
The most common diacritic is the circumflex, which disambiguates long vowels, most often in the case of homographs, where the vowel is short in one word and long in the other: e.g. man “place” vs mân “fine”, “small”.
Morphology
Main articles: Colloquial Welsh morphology and Literary Welsh morphology
Welsh morphology has much in common with that of the other modern Insular Celtic languages, such as the use of initial consonant mutations and of so-called “conjugated prepositions” (prepositions that fuse with the personal pronouns that are their object). Welsh nouns belong to one of two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, but they are not inflected for case. Welsh has a variety of different endings and other methods to indicate the plural, and two endings to indicate the singular of some nouns. In spoken Welsh, verbal features are indicated primarily by the use of auxiliary verbs rather than by the inflection of the main verb. In literary Welsh, on the other hand, inflection of the main verb is usual.”
Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem in Welsh translated into Welsh By Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017, Swansea Bay, Swansea, Wales, UK
“Welsh numerals
The traditional counting system used in the Welsh language is vigesimal, i.e. it is based on twenties, as in standard French numbers 70 (soixante-dix, literally “sixty-ten”) to 99 (quatre-vingt-dix-neuf, literally “four score nineteen”). Welsh numbers from 11 to 14 are “x on ten” (e.g. un ar ddeg: 11), 16 to 19 are “x on fifteen” (e.g. un ar bymtheg: 16), though 18 is deunaw, “two nines”; numbers from 21 to 39 are “1–19 on twenty”, 40 is deugain “two twenties”, 60 is trigain “three twenties”, etc. This form continues to be used, especially by older people, and it is obligatory in certain circumstances (such as telling the time, and in ordinal numbers).[77]
There is also a decimal counting system, which has become relatively widely used, though less so in giving the time, ages, and dates (it features no ordinal numbers). This system is in especially common use in schools due to its simplicity, and in Patagonian Welsh. Whereas 39 in the vigesimal system is pedwar ar bymtheg ar hugain (“four on fifteen on twenty”) or even deugain namyn un (“two score minus one”), in the decimal system it is tri deg naw (“three tens nine”).
Although there is only one word for “one” (un), it triggers the soft mutation (treiglad meddal) of feminine nouns, where possible, other than those beginning with “ll” or “rh”. There are separate masculine and feminine forms of the numbers “two” (dau and dwy), “three” (tri and tair) and “four” (pedwar and pedair), which must agree with the grammatical gender of the objects being counted. The objects being counted appear in the singular, not plural form.”
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Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem translated into Welsh By Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017 and “The Flag of Wales”
“The Flag of Wales (Y Ddraig Goch) incorporates the red dragon, a popular symbol of Wales and the Welsh people, along with the Tudor colours of green and white. It was used by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, after which it was carried in state to St. Paul’s Cathedral. The red dragon was then included in the Tudor royal arms to signify their Welsh descent. It was officially recognised as the Welsh national flag in 1959. Since the British Union Flag does not have any Welsh representation, the Flag of Wales has become very popular.”
For more information please visit the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people
Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem in English and Swansea Bay, Swansea, Wales, UK
Welsh syntax
The canonical word order in Welsh is verb–subject–object.
Colloquial Welsh inclines very strongly towards the use of auxiliaries with its verbs, as in English. The present tense is constructed with bod (“to be”) as an auxiliary verb, with the main verb appearing as a verbnoun (used in a way loosely equivalent to an infinitive) after the particle yn:
Mae Siân yn mynd i Lanelli
Siân is going to Llanelli.
There, mae is a third-person singular present indicative form of bod, and mynd is the verbnoun meaning “to go”. The imperfect is constructed in a similar manner, as are the periphrastic forms of the future and conditional tenses.
In the preterite, future and conditional mood tenses, there are inflected forms of all verbs, which are used in the written language. However, speech now more commonly uses the verbnoun together with an inflected form of gwneud (“do”), so “I went” can be Mi es i or Mi wnes i fynd (“I did go”). Mi is an example of a preverbal particle; such particles are common in Welsh.
Welsh lacks separate pronouns for constructing subordinate clauses; instead, special verb forms or relative pronouns that appear identical to some preverbal particles are used.
Possessives as direct objects of verbnouns
The Welsh for “I like Rhodri” is Dw i’n hoffi Rhodri (word for word, “am I [the] liking [of] Rhodri”), with Rhodri in a possessive relationship with hoffi. With personal pronouns, the possessive form of the personal pronoun is used, as in “I like him”: Dw i’n ei hoffi, literally, “am I his liking” – “I like you” is Dw i’n dy hoffi (“am I your liking”).
Pronoun doubling
In colloquial Welsh, possessive pronouns, whether they are used to mean “my”, “your”, etc. or to indicate the direct object of a verbnoun, are commonly reinforced by the use of the corresponding personal pronoun after the noun or verbnoun: ei d? e “his house” (literally “his house of him”), Dw i’n dy hoffi di “I like you” (“I am [engaged in the action of] your liking of you”), etc. It should be noted that the “reinforcement” (or, simply, “redoubling”) adds no emphasis in the colloquial register. While the possessive pronoun alone may be used, especially in more formal registers, as shown above, it is considered incorrect to use only the personal pronoun. Such usage is nevertheless sometimes heard in very colloquial speech, mainly among young speakers: Ble ‘dyn ni’n mynd? T? ti neu d? fi? (“Where are we going? Your house or my house?”).
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Ing’s “Peace Comes To You” Poem translated into Welsh By Mr. Hywel Lewis on October 9, 2017 and Swansea Bay at the back of Swansea Library, Swansea, Wales, UK Photograph and Artwork by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Swansea Bay (Welsh: Bae Abertawe) is a bay on the southern coast of Wales. The River Neath, River Tawe, River Afan, River Kenfig and Clyne River flow into the bay. Swansea Bay and the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel experience a large tidal range. The shipping ports in Swansea Bay are Swansea Docks, Port Talbot Docks and Briton Ferry wharfs.
Each stretch of beach within the bay has its own individual name:
·Aberavon Beach
·Baglan Bay
·Jersey Marine Beach
·Swansea Beach
·Mumbles Beach
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“The 1588 Welsh Bible: The Bible translations into Welsh helped maintain the use of Welsh in daily life. The New Testament was translated by William Salesbury in 1567 followed by the complete Bible by William Morgan in 1588.
The Welsh language arguably originated from the Britons at the end of the 6th century. Prior to this, three distinct languages were spoken by the Britons during the 5th and 6th centuries: Latin, Irish, and British. According to T. M. Charles-Edwards, the emergence of Welsh as a distinct language occurred towards the end of this period.[17] The emergence of Welsh was not instantaneous and clearly identifiable. Instead, the shift occurred over a long period of time, with some historians claiming that it happened as late as the 9th century. Kenneth H. Jackson proposed a more general time period for the emergence, specifically after the Battle of Dyrham, a military battle between the West Saxons and the Britons in 577 AD.[18]
Four periods are identified in the history of Welsh, with rather indistinct boundaries: Primitve Welsh, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh, and Modern Welsh. The period immediately following the language’s emergence is sometimes referred to as Primitive Welsh,[19] followed by the Old Welsh period – which is generally considered to stretch from the beginning of the 9th century to sometime during the 12th century.[19] The Middle Welsh period is considered to have lasted from then until the 14th century, when the Modern Welsh period began, which in turn is divided into Early and Late Modern Welsh.
The name Welsh originated as an exonym given to its speakers by the Anglo-Saxons, meaning “foreign speech” (see Walha)[citation needed], and the native term for the language is Cymraeg, meaning “British”.”
Swansea Bay (1840)
Bartlett, William Henry, 1809-1854, artist. Armytage, James Charles, d. 1897, engraver. – This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue
Abstract: A view of showing Swansea bay and a town. Ships are sailing in the sea and a lighthouse can be seen in the background.
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Bilingual road markings near Cardiff Airport. In Welsh-speaking areas, the Welsh signage appears first. Photograph by Adrian Pingstone
The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales,[15] making it the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being de facto official. Thus, official documents and procedures require Welsh and English to be given equality in the conduct of the proceedings of the National Assembly for Wales.[16]
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Trilingual (Spanish, Welsh and English) sign in Argentina
Welsh evolved from Common Brittonic, the Celtic language spoken by the ancient Celtic Britons. Classified as Insular Celtic, the British language probably arrived in Britain during the Bronze Age or Iron Age and was probably spoken throughout the island south of the Firth of Forth.[20] During the Early Middle Ages the British language began to fragment due to increased dialect differentiation, thus evolving into Welsh and the other Brittonic languages. It is not clear when Welsh became distinct.[18][21][22]
Kenneth H. Jackson suggested that the evolution in syllabic structure and sound pattern was complete by around 550, and labelled the period between then and about 800 “Primitive Welsh”.[18] This Primitive Welsh may have been spoken in both Wales and the Hen Ogledd (“Old North”) – the Brittonic-speaking areas of what is now northern England and southern Scotland – and therefore may have been the ancestor of Cumbric as well as Welsh. Jackson, however, believed that the two varieties were already distinct by that time.[18] The earliest Welsh poetry – that attributed to the Cynfeirdd or “Early Poets” – is generally considered to date to the Primitive Welsh period. However, much of this poetry was supposedly composed in the Hen Ogledd, raising further questions about the dating of the material and language in which it was originally composed.[18] This discretion stems from the fact that Cumbric was widely believed to have been the language used in Hen Ogledd. An 8th century inscription in Tywyn shows the language already dropping inflections in the declension of nouns.[23]
Janet Davies proposed that the origins of Welsh language were much less definite; in The Welsh Language: A History, she proposes that Welsh may have been around even earlier than 600 AD. This is evidenced by the dropping of final syllables from Brittonic: *bardos “poet” became bardd, and *abona “river” became afon.[21] Though both Davies and Jackson cite minor changes in syllable structure and sounds as evidence for the creation of Old Welsh, Davies suggests it may be more appropriate to refer to this derivative language as Lingua Brittanica rather than characterizing it as a new language altogether.
The argued dates for the period of “Primitive Welsh” are widely debated, with some historians’ suggestions differing by hundreds of years.
Old Welsh
The next main period is Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg, 9th to 11th centuries); poetry from both Wales and Scotland has been preserved in this form of the language. As Germanic and Gaelic colonisation of Britain proceeded, the Brittonic speakers in Wales were split off from those in northern England, speaking Cumbric, and those in the southwest, speaking what would become Cornish, and so the languages diverged. Both the works of Aneirin (Canu Aneirin, c. 600) and the Book of Taliesin (Canu Taliesin) were during this era.
Middle Welsh
Middle Welsh (Cymraeg Canol) is the label attached to the Welsh of the 12th to 14th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. This is the language of nearly all surviving early manuscripts of the Mabinogion, although the tales themselves are certainly much older. It is also the language of the existing Welsh law manuscripts. Middle Welsh is reasonably intelligible to a modern-day Welsh speaker.
It can never be destroyed through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur. Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall in the day of reckoning before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the Earth.[24]
Modern Welsh
Modern Welsh is subdivided within itself into Early Modern and Late Modern Welsh.Early Modern Welsh ran from the 15th century through to the end of the 16th century, and the Late Modern Welsh period roughly dates from the 16th century onwards. Contemporary Welsh still differs greatly from the Welsh of the 16th Century, but they are similar enough that a fluent Welsh speaker should have little trouble understanding it. The Modern Welsh period is where one can see a decline in the popularity of the Welsh language, as the number of people who spoke Welsh declined to the point at which there was concern that the language would become extinct entirely. Welsh government processes and legislation have worked to increase the proliferation of the Welsh language throughout school projects and the like.
Welsh as a first language is largely concentrated in the north and west of Wales, principally Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych), Anglesey (Ynys Môn), Carmarthenshire (Sir Gâr), north Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro), Ceredigion, parts of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), and north-west and extreme south-west Powys, although first-language and other fluent speakers can be found throughout Wales.
Outside Wales
Welsh-speaking communities persisted well on into the modern period across the border with England. Archenfield was still Welsh enough in the time of Elizabeth I for the Bishop of Hereford to be made responsible, together with the four Welsh bishops, for the translation of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer into Welsh. Welsh was still commonly spoken here in the first half of the 19th century, and churchwardens’ notices were put up in both Welsh and English until about 1860.[31]
The number of Welsh-speaking people in the rest of Britain has not yet been counted for statistical purposes. In 1993, the Welsh-language television channel S4C published the results of a survey into the numbers of people who spoke or understood Welsh, which estimated that there were around 133,000 Welsh-speaking people living in England, about 50,000 of them in the Greater London area.[32] The Welsh Language Board, on the basis of an analysis of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study, estimated there were 110,000 Welsh-speaking people in England, and another thousand in Scotland and Northern Ireland.[33] In the 2011 Census, 8,248 people in England gave Welsh in answer to the question “What is your main language?”[34] The ONS subsequently published a census glossary of terms to support the release of results from the census, including their definition of “main language” as referring to “first or preferred language” (though that wording was not in the census questionnaire itself).[35][36] The wards in England with the most people giving Welsh as their main language were the Liverpool wards: Central and Greenbank, and Oswestry South.[34] In terms of the regions of England, North West England (1,945), London (1,310) and the West Midlands (1,265) had the highest number of people noting Welsh as their main language.[37]
In the later 19th century, virtually all teaching in the schools of Wales was in English, even in areas where the pupils barely understood English. Some schools used the Welsh Not, a piece of wood, often bearing the letters “WN”, which was hung around the neck of any pupil caught speaking Welsh. The pupil could pass it on to any schoolmate heard speaking Welsh, with the pupil wearing it at the end of the day being given a beating. One of the most famous Welsh-born pioneers of higher education in Wales was Sir Hugh Owen. He made great progress in the cause of education, and more especially the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, of which he was chief founder. He has been credited[by whom?] with the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict c 40), following which several new Welsh schools were built. The first was completed in 1894 and named Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen.
Towards the beginning of the 20th century this policy slowly began to change, partly owing to the efforts of Owen Morgan Edwards when he became chief inspector of schools for Wales in 1907.
The Aberystwyth Welsh School (Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth) was founded in 1939 by Sir Ifan ap Owen Edwards, the son of O.M. Edwards, as the first Welsh Primary School.[52] The headteacher was Norah Isaac. Ysgol Gymraeg is still a very successful school, and now there are Welsh language primary schools all over the country. Ysgol Glan Clwyd was established in Rhyl in 1955 as the first Welsh language school to teach at the secondary level.[53]
Examples of sentences in literary and colloquial Welsh
English
Literary Welsh
Colloquial Welsh
I get up early every day.
Codaf yn gynnar bob dydd.
Dw i’n codi’n gynnar bob dydd. (North) Rwy’n codi’n gynnar bob dydd. (South)
Doedd o ddim wedi sefyll yno’n hir. (North) (D)ôdd e ddim wedi sefyll yna’n hir. (South)
They’ll sleep only when there’s a need.
Ni chysgant ond pan fo angen.
Fyddan nhw’n cysgu ddim ond pan fydd angen.
In fact, the differences between dialects of modern spoken Welsh pale into insignificance compared to the difference between some forms of the spoken language and the most formal constructions of the literary language. The latter is considerably more conservative and is the language used in Welsh translations of the Bible, amongst other things (although the 2004 Beibl Cymraeg Newydd – New Welsh Bible – is significantly less formal than the traditional 1588 Bible). Gareth King, author of a popular Welsh grammar, observes that “The difference between these two is much greater than between the virtually identical colloquial and literary forms of English”.[83] A grammar of Literary Welsh can be found in A Grammar of Welsh (1980) by Stephen J. Williams[84] or more completely in Gramadeg y Gymraeg (1996) by Peter Wynn Thomas.[85] (No comprehensive grammar of formal literary Welsh exists in English.) An English-language guide to colloquial Welsh forms and register and dialect differences is “Dweud Eich Dweud” (2001, 2013) by Ceri Jones.[86]
Welsh emigration
Flag of the city of Puerto Madryn, Argentina, inspired by the Flag of Wales, owing to the Welsh immigration
There has been migration from Wales to the rest of Britain throughout its history. During the Industrial Revolution thousands of Welsh people migrated, for example, to Liverpool and Ashton-in-Makerfield.[72][73] As a result, some people from England, Scotland and Ireland have Welsh surnames.[74][75][76][77]
John Adams, the second President of the United States (1797–1801), whose paternal great-grandfather David Adams was born and bred at “Fferm Penybanc”, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, Wales[78] and who emigrated from Wales in 1675.
Other Welsh settlers moved to other parts of Europe, concentrated in certain areas. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a small wave of contract miners from Wales arrived in Northern France; the centres of Welsh-French population are in coal mining towns of the French department of Pas-de-Calais.[citation needed] Welsh settlers from Wales (and later Patagonian Welsh) arrived in Newfoundland in the early 1900s, and founded towns Labrador‘s coast region.[citation needed] In 1852 Thomas Benbow Phillips of Tregaron established a settlement of about 100 Welsh people in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
Internationally Welsh people have emigrated, in relatively small numbers (in proportion to population, Irish emigration to the USA may have been 26 times greater than Welsh emigration),[79] to many countries, including the USA (in particular, Pennsylvania), Canada and Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina.[80][81][82]Jackson County, Ohio was sometimes referred to as “Little Wales”, and the Welsh language was commonly heard or spoken among locals by the mid 20th century.[citation needed]Malad City in Idaho, which began as a Welsh Mormon settlement, lays claim to a greater proportion of inhabitants of Welsh descent than anywhere outside Wales itself.[83] Malad’s local High School is known as the “Malad Dragons”, and flies the Welsh Flag as its school colours.[84] Welsh people have also settled in New Zealand and Australia.[79][85]
Around 1.75 million Americans report themselves to have Welsh ancestry, as did 458,705 Canadians in Canada’s 2011 census.[5][7] This compares with 2.9 million people living in Wales (as of the 2001 census).[86]
There is no known evidence which would objectively support the legend that the Mandan, a Native American tribe of the central United States, are Welsh emigrants who reached North America under Prince Madog in 1170.[87]
The Ukrainian city of Donetsk was founded in 1869 by a Welsh businessman, John Hughes (an engineer from Merthyr Tydfil) who constructed a steel plant and several coal mines in the region; the town was thus named Yuzovka (??????) in recognition of his role in its founding (“Yuz” being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes).[88]
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was born in Barry, Wales. After she suffered from bronchopneumonia as a child, her parents were advised that it would aid her recovery to live in a warmer climate. This led the family to migrate to Australia in 1966, settling in Adelaide.
President Barack Obama & His First Inauguration Speech Portrait and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have A Dream” two of my artworks displayed at Lincoln School auditorium for the cerebration of Dr. King’s Birthday event in 2015.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day
Ing’s Peace Project Poster 1
Ing’s Peace Project Poster 2
Dr. King and Gandhi’s Ing Artwork Display in Public for the First Time in 2021 and Kai, 5-year-old Street Artist on Halsey Street, Newark, New Jersey, USA
