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A little self-awareness goes a really long way.
It’s totally different than self-absorption. I remember times where I directed way too much energy towards trying to craft some sort of image, to come across as a certain way, or to impress the right groups of people. It’s amazing how much time you can spend thinking about yourself without self-awareness.
Self-awarness takes honesty. Knowing your natural strengths, weaknesses, motivations, and tendencies can be such a difference-maker. The more I’ve understood these things about myself, the more I’ve understood the best ways for me to help people, things I should commit to that challenge me, and why the same event might trigger different reactions from me than other people I’m close to.
I’ve learned to embrace my adventurous side, while realizing that the things that grow me more are long term, patience-testing commitments. I’ve learned to appreciate the fact that I’m an inevitable optimist without expecting the same amount of belief from other people.
Everyone has their own path to growth, but it’s so much easier to commit to growth when you know your starting points.
This figure shows a full calculation of the mica fringe pattern using the methodology presented by R. Swanepoel, 1983, J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 16, 1214. (orange line). The observed data are shown as the blue line (visible JAZ spectrum) and the blue x (NIR NIRQUEST spectrum - which does not resolve the fringes below about 1100nm).
In the calculation, the absorption coefficient (giving the imaginary part of the refractive index) has been determined from transmission measurements (green line) of a thicker (0.63 ± 0.02 mm) mica flake.
For simplicity, I have used a value for n (the real part of the refractive index) which is a linear function of wavelength. This is not a very good approximation and should really be replaced by a more appropriate functional form. However, the model is a respectable fit to the data.
The black dots show the interference order calculated by the simple geometrical formula for transmission maxima (no phase change of pi as in reflection) are given by:
2 n d cos(beta) = m Lambda_t
where n is the refractive index (using the same linear function), d is the mica thickness, beta is the angle of refraction (inside the mica) = zero in this case, m is the order of the interference and Lambda_t is the wavelength of maximum transmission.
In this plot, the order, m, runs from 10 to 62.
This has been an interesting exercise for me in classical optics modelling and is, of course, very relevant for problems such as 'fringing' in CCD imaging.
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GMAX Information Existing Conditions for Testing
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The Standard Test Method for Shock-Absorbing Properties of Playing Surface Systems and Materials (ASTM F1936-98 American Football Field) testing locations and procedure were preformed. The tests were performed using a Triax 2000 A-1 Missile, tripod mounted Gmax registration unit(www.triax2000.com). This report presents background information on the test procedures, existing conditions, test results and observations in football, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey artificial sports fields.
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The body's normal inflammatory response is a natural process and a contributor to many reactions that go on in your body. This response happens automatically and is not something you can control. The primary objective of the body's normal inflammatory response is to isolate and eradicate irritants and then repair surrounding tissue.
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The term "normal inflammatory response" may not mean much to you, but its physical impact on your body is vitally important. It can arise from trauma, infection, or other influences, and is a normal process that encourages healing. From the slightest seemingly harmless bump on your arm to a major health concern, the body's normal inflammatory response is always at work to keep you as healthy as possible or to restore your health as best as it can. Of course, a lot of this depends on individual health.
The body's normal inflammatory response is the protective response of the body's tissues to irritation or injury. Sometimes this response can be prolonged due to a deficiency of essential fatty acids or other nutrients. In such cases, supplementation with beneficial fatty acids or other nutrients is often suggested. Sometimes there are other reasons for a prolonged inflammatory response and physical therapy or dietary changes may be helpful. For centuries, people have used natural chemicals found in plants (phytochemicals) to enhance the body's normal inflammatory response to injury or wear and tear. For example, the bark of the willow tree was used to relieve pain and discomfort more than 2,000 years ago by the Greeks and Romans and evolved into the aspirin we use today.
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Turmeric, a well-known traditional herb, contains curcumin, a potent antioxidant that offers numerous health benefits.* Most of these benefits come from curcumin's strong antioxidant activity and its ability to support the body's normal inflammatory response.* Curcumin interacts with numerous biochemicals in the body to promote the body's normal inflammatory response and help keep this response functioning as it should.*
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Local Government reorganisation in 1974 saw the absorption of the Darwen Corporation Transport undertaking into its larger neighbour and bringing with it a single-deck fleet largely composed of Bristol RE / East Lancs, a type common with some of its East Lancashire neighbours. The former number 1, which became Blackburn 173 in the 1977 renumbering, is seen in a later version of the livery with more brunswick green applied in favour of less white. A slightly hurried shot as it heads along Montague Street, Blackburn in this March 1981 view. It was withdrawn just over a year later and saw further use with a couple of independents until the end of the decade.
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The twin role played by the skin – protection from excessive UV radiation and absorption of enough sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D – means that people living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer to the Poles, have developed fair skin to maximize vitamin D production.
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Sonata Vario acoustic absorbers installed within the hall at Bryn Coch Primary School to reduce reverberation. The Vario panels were supplied in Teal and Cherry colours and installed on suspension fixings. For further information see www.soundreduction.co.uk/Products/Sound-Absorption-Soluti...
Atomic Absorption measurements of candidate Reference Materials- filling of the sample changer. (IAEA Chemistry Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 July 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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For the test film of the Jupiter-9 lens I mounted it on the Leningrad camera (see below for detail about the lens and the camera). The lens was fitted with a generic yellow filter (screw-on 49mm) and a generic cylindrical metal shade hood designed for a 50mm lens. By safety, a lens cap fitted on the hood (55mm) was also used to protect the shutter curtains from an accidental sun burning (I forgot twice to remove the cap before shooting...)
I loaded the Leningrad with a Rollei RPX 400 film exposed for 250 ISO to compensate the absorption of the yellow filter. The light metering was done using a Minolta Autometer III with the 10° viewer for selective metering privileging the shadows areas.
The viewer of the Leningrad has build-in frame for the 85mm and is fully compensated for the parallax error.
View Nr. 7 : 1/500s f/8 focusing @ 25m
Le Pont Lafayette, February 17, 2025
Quai du Général Sarrail
69006 Lyon
France
After completion, the film was rewound and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 12min15 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.2) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
After several months, my local repair shop gave up to repair my first exemplary of Leningrad camera. I got that GOMZ Leningrad for less than the price of the lens (50€) a year ago (February 24, 2024, flic.kr/s/aHBqjBftyP) at the monthly collector meeting in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, near Lyon, France. I looked then again for a working one.
Leningrad’s are fascinating Russian range-finder 35mm camera’s produced in Leningrad (USSR) / Saint-Petersburg, from 1956 to 1968 at about 76.000 units. It is not really a rare camera but appears only from time-to-time in the classical collector’s networks.
The Leningrad camera project was developed by GOMZ company (ГОМЗ, Государственный оптико-механический завод, Ленинград = Gosularstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod =State Optical-Mechanical Factory), Leningrad, USSR. The Leningrad ’s were constructed to a very high degree of precision and likely the most advanced rangefinder ever made at that time in Russia. At the 1958 World Exposition in Brussels, the Leningrad was awarded the "Grand Prix de Bruxelles”. Modified Leningrads were also used in the Soviet space program. In addition to a complex parallax-compensated multi-focal (for 3.5, 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm) collimated system, the camera has a built-in spring-powered mechanical motor for an automated film advance after each view taken. The Leningrad mounts the 39mm Leica-type thread lenses, especially of the Jupiter series of lens derived of classical Carl Zeiss lenses designed for the Contax (Biogon 3.5cm and Sonnar’s 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm).
In 1965, GOMZ became LOMO ( ЛОМО, Ленинградское oптико-механическое oбъединение (Leningradskoïe Optiko-Mekhanitcheskoïe Obiedinienie) that is still existing, producing instrumental optical devices (www.lomo.ru).
On eBay, I focused on a LOMO Leningrad year 1965 in working condition but without the original film plate. I got the camera for 130€ including the leather bag and a standard lens Jupiter-8 1:2 f=5cm. The seller adapted cleanly a different film plate that looked to work, but my idea was to use the camera back of my faulty Leningrad. This film plate may a precision glass plate special designed for optimum film transport and optical planarity. I received my new Leningrad on January 31, 2025 in good condition.
After a very careful inspection and a detailled cleaning, I decided to make a test film using a FOMAPAN 200 black-and-white film. On the Leningrad it is said that there is absolutely no way to check the correct film advance during the shooting session. The rewind should not be up since the mechanical forces induced would be too high for the spring-powered spooling barrel. The film should be also in a quality not too tight film cartridge and should be checked before use. This stressful machine should be manipulated with maximum care when not familiar with it.
About the lens Jupiter-9:
New in my collection in Feb. 2025, this very popular lens Jupiter-9 1:2.8 f=85mm for my Zorki’s and Leningrad camera’s. The lens was produced in 1978 by the LZOS company (Лыткаринский завод Оптического Стекла , Lytkarino Zavod Optychisovo Sticklo) located in Lytkarino (about 100 km Noth to Moscow).
I sourced a clean exemplary in Germany at regular price given the popularity of the Jupiter-9 (170€) with the Leica 39mm thread mount, front and rear caps plus the lens black storage canister. The lens is popular especially among videographers due to its peculiar bokeh and perfectly round shaped diaphragm made of 15 blades.
Originally, the Jupiter 9 is based on the design of the Carl Zeiss Sonnar designed for the Zeiss Ikon Contax in the years 1930’s. Production began in USSR in 1948, when the lens was initially called the ЗК-85 (Sonnar Kransogorsk) and it was assembled using mostly German parts in Contax/Kiev mount. The lens was also adapted to Zorki (M39) mount to fit the Zorki cameras early in production It appears, for both Zorki and Kiev mount, in a 1949 catalogue. By 1951 the name changes to Jupiter 9 (Юпитер-9). The lens has seven glass elements in three groups; a single glass at the front, and two cemented groups of three. All versions of the lens are coated. It was made by the KMZ (Красногорский механический завод, Krasnogorski Mekhanicheskii Zavod) and LZOS factories, in Leica 39 mm thread mount for Fed and Zorki rangefinders, but originally it was a Contax bayonet used in Kiev cameras. Jupiter-9 lenses were also made at the Arsenal factory in Ukraine, for Kiev rangefinders,but initially released as KMZ. It was later adapted for M42-mount Zenit SLR cameras, with an M24×1 thread mount.
This is another improvement on previous attempts to capture the weak and elusive luminescence spectrum of titanite (sphene). This sample was excited by a powerful (500mW) violet 404nm diode laser and the spectrometer protected with a yellow filter cutting at 500nm. The filter exhibits an orange continuum fluorescence which slightly contaminates the luminescence spectum of the crystal spectrum. The maximum contamination is shown by the grey line.
The emission lines are from rare earth elements (REE) and the elements terbium, erbium, europium, samarium and neodymium have been identified.
Sonata Vario and Memo acoustic absorbers used within the hall at Brownhill School, Leeds
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Atomic Absorption measurements of candidate Reference Materials- filling of the sample changer. (IAEA Chemistry Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 July 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Zircon spectra vary a lot - both the absorption and fluorescence lines. I have a few other examples that I have not examined in detail yet. The fluorescence lines here are from dysprosium and samarium at least. In these fluorescence spectra I have corrected for the yellow filter absorption down to 450nm. The purple (upper) and brown (lower) lines refer to the larger, round zircon.
Note that the sharp line at 808nm is the 404nm laser line in the second order of the grating diffraction. Also, I believe that the line at 695nm is a ghost or reflection due to the large amount of laser light entering the spectrometer during this observation.
These berry-looking nano particles are thermal evaporated tin dots. A specially designed process makes their shape and size suitable for ultraviolet light absorption. They will be used in a novel UV detector designed and fabricated at Thayer.
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Image courtesy of PhD candidate Zhiyuan Wang (advisor: Professor Jifeng Liu.)
These 9 images are illustrations of the principal Fraunhofer absorption lines in the solar spectrum. The data were taken as part of a programme to study the effect on the solar spectrum of a transit of the Earth across the solar disk as seen from the Moon during a lunar eclipse: to be published by Fei Yan et al. (2015, in prep.)
The spectra were obtained using HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) on the ESO 3.6m telescope at La Silla in Chile on the night of the 15 April 2014. This is the equipment that has been used to find many of the known exoplanets that have been discovered by exploiting the 'wobble' induced in the parent star's radial velocity by an orbiting planet or planets. The spectrometer produces one sample of the spectrum each hundredth of an Ångstrom (a thousand samples per nm). See: www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lasilla/instruments/harps.html
for details.
The data plotted here are from just one of the 382 spectra obtained on that night by pointing the telescope at the Tycho crater on the Moon to look at the reflected light in the umbral and the penumbral shadow of the Earth and, for this spectrum, the fully illuminated Moon. It has been used to extract high resolution spectra of the principal Fraunhofer absorption lines from the telluric molecular oxygen B-band in the far-red to the L-line from atomic iron in the ultraviolet.
The Mg I b triplet is a strong absorption in the solar spectrum and can be seen clearly by eye with a small pocket spectroscope. This transition, from 3p 3P0 - 4s 3S, is not a resonance line like the Na I D and Ca II H & K lines. However, the lower level has no allowed transition to the ground state, 3s2 1S, and so it can build up to a significant level of occupation, allowing absorption to occur. There is an analogous triplet absorption in the ultraviolet, 3p 3P0 - 3d 3D, at at 3838.3, 3832.3 and 3829.4 which is also strong.
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This shows the same data as for the previous (Absorbance) plot using Transmission and Wavelength axes. In addition, it shows the red fluorescence (excited with a 404nm laser) of the Australian Xtal. (thin black line - the transmission is the light blue line).
Of the other sapphires in the plot, both the synth and the lp-br show some chromium fluorescence (the ruby R-lines). The Aus and the sbp do not visibly fluoresce at all under the laser.
The presence of chromium in blue sapphires is thought, possibly, to contribute to their colouration.
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( Bruxellisation = terme utilisé par les urbanistes pour désigner le développement anarchique d’une ville ancienne livrée aux promoteurs ; phénomène sensible dans les années 1960 et 1970 à Bruxelles..)
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My photowalk with my Semflex Standard 3.5, a French TLR camera year 1959, Lyon, France June 18, 2024.
The camera was equipped with a Semflex yellow filter x2 and the Semflex metal shade hood. An Ilford PanF+ 120 film was loaded and exposed for 32 ISO (Instead of 50 ISO to compensate in part the filter absorption) using a Minolta Autometer III equipped with a 10° finder for selective measures privileging the shadow areas.
Typically I used the 1/100s (one at 1/50s) with aperture ranging from f/8 to f/4.5.
Les Esses, June 18, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 6min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm films.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG.
About the camera and lenses :
New in my camera collection this French Semflex TLR year 1959-1960 equipped with f=75mm SOM Berthiot lenses.
The SEM company ("Société des Etablissements Modernes de Mécanique") was founded in France by Paul Royet in 1946, in the small city of Aurec near Saint-Etienne (Loire). The SEM camera's was known essentially for the TLR Semflex that were a great commercial success in France until the 70's. The camera's are constructed around an injected aluminum alloy chassis, very resistant and rigid permitting precise optical alignments. The focusing mechanism is made of a cam system like the Rolleiflex giving an accurate and smooth focusing. SEM constructed their own shutters called Orec with 5 leaves capable of the 1/400s to 1s with B.
Semflex received in majority French optics Berthiot with 3 or 4 lenses (Tessar type). Some camera's were also mounted with Angénieux lenses.
Semflex were trusted TLR camera's used by amateurs and for professional purposes. From 1949 to 1976, 171.000 Semflex were produced in many different types and versions.
My Semflex in a middle grade version Standard 3.5 type-10 (1959-1960). It was the last version mounted with the 3-lens SOM Berthiot 1:3.5 f=75mm. I got the camera with set of accessories and several documents including the user manual of the Semflex Standard 4.5 versions. The accessories include a leather SEM ever-ready bag, a Semflex push-on shade hood, a Semflex push-on yellow filter x2 in its original box, and close-focusing lenses. The 1D one is constructed with a prism for the finder lens that compensates the parallax in the zone 1m to 0.5m.
The decorative ring around each lenses can also receive push-on accessories in 36mm diameter as the FOCA or Leitz 36mm filter series. I adapted two protective lens caps from Kodak film canister snapped covers.
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Sonata Vario and Memo acoustic absorbers installed within the foyer of the Oriental Institute building at Oxford University. Many thanks to Phil Rust at the Oxford University Estates Directorate for his help with this project
Sonata Vario and Memo acoustic absorbers used within the hall at Brownhill School, Leeds
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Samādhi, or concentration of the mind (one-pointedness of mind), is the third division of the Eightfold Path of the Buddha's teaching: prajñâ (wisdom), sila (conduct), samādhi(concentration) - within which it is developed by samatha meditation.
It was taught by the Buddha using 40 different objects of meditation, according to the Visuddhimagga, an ancient commentarial text. These objects include the breath (anapanasati meditation), loving kindness (metta meditation), various colours, earth, fire, etc. (kasina meditation).
Photo du Vénérable Nyanadharo (Moine Vietnamien) -- Prise au Centre Karma Migyur Ling - Centre d'Etudes tibétaines de Montchardon [France] à l'occsion de l'inauguration du centre de retraites.
In a survey of 1,000 parents, it found more than half of children under the age of 16 regularly use one. Some parents give their children handsets at a very young age. More than 13 per cent of parents with three-year-olds said their youngster had used a phone. Among three to six-year-olds, the figure was 23 per cent. By secondary school, about 94 per cent of children had their own phone.
Most parents place restrictions on how much their children spend on calls and texts. Three-quarters said they only allowed their youngsters pay-as-you-go phones to avoid them running up huge bills. But only 36 per cent of parents questioned said they stopped their children from accessing the internet on their mobile and just under a third barred them from calling premium rate numbers. But over two-thirds said they did nothing to stop their children downloading ringtones and screensavers that cost up to £3.50 each.
Sonata Vario acoustic absorbers installed within the hall at Aldwyn Primary School Hall in Audenshaw.
David Oyediran is looking at microwave absorption properties of nanomaterials in the Advanced Sensors Development Laboratory.
A particularly colorful case is the star forming region SH2-29 (Simeis 188) which houses an unusual and bright cloud arc cataloged as NGC 6559. Visible above are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them. The first massive stars formed from the dense gas will emit energetic light and winds that erode, fragment, and sculpt their birthplace. And then they explode. The resulting morass can be as beautiful as it is complex. After tens of millions of years, the dust boils away, the gas gets swept away, and all that is left is a naked open cluster of stars. SH2-29 is located about 4,000 light years away and can be found about one degree northeast of M8, the Lagoon Nebula.
At the center of the image placed IC 4685 nebula. Black "worms" over it are dust nebulae B 302 and B 303. NGC 6559 is slightly to the right of the center and “separated” by an arch from IC 4685. Two spherical clumps just below the center are IC 1274 and IC 1275 (SH2-32 and SH2-31 respectively), separated by the dusty nebula B 91.
On the left side of the frame there is a small reflection nebula IC4678, and on the bottom of the frame - IC 4684. In the bottom left corner is the open cluster NGC 6546.
In the upper left corner in the frame is the northeastern part of the Lagoon (M8). Interestingly, against the background of SH2-29 nebula, just above the center, the planetary nebula Minkovsky M1-41 is present.
Own remote observatory, 50 km from Kiev, Bortle 4 zone. Imaged during Sep 2019 - Jan 2020. AZ-EQ6 mount, ED80 (520mm at 1/6.5), Atik383L+. Guide - OAG with SX Lodestar X2 camera.
Baader L: 85 x 180s;
Baader R: 60 x 180s;
Baader G: 49 x 180s;
Baader B: 60 x 180s;
Baader Ha: 78 x 300s;
Total exposure - 19 hr.
Captured in SGP, processed in Pixinsight.