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Today's ODC made me stop and think about what I would say I'm good at. Nothing came to mind immediately Pretty sad. But then I started rethinking this question and with prodding from my husband chose some words to fit. First off, I really am good at Scrabble, but then of course I should be. I've played it way too many hours. I'm a great speller and am driven insane by misspelled words so this is somewhat of a curse. Editing comes natural to me--back to the spelling curse. My friends tell me I'm a great friend, and I'm seeking to be a really good Nana and photographer. So that's today's self-analysis. Hey, the ODC is better than going to a shrink.
ODC: A skill --something you're really good at
ANSH: a game in play
FORT GORDON, Ga., March 27, 2017- Guardsmen the South Carolina Army National Guard's 43rd Civil Support Team, test and identify chemicals during a simulated response scenario as part of Vigilant Guard 17. The training exercise involves approximately 9,000 participants from multiple state and government agencies.
Georgia National Guard photo by Spc. Isaiah Matthews / Released
"Hellige Comparators for Analysis of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes. Now change to permanent standards and see the difference."
Cover of an advertising leaflet for Hellige Comparators, instruments that were formerly manufactured by the F. Hellige Co. of Freiburg, Germany, and used for the colorimetric chemical analysis of water and other liquids in medical and industrial settings.
is anal :-) Marty Indik. HBM!!
Queen butterfly, butterfly house, brookside gardens, wheaton, maryland
During the last days I went through all the photos I took during the last year and chose a few favourites. Based on these I analysed a bit, what kind of pictures I made and thought about that might change during 2025. Read my blog posts with the data and the pictures: marcelkapfer.photography/blog/2025/01/14/2024-review-anal...
Old notebook containing formulations of various grades and types of steel, and their typical analysis. Found inside one of the longest buildings I've ever walked through.
AL TECH Specialty Steel, Albany NY
self·-analysis - analysis of one's own personality without the help of another.
That may be true, but I think it might be fun if I have you draw your own conclusions as to what is going on here. But please, do comment and tell me your thoughts. I think it looks better if you view a larger size.
Today is a Flickr milestone for me. It is the 300th day of my 365 Day project!
Day 300 of 365.
On this momentous occasion, I want to again thank you all for your support.
Showbus 2015 @ Woburn Abbey.
In the mid-70s Subsidiary Maidstone & District was selected by the National Bus Company to operate 10 double deck vehicles on a trial basis to help determine future purchasing policy. There were 5 MCW Metropolitans and 5 Alexander-bodies Volvo Ailsa's. LKP385P featured here is the only survivor.
Events overtook these trials and the NBC continued to buy Bristol VRTs as well as smaller batches of Leyland Atlanteans, before the next generation of double deckers became available. There never was a NBC standard decker after the VRT ........more standardisation took place with the new private companies that follwed after the NBC was broken-up.
Published on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by The Guardian/UK
Avatar and the Genocides We Will Not See
Cameron's blockbuster half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
by George Monbiot
Avatar, James Cameron's blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It's profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It's profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which a remnant population flees in terror as it is hunted to extinction.
But this is a story no one wants to hear, because of the challenge it presents to the way we choose to see ourselves. Europe was massively enriched by the genocides in the Americas; the American nations were founded on them. This is a history we cannot accept.
In his book American Holocaust, the US scholar David Stannard documents the greatest acts of genocide the world has ever experienced(1). In 1492, some 100m native peoples lived in the Americas. By the end of the 19th Century almost all of them had been exterminated. Many died as a result of disease. But the mass extinction was also engineered.
When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, they described a world which could scarcely have been more different from their own. Europe was ravaged by war, oppression, slavery, fanaticism, disease and starvation. The populations they encountered were healthy, well-nourished and mostly (with exceptions like the Aztecs and Incas) peacable, democratic and egalitarian. Throughout the Americas the earliest explorers, including Columbus, remarked on the natives' extraordinary hospitality. The conquistadores marvelled at the amazing roads, canals, buildings and art they found, which in some cases outstripped anything they had seen at home. None of this stopped them from destroying everything and everyone they encountered.
The butchery began with Columbus. He slaughtered the native people of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) by unimaginably brutal means. His soldiers tore babies from their mothers and dashed their heads against rocks. They fed their dogs on living children. On one occasion they hung 13 Indians in honour of Christ and the 12 disciples, on a gibbet just low enough for their toes to touch the ground, then disembowelled them and burnt them alive. Columbus ordered all the native people to deliver a certain amount of gold every three months; anyone who failed had his hands cut off. By 1535 the native population of Hispaniola had fallen from 8m to zero: partly as a result of disease, partly as a result of murder, overwork and starvation.
The conquistadores spread this civilising mission across central and south America. When they failed to reveal where their mythical treasures were hidden, the indigenous people were flogged, hanged, drowned, dismembered, ripped apart by dogs, buried alive or burnt. The soldiers cut off women's breasts, sent people back to their villages with their severed hands and noses hung round their necks and hunted Indians with their dogs for sport. But most were killed by enslavement and disease. The Spanish discovered that it was cheaper to work Indians to death and replace them than to keep them alive: the life expectancy in their mines and plantations was three to four months. Within a century of their arrival, around 95% of the population of South and Central America had been destroyed.
In California during the 18th Century the Spanish systematised this extermination. A Franciscan missionary called Junipero Serra set up a series of "missions": in reality concentration camps using slave labour. The native people were herded in under force of arms and made to work in the fields on one fifth of the calories fed to African-American slaves in the 19th century. They died from overwork, starvation and disease at astonishing rates, and were continually replaced, wiping out the indigenous populations. Junipero Serra, the Eichmann of California, was beatified by the Vatican in 1988. He now requires one more miracle to be pronounced a saint(2).
While the Spanish were mostly driven by the lust for gold, the British who colonised North America wanted land. In New England they surrounded the villages of the native Americans and murdered them as they slept. As genocide spread westwards, it was endorsed at the highest levels. George Washington ordered the total destruction of the homes and land of the Iroquois. Thomas Jefferson declared that his nation's wars with the Indians should be pursued until each tribe "is exterminated or is driven beyond the Mississippi". During the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, troops in Colorado slaughtered unarmed people gathered under a flag of peace, killing children and babies, mutilating all the corpses and keeping their victims' genitals to use as tobacco pouches or to wear on their hats. Theodore Roosevelt called this event "as rightful and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier."
The butchery hasn't yet ended: last month the Guardian reported that Brazilian ranchers in the western Amazon, having slaughtered all the rest, tried to kill the last surviving member of a forest tribe(3). Yet the greatest acts of genocide in history scarcely ruffle our collective conscience. Perhaps this is what would have happened had the Nazis won the second world war: the Holocaust would have been denied, excused or minimised in the same way, even as it continued. The people of the nations responsible - Spain, Britain, the US and others - will tolerate no comparisons, but the final solutions pursued in the Americas were far more successful. Those who commissioned or endorsed them remain national or religious heroes. Those who seek to prompt our memories are ignored or condemned.
This is why the right hates Avatar. In the neocon Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz complains that the film resembles a "revisionist western" in which "the Indians became the good guys and the Americans the bad guys."(4) He says it asks the audience "to root for the defeat of American soldiers at the hands of an insurgency." Insurgency is an interesting word for an attempt to resist invasion: insurgent, like savage, is what you call someone who has something you want. L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, condemned the film as "just ... an anti-imperialistic, anti-militaristic parable"(5).
But at least the right knows what it is attacking. In the New York Times the liberal critic Adam Cohen praises Avatar for championing the need to see clearly(6). It reveals, he says, "a well-known principle of totalitarianism and genocide - that it is easiest to oppress those we cannot see". But in a marvellous unconscious irony, he bypasses the crashingly obvious metaphor and talks instead about the light it casts on Nazi and Soviet atrocities. We have all become skilled in the art of not seeing.
I agree with its rightwing critics that Avatar is crass, mawkish and cliched. But it speaks of a truth more important - and more dangerous - than those contained in a thousand arthouse movies.
Notes:
1. David E Stannard, 1992. American Holocaust. Oxford University Press. Unless stated otherwise, all the historical events mentioned in this column are sourced to the same book.
2. www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miracle28-2009aug28,0,28...
3. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/amazon-man-in-hole-a...
4. www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/01...
5. www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2802155/Vatican-hits-o...
6. www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26sat4.html
© 2010 Guardian News and Media Limited
George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Visit his website at www.monbiot.com
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
The three-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical.
As they explore caves they encounter caverns, underground lakes and strange microscopic life. They test new technology and conduct science – just as if they were living on the International Space Station.
The six astronauts have to rely on their own skills, teamwork and ground control to achieve their mission goals – the course is designed to foster effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics.
The six cavenauts of this edition of CAVES are ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos’ cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk and Japan’s space agency Takuya Onishi.
Credits: ESA – V. Crobu
On June 29, 2011, ICESCAPE chief scientist Kevin Arrigo made the first analysis of chlorophyll pigment of the 2011 campaign. Nutrients supporting a massive phytoplankton bloom at the Chukchi hotspot in 2010 were not evident in 2011 data.
The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is NASA's two-year shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. The bulk of the research takes place in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in summer 2010 and 2011.
Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen
For updates on the five-week ICESCAPE voyage, visit the mission blog at: go.usa.gov/WwU
OpenStreetMap data for Great Britain were downloaded from Geofabrik on 22 Jan. 2011, uploaded to a PostGIS database using osm2pgsql. Nodes and Ways tagged with amenity=pub were assigned to centroids of 5 km square grid based on the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the number of pubs in each square counted.
The grid was generated, pubs counted, and output generated using Quantum GIS.
Consumers Energy offers an energy analysis to residential and business customers. Learn more about energy efficiency rebates and programs at www.ConsumersEnergy.com/eeprograms.
3D grid analysis of a trial trenching diagnostic from INRAP (french archaeological institute).
Entirely made with QGIS 2.XX.
Map background = Bing Satelitte
Plugins = Qgis2threejs
from my apartment window. it's spring. spring is the beginning and the end in japan, a shower of withering cherry blossoms is the perfect reminder, that all beauty will fade away. one month earlier the fukushima nuclear power plant exploded 250 km from here. an urban nomad relocates, does he know?
This photo was taken on April 10, 2011.
This is a photo of a 12-LED ring-light taken though a cheap diffraction lens. The only post-processing was a mild increase in contrast and a mild decrease in brightness; otherwise this is what the camera saw.
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Ancient rocks from the Isle of Rùm, UK, are playing an important role in discovering more about Mars. An international team of scientists collected martian-like samples on Rùm island off the west coast of Scotland as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign last July.
The field expedition targeted rocks that best match the characteristics of some of the samples collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover during the exploration of a crater on Mars. A series of ESA and NASA missions will be the first attempt to return scientifically selected samples from another planet.
An intensive study of the rocks from Rùm will give scientists a good head-start to learn the best analysis techniques to analyse martian rocks brought to Earth. The pristine Mars rocks would be a unique opportunity to reveal clues about the early evolution of the Red Planet, including the potential for past life.
The complex geology of the largely uninhabited island, where less than 50 people live today, has had generations of geologists flocking to the site to study its volcanic rocks. Millions of years of erosion have scoured away the surface rocks to reveal the inner plumbing system of a volcano that erupted over 60 million years ago.
Following clues discovered by other geologists, the science team scouted the island. The international crew of six found rocks with a very similar mineral and chemical content to the martian samples found in the Séítah formation, an area within the Jezero crater where Perseverance has collected 20 sample tubes so far. The scientists could strike the rocks with their hammers, feel their heft, and scan their surface with a lens.
Hundreds of samples are now on their way to the University of Oslo in Norway for further preparation and analysis.
Read more about how the European science community is getting ready for the precious martian samples, the Rùm martian adventure and an account by expedition leader Lydia Hallis on the To Mars and Back blog.
Credits: University of Glasgow – L. Daly
Farnborough Bus Running Day 07/09/2014. School services to and from Farnborough 6th Form College are provided by Stagecoach and many use bus stop 'A' located in Sand Hill. There are 11 routes numbered 411 and 416-425 and all depart the college between 16:25-16:50 (schooldays only). These run to various places including Camberley, Yateley, Chobham, Wokingham, Fleet, Crondall, Odiham, Aldershot, Whitehall, Farnham and Weydon. Here, Kennetbus MAP-branded Alder Valley Leyland National KPA369P passes the busy bus stop.
this little girl needed a bit of extra work on sound analysis (initial.) This activity isn't in my Montessori album, but she seems to love it, and it's giving her the practice she needs. (Match the first sound of the miniature object to the movable alphabet letter.)
My project 'Analysis creature' series
"Fly to the moon".
It is somewhat inspired by Spielberg’s E.T. movie in my childhood.
SWOT analysis template. CC by-SA 2.0 (free for personal use as long as you cite "Designed by Greg Emmerich" somewhere in the description). Contact me for the free Adobe Illustrator file. Font: j.mp/ZnkxAi
Hansk Kulusuk, profesor de veterinaria en la facultad de Nuuk, toma muestras del interior de la morsa ante los atentos ojos de la joven promocion 2009-2010 de dicha facultad.