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This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-439
DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS: DOD Needs to Reevaluate Its Approach for Managing Resources Devoted to the Functional Combatant Commands
Note: We limited our analysis of authorized military and civilian positions to fiscal years 2004 through 2013 because U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) could not provide data on its authorized military and civilian positions for fiscal years 2001 through 2003. Authorized military and civilian positions represent approved, funded manpower requirements at the combatant commands and do not include personnel performing contract services.
C'ville Arts display, it was woefully empty, now with some lower priced functional "stuff" for the holidays.....
A broken payphone and a couple of rusty newspaper boxes sit outside the long closed South Shore Line station at Michigan City.
These animals have specialised in one talent, which is both a blessing and their downfall; as human activities destroy their open habitats, they have less and less opportunity to put their perfect 'design' to use. Cheetahs were once plentiful from Africa to India and across the Middle-East; their status as threatened with extinction is a dour reflection on our treatment of even these iconic cats who have fascinated us since primeval times.
Once again, almost double the proceeding magnification and reaching close to the functional limits of the SEM. I did take some images with greater magnification, but artistic quality dropped and, after all, that's what I putting these image up on Flickr for; artistic and general interest.
For my Masters Degree I studied the mycorrhizal associations on American ginseng; various fungi that form symbiotic relationships with all plants except those of the cabbage family. These relationships can easily become pathogenic which lead me into the study of fungal pathogens; mainly of plants, but not always. One fascinating fungal pathogen that infects common house flies (Musca domestica) is Entomopthora muscae. I had long been aware of this pathogenic relationship, and rather late into my Master's program I came upon some flies that were colonized by it (and very dead from it) and decided to, well, play around a bit. One advantage of being in a Masters program in Biology is that you can come up with all sorts of excuses simply to play with a lot of very high-end equipment; in this case a Scanning Electron Microscope.
I collected the flies and first photographed them under a dissecting microscope, then immediately prepared them for the SEM. This was back in the bad old days, long before digital cameras, and I wasn't aware how poorly these images were until they came back from the lab. By then it was far too late to redo the images. My apologizies for the poor images of the whole flies. I was very hesitant to go over to digital, sorry now that I didn't make the move much sooner. Anyhow, I am very pleased with the SEM images and wish to share them here. Remember of course, that these images were taken back in 1994 or 1995 and technology and quality has changed a lot. Still, I'm very pleased with the ones being posted. And yes, just like my images of Hornworms being parasitized by wasps, these images are a tad on the gross side.
So Harry the house fly, being gregarious, sees another fly and lands on your kitchen window pane to join him. Unknown to Harry, his friend is dead and, as he walks towards his buddy he picks up on his feet spores of Entomopthora muscae from the glass. Finding his friend dead he flies away, grooms himself and, while doing so, ingest the spores of the fungi. Soon after the fungi colonizes his body and, rather literally, begins consuming him from the inside out, leaving his brain until the last. When his body is fully packed with fungal material, the fungi goes to his head. Harry, going crazy at this point, finds a high place, usually a branch or a window pane, lands on it, puts his head down, vomits (thus sticking himself there) and dies. Almost immediately after death he breaks open and fungal spores appear from his body. These spores begin shooting off and land on the window pane. In time, these first spores may produce others to form concentric rings on the glass. And flies, being gregarious, see poor Harry down there and come for a visit; and thus the cycle continues.
The parasitized flies are easy to spot. Their heads are down, their bodies showing yellowish white bands somewhat like those of a bee, and a white ring of spores, sometimes several rings, are usually clearly seen around them.
The SEM micrographs show several images, of increasing magnification, of the ruptured flies and the spores coming from them. Some shots taken from the dissecting microscope show the flies as you might see them. I had a lot fun with this. Hope you enjoy it.
The black bar underneath the images give the power used while taking the photo in KV, the magnification and a bar comparing size to an established unit. CBS stands for College of Biological Science.
"Así frente a la hostilidad, frente a las formas animales de la tempestad y del huracán, los valores de protección y de resistencia de la casa se trasponen en valores humanos, la casa adquiere las energías físicas y morales de un cuerpo humano.
Una casa así exige al ser humano un heroísmo cósmico, es un instrumento para afrontar el cosmos". - La poética del espacio. Bachelard.
Inauguración 11 / 2 / 2016 en Espacio California c/Sol 86 Sevilla
I don't have the desktop on screen all the time.
I use launchy for non-frequent programs.
I use desktop coral to keep the dock on screen at all times.
The dock is a rocketdock with 10-ft HUD.
The clock docklet is one I skinned myself in the flipclock fashion.
Kathleen Bakergumprecht-Davis and the Functional Skill class (Special Education) at Clark Intermediate School, Clovis, California.
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Wanted to create a piece that could be functional in my office as well as contribute to my office aesthetic.
Idea sent by Susie Reed !
I asked them to repair the existing gate so that it actually closes and locks. The whole thing was leaning and never locked before they put the cedar braces on. Thumbs up.
An exploration in using anonymous functions for a parametric L-System rewriting scheme. Visualized with Lua in Codea for the iPad.
Air drying Paper clay over styrofoam with copper wire and paint brushes.
I like the idea of functional art. This was created as an interesting tool for holding my paint brushes.
Interested in finding out more about MBrace, a programming model and cluster infrastructure for effectively defining and executing large scale computation in the cloud? Join Functional Londoners as they take us on a a basic walk through of the MBrace programming model and tooling.
MBrace is based on the .NET framework, it builds upon and extends F# asynchronous workflows.
You can see the skillscasts (film/code/slides) at skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5157-mbrace-large-scale-dist...
Hmmmm, new boots for placement (they'll be under trousers most of the time and were the best thing I could find as I have awkward feet) - I tried them on for Sam this morning and this is how he described them. Cue many doubts about whether I should take them back.
The Functional Londoners meet at Skills Matter for a hands-on session. View all the future meetups and past Skillscasts (film/code/slides) at skillsmatter.com/groups/52-london-f-sharp-user-group
We have begun work on the newest feature of artcar displays at ComFest www.comfest.com and Hot Times Music and Arts Festival www.hottimesfestival.com . I will spare the photos to prove this is truly functional art and let this long line demonstrate that fact. The portajohn will be featured in the August issue of PRO Magazine www.promonthly.com/ , which is my second national media exposure following USA Today www.usatoday.com .
Athletes compete in the Sitting Volleyball Prelims at the Cadet East Gym during the 2018 Department of Defense Warrior Games at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. June 03, 2018. Athletes compete in different classifications based on functional abilities at a maximum, moderate or minimal level. Siting Volleyball was introduced at the Arnhem Paralympic Games in 1980. The Warrior Games are a Paralympic-style annual competition, established in 2010, to provide adaptive sports opportunities for wounded, ill and injured service members from all U.S. branches of service and this yea include teams fro the United Kingdom Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force and Canadian Armed Forces. (DoD photo by John Leyba)