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helsinki pride 2013, the parade and the picnic with music and event in the center of helsinki helsinkipride.fi/
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Pentax MZ3 | Pentax SMC M 100 f2.8 | Ildford XP2 400 400
Scanned with Pentax K1 FA Macro 50mm| Essential Film Holder
This is an oldie, from back in March. My photographic habit is quickly being superseded by the ol' knitting sticks as the seasons turn. The temperature starts to drop (frost on my windshield this morning! I say!), and whaddya know - it's that time of year again. In positive news, I finished knitting the forsaken bobble toque tonight that I started back in January. You see? I can follow some things through to completion!
The definition of reinforcement and punishment depends upon whether an event is presented or removed after a response is made, and whether the subject's responding increases or decreases. Any event that increases responding is called reinforcement and any event that decreases responding is called punishment; any event that is presented is called positive and any event that is removed is called negative. Each square above defines one possibility: for example, if a subject's rate of responding increases after an event is presented, we say that positive reinforcement has occurred.
There are many types of reinforcement in everyday life. Primary reinforcers are effective without having been associated with other reinforcers. Secondary reinforcers are effective only when associated with primary reinforcers. Positive reinforcers strengthen responses when they are presented. Negative reinforcers strengthen the behaviors that caused them to be removed.
Proof positive that the Empire figures that quantity as a quality all its own, the Stormtroopers represent Imperial authority across the galaxy...even if they have a tough time hitting Rebel heroes.
This Stormtrooper has seen some service, though: his armor is a bit beat up, and I don't think Darth Vader would be too pleased about how dirty his armor is. Which, of course, just makes this cosplay look even better, since it makes the outfit look more realistic. As I took this picture, I half-expected the Stormtrooper to tell me to move my butt along, if I knew what was good for me.
If indeed it was a cosplay. If it was, the cosplayer remained still as a pond the whole time I took the picture, along with several others. It may have been a statue--but if so, it wasn't there anymore about 15 minutes later...
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Positive volume has substance. It can clearly be defined as mass. Dominant positive volume is when you have a lot of objects in the frame and the positive volume outweighs the negative volume (empty space). Utilizing just a few items to convey the dominant positive volume is how this picture is simple. One large plant takes up so much room, allowing very little negative space. The simple girls are once again featured.
Why do they call it positive?? that is seriously the most fucked up thing about it. Guess what??? You may have cancer.... Your positive!! Sure seems like a negative to me.
The next test is the biggie... so they say it is no big deal right now. But I am scared.
Bakersfield hopes sports get city's ball rolling
Investing in Cal State Bakersfield's step up to Division I athletics is seen as a way to fuel growth of a college-educated community.
By Ken Fowler
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 13, 2007
BAKERSFIELD -- Around here, people tend to focus more on what they have rather than what they're missing.
It's just the way it is in the dusty Central Valley, a locale that has been the target of jokes from the big city to the southwest.
Now Bakersfield has a plan to step up.
It starts with the sports teams at the local Cal State -- a relatively tiny school with barely 5,000 undergraduates.
As the thinking goes, boosting Cal State Bakersfield's athletic programs to NCAA Division I status should trigger a chain reaction that results in the school -- and eventually the community -- attaining new heights.
A pipe dream? While nobody is flatly predicting failure, the plan has been tried before -- most recently in the state by UC Davis, UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge -- and what has seemed like a good idea on paper hasn't always ended up being practical.
But the students, alumni and school administrators from Bakersfield say they believe in the plan, and so do the mayor and other civic leaders.
Why might this domino game be different?
Well, because in many ways it has to be.
University President Horace Mitchell is looking for the move in athletics -- Bakersfield teams competed at the Division II level through the spring of 2006 -- to lay the foundation and "jump-start" a drive to increase enrollment by bettering the quality of campus life.
In the end, it is hoped, Kern County will become home to a higher percentage of college graduates. Right now, the county rate, 13.5%, is about half the state average of 26.6%.
The carrot at the end of the equation was enough to persuade David Murdock, chief executive officer of Dole Food, to recently pledge a $1-million donation to the athletics program.
"When we were talking with Mr. Murdock he wasn't that interested in the athletics part," Mitchell said. "But it was because we showed him the tie-in and the connection between the move to Division I and getting the resources to develop our campus and to add new academic programs -- it was that part he identified with."
In January, less than two years after starting the drive, the school met its goal of raising $6 million for athletics. Using momentum from that effort, a campaign to raise more than $30 million for general use is expected to begin within a year.
Bakersfield water polo and wrestling teams already have been competing at the Division I level, but this past school year marked the first of four transition years the school has before its other sports must meet all NCAA Division I standards -- requirements that range from playing a minimum number of games against Division I teams to providing a designated amount of money in scholarships.
Experts have estimated that Bakersfield will need to generate an extra $2.7 million annually to play sports at the major college level. Of the extra $6 million Bakersfield has raised, about $2.5 million is slated for starting up a baseball program.
Why take on the additional expense?
Because Bakersfield fancies itself a future member of the Big West Conference and is operating under the impression that the conference will give preference to schools with baseball programs when considering expansion.
But Big West Commissioner Dennis Farrell said that the conference's presidents and chancellors "have not made further expansion a hot-button topic at this point." Which means Bakersfield will play without a conference affiliation for at least the next year. Because conference affiliation allows for greater scheduling convenience and geographic proximity to opponents, continuing as an independent or joining a conference more geographically diverse than the all-California Big West are far less desirable options for Bakersfield than entering the Big West.
And schools moving to Division I have had mixed success, even after joining a conference.
The coach of Bakersfield's new baseball program is Bill Kernen, who guided Northridge's program during its transition and -- while playing as an independent, without conference affiliation -- brought the Matadors within three outs of a berth in the College World Series during their first Division I season. However, since becoming a Big West member in 2001, Northridge has won just five conference titles outside of track and field, where it has won seven.
At least one coach thinks Bakersfield has advantages over Northridge. Bakersfield volleyball Coach John Price, who used to coach at Northridge, says support from the students, school administration and the local community is far greater in the Central Valley.
"At Northridge, there's going to be pride in Northridge, but the neighborhood has gone to Long Beach State or Irvine or Santa Barbara or Pepperdine or UCLA or USC," Price said. "Well, here we don't have a Division I university -- we don't have any university -- within 100 miles of us."
Mayor Harvey Hall, a longtime financial supporter of Bakersfield's athletics program, says he believes the step up in competition will enhance the image of the city. He also expects enrollment growth to result in additional jobs to bolster the area economy.
"It's just like starting a new business," Hall said. "You've got to work at it and continually work at it, make it better and better and better, and you'll be successful.
"It's all about enthusiasm. Just be supportive and let's look at the future as one of being positive, and we'll be successful at it."
ken.fowler@latimes.com
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35mm positive slide film. Epson V600 scan. Denia Valencia Spain.
In 2000, Ragnar Sveinsson and I, went to Spain to go to a Humanist Movement Congress in Madrid. This was a 3 week back pack trip in the beginning of August, and man, it was hot. We just had a very small single person tent and had to be to close for comfort. We began in Barcelona, then it was Madrid and we ended in Denia Valencia before we went back to Barcelona.
Yes, Dorothy was positive now. Great feelings of limerence surged in her when she saw him waiting for her at their picnic spot. Sigh . . . Could this be true love? 💕
Photogram on harman direct positive paper of a dried daffodil placed under glass.
Used a torch for roughly a second
Positive Runway Global Catwalk Underbelly Festival South Bank London Pride Fashion Week Rehearsals
Directed by Sadie Sinner the Song Bird of The Cocoa Butter Club
New father, Javid Tahirli, his wife and their baby girl took part in a “Papa Schools” project to promote positive parenting. Javid was nominated as the most active father in the project.
Find more information here:
EN: euneighbourseast.eu/news-and-stories/stories/trapped-by-s...
AZ: 1news.az/az/news/20220329035709285-Stereotiplerin-esirliy...
RU: 1news.az/news/20220329024122671-V-plenu-u-stereotipov-Kak...
New father, Javid Tahirli, his wife and their baby girl took part in a “Papa Schools” project to promote positive parenting. Javid was nominated as the most active father in the project.
Find more information here:
EN: euneighbourseast.eu/news-and-stories/stories/trapped-by-s...
AZ: 1news.az/az/news/20220329035709285-Stereotiplerin-esirliy...
RU: 1news.az/news/20220329024122671-V-plenu-u-stereotipov-Kak...
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