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This is what keeps my husband away from me and Jamison on Mondays and Wednesdays. And what keeps him up into the wee hours of the morning studying. He has a big test tomorrow that he needs to do well on just so he can pass the class. My husband, who graduated with a 4.0 who only ever got two B's in his entire undergrad at RIT, is now worried about getting a C. That's what working full time and taking two classes does.
Cropped image through Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L (IS) USM
Tycho Crater : Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater ray recovered during the Apollo 17 mission. This age suggests that the impactor may have been a member of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but as the composition of the impactor is unknown this is currently conjecture. However, simulation studies give a 70 percent probability that the crater was created by a fragment from the same break-up that created asteroid 298 Baptistina which was previously believed to be responsible for the formation of Chicxulub Crater and the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, that possibility was ruled out by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer in 2011.
The crater is sharply defined, unlike older craters that have been degraded by subsequent impacts. The interior has a high albedo that is prominent when the Sun is overhead, and the crater is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes that reach as long as 1,500 kilometers. Sections of these rays can be observed even when Tycho is illuminated only by earthlight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_(crater)
Plato Crater : Plato is the lava-filled remains of a lunar impact crater on the Moon. It is located on the northeastern shore of the Mare Imbrium, at the western extremity of the Montes Alpes mountain range. In the mare to the south are several rises collectively named the Montes Teneriffe. To the north lies the wide stretch of the Mare Frigoris. East of the crater, among the Montes Alpes, are several rilles collectively named the Rimae Plato. The age of Plato is about 3.84 billion years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato_crater
Copernicus Crater :Copernicus is visible using binoculars, and is located slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere. South of the crater is the Mare Insularum, and to the south-south west is the crater Reinhold. North of Copernicus are the Montes Carpatus, which lie at the south edge of Mare Imbrium. West of Copernicus is a group of dispersed lunar hills. Due to its relative youth, the crater has remained in a relatively pristine shape since it formed.
The circular rim has a discernible hexagonal form, with a terraced inner wall and a 30 km wide, sloping rampart that descends nearly a kilometer to the surrounding mare. There are three distinct terraces visible, and arc-shaped landslides due to slumping of the inner wall as the crater debris subsided.
Most likely due to its recent formation, the crater floor has not been flooded by lava. The terrain along the bottom is hilly in the southern half while the north is relatively smooth. The central peaks consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1.2 km above the floor. These peaks are separated from each other by valleys, and they form a rough line along an east-west axis. Infrared observations of these peaks during the 1980s determined that they were primarily composed of the mafic form of olivine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)
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A Russian map of the Styr-Prostyr river basin displaying areas which are likely to be flooded with probability 0.5% each year.
St Andrew, Halstead, Essex
The eastern part of the South Aisle is so called because it was appropriated by the Bourchiers as their family burial place. The first Bourchier to be connected with Halstead was John, who obtained in 1311 the estate of Stanstead and married Helen de Colchester. He was buried in 1328 and in all probability the granite effigies resting on the easternmost tomb are those of him and his wife with four bedesmen being positioned at their feet. A wooden shield painted with the Bourchier arms has been fixed above the knight, but does not necessarily belong. (There is evidence suggesting that this is a replacement dating from as early as the first half of the sixteenth century. No other such separate shield has been known to have survived.)
The remains of the tomb on which the effigies lie (three portions of two sides of a limestone tomb-chest with 'weepers' and shields) belonged to the tomb of Robert, first Lord Bourchier, son of John and Helen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Prayers. Robert was the first Lay Chancellor of England (1340); he fought with the Black Prince at Crecy and was ambassador to the French to treat for peace. He died in 1349 of the Plague. According to the research carried out by J Enoch Powell MP the effigies lying under the adjacent canopied tomb are those of Robert and Margaret.
The canopied tomb with battlemented pinnacles and damaged tomb-chest is characterised by the style prevalent in the early part of the fifteenth century. They display the Bourchier Arms supported by an angel and a dragon. One angel panel in the front appears to have a scallop (cockleshell for Coggeshall?). If so, the tomb may have been made for John, second Lord Bourchier, KG (son of Robert) and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John de Coggeshall. He died after a long and distinguished public career in 1400. Some interesting medieval scribbling on the western canopy shaft is gradually becoming obliterated. This records the names of important people connected with the parish. These include Colet (possibly John Colet, since the great tithe belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's), and Warner, whose family held the Manor of Dynes, alias Boises, from the reign of Henry VI to that of Mary.
Another scribble close by reads 'John Worth, let be your nice legs' although the last two letters are open to question. The Worthies held the Manor of Blamsters and John Worthie was steward to Lord Bourchier at Stanstead Hall during the reign of Henry VI. Weever, in the seventeenth century, mentioned seeing in the church the much damaged tomb of George de Vere, which has entirely disappeared. George was the nephew of John, the redoubtable thirteenth Earl of Oxford who commanded the van of the Duke of Richmond's army at Bosworth Field. George was buried at Halstead in 1498.
I had a weird dream last night. I thought I would take a picture illustrating it, but I was too tired and uncreative when I got home. I crashed out, napped and watched Mythbusters. I finished off a bottle of sparkling cranberry juice and started playing with the empty bottle and the camera.
I then 'accidently' took a picture that could illustrate the trippy dream I had last night. (Just add Photoshop.) It had to to with quantum physics, wormholes, time travel, string theory, membrane theory and the 11 possible outcomes of any act. Oh ya, and there was a futuristic train station too.
Um, no one told me that pregnancy would cause me to hallucinate in my dreams guys...
I think I need to watch a little less of the Science Channel.
Probability the most icony apple store in Hong Kong, stood on the overhead bridge on the opposite of the store building to take this shot. Really a pilgrimage for me as i had quite a bad shot of this during my past trip to Hong Kong.
In all probability, you searched for "shoe closet" but this isn't what you were looking for.
Here illuminated with flash, is a nearly pitch-dark closet in an abandoned industrial building. The resident who made this place her home had a penchant for shoes... just like you.
Forgive my little predjudices, but these are real Minis, not the ersatz BMW confections. (The latter are good cars, far better in all probability than any original Mini, but completely devoid of that certain something). Especially noteworthy is the black car in the foreground - it is a 1275GT Clubman. These were the "hot" version of the Mini after British Leyland" dropped the Cooper association, and were in the more square-rigged "Clubman Style". Once relatively unloved, they are now quite saught-after, and getting expensive.
Taken on September 24, 2011, at the Gainsborough Festival of Transport (organised by The Louth & Lincolnshire Motor Club), at the Roses Sports Ground in North Warren Road.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 70-300mm zoom
Film: Kodak Ektar
Copyright photo.
Prior to the Dissolution of the monasteries this tithe barn was attached to Lacock abbey. Constructed in the 14th C, the barn was in all probability built into the precinct wall of the abbey.
[Tithe: one-tenth of produce as religious tax.]
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This shot shows the wonderful light-revealing of the angled forms of daylight loopholes which just appear as narrow vertical slots on the outside. Thick limestone masonry walls.
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Extract from "More Rough Travel Notes with an Architectural Eye - 2012":
Back to Lacock Abbey. The Abbey was established in 1232; and the village formed the abbey’s endowment to the Church. Lacock was granted a market and developed its wool industry during the Middle Ages. Of particular architectural interest to me within the village is the interior of the 14th C tithe barn – (the tithe being a religious tax of one-tenth of produce). Prior to the dissolution of the monasteries this barn was attached to Lacock Abbey, and was in all probability built into its precinct wall. It held the tithe produce.
Stone walls of the barn are part of the village streetscape. The angled south-end shows three intriguing vertical slots. We head for the entry. A voluminous space appears as our eyes adjust. A strutted oak structure steps sloped, modulated, and conjoined above. Rafters, hips, and gables. Especially there’s wonderful light-revealing of angled forms to those daylight loopholes in the stonework which were narrow outside but their slanted side-reveals now spread graded daylight unveiling the interior space. The great thickness of masonry wall allows this most-effective subtlety.
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November 18, 2010 - "Roles for Third Parties in Improving Implementation of EPA's and OSHA's Regulations on the Management of Low-Probability, High-Consequence Process Safety Risks" - Penn Program on Regulation, in conjunction with the Wharton Risk Management Center, hosted a conference regarding the usage of third party auditors in the enforcement of regulatory safety measures in high risk industries. Industries which experts call "Low-Probability, High-Consequence," such as nuclear reactors, oil refineries, or chemical processing plants, are specifically hoped to be improved by third party inspections safety. The conference brought together numerous participants from a variety of fields, including from government, industry, insurance, academia, and non-profit sectors. The conference consisted of a day-long discussion spread over three separate panels. Over the course of the conference, participants stressed the importance of implementing a third party system to effectively and thoroughly audit industry despite lack of adequate funds and resources. Other potential scenarios offered for enacting effective third party auditing included making sure that these third party auditors were completely independent from the industries they would be inspecting so as to eliminate bias or a conflict of interest. Another issue to consider is the question of whose authority would the third party auditors be under and what kind of enforcement power would they have to enforce industry change. One of the panel discussions brought up the potential linkage of third party audits with insurance companies so as to provide an incentive for industry to decrease safety risks in order to pay lower insurance premiums. Workshop participants included Isadore "Irv" Rosenthal, a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Howard Kunreuther, James G. Dinan Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton and Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Center; Laurie Miller, Senior Director of Environment and Process Safety at the American Chemistry Council; Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Scott Berger, Executive Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Don Nguyen, a Principal Process Safety Management Engineer at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Marshall, Process Safety Management Coordinator at the Directorate of Enforcement Programs at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) within the United States Department of Labor; Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation; Bob Whitmore, Former Chief of OSHA Division of Recordkeeping at the United States Department of Labor; Jim Belke, Chemical Engineer at the Office of Emergency Prevention and Member of the Office of Chemical Preparedness within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); William Doerr, FM Global Research Area Director; Manuel Gomez, Director of Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board; Tim Cillessen, Manager of Sales and Marketing at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Wright, Director of Health, Safety, and Environment at United Steelworkers; Jennifer Nash, Affiliated Researcher of Nanotechnology and Society Research Group at Northeastern University and the Associate Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Michael Perron, Senior Vice President of Willis Re New York.
Diagrams of conditional adjustments to the instantiation probability matrix as an effect of the assignment of a new use (Agriculture, Low-Rise, Mid-Rise, or High-Rise) to a site within the area of investigation.
These modifications occur iteratively within the script which decides when and where to add new uses, impacting later placement decisions.
Climate information workshop, Wote, Kenya. A workshop to empower farmers to better understand and use probabilistic seasonal climate information. Kafrine, Senegal. Read more about our work on Adaptation through Managing Climate Risk. Photo: J. Hansen (CCAFS).
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Making negative news for several years was the probability of Humbug Marsh, then the last remaining free wetland and natural area along the Detroit River between Detroit and Toledo, being developed into a 410-house complex with retail and a golf course. This idea was proposed by a new developer, Made In Detroit Inc, which had no completed building projects to its name. This building, in Trenton on the corner of Jefferson and 5th Streets, shows the prevailing opinion. (Kevin Harrison collection)
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Study. The computers are usually further apart, we got them together for this picture.
The first photo taken with my new Nokia N73 smartphone.
Health Map - The health scores are used against failure probability curves to derive a more accurate probability of failure, identify assets at risk, and in aggregation provide valuable input to asset budgeting.
Image courtesy of EPCOR Utilities.
I don't know what's worse: (a) that they have a probability exhibit at the Museum of Science in which the balls fall into an approximate bell curve, (b) that this Asian kid was so stereotypically fascinated by it or (c) that I (as an Asian non-kid) was so drawn to it. Man.
For some mysterious reasons this was called as the queen’s bath. But in all probability this was a royal pleasure complex for the king and his wives.
It’s a bit an assuming plane rectangular building from out side. But when you get inside, the story is different.
The whole building is made with a veranda around facing a big open pond at the middle. Projecting into the pond are many balconies. An aqueduct terminates in the pond.
The balconies are decorated with tiny windows and supported by lotus bud tipped brackets. The whole pool is open to the sky. This brick lined pool is now empty. But it’s believed once fragrant flowers and perfumed water filled this bathing pool. At one end of the veranda you can see a flight of steps giving access to the pool. The domical roof of veranda is a spectacle itself.
This is updated, given new improved arrival data. After re-running the parameter fit, bias is 22.4 seconds late with a standard deviation of 192.8 seconds.
It's important to note that though this diagram does display the instantaneous probability of a vehicle arriving at any given moment, it is not a probability density function in the traditional sense. Namely, one can't integrate this function over a span to find the probability of any vehicle arriving within that span. To do that, you have to find the probability of any of the individual vehicles arriving; ie the compliment of the probability of none of the vehicles arrive.
Minimizing the Probability of Lifetime Drawdown under Constant Consumption. Angoshtari, Bayraktar, Young arxiv.org/abs/1507.08713 #q-fin
A Russian map of the Styr-Prostyr river basin displaying infrastructure which is likely to suffer from floods with probability 1% each year.
Female Hummingbird IDs can be quite iffy. The other probabilities of similar species here are the Black-chinned and Costa's. Anna's has a straight, short bill and white supercilium. Its tail is reported to project beyond the wing tips but you need the ideal perspective of a perched bird to determine this. I also somewhat base my ID selection on the straight bill shape, but other local Hummers have similar bills. The bloom on which it's feeding is Parry's Penstemon, one of few plants here that have generous flowers in early spring.
IMG_9653; Anna's Hummingbird
John Bourchier d. 1349
BOURCHIER CHAPEL
The eastern part of the South Aisle is so called because it was appropriated by the Bourchiers as their family burial place. The first Bourchier to be connected with Halstead was John, who obtained in 1311 the estate of Stanstead and married Helen de Colchester. He was buried in 1328 and in all probability the granite effigies resting on the easternmost tomb are those of him and his wife with four bedesmen being positioned at their feet. A wooden shield painted with the Bourchier arms has been fixed above the knight, but does not necessarily belong. (There is evidence suggesting that this is a replacement dating from as early as the first half of the sixteenth century. No other such separate shield has been known to have survived.)
The remains of the tomb on which the effigies lie (three portions of two sides of a limestone tomb-chest with 'weepers' and shields) belonged to the tomb of Robert, first Lord Bourchier, son of John and Helen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Prayers. Robert was the first Lay Chancellor of England (1340); he fought with the Black Prince at Crecy and was ambassador to the French to treat for peace. He died in 1349 of the Plague. According to the researches carried out by J Enoch Powell MP the effigies lying under the adjacent canopied tomb are those of Robert and Margaret.
The canopied tomb with battlemented pinnacles and damaged tomb-chest is characterised by the style prevalent in the early part of the fifteenth century. They display the Bourchier Arms supported by an angel and a dragon. One angel panel in the front appears to have a scallop (cockleshell for Coggeshall?). If so, the tomb may have been made for John, second Lord Bourchier, KG (son of Robert) and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John de Coggeshall. He died after a long and distinguished public career in 1400. Some interesting medieval scribbling on the western canopy shaft is gradually becoming obliterated. This records the names of important people connected with the parish. These include Colet (possibly John Colet, since the great tithe belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's), and Warner, whose family held the Manor of Dynes, alias
Boises, from the reign of Henry VI to that of Mary.
Another scribble close by reads 'John Worth, let be your nice legs'
although the last two letters are open to question. The Worthies held the Manor of Blamsters and John Worthie was steward to Lord Bourchier at Stanstead Hall during the reign of Henry VI.
Weever, in the seventeenth century, mentioned seeing in the church the much damaged tomb of George de Vere, which has entirely disappeared. George was the nephew of John, the redoubtable thirteenth Earl of Oxford who commanded the van of the Duke of Richmond's army at Bosworth Field. George was buried at Halstead in 1498.
I switched many of my traps to a triple trap arrangement to minimize the probability of escape, but the rat problem stopped before I got to see it in action.
Sunnyvale, CA
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I made this photo more than 2 years ago when I was learning for a test from probability and statistic... Photo risen from boredom :) Taken on borrowed PowerShot.
Ruth's portrait.
“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”
—Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
—Charles Bukowsk
“If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.”
—Rita Mae Brown
“When all is said and done, all we have to offer one another is a welcome in each other’s messy nest.” -Annie Lamott
"Love remains forever that part of life we can never control. As Bruckner says, it continues to resist indoctrination and ideology. It does not yield to the inquiries of theory. The world has tried to bring it within the realm of reason and ethics, make it modern and progressive. Bruckner is here to tell us that 'there is no progress in love. It will always be a surprise,'" - Robert Fulford
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1902—my mother was so tiny
she could have fit into one of those oval
baskets for holding apples,
which her mother could have lined with a soft cloth
and placed on the kitchen table
so she could keep an eye on infant Katherine
while she scrubbed potatoes or shelled a bag of peas,
the way I am keeping an eye on that cormorant
who just broke the glassy surface
and is moving away from me and the iron bridge,
swiveling his curious head,
slipping out to where the sun rakes the water
and filters through the trees that crowd the shore.
And now he dives,
disappears below the surface,
and while I wait for him to pop up,
I picture him flying underwater with his strange wings,
as I picture you, my tiny mother,
who disappeared last year,
flying somewhere with your strange wings,
your wide eyes, and your heavy wet dress,
kicking deeper down into a lake
with no end or name, some boundless province of water.
[Billy Collins]
Female Hummingbird IDs can be quite iffy. The other probabilities of similar species here are the Black-chinned and Costa's. Anna's has a straight, short bill and white supercilium. Its tail is reported to project beyond the wing tips but you need the ideal perspective of a perched bird to determine this. I also somewhat base my ID selection on the straight bill shape, but other local Hummers have similar bills. The bloom on which it's feeding is Parry's Penstemon, one of few plants here that have generous flowers in early spring.
IMG_9743; Anna's Hummingbird & Parry's Penstemon
Jon Dorling taught Philosophy of Science and was specialised in the Bayesian probability theory. I googled, but could not find anything about him after 1997. As you see by his desk he was a bit of an archetypical chaotic professor.
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I'm scanning all my negatives and positives. Regularly you will see posts mostly from somewhere around 1980 until 2000. Most shots are made with my old Minolta's XGM and X300 with Kodak Tri X Pan, Kodak T-Max or Ilford HP4 and HP5 film, which I developed myself. I scan with an Epson Perfection 4870 Photo. Cleaning and some editing is done in Photoshop CS5. I will try to get all names and dates right, but apologize in advance if I don't manage: especially about the years I'm uncertain, unless a date is stated precisely.