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Construction of the Widnes side (North) Pylon.......Please note ALL pictures on this Photostream are Copyright Protected.
These cowboys and dogs (there were quite a number of both) were herding several hundred head of cattle down to warmer, lower grounds. Such great action to witness. Frolek Cattle Company.
1. Winter #2, 2. pointarena, 3. sky, 4. Trees in Brooklyn, 5. beaches, 6. The Stupidest Monument in all DC, 7. frost and sky, 8. ice sunset, 9. blue
Some of the images submitted by Project Spectrum participants for this month's color triad: white, blue, and gray. Nature is always a perfect inspiration ;)
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
9 in x 12 in Arches 140 lbs CP watercolor paper, Daniel Smith Watercolors
Created for February 2010 Monthly Sketch Project:
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Photo Credit Jennifer Rose:
My Sketchbook Project 2012 theme is Sandwiches. I am going to draw sandwiches from my primary school days (1970's Australia) . There are going to be some "interesting "combinations to draw.
Milo sandwich !! Honestly, my mother never packed or made these, but my brother assures me he had them, so I am assuming he made them himself as an afterschool snack. Note: no margarine
still a work in progress. Milo is difficult to draw ! I thought that this topic would be a lot less time consuming than my last two year entries. and I thought I would not become as emotionally attached it to. Wrong on both counts !
The Drawer Project is a kind of self-absent portraiture project: each drawer contains objects that belong to me, and in certain way are talking about what I consider valuable or useful. Your physical and visible features, in fact, that is only the top of the iceberg, do not only define your personality. How you dress, what you read, how you speak, what music do you like, and what you possess, are key elements of your identity. Tell me what you keep in your drawer and I tell you how you are. Most people consider their drawers a reserved space, and open them it is a kind of violation of their intimacy. I wonder what we could discover about their lives looking into their drawers.
In addition, drawers are spaces for chaos too; they help to keep out of our watch many tiny things, avoiding being all around there. Although they are under a total chaos into the drawer, they are under control while they are in the drawer.
The drawer is also a time-recorder-machine that keeps track of your personal story, where you can find evidence of your past through the objects with which you were and perhaps you are still linked to.
For drawer, I mean a space where you can keep several objects, and that can be closed (this can include toolboxes, sewing boxes, gardening… any object that is worthy for the owner). The style of the pictures is personal (format, perpective, colour, BW), but there are three rules:
The picture should include the frame of the drawer or something that allows to identify it as an object container.
The drawer’s contain must not be arranged for the picture (you are permitted to remove whatever helps to preserve your anonymity).
A short title must be added to each picture, and a brief reflection or text (between 10-20 words) to add some context to the picture.
A Blurb photobook will be published containing all the works; the profit from sales will be donated to a charity which helps refugees (it has sense, because we are talking about how much we care our belongings)
All the pictures will be included in a video footage that will be exhibit during the European Summer Tour 2016 of Caspervek Trio, which will write and perform an original soundtrack for the video.
Publishing your pictures in this group you consent to use them either in the video footage and in the Blurb photo-book. The author of the pictures used in the video and the photobook will be credited with the Flickr user and the date of the picture.
Join us at:
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I emptied my project box, so that people could see exactly what i have in there.
I'll tag everything.
If you have your name tagged it is because I wanted you to see the photo.
My submission for the Tangible Project www.flickr.com/groups/thetangibleproject/
It was supposed to be for September, so i guess i'm quite late.
Water, or rather the lack of it. PX100 First Flush left to dry for some weeks.
TV-2 on the pad, evening of 8/4/57. Looking up, through the open decks of the Complex 18 gantry. Glenn L. Martin Co. Photo
Project Overmatch: US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech
By Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest
Dec 8, 2022
Participants of the multinational Rim of the Pacific exercise launch a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle. Project Overmatch will arguably be the U.S. Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems. (Seaman Victoria Danser/U.S. Navy)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, which has been kept almost entirely secret for two years.
Shielded from public view, the service has undertaken a flurry of work: simulating current pathways for data, writing software code to close gaps, testing it in a lab and at sea, and providing feedback to coders to improve future iterations.
Rear Adm. Doug Small, who leads both Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and Project Overmatch, told Defense News this high-priority effort remains on track for a planned deployment of the new capabilities to a carrier strike group in 2023.
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort — a push to reliably connect forces across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace as well as enable seamless international collaboration.
The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems that serve as intelligence-collecting nodes, feeding information to sailors on ships and in ashore command centers.
“The Navy’s effort on Overmatch is very much focused on the next two or three years,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute. “Overmatch has really focused much more directly on the near-term operational problems faced by commanders dealing with China.”
Small said he’s optimistic about the upcoming demonstration — the largest of its kind, but not the first time the Navy will use this new technology at sea, noting it continues a critical line of research. With ships inherently disaggregated, he said, the Navy is naturally considering ways to better share information across ships and aircraft so the best-positioned platform can strike a target.
“The Navy in particular had been working various system of systems-type concepts and the technologies that would go into that for mission threads. How do you stitch together various components to create a mission or an outcome, an effect?” he said in a Nov. 10 interview. “Overmatch [is] sort of a natural progression of that sort of work.”
Origins of Overmatch
Though the Navy was already researching how to connect ships, planes and weapons, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday created Project Overmatch in fall 2020 and tapped Small to lead the effort. Gilday has since said Overmatch is his No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
Whereas past efforts were housed within specific offices, Small said Project Overmatch is meant to encompass the entire Navy.
“Inside of a platform-centric service,” he said, “how can you become more data- and network-centric?”
Rear Adm. Doug Small speaks at the 2021 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium. (Elisha Gamboa/U.S. Navy)
The core team started with just a few people, but has grown to about 50. The team, plus its collaborators across the Navy and industry, are focused on several key points: tools and analytics, networks, data, and infrastructure, which includes computing and platforms as a service.
“Fundamentally, this is all about management of data, exchange of data,” David Deptula, the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, said Nov. 14 at a JADC2 industry event. “Without the appropriate infrastructure, you can’t be able to do the data, connectivity or networking. Without the security, all of it falls apart because you’re yielding a huge weakness and vulnerability to our adversary.”
But perhaps the most significant, overriding mission of the team is to figure out what barriers the Navy has put in its own way.
Small said the commercial industry is able to do what the Navy wants to do; car companies like Tesla remotely send software updates to address security gaps or capability improvements without creating safety risks for drivers, and Amazon pushes out hundreds of thousands of software updates each day, which an online shopper might never notice.
“Everything that we have put in our way that prevents us from doing exactly that is something that we’ve done to ourselves,” Small said. “Now, there are changes that need to happen to systems on ships and shore facilities to enable that, but then, eventually, that’s how you get to fielding.”
Small said his Project Overmatch team should have a client-like relationship with the fleet, where they understand what sailors need to do their jobs more effectively and, in turn, quickly produce and deliver tools to address those gaps.
“Bringing an upgrade every several years, or bringing hundreds of thousands of changes per day — somewhere in the middle, there is that sweet spot where we basically pace our adversaries with delivery of capability. And that’s what it’s really all about,” said Small, noting the difference between the Navy and the tech industry.
Ready to strike
Small said his focus is now on the 2023 carrier strike group demonstration. Though he wouldn’t identify specific technologies or software involved, he dubbed the event “the starting gun” and said additional capabilities will roll out in future iterations.
Small said the team will deploy this first increment onto the first carrier strike group in 2023, and then continue until all 11 carrier strike groups have the hardware and software installed. That equates to a large portion of the surface fleet, excluding amphibious ships and some forward-deployed vessels with a different operational model.
“The alternative path is, well, let’s design the whole thing out for a few years and then field that everywhere, right? And you’ve probably seen the [timeline] curves on that, and we’re trying to take a stepwise approach to get there faster,” he said.
The Navy sought $195 million for Project Overmatch in fiscal 2023, a 167% increase over the $73 million it received in fiscal 2022. Spending details have otherwise been scant, with the service executing Project Overmatch behind closed doors, a posture taken, experts said, to bamboozle China.
“It’s mostly because they don’t want to tip their hand as to what they’re looking to put together,” Clark said. “How they deter China is by increasing the uncertainty on the part of the Chinese, on the [People’s Liberation Army], that they’ll be successful on terms that the Chinese leadership would find acceptable.”
Away from the public eye, Project Overmatch technology has already undergone repeated testing, according to Small.
“Within even the first six months of the effort, we had done some work with the Marine Corps, for example, where we got some real-time feedback and did some connections,” he explained. “We’ve been to individual ships with systems and connected it to our labs to sort of simulate other [ships].”
Pushing Project Overmatch advancements into the real world is vital, according to Clark.
“Of all the services, the Navy’s done the best job of trying to really focus their effort on what the operational commander needs, rather than things that the service thinks are cool to put together,” he said. “The Navy’s really focused on Overmatch, being focused on what the average commander needs, focused on the near term and, therefore, focused on actual systems that can be deployed today.”
This fall, the technology was used in the Army’s Project Convergence exercise across multiple units, Small said. The weekslong experiment, during which bleeding-edge tech is put through the wringer, represents the Army’s contribution to JADC2. The Air Force, likewise, has its Advanced Battle Management System, an attempt to adopt the next generation of command-and-control tech.
The Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System is expected to enable the rapid collection, processing and sharing of data across all domains, weapons systems and commands. (U.S. Air Force)
But there are concerns the separate efforts are not properly aligned. An early draft of the annual defense bill included an audit of JADC2, with the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber and innovative technologies panel, chaired by retiring Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin, requesting a study on timelines, goals and potential shortfalls.
Defense officials have also expressed skepticism. The Air Force’s principal cyber adviser, Wanda Jones-Heath, in July described the services’ efforts as “all different.”
The data-centric odyssey is of the highest stakes as the U.S. and allied nations attempt to thwart Chinese and Russian ambitions, officials argue. Beijing and Moscow have each spent significant sums on military science and technology — including artificial intelligence and cyber advancements — ratcheting up the pace at which information must be exchanged and decisions must be made on the battlefield.
“Here’s how I see it: any data, anywhere, any time that is needed. And the vision, when I start to spin this out, is coalition warfare,” Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a Defense Information Systems Agency event Nov. 7. “You have a U.S. Marine Corps [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] getting a firing solution from an Australian [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability; maybe you have a Japanese frigate that’s also going to hit the same target there; you’ve got multinational F-35s coming on station to provide combat air-support capability. All of this is going to have to happen quickly.”
Gilday in October said the Navy is sharing Project Overmatch insights with foreign forces to ensure international communication and collaboration will be possible in large-scale, distributed fights.
Though Gilday did not identify those allies, Small told Defense News his program started with Five Eyes — an intelligence-sharing group made up of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Small added that the U.S. has since welcomed other allies and partners to collaborate on software development.
No final destination
Some ships will have to wait for their next maintenance period to receive hardware and software changes, but Small said his team is working through policy issues to allow for installations to happen pier-side and, therefore, on a quicker timeline. In the meantime, the Project Overmatch team will chip away at the next increment, even as it’s fielding the first.
“Our concept of ‘done’ has to change a little bit,” Small said, “because it’s really not a traditional type of acquisition approach.”
Defense officials have cast JADC2 in a similar light. There is no true finish line, but rather the massive networking endeavor requires a rolling development process to maintain an advantage over adversaries capable of jamming, intercepting and muddying communications.
Sherman, the Pentagon CIO, said the key to JADC2 is speed and stubbornly staying “inside the enemy’s turn circle.”
“This has got to move so fast that the adversary cannot get back up off the mat,” he said. “Maybe they have mass on us, but we have quality of data, quality of capability.”
About Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest
Megan Eckstein is the naval warfare reporter at Defense News. She has covered military news since 2009, with a focus on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operations, acquisition programs and budgets. She has reported from four geographic fleets and is happiest when she’s filing stories from a ship. Megan is a University of Maryland alumna.
Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers military networks, cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.
After playing with water droplets ... i felt i needed to make the project BIGGER ... so step up the fish tank and some cut & uncut fruit .... quite pleased with this for the 1st real attempt
Hal simple di depan mata bisa jadi begitu menarik saat dilihat dari sisi yang berbeda.
Selamat menikmati hujan..
This picture is #49 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com
I saw Lucy twice that day , she was a charity Girl for Christian Aid. I promised myself I would capture her that day ... I was so determined ! She was over 6ft tall with that flower in her hair ! I am a sucker for accessories , Lucy stood out a mile. She is doing this summer job before going to Falmouth College doing Photography of all things.
I had to negotiate a photo for a donation for the aid: I got the photo but she could only sign me up for a year’s Subscription , I declined as was not able to commit but I would gift a donation on line.
We chatted about the new/old Lens which she liked and appreciated the quality – Lucy indicated at the time , this Lens I had just purchased was a pro Lens used by Photo journalists ! Lucy is embarking on a three year course and looking forward to it.
I explained about the 100 Strangers – I indicated do this project , you will learn more than any class room – she laughed. The 1st photo was her smiling and captured the 2nd when see cheekily asked me – where are these photo’s going to go ? I said flickr etc she did this cheeky , unsure , not convinced look but laughed after saying that was cool ! She normally takes the photo – hardly ever the subject except family albums’ and such like.
We spent half an hour together , enjoyed the chat and discussion ! Very good sales lady ... With her good looks,
This was taken with that old lens = 85 mm Glad to say her eyes are perfect ,, I love her smile , confidence and quirkiness
Thank you Lucy , good luck on your course ! Do try this out – it will teach you to shoot portraits and communication skills !! All in two months ... ?
50 is next ! Wish me luck - its going to have to be a good one ! Have a Good weekend x
Definition of a "Project"... that "idea" that seemed much simpler before you began.
A co-worker is gutting an old school bus to turn into an RV... getting it running reliably, raising the roof, etc. No small task.
20/365
E' LA TRISTE STORIA DI UN UOMO CON DELLE ASPIRAZIONI LETTERARIE
CHE VERRANNO IGNORATE E FRUSTRATE
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8.
Calzini caffelatte
nei sandali slabbrati,
chiude la porta e lascia
moglie figlia per sempre,
ogni giorno per sempre
davanti al televisore,
ogni giorno ripensa
che se butta la chiave
e dà fuoco ai documenti
può sparire per uno
due mesi dai tormenti.
9.
( É ancora andrà, deluso,
fingendosi contento
supplicando che passino
quei sogni deliranti.
Lui che non era nato
per sbaglio come tanti).
10.
É andrà l’uomo in grigio
con la sua borsa piena
di lettere invidiose
che non ha mai spedito,
si fermerà davanti
alla tazza di caffè
per sbirciare maligno
chi c’è e chi non c’è.
11.
Nemmeno dilettante,
conosce suo malgrado
i labirinti vuoti
di una chiesa in silenzio.
Anima Christi , prova…
litania memoria assenzio.
da 'Salita degli orti ' P. L. 2005
This is not something we see on the road here everyday - a transporter lorry carrying four tanks.
Monday, 2nd January 2017
Recently built my own film pinhole camera. Wanted it to go one frame high and two frames wide to create a panoramic effect since the pinhole is already super wide. I don't know what the picture is of, probably of the sun in the sky.
Shot on Kentmere 400 film.
Homemade pinhole camera. ~F/90.
Thanks for checking out the description.
pictionid59712035 - catalogimage of mercury capsule - titleimage of mercury capsule - filenameproject mercury 250.jpg
6/8/12
I swear food like fries, chicken tenders, and hotdogs taste way better at a ballpark. Even though I sat at the nose bleed seats I like the view of the whole field. I went to the game with most of my close guy friends and even though we lost I still had a great time.
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Nikon D5100
Sigma 10-20mm
Nos.3 of 5
Germany - Lubeck: Marienkirche - St. Mary's Church, built c1250 - c1350; demolished 29 March 1942; rebuilt 1947-1959.
Detail of the -
Built in 1561 through to 1566, the Astronomical Clock is considered to be a real treasure of both art history and sacred history. It was located behind the High Altar in the ambulatory but was completely destroyed in 1942. Only one dial (which had been replaced with an earlier restoration) remains in the St. Annen Museum. The new Astronomical Clock was constructed on the East side of the Northern transept in the "Death dance" chapel. It is the work of Paul Behrens, a clockmaker in Lübeck, who planned it as his lifetime achievement from 1960 - 1967, collected donations for it and constructed the elements of the clock himself. He also maintained the clock until his death. The clockface is a simplified duplicate of the original. With a complicated mechanical system, the clock shows planetary positions, phases of the sun and moon, signs of the zodiac (astronomically, not astrologically), the date on which Easter falls and the Golden Ratio. At 12 o'clock midday the bells ring out and the movement of the figures before Christ consecrating spurs into action. The figures were originally Electors; after post-war reconstruction they are now eight representatives of the different races and peoples of the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary's_Church,_L%c3%bcbeck#Astr...
Check out Paul Behrens
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Behrens
To see Large:-
www.flickr.com/photos/96185638@N00/2649156162/sizes/l/in/...