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Sprint18 was an opportunity to celebrate all the great work everyone across digital government had done so far. And to look at what we'll be doing next.
After our first night of mid-30 degree temperatures, I thought I might have already seen my last butterfly of the season last week in the mountains. Much to my surprise, this question mark found a warm perch near me as I was watching for birds in the backyard this afternoon.
Behind the scenes portrait of Rita Hayworth, director Charles Vidor and Brian Aherne from The Lady in Question by M.B. Paul
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 30th annual session - General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions / 30ème session annuelle de lâAssemblée Parlementaire de lâOSCE - Commission générale de la démocratie, des droits de lâhomme et des questions humanitaires
Vancouver, British Columbia, Colombie Britanique, on July 2, 2023.
© HOC-CDC, 2023
Credit: Bernard Thibodeau, House of Commons Photo Services
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Used to drill into reinforced concrete, green concrete and abrasive material.
Features: Various techniques of diamond core drilling are Electric, Hydraulic and Pneumatic accessible for moist or dry drilling programs.
Designed for all types of wet drilling in applications with light to moderate steel.
How to use: Drilling method uses a diamond core drill bit fixed to the end of drill rod in the drilling machine or gear. Core drill bits have a hollow center and cut a circle in the material to create a hole. Bit is designed for general purpose, fast drilling with light to moderate steel. able to make holes of any dimension and depth
OKINAWA, Japan (May 21, 2014) Sailors from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, and several other Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa tenant commands, attend an all-hands call with the Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) Vice Adm. Bill Moran and Fleet Master Chief April Beldo, May 21, aboard Camp Shields in Okinawa Japan. Moran and Beldo fielded questions and discussed topics such as petty officer advancement, uniform matters and the Enlisted Early Transition Program with the audience and conducted one-on-one question and answer sessions immediately following the event for Sailors with additional concerns. NMCB 1 is currently deployed to several countries in the Pacific area of operations and three sites in the United States. U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kim Martinez
With its rising power, China has become more assertive in pursuit of its growing ambitions in Asia. This has raised fundamental questions about what revisions China seeks to the existing regional order, and whether China’s increasing activism in Asia foreshadows intentions to harness this growing power to assume more of a leadership role on the world stage. To help address these questions and U.S. responses to them, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell for a keynote address. After Assistant Secretary Stilwell’s presentation, a panel discussion examined how China’s actions are reshaping the Asia-Pacific region, and how the United States and the rest of the region are responding. Both sessions concluded with a Q&A session from the audience.
This event launched the next tranche of papers in the Brookings series on “Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World.” These papers analyze China’s evolving approaches to issues ranging from North Korea, the East and South China Seas, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
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Two questions came to mind after comparing the before and after pictures of the California drought. The first was: Who is responsible? The second question was: How can we respond to this problem no matter who is at fault?
California is no stranger to droughts, but the state has been over-accommodating their own needs for water to keep our main state export businesses alive. The main culprits of drainage of the two man-made lakes is the farming industry, specifically the cattle and nut crops which are taking enormous water reserves to stay alive. Alfalfa (a superfood for cattle) is the biggest water drain, and nuts come second. As with many environmental problems, we tend to shoot, then point, then think, since economic pressure force us into immediate solutions. The water we have stored up (the reservoirs, aquifers) are being depleted at a rapid clip as if they will magically renew. Food prices are bound to soar and/or food sources will have to come from other states sinking California further into debt. The sociological gains could be increased education and awareness of the problem, which is necessary to galvanize people into actively participating in the solution. Hopefully more Americans will begin producing some of their own food and becoming more self-reliant.
These pics make me want to research what causes drought trends, what groups of people are on the forefront of innovation and adaptation to such problems, and how we can support them and participate.
The names on the buildings in the background give away the location of this shot. This short eastbound stacker is negotiating the bridge (out of sight, right) connecting the old CNJ main and yard with the old Lehigh Valley main.
Entertainers and athletes take questions and interact with the audience during a USO Show at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar; the fourth stop on the annual Vice Chairman’s USO Tour, April 1, 2019. Country music artist Craig Morgan, celebrity chef Robert Irvine, UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn, former UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman, professional mixed martial artist Felice Herrig, two-time MLB World Series champion Shane Victorino; and professional surfer Makua Rothman joined Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a tour across the world as they visit service members overseas to thank them for their service and sacrifice. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
Either a Comma or Question mark butterfly seen this past Saturday 18 Feb at Broughtons Wildlife Education Center outside Marietta Ohio.
It has been a very warm Winter and this past week had daytime highs in the 60's. The warmer temps have awakened hibernating butterflies like this fellow, (I'm going with Comma).
I cant deny enjoying the warmer temps and having the opportunity to see butterflies like the Mourning Cloak and Comma one to two months early, But I still would feel a little less concerned if Winter would act like Winter is supposed to, LOL.
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Englishtown Flea Market, circa 1970
I don't think the flea market operates anymore. Maybe some of my NJ contacts can answer that question.
Nikkormat, manual, scanned
Questions answered, unless those questions are:
"Do you deal with money here?"
"Can I get change for this $50 bill?"
"Will you sell me a metrocard?"
"Let's do a transaction, ok? Like maybe combine a card!"
This Question Mark landed on the terrace to feed off the minerals in the grout, ignoring the lovely salvia and lavender planted just for him and his friends. Not a much of a beauty shot, but opens the door for another question ... wondering how you serious photographers out there are liking the "New" Flickr?
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The mounties answer questions from a television reporter who is out of frame. Meanwhile, Raven, Pharaoh and George have either noticed the pony rides in the upper orchard or they are keenly attuned to the click of a shutter. [Officers, left to right: Timothy Brooks, Jon Buskirk, Michael Leaser.]
©Bethlehem Mounted Patrol Unit/Sheer Brick Studio
Score one for Skynet!
Ken Jennings' Final Jeopardy question and wager for the second match vs IBM's Watson AI. I had to rewatch most of it on Thursday because I missed it on Wednesday due to having a phone call.
studio portrait isolated on white background of a man senior having a post-it with a question mark on his head
The parents and godparents in place of their children and for themselves profess their faith and renounce the devil.
Dear parents and godparents:
You have come here to present these children for baptism. By water and the Holy
Spirit they are to receive the gift of new life from God, who is love.
On your part, you must make it your constant care to bring them up in the practice
of the faith. See that the divine life which God gives them is kept safe from the
poison of sin, to grow always stronger in their hearts.
If your faith makes you ready to accept this responsibility, renew now the vows of
your own baptism. Reject sin; profess your faith in Christ Jesus. This is the faith
of the Church. This is the faith in which these children are about to be baptized.
March is apparently question month. To ask me a question, post a
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Question 21: How would you evaluate your overall experience at PC, given its social and academic climate?
Oh boy. It's interesting. I'm sure with years my bitterness towards the general student and faculty attitude at PC will fade. Right now that it is, perhaps undeservedly, high.
First let me say that I carefully summarized my PC experience, and my advice from within that, here: toddpage.livejournal.com/281672.html [NOT edited]
Now, onwards to the question. In terms of academics, I bare no fault against P.C. I feel that I got a top-notch education. A heavily biased education, no doubt, but a top-notch education, regardless. I don't bear issue with the fact that theology and philosophy courses were required of all students. It's a catholic school, that should be expected. Do I wish there had been a class on other faiths? Yes. After all, most of the students there went to some amount of years of catholic education and already have a pretty good grasp of Catholic Doctrine. I loved Civ. For those of you who don't know PC, there is a required 2 year program that has 4 teachers and meets 5 days a week. It covers History, Literature, Philosophy, and Theology through pretty much all time. It's an amazing amount of information, and if you do the work, to me, rewarding. I also think that Dr. Scanlan's suggested updates to the program are brilliant. The school should totally get on that. There also needs to be more diversity in other course areas, and some faculty need to be reminded that not all students are catholic, and that they have a right to believe otherwise that the schools non-discrimination statement protects. I had a professor tell me I should drop her class because I did not believe the Catholic beliefs, more specifically, her beliefs. So naturally I stayed in it. No one tells me that. There is alot of improvement to be made there. Luckily there is a group of students struggling to make those changes. *fist in the air*
Now the social climate. PC is, as it were, a school full of cookie cutters. That is to say, it is full of people who all think the same, and feel the same, and approach things the same. Alot of these people will not accept or listen to anything that is different from that. The social climate at PC is awful. I lucked out in that I made the right friends. I found the kids who think for themselves [and that does not mean all of them thought in ways differently from the norm. It simply means they evaluated what they think, and are open to people thinking differently from them] This helped in a huge way. I also made friends with the kids working to change PC, or at least willing to resist being a part of the attitude that all that is different is bad. The theatre kids are great in that way, and being a part of the Vagina Monologues helped with that too. The administration, for those of you who don't know, shut down the Vagina Monologues at PC after 4 years of it being performed. We were already not allowed to advertise, and we had to perform in a classroom, but when the new president came in, he said he could not allow it to be performed. [The president's letter] This is absurd. It was a student production, and regardless of it's language or topics, it's cause is noble. Not to mention, that spring the official production was My Sister In This House, a play about lesbian incest. I don't think he realized what a movement that little letter began.
Whoa, tangent. The point is, even though PC itself is lame. I will not be giving them money, and most people I know who have very individual personalities, I would not send there, I ended up having a good experience. God I was SO sick of all the bullshit there by the end. And it is full of bullshit. Tons of it. And people whose only goal in life is to get totally shit-faced, and people who will only listen to opinions that mirror theres, and commentaries in the newspaper comparing homosexuality to cancer, and stating that when women get raped it's their own fault. It is full of stupid ridiculous people. I find I remember my friends and memories with them fondly. My program as well, and the CS teachers. And as I move away, I remember less the stupid idiots, faculty, and presidents, and all the bullshit there-in. The gasps when anything of a gay nature came up, the people who used fag as a commonplace slang for idiot. It all still makes me angry. I'd rate the school low. It claims to be desiring diversity, but really it only wants statistics. Everything about that school resists diversity. It is filled with Racist, homophobic, people who are afraid of different and change. My experience, however, was pretty good, all things considered. I got a good education, and a strong group of friends. And that's different from the school itself.
So even though I had to deal with sooo much bullshit, and spent tons of time fighting the man, I would say my EXPERIENCE was good, because of the people I surrounded myself with. If I hadn't had them, it would have been miserable.
Wow. That was more positive than even I expected.
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Before any questions arise: no, that´s not me hanging out here on this pedestrian´s overpass at busy and very blue Chong Qing Zhong Lu intersection.
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The University of Nottingham Students' Union 411th (1st) Union Council. The Executive Committee answer questions. From left to right: Sian Green, Accommodation & Communities Officer; Anil Parmar, Financial Services Officer; Amos Teshuva, Union President. In the background is Nick Redfern, Chair of Council and head of the Steering Committee.
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People often ask me what Oklahoma looks like. Tough question as it is the intersection of several geographical regions. I think of both dense oak growth like this and big open rolling hills.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-db41jTAn4&feature=related What in your opinion is the best adaptation of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol"? Albert Finney as "Scrooge" is mine. In my opinion the best of all time and the film score is GREAT. I actually have the soundtrack on my mp3 player and listen to it every Holiday season. :)
Polygonia interrogationis -- summer form
The summer form of the Question Mark has dark hind wings and usually seem to be beat up before you find them. This one is almost perfect and I was quite happy when it landed for a couple seconds on the edge of the bike path in a forested area. Too bad I only captured one photo before it was gone.
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Live in Berlin)
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Nikon D800E Fine Art! A Study of the Sunset at the San Clemente Pier! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography! Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR!
I think my hallmark/trademark might be that I see more beauty in things than others, and I can never pick my favorite shot! For instance, as the sun set over the San Clemente Pier, I loved all the light!
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Celebrating Dr. E's LAw of Moving Dimensions ^& Dynamic Dimensions Theory dx4/dt=ic which derives from Homer's Odyssey! "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them." --Homer's Odyssey! herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
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I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Odyssey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
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Few photos from Amazon OP1 process, (Operating Plan 1) which is the operating plan for your line of business or your group for the coming year. They start with an internal review with your VP then the VP of your org and then usually with S-VP and sometimes with the STeam and Jeff Bezos.
Auschwitz- Birkenau Death Camp.
Auschwitz is probably one of the world’s most infamous places and no matter how much knowledge you may or may not have of history, nothing can prepare a person for the visit to such a place. The level of atrocities carried out are indescribable , the sadistic cruelty beyond comprehension by any reasonable individual. Initially established to house prisoners opposed to The Third Reich, Auschwitz was later the centre of the Nazis so called Final Solution of The Jewish Problem. At least one million, one hundred thousand people were murdered there, 90% were Jews from all over Europe. These people were herded together and transported in cattle wagons and shipped by rail to Auschwitz and Birkenau in the most inhumane conditions. Many never made it there.
Auschwitz was the original camp, a disused army barracks converted, this now houses the State Museum of Auschwitz with many harrowing exhibits of Nazi cruelty. It was here the SS tortured and starved prisoners and Dr Joseph Mengele carried out his experiments. Cyclone B was discovered here in an attempt to kill lice as this was becoming a problem as prisoners themselves and their conditions deteriorated. In experimenting with the chemical it was developed as a very quick and efficient way of killing humans by suffocation.
Birkenau is massive and was built as a killing factory. Seventy five per cent of arrivals were instantly condemned to death, by the flick of the finger of the SS Officer. These were gassed in the gas chambers built specially for this purpose. All children under fourteen and the infirm or disabled were immediately disposed of. The other twenty five per cent were the young and fit and they were put to work but three months was a long time to last. The diet had an intake of 1500 calories a day and the work was for fourteen hours a day, it didn’t take long just to starve to death, just three months for the young and strong.
No matter what a person’s political or religious views may be, nobody could be unaffected by a visit to Auschwitz- Birkenau and while it is important to pay respect to those who suffered, it is more important we never forget and insure this cannot happen again.