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(L-22698): This construction view of the Stability Tunnel shows its overall configuration. The steel cube next to the building is the test chamber. The top of the air exchange tower has not yet been sheathed.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: L-22698
Date: January 10, 1941
With the ball between your feet, raise and lower the ball 8" from the floor. Make the movement short and dynamic. Now repeat in reverse order.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 25 2020) Ensign Philip Huggins, from Greenwood Village, Colo., takes bearings in the pilothouse of the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) during a maneuvering exercise. New Orleans, part of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners, and serves as a ready response force to defend security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kelby Sanders)
International Monetary Fund's Laura Kodres (2nd R), Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Silvia Iorgova (2nd L), Lead author on Chapter 3, Global Financial Stability Division; Erik Oppers (L), Deputy Chief and lead author of Chapter 4, Global Financial Stability Division and Andreas Adriano (R), Senior Press Officer, Media Relations Division attend the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 11, 2012 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
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"Overview of the connection of forests ecosystems to human health, wellbeing and social stability.
Photo by Maria Cecilia/FAO.
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- SPEAKERS: Thomas Astell-Burt
University of Wollongong (UOW)
Professor and Founding Co-Director of the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab)
Hasu Lim
Korea Forest Service
Director-general of the Forest Welfare Bureau
Bishop Ngobeli
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo
Conservation Manager
Bharati Pathak
FECOFUN
Chairperson
Ulrika Stigsdotter
Univerity of Copenhagen
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Liisa Tyrväinen
Natural Resources Institute Finland
Professor
Matilda van den Bosch
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Senior Researcher
URL: programme.wfc2021korea.org/en/session/459ce861-e792-ec11-...;
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Ship stability criteria – a crucial safety matter
For a ship to be considered seaworthy and safe it must be designed to remain stable and afloat in all conditions, when both intact and damaged. Mandatory criteria and recommended provisions regarding intact stability are set out in IMO’s 2008 Intact Stability (IS) Code. Now, advanced computer technology is enabling so-called “second generation” intact stability criteria to be developed, involving assessment of ship dynamics in waves.
IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 7), meeting at IMO Headquarters (3-7 February), is expected to finalize a comprehensive set of interim guidelines on second generation intact stability criteria, including guidelines on vulnerability criteria, direct stability failure assessment and operational measures. The aim is to produce a set of guidelines for trial use. The session will also further develop associated explanatory notes.
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Maj. Carter and Staff Col. Ali look at evidence.
MOSUL, Iraq – U.S. Army Maj. Jason Carter, executive officer of Task Force Spear, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, examines possible bomb-making material with Iraqi Staff Col. Ali Yousif, 6th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, during a partnered cordon and search mission in western Mosul, Jan. 19, 2011. The IA soldiers led the search mission with assistance from the U.S. Stability Transition Team of Task Force Spear following tips from local residents about possible insurgent activity.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Shawn Miller, 109th MPAD, USD-N PAO)
EAST CHINA SEA (Oct. 14, 2013) Operations Specialist 3rd Class Dustin Carothers monitors the ship’s position aboard the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89). Mustin is on patrol with the George Washington Carrier Strike Group in the 7th fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Mackenzie P. Adams/Released)
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals (R), Andreas Adriano (2nd R), Senior Press Officer; Laura Kodres (C), Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Silvia Iorgova (2nd L), Lead author on Chapter 3, Global Financial Stability Division and Erik Oppers (L), Deputy Chief and lead author of Chapter 4, Global Financial Stability Division attend the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 11, 2012 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
It's the roots of a tree that give the stability. For as far up and out it unfurls, the roots must go out just as far under the ground.
Those roots, although not seen are of paramount importance, they feed, nourish, support the growth, health and longevity of the whole tree.
Humans are a lot like trees, the roots are like the brain, a complex mass of signals and learning much of which is done during the relatively short formative years of development,. If learning is compromised, or wonky signals are made, then this will show up as the tree develops into adulthood. A lot of being an adult is to keep a check on the roots, I like to call this "Doing The Work".
The Work can take many forms, some of it is standard learning, noticing, questioning and finding out. If you get sick, notice what might have happened or be happening and do some research, test the food, try something new.
Sometimes it's about understanding the wonky signals, piecing together why growth is hindered or lacking, why are the signals short circuiting, why do I have a strong reaction to this thing and this other thing I'm apathetic about? Did something happen? Does that signal need to be unlearned?
The Work is lifelong learning. It's never completed- just when you think you've levelled up, you realise the summit is another level up...again.
At some point this year, I lost my voice. My last few uploads reflected that back to me. I had nothing to say, nothing to note- I'd lost who I was. It has taken a lot of sacrifice to get to this point. I've sacrificed my relationship with Dex...
It's been f**king hard.
But, The Work demands it. We must strive for betterness. For perfection.
This was a lovely day spent pottering in Chorlton and then Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury. There was almost an accidental house purchase. But that's another story.
Genome dynamics and stability are the ne plus ultra requirements for cellular life. No matter whether life began with metabolism, with self-replicating genetic molecules, or as a cooperative chemical phenomenon, all cells and viruses maintain a genome capable of multiplication, variation and heredity. A population of living entities with these properties will evolve by natural selection, and while modern metabolism supplies the monomers from which genomes (i.e. replicators) are made, genomes alter the kinds of chemical reactions occurring in metabolism (Maynard Smith and Szathmary 1997). This book deals with DNA repair and replication. Together with two other planned volumes,one on transposable elements and genome dynamics and another on recombination and meiosis as a key issue of the metazoan germline development, this volume introduces the conceptual frame work of the series. An earlier review on the classic monograph Mobile DNA (Berg and Howe 1989) was entitled“On the Impossibility of Knowing More. ”It states:“This big book indeed tells us everything but says nothing. It provides no conceptual framework as to what the burgeoning bulk of molecular data means, not out of intent but because it is swept along by an attitude found increasingly in science of ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ ... the book is essentially uninformative regarding the biological importance of transposable elements in ontogeny and phylogeny” (Dover 1990). The present book series tries to circumvent such criticism. Of course, there have been milder opinions of the monumental Mobile DNA book as well (Brookfield 1989; Fincham 1989). Actually, the 2002 publication of its successor Mobile DNA II (Craig et al. 2002) impressively demonstrates the swift progress int his significant research field, which now not only largely addresses questions of evolutionary relevance but pragmatically feeds additional knowledge applied in human gene therapy or helps to understand the somatic maturation of the immune system by V(D)J recombination. The latter actually demonstrates the closeness of transposable element transposition to DNA repair as the V(D)J recombination reaction is completed by the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) DNA repair pathway in lymphocyte development where the DNA double-strand break (DSB) is generated through the transposase (i.e. endonuclease) activity of an ancient transposable element. This transposon inserted into an ancestral vertebrate genome some 450 million years ago(Yuetal.1999). In line with this important interface between a vertebrate transposon and DSB repair, the second chapter of Part II of this book reports on asimilar relationship of the Drosophila P elements triggering DSBs and facilitating the understanding of the mechanisms of replication-dependent DSB repair. Other molecularly fossilized but experimentally revitalized transposable elements which promise to be o fbiomedical relevance are planned for an upcoming book volume. As Carl Woese recently said, it seems to be about time that biology makes a choice between the comfortable path of continuing to follow molecular biology’s lead or the more refreshing one seeking a new and inspiring vision of the living world (Woese 2004). To accomplish this is my goal with the book series Genome Dynamics and Stability, where this first volume is dedicated to integrative aspects of replication and DNA repair providing an overview of some facets and perspectives of genome integrity. DNA integrity is relevant for all organisms, and therefore it opens avenues of curiosity ranging from viroids in applied plant research to grasping biodiversity. This vision however must include pragmatic aspects of biomedical relevance as well. The book at hand is entitled Genome Integrity: Facets and Perspectives. It contains a rather broad spectrum of chapters representing key aspects of DNA repair with a slight bias towards DSB repair as justified by its importance. Actually, every chapter is self-sufficient and could serve as an independent entry point to the whole book. The sequence chosen starts with three chapters introducing replication as a fundamental aspect of life. Here, the first chapter gives a general introduction to replication worth to be read by undergraduate students as well as academics, while the second chapter attempts to present a concept towards an anatomy of the eukaryotic replication fork. The third chapter adds the aspect of human diseases to the two more fundamental aspects in Part I. Replication is then linked by two interface-chapters in Part II to the world of DSB repair. The second chapter of Part II first reviews the history of the discovery of the physical nature of the gene and gene mutations. Exploiting gene targeting as an experimental, technical pillar, it attempts to compose the different models of DSB repair into a unifying synthesis. This joins Part II with four key aspects of DSB repair representing Part III. These four key aspects review the structure and function of the Rad50/SMC protein complexes in chromosome biology, further focus on the simplest pathway for DSB repair, i.e. non-homologous endjoining (NHEJ), and focus on a central gatekeeper crucial to avoiding cancer development, i.e. p53, and the most complex role of chromatin in DSB repair. The chapter on DNA base damage recognition in Part IV introduces DNA repair pathways involving one-strand lesions and their pleiotropic interactions with cell physiological functions, such as cell cycle, apoptosis and examples of major human diseases. While DSBs can be triggered and their repair can be studied at precisely defined positions on nucleotide level within a given chromosome, DNA damage introduced through radiation and other genotoxic stress factors follows a slightly different research lead. This is the common theme of the four chapters in Part IV. Ion irradiation as a tool to reveal tracts of damage throughout the eukaryote nucleus reminds us of cloud or Wilson chamber experiments in atomic physics detecting elementary particles of ionizing radiation. Here, in the final chapter of Part V, the tract of damage in a cloud of chromatin is monitored using antibodies to proteins characteristic of specific DNA repair pathways, as discussed in the last chapter of Part III. The four final chapters are important for many reasons, ranging from a significance for irradiation treated cancer patients, or victims of the Chernobyl disaster to the exposure to cosmic radiation of astronauts on long-term space missions. The original idea forthis book came from the 8thmeeting of the DNA Repair Network in Ulm, Germany, and would not have been possible without the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für DNA-Reparaturforschung (DGDR). Here I would like to mention especially Jürgen Thomale, Alexander Bürkle, Lisa Wiesmüller, Bernd Kaina and Friederike Eckardt-Schupp, who supported the initial idea and acted in the background.Further I would like to thank the anonymous referees for doing a great job in peer reviewing and improving the manuscripts. I also thank the University of Heidelberg, which gave access to their electronic journal collection. Last but not least, I have to thank Sabine Schreck (Springer, Heidelberg) without whom I could never have engaged in this project. Ursula Gramm(Springer,Heidelberg) and Michael Reinfarth (LETeXGbR, Leipzig) did a fine job copye diting all manuscripts and the Springer team succeeded well in establishing the SpringerLink OnlineFirst version of this bookseries, which provides authors withmore flexibility in the individual handling of their contributions.
25 September 2012 - (Left/right) Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD and Kalin Anev, Secretary-General of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). OECD, Paris, France.
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
It's name is Nimid.
Nimid is a sign or a symbol to show the area of Monastic order. It is specific in order to taking up the Bhikkhuhood or Ordination ceremony.
Seen in Ko Samui.
© All Rights Reserved, Christophe Paquignon
Afghan National Army troops prepare for an inspection by their leadership and visiting coalition leaders April 24 at Camp Shoraback in Helmand province. Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of ISAF Joint Command, and Maj. Gen. John Toolan, commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force and Regional Command - Southwest, visited the Afghan soldiers after a meeting with the leaders of the camp. The Afghan troops are constantly training and operating throughout the region to fight back the insurgency and restore stability to their province. (U.S. Army photo by Staff. Sgt. Brandon Pomrenke)
Philippine Marines prepare to assault a target while mortars are fired during a bilateral live-fire exercise with U.S. Marines May 12, 2014 at Crow Valley, Philippines, as part of Balikatan 2014. The platoon-level exercise was part of Balikatan 2014 and featured mortars, rockets, machine guns and platoon rushes towards a simulated enemy. Balikatan is an annual training exercise that strengthens the interoperability between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military in their commitment to regional security and stability, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Matthew Sissel/Released)
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
180602-N-ZL062-0157 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 2, 2018) The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Philippine Sea with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) on the horizon during a routine patrol. Reagan and Chancellorsville are forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
Jeong Joon Yu (SK Group), Olga Algayerova (UNECE), Mark Harper (Secretary of State for Transport, UK), Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Germany), Hee-ryong Won (Minster of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea), Kris Peeters (European Investment Bank, EIB) and Carlos Monje (Under Secretary for Transportation Policy, US explore the role of transport in promoting economic co-operation, peace and stability in the Open Plenary "Transport as an enabler of sustainable economies, peace and stability in time of crisis". The event takes place during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2023.
2023-04-04: President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina affably greets Rami Aboul Naja, Deputy Governor for Monetary Stability during AM2023: Annual Meetings Preparation I. In frame, Hon. Rania Al-Mashat,Egypt’s Minister for International Cooperation and an official.
Lino Manfrotto, an Italian photojournalist, began designing light stands, booms, and telescopic rods in the late 1960s. In 1972 Lino Manfrotto met Gilberto Battocchio, a technician working for a Bassano mechanical firm. In 1974, the company introduced its first tripod. The company grew, and in 1986 Manfrotto, already with 6 plants in Bassano, landed in Feltre, in the industrial zone of Villapaiera, establishing 5 plants in the space of two years. Vitec Group Plc. purchased the French company Gitzo in 1992 and the American company Bogen Photo Corp. in 1993.[2] Vitec Group Plc. chose to maintain the separate brands as separate lines in its portfolio. Manfrotto products are distributed in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States by Manfrotto Distribution. In Canada, Manfrotto products are distributed by Amplis Foto Inc.
Source: Wikipedia.
Strobist: Yongnuo 460MK II 1/4 camera left in Lumiquest Softbox III.
Vivitar 285HV 1/16 camera right in Softbox. Yongnuo RF 602s.
DIY: Big Softbox.
Canon 550D.
Raynox 150.
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
Things have been changing a lot since I uploaded my last photo on Flickr. I moved to a whole different place with new atmosphere, new apartment, new school and new people. Time keeps passing, people grow and fall apart from each other, and somehow I have struggles finding myself and the person I wanna be. I know I do not upload my Flickr frequently like I did years ago, but please see this as a promise because I do still see the desire in myself to create more pictures, more aspects to push myself in something called creative art, I just need more time, and of course, stability :).
Photo by Ben Unique.
Jeong Joon Yu (SK Group), Olga Algayerova (UNECE), Mark Harper (Secretary of State for Transport, UK), Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Germany), Hee-ryong Won (Minster of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea), Kris Peeters (European Investment Bank, EIB) and Carlos Monje (Under Secretary for Transportation Policy, US explore the role of transport in promoting economic co-operation, peace and stability in the Open Plenary "Transport as an enabler of sustainable economies, peace and stability in time of crisis". The event takes place during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2023.
Wisdom and Knowledge Shall be the Stability of thy Times
GE Building's lowest floors features art deco decorations just above the entrance. The inscription is saying "Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times". It comes from the bible and the figure above it resembles God.
L'extérieur de l'immeuble est décoré d'une exceptionnelle série de bas-reliefs de style Art déco, qui introduisent une touche de couleur sur les murs gris du building. Celui de la principale entrée fut réalisé par le sculpteur américain Lee Lawrie (1877-1963) ; il figure une allégorie de la sagesse, représentée par un vieil homme barbu et influencée par la peinture de William Blake (Jehovah). Il est accompagné de la légende suivante, inspirée d'un passage de la Bible (Isaïe 33:6) : Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Ce bas-relief est encadré par une figuration de la lumière et du son au-dessus de chacune des portes annexes d’entrée.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (Oct. 7, 2012) Ens. Nicholas Moskevich uses binoculars to watch for other vessels as the forward deployed Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) makes it’s way into port. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the US Navy’s only continuously forward deployed carrier strike group based out of Yokosuka, Japan and is currently conducting a routine Western Pacific patrol in support of regional security and stability of the vital Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly)
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the Organization’s strong commitment to helping achieve the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals and explained how shipping and ports can play a significant role in helping to create conditions for increased employment, prosperity and stability through the promotion of maritime trade. Mr. Lim was speaking at a seminar as part of celebrations in Veracruz, Mexico (21-22 August) focused on IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2017 –"Connecting Ships, Ports and People".
The Secretary-General also discussed IMO measures to reduce harmful emissions from ships, the management of ballast water and goal-based standards. He was hosted by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR), Admiral Commander in Chief Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, who introduced the strategy and capabilities of the Mexican Maritime Authority.
The seminar was attended by the maritime authorities of Argentina, Chile, Panama and the United States, as well as representatives from the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, World Maritime University (WMU) in Sweden, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta, and various national government ministries.
The celebrations also included an opportunity for participants to observe a search and rescue exercise and to visit Mexico’s Naval Academy.