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Nenbutsushu Sanpouzan Muryojuji "The Royal Grand Hall of Buddhism"
念佛宗(念仏宗無量寿寺) 総本山 兵庫県加東市
Early morning arrival, Nieuw Amsterdam, Ft. Lauderdale. Forgot not to place the camera on the balcony rail (normally not a good idea due to ship vibration, but in this case more so if engine No. 6 is operating). Mid-way, top left is the Royal Princess.
Re engine #6, we were told by staff that this engine was not on line all the time, but that when it was on the vibration could be felt more so on the upper decks. Some nights you would go to bed and it felt like you were in a Motel Six of old, with a quarter in the bed vibrator.
From: www.connectedaction.net
Top Twitter users who recently tweeted the word kevin kelly OR kevin2kelly OR technium when queried on May 27, 2011, sorted by betweenness centrality.
A visualization of the network is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/5768489596/sizes/o/
Top most between users:
@veen
@stop
@brainpicker
@gruber
@andybudd
@typekit
@gwenbell
@ffejmi
@juandoming
@thesocializers
Graph Metric: Value
Graph Type: Directed
Vertices: 310
Unique Edges: 598
Edges With Duplicates: 212
Total Edges: 810
Self-Loops: 0
Connected Components: 73
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 66
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 230
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 794
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 10
Average Geodesic Distance: 3.320954
Graph Density: 0.007328531
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.169
More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/
NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
Marc Smith on Twitter.
Bay Area LEGO Users Group
more LEGO at Maker Faire:
videos:
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Maker Faire
(MVI 7713)
AFM Monster Maker Model Contest
Don't forget to check out some of our makeup effects test like Finger Nail Removals and Headshot Outtakes at B&E Productions
Centro de Tenis LA CAJA MÁGICA (THE MAGIC BOX)
Arquitecto: Dominique Perrault: 2003-2005 (Proyecto) 2005-2009 (obras)
El conjunto se sitúa en un arco del río Manzanares, en el distrito de Usera, frente al Poblado de S. Fermín, con accesos por el camino de Perales y la prolongación de la calle de Embajadores dentro de a segunda fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares Sur cuyo plan Director fue proyectado por el arquitecto Ricardo Bofill en 1998, que también se encargó de la ejecución de la primera fase del parque entre 2001 y 2003. El núcleo central de la 2ª fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares es la denominada “Caja Mágica”, una de las actuaciones estelares de la candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2012" para Centro Olímpico de Tenis, según proyecto, ganador del concurso de 2002, del prestigioso arquitecto francés Dominique Perrault. La obra, iniciada en 2005, ralentiza en su ejecución al no designarse Madrid sede olímpica. Se retoman las obras, ante la imposición de los organizadores del Master de Tenis de Madrid, a fin de no perder la organización de tal evento. Definitivamente el complejo se culmina en 2009 y se incorpora a la nueva candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2016"
El conjunto se materializa mediante la conjunción de una serie de elementos arquitectónicos y paisajísticos cuyo bloque central es La Caja Mágica propiamente dicha. El concepto de caja mágica viene dado por su envoltura que se abre y se transforma siguiendo los usos del complejo deportivo, y creando una silueta cambiante y vivaz en el paisaje. Esta piel brillante y vibrante filtra el sol y protege, como una leve muralla, los pabellones deportivos. Caja Mágica que reivindica la arquitectura como envolvente para crear un lugar abierto día y noche, cuya silueta varíe en cada evento. Por sus dimensiones y carácter, puede albergar programas culturales y deportivos, al aire libre o cubiertos. Caja de sorpresas donde se solapan dos mundos, en la cota más baja el de los profesionales del deporte y por encima el público. Su piel móvil, en paneles de vidrio y tejido metálico, filtra de día la luz solar y de noche centellea con matices festivos y luminosos, suaviza vientos dominantes e impide el paso de la lluvia. Sobre un plano de agua los reflejos se multiplican convirtiendo el edificio en un elemento vivo en continuidad con el entorno natural. Las cubiertas móviles suponen un reto estructural, pueden abrirse completamente o quedar entreabiertas para proporcionar una sombra controlada y constante sobre los terrenos de juego. Por ello todas las pistas pueden utilizarse tanto al aire libre como cubiertas total o parcialmente gracias a unos mecanismos que permiten deslizar el techo para abrirlo o levantarlo como si de la tapa de una verdadera caja se tratara, lo que da la posibilidad de que se jueguen hasta tres partidos simultáneos en caso de lluvia, algo que ningún otro torneo en tierra del mundo ofrece. La pista central, llamada “Manolo Santana”, tiene capacidad para 12.500 personas; la segunda, dedicada a Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 3.800 plazas; y la tercera 2.500. Realizada completamente en acero, madera y vidrio, la Caja Mágica garantiza el ahorro energético gracias a su cubierta de malla de acero inoxidable tensada con tapas de aluminio natural. La fachada está recubierta de una malla de acero inoxidable tensada, lo que confiere al edificio un aspecto dinámico y cambiante: de día, reflectante y opaco; de noche, centelleante.
El Edificio de Tenis-Indoor, alojará la Sede Madrileña de la Federación Española de Tenis, y cuenta con 11 canchas de tenis cubiertas que se usaran tanto para el entrenamiento como para la exhibición., escuela de tenis y centro de alto rendimiento con instalaciones adicionales como alojamientos, piscina cubierta, salas de prensa, zonas de restauración… El edificio presenta dos fachadas radicalmente diferentes; la orientada al Camino de Perales, de menor escala, formada por un muro cortina longitudinal, y la opuesta, enfrentada a la Caja Mágica y al Parque, con dos tratamientos, la zona de las pistas de exhibición es también acristalada, pero con la estructura vista, y la de la zona de las pistas de entrenamiento, formada por malla metálica.
La Pasarela forma parte del gran eje central que articula el conjunto y que conecta el Camino de Perales con la prolongación de la calle de Embajadores por encima del río, atravesando la Caja Mágica.
El “Media-Garden”, una estructura de madera laminada en dos plantas situada sobre el lago en un lateral de la Caja, un jardín para los medios de comunicación, durante las grandes competiciones, cuyo objeto es dar cabida tanto a la zona de restauración VIP del complejo, como a los aparcamientos y accesos de las unidades móviles de los medios de comunicación, que se unirá al resto de edificios por una pasarela.
El “Tenis-Garden”: una plataforma con 16 pistas de tenis descubiertas para entrenamiento --doce de tierra batida, dos rápidas y dos de hierba--, que pueden agruparse en ocho o cuatro con espacio para tribunas, además de un extenso aparcamiento. Está conectada mediante pasarelas a la Caja Mágica
El recinto se complementa el Parque de la Ribera que, con su lago de 30.000 metros cuadrados, se integra en el Parque Lineal del Manzanares, con un tratamiento paisajístico más libre. Lago y parque utilizan agua reciclada para su mantenimiento.
Además, las instalaciones cuentan con una estación meteorológica para poder determinar con antelación las condiciones las condiciones atmosféricas y decidir sobre la necesidad de cubrición de las pistas, proceso que tarda en completarse 20 minutos
Citroën Cactus is more than a concept car; it is a manifest of the future models in the C line. Citroën is shifting the paradigm with the new concept car, shedding the superfluous and bringing well-being firmly into the limelight. Citroën Cactus is a desirable, user-friendly car that forges an unprecedented harmony between distinctive yet pragmatic design, comfort for all occupants, and easy-to-use technology.
The Science and User Support Building (SUSB) to the left and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology (KIPAC) building to the right at dusk.
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A couple of years ago I noticed a user trail that intersected Espinosa trail and wound north through the adjacent brush toward the foot of a nearby hill. I noticed it because someone had tried to hide their tracks by dragging something, maybe a branch or blanket, across the trail; the air was still, and I remember studying the slope where the trail disappeared and wondering if someone was up there looking studying me. A couple of months later I explored that trail and found the remains of a small camp huddled around a cluster of boulders hidden in the tall manzanita. I followed the trail up to the edge where it began to descend the other side into Secret Canyon, but I didn't go farther. I had a notion where it came out; during one of my early Secret Canyon hikes I started up a dank path along a steep ravine, a trail designed for people coming down. The day was oppressively hot. The ground was muddy and bees were swarming in the shadow of the bank. Before long I turned around.
Today when I arrived at the trailhead I hadn't quite decided where I'd hike but by the time I reached the valley I was already making mental notes about the user trail, and an hour or so later I was turning onto it. There were no signs anyone had been on the trail recently though occasionally old bits of trash, like the empty Prazolan packing, huddled beneath the bushes. The trail meandered, crossing a couple of gulches, and I had to back track once to find it. The camp beside the boulders was still there. The long-discarded clothes and day-packs were weather-beaten and faded. Wadded up between the roots of a bush was a still shiny black trash bag. From the camp I wandered up to the foot of the hill where short bushes grew from the orange ground. I hiked up the hill and followed the ridge east along a series of saddles and peaks that gradually rose like a dorsal fin. Near the last peak a tree, possibly an elderberry, was in bloom. Its leaves were similar to a laurel sumac's in shape and size but were bright green, not the dusty dark green of the sumac, and were serrated and veined. Its yellow compound flowers were drawing lots of bees. I crushed a leaf but it had no particular smell but the flowers had a gentle nutmeg odor.
Since this was the highest point on the ridge, I took some pictures and started heading back, smelling the nutmeg flowers one last time. Near the west end of the ridge I noticed a long row of breadbox sized rocks that looked as if they had been placed there by hand. I couldn't figure out why. The line didn't seem to go anywhere or mark anything. As I was standing there trying to imagine a reason, I noticed a wasp fly to a spot on the ground close to where I was standing. It then disappeared into a small hole not much wider than the entrance to an ant nest. A moment later the wasp came back out, flew around a little, and then ducked back into the hole. It did this several times. But when I bent down to take a picture, I must have alerted it and it flew off. I waited but it didn't return. So I hiked down the hillside, admiring the sun baked rocks, brown as bread, and the delicate trails that crisscrossing the ground.
When I got to the user trail I turned north and started down the Secret Canyon side. I was more than half expecting the trail to be unpleasant - overgrown, dreary. Instead it was like descending through an arboretum with varieties of trees and bushes shading a beautiful trail that followed the ravine down. There were a few times I had to scramble down rock falls or skulk under an occasional bush but the descent was peaceful and pleasant. After about three quarters of an hour I was nearing the bottom of the slope. The brush receded and a wide strip of knee high green grass carpeted the ground. Fifty yards further on I was standing, once again, on Secret Canyon trail. I turned south and started back along the now familiar ground.
At this point, it occurred to me that there was another ravine that came down from the same ridge to my right and it might have a trail along it too. When I got to the ravine it took me less than a minute to discover the user trail. This ravine was much shorter and gentler and the ground around the trail more open. After twenty minutes I was navigating through moderately sparse chaparral at the top of a saddle. I was once again only a couple of dozen yards above Espinosa trail, though I was now about a half a mile west of where the first user trail was. To my surprise, I heard voices coming from up the trail to my left. Several hundred yards away stood a woman in a bright pink t-shirt looking up at me on the saddle. I skittered down the dusty slope. I could now see there were two women, the other one stood above the first on the side of the trail. I waved to them and then headed down into the valley and home.
Alison Murray took this picture of the sunset behind the Integrated Sciences Complex, which is under construction and set to be open for classes in fall 2014.
Centro de Tenis LA CAJA MÁGICA (THE MAGIC BOX)
Arquitecto: Dominique Perrault: 2003-2005 (Proyecto) 2005-2009 (obras)
El conjunto se sitúa en un arco del río Manzanares, en el distrito de Usera, frente al Poblado de S. Fermín, con accesos por el camino de Perales y la prolongación de la calle de Embajadores dentro de a segunda fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares Sur cuyo plan Director fue proyectado por el arquitecto Ricardo Bofill en 1998, que también se encargó de la ejecución de la primera fase del parque entre 2001 y 2003. El núcleo central de la 2ª fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares es la denominada “Caja Mágica”, una de las actuaciones estelares de la candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2012" para Centro Olímpico de Tenis, según proyecto, ganador del concurso de 2002, del prestigioso arquitecto francés Dominique Perrault. La obra, iniciada en 2005, ralentiza en su ejecución al no designarse Madrid sede olímpica. Se retoman las obras, ante la imposición de los organizadores del Master de Tenis de Madrid, a fin de no perder la organización de tal evento. Definitivamente el complejo se culmina en 2009 y se incorpora a la nueva candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2016"
El conjunto se materializa mediante la conjunción de una serie de elementos arquitectónicos y paisajísticos cuyo bloque central es La Caja Mágica propiamente dicha. El concepto de caja mágica viene dado por su envoltura que se abre y se transforma siguiendo los usos del complejo deportivo, y creando una silueta cambiante y vivaz en el paisaje. Esta piel brillante y vibrante filtra el sol y protege, como una leve muralla, los pabellones deportivos. Caja Mágica que reivindica la arquitectura como envolvente para crear un lugar abierto día y noche, cuya silueta varíe en cada evento. Por sus dimensiones y carácter, puede albergar programas culturales y deportivos, al aire libre o cubiertos. Caja de sorpresas donde se solapan dos mundos, en la cota más baja el de los profesionales del deporte y por encima el público. Su piel móvil, en paneles de vidrio y tejido metálico, filtra de día la luz solar y de noche centellea con matices festivos y luminosos, suaviza vientos dominantes e impide el paso de la lluvia. Sobre un plano de agua los reflejos se multiplican convirtiendo el edificio en un elemento vivo en continuidad con el entorno natural. Las cubiertas móviles suponen un reto estructural, pueden abrirse completamente o quedar entreabiertas para proporcionar una sombra controlada y constante sobre los terrenos de juego. Por ello todas las pistas pueden utilizarse tanto al aire libre como cubiertas total o parcialmente gracias a unos mecanismos que permiten deslizar el techo para abrirlo o levantarlo como si de la tapa de una verdadera caja se tratara, lo que da la posibilidad de que se jueguen hasta tres partidos simultáneos en caso de lluvia, algo que ningún otro torneo en tierra del mundo ofrece. La pista central, llamada “Manolo Santana”, tiene capacidad para 12.500 personas; la segunda, dedicada a Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 3.800 plazas; y la tercera 2.500. Realizada completamente en acero, madera y vidrio, la Caja Mágica garantiza el ahorro energético gracias a su cubierta de malla de acero inoxidable tensada con tapas de aluminio natural. La fachada está recubierta de una malla de acero inoxidable tensada, lo que confiere al edificio un aspecto dinámico y cambiante: de día, reflectante y opaco; de noche, centelleante.
El Edificio de Tenis-Indoor, alojará la Sede Madrileña de la Federación Española de Tenis, y cuenta con 11 canchas de tenis cubiertas que se usaran tanto para el entrenamiento como para la exhibición., escuela de tenis y centro de alto rendimiento con instalaciones adicionales como alojamientos, piscina cubierta, salas de prensa, zonas de restauración… El edificio presenta dos fachadas radicalmente diferentes; la orientada al Camino de Perales, de menor escala, formada por un muro cortina longitudinal, y la opuesta, enfrentada a la Caja Mágica y al Parque, con dos tratamientos, la zona de las pistas de exhibición es también acristalada, pero con la estructura vista, y la de la zona de las pistas de entrenamiento, formada por malla metálica.
La Pasarela forma parte del gran eje central que articula el conjunto y que conecta el Camino de Perales con la prolongación de la calle de Embajadores por encima del río, atravesando la Caja Mágica.
El “Media-Garden”, una estructura de madera laminada en dos plantas situada sobre el lago en un lateral de la Caja, un jardín para los medios de comunicación, durante las grandes competiciones, cuyo objeto es dar cabida tanto a la zona de restauración VIP del complejo, como a los aparcamientos y accesos de las unidades móviles de los medios de comunicación, que se unirá al resto de edificios por una pasarela.
El “Tenis-Garden”: una plataforma con 16 pistas de tenis descubiertas para entrenamiento --doce de tierra batida, dos rápidas y dos de hierba--, que pueden agruparse en ocho o cuatro con espacio para tribunas, además de un extenso aparcamiento. Está conectada mediante pasarelas a la Caja Mágica
El recinto se complementa el Parque de la Ribera que, con su lago de 30.000 metros cuadrados, se integra en el Parque Lineal del Manzanares, con un tratamiento paisajístico más libre. Lago y parque utilizan agua reciclada para su mantenimiento.
Además, las instalaciones cuentan con una estación meteorológica para poder determinar con antelación las condiciones las condiciones atmosféricas y decidir sobre la necesidad de cubrición de las pistas, proceso que tarda en completarse 20 minutos
More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
In Interactive Design 3, students are asked to select from one of three client briefs to develop a social change project. Cherie, Michael and Jay chose to develop a mobile application to assist with earthquake preparedness. The application offers device features, such as RSS, GPS tracking and "bounce location" to sustain user correspondence during disaster relief efforts.
The team divided the roles and responsibilities to tackle strategic review, competitive analysis, moodboards, user experience, information architecture and interactive design.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
URL: User Requirements with Lego, a methodology to elicit user requirements for online communication applications.
Developped at Università della Svizzera italiana.
Based on Lego Serious Play.
Further details at www.webatelier.net/url
once upon a time I knew this person, what an ugly person he turned out to be inside and outside! he is simply a lier, a user and a coward!
Cholera has been endemic in Baraka over the last years. Lake Tanganyika may act as a reservoir for the bacteria. Years of war and absence of government had destroyed the water system and returning refugees had dangerously overcrowded Baraka. From here the bacteria spread along the roads up the coast and in land causing smaller epidemics in Lulimba, Kilembwe and elsewhere.
Late last year UNICEF and www.acted.org with a local NGO CHR and the local water authority started the construction of a 30km piped water system bringing water down from the hills with water fountains across the town. It provides more than 30,000 people with drinking water. Cholera has all but disappeared. MSF is closing down their Cholera Treatment Centre due to lack of patients. Cholera has significantly reduced throughout the territory of Fizi. It has the additional benefit of reducing the distances women and child have to carry 20kg jerricans of water.
The cloth in the girls head is to cushion the weight of the water container.
CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
View the high resolution image on my photo website