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Dock for bigger boats bringing goods and tourists on the Mada islands ... #Madagascar #travel-treasures #docu-style
This sums it up in a few words. In the South, faith, family and football – not necessarily in that order – are like foundation pillars holding the house up.
Value Meal - Bacon, two fried eggs, hash brown, tea or toast ($5.90).
(Two of us had this)
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The Breakfast Club
Time : 7.30am
Date : 22/11/07
Place : Mona's Cafe
Pilgrim House
262 Pitt St
Sydney
Two McFlurries from the local McDonalds, what wonderful value these things are, $8.30 worth of nothing, and I bet I get no response to the email I sent regarding my customer dissatisfaction. Might be the last time this health food shop sees this fat bloke set foot in there.
Picture taken 05/29/24
Value City Furniture | 7767 Mentor Ave, Mentor, OH
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Caniniform pressure values for extant Crocodylia, their phylogenetic distribution, and inferred ancestral character states.
(A) Members of the Alligatoridae are shown in blue, and members of the Crocodylidae+Gavialidae in green. The OLS regression equation describes the weak relationship between body mass and caniniform pressure. Note that slender-snouted piscivorous to semi-piscivorous ecomorphs (Gavialis gangeticus and Crocodylus intermedius, respectively) show exceptionally high-pressure values (outside the 95% confidence interval), and Crocodylus johnsoni shows pressures expected of animals nearly a magnitude in size larger. Other ecomorphs show much lower and similar relative values. The arrow indicates the typical ultimate shear strength of bone. (B) Ancestral character-state reconstruction using squared-change parsimony of size-standardized caniniform pressures. Residual caniniform pressure values are color coded to MPa (squared-change parsimony; squared length = 19.491). Vertical scale is in relative time, with the outgroup/ingroup root arbitrarily set to 1.0. High relative pressures were achieved independently in Crocodylus intermedius, Gavialis gangeticus, and Crocodylus johnsoni. Uncolored branches represent taxa for which the caniniform teeth were shed or broken, and so pressure estimation was not possible.
Waneka Landing, Lafayette, Colorado.
Satellite antenna dish in full view - a violation of the HOA rules.
However, the over-zealous HOA's have been trumped by the US government on satellite dishes. I hope we eventually abolish HOA's totally. Most buyers don't realize just how many of their property rights they give up when moving into an HOA regulated house. Yes, they do some good but it's not worth the loss of freedom. Mostly the dues go to friends of the HOA members who do property management and/or landscaping.
Which is more important to property values? No control so homeowners can do what they please, accepting that sometimes homeowners may do something to reduce the beauty fo the neighborhood? Or tight control like a Stalinist stae where everything is highly regulated by a central committee?
The Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) Program National Conference was held at ILRI in Nairobi 26-27 April 2018 (photo credit:USAID).
This airport is no longer, having succumbed to high local real-estate values. It was a great place to photograph "dead" airplanes - abandoned and derelict aircraft.
SmaRT-Ethiopia project workshop on developing intervention packages for small ruminant value chain target sites - ILRI, Ethiopia 19 – 20 April (Photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu)
Pewter was used and valued by the Chinese long before it appeared in Europe. Pewter is an alloy of tin and lead. It is soft and can be easily shaped, engraved and stamped. In China, pewter was used for keeping water hot in kettles and serving food, wine and tea. During the 19th century, Yixing clay was added as an interior liner for pewter teapots.
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was originally illegal in China, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders.
It was common to offer a pinch of snuff as a way to greet friends and relatives. Snuff bottles soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent status. The highest status went to whoever had the rarest and finest snuff bottle.
8. Teapot with lizard lid
ca. 20th century
Pewter
97.40.45
9. Lotus leaf dish with rooster
ca. 20th century
Porcelain
79.17.5d
I have been working on an image of M42 to figure out how to isolate the individual wavelengths of the Narrow band filters and combine to show the discrete parts of the nebula.
When we take an image using a narrow band filter with a monochrome camera, all it knows are values from 0-255 (8 bit) or 0-65536 (16 bit) brightness values.
Since each filter isolates a particular wavelength by being a narrow bandpass filter we should only get what is say, Ha, OIII, Hb, SII and so one. And we do. However, each discrete point of light at a particular wavelength from a filter will quite possibly be occupying the same point in space as another discrete point of light at a different wavelength or color.
The question then becomes what is the contribution (concentration of an element at each point in space (nebula).
For this, I decided to use a weighting formula in PixInsight to determine the amount of contribution of a particular filter to each point in space. I did this because at say x0,y0 Ha filter gives a brightness value of say 200, OIII filter gives 225, and Hb filter gives 128.
By using the following equation one can determine the contribution amount of a filter to each point in space. Then the resultant set of images now "weighted" for their contributions to a particular emission line can be combined into a "false" color rgb image to show the structure of the nebula better. Or so the thought goes.
One caveat in PixInisght is that the resultant image was "bright" (no stretch applied) so an additional operation was done where the resultant images were each divided by 100.
Following is the resultant image. No noise reduction a quick stretch using Masked stretch and Histogram curves and a run thru curves.
By doing this the main contribution to different parts of the nebula would be due to the particular emission associated with a particular filter.
The mapping is thus: R = Modified Ha, G = Modified OIII, B = Modified Hb.
If the hypothesis is correct, the bluish background and deep blues etc are primarilay Hb, greens are OIII (kind of makes sense where new stars are formed?) and then R = modified Ha.
There is still a lot of work to prove this out, but in a sense it should be correct as the same methodolgy/equaiton is used in engineering to determine the contributions of a stack of material like Aluminium, Steel, Brass as an example. The equation can be based on area and modulus of the material or on the 2nd moment of area and modulus of the material. In this manner then the contribution to the bending or axial stiffness can be determined for each material making up that stackup.
Using the same methodology, for the contribution of an emission at a particular point in space can be done. The equation is:
(Ha/(Ha+OIII+Hb))/100, (OIII/(Ha+OIII+Hb))/100, (Ha/(Hb+OIII+Hb))/100. Dividing by 100 only scales the resultant individual pixel brightness for PixInsight to be able to more adequately perform typical stretching, etc.
It should be noted too that the operations are performed on linear images in PixelMath, no rescaling and no truncation so that the actual raw data is operated on.
The resultant image is a bit unsettling for a color pallet however, the goal was more scientific than in producing an image to put on a wall. The stars were removed, but effort was not made to ensure 100% of stars were removed. A final step could be to add the stars back in.
The image is unusual enough it might work on a wall.
This is a work in progress and as such has not been vetted.
Tom Otterness has long been one of my favorite artists (here too: this is part of the Value of Food exhibit at St. John the Divine
"outstanding service in the coolest Riad"
Thoroughly enjoyed our 3 night stay. The staff treated us brilliantly. For example, the owner insisted on calling his family doctor, who did a house call to the Riad to care for my wife who suffered a bee sting. The staff also spent an hour setting up the Ireland/France world cup qualifier on the TV (although unfortunately couldn't influence the result!) The rooms were spotless and decorated in a very trendy African theme. We had two dinners there, both scrumptious, and we got great recommendations from the owner on the things to see in Marrakech (incl. a fun cooking class). All in all, the Riad is a wonderful balance to an often hectic city and I will certainly be directing friends and family this way
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Governor Rick Perry speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
FT. Buchanan, PR – “We are here to honor Col. Miguel A. Isaac as he takes off the uniform of military he has served for the past 35 years. Today, we say good bye to a value leader who has served with honor and distinction throughout a long and successful career, military and civilian.” said Brig. Gen. José R. Burgos, U.S. Army Reserve in Puerto Rico Commanding General on his opening remarks on the Retirement Ceremony of Col. Miguel A. Isaac, Deputy Commander and Commander Executive Officer (CXO) of the 1st Mission Support Command (1st MSC) on 11 Jan.
The Military retirement ceremonies give the opportunities to friends, colleagues and others to thank the retiring Soldiers for his service and sacrifice made during his career. In this occasion, the 1st MSC hold a very special ceremony to Col. Isaac while he prepares to take a rest of the military life after 35 year when he was commissioned on June 1979 as Signal Officer.
“Since 1979 Miguel understood that the military will deal in an environment that is full of changes and surprises, it is for that reason that adaption and flexibility are keys to success. With your leadership the 1st MSC is one of the top commands of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, and I thank you for that. Throughout all you career, you set the example for your people and inspired their confidence. You gave them the right tools, push them forward and got out their way so they could do their best work, and they have.” add Brig. Gen. Burgos on his remark and extending his gratitude also to Ms. Sandra Isaac, Miguel Jr. and Alexandra, Col. Isaac family.
Col. Isaac was responsible for the direct supervision of two subordinates’ elements consisting of two Regional Support Groups and the 1st MSC Headquarters. He was responsible for all aspects of command, with emphasis on providing ready units and trained Soldiers capable of performing their wartime missions. His focus areas include Soldier mobilization, recruitment, retention, readiness, safety, and the Family Readiness Program. Since June, 2002, Mr. Isaac serves as CXO of the 1st MSC, US Army Reserve in Puerto Rico. The 1st MSC is a command of over 3,900 Soldiers covering the entire island of Puerto Rico and Saint Thomas, V.I. Mr. Isaac served as primary advisor and consultant to the Commander on policy matters relative to various phases of Army Reserve Program and other missions of the command.
“I am retiring but my legacy will continue. Is being a journey of 35 years, I have visited many countries and meet different people. Coming for a very humble childhood I never thought about being here today, retiring as US Army Colonel in this fine Army that have given me and my family so much, that I am so grateful to serve my country. As a baby-boomer all good thing has come to an end, and start a new way of life. I hope and I wish you all have a bless life like I have, and you do your most and best in all your endeavors. How I will like to be remembered? Very simple, that I placed my missions first, that I was part of a team but I also like to have fun. It was all about the Soldiers, it was not about me. I have to say goodbye, but goodbyes are not forever, that’s only means that I will miss you until we meet again. I salute you all.” said Col. Isaac on his final remarks as he thank the Soldiers, the civilian force, family and friends to support him during his career.