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An active hunter, the female Nursery Web spider spins web to protect her young as they are about to hatch to protect them until they are able to venture out alone. She will carry the egg-sac in her fangs before they hatch.
They are a widespread species and are a relatively large spider, (1.5cm long body), closely related to the rarer Raft spider; they can be spotted sunbathing in brambles or on nettles.
So here is my Savers find Sindy, which I found has an Active Body with an extra piece in her torso to pose better. It results in cute looking stomach rolls on her so i like it haha.
The annoying thing is though, I’ve found *nothing* on how to replace her hands online and I’m kind of worried since she’s pretty much mint otherwise, and is one of the better looking vintage dolls I’ve restored.
I’ll eventually get around to photographing all of my british made dolls when I get my other Sindy from home.
Active Assignment Weekly: Cinematic Photography
A cinematic photo is one which looks like a frame taken from a movie. There are no definite rules, but a cinematic photo should present some strong mood or emotion (happy, sad, fear, love, etc.), and tell some kind of story to the viewer.
Restriction: The photo must be in landscape orientation (like a movie frame might be) - e.g. 4:3 or 16:9 ratio.
WIT: Tried to get my model to look contemplative and moody, alas, this is what I got. I'm thinking some sort of teen angst/coming-of-age film. Queue the sappy music...Straightened and cropped with adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation (only slightly).
Active Pass is a narrow passage separating Mayne Island and Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada's Southern Gulf Islands. It is one of three passes leading from the Gulf Islands into the Strait of Georgia. The pass stretches 5.5 km from northeast to southwest with two roughly right angle bends.
It was named for the Active, a United States survey vessel, the first steamer to navigate the pass in 1855.
Currently, the pass is used by BC Ferries' passenger and vehicle ferry runs between B.C.'s Lower Mainland, the southern Gulf Islands and Swartz Bay on southern Vancouver Island. Because the Pass is so narrow, the ferries pass very close to the sides. It is also used by pleasure craft, fishing boats, freighters and freight ferries, making it very 'active' commercially as well. However, strong eddies and rip currents are always present in the pass, making it a hazardous corridor for smaller vessels to transit. A variety of wildlife may be seen in the pass, including harbour seals, sea lions, and bald eagles.
Airports are all about transportation and Economy Class for me. On this day, however, I witnessed a transporting of one reality to another. The Economy waiting area transported me to the Executive Lounge dimension. It's champagne and jumbo shrimp until departure!
An active 4Her in livestock and meat judging competitions, Jerri Parker started her cow herd in high school with land rented from a neighbor. She now operates a diversified farm in Cromwell, Oklahoma, with hoop houses, vegetables, chickens, eggs, and beef. And over the years, the farm's "GJ Natural Beef" has been sold at local health food stores, farmers markets, Oklahoma Food Coop, and in her on farm store.
Jerri passed her 4H experience and passion for farming on to Calvan, her youngest child, who was managing over 300 laying hens by high school graduation - now a part of the family farm. A mom and retired teacher, Jerri now invests time in farming watermelons and cantaloupes for a Farm to School program. She is working with the USDA Natural Resources Service to contruct a 30 x 96 foot hoop house to expand the Farm to School program produce.
Jerri says: “I want folks to ‘know their farmer.’ To truly know the person raising your food, know their practices, know their values. With this farmer, (pointing to herself) you become part of my family."
USDA photo by Preston Keres
Maker: Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876) and Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826-1900)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: salted paper print from an albumen on glass negative
Size: 7 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in
Location:
Object No. 2018.355bn
Shelf: N-9
Publication: Charles Blanc, L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt reproduit par la photographie, Gide, Librarie-Editeur, Paris, 1853-57
Other Collections: NYPL, Rijksmuseum, BNF,
Notes: L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt, reproduit par photographie represents a somewhat less traditional choice of subject. Although Rembrandt's etchings and paintings were rediscovered in the 1840s, thanks to the writings of Thore-Burger and the works of the Barbizon school, they did not command the high prices of a Raphael or Rubens, or even an Ingres or Wilkie. The etchings that Blanc selected were even less appreciated, except by a small group of peintures-graveurs and collectors who later formed the Societe des Aquafortistes. Blanc must have convinced Gide et Baudry, a well-known firm specializing in luxuriously illustrated travel books, to edit the work and turned to Lemercier et Compagnie to produce prints from Bisson's negatives. (Anne McCauley, Industrial Madness, pg 272)
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In recent decades, developments in software and hardware technologies have created dramatic shifts in design, manufacturing and research. Software technologies have facilitated automated process and new solutions for complex problems. Computation has also become a platform for creativity through generative art and design. New hardware platforms and digital fabrication technologies have similarly transformed manufacturing, offering more efficient production and mass customization. Such advances have helped catalyzed the maker-movement, democratizing design and maker culture. This influx of new capabilities to design, compute and fabricate like never before, has sparked a renewed interest in material performance.
We are now witnessing significant advances in active matter, 3D/4D Printing, materials science, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology and soft robotics, which have led to the convergence of software, hardware and material technologies and the growing field of programmable materials.
This conference was about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications.
If over the past few decades we have experienced a software revolution, and more recently, a hardware revolution, this conference aims to discuss the premises, challenges and innovations brought by today’s materials revolution. We can now sense, compute, and actuate with materials alone, just as we could with software and hardware platforms previously. How does this shift influence materials research, and how does it shape the future of design, arts, and industrial applications? What tools and design processes do we need to advance, augment and invent new materials today? What are the key roles that industry, government, academic and public institutions can play in catalyzing the field of programmable materials?
This two-day conference consisted of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Learn more at activemattersummit.com
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Special Olympics Tasmania athletes were delighted to take part in the Active Launceston Expo on February 2009.
Athletes invited expo attendees to “come and try” sporting activitiesgiving people a first hand opportunity to see what those with intellectual disabilities regularly achieve in the sporting arena.
Hawthorn Football Club players were amongst those testing their skills under the direction of the Special Olympics athletes & volunteers.
Combatting teenage inactivity: Innovative project assesses whether giving teenagers activity vouchers can improve their health
I decided to take a look into how Active D-Lighting Works by doing a little reverse engineering. I read the color curves directly out the NX2 processing engine, decoded them, and did a mathematical comparison with a baseline set of curves . . . This graph shows the deltas from the baseline represented by the dotted red line. The actual process is more complex than this simple illustration. This is just a snapshot of the extent of the Luminance (L*) transforms. To do it right you have to walk through all 1024 color curves one at a time during the demosaicing process. Discussion
Active D-Lighting tends to increase the color intensity (higher chroma) more than it reduces the intensity. These curves represent "Bias Factors" that are applied to the image when you turn on any level of Active D-Lighting. These "Bias Factors" are applied during the demosaicing process.
The High - Normal - Low settings are applied via a 3 different scale factors that are applied with the gamma curve. They are quite extreme on the shadows and fade off to almost nothing for the highlights.
An active shooter exercise was held on May 28 at the Camp Zama Community Activity Center. All buildings on the Camp Zama and Sagamihara Family Housing Area installations, gates and facilities were closed as part of the exercise. (U.S. Army photos by Yuichi Imada)
Active Assignment Weekly: April 18 - April 25: Pour Me a Drank!
(No it's not a typo...read it with a "ghetto" twang ;-)
The assignment is to take a photo of a drink. Alcoholic, non-alcoholic, hot, cold, shaken, or stirred, just make it pretty! I have had a few submissions lately that have really given me a love for this type of photography, and I hope to spread that love!
Restriction: Keep it simple, with no distracting elements that don't tie in with your drink. This means NO human element (not even a hand!)
Dare: Make it ad worthy!
WIT: This is the end of the second batch of home brew... White muslin backdrop, natural light to the right, slave front and left, second slave overhead to light the backdrop (f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO 100). CS4 adjustments to blur the non-ironed muslin, curves for contrast, noise reduction, sharpened, resized. DRANK THE SUBJECT.