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A processing example showing the power of Lightroom 4 Beta's dynamic range control. One of the things that both DxO Optics and Capture One has improved in the recent years is control over this.
more about this on my Blog:
frontallobbings.blogspot.com/2012/01/lightroom-4-beta.html
This was also shot with the Samyang 14mm and Lens Correction profile applied to it if you do a before and after comparison, you'll see the distortion correction has been applied.
Beta ayakkabı modelleri
Ayakkabı modelleri, marka bazlı seçim yapılabilecek bir konudur. Yani diyebiliriz ki tüm markalar kendine has bir tarza bir çizgiye sahiptir. İlk olarak beta ayakkabı modelleri ile başladığımız ayakkabı modelleri araştırması sırasında fark ettiğimiz ilk şey tüm markaların ...
Doing some test work for the elder scrolls online game that's due in a few weeks. It has some good looks :)
A Lancia Beta 2000 HPE at the Oldtimermarkt Bockhorn.
© Dennis Matthies
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Banbaro Beta Armor, Monster Hutner World Photographer: A.Z.Production Cosplay Photography (instagram.com/azproductioncosp) Cosplayer and armor: Frekya (www.instagram.com/frekya/); Hammer: Lux Cosplay (www.instagram.com/lux_lisa_/);
Un altre vehicle peculiar de Plana, un dels pocs autocars del carrosser portuguès Salvador Caetano, es tracta del nº 193, un Pegaso 5231 Caetano Beta de 1990.
Otro vehículo peculiar de Plana, uno de los pocos autocares del carrocero portugués Caetano, se trata del nº193, un Pegaso 5231 Caetano Beta de 1990.
Another one-off at Plana: it is nº 193, a Pegaso 5231 Caetano Beta dating from 1990.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, the Zarb School of Business Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma awarded the 2014 Chapter Honoree to Larry Roman, CEO of WDF, Inc. Mr. Roman is a graduate of Hofstra University where he received a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. He has more than 30 years of experience in the mechanical construction industry in estimating, purchasing, and executive management. The Theta Chapter was proud to acknowledge Larry Roman as he is also a terrific example of someone who embodies the principles of Beta Gamma Sigma. Mr. Roman has demonstrated these ideals through his work and his philanthropic activities, some of which include the Rapid Repair projects following Superstorm Sandy. Mr. Roman is also an active alum who generously devotes both his time and financial resources to Hofstra University.
Photographer: Dan Wright '15
Description: "Gamma Phi Beta" with balloons. A chapter of Gamma Phi Beta sorority existed at NDAC/NDSU from 1930-1992.
Date of Original: n.d.
Item Number: Artifacts.G.18
Ordering Information: library.ndsu.edu/archives/collections-institute/photograp...
A “cat's tail” appears wrapped around this planetary system in the making.
The Beta Pictoris planetary system is made up of two dusty disks of debris (asteroid, comet, and planet-forming fragments). Thanks to Webb, scientists have discovered a new structure, a tail of dust extending from the secondary disk.
Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) was crucial for detecting the cat’s tail, as it was not revealed at near-infrared wavelengths. MIRI also revealed that the material of the secondary disk and the cat’s tail is hotter than that of the primary disk.
In this image, a coronagraph (the black circle and bar) has been used to block the light of the central star. The scale bar shows that the disks of Beta Pictoris extend for hundreds of astronomical units (AU). (One AU is the average Earth-Sun distance: 93 million miles, or 150 million km.)
Researchers theorize the cat's tail is the result of a dust production event, such as a collision, that occurred about a hundred years ago. They estimate the amount of dust within the cat’s tail to be equivalent to a large main belt asteroid, spread out across 10 billion miles!
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/47u080u
This image: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has imaged star system Beta Pictoris. Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) enabled a team of astronomers to investigate the composition of Beta Pic’s main and secondary debris disks—the latter feature previously detected by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Unexpectedly, Webb’s infrared capabilities detected a new feature of the Beta Pic system: a curvy branch of dust that resembles the shape of a cat’s tail. This tail, only noticeable in the MIRI data, extends from the southwest portion of the secondary debris disk and is estimated to span 10 billion miles.
The dust that forms the tail may be similar to the matter found on the surfaces of comets and asteroids in our solar system. Further analysis is required to understand the origins of the cat’s tail, though the team believes a dust production event—such as a collision between asteroids, comets, or planetesimals—is responsible.
A coronagraph (black circle and two small disks) has been used to block the light of the central star, whose location is marked with a white star shape. In this image, light at 15.5 microns is colored cyan and 23 microns is orange (filters F1550C and F2300C, respectively).
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Stark and K. Lawson (NASA GSFC), J. Kammerer (ESO), and M. Perrin (STScI)
Image description: Star system Beta Pictoris. A thin, elongated horizontal orange line appears at the center of the frame, extending almost to the edges. This is a debris disk seen edge-on. A thin blue-green disk is inclined about five degrees counterclockwise relative to the orange main disk. Cloudy, translucent gray material is most prominent near the orange main debris disk. Some of the gray material forms a curved feature in the upper right, resembling a cat’s tail. The central star, represented as a small white star icon, is blocked by an instrument known as a coronagraph, which forms a large black circle at center and two small disks pointing to the upper left and lower right. The background of space is black.
Former Alpha Beta supermarket at 570 Magnolia Ave in Larkspur, CA. Alpha Beta opened November, 1972. It was later Lucky-Albertson's-Lucky.
Slot air diffusers.
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (42). In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. The Ultimate Question itself is unknown. When asked to produce The Ultimate Question, Deep Thought says that it cannot; however, it can help to design an even more powerful computer, the Earth, that can. The programmers then embark on a further ten-million-year program to discover The Ultimate Question. This new computer will incorporate living beings in the "computational matrix", with the pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of mice. The process is hindered after eight million years by the unexpected arrival on Earth of the Golgafrinchans and then is ruined completely, five minutes before completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. This is later revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life became known. Lacking a real question, the mice decide not to go through the whole thing again and settle for the out-of-thin-air suggestion "How many roads must a man walk down?" from Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind". At the end of the radio series (and television series, as well as the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) Arthur Dent, having escaped the Earth's destruction, potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain. He attempts to discover The Ultimate Question by extracting it from his brainwave patterns, as abusively suggested by Ford Prefect, when a Scrabble-playing caveman spells out forty two. Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe" Six times nine is, of course, fifty-four. The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly, but the unexpected arrival of the Golgafrinchans on prehistoric Earth caused input errors into the system—computing (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule) the wrong question—the question in Arthur's subconscious being invalid all along. Quoting Fit the Seventh of the radio series, on Christmas Eve, 1978: Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Some readers subsequently noticed that 613 × 913 = 4213 (using base 13). Douglas Adams later joked about this observation, saying, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." In Life, the Universe and Everything, Prak, a man who knows all that is true, confirms that 42 is indeed The Answer, and confirms that it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known about in the same universe (compare the uncertainty principle) as they will cancel each other out and take the Universe with them to be replaced by something even more bizarre (as described in the first theory) and that it may have already happened (as described in the second). Though the question is never found, 42 is shown as the table number at which Arthur and his friends sit when they arrive at Milliways at the end of the radio series. Likewise, Mostly Harmless ends when Arthur stops at a street address identified by his cry of, "There, number 42!" and enters the club Beta, owned by Stavro Mueller (Stavromula Beta). Shortly after, the earth is destroyed in all existing incarnations. The number 42 Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed, including the fact that 42 is 101010 in binary code, the fact that light refracts off water by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, the fact that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. Adams rejected them all. On November 3, 1993, he gave an answer on alt.fan.douglas-adams: The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story. Adams described his choice as 'a completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven. In fact it's the sort of number that you could without any fear introduce to your parents'. While 42 was a number with no hidden meaning, Adams explained in more detail in an interview with Iain Johnstone of BBC Radio 4 (recorded in 1998 though never broadcast) to celebrate the first radio broadcast's 20th anniversary. Having decided it should be a number, he tried to think what an "ordinary number" should be. He ruled out non-integers, then he remembered having worked as a "prop-borrower" for John Cleese on his Video Arts training videos. Cleese needed a funny number for the punchline to a sketch involving a bank teller (himself) and a customer (Tim Brooke-Taylor). Adams believed that the number that Cleese came up with was 42 and he decided to use it. Adams also had written a sketch for The Burkiss Way called "42 Logical Positivism Avenue", broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 12 January 1977[10] – 14 months before the Hitchhiker's Guide first broadcast "42" in fit the fourth, 29 March 1978. In January 2000, in response to a panelist's "Where does the number 42 come from?" on the radio show "Book Club" Adams explained that he was "on his way to work one morning, whilst still writing the scene, and was thinking about what the actual answer should be. He eventually decided that it should be something that made no sense whatsoever- a number, and a mundane one at that. And that is how he arrived at the number 42, completely at random." Stephen Fry, a friend of Adams, claims that Adams told him "exactly why 42", and that the reason is "fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious." However, Fry says that he has vowed not to tell anyone the secret, and that it must go with him to the grave. John Lloyd, Adams' collaborator on The Meaning of Liff and two Hitchhiker's fits, said that Douglas has called 42 "the funniest of the two-digit numbers." The number 42 also appears frequently in the work of Lewis Carroll, and some critics have suggested that this was an influence. Other purported Carroll influences include that Adams named the episodes of the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "fits", the word Carroll used to name the chapters of The Hunting of the Snark. There is the persistent tale that forty-two is actually Adams' tribute to the indefatigable paperback book, and is really the average number of lines on an average page of an average paperback book. On the Internet The number 42 and the phrase, "Life, the universe, and everything" have attained cult status on the Internet. "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question. If you type the answer to life the universe and everything into Google (without quotes or capitalising the small words), the Google Calculator will give you 42, as will Wolfram's Computational Knowledge Engine. Similarly, if you type the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything into DuckDuckGo, the 0-click box will read "42".[19] In the online community Second Life, there is a section on a sim called "42nd Life." It is devoted to this concept in the book series, and several attempts at recreating Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, were made. In the OpenOffice.org software, if you type into any cell of a spreadsheet =ANTWORT("Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest"), which means the answer to life, the universe and everything, the result is 42.[20] ISO/IEC 14519-2001/ IEEE Std 1003.5-1999, IEEE Standard for Information Technology - POSIX(R) Ada Language Interfaces - Part 1: Binding for System Application Program Interface (API) , uses the number '42' as the required return value from a process that terminates due to an unhandled exception. The Rationale says "the choice of the value 42 is arbitrary" and cites the Adams book as the source of the value. The random seed chosen to procedurally create the whole universe including all the regions, constellations, stars, planets, moons and mineral distribution of the online massively multi-player computer game EVE Online was chosen as 42 by its lead game designer in 2002. Cultural references The Allen Telescope Array, a radio telescope used by SETI, has 42 dishes in homage to the Answer. In the TV show Lost, 42 is the last of the mysterious numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. In an interview with Lostpedia, producer David Fury confirmed this was a reference to Hitchhiker's. The TV show The Kumars at No. 42 is so named because show creator Sanjeev Bhaskar is a Hitchhiker's fan.[24] The band Coldplay's album Viva la Vida includes a song called "42". When asked by Q magazine if the song's title was Hitchhiker's-related, Chris Martin said, "It is and it isn't." The band Level 42 chose its name in reference to the book. The episode "42" of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who was named in reference to the Answer. Writer Chris Chibnall acknowledged that "it's a playful title". Ken Jennings, defeated along with Brad Rutter in a Jeopardy match against IBM's Watson, writes that Watson's avatar which appeared on-screen for those games showed 42 "threads of thought," and that the number was chosen in reference to this meme.
A short-lived operator in Glasgow, Beta Buses ran a sightseeing tour using a fleet of unreliable DMS Fleetlines bought from Big Bus Company, London. Big Bus had used the Fleetlines as static ticket stalls, so stop-start was beyond them. A B20 version loads in George Square.
A “cat's tail” appears wrapped around this planetary system in the making.
The Beta Pictoris planetary system is made up of two dusty disks of debris (asteroid, comet, and planet-forming fragments). Thanks to Webb, scientists have discovered a new structure, a tail of dust extending from the secondary disk.
Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) was crucial for detecting the cat’s tail, as it was not revealed at near-infrared wavelengths. MIRI also revealed that the material of the secondary disk and the cat’s tail is hotter than that of the primary disk.
In this image, a coronagraph (the black circle and bar) has been used to block the light of the central star. The scale bar shows that the disks of Beta Pictoris extend for hundreds of astronomical units (AU). (One AU is the average Earth-Sun distance: 93 million miles, or 150 million km.)
Researchers theorize the cat's tail is the result of a dust production event, such as a collision, that occurred about a hundred years ago. They estimate the amount of dust within the cat’s tail to be equivalent to a large main belt asteroid, spread out across 10 billion miles!
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/48OMi9Q
This image: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has imaged star system Beta Pictoris. Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) enabled a team of astronomers to investigate the composition of Beta Pic’s main and secondary debris disks—the latter feature previously detected by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Unexpectedly, Webb’s infrared capabilities detected a new feature of the Beta Pic system: a curvy branch of dust that resembles the shape of a cat’s tail. This tail, only noticeable in the MIRI data, extends from the southwest portion of the secondary debris disk and is estimated to span 10 billion miles.
The dust that forms the tail may be similar to the matter found on the surfaces of comets and asteroids in our solar system. Further analysis is required to understand the origins of the cat’s tail, though the team believes a dust production event—such as a collision between asteroids, comets, or planetesimals—is responsible.
A coronagraph (black circle and two small disks) has been used to block the light of the central star, whose location is marked with a white star shape. In this image, light at 15.5 microns is colored cyan and 23 microns is orange (filters F1550C and F2300C, respectively).
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Stark and K. Lawson (NASA GSFC), J. Kammerer (ESO), and M. Perrin (STScI)
Image description: Star system Beta Pictoris with labels and graphic overlays. A thin, elongated horizontal orange line appears at the center of the frame, extending almost to the edges. This is a debris disk seen edge-on. A white line traces over the orange debris disk and is labeled “main disk plane.” A thin blue-green disk is inclined about five degrees counterclockwise relative to the orange main disk and is highlighted by a blue-green line labeled “extended secondary disk.” Cloudy, translucent gray material is most prominent near the orange main debris disk. Some of the gray material forms a curved feature in the upper right and is marked with a yellow line labeled “cat’s tail.” The central star, represented as a small white star icon, is blocked by an instrument known as a coronagraph, which forms a large black circle at center and two small disks pointing to the upper left and lower right. The background of space is black. In the lower right corner is a white bar labeled “100 A U.”
Taken for the Active Assignment Weekly! group. This month's assignment: Tell A Joke
I know, I do have a strange humor...
What it took: The purposes of this picture were two things. First I had this "joke" in mind for a very long time and always wanted to realize it someday. Second I wanted to do some intensive photoshopping that would keep me up half a night like in the old days. Well, achieved both. This picture is a composite of ten layers. Maybe I will upload the original later but for now I can tell you what is real about the shot: me, the stains on the shirt (soy sauce and ketchup) although the color was "enhanced", the tattoo (it is a pain in the a## to add such a thing in photoshop so my wife had to use the black marker, which by the way could not be removed for three days...) and my expression. What is not real: the background (too embarassed to go out dressed like this), the bruises (suffering for art may be noble but there is a fine line between dedication and insanity), the hit marks on my knuckles, the vignette, the shadow and the background blur.