View allAll Photos Tagged differences,
A self-portrait. I wanted to emphasize my natural heterochromia (different coloured eyes) so I photoshopped a bit. The brown eye is basically natural and the hazel eye has been enhanced. The close cropping was done in part for drama and in part so I wouldn't have to deal with editing my acne-stricken forehead.
Best viewed large and on black.
Please note that unlike the rest of my photos, this is all rights reserved. Therefore, please don't download, modify, redistribute, etc.
Difference Engine: Accumulator II
23 February - 23 March 2013
Difference Engine is an evolving touring exhibition by artists Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge and Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung.
More than 100 Soldiers, Civilians, Retirees and Family Members joined Korean volunteers today for the second annual Humphreys Make a Difference Day at Deog Dong San Park in Pyeongtaek.
The volunteers spent the morning picking up trash, raking leaves and conducting beautification projects under the watchful eyes of the Pyeongtaek City Parks and Greenbelt Management Division.
Following the work the volunteers enjoyed lunch, a performance by the ShinHan Middle School traditional dance team and a post-work awards ceremony.
U.S. Army photos by Bob McElroy
Divergent: tending to be different or developing in different directions. I wanted to use this word but unfortunately with busy schedules today, luck was on my side when I found this lovely shot of my Tribe.
This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan is the only other place in the solar system that we know has stable liquid on its surface, though its lakes are made of liquid ethane and methane rather than liquid water. While there is one large lake and a few smaller ones near Titan's south pole, almost all of Titan's lakes appear near the moon's north pole.
Scientists mapped near-infrared colors onto the visible color spectrum. Red in this image was assigned a wavelength of 5 microns (10 times longer than visible light), green 2.0 microns (four times longer than visible light), and blue 1.3 microns (2.6 times longer than visible light).
The orange areas are thought to be evaporite -- the Titan equivalent of salt flats on Earth. The evaporated material is thought to be organic chemicals originally from Titan's haze particles that once dissolved in liquid methane. They appear orange in this image against the greenish backdrop of Titan's typical bedrock of water ice.
In this mosaic, Kraken Mare, which is Titan's largest sea and covers about the same area as Earth's Caspian Sea and Lake Superior combined, can be seen spreading out with many tendrils on the upper right,. The big dark zone up and left of Kraken is Ligeia Mare, the second largest sea. Below Ligeia, shaped similar to a sports fan's foam finger that points just up from left, is Punga Mare, the third largest Titan Sea. Numerous other smaller lakes dot the area. Titan's north pole is located in the geographic location just above the end of the "finger" of Punga Mare.
The annotated version of this image highlights a high-resolution strip and shows the north pole marked with a red cross. Other smaller lakes are also labeled.
An unannotated version is also available.
The data shown here were obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during a close flyby of Titan on Sept. 12, 2013.
Until now, the spectrometer has only been able to capture distant, oblique or partial views of this area. The Sept. 12, 2013, flyby provided better viewing geometry. And sunlight has begun to pierce the winter darkness that shrouded Titan's north pole at the time of Cassini's arrival in the Saturn system nine years ago. A thick cap of haze that once hung over the north pole has also dissipated as northern summer approaches. And, thankfully, Titan's beautiful, almost cloudless, rain-free weather continued during this flyby.
The resolution varies across this composite view depending on when each cube of data was acquired, but the best surface sampling is 2 miles (3 kilometers) per pixel.
Views of this area by other Cassini instruments include PIA17471, PIA17472, PIA17473 and PIA14584 from the imaging science subsystem; and PIA10008 and PIA17031 from the radar mapper. An earlier VIMS view can be seen at PIA16845.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. VIMS operations are based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit www.nasa.gov/cassini and saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
There’s a difference between love and like, wrong and right. Never run if you’re not ready to step and never forgive if you’re not ready to forget.
She is: Beatriz Sánchez.
Sherwood Forest
Canon EOS 5D Mark III + Canon EF 100mm f2.8 L IS USM Macro, 1/20 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100
October 28, the BLM hosted the 16th annual National Public Lands Day/ Make A Difference Day at the Fort Ord National Monument in Monterey County, California. The volunteer event was co-hosted by the U.S. Army, California State Parks, FORT Friends and the Monterey Off-Road Cycling Association. About 75 volunteers from around the region helped out with trail maintenance, acorn collection, habitat restoration, trailhead maintenance and picnic table construction. The volunteer event was part of a centennial celebration on the monument in recognition of the Army's acquisition of 15,000 acres of the Gigling Reservation in 1917 that eventually became part of the former Fort Ord.
Photo by Tammy Jakl, BLM.
Gloucester Township residents spend some time on Make A Difference Day to clean up the new Camden County Greenhouses located in Gloucester Township, NJ.
Here is one example, where non-hardened (actually it is hardened, but insufficiently) are equally illuminated, equally processed - only difference is after-exposure thermal treatment.
Laser 50 mW @450 nm, exposure time 3 minutes, dark reaction 2 minutes, hardening time 3 minutes, running water (clearing out dichromate) 3 minute or more, water bath 1 minute at 28C, IPA baths: each 15 seconds; 50%, 70%, 100%, 100% (last one hot). Drying with hair drier for about 5 minutes after last IPA alcohol bath.
Whole scene moves toward UV of the spectra due too much emulsion shrinkage. Later will see whether it is possible to correct this problem.
So far, I am focused to get clear emulsion after treatment, and seems that I am going into right direction. Out there are other ways to harden emulsion by some chemistry, but seems that thermal hardening working very well.
Edit: Sorry for poor image quality - due to MPG compression.
The right fire extinguisher training can make a difference
Story and photo by Park, Min-Jin
minjin.park@korea.army.mil
DAEGU GARRISON — A fire extinguisher is a good thing to have around. But, if you don’t know how to use it, it’s useless. If you know what to do, then there’s a good chance you can make a difference. To help that process along, members from around the U.S. Army Garrison Daegu community were provided training by the USAG Daegu Fire Department, Oct. 24 in the Camp Henry Theater.
With the focus on using fire extinguishers to put out small fires, Deputy Fire Chief Andrew Allen posed a question to those attending the training.
“What’s the first thing to do, if there is a fire?” he queried. “Yell, fire, fire fire. Get everybody get out of the area. The next you want to do is call me. The third thing, you want to do if you are trained and feel comfortable, is grab the fire extinguisher and put out the fire. You also want to make sure you have an escape route, and to your back is an accessible exit so you can escape.”
Properly operating the fire extinguisher is crucial to fire safety.
“The first thing to do is pull the pin,” said Allen. “You should next aim at the base of the fire, and squeeze the handle—sweeping one side to the other—left to right, and from front to back.
“In sweeping, what we have to do is like a broom pushing water. It will be like pushing a cloud of dry chemicals over fire, and putting it out.”
“This training was very useful,” said CW2 Etta Mensah, supply systems technician at the 19th ESC and training participant. “This was my first time ever using a fire extinguisher and it was a great hands-on experience. I think it was good training because a lot of times we just look at slides. It’s a very different thing when you are actually involved in the activity.”
With the holidays fast approaching, fire safety and fire extinguishers become of even greater significance.
“Reading the instructions on the fire extinguisher is extremely important because different fire extinguishers fight different types of fires,” Allen said. “We have three basic kinds, A, B, C. ‘A’ is for trash, paper fire. ‘B’ is for flammable gas. ‘C’ is for electricity. We have also ‘D’ extinguisher that is for metal fires. Our newest category is ‘K’ which is for grease fires. Know which fire extinguisher you have. Know where it’s located, and know how to use it.
This shows the UV reflectance of the tip of the column in the orchid Phalaenopsis aphrodite (blue line) compared with that of the front face of one of the two white petals (orange line).
The difference of these spectra (red line), normalised at 450nm, represents the reflectance of the UV-reflective region covering the entrance to the pollinia. The sensitivity of the blue photoreceptor in the bee extends from about 300 – 400nm which encompasses the bulk of the reflectance curve. This means that the insect will see this marker as an almost pure UV signal.
From the base of Chinese strokes, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, interesting teaching, to help students sum up the composition of Chinese characters, understanding parts and radical, and find their commonalities and differences.
Chinese characters play an important role in Chinese culture. Learning Chinese characters can help students better understand Chinese and speed up their learning of Chinese so that they can read Chinese newspapers and magazines. In addition, Chinese calligraphy art is an important derivation of Chinese characters, and mastering Chinese characters can open the door to understanding Chinese calligraphy. Whats more, if you want to pass the HSK test and go to a Chinese University, Chinese must be mastered.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture is a distinctive school known for its excellence in teaching Chinese language and culture to foreigners. Our college employs professional teachers who use the latest teaching methodology supported by a conducive learning environment. We also offer lectures on selected subjects and related language-study activities.
College services are available to a range of international and overseas students. Our courses are designed to meet our students; needs. In addition to regular and extra-curricular classes, we provide many opportunities to practice the language and immerse one's self in the local culture.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture coordinates Advanced Learning programs with well-known Universities throughout China. International students who have studied Mandarin and successfully completed the HSK examination will be recommended to these universities to study for a Bachelor's or Master's degree or a PHD.
KCEL has not only been honored as the best mandarin school on Go Kunming website, it also serves as the training base for International Chinese teachers in Hanban, those who are professional and talented ensure our teaching of high quality. Teachers in KCEL have a good command of Mandarin, and they can speak English fluently, there are weekly teaching training courses for them at the same time. KCEL is a campus worth trusting as the World Bank, UNESCO and New Zealand embassy all appointed KCEL to teach their staff Chinese.
Kunming College of Eastern Language and Culture offers various activities to exercise language, culture study, culture exchange, research programs, business, and trade contact and conference services. Meanwhile, our school arranges characteristic cultural, scientific and recreational activities, including day-trips, social events and weekends away.
We hope we have the pleasure of welcoming you to our College!
Learn to Read and Write Mandarin Chinese
1. Learn Pinyin. Pinyin is a kind of Chinese writing system. The letters of Pinyin originate from the Rome alphabet, not the Chinese characters. Pinyin is very useful for Chinese learners, even if you haven't learned traditional Chinese characters, you can learn to read and write mandarin with Pinyin. There are many Chinese textbooks with Pinyin, as well as learning materials. Although Pinyin is derived from the Rome alphabet, English native speakers cannot get hang of its pronunciation immediately. Therefore, it is very important to have a correct pronunciation guidance when learning Pinyin.
2. Learn to read Chinese characters. Although recognizing Chinese characters is not a necessity for learning Chinese, many people are attracted by Chinese characters because Chinese characters will make them feel closer to traditional Chinese culture. However, in fact, it is not easy to recognize Chinese characters. In order to understand the contents of the Chinese newspapers, an ordinary Chinese reader needs to familiarise himself with about 2000 Chinese characters - and this is just the beginning. It is said that there are more than 50000 Chinese characters (though some of them are no longer used). The greatest advantage of recognizing Chinese characters is that you can learn more about other cultures, including Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. These languages, though different from Chinese in pronunciation, use Chinese characters (or simplified versions of Chinese characters) in writing.
3. Learn to write Chinese characters. Once you learn to read Chinese characters, you may be interested in the writing of Chinese characters. Learning chinese writing is a complex skill. It requires patience and a little sense of art. The first step in learning Chinese characters writing is to learn the "basic unit", that is, the independent radicals, which form the basis of Chinese characters. There are 214 radicals in Chinese, some radicals are single words, others are just part of complex Chinese characters. When writing Chinese characters, the stroke order is very important. You must follow certain rules - for example, from top to bottom, from left to right, first horizontal and then vertical. If the stroke is not correct, then the word you write is wrong.
4. Read Chinese. If you want to improve the level of Chinese reading, you need to read at least 15-20 minutes a day. First of all, you can read some children's books (basically with Pinyin) to improve your reading level, and of course, you can also find some good materials on the Internet to read. You can also use the Chinese you learned in your daily life. You can try to read the Chinese tags on food, or ask a waiter at a restaurant for a Chinese menu. Once you have improved your reading level, you can get some Chinese newspapers (Chinese version) and try your best to read the articles. This is also a good way to help you understand Chinese culture and current affairs in China.
5. Learn to write Mandarin Chinese every day. In order to improve your Chinese writing level, you can write something in Chinese every day, no matter in Pinyin or in Chinese character. One way is to write a Chinese diary every day, write something about the weather, write what you feel or what you have done every day. If you are brave enough, find some friends who speak Chinese to help you check if there are any mistakes. Or you can also find a Chinese pen pal to write to each other. This is a win-win way, you can improve your Chinese level, and your pen pal can improve his or her English level. You can also ask your pen pal to help you modify your letter and send it back to you in reply. The last way to practice Chinese writing ability is to make a Chinese list, such as shopping lists, or Chinese tags for the household objects.
www.learnchineseinkunming.com/chinese-reading-and-writing...
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall
The two dont seem to agree but they dont have anywhere to go than each other.
Caught them in a pensive mood on Sunday.
New Delhi
Percent difference calculator This calculator is designed to give the percentage change from one number value to another. If you need to obtain the percentage of hours of the day, try our Hours In The Day Percentage Calculator. If you need to obtain the percentage of days of the month, try our Days In The Month Percentage Calculator. If you need information on percent change per capita, use our Percentage Change Per Capita Calculator.
just inherited a minolta srT202 from a sweetheart of a girl, look for lots of film photos to come from that guy as i save up gradually for the d300s.
andrew
Difference Engine: Accumulator II
23 February - 23 March 2013
Difference Engine is an evolving touring exhibition by artists Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge and Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung.