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Keyvan Ghavami, Co-Founder and President, Act On Your Future, Switzerland speaking at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Walter Duerst
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
2 June 2015 - Discussion Café
Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo
OECD, Paris, France.
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Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
So, for those of you making Nappy clothing, one thing I noticed, is that Dalangs ears stick out and are HUGE compared to the classic choo. A bonnet on Dalang that covers the ears will have bumps on the side, while on a classic choo, covering the ears is a non-issue. Another thing-Classic Choo has a longer face than Dalang-meaning my bonnet wraps under Dalangs chin nicely, while it appears slightly shorter on Classic.
Today it's my turn to pick a group for FGR, so I chose Spot the Difference - with the added bonus that these pics can also go into the Diptychs group.
Can you spot the differences? Have a look at the large version and then put notes on the ones you can see.
I may do another version later today if I get more time.
I have updated my Art-Craft model after some thought, making it a little more difficult to get to fine art from a very craft operation like a factory robot operation (still programmed by a highly skilled human, though), I also added a 'juvenile' area, the place where we all start from when we are born.
To make it slightly less like a graph and more like the image in my mind, I have added some graphics - the organisation of Craft, the unmapped forest of Art, and the natural ascent into skill (by balloon).
a Sony "TV-112" B/W TV (1972) 11" picture
and a Brionvega "Algol 11" B/W TV (1964-1965) 11" picture
( Design by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper in 1964 )
At first glance one would quickly think that the left device is older than that of right...
And nevertheless it is false, it is the opposite: the yellow is 8 years older !
Has the view of their size one would think that the screen of the first one is bigger,
And that also it is false ... they have the same picture size ...
And I would not speak about subjective beauty, about ergonomics of buttons, about integration of the handle of transport when she is not used
It is all this who makes the difference between a device and a device conceived as an object which returns this television set pleasant to the eye ... when it is not switched on
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I'm now subtracting 7 in the 7th position from the left. This is done in 2 steps: subtract 10, add 3. In this step I subtract 10 by subtracting 1 in the 6th position from the left.
This photo shows the difference between an image edited in Photoshop and saved with an sRGB profile and how it's rendered in a photographic print illuminated with natural light (a north-facing window) and the screen of a Dell Venue 8 Pro with Windows 8 Color Management set to standard sRGB. The Dell is vibrant and warm; the print looks much like the original when viewed under normal incandescent light, though. By the way, the Dell tablet is great! It can run Adobe Photoshop (and it seems just about any Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 32-bit application) though the screen is tiny. I use a bluetooth mouse but a stylus with controls is available. You can use Miracast to wirelessly duplicate or extend your tablet's screen on a TV monitor with a dongle or use a usb displaylink adapter to hook it up to multiple vga,dvi or hdmi monitors. But the tablet's screen (1280 x 800) is awesome! Do I sound excited? I got mine for $99 as a door-buster (the regular price is $299 - still a steal) at a Microsoft store.
Taken in 2006.
On Mass Ave (Massachusetts Avenue) in the Back Bay. With those backpacks, shoulder bags, and cases, that woman and guy were probably headed just a block up the street to classes at the Berklee School of Music. Back in the 1960s, when I was in this neighborhood a lot, carrying that much gear here might have meant they were heading further up the street to the I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) on-ramp, where they'd try to hitch a ride west. They'd carry a sign saying where they wanted to go -- New York, Chicago, Denver, or (most aspiring of all) San Francisco. Just one difference that forty [now 55] years have made.
no lie, me and victoria ACTUALLY FOUND a random converse that was traced. lols.
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I'm now subtracting 9 in the 9th position from the left. This is done in 2 steps: subtract 10, add 1. In this step I subtract 10 by subtracting 1 in the 8th position from the left.
This is a view shows the intricate workings of the backside of the famous Charles Babbage Difference engine. Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented the earliest of computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long. This example was seen in the Computer History Museum in San Jose. More information on this brilliant machine can be found here - www.computerhistory.org/babbage/ - It's certainly worth learning a bit more about!
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Outside Marks and Spencer 'Simply Food' shop Cardiff, central station 23rd June 6:30pm CARDIFF, WALES
Press Release: Craftivist campaign launches after survey shows 17 percent of British shoppers would shop more often at Marks & Spencers if it paid a Living Wage
The Craftivist Collective is joining forces with ShareAction’s AGM Army this summer to press UK retailers to pay a Living Wage. The campaigners are coordinating a series of “stitch-ins” at branches of Marks & Spencers across the UK, for crafters to sew hand-made messages onto M&S handkerchiefs, to be delivered to the board, celebrity endorsers, and major shareholders of the British retail giant at its annual general meeting at Wembley Stadium on July 7th.
An online poll shows 17 percent of British shoppers would shop more often at Marks & Spencers if it paid staff a Living Wage. (Source: Opinium survey, 12th-16th June 2015, based on 2002 online interviews across the UK).
The first “stitch-in” will take place on June 22 in London at 6:30 pm outside the Marks & Spencers on Liverpool Road, N1 0PR. Another “stitch-in” is scheduled for June 23 in Cardiff, another in Brighton on June 29, and another in Milton Keynes 30th. There will also be stitch-ins in Warrington, Lincoln, and Birmingham amongst others.
The idea of the “stitch-ins” is to show M&S that in addition to major shareholders with billions of pounds under management, its core customer base is also fully engaged and supportive on the issue of the Living Wage, and that they expect the company to show leadership on this basic fairness issue.
Each unique hand-stitched hanky encourages board directors of M&S to commit to paying the Living Wage of £9.15 in London and £7.85 across the UK to all staff. This is a part of ShareAction’s campaign in partnership with Citizens UK to achieve the Living Wage across the FTSE 100 through shareholder activism. Nearly a quarter of FTSE 100 companies have now accredited with the Living Wage Foundation, but no high street retailer has yet signed up.
ShareAction has organised AGM questions on the Living Wage at more than 20 company AGMs so far this year. ShareAction is simultaneously mobilising an Investor Collaborative for the Living Wage made up of institutional shareholders with billions of pounds in British companies, including asset managers, pension funds, charity and faith investors. These large shareholders have written in 2015 to all of the FTSE 100, including M&S, in support of the Living Wage.
Crafters will be giving M&S handkerchiefs with personalised positive messages stitched into them to all 14 board members of M&S, as well as to its largest shareholders, and to the 2014 celebrities who feature in the company’s ad campaign: Annie Lennox, Emma Thompson, Alex Wek, Rita Ora, Dowreen Lawrence, Lulu Kennedy, and Rachel Khoo.
They will also be handing out 250 special handkerchief craft kits with a Living Wage message printed on them to shareholders at the company’s Annual General Meeting, so that shareholders can stitch too, to encourage themselves to support the Living Wage. These kits include an ethical hanky, needle and thread, instructions, and a briefing note on investment risk.
M&S Chief Executive Marc Bolland is paid £2.1million a year. Last year, his company refused to consider a Living Wage at its Annual General Meeting. Later, at a meeting with campaigners, the company again refused to consider paying the Living Wage.
Sarah Corbett, founder of the Craftivist Collective, said: “Marks & Spencer is supposed to be a company with solid values threaded through all that they do, which include paying your workers fairly. We’re sending the board and shareholders these carefully hand-stitched handkerchiefs to encourage the company not to ‘blow’ their chance to support life-changing decisions.”
Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of ShareAction says: “This craftivist initiative at the M&S AGM is nothing to 'sniff at'. Sarah and her amazing stitchers are devoting hours to creating gifts the M&S board we hope will treasure and remember forever. People adore M&S but they want to see the company step up and become a Living Wage employer. The many big shareholders backing this call know it makes business sense as well as being the right thing to do.”
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Notes for editors:
ShareAction is the UK-based movement for Responsible Investment. For further information, please contact Matt Davis, Director of Communications and Public Engagement at ShareAction on matthew.davis@shareaction.org
Craftivist Collective brings together craft and activism in order to make a difference to individuals and society, exposing and tackling issues of local and global poverty and injustices through provocative, non-violent creative actions. For further information please contact Sarah Corbett, Founder of Craftivist Collective on sarah@craftivist-collective.com
So I opened a the new clone battle pack...and noticed the eyes on each of the figs was different. I'm not sure if this is just ridiculously poor printing, or if this is meant to give individuality to the clones as they have in the series. How old is this?
Edit: Apparently it doesn't animate, click "All Sizes" to see the differences. Excuse the photography, I just noticed it and wanted to throw up some pics. I'll take better ones later if anyone wants.
Ships and railway locos have long since adopted designs to reduce glare from sunlight, how come road transport is lagging behind? Town Quay, Barrow.
I'm now subtracting 8 in the 8th position from the left. This is done in 2 steps: subtract 10, add 2. In this step I add 2.
One difference between painting and photography in my experience is how color is considered. Painters don't think that a white bridge, for instance, is just white. They can see all sorts of colors in the white that other people just don't notice.
The photographers I've talked with hardly speak of color at all in that sense. They can saturate color and all the little different tweaks that Photoshop provides, but it's a very different process from a painter's point of view. Not better or worse--only different. (One exception, incidentally, is Andre Govia. He pulls out some of the most subtle colorations and hints. Most people don't notice it because they are overwhelmed with his urbex subject matter, but they're missing the true mastery of this artist.)
I've tried to get a painter's sense in this white interior of Stayton-Jordan Bridge in Stayton, Oregon. Look carefully (view large against black) at the white, and you'll see all sorts of warm and cool colors: pinks, pearls, oranges, blues, greens.
If you're interested in the neuro-science of this (I'm not an expert) not much of this happens in the eye, but is post-processed (if you will) in the brain. Our eyes are only about the equivalent of a cell phone camera. The brain samples and re-samples the images we gaze at to create the illusion of detail that we believe we "see."
3x exposure HDR.
Software: Photoshop CS5, Photomatix, Nik Viveza, Topaz Adjust, Topaz Detail, Topaz DeNoise 5
Cape Verde has been recognized as a global hotspot for terrestrial and marine biodiversity and United Nations in Cape Verde is actively involved in promoting environmental sustainability for the people and its' future generations of Cape Verde. On the island of Maio, two projects funded by GEF Small Grants Programme, are making the difference in shaping the minds and actions of the people.
"Marine Turtles Protection" is the first turtle conservation project in the history of the island involving the active participation of local communities and fishermen to protect Loggerhead Turtles. The project enables 17 fishermen and local people to be employed to patrol the beaches from June to October for the nesting and the hatchlings of the turtles. The local youth are also taking part in the conservation project by visiting the project sites and learning about the life cycle of the turtles and the eco-system of the island. The youth also had the opportunity to share their findings by organizing a theater performance at the municipality's festivals. Theater is relatively new to Maio and the play combined traditional story-telling techniques with an emphasis of turtle conservation andthe importance of preserving the natural environment.
This is a positive change in the increased awareness of the people where before, the hunting of turtles for their meat and eggs was common practice across the islands and egg predation by humans and other predators, had almost wiped out the breeding turtle population of the island.The project is also in alignment with Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP), a national government policy priority, which is also linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The project is really a local-to-global contribution.
"Revitalizing the Porto Ingles Wetlands" is also a unique cooperative project,empowering 70local women working in salt extraction. Porto Ingles Wetlandsinclude the largest «salina» in Cape Verdewith a heritage of salt extraction since the late 16th century. The entire salt production process in Maio is managed and operated by local women, and these women are proud and motivated in further improving their professional skills by actively participating in a technical exchange program to increase salt production with women from similar projects in Guinea Bissau, West Africa.The UN in Cape Verde will continue work with the Government, civil society, private sector, development partners, and families to promote sustainable development. After all, the women in Porto Ingles Wetlands have definitely illustrated that by working together and sharing experiences, they are not only helping each other to enhance the quality of life for themselves, but also are contributing to the lives of the people in Cape Verde and it's neighboring countries.
In addition,the project not only promotes sustainable traditional livelihoods of these women, it also promotes biodiversity by protecting and re-vitalizing the wetlands. The wetland attracts a wide variety of birds,including endemic species, for breeding and feeding.A protected fence is scheduled to be built to preserve and to develop this area as a natural reserve to incorporate eco-tourism as a unique bird-watching site in Cape Verde. The flocks of flamingo canalso be observed when visiting the Porto Ingles Wetlands.
Both projects, while aimed at issues related to MDG7, (Ensure Environmental Sustainability), have the added benefits of addressing poverty eradication and other MDG1 targets. The UN in Cape Verde and GEF Small Grants Programme continue to be committed to promoting sustainable livelihoods of the people by protecting the environment and utilizing the natural resources.
Article writen by Masakazu Shibata / One UN Communication Officer
The short version:
The further your subject from the background and the greater the difference in ratios from flash to subject and flash to background the darker your background will be.
The long version:
Following on from my Lighting 102 Unit 1.1 exercise this is for Lighting 102 : 1.2 - Position | Distance
In 102 1.2 David Hobby says:
"I would eat math flakes for breakfast if I could.
But the Inverse Square Law still makes my eyes glaze over. Not that it is necessarily so hard to understand. (Although it is for many.) But because it just sucks all of the life and soul out of lighting."
I completely get his point about it (maths) sucking the artistic nature out of lighting but as my wife will tell you I need something proved before I'll truly believe it! So I've been reading up on the inverse square law and set out to explain it to myself.
The basic idea is the further away from the flash you go the greater the area the flash has to illuminate. For example if your flash is 1m from your subject but 2m from you background, the background area will be 4 times that of the area around your subject. Meaning you will need 4 times as much light to illuminate the background with the same exposure as your subject. That fact on its own is all well and good but flash units let you adjust them by either doubling or halfing the light. So what is needed is how much you have to increase the distance from the flash in order to double the light needed. Basically it can be calculated that this value is the square root of 2, approx 1.4. Therefore if your flash is 1m from your subject but 1.4m from the background the background will need twice as much light to to illuminate it to the same exposure as your subject.
I knocked up an excel spreadsheet to tell me exactly where to move the flash to to keep the same exposure by halfing the light each time it was moved forward. These are the results.
All shots were taken at f5.0 1/250 iso100 in a room lit with a 10w energy saving light bulb. This ambient light was completely eliminated at this exposure so it is only the flash which is lighting bustr.
flash settings (top left to bottom right)
1 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16
1/32 1/64 1/32 1/32 1/32
The background in the last three shots was made darker by moving bustr away from the wall 1 stop at a time whilst keeping the flash to head distance the same.
Exact measurements to follow.
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.