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A Holstein Friesian bull on a dairy farm in North America, with a keen interest in being photographed.
Bella Ag is an agriculture technology company focused on improving animal health as well as dairy and beef operations.
Designed for dairy and beef cattle, the Bella Ag Temperature System® allows herd managers to monitor their cattle's temperature wirelessly, automatically alerting to a rise temperature (fever). Thus, allowing early detection of illness /illness prevention, improved estrus detection, increased milk production, reduced treatment costs, reduced mortality rates and much more.
This patented technology and will shape the future of animal health and as well as the agriculture industry. www.bellaag.com
Jill Clark of Fairfax County’s Disability Services Planning & Development and Tom Bash, Fairfax Area Commission on Aging member, listen as a resident shares her ideas on improving transportation during the Fairfax 50+ Forum at Luther Jackson High School in Falls Church on June 24, 2013.
Clark and Bash were co-facilitators for a break-out discussion on transportation. This was one of 14 forums hosted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, together with the Fairfax Area Commission on Aging, to hear what residents have to say about creating a more aging-friendly community.
In the new algorithm, the software read 10 video frames after the train runs in the motion detection area, estimate the velocity of the train, then rewind the video and redo matching for the nasal part of the train again. This reduces the ghosting.
Improved fireplace in refugee camp, Gado-Badzare, East Cameroon.
Photo by Emily Pinna/CIFOR
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When it comes to improving your scores in golf, you need to consider all aspects of your game. Improving your driving will give you an initial edge over your competitors, but all your efforts will be in vain if you do not work on other key areas, like improving your golf short game. Watch this exclusive video in which we've recommended important tips to improve your golf short game
Construction on the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute on Sturt Street began in 1859. As a Gold Rush city with a growing population of miners, a number of eminent philanthropic citizens of Ballarat were anxious to provide working men with a chance to improve their work skills and their general education. It took the dedication of locals another decade to complete the Sturt Street facade, and a further decade for the billard room to be completed.
Built in the Classical style, the three storey Mechanics' Institute has a very restrained facade with minimal decoration. It features a beautiful bull nosed verandah edged with ornate cast iron lacework along the street to keep out the heat of the afternoon sun. Over the arched entrance, the letters of the Mechanic’s Institute are spelt in delicate, florid gilt letters. It also has a balcony extending from a scalloped niche on the first floor and a balconette on the upper floor. Crowning the building is the figure of Pallas Athena, the Greek Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.
Historically, Mechanics' Institutes were educational establishments formed to provide adult education, particularly in technical subjects, to working men. As such, they were often funded by local industrialists on the grounds that they would ultimately benefit from having more knowledgeable and skilled employees. The Mechanics' Institutes were used as 'libraries' for the adult working class, and provided them with an alternative pastime to gambling and drinking in pubs.
Pictured: Jarod Jebousek, USFWS biologist.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Monarch butterfly populations have declined over recent decades due to degraded habitat, but Oregon landowners are making great strides to improve monarch habitat on private lands, with technical and financial assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Milkweed is a critical component of monarch habitat because it’s the only plant on which they will lay their eggs, and it’s a vital food source for monarch caterpillars. Just one example of this partnership at work is the recent establishment of milkweed clusters on the E4 Ranch easement in Benton County, Oregon. Under this project, NRCS enrolled 192-acres of private land into a 30-year wetland easement in 2005. As part of the easement contract, NRCS and the USFWS provided financial and technical assistance to restore the site to its native wetland prairie condition. Before the restoration, the land was a flat pasture, filled with a single-species of grass for cattle grazing. Now, the site is a diverse landscape filled with native trees, plants, and shrubs—including pollinator habitat such as gumweed and milkweed. NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard.
HACKATHON
Friday, March 20–Sunday, March 22, 2015
The City of Seattle and Commute Seattle invited data analysts, developers, designers, and other innovators to help design user-centric tools that improve the commute. These can take the form of:
-- improvements to existing applications
-- new tools to help commuters in any mode or modes of transportation
-- data analysis and visualizations that clarify the big picture
Teams will had the opportunity to present their work to a panel of judges, with the top three project ideas moving on to a championship round. Work was judged based on its potential to make commuting in Seattle easier and more pleasant for everyone.
- See more at: hackthecommute.seattle.gov/#sthash.OOMUsIxI.dpuf
For info on the finalists: hackthecommute.seattle.gov/2015/03/25/hack-the-commute-re...
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Photos by Michael Maine michaelbmaine.com
A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) rappels down a rock wall while conducting mountain warfare training in Mittenwald, Germany, July 17, 2018. Mountain warfare training is designed to improve movement over challenging terrain in many operational environments. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gage Hull)
The Last of the Honeys
The weapon E1998.405.1 is on the Commander's external mount
Late in 1941 the Americans began work on an improved version of their M3 light tank. It would have a larger hull, improved engine and transmission but the same firepower. Production began in 1942 at the Cadillac and Massey Harris plants, later joined by American Car and Foundry and some 10,000 were built by 1944. The new model had twin Cadillac engines and a Hydramatic, automatic transmission.
It was the British who christened the tanks Stuart although they were known unofficially as Honeys. They were used by the Reconnaissance Troops of British armoured regiments and by most other Allied armies. They were fast, reliable and popular with their crews but were outclassed, in terms of firepower and protection, by the German tanks of 1944.
(Text from the TankMuseum website)
Photos showing the improved Thorndale station at the end of major work over a six-week closure as part of the Red North Station Interim Improvements Project.
This was one of the competitors in the Barley Construction Improved Road Sports Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Par in July 1992. t's the 1963 Marcos Fastback of Bruce Orton and eighteen of these cars were produced in 1963, but the only information about the car in the programme of the event is that it has a 1,650cc engine.
Minister Madu and Minister Panda inside the historic Court of Appeal building in Calgary.
Learn more: www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=77828F64C91B7-F1AA-CA2E-F6...
Local, low yielding (left) and improved and high yielding cassava varieties (right) on display at IITA cassava breeding unit, Ibadan.
INUKA SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CBR works to improve the life of children and adults with disabilities and all other patients with rehabilitation needs in Southern Tanzania.
The hospital provides high quality health and rehabilitation services through a specialized and multidisciplinary team.
Tanzanian children suffer from a high percentage of early disabilities, in part due to lack of nutrition. We were lucky to visit Inuka and work with some of their staff, helping on a number of project to improve healthcare and fund part of future expenses.
The community rehabilitation program involves therapists helping children directly, but also teaching their relatives - often mothers - to take care of them once they leave. Children and relatives often travel for hours or even days to reach Inuka from many parts of the country. The diagnosis and therapy usually lasts for a week, and at the end of the period the children return to their village.
In 2019, Inuka helped over 2,800 children with disabilities.
An improved shot of Abellio Surrey's van in Green Bus livery, Vauxhall Combo NV57 HXO.
Last time I saw it - parked outside the depot - it was wedged in with other vehicles.
The Transit van behind, YT56 XNF, is also an Abellio vehicle.
Staines bus station, Staines, Surrey.
My big concern before i came out is that the schools primary need would be for physical installation and computer maintenance - skills those who know me know i possess extremely little of. Various queries to Emma were met with reassuring, yet decidedly non-definite, assurances that this would not be the case.
Yet on my first day i was met with the site of around 20 10+ yr old base units smothered in dust and in various states of decay and disassembly; some 2 dozen monitors in a similar state and a plethora of discs, CDs, cables and peripherals scattered in boxes, on the floor and piled on tables. Rats had done considerable damage to the cables and insides of many of the base units and i had not one actual functioning PC!
This pic shows the state of things after a good week of cleaning and auditing.
Now things are much improved - i have a decent P3 with 40Gb hard drive as a master 'puta, 2 Dell P3 laptops and a motley yet fully-functioning collection of 8 working mid 1990's Pentium 1's (or less!), with between 16 - 64 MB memory and sub 2Gb hard-drives all running Windows 98 and Office 2000. each has a working floppy and CD drive (from quad speed to the lightening quick 8x *LAUGH**) with various bits culled from the dozen or so fatalities that are now good only as footstools (or the last refuge of the wretched Ratticus Cableus Chewitus)
All have full virus protection - the laptops and the P3 master 'puta were riddled with serious worms & viruses that almost derailed the entire project by infecting my essential and precious flash drives
I'm damn proud of what's been achieved so far and the best is yet to come.....
Berklee College of Music hosted this summer the Valencia Summer Performance Program. With this program students improve and enhance their performance skills emphasizing in playing or singing in one of the following styles: Jazz, Latin Jazz and Fusion, Rock, Pop, RnB, or Mediterranean Music.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Monarch butterfly populations have declined over recent decades due to degraded habitat, but Oregon landowners are making great strides to improve monarch habitat on private lands, with technical and financial assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Milkweed is a critical component of monarch habitat because it’s the only plant on which they will lay their eggs, and it’s a vital food source for monarch caterpillars. Just one example of this partnership at work is the recent establishment of milkweed clusters on the E4 Ranch easement in Benton County, Oregon. Under this project, NRCS enrolled 192-acres of private land into a 30-year wetland easement in 2005. As part of the easement contract, NRCS and the USFWS provided financial and technical assistance to restore the site to its native wetland prairie condition. Before the restoration, the land was a flat pasture, filled with a single-species of grass for cattle grazing. Now, the site is a diverse landscape filled with native trees, plants, and shrubs—including pollinator habitat such as gumweed and milkweed. NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard.
This image shows the improved Lawrence station after major work was finished as part of the Red North Stations Interim Improvements Project.
First Lady Chirlane McCray makes an announcement regarding the City’s efforts to reduce mental health stigma and improve mental health care delivery in communities of color. City Hall. Monday, April 23, 2018. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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ET2 and improved ET2M EMU commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant at 1993-2010. ET2 project is in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia).
железнодорожный узел станция Обухово Московское и Волховстроевское направления Октябрьской железной дороги, Санкт-Петербург
Hennes Fischer (Swappable Battery Motorcycle Consortium),debates how light-weight electric motorcycles may improve urban mobility. The innovative debate on "Electric motorcycles - The solution to the urban mobility problem" is hosted by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The Side Event takes place during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2023.
Starting April 1, 2019, sailings will be restored on the majority of ferry routes that were cut in 2014, making it easier for people in coastal communities to get around.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019TRAN0035-000507
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Improving Bamboo Handicraft Value Chains for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Lao and Cambodia – a UN Women Results-based Initiative in collaboration with The World Bank, International Centre for Research on Women, Prosperity Initiative.
Launched in September 2006, the World Bank Group Gender Action Plan sought to advance women’s economic empowerment in developing countries as a way to promote shared growth and accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development Goal 3. Results-Based Initiatives (RBIs) that promote women’s economic empowerment constitutes one of the Plan’s four action areas.
The Results-Based Initiatives are funded by the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF). The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now UN Women, is the executing agency in charge of implementing the intervention and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) will design and conduct the impact evaluations which constitute the second component. The initiative will also engage local partners.
The pilot RBI initiatives are in line with UNIFEM’s mandate to support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women (in line with national and regional priorities) whilst at the same time playing a catalytic role in ensuring the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream activities. In addition they are in line with UNIFEM’s overall goal to assist in implementing national commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in both stable and fragile states. In particular they relate to UNIFEM’s Economic Thematic Area which seeks to enhance women’s economic security and rights.
Photo: UN Women/Va Ros
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Pizza #1: Pasta sauce base, turkey breast with spices, red bell pepper, parmesan, jalapeno slices and a light sprinkling of red onion and fresh basil.
Improved Seneca View (1906) camera, 5x7, Wollensak Rochester Voltas F8 lens (1912), Ilford FP4 Plus film, Yellow filter
Side view of the my modified Space Shuttle Discovery with:
- An improved tail fin rudder
- White Technic elements for the bay door hinges
- And lots of 'behind the scenes changes to omit off-coloured parts from the substructure of the model.
Video explanation & showcase of the mods: youtu.be/QPtyqSQCODQ
See here for mod instructions and for more details: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-92504/Simon%20Lenz/space-shuttle...
www.manifestingmydestiny.com - Finding a soulmate when you're bursting with the audacity and spontaneity of youth happens, but it seldom happens to a good number of people. Often, dating in your 30s improve your chances of finding true love because lifelong romantic relationships seldom take off in the shaky grounds of youth. Individuals evolve, and not every couple - because of the phases they may be going through at the moment - can cope with changes over time. For singles who are in their 30s, dating at this age can very well be an opportune time on how to find the girl for you or how to find the guy for you.Finding a soulmate when you're bursting with the audacity and spontaneity of youth happens, but it seldom happens to a good number of people. Often, dating in your 30s improve your chances of finding true love because lifelong romantic relationships seldom take off in the shaky grounds of youth. Individuals evolve, and not every couple - because of the phases they may be going through at the moment - can cope with changes over time. For singles who are in their 30s, dating at this age can very well be an opportune time on how to find the girl for you or how to find the guy for you.
This guy grabbed my drink when I was not looking. I nicknamed him Magellan.
Olympus Camedia (Images of 2005 Series). Slightly improved with Picasa.
Municipalities will receive $1.1 billion to build core infrastructure that will get Albertans working, support municipal and public transit operating costs and create thousands of good-paying jobs now.
Alberta’s government is providing municipalities with $500 million in additional funding to build shovel-ready infrastructure projects starting in 2020, creating thousands of jobs as part of Alberta’s Recovery Plan. In addition, Alberta will match $233 million in federal funding to support municipal operating costs during the pandemic and $70 million to support public transit operating costs – for a total of $606 million under the Safe Restart Agreement.
“The past five months have been tough for Albertans as we faced the global coronavirus recession, the unprecedented collapse of energy prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic. But Albertans are resilient, and Alberta’s Recovery Plan is a bold plan to build, diversify, and create jobs. This investment will provide municipalities with the funding they need to get through this crisis, create good jobs now, and build the infrastructure that will fuel economic growth in our province for generations to come.” said Premier Jason Kenney in Edmonton on Tuesday July 28, 2020.
The $500-million municipal stimulus program, which boosts municipal infrastructure funding by almost 30 per cent, will create an estimated 2,500 jobs from projects that will begin construction in 2020 or 2021.
Municipalities and Metis Settlements may begin applying for funding to build roads, bridges, water and wastewater treatment plants, and other important infrastructure that would not have been built in 2020 or 2021 without the stimulus.
“Alberta’s communities play a critical role in our economy and we want to help them get shovel-ready projects into the ground immediately to create jobs, drive economic growth and improve Alberta’s competitive position. We’re also asking municipalities to reduce taxes and red tape to make it easier to start up a new business, speed up approvals for development permits and make their municipality a better place to invest. Together, we’ll continue to make Alberta the best place to live and do business in North America.” said Kaycee Madu, Minister of Municipal Affairs.
“Alberta’s government is investing in roads, bridges, water and wastewater infrastructure that Albertans want and need, diversifying our economy and creating thousands of jobs in the process. I look forward to working with our municipal partners to build worthwhile projects that help develop and grow new economic sectors, and create much-needed jobs today.” said Ric McIver, Minister of Transportation.
Even before the municipal stimulus program, Alberta had committed $1.85 billion in Budget 2020 for municipalities including the Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) and $244 million from the federal government’s Gas Tax Fund.
Alberta’s Recovery Plan is a bold, ambitious long-term strategy to build, diversify, and create tens of thousands of jobs now. By building schools, roads and other core infrastructure we are benefitting our communities. By diversifying our economy and attracting investment with Canada’s most competitive tax environment, we are putting Alberta on a path for a generation of growth. Alberta came together to save lives by flattening the curve and now we must do the same to save livelihoods, grow and thrive. (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
re-masted
Credit to Verlosser for screws
i might make another with a cheek rest on it so look for it in the pool
Seneca Improved View 8x10, Kodak 8.5 inch Commercial Ektar f/6.3, New Guy collodion (1 week old), Tintype
f/9, 2 seconds
Continuing misadventures of the Stenopeika 8x10 wet plate holder. The front dark slide is flimsy and will touch the plate if you put any pressure on it. That leads to marks all over the plate. It's a pain to pull the darkslide out or put it back in; it seems to always get jammed. I will be writing them a strongly worded email shortly...
FORT SILL, Okla. (March 3, 2017) – Soldiers view live-stream full-motion video from unmanned aerial vehicles via a smartphone. They access 3D digital maps to send precision target coordinates. Soldiers are relying on these advanced technologies to improve lethality and maintain battlefield dominance.
These are among the improvements that will be embedded in future fire-support capabilities.
The Army has started testing four upgraded systems for its Field Artillery units to provide more accurate and timely fire support to maneuver formations. Fielding is scheduled to begin in fall 2017.
“These improved capabilities allow us to be lighter, faster and more lethal by optimizing the sensor-to-shooter digital chain,” said Lt. Col. Kevin Taylor, commander of 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division (Artillery). “They assist us in providing faster, more accurate firing data to our cannon crews, enhancing our effectiveness on the battlefield.”
Nineteen Soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, recently completed three weeks of classroom and field training and assessments at Fort Sill. They are the first group of Soldiers to place the fire mission systems through rigorous testing.
U.S. Army photo by Dan Lafontaine
Read more: www.army.mil/article/183574
Since 2016 – in an effort to improve the public health system – UNOPS has been working together with Guatemala's Social Security Institute (IGSS) to improve transparency in public procurement, beginning with the acquisition of medicines and medical supplies, and later supporting wide-range institutional reform for IGSS.
Through this, UNOPS designed policies on sustainable procurement, infrastructure and project management, and trained 600 staff in public procurement and supply chain management.
The project further delivered significant savings for the government of Guatemala. Through 13 public tenders, UNOPS helped stock 114 hospitals and health centres across the country with 568 types of medicines, equaling around 450 million doses of medicine. Through the use of transparent and efficient procurement processes, the government estimated savings of around $270 million, reporting around 57 per cent savings on the purchase of medicines and 34 per cent savings on surgical medical supplies since they began working with UNOPS.
An estimated 3.2 million Guatemalans are benefiting from improved healthcare as a result. Importantly, the project has also left a legacy of transparency in a country with a high risk of corruption in public procurement and has helped lay the foundation for a more efficient and transparent future for procurement by IGSS.
© UNOPS/John Rae
Emilia Hayford, who is a nurse and a Community Health Officer (CHO) weighs and measures babies that mothers have brought to a community health meeting in the village of Akentenchie, Ghana on the 14th January, 2016. PHOTO CREDIT: Kate Holt for JHPIEGO/the USAID/Ghana Maternal and Child Survival Project