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Inside the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lowered onto the Atlas V first stage on Sept. 16, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Full set (so far) here - www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643948151514/
Euromaidan (Ukrainian: ??????????, Yevromaidan, literally "Eurosquare") is a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests demanding closer European integration and culminated in a coup d'etat of the reigning Ukrainian government. The scope of the protests expanded, with many calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government. Many protesters joined because of the violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November and "a will to change life in Ukraine". By 25 January 2014, the protests had been fueled by the perception of "widespread government corruption", "abuse of power", and "violation of human rights in Ukraine".
The demonstrations began on the night of 21 November 2013, when protests erupted in the capital, Kiev, after the Ukrainian government suspended preparations for signing an Association Agreement and a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, in order to seek closer economic relations with Russia. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov had asked for 20 Billion Euros (US$27) billion in loans and aid. The EU and Russia both offered Ukraine the possibility of substantial loans. Russia also offered Ukraine cheaper gas prices. On 24 November 2013, first clashes between protesters and police began. Protesters strived to break cordon. Police used tear gas and batons, protesters also used tear gas and some fire crackers (according to the police, protesters were the first to use them). After a few days of demonstrations an increasing number of university students joined the protests. The Euromaidan has been repeatedly characterised as an event of major political symbolism for the European Union itself, particularly as
"the largest ever pro-European rally in history".
The protests are ongoing despite heavy police presence, regularly sub-freezing temperatures, and snow. Escalating violence from government forces in the early morning of 30 November caused the level of protests to rise, with 400,000–800,000 protesters demonstrating in Kiev on the weekends of 1 December and 8 December. In the weeks since, protest attendance has fluctuated from 50,000 to 200,000 during organised rallies. Violent riots took place 1 December and 19 January through 25 in response to police brutality and government repression. Since 23 January several Western Ukrainian Oblast (province) Governor buildings and regional councils have been occupied in a revolt by Euromaidan activists. In the Russophone cities of Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk, protesters also tried to take over their local government building, and have been met with considerable force from both police and government supporters.
According to journalist Lecia Bushak writing in the 18 February 2014 issue of Newsweek magazine, EuroMaidan has grown into something far bigger than just an angry response to the fallen-through EU deal. It's now about ousting Yanukovych and his corrupt government; guiding Ukraine away from its 200-year-long, deeply intertwined and painful relationship with Russia; and standing up for basic human rights to protest, speak and think freely and to act peacefully without the threat of punishment.
A turning point came in late-February, when enough members of the president's party fled or defected to lose their majority in the parliament leaving the opposition large enough to form the necessary quorum. This allowed parliament to pass a series of laws that removed police from Kiev, canceled anti-protest operations, restored the 2004 constitution, freed political detainees, and allegedly impeached the president. Yanukovych then fled to Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, refusing to recognise the parliament's decisions. The parliament has assigned early elections for May 2014.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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INTEGRATION-LIEBE-LABSKAUS
Dinge, die Hamburg ausmachen.
..gesehen an einer Mauer, die für allerlei Aufkleber, meist politisch-anarchistisch, herhält
This photo from Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California shows the start of the integration process of the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is seen hanging from a crane, in the process of being moved over the sunshield.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form: youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, literally "Temple of the Golden Pavilion"), officially named Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺, literally "Deer Garden Temple"), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.[2] It is one of the most popular buildings in Japan, attracting many visitors annually.[3] It is designated as a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape and is one of 17 locations making up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which are World Heritage Sites.
The Golden Pavilion (金閣 Kinkaku) is a three-storey building on the grounds of the Rokuon-ji temple complex.[11] The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf.[11] The pavilion functions as a shariden (舎利殿), housing relics of the Buddha (Buddha's Ashes). The building was an important model for Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion Temple) and Shōkoku-ji, which are also located in Kyoto.[2] When these buildings were constructed, Ashikaga Yoshimasa employed the styles used at Kinkaku-ji and even borrowed the names of its second and third floors.[2]
Architectural design
The pavilion successfully incorporates three distinct styles of architecture, which are shinden, samurai and zen, specifically on each floor.[8] Each floor of the Kinkaku uses a different architectural style.[2]
The first floor, called The Chamber of Dharma Waters (法水院, Hō-sui-in), is rendered in shinden-zukuri style, reminiscent of the residential style of the 11th century Heian imperial aristocracy.[2] It is evocative of the Shinden palace style. It is designed as an open space with adjacent verandas and uses natural, unpainted wood and white plaster.[8] This helps to emphasize the surrounding landscape. The walls and fenestration also affect the views from inside the pavilion. Most of the walls are made of shutters that can vary the amount of light and air into the pavilion[8] and change the view by controlling the shutters' heights. The second floor, called The Tower of Sound Waves (潮音洞, Chō-on-dō ),[2] is built in the style of warrior aristocrats, or buke-zukuri. On this floor, sliding wood doors and latticed windows create a feeling of impermanence. The second floor also contains a Buddha Hall and a shrine dedicated to the goddess of mercy, Kannon.[8] The third floor is built in traditional Chinese chán (Jpn. zen) style, also known as zenshū-butsuden-zukuri. It is called the Cupola of the Ultimate (究竟頂, Kukkyō-chō). The zen typology depicts a more religious ambiance in the pavilion, as was popular during the Muromachi period.[8]
The roof is in a thatched pyramid with shingles.[12] The building is topped with a bronze hōō (phoenix) ornament.[11] From the outside, viewers can see gold plating added to the upper stories of the pavilion. The gold leaf covering the upper stories hints at what is housed inside: the shrines.[9] The outside is a reflection of the inside. The elements of nature, death, religion, are formed together to create this connection between the pavilion and outside intrusions.
Garden
The Golden Pavilion is set in a Japanese strolling garden (回遊式庭園 kaiyū-shiki-teien, lit. a landscape garden in the go-round style).[6] The location implements the idea of borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") that integrates the outside and the inside, creating an extension of the views surrounding the pavilion and connecting it with the outside world. The pavilion extends over a pond, called Kyōko-chi (鏡湖池 Mirror Pond), that reflects the building.[5] The pond contains 10 smaller islands.[8] The zen typology is seen through the rock composition; the bridges and plants are arranged in a specific way to represent famous places in Chinese and Japanese literature.[8] Vantage points and focal points were established because of the strategic placement of the pavilion to view the gardens surrounding the pavilion.[10] A small fishing deck (釣殿 tsuri-dono) is attached to the rear of the pavilion building, allowing a small boat to be moored under it.[5] The pavilion grounds were built according to descriptions of the Western Paradise of the Buddha Amida, intending to illustrate a harmony between heaven and earth.[6] The largest islet in the pond represents the Japanese islands.[5] The four stones forming a straight line in the pond near the pavilion are intended to represent sailboats anchored at night, bound for the Isle of Eternal Life in Chinese mythology.[5]
The garden complex is an excellent example of Muromachi period garden design.[11] The Muromachi period is considered to be a classical age of Japanese garden design.[10] The correlation between buildings and its settings were greatly emphasized during this period.[10] It was a way to integrate the structure within the landscape in an artistic way. The garden designs were characterized by a reduction in scale, a more central purpose and a distinct setting.[13] A minimalistic approach was brought to the garden design, by recreating larger landscapes in a smaller scale around a structure.
Pictures from the 2024 Weapons School Integration Training (WSINT) at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas
Merope Nebula
Telescope: ZWO Triplet refractor
Total exposure: 40 minutes
Total integration: 245x10" subs
Filters : UV/IR cut
This crosswalk scene was photographed for several frames, then three were selected in which a subject's gait approximately coincided. these were registered on the moving person before generating a subtractive filter Harris Shutter Effect (HSE) image. The person was well registered in each frame with details disappearing into a black void in the composite. These were restored by blending with the stacked (SNR) image through a mask.
Edit: The original was replaced with a version using a large area mask, with a large blur radius, to eliminate a "spotlight effect" at the point of blending.
Quick links to related images
Read how to construct a Subtractive Filter HSE image from three sequential photos.
Other subtractive filter Harris shutter effect (HSE) images
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Composite images with a moving subject reference frame
RGB+IR integration (right)
IR filter (left)
Telescope: Intes Micro M715 (Maksutov-Cassegrain 180mm f15)
Powermate 2.5x, RGB and IR685 filters
Camera: ASI290MM
This is my collage representing arts integration. This is previous students and each image is a child using the arts to learn another subject matter while discovering more about a specific art form. These art representations include music, movement, theatre, and visual art in various ways. This is close to my heart and when I see these children in their moment of discovery through artistic influence, I truly see arts integration work.
#EDN514SP17 and #EDN514Illustration
jsc2017e040291 (April 6, 2017) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 crewmember Jack Fischer of NASA gestures from his seat in the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft April 6 as part of pre-launch training preparations. Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin
..ecco il mio tentativo di mostrare la IFN intorno a questo celeberrimo duo di galassie nell'Orsa maggiore, M81 e M82, sono riuscito a sommare in due serate 48 frames 800 iso di cui 5 di 10 minuti ottenuti da Fontecorniale 550 mt. e i rimanenti 43 da 5 minuti dal cielo di casa a Lucrezia con Eos 40D su FS60 CB con riduttore di focale autoguida PHD Guiding dithering su AZEQ6 GT SW processing PixInsight 1.8 elaborazione PS CS5 Topaz labs (Detail3 Desnoise5)..
il risultato lo ritengo abbastanza soddisfacente anche se la IFN è percettibile solo dai cieli di montagna,mi accontento
even different lives lived by a countless individuals...is unified in one spirit...for peace in Humanity...
Taken along the footpath to Vesuvius' Gran Cono summit. Facing south-southeastward.
Ah, that Mediterranean haze. It's the product of the local atmosphere's high aerosol (suspended particle) count. That in turn can be due to various factors, including the automotive and urban pollution no doubt present this close to the Neapolitan megalopolis. But the main cause reportedly is dust blown northward from the Sahara Desert. The grand result of all these tiny floating bits of matter is the region's milky, misty, opalescent air.
In the left foreground we see a small stretch of the volcano's relatively steep western flank. On the Gran Cono, rocks and pumice shards generally have an angle of repose of about 30 degrees from horizontal. According to my own highly sophisticated measurement technology—a plastic protractor pressed against my PC screen—the lower slope is almost exactly that, with the upper portion being up to 40 degrees or so.
Far far beyond that crunchy, crumbly surface lies the city of Castellammare di Stabia, facing the Gulf of Naples. The Pompeii archaeological complex is also partially visible, I think, at far left behind the upper section of the slope.
The high ground on the horizon is the eastern side of the Sorrento Peninsula. It's composed of Mesozoic-era limestones with some Quaternary pyroclastic deposits wafted in from you-know-where.
Speaking of slopes, if you've ever driven around the Sorrento area, you know how vertiginous its peninsula's hillsides are in many places. With all those hairpin turns and tight bends around projecting masses of rock, it's not a good place for drivers to take their eyes off the road.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Integrative Natural History of Mount Vesuvius & the Gulf of Naples album.
Das ist Integration:
Mustafa, neben mir: "Ich ess ja auch schon mal Schweinefleisch."
Nachbar: "Mustafa - du bist doch Moslem?"
Mustafa: "Ich bin Deutscher."
Two U.S. Air Force Rockwell B-1B "Lancers" assigned to 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, fly alongside two Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) F-15s over the vicinity of the East China Sea, Sept. 9, 2017. Following the end of the operation, one B-1B flew to Misawa Air Base, Japan, to be a static display for the Misawa Air Festival, while the other B-1B returned to Andersen AFB, Guam. The integration of our aerial platforms with our allied nations advance and strengthen the long-standing military-to-military relationships in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
OT Live Upload. First Live Ordnance upload at sea.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 15, 2016) An F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOV maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots are embarked for the third and fin2016).
An F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft conducts test operations on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6). The highly diverse cadre of Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) technicians, maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots are embarked for the third and final developmental test phase (DT-III) of F-35B carrier suitability and integration.
Taken on the western side of the park's Middle Falls.
What happens when you're an Arbor Vitae (Thuja occidentalis) and you sprout on bare bedrock instead of real soil? Your roots get aggressive and go on a water- and nutrient-seeking expedition.
The rock here is basalt of the late-Mesoproterozoic North Shore Volcanic Group. It erupted about 1.1 Ga ago as part of the cataclysmic Midcontinent Rift event that almost tore North America apart.
The basalt is highly jointed. Joints are fractures in bedrock where there has been no appreciable shift in position on either side of the fissure. They often form when a section of the Earth's crust long confined by overlying rock units is finally exposed at the surface through the process of erosion. Relieved of all that former topweight and confining pressure, it stretches vertically, shrinks horizontally, and cracks.
Plant roots often exploit joints by growing down into them. And as they slowly expand they can exert so much pressure on the stone that it fractures even more.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit
my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.
EXODUS #2 – (NIGERIA 1996)
Nasce in Nigeria nel 1996.
Ex colonia inglese, indipendente dal 1° ottobre 1960, lo Stato Nigeriano ha conosciuto un veloce e per molti versi traumatico cambiamento sociale. In particolare nella parte meridionale i crescenti profitti della vendita del petrolio, di cui il paese è tra i massimi produttori al mondo, e i continui rapporti commerciali con le più ricche nazioni occidentali, prima tra tutte gli Stati Uniti, hanno accelerato ciò che viene comunemente chiamato “cocacolization”.
Negli anni Settanta l’economia dello stato si è rapidamente trasformata da agricola a petrolifera; l’insediamento delle compagnie multinazionali per le attività estrattive ha profondamente cambiato l’ambiente, rendendo coltivazione e pesca impraticabili e rendendo più veloce l’urbanizzazione.
Tali trasformazioni hanno mutato, tra l’altro, il ruolo delle donne della regione, da sempre dedite all’agricoltura. Se da un lato, per alcune ciò ha significato la perdita delle occupazioni tradizionali ed il conseguente impoverimento, per altre si sono aperte nuove possibilità di impiego, mentre altre ancora sono diventate amanti di uomini ricchi.
È in questa fase che si è creata la prima frattura nel sistema tradizionale sud nigeriano: il Delta State e l’Edo State sono stati i territori maggiormente interessati. Le donne sono entrate, attraverso l’indipendenza economica, nel processo di modernizzazione che tende a promuovere un nuovo orientamento di valori, di tipo individualista, legato al fattore «denaro», tipicamente individuale per natura”.
È nella seconda generazione che il processo di acculturazione del “western way of life” si è unito al particolare discorso migratorio che fa da premessa al fenomeno della prostituzione nigeriana.
Exodus #2 dopo l’uccisione dei genitori e a seguito di continue violenze sessuali subite, scappa dalla sua terra e arriva in Italia, esattamente a Brindisi, dove viene accolta a Maglie presso la C.A.S (Casa di Accoglienza Straordinaria).
In Italia ha ottenuto il permesso di soggiorno per motivi umanitari.
Leica MP
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fuji Neopan 400
Tetenal Ultrafin Plus 1+4
7 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists its Centaur upper stage atop the Atlas V rocket that will launch NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover for the Mars 2020 mission. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
More than 250 friends and supporters joined EHMC Foundation for “Be Integrative,” a spectacular evening reception to benefit The Center for Integrative Medicine at EHMC.
Looking more or less northward. Taken from the park's River View Trail.
The bridge visible above the falls is part of State Route 61, the main coastal road from Duluth to Ontario.
This was the first North Shore state park I ever visited. At that time I remember thinking, "If the rest of the way to the Canadian border looks like this and has this much geology and botany, I'm going to be in heaven." As it turned out, I wasn't disappointed. And Gooseberry makes the perfect point of entry for the whole experience.
This photo is a good introduction to this site for a number of reasons. For one thing, it captures two of this property's five waterfalls. For another, it gives a decent long-range view of the North Shore Volcanic Group basalt flows over which the Gooseberry River spills on its way to Lake Superior. And then again, it's a nice family portrait of the locale's predominant tree species.
The two cascades visible in this image are the Middle Falls and the Lower Falls, and I trust you can figure out which is which. The bedrock under and around them dates to the end of the Mesoproterozoic era. It began about 1.1 Ga ago as mafic lava flows that poured out of fissures onto the stretched and faulted floor of the Midcontinent Rift.
That huge breach, often abbreviated to MCR, extended across Laurentia (ancestral North America) in a great horseshoe shape from at least Kansas up to the Lake Superior region, and then down again to southeastern Michigan, and perhaps all the way to Alabama.
One consequence of the MCR's eruptive activity is the bedrock you see in this park. It comes in three varieties: basalt, more basalt, and even more bloody basalt. But this unrelieved expanse of dark-toned igneous stone constitutes only a tiny fraction of the MCR's total lava output, which may well have been as much as 2 million cubic km (about 480,000 cubic mi).
As far as the North-Woodsy trees here go, the predominant softwood, evergreen, and conifer is that lover of Great Lakes shorelines, Arbor Vitae (Thuja occidentalis). It's also known as Northern White Cedar, though a true cedar it isn't. It's joined by the most common hardwood in view, the white-barked Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera).
Part 19 of this series shows the Arbor Vitae in remarkably intimate association with the North Shore Volcanic Group.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit
my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.