During a Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) at SPACEHAB, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-101 crew learn how to manipulate the Russian crane Strela. At left is Yuri Malenchenko, who is with the Russian Space Agency (RSA); in the center is Edward Tsang Lu (Ph.D.); at right is Mission Specialist Jeffrey N. Williams. Other crew members are Commander James Donald Halsell Jr., Pilot Scott Horowitz, and Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber, (Ph.D.) and Boris W. Morukov (RSA). The primary objective of the STS-101 mission is to complete the initial outfitting of the International Space Station, making it fully ready for the first long-term crew. The seven-member crew will transfer almost two tons of equipment and supplies from SPACEHAB's Logistics Double Module. Additionally, they will unpack a shipment of supplies delivered earlier by a Russian Progress space tug and begin outfitting the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module. Three astronauts will perform two space walks to transfer and install parts of the Russian Strela cargo boom that are attached to SPACEHAB's Integrated Cargo Container, connect utility cables between Zarya and Zvezda, and install a magnetometer/pole assembly on the Service Module. Additional activities for the STS-101 astronauts include working with the Space Experiment Module (SEM-06) and the Mission to America's Remarkable Schools (MARS), two educational initiatives. STS-101 is scheduled for launch no earlier than March 16, 2000. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum

ÍDOLOS POPULARES

Serie diaria de 28 capítulos con las personas (no personajes de ficción) del mundo de la política, la ciencia, la literatura, la pintura, la música, el cine, el deporte… que tienen al menos 6 modelos de camisetas diferentes. Como en las entregas de premios, se empieza por las menores y acabará con la más importante. No hay héroes sin villanos, o protagonista sin antagonista, por lo que en esta serie aparecerán de ambos lados.

Es un criterio objetivo de clasificación, al margen de cualquier cuestión política o moral y dado que se extraen de un conjunto de 25.600 camisetas, tiene cierto valor estadístico. Querámoslo o no, reflejan en su cantidad el grado de popularidad actual de estos ídolos en las calles de Madrid.

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POPULAR IDOLS

Daily series of 28 chapters with people (not fictional characters) from the world of politics, science, literature, painting, music, film, sports ... who have at least 6 different T-shirt models. As in the award ceremonies, you start with the minor ones and finish with the most important ones. There are no heroes without villains, or protagonists without antagonists, so in this series they will appear from both sides.

It is an objective criterion of classification, regardless of any political or moral issue and given that they are extracted from a set of 25,600 shirts, it has a certain statistical value. Whether we like it or not, they reflect in their quantity the current popularity of these idols in the streets of Madrid.

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This was taken on 77th Street, between Second and Third Avenue.

Tulips like these reach their peak bloom in mid-to-late April, depending on the weather and temperature. And about a week later, they're gone ...

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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.

That's all there is to it …

Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.

Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.

As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"

A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."

As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"

So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".

Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"

Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.

Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link

URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan

If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com

Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...

One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.

Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.

Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.

The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.

Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.

The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.

Objectively viewed – the world through my lens

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Soldiers from the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, located in Ansbach, Germany, take off in their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after dropping off Troopers assigned to Comanche Troop, 1st Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment during an aerial assault exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, located near Rose Barracks, Oct. 13, 2015. The exercise helped Soldiers to train by being inserted into an area where they created a perimeter and then attacked an objective. Afterwards, the Troopers participated in sling load training using the same helicopters to pick up loads from their area of operations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. William A. Tanner/released)

Hans Lundquist Ambassador of Swedish to Ethiopia and Djibouti Visited Boyna Primary School in Afar region, Dubti woreda, on July 12th, 2022.

The overall objective of BETE “My Home” programme is to provide support for children in IDP sites and host communities to access safe and protective learning opportunities linked with integrated child protection services, with a focus on accelerated learning and transferrable skills training for out of school girls and boys. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Mulugeta Ayene

My Pentax Microscope Adapter from Ebay showed up so I had to test it.

Seems the eyepiece tube on my microscope is slightly larger than the 25mm the adapter is designed for. I had to stretch the 'fastener tube' opening on the adapter to make it fit.

This image was shot with the Nikon 10X objective and the 10X eyepiece in place. The total magnification is therefore approx. 22X (10x10/4.5). The image width is 1.1mm

I tried without the eyepiece in place but there was a hotspot in the center of the image.

Setting objectives helps individuals and teams focus, get on the same page and define ‘what done looks like’. Use this MindManager template to set and align your objectives to achieve your goals in 2009!

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University of Alaska Army ROTC cadets assault their objective during a field training evercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 2, 2022. Following a tactical air insertion, the Seawolf Detachment cadets maneuvered across snow-covered terrain, assaulted opposition forces, secured their objective, and concluded with an air exfiltration. Alaska Army National Guard aviators from the 1-207th Aviation Regiment provided air support for the training. The AKARNG’s General Support Aviation Battalion routinely trains with all branches of the military as well as civilian agencies to hone its operational interoperability and maintain readiness for a wide range of state and federal missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)

Uzbekistan,Tugai forest, photo by Adriana Dinu

The overall objective of this project was to conserve

tugai forest and to include it in Uzbekistan’s system of protected areas. Specifically, the project focused on extending protected areas, demonstrating a new multi-zoned approach to protected area planning, raising awareness about the value of tugai, and involving local communities in conservation of the forest.

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Sometimes our objectives limit what we can do—and they may limit our mental capacity to accept change. Going in with an open mind is always the better way... moneymakerphotography.com/objectives-define-everything

The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

B-24 Nose Art from the WWII collection of William Nelson Black.

Provided by daughter Marsha Black

Managing Objectives.

Introduction

18 May 2021, Rome Italy - General View of the sacred forest of the Parco della Caffarella with Holm Oak trees. The G20 Green Garden at Rome's Caffarella park, will be a legacy of Italy's G20 presidency and partnership with FAO that raises awareness of the members' commitment to people, the planet and prosperity, while offering environmental and recreational benefits to Rome's citizens and visitors. This project will be divided in phases from June to October and the FAO Global Goals installations will be the starting point for a larger G20 Green Garden initiative. One of the main objectives of this project is to produce a Lucus, or sacred forest, in line with an ancient Roman tradition, by inviting each representative of the G20 countries to plant a tree in the park as a symbol of their commitment. Considering that planting cannot start until autumn, the proposal is to develop the Garden in phases, inaugurating the first phase during the U20 Summit of mayors on 12 June 2021, and proceeding with phases 2 and 3 - tree planting and the development of an educational itinerary - in September/October 2021.

Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.

Dear all,

Hopefully this photo could be a plesant one

for all enjoying and reviewing.

Please feel free to enjoying & commenting many more photos

in gallery of mine here.

Objective idea and comments for improving our all skill photography

always welcome.

Thankyou all,

keep EXPLORE n keep UPLOAD!

Struggling through learning a new language and new platform. FUN!

Puttino flautista c'è da precisare!

DEVENS, Mass. (June 15, 2016) -- In the future, Army expeditionary base camps will sip fuel and water while slashing waste.

That was the message heard by Army leadership June 15 at the Sustainability Logistics Basing -- Science and Technology Objective Demonstration, or SLB-STO-D, Leadership Day at the Base Camp Integration Laboratory, or BCIL, on Fort Devens.

If I had something else than a Tamron18-270 with Kenko 2x, extension tubes and +2 close-up filter... that Foto would be amazingly great :'(

But anyway, the picture quality is crap but the moment is great!

A good picture would look like this one of Luis Limchiu

Objective in sight. The comms mast on the summit of Crompton Moor.

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Yen-Hua Lee

Firefly and his team have reached the abandoned bunker and move in cautiously.

5X4 Transparency

Image taken from the series:

'Postmodern Objectivity: Pushing The Boundaries of the Neue Sachlichkeit, American Realism and European Fotoform'

#070/366 March 10, 2008

Well I don't know what I'm looking for

But I know that I just wanna look some more

And I won't be satisfied

'Till there's nothing left that I haven't tried

For some people it's an easy choice

But for me there's a devil and an angel's voice

Well I don't know what I am looking for

But I know that I just wanna look some more

But I know that I don't wanna wait anymore

["What I'm Looking For" by Brendan Benson]

Yes, I know... it's from the latest iPod touch ad. Yet it's relevant. I mean, listen to it... or read it. Whatever. The thing is? I've been thinking a lot about the whole annulment thing. I've been reading and reflecting and I think I've come to some helpful insight.

Here it is: It is possible for me to accept that, at time of my marriage vows, it is possible that I was not psychologically able to give consent, if I can also recognize that it's possible that I could be psychologically able to enter into vows in the future.

You see, my struggle has been with the idea that my Ex could blame me as psychologically responsible for the reason why our marriage could be annulled. I wanted him to own some of this, too. Well, I cannot control what he owns and does not own. I can control how I think and feel about this. How I have been feeling is that, if he gets to say that I contributed to why our marriage should be annulled, then it would follow that I am fundamentally flawed. I have been interpreting the situation to mean that if I wasn't able to enter into a sacramental marriage at that time, then I have too many problems to ever enter into a sacramental marriage.

This is not about whether or not I want to be married in the future. This is more about whether I think I am fundamentally flawed for forever or flawed at that time in my past.

You see, it hit me that it's possible that I had too many issues and problems in my past and that I have healed and have less problems and issues in my present. I can (and am) a different person now than I was seven years ago.

I don't know why it was so challenging to make this connection. You see, if I can objectively see myself as a different person now, it is easier for me to objectively engage in whether or not I believe my previous marriage has grounds for annulment. For me, this is a revelation.

I won't get into details, for they are unbloggable as far as I am concerned, but there have been abusive instances in my past that affected my behavior before and during my marriage that lead me to think annulment is an option. I have been reading about canon law. It is painful for me to think about these things, but I also think that I am different now, more healed from this part of my past, in 2008 than I was in 2001. I have been in and out of therapy since I was in my early 20s regarding this issue, and it has affected all of my relationships with men, as far as I can tell, but I also believe that I don't have to own that past for forever. Perhaps part of the annulment is part of acknowledging how that past affected my life, and part of healing from my past is acknowledging that I don't have to be affected by this in the same way any longer.

Managing Objectives.

Case Sharing, Q&A

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Always know what your goal is.

Medium power microscope shot of a flys foot

Managing Objectives.

Case Sharing

Pima Air and Space Museum

OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA

The device on display is an element of the standard set of cameras and reconnaissance equipment carried by the SR-71 in the 1970s. It is a stereoscopic camera designed to photograph the ground under the aircraft's flight path. This produces a three dimensional image that greatly eases the identification of the objects that are photographed.

Objects and Symbolism

Objective:

To design an urban concert poster for the band called Small Town Nation.

Strategy:

Small Town Nation is a local punk rock band from Spokane, Washington with an urban feel, so I tried to portray that in the poster with some grunge and paper textures that appeared to be posted on a bulleton board. Original: 11x17". Stock photos and band photo used. Made in InDesign and Photoshop.

A very good reason to visit Didier's bar "Le Boucaneer" in Colleville-sur-mer

model:Laia Castañon and Nikkor 70-300 mm

“I got active in the union because the former union officials were negotiating concessionary contracts with the company [Hormel]. It meant concessions in every aspect of work. There was real speedup and there were many injuries. Young women got carpel tunnel syndrome and couldn’t pick up their kids anymore. People thirty, thirty-two years old, mean enough to eat nails couldn’t lift a ten pound box. We tried to approach the company to create a safe place to work. They said to us: If you don’t like it, there are plenty of others who will work under these conditions.”

1985. In 1916, the congressional Commission of Industrial Relations found that in labor disputes, the assumption was that “the entire machinery of the State should be put behind the strikebreakers.” Seventy years later, when Hormel workers struck the Austin, Minnesota plant, they had to contend with violent police assaults with mace, tear gas and dogs, injunctions limiting picketing, National Guard troops ushering strikebreakers into the plant and infiltrating union meetings, and the arrests of union leaders under false charges that were eventually overturned. The strikers were led by Jim Guyette, president of Local P-9, United Food and Commercial Workers. “I went to that meeting,” one striker remembered about the decision to strike. “I couldn’t believe Jim was asking us what we thought. But I found Jim didn’t make a move without coming to the rank-and-file, and say, ‘What do you want to do?’” It was an extraordinary case of long-lasting grass-roots solidarity. In the end, the strikers failed to achieve their objectives, but the struggle of Local P-9 signaled a renewal of union militancy.

From the set: "Portraits: Social Activists of the Last Century."

This panel depicts two important recent steps toward the fulfillment of democracy for the Paraguayan people.

One side displays the celebrations after the victory of Lugo in the free elections of 2008. April 20 marks the culmination of a series of large demonstrations throughout the long transition of nearly 20 years in search of a true democratic system with greater social sensitivity that pays attention to the needs of working people.

The National Republican Association (NRA), The Colorado Party, represented the open and unequivocal support for Stroessner's dictatorship for 35 years. To be functional to this objective, it was purged violently to become a fundamental element of the Stroessner totalitarian tripod known as the "granitic unity of the party, the government and the military,” which wielded social and political control over Paraguayan society’s public expressions.

Following the 1989 coup, the NRA won the elections thanks to the large apparatus built up during up the de facto governments through political clientelism in public administration composed almost exclusively by party members.

The other side of the panel shows the Commission for Truth and Justice of Paraguay submitting its Final Report, on August 28, 2008, at the Municipal Theatre. It includes the findings and recommendations to the representatives of the three branches of government, and to national and international society, in compliance with Law 2.225/03. President Fernando Lugo used the occasion to apologize on behalf of Paraguayan State to the victims of State Terrorism.

The Commission for Truth and Justice sought to officially establish truth and historical justice regarding the human rights crimes that occurred in Paraguay during the Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989).

The core of the investigation dealt with gross human rights violations: forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings; illegal deprivation of liberty; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment; and Paraguayan exile, among others.