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¿ nee-KOH-tay-bah ? -- anagram of the epithet betonica; could not find reasoning
bet-OH-nee-kuh -- variant of vettonica, a Spanish native plant ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: leafy bract justicia, paper plume, rose-spotted white-flowered Justice wort, squirrel's tail, white shrimp plant • Bengali: পাটল বাসক patela basak • Gujarati: ગુલાબી અરડુસી gulabi aradusi • Hindi: हाड़पात hadpat, मोकंदर mokander, प्रमेहःहराती pramehaharati • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಕನಕಾಂಬರ kaadu kanakaambara, ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ sanna adusoge • Konkani: धवो पोक्षो dhavo pokso • Malayalam: വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunji • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा gulabi adulasa • Odia: ମାଟି ଶାଗ mati saga • Rajasthani: गुलाबी अडूसा gulabi adusa • Sanskrit: श्वेत सहचरः sveta-sahacarah • Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱟᱨ tayar • Tamil: வேலிமூங்கில் veli-munkil • Telugu: తెల్ల రంతు tellarantu
botanical names: Nicoteba betonica (L.) Lindau ... homotypic synonyms: Adhatoda betonica (L.) Nees • Ecbolium betonica (L.) Kuntze • Justicia betonica L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Gendarussa betonica Nees ex Steud., not validly publ. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 27 June 2025
¿ nee-KOH-tay-bah ? -- anagram of the epithet betonica; could not find reasoning
bet-OH-nee-kuh -- variant of vettonica, a Spanish native plant ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: leafy bract justicia, paper plume, rose-spotted white-flowered Justice wort, squirrel's tail, white shrimp plant • Bengali: পাটল বাসক patela basak • Gujarati: ગુલાબી અરડુસી gulabi aradusi • Hindi: हाड़पात hadpat, मोकंदर mokander, प्रमेहःहराती pramehaharati • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಕನಕಾಂಬರ kaadu kanakaambara, ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ sanna adusoge • Konkani: धवो पोक्षो dhavo pokso • Malayalam: വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunji • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा gulabi adulasa • Odia: ମାଟି ଶାଗ mati saga • Rajasthani: गुलाबी अडूसा gulabi adusa • Sanskrit: श्वेत सहचरः sveta-sahacarah • Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱟᱨ tayar • Tamil: வேலிமூங்கில் veli-munkil • Telugu: తెల్ల రంతు tellarantu
botanical names: Nicoteba betonica (L.) Lindau ... homotypic synonyms: Adhatoda betonica (L.) Nees • Ecbolium betonica (L.) Kuntze • Justicia betonica L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Gendarussa betonica Nees ex Steud., not validly publ. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 27 June 2025
Christopher L. Barrett, Executive Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute/Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Dr. Barrett’s talk entitled “Massively Interactive Systems: Thinking and Deciding in the Age of Big Data"
Abstract: This talk discusses advanced computationally assisted reasoning about large interaction-dominated systems. Current questions in science, from the biochemical foundations of life to the scale of the world economy, involve details of huge numbers and levels of intricate interactions. Subtle indirect causal connections and vastly extended definitions of system boundaries dominate the immediate future of scientific research. Beyond sheer numbers of details and interactions, the systems are variously layered and structured in ways perhaps best described as networks. Interactions include, and often co-create, these morphological and dynamical features, which can interact in their own right. Such “massively interacting” systems are characterized by, among other things, large amounts of data and branching behaviors. Although the amount of associated data is large, the systems do not even begin to explore their entire phase spaces. Their study is characterized by advanced computational methods. Major methodological revisions seem to be indicated.
Heretofore unavailable and rapidly growing basic source data and increasingly powerful computing resources drive complex system science toward unprecedented detail and scale. There is no obvious reason for this direction in science to change. The cost of acquiring data has historically dominated scientific costs and shaped the research environment in terms of approaches and even questions. In the several years, as the costs of social data, biological data and physical data have plummeted on a per-unit basis and as the volume of data is growing exponentially, the cost drivers for scientific research have clearly shifted from data generation to storage and analytical computation-based methods. The research environment is rapidly being reshaped by this change and, in particular, the social and bio–sciences are revolutionized by it. Moreover, the study of socially– and biologically–coupled systems (e.g., societal infrastructures and infectious disease public health policy analysis) is in flux as computation-based methods begin to greatly expand the scope of traditional problems in revolutionary ways.
How does this situation serve to guide the development of “information portal technology” for complex system science and for decision support? An example of an approach to detailed computational analysis of social and behavioral interaction with physical and infrastructure effects in the immediate aftermath of a devastating disaster will be described in this context.
"Reasoning makes you human. Reasoning and laughter make you more human. Reasoning, laughter and a tail make you a gecko." - Socrates
....Whaaaat? That means eating bugs and being cat food around my place. :-)
I used flash.... I do hope that means no damage to the gecko's vision. Please tell me this is true.
CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
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About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
Not sure of the reasoning here for the arrest, but the police followed the man on his bike and then arbitrarily arrested him. I don't know what happened previously - but he did not seem like any kind of threat to require this much force.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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Not sure of the reasoning here for the arrest, but the police followed the man on his bike and then arbitrarily arrested him. I don't know what happened previously - but he did not seem like any kind of threat to require this much force.
I hate the smell of moron in the morning
Originally written August 14th. 2006
Typically I consider myself a rather mild tempered, fare minded bipedal. I imagine it comes with the territory. There are however certain events that have a habit of transpiring within my daily routine that can quite easily dislodge my docile temperament, and unleash an inert not so savvy side of me, that despite what I’d regard as a voluminous effort of reserve, seems incapable of rational communication what so ever, once awoken. It’s like Debi always says. "You can’t fix stupid."
For example. I do not particularly appreciate some one smoking in one of my bays when my crew is in the middle of washing a tanker loaded heavy with 35,000lbs. of highly volatile gasoline. This rather asinine disregard for life and limb has the repeated result of me not so politely asking he or she to douse said ignited tobacco product in a rapid if not just slightly vigorous manner, taking care to utilize as many intensive verbs as possible, while explaining my reasoning. Like wise I do not find the world around me to be as kosher as it normally is when unauthorized persons decide they are suddenly qualified enough to operate one of my machines, and derail it. A situation like this again is proceeded by many expletive metaphors and monosyllable adverbs that better accent my disdain, while I drag a lift jack, and steel piped, soon to be man powered, levers into the bay. These sorts of things often leave me paraphrasing my latest self thought up proverb. W.W.R.D. "What would Russ do?" Unfortunately I do not have a tazer, nor the persuasion to talk my boss into buying me a cattle prod.
The point is, these sorts of things have a habit of getting under my skin. Not so much in that they happen, because yes, sooner or later they are going to happen. It’s as in evitable as Uwezz suddenly deciding to rip a pair of antenna’s off a rig, or Thelma’s new tick of allowing the top brush to jump a link first thing every morning. It’s not that these things happen, but rather the frequency in which they happen. Regardless, by days end I can usually take these events and stuff them away into the back of my mind, before the drive home has concluded. Usually.
Today, it seemed that I.Q. for some inexplicable reason plummeted. I’m not entirely sure what might have caused it, but it seems as though sometime in the night, some unnatural force crept into the world, and stole a few points from everyone’s I.Q.’s, some more then others. It should equally be noted that in no small part was I an exception to this rather paradoxical I.Q. point thieving phenomenon.
This morning, and the second truck in. The driver barely speaks a lick of English, and it takes more then a small amount of effort on my part just to figure out what the hell it is he wants. When I’d finally gone to work on his rig, I still was not entirely sure if what I was doing was in fact what he wanted done. It should be noted that this is after all an English speaking country, and the rules regarding ones ability to speak and understand the English language in order to obtain a class A drivers licence and operate large equipment is pretty clear. You must. For some reason I continually find myself scratching my head at the realization that the driver I am trying to communicate with can’t seem to understand a single word coming out of my mouth...This can not always be attributed to the language barrier. Some folk just don’t understand common sense. However that was not the case with this particular driver. He didn’t speak English and I don’t speak Russian. The situation ended up with me very strategically relying on his body language to decipher if I was indeed doing what he wanted done. Like wise. Once I had decided that what I was doing was in fact what he wanted done, I had to then try and explain to him that I would be needing the engine of his rig shut off, and as it’s a Volvo, I would also be needing his assistance in popping open the hood, from inside the cab. He seems to understand and returns to the cab of his rig. The hood pops open, and he climbs back out and steps aside...With the engin still running.
Alright. A little annoying, but I figure I can just deal with it. There’s work to be done, and I’m the one needing to do it. We’ll hustle through the truck, get it out, and I can move on with the day. Great plan. That is until the driver walks up, and closes the hood he had just opened....
Can someone tell me what the hell just happened?
Moving right along through the day to the fine gentlemen that turned the last hour of my work day into a fine small ripe slice of hell. He was driving a small box van with a little trailer behind it. Honestly when I saw the combination pull in, the thought of it being a problem had not for a moment crossed my mind. That is until I open the back door, and began re-cataloging every event that had happened through out this fine sunny day. He had pulled his rig up to the door in a way that the trailer is now so cock eyed that he can neither back it up and straiten it out, with out jack knifing it, nor pull into the bay with out tearing the hell of his wheels. Ah, time for me to incorporate some of those fine tuned "skiews" I’ve acquired over the years.
So I thought...
The next few minutes become a delicate ballet of me, guiding the truck forward, backing the truck up, pointing it this way, pointing it that way, back and forth, port to starboard, trying anything I can think of to get the combination strait. As the situation goes from bad to much worse, I discover something I didn’t know about myself. I have been guiding eighty foot long big rig combo’s into my bays for near ten years, and as such, I can just about do it with my eye’s shut. "Skiews". If a rig is sitting at the back door, and the driver has under shot the mark by a few feet, I know exactly where I have to aim the tractor in order to have the trailer fall in line by the time it’s reached the guard rails. But this short van and trailer do not move like an eighty foot combo, and the dumb ass that’s trying to guide him into the bay (that would be me) keeps telling the driver to over steer. After three failed attempts, truck driver dude is sweating bullets. He keeps mashing on the brakes, and wiping the brow of his forehead with his hat. Super truck wash guide guru Static is sweating bullets as well, and neither one of us can figure out why even after combining our mental capabilities together, we still can not seem to find the apex where this trailer is going to fall into line and fly right.
Stress is beginning to build at this point. The muscles in my neck are cramping, and I can feel the heartburn coming on. By now a small group of drivers have congregated at the front door of the bay to watch the spectacle, and they have all started cracking jokes about the drivers skills. This in no small part is making both the driver and myself even more leery.
Now, the easiest way to send me on a fast track to pissed-off-ville is for a driver to ignore my instructions when I am attempting to guide he or she into one of the bays. This will resoult in colorful word selection, at beet red faced like volumes. But this gentlemen has fallowed all of my instructions right down to the last detail. The driver is not the problem, and at this point I’m really not sure what is. Despite the fact that he is clearly not proficient in the skills of operating his equipment, I can’t get angry about that. He has after all, fallowed my instructions. It would seem the drivers at the front of the bay have not taken this small detail into account. What was it Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio said to Todd Graff’s character in the movie "The Abyss". "Hippy, do me a favor. Don’t take my side." The drivers are cracking jokes and making, well, questionable hand gestures towards the driver, and I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to try for a fourth attempt at getting this rig into my bay, and that’s when it hits me...
I’ve been bouncing this rig back and forth for the better part of fifteen minutes, and it seems that no matter how far to either side I aim it, it still isn’t strait...But taking a few steps back I can see now that it is strait. The driver doesn’t have the trailer cock eyed, the trailer is spot on, it's just to wide to fit between the guard rails.
When I say that I hate the smell of morons in the morning, what I have to further emphasize is that it is by far more a sinister acrid stench of stupidity when moron ooze happens to be perspiring from your own pores. At least, that’s what I think.
Static
CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
___________
About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
Fatima Koli ’17, Lab Coordinator for the Empirical Reasoning Center. Photography by Asiya Khaki '09.
Vocals/Percussion for The Reasoning with Maria Owen(Vocals/acoustic Guitar) and Jake Bradford-Sharp(Drums)
I was raised in a secular household.
Although I wasn't raised to be an atheist, I "decided" that I didn't believe in god(s) when I was quite young. I like to think that I'm an atheist purely because of my own intellect and reasoning, however the reality is that I'm probably an atheist because I wasn't raised to believe in god. Just Like most Christians are Christian because they were raised to be. The same is true for any other religion. There are a billion Muslims who were raised to believe that theirs is the one true faith just the same as the kids in Catechism class or Sunday school are taught to believe the same about their faith. Never underestimate the role indoctrination of youth plays in perpetuating religion.
Most of what I know of the Bible and Christianity comes from "Chick Tracks" passed out by evangelists outside my schools growing up or from watching Movies like "The Ten Commandments," and playing video games. I learned Revelation 21:6: "...I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life...," from Fallout 3. Ironically it came in a line delivered by Liam Neeson.
In high school I read Milton's "Paradise Lost" which retells the story of Adam and Eve albeit with some non Christian(even pagan) additions. Later during my first year of college I read parts of the book of Genesis and parts of the book of Ruth for a literature class. My unfamiliarity with the bible(or at least the old testament) in comparison with my classmates was apparent and I began to realize that a working knowledge of the Bible and it's stories would be valuable for interpreting and understanding much of western literature and culture.
We all know what someone means when they say "David and Goliath" or "Noah's Ark," but I figure there are many other stories that would be useful to have knowledge of for the purpose of understanding metaphors and allusions.
Thus, I ordered a Bible, a King James Version, as that seems to be one of the dominant translations (at least in protestantism), and it was the translation we used in the class where I first read parts of the Bible.
Seeing how little time i have for reading non law school material i doubt i'll get through it anytime soon, but i hope to digest it in the near future.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
... at the HRH Prog Festival at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
See my other The Reasoning photos.
Apparently still in use... although I don't know the reasoning behind the alternative spelling with the extra é's...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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I felt bad that I was pretty busy studying for tests tonight so I didn't have a chance to take any shots and I had nothing prepared. So I looked back into the archives and I remembered I had made this AWHILE back, but didn't post it because I wanted the timing to be right.
My reasoning was it was a great concept, but at the time I was too happy for it to be relevant to me. I'm still too happy, but I wanted to post it anyways. My reasoning is who cares if I'm too happy, the whole point is reaching out to others who aren't.
And I know a bunch of you guys right now are crazy busy and not in the best of spirits.
So I have a story for you. It's not exactly happy, but it took place today and I feel like sharing because it's relevant.
Okay so I teach swimming at this pool that is in a high school that is a 30 minute drive from my house. On weekdays I have to take a train to get down there on time to teach. Since it's in a high school many of the staff I work with go to the school. Our staff is very up beat and we are all friends. It's a great environment to work in. Probably the only reason I take the trouble to train it down there every week and then drive 30 minutes there and then 30 minutes back every sunday. The friends I've met there are some of the best people I've ever met and they are some of the only friends I can really be myself around. I'm grateful for them.
The story takes place today and revolves around one of my best friends from swimming, Leanne. This year she is in grade 12 at the high school I swim at and she is the student government president. But this year has been far from fun and games for her. As long as I've known her I've never seen her without a smile and she is ALWAYS in good spirits. I always tried to mimic her good attitude, so she really has help me mold myself into who I am today (just to put things in perspective I've been teaching there for 4 years now, so that's basically how long I've REALLY known some of these friends).
This year she has been SERIOUSLY slacking because she is always busy doing government stuff. She has done a lot for the school, I know that for a fact. But she barely gets any sleep any more so IF she goes to class she usually sleeps through it or she'll skip just so she can catch up on sleep in her government office. One of my other friends from swimming Alana used to be one of Leanne's best friends. This year they barely talk because Leanne just is never around and if she is she is not mentally there. According to Alana, Leanne has really changed this year for the worse and she just isn't the same. I know I've noticed a difference with Leanne, but since she comes to swimming regularly I get to see her as much as I usually would be able to see her.
I see this story has gotten longer than I planned, so I'll cut to the chase. At swimming Leanne has found a good friend in me because she has distance herself from her other friends from school. We talk ALL the time, but I find that Leanne doesn't really talk to her other friends at swimming anymore, just me.
Today I found her at the coffee shop I always go to before swimming. I never see her there. This is a first and the year is almost over. She was by herself and she had a HUGE stack of books on the table with her and she was reading one. As long as I've known her she has never been that interested in books, so I was surprised.
I sat next to her and kind of startled her and I asked her how her Prom weekend was since they had prom last friday. She said it was great, but the stories she told me didn't sound that great. And then I asked her about the books and she said that she has been reading a lot lately since she has had free time (she always hungout with friends after school with her free time before). This made me feel really bad and I asked what she got and she told me she just picked out books like looked light and fluffy and fun. That made me feel even worse. So basically I tried my best to make her laugh from there on in and it was mission accomplished. By the time swimming was done she had her smile back and she gave me a big hug and told me how sweet I was. That made me blush xD
Made me feel really good that I could reach out. Sorry for the long story, when I feel good I just don't stop talking :s
Hope you enjoyed my story and I hope you can reach out to other people around you :)
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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My reasoning for choosing Robert Capa is because most of his photography was taken of World War II and many intriguing fights. He always said "if your pictures aren't good enough, then you aren't close enough," which is why I went for a closer look to capture the true emotions and features. I decided to use my model as a soldier entering a war, which you can see that his expression matches with most of the tiring and saddening soldiers. Before turning the photo completely black and white, I added black powder on his face to attract the darker areas of his face, almost making him portray emotion through the photo. The use of the scarf and beanie, acted as props to make my model seem more covered up, which is what most of his pictures showed. I also made my model pose just like one of Capa's pictures resembling the resistance of sorrow and intimacy.
There is a stage in exhaustion that for lack of better understanding, or reasoning for that matter, seems to always get the better of me when I least expect or desire it. And I stand here feeling rather confident that most if not all of you out there have experienced this seemingly frustrating phenomenon at least once or nearly everyday of your lives yourself. It’s the moment that immediately precedes what was apparently a missed opportunity. The moment after the ole sandman had come a knocking, and you failed to answer the door.
At that moment it seems the mind for no reason at all, despite lethargic aspirations of exhaustion, and would be torpidity, suddenly explodes with a gale force of thought. Everything suddenly becomes unusually vibrant, and interesting. And for a moment it seems as though tired has simply…gone away. A second wind perhaps. A third, a forth? Last night, after what has been a rather long and frantic week, I think I finally reached that stage.
When I’d finally gotten settled in for the evening, taking pictures was not high on my to do list. Come to think of it. It was not on the list at all. I didn’t have a shot for the day, and I didn’t care. The schedule for my closing day activities had been stripped bare of anything that did not seem at least hygienically necessary. Shower, food, bed. In that order. By the time I was finished with my shower, I must have reached my mark. The bed seemed inviting, but for some reason other things were drawing my attention. Suddenly I was worrying about issues revolving around the work places, that really weren’t issues at all. At least not ones important enough that they couldn’t wait until the fallowing morning. An hour passed, and I was still awake.
Wander around the house. Poke around in the refrigerator. Nothing looks good. Peek out the humans on display living room window, and soak in the view of a fresh layer of snow settling in on the land. Another half hour wasted. Grind a few gears about the this and that at work. Peek out the window again. Wonder about emails. Remember we have not shot a single picture today. Remember we don’t care. Remember we’ve been concerned about an particular email for the past couple of days. Stumble off to the computer, to check email.
Down into the dungeon, and settling before the mighty puter desk my eyes almost immediately fall onto the lap top. Sitting idle and to the side, I remind myself that I should be in bed. Then I remember that the lap top has been giving me fit’s the past few days. It’s an older model, and I think my latest project has overwhelmed it. I consider taking another stab at fixing the problem. Then I remember the email. The project can wait, as can the lap top. At least for now. There is still that thing at work eating at me.
Wake up the desk top, and search for the little email icon through the dry blurry haze of contact covered eyes. The images seem unusually interesting. Maybe I should try to shoot them? Maybe I should go to bed. I still need a picture of the day. I don’t care….I can’t remember what it was I was planning to do.
Sluggish, I drop my head and scan the desk top. Then something catches my eye. Something that I’m quite certain any other day, I never in a hundred chances would have ever noticed. I crack a grin upon making my observation and pick up the object to get a closer look.
“What the…..?…..Alcoa?
For some reason, at that moment. It seemed the discovery of this plastic water bottle lid, and the logo that adorned it, which up until that moment I’d only seen boasted upon the wheels of countless big rigs, seemed the perfect combination of not only taking my one and only shot for the day, it all so seemed to be the vice I needed to finally turn my mind off.
After I took the photo, I walked way from the computer, the camera, the pesky lap top and unfinished project. The freshly falling snow, the email, the worries I had about work, and the day as a whole. I walked away and I went to bed...
...Damn I wish I'd remembered to eat dinner.
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Thursday, January 22nd. 2009
Yes, this fig is the main reasoning behind the silly titles. :P
So, in all of my creative genius (or sometimes, lack thereof), I forgot to create enemies for figures that I have created. So, I am calling on the comic book nerds here to see if there are any relatively simple looking, purist Question enemies. From what I know about the Question, he mostly fought the operations of foreign spies and corporate espionage and that kind of stuff, so if someone gives me a mob boss design or whatever, I will not use it, because I am looking for a costumed villain. I will push the boundaries here, and will take any legitimate submission, no matter how obscure, so obscure supervillain fans, eat your hearts out! Thanks for the help!
A note on the purist part: I am not an absolute purist, I remove prints, I use third party accessories, (excluding clone brands), I have created homemade fabrics and other things that most purists would cringe at. However, the decal/painting line is one I have, but will not as readily cross as the others listed, so, in other words, pretty much anything short of decals is OK in my book.
If a fence post falls and there's no one around to witness does that still mean kids are to blame? That seems to be the preferred reasoning behind such events but I would much rather think further out the box. So far out the box that you'd needs to have a great but huge Russian Doll of boxes to contain my thinking.
I fear I may have been a bit over confident in my belief that my thinking would be more outlandish than that of the average thinker. I was thinking that when it came to the thinking that I would think of something fantastical and whimsical in an attempt to answer the question of what happens to the fence post. The question that no one asked and that I'm just using to kill time.
Dragons....no they'd have burned it. Fairies? No no they're far too small. Oooh a herd of Wild Haggis out on the prowl for a meaty morsels for munching. Mistaking the post for prey, due to their hairiness leading to restricted visibility. They leap at it, toppling the mighty erection....hee hee mighty....leaving nothing but a fallen down stump and a hold in the fence.
Or kids did it.
Deduction may refer to:
in logic:
Deductive reasoning, inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises
Natural deduction, an approach to proof theory that attempts to provide a formal model of logical reasoning as it "naturally" occurs
in taxation:
Tax deduction, variable tax dollars that you can subtract, or deduct, from your gross income.
Itemized deduction, eligible expense that individual taxpayers in the United States can report on their Federal income tax returns
Standard deduction, dollar amount that non-itemizers may subtract from their income
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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Brainstorm Session with NCHD Sindh Mar6, 2015 at Karachi University
Brainstorming Session
1. Challenges for universal primary education in Pakistan.
2. Role of NCHD and PHDF to increase the literacy rate.
3. Success and Failure of Plan already implemented.
4. Reasoning for High Drop out of students.
5. Improvement of Infrastructure needed for improving literacy rate.
6. How to incorporate technology for basic education?
7. Capacity building and teachers training programs and etc.
Participants: Mr.Pervaiz Lodhie Member PHDF, Madam Humaira Hashmi Director Operations NCHD Sindh, Mr.Anees Ur Rehman Chairman Fund Raising Committee Rotery Club,Dr. Iqbal Muhammad Choudry Director HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry Karachi University.Mr.Abdul Wajid Shaikh DGM Karachi and Jamshoro, Mr.Daim Janwri DGM Thatta, Mr.Muneer Memon DGM Badin, Mr.Pir Niaz Jan DGM TM Khan, Dr Anwar Rajar DGM Matiari, Mr.Riaz Ahmed Aagro DGM Tando Allahyar, Mr.Sher Muhammad Mangrio ADGM Umer Kot,Mr.Abdul Fatah Moro DGM SBA&N.Feroz,Mr.Ayaz Shaikh DGM Larkana,Mr.Rizawan Memon ADGM Shikarpur, Mr.Javed Mangi ADGM Sukkur,Miss.Qamar u Nisa ADGM Ghotiki,Mr.Ali Madad Bozdar ADGM Jacab abad, Mr.Sajjad Ali Memon PCE, Mr.Hamza Lashari PCL,Miss.Zeesha Khuwaja Provincial Manager.
Madam Humaira Hashmi ( Director Operations NCHD Sindh ) provided detailed presentation about NCHD Programs i.e. UPE, Literacy, BBSYDP Projects and also about MALALA and OWN School initiatives. It also includes the detailed briefing of NCHD’s national and provincial achievements. The achievements and efforts were widely appreciated by the Participants.
Dr. Iqbal Muhammad Choudry Director HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry Karachi University highlighted the importance of education and appreciated the role of NCHD in bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy execution to enhance Literacy rate and Universal Primary Education (UPE) with a view to fulfilling Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He further ensured his volunteer support in teachers’ training and development for the provision of intellectual volunteers for the training of teachers all across the board. He further said that socio-economic development of Brazil, South Korea and Malaysia is largely attributed to effective education systems. In addition to that he urged government to increase budget allocation for the education sector.
Anees Ur Rehman Chairman Fund Raising Committee Rotery Club explained the role of private sector for enhancement of education. He said that Rotery club is already working for improvements in education. He affirmed his support to NCHD and also ensured that they would also undertake filed visits in collaboration with NCHD aiming at enhancement of School initiatives.
Pervaiz Lodhie Member PHDF provided detailed information regarding background of PHDF its working style and the current role. He also explained the collaboration of PHDF with NCHD & Govt of Pakistan. He also conducted interactive session with the participants about the models of UPE and Literacy. He also discussed about the use of technology to improve the education and teacher’s training.
All DGMs shared the achievements of their respective districts in the UPE and Literacy and also provided feedback to further improve the execution of strategies at the district level.
Prevez Lodhi sb appreciated the work, efforts and achievement of NCHD and focused on proper showcasing of NCHD work to share with the national and international donor community to attract them to support education through NCHD. He suggested all DGMs of NCHD to share success story reports & documentaries of schools/ literacy centers on social groups.
He further shared that his meeting with Baligh ur Rehman (Minister for Professional Education and Technical Training) has been fixed in which he will discuss about NCHD.