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Heavy and seemingly lifeless, the lamp hangs limply from the wall under the influence of gravity and its own weight like a drop of water frozen in mid-plunge.
But as soon as this designer piece is switched on, it comes to life as if a vital spark had been ignited. Comparable to an organic corkscrew, it curls up crazily and maintains its shape until the lamp is switched off again.
This technology is based on shape memory wire, so-called artificial muscles. It consists of an alloy that “remembers” its shape and reassumes it as soon as it’s heated up by electrical current. Among the many uses of such alloys are in the fields of medicine and space travel.
"Animated Lamp V/a. g. r. a." is a work by Romolo Stanco (IT)
Finding this seemingly motionless dragonfly on my neighbour's step, I was hoping he'd fly away at some point. However, out of concern for him being so motionless for so long, I got online and began researching on how to help a dragonfly. It said if their blood gets too cold they can't fly and eventually die. Upon reading this, I took a small stick and moved him into the sunlight. This is after he was recoiling in the shade for over an hour seemingly almost dead!
As soon as he got into the sunlight it was like an instant amazing elixir- he actually started totally buzzing his wings, spazzing out flipping around for a few moments, and then suddenly flew away!! He buzzed my flower before flying over my gate, gone forever! Amazing little moment and one can't help wonder about the symbolism in nature!
Here's the lovely little blog post I found: theyogalunchbox.co.nz/how-to-bring-a-dragonfly-b…/…/… The Yoga Lunchbox
"The dragonfly, in almost every part of the world symbolizes change and change in the perspective of self realization; and the kind of change that has its source in mental and emotional maturity and the understanding of the deeper meaning of life."
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly not having long left in this world, Driving Motor Second 51395 stands forlornly at Lydney Town on the Dean Forest Railway on 13/6/2012.
Fantastic day! A seemingly endless stream of bikes that went on for hours. The sound of the bikes was so strong you could feel it in your bones. One of the coolest sounds on earth. There are actually 2 separate Rolling Thunder organizations : Rolling Thunder® Motorcycle Rally, Washington DC, Inc. and Rolling Thunder®, Inc, National
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
Seemingly still very popular and many tatty ones seem to survive as daily drivers in the US.
Spotted on a misty morning run in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco.
Short Eared Owl Briefly Takes a Breather from hunting and sits in the grass Seemingly to Stare at the Photographers trying to Snap his Picture.
This seemingly innocent red T-shirt has quite a following! A special set for the "red shirt" fans! These screencaps are from Season One of The Tudors, in which Henry plays Charles Brandon--his breakout role!
A special set of screencaps created by tkm for the Henry Cavill Fanpage. Interview and video are copyright Showtime. No misuse is intended.
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Today we were out for a walk. A seemingly mundane thing but actually the first time we’ve been out for a walk in three weeks due to the cold that laid us both low.
Jan photographed up towards the house, past the colourful lupins, and from the same spot I photographed down, towards the forest floor.
There’s such a riot of growth at the moment, and everywhere you look there is new greenery and flowers.
On a sunny day it is hard to look at all this and not feel optimistic.
We do live in a nice place!
Jan also wrote about how unlikely it was that she, with her upbringing, would have ended up here. I feel exactly the same. My life has been so enriched by the experience of emigrating to another country, not because there was anything wrong with the old country, but because of seeing the world through the new filter that comes with the new country. Looking at my own culture from the outside, through different media and (eventually) a different language. Slowly learning about, and to some extent becoming embedded in, a new culture. It hasn't always been easy, but it has always been interesting.
I'd always assumed that it would steadily get easier and easier for younger generations to have these sorts of adventures and experiences. I hope I was right to assume that.
This seemingly unremarkable photograph has a small memory for me. As Norwegian Dawn sailed for Roatan, this C172, N171RA of Cirrus Aviation, passed close down our starboard side to land at Tampa's Peter O. Knight airport [TPF/KTPF/TPF] on Davis Islands. It landed on RW18 and I did not frame the approach shot quite correctly but, only moments later, it was lined up on RW22 (here) for departure and I snapped it as we passed.
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With #COVID-19 rapidly taking over life – and seemingly doing so for the foreseeable future – it is no longer causing just short-term disruption, but requires us to adapt our way of working for weeks and months to come.
One of the biggest challenges our clients face is how to run remote meetings effectively. There’s a ton of strategies out there for in-person meetings where there’s a plethora of tools to use. Remote meetings are a different animal though:
People have a lot more distractions while working from home rather than sitting in a meeting room;
It’s harder to keep people engaged by having them look at a screen and listen for hours;
Many interactions that work in-person don’t work over video conference;
It is much harder to notice natural cues for breaks, when a topic has been going on for too long, or when something’s simply not interesting enough for the majority;
It’s very easy to go on for way too long in a remote meeting, much more than it is in an in-person meeting.
As an organization that works a lot with remote teams and has them ourselves, we’ve gained quite some experience running them over the past 14 years. Here are some of those lessons to help you make your remote meetings work.
Consider this first: a meeting is a two-way street!
Showing up for a meeting where people are expected to just sit and listen is typically considered to be a waste of time. With all the technology available today, people can just as well look at a recording of the meeting or read the slide deck that was used as a presentation. People come to meetings because there’s value for them to be there, which implies a meeting has to be a two-way street. You give some, you take some.
These are strategies I typically use to make meetings valuable for people to attend:
Have people drive the meeting for components they own, or part that belong to them. This is different from one person leading the meeting and makes it more like a relay race where everyone plays a role;
Engaging people in a meeting is a powerful tactic as they now share ownership in the meeting and feel their participation is actually required and essential to the meeting, rather than just being there to sit and listen;
Have people create their own meeting notes and summaries that you’ll bundle/collect/merge at the end of the meeting. Different people write different notes and the combination of the whole will likely better summarize the meeting. Even more so, it changes people’s participation as now they have to actively do something with the information they get;
Only invite people you actually need. What do people that are required bring to the table? Do you need them to be at the meeting or can you inform them after? Do you include them because they need to be there or because you don’t want them to feel left out? In addition to that, optional attendees are ambiguous – do you need them or not? If they are optional, what’s their value add if they show up and what do you miss if they don’t? It might sound harsh, but having only the right people at a meeting makes it much more effective.
When using these strategies, you’ll make your meetings much more targeted and effective, keeping you attendees more engaged.
Don’t push large swaths of information
Whereas in an in-person environment some longer stretches of pushing information might work, in remote meetings it typically doesn’t. This has mostly to do with the distractions people have available which provides them with a break from a long push of information.
Much rather, information should be pulled, discovered or collected by the meetings participants. Granted, the type of meeting should enable this kind of interaction. Sharing your quarterly financial results might not be the easiest type of meeting to transform, but nothing’s impossible. It works best though for those meetings where you need to build something collaboratively (like a plan, a slide deck or a presentation).
Here’s some simple tactics that I employ frequently during meetings that could drastically change people’s participation:
Ask people open questions and ask them to explain their answers. While this might introduce awkward silences at first, it will force interaction and participation quite rapidly and (most) people will be happier for it. The meeting will instantly turn from a sit-and-listen to an active participation meeting.
Ask people to interpret information themselves rather than doing it for them. While not the most efficient way of doing things, it is considerably more effective, especially in remote meetings where you need to do more to keep people engaged.
Let the meeting’s participants draw conclusions and come up with outcomes and follow-up actions. You could even ask and collect people’s individual conclusions and merge them in to a collective one.
Not pushing information is hard, but not doing so with large amounts of information actually makes meetings much more valuable for people to be part of.
Breakouts, breakouts, breakouts
Another great strategy is to have (lots of) breakout session in which smaller groups either receive or collect information. Smaller groups help people stay engaged and focused and take away part of the discomfort some people might experience about speaking up in a larger group. It’s a very effective strategy to get group input during a remote meeting.
One tactic you could use in combination with breakouts is a variation to the liberating structure 1-2-4-all, where you could do a 1-4 in a breakout session and then share with the whole group at the end of the breakout session. The way this would work is as follows:
Start with a question you want to have answered, or a challenge you’re facing that needs a solution and share it with the group;
Start breakouts (Zoom, for example, has excellent breakout functionality);
People first reflect themselves for one or two minutes to come up with an answer or solution;
People then share and discuss with the breakout group for up to four minutes;
The breakout ends and every group shared back with the group as a whole.
Because this setup is so simple, it’s quite easy to do quite a number of times during a meeting. A two-hour meeting could easily have four to five of these breakout sessions, making it a considerably more interactive meeting.
Make people read before the meeting
When you’re trying to limit pushing lots of information to people during a meeting, but you simply have to convey a certain amount of information to ensure people are informed, consider sending it to them before the meeting. You could agree with people that they actually dedicate the time to reading the material, otherwise they could still end up in the meeting uninformed. Then again, this is pretty self-reinforcing; if you assume people have a certain amount of information coming into the meeting and it turns out they don’t, you’ll likely notice this immediately in their participation.
To strike a good balance between conveying information before a meeting and not forcing people to do 10 hours of pre-reading, consider these practices that have worked for me in the past:
Explain to people why you’re asking to prepare for the meeting and ask them to dedicate, for example, 30 minutes to do so. This is time saved from the actual meeting that you would otherwise spend on pushing this information;
Ensure the information people need to consume as preparation for the meeting is short and crisp. A 175-page slide deck is not short and crisp and is not something that is easy to consume. You want people to enter the meeting informed, not overwhelmed. Make sure they understand what is expected of them and why they need to consume that information;
Actively and frequently refer to the information they consumed before the meeting during the meeting itself. This confirms to people that what they did as preparation was both valuable and necessary. It you don’t do this, people are very likely to skip preparation next time;
Don’t repeat the information that you asked people to consume before the meeting! This would negate the reason you asked them to prepare in the first place and would tell them that the preparation they did was technically a waste of time. For this to work, you have to assume people did their pre-work or the system’s self-reinforcing mechanism doesn’t work.
With everyone entering the meeting informed and up-to-speed, you can spend a lot more time during the meeting on valuable conversations and decision-making, rather than pushing information to people. It will make everyone’s participation much more valuable.
Closing
Remote meetings are always more challenging than in-person meetings, which is why they require even more preparation and facilitation. Proper tooling will take you a long want, but the biggest impact to the meeting comes from how you actually run the meeting itself and how you involve and engage people during the meeting.
There’s no one true way that works for all, so give some of the things mentioned in the blog post a try and experiment with other tactics as well. Only by doing will you find out what works best for your meetings!
Like to learn more about distributed teams, remote working and supporting tooling? Reach out to one of our professionals to set up a free introductory video conference!
Seemingly as a dog race is about to get underway they have to wake the dogs!! Here's the dog waker-upper.
EDIT - they actually quiten them down. A dog that's barking won't run well...so he's the dog quietenener!
A seemingly strange mix of elements here-- the trees which at this point couldn't decide what season they wanted to be in, the buildings in the background which never change, and the Trump building which DOES change, only in that it reflects its surroundings. I like this one-- my only regret is that 15 Central Park West, seen on the middle-right surrounded by cranes, is still under construction and that, I think, mars the image somewhat.
This seemingly innocent red T-shirt has quite a following! A special set for the "red shirt" fans! These screencaps are from Season One of The Tudors, in which Henry plays Charles Brandon--his breakout role!
A special set of screencaps created by tkm for the Henry Cavill Fanpage. Interview and video are copyright Showtime. No misuse is intended.
We are Henry Cavill Fans on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube!
www.facebook.com/henrycavillfans
www.twitter.com/HenryCavill_Fb
www.henry-cavill-verse.com/ www.youtube.com/user/HenryCavillFb
seemingly not very happy with me shining my strobe's searchlight inbetween the coral fingers it lives on.
Seemingly just a bundle of leaves tucked away high in a tree is the nesting place of the eastern grey squirrel. It is the place where they seek shelter and give birth to their young. When the trees are full of leaves they do not stand out, but once the leaves are gone it is a different story.
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across the state today when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction. More than 100 flash mobbers exercised their enthusiasm for healthy eating and active living in each city when they suddenly disrobed to display retro, 1980’s-inspired workout gear and performed a coordinated aerobics routine.
LiveWell Colorado (http://www.livewellcolorado.org), a non-profit organization committed to reducing obesity by inspiring healthy eating and active living, coordinated the flash mobs to ignite enthusiasm for the launch of its statewide “Challenge,” campaign which encourages Coloradoans to challenge each other and their communities to live well.
Picture Credit: Erik Keith Photography
about the constant game of hide and seek you never signed up for and secret places
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+ i also heard questionable noises while shooting this & fox roam the area
These seemingly ordinary looking teenagers went to big cities like this and made a very big noise.
They created a storm of positive emotions that swept over audiences, kind of like like when mom opens the oven door on a cold rainy day baking those Tollhouse cookies.
The warm glow of our show is the very reason Up With People! will soon CELEBRATE 50 YEARS!
This was taken the year after I left UWP. I don't know who the girls are, but I definitely recognize Larry Rodeck who I traveled with in Cast B 72.
As I recall, Larry is from a smallish town in Canada...how FABULOUS to help a heroic mission such as this on a global scale!
But then...even MORE fabulous...later on to CONTINUE promoting the UP WITH PEOPLE MISSION - EVERY DAY, EVERY WAY YOU CAN.
Soldier on, my brothers and sisters of Up With People!
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SPECIAL THANKS TO DAN GREGG FOR SUPPLYING THIS ORIGINAL IMAGE.
Digitized and processed by Tom Simpson.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
The seemingly abandoned Belleville Public School Number 1 (home of Stumpy the cat from last Saturday's photo of the day) is old enough to have separate entrances for the male and female students. Back in the day, this is the way things were done. Nowadays, it just seems silly. Or maybe bait for a dirty joke, but I wouldn't know of such things - my mom reads this, after all.
This seemingly idyllic lake is where the ashes of the prisoners were thrown. Now roses are thrown into it in memory of them.
A seemingly benign number that defines everything from a dozen eggs and the hours of day and night to the days of Christmas and the astrological signs, 12 may be in the spotlight today, 12/12/12.
This date structure, in which the same two-digit number gets repeated three times, won't happen again until 2112, according to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).
But does the triple dose of 12 hold any meaning? Depends on whom you ask, but in Hong Kong and Singapore, couples are crowding the aisles for a chance to tie the knot on a day they say symbolizes love, according to news outlets. Las Vegas is also abuzz with nuptials, according to CNN, which also reported an Indian numerologist saying today is a great day to start a new business venture. Making the rounds online, a boy who will turn 12 today at 12:12 p.m. in Bronxville, N.Y., suggests we're all a bit "number crazy."
Doom isn't far behind the celebrations. While most believers in the Mayan apocalypse think the end of the world will come on Dec. 21, 2012, apparently some have interpreted the end of the Maya Long Count calendar differently, pinpointing Dec. 12, 2012, as a day of reckoning. (There is no evidence to suggest the Mayans predicted the end of their calendar to mean the end of the world.)
Turning doomsday on its head, the ASP has coined today "Anti-Doomsday."
"While many pundits and prognosticators lament the supposed end of the world on December 21, 2012 (thanks to misinterpreting Mayan predictions), here at the ASP we encourage everyone to go in the opposite – and accurate – direction. Thus, we are declaring December 12, 2012 as Anti-Doomsday Day in celebration of rational thinking and reasoned discourse," according to an ASP statement. [End of the World? Top Doomsday Fears]
And if one were to tie any significance to today, and numerology in general, the ASP reminds us of plenty of auspicious associations with the number 12: the months in a year on contemporary calendars; 12 traditional zodiac signs; 12 Olympic gods and goddesses in Greek mythology; and 12 bottles of wine in a case. In Christian belief, Jesus had 12 apostles.
Then there's Mars, which is 12 light-minutes from the sun, and Jupiter, which takes 12 years to orbit the sun, according to the ASP.
The most recent triple-digit setup like today's occurred on Nov. 11, 2011 (11/11/11), another day some associated with Mayan doom. That day most likely became linked with Dec. 21, 2012, when believers noticed that the U.S. Naval Observatory had set the exact time of the 2012 winter solstice — when Earth's tilt is angled at its farthest from the sun — for 11:11 Universal Time on Dec. 21, John Hoopes, a scholar of Maya history at the University of Kansas, told LiveScience last year. (The Observatory now lists the official time for the winter solstice at 11:12 Universal Time.)
While the meaning behind numbers, called numerology, has yet to be grounded in science, humanity seems hard-wired to find such numerical associations.
"Cognitive scientists have demonstrated that our brains are hard-wired to look for meaningful patterns in the sensory data it collects from the world," said Alan Lenzi, professor of religious studies at University of the Pacific. "Numbers that are already significant to us, such as calendar dates, that also coincidentally fall into an obvious pattern become doubly significant," Lenzi told LiveScience in 2011, speaking about 1/11/11.
Lenzi added, "Given the propensity for people to look for significance in particular days and times (e.g. the "end of the world"), patterns are easily imbued with imaginative meaning," Lenzi said.
And patterns tend to stick in our heads — you're more likely to remember a birthday that's on 11/11, 12/12, or 10/10, than one on 12/5, for instance. The same would be the case for various times of the day. "People are more likely to remember 11:11 than they are, say, 4:29 or 6:53 or 3:17 or something like that," Hoopes said
I passed this seemingly unaltered, turn-of-the-century frame farmhouse for a few years before realizing, one day, that not once had I seen a car parked in its driveway. So, I paid the Putnam County Auditor's website a visit, and I discovered this note (attached to the property card):
BLDG VACANT SINCE 1939 PER O[WNER}
Vacant since 1939? Unthinkable! Clearly, someone cares enough—and has cared for more than a half-century—to maintain the home in time-capsule-esque fashion. Bravo, sir!
As early as 1880, T.J. Clevenger (c. 1840–1908) owned and inhabited a 55-acre tract at the southern edge of Section 9. Other members of the Clevenger family, of Welsh descent and prominent in southwestern Putnam County, held nearby properties. After Clevenger's death, two neighboring landowners—labeled "Seitz and Gray" on a 1919 plat—jointly acquired his property. More than likely, Clevenger constructed this building.
Seemingly parked up on a St Marys roadside, an ex Arriva Cymru Merc 811 N718DJC is seen on the Scillies but may no longer be used as a community bus
Seemingly sort of lumbering when nothing is going on, but as soon as one of them gets a piece of something that looks like food, everyone is a fighter plane.
This seemingly innocent red T-shirt has quite a following! A special set for the "red shirt" fans! These screencaps are from Season One of The Tudors, in which Henry plays Charles Brandon--his breakout role!
A special set of screencaps created by tkm for the Henry Cavill Fanpage. Interview and video are copyright Showtime. No misuse is intended.
We are Henry Cavill Fans on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube!
www.facebook.com/henrycavillfans
www.twitter.com/HenryCavill_Fb
www.henry-cavill-verse.com/ www.youtube.com/user/HenryCavillFb
A seemingly well preserved 1940's Cree Beaded Moose Hide Moccasins from Rainy Lake Ontario. A seemingly well preserved 1940's Cree Beaded Moose Hide Moccasins from Rainy Lake Ontario.
A traditional floral design. They look newer than shown on their tag. Jusging by the colour and texture the hide was smoke tanned.
This seemingly simple but nicely detailed and textured building I think is to be part of the University. Interesting, the board describing the builders etc mentions Arup, the designers of Greyfriars! So I'll guess this'll be labelled a eyesore in 40-50 years. And in 200 years we'll all be pissed because we knocked down all our heritage..
Biting through that seemingly tepid exterior was a punch of flavour. I guess no one could ever describe salted egg yolk as timid, but who would think of putting it in a macaron!! Stroke of genius.
This was from Jewel Artisan Chocolates, and the best macaron I'd eaten in a while.
Texture-wise it can't beat Canele/Pierre Herme (shell's a smidgen too crumbly and a tad less dense than what I'd consider great), but the flavours...
The creaminess of the salted egg yolk centre set a fantastic balance in the sweet and savoury. I can still taste the almond through that distinctive rich yolky oomph. The grains of Black Palm Island Salt on the top a light crunch and added flavour.
I could eat 6 of these in a row.
So in addition to all the chicken rice, chilli/pepper/butter crabs, satays, laksas etc that i bring my visiting friends to eat, I have now added this onto the 'must-try in singapore' list...
From www.jewels.com.sg/
Seemingly random annoyance - sometimes there, sometimes not - and to varying degrees. The one on the top right is the worst I've seen - sometimes it's not there at all.
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