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NEW YORK, 15 March 2016 - Without a peace process, the sustainability and viability of all efforts to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan will be called into question, said Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, in a briefing to the Security Council today.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honour of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 1945. It is also the Food Engineer day.
The World Food Day theme for 2011 is 'Food prices - from crisis to stability'.
Monsoon Time, Images of Bengal, India
Image modified with camera's in-built software!
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The traditional birthday cake for the 240th Marine Corps Birthday Ball sits on display before the start of the official ceremony Nov. 13, 2015, at the Butler Officers Club on Camp Foster Okinawa, Japan. The Marine Corps Ball has been a Marine Corps tradition since 1951 and continues to be a time every year where current Marines set aside an evening to honor fallen Marines and toast to the future success of the Corps. The ball ceremony includes a sword detail, the reading of Gen. John A. Lejeune’s birthday message and an official cake cutting for the oldest and youngest Marines present as well as the guest of honor who receives the first piece before giving a speech to those present. In most ball ceremonies the guest speaker is a Marine, but Marines in Okinawa are so closely tied with the U.S. Department of State and ultimately the people of Okinawa and Japan, that this years’ speaker was U.S. Consul General, Naha Joel Ehrendreich. Ehrendreich began his speech with a thank you’s to all of the honored guests to include members of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force in attendance. He continued his remarks with a brief story of his time “In the Corps,” which was a light hearted reference to his time served in the Peace Corps where he worked alongside Marines for the very first time humanitarian aid exercises. Ehrendreich said his respect for the individual Marine and the Marine Corps as a whole has only grown over the years with his embassy work and he looks forward to a bright future with not only the Marines stationed in Okinawa, but also the people of Okinawa and Japan as a whole. Marine Corps Installations Pacific is the strength behind America's ability to respond quickly to crisis in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. MCIPAC strengthens power projection with our allies and partners; enables the strategic launch and recovery of military capabilities to save lives and to preserve regional peace, stability and security; and enables operating force readiness to guarantee victory.
Photo by Cpl. Royce Dorman.
After running Video Deshaker on MVI_5361, the test video I made by hanging my KAP rig from one of my trees and giving it a nice violent swing in roll, I loaded the Deshaker log file into Excel, converted X and Y pixel motion into apparent degrees of pitch and yaw, and integrated each axis to get a position vs. time value in degrees.
Next, I selected 2048 frames worth of data from the middle of the sequence and ran an FFT on all three axes. Past about 3Hz the FFT is flat: no power in the higher frequencies out to 30Hz. The really interesting stuff happens below 2Hz.
You can see that the Z axis is really moving. That's camera roll. X is next, which is yaw. My guess is this is because I wasn't photographing an infinitely distant subject, so there's some coupling of the axes. Y shows the least power across the board, and represents pitch. Again, this is more likely to be coupling because of my method than actual motion.
In any case, I went through the video frame-by-frame, measured the peak-to-peak time for the swing and the rotation, and found that Video Deshaker does a pretty good job of nailing the motion. The FFT also does a good job of picking out the period of oscillation from the Deshaker data.
I still have some more tests to do before I trust this technique 100%, but this was nice to see.
EDIT: The Z axis isn't centered around zero. That's because I used the first frame of the video to define the zero points of all three axes. So there's a pretty massive offset on Z since I started the video with the rig out at a severe angle. I need to change my analysis to use the mean axis position as the zero for each axis. Doh!
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
PHILIPPINE SEA (June 10, 2015) Rear Adm. John D Alexander (second from left), commander of the George Washington Strike Group discusses bridge operations with Sailors of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) while touring the ship’s bridge. Chafee is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. (U.S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sandra M. Palumbo/Released)
After years of political stability and economic progress, Turkey is sliding backwards in reforms and in abiding to democratic principles and the rule of law.
A serious clampdown on media and individual freedoms has started and is likely to continue beyond the general elections in June 2015.
Journalists have been arrested and the authorities are cutting back the freedom of expression and media in Turkey.
As a reaction, a recent resolution by the European Parliament reminded Turkey that a free and pluralistic press is an essential component of any democracy.
Guy Verhofstadt, President of ALDE, and Rebecca Harms, President of Greens/EFA, have invited a number of key Turkish journalists from the major media corporations to address the issue of media freedom in Turkey and the role that the EU could play in that field.
Ship stability criteria – a crucial safety matter
For a ship to be considered seaworthy and safe it must be designed to remain stable and afloat in all conditions, when both intact and damaged. Mandatory criteria and recommended provisions regarding intact stability are set out in IMO’s 2008 Intact Stability (IS) Code. Now, advanced computer technology is enabling so-called “second generation” intact stability criteria to be developed, involving assessment of ship dynamics in waves.
IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 7), meeting at IMO Headquarters (3-7 February), is expected to finalize a comprehensive set of interim guidelines on second generation intact stability criteria, including guidelines on vulnerability criteria, direct stability failure assessment and operational measures. The aim is to produce a set of guidelines for trial use. The session will also further develop associated explanatory notes.
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
This is a part of one of the most powerful cranes in the world.
It is currently located in Grevenbroich Neurath where a new coal power plant is build. This is the site were the tragical accident happend last week.
Progressive Governance Conference, Session One: Restoring Stability and Confidence in Europe. Moderator: Peter Mandelson. Panelists: Ed Balls, Nicolai Wammen, Hannes Swoboda, Minister Brendan Howlin, Magdalena Andersson and Loukas Tsoukalis.
Title / Titre :
Sister Ste. Croix, professor of nutritive chemistry, is explaining the stability of whipped egg whites in non-fat cakes to a group of graduating students /
Sœur Sainte-Croix, professeure de chimie nutritive, expliquant la stabilité des blancs d'œufs fouettés dans des gâteaux sans gras à un groupe d'étudiantes finissantes
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Malak
Date(s) : 1930-1960
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 4365937, 4366074
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Location / Lieu : Ontario, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Malak. Canada. Department of Manpower and Immigration. Library and Archives Canada /
Malak. Canada. Ministère de la main-d'ouevre et l'immigration. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
When you need a pair of 56kΩ resistors, but all you have in the junkbox are high-stability, 2% carbon-composition types from the early 1960s. Which have been desoldered and have short, fat leads. Had to solder on some LED clippings to make them fit the solderless breadboard.
The circuit is a twin-T oscillator that doesn't quite have enough gain to keep oscillating.
St John's chapel at the north east corner of Pershore Abbey. The chapel is suffering from a fissure that has opened through the east wall, window and vaulting, initially moving at a dramatic rate in 2005. After a period of stability, the fissure reopened in August 2011, moving apart yet further with worrying speed; currently the vaulted ceiling is threatened with collapse.
www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/whyscaffolding.html
Pershore Abbey is today a magnificent fragment, consisting of roughly half of the original medieval church. The monastery itself has long gone, the only traces being the scars on the wall of the south transept that show where the east range of buildings, perhaps including the monks' dormitory and refectory, were once attached to the church.
The Abbey dates back to Saxon times, having been founded by King Edgar in the 10th century, but the eatliest visible remains today are 12th century Norman, principally the south transept. What little evidence remains of the nave shows that this too was Romanesque, contemporary with the transept. The bulk of the building as it stands today dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, as witnessed by the splendid gothic choir (complete with rich vaulted ceiling and bosses, also added to the transept) with it's aisles and chapels. The imposing tower is the latest addition from the 1340s, and in it's topmost storey following a remarkably similar design to that of Salisbury Cathedral, suggesting involvement of the same architect/master mason.
The church today has a strangely L-shaped footprint owing to it's reduction in size as a result of the Dissolution of 1539, when the townspeople bought the eastern half of the church for parish use (instead of the smaller St Andrew's church immediately to the east). The nave was quarried away for it's stone, as were the monastic buildings (the cloister stood to the south of the nave) and have almost entirely vanished. The Lady chapel at the east end was also demolished at this time, the present apsidal chapel dates from the Victorian restoration. There were further reductions still to come, with the collapse of the north transept in 1686, of which only a tiny portion was rebuilt, giving the western part the curiously lopsided appearance it has to this day, with two of the former arches of the crossing now blocked up with recycled masonry.
The interior is impressive, both for it's Gothic and norman work. The higher ceilings have some excellent carved bosses, mainly foliage with the occasional face, rather difficult to make out from ground level. The original furnishings have not survived with the exception of the Norman font, carved with figures surrounded by strapwork, somewhat worn as a result of being exiled to a garden in the 18th century and later recovered.
There are a few monuments of note, mainly gathered in the south transept where two medieval effigies lie, one a fine 13th century cross legged knight (reputedly a crusader), not in situ and apparently brought in from the churchyard (presumably he lay in the now lost nave). A 14th century priest, somewhat worn, lies nearby along with a large, coloured late Elizabethan monument to the Haselwood family.
The Abbey was restored in the 1850s by George Gilbert Scott, during which time stained glass was reintroduced into the building (all trace of the medieval glass has gone), mostly by Clayton & Bell and Hardmans, the former of which also added some wall painting at the west end, that is now so deteriorated some must mistake it for medieval work. But the most notable feature of the Victorian period is the unique (and somewhat terrifying) bell-ringers platform suspended high in the centre of the tower by a cross of huge oak beams, in order to open up a view of it's interior. The bell ringers of Pershore must seriously need to conquer any fear of heights!
There have been ongoing structural problems with the foundations (presumably groundwater) on the north side of the building, first manifested in the collapse of the north transept, and more recently in the alarming fissures that have rapidly opened up in the north east chapel during the last six years. Currently the situation is growing ever more acute, and fate of this small corner of the building hangs in the balance.
This caught my eye because I’m pretty sure no one took care to create this just barely stable structure
2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor: Unique cast-aluminum SVT front control arms are lightweight on strong on the 2011 F-150 SVT Raptor. They provide the extra track width for improved stability to handle rugged terrain. (09/03/2010)
• ABS with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD)
• Emergency Braking Assistance (EBA)
• Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) with traction control
• Driver’s, front passenger’s and front lateral airbags
• Front and rear curtain airbags
• Hill Start Assist function
• High-frequency multi-function plip remote control central locking with deadlocks
• Daytime-running LEDs
• Halogen headlamps
• Leather steering wheel with chrome inserts
• Body colour door handles and door mirrors
• Body colour front and rear bumpers
• 17” ‘Canberra’ alloy wheels (set of four)
• Cruise control with speed limiter and memory settings
• Electrically adjustable and heated door mirrors
• Front electric windows with ‘one-touch’ operation and anti-pinch
• Air conditioning
• Multi-functional steering wheel
• RDS stereo radio/CD player with 6 loudspeakers, surround sound and auxiliary socket
• Sliding front armrest with storage
• Front fog lights with cornering function
• Lumbar adjustment on front seats
• Dark tinted rear side and tailgate windows
• Perimetric and volumetric anti-theft alarm
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Joint ECB EU Commission conference on Financial integration and stability in a new financial architecture
The slake test measures the stability of soil when exposed to rapid wetting. You can learn more about slake tests on-line at soils.usda.gov/SQI/assessment/files/chpt9.pdf
WATERS TO THE WEST OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA (July 21, 2014) Seaman Ian Nteere, from Kansas City, Kansas, assigned to Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54), stands watch on the bridge. Antietam is on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Declan Barnes/Released)
Stability Unit (1994) van Jane Alexander op de tentoonstelling The Rainbow Nation in Museum Beelden aan Zee
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) Director Jose Vinals (Right), MCM Assistant Director Peter Dattels (Center) and MCM Deputy Director Robert Sheehy (L) attend the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference September 21, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Ship stability criteria – a crucial safety matter
For a ship to be considered seaworthy and safe it must be designed to remain stable and afloat in all conditions, when both intact and damaged. Mandatory criteria and recommended provisions regarding intact stability are set out in IMO’s 2008 Intact Stability (IS) Code. Now, advanced computer technology is enabling so-called “second generation” intact stability criteria to be developed, involving assessment of ship dynamics in waves.
IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 7), meeting at IMO Headquarters (3-7 February), is expected to finalize a comprehensive set of interim guidelines on second generation intact stability criteria, including guidelines on vulnerability criteria, direct stability failure assessment and operational measures. The aim is to produce a set of guidelines for trial use. The session will also further develop associated explanatory notes.
International Monetary Fund's Jan Brockmeijer gives his opening remarks at the Analytical Chapters of Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference September 25, 2012 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
The 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement between Canada and the U.S. expires on Oct. 12, 2015.
In a statement in the Legislature, Premier Christy Clark underscored the importance of stability in Canada-United States softwood lumber trade to British Columbia.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015PREM0071-001667
The self-cleaning, wide, flat profile offers superb traction, wear resistance, stability and cool running for optimum performance in the toughest of rigid dump truck applications.
International Monetary Fund's Laura Kodres (R), Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Silvia Iorgova (C), Lead author on Chapter 3, Global Financial Stability Division; and Erik Oppers (L), Deputy Chief and lead author of Chapter 4, Global Financial Stability Division attend the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 11, 2012 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
AI artwork generated with Stable Diffusion AI v1.4
Prompt: "render of 3d shapes, glitch effect, abstract glitch effect, solid shapes, dusk colors, muted colors, geometric, depth of field, tilt shift "
Seed: 6345375
CFG usually either 7, or 14
Upscaled with Topaz Gigapixel AI:
- Upscale: 2x
- Mode: Standard
- De-noising: 0
- Blur Reduction: 20
- Face recovery: 10
My Workflow:
- Generate hundreds of 10-20 step "rough draft" images in Google Colab
- Grab the seeds of the good-ish ones
- Rerun in Google Colab with 50-100 steps using the seeds
- Send the good images to Gigapixel AI, export with Standard Mode settings
- Finally, send them through Sharpen AI, often with "Too soft - Normal" and 30-70 added grain. This step isn't that crucial, but it does help a tiny bit.
- Post to flikr with JS scripts to automate this description :)
- Probably about 1%-5% of AI generations get posted to Flickr. It depends a lot on the prompt, different prompts run into different issues. Bust portraits tend to be more successful since hands, arms, and legs almost always come out wrong.
Start creating right away with the official Stable Diffusion web UI: beta.dreamstudio.ai/
You get 200 free credits. Alternatively, find a Google Colab to make images at a cheaper rate. My personal one is too personalized to publicly share.
Join the Stable Diffusion community on Discord: discord.gg/stablediffusion
Almost all generations use v1.4 Stable Diffusion. However, a couple anime-related images may instead use the anime-trained Stable Diffusion model, "Waifu Diffusion".