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In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (USA Today, 1996).
One author reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen (Brumberg, 1997).
It's just plain sad.
On a lighter note, I went to the bins yesterday with Lillie and her stepmom Jenny and I bought a whole bag of 80'sness. Though, that swimsuit is actually from a different thrift store. Haha.
But anyway yeah, lots of new clothes for me and the LABYRINTH SOUNDTRACK. (On vinyl of course.) Yeahyeahyeah.
Oh and yesterday I beat my record for views and got 4002 in one day, and like, 203 of both comments and favorites. Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :)
Explored #26.
I love this shot. I wish I had done more detailing on it, but it came out so smooth, and clean. And I love the way the flame effects come up in the background. A combination of the fallen angel character and some of my old tech pieces.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
---Richard Feynman
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Pan Asian troops have been inserted to observe the city of Osaka, Japan. Rumours have spread about the possibility of American Activity in this city. This is the main reason why the troops have been inserted, along with the fact that Osaka has good working relations with the Americans. The mayor of the city has been suspected of allowing American politicians into his city to speak with them. This helps proves the suggestion the politics do not stop for war, nor anything else.
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Press "L".
Pentax 67ii, SMC 45mm F4, Fujifilm Acros 100 developed in Kodak T-Max 1+4 5,5 min, wet-mounted drumscan.
Falun Mine (Swedish: Falu Gruva) was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two thirds of Europe's copper needs[1] and helped fund many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century. Technological developments at the mine had a profound influence on mining globally for two centuries.[2] The mine is now a museum and in 2001 was designated a UNESCO world heritage site.
white snowball-sized barite crystals on black manganite crystals
AE Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton Michigan
John Biczok's set of Seaman Museum minerals
.....the quickening pace of technological change, two types of phones.
#43 Technological, 52 in 2022 challenge
The increase of population spurs technological progress and creates that anxiety which sets us against our environment as an enemy; while technology both facilitates increase of population and reinforces our arrogance, or "hubris," vis-à-vis the natural environment.
The attached diagram illustrates the interconnections. It will be noted that in this diagram each corner is clockwise, denoting that each is by itself a self-promoting (or, as the scientists say,"auto catalytic") phenomenon: the bigger the population, the faster it grows; the more technology we have, the faster the rate of new invention; and the more we believe in our "power" over an enemy environment, the more "power" we seem to have and the more spiteful the environment seems to be.
(for the diagram see: www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/ecology/sick.htm )
... The ideas which dominate our civilization at the present time date in their most virulent form from the
Industrial Revolution. They may be summarized as:
(a) It's us against the environment.
(b) It's us against other men.
(c) It's the 'individual (or the individual company, or the individual nation) that matters.
(d) We can have unilateral control over the environment and must strive for that control.
(e) We live within an infinitely expanding "frontier."
(f) Economic determinism is common sense.
(g) Technology will do it for us.
We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievements of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear to be false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
Gregory Bateson, "The Roots of Ecological Crisis" (1972)..YES 1972 !!!!!
Visvesvaraya Industrial & technological Museum, Kasturba Road, Bengaluru.
The Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, India, a constituent unit of the National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, was established in memory of Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya. Wikipedia
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley
Technological systems, similar to biological ones, change and improve over time through processes like selection, adaptation, and combination.
Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories (S.T.A.R. Labs) is a fictional scientific research facility and organization.
S.T.A.R. was founded by scientist Garrison Slate, who wanted a nationwide chain of research laboratories unconnected to the government or any business interests.
He succeeded not only on a national scale, but an international one as well: S.T.A.R. Labs currently maintains facilities in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan as well as in the United States, with the total number of facilities numbering between twenty and thirty at last recorded count.
S.T.A.R. Labs is one of the companies providing sponsorship to the superhero team The Conglomerate, a firm of superheroes set up by Claire Montgomery, Maxwell Lord's ex as a rival to Justice League International.
Other sponsors include, among others, American Steel, Dante Foods, Dupree Chemical, Ferris Aircraft, LexCorp, Ovel Oil, Pax Entertainment, and Stagg Enterprises.
S.T.A.R.'s Detroit location assisted in evacuation efforts of the world's coasts during an alien invasion. The same location is the workplace of Silas Stone, the father of Justice League's Cyborg.
The organization set up shop in Oregon to assist with the rookie superhero Naomi.
Star Labs has currently lost some credibility with the Justice League.
History
Discovery of the Mother Box
Scientists at S.T.A.R. Labs uncovered a Mother Box that was hidden after the invasion of Steppenwolf and his forces millennia ago. It would remain inactive for decades.
Infecting Abner Krill
At some point when Abner Krill was a child, his mother was obsessed with the notion of turning her children into superheroes. One of these children was Krill, upon whom she experimented on. Krill was infected with an inter-dimensional virus, causing glowing polka dots and lumps to form on and under his skin. Krill was the only one who survived these experiments and later went on to kill his mother.
Black Zero Event
During their final battle, Superman and General Dru-Zod flew past the S.T.A.R. Labs building. S.T.A.R. Labs was later put in charge of the scout ship, Scout Ship 0344 to analyze and research its alien properties.
Ko'erst Invasion
Some time later, a group of students visited S.T.A.R. Labs on a field trip. The Ko'erst made a sudden appearance through a wormhole, attempting to invade the planet, but they were stopped by Superman.
Victor's cybernetics
Silas Stone, the head of S.T.A.R. Labs, attempted to repair his son Victor Stone's body after an accident using a mysterious Mother Box S.T.A.R. Labs uncovered in 1982. Although initially doing nothing, the box eventually began pulsing and proceeded to repair Victor's body with cybernetics out of nothing. The footage of this was later stolen by Lex Luthor for his research on metahumans.
Discovering another universe
At some point S.T.A.R. Labs announced that they may have discovered an alternate universe. Eventually, this would cause S.T.A.R. Labs from an alternate land are able to create a portal of realities, causing the retrobots to be able to invade and attack Earth-1 during a Serena Williams tennis match.
During the attack, a heroine from said universe called Wonderous Serena would arrive on Earth-1 in an attempt to defend the population being helped by Wonder Woman. The heroines decided to infiltrate S.T.A.R. Labs in search of some similar portal technology that would allow them to travel to Wonderous Serena's universe in an attempt to detain the retrobots advance, with made them temporarily travel to an alternate version of S.T.A.R. Labs where they would manage to stop the invasion.
A partial list of some known locations of S.T.A.R. Labs facilities and their research focuses, where either is known, includes:
Central City, Missouri, home of the Flash
Chicago, Illinois, home of the second Blue Beetle
Fawcett City: specializing in extraterrestrial research
Gotham City: specializing in weaponry
Keystone City, Kansas
Metropolis (Queensland Park Borough, near Metropolis Harbor): specializing in marine biology
Metropolis (central branch, New Troy Island): catch-all facility
Star City branch specialized in dimensional travel
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: DC Comics
First appearance: Superman #246 (December 1971)
Created by Len Wein (writer)
Curt Swan (artist)
The plant was built for more than 100 years ago, but the fishes were forgotten
Olympus XA, Zuiko 35mm, f2,8, Kodak T-max 100, (50) Spur Acurol N, 20 Celsius degrees, 10 min, 30 sec.
Fill your heart with love today
Don't play the game of time
Things that happened in the past
Only happened in your mind
Only in your mind
Oh, forget your mind
And you'll be free, yeah
The writing's on the wall
Free, yeah
And you can know it all if you choose
Just remember, lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind and makes it free
Citroën 2 CV ~ Two steam horses ~ Rue du Louvre ~ Paris ~ MjYj
The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux vapeur, literally "two steam horses", from the tax horsepower rating) was an economy car produced by the French automaker Citroën from 1949 to 1990.
It was technologically advanced and innovative, but with extremely utilitarian and deceptively simple Bauhaus inspired bodywork, that belied the sheer quality of its underlying engineering.
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The F4, Nikon's fourth generation and first autofocus pro-level camera system, was produced from 1988 through 1997.
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The Nikon F4, technologically speaking, is a major upgrade from the F3HP. The F4 has autofocus, motorized film advance, program and shutter priority exposure modes (in addition to aperture priority and manual), multi-segment (Matrix) exposure metering, and advanced fill-flash capabilities. Although the camera is fully electronic, it maintains the façade of mechanical camera controls. In fact, there are no external digital readouts or multi-function dials on this camera. All controls are presented as traditional knobs or switches, although they control sophisticated electronic functions, internally. Significantly, for those with a pre-existing collection of manual focus Nikon lenses, the F4 provides matrix metering, but not Program or Tv modes, with Ai manual focus lenses. It also has a built-in diopter control in the viewfinder. Finally, the F4 system has an amazingly broad system of accessories of all types.
The F4 system includes the F4s, which is the basic F4 body plus the enhanced MB-21 battery grip instead of the basic MB-20 grip. The MB-21 grip uses 6 x AA alkaline batteries compared with 4 batteries in the MB-20 and provides slightly faster motor drive. Unfortunately, the Nikon F4 was not designed to work with light-weight lithium AA batteries, which are not recommended by Nikon. When I bought my F4, it was only available in a package with the larger MB-21, which I immediately replaced with the MB-20 to cut down on weight.
The major disadvantages of the F4 compared with its predecessor F3HP are almost 50% greater weight, and increased size and decreased battery life, primarily due to the motor drive. As indicated above, the F4's program and Tv modes cannot be used with manual focus Nikkor Ai lenses (you need a Nikon FA for that). The F4 does not yet support AF-D technology. AF-D technology, which only appears on future generations of Nikon SLRs, transmits distance information from AF-D lenses and permits better flash and fill-flash performance. Still, when combined with the concurrent SB-24 or newer dedicated flash units, the Nikon F4, even without D technology, has great flash performance in its own right. Unlike the later F90x/SB-26 combination, the F4/SB-24 is smart enough to automatically switch from balanced fill flash to full TTL flash when ambient light is insufficient.
I think that I purchased one of the last F4s to come off of the production line. I was perfectly happy using my F3HP, and continued to use it as my primary camera throughout the production life of the F4, which started in 1988. Finally, the F5 came out in 1996 and I saw that it had reduced functionality with manual focus Nikkor Ai lenses compared the F4. Worse, from my point of view, the F5 is also much larger and even heavier than the F4, with its permanently attached larger grip and battery pack.
Although I still tended to pick up the F3HP instead of the F4 for travel kits to cut down on weight, I really liked using the F4 when weight was not an issue. The F4 fits great into your hands, with its built-in hand grip and non-slip rubberized finish. The camera has the four PSAM modes, single and continuous autofocus, as well as multi-segment (matrix), center-weighted (60/40), and spot exposure metering systems. Although the camera has many electronic functions, there are no hard-to-read external digital menus. All functions are controlled with the traditional knobs and switches, which makes it really easy to adjust all features by feel or by watching the comprehensive digital display in the viewfinder. The viewfinder display is illuminated by ambient light, or by switching on the viewfinder illuminator light with a switch at the base of the shutter speed dial.
If you do need to use a manual focus lens, you can still take advantage of the focus indicator when focusing manually. In fact, you really need to use the electronic rangefinder, because the standard focusing screen has no split image or microprism aid besides a matte field. Just place the central focusing brackets on your subject and focus manually until the red in-focus circle is display in the viewfinder. The F4's early generation autofocusing system is slow compared with subsequent technology, but more than sufficient for stationary or slow moving subjects.
As an advance over the F3, the F4 recognizes DX-coded film canisters. When rewinding film, you can either use power rewind to save time, or manual rewind to save battery power and minimize noise.
The F4's first generation five segment matrix metering system was a major technological advance over traditional center-weighted metering. This is basically the same early generation multi-segment metering that is used in the Nikon FA. While not as sophisticated as later generations of Nikon's matrix metering systems, the F4's five segment pattern and software works fine for typical scenarios. For extreme lighting situations, it is still recommended to switch to center-weighted or spot and set exposure compensation, as necessary.
The F4's shutter is much more advanced than the shutter in the F3. The F4 shutter speed can be manually set as fast as 1/8000 sec. or as slow as 4 seconds. Maximum flash synch speed of 1/250 sec. is much faster than 1/80 sec. on the F3. In P and A modes, the shutter operates steplessly from 30 sec. to 1/8000 sec.
I use all of the F4's modes and light-metering systems, depending on the situation. But for flash photography, it is often easiest to just turn on Program mode and matrix metering to take advantage of completely automatic matrix balanced fill-flash or standard TTL flash. For special flash situations, the F4 also allows complete manual adjustment of all parameters.
The F4 marks marks the beginning and end to Nikon's pro-level body support for both auto focus and manual focus lenses, while also providing a mechanical style control interface. The F5 scales back support for manual focus lenses, and converts to a control dial driven interface. The F6 (like modern higher-end Nikon digital SLRs) finally adds back the F4's manual focus lens support, but of course has a modern display menu interface. The traditional mechanical interfaces are great, but the F6 is a much superior film camera because its features are state of the art across the board, including, for example, Nikon's most advanced matrix metering in a film camera. As other alternatives to the F4, one could look at the F90X, the F100 or the older FA. The F90X moves to an early-generation control dial driven interface, but offers D technology support for flash, more sophisticated matrix metering, and faster autofocusing. The F100 is an upgrade of the F90X and has technology similar to the F5 in a smaller package. The amazing FA is like the traditional-style FE-2, but with the addition of complete and unique support for manual focus Ai lenses with matrix metering (similar to F4 generation) as well as all four PSAM modes!
Finally, there is now a more or less similar interface alternative in the Nikon digital SLR world. The Nikon Df finally provides modern functions, some of which are descendents of the advanced features of the F4, while also resurrecting the convenient mechanical/analog interface of its famous predecessor.
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Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing video game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Story is set in the 31st century, in a world where humans have regressed to primitive tribal societies as a result of some unknown calamity. Their technologically advanced predecessors are vaguely remembered as the "Old Ones." Large robotic creatures known merely as "machines" now dominate the Earth. For the most part, they peacefully coexist with humans, who occasionally hunt them for parts. However, a phenomenon known as the "Derangement" has caused machines to become more aggressive towards humans, and larger and deadlier machines have begun to appear. There are three tribes that are prominently featured: the Nora, the Carja, and the Oseram. The Nora are fierce hunter-gatherers who live in the mountains and worship nature as the "All-Mother." The Carja are desert-dwelling city builders who worship the Sun. The Oseram are tinkerers known for their metalworking, brewing, and arguing. Aloy was cast out from the Nora tribe at birth, raised by an outcast named Rost (JB Blanc). As a child, she obtained a Focus, a small augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities. After coming of age, Aloy (Ashly Burch) enters a competition called the Proving to win the right to become a Nora Brave, and by extension, a member of the Nora tribe. Aloy wins the competition, but the Nora are suddenly attacked by cultists. Aloy is almost killed by their leader Helis (Crispin Freeman), but is saved by Rost, who sacrifices himself to save Aloy from a bomb. When Aloy awakes, a Matriarch explains that the cultists had gained control of corrupted machines. Aloy also learns that as an infant, she was found at the foot of a sealed door. An Oseram foreigner called Olin (Chook Sibtain) informs Aloy that the cultists are part of a group calling themselves the Eclipse. Olin indicates that the reason Aloy was targeted by the Eclipse was due to her resemblance to an Old World scientist named Dr. Elisabet Sobeck (also voiced by Burch).
Quelque part entre la singularité technologique et la singularité écologique
francois-quevillon.com/w/?p=5231
Somewhere between technological singularity and ecological singularity
WYSE Tech graff style. With lots of inspiration from Cole, Pax and Shan the "Seventh Letter" Crew of Lego Graffitti
Gieten
I was thinking, a JDM-Galant but it was more exciting:
Date of first admission in Japan: 01-04-1997
Import to England: 11-02-2009
Import to the Netherlands: 25-02-2011
Mileage: 132,085km
This Mitsubishi model is produced for the Japanese market.
At the time, this car was intended as a high-performance showcase for the manufacturer to demonstrate its technological lead.
The Galant model is from the eighth generation (1997-2002), equipped with WRC Group A car technology.
This model was introduced on a very small scale in Europe, about 5 of them known in the Netherlands.
Thus an old advertisement of this car.
Madonna University vs Lawrence Technological University
Livonia MI
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #TimeMachine
While the Union of Songun Republics lacks the technological sophistication of many Western forces in NATO and beyond, it nevertheless possesses a great deal of innovation insofar as being able to modernize, enhance, or clone legacy systems. The monstrosity depicted above is certainly indicative of that fact. Indeed, the MCDM-1 (Modernized Coastal Defense Missile-1; frequently referred to as the Thuan Thien by reverential Vietnamese figures) is the result of a grotesque marriage between the chassis of a Soviet-designed 2S7 and a joint Sino-Vietnamese imitation of the American Mk. 11 Guided Missile Launching System configured predominantly for the RGM-84 Harpoon. The result is a hulking, beach-crawling snail equipped with two anti-ship missiles with mostly unknown characteristics and an assorted array of electro-optical and maritime tracking radars to help deliver the streaking missiles to their targets.
Regardless of the exact capabilities of the missiles, the US and its partners have naturally assumed they are meant to skim the sea and strike the waterlines of valuable vessels operating in the green waters of the South China Sea. Thus, NATO has appropriately designated the system as the CSS-C-15 Seacock. Additionally, Western-aligned intelligence services have been able to discern at least one significant limitation of the Seacock, which is the inability to achieve high firing angles without having the turret positioned perpendicular to the tracks. The unwieldy nature of the turret's arms mean either the missiles themselves will come into contact with the hull or the backblast will, resulting in unintended damage either way. While this shortcoming doesn't completely undermine the efficacy of the system as a whole, it does suggest that the unit requires some setup time, or that shrapnel or other similar objects could potentially damage the moving parts that enable the turret to fire properly. Like other large missile systems, this means the CSS-C-15 is probably more lethal when prepositioned than when used reactively. Nevertheless, this chimera is just one more threat the United States and East Asia Defense Association must contend with to contain communist militarism in the Indo-Pacific.
Credit to Awe for the little electro-optical tracker towards the front of the turret. Can't remember what I ripped it from, but I'm sure he was the originator.