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I used to pass this golf course daily on my way to work and looked out the train window and saw the early morning golfers teeing off and putting. I left that job for a year and when I started commuting again, it was different. The course had been losing money and the city closed it and sold it to a developer to build a warehouse. In the meantime the course is slowly returning to nature, but still serves as an unofficial park to people who walk its paths and let their dogs run free. You can still find the sand traps overgrown with weeds, and greens with small trees starting to grow on them. It will be sad when the bulldozers come and level it all out--this place that was carefully designed as a high-maintenance challenge to golfers, and which now serves as a place for quiet strolls and slightly melancholy thoughts about the constancy of change.
Former Sumner Meadows Golf Links, Sumner, WA. Taken with Nikon F4 camera, Nikkor 85mm f2 AI-S lens. Kodak Gold 200 film. Developed at Fred Meyer Store. I'm never taking film there again. Their chemicals must have been cold or over used. Every photo was several stops less dense than it should have been. All three rolls I brought there. I'm going to start developing my own color film again.
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I use several Arabic dictionaries on a regular basis, but Hans Wehr is the most basic stand-by for almost everyone doing Arabic. This is my second Hans Wehr, bought after I finished the CASA I program in 2000. CASA killed my first Hans Wehr (which I bought in 1995), and CASA II has finally killed this one. I'm just starting my third Hans Wehr in January 2007, and I'm told that when that one dies, I will know Arabic.
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Universidade de Paris. Uma das mais antigas da Europa, a Universidade de Paris foi fundada ao redor de 1170, a partir da escola da catedral de Notre-Dame. Escolas semelhantes existiam junto às catedrais em toda França. Era o bispo que nomeava os professores e controlava o ensino por meio de seu Chanceler ou Secretário Geral do Bispado.
Quando o sempre crescente número de estudantes fez que a escola de Notre-Dame se tornasse insuficiente para abrigá-los, os professores particulares foram autorizados a abrir escolas ao redor da catedral. Estes mestres, para defender seus interesses e suas idéias, se reuniram e se associaram formando a sua "corporação", uma "Universitas", um modo de união à semelhança dos modernos sindicatos. Assim nasceu, por volta de 1.170, a Universidade de Paris.
Cada mestre, ou grupo de mestres, tinha sua própria escola; quando a corporação tinha que deliberar sobre algum assunto de interesse comum, eles em geral se reuniam em uma ou outra igreja. A organização dessas reuniões bem como a representação dos mestres perante a Igreja e o governo fez surgir o posto e a figura do Reitor. Os assuntos e as disciplinas e as necessidades práticas comuns a várias escolas terminaram por promover o agrupamento em escolas maiores, as faculdades.
No início do século XII, Abelardo, um dos grandes intelectuais da Idade Média, veio ensinar em Paris e sua fama atraiu milhares de estudantes para a Universidade, vindos de todos os países do mundo cristão. As escolas se expandiram para a outra margem do rio Sena, no monte Sainte Geniève, onde Abelardo ensinou. Lá se encontra ainda a famosa rue du Fouarre, no quartier Latin, onde os mestres da Faculdade das Artes tinham suas escolas; mais adiante encontra-se a igreja de Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, onde muitas vezes se reuniu a velha corporação ou "Universidade" dos professores.
Com o apoio papal, a Universidade de Paris tornou-se o grande centro transalpino de ensino teológico cristão. Durante os anos 1220, as ordens mendicantes Dominicana e Franciscana dominaram o ensino na Universidade que, ao final do século XIII e durante o século XIV foi o maior centro de ensino de toda a cristandade, particularmente em Teologia. Entre seus professores mais famosos contam-se, além de Abelardo, Alexander de Hales, São Bonaventura, Santo Alberto Magno, e São Thomas de Aquino. A universidade ficou dividida em quatro faculdades: três "superiores" compreendendo a de Teologia, a de Direito Canônico, e a de Medicina, e uma "inferior", a Faculdade de Artes.
No decurso dos séculos XVI e XVII a universidade de Paris tornou-se um conglomerado de colégios, à semelhança das universidades inglesas. Os colégios foram inicialmente pensionatos de estudantes, aos quais se acrescentaram depois salas de aula onde os mestres vinham ensinar. Esta é a época em que os Jesuítas foram autorizados e abrir seus Colégios. Os padres da Sociedade de Jesus, hábeis e poderosos, atraíram os jovens para os seus colégios, esvaziando as universidades ou assumindo o seu controle.
Com a Revolução Francesa (1789-99) a universidade foi reorganizada para fins de aplicação do saber, deixando para traz o modelo jesuítico de debates teológicos e estudo de línguas mortas. Foram criadas escolas superiores especializadas e independentes. Surgiram, sucessivamente, o Museu de História Natural, a Escola politécnica, a Escola Normal, três escolas de Saúde e a escola de Línguas, e o ensino tornou-se secular, independente de doutrinas religiosas ou políticas, mas a faculdade de teologia somente foi fechada em 1886. Napoleão manteve as escolas criadas pelo governo revolucionário da Convenção.
Os principais prédios da universidade, apesar de não serem contíguos, têm por centro o edifício da Sorbonne. Esta, originária de uma escola fundada pelo teólogo Robert de Sorbon ao redor de 1257, foi o mais famoso colégio de Paris. Sua proximidade da faculdade de estudos teológicos, e o uso do seu auditório para grandes debates, fez o nome Sorbonne tornar-se a designação popular para a faculdade de teologia de Paris. Sua localização atual no Boulevard Saint-Michel, data de 1627 quando Richelieu a reconstruiu às suas custas. Desde o século XVI, devido a ser a faculdade mais importante, a Sorbonne acabou por ser considerada como o núcleo principal da Universidade. Sorbonne e Universidade de Paris passaram a ser sinônimos. Porém, os edifícios antigos da Sorbonne foram demolidos, com exceção da Igreja erguida por Richelieu e onde está seu túmulo, a qual foi incorporada à construção nova, que forma um retângulo de 21 000 metros quadrados, três vezes maior que a Sorbonne erguida pelo Cardeal. Alberga a faculdade de letras, e também a administração do distrito educacional com centro em Paris e os serviços administrativos da Universidade: gabinete do reitor, escritórios, o salão do conselho, e o grande anfiteatro para 3.000 pessoas.
Nos anos de 1960 a universidade de Paris, mediante uma política de tolerância acadêmica capaz de atrair o ingresso maciço de jovens estrangeiros vindos de países mais atrasados, tornou-se um centro mundial de difusão do socialismo, do marxismo, do comunismo, do anarquismo e do antiamericanismo, superando neste afã a própria Universidade Patrice Lumumba, que fora criada especificamente para esse fim em Moscou no início da mesma década. Resultou a própria França sofrer as conseqüências dessa política, quando suas estruturas se viram ameaçadas pelo levante estudantil de 1968, que também desencadeou uma onda de rebeldia estudantil ao redor do mundo. Nessa fase, o número de estudantes da Universidade havia subido a mais de 115.000.
Após a crise, o governo de direita procedeu a uma reforma geral profunda na organização do ensino superior francês, através do Ato de reforma da educação superior, do mesmo ano de 1968. Com base nesse ato, a partir de 1970 a Universidade de Paris passou a compreender uma série de 13 faculdades de altos estudos, autônomas e financiadas pelo Estado, localizadas principalmente em Paris (Paris I a XIII).
A faculdade ou universidade de Paris I inclui unidades de Economia, Direito, Línguas modernas, e Artes; Paris II, Direito, Tecnologia e Ciências econômicas; Paris III, Artes cênicas, e Língua e Civilização inglesa, latino americana e sul-asiáticas; Paris IV, Artes e Arqueologia, Língua e literatura latina, Musicologia, e Humanidades aplicadas; Paris V, Farmácia e Ciências biológicas; Paris VI, Matemática, Física, e Geociências; Paris VII, Medicina, Ciências físicas e biológicas, Inglês, e Estudos do Extremo Oriente; Paris VIII, Línguas Anglo-Arnericanas, Literatura e civilização francesa, inglesa e alemã, Sociologia, Artes, Economia política; Paris IX, Comércio e Economia aplicada, Informação comercial, e Matemática; Paris X (situada em Nanterre), Economia, História, Sociologia, e Línguas romances; Paris XI (em Sceaux), Matemática, Física, Química e Medicina; Paris XII (em Val-de-Marne), Medicina, Direito, e Letras; Paris XIII (em Saint-Denis), Tecnologia, Letras e Humanidades.
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Edda Ferd, PSV – Hybrid Platform Supply Vessel
The Edda Ferd is a platform supply vessel used to support oil rig operations in the North Sea.
A new build, the Østensjø Edda Ferd has been designed with a focus on quality, safety and efficiency. This is the first integration of a Corvus Energy ESS and Siemens’ BlueDrive PlusC propulsion system.
Name: Edda Ferd
Type: 92.6 m Platform Supply Vessel (PSV)
Duty: North Sea Offshore Drilling Platform Service & Support
Pack: 40 x 6.5kWh
Capacity: 260kWh
Bus Voltage : 888VDC
Partners: Østensjø Rederi, Siemens, Corvus Energy
Edda Ferd, PSV is based in Haugesund, Norway operating in the North Sea.
General
Operator:Østensjø Rederi AS
Built:2013
Builder:Astilleros Gondan. Spain
Yard no.:444
Call sign:LAZO7
Flag:NIS
Port of Registry:Haugesund
IMO no.:9625504
MMSI No.:259161000
Classification:DnV +1A1, SF, E0, OFFSHORE SERVICE VESSEL+, SUPPLY, DK(+), DYNPOS-AUTR, HL(2.8), LFL*, CLEAN DESIGN, NAUT-OSV(A), COMF-V3-C2, OIL REC, DEICE
Safety regulations:NMA, Trade Worldwide within GMDSS A3, Solas 1974/1978, International Convention on Load Lines, Pollution Prevention - MARPOL 1973/1978, INLS Certificate
Dimensions
Length o.a.:92,6 m
Length b.p.:82,2 m
Breadth mld.:20,6 m
Depth mld.:9,0 m
Draft max.:7,2 m
Air draft:32,46m
Tonnage - Deadweight
Deadweight:5122 t
Gross tonnage:4870 GT
Net tonnage:1462 NT
Deck loading capacities
Cargo deck:1038 m2
Deck equipment
Anchor chain:2 x 11 shacles.
Anchor Windlass / Mooring Winch:15,5 tons.
Mooring winch:Forward: 2 x 16 tons Aft: 2 x 10 tons
Deck cranes:Port: 1 x MacGregor SWL1,5 t@ 8m / Starboard: 1 x MacGregor SWL 3,0 t @ 10m
Tugger winches:2 x 15 tons.
Propulsion
General:Battery Hybrid Power Station and 2 x VSP each 2700 kW. 2 x AC asynchronous water-cooled motors each 2700 kW.
Main engines:2 x MAK 6M25C a` 2000kW - 2 x MAK 9M25C a`3000 kW
Fuel type:MDO /MGO
Auxiliaries / Electrical power
Generators:2 x Simens generator 2222 kW / 2 x Simens generator 3333 kW
Emergency generator:Caterpillar Emergency generator 158 kW
Speed / Consumption
Max speed / Consumption:abt. 16,0 knots
Main propellers
Maker:Voith Schneider propellers
Type:2 x 2700 KW
Thrusters
Bow thrusters:2 x 1400 kW FP , electric driven low noise tunnel thrusters. Plus 1 x 800 kW RIM tunnel thruster
Bridge / Manoeuvering
Bridge controls:5 control stands. (forward, 2 x aft, starboard, port)
Loading / Discharging:Simens IAS. Remote monitoring of all tanks including loading/discharging operations and start/stop of all pumps.
Dynamic positioning system
Type:Kongsberg K-Pos.
Approval / Class:DNV DYNPOS-AUTR. IMO Class 2
Reference systems:DPS 112, DPS 132, CyScan, Mini-Radascan
Sensors:3 x Gyro, 3 x Motion Reference Unit, 2 x Wind sensor
ERN number:99,99,99,99
Liquid tank capacities
Marine Gas Oil:1100 m3 included 2 chemical and 4 special prod. tanks connected to fuel system.
POT water:1000 m3
Drill Water/Ballast:2280 m3
Mud:Mud/Brine system 513 m3. Special product system 370 m3. Total 883 m3.
Brine:Brine/mud system 513 m3. Special product system 702 m3. Total 1215 m3
Base oil:Total 702 m3. When using combined tanks.
Methanol:Total 440 m3. When using combined tanks.
Special products LFL/LFL*:720 m3
Drill Cuttings:720 m3
Liquid discharge
Fuel Oil pumps:2 x 150 m3/h- 9 bar
Brine pumps:2 x 100 m3/h – 22.5 bar.
Liquid Mud pumps:2 x 100 m3/h – 24 bar.
Specal products pumps:2 x 100 m3/h – 9 bar.
Drill water pumps:1 x 250 m3/h – 9 bar.
Drill cutting pumps:4 x 40 m3/h – 9 bar.
Fresh water pumps:1 x 250 m3/h – 9 bar.
Methanol pumps:2 x 75 m3/h – 9 bar .
Slop system:1 x 20 m3/h
Tank washing system:1 x 30 m3/h
Discharge piping:5"
Bulk tank capasities
Bulk Cement Tanks:4 tanks. Total capacity: 260 m3
Bulk Discharge:2 x 100 t/hr
Navigation equipment
Radar:1 x Furuno FCR-2827 S /ARPA - 1 x Furuno FAR-2837 S / ARPA
Electronic Chart System:2 x TECDIS
Compass:3 x Simrad Gyro GC 80
Autopilot:Simrad AP-70
Echo Sounder:Furuno FE-700
Navtex:Furuno NX-700A
DGPS:Furuno GP-150
AIS:Furuno FA-150
Voyage data recorder:Furuno VR-3000
LRIT:Sailor 6130 LRIT
Log:Furuno DS-80
Communication equipment
General:GMDSS installation in accordance with IMO regulations for vessels operating within Sea Area A3
GMDSS Radio MF/HF Transceivers & DSC:1 x Furuno FS-1575
VHF:2 x GMDSS Furuno FM-8900 / 3 x GMDSS Jotron TR-20 portable / 3 x Sailor 6248
GMDSS EPIRB:1 x Jotron 40 S Mk2 - 1 x Jotron 45 S Mk2
GMDSS SART:2 x Kannad SARTII
UHF:6 x Motorola GM-360 - 6 x Motorola GP-340 ATEX
Sattelite system:1 x Inmarsat / 1 x Iridium
Accommodation
Total no. berths:38 x Beds
Total no. of cabins:27 x Cabins
Single cabins:16 x Single cabins
Double cabins:11 x Double cabins
Office:2 x Offices
Hospital:1 x Hospital
Ventilation/A-C for accommodation:High pressure single-pipe fully redundant ventilation system. Full heating/AC throughout the accommodation
Other:Messroom, Dayrooms, Conferenceroom, Gymnasium,Galley,Dry Provitions,Freezing room, Wardrobes.
Lifesaving / rescue
Approved lifesaving appliances for:40 persons
Liferafts:6 x 25 persons
Rescue/MOB boat:Alusafe 770 Mk2 - Twin installation.
Fire-fighting/foam:Water/Foam pump/ monitors covering cargo deck area
I am now a writer for Petapixel.com, so for my first article I used small mirrors to create unique and creative lighting.
You can check out the whole article here:
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Sb-600 pointed in the mirror camera right with cutout shapes @ 1/4
Originally this was the Schoharie County Alms House and Poor Farm. About 1949, it became A Franciscan Seminary. It was they who built the chapel wing. Sometime in the 70's 80's It became an Eldercare facility named Mountainside Manor. That closed in 2006 and the property sat abandoned until recently when it was purchased by the Russian Orthodox Church who are using it as a church regional HQ and an organic farm. They placed the "Onion Dome" on the chapel steeple replacing a spire.
If you've ever used a Tilt+Shift lens you may have an idea how this photograph was created. (Certainly not in Photoshop!) Occasionally I will capture a landscape with both the Tilt and the Shift functions engaged. Normally its just Shift for the pano. Here I also Tilted to create a horizontal line of focus, ie I tilted the lens to bring the waterfall "forward", then focused on it. Sometimes this method "works", sometimes it doesn't. You be the judge.
Balaka Falls, also known as Hunts Falls and Hunts Creek Falls, have been on my bucket list for a very long time. The only reason for the delay was the weather and its timing. The falls really only have water flowing immediately after rain because they are buried within the midst of Sydney's north western suburbs. So I needed a Friday night of rain. Finally we got it. After many months. Just after dawn I left home to drive to the falls, and before Led Zep's Kashmir had finished playing I had parked my car. Two minutes later I was at the falls. That's how close they are to where I live. In fact, one minute's drive from this spot is a 6 lane main arterial road.
Ravensburger No. 16 219 2 ©1992
1530 pieces, used and complete
60 x 80 cm
23 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
Another in our series of winter-and/or Christmas-themed puzzles for December, this time a view of Ludwig II of Bavaria's Neuschwanstein Castle, from the German manufacturer Ravensburger.
This was my choice of puzzle: Mike warned me when we bought it that it wouldn't be easy, and he was right.
The castle itself was soon completed, followed by the sky (a little trickier, but still manageable). However, when we commenced assembly of the trees around the castle, things started to go a lot slower.
In the meantime, I assembled a vintage Chad Valley (see previous jigsaw) for a little light relief, as it was virtually impossible for two of us to work from the same selection of pieces available to us: each piece had to be tried in succession and we would have got in each other's way. We took it in turns to work on this one, to avoid arguments.
Eventually it was finished - at ten to midnight yesterday! And here it is for your perusal.
We have started another winter-themed puzzle and hope to have it completed before midnight on New Year's Eve, pictures will follow in due course.
Total piece count for 2018: 171,325
Puzzle number 241
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Problem Solving Using the Why Tree by xtremelean.us
* This presentation is on problem solving using the why tree and is designed to teach a standardized approach for your people at all levels of the organization. Good problem solving skills within your company will cause your business to thrive while making everyone's life easier in the process.
* While problem solving does not have to be difficult, there are many that like to make it sound that way.
* People are not born as natural problem solvers and you don't need a college degree to learn to be a good problem solver either.
* Good problem solving skills can be taught and that is what I am going to do. My goal is to teach you a simple standardized approach that can be used in your business or personal life. You can also use this training video to teach others at your business. When completed, you will fully understand and be ready to use the concepts taught here.
* When we become good at problem solving, we start eliminating the problems that cause our head to spin once and for all. Our life becomes much easier and we suddenly have more time and less frustration. You are probably watching this video because that is exactly the direction you want to go in your life.
* Let's first discuss what a problem is or is not.
* A problem is the difference between actual conditions and the desired conditions and you don't know how to solve it.
* Let's put this in simpler terms.
* Let's change desired condition with "Want" and change actual condition with "Have"
* So the difference between what we have and what we want is the problem.
* And it's only a problem if you don't already know what the solution is.
* Let me give you a simple illustration of what a problem is. Barney here wants a female companion, but he does not have one, and he doesn't know exactly what to do about it. That is Barneys problem. That seems pretty straightforward doesn't it?
* The biggest type of problem people face is when something suddenly goes wrong.
* Captain Jack here is flying 300 passengers across the continent when all of a sudden, the plane starts to go down.
* In this case, the pilot WANTS to have full control of the plane again.
* But what he has is a plane that is going down and he doesn't know what happened or what to do about it.
* Does the pilot have a problem? 100% affirmative.
* Everyone has problems in their life at one time or another, so we all have the responsibility and opportunity to solve problems many times in our lives. It is absolutely best when we solve a problem so it never ever returns again. When you solve problems this way, your life becomes easier.
* When it comes to problem solving, some people just start shooting from the hip. This can be a very costly, time consuming, and frustrating approach. Preferable to this would be to take some aim at our target. After all, if we take the time to aim carefully at our target we increase the chance of hitting the bulls eye.
* Let's use a hypothetical problem that everyone can relate to. You arrived to work late.
* By the way, always clearly define the problem in as few words as possible, while also making sure everyone can understand what the problem is.
* And the reason we arrived to work late is because our car would not start.
* Many people put a lot of emphasis on root cause analysis, which is finding out what exactly what caused the car not to start.
* This is a fish bone diagram which is another tool that can be used for determining the root cause of a problem.
* And while sometimes finding the root cause is important, finding the best solution that will prevent the problem from reoccurring is THE most important objective.
* In this case, let's say you were at the end of your ropes with this piece of junk anyway and had decided you were going to buy a new car.
* Do you really care what exactly caused your old car not to start? Not really.
* Will the new car be a proper solution to your problem and get you to work reliably for many years to come? Absolutely
* My point is, solutions are more important than causes and in my opinion, outweigh them greatly.
* All right, let's do a reality check. You have a crap car, you were late to work because it would not start, and you have no money to buy a new car.
* You now need to know what caused your car not to start so you will not be able to fix it.
* The Why Tree method is the focus of this presentation, but it relies on knowing the 5-Why root cause analysis method. The 5-Why method for determining root cause is one of the simplest methods to learn and to complete. You start with a clear problem statement, then ask why the problem happened and write the answer down. If that answer did not identify the root cause, continue asking why until it does.
* Let's go through an example.
* For example our problem is we woke up late.
* We would then ask "why did we wake up late?"
* The alarm did not go off.
* "why did the alarm not go off?"
* Because the time reset on the alarm clock?
* Why did the time reset on the alarm clock?
* Because the power went out.
* Why did the power go out?
* Because of the severe thunderstorms.
* Why were there severe thunderstorms?
* We don't know.
* Notice that solutions are out of our control when the power went out? We do not have control over the power or the weather. So the line of questioning should stop when we do not have any control over the cause.
* One of the problems with the 5-Why root cause analysis is it only allows for one line of questioning. Based on the answers you give, you can get off the trail to solutions very quickly.
* Let's back up and change the answer to "why did the time reset on the clock?" to:
* Because the clock lost power
* Then why did the clock lose power?
* Because the alarm clock did not have the backup battery installed.
* Why was the backup battery not installed?
* Because we did not have one at the time.
* Take notice that the answers you give will dramatically change the outcome. You must also ensure the answers are accurate or once again you will be on a wild goose chase.
* We now have a root cause that we have control over and an easy solution to the problem. Having a backup battery installed in the alarm clock allows it to continue working in the event of a power outage. This solution is very simple and effective with a very low cost. It is easy to implement and has no negative consequences.
* While you now have a good solution to this problem, let's not forget that batteries do not last forever. You will need to check the batteries in the alarm clock on a regular basis if your want to eliminate this particular problem forever.
* Even though this approach is called 5-Why, 5 is just a rule of thumb for the number of times to ask why. It could be more or less though depending on the problem. When you no longer know the answer to the question that is a good place to stop. Speculation will rarely serve you well.
* While the 5-Why root cause analysis is a good and simple tool, I find the Why Tree diagram is a much better tool for brainstorming multiple possible causes of the problem. Discovering multiple causes of the problem allows you to develop multiple potential solutions to the problem. You would use the same 5-why approach but the tree diagram allows you to list multiple potential causes to each why. There is no limit to the size or shape of your Why Tree. Let me share an example of using the Why Tree.
* Let's use a real life problem I experienced recently. We put in a new lawn at our house and it wasn't very long before I noticed the grass was dying is some areas. I was upset and wanted to know why and the solution to the problem.
* It did not take long to put two and two together. The dog peeing on the lawn was causing it to die. The reason I want to share this example with you is to show you there are almost always several solutions to any given problem.
* While you may have multiple solutions for any given problem, and even though all of the solutions may solve the problem, there are costs or consequences to consider. Your job in good problem solving is to come up with:
A: The simplest
B: Most effective solution
C: At the lowest cost
D: That is the easiest to implement
E: With no negative consequences.
* The description of my problem is very simple "my grass is dying in small sections". So the 1st question why is the grass dying? Because the dog is peeing on the grass, why is the dog peeing on the grass? Because he is not trained to go elsewhere.
* I must confess, when I first saw that the dog peeing on the grass was causing it to die, I jumped to my first solution and that was a well planned hunting accident where the dog had more to worry about than the bird.
* But that solution would end up in divorce court. Although this solution would be simple, 100% effective, relatively low cost, and easy to implement, the consequences of this solution would make it a very poor choice.
* Then I thought how can I train the dog to stay off the nice new lawn?
* Someone suggested setting up an electric fence and I thought that would be a perfect solution. So off to the pet store I went only to discover these fences aren't cheap. Although this solution would be very effective and there were no negative consequences I could foresee, the cost was high and not simple to install or implement. Still the best solution I have found up to this point.
* I realized I needed to dig deeper to find more causes and therefore more solutions so I asked myself again, "why is the grass dying?"
* Because of the dog pee. I don't have any control over the natural functions of the dog so there is no solution there.
* Why is the dog pee causing the grass to die?
* I had to do some research on the internet, but quickly found my answer. Because dog pee has high levels of Nitrogen.
* Why are there high levels of Nitrogen in the dog pee?
* I also found the answers on the internet that it could be related to their diet
* Or they are not drinking enough water.
* I investigated changing the diet for my dog and found that over the lifetime of the dog, you will probably spend more than the electric fence. I also found out there are health risks for the dog with this diet. I found this solution to be simple, but the effectiveness in my mind was questionable. The cost was again high and the negative consequences of the health of the dog were not exciting. Bordering again on the divorce court thing.
* The dog not drinking enough water was another cause looking for a solution.
* I also thought I could probably teach my dog to read before I could get her to drink more water. So while this solution may be effective at a low cost with no negative consequences, I did not feel this would be simple or easy to implement at all.
* We might not be able to get the dog to drink more water which would dilute the Nitrogen, but maybe we can dilute the Nitrogen another way. What if we adjusted the sprinklers to come on more frequently in the area the dog goes potty? Here is an extremely simple and easy to implement solution that should be totally effective with no cost or negative consequences. Guess what solution I chose to solve my problem?
* There is a simple way to cross check the solution you have chosen. Just read your Why Tree in reverse order and substitute the question why with the word because. Let's try this.
* We are going to adjust the sprinklers to come on more frequently because we need to dilute the high levels of Nitrogen because of the dog pee, because the dog pee is killing the grass. Make sure when you do the cross check that your solution makes sense all the way down the line.
* Root cause analysis is definitely a team effort. After all, two heads are better than one. Choose your team members wisely and keep the team size to a manageable group however.
* Don't worry about the repeatability of this problem solving process. In my mind, problem solving is a very creative process.
* If you give the same problem to three different teams, depending on the creativity of each team, you will most likely end up with three different solutions to the problem. This is absolutely normal. Just be creative and focus on the best solution to the problem you face and implement it.
* If this process does not give you a solution that is clearly correct, you may need to use a different problem solving tool.
* In the future, I will be posting videos on all of the problem solving tools including, Pareto charts, flow charts, fishbone diagrams, brainstorming tools, mind maps, failure mode and effects analysis, and TRIZ. So stay tuned.
This is the end of the presentation, but the beginning of your journey towards realizing the benefits of good problem solving at your own company. We have many years experience in the tools of Six Sigma with problem solving skills at the forefront. Let us know how we can help you.
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Scription Chronodex Weekly Planner 2012 - free download with the cost of a prayer
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Finally made up my mind to create my own diary for 2012 a week ago, here I go sharing with you all! But first please give me a little support, my Dad recovered from prostate cancer but at the same time developed Parkinson's disease a few years ago. In the past week he has deteriorated a lot, bed bound finally, no more speech, I'm the last person he can recognize. It is so tough for Mom as a care taker. All I ask for is your sincere prayers, as you download this creation, for my Dad and Mom, so that he can go peacefully proud of his sons, and she can start to explore this new world with us. What a courageous woman she is.
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Thanks to my Dad's dedication to Chinese painting and art, I had my implicit training early in life and became a visual person yet unafraid to look deep into the subject matters. For years, I bought diaries but none of them satisfied my visual and creative needs.
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Since the beginning of the diary making business, every single diary is made by representing time in fixed grids. To challenge this right representation, after exploring in deep thoughts the essence of my own perfect diary, I present to you my Chronodex idea.
Come to think of it, the paper which makes up a diary originated from trees, when the sheets of paper are bound together in the middle, it is almost like foliages stemming from a tree's trunk. Each page is like a branch, each opened page is a week, each day is like a beautiful flower grew from that page, consist of petals of your day's time slices.
You may argue that this format is still slicing time into blocks and far from the fractal nature, but soon as you start using it, you will find that time is no longer right, instead you will find fluidity through free notations.
The more important time slices can be drawn larger, activities can be dots or pies (petals if you will) depending on duration or importance, space on a page is no longer limited to grids. Basically you can roam freely and be amazed how beautiful your week can be.
What's more is that your mind gradually deviate from the rigid format a typical diary imposes on you, reactivity soon flourishes. Imagine the effect happening in weeks! And I'm not kidding.
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Scription Chronodex Weekly Planner 2012 (Jan - Jun) Download
(just remember to pray for my Dad and Mom, sincerely)
It is done with the Midori Traveler's Notebook size in mind, even if you don't own a Traveler's Notebook, you can still use it without the leather cover.
Hong Kong Holiday version
Japanese Holiday version
Free of Holidays version
To grow your own diary, after downloading the PDF version of your choice, print it out double sided (duplex) in landscape mode on A4 papers. Be sure to print it out 100% without scale, left/right binding (try the first few pages on your printer and settings and you'll see what I mean). Check the sequence after the print out.
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Next, cut away the left and right portion of the A4 paper according to the cut line.
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Now here's the interesting part of the binding. Use a chisel to punch holes on both ends of the spine and stitch the pages up. You can staple them together just the same. This method will get you a bound notebook but ready for a cool bookmark which I will mention in a moment.
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To create a bookmark, simple take a piece of hard paper, cut it the way I showed above. Slide it between the papers of the current week, the slide 90 degree up following the spine to have the tab exposed on top of the diary (I hope I'm describing it right). There you go! a bookmark with a tab extruding from the top of your diary.
This cool bookmark invention based on the way you bind your diary is so useful and flexible, you will find it amazing when you reach the 12th week of the year! Tell me about that in a few months.
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The last part of my Chronodex journey was to make a cool diary cover. Thanks for my family's tolerance, I had a little free time in broad daylight having fun doing it, 2 cups of coffee, listening to audiobook through my iPhone/Jambox combo.
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Small features are infused into the diary, I hope you will enjoy the little tibits, do explore the "Boarding pass to success" idea. If you are interested, I will be sharing the July - December version, which is still in stage zero. Fellow Scription reader Boris from Russia already had a taste of the Chronodex, so go ahead and try yours. Your feedback and comment is what keeps me going, please do pray.
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Prop used in the movie Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro. This is the semi-dead body of the bad guy Kroenen.
This was taken at the exhibition "L'Art de l'engany" in the Palau Robert in Barcelona, mostly showcasing the work of David Martí and Montse Ribé.
To all that find that picture objectionable or feel the need to flag it: This exhibit was openly featured in a hallway in the building with no age check or something similar beforehand. This is just a movie prop.
Taken during a trip to Barcelona in May 2009. Please visit the whole set.
A friend of mine brought round his Canon gear and I loaded it with an out of date Kodacolor 200. These are taken with either the standard lens or a 135mm f3.5 Canon FD. The camera works fine although I found it odd to use shutter priority, I've used aperture priority cameras since the mid 1970's and always think in terms of aperture and DoF. The film was out of date so I've had to recover the colours and contrast a bit. These were taken around Chesterfield Market using the 50mm lens.
Oops that is not the brush I used to get the bristles from. I pulled the old lashes out with tweezers and cleaned out the slot with a dental pick and forced any glue away from the slot. 1. wedge a T-pin in the slot where the eyelashes will go. WARNING slot is very delicate. 2. I cut off a tiny bunch of long bristles. 3. Lined up the bottoms of them while they were in between my thumb and finger. 4. Stuck them in the slot as far as they would go. The lashes are suppose to get glue on the underside but this doll's head is, too, complicated to take off. Taking off her head would be require removing the vinyl scalp.
This large old dairy barn is still being used, but from its outward appearance, it is just a matter of time. Best when viewed on black.
The Great Patriotic War (Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, romanized: Velikaja Otečestvennaja vojna) is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II, primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. For some legal purposes, this period may be extended to 11 May 1945 to include the end of the Prague offensive.
History
The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812. In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory (otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad (заграничная война), and later was reinterpreted as a war for the fatherland, i.e. a defensive war for one's homeland. Sometimes the Patriotic War of 1812 was also referred to as the Great Patriotic War (Великая отечественная война); the phrase first appeared in 1844 and became popular on the eve of the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812.
After 1914, the phrase was applied to World War I. It was the name of a special war-time appendix to the magazine Theater and Life (Театр и жизнь) in Saint Petersburg, and referred to the Eastern Front of World War I, where Russia fought against the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The phrases Second Patriotic War (Вторая отечественная война) and Great World Patriotic War (Великая всемирная отечественная война) were also used during World War I in Russia.
The term Great Patriotic War re-appeared in the official newspaper of the CPSU, Pravda, on 23 June 1941, just a day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was found in the title of "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People" (Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna Sovetskogo Naroda), a long article by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of Pravda editors' collegium. The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet fatherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great morale booster. During the Soviet period, historians engaged in huge distortions to make history fit with Communist ideology, with Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov and Prince Pyotr Bagration transformed into peasant generals, Alexander I alternatively ignored or vilified, and the war becoming a massive "People's War" fought by the ordinary people of Russia with almost no involvement on the part of the government. The invasion by Germany was called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviet government to evoke comparisons with the victory by Tsar Alexander I over Napoleon's invading army.
The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.
The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is the Eastern Front of World War II (1941–1945). Neither term covers the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, invaded eastern Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and Finland (1939–1940). The term also does not cover the Soviet–Japanese War (1945) nor the Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939).
In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term is given great significance; it is accepted as a representation of the most important part of World War II. Until 2014, Uzbekistan was the only nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States that had not recognized the term, referring to it as World War II on the state holiday - the Day of Remembrance and Honour.
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File name: 10_03_001873a
Binder label: Home Furnishings
Title: Use the Agate iron ware, as it never rusts or leaks, and loudly are its praises sung by every tongue that speaks. (front)
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 10 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Men; Birds; Pots & pans; Oceans; Ships
Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Wm. T. Lucas, Dover, N. H.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
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The Norwegian crown prince family greeting the children's parade outside their home, Skaugum in Asker, on the Norwegian national day, 17th of May.
Left to right: Princess Ingrid Alexandra (heir to the Norwegian throne), crown princess Mette-Marit, prince Sverre Magnus, crown prince Haakon and Marius (Mette-Marit's older son).
It was the first time they were dressed in the traditional Norwegian costume bunad, I've since read.
I read in the newspaper the next day that the children's parade at Skaugum used an hour to pass the royals. Then the crown prince couple and princess Ingrid Alexandra relocated to Oslo to stand on the castle's balcony for the children's parade in Oslo - which is why the parade in Asker starts at 8 AM in the morning... :-)
Read more about the celebration of Norway's national day, May 17th, here.
(It's not a good shot technically - I goofed up, forgetting to delete X hundred shots from a family event last weekend before going out, and this was one of the last shots before my memory card was full, so it was the best I got, despite being overexposed. I spent the next couple of hundred meters in the children's parade deleting old photos from the memory card to be able to get more shots of the children's joy. ;-)
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Used in bridged mode, you have a very capable 300W + 300W mono block setup. No longer in my collection
Using my 400mm lens to capture turkeys strutting through wheat fields. Awesome to see morning light shining through their feathers.
Using Tears For Fears' 80s classic for my final entry this month because - even after seventeen years - I'm still 'Head Over Heels' in love with this girl.
#funnyhowtimeflies
For Self Portrait Challenge - 'Favorite Songs'
Unfortunately, this was the only photo I got of this cosplayer as some of the other photographers were... not that willing to share her time with the rest of us. Tsk, Tsk... Bad other photographers. :-P
I did a lot of PS magic on the ball she is holding (Topaz Adjust, outer and inner glows) to make it look like the sphere the character uses in the game.