Preview of the April 2012 TorontoHenge 04/17/2012
Some may remember that I had posted a pictorial in Environmental Graffiti called "TorontoHenge: When City Grids Align with the Sun" in October of 2011. As the year spins, so do opportunities for capturing sunrise or sunset in conditions similar to Stonehenge. This is my preview of the images for my next article, "Torontohenge Imperfect in 2012".  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #1" by Mike DeHaan All the comments will be in the article.  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #2" by Mike DeHaan Therefore these pictures are presented without discussion.  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #3" by Mike DeHaan Do they speak for themselves?  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #4" by Mike DeHaan Will anyone wade through them to read the writing tips?  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #5" by Mike DeHaan Feel free to leave a comment if you are underwhelmed.  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #6" by Mike DeHaan Of course, I would take more pleasure in approving comments.  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #7" by Mike DeHaan Here is the penultimate image for this blog post.  "TorontoHenge Apr 2012 #8" by Mike DeHaan Was it all worth the effort? Would you also see my promotional articles in DeHaan Services ("A Disappointing TorontoHenge for April 2012") and in my Xanga blog ("Making Use of a Poor TorontoHenge in April 2012")? Writing Tips Today has a double writing tip. Online articles need images. Sometimes the best images are those you take yourself. Ensure you first publish your images online in a site where you can demonstrate your ownership. I use my Blog of Writing, since it also serves as a blog post and as publicity for my article. Many people use Flickr or some other online image publishing site. Taking my own pictures of TorontoHenge in April 2012 was fun, easy and an excuse to wake up at 4:30am. Add Comment Today we publicize two related articles at two sites. The Emerald Ash Borer in Environmental Graffiti  "Adult Emerald Ash Borer" by cham0138 Reviewing my Environmental Graffiti article, "How the Emerald Ash Borer Threatens North American Ash Trees", one sees the emphasis on the insect rather than the tree. Suite 101 and the Ash Tree  "Sandy Spring Ash Tree in Maryland USA" by Carly & Art Differentiated from the other article, in Suite 101 "Important North American Ash Trees Invaded by Emerald Ash Borers" starts by looking at the ash tree. Of course I also publicized these articles in DeHaan Services. As usual, "Complementary Reports on the Emerald Ash Borer and Ash Trees" has no bonus information. Writing Tips Today's writing tip is that you can re-use your own research and write multiple articles, so long as you ensure they are distinct! In this case, one article took aim at the Emerald Ash Borer and the other article's focus was the Ash Tree. Here is a preview of two images that should be included in my "Cantor Defeated Galileo in the Battle of Infinite Numbers" in Decoded Science.  "Uncountable Real Numbers" by Mike DeHaan Cantor used a diagonal argument to prove that Real numbers cannot be counted.  Cantor demonstrated that a set of "tuples" of numbers, like { (1, 2), (3, 1) }, could be counted. Here again he used a diagonal. My article has also been publicized in my DeHaan Services blog; you may peruse "Who Had the Larger Infinity, Galileo or Cantor?". Writing Tips Today's writing tip might repeat a concept I introduced previously, but I really like it. Extend your research and write follow-up articles based on your current work. In this case, I stumbled into Cantor's non-countable infinity while researching Galileo's infinity for last week's article ("The Paradox of the Infinite Series of Squares Numbers by Galileo"). As well, the current article provided ideas for several follow-up articles as well. My Images for my Limits at Decoded Science 07/25/2011
Preview of My Original Images  "The Need for Limits" by Mike DeHaan Entitled "The Need for Limits", I built this from an Excel spreadsheet.  "Achilles Distance as Function of the Gap" by Mike DeHaan Spreadsheet graphics are also featured here, as well as a few touch-ups in Paint. As usual, I WILL promote my article in my DeHaan Services blog. That entry is "What do La Niña and Mathematical Limits Have in Common?". As well, my DeHaan Directory page, DeHaan Writing, graciously provides a link to the primary article. Writing Tips It is said that in the army, sergeants "Tell you what I'm going to tell you; tell you; and tell you what I just told you". These writing tips will be oddly familiar to my regular readers. The first writing tip is about making your own images if necessary. I used Microsoft Excel and Paint for the above images. The second writing tip is to publish original images at a site where you have the obvious copyright, before publishing at other sites. That just proves that you made the image. The third and fourth writing tips are: to promote yourself, and to re-use images, where appropriate. My new article links back to my previous "Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise" article, and re-uses one of its images. | Author:
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