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Creator: The National Breweries Limited
Title: Boswell India Pale Ale
Date: [c.1909-1925]
Extent: 1 label: printed ; (6.5x8.5cm)
Notes: From a collection of beer labels, stationery and Canadian breweriana donated by Lawrence C. Sherk.
Format: Label
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
The Cobham Bus Museum open day and bus rally held in April 1987 included a gathering in Cobham village. Among the participating buses and coaches was Brighton Leyland PD3/4 / MCW open-topper 32 LUF132F.
The circular staircase at the WA museum.WA Museum Boola Bardip -Boola Bardip means many stories in Whadjuk Nyoongar; the Country on which the Museum sits.The new WA Museum Boola Bardip opened in the Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday 21 November 2020 with nine-days of celebration.
The unknown provides the necessary space in which new dimensions of our being can be born. If we are unwilling or unable to bear uncertainty, we will remain stuck in old, stale, dead-end situations and miss out on opportunities for renewal and growth that are available to us only in times of transition.
-The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty by Estelle Frankel
By the way ... for the sake of comparison, this is the moon with JUST the Sigma 50-500 OS, no teleconverters.
Processed in a similar way ...
SASANIAN KINGS. Narseh (Narsē). AD 293-303. AV Dinar (20mm, 7.29 g, 3h). “mzdys bgy nrs hy mrk ’n mrk” in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing crown with arcades, three foliate branches, and korymbos; hair in two groups / “’y nryy” in Pahlavi on right, “nrs h” on left , fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the one on left wearing winged crown with korymbos, the other wearing mural crown; fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames; triple pellets on altar shaft. SNS type Ic/3b; Göbl type II/2; Paruck 170; Saeedi AV30 (same obv. die). EF, minor double strike and flan flaw on reverse. Extremely rare.
CNGTriton15, 1372
[ Note: while I donate my rights as the photographer of this photograph to the public domain as CC0, the back of the red mirror at right is (c) 1987 by MM, and they have rights in that part of the image. I assert that my photograph of it here on this page is "fair use" in the USA as non-profit educational use, non-harmful to the rights holder's interests. However, if you wish to reuse this photograph, rights assessment for any such reuse is your responsibility. ]
The "Mayday Mirror", a stainless steel double-sided emergency signaling mirror approved by the US Coast Coast Guard (approval #160.020/11/0)
The Mayday Mirror is a 4"x5" double-faced stainless steel Emergency Signal Mirror (ESM) of the "rearsight" [1,2] type with a central cruciform aiming hole. The mode of operation and shape is that described in Figures 1-3 of the 1940s U.S. Patent 2,395,605 to Larry L. Young [3].
The Mayday Mirror is made in Canada, with the back marked "(c) 1987".
The Mayday Mirror (United States Coast Guard (USCG) Approval #160.020/020/11/0) is one of only four Emergency Signaling Mirrors (ESMs) with a current USCG approval in 2009 [4]. All but one of the four current USCG approved mirrors are of the rearsight type. The USCG specification for ESMs can be found online [5]. It seems likely that the USCG has approved no more than fourteen ESM designs since 1947 [4]. One current and three former USCG approvals are for ESMs with retroreflective ("Reflex") aimers rather than "rearsight" aimers.
The Mayday Mirror bears a marked resemblance to the tempered glass
American 1943 military issue ESM/1 mirror ( USCG Approval #160.020/020/1/0)[4] "cross-in-glass"[5] that was developed and manufactured by General Electric in World War II based on Larry Young's
concept. (See Figure 1: Mayday Mirror vs ESM/1 ) The ESM/1 was also to have been issued to Canadian troops in World War II [6].
Both the Mayday Mirror and the ESM/1 have a 4"x5" rectangular outline with rounded corners of approximately 7/8" radius. Both have a central cruciform aiming aperture with arms 5/8" wide. Both have a 1/4" diameter lanyard hole centered 0.5" from the edge of the mirror. Both have a circular reflective rear mirror centered on the aiming aperture, though the area of the Mayday Mirror rear mirror is smaller than that of the ESM/1 ( 1 13/16" diameter vs. a 2" diameter on the ESM/1, with some further effective reduction due to as little as 1 3/4" diameter due to
copyright text).
The aiming holes/windows in almost all ESMs/heliographs are of a circular shape. Of the scores of manufactured ESM designs I possess, the Mayday Mirror is the only one that has used a cruciform aimer since the 1940s ESM/1 and it's smaller sibling, the 3"x5" ESM/2. (I have seen one Canadian reference to putting a cross-shaped aiming hole in an improvised signal mirror [8], but usually a round hole is suggested.) The use of a round rear reflective surface smaller than the main front reflection surface is also very rare. Besides the ESM/1, ESM/2 and the Mayday Mirror, only the Chinese Air Force model has this feature [7].
Photographs of many Emergency Signaling Mirrors can be found on the Web [9,10].
[1] "Signaling with Mirrors: Reflex-Button Type of Mirror Adopted for Navy Survival", Naval Aviation News, 15 Sept 1944, pp. 32-33, which can be downloaded from the official government site here: [dead link]
[2] Hunter, Richard S., "Heliographic Signaling Mirrors", Air Se Rescue Bulletin
U.S. Coast Guard, NAVCG 128 VOL. Ill NO. 2, February 1946.
books.google.com/books?id=ZLJIAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA13-PA24
[3] Larry L. Young U.S. Patent 2,395,605 filed 12/7/1943
www.google.com/patents?id=pqVWAAAAEBAJ
(US patent law allowed filing up to 1 year after first public use.)
[4] Per 12/29/2009 search for Approval Series Name: "Emergency Signaling
Mirror-160.020" at the USCG web site:
cgmix.uscg.mil/Equipment/EquipmentSearch.aspx ;
and the hypothesis that the approval numbers were issued sequentially.
[5] USCG Approval Guidance for Emergency Signaling Mirrors
www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg5214/survivalequip.asp#160.020
[6] Bi-Weekly Report No. 9 (Feb 12, 1944) of the Emergency Rescue Equipment
committee incuded minutes of the Dec 20 1944 meeting of the RCAF
SUBCOMMITTEE on EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT, which stated in part:
"Tempered Glass Signaling MIrror. This has been adopted
by the Canadians and will be packaged separately."
[7] Northern survival By Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
Employment and Related Services Division, 1972
books.google.com/books?&id=GxshAQAAIAAJ
On page 80, in discussing a heliograph mirror, it says in part:
"The side of a ration can makes a good usable mirror. Carefully cut a cross about 1 inch long in the centre of the sheet with the point of your knife while the metal is laying on a flat surface."
[8] Chinese Air Force Pilot Survival Mirror (on Ebay 12/29/2009) [link now dead]
[9] My gallery of Emergency Signaling Mirror photos: [ Now a dead link - web host went out of business]
[10] History of development of US military signal mirrors
in WWII (lots of photos)
For Paulo Mellett, on his birthday, as he continues the cycle...
Pen on paper, 17.5 x 17.5 cm. And a rather lengthy interpretation of the imagery...
The Triskelle or Triskellion, is a pre-celtic spiral design. It consists of three separate spirals rotating in the same direction around a central, circular point, and themselves forming a circle. The three spirals consist of a single, continuous line. For thousands of years, it has represented the continuum of life and various three-fold elements: life, death, rebirth; past, present, future; spirit, mind, body etc. More than any other meaning, though, it represents the three elements of Air, Water and Earth, and the flow of energy through these.
Because of the inter-connectedness of the three spirals, it is sometimes said to represent three threes, or nines, particularly the nine months of pregnancy that result in life and continue the three-fold cycle of life, death and rebirth. It is observable that the various three-fold natures it represents can interact with each other in this multiplicitous way... ie, the three elements of air, water and earth can all pass through life, death and rebirth, or the way in which our spirit, mind and body are influenced by past, present future. So the significance of the Triskellion is always exponential, growing and expanding within its continuum.
Within this design, all three of the physical elements are present.
Water is represented by waves, bubbles, a ship journeying and three fish. The bubbles show it’s interaction with air, and the ship journeys between two points of land or earth. The waves and journeying represent transience and movement in this malleable element. In Irish mythology, three ancient salmon were said to be the oldest creatures in the world. They lived in a pool under an oak tree. The Oak was older even than the salmon, and contained all wisdom. As the oak dropped its acorns into the pool, the salmon fed on them, and thus they came to hold all wisdom themselves.
Rocks, minerals and fossils represent Earth, rising to high mountains and producing plants and life. Most prominent of these plants is an apple tree, and curling amongst its branches is a snake, the most earthly and earthbound of creatures. This image is usually interpreted in terms of the biblical genesis account as the first moment of ‘sin’. I prefer to see it as an allegory of the moment of awakening of human consciousness... choosing independence to eat of the tree of knowledge. The bible also uses the image of a snake in a tree as a symbol of healing, though this more positive notion of earth and fruitfulness gets forgotten!
The trees roots grow out of the water, and its leaves are blown away by the third element of Air. Here, air is made visible in terms of curling winds, stars, a flock of wild geese and a rainbow. The latter of these is always seen as a promise of good things, light in the rain. Wild geese are often used as a Celtic symbol of the spirit... it is wild, untameable, strong, it travels huge distances. It represents the enduring, eternal nature of that spirit as whilst the goose disappears and is absent for many months of the year, it always returns. Therefore its long journeying represents travel of a spiritual nature. Very loosely, the stars form part of the constellation of Draco, the dragon, the largest constellation. It is suggested that the layout of the many ancient Cambodian temples form a map of the constellation of Draco across the land.
In the centre of all this lies the sun, representing the fourth element of fire. Its rays spread out through the picture, energising the other elements. All four elements are again represented in the corner pieces.
Circling the whole image is a snake swallowing its tale. For millennia, this continuous circle has represented eternity and the cycle of life, death and rebirth.
PilkingtonBus Dennis dart and optare solo seen here working on the circular
Repainted by a professional
Model Buses
Harwell Science and Innovation Centre, Oxfordshire.
This silver doughnut-shaped building, located in the Oxfordshire countryside near Didcot, is home to the Diamond Synchrotron, a huge scientific machine, half a kilometre in circumference, designed to produce very intense beams of X-rays, infrared and ultraviolet light.
Big Elk Guard Station, as seen through a circular fisheye lens. Big Elk is a forest service rental in Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
A busy Circular Quay Light Rail Terminus with Un it 18 just arrived at the terminus from Line 2 and Unit 16 doing the change-over on 8 November 2024.
(24F.4541_BusyCircularQ_LRwt)
The full "Cold Moon" on December 25, 2015. The first full moon on Christmas Day since 1977 and the last on Christmas Day until 2034.
So I decided to take a few more pictures of my last attempt to make a good shock wave. From the damage to the glass I knew that the heat shrink fragments were traveling very fast.
To replace the broken glass from the last shot I used a thin piece of Lexan, used in bullet proof windows. I also took the shot earlier, about 48usec after the detonation. i don't have an exact value because I don't know what the illuminating flash delay is.
The Lexan has a lot of optical problems which you can see in the vertical stripes. You can also see the shock wave, the black ring in the picture. It is not circular because the explosive charge was a cylinder.
The fun parts are the little triangular hairs spread outside the shock wave. They are little pieces of heat shrink tubing moving faster than the shock wave. From the measured angle the pieces are traveling at about Mach 3. Quite speedy.
Cheers.
Hastings Old Town with pinhole converted Zeiss Ikon 645.
Zeiss Ikon Circular Pinhole
f76 pinhole
Kodak Tri-X rated at 6400
2 hours and 45 minutes in Rodinal 50:1, a few gentle inversions every 30 minutes
This curling stone was used on the Upper Glenisla rink, it would have had an iron handle set in the lead filled hole on its upper surface, It was undoubtedly a lucky river find with its flush base split along a fault and rumbled smooth in the Isla. These Rough Block curling stones were used between 1650 and 1800 when they were eventually superseded with the Circular Stones that make Ailsa Craig's granite famous today.
Glenisla stanes wi names. #staneswinames
The Ko-hyoteki (甲標的 ,Kō-hyōteki?, "Type 'A' Target") class was a class of Japanese midget submarines used during World War II. They had hull numbers but no names. For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine. Thus, the midget carried by I-16 was known as "the I-16 midget". The midget submarine hull number began with the character "HA", but is visible only on the builder's plate inside the hull.
Fifty were built. The "A Target" name was assigned as a ruse—if their design was prematurely discovered by Japan's foes, the Japanese Navy could insist that the vessels were battle practice targets. They were also called "tubes" and other slang names.
The first two, Ha-1 and Ha-2, were used only in testing. They did not have conning towers, which were added to the later boats for stability underwater.
Ha-19 was launched by I-24 at Pearl Harbor. Most of the other fifty are unaccounted for, although three were captured in Sydney (Australia), and others in Guam, Guadalcanal, and Kiska Island, accounting for some of the other hull numbers.
The submarines were each armed with two 450 mm torpedoes in muzzle-loading tubes one above the other on the port bow. In the Pearl Harbor attack, the specially designed Type 97 torpedo was used, but problems with the oxygen flasks[clarification needed] meant that all later attacks used a different torpedo. Some have stated that a version of the Type 91 torpedo, designed for aircraft launching, was used, but other reports indicate that the Type 97 torpedo was modified to the Type 98, otherwise known as the Type 97 special. There is no definitive information that the Type 91 was used. The Type 98 was later supplanted by the Type 02 torpedo. There was also a demolition charge which it has been suggested was large enough to enable the submarine to be used as a suicide weapon, but there is no evidence that it was ever used as one.
Each submarine had a crew of two men. A junior officer conned the boat while a petty officer manipulated valves and moved ballast to control trim and diving.
Five of these boats participated in the Pearl Harbor attack, with at least one actually making it into the harbor. Of the five used at Pearl Harbor, HA-19 was captured where it grounded on the east side of Oahu. During World War II, HA-19 was put on tour across the United States to help sell War Bonds. Now a US National Historic Landmark, HA-19 is on exhibit at the National Museum of the Pacific War.
A photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the Pearl Harbor attack appears to show a midget submarine inside the harbor firing torpedoes at Battleship Row. According to analysis conducted by the United States Naval Institute in 1999, the midget submarine may well have scored a direct hit on West Virginia. Alternatively, the submarine in the photo may be the same one which fired its torpedoes at Curtiss and Monaghan. Both of those torpedoes missed and are believed to have hit a dock at Pearl City and the shore of Ford Island. This submarine was sunk by Monaghan at 0843 7 December and later recovered and used as fill during construction of a new landside pier at the Pearl Harbor submarine base.
Arriva 1642 arrives back in town on a Sunday 219 after another circuit of North Tonbridge, seen on Shipbourne Road while my son and I waited for the George & Dragon pub to open so we could watch Arsenal.
1637-1642 were new to Tunbridge Wells for the cross town 281 in that locality but were displaced by Wright Streetlites some time ago. 1642 is one that has stayed at 'TW' on other duties, and its capacity is seen as sufficient for a Sunday on this route. 6/11/16.