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Participant in the Classic Tracks Targa Rally, organised by Llandysul Motor Club.
Car: Proton Compact 1.8 GTi.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: 31st December 1999.
Place of registration: Bristol.
Date of last MOT: 10th December 2022.
Mileage at last MOT: 137,532.
Date of last change of keeper: 11th November 2021.
Number of previous keepers: 8.
Date taken: 28th May 2023.
Yeah, the gun isn't the greatest. The story is the focus here.
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To get past the guards was an easy task. Though there was a part of him that briefly considered using two or three shots to swiftly dispose of the difficulty, his purpose would be better served the less risks he took, and the less evidence left behind the better. The bonus waiting for him if he got in and out unseen helped a lot too.
Cut a wire here, switch a wire there, flip a breaker or two, and a brilliant lightshow across advertisement displays had the two guards gawking like children while while he casually strolled past.
Getting past them wasn't the difficulty in truth, as much as what came next.
In this era only fools kept business closed at night. An age of 24/7 food, love, laughs, and everything else had dawned over most of the civilized and advanced world. The musuem was still open to the public, even if the crowd was virtually nonexistant, the lights dimmed, and janitors were out scrubbing away the battlescars of school field trips. But the museum wasn't his destination, but the facility below.
This is where the guards needed to not be paying attention. The small unimportant door beside the entrance was his goal, and though he could never get passed completely unnoticed, the distraction would keep the guards from seeing which door he went through. He was just another curious pedestrian going for a walk and a browse in the egotistical monument that was named "Tokushima Industrial Historical Museum."
For as long as he had been in the vaguely named "Package Retrieval" business for corporations, there was still a part of him that expected the stereotypical entrance to places like these. The hidden elevator, the multiple massive doors, scanners of all sorts and types, etc.
No, just one scanner, one secure door, all very low key. If need be, the whole facility could be cleansed and emptied, with little left to assemble any sort of judicial case against them for whatever secrets were concealed under the museum.
He had seem similar systems before, difficult to crack without practice, but this was his livlihood and practice he had plenty.
A holo projector aimed just so at just the right time, enter an old backdoor failsafe code into the keypad, and the door clicked unlocked.
It was an unnervingly clean light green and white steril environment. It would take very little imagining to believe he was in an old hospital like those out of old movies from the years when man was still locked in his desperate battle with cancer.
But there were more computers and synthetic driods here than there were flesh and blood humans. More harmful devices than helpful.
He carefully strode down the brightly light halls. Stealth wouldn't avail him much here, and his cloaking device didn't have very long of a charge, it was for emergencies mostly.
So instead he snagged the first white labcoat he passed and did his best to look like he belonged. He adopted a superior manner, found a pair of holo lensed glasses to wear, and a touchpad to complete the look. He avoided other scientists as best he could without making it obvious, doing his best to appear too engrossed in the data on his touchpad to be bothered.
A data link from his own PDA to the touchpad allowed him to use it to steer towards the package.
Ideally he would acquire a third device to triangulate, but he didn't have the time to risk it. For now his PDA and touchpad would have to make due.
It took longer than he expected. He could blame it on the bewildering turns and abstract angles of the facility that without a doubt were designed to steer infiltrators away from the most dangerous and valuable projects towards the pointless rooms set up as covers.
He was Jacob Salem, one of the best in the business, and he was being beaten by mere corridors. Not doors, not guards, not sophisticated AI programs or elaborate cyphers. A freakin' hallway.
As if to make up for it, after a rather uneventful download and extraction of the targeted prototype code, he swiftly found an alternate exit that dumped him right...
...into one of the main museum displays.
A bewildered tourist and the two museum guards who he had been heatedly arguing with about the historical inaccuracies of a nearby holodisplay turned to see the stranger who just popped out of a wax display of workers dress of the factory that would later become Tokushima Industrial.
Jacob was faily certain his cover was very -ripped, smashed, stabbed, shot, and thoroughly good and properly- blown.
*NOTICE: The above text is a work in progress trail run for a planned
literary work. Though subject to change and alteration, it represents
the majority of planned content for the final product. As such, the
ideas, characters, setting, and story written above is reserved as
intellectual property of C. J. King.*
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fact.
Atacama Compact Array (ACA) on the ALMA high site at an altitude of 5000 metres in northern Chile. The ACA is a subset of 16 closely separated antennas that will greatly improve ALMAâs ability to study celestial objects with a large angular size, such as molecular clouds and nearby galaxies. The antennas forming the Atacama Compact Array, four 12-metre antennas and twelve 7-metre antennas, were produced and delivered by Japan.
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Although there aren't any real compact pickups still being sold in America, they were once a huge part of the pickup market, despite the fact that most of them faced a 25% import fee better known as the "chicken tax." in the 1970s, Datsun, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Mazda, and Isuzu all competed for buyers of these small pickups, although not always under their own names.
Seeing the popularity of these vehicles fairly early on and not having anything domestically-produced to compete with them, both Ford and General Motors worked with foreign partners - Mazda and Isuzu, respectively - to source competitors that could be sold as captive imports. Mazda sold trucks under its own name, including the very interesting Rotary Pickup, while Ford sold a variant of their pickup as the Courier. Later, Chrysler would import Mitsubishi pickups as the Plymouth Arrow pickup and Dodge Ram 50.
GM used the Isuzu Faster, a car-based pickup that was essentially the front half of an Isuzu Florian with a pickup bed. This truck debuted in 1972 as the Chevrolet LUV (Light Utility Vehicle), and was quite popular. GM also found a way to price it lower by getting around the "chicken tax" - they imported the trucks with only the cab and chassis installed, and then installed the beds in the United States, resulting in only a 4% import tariff.
The original LUV wasn't a bad truck but the Florian was aging even in 1972, and by 1980 the competition had moved on. So Isuzu redesigned the Faster and it arrived at U.S. Chevrolet dealers in late 1980 in a totally new form. Bang up to date, it was a much better truck, with more flexibility and more rugged underpinnings.
But by the early eighties GM and Ford were both working on small trucks of their own that were just a little bit bigger than the Japanese trucks. These domestically-produced designs would be hugely popular and have long production runs, and the first arrived in the fall of 1981 as the Chevrolet S-10, which debuted as a 1982 model. A year later, the Ford Ranger debuted.
The presence of the S-10 meant that Chevy no longer needed the LUV, and so the model was dropped in 1982. By then, Isuzu had started selling vehicles under it's own label in the United States and the pickup became the Isuzu P'up.
This mk2 LUV is fairly rare, as these trucks were only available for about 18 months. The Isuzu-branded version continued into 1987.
Much later, in 1996, Isuzu would begin selling a variant of the Chevy S-10 (by then in it's second generation, but basically still the same 1982 design under the skin) as the Isuzu Hombre.
The "BIO" added to the diesel badge on this one hints at an obvious and popular (nowadays) conversion. Another period small pickup, a Volkswagen Caddy, can be seen in the background.
©2015 A. Kwanten
This compact car is strongly related to the Dodge Dart and the Chrysler Valiant.
Available with three different engines, this one has the 2790cc 6 cylinder engine.
Overall production Valiant: 1960-1976 over four generations.
This is the 2nd 1962-1966 generation.
In the back we see the body of a Peugeot 403, hopefully waiting to be restored.
Number seen: 1.
Paisa, Val-Sonnette (Jura, Fr.), Route Nationale D1083, Aug. 3, 2016.
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Compact 35mm film camera in the style of the Olympus XA.
You can see the test photos from this camera at flic.kr/s/aHskk9HVuv
This is something a little different I only know of Willoughby and City of Sydney councils utilising for waste management, being chute systems coupled to waste compactors, which feed steel containers. Not really something you see in the modern buildings for waste disposal, but it was a popular idea in at least these two councils when the high rise residential buildings started going up in the 1990s and 2000s. Pretty simple how it works, residents drop their garbage into the chute from whichever level they’re at, rubbish falls into the hopper and eventually a blade packer will cycle multiple times to clear the material and load the bin. When full, the bin is changed over with one of a number of empty ones so the system can continuously operate. Benefits of this system compared to plastic bins are that you’re working with very durable containers having a long lifespan, fewer bins are required due to the greater holding capacity and a much smaller garbage room is needed. What does suck about these compactor bins is when they’re overloaded, sometimes becoming very difficult to move and an even greater pain in the arse to empty out when there’s a big dense brick of heavy rubbish stuck inside. Although when they’re filled up a rational amount and all equipment is utilised responsibly, these are no problem to service. Both of the pictured compactor rooms belong to buildings built in 2000 and 1999, with two different packer systems which do indeed pack well, sometimes bringing the gross weight of these bins to over a tonne. Given the nature of the job, these 1.5m bins are also fabricated with extra ribbed reinforcement to withstand the packing force and mass of the loads.
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Ganga ibérica
(Pterocles alchata)
Las gangas son aves propias de desiertos y estepas de África y Asia, que están representadas en la Península Ibérica, de modo marginal, por dos
especies, las cuales aprovechan medios agrícolas de secano tradicionales. La profunda modificación del campo español es responsable del serio declive que padece la población de la ganga ibérica, hoy reducida a solo 8.000- 11.000 individuos
Descripción y Clasificación
Orden Pteroclidiformes; familia Pteroclidae
Longitud 31-39 cm. Envergadura 55 cm.
Identificación
Ave de hábitos terrestres, compacta, corpulenta y de colores miméticos. El macho exhibe una contrastada cabeza, con cara anaranjada, ojo oscuro rodeado de un anillo azul, y lista ocular y garganta negras (dibujo 1). Tiene el cuello y la nuca de color naranja verdoso, y el pecho rojo castaño, enmarcado por dos bandas negras, de las cuales la inferior delimita el vientre, llamativamente blanco. El dorso presenta ocelos dorados que se pierden en invierno, y en las alas plegadas aparecen espejuelos de color verde metálico y con ribetes oscuros. Posee cola muy apuntada, vermiculada por arriba —lo mismo que el obispillo— y blanca con banda subterminal negra por abajo. El pico y las patas —de dedos cortos— son grises, y la parte anterior del tarso está emplumada en blanco. Se diferencia de la ganga ortega por su menor tamaño, su vientre blanco y su cola con plumas centrales muy largas. La hembra es muy parecida, pero menos vistosa. Sus partes inferiores resultan similares a las del macho, pero tiene la garganta blanca y tres bandas negras en el cuello y el pecho. Por su parte, las zonas superiores están más vermiculadas, y los ocelos del dorso muestran además áreas azules (dibujo 2). Los jóvenes son una versión más pálida y menos contrastada de los adultos de cada sexo. Esta ave exhibe un vuelo poderoso y rápido, que deja ver sus alas apuntadas, blancas y negras por abajo (dibujo 3). De hábitos gregarios, más marcados fuera de la época de cría, suele observarse en grupos, por lo general mayores que en la ganga ortega.
Canto
Su voz, muy distintiva, consiste en un áspero graznido (kataa…, kata… y gaaa…, gaaa…), que puede recordar al reclamo de la grajilla.
A compact alternative to the KP95, the KCP65 also fires the dangerous all new 6.5mm Kenet CQB round. Every KenetCorp executive is issued one, and they would be terrified to go without it.
The A100 is a range of American compact vans and trucks manufactured and marketed from 1964 to 1970 by Chrysler Corporation under the Dodge marque in the United States and the Fargo marque in Canada.
The A100 competed with the Ford Econoline and Chevrolet Van and Chevy Corvair Greenbrier, as well as the Volkswagen Type 2. The range included a pickup truck and van, both with a "forward control" design. Placing the driver on top of the front axle with the engine near the front wheels is called a "cab over" vehicle. The nose was flat, with the engine placed between the driver and passenger, who sat above the front axle. The unibody vehicles used a short, 90 in (2,300 mm) wheelbase. An A108 was also available from 1967 to 1970, with a longer 108 in (2,700 mm) wheelbase. The A108 was popular with camper conversion companies.