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This is what happens when you spend $10,000 on a deck made from TREX. This deck is only two years old and is literally disintegrating, we’ve been in contact with the TREX company and they refuse to honor their, so-called, 20 year unlimited warranty. They insist that we buy new TREX material (and only TREX if we wanted to replace it with redwood they wouldn’t cover it) out of our own pocket, pay for labor out of our own pocket and then apply for reimbursement for the cost of material only they won’t pay for the labor to reinstall the deck.
We are currently part of a class action law suit that has been filed against the TREX company.
I am currently producing a video about my deck and my experiences with TREX and TREX company to be posted on Youtube.
I've had these Sketchers Shape-ups for some years but haven't worn them for some time. So, I decided to wear them now.
One batch of photos is after I walked a mile in them to the Chinese take-out. The second batch is after I walked back home. (On Flickr, if you select to see them with most recent photos first, you'll see the batch after I got home first).
The foam mid-soles are rotting away. Pieces crumbling and falling off. They are still wearable, but I won't wear them in the house, I keep find bits of foam rubber all over the carpet.
It will be interesting to see how they feel as they continue to disintegrate. They have always felt different as they have a negative heel lift.
An old disintegrating
tarpaulin sack buried in the sand. This bag would eventually degrade into smaller microplastics which may be consumed by other critters and enter our food web. In this case, one can also see the distinct split hooves of wild boar foraging around for food amidst the trash. Which is yet another reminder that we live in a connected ecosystem.
Robin's tire disintegrated during the ride and was patched three times using Cliff Bar wrappers.
The Seven Summits rolls 30kms and climbs 1000m through forests, alpine meadows, mountain ridges and grasslands. The Seven Summits is an IMBA Epic: www.imba.com/epics/seven_summits.html
Rossland, BC. July 2009.
I've had these Sketchers Shape-ups for some years but haven't worn them for some time. So, I decided to wear them now.
One batch of photos is after I walked a mile in them to the Chinese take-out. The second batch is after I walked back home. (On Flickr, if you select to see them with most recent photos first, you'll see the batch after I got home first).
The foam mid-soles are rotting away. Pieces crumbling and falling off. They are still wearable, but I won't wear them in the house, I keep find bits of foam rubber all over the carpet.
It will be interesting to see how they feel as they continue to disintegrate. They have always felt different as they have a negative heel lift.
I've had these Sketchers Shape-ups for some years but haven't worn them for some time. So, I decided to wear them now.
One batch of photos is after I walked a mile in them to the Chinese take-out. The second batch is after I walked back home. (On Flickr, if you select to see them with most recent photos first, you'll see the batch after I got home first).
The foam mid-soles are rotting away. Pieces crumbling and falling off. They are still wearable, but I won't wear them in the house, I keep find bits of foam rubber all over the carpet.
It will be interesting to see how they feel as they continue to disintegrate. They have always felt different as they have a negative heel lift.
17/05/2012
This afternoon I was in town for a whole pile of appointments, and when I had some spare time, I wandered out on to the waterfront since it was a stunning day.
With my fisheye lens in hand, this caught my eye.
SOOC
"I think it's dark and it looks like rain"
You said
"And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world"
You said
"And it's so cold
It's like the cold if you were dead"
And then you smiled
For a second
"I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain"
You said
Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
"It's just the way I smile"
You said
(Plain Song-The Cure)
Disintegrated flower heads in Isabella Plantation (Richmond Park).
Lens: Helios 44-2 58mm at (approx) F4
Now that i know that i'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and i'll feed it to anyone
Crying for sympathy
from The Cure
This disintegrating wreck has been located on the shore of Bembridge Harbour, The Duver for decades; and I imagine will be a permanent fixture forever.
This is what happens when you spend $10,000 on a deck made from TREX. This deck is only two years old and is literally disintegrating, we’ve been in contact with the TREX company and they refuse to honor their, so-called, 20 year unlimited warranty. They insist that we buy new TREX material (and only TREX if we wanted to replace it with redwood they wouldn’t cover it) out of our own pocket, pay for labor out of our own pocket and then apply for reimbursement for the cost of material only they won’t pay for the labor to reinstall the deck.
We are currently part of a class action law suit that has been filed against the TREX company.
I am currently producing a video about my deck and my experiences with TREX and TREX company to be posted on Youtube.
This was in an old disintegrating album I found with my grandmother's collection of photos, but I have no way of knowing whether these are family or acquaintances or what. If these are part of my grandmother's family, then they are probably from Michigan or Pennsylvania, my grandmother's roots. However, she spent years researching her family; to my knowledge, she identified and labeled all of her family photos. So what are these???
Crinoid stem in the Mississippian of Kentucky, USA.
The Fort Payne Formation of southern Kentucky & Tennessee is a shale and limestone succession of Early Mississippian age. Fossils are common to abundant in many intervals. The unit is dominated by crinoids, which are sessile, benthic, filter-feeding, stalked echinoderms. Crinoids are relatively common in the marine fossil record. They are also alive today, but are generally uncommon in modern oceans. A crinoid is essentially a starfish-on-a-stick. The stick, or stem, is composed of numerous stacked columnals, like small poker chips. Stems and individual columnals are the most commonly encountered crinoid fossils in the field. Intact, fossilized crinoid heads (crowns, calices, cups) are unusual. Why? Upon death, the crinoid body starts disintegrating very rapidly. The soft tissues holding the skeletal pieces together decay and the skeleton falls apart.
The crinoid stem shown here has been partially geodized. The originally-columnal shape has been modified and expanded, accompanied by quartz-filled fractures covering the surface. Such "exploded" crinoid geodes are relatively common in the Fort Payne Formation.
Classification: Animalia, Echinodermata, Crinoidea
Stratigraphy: Fort Payne Formation, Osagean Stage/Series, upper Lower Mississippian
Locality: Burkesville North Outcrop - Route 61 roadcut at milepost 23, way north of Burkesville, Kentucky, USA. (36° 54’ 08.08” North latitude, 85° 25’ 56.19” West longitude)
"The Space Probe Disintegration" -- Sheldon (Jim Parsons, left) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki, right) go dress shopping with Penny and Amy, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Jan. 8 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS é2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Thin strip of beach between the cliff face and water of Lake Ontario at Chimney Bluffs. The bluffs are a drumlin that's being eroded by the lake. The drumlin is made up of an aggregate of clay, sand, pebbles, cobbles, boulders, etc.
I've struggled with this photo since it was taken, trying to create a good final image. The light was striking that evening with a clear sky. I liked the relief of the water eroded sand created by the low angle of the sun. This is Lake Ontario's high water mark where it is undermining the drumlin. I'm drawn to this delineation at Chimney Bluffs where the aggregate that makes up the hill is being sorted by size from sand particles to boulders.
I got down low with a wide angle lens to include detail in the sand and the distant monument at the west end of the bluffs.
The final image was changed very little from what was captured. I increased the contrast of the sand slightly to emphasize the water patterns. I warmed up the image overall to match my perception of the late evening light hitting the reddish earth.
I've had these Sketchers Shape-ups for some years but haven't worn them for some time. So, I decided to wear them now.
One batch of photos is after I walked a mile in them to the Chinese take-out. The second batch is after I walked back home. (On Flickr, if you select to see them with most recent photos first, you'll see the batch after I got home first).
The foam mid-soles are rotting away. Pieces crumbling and falling off. They are still wearable, but I won't wear them in the house, I keep find bits of foam rubber all over the carpet.
It will be interesting to see how they feel as they continue to disintegrate. They have always felt different as they have a negative heel lift.
2023 WIP Exhibition, "Disintegrate/Recreate", showcasing artworks created and curated by teen artists who participated in the 2022-2023 Work In Progress program at the Holland Project.
Flatholm geology. Anticline and wrinkle folds in West. Flatholm geology 1971. Fossils, Mendip/Barry affinites
This little leaf is disintegrating! It's caused by some sort of fungus if I remember correctly, but it looks so pretty!
DATE TAKEN:
June, 27th, 2007
LOCATION:
George Lake Campground, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(17th October 2011) - The mini drama of the disintegrating bag was finally finished today as I went to Diesel and bought myself a lovely new leather bag.
Walking back to the bus stop, I took the miniest of mini detours and walked around St. Ann's Square for a bit, looking for some photo inspiration. And I found it!
This memorial is dedicated to the Manchester Regiment who fought in the South African War. The inscription around the side of the memorial reads: "To the memory of the following officers non-commisd officers and men who fell in the war in South Africa 1899-1902 gallantly serving their sovereign & country." (Info taken from: www.nmbs2001.com/id25.html)
And that's something else I've found myself doing when I've got a camera in my hand - actually looking up and seeing what's around me. I've walked through St. Ann's Square hundreds of times but never really bothered to pay attention to this memorial (or anything else around there). I'm hoping to discover more of Manchester this way.
2023 WIP Exhibition, "Disintegrate/Recreate", showcasing artworks created and curated by teen artists who participated in the 2022-2023 Work In Progress program at the Holland Project.
All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
National Atomic Testing Museum
Operation Morning Light recovered the debris from the disintegration of a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite. The Las Vegas-based Nuclear Emergency Search Team played a major role in the joint Canada/United States search and recovery effort. The team used sophisticated aerial remote sensing and radiation detection systems to search for debris scattered within 15,000 square miles of tundra. The team spent three months on the ground in this frozen and snow-covered land recovering small pieces and flakes of radioactive debris. Temperatures of -40°F and wind chill factors of -100°F were not uncommon.
A Soviet nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite was launched September 18, 1977. The Cosmos 954 was in a 150-mile high orbit conducting ocean surveillance from the Arctic to the Antarctic. In January 1978, the satellite fell to earth and scattered radioactive debris across the Northwest Territories near Yellowknife, northern Canada. The clean-up operation was a coordinated effort between the United States and Canada. Known as Operation Morning Light." the clean-up continued into October 1978.
As the Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 fell to Earth in northern Canada in 1978, Lab scientists joined a multinational team spending hours in the back of a Hercules aircraft to track the satellite's reentry path and locate radioactive debris.
Artifact Legend
1. "Operation Morning Light," Sentinel Magazine, 1978/2 Operation Morning Light was the code name used for the joint Canada and United States operation to locate and clean up radioactive debris associated with the re-entry and self-destruction of the Soviet nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite in northern Canada in January 1978.
Donated by General Mahlon Gates, San Antonio, TX
2. "Operation Morning Light" photo albums
Donated by General Mahlon Gates, San Antonio, TX
3. "Operation Morning Light-Canadian Northwest Territories, 1978" DOE/NV-198 Report, September 1978 DOE/NV-198 Report, September 1978
Donated by General Mahlon Gates, San Antonio, TX
4. Deployment Data Communications System suitcase exercises used in emergency response
Donated by Roger Thompson, Las Vegas, NV