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Lumi and Milk are planning a really criminal gangster plan...
"Ok dude, you deflect mummy and I grab the muffin."
Body armor or Body armour, or personal armor/armour is protective clothing, designed to absorb and/or deflect slashing, bludgeoning and penetrating attacks by weapons. It was historically used to protect military personnel, whereas today, it is also used to protect various types of police (riot police in particular), private citizens, private security guards[1] or bodyguards. Today there are two main types: regular non-plated personal armor (used by the people mentioned above, except combat soldiers) and hard-plate reinforced personal armor, which is used by combat soldiers, police tactical units and hostage rescue teams.
This was the mixed train from Yuanbaoshan to the Fengshuigou mine. Out of sight are a few coaches tacked on the back for the workers. It is running on to the long bridge, the main photographic feature of the line, which for the most part, ran through stunted scrubby woodland.
Yuanbaoshan Mine Railway, Nei Mongol, China.
January 2011 © David Hill
6231 Duchess of Atholl passing Tring Summit on the down "Mid Day Scot" in early summer 1938, only a few weeks after entering traffic in June 1938. It was in the first batch of five built non-streamlined and eventually fourteen were built in non-streamlined condition. A double chimney was fitted in 1940 and smoke deflectors fitted in 1946. It was one of the first Duchesses to be withdrawn, in December 1962. A colourised b/w print taken by C. R. L. Coles.
The final three vehicles in what must’ve originally been a line of 10+, sees SN17 MVV, SIL 9540 and SIL 6436 occupying the Savoy Cinema stops on Derby Road. It does seem strange that the MMC was this far down the order seeing as it is probably their most suitable vehicle for the job.
Unusually the MMC is sporting the offside tree deflector only, but was new with them on both sides so has lost the nearside one at some point since 2021.
Derby Road, Nottingham
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The days for this once immaculately kept 'Britannia' Pacific, principally for the 'Golden Arrow' Pullman services between London Victoria and Dover for the first 7 years of her life, were almost over when 70014 'Iron Duke' was photographed in the filthy environs of Crewe South MPD (5B) in May 1966. Apart from red buffer beams and rust, and the workman's jacket and overalls, the scene is virtually colourless. The bolts for the brackets on 70014's smoke deflector upon which the 'Golden Arrow' insignia was attached are still in place, but she has been shorn of nameplates and smokebox number plate., with just a 5B shed-code plate in-situ. After transfer to Carlisle Kingmoor depot later that year, in the August, she was paired with a BR1D tender for her last sixteen months of service and was withdrawn in December 1967, and cut up at T. W. Ward's Inverkeithing scrapyard in March 1968.
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Cloudscape over the Philippine Sea
image, description & text by NASA
Flying over the Philippine Sea, an astronaut looked toward the horizon from the International Space Station and shot this photograph of three-dimensional clouds, the thin blue envelope of the atmosphere, and the blackness of space. The late afternoon sunlight brightens a broad swath of the sea surface on the right side of the image. In the distance, a wide layer of clouds mostly obscures the northern Philippine islands (top right).
Looking toward the Sun to capture an image is a special technique used by astronauts to accentuate the three dimensions of landscapes and cloudscapes through the use of shadows. Two large thunderclouds rise next to one another (lower right). These clouds have long tails, also known as anvils, that stretch nearly 100 kilometers to the south. Anvils form when thunderstorm clouds rise high into the atmosphere and reach a “capping layer” thousands of meters (tens of thousands of feet) above sea level. Capping layers stop the upward growth of a cloud, deflecting air currents horizontally to form anvils.
Astronaut photograph ISS048-E-10018 was acquired on June 25, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 116 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility.
Thanks to NASA
Yellow Helen Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar (Papilio nephelus, Papilionidae)
Many animals have conspicuous eye-like spots on their body. In most animals these ‘eyespots’ are thought to intimidate predators from attacking or deflect the predator strikes away from vulnerable body parts. That ‘eyespots’ could help prey by resembling the eyes of a predator’s own enemies is thought to be particularly true for butterfly and moth caterpillars. Eyespot caterpillars are often cited to be snake mimics that startle attacking birds which mistake them for dangerous snakes. Despite widespread acceptance, this phenomena is surprisingly understudied.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
see comments for additional view of this caterpillar and other images of Papilionid caterpillars exhibiting snake-mimicking eyespots…..
Built in the old Russian Noachis Terra shipyards on Mars and named after the founding father of astronautics, Циолковский (Tsiolkovsky), this starship accommodates the curious and adventurous on their mission of exploration and discovery. Equipped with seven magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters (MPDTs) and three deployable research stations for missions in almost any environment. Demilitarized under the Lelande treaty of 2437, this starship may lack armament but still sports an armoured head capable of deflecting oncoming comets and small asteroids.
Built for Shiptember 2020
This was a rather difficult location to access, the halfway point between Bloemfontein and Bethlehem at the top of the climb to Kilmarnock. It's 150kms from Bloem and the first really serious climb for eastbound trains.
The Red Devil no 3450 leading 25NC no 3410. Interesting to compare them, the modified class 26 was originally class 25NC no 3450. The raised running board, extended smoke box and deflectors makes the 26 appear larger.
14 June 1999, Free State, South Africa
I looked through my slides taken 30 years ago this week on the Cape Mountaineer tour in South Africa and decided to scan this picture obtained during an outstanding session at Kraankuil. Just after dawn we witnessed a number of freight workings at speed along the Kimberley - De Aar main line. This one featured a modified class 25NC No 3454 with a dual Lempor exhaust system, the chimneys being arranged side by side rather than in line. The loco also had modified smoke deflectors with a curve at the top clearly seen in this picture. This is the last time that I saw steam hauled freight trains at express speeds. 26th July 1990.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on 19 December 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. Hubble’s sensitivity reveals a few dozen boulders knocked off the asteroid by the force of the collision. These are among the faintest objects Hubble has ever photographed inside the Solar System. The ejected boulders range in size from 1 m to 6.7 m across, based on Hubble photometry. They are drifting away from the asteroid at around 1 km per hour. The discovery yields invaluable insights into the behaviour of a small asteroid when it is hit by a projectile for the purpose of altering its trajectory.
[Image Description: The bright white object at lower left is the asteroid Dimorphos. It has a blue dust tail extending diagonally to the upper right. A cluster of blue dots surrounds the asteroid. These are boulders that were knocked off the asteroid when, on 26 September 2022, NASA deliberately slammed the half-tonne DART impactor spacecraft into the asteroid as a test of what it would take to deflect some future asteroid from hitting Earth. Hubble photographed the slow-moving boulders in December 2022.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA); CC BY 4.0
The Zenith was designed to escort diplomatic missions.
It's sizes are 800 meters long, 240 meters wide and 290 meter height. (1 stud = 5 meters)
Four main engines and three thrusters allow the Zenith to achieve high speeds comparing to ships of the same size, both in sub-luminar and superluminar speed.
It has strong deflector shield, that could also protect any docked ship.
The armament is composed of 3 twin-mounted turbolasers, 20 double laser turrets, ion cannon, concussion missiles and proton torpedos.
The wing-like mechanism designed by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum opens and closes to help deflect sunlight and heat.
"Com-scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment."
―General Maximilian Veers
The DSS-02 shield generator was a military-grade deflector shield generator manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards. Due to its high cost, it was mainly used by the Galactic Empire, though the Alliance to Restore the Republic managed to obtain one to protect its headquarters on the gelid planet Hoth.
The DSS-02 shield generator could project an 80 kilometer-wide impenetrable deflector shield around itself, which was enough to cover the entirety of Echo Base.
KUAN YIN TEMPLE *歡迎到觀音寺
CHINATOWN, OAHU
Proceed reverently to the brilliant orange Kuan Yin Temple in Chinatown. Its beautiful jade green tile roof is turned up at the edges to deflect evil spirits. Leave your shoes at the entry. Absorb the tranquility and the soothing scent of incense. Light a joss stick and add to the atmosphere.
*歡迎到觀音寺
Gaze at the gilded eyes of the ten-foot statue of Kuan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, who presides over the prayer hall. If you’re so inclined, bring along a pomelo, a large grapefruit-like fruit, as an offering. It’s the traditional way of petitioning for the blessing of children.
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Deflector-less 'QJ' class 2-10-2 No.2035 (built Datong works in 1974) departing with coal empties from Tianzhuang yard at Pingdingshan on 30 December 2002. Although it looks like not too long after sunrise, this transparency was taken around mid-morning on a windless and particularly polluted day, but the cyclist was still skilfully negotiating an extremely icy pathway - I know because I slipped over on it! 'JS' 2-8-2 No.5644 (built Dalian works in 1959) waits in the yard to follow the 'QJ' with empties for another outlying mine on the Pingdingshan system. Pingdingshan (literally flat top mountain) city was founded in 1957 on valuable coal reserves. By 2010 the city centre itself, in the Henan Province, had over 1.75 million inhabitants.
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Not an easy task wrestlng this unwieldy behemoth.
The TIE/SF space superiority fighter was a starfighter used by the First Order, a specialized version of the TIE/fo space superiority fighter. It was a two-seater unlike the previous TIE models, and was outfitted with enhanced weapons and sensor systems as well as hyperdrives and deflector shields.
The TIE/sf was reserved for members of the First Order's elite Special Forces. On the lower side of the vehicle, directly below the primary fuel tank, was a turret containing a pair of laser cannons and a mag-pulse warhead launcher.
As a member of the Special Forces, the Elite TIE pilot wears a helmet with red stripes
Built by Henschel in 1939, the progenitor of the DRB Class '50' 2-10-0, 050 001-4 at Aw. Braunschweig in the snow on 19th March 1976. Precariously standing at the end of a line of locos destined for scrap, it had a sign affixed to its boiler proclaiming its museum status. It was taken out of service at Bw. Gremberg on 5th December 1974. It was moved via the GDR to West Berlin's Spandau Goods Depot from Braunschweig on 8th May 1976, and since 1987 it has been on display, with the original -style larger Wagner smoke deflectors, in the German Technical Museum in Berlin, located in the original loco shed that served the former Berlin-Anhalter station.
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LMS heritage steam locomotive No. 46115 ‘Scots Guardsman’ thunders through Oxenholme Lake District Station in Cumbria on a London Euston - Carlisle charter on 22nd April 2017.
6115 was built in 1927 by the North British Locomotive Company in Springburn, Glasgow. It was named Scots Guardsman in 1928 after the Scots Guards. After receiving smoke deflectors, it starred in the 1936 film Night Mail.
In 1947, 6115 was rebuilt with a new tapered type 2A boiler, and was painted in LMS 1946-style black livery. It was the first of the rebuilt engines to receive smoke deflectors and the only one to run with them as an LMS engine. It was renumbered 46115 by British Railways in 1948 and was withdrawn in January 1966.
Maunsell designed 'Schools' 4-4-0 no.926 'Repton' heads through Thomason Foss with a goods train. The 'Schools' smoke deflectors had recently been removed.
The picture was taken from the location known as "Suicide Ledge".
LNER/BR Peppercorn A1 pacific 60122 ''Curlew'' at Doncaster loco works in September 1961, with a Thompson B1 behind, and the chassis of Gresley A3 60059 ''Tracery'' on the left, and a Kylechap blastpipe and chimney among the parts in the foreground.
The two pacifics were undergoing a 'general overhaul', and 60059 will have German-style smoke deflectors fitted.
They were both withdrawn in December 1962, and scrapped soon afterwards. One A3 survived, together with a 'new-build' A1.
Some parts of Doncaster works are still in use today (2021), but the loco construction buildings were closed in 2007, and that part of the site is now occupied by housing and commercial premises..
Restored from an unfocussed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
With Nikon DSLR and AF-S 18-35mm f3.5-4.5 G.
The recent Nikon double recall on their newly released Z8 really showed the ugly side of Nikon fanboyism as they came out in full force to deflect and distort facts. No other camera brand users even come close with such ridiculous cultish behavior.
Some Z8 buyers in many cases had to send in their cameras twice, 1st for the lens mount fault and then after getting their cameras back had to send it in again for the straps lug problem. Nikon has had their fair share of faulty products over the years but the most egregious case was for the shutter mechanism leaking oil onto the sensor in their budget model D600. Nikon kept totally mum until a class action lawsuit was successfully filed where the affected buyers got a new D610 as replacement.
1) Nikon shills in typical fashion tried to downplay the matter claiming that both problems affect only very few units until people tried keying in a range of serial numbers on Nikon’s Z8 recall webpage revealing that practically all units sold were impacted.
2) Nikon shills bent over backwards with their mental gymnastics claiming that their cameras though involved in the recall are all working just fine and that Nikon issued the recall nonetheless as an abundance of caution. The fact that there’s no problem now does not mean the problems already acknowledged by Nikon won’t develop later and the serial numbers involved in the recall have a very wide range hence it’s not a limited batch problem. Future buyers of used Z8 will do well to check if the camera was in fact affected and if so, already sent in for the fix.
3) Nikon brand apologists tried to deflect the reputational damage by claiming that other camera brands also made faulty cameras or that cars have had more recalls than cameras. Fact is, the recall is on a $4,000 premium camera and not a budget model that was released merely a month before and not one, but 2 faults involving rather low tech basic parts were revealed resulting in many buyers having to send in their cameras twice for servicing. Can’t help but wonder what other faults remain undiscovered for the Z8.
4) Nikon shills claimed that they are not affected by the strap lugs failure because they don’t use them nevermind the fact that there are many others who do. Worse still they even claimed that it’s the other brands’ fanbois that are breaking the Z8 on purpose just to discredit Nikon! IMO this strap lugs fault is the bigger of the 2 problems as this points to a potential design flaw, what exactly did Nikon change in the design of this basic part in the Z8? A straps lug failure can result in both your camera and mounted lens dropping thus sending both smashing on impact with the ground.
5) In typical Nikon shills extreme brand apologism, they blame users for the strap lugs fault, just as they pushed the blame for peeling grips in the Z6 and Z7 to users’ uncut fingernails.
6) Amazingly these Nikon fanbois shills even attacked Nikon fanbois rumor site for posting about these Z8 faults, such is the ugliness of Nikon brand apologism. All said, one has to give credit where credit is due, the owner of the Nikon rumors site did well to warn users of the Z8 faults early on and stood up to the onslaught of extreme Nikon fanbois apologism from the worst Nikon shills.
I was very positive on the Z8 but it would appear that Nikon might have cut corners to arrive at its attractive price. The straps lug problem is likely a design flaw. It’s best to hold off buying this camera for a while in case there are other issues yet to be discovered and until it’s clear what kind of fix has been applied to the strap lugs problem. At any rate, I’ve said many times in the past that it’s best to buy a newly launched camera 6 months after its original release for any potential problems to reveal themselves.
This Z8 double recall episode is certainly disappointing, just as Nikon appeared to have made a major step forward with the Z8, they took 2 steps backwards.
The days of steam are numbered at Shuangyashan, as the New Year dawns This is just after 08:00 on 1st January 2002 and the temperature was recorded as minus 26c. It was literally just weeks before these 'QJ' 2-10-2s were to be taken out of service and their external condition is testament to the lack of external care being given to them. This is an interesting comparison between a 'QJ' with deflectors, lights and front embellishments, and one without. No.6917, built at Datong works in 1985, had previously served in the Harbin Bureau of China Rail, working at Nancha, Suihua and Boli up until around 1997, before arriving on the Shuangyashan Mining Railway. The previous history of No.3135, built at Datong works in 1980, is uncertain, first being noted in November 1999 at Shuangyashan, but it was to see no further use in traffic, just heating duties at the railway's Changan works, before steam was finally eradicated from the spring of 2002. The sister loco just visible behind the shed office is No.6806, which moved off-shed just after this. QJ 3135 left the shed at 10:35, returning to Changan works for further heating duties.
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Problem is the lighthouse is on private land of the High Liner fish plant there. I had tried to get permission before but was denied. So this time I hiked through swamps and very heavy bush to get this shot, waiting to get caught by security. At one point a deer was only 2 meters (10 ft) a way looking me in the face, it and three others ran off, it scared the crap out of me. They were gone so fast I could not get a picture.
The bird like things on the top of the lighthouse, I am not positive what they are but could be radar deflectors.
There has been a lighthouse in this location since 1864.
Location: Outer end of breakwater, east side of Lunenburg
Operating: This light is operational
Began and Lit: 1951
Structure Type: Tapered square wood tower, white
Light Characteristic: Fixed Red (1992)
Light Height: 7.6m (25ft) feet above water level
I have never got a good picture of this lighthouse before to put in my lighthouse book, it will be put in for the next printing.
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I present to you my take on one of the lesser known imperial vehicles, the 1-L Repulsortank, the cheapest repulsortank in the empires arsenal. This tank implemented sloped armour to deflect heavy enemy blaster fire and a Mark 3/S Medium Blaster Canon that would shred rebel infantry and if deployed in squads could easily punch through enemy AFVs.
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The lack of an exhaust deflector on the power car dates this to quite early in HST history as the departure for Bristol passes Ranelagh Bridge SP.
Sea defence wall with a curved face to deflect and reduce the kinetic energy contained in the waves.
Another visit to Eccles on sea on a damp and overcast cold day, this time with the Panasonic G80 and Olympus 25mm f/1.8 (50mm FF equivalent field of view) lens.
At an undisclosed location, Corlander troops have erected a Martello Tower to defend against potential rival powers and hostile natives.
The powerful tower houses 8 cannon on the artillery level and a half company of infantry can man the upper battlements. The rounded shape of the tower is designed to deflect cannon shot.
A freebuild for Brethren of the Brick Seas.
For the Flickr Friday Group. This weeks theme, "Magnetic".
Made me think of those lines from that 'old movie'.
"We're passing through their magnetic field, hold tight. Switch your deflectors on, double front."
For me, definitely an element of Transformers to this building. I was particularly intrigued by this structure at the top and learned that it is a stainless steel reflector which deflects sunlight downwards to filter light throughout the building.
ASB North Wharf is an award-winning, seven-level office building which was developed by Kiwi Property for ASB Bank, completed in 2013. The waterfront location and striking architecture have made it a landmark on the cityscape.
From ASB North Wharf main page....
'Every aspect of the 5 Green Star-rated building is designed to reduce energy consumption and enhance the wellbeing of its occupants. Natural ventilation is provided via a vast funnel-shaped cavity which draws warm air up and outwards through automated louvres. The louvres open and close in response to wind direction and temperature to maintain a stable internal temperature. Cleverly designed sun shades on the windows decrease the amount of direct sunlight pouring in to the building making it hot. These features combined reduce ASB’s energy use by 50%'.
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Maunsell S15 No.847 minus its smoke deflectors (for some film work?) rounds recently cleared Freshfield curve with the (delayed) 4pm from Sheffield Park this afternoon.
If Jemaa el Fna remains the place par excellence of entertainment, it is of much more mercantile forms under the pressure of modernization and a constant tourist growth. Is that, wanting to preserve the oral heritage of the place, Unesco awkwardly stepping up its tourist attraction. The actors are being deflected from their own purpose or may not practice their activity according to tradition. Double-edged consecration
Taken @Djemaa el Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco, North Africa
Two of Electro-Motive's finest begin their overnight rest until the morning commuters to Hoboken. They were hauling Stillwell coaches from the 1920s-1930s at this time.
Beautiful fresh paint on the 830! And notice the bug deflectors above the headlights on both units.
Ektachrome X.
Can that be an EL Geep still in black paint over on the far left? Photo coming soon!
Large photo! Left-click on the image to zoom and pan.
We were just returning from a political mission when the master and I felt a disturbance in the force. At the same moment our soldiers raised their weapons and pointed them at us. My Master immediately activated his lightsaber and began deflecting the shots coming our way. He told me to run and so I did, I felt that this was probably the last moment in which I would see him. The clones turned from friends into our enemies in seconds, I didn't know what was happening, I was scared. After a while I met one of our soldiers on my way, who in a split second without thinking pointed at me and started shooting. I quickly drew my lightsaber and deflected several of his shots, this was the first time I had to defend myself from someone I was fighting side by side. I stepped closer to him and struck the fatal blow. Then I heard the words:
- There he is!!!
- Kill him now!!!
The words came from behind me, I turned around and saw a small squad of 5 men who wanted nothing more than to kill me.
Just like my master told me to do, I started running as fast as I could without looking back.
All I wanted at that moment was to get to the escape pod alive.
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On the morning of 1st January 2002, deflector-less 'QJ' Class 2-10-2 No.3135 came onto the servicing point alongside the China Rail main station and freight yard for disposal and subsequent attention. It had been seen up until the previous day in a stationary heating role alongside the Changan workshops, where a loco in dubious mechanical condition appeared to be retained during the cold winter months. The work-worn and rusty machine is having its ash pan cleared out by two shed labourers at the north end of the yard, prior to it moving onto the main servicing point, the young fireman walking ahead to seek authority for the Datong works 1980-built loco to move forward.
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In extreme sub-zero conditions, high deflector-fitted 'JS' 2-8-2 No.8040 moves off shed at Songshuzen at 7.35am on 11th January 2001. It would be turned on the shed turntable, an unusual feature for China Rail depots, before taking the morning freight service to Baihe, along with sister loco 8208. The limited space here, with a steep-sided hill alongside the depot and railway, prevented the installation of a triangle, usually preferred by China Rail for turning locos. Built at Datong works in 1987, the 'JS' was merely 14 years old when photographed here. Withdrawn from China Rail service within a year of this, it remarkably found further service in idustry, at the Sandaoling opencast mine in the north west of China, losing its deflectors in the process.
A scanned medium format Fuji Provia medium format transparency
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