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Burnaby, BC
The calm in Montrose Park has been shattered by a massive water infrastructure project for Metro Vancouver that includes a huge tunnel and pipeline under Burrard Inlet. It has been going on for years.
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals or man-made toxins which, when absorbed, have been shown to mimic the action of hormones. They can turn on, turn off, or change normal signals. They can alter normal hormone levels, trigger excessive action, or completely block a natural response. Any other bodily function controlled by hormones can also be affected.
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"A Mandalorian's armour
is his soul.
A Mandalorian's rifle
is his will made manifest.
This is the way."
During the Reign of the Empire, the Mandalorians mostly kept out of sight, with individuals working as assassins, mercenaries and bounty hunters. These individuals would earn money and ressources for the other Mandalorians.
Almost to a man, each Mandalorian assassin, mercenary, and bounty hunter wielded a disruptor rifle (except those opting for heavier weaponry). In the hand of a skilled marksman - which included almost all Mandalorians - these weapons were terrible instruments of war and assassination.
Each one was unique. Each one was capable of disintigrating all organic material.
Due to their horrific effect on living beings, disruptors were banned on countless worlds. Even the Empire - arguably a government with a considerable lack of ethics - (mostly) banned their use.
But this did not deter the Mandalorians. They provided for the Tribe. They did not care for such regulations, only that the Tribe be provided with everything it needed - and that necessitated the use of the best tools for the job. And the Disruptor Rifle was just one such tool.
Credit to Arch for the prong-y bits.
Done in PMG 0.6.
Nikon F90x
Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm 1:1.4 D
Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100x-36 RDP expired
Qpix.se
Epson V850 Pro
A13170_026
I like to stand at the very front of the sky train and capture the tracks in motion. I just like that kind of thing :)
An activist in Lincoln's Inn Fields about an hour before the start of the "Kill the Bill" march in London.
Thousands rallied in London as well as other UK cities to demonstrate against a law being passed by Britain's parliament that would effectively outlaw many protests, increase penalties for certain types of demonstration such as blocking roads and give the police far greater powers to stop, search and arrest.
If the measures contained in the government's Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts (PCSC) Bill had been in place over the last hundred years they may have prevented the suffragette protests of the 1920s, the marches and rallies for greater welfare support in the 1930s, the black civil rights and anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s, the early gay pride gatherings in the 1970s, the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s, the occupation of key locations by the Occupy movement and the more recent climate strikes.
The PCSC bill will give the police new powers to ban demonstrations deemed likely to be too noisy or a nuisance to a neighbourhood, to stop and search people without having to prove reasonable suspicion, new powers against 'unauthorised encampments' which travellers fear may be used against their communities and it would also make it illegal for protesters to lock themselves on to objects. The lock on strategy having been used successfully by activists defending the environment and protesting Britain's arms trade.
The bill proposes to increase the maximum prison sentence for someone who destroys a memorial or statue from 3 months to 10 years and It would also mean sentences of up to 10 years for a new crime of causing "serious annoyance." The cumulative impact of the draconian new powers, if enacted, could mean that most meaningful forms of effective protest would be outlawed.
There were many activists at the London rally from communities fearing they could be disproportionately targeted as a result including those supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Mural by Lauren Asta aka @lauren_asta seen in the Fulton Market area of Chicago, Illinois.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals or man-made toxins which, when absorbed, have been shown to mimic the action of hormones. They can turn on, turn off, or change normal signals. They can alter normal hormone levels, trigger excessive action, or completely block a natural response. Any other bodily function controlled by hormones can also be affected.
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So I accidentally forgot to post these shots of the main engine build from last week, and posted the finished pictures first. (This order mistake will be addressed in the album).
I've been working on the main engines on and off for the last week. and had to make a few changes. First was made to accommodate the wiring. I added a 1x1 brick axil hole for the wires to go into the ship.Then I noticed that the wires from the engines couldn't quite reach the board plugs once the wall was made. To fix that I swapped the 4 port board for a 10 port board which was wider. It's overkill but it works. That mod was made top and bottom.
The next modification made to the ship was an internal structural issue fix for each of the main engines. Before they were only connected via one 2x2 snot brick, and loosely connected on the outside which left them very loose. I then noticed on digital that the engine parts adjacent to the external connection also aligned so the internal parts were swapped from 2x10 plates to 2x12 plates and then covered, which greatly improved the engines sturdiness.
Finally on the outboard engines (not shown here as I forgot to take a picture of it) was another internal fix my brother came up with to get around a problem of parts not fitting around the central pillar that sits in-between the two engines on each side. The digital fix I had recorded didn't work, so he invented a new one for me. Fortunately I had bought enough extra parts to make this work.
Following this was the lighting test previously posted (WIP #100) followed by a quality check, which revealed missing parts which were overlooked and have since been ordered.
pted Strata. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The fractured and bent layers of a fractured boulder in a Utah slot canyon.
This jumble of rocks sits in a Southern Utah canyon, piled on debris and the lower face of a cliff that runs along the banks of a small creek. The bottoms of such canyons are, for obvious reasons, places full of all sorts of debris that either falls from the surrounding cliffs or is washed down the canyon in periodic floods. A good part of the challenge of making progress through such terrain involves contending with this detritus.
As is so often the case in these landscapes, the initial appearance of features may mislead the viewer about their history. Rocks, of course, seem quite solid and immutable. But this little vignette of almost nothing but rock actually shows more about how much it changes than about its stability. This rock was formed in layers laid down by water a long, long time ago. Those layers were compressed, folded, upended and broken over time. Here we see a snapshot of that process. Lying atop a smoother section of the cliff, this deteriorating boulder’s layers are made apparent as they break apart and realign.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon
strobist: 580exii to the left and slightly behind subject at either 1/8th or 1/16th power fired via poverty wizards...
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cross between a twister & vortex sucking in everything in it's way.....
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Based on 1970s British Public Information Films, the project explores the disruptive side of technology. The focus began analysing how devices interrupt our concentration when reading. However, through experiments and research, the project’s trajectory shifted to disruptions in urban environments. The city ambient sounds were recorded were while traveling from Tokyo to London. The soundscape depicts the daily bombardment of white noise which urban dwellers endure daily in the form of notifications, sirens, self-service machines and automated voices at train stations and airports. Visceral voices that breathe invisibly within the city. The animated visuals interprets the narrative in a winding a series of chaotic and fragmented forms.
I've never before seen a Clapham Park turn on 50, but I believe it's between the odd and rare scale. Due to roadworks in Streatham Hill, along with 255 these routes are facing delays.
Euro 5
Voith DIWA864.5 4-speed gearbox
Cummins ISBe6.7L 250hp engine
VDL DB300 10.4m
Wright Pulsar Gemini 2DL (integral)