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The warm glow from a setting sun is reflected off the concrete spillway cells of the Murray Lock & Dam. The dam sits under the Big Dam Bridge on the Arkansas River in Little Rock. The dam & lock is part of a series of similar structures to facilitate commercial vessel navigation on the Arkansas River all the way up to Tulsa, OK.
I ♥ old sewing machines
Hand cranked transverse shuttle sewing machine made in the early 1920's by L O Dietrich and Company, which later became Vesta.
The pansy pattern decals are simply gorgeous.
When we received it everything had ceased up, the handle wouldn't turn and all moving parts were really dry. The whole machine was seriously grubby and dull, as it had been hiding in an attic for decades.
Engineer husband and myself have thoroughly overhauled, lubricated, cleaned and polished it and it now stitches like a dream. The bobbin winder is smooth and efficient, and is a delight to use.
Thought I loved my vintage Singer, but this is even more beautiful.
The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
Menindee Slogan Bus:
The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
links: Fachwerkstation Titz (1917)
rechts: Litfaßsäulenstation, Berlin (1957)
Die Elektrothek Osterath ist ein Technikmuseum für Hochspannungstechnik in Meerbusch-Osterath im Rhein-Kreis Neuss (Nordrhein-Westfalen).
is shown at Marquette, IA, which was the only bright spot on a day where all the weather people missed the forecast and an area of low pressure literally developed right over my head.
This is certainly the best looking engineering car consist of the Class 1's.
CP GP20C-ECO 2227 has been assigned to this train since it was released from Gateway Transit Services in Granite City, IL several years ago.
31452 burbles away at Bolton Abbey with an engineering train during a Chris Gee organised photocharter
A lasting reminder of the gore and glory of ancient Rome, this 50,000 capacity amphitheater, the Colosseum, now attracts over 5 million visitors every year! Your visit to Rome is probably not complete without a visit to this awe-inspiring and magnificent feat of engineering and imagination. This is the venue for the famous gladiatorial battles, hunts of wild beasts and possibly the "naumachie" (naval battles, for which the arena within the Colosseum had to be flooded).
I have worked in and around engineering for more years than I care to remember. It still continues to amaze me what can be made from a lump of raw metal.
New for Cambridge park & ride, one of 15 on short term loan to Stagecoach Merseyside for increased capacity during railway engineering works on the Merseyrail Wirral line
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Engineering Approach - If it works, don't fix it!
I wish I had some power tools for the job. The Cube has been very un-cooperative.
Now I've never ever made a color shot of the strobist setup, but this one is an exception. You really must see it (click on the link at the end of the description). And please leave a comment which one you prefer - this one or setup shot :)
Strobist info:
* Canon 20D | 17-40mm @ 17 | f/8 | 1/250s | RAW | SOOC
* Sunpak 5000AF left into silver umbrella with 3/4 blue gel
* Sunpak 5000AF behind subject with tough green gel
* Subpak 4000AF right with 3/4 CTO gel
Strobist setup shot: click here
My solution for the second challenge.
Unfortunately I don't have accesss to my bricks right now, so it'll be digital fiddling only :(
W. 56th St., NY, NY. Hoping someone can explain how those two outriggers work. Seems like there should be four of them to keep it from toppling.....can some of you engineers out there explain?
I turn my attention now to Lumphini Park, Bangkok's version of Central Park. When I arrived the electrics were being fixed
13/10/2018 (Sat) 1532 Preston 142039 (L) + 142025 (R) 2T92 1610 Preston - Blackpool south (RMT guards strike so Preston - Blackpool south shuttle running)
If you like railway pictures that are a bit different to the norm, try the Phoenix Railway Photographic circle website;
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto is a true realization of Engineering as Art.
The modern gallery received a $276-million renovation transformation by the Toronto-born architect of the world: Frank Gehry.
Inside the gallery, a generous $100 million dollar gift from the late Ken Thomson's unparalleled collection of Canadian and European art with Picasso and more.
Nikon lens AF-S Nikkor 18-55 mm
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En provenance de Creil, la Nacelle caténaire n°2 encadrée par l'Y9048 en tête et l'Y9104 en queue, arrive à son terminus : Conflans-Ste-Honorine. Le convoi est vu sur le raccordement de Conflans à Eragny et s'apprête à franchir le PN n°1.
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I captured a series of the shack, nearby statuary and here is the shed and house more oddities. I am looking at Longmont housing but did find the only affordable housing in Logmont and yet this is in pain sight. I don't know if this is listed by the Longmont Housing Authority. This is one of the captures I snapped of a used up place in the city limits. I'll have to patch the roof when I move here. I really admire the roofing. Several original shingles remain on the shack but especially like the green sheet petroleum roofing on the shed, hereafter referred to as assfault. Which would fire up quicker, the petroleum or the wood pulp? I'd have thought that any eave overhang might have been helpful. Stacks upon shacks with holes everywhere.
I remember that I took a course in school on timber engineering. The remember that the assigned book was the TECO (Timber Engineering Company) manual. I don't remember any examples of this sort of timber engineering illustrated or discussed in the manual. I do like the texture and patina of aged timber. They did discuss engineering including 2-beam fudging, loading and failure of timber engineered glue-laminated beams also known as glulams. Just for interest, I looked them up in Wiki and found: A 2002 case study comparing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and costs for roof beams found it takes two to three times more energy and six to twelve times more fossil fuels to manufacture steel beams than it does to manufacture glulam beams. Vewy interesting!
This is in southwest Longmont but still in town. Fencing was built to keep the cattle from settling into the house and shed. The trees show the green up is just starting. The garbage Siberian elms are starting to bloom and spread seeds everywhere people don't realize that they need killing as soon as they show. On the other hand, the exceptionally weak trees can be admired as they grow and drop limbs, taking out the odd roof. Longmont has a Siberian elm statute but it's far from adequate. Although I was still in town, I still scenes to shoot.
It disappoints me that the owner let his property become so very shabby. Surely some upkeep is called for on the place! I'm sure that the roof can still be patched; I don't see anything growing through it yet. Ahhh, a bit of work and it would be a cozy spot with great access to local shopping.
A couple of good precision engineering images I located:
Reckless precision.
Image by digitalpimp.
Raffles Spot, Singapore
Explore #54, January 18, 2011
SMC Pentax M Zoom 75-150mm 1:4
Image by Yumi Abe
"What a strange lens !
Mechanically it is a piece of really clever engineering. It...
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(Source from Chinese Rapid Prototyping Blog)
To boldly go where no "fan" has gone before... you need a good warp and of course a clean and well maintained engineering room. So here's Scotty's kingdom where everything is possible even fixing the core with an old spoon ;D
Decals by Fine Clonier, thanks a lot Jared.
More pics to come later.
A survey in Cappadocia is always rich of discovers, sand, dust, scratched elbows and some time spend in open space and some time spent in narrow passages... :-)
Original shot taken with a Sony DSC-H9 8Mp Digital Camera, various post processing.
I've taken a few pics of my bike since I've had it. Unfortunately I felt like none them captured it in a way where its beauty can truely be appriciated. Nothing like a little mechine glamour every now and then.
D90 (handheld)| 35mm | f/1.8 | 1/13 sec. | ISO800
Strobist:
SB-600 1/32 into 43" silver umbrella 2 o'clock
40AF-4N 1/16 w/ 20 degree grid behind the bike
Fired w/ Alienbees CyberSync Triggers
Spider engineering has always been fascinating, but never more so for me than since I saw the photos I took below. These showed me what was too fast to see in the field.
This was a corner of a large web, and look at that bracing and strengthening. And see the brace across a corner.
Not to mention the beauty and balance of a web.
The refractions of my house are a distraction, although they where what I originally aimed my lens at, and do act as symbolic eyes.
Best On Black
Hagen – Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Deutsches Schmiedemuseum
Image by Daniel Mennerich (subsequent stop Hà Nội)
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Muse...
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A lot of calculations, material, work and effort is involved in creating something like this. 10.000 times, 100.000 wagons can cross this for 100 years. People are awesome.
An absolute surprise of a find!
Whilst doing a regular, mundane walk I lifted my head from my phone to find this about a metre from me!
The surprise, and a congregation of chaps behind the van (next image) all hindered the chance for a better snap.
I decided not to disguise the location, the car has never been/returned here whilst I've been passing here.
Imported in 1995, this peculiarly shaped car has a gargantuan 4.6 litre engine in it! Though, if I've got it right, Americans prefer 'tried and tested' engineering, so perhaps this only produces the same amount of power as 2.5 litre EU/JP engine?
Three years into the four year engineering works and track replacement seems to have reached Montreuil, piles of new sleepers in the yard and an engineering train; V212K and V212L are ex-Deustche Bahn locos now in yellow and operated by Meccoli, they date from the early 1960s. The view from the walk around the ramparts of the old town.
The incredible views of Biscayne Bay’s Aqua Waters may make you
forget that you are at the epicenter of Miami’s urban business
district. Located on Brickell’s easiest access thoroughfare, 1001 Brickell Bay’s office views draw you in from the moment you step into its grand lobby, continue out onto the bay’s edge to its landscaped plaza, an ideal place to meet a colleague or hold a casual meeting. Once inside, the tenant-focused amenities abound along with high-end office space for any size company, making 1001 Brickell Bay a coveted Brickell office address.
Other companies involved:
Construction company: Hardin Construction Company
Consultant: Jimenez McDowell Engineering Consultants Inc.
Facade Consultant: Miami Curtain Wall Consultants Corp.
Mechanical systems installation: Trimec Plumbing Contractor
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/122323/brickell-bay-tower-miami...
www.1001brickellbay.com/building/
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was on my way to work this morning, i noticed this couple building their house ...
the place seemed to me little risky, if the water goes high...but what do i know?! They know better...
the shot is simple, i didn't like to disturb them and get closer...but i was wondering what are those genes telling these animals what to build how to build where to build??? I was amazed by the ability of the swan picking up reed and trying to cut others ...nature is amazing!