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Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872,[3][4] is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park.[1] It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is dominant.
Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years. The region was bypassed during the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early 19th century. Aside from visits by mountain men during the early-to-mid-19th century, organized exploration did not begin until the late 1860s. The U.S. Army was commissioned to oversee the park just after its establishment. In 1917, administration of the park was transferred to the National Park Service, which had been created the previous year. Hundreds of structures have been built and are protected for their architectural and historical significance, and researchers have examined more than 1,000 archaeological sites.
Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468 square miles (8,980 km2), comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges.[1] Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest supervolcano on the continent. The caldera is considered an active volcano; it has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years. Half of the world's geothermal features are in Yellowstone, fueled by this ongoing volcanism.[5] Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone. The park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining, nearly intact ecosystem in the Earth's northern temperate zone.[6]
Hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been documented, including several that are either endangered or threatened.[1] The vast forests and grasslands also include unique species of plants. Grizzly Bears, wolves, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk live in the park. Forest fires occur in the park each year; in the large forest fires of 1988, nearly one third of the park burned. Yellowstone has numerous recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, boating, fishing and sightseeing. Paved roads provide close access to the major geothermal areas as well as some of the lakes and waterfalls. During the winter, visitors often access the park by way of guided tours that use either snow coaches or snowmobile.
While naval doctrine has never evolved in a vacuum, the simmering conflict between the first and second Accord Wars provided an idea opportunity for both the Empire and Accord to refine and test their doctrines in relatively low-risk engagements. The extended time period also allowed for numerous ship classes to be requested, designed, procured, and deployed on both sides, often specifically to counter a new strategy, tactic, or element of naval hardware.
Given the smaller size of the Accord Republican Navy, it was unsurprising that they adopted strategies relying heavily on fast carrier strike packages that could conduct attacks on relatively poorly defended Imperial assets, despite the Accord carriers often being little more than converted freighters. After a time, more and more Imperial picket corvettes and frigates were produced and utilized, massively increasing Accord losses and protecting Imperial interests at a relatively affordable price. At the same time, the constant reconnaissance struggle continued to escalate as well; the standard sensor drone swarms augmented by heavy strike fighters and even modified corvettes, deployed to both protect the sensor drones and also to intercept hostile scouts. The Assault Reconnaissance Corvette was conceived as an attempt by the Accord to solve both of these problems, though the eventual proliferation of Accord heavy fleets saw the Empire adopt its own variants.
The ARN-27 was not the first Assault Reconnaissance Corvette deployed by the Accord, but it was the first designed specifically for the purpose, learning lessons from previous conversions that had not filled the role as well as had been hoped. At the core of its mission brief was to locate the hostile fleet, destroy hostile anti-recon forces, and then destroy hostile picket forces. While the first two tasks could be performed relatively well by most corvettes or frigates, the latter task had proven far more difficult. Generally, any ship large enough to engage a hostile picket frigate was also going to be vulnerable to the capital grade weapons from the fleet that the picket frigate was protecting. Combat experience showed that even a corvette needed to be relatively fast and agile to be immune to capital grade weapons, leaving naval designers with precious few options.
Among the five bids placed on the contract, only Eclipse Industries and Siugniedrev Industrial Works designs made it past initial testing. While the SIW design was in effect a very large stealth bomber, and would go on to see further development in another program, the EI design utilized four mass plasma drivers in a mostly fixed configuration. Even most frigates did not mount weapons of such size, and the extensive cooling arrays and power generation required for the weapons made the ARN-27 more expensive than most other options. However, due to the relatively few hulls required and the economic boom in the Accord at the time, the higher cost was deemed a worthwhile investment.
Initial development, like with any military project, was not without teething issues. During high stress atmospheric maneuvers, the weight of the plasma drivers caused warping in the cooling arrays they were mounted on, leading to further strengthening. The lower sensor arrays were removed to add four light missile tubes for better defense against light craft and missiles when it was determined that the four twin laser turrets were not sufficient. The largest change was to the top of the hull however, where both an external access airlock and an enlarged deployable sensor dish was added. Given the crew capacity of six and the provision of both a cargo hold and full living quarters aboard the vessel for extended recon operations, the inability to dock outside of a hangar bay was deemed unacceptable by operational commanders. Other features, such as the enlarged rear comms array were present from the start, specifically designed to provide a datalink back to the fleet in the face of heavy hostile jamming.
Though undeniably effective against Imperial forces when it was first deployed, the same economic boom that allowed such an expensive and specialized corvette to be developed was also the ultimate reason it was sidelined. The increased military budget of the Accord saw proper battleline ships built and deployed, first battlecruisers to escort the carriers then proper battleships, making the role of punching through pickets far less important than it had been previously. Still, as one of the largest ships to have the commander and pilot be the same person and a combat profile much more akin to a giant heavy fighter than a traditional corvette, it remains a popular posting for certain officers among the Accord.
Manufacturer: Eclipse Industries
Crew: 6 - 1 Pilot/Commander, 1 Weapons Officer, 1 Communications/Sensors Officer, 2 Engineering Officers, 1 Marine.
Length: 89 meters
Maximum Speed: 1185 m/s
FTL Capability: 14335 AU/h
Engines: 4x FierthXP-3000 Ion Drives
Armament: 4x License Built SIW FlameSpike Mass Plasma Drivers, 4x twin GS Gneiss Laser Cannons in turrets, 4x various Accord missile systems depending on mission profile.
Made for my Graviton setting.
Designers Note: I worked on this one off and on for over a year and it is the largest design I have done yet. It was supposed to be something I could afford to build out of physical bricks, but I clearly got carried away.
A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender flight crew, left to right, Staff Sgt. Rob White, Boom Operator, 78th Air Refueling Squadron; Pilots Capt. Jacob Swatek, 78th Air Refueling Squadron, and Capt. James Reed, 76th Air Refueling Squadron, and Tech. Sgt. Brando Li, Engineer, 78th Air Refueling Squadron, all with the 514th Air Mobility Wing, cross the United States for aerial refueling mission with F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighters over California, Sept. 13, 2017. The mission includes refueling U.S. Air Force F-35A and U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II joint strike fighters. The 514th is an Air Force Reserve wing located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Electric Drive
Range Extender
90° Motor Show Brussels
Autosalon Brussel
Salon de l'Auto Bruxelles
Brussels - Belgium
January 2012
None of the clamps in my shop could clear the outer rim of the shield to hold the wood inserts in place during glue up, so I fashioned these clamp extensions out of some scrap 1x1 to do the job. Worked great!
Longridge extend their lead at the top with a win against 2nd place Avro with all three goals coming from Richie Allen.
A causeway extending from Turk's Head to Turk Island, in Mudros Harbour, was built by the Engineers, and the work was highly commended by the military authorities. The Australian Engineers have greatly distinguished themselves by their skilfulness in all kinds of difficult conditions, as well as by their bravery under fire.
Photos by A.W. Savage. From The Sydney Mail, 29 March 1916.
They tend to colonise the local canals in the Black Country. Suspect the out compete the local wild foul for food. Can be aggressive in terms of protecting the young had a few hissing fits as I walked past the group.
Extending from Green Peter Reservoir upstream, Quartzville Creek offers a variety of recreational opportunities, such as gold panning, fishing, camping and kayaking. The Quartzville Back Country Byway parallels the winding mid-Willamette Valley river, offering views of old growth forests and wildlife and providing easy access to developed and undeveloped picnic and camping sites.
Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management
Animals in general. Kruger Park, South Africa. Dec/2015. Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 square kilometres (7,523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.
O Parque Nacional Kruger é a maior área de conservação de fauna bravia da África do Sul, cobrindo cerca de 20 000 km2. Está localizado no nordeste do país, nas províncias de Mpumalanga e Limpopo e fazendo fronteira com os distritos moçambicanos de Moamba e Magude, na província de Maputo e Massingir e Chicualacuala na de Gaza. Tem uma extensão de cerca de 350 km de norte a sul e 60 km de leste a oeste.
Norman, Winnie (standing) and Joyce playing in the yard. The reason why Norman had a tricycle was because he had rickets at age 2. The doctor suggested his Mom get a tricycle to straighten out his legs, and it worked! They are still slightly bowed, but cannot notice it with long pants on.
Cod liver iol in the winter was awful, and the winters out there are long! In the summer they used to go outside without anything on but their underware when it was warm and soak up the sun! Their Mom had to keep an eye on them so they wouldn't get burned, especially fair skinned Winnie.
El presidente Danilo Medina entregó 156 aulas, distribuidas en 15 escuelas, para ser integradas a la Jornada de Tanda Extendida, con lo que se beneficiarán 5,775 estudiantes.
Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana
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VIA Motors Unveils World's First Electric Work Van With Side Door Key Remote Access!
VIA's extended range electric van with professional "EXPRESS ACCESS" side door option with remote key access provides easy access to tools and cargo from the outside designed for utility, telecom and contractor fleets.
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The 3 slender Kutsuwa holders (starting from the left) were available a few years ago. The red and blue 2-pack with the slightly wider threaded grip were found more recently at the SF Kinokuniya stationery store. Blog entry: robotninjamonsters.blogspot.com/2008/12/mitsubishi-hi-uni...
This is what happens when I over-think a shot. I end up seeing a dude with an elongated torso going in from one side of the pole and coming out the other like some minotaur or camel or whatever. Yeah, I was kinda reaching with that concept... #IwasntSmokingAnythingReally
The XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle (ESR)
XM2010 IKPT-2 Provides extended range capability and incorporates the latest in weapons technology for the Army Sniper.
The XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle (ESR), formerly known as the M24 Reconfigured Sniper Weapon System, is a sniper rifle developed by PEO Soldier for the U.S. Army.It is derived from the M24 Sniper Weapon System and is intended to replace existing M24s. After winning a competitive bidding process, Remington was awarded the production contract. Up to 3,600 weapons will be procured. The Army expects to begin fielding 250 upgraded weapons to deployed U.S. Army Snipers by the end of December 2010.Later project manager for Soldier weapons Colonel Douglas Tamilio said the XM2010 expected fielding will happen from January 2011
The XM2010 is distinguished by its advanced design and represents a quantum upgrade over the M24. The shooter interface can be tailored to accommodate a wide range of shooter preferences and its folding stock provides Soldier flexibility in transporting the weapon during operations. The weapon also incorporates advanced corrosion resistant coatings to ensure longevity. The aluminum, steel, and high impact polymers used in the weapon’s construction are lightweight and rugged.
The ESR is equipped with a Leupold Mark 4 6.5-20x50mm scope. The variable power scope includes a first focal plane reticle so when the user dials in, the reticle pattern scales with the zoom enabling the sniper to estimate range at any power setting. The scope also employs a reticle pattern that facilitates faster and more accurate range estimation and utilizes mil turret adjustments to eliminate MOA to mil conversion. The targeting stadia reticle allows for simultaneous elevation and windage holds that eliminate the need to dial in adjustments.
Pretty much a bare shell at the moment, its looks like this Volkswagen Camper T2 will eventually hit the road again. It just needs an engine, lights, doors, bumpers, glass, an interior...
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ADK64 by geekhack user
from KeyboardBelle
Alps64 from reddit user
Repurposed AEKII Stabilisers
Custom Acrylic Plate in “Glass Green” from Ponoko
SKCM Orange Alps from Donor AEKII
Stock Apple Extended Keyboard keycaps from Donor AEKII
Mini USB cable White Paracord with Grey Heatshrink from Zap Cables
Custom 60%Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sleeve from Don @ TheBoard Podcast
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You know what they say about “an Apple a day”?
This was a board that I took a great deal of fun in putting together. I really wanted to give some vintage Alps switches a try, so when I saw an old AEKII from Australia, and a ALPS64 PCB kit up for sale, I knew it was meant to be.
I had seen several people do similar things with Apple boards from the 80s and 90s, but I wasn't sold on the cases that they had used. The ADK64 was directly inspired by the Apple boards of yester year; from the shape and angle, to the badge placement, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The wee Apple badge in the top left was harvested from the same board that the keycaps and switches came from. With the case being 3D printed, it has some lines from the process across it, at some point I do want to have a crack at smoothing them out via an acetone vapour bath, but that's still a wee ways off yet; I'd hate to ruin the board like a chump.
Nothing special about the switches here. The Alps switches are a type that I have had little experience with, but from what I have seen (or felt), they are super smooth out of the factory, and have really nice tactility. I'd love to get my hands on some vintage Alps linears at some point, as I imagine they could only be better.
The plate here I designed myself and had it cut through Ponoko. I set it up with some of my favourite features for a 60% board, and even added an Alps logo under the spacebar just for a bit more character.
The keycaps were all or nothing, and I was stoked to have been able to fine a board that was in as good a condition as the donor here was. There are a couple of oddities, like the “Home' and “Page Up” placement, and the “Backslash” is actually “Backspace”. That's the downside with having a sculpted profile keyset, each row is a different profile and shape, so sometimes you just have to make do. I cleaned up the caps as best as I could, and the yellowed spacebars is only due to it being made from a different type of plastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
(ABS, think LEGO) and the rest of them from Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT); ABS tends to yellow from exposure to sunlight, and PBT is a lot more durable in many ways, you can “fix” it in a number of ways, but I like the character it adds.
The cable is just some nice complementing colours, and the sleeve is also just for fun; can never say no to those guys.
For all you Apple purists, the AEKII was from a time where as a company, they were helping pave the way, and I'm more than happy to have a part of that in my collection. These days, some of you know that I can't stand Apple, so this is almost like me flipping them the ole middle finger.
A Route 9 with a 2011 New Flyer XDE40 is seen turning onto Third Street. In just a few minutes, this bus will be running the length of Sebastopol Road within Santa Rosa's City Limits.
©FranksRails Photography, LLC.
The head tube is painted green. That titanium thing between the head tube and the headset is an extender, made for me by Jim Merz. I supplied the mateial and the design. Not sure if Jim wants to make any more of them, this alloy was super tough to machine. I forget the alloy now but it's significantly tougher than 6Al/4V. Got it from a local Boeing subcontractor that had surplus/drops. Way strong!
To use it, you also need a steerer that's longer, by 3 cm (or more), than a steerer cut for the old headtube length.
Though the headset is a threadless style, the steerer is threaded, just a little at the top for those two thin jam-nuts.
That stem was made in '85. It originally clamped to a stub of 7/8" Cr-Mo brazed in the top of the steerer — the previous, shorter steerer, back when I liked my bars lower. Currently there's a bolt-in quill that the stem clamps to, but if I decide I like this bike after I get it dialed, and I still like this stem, then I will braze in a stub to replace the current quill — as God and Rene Herse intended.
The pinch bolt to clamp the stem to the steerer stub is hidden inside the stem "lug", and the hole is blind on the other side. Even though it's just one bolt, it is a high-strength 8 mm bolt (most people use 6 mm or even 5 mm) and it has never slipped.
The pulley gives variable leverage (rising rate) to the front brake. Stops on a dime without needing much hand strength. Yes I know hydro disk brakes do that too, but this was pretty good for an '84 bike, with a brake designed in the early '50s
One of the communication rooms at Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire (Not that secret, I found it).
Lone Fir Cemetery History
B. Stephens purchased a land claim for $200 held by John McLoughlin at Fort Vancouver.
The claim extended from the east bank of the Willamette River to present day Southeast 23rd and from Stark Street to Division Street. Stephens’ father, Emmor Stephens, died in 1846, shortly after they arrived in Oregon, and was buried on the family farm.
In 1854, Stephens sold the farm to Colburn Barrell with the promise that he maintain Emmor’s grave.gilbert-anderson-graveside-900x600
A businessman with a number of ventures, Barrell was an investor in the steamship Gazelle, which exploded in Canemah in April 1854.
Twenty-four of the fifty passengers perished, including Barrell’s partner, Crawford Dobbins, and his friend D. P. Fuller. Barrell moved the two men from a downtown cemetery to plots near the Stephens family plot and set aside ten acres for a cemetery, naming it Mount Crawford.
The ten acres were platted into lots in 1855. A block was donated to the Fire Bureau in 1862 and two were sold to the Masons. IN 1865, thirteen more acres were purchased and then seven more the next year, bringing the cemetery to its present size of thirty acres in 1866.
Barrell tried to sell the cemetery to the City of Portland but the deal was refused because it was considered too far from town at the time.
When the City refused, a group of Portland families and plotholders purchased the land for $4,000 and incorporated it as Lone Fir Cemetery, a name suggested by Colburn Barrell’s wife Aurelia in honor of the solitary fir tree on the land.
In the early days, there were four small cemeteries in what is now downtown Portland.
All of the deceased from these cemeteries were moved to Lone Fir. Later, many from St. Mary’s Catholic cemetery were moved to Lone Fir when it was converted to Central Catholic High School. Their at1880_lone_fir_cemeteryhletic field is referred to as the “Bone Yard” to this day. For more than forty years, every burial in Portland occurred at Lone Fir until Riverview Cemetery was established in 1893.
No money was set aside for perpetual care and the cemetery gradually fell into disrepair. By 1928 it was covered with blackberry mounds and there were 10,000 unknown graves. Prior to the 1870s, there were few stone markers and the wooden ones had rotted or were destroyed in one of several fires in the cemetery.
Today, Lone Fir Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Portland and the largest of fourteen historic cemeteries managed by Metro regional government.
ADK64 by geekhack user
from KeyboardBelle
Alps64 from reddit user
Repurposed AEKII Stabilisers
Custom Acrylic Plate in “Glass Green” from Ponoko
SKCM Orange Alps from Donor AEKII
Stock Apple Extended Keyboard keycaps from Donor AEKII
Mini USB cable White Paracord with Grey Heatshrink from Zap Cables
Custom 60%Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sleeve from Don @ TheBoard Podcast
________________________________________________
You know what they say about “an Apple a day”?
This was a board that I took a great deal of fun in putting together. I really wanted to give some vintage Alps switches a try, so when I saw an old AEKII from Australia, and a ALPS64 PCB kit up for sale, I knew it was meant to be.
I had seen several people do similar things with Apple boards from the 80s and 90s, but I wasn't sold on the cases that they had used. The ADK64 was directly inspired by the Apple boards of yester year; from the shape and angle, to the badge placement, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The wee Apple badge in the top left was harvested from the same board that the keycaps and switches came from. With the case being 3D printed, it has some lines from the process across it, at some point I do want to have a crack at smoothing them out via an acetone vapour bath, but that's still a wee ways off yet; I'd hate to ruin the board like a chump.
Nothing special about the switches here. The Alps switches are a type that I have had little experience with, but from what I have seen (or felt), they are super smooth out of the factory, and have really nice tactility. I'd love to get my hands on some vintage Alps linears at some point, as I imagine they could only be better.
The plate here I designed myself and had it cut through Ponoko. I set it up with some of my favourite features for a 60% board, and even added an Alps logo under the spacebar just for a bit more character.
The keycaps were all or nothing, and I was stoked to have been able to fine a board that was in as good a condition as the donor here was. There are a couple of oddities, like the “Home' and “Page Up” placement, and the “Backslash” is actually “Backspace”. That's the downside with having a sculpted profile keyset, each row is a different profile and shape, so sometimes you just have to make do. I cleaned up the caps as best as I could, and the yellowed spacebars is only due to it being made from a different type of plastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
(ABS, think LEGO) and the rest of them from Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT); ABS tends to yellow from exposure to sunlight, and PBT is a lot more durable in many ways, you can “fix” it in a number of ways, but I like the character it adds.
The cable is just some nice complementing colours, and the sleeve is also just for fun; can never say no to those guys.
For all you Apple purists, the AEKII was from a time where as a company, they were helping pave the way, and I'm more than happy to have a part of that in my collection. These days, some of you know that I can't stand Apple, so this is almost like me flipping them the ole middle finger.
Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro at f/16 with a Kenko 20mm extension tube. Tripod was not moved.
Quick Sample Tests of Extension Tubes and Extenders on 3 different lenses