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Caption: Australian Light Armoured Vehicles are ready to start the journey back to Australia from Ali Air Base, Tallil, Iraq.
Mid Caption: Last Major Moves back Home
Australia’s draw down from Southern Iraq is coming to a close with the last logistical moves leaving Camp Terendak, Tallil Air Base, Iraq.
Soldiers from the Overwatch Battle Group (West) and Force Extraction Team (FET) have loaded dozens of vehicles and shipping containers for return to Australia’s Force Level Logistic Asset in the Middle East.
Retrained Iraqi forces took over responsiblity for security in Al Muthanna and Dhi Qar provinces some months ago, and the Australians have now handed over their "overwatch" role to US troops.
Although the Diggers will soon be home their legacy will be benefiting local Iraqis for years to come. The Australian Battle group has project-managed over 180 projects . They include new or renovated school buildings, sporting facilities and community parks, water and irrigation projects, rural projects to help with crop and livestock production, health clinics and power supply initiatives.
Water purification is particularly important as water-borne diseases can still be a major killer - especially of young children.
Extending from Green Peter Reservoir upstream, the Quartzville Creek Wild and Scenic River 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: May 2015, by Bob Wick, BLM
More access info: www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/site_info.php?siteid=212
Longridge extend their lead at the top with a win against 2nd place Avro with all three goals coming from Richie Allen.
Con estos, los centros educativos dejados en servicio por el Mandatario suman 186, con un total de dos mil 485 aulas, que de inmediato, han sido incorporadas a la Jornada de Tanda Extendida, programa que auspicia el Gobierno para mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza.
Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana
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Bought a CCTV lens for $30, a 2x extender for $30 CAD and a C-m4/3 mount adapter for $2.
The lens was extremely dusty/oily/dirty and there were metal shavings inside the lens both on the lens elements inside and in the helixes for focus and zoom. Rings did not turn easily.
Disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, calibrated and shimmed this lens.
Purposefully calibrated the focus ring to go beyond infinity so that the back focus could later be shimmed. Allowing infinity focus across the entire zoom range.
Shimmed the lens between the extender and the adapter using simple cotton thread wrapped around the base of the C-mount screw threads.
Pentax 8-48mm f/1.0-1.2, 2x extender and C to m4/3 mount adapter.
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)
The Power of Blue Sea of Tang Island !
Koh Tang, there was another great island with very natural beauty where is far from the Preah Shihanuokville province, also there has a great beach and very blue sea, anyway I really proud of our Khmer navy who commit to defend our territory. Moreover I found this place during I had mission with my parent to visit Khmer's navy there on 20th to 23rd March 2014.
Photo by: Mardy Suong Photography
Date: 20th-23rd, March, 2014.
Place of photo: Preah Sihanuok Ville Province, Kingdom of Cambodia.
Website: www.500px.com/Mardy
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I am Mardy SUONG, I am from the one of Cambodian Photographers. I wish to extend my heartfelt welcome to all international visitors and photographers to Cambodia-Kingdom of Wonder.
As one of the fastest growing tourism destinations in Southeast Asia, Cambodia’s rich heritage, cultural and natural resources offer a full range of cultural and eco-tourism sites that are both dynamic and sustainable. Highlights include Phnom Penh, the Angkor Wat and the Mekong River Dolphins, just to name a few.
The Kingdom’s capital is a dynamic city where visitors are in the mood for shopping, dining, sightseeing and more. As Cambodia’s hub for commerce, politics and tourism, Phnom Penh is also home to many important institutions and monuments such as Wat Phnom, the Royal Palace and the National Museum. The magnificent Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear, Heritage of Humanity and World Wonder, is probably the most exotic tourist destination in the world and the renowned yet very rare Mekong River dolphins can also be found in Cambodia. During your staying here, do visit and relax on Cambodia’s pristine beaches, explore the coral reefs around many of our beautiful islands and trek through lush mangrove forests. The bay of Cambodia has been inducted to the Most Beautiful Bay of the World Club.
Regards and thanks!
The largest known cave system in the world, the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System, as of 2022, has 426 miles of documented passages, and sits beneath the ground in Mammoth Cave National Park, established in 1941, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981, the only designation in the state of Kentucky. The park is also an International Biosphere Reserve, designated in 1990, and an International Dark Sky Park, designated in 2021. The Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System formed in Mississippian Limestone rock underneath a Big Clifty Sandstone cap, which has formed several stable arched passages of varying sizes from the intrusion of water into the rock layers, with the less porous sandstone cap preventing water intrusion at most locations, which have kept the caverns beneath intact and stable for eons. The water that passes through the cave system drains into the adjacent Green River, and has continuously eroded deeper into the rock along with the river. The cave is home to endemic species of organisms that have adapted to the dark conditions within the cave system. The cave system was known to indigenous people, whom mined gypsum from the walls of the caves and explored the caves, with human remains, signs of human activity, and artifacts from their presence in the cave. The cave became known to European settlers in the 1790s, and it started being mined by Valentine Simon for saltpeter to create gunpowder in 1798, with the mining activities intensifying around the time of the War of 1812, and becoming an industrial-scale operation under the ownership of Charles Wilkins and Hyman Gratz, whom used slave labor to exploit the cave’s resources. In 1838, with the decline in value of saltpeter, the cave was sold to Franklin Gorin, whom operated the cave as a tourist attraction, but was sold to Doctor John Croghan the following year. Under Gorin and Croghan, Black slaves served as tour guides for visitors, with Stephen Bishop being the most notable of these guides. Bishop made many maps of the caves during the 1840s and 1850s, and was the first known person to cross Bottomless Pit and discover the River Styx and Mammoth Dome on the other side. Croghan attempted to run a Tuberculosis Hospital within the cave in 1842-1843, believing the stable temperatures and air would assist patients, but this was short lived. In 1886, the Mammoth Cave Railroad was built between Park City and the historic Mammoth Cave Hotel, which operated until 1931. The caves were mapped more accurately by German visitor Max Kämper in 1908, whom mapped the surface topography and used instruments to document the cave, allowing for the opening of new entrances to the caverns from the surface and being the most accurate maps of the caves until the 1960s. Sadly, this was not appreciated by the Croghan family, whose historic cavern entrance was threatened in status by these maps, and Kämper returned to Germany, where he died as a soldier during World War I’s Battle of the Somme in 1916. Starting in the 1920s, the land around the caves was purchased by the private Mammoth Cave National Park Association, with the park being officially authorized in 1926. Between 1933 and 1942, the park’s landscape was reforested and infrastructure was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), part of the New Deal. Between 1954 and 1972, the cave system was further explored, culminating in the connection between the longer Flint Ridge System and wider Mammoth Cave being found, making it the longest known cave system in the world. Today, the park sees about half a million visitors annually, and contains the majority of the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave system, with some portions of the system extending east of the park’s boundaries under privately-owned land.
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, Istočno Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Located within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans, a region of Southeastern Europe.
Sarajevo is the political, financial, social, and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a prominent center of culture in the Balkans. It exerts region-wide influence in entertainment, media, fashion, and the arts. Due to its long history of religious and cultural diversity, Sarajevo is sometimes called the "Jerusalem of Europe" or "Jerusalem of the Balkans". It is one of a few major European cities to have a mosque, Catholic church, Eastern Orthodox church, and synagogue within the same neighborhood. It is also home to the former Yugoslavia's first institution of tertiary education in the form of an Islamic polytechnic, today part of the University of Sarajevo.
Although there is evidence of human settlement in the area since prehistoric times, the modern city arose in the 15th century as an Ottoman stronghold when the Ottoman empire extended into Europe. Sarajevo has gained international renown several times throughout its history. In 1885, it was the first city in Europe and the second city in the world to have a full-time electric tram network running through the city, following San Francisco.
In 1914, Sarajevo was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a local Young Bosnia activist Gavrilo Princip, a murder that sparked World War I. This resulted in the end of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and the creation of the multicultural Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the Balkan region. Later, after World War II, the area was designated the capital of the communist Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, leading to rapid expansion of its population and businesses with investment in infrastructure and economic development.
In 1984, Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, which marked a prosperous era for the city. However, after the start of the Yugoslav Wars, the city suffered the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare, for a total of 1,425 days, from April 1992 to February 1996, during the Bosnian War.
With continued post-war reconstruction in the aftermath, Sarajevo is the fastest growing city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The travel guide series Lonely Planet ranked Sarajevo as the 43rd best city in the world. In December 2009, it recommended Sarajevo as one of the top ten cities to visit in 2010.
In 2011, Sarajevo was nominated as the 2014 European Capital of Culture. It was selected to host the European Youth Olympic Festival. In addition, in October 2019, Sarajevo was designated as a UNESCO Creative City for having placed culture at the center of its development strategies. It is also ranked as one of the world's eighteen Cities of Film.
Área de cocina, completamente equipada para desayuno y almuerzo escolar de los nuevos planteles de Jornada de Tanda Extendida inaugurados hoy por el Señor Presidente.
Foto: Luis Ruiz Tito/Presidencia República Dominicana
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Canon 7D & EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens with a 25mm extension tube and 1.4x extender
Light using an off axis Canon 430EX II speedlight in TTL mode, triggered using the 7D builtin IR trigger. Fitted with a Sto-fen diffuser.
Approx 2.5x life-size
The ample mantle covers the whole body and extends well beyond the foot. Its underside and the dorsal surface of the foot have characteristic dark freckles and blotches.
Menai Strait, Wales, July 2013.
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Geitodoris planata (Alder & Hancock, 1846)
Authors: Ian Smith (text) and Malcolm Storey (shore work and images).
Synonyms: Doris planata Alder & Hancock, 1846; Discodoris planata (Alder & Hancock, 1846);
Current taxonomy: World Register of Marine Species www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139580
Vernacular name: Millennium wratslak (Dutch)
GLOSSARY BELOW
Description
The body grows up to 65 mm long or, exceptionally, up to 120 mm in the Netherlands (van Bragt, 2004). The ample mantle covers the whole body and extends well beyond the foot fig. 01 flic.kr/p/2o4DLjT . It often assumes a low profile similar to that of a planarian worm. The wide mantle skirt is often almost horizontal fig. 02 flic.kr/p/2o4yHKJ , even when the body is humped up fig. 03 flic.kr/p/2o4CzQV . The mantle is covered with tightly packed, rounded, spiculose tubercles which give it a hard and crisp feel. It has various shades of, usually dull, yellow fig. 04 flic.kr/p/2o4CzMi , brown fig. 05 flic.kr/p/2o4DuY9 , orange-brown, pink-brown fig. 02 flic.kr/p/2o4yHKJ or purple-brown fig. 06 flic.kr/p/2o4DRWK & fig. 07 flic.kr/p/2o4CzJc . Up to about sixteen papillate, whitish, acid glands fig. 07 flic.kr/p/2o4CzJc are usually arranged subdorsally along the flanks fig. 08 flic.kr/p/2o4DuP6 and are often surrounded by a pale stellate patch fig. 09 flic.kr/p/2o4B4PS . The underside of the mantle characteristically has distinct, dark marks of reddish brown fig. 10 flic.kr/p/2o4B4Mx or purplish brown fig. 11 flic.kr/p/2o4DuE3 , but sometimes there are few fig. 12 flic.kr/p/2o4yHmC or no marks .
The rhinophores have a smooth, stout, translucent basal half speckled fig. 13 flic.kr/p/2o4DRBr or blotched fig. 06 flic.kr/p/2o4DRWK with purplish brown. The upper half has about twelve or thirteen yellowish lamellae with brown markings fig. 13 flic.kr/p/2o4DRBr . They can retract completely into pits with irregular marginal flaps which can fold over and conceal them fig. 14 flic.kr/p/2o4DRAE .
The tripinnate gills fig. 15 flic.kr/p/2o4CzkG are whitish with brown markings. Each has a stout main stem. They are often arranged into a left and a right group fig. 16 flic.kr/p/2o4DRyA . They can retract completely into the branchial pocket fig. 09 flic.kr/p/2o4B4PS which has peripheral flap-like valves fig. 16 flic.kr/p/2o4DRyA & fig. 17 flic.kr/p/2o4yHdm which can close over them.
The head has well developed linear oral tentacles flanking the mouth parts which expand greatly for feeding fig. 18 flic.kr/p/2o4Cz9Q .
The foot has a rounded, bilaminate anterior fig. 18 flic.kr/p/2o4Cz9Q ; the upper lamina is cut centrally and can extend forward of the lower lamina. The sole and dorsal surface of the foot vary from yellowish white fig. 12 flic.kr/p/2o4yHmC to dark orange fig. 11 flic.kr/p/2o4DuE3 . The dorsal surface of the foot often also has dark marks fig. 01 flic.kr/p/2o4DLjT & fig. 11 flic.kr/p/2o4DuE3 similar to those on the underside of mantle. It may occasionally protrude very slightly when in motion fig. 09 flic.kr/p/2o4B4PS , but is otherwise of much less extent than the mantle. When horizontally lit with a strong flash, internal viscera may be visible through the sole fig. 19 flic.kr/p/2o4B4su .
Key identification features
Geitodoris planata
1) Up to 65 mm long (exceptionally 120 mm in Netherlands).
2) Dull yellow or shade of brown, generally less colourful and variegated than Doris pseudoargus.
3) Rounded spiculose tubercles fig. 03 flic.kr/p/2o4CzQV , smaller than largest ones of D. pseudoargus, much bigger than digital caryophyllidia on Jorunna tomentosa. Animal feels hard and crisp.
4) Dark marks on underside of mantle fig. 11 flic.kr/p/2o4DuE3 . (Occasionally absent ).
5) Up to 12 whitish papillate acid glands on sides of mantle, often in stellate pale patch fig. 08 flic.kr/p/2o4DuP6 .
6) Foot much smaller than mantle fig. 01 flic.kr/p/2o4DLjT .
7) Head has well developed linear oral tentacles fig. 18 flic.kr/p/2o4Cz9Q .
8) Gills whitish with brown pigment marks; often formed into a left and a right group fig. 16 flic.kr/p/2o4DRyA .
9) Spawn a broad, undulate ribbon laid in a spiral attached to substrate by one edge. With age, colour may change white to yellow and spiral becomes looser. Ova arranged in ribbon randomly; not in discernible lines fig. 20 flic.kr/p/2o4DRgM .
Similar species
Doris pseudoargus fig. 21 flic.kr/p/2o4CyZw
1) Up to 120 mm long, half grown ones similar size to G. planata.
2) Mantle usually yellow or buff-orange, often with large blotches of bright colours.
3) Variously sized, rounded, spiculose tubercles give stiff unyielding feel to mantle, but G. planata even stiffer.
4) Underside of mantle lacks dark markings (may have slight staining at edge) fig. 22 flic.kr/p/2o4DRbS .
5) No whitish, papillate, acid glands on sides of mantle.
6) Foot not much smaller than mantle.
7) Head small with vestigial oral tentacles.
8) Translucent gills often tinted purple or lilac.
9) Spawn a broad, undulate ribbon laid in a spiral attached to substrate by one edge. With age, colour may change white to yellow and spiral becomes looser. Ova arranged in transverse lines fig. 23 flic.kr/p/2o4CyVo & fig. 24 flic.kr/p/2o4CyFk .
Jorunna tomentosa fig. 25 flic.kr/p/2o4yGv9
1) Up to 60 mm long, similar size to G. planata.
2) Mantle sandy, buff, or whitish; any other marks few, small and dark.
3) Very small digital caryophyllidia cover mantle densely; velvety appearance, soft feel.
4) Underside of mantle lacks dark markings fig. 26 flic.kr/p/2o4CywC .
5) No whitish, papillate, acid glands on sides of mantle.
6) Foot not much smaller than mantle. Extends well behind mantle when in motion.
7) Head has well developed linear oral tentacles
8) Whitish or yellow gills with no opaque pigment marks encircle brown anus. Base of extended gills surrounded by raised collar.
9) Spawn a broad, strongly crimped ribbon laid in a spiral attached to substrate by one edge. Ova arranged randomly fig. 27 flic.kr/p/2o4DQEw .
Habits and ecology
G. planata occurs at LWS on rocky shores and on oyster beds and sublittorally to 45 m. It is well camouflaged on stone by its dull colours and lack of shadow from its flat profile fig. 28 flic.kr/p/2o4B3GM & fig. 29 flic.kr/p/2o4DgH3 . It feeds on sponges such as Hemimycale columella, Mycale rotalis and Mycale micracanthoxea. It exudes defensive acid from whitish papillate glands on the flanks of the mantle. When disturbed, it tends to remain flattish while it contorts, rather than contracting tightly like Doris pseudoargus. Like other nudibranchs, it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite. In north-west Europe it mates and spawns from late spring to late autumn fig. 29 flic.kr/p/2o4DgH3 . The spawn mass is a broad, undulating ribbon laid in a spiral attached to the substrate by one edge. It is white or yellow, probably changing with age. The ova are arranged randomly in the ribbon; not in discernible transverse lines fig. 20 flic.kr/p/2o4DRgM .
Distribution and status
The range of G. planata has expanded this century and now includes Norway, Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Brittany, Spain and New England (USA), GBIF map www.gbif.org/species/2292467 . A population explosion, including very large specimens, around the year 2000 was observed in the Oosterschelde, Netherlands (van Bragt, 2001, 2004 & 2013). Its timing led to its Dutch name, "Millennium wratslak". By 2005 numbers had declined, but it is still present in the Oosterschelde.
Finds have also increased in Britain and it is found widely on rocky coasts, but it may still be scarce in south-east England, UK map NBN species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000175442
Acknowledgements
For use of images I thank Jim Anderson, Anne Bignall, Rokus Groeneveld www.diverosa.com , John de Jong www.jojodive.nl , James Lynott, Sheilah Openshaw, Allan Rowat, Malcolm Storey www.bioimages.org.uk and Stefan Verheyen.
References and links
Alder J. & Hancock A. 1846. Notices of some new and rare British species of naked Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18: 289-294, pl. 4
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319713#page/312/mode/1up
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1845-1855. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate mollusca. London, Ray Society. Family 1 Plate 8 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/131598#page/118/mode/1up
Rudman, W.B. Geitodoris planata in The Sea Slug Forum www.seaslugforum.net/find/geitplan (accessed December 2022)
Thompson, T.E. & Brown, G.H. 1984. Biology of opisthobranch molluscs 2. London, Ray Society.
van Bragt, P.H. 2001. Geitodoris planata - population explosion in Holland, on the Sea slug Forum www.seaslugforum.net/message/5125
van Bragt, P.H., 2004. The sea slugs, Sacoglossa and Nudibranchia
(Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), of the Netherlands. Vita Malacologica, 2: 3-32, plates 1- 10.
van Bragt, P.H., 2013, Millennium-wratslak, Geitodoris planata (Alder & Hancock, 1846), Soorten, Stichting Anemoon, Netherlands. Accessed 4 November 2022
www.anemoon.org/flora-en-fauna/soorteninformatie/soorten/...
Glossary
caryophyllidia = digital tubercles with terminal knob surrounded by coronet of spikes, like a clove (spice), on some dorid sea slugs.
cephalic = (adj.) of or on the head.
dorid = a sea slug in the infraorder Doridoidei; usually with gills and rhinophores on the dorsum; often shaped like half a lemon or grape.
lamellae = small plates on rhinophores, or leaflets of gill.(sing. lamella)
mantle = (of sea slugs) sheet of tissue forming part or all of notum.
notum = dorsal body surface.
papilla = (pl. papillae) small cone-shaped protrusion of flesh.
papillate = shaped like a papilla or bearing papillae.
plankton = animals and plants that drift in pelagic zone (main body of water).
rhinophores (pl.) = chemo-receptor tentacles on top of head of nudibranch.
tripinnate = (of gill plume) threefold branching; “boughs, branches, twigs” in one plane like a feather.
spicule (in dorid seaslugs) = small, slender, sharp-pointed feature mainly composed of calcite (CaCO3) and brucite (Mg(OH)2) .
stellate = arranged in a radiating pattern like that of a star.
veliger = shelled larva of marine gastropod or bivalve mollusc which swims by beating cilia of a velum (bilobed flap).
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 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.
The annual BHAA Government Services/Social Protection Group's 5 Mile Road Race took place on Tuesday 28th May 2013 at 20:00 in Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland. The course is a fast flat course which begins on the Dunboyne-Maynooth Road between the two entrances to Dunboyne Castle Estate. The race then proceeds in an anti-clockwise direction back to the Dunboyne Athletic Club on the Rooske Road in Dunboyne. The race reaches higher standards with every passing year. Paul Gorey and his team of volunteers must be given great credit for putting on such a wonderful race event. Thanks are also extended to Dunboyne Athletic Club, the BHAA, and the local community who all make this possible.
This photograph is part of a large set of photographs taken at the finish line area of the race. There are also some races of the buildup and the start of the race.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: There were approximately 500 participants .
Weather: A bright sunny evening with little breeze
Course: This course is fully left handed with very little in the way of inclines. Good road surface. These are nice narrow country roads with shelter provided by mature hedgerows. This year the race finished with 3/4 of a lap of the Dunboyne AC track.
Refreshments: Lots and lots as is the tradition with BHAA Events - served outside the scouts hall at the track.
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Our photographs from the BHAA Dunboyne Race 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157629959245726/
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember - all we ask is for you to link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. Taking the photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc.
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Some people offer payment for our photographs. We do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would pay for their purchase from other photographic providers we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
Don't like your photograph here?
That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
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
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 Medina realiza el corte de cinta que deja inaugurada la escuela Andrés Avelino, de 16 aulas, en el municipio de Andrés.
Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana
Nota de prensa:
presidencia.gob.do/noticias/danilo-medina-inaugura-en-boc...
Extended exposure shot of my friend Tim with a Samurai sword. We didn't get the results we were aiming for, but they came out neat nonetheless.
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.
Extended route 66 replaces route 43 in July 1992. Here is 66E journey to Erdington providing 15 Min service in this section.
Location: Birmingham Bull Street
September 1992
HY
Estudiantes y comunitarios se muestran felices y contentos como forma de agradecer la construcción de los hermosos planteles escolares, los cuales les brindarán educación de calidad acorde a los nuevos tiempos.
Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana
Nota de prensa:
presidencia.gob.do/noticias/pedro-brand-y-los-guaricanos-...
Canon EOS 6D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
Canon extender 2x III
1/1000s f/13 ISO800 @400mm
Lightroom 6.4.0 (Android)
2021\02\18
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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...
Fisker Karma EVer Plug-in hybrid limousine. EVer means Electric Vehicle extended range.
This beauty is equipped with a 22kWh Lithium-Nanophosphate battery. The total system output is 403hp. The electric range is 50 miles (80km), the total range when using the GM Ecotec gasoline engine to operate the 175kW generator as well is about 300 miles (480km).
(for further pictures and information please contact the link at the end of page!)
Schönbrunn Palace - History
Already in the 14th century was here a plot of land with buildings. The property was then called 'Katterburg', included a mill and a public house with wine and was in possession of the Klosterneuburg (small city in Lower Austria) Monastery. Over time the property was extended and by 1548 of Mayor Bayer to a manor expanded.
In 1569 the Habsburg Maximilian II purchased the property. His goal was primarily to build a zoo, which mainly consisted of indigenous poultry and wild game. After Maximilian's death in 1576 the Katterburg went into the possession of Rudolph II. In 1605, Hungarian troops destroyed the garden of Katterburg which was then only provisionally repaired. Namesake of Schönbrunn should have been Emperor Matthias, who while hunting on the premises discovered a source in 1612 which spawned crystal clear water.
The Katterburg about 1672
This fountain was so beautiful that he should give the property the future name. Emperor Ferdinand II, the successor Matthias', spent as a passionate hunter a lot of time in Schonbrunn. When he died spent his widow Eleonora Gonzaga, who was also very attached to the Jägertum (passion for hunting) a lot of time in Schönbrunn and indulged from then on a rich social life. This soon demanded a more representative environment as it was the old Katterburg, so she in 1642 had built a castle, whose name Schöbrunn in the same year for the first time was recorded in a document. At the same time she had also the garden broadened and expanded, often offering room for business meetings.
During the second Turkish siege in 1683 the grounds and Gebäulichkeiten (old buildings) were largely destroyed, whereupon the Emperor Leopold I., who acquired the plant in 1686, for his successor Joseph I wanted to have constructed a new building of the castle. For this project, the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was consulted, which submitted a draft in 1688 to prove his architectural skills. Then Fischer von Erlach was hired immediately and has since worked for the court and nobility. Finally, he was commissioned in 1693 by Leopold I to design a concrete blueprint for the castle. Three years later with the construction was begone, and in the spring of 1700 the central wing was completed and habitable. As a result of the Spanish war of succession arose financial gaps, which greatly slowed the progress of construction of the side wings. And when Joseph died suddenly, they were discontinued altogether. In the coming years the unfinished palace served the Wilhelmine Amalie as a widow seat.
Emperor Charles VI. bought the chateau in 1728 with the baroque garden. However, he remained there merely for pheasant hunting. Therefore, he gave the whole castle to his daughter Maria Theresa, who has since always had a heart for the Palace Schönbrunn. This meant the beginning of the first heyday of Schönbrunn Palace. End of 1742, construction work on the castle was resumed and led to the great complex as it is found today. Maria Theresa engaged the experienced architect Nikolaus Pacassi for the management of construction. 1745 the new palais chapel was opened which still completely was based on the plans of Fischer von Erlach. In the following year, already could be moved into the residential and audience spaces in the east wing. Thus, the completion went on until an extension of the castle was needed because the imperial family experienced brisk growth. Between the main floor and the upper floors a mezzanine was inserted with living spaces for the imperial children. The baroque garden was subjected to strict symmetrical order, which was particularly manifested in the application of the flower beds and paths. The beds were in large part made of boxwood and were lined with colorful stones. The plant was like a carpet with rich ornaments.
It was Maria Theresa's desire to accommodate a castle theater in the building. It found its place in the northern courtyard wing and was opened in 1747. The Empress herself namely was a talented singer, and also her children were involved artistically at New Castle Theatre appearing themselves as singers and actors. Yet shortly after 1750, Maria Theresa had to expand the castle one more time, as the imperial family had grown again. In the west wing arose another mezzanine, now leading to the outer appearance of the castle, representing a symmetry and thus the facade could finally be completed. Here ended the first renovation phase.
The second renovation phase was less object of spatial extensions, because rather were made changes to existing premises. The big and the small gallery received a vaulted ceiling with lavish stucco of Albert Bolla and huge frescoes by Gregorio Guglielmi. The result was a masterpiece of Rococo. The neighboring rooms were of a similar standard, and nowhere with rocaille, mirrors, tapestries, paintings, and other precious decorative elements was economized. From 1753 Franz Stephan in the Hietzinger area of the castle park had laid out the so-called Dutch garden, in which arose an extensive collection of exotic plants, which should serve scientific purposes.
Another phase of equipment activities began after the death of Emperor Franz I. Stephan in 1765, Maria Theresa profoundly affecting. In order to express her grief and to commemorate her late husband, she had in the eastern wing numerous rooms equipped to Memorial rooms. In doing so, to her nothing was too expensive, and so arose richly decorated rooms with precious lacquer panels, specially acquired wood panelings from distant lands, finest fabric upholstery and many other exclusivities.
One last important phase of expansion began in the 70s of the 18th century, as Empress Maria Theresa had the gardens by the court architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf of Hohenberg expanded.
Under his leadership, the Gloriette, the monumental Fountain of Neptune, the Roman artificial ruin, the Obelisk, the avenues and all the places and ways with the countless statues and sculptures, mainly originating from Wilhelm Beyer emerged. The design of the whole complex was until shortly before Maria Theresa's death in 1780 under way. From 1779 on, the park was open to the public. After that, the castle stood empty except for the years 1805 and 1809, in which Napoleon Schönbrunn occupied. After the Congress of Vienna in the years 1814/15 came up renewals, which were urgently needed. The facade was given according to plans by Johann Adam a completely new face: He removed the exuberant Rococo paneling and gave the castle its present appearance.
Another golden age began for Schönbrunn when Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1848 took over the Austrian rule. Schönbrunn was in fact already in his childhood his favorite. He inhabited as Emperor the premises of the West Wing, where he remained throughout his life. Except for the audience rooms, the rooms were refurbished in Franz Joseph's living area.
With a comparatively sober and simple setup of bourgeois character they were provided, which enables to conclude on Franz Joseph's personality. Even with the marriage and the arrival of Elisabeth of Bavaria ("Sisi" or the "Sissi") and on the occasion of the later family growth extensive device-specific changes have been made, yet much remained from the time of Maria Theresa. On the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 even a large part has been restored. Extensive renovations, extensions and additions to the Maria Theresa Rococo style were made mainly to the galleries and to the premises in the east wing. The Dutch garden was transformed into an English garden and in it in the years 1880-82 was built the famous Palm House, a huge building made of glass and iron. Now, the final face of Schönbrunn was created, as it is known today throughout the world.
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.