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Finishing work today at 3.30pm meant i was never going to make it down to Winfrith in time for departure time but this is a reasonable record shot of the 2nd train of low level contaminated waste being taken away to Drigg for disposal. With the thick cloud about to give way to some sun, 68016 'Fearless' leads the 6Z95 across Holes Bay with sister loco 68018 'Vigilant' bringing up the rear
Went to Paddys Hole then toward Whitby on the coast road before heading South West across the moors - probably a few hundred miles. It was windy with plenty of tourists about
Langdon Hole.
Not a lot of short-toed eagles around today so I had to make do with half a dozen stonechats and this whinchat.
Stair Hole is a small cove situated immediately to the west of Lulworth Cove. Part of the Jurassic coastline in Dorset England.
Una curiosa cavità naturale si apre, improvvisa, su una scogliera a picco sul mare, nell'isola di Mauritius.
Non vi dico con quale nome i pescatori locali dell'isola chiamano questa... fenditura nella roccia... :)
#mauritius #isle #isola #roccia #scogliera #rocks #mare #indian #ocean #cave #hole #buco #mare #mere #tourism #nostalgia
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The cutouts on the violin are called the F-holes. They help project the sound of the instrument
But for the Smile on Saturday theme, "Shape or Spot the Letter S," I have renamed it, "The S-hole."
It's not a perfect S-hole, but it is a real S-hole!
(Wipe that silly grin off your face!)
For Smile on Saturday
Theme: SHAPE or SPOT the LETTER S
Down In Hole
HDR 7 scatti
Fotocamera: Nikon D700
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 0.400 s
Lente: 14 mm
ISO: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Nikkor AF-S FX 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
The sun was hiding behind the leaf, making the spider and the mitten shaped hole glow, while reflecting a sunburst off the lake
A whole Haunted Hole town of gachas! Picture opportunities galore! Circus! Freebies! Witches! OH MY! Graveyard, zombies, and Gothic! Tis the season! Ghostly, creepy, supernatural! Explore, shop, snap those autumn vibe pics! ! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lythria/225/196/3703
Macro Mondays: Holes (in a grater)
Flickr Lounge: Interesting....perspective and light...maybe? Not sure if this works for the them. Macro photo of a grater with lighting from LED flashlight.
This formation was crafted over thousands of years due to a unique weathering process known as tafoni. It has created a honeycomb pattern and smooth holes in the sandstone.
Sandstone wall in Mud Wash. Mojave Desert, Clark County, Nevada
Mon recipient emaille de bureau aurait bien voulu prendre le temps de poser pour une grosse boite de pub afin de vanter les merites de ses nombreux trous teintes de jaune or.
Langdon Hole.
Mostly flitting through the tree tops but this one came down to an elderberry and into camera range.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
The Ladybower Reservoir is famous for being the location where Barnes Wallis developed the famous bouncing bomb, used during World War II to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the Ruhr area of The Netherlands.
We were hoping to see the reservoir at a higher level and overflowing into the plug hole for a long exposure, but unfortunately, it was not to be.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.