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The Ion (or i0n in Peugeot speak) was the first electric car from Peugeot. In fact it is a rebadged version of the Mitsubishi i MiEV. Partly due to its very small size the car isn't succesful. In the Netherands most were used for a car-share project.
A.K.A. the guppy, this small personal space craft is made for short-distance travel. its highly advance compact lightweight frame comes equipped with a life support system, and a low energy deflector shield for protection against space debris, and features 2 pairs of ion cannons for self defense.
Choose the U.L.P.T. for your next flight around the moon!
Here is an LXF file for those that are interested in having it: www.dropbox.com/s/jvyb2nelbflxd9j/The Guppy.lxf
please be sure to give me credit for the model and design, and if you use it in anything cool be sure to let me know :)
The display by Louis Vuitton at the outdoor space of ION Orchard, Orchard Road for the Christmas Festival.
The Dish at Stanford is a nature reserve. I think it gets its name from the radio telescopes that dot the landscape.
I was walking along the dish at sunset, when I noticed that the sun had aligned with one of the radio telescopes to cast a subtle shadow across the path. I knew my lens would create many-pointed sun-stars if I stopped it down, so I positioned myself at the edge of light and shadow along the path, took out my tripod, stopped the lens really far down and got the shot.
ⓒ2017 Youngjin Ko
2017/04/08
ION LRT Open house, Features 2017 Flexity Freedom #501 and Their Maintenance Facility.
Derrière le bastingage l'île de Vromonas (Βρόμονας).
Behind the rail: Vromonas island.
îles ioniennes (Ionian islands, Ιόνια νησιά), Grèce (Greece, Ελλάδα)
The Ultimate Green Lantern has all of the powers of a Daxamite, a power ring, and is the avatar of the green OAN energies. He is beyond overpowered. Someone should be.
ION 2017 Bombardier Flexity Freedom 502B is seen passing through the intersection of King Street North & Conestogo Road while servicing route 301 ION northbound to Conestoga Station
The Xmas tree, Gift of Hope, display at the plaza of ION Orchard, Orchard Road for Christmas 2020 Festival.
ION 2017 New Flyer 'Xcelsior' XD40 21766 is seen on layover at Ainslie Street Transit Terminal while servicing route 302 ION westbound to Fairway Station
Dipping into Saturn's atmosphere...
Or an inverted infra-red view of the "Tree of Life" by Phil Price.
ION Orchard formerly known as the Orchard Turn Development or Orchard Turn Site, is a shopping mall by Orchard Turn Developments Pte Ltd, a joint venture between CapitaLand and Sun Hung Kai Properties. It started operating on 21 July 2009, occupying 335 food and retail outlets.[1] [2] The Orchard Residences, a high-rise residential condominium, was completed in with the shopping mall under the same developer, manager and owner in 2010.[3] It owned a 99-year leasehold with effect from 13 March 2006.[4] Wikipedia
www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift/english/preface....
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN UNIVERSITIES in the Communist Countries:
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An example of a "Technical Drawing" Selection Test: the candidate was given five hours to produce an ink drawing, entirely in free hand, from a picture which he had to enlarge 1.5 times. The picture above is a genuine article (Romania 1959)
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There were only 60 places nation-wide for admission to the school of Architecture in Bucharest, in the "People's Republic (later the Socialist Republic) of Romania, a country of some 20 million inhabitants.
Each year the number of applicants were in the upper hundreds, an average of 10 to 15 candidates for each place.
After the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and during the peak of the Cold War an acerbate discrimination process was waged against children from a middle class background (the upper class by that time all but disappeared in the gulags and on the factory floors or rice paddies like during the Chinese Cultural revolution).
In practice the University entry selection had TWO phases or two rounds of admission exam:
The earlier round of admission exams was intended SOLELY for those candidates considered of coming from a "Healthy social class" that was the "politically correct" class (in today's parlance - call it workers and peasant's children, without the discomfort of competition of those children considered more gifted as they came from the "unhealthy social class" (origina sociala nesanatoasa) or the middle class of professionals (scientists, academics, teachers, office clerks, etc). furthermore, the "healthy class" progeny candidates who failed the first round of exams were allowed to compete again some two weeks later, in the second round, that is to be given a second chance to get in, yet this time having to compete against all other candidates...
The exams were structured in two groups: a first tier the "technical drawing test" such as this, where the applicant was given five hours to enlarge by 150% a picture showing a classical order(see above) and to draw it to scale in ink.
The second test involved also a classical drawing, this time from a plaster cast and it had to be drawn in pencil on a large piece of paper some 20 inches by 30 inches.
Those who would pass the first two tests were admitted to the second tier of tests which involved both written and oral maths and physics exams.
Furthermore to the above there was a quantum based on social and political positive discrimination in favour of the children from peasant and working class background and of those children whose parents were part of the communist party apparatus.
In addition, if for example you had a close family member in prison, or exiled in the West, or if your family had their house, land or business nationalised/expropriated, than you might just as well not have a hope in hell to become an architect in Romania!
NOTE that in secondary schools the national curriculum was not geared to the level required for admission to the School of Architecture in Bucharest, so parents had to pay "blood money" for private tuition, in order to improve their children chance at passing the disqualifying tests. Private tuition was nearly unaffordable in a communist society, where wages were at the survival level (except for the communist fat cats) and it was the privilege of a restricted circle of academics from the school of Architecture to profit financially from such a corrupt system by preparing the candidates for the exams!
The chances of any child whose parents were from the professional middle classes and were not communist party card-holders to be admitted at the school were absolutely NIL.
Finally the privileged few who were admitted to the school, selected on positive discrimination criteria, had later on, during their professional life, the opportunity, at best, to build chicken coops and silos for state farms, concrete tenements in the cities for the under dogs and especially the task of razing to the ground historical monuments, churches, city centres and villages in order to make room for the dictator's pharaoh ideas of planning architecture during the dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s.
NOTE: after the so-called 'revolution' which put down the Ceausescu couple in a coup-de-palais, the same crop of architects who were selected on the basis of positive discrimination to qualify professionally benefited from the spoils of opportunities to demolish historic buildings and replace them, wantonly with glass and steel structures in the best tradition of Cultural Terrorism
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ION Orchard, formerly known as the Orchard Turn Development or Orchard Turn Site, is the retail component of an integrated retail and residential development by Orchard Turn Developments Pte Ltd, a joint venture between CapitaLand and Sun Hung Kai Properties. It started operating on 21 July 2009, occupying 335 food and retail outlets.
© YT 2018.
ION 505 (2018 Bombardier Flexity Freedom) is seen at University of Waterloo Station, not in service.
© YT 2018.
ION 21764 (2017 New Flyer XD40) is seen at Sportsworld Station, on Route 203 iXpress Maple Grove.
ION 2017 New Flyer 'Xcelsior' XD40 21759 is seen pulling into Fairway Station while servicing route 302 ION Bus westbound to Fairway Station
Tunisair / B733 TS-ION / Frankfurt Rhein-Main [EDDF/FRA]
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