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Seen relaxing in the always-serene shallow pond along the shore of Yellowstone Lake at Pelican Point. Yes! The drake's beak is blue!
Okamura Heavy Industries K8U Bettō Frame
After losing market share to their competitors’ more adaptable, more flexible and less complex frames, Okamura Heavy Industries has launched their first new frame in almost 5 years. The Bettō Frame was designed from the ground up to go toe-to-toe with any entry level frame currently in production. With the Bettō Frame, Okamura is putting the crosshairs firmly on the market segment that is currently ruled by the ST-07 CHUB, Landscript, VS-04 Rangi, and Nomad.
This frame is pretty derivative of some other ones that I’ve seen floating around here or there, but I’ve had it sitting around for long enough that I couldn’t relocate the source material. Proper attribution will be provided if and when I find the source inspiration.
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Built for Mobile Frame Zero - a tabletop wargame.
Mobile Frame Hangar (MFZ Community Forums).
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There is a value to human error: the ability to self destruct.
If you haven't noticed, I have a mild fascination with technophobia.
We live in a time where society is constantly creating ways to eliminate work; each update means another way of living, and these are increasing rapidly. People grow to fear technology due this vision of the future of society; where people not only become less significant to each other, but also become less significant to their devices.
Which brings up one of the central themes in futuristic sci-fi: we'll all be reduced to numbers as opposed to individuals. Serial codes belong on pieces of technology, however our dependency on progress could eventually switch around so that humans become the puppets that are programed.
In contrast to this idea is the fact that machine's only purpose is to be utilized. Without the humans, progress would barely continue and gradually cease to exist.
It comes down to the only power humans would have left -- human error: the ability to make mistakes and to self destruct.
I suppose I'm lucky because the last week or so an array of Insects has been alighting on my hands! Today I picked my way through the park and the marshes between the Gaasp and 'Het Gein', two small rivers on the outskirts of Amsterdam. I don't know what the derivation is of the word 'Gein' as in the name for this small river; but 'gein' is a relatively colloquial word in Dutch to denote a joke or the having of fun.
As I walked in the new suburb Gein (first established in the early 1980s), Wasp Netelia decided my fingers were hospitable. But no, they are not Moth Caterpillars! That's what Netelia, an Ichneumon Wasp, was after, of course. She deposits her eggs in the living caterpillars, which are then eaten from inside out while still alive. Pretty gruesome and less than fun, I imagine (although I have no idea whether Caterpillars feel pain). The great Charles Darwin was so turned off by this phenomenon that he wrote his American friend, the famous botanist Asa Gray, in 1860, that this was the reason he could not believe in a Benevolent God.
As for the name Netelia; I assume it's derived from a post-classical Latin word: netus, which means something like 'thread' or 'string'; presumably to denote the threadlike, 'thin' appearance of these Ichneumon Wasps.
Today, the Amur leopard inhabits about 5,000 km². The last remaining viable wild population, estimated at less than 40 individuals, is found in a small area in the Russian Province of Primorsky Krai, between Vladivostok and the Chinese border.
In adjacent China, fewer than 10 scattered individuals are estimated to remain. In South Korea, the last record of an Amur leopard dates back to 1969, when a leopard was captured on the slopes of Odo Mountain, in South Kyongsang Province.
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88002 rolls towards Carlisle Citadel with a Daventry to Mossend intermodal working on 7th October 2017.
Well Gentlemen — How well are you enjoying the first seven hours of your Fabulous Vegas Vacation since your arrival at 9am at McCarran International Airport? Because you were using the MLife mobile app on your Apple iPod, you knew your room assignment at the NY-NY Hotel & Casino long before your Frontier Airlines flight made its landing at McCarran International — So you went directly to your hotel room without standing in line at the reception counter! It took you less than half an hour to walk from the NY-NY Hotel & Casino to the nearest Walgreens to bag your toilettes for the week, and to get enough BodyArmour hydration for the first three days of your seven day vacation. Because you were using the OpenTable reservation mobile app, you had made Primetime lunch reservations for your first three days here weeks in advance! So the hostess at Mon Ami Gabi at The Paris Hotel & Casino was expecting you at 2pm and she had already programmed in a nice airy and sunny patio table for your solo lunch. The 108 degree afternoon heat on the Vegas Strip didn’t bother you! Your stroll across S. Las Vegas Blvd from the Paris to the Bellagio was a leisurely stroll and you presented yourself at the swanky Petrossian Bar just in time for ‘Happy Hour!’
So are you starting to feel the inklings of that far elusive phenomenon commonly known as ‘Island Time?’
So how does ‘Island Time’ feel to you as you leisurely make your way from the Bellagio to the Aria to Park MGM and finally back to your comfy and air conditioned guest room at the NY-NY Hotel & Casino for perhaps an afternoon nap? This is the first Vegas trip in nearly 30 years of ‘Living Las Vegas’ in which you have nothing planned other than doing not much of anything! Viva Las Vegas!! 😎
Japanese cars of this era are commonplace throughout Cyprus, the MK1 Accord less so as this was the only example I saw. It looks to be a British import.
Note the Mk4 Ford Escort XR4i convertible in the background. This model is fairly common in Cyprus, all other specifications much less so.
Photographed near Kyrenia.
Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. He has begun to work as a photographer at the age of 18 and joined the Photographer.ru agency in 2003, the same year that he was selected as a finalist of the Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. He moved to Moscow in 2005 where he is still based. In 2008 he was a finalist in the biggest independent Russian award in contemporary art, the Kandinsky Award and in 2009 Alexander Gronsky won the Linhof Young Photographer Award.
Gronsky's photographs have been published in Ojode Pez, Art + Auction, Intelligent Life, Esquire Russia, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveller.
Russia is always the main subject of Gronsky's photographs. By photographing the vast empty landscapes he investigates the notion of psycho - geography, the effects of the geographical environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. Less Than One is about the remote regions where the population is less than one person per square kilometer.
You can get on a plane in one place in Russia, fly for ten hours and find yourself in the same Russia, same forest, same hills and same block building.
© Alexander Gronsky
(1963 on left, 1991 on right)
Just an odd one - the name of the Sailboat and flag have changed.
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, 1963 vs 1991 editions (with revisions). The 1963 edition is my own, bought for me in the late 60's when I was a toddler, and read to tatters. The 1991 edition belongs to my kids today. I was so familar with the older one that I immediately started noticing a few differences, and so have catalogued 10 of the more interesting differences here in this collection.
The company originally produced a range of small basic leather goodies, such as leather products for the upper of shoes, suitcases, upholstery and shoe soles. The quality was apparently that good the company won a myriad of medals for its products.
by maanel
Pattern source: maanel's Ravelry downloads
Yarn: Mondial Superwool, 5 skeins
Needles: 4,5 mm
Lovely simple shawl. The yarn was a gift from Tea. ♥