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This is one of the flagship handguns of Alice Custom Works, designed for easy handling and and excellent accuracy of a handgun of it's type. the slide and frame are made out of high-quality steel, the barrel is hammer forged and uses polygonal rifling or standard rifling on order and the bores are chrome lined. the internals are made out of a mix of steel and titanium parts for maximum reliability. The controls are ambidextrous and the sights use tritium inserts for faster target acquisition in night or day conditions. Magazine sizes range from: 8, 10, 13, 15, and 20 round magazines depending on caliber.(.357 SIG version shown with 15 round magazine)

 

Calibers available: 5.45×18mm, 5.7×28mm, 5.8×21mm, 7.62×25mm, 9×17mm, 9×18mm, 9×19mm, .357 SIG, 9×21mm, .40 S&W, 10mm Auto, .45 ACP

 

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With maximum zoom we see the daily Millerhill - Carlisle Kingmoor Yard Departmental working approach the loops at Abington. 66737 is working 6M51, 0620 ex Millerhill. It is usually booked to stop here at Abington but was signallled straight through and was looped at Beattock Summit instead. 66737 was hauling some yellow JNA's and quite a few MHA's all loaded with spent ballast.

Seen at 0859 on the 28th March 2018

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Mᴀxɪᴍᴜᴍ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴜʀᴇ

 

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• 178 Bᴇɴᴛᴏ Sᴇx Aɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴs

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• 2 Bᴇɴᴛᴏ Sɪɴɢʟᴇ Aɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴs ꜰᴏʀ Mᴀɴ

• 4 Bᴇɴᴛᴏ Sɪɴɢʟᴇ Aɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴs ꜰᴏʀ Wᴏᴍᴀɴ

• 16 Bᴇɴᴛᴏ Cᴜᴅᴅʟᴇ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴs

• 74 Bᴇɴᴛᴏ Sᴇx ᴀɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴs

• 1 ML-570 100% Mᴇsʜ

 

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• Mᴇɴᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴅᴊᴜsᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏsᴇs

• Nᴏ ʀᴇᴢᴢ ʙᴀʟʟs

 

• ☒ Tʀᴀɴsꜰᴇʀ

• ☑ Cᴏᴘʏ

• ☒ Mᴏᴅɪꜰ

 

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THIS VEHICLE CONTAINS 20 POSES BENTO

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☑ Cᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴏᴏʀs

 

☑ 3 ᴛʏᴘᴇs ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴇᴅs

• Sʟᴏᴡ

• Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ

• Fᴀsᴛ

 

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Aʟʟ ᴛᴇxᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʜɪɢʜ ǫᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ

 

☑ Hᴜᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴛᴇxᴛᴜʀᴇs

• Dɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀs ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀ

• Dɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀs ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀ

 

Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴏᴍʙɪɴᴇ

ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ ᴛᴇxᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ

 

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Just exited from Stoke Tunnel it is all downhill now to the next stop at Grantham which will briefly see the ton reached once more. The Deltic + 8 semi-fasts required a lot of maximum effort to keep to the schedule - although the 112 - 114mph I occasionally recorded was perhaps a bit over enthusiastic!

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Canyon Trail pond. El Cerrito.

The complex was designed to be single, cohesive facility to support all business activity and public interaction with City Council and staff. Key green features of this project include: rainwater harvesting, maximum daylighting throughout the project, energy efficient mechanical systems and equipment, native landscaping, bike racks, bus stop on site, parking preference for fuel efficient cars and photovoltaics planned on the roof of the Police Department Headquarters.

 

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The three-story City Hall building houses a real-time crime center, funded in part by a portion of the city’s $60 million general obligation bond, on the second floor. That floor will also house the city’s emergency operations center. The third floor is the home for the police chief’s office and other administration and the first floor contains the city's general operations.

 

The complex features the following:

New 70,948 square feet City Hall (CH)

New 67,227 square feet Police Headquarters building (PD)

418 parking spaces HC parking stalls Stroller parking stalls Stalls with provisions for electrical vehicles to meet LEED requirements.

Mechanical Building (MB) to support the entire complex

Attached one story structure that contains The City Chambers Community Room and Staff Fitness Center

 

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Rhododendron maximum ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Rhododendren (Rhododendron) innerhalb der Familie der Heidekrautgewächse (Ericaceae). Sie ist im östlichen Nordamerika von Alabama im Süden nordwärts bis an die Küsten von Nova Scotia verbreitet und wird dort englisch great laurel, great rhododendron, rosebay rhododendron, American rhododendron, big rhododendron, Late rhododendron, Summer rhododendron, Bigleaf laurel, Deertongue laurel, Rose tree, Rose bay, Bayis, Mountain laurel genannt.

Bulbophyllum maximum as a low-growing lithophyte in a place well-protected from fires. Chikukwa, lower Chimanimani Mts, Mozambique.

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Big news, we are announcing the first Hero Tour! next October we will spend 6 days shooting the most remarkable spots around the North Island, New Zealand.

 

We will start the tour from Auckland airport and quickly head to Rotorua, where we'll be shooting lakes and jetties with a few waterfalls and canyons, then on to a night staying up on Mt Ruapehu shooting the Alpine desert and mountains of central north island. If for some reason the weather turns against us we have a backup planned in Waitomo to shoot glow worm caves. After the mountains we head to New Plymouth to shoot seascapes, more mountains, waterfalls and the Lighthouse.

 

The tour starts on October 28th and returns to Auckland on November 2nd. There is a maximum group size of 8 people, 3 places are already filled.

 

You'll be doing this with myself and Dennis Radermacher, both experienced award winning photographers. Whilst there's no formal teaching scheduled we'll be on hand to give help on shooting techniques, and processing during the daytime hours.

 

We are both experienced tutors, first aid certified and have passenger endorsements for transport, and Doc concessions for locations where we require it.

 

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Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

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The Chappel Viaduct is a railway viaduct that crosses the River Colne in the Colne Valley in Essex, England. It carries the Gainsborough Line which now is a short branch linking Marks Tey in Essex to Sudbury in Suffolk. The line previously, however, extended to Shelford in Cambridgeshire.

 

It was completed in 1849 by a company which was later absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway. It is the longest bridge in the East Anglia region at 1,060 feet (320 m), and one of the largest brick-built structures in the country. It was listed at Grade II in 1967.

 

The viaduct consists of 32 semi-circular spans, each of 30 feet (9.1 m) span with tapered piers; it is 1,060 feet (320 m) long and rises to a maximum height of 75 feet (23 m).

 

The seven million bricks used in the construction of the viaduct were made from clay excavated from the nearby village of Bures. It was built to carry a double-track railway but only a single track was laid. The bridge was built by Peter Bruff between 1847 and 1849 for the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury & Halstead Railway, later part of the Great Eastern Railway.

 

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This was shot from the 30th floor balcony of the Blue Horizon Hotel in Vancouver during the Celebration of Light (Canada).

Narayanganj, Bangladesh, 2011.

 

..Sometimes, to experience hell, a physical death is not necessary.

 

Captured from a steel re-rolling mill.

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Op dit zijaanzicht van motorwagen 218 van de Strassenbahnen der Stadt Berlin zijn de Maximum Traction-trucks goed zichtbaar. Deze draaistellen hebben twee grote en twee kleine wielen. De kleine wielen sturen het draaistel in de bogen. Alleen de grote wielen zijn aangedreven. Omdat het draaipunt van het draaistel zich excentrisch nabij de as met de grote wielen bevindt is de adhesie op de aangdreven as toch acceptabel hoog. Door toepassing van maximum traction tracks was het mogelijk om grote vierassige wagens te bouwen terwijl gelijktijdig de kosten binnen de perken bleven doordat er slechts twee motoren nodig waren. De verschillende trambedrijven van Berlijn hebben de maximum traction vierasser enthousiast aangeschaft.

De afgebeelde motorwagen is in 1913 door Linke Hoffman in het toenmalige Breslau gebouwd en heeft tot 1969 in Berlijn gereden. Tegenwoordig is het een van de museumtrams van het kleine trambedrijf in Woltersdorf.

 

Bekijk de tram ook eens van opzij in mijn album "side view".

 

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Old Montana Prison (1871-1979)

My satin camisole is very short so it's easy to reach down and give the stocking tops a little pull upwards. Done with minimum effort and with maximum joy, hence my big happy smile.

September 27-28, 2015, total lunar eclipse, from umbral contact to maximum eclipse.

BP001CSeDrmySHt+0(+BlkMtchd)

 

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15th July 2015 - A different view of the statue of Captain Johnnie Walker (Sub Hunter) forever looking out upon the Western Approaches.

 

The following is taken from the Liverpool Echo website:

 

IT was long, agonising, bloody and the only conflict of World War II which prime minister Winston Churchill said kept him awake at night.

 

But even so, that must have accounted for an awful lot of sleepless nights as the Battle of the Atlantic raged – or simply ground on relentlessly – for the entire span of the war from September 3,1939, to May 8, 1945.

 

Yet without the extreme courage, dedication and ingenuity of Capt Johnnie Walker both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war itself would have been much shorter with Britain forced to surrender to Germany.

 

As an island nation dependent on imports, our merchant fleet could have been crushed by Kriegsmarine and the country starved into early submission to Hitler’s Nazi regime.

 

Winning the Battle of the Atlantic to keep the supply lines open from North America and the West Indies was as important to this nation's survival as had been the Battle of Britain in 1940.

 

Thankfully for all of us, it was a case of “cometh the hour, cometh the man”. Ironically, in spite of his later phenomenal wartime success and nicknamed U-boat Killer Number One, Walker was not always perceived to be a navy high flyer.

 

Born in 1896, Frederic John Walker joined the Royal Navy as a 13-year-old. He passed out top of his class at Dartmouth and received the King's Medal.

 

He fought in World War I and, aged just 21, became involved in the battle against U-boats that was to dominate his career.

 

Walker was one of the first volunteers to study on specialist courses at the newly-formed anti-submarine school at Portland, in Dorset.

 

By 1926, he was Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets. But his field of expertise was not then fashionable, with a trend towards bigger and better surface ships with huge artillery firepower.

 

Yet while the land battle barely started in the first year, a period dubbed the ‘phoney war’, it began at sea within 12 hours and Liverpool was in the front-line.

 

The passenger liner SS Athenia was torpedoed and sunk, out-bound from Liverpool to Canada with the loss of 117 lives.

 

However this was merely a curtain-raiser as Britain and its Allies announced a naval blockade of Germany the day after the declaration of war and Germany responded in kind.

 

In less than a year of Athenia’s loss, the Battle of the Atlantic was at its height in mid-1940. Britain was swept into a deadly struggle for food and freedom, and it made Liverpool central to the Allies' defiance of Nazi Germany.

 

Convoys gathered largely in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to make the perilous voyage across the U-boat infested North Atlantic to Liverpool. Although convoys were the best system to protect merchant vessels, losses of ships and crews were horrendous.

 

As the Battle of the Atlantic spun out of Allied control, in a period dubbed “happy time” by the U-boat crews, Walker came to the attention of Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, and in 1941 was given command of the sloop HMS Stork as senior officer of the 36th Escort Group.

 

While Walker and his family moved into Grassendale Park, Aigburth, on the banks of the Mersey, his escort group’s home was Bootle's Gladstone Dock and its first success came in December 1941 with the protection of convoy HG-76.

 

This was Walker’s chance to prove his theory that the battle should be taken to the enemy, with the offensive use of air and sea forces giving the best chance of doing maximum damage to U-boats while continuing to protect convoys.

 

Yet in 1942 alone, 1,664 Allied ships totalling almost eight million tons were lost, the great majority due to U-boat attacks. While Britain and the Allies were being pummelled on this scale, the invasion of Europe could not be contemplated.

 

Because of this, the gentlemanly Noble was replaced by the tougher Sir Max Horton, who took over as C-in-C at the Western Approaches command bunker, beneath Derby House, Liverpool.

 

Admiral Horton was a World War I submarine commander and his knowledge of this particular warfare led to a new strategy. More destroyers and frigates were needed to chase, harry and destroy the U-boats.

 

In June 1942 Walker was appointed as Captain (D), Liverpool, but he badgered the Admiralty to let him “stop sailing a desk” and go back to sea.

 

As a superlative sailor, Walker was the ideal man to carry out Horton’s advanced strategy and turn the hunters into the hunted.

 

February 1943 saw Walker get his wish with command of the newly-built HMS Starling. Half of his old crew from HMS Stork joined him.

 

The 46-year-old took overall command of the 2nd Support Group comprising escort warships HMSs Wild Goose, Wren, Kite, Cygnet and Woodpecker.

 

The basic theory was to send the escort warships ahead of their convoys and force the U-boat wolf-packs underwater so they could not torpedo the merchant ships, but could be depth-charged.

 

The success of this strategy made his name synonymous with the spirit that helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. He hunted down 25 U-boats and urged his 2nd Support Group.escort group on to other "kills", often through a loudspeaker on his flag ships.

 

In one dramatic offensive, when three U-boats were destroyed, Walker hoisted the historic signal “General Chase”, which had been used only twice before: once by Sir Francis Drake when he sighted the Spanish Armada.

 

He often hunted his victims well away from the merchant ship convoys. On one trip two U-boats were sunk 40 miles away from the convoy. On another occasion, he hunted U-202 to exhaustion over 14 hours.

 

But it was also the increasingly exhausted Walker who faced a premature end as his battle against the U-boats came at a heavy cost.

 

He died on July 7, 1944, two days after collapsing from a stroke during a visit with his wife Eileen to a Liverpool cinema. He was just 47.

 

He had a naval record second to none, with 25 1/2 U-boat kills credited to him, the half being shared by the RAF. His legacy is brilliant, far-seeing concepts for anti-submarine training.

 

Such was his renown that the Admiralty went so far as to state: “Captain Frederic John Walker more than any other won the Battle of the Atlantic.

 

“His methods had amazing success and, more than any other factor, gave the Royal Navy supremacy. No tribute could be too high for the work he carried out.”

 

Captain Johnnie Walker is profoundly deserving of this statue at Liverpool Pier Head, unveiled by Prince Philip, who himself was based at Western Approaches.

So pretty up there. Chewing on a seed while poofed up to keep warm.

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

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Narayanganj, Bangladesh, 2011.

 

A worker pouring molten iron in the dice in a steel re-rolling mill in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

 

Mini's at Donington

1951 Ford F1.

 

Thanks Pierre for the title!

The old steam crane at Gloucester Docks. See next shot for the full picture.

 

HTT!

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