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Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
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We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) work ongoing near Brimmond Hill near Craibstone for Kingswells North junction
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Introducing the 17-inch MacBook Pro. The state-of-the-art quad-core Intel i7 processor delivers up to 2x faster performance (over the previous generation of MacBook Pro). New Thunderbolt technology lets you connect high-performance peripherals and high-resolution displays to a single port, and transfer files at lightning speeds. And with the built-in FaceTime HD camera, you can make astonishingly crisp HD video calls.
The 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt technology (see larger image).With the revolutionary Thunderbolt technology, you'll be able to achieve bi-directional channels with transfer speeds to peripherals like external hard drives and servers up to an amazing 10 Gbps--while also connecting to a DisplayPort-compatible high-resolution display.
As with previous models, the MacBook Pro features a precision unibody enclosure crafted from a single block of aluminum, creating a thin and light mobile computing workhorse (less than 1 inch thin and just 6.6 pounds) that's also highly durable. It includes a 17-inch, LED-backlit glass display as well as a glass trackpad that doesn't include a button (for larger tracking area) that features Apple's Multi-Touch technology. And it comes standard with automatic graphics switching that provides performance when you need it and energy efficiency when you don't. You'll also get up to 7 hours of battery life while on the go.
This version of the 17-inch MacBook Pro (model MD311LL/A) features a second-generation 2.4 GHz Core i7 quad-core processor, 750 GB hard drive, and 4 GB of installed RAM. Other features include ultra-fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth connectivity, an ExpressCard/34 slot, three USB 2.0 ports, and a FireWire 800 port (see full specifications below).
FaceTime HD camera built into the bezel for crisp, widescreen video chats (see larger image).
The backlit keyboard--great for typing in low-light settings (see larger image).Key Features
Revolutionary Thunderbolt Technology
Developed by Intel with collaboration from Apple, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O (input/output) technology delivers an amazing 10 gigabits per second of transfer speeds in both directions. Built into the MacBook Pro, the Thunderbolt port allows you to connect to new Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals as well as existing USB and FireWire peripherals using simple adapters. You'll be able to move data up to 20 times faster than with USB 2.0 and more than 12 times faster than with FireWire 800, and you can daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices without using a hub.
And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, you'll be able to connect to a high-resolution display from the same port. Any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port, and you can also connect displays that use DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA connections with an existing adapter. You'll also be able to include your display into a daisy-chained set of peripherals.
Next-Generation Quad-Core Intel Processor
This MacBook Pro is powered by a second-generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, which provides breakthrough digital media management, content creation, and 3D gaming capabilities. With updated Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, the latest Core i7 increases speed automatically for whatever you're doing, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload.
Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking. And you'll enjoy a rich set of new features for a stunning and seamless visual experience with no additional hardware. The Core i7 processor also provides faster access to the installed RAM, with an integrated memory controller to connect fast 1333 MHz memory directly to the processor.
With new microarchitecture, the graphics processor resides on the same chip as the central processor and has direct access to the 6 MB of shared L3 cache--helping your applications run at peak performance. And an integrated video encoder enables HD video calls with FaceTime, while an efficient decoder gives you long battery life when you're watching DVDs or iTunes movies.
Automatic Graphics Switching
The MacBook Pro offers excellent graphics flexibility with two video processors--the discrete AMD Radeon HD 6770M processor (with 1 GB of GDDR5 video memory) for heavier workloads and an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor for better battery life on the go. When gaming or using processor-intensive applications like Aperture or Final Cut Pro, you'll appreciate the power of the AMD Radeon HD 6770M, which lets you see more frames per second and experience better responsiveness. And the automatic graphics switching feature determines which graphics processor an application needs and switches instantly between the processors.
Buttonless Multi-Touch Trackpad
With no button on the glass trackpad, there's more room to track and click--left, right, center, and everywhere in between. Without a separate button, the trackpad gives your hands plenty of room to move on the large, silky glass surface. It also incorporates Multi-Touch gestures--including swipe, pinch, rotate, and four-finger swipe. And it also now supports inertial scrolling, an intuitive way to scroll through large photo libraries, lengthy documents and long web sites.
How do I explain? Well I was trying to dye my favourite shorts back to the blue colour they should be, I plopped them into the bucket and mixed them around a bit, then rinsed the dye off my hands. Except its not coming off, even after scrubbing with every available household cleaner. It wouldn't bother me except we have bedside teaching on Tuesday with our tutor and I'm going to have to explain it to him and not sound like an idiot. Come on skin, exfoliate!
Update: It's Sunday night and there is still blue areas around my cuticles and knuckles but not too noticeable thankfully. The two best methods for getting it off were
foot scrub and gently shaving with a razor (which scrapes off the top layer of skin).
14 October 2021, 14WS21481 - Peripheral island regions' challenges in the post COVID-19 recovery
Belgium - Brussels - October 2021
© European Union / John Thys
Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
Microchip today announced a new series of its low-cost, high pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs). By blending the key features of Microchip’s existing PICM32MX1/2 and PIC32MX5 MCU families, this latest PIC32MX1/2/5 MCU series delivers designers the benefits of a rich peripheral set for a wide range of cost-sensitive applications that require complex code and higher feature integration at a lower cost. With up to 83 DMIPS performance and large, scalable memory options from 512/64 KB Flash/RAM to 64/8 KB Flash/RAM, these new PIC32MX1/2/5 MCUs are ideal for executing the Bluetooth® audio software required for low-cost Bluetooth audio applications, such as speakers, consumer music-player docks, noise-cancelling headsets and clock radios. Flexible, easy-to-use CAN2.0B controllers are also integrated into these MCUs, with DeviceNet™ addressing support and programmable bit rates up to 1 Mbps, along with system RAM for storing up to 1024 messages in 32 buffers. This feature allows designers to easily employ CAN communication schemes for industrial and automotive applications. For more info, visit www.microchip.com/PIC32MX-Page-110314a
Though Norfolk is nigh, here in Brandon the writ of far-off Ipswich obtains, for we are a few hundred yards inside the county of Suffolk. The peripheral, pine-surrounded town, poised 'twixt fen and heath, must once have been an unremarkable yet decent little country place. That empty Y-shaped open space up ahead must once have been Brandon's Trafalgar Square. Imagine it a couple of hundred years ago. Carts and baskets, straw and dung on the ground, horses stamping and snorting, groups of farmers gossiping, the pieman, the applewoman, shouts and cries, the public houses thronged, brawls with drawn cabbage-stalks.
Well, look at it now ...a tasteful "space" with bollards, subtopianized paving and seat-ringed flower tubs. Here, groups of ferrety, undersized youths in hoodies and jog pants spit and swear and, eschewing the lavishly-provided retro-litter bins, deposit their isotonic Lucozade bottles among the plantings of Primula and Godetia. One heroic grocer intrepidly sets out his stalls a couple of times a week and conducts his trade in the open air, but he's probably flogging a dead horse. Meanwhile, as can be seen from the photograph, this tiny place supports the livelyhoods of two betting shops. Even now, on a Saturday morning, the reconstituted pavé of the High Street is unfrequented save for a few defeated souls on their way to buy lottery tickets from the Spar.
It's a long time since I bought a camera. I now mostly use weighty, bulky TLRs. They're worth it for the image quality, but I do miss the convenience of 35mm. However good the cameras are, a 35mm negative was never meant to be blown up to the size of a wide-screen computer monitor. On screen they never look as good as something taken on 120. Anyway, I was viewing a You Tube video entitled "Cheap Cameras With Great Lenses". One of those featured was the Nikon L35AF. It was a little pocketable, all-automatic point-and-shoot. If the lens was good, I thought, it might be an acceptable alternative to 120 for the more casual, spontaneous type of pic. Reader, for £27.50, I bought one. The only film to hand was an Ilford HP5. I went out to shoot "just anything" ...something I always find difficult. It took me a whole morning to get throught the 36 exposures. The only developer I had was Aculux 3 dating from last summer. Oh well ...it was that or order something else and wait for it to arrive ...with a weekend intervening too. What with that and the dismal light (the sun broke through for a few seconds at the moment of snapping the above) it may not have been exactly a fair test. There is nice grain and nasty grain ...though I'd find it difficult to define where the distinction lies... and most of this film was borderline nasty ...probably attributable to my spastic processing. The camera ...mine is actually the L35AD variant... is totally idiot-proof. It loads the film, advances it after each exposure and rewinds it into the cassette. Point and shoot is really all you have to do. I was extremely sneery about such cameras when I was young and thought all non-SLRs contemptible. For the less interventionist sort of shot there's nothing at all wrong with them, and they would be ideal for the fashionable discipline known as "street" photography. With the right light, a roll of Delta 100 and some fresh DD-X I look forward to some nice results.
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM legal art
The nervous system can be divided into the central nervous system (brain and spinal nerves) and the peripheral nervous system (somatic, autonomic and enteric components). The somatic peripheral nerves carry messages between the spinal cord and body. The sensory nerves carry messages towards the brain, such as information about pain, pressure, temperature and joint position. The motor nerves carry impulses to the muscles to control muscle contraction/relaxation. legal art.
The spinal nerves within the vertebral canal form the spinal cord. The spinal cord starts at the base of the brain, and passes down the vertebral canal. legal art.
The nerves leave the spinal cord through gaps between the vertebrae (intervertebral foramina), and travel to all parts of the trunk and limbs. legal art.
The nerves that leave the neck, or cervical spine, go to the arms.
The nerves that leave the chest, or thoracic spine, go to the chest and belly. legal art.
The nerves that leave the lower back, or lumbar spine, go to the pelvis and legs.
The vertebrae provide protection and support for the spinal cord, in the same way that the skull provides protection and support for the brain. legal art.
If a nerve is irritated by chemical inflammation or physical compression or traction, it may not transmit its messages correctly, or it may spontaneously generate new messages. An irritated motor nerve may not transmit its impulses to its muscle, leading to weakness or paralysis of that muscle. An irritated sensory nerve may not transmit its sensations, leading to a sensation of numbness. The irritated sensory nerve may generate its own impulses to the brain, which can be perceived as paresthesia (pins and needles) or pain in the region of the body that normally transmits along that nerve.
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM legal art
This article was written with the assistance of the following surgeons.
Dr Paul Licina. Dr Licina is spinal orthopedic surgeon, and co-founder of Brisbane Orthopaedic Specialist Services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. www.brisbaneorthopaedics.com.au/paul_licina.html
Dr Matthew McDonald. Dr McDonald is a spinal neurosurgeon based at Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. www.wakefieldneurosurgery.com.au
Dr Richard Parkinson. Dr Parkinson is a spinal neurosurgeon based at St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. www.svph.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Dr Lali Sekhon. Dr Sekhon is a spinal neurosurgeon, and founder of Nevada Neurosurgery in Reno / Carson City, Nevada, USA. www.nevadaneurosurgery.com legal art.
An Australian couple, smart and fun, who I'd met and toured with weeks earlier in Czesky Krumlov.
- I arrived by train from NE Slovakia, stayed at a crowded youth hostel while I spent 2 full weeks in Budapest and saw a heckuva lot. The city's under-represented in this stream (as most of my trips have been til I went digital in 2008). The Hungarians are vigorous and they'll fight and they fought the Turks (off and on for @ 150 yr.s), the Austrians, the Soviets and Romanians in WWII, the Soviets in the 'uprising' in '56, and all comers, and often paid the price in the destruction of their cities. Much renovation can be unhelpful too (whereas "poverty preserves".) Any surviving medieval ruins are precious in Hungary (see my comment to my photo taken in Esztergom). The author of a blog on Medieval Hungarian art writes that "[a]s a result of [so much] destruction in the center of the [Hungarian] Kingdom, the history of medieval art in Hungary has to be written relying heavily on monuments from more peripheral regions - such as Upper Hungary and Transylvania, areas located in present-day Slovakia and Romania. This situation requires strong cooperation among medieval art historians from the region." jekely.blogspot.com/2010/09/destruction-of-centers-of-med... And so Budapest struck me as a late 19th/early 20th cent. confection (but with some really outstanding art nouveau), much of it, like Heroes' square and much of Andrassi st., built in the 'Eclectic style' of the period and in a hurry for the famous millennial commemoration of the Honfloglolas (the migration and arrival of the Magyars in 986) a yr. late in 1897. Having spent 2 weeks in the incredible time-capsule that is Prague and 2 or 3 more in baroque and renaissance Czech and Slovak towns, anything reconstructed or faux-medieval, like Fishermen's bastion, seemed inferior, whether or not that's unfair to say. But there were some amazing highlights in this city which I'll get to.
- FISHERMEN's BASTION (late 19th cent.) and the MATTHIAS CATHEDRAL (14th cent., renovated in the 19th): My first day I headed to the elaborate, faux-medieval Fisherman's Bastion in Buda with its sweeping views, the equestrian statue of King St. Stephen, and toured the adjacent gothic Matthias Cathedral, renovated in the 19th cent. in 'organic Hungarian art-nouveau' in the tiled roof and the interior paint job, but with some medieval sculptural bits too. It was originally completed in the 14th cent. and was the setting for several coronations. The Turks used it as a mosque for almost 150 yrs.
- I toured and took in the following.:
- CASTLE HILL: The grounds of the neo-baroque royal palace on Castle hill, which is covered in restored baroque and renaissance (?) bldg.s, and 2 or 3 with copious bullet holes remaining and preserved from WWII as a testament.
- History (relevant to Castle Hill, etc.), the Soviet siege of Budapest in 1944 in WWII.:
The 108-day siege of Budapest was one of the bloodiest of WWII. By Oct. 29, 1944, the Soviet offensive had advanced to the city with the Soviet troops split into 2 operating divisions (I'm quoting from Wikipedia here and I'll fact-check sometime, as the number given for the advancing Soviet troops was 1,000,000; Is that possible? - "The overall strength of the Soviet forces in the Budapest offensive was 719,000, [per] some sources" [Google AI]), and on Dec. 26 they seized the road to Vienna, completing the city's encirclement and trapping 33,000 German and 37,000 Hungarian soldiers, as well as over 800,000 civilians (again, per Wikipedia). "Refusing to authorize a withdrawal, Hitler had declared Budapest a fortress city (Festung Budapest), to be defended to the last man. ... [But] it was a major target for Stalin" with the Yalta Conference impending. Urban warfare raged and resupply became a decisive factor in an extremely cold winter. The Axis position deteriorated in Pest and "on Jan. 17 1945, Hitler agreed to withdraw the remaining troops from Pest to defend Buda. All 5 bridges were ... destroyed [following the evacuation] including the famous Chain Bridge, dating from 1849." On Buda's hilly terrain, artillery and fortifications sited at a height repelled assaults and slowed the Soviet advance. "Nearby, Soviet and German forces were fighting for the city cemetery for several days amongst shell-opened tombs." The citadel on Gellért hill fell after 6 weeks of fighting on Feb. 11 when the Soviets launched a heavy attack from 3 directions simultaneously. Soviet artillery then dominated the entire city and shelled the remaining Axis defenders who "were concentrated in less than 2 square km.s." The Soviets advanced to Castle hill and on Feb. 10, following a violent assault, they "established a bridgehead on the Hill, while almost cutting the remaining garrison in half." Glider flights with re-supplies and parachute drops had ended a few days earlier, but Hitler STILL forbade the German commander to abandon Buda or to attempt a breakout. Nonetheless, on Feb. 11 some 28,000 German and Hungarian troops began to stream NW away from Castle Hill in 3 waves and with thousands of civilians, but with the Soviets awaiting in prepared positions. The 1st wave surprised the Soviets in the heavy fog and many escaped (5 - 10,000 to wooded hills NW of the city and beyond, and 600-700 troops to the German lines). But the majority of escapees were killed, wounded or captured, and the commanders were captured. The remaining defenders surrendered on Feb. 13. German and Hungarian military losses were high, with entire divisions having been eliminated. Budapest lay in ruins, with more than 80 % of its bldg.s destroyed or damaged. "With the exception of 'Operation Spring Awakening', launched in March, the siege of Budapest was the last major operation on the southern front for the Nazis. The siege further depleted the Wehrmacht and especially the Waffen-SS. For the Soviets, the siege was a final rehearsal before the Battle of Berlin. It also allowed them to launch their offensive on Vienna. On April 13, 1945, exactly 2 months after the surrender of Budapest, Vienna fell." (all Wikipedia) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyje8I5pYb4
- On a city bus in the late 90s in Burnaby &/or Vancouver, I got to talking with a little, old Hungarian ex-pat who had been a soldier for the Axis and then a POW held by the Soviets during or just after WWII, and he was fascinating. He said he survived the Soviet prison camp because he's a little guy and was able to live on the meagre prison diet, whereas 'those big German soldiers' starved to death. (The prognosis wouldn't've been good for me either at 6'4" and 250 lbs.)
- Today, the palace is largely a reconstruction, with various statues and monuments including that of the mythical Turul bird gripping a sword at the Corvinus gate. "In Hungarian tradition, it presumably originated as the clan symbol used in the 9th and 10th cent.s by the ruling House of Árpád." (Wikipedia). According to legend, in 896 the mythic bird dropped its sword (yes, it had its own sword) in what is now modern day Budapest, indicating to the peripatetic Magyars that the area was to be their new home.
- Some original parts and bits of the castle have survived and are now incorporated into the castle's museums. The Palatinal crypt, first used as such in the 1770s, has survived and is now part of the Hungarian National Gallery, which I missed. And a 'Gothic hall' "is one of the most important surviving examples of secular Gothic architecture in Central Europe, built by King Sigismund of Luxemburg in the early 15th cent." (How to see it? Is it part of a museum?) What's been reconstructed and how and why, and what was destroyed in the war and then later under the Communists in the 50s and 60s, when "the palace was gutted", is confusing and is written about in this lengthy Wikipedia entry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buda_Castle
- I took the funicular of course. And I climbed Gellért hill in Buda to the liberty monument (a woman standing atop a plinth holding up a huge leaf - ?), for the famous view of the city on both sides of the Danube.
- A day was spent in the informative Budapest History Museum in the castle complex on the hill with my focus on the earlier artifacts, incl. those of the local Celts of the early 1st mill. AD. (I recall lots of fibulae, some in the shape of cicadae and others designed to resemble cross-bows I think). I read everything and looked it all over, so I didn't get very far. (I planned to return to tour a large room or space with medieval sculpture, but didn't.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fGGoUbrd8
I toured and took in the following.:
- In Pest, the high, domed St. Stephen's basilica (1851-1905), and did some self-guided walking tours in the area of the Danube, up along Andrassi blvd. to Heroes' square (see my photo), etc.
- A guided tour of the incredible Hungarian Parliament, comprised of 691 rooms with 20 km.s of stairs, restored since WWII, one of the planet's most impressive and beautiful bldg.s, built to announce Hungary's 'arrival' and enfranchisement by the Austrians following so many decades of rebellion and strife, with Budapest's assumption of the title of co-capital of the 'Austro-Hungarian empire'. (Read more about it in my description to a photo of its dome and about the 'Holy crown' of Hungary on display in its 'Dome hall'.)
- I had a coffee and dessert in the famous, opulent 'Cafe New York' (1894, Italian renaissance in style) in the New York Palace hotel, one of those things a tourist has to do in Budapest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2zfVMTsIHc
- Szoborpark with its display of Soviet monuments uprooted from @ town and moved there to form a collection, and with bombastic Soviet music playing on a loop (see my photo);
- Some of the 'City park', home to Vajdahunyad castle (1890s), the scale model of Hunyadi castle in Hunedoara, Romania, in a composite with other famous Hungarian bldg.s built for the millenial celebrations in 1896 or 97. (The anniversary of the Honfloglolas was 1896 but I've read that the commemoration was postponed a yr. to 1897 as preparations were still underway in '96.) While I saw the complex from the outside I didn't tour it, which was a miss, it sounds interesting. But I would tour the real, much larger original in Transylvania a couple of months later.
- A day in the National art gallery on Heroes' square, best known for its collection of works by Spanish masters, incl. 5 masterworks by El Greco. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Agony_in_the_...
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- I attended a performance (I forget of what or by whom) in the beautiful (!) neo-renaissance and neo-baroque Hungarian State Opera House (1875-1884), and which was surprisingly affordable.
- 3 bldgs. designed by Ödön Lechner and toured at least 1. I saw his famous bank bldg. as well as I could with its lines of bees climbing up to beehives at the edge of the roof, the Geological Institute (which I think I toured too) with the globe on top, and the Museum of the Applied arts which I toured for most of a day. The video in this link is dated but gives a clue as to the wealth of 'organic' Hungarian art nouveau in Budapest.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr1pfdqWzKk Lechner's 'Museum of Applied arts' is seen from the 9:05 to 9:43 min. pt.s, the Geological Institute from 9:44 to at least 10:12, and his famous bank from 10:38 to 11:00. Here's a video with some more of the local art nouveau with a focus on Lechner's bank, and with some interior shots taken in the superlative Gellért baths (see below). www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVzMOFjoDk
- The 1-km.-long labyrinth of tunnels under the castle with modern art installations but which was cheesy and which I don't recommend. I like cheesy things that are fun or funny or just diverting, but the labyrinth was boring, and that's more than okay if it's edifying, but b.s. shouldn't be boring. I've learned that the tunnels are now promoted as the home of "the labyrinth's prison" where Vlad Tepes, Dracula, was held prisoner in Buda by Mattei Corvin. Ka-ching! There's even a 'Dracula's chamber.' It's really a cheese-fest now. And the Romanians have begun to make similar claims for Hunedoara in Romania. They're untrue. While Vlad did visit Hunedoara to meet with warlord John Hunyadi, Corvin's father, he was held by Corvin upriver from Buda for many years at Visegrad, where they don't mention Dracula (or at least they didn't when I was there that year - ?). www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdNQEAECQE
- The labyrinth is a natural cave reinforced with side walls dating to the 13th cent. "Early residents used the caves for food storage and for water supply. The deep tunnels were also a refuge in times of war or fires, and were used for 100s of years by the residents of Buda Castle. Eventually they were forgotten in time. The winding caves were rediscovered and investigated in the 1930s with city development, and bones were discovered, leading to an exhibition of artifacts and remains. Cellars were opened up, and a winding, maze-like path was revealed." www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/mysterious-... Where are the 'artifacts and remains and bones'? Surely I could learn something about the tunnels' history and use after paying to walk through them. They must've been used in WWII. ?? I can't even find a wikipedia entry for them.
- THE BEST things to see and really experience in Budapest were the thermal baths: the 16th cent. Rudas Turkish baths with a central octagonal pool under a 10 m. wide dome with its small, coloured skylights, a very atmospheric time-capsule; and the similar but smaller 16th cent. Kiraly Turkish baths, claimed to be the oldest in town; and the amazing art-nouveau Gellért thermal baths in the Gellért hotel, Wowee. Visitors swim in geothermal pools within and surrounded by a secessionist work of art. Imagine touring a beautiful art nouveau palace by swimming through it. I missed the much larger, much more crowded Szechenyi baths complex, my biggest miss in Budapest. Much of it's outside in a huge enclosure, and I was in Budapest in the winter, but the pools are naturally heated.
- The park and the 13th - 16th cent. ruins of a Dominican convent and church, home to Ste. Margaret from 1242 to 1271, daughter to King Bela IV, on the 2 1/2 km. long, 1/2 km. wide Margitsziget (Margaret's Island) in the Danube at dusk and after dark, and read all the plaques.
- The huge, restored 'Great' or 'Dohány st. Synagogue' built from 1854-'59, the largest in Europe with capacity to seat 2,964. Entering it was like entering a basilica with its familiar structure and layout, but with oriental or 'Moorish revival' decor. Bombed by the fascist Hungarian 'Arrow Cross Party' on Feb. 3, 1939, it was used "as a base for German Radio and as a stable during WWII, suffering severe damage from aerial raids during the Nazi occupation and then during the siege of Budapest. The damaged bldg. again became a prayer house for the much-diminished Jewish community in the Communist era. Restoration and renovation began in 1991 and was completed in '98." It's unique in having a pipe organ. In fact, "Fransz Liszt and Saint-Saens had played the original 5,000 pipe organ built in 1859." (Wikipedia) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPUyjl5qxDo
- The holocaust memorial in the Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial park nearby, the metallic 'Tree of life' designed by Imre Varga, a representation of a willow with the names of local victims of the Shoah on individual leaves. At least 400,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Nazis. 1/4 of the city's population was Jewish in the 19th cent.
- The apothecary or 'Golden Eagle pharmacy museum', a preserved old drugstore with rows of old jars on shelves, many drawers and such with displays.
- The famous 308 m. Chain bridge /b/ Buda and Pest, guarded by its lion statues. Construction began in 1842 after its engineers returned from a fact-finding mission to London, and was completed in 1849. This and all the bridges crossing the Danube in town were blown up by Axis troops as they retreated to Buda in mid January, 1945. The Chain and the Elizabeth bridges were later rebuilt, the latter being the longest traversing a river anywhere until 1926.
- A day trip (a full day) to the town of Szentendre (St. Andrew) founded no later than the 12th cent., @ a 1/2 hr. away by train. I toured a few churches there, 2 of which are Serbian Orthodox and 1 of those (the Transfiguration church, 1741-46) is a museum, climbed a steeple for the view, and toured the Serbian Orthodox ecclesiastical art (Szerb Egyházi) museum, in an introduction to Orthodox Christian art which I'd see so much more of later and further east that trip. Szentendre had become a Serb settlement in the 18th cent., and today the red-tiled-roofs of its houses, its Orthodox churches aligned to Jerusalem, its twisty roads and alleys, and its 'Mediterranean atmosphere' are preserved. "During the Great Turkish War, Serbs were invited to emigrate to Hungary to evade the Ottoman Empire, and so they (and many Dalmatians) immigrated en masse to the Szentendre region in 1690 where they left enduring traces on the town-scape and its culture." (Wikipedia) In the 18th cent., Szentendre had a Serb majority, but which fell to a minority in the 19th, and by 2001, the Hungarian population of the total of 22,747 inhabitants was 21,001, with 225 Germans and only 100 Serbs. The town was known for its Serb architectural and ecclesiastical heritage in 2000. Do I get a sense from the net that there's been some rebranding since and that it's not so Serb now, just Hungarian? And I wonder what kind of profile Szentendre has today in Serbia. One 19th and 2 18th-cent. Serbian poets hailed from there or lived there, incl. Ignjatović, and Venclović who translated the bible from Old Slavonic to Old Serbian. (!)
- At the Szabo Marzipan museum in Szentendre I saw a terrifying, life-sized statue of Michael Jackson in chocolate, spray-painted silver, in his outfit for the 'Bad' video (and with a facial expression like the one seen in this video at the 1:05 min. pt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA4uLGPbBck ). It wasn't the same edible Michael Jackson statue that they have now which I've just seen online. It was at the entrance, I don't think I toured that museum.
- I went out of my way to see some local Roman ruins, all in an urban setting incl. some under something of an overpass, but the centre of the Roman city of Aquincum, famous throughout the empire for its mineral and thermal springs, in the Archaeological park with its museum, was closed for the season. Another miss. Most of the bronze components of the most complete Roman 'hydraulis' or 'water organ' found anywhere were found here, and in their original order, dating from 228 A.D. The organ had a pneumatic structure, consisted of 52 pipes and 4 registers, and was sounded with 13 keys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRVYfZDKAM
- From Budapest I headed north along the Danube to Visegrad by train or by bus, and then to Esztergom and west to Gyor, etc. ...
This is what boredom does to you on the road
Cruisin' down the highway
We went on many many scary, dark, narrow roads when we were driving. On one particular road, we were driving to our hotel in Peach Springs from the Grand Canyon. It was pitch black and with no people, car, or house in sight, we were completely alone. My dad bravely drove through this desolate road. Suddenly, we saw a light appear ahead and it looked like the north star, only on the ground. As we continued down the road, I realized that it was a passing car so when we passed each other, I slowly turned my head and peered through the dense darkness. I saw a woman. This woman looked like a witch. She had a crooked, big nose with deep and defined wrinkles around her face. I quickly looked away, but her face was still trapped in my mind even when we reached our hotel.
AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) work ongoing at Kingswells South junction at A944 near Westhill
Agonal phase. Patient died within a few hours. The hematology machine could not return an accurate white blood cell (wbc) count, but it has to be in excess of 1 million per microliter.
Mounted the DSi's SD card slot on the top of the board, and hooked up the modified USB SD/MMC card reader to the DSi's NAND flash.
Peripheral on the package
Don't care to settle in
Time to feed the monster
I don't need another friend
Comfort is a mystery
Crawling out of my own skin
Just give me what I came for,
then I'm out the door again
Lie to get what I came for
Lie to get just what I need
Lie to get what I crave
Lie and smile to get what's mine!
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatologist illustrations
Sensation from the skin is relayed along limb and trunk peripheral nerves to the spinal nerves that enter the spinal cord. The spinal cord then relays the sensation message to the brain and our awareness. rheumatologist illustrations.
Each spinal nerve relays sensation messages from a particular area of skin. This skin area is called a dermatome, and each dermatome is named after the spinal nerve that carries its message. rheumatologist illustrations.
For instance the C5 dermatome on the shoulder uses the C5 spinal nerve near the base of the neck to relay its message to the brain. rheumatologist illustrations.
There are seven spinal nerve pairs in the neck, called C2 to C8, which supply dermatomes on the head, neck and arms. This is useful to know as the sensation of pain in a dermatome may be due to irritation to the corresponding spinal nerve that is causing it to send a misleading message to the brain. For instance, compression of the C5 spinal nerve by a herniated disc or degenerative osteophyte in the neck can trigger in the brain the sensation of pain or numbness over the C5 dermatome at the shoulder.
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatologist illustrations
This article was written with the assistance of the following surgeons.
Dr Paul Licina. Dr Licina is spinal orthopedic surgeon, and co-founder of Brisbane Orthopaedic Specialist Services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. www.brisbaneorthopaedics.com.au/paul_licina.html
Dr Matthew McDonald. Dr McDonald is a spinal neurosurgeon based at Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. www.wakefieldneurosurgery.com.au
Dr Richard Parkinson. Dr Parkinson is a spinal neurosurgeon based at St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. www.svph.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Dr Lali Sekhon. Dr Sekhon is a spinal neurosurgeon, and founder of Nevada Neurosurgery in Reno / Carson City, Nevada, USA. www.nevadaneurosurgery.com
rheumatologist illustrations
Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. This was an XK at their display. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route AWPR Aberdeen Bypass under construction at Cleanhill roundabout where fastlink joins main bypass
Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. Some of the plush interior. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
Page 34: Altair 680
These pages, featuring minicomputer kits and peripherals from the MITS Altair product line, were originally clipped from the December 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.
Microscopic photo showing peripheral blood smear form a patient with multiple myeloma exhibiting marked rouleaux formation. The background bluish staining is due to the presence of a paraprotein. Wright-Giemsa Stain. 100x oil. Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Bristol Omnibus Co's no. 89 was one of a group of lesser services, operated from Muller Road Depot, which linked the northern to the eastern suburbs of the city. The "main drag" was by way of Muller Road and Lodge Causeway. I have vague recollections of seeing the 89 parked at its terminus in Soundwell Road, Kingswood, just around the corner from the Tizer factory, when I used to pass by on the 88s.
I'm not sure of the date of this photograph, but the rather snowy early months of 1979 are probable, with Monday 12th February being favourite. Since their introduction in 1973 the "city" fleet's Leyland Nationals had been concentrated at Muller Road Depot, and by this date I think it had no other single-deck type. The photograph was taken in Muller Road, not far from the vehicle's home depot. The Stottsbury Road fare stage has been provided with two bus stops, one for the 89-91 group and one for the 22/3, probably because of peak-hour queues generated by the neighbouring Roman Catholic secondary school.
August 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass near Milltimber junction overbridge, Culter House Road looking south
This is a Peripheral Controller made by OPTi Inc.
I was unable to find much information about this chip other than that it is a peripheral controller. It appears to have been designed in October of 1995 according to the writing in the top right.
Camera: Pixel SONY A6000
Number of Images: 60
Panorama Y Axis: 10 Images
Panorama X Axis: 6 Images
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1.3"
Overlap: 50%
Microscope Objective: 4X
Microscope Eyepiece: DSLR Mount
Grid Used: 4x4 (Panning Movement Aid)
Capture Motion: Serpentine
Stitching Software: Microsoft ICE
Stitching Projection Mode: Planar Motion
Image Type: JPG
Image Quality: 98%
Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. Matt is behind the wheel here. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
Microscopic photo showing peripheral chondroid metaplasia. H & E stain. 20X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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The Emulation Assignment 01: Uta Barth
dWIT (Detailed What It Took):
1. Which photo(s) inspired you. I gotta say that the Uta photos that inspired me the most were those that were most similar to what I already like. Some of the images in the book White Blind (Bright Red) do work for me, like Like Nowhere Near #4.
2. What you liked and/or didn't like about Uta Barth's style. Mostly, her work just did not strike the right nerve...I just don’t get it. When I first started reading about her style, I thought I might be figuring out where she was coming from. But the more I read, the more I did not understand. For me, in the years between her Ground series and the material in White Blind (Bright Red), Uta shifted her approach quite a bit (maybe some would say “evolved”). Her later work includes subjects, focal points…a contradiction to her earlier work, but I like it better.
In the course of studying Uta, I was also put off by some of the writing/interpretation associated with her work. For example, the essay provided by writer Jan Tumlir the book White Blind (Bright Red) was a bunch of psychobabble and complete turn off. I think that if you substituted another photographer’s name, the text would be just as applicable.
In another instance it is stated “Uta Barth aims her camera at the everyday places that are ignored or overlooked, taking note of the incidental and the passage of time, while being deeply engaged with looking at nothing.” link (from). I believe that statement is in no way unique to Uta’s work and that we will find that some of the photographers we study over the coming months will fit that quote nicely.
My favorite is “In a very simplistic way, Barth’s Ground series is to photography what karaoke is to music.” link
I like the idea of not having a easily discernable subject, or no subject at all. However, I think this can also be successfully attained without the OOF/abstract approach.
3. Your thoughts and/or thought process behind your assignment submission. See number four below.
4. How your photo reflects elements of Uta Barth's style. I tried (perhaps as the lazy photographer referred to in the original assignment post) to work toward capturing form and light in a manner consistent with Uta’s OOF images. However, as I am still trying to gain some consistency and understanding in capturing form and light with a focused subject, I am sure that my Barth-esque submission only grazes the surface of truly emulating her style.
5. What you gained as a photographer from studying Uta Barth's work. I certainly gained a greater appreciation of abstract imagery and that it is hard to make an out of focus shot look purposeful. I have also learned to better appreciate the other types of photos that I am consciously or unconsciously attracted to. Learning is always a good thing, and I have learned much. Just image the knowledge gained between now and the end of this year-long effort.
Now, on to Dirty Harry...
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass between Craibstone & North Kingswells
Microscopic photo showing cross section of posterior tibial artery with circumferential medial calcifications, focal ossification, acute hemorrhage and complete luminal occlusion. Evidence of recanalization is identified. H & E stain. 10X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
Here we are on the peripherals of the Concours d'Elegance, and Bob and Matt are taking a test drive in the Jaguar XJ. This was an XK at their display. The video is available at www.sweetingmedia.com, and www.youtube.com/powerbrakeservice#p/u/5/rztGfndOtIg. The ride was smooth, the power was definitely there, and the interior was... well it was very nice! Personally I would go for the XK, because I'm not into the back of the roofline on the XJ, but I have nothing else bad to say about it.
Sponsored by Power Brake Service - Changing the perception of brakes from pads and rotors to rocket science since 1950. Performance Hydro-Boost™ & AIRMASTER™ Brake Systems www.powerbrakeservice.net
About Power Brake Service:
We build and Rebuild endless varieties of new and classic brakes for every type of vehicle and trailer. The company was started by George Sweeting in 1950 who worked for the railroads and Lockhead, it is now run by his son Bob Sweeting who learned about modifying cars while drag racing in the 60's, and Bob's son Matt Sweeting (who grew up in all of this) is taking over more and more responsibilities. We were a Warehouse Distributor for Bendix for 20 years until they sold they sold their Power Brake Division to Bosch, which is when we became a special modification contractor with Bosch for their power brakes - which come on most new American vehicles. Our ability to design brake systems, rather than just replace rotors and pads, has taken us to amazing places and we have worked on amazing projects. We have:
Hydro-Boost Conversions
Vacuum Brake - Conversions, Upgrades, and Modifications
Wilwood and Brembo Disc Brake Kits
Master Cylinders
Stainless Braided Hoses
Classic Car / Muscle Car Stock Brake Restoration and Rebuilding (Corvette, Camaro, Chevelle, Mustang, Ford & GM Truck, Mopar, Rolls Royce)
Light Truck / Medium Truck Hydro-Boost Replacement Parts and Conversions
Medium Truck / Heavy Truck Hydro-Max, Air brake, and Air-hydraulic systems - and Hydro-Max Conversions for the obsolete Delco Hypower
Conversions for the obsolete Buick Grand National, T-bird SC, Land Rover, Jeep and all other electric brake booster / electric powermasters
Modified brakes for Altered Bed Fleet Vehicles
Modified sensitivity for the Handicaped
Disc/Drum and Disc/Disc Proportioning Valves
We have worked on everything from propane powered trams to roller coasters, cranes, parade floats, multi engine street rods, classic european cars, double decker buses, and a Freightliner racing truck. Our favorite is working on big engine muscle cars that make too little vacuum and need more stopping power.
In a patient with an undocumented history of "sickle cell trait," presenting with a pain crisis, and a previous admission for priapism. I suspect he has hemoglobin SC disease (that is, he's a mixed heterozygote for hemoglobins S and C). Hemoglobin 14 g/dL with 3% reticulocytes.
This is posted as a florid example of target cells (codocytes) in the peripheral blood.
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
Microscopic photo showing cross section of posterior tibial artery with medial calcifications and 99 % of luminal stenosis. H & E stain. 10X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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St Helen, Bishopsgate, London
1995 priest's doorway by Quinlan Terry.
Here we are amidst the Dubai-ification of Bishopsgate, and yet the west frontage of St Helen is rather pleasing in its little courtyard beneath the Aviva building. It is a different story to south and east, however, for although the Gherkin has created a focus for St Mary Axe, the peripherals of the space are messy and ill-considered, and beside St Helen the car park entrance has all the charm of the neglected bit of a provincial shopping centre. However, all this will go for the construction of the City's tallest tower, the Undershaft building, and the two lower storeys being left open will give St Helen and its near neighbour St Andrew Undershaft the chance to talk to each other for the first time in centuries.
Uniquely in the City, St Helen has a double nave, and this is because it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery, established here in the early 13th Century. There was already a parish church on the site, and a new nave for the sisters was built to the north of the parish nave. There was a major restoration in the early 17th Century which gave the exterior much of its current character, and the church was far enough north to survive the Great Fire. The Blitz also did little damage here, and St Helen might have continued being a pleasant if rather sleepy medieval survival among the office towers were it not for two significant events.
The first was the Baltic Exchange bombing on the night of 10th April 1992. A one tonne semtex and fertiliser bomb was exploded by the IRA immediately to the south-east of the church, its intention to cause as much damage to property as possible. In this it succeeded, for the £800 million repair bill to the City was almost twice as much as the entire repair bill for all the other damage caused by IRA bombs in the British Isles since the current spate of Troubles began in 1969. The south wall of the church was demolished, the interior blown out by blast damage. Repairs were already underway when the second event to shape the current church occured. On the morning of 24th April 1993, a Saturday, the IRA exploded another one tonne bomb, this time of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, on Bishopsgate, to the north-west of the church. Thus, the little church found itself exactly between the two largest terrorist bombs ever exploded on the British mainland. This time the west front was demolished, and blast damage took out all the windows and furnishings again.
The building's rebirth was very much a reflection of the character of its congregation. Unusually for the City, St Helen is very much in the staunch evangelical protestant tradition. The pre-1992 church had been full of the clutter of those resacramentalising Victorians, but controversially the architect Quinlan Terry was commissioned to design an interior more fitting for the style of worship at St Helen. Anti-modernist, anti-gothicist, anti-conservationist, Terry is an architect so far out of kilter with the mainstream of British design that it sometimes seems as if he is working in an entirely different discipline, running in parallel with the rest of the architectural world. Previously, his most significant church design was for Brentwood Catholic Cathedral, which has been described as having all the style, grace and charm of a shopping centre food court. It was never going to end happily, either for the conservation bodies or the City traditionalists.
Terry's reinvented St Helen is a preaching box for protestant worship. Memorials have been relegated to the south transept, and the rood screen moved across it to separate it from the body of the church. The two naves have been united in a cool, square, white space, the focus of the church turned to face the north wall. It is as if the Oxford Movement had never happened. And yet it is all done well, with that infuriating veneer of seemliness that so much of Terry's work conveys.
Well, you wouldn't want all medieval churches to be like this, but churches are constantly changing to suit the style of worship of the day, and so it seems fitting that St Helen should have been reinvented this way. Much of the outcry at the time must have been because the Bishopsgate bomb vaporised St Ethelburga, St Helen's near neighbour, a small surviving medieval church, and it was felt rather willful that another medieval church was being gutted by those who might have been thought responsible for saving it. Me, I'm not so sure. Church communities should have their head to design their churches to suit their current worship, otherwise we would not have the extraordinary accretion of historical artefacts that the great majority of England's 16,000-odd medieval churches now contain. St Helen is a good example of what can be done by people with passion and enthusiasm in the face of apocalyptic destruction. This was true after 1945, and it was true after 1993. Mind you, I'm not sure we'd have the confidence to do the same thing now.
This is the room prepared to be operated by the BBC to communicate with the outside world. From here the Prime Minister would tell a frazzled country, all without power or working electrical devices, not to panic.
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