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"Trees are indispensable resources that are required for the survival of all living beings. They ensure the stability of our ecosystem by offering food and shelter to diverse living creatures, including animals, birds, insects, fungi, etc."
Aston Martin DBS is a 6.0-litre V12 powered, race-bred, two-seater shaped by the aerodynamic demands of high performance, with an exquisite interior that marries beautifully hand-finished materials with the very latest in performance technology. Race-derived materials and components and Aston Martin’s unrivalled hand-build expertise makes the DBS a luxury sports car without equal.
Aston Martin DBS Specifications:
Body:
- Two-door coupe body style with 2+0 seating
- Bonded aluminium VH structure
- Aluminium, magnesium alloy and carbon-fibre composite body
- Extruded aluminium door side-impact beams
- High Intensity Discharge headlamps (dipped beam)
- Halogen projector headlamps (main beam)
- LED rear lamps and side repeaters
Engine:
- All-alloy, quad overhead camshaft, 48-valve, 5935 cc V12. Compression ratio 10.9:1
- Front-mid mounted engine, rear-wheel drive
- Fully catalysed stainless steel exhaust system with active bypass valves
Projected Performance figures:
- Maximum power: 380 kW (510 bhp/517 PS) @ 6500 rpm
- Maximum torque: 570 Nm (420 lb ft) @ 5750 rpm
- Maximum speed: 307 km/h (191 mph)
- Acceleration: 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 4.3 seconds
Transmission:
- Rear-mid mounted, six-speed manual gearbox
- Alloy torque tube with carbon-fibre propeller shaft
- Limited-slip differential
- Final-drive ratio 3.71:1
Steering:
- Rack and pinion
- Servotronic speed-sensitive power-assisted steering
- 3.0 turns lock-to-lock
- Column tilt and reach adjustment
Wheels & Tyres
Wheels:
- Front: 8.5" x 20"
- Rear: 11" x 20"
Tyres:
Pirelli P Zero
- Front: 245/35
- Rear: 295/30
Suspension:
Front:
- Independent double wishbone incorporating anti-dive geometry
- Coil springs
- Anti-roll bar and monotube adaptive dampers
Rear:
- Independent double wishbones with anti-squat and anti-lift geometry
- Coil springs
- Anti-roll bar and monotube adaptive dampers
Adaptive Damping System (ADS) with Track mode
Brakes:
Front: Ventilated carbon ceramic discs, 398 mm diameter with six-piston calipers
Rear: Ventilated carbon ceramic discs, 360 mm diameter with four-piston calipers
Dynamic Stability control (DSC) with Track mode, including anti-lock braking system (ABS), electronic brakeforce distribution (EBD), emergency brake assist (EBA) and traction control.
Dimensions:
Length: 4721 mm
Width: 1905 mm excluding door mirrors, 2060 mm including door mirrors
Height: 1280 mm
Wheelbase: 2740 mm
Fuel tank capacity: 78 litres
Weight: 1695 kg
Interior:
- Semi-aniline leather and Alcantara interior
- Matrix alloy facia trim and Iridium Silver centre console finish
- Carbon-fibre door trims and door pulls
- Auto-dimming rear-view mirror & garage door opener (USA and Canada only)
- Sports seats with ten-way electric adjustment, including height, tilt and lumbar adjustment
- Memory seats & exterior mirrors (three positions)
- Dual-stage driver/passenger front airbags
- Side airbags (sports seats only)
- Heated seats (sports seats only)
- Heated rear screen
- Automatic temperature control
- Organic Electroluminescent (OEL) displays
- Trip computer
- Cruise control
- Hard Disk Drive (HDD) satellite navigation system*1,2
- Bluetooth telephone preparation*1
- Powerfold exterior mirrors
- Front and rear parking sensors
- Tyre-pressure monitoring*1
- Alarm and immobiliser
- Remote-control central door locking and boot release
- Battery disconnect switch
- Battery conditioner
- Tracking device (UK only)
- Boot-mounted umbrella
*1 Not available in all markets
*2 Includes Traffic Messaging Channel (TMC) in Continental Europe
In-car entertainment:
- Aston Martin 700 W premium audio system with Dolby® Pro Logic II®
- MP3 player connectivity
Optional Equipment:
- Lightweight seats with six-way adjustment, including front and rear height adjust (Does not include side airbags or heated seats feature. Not available in USA or Canada)
- 20" alloy wheels with graphite finish
- Satellite radio system (USA only)
- Piano Black facia trim and centre console finish
- Leather storage saddle
- Personalised sill plaques
- Auto-dimming interior rear-view mirror*1
- Auto-dimming interior rear-view mirror with garage door opener (Europe only)
- Alarm upgrade (volumetric and tilt sensor)
- Tracking device*3
- First-aid kit
- Ashtray and cigar lighter
*1 Not available in all markets
*3 Complies with UK Thatcham Category 5 requirements. Excludes subscription. Standard in UK.
The church of St.Augustine at Brookland, Romney Marsh, is both distinctive and idiosyncratic featuring - as it does - a separate wooden belfry of a size and type not found anywhere else in Britain, nave arcades leaning at a bizarre angle away from each other and a 12th century font made of solid lead and decorated with the signs of the Zodiac.
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Looking first at the bell tower, its core is thought to be late 12th century and was originally open to the elements but was clad with shingles in the 15th century and doubled to its present height of 60 feet. One suggestion is that instablity in the ground may have made building a conventional church tower impractical and certainly the nave arcades demonstrate there is a stability problem on this site. The strange tower was the subject of an 80 page poem in 1786.
An examination in 1900 suggested the tower may have been an open campanile with only the ringers' stage enclosed at first.
Once again the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust guide and the church guide differ on dates - the trust suggest the site was first occupied around 1200, the church guide suggests circa 1250 but it concedes that a Norman church may have pre-existed as some worked stone is found in the south aisle.
The nave arcades are unsymmetrical - six bays on the north side and seven bays on the south side - and these lean outwards due to poor quality subsoil. Part of the south arcade is 'out' one foot in a height of 14 feet which one church architect has noted is beyond the theoretical point of collapse. Truly this is Romney Marsh's 'Leaning Tower of Pisa'. Movement has continued this century and half an inch has been registed in 80 years.
A medieval wall painting [not photographed by me] of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket was found as recently as 1964.
The 12th century lead font, one of only 30 to survive in Britain, is 12th century and may be Norman or Flemish in origin. It is ornamented in two tiers of arcading with the Signs of the Zodiac and the Labours of the Months.
On display near the door is a surviving 'hud' - a wooden sentry box-like structure which was reserved for the minister to stand inside at the grave and deliver the funeral service in the pouring rain in the days before umberellas were invented. Designed to protect his wig this is thought to be 18th century in origin.
Special mention should also be made of 'The Battle of Brookland' fought on the night of February 11, 1821, between Coast Blockade [Revenue] officers and a party of smugglers. In a running battle from Camber beach where the contraband had been landed, a gang called 'The Blues' lost four dead and 16 wounded while two midshipmen from the Coast Blockade were wounded and their leader Mr McKenzie was killed. The Old Bailey trial of captured smugglers saw one man executed and another acquited.
Brookland village surgeon, Ralph Hougham, was often called out to treat wounded from both sides in these encounters but he would be led blindfolded on horseback to the smugglers to prevent him giving them away or being asked to appear in court and give evidence on oath.
Special mention should also be made of the grave in the nave floor of Capatin George Snoad aged 12 years, of the 19th Lancers, who died in 1829 in unrecorded circumstances. In those days army commissions were still purchased but I was unaware that a 12-year-old could make captain. There is a 'finger grease' mark on his tombstone where clearly everyone else has wiped the '1' to check it really is 12 and not 22!
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Marines with the Ground Combat Element, Black Sea Rotational Force 11, spent a few days in the Horno Canyon for urban warfare training using simulation paint rounds as a part of a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force deploying to the Black Sea, Caucasus and Balkan regions. BSRF-11 has a unique mission to help promote regional stability, build partnerships with host nations and advise military training capacity of European armed forces training with U.S. troops. The GCE consist of Marines from various companies within the Anti-Terrorism Battalion, Bessemer, Ala. March.14, 2011
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And a little jazz tune from planet earth:
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When I was in my 40's, I used to dress up and go to a cigar club owned by one of the Hollywood legends on Saturday nights. It had smoky mahogany walls and ceilings and beautiful, rich red elegant chairs that one could almost melt into, fantastic oil paintings on the walls.. I was often the only woman there, and those of us there knew we were there for the gorgeous piano jazz. The place is gone now, but I have lovely memories of the music, and can go back if I close my eyes.
And my baby is a beauty person to my side. She conveys peace, tranquility, stability, indomitable affection and above all his tantrum that would not change him for anything in the world.
I love you babe.
The legislative elections were held on February 6 peacefully in this country known as a bastion of stability and democratic governance in Africa. Since 2008, UNDP has supported the modernization and consolidation of electoral system through its support of the National Electoral Commission.
UNDP has mobilized 700,000 USD from the Spanish Cooperation, which has given continuity to the activities of the regional project to support the public administration reform , contributing to the consolidation of the National System of Identification and Authenticity Civil (SNIAC). This project which aims to strengthen the infrastructural support of SINIAC, has contributed to the acquisition of equipment for three databases containing biometric information.
As a prelude, the UNDP has supported the organization of the first voter registration in Cape Verde using the biometric information. The project contributed also for capacity development by training, approximately 600 trainers and operators kits census at a national level and had as well conduct an extensive information and education campaign in order to sensitized people to realize their participation' s right. The project has also created an integrated database containing biometric information for the election, as well for civil and border services.
Capeverdean diaspora has been the subject of special attention. Whith UNDP, the country has implemented a strategy census of its population living abroad, through funds raised from Government of Luxembourg, and reaching more than 30,000 people before the election period.
Cape Verde has few natural resources, with a population of 500,000 people distributed in 4000Km2, and a cultivable area of 10%. However, since January 2008, the country was graduated from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for Middle Income Countries (MICs). This important step recognizes the success of an independent country since 1975 including the choice of development based on human capital, services, new information technologies, tourism, agriculture and fisheries, among others, which have significant reduction of poverty (49% of the population in 1989 to 26.6% in 2007), growth of real GDP per capita (from 902 USD in 1990 to $ 3,306 in 2008), and a significant improvement living conditions of the population. These achievements and successes are attributed to a harmonious political and economic governance, with political stability and, in a context of sustainable peace, because of social and economic development a priority in the national agenda of development.
In this context, UNDP plays a catalytic role in cooperation with national agencies within the UN system, particularly the strengthening of national institutions, through the component e-governance "of its Governance program.
© National Geographic Yourshot (Editors' Favourite, July 2019). Story and assignment: “Rites of Passage.
Swahili racing teams come together several times a year to compete in traditional hand-crafted Arabic-styled Mashua dhows in the Lamu Archipelago just off Kenya's northern Swahili Coast.
Intense village rivalries build over the years, often reaching pitch fever on race day. This magnificent racing dhow and crew are in the lead as they move into the final leg of the race. They are the ultimate winners and will return to their village on the island of Pate with team bragging rights and a certain village swagger that will likely last several months until the next race.
Six crewmen in the lead dhow are perched on an adjustable plank that hangs out over the choppy waters for added balance, speed, and stability. About sixteen young crewmen all together are crowded into each dhow to give the necessary weight, balance and stability against a stiff coastal trade wind.
The ubiquitous trade winds have been instrumental in the evolution of Swahili culture and commerce over the years since it was first established in the 14th Century as an Omani trading outpost and settlement on the classic coastal run between Zanzibar and the Arabic world further to the north.
The art of Swahili dhow racing requires considerable team skill as the dhows tack and manoeuvre back and forth through the Manda channel and ultimately out to the edge of the open sea. The finest dhows are selected from each village to race under sail through a complicated series of buoys, combining speed and balance with elaborate tacking and maneuvering competence.
The races are usually organized in conjunction with a cultural festival or an Islamic religious holiday. This Shela-based race on the island of Lamu is organized yearly by Peponi's on New Year's Day.
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There were many orchards in highly cultivated Shropshire. Their long lines of trees and blooming blossom were particularly pretty at this time of Spring. And as I looked amongst them for a shot as I drove past, I did a double take when I passed this field. It was such a complex structure rigged in a huge field. With hundreds and hundreds of huge poles set in the ground and an intricate lattice of strings criss-crossing in all directions I was staggered at the amount of work that must be required to set up the field before anything was grown. But what crop? Runner beans, grape vines, I had no idea, but eventually came to the conclusion they must be for hops to go into beer. It was hard to find a composition that gave any interest, but all the same I was impressed with the intricacy and labour that had gone into rigging this big field.
Not technically a fence as such but........stuffit!
Hops are the female flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant, Humulus lupulus (Cannabaceae). They are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer, to which they impart a bitter, tangy flavor, though hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine. (Wikipedia)
كل شيء يحتاج للتوازن حتى مزاج الانسان يحتاج للتوازن وبدون ذلك تصبح الحياة مستحيله وهذه الصوره تبين حاله من التوازن بين الطيور لتصبح الحياة مستمره
I shot this picture in 1983
China, Hebei Province, Malan Valley,…offside from the usual tourist routes,
…the Qing Tombs,”Dingling”, Dìnglíng literally meaning "Tomb of Stability".
The Eastern Tombs of the Qing dynasty are located 125 km Northeast of Beijing. The Qing dynasty, also known as Qing Empire, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636, following the Ming Dynasty, ruling China for 368 years from 1644 to 1912,
The Eastern Tombs of the Qing dynasty basic layout consists of three sections
& considered as the largest, most complete & best preserved existing mausoleum complex in China. Altogether, five emperors, 15 empresses, 136 imperial concubines, three princes & two princesses of the Qing dynasty are buried here.
The last Emperor of China from the Qing Dynasty was Pu Yi, after being a Marionette for the Japanese occupier, years in Soviet & Chinese prisons, the lived the last years of his life until 1967 as librarian & a gardener in Beijing’s botanic garden. Under the then laws, his body was cremated in a crematorium & buried first in the Beijing Revolutionary Cemetery Babaoshan. In 1995, his widow moved the urn to a cemetery outside the city, near the traditional tombs of his Qing ancestors.
Eastern Tombs of the Qing dynasty are surrounded by Changrui, Jinxing, Huanghua & Yingfei Daoyang Mountains, the tomb complex stretches over a total area of 80 square kilometres.
Due to the distance to Beijing, few tourist find their way to the Qing Mausoleum, neither is it much promoted by the tourist office & travel agencies, therefor there is a special atmosphere, relaxing, just like traveling through forgotten time & spaces.
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This absolute shambles of an airline made Sunwing look like the epitome of organisation and stability.
Starting operations on 23 May 2015 with an inaugural flight from Athens to Toronto via Montreal, SkyGreece managed to last only 3 months before ceasing all operations on 27 August of the same year.
In between they managed to break their sole aircraft not once but twice resulting in abrupt cancellations for weeks at a time and passengers left on their own to sort themselves out.
I did at least manage to catch this rarest of birds at YYZ a week or so after the final SkyGreece flight awaiting a better fate - It would end up flying for the Brazilian Air Force from 2016-2019 before heading into retirement, likely still scarred by its 3 months operating for one of the most incompetent airlines the World has ever seen.
Here is another SW Battlefront MOC from me. This time,it is a vehicle from the Empire, the AT-ST.
Unfortunately, the AT-St can`t stand without the support, stability isn't my strongest skill :( but I hope the support disturbs not much.
The design is inspired by anothergol,check out his fantastic version:
www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=120770
I hope you like it,let me know ;)
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Heading back to the loading point at Jóźwin in EL2-06 after depositing another load of lignite at the Pątnów power station on the KWB Konin brown coal railway in central Poland.
The driver is seeing the railway line before him using the CCTV screen as the train is propelling in the return direction. But still, he can see most of the signals from his cab and he has a version of AWS, he must cancel out the signals on approach by pressing down on the deadmans peddle or hitting a button on the driving desk, this, like in the UK, is signalled by a warning bell at the driving desk. Otherwise the brake air reservoirs will dump and the brakes will go into emergency stop. 9th March 2023 .
This was not an easy photo to achieve, the main problem being the intense rattling and the motion of the loco felt inside of the cab. A higher than normal ISO has been used, 1250 I am generally out of my comfort zone past 400! A low aperture, f2.8 and relatively low shutter at 1/60th has also been used with a 24mm lens, and I had to press the camera hard up against the wall of the cab for stability. Of course, looking at the motion of the cab interior as the shutter was pressed it did not look like this would work but it did. Luckily, the cab construction is rigid.
The heart does not look for an easy stability. Augustine again uses similar language to that of Gregory of Nyssa in describing the never-ceasing pilgrimage of the heart or spirit or mens (an important concept for Augustine, as including understanding and will or love together). Desire impels us on, so ‘let us run, let us strain forward’ (en. in Ps. 38.6); for ‘the only way you can be perfect in this life is by knowing that you cannot be perfect in this life’ (ibid. 14). ‘It is a great evil to have no hope in this life’ (en. in Ps. 129.10). The heart is ‘perfect’ when it knows what it lacks (in Ps. 38.14), knows that there will be no resting place for it among the things of earth. To be in the way of salvation is to be dissatisfied, ‘disquieted within’, never complacent about your condition or secure in your understanding or your stable spiritual attainment (in Ps, 41.10–12). The psalmist says (in Augustine’s Latin version), ‘I poured out my soul beyond myself’ (super me); that is where final delight is to be sought. The mystery of the depths of the self directs us beyond the world of clear and orderly sense experience but is itself only a stage on the road to the greater mystery of God: there is no substantial continuity between soul and God (in Ps. 41.7–8). So there is no rest in mere self-awareness, because to know the self properly is to see it set in the midst of the vast landscape of God’s workings, a landscape with no human map, trusting only to the hand of God. Once having glimpsed this vastness and heard the distant sounds of the ‘holiday of heaven’ (ibid. 9), the spirit must live by hope, knowing as clearly as ever it will that nothing else can substitute for that vision and its delights.
---The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
It is a matter of concern that free people needs peace, harmony and stability.
BahaI, house of worship. The Bah'i Faith is an independent world region, divine in origin and scientific in its method.
All are welcome to meditate and pray in silence.
IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department seminar "From Crisis to Stability: the Role of the Financial Sector Assessment Program Sharing Country Experiences" at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. during the 2011 IMF World Bank Spring Meetings on Thursday, April 14, 2011.
IMF Photograph/Ryan Rayburn
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Proudly presenting my latest Lego MOC.
In these pictures ...
You can see the 3rd version of my latest Lego Star Wars MOC; the NU Republic Attack Shuttle in flight mode and without the container.
I had the CustomBricks instructions lying around for some years now, and I thought I would 'simply' build this one, as I had just finished the Imperial Nebulon before.
This version has 4’400 parts including stand.
Modifications to original design:
- 501st color scheme
- Structural strengthening
- Wing stability improved
- Front turrets / guns
- Updated engines section
- Changed rear tail section
- Brickstuff LEDs
- BAD MOTHER decals
Hope you like it!
1. The Nurturing, Supportive Woman
How she influences him: A woman who is warm, caring, and emotionally available often brings out a man's protective, caring, and supportive side. Men may become more attentive and empathetic, desiring to be her source of strength and stability. They may also become more emotionally expressive and willing to open up about their feelings.
Characteristics that emerge in him: Increased patience, compassion, tenderness, and a desire to care for her well-being. He might feel more responsible and protective, often putting her needs above his own.
The art of Wolfgang Laib is both sensuously material and rigorously abstract. His media - milk, marble, rice, pollen, beeswax - evoke associations of generation, sustenance, shelter, stability, and community, while his forms - circle, rectangle, triangle, cone, and pyramid - are the simple truths of Euclid's geometry and Sengai's Zen ink brush. Laib wants us to receive his work as spiritual and timeless, and all its simplicity, refinement, and reflexivity combine to provoke us into a state of contemplation and stillness. Laib aims straight for the viewer's sensorium, invoking not only sight but also smell, touch, and taste.
The Rice House is a returning theme in Laib's work. These houses always center the space, transforming it into a landscape in which they stand alone as if on a wide, open plain. The form of the "Rice Houses" is reminiscent of Christian reliquary shrines (i.e. sacred artifacts) or of sarcophagi, but their content is quite different. Especially in the case of reliquary shrines they have no ritual value without their sacred core. The calm, clear beauty of the house creates a distance between object and viewer. Laib's studies in medicine gave the artist a strong awareness of death as an integral part of life. The interpretation of these small objects as small treasure chests or loving votive offerings seems equally appropriate since the connection of such enclosures with the nurturing of seeds, plus the sprinkling of pollen, signifies life and renewal within the cycle of nature.
This is taken with a Nikon P900 at 2000 MM without a tripod. but with some stability in my truck.Not perfect but a photo you would not get with a lesser lens mm. I have not done much with it yet but so for I am impressed.
Purple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red. The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic.
Purple Represents Wisdom, Bravery, and Spirituality
Purple also represents wisdom and spirituality. ... For instance, light purples are associated with light-hearted, romantic energies while darker shades can represent sadness and frustration.
Being a personality color purple, you have a peaceful and tranquil quality and a quiet dignity about you. People are drawn to your charismatic and alluring energy. ... With your personality color purple you inspire others with your creative thinking and your ability to deal positively with adversity.
More progress on the SHIP, er Orbital Station (yet to be named).
Due to added weight as the progress continues, the SHIP will now reside on it's side, supported by 4 clear columns for stability purposes. I am thinking of adding a slow motorized turntable to simulate the orbital nature of this station. I might not finish that by end of September, but I hope to get the SHIP done.
Progress:
Dome semispheres finished and attached, Shuttle docking points on 2 sides.
Still to be done:
Life support interior of the bio-dome: vegetaion for oxygen regeneration and food source, waste recycling, water purification.
Communication, solar arrays, thrusters and storage tanks.
Due to my travels to Denmark this week, building progress will resume next Monday.
Former Empire Test Pilots School Beagle Basset VSS XS743 on display in the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
Converted from a C.1, '743' was the School's Variable Stability System used to provide future Test Pilots with different types of propellor powered flight characteristics on a single platform
Her wings and engines are stored there too
Here she is in her former guise back in 1986
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However, I first saw her outside 'Beagles' hangars at Shoreham back in 1967!
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