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Thats our way to get a well presentation for our minfigures.
There is a standard base for one minfigure wich can be connected with another one. Two bases are connected by the legs of a minifigure in the retral line. So you get two lines of minfigures with a great view of all of them.
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This was taken at a local roller skating rink. There are several disco balls hanging from the ceiling.
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Blender / Cycles
For 3D effect - look at the center of image then slowly cross your eyes until like objects overlap.
Jedburgh Castle was a castle at Jedburgh in Scotland. It was fought over during the Wars of Scottish Independence, and was demolished by the Scots commanded by Sir James Douglas of Balvenie in 1409. The site of the original castle was used to build the reform prison based on John Howard (prison reformer) system, the construction of which started in 1820.
In 1823 a jail was built on the site to designs by Archibald Elliot. It was modified in 1847 by Thomas Brown. This closed in 1868. The building was restored to an 1820s appearance in 1968 by Aitken and Turnbull. It opened to the public as Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum. The museum features local history displays.
On the Thursday after Shrove Tuesday, the town has played a Ba Game since 1704. The uppies team use the castle to record their victories.
Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire, the name of which was randomly chosen for Operation Jedburgh in support of the D-Day invasion.
Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot. It is 10 miles (16 km) from the border with England, and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey. Other notable buildings in the town include Queen Mary's House, Jedburgh Castle Jail, now a museum, and the Jedburgh Library.
Other places nearby are Ancrum, Bairnkine, Bonjedward, Camptown, Crailing, Edgerston, Ferniehirst Castle, Nisbet and Oxnam.
History
Jedburgh began as Jedworð, the "worth" or enclosed settlement on the Jed. Later the more familiar word "burgh" was substituted for this, though the original name survives as Jeddart/Jethart.
Bishop Ecgred of Lindisfarne founded a church at Jedburgh in the 9th century, and King David I of Scotland made it a priory between 1118 and 1138, housing Augustinian monks from Beauvais in France. The abbey was founded in 1147, but border wars with England in the 16th century left it a ruin.
The deeply religious Scottish king Malcolm IV died at Jedburgh in 1165, aged 24. His death is thought to have been caused by Paget's disease of bone.
David I built a castle at Jedburgh, and in 1174 it was one of five fortresses ceded to England. It was an occasional royal residence for the Scots. It was demolished in 1409.
In 1258, Jedburgh was a focus of royal attention, with negotiations between Scotland's Alexander III and England's Henry III over the succession to the Scottish throne, leaving the Comyn faction dominant. Alexander III was married to Yolande in the abbey in 1285.
In 1307, James Douglas, fighting for King Robert Bruce, took Jedburgh from the English with little effort.
Its proximity to England made it subject to raids and skirmishes by both Scottish and English forces but its strategic position also brought the town valuable trade. At various times and at various locations the town supported a horse market, a cattle market, a corn market and a butcher market. Farm workers and servants also attended hiring fairs seeking employment.
Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed at a certain house in the town in 1566 and that house is now a museum – Mary Queen of Scots House.
The title "Lord of Jedburgh Forest" was granted to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus on his marriage to the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III in 1397. The titles of Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas included "Viscount Jedburgh Forest", but he died without an heir in 1761.
On 6 November 1745, the Jacobite army led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart passed through the town on its way to England. The Castle Prison opened in 1823.
In 1787, the geologist James Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, near Jedburgh. Layers of sedimentary rock which are tilted almost vertically are covered by newer horizontal layers of red sandstone. This was one of the findings that led him to develop his concept of an immensely long geologic time scale with "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."
The Scots name for the town is part of the expression "Jeddart justice" or "Jethart Justice", in which a man was hanged first, and tried afterwards.
Jedburgh became the county town of Roxburghshire after the original county town of Roxburgh was abandoned following the destruction of Roxburgh Castle in 1460 during the Anglo-Scottish Wars. In 1812 County Buildings was built at the junction of Market Place and Castlegate in Jedburgh, serving as both a sheriff court and meeting place for the Commissioners of Supply. Roxburghshire County Council was created in 1890 and continued to meet at the County Buildings until 1930 when it moved its meetings to County Offices at Newtown St Boswells.
Notable people
Several notable people were born in the town, including Rev Dr Thomas Somerville's niece, Mary Somerville, in 1780 (the eminent scientist and writer, after whom Somerville College, Oxford is named, and who appeared on the Royal Bank of Scotland £10 note from 2017).
James Thomson (1700–1748) who wrote "Rule Britannia", was born in Ednam, a village only twelve miles away, but he was educated in Jedburgh. David Brewster, physicist, mathematician, scientist, writer and inventor of the kaleidoscope, was born in Jedburgh in 1781. The popular preacher Rev. Robert Aitken (1800–1873) was born in Crailing near Jedburgh. General Sir Bindon Blood was born nearby in 1842. Alexander Jeffrey (F.S.A. Scot.) was a solicitor in the town and was also the county historian: he lived in Jedburgh until his death in 1874. The author and broadcaster Lavinia Derwent was born in a farmhouse a few miles outside Jedburgh in 1909. The Tinline brothers emigrated from Jedburgh in the late 1830s. George Tinline made a career in banking in Australia. John Tinline went to New Zealand and made his wealth in farming. John returned to Jedburgh later in life and gifted Allerley Well Park to his hometown.
The town's well known rugby players are the scrum-halves, Roy Laidlaw, his nephew, Scotland rugby team captain Greig Laidlaw and Gary Armstrong. Douglas Young fought at Heavyweight at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Emmy Award-winning journalist Nick Watt is from Jedburgh and hosted a short film about the town for the Travel Channel.
The abbey is maintained by Historic Environment Scotland and open to the public (there is an entry fee). Finds from excavations are displayed on site in the visitor centre attached to the Abbey ruins. The shell of the abbey, though much damaged over the years, is still largely complete.
Traditional festivals and performers include the annual Callant's Festival, and Jedburgh Royal British Legion (Scotland) Pipe Band and Jedforest Instrumental Band. Local delicacies include Jethart Snails (boiled sweets in the shape of a snail, said to originate from a recipe given to a local baker by a French prisoner, during the Napoleonic Wars) and Jethart pears. The fertile soil of Jedburgh makes it good for growing pear trees, and the pear trade was a thriving industry in Jedburgh for centuries.
An annual event is the Jethart Hand Ba game.
Ba game, Jedburgh, February 2020
The Canongate Brig dates from the 16th century. The nearby Capon Oak Tree is recognised to be of national interest and the 19th century Jedburgh Castle Jail and Newgate, with its spire, are among the town's notable buildings.
Schooling currently takes place at Jedburgh Intergenerational Community Campus, which opened in early 2020.
Sport
The town is home to a Rugby Club, Jed-Forest which was founded in 1885. Under-18 "Semi Junior" rugby is played by Jed Thistle at Lothian Park.
Football is represented by Jed Legion FC which currently plays in 'A' League of the Border Amateur League. Ancrum AFC play in the village of Ancrum just to the north at Bridgend Park and are in the Border Amateur 'B' League. A 1930s club, punningly named Jed Arts, won the East of Scotland League and the Border Cup in 1936–37.
Jedburgh has a golf club dating from 1892, the course has 18 holes.
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the west, and the English ceremonial counties of Cumbria and Northumberland to the south. The largest settlement is Galashiels, and the administrative centre is Newtown St Boswells.
The term "Scottish Borders", is also used to designate the areas of southern Scotland and northern England that bound the Anglo-Scottish border, namely Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, and Cumbria. The county occupies approximately the same area as the historic shires of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire.
The Scottish Borders are in the eastern part of the Southern Uplands.
The region is hilly and largely rural, with the River Tweed flowing west to east through it. The highest hill in the region is Broad Law in the Manor Hills. In the east of the region, the area that borders the River Tweed is flat and is known as 'The Merse'. The Tweed and its tributaries drain the entire region with the river flowing into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, and forming the border with England for the last twenty miles or so of its length.
The term Central Borders refers to the area in which the majority of the main towns and villages of Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick, Jedburgh, Earlston, Kelso, Newtown St Boswells, St Boswells, Peebles, Melrose and Tweedbank are located.
Two of Scotland's 40 national scenic areas (defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure their protection from inappropriate development) lie within the region:
The Eildon and Leaderfoot National Scenic Area covers the scenery surrounding Eildon Hill, usually called the Eildons because of the three 'peaks', and extends to include the town of Melrose and Leaderfoot Viaduct.
The Upper Tweeddale National Scenic Area covers the scenery surrounding the upper part of the River Tweed between Broughton and Peebles.
The term Borders sometimes has a wider use, referring to all of the counties adjoining the English border, also including Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, as well as Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland in England.
Roxburghshire and Berwickshire historically bore the brunt of the conflicts with England, both during declared wars such as the Wars of Scottish Independence, and armed raids which took place in the times of the Border Reivers. During this period, at the western end of the border there was a strip of country, called the "Debatable Land", because the possession of it was a constant source of contention between England and Scotland until its boundaries were adjusted in 1552. Thus, across the region are to be seen the ruins of many castles, abbeys and even towns. The only other important conflict belongs to the Covenanters' time, when the marquess of Montrose was defeated at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. Partly for defence and partly to overawe the freebooters and moss-troopers who were a perpetual threat until they were suppressed later in the 17th century, castles were erected at various points on both sides of the border.
From early on, the two sovereigns agreed on the duty to regulate the borders. The Scottish Marches system was set up, under the control of three wardens from each side, who generally kept the peace through several centuries until being replaced by the Middle Shires under James VI/I.
Prior to 1975 the area that is now Scottish Borders was administered as the four separate counties of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire, plus part of Midlothian. An elected county council was established for each county in 1890 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. The county councils were abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. A region called Borders was created covering the area. The region contained four districts, called Berwickshire, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Roxburgh, and Tweeddale.
Further local government reform in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 saw the area's four districts and the regional council abolished, with a new unitary authority created covering the same area as the former Borders Region. The 1994 Act called the new council area "The Borders", but the shadow council elected in 1995 to oversee the transition changed the name to "Scottish Borders" prior to the changes coming into effect in 1996.
The council has been under no overall control since 1999. Since the 2022 election the council has been run by an administration of the Conservatives and three of the independent councillors.
The first election to the Borders Regional Council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new system came into force on 16 May 1975. A shadow authority was again elected in 1995 ahead of the reforms which came into force on 1 April 1996.
At the census held on 27 March 2011, the population of the region was 114,000 (provisional total), an increase of 6.78% from the 106,764 enumerated at the previous (2001) census.
Language and literature
Although there is evidence of some Scottish Gaelic in the origins of place names such as Innerleithen ("confluence of the Leithen"), Kilbucho and Longformacus, which contain identifiably Goidelic rather than Brythonic Celtic elements and are an indication of at least a Gaelic-speaking elite in the area, the main languages in the area since the 5th century appear to have been Brythonic (in the west) and Old English (in the east), the latter of which developed into its modern forms of English and Scots.
Border ballads occupied a distinctive place in literature. Many of them were rescued from oblivion by Walter Scott, who gathered materials for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which appeared in 1802 and 1803. Border traditions and folklore, and the picturesque incidents of which the country was so often the scene, appealed strongly to James Hogg ("the Ettrick Shepherd"), John Wilson, writing as "Christopher North", and John Mackay Wilson, whose Tales of the Borders, published in 1835, enjoyed popular favour throughout the 1800s.
Until September 2015, the region had no working railway stations. Although the area was well connected to the Victorian railway system, the branch lines that supplied it were closed in the decades following the Second World War. A bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament to extend the Waverley Line, which aimed to re-introduce a commuter service from Edinburgh to Stow, Galashiels and Tweedbank. This section of the route re-opened on 6 September 2015, under the Borders Railway branding. The other railway route running through the region is the East Coast Main Line, with Edinburgh Waverley, Dunbar and Berwick being the nearest stations on that line, all of which are outwith the Borders. Since 2014 there has been discussion of re-opening the station at Reston which is within the region and would serve Eyemouth. To the west, Carlisle, Carstairs and Lockerbie are the nearest stations on the West Coast Main Line.
The area is served by buses which connect the main population centres. Express bus services link the main towns with rail stations at Edinburgh and Carlisle.
The region also has no commercial airports; the nearest are Edinburgh and Newcastle, both of which are international airports.
The main roads to and from the region are:
The A1, which runs along the east coast from London to Edinburgh; passing near Eyemouth.
The A7 which runs north to south from Edinburgh to Carlisle and the M6; passing through Galashiels, Selkirk and Hawick.
The A68 running from Darlington to Edinburgh; passing through Jedburgh, St Boswells, Earlston and Lauder.
The A72, which runs east to west from Galashiels to Hamilton; passing through Innerleithen and Peebles
In terms of television, the area is cover by BBC Scotland broadcasting from Glasgow and ITV Border which broadcast from Newcastle. Television signals are received from the Selkirk TV transmitter.
Radio stations are provided by BBC Radio Scotland which broadcast the local opt-out from its studios in Selkirk. The commercial radio station, Radio Borders broadcasts from Edinburgh but still broadcast local news bulletins to the area as well as to Berwick-upon Tweed in Northumberland.
The area is served by the main local newspapers: Southern Reporter and The Border Telegraph.
This crawler original idea is from a video by master technic builder Akiyuki, posted on Youtube in July 2018.
I've been kind of obessed with this since then, and this is my latest, and I guess final, iteration on this idea.
Everythinkg above the two yellow beams is for motor and gear reduction, everything below is the actual movement system.
I use a third party self powered M motor to keep the size as low as possible and be able to make mocs like the steampunk one
Taken a few weeks after this year's opposition. Very chuffed with this one!
Skywatcher 400P Dobsonian
ZWO ASI178MM
Baader IR-Pass filter + RGB
2x Barlow
Stacked in AutoStakkert!
Processed in Registax
Assembled in Photoshop and Lightroom
The Launch Abort System is being installed on the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test-1 on Oct. 3 inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Not quite the solar system as I only have 4 planets and the moon. These are left to right - Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and the moon. A series of individual photos stacked to show my efforts to date capturing the planets using a 150 mm Maksutov MK67 scope. I am hoping to update as I get better images of the planets, but success is reliant as much on technique as on finding a night with clear seeing.
“Binary system seen from a hypothetical planet”
I’m assuming the oblate body to be a red giant, with its companion about to start tearing away it’s outer layers, possibly signified by the whitish & yellowish areas.
Fascinating, with possibly pertinent information with regard to the image:
astroquizzical.com/astroquizzical/when-you-have-a-binary-...
Credit: ASTROQUIZZICAL website
No signature visible. The depiction of the planet’s surface, along with that of the stars look like they should provide a clue as to who rendered this. Alas, they do not. Searching the image, to include re-orienting it, didn’t help. Further thwarting searching the image, the depiction of binary systems was/is(?) very popular in astronomy artworks, hence a plethora being returned. So, this might be in there somewhere, but visually, they’re running together…so, at least for now, idk.
For stellar views such as this, and infinitely more, astronomical numbers at least, you must allot some time & treat yourself here.
Wow.
If you know anything - even passingly - WRT to astronomical art and the amazing artists who create such, you're likely to find someone you've heard of on the membership roster. Even if not, you will be amazed at the talent, the scope and vast variety of works available to peruse.
And as you'd expect, even their logo looks cool:
International Association of Astronomical Artists
The Orion's stage adapter diaphragm leaves a manufacturing facility at Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Wash., to be trucked to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The diaphragm will be used to keep launch vehicle gases away from the spacecraft. It was designed by a team of engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center, in close collaboration with Marshall.
Image credit: Janicki Industries
Read more:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/orion-stage-adapter-...
More about SLS:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html
More SLS Photos:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/gallery/S...
Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157627559536895/
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RTS bus at Escondido Transit Center in Escondido, California. Maybe a Srpinter replacement shuttle bus?
Olympus OM-System Zuiko MC Auto-Macro 135mm F4.5 lens.
Olympus Telescopic Auto Tube 65-116.
Sample image taken at F4.5.
Exploration Ground Systems teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida take precautions to protect Artemis ground support equipment in advance of Hurricane Dorian. On Aug. 30, 2019, crawler-transporter 2 moved the mobile launcher (ML) from its current position at Launch Pad 39B to inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. In its final phases of development, the ML stands nearly 400 feet tall and is needed to assemble, process and launch NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on missions to the Moon and Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
No longer "AuthenTaco." Soon to be FLIP Burgers...and they have installed the famous "Hamburger Chili" sign that was formerly located at Clark & Devon
A small redesign of the last image with some copper color in the base and a little more green in the plasma... and so on.
SCL / L&N Family Lines Rail System operated C&O 4-8-4 steam locomotive # 614, is leading the southbound Safety Express train will meet & pass SCL GE U-18 locomotives # 356 & # 359, with freight train on siding, north of downtown Plant City, Fl, 2-1981. You can see the engineer and cab crew members in the cab windows and leaning out of the gangway. The train has approximately another 30 miles or so to go before it reaches Tampa to the west.
96-gallon Cascade Cart trash cart
Wheatland Waste Systems
Washtucna, WA
December 2014
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
Marksman is a British anti-aircraft weapon system developed by Marconi, consisting of a turret, a Marconi Series 400 radar and two Swiss 35mm Oerlikon automatic cannons. It is similar to the German Gepard system in terms of engine performance, ammunition carried and effective range of the ammunition.
The turret could be adapted to many basic tank chassis, creating a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG). It is seen here on display at the Farnborough Air Show in 1988, mounted atop an M48 tank chassis.
The only known major operator of the system to date is the Finnish Army, which ordered seven units in 1990. The turrets were fitted on Polish T-55AM tank chassis. The system is known as the ItPsv 90 in Finnish service (Ilmatorjuntapanssarivaunu 90, Anti-Aircraft tank 90, the number being the year the tank entered service). It is considered a very accurate anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) system, having a documented hit percentage of 52.44%.
In 2010, the Marksman systems in service in Finland were moved to wartime reserve storage. In 2015 work began to install the system on the Leopard 2A4 chassis in order to make up for the loss of mobile anti-aircraft coverage when the Marksman was originally retired. The new Leopard 2 Marksman is to enter service in 2016.
The M48 Patton is a main battle tank (MBT) designed in the USA and was a further development of the M47 Patton tank. Some 12,000 were built between 1952 and 1959. The M48 Patton was in US service until replaced by the M60 and served as the US Army and USMC's primary battle tank in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Some 1,800 M48s still remain in active service with a variant of militaries. Multiple variants have resulted in bridgelayers, flamethrowers, bulldozers and armoured recovery vehicles, as well as SPAAGs.
Holmdel Park is located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey and is part of the Monmouth County Park System. Holmdel Park is also the home of the Holmdel Arboretum; aka David C. Shaw Arboretum and the Longstreet Farm, a living history farm set in the 1890s. The park is a popular destination for local elementary school trips and cross-country runners.
Moon , Sony Alpha 7r2 , Sigma 100-400mm/F5-6.3 DG OS HSM + MC-11
満月をちょっと過ぎた月です。
クレーターからいくつもの光条が走っていて、それが目を引きますね。
月食など特殊な現象の時以外で月を撮ったのは何年ぶりだろう、、、
今回は400mmでの撮影ですが、この3〜4倍の焦点距離のレンズが欲しくなっちゃいました。
ヤバイヤバイ(^_^;)
this is still Publishing in another Safari tab on the old ipad at the moment. I thought Flickr had gone down! but FB was still loading so returned here to this new tab to see the post has finished...
DTM and NAC data Combined - [False Colour]
DTM Mesh created in Blender2.79 -
NAC images draped over & rendered using 3ds Max
Photoshop CC2015 used to finalise the "Oblique 3d View"
Source images :
M125713813 L/R
M125720601 L/R
Business card close up.
FA was asked to create a name and visual identity for Neuwave Systems. The name needed to act as a bridge between Neuwaves heritage and the new company’s future as an independent organization. A communication program was required to help customers, employees, and investors make the necessary transition and at the same time create a fresh image that differentiates the organization, its products, and services from its major competition.
Based on wavelengths and equalizer LCD's, the mark leverages Neuwave Systems’ status as a well-grounded pioneer. It portrays the company as a constant guide that customers and partners can rely on to navigate their way through an industry that has traditionally been complex. The look and feel of the brand is designed to suggest a highly professional, well-established organization and achieve differentiation.