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Cars line up at the multiple busy railroad crossings along Assembly Street in Columbia, SC as a loaded coal drag rumbles past the state Fairgrounds. As always, traffic would back up as the train slowly made its way through, before stopping to cross Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard.
Another view of Mervyn Hunt's newly restored 1970 AEC Marshal YYA272H. It was great to see this genuinely lovely West Country lorry travelling along the roads of Somerset once again.
Busy start to the week preparing MARES machine for an experiment that studies how muscles deteriorate in microgravity.
Primi giorni di duro lavoro con il montaggio di MARES per un esp. che studia come i nostri muscoli deteriorano in microgravità .
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Assembling The Avengers - Day 4: Captain America
The final day, the First Avenger.
In anticipation of the upcoming Avengers movie I started building some pieces to be displayed at my local comic shop on FCBD this Saturday. Even though I started these around the first of March, I've just managed to get them finished in time and snapped some photos with the help of my Wife.
I wrote an article on FBTB back in October about LEGO costuming and have been experimenting with it a great deal since then. I have many projects in the works and some will probably never be widely seen, but being a Marvel Zombie I could not miss this opportunity to create a tribute to some of my favourite Avengers.
Some info on Cap's Shield from Marvel.com
Captain America's only weapon was his shield, a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique Vibranium-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career. The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
Thank you to my lovely Wife for taking these photos for me!
And now I'm off to see the movie...
AT 20 METRES TALL, WITH A 54 METRE WINGSPAN AND WEIGHING 200 TONNES, THE ANGEL IS BRITAIN'S LARGEST SCULPTURE AND TOWERS OVER THE A1 FROM ITS HILLTOP SITE.
IN 1994 GATESHEAD COUNCIL CHOSE TURNER PRIZE-WINNING ARTIST ANTONY GORMLEY OBE TO PRODUCE A SCULPTURE AS A SYMBOL FOR TYNESIDE. FUNDING WAS SECURED IN 1996, AND THE GIANT SCULPTURE WAS ERECTED ON SITE IN 1998.
THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH IS AS MUCH A FEAT OF ENGINEERING AS A WORK OF ART. THE SCULPTURE HAS A GREATER WINGSPAN THAN A BOEING 757, OR WING TIP TO WING TIP TWO METERS LONGER THAN THE HEIGHT OF NELSON'S COLUMN IN LONDON.
THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH HAS TO BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND WINDS OF OVER 100MPH IN ITS EXPOSED LOCATION, SO 150 TONNES OF CONCRETE WERE USED TO CREATE FOUNDATIONS WHICH ANCHOR THE SCULPTURE TO THE ROCK 20 METRES BELOW.
CREATED IN THREE PARTS - THE BODY WEIGHING 100 TONNES, AND TWO WINGS WEIGHING 50 TONNES EACH, THE ANGEL WAS TRANSPORTED ON THREE HUGE LORRIES, BEFORE BEING ASSEMBLED ON SITE.
THE WINGS ARE NOT FLAT - BUT ARE ANGLED 3.5 DEGREES FORWARD, WHICH GORMLEY SAYS WAS TO CREATE "A SENSE OF EMBRACE".
THE SCULPTURE COST NEARLY £800,000 - WHICH HAS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL IN A RELATIVELY DEPRIVED AREA OF BRITAIN. NEVERTHELESS, THERE IS NO DOUBTING THAT ANTONY GORMLEY HAS CREATED A POWERFUL LANDMARK WHICH IS SEEN AND ENJOYED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY.
ALTHOUGH THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH CAN BE SEEN FROM MILES AROUND, YOU HAVE TO VISIT THE SITE ITSELF AND STAND AT THE FEET OF THE GIANT TO TRULY APPRECIATE THE SCALE AND MAJESTY OF THIS MOST RECOGNISABLE OF ENGLAND'S LANDMARKS.
Today I'm off to see Avengers for the second time, I absolutly loved the movie, and will love it the second time.
go watch it!!
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and many other countries, and Veterans Day in the U.S.
Fred and I always go to the ceremonies, but this year, the veterans have asked people to watch the events online, rather than assemble at the various cenotaphs. I watched the main ceremony in Ottawa, and for the first time ever, the moment of silence at 11:00 was delayed. A "suspicious package", apparently. It only delayed things by 11 minutes, which seemed fitting.
Excerpt from my grandfather's diary:
"Mon. 11, Nov 1918
This is a Red Letter Day, for the active hostilities between France and their allies on the one side and the Germans on the other have come to an end. At 11 hours today the armistice became operative.
During the morning we could hear some artillery and knew that the war was still going on. In the afternoon I thought I heard shells a few times but the noise I believe was caused by delayed explosions of time fused mines. There was no excitement here.
A few hands out and a few pleasant smiles and congratulations. So by being close to the front, we have been robbed of the pleasure and excitement that we would have shared in if we were in London or in any Canadian town."
Many more pages from his WWI diary are here: flic.kr/s/aHskLRAj1Y
Assembled using raw uncalibrated infrared (IR3), red, and violet filtered images taken by Cassini on May 3rd 2017.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
With volunteers carefully watching from multiple angles, WW&F #9 slowly backs her load to the waiting idler flat. Because the load was overhanging the end of Flat 126, the clearance was critical.....but it fit like a glove.
Assembling items that come in boxes is not one of my favorite things to do. When our kids were old enough, I had them do that kind of work, as they enjoyed it!
Fortunately, this worker was assembling something simple: bubble wands to sell to children!
The sole Turkish assembled class 70/8 locomotive in operation with Colas – 70801, is pictured accelerating away from Westbury working the 6M40 Westbury virtual quarry to Stud farm empty IOA boxes that had delivered a bulk load of granite rail ballast. Colas took over this haulage contract with Network rail from GBRf last year.
The attractive willow herb growth is in full flower in the bottom left hand corner of the image, adding a dash of summer colour
Date of image: 25 June 2020
I posted a work-in-progress pic a while ago, but never got around to posting the finished sewer. Here it is. It's a little slimmed down from the WIP pic, but I find it very satisfying and playable. All the rooms are modular, so they can be linked together in any order. I took a lot of cues from the official Sewer Lair set, but wanted to expand it and make it a little bit more of a complete home for the Turtles, as well as accentuate the idea that it's underground.
West window by Hugh Easton 1955, representing Christ in Glory seated upon the globe and surrounded by significant figures from ecclesiastical history. Perhap's Easton's finest work, the overall effect is very much a mid 20th century version of a Last Judgement, which aptly is reflected by the recently uncovered medieval interpretation of the subject in the mural painted at the opposite end of the nave.
Holy Trinity would have been the star attraction in any other town or city, it is a majestic cruciform 15th century Perpendicular church with a tapering central tower and spire, the second of Coventry's famous 'Three Spires'. However it has always been overshadowed by larger neighbours, having been encircled by no less than three separate cathedrals through it's history, a unique distinction! Holy Trinity was founded by the monks of the adjoining priory to act as a parish church for it's lay tenants, thus it is ironic that it has long outlived the parent building.
The earliest part is the north porch, which dates from the 13th century, but the majority of the building dates from a more ambitious phase in 15th century Perpendicular style. The 15th century rebuilding has given us the present cruciform arrangement with small transepts and extra chapels on the north side giving an overall roughly rectangular footprint. These chapels were some of many in the church that served the city's separate guilds in medieval times.
The church has gone through much restoration, most notably the rebuilding of it's spire after it was blown down in a storm in 1665. The east end of the chancel was extended in 1786 (in sympathetic style) and much of the exterior was refaced in the early 19th century in then fashionable Bath stone (which clashes with the original red sandstone).
The church luckily escaped major damage during the Coventry Blitz in 1940, largely thanks to the vigilance of Canon Clitheroe and his team of firewatchers who spent a perilous night on the roof tackling incendaries. The main loss was the Victorian stained glass in the east and west windows, which were replaced with much more fetching glass in the postwar restoration.
The most recent restoration involved the uncovering of the 15th century Doom painting over the chancel arch in 2004. Hidden under blackened varnish since it's rediscovery in the early Victorian period, it has now been revealed to be one of the most complete and important medieval Last Judgement murals in the country. There is further painting contemporary with this on the exquisite nave ceiling, painted a beautiful dusty blue with large kneeling angels flanking passion shields on every rafter.
There are only a handful of monuments and most of the furnishings date from G.G.Scott's 1850s restoration (as does the magnificent vaulted ceiling high above the crossing) but there are some notable medieval survivals in the rare stone pulpit and the brass eagle lectern, both 15th century, along with a fine set of misericords originating from the former Whitefriars monastery church. Just a few fragments of medieval glass survive in the north west chapel.
The church is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors every day.
For more detail on this church see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches website below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/coventry---holy-trinity.html
These two guys were rocking it in the battlefield of pillows. They would stand back to back and duke it out with the crowd around them. it was quite impressive.
FYI sneezing while having feathers in your body isn't a good feeling. I somehow sneezed a feather out my nose...
Thanks Chris!