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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - DECEMBER 15, 2014
Employees assemble tablets at the Surtab factory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Surtab, which was established in 2013 with funding from USAID, has been a huge boost to the technology sector in Haiti. The company has hired 65 employees so far—98 percent of whom are women—and provided them with three months of training and on-site instruction. Now, the skilled local workers are paid more than three times the minimum wage and given health benefits. Not only has Surtab empowered its workers, but its product is also improving the lives of Haitians. The tablets are produced for commercial sale, but they are also used in education, healthcare and agriculture, increasing efficiency in programs that seek to create a brighter future for Haiti.
David Rochkind, USAID
Assembling the dollhouse. The assembly manual, pages 6-7. Steps 11-17 are illustrated.
I don't really have room for this huge Frozen Snowflake Mansion dollhouse, by Kidkraft. But I bought it anyway, and am now in the process of assembling it. It was $169.90, from Costco (now sold out online and in stores). I decided to photograph each assembly step, following the detailed instructions in the 20+ page manual.
It comes in a very large box, which is 50'' L x 18'' W x 7'' D, and weighs 60 pounds! Fully assembled, it is 57'' H x 49'' W x 16'' D. It consists of 9 rooms in three stories, and accommodates 12'' dolls, such as the Classic Elsa and Anna dolls. It also includes 20 pieces of furniture, three of which light up (batteries included) and three of which contain foam padding to make them more realistic. As I expected from a Kidkraft product, the items are well made and very sturdy. One disappointing feature is that the bed for Elsa is about an inch too small for her, so she has to bend her knees to fit into it. But it has a real foam mattress and pillow, and is decorated very nicely with snowflakes, so Elsa forgives the shortness of the bed.
Classic Elsa is very happy with her new home, and so is Anna! It took a total of 12 hours to assemble (with various breaks). I was slowed down because I took photos as I went along. Also because I was assembling them in a cramped area, I couldn't lay out all the pieces before I started, so I pretty much left everything in the box (except the screws), and searched for individual pieces as I needed them. I also had to undo and redo several steps, because I assembled some things the wrong way. Finally some of the items were hard to assemble, especially the balcony railing.
I am very impressed with the construction of the house, and it is very beautiful. It is about 4 feet wide and high, a foot deep. Because the base is totally flat, it is also easy to slide along the floor (mine is carpeted) to move it if needed. I loved the fact that several of the furniture pieces had actual foam padding - the bed, the sofa and the throne. In general, the furniture is actually a bit too small for 1/6 scale dolls, as I already mentioned with the bed. That is the same problem with my other 1/6 scale doll house (the Disney Store's Disney Princess Enchanted Palace Play Set). The lamp's battery was dead, so it had to be replaced (fortunately I already had the required LR44 batteries), the vanity lights worked perfectly. I like that all three light-up items have auto shut-off mechanisms.
I have begun adding other dolls and accessories to fill the dollhouse some more, and will post more photos as I do so.
The two stages for Ariane 6’s first flight are now assembled as one and ready for the next step on the road to launch. The upper stage and main stage were connected in the launcher assembly building (BAL) at Europe’s Spaceport. Together these stages form the central core of Europe’s new rocket Ariane 6.
Teams from ArianeGroup, France’s space agency CNES and ESA are working hard to get the stages ready to be moved to the all-new Ariane 6 launch pad, where the central core will be raised to its vertical launch position. This is where the two boosters for the first Ariane 6 flight will be connected, the first booster is already waiting in storage. Lastly the payloads will be placed on top of the central core and covered by the fairing – Ariane 6’s nose cone that splits vertically in two.
The stages were connected in just three weeks after arriving at Europe’s Spaceport on the novel hybrid sail ship Canopée on 21 February.
Ariane 6 is an all-new design, created to succeed Ariane 5 as Europe's heavy-lift launch system. With Ariane 6's upper stage restart capability, Europe's launch capability will be tailored to the needs of multiple payload missions, for example to orbit satellite constellations. This autonomous capability to reach Earth orbit and deep space supports Europe's navigation, Earth observation, scientific and security programmes. Ongoing development of Europe's space transportation capabilities is made possible by the sustained dedication of thousands of talented people working in ESA's 22 Member States.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Arianegroup/Optique Vidéo du CSG - S.Martin
I'd like to add the Vision and Hawkeye at some point but might pass on them for now to save $$. I've pretty much got the core team I want with the addition of Thor.
The Goliath figure is a Marvel Legends one, but the scale seems fine since he often ran around stuck at a giant size. Hulk is from the movie line from his most recent film outing, but is in the 3.75 scale, and the Wasp appears courtesy of photoshop, which renders all scale questions moot!
150416-A-ZZ999-002-- Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, give a class on assembling metal detectors to Iraqi soldiers of the 75th Brigade, 16th Division, at Besmaya Range Complex, Iraq, April 16, 2015. The training, part of the U.S. led coalition’s Build Partner Capacity mission, was to aid the Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. (Photo by Sgt. Deja Borden, CJTF-OIR Public Affairs)
Page from an assembling book I am compiling at the moment. Each artist contributes 14 pages and I have the task of binding them together with cover and frontispiece etc, and each participant gets a copy of the book back through the post.
I made a condensed version of the cases that will hold my journal. It is 4 inches off the length and width, but the height is what it will be... and now I sit back and think through my method, my process, and change things that I don't like.
It's a very long process of creation, recreation, re-recreation, and so on... but in the end I want it to be the best so it will be worth all the effort (hopefully anyways!)
edited by David Cole, Scott Helmes & Richard Kostelanetz.
Brooklyn (NY/USA), Assembling Press, [fall?] 198o. 1ooo unique copies.
8-1/2 x 11, 123 sheets of various stocks perfectbound in white rectogloss card wrappers printed blue & black offset outside covers only, interiors printed offset, rubberstamp, photocopy, mimeo, letterpress, typescript, holograph, spraypaint.
cover by Steve Belmont & Scott Helmes.
116 contributors ID'd:
Blair H.Allen, Geoffrey Allen, Theresa Allen, Michael Andre, Art Liquidation Front, Betty Beaumont, Steve Belmont, John M.Bennett, Buz Blurr, George Brett, Ernst Buchwalder, Russell Butler, Richard C, R.Carpenter, James F.L.Carroll, Peter Cherches, David Cole, Allan Coleman, Captain Collage, Tom Conley, Philippe Dôme, Bonnie Donohue, Michael Dyregov, Bolon Dzacad, John W.English, Epistolary Stud Fram, Jon Erickson, Roger Erickson, K.S.Ernst, Fred Escher, Pittore Euforico, Gregory Farnum, Bartolome Ferrando, Pat Fish, Sue Fishbein, Art Foot, Rimma Gerlovin, Valery Gerlovin, Michael Gibbs, Mary K.Gleason, Grupotextopoético, Mary Emma Harris, Susan Harris, Michael Hazard, Scott Helmes, Dick Higgins, Petra Homeyer, Humble Hummel, Edwrad Kaplan, M.Kasper, Cracker Jack Kid, Richard Kostelanetz, S.J.Leon, Hugh Lifson, Ginny Lloyd, Alec MacLeod, David Madden, Suzanne L.Mailloux, John Marron, Bonnie Maurer, Catherine Mehrl, Mark Melnicove, Richard Meltzer, Claude Minière, Bruno Montels, Madison Morrison, Paul Nagy, Joseph Nechvatal, Vernita Nemee, F.A.Nettelbeck, Jürgen O.Olbrich, Patricia Olson, Richard Olson, Spiros Pantos, Tibor Papp, T.Patrick, David Perez, Tom Person, Perry L.Paterson, Miochael Joseph Phillips, carlo Pittore, Bern Porter, Jerry Prillaman, John Pyros, Tony Quagliano, Keith Rahmmings, Lisa Rangazas, Harry Reese, George roberts, Marybeth Robertson, Marilyn R.Rosenberg, Erika Rothenberg, Laura Ruby, Patrick Saari, Harry William Saffren, Brian Herman, Tomasz Sikorski, Jontahn Sisson, Winston Smith, Lon Spiegelman, Charles J.Stanley, J.Stoll, A.L.Stubbs, Melody Summer, Michael Sumner, Patrick Sumner, Frank A.Tillman, Leonard Trawick, Fred Truck, Kathryn Van Spunchern, Charles Welch, Madam X, Arlene Zekowski, Paul Zelevansky, Jack Ziegler, Larry Zirlin.
includes:
i) "writing is what yu write.", by Bill Bissett (brief quote from RUSH what fuckan theory as epigraph to the issue, a work commissioned by bpNichol & published as an issue of grOnk)
ii) (notes towards) THE BOOK, ALL OR NOTHING, by Michael Gibbs (essay with passing reference to "bp Nichol & David Aylward Condensed History of Nothing")
Assembled extruder with heatsink and 24 VDC fan, side view.
Be sure to use a 40 x 40mm 24 VDC fan. MBI uses approximately a 5 CFM fan, but you can get much better, quieter fans which move more air (higher CFM). The fan shown is approximately 7 CFM. Note arrows molded into the side of the fan and orient the fan such that it blows towards the heatsink.
Il Presidente di Confartigianato Marco Granelli con il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri on. Giorgia Meloni
Originally the back was opaque but opening up the enclosure is a bit of a pain and I knew friends and co-workers would want to see the inside, so I switched to clear.
Assembled extruder with heatsink and 24 VDC fan, front view.
Be sure to use a 40 x 40mm 24 VDC fan. MBI uses approximately a 5 CFM fan, but you can get much better, quieter fans which move more air (higher CFM). The fan shown is approximately 7 CFM. Note arrows molded into the side of the fan and orient the fan such that it blows towards the heatsink.
For Sheryl who accuses me of intentionally excluding people from my photos. I took a few pictures of these high school kids at the Hanamaki Rose Festival. An eight year old looking boy saw me and ran up to his mom to tug her sleeve. He told her what I had done and they commenced a long conversation on the types of sexual perversions I might participate in. They walked past me twice all the while staring and discussing. I was shocked that they would automatically suspect me of being a sex fiend and that a mother would use those words with her small son.