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Terraces on the Park, from the bushland on the Western edge.
This photo was taken to highlight the extreme fire hazard that exists in Gaven Heights and Studio Village, because there is NO fire-break between the bushland and the adjacent houses. The worst of this is ”Terraces on the Park” and the adjacent houses in Crestridge Cres., where the bush meanders though the complex and the trees, grass and bushes are in direct contact with the buildings and the timbers of the buildings. This is further exacerbated by a single narrow entry/exit point in Crestridge Cres., that only permits one car to exit or enter at a time. This turns this complex of 90, three bedroom units with over 400 residents into a death-trap with no means of escape or of fighting the fire, in the event of a fire-storm.
This is a disaster -- just waiting to happen. A fire-storm raging through this area, has the potential of producing a greater death-toll here, than all the combined fires in Victoria, last summer. We have had a wet autumn and early winter, that has spawned lots of new growth and a large amount of fuel and we appear to be entering into possibly the driest and hottest spring and summer. We have set new record sustained high temperatures, both day and night for August. Global warming and climate change is with us and conditions could get much worse. All this adds up to a spring and summer of extreme fire danger.
If we wish to avert this disaster... We need to unite and form a group of concerned residents... so that we can bring the plight of the residents in this area to the attention of the relevant authorities and media... We urgently need to have something done that will substantially lessen the danger. We urgently need to have a 20 to 30 meter fire-break cleared between the houses and the bush in order to give fire-fighters access to fight any fires. And we need the total removal of trees and bushes in and around Terraces on the Park,
I have now taken about 220 photos that show more detail of the problem... these photos are all found in the ”Terraces on the Park Community” set and are available in large format. Please feel free to download and comment on any images. Please also alert your friends and neighbours in the area and send copies of photos and images to your friends, neighbours, relevant authorities and the media.
Please help to spread this message and warning to as many people as you can. Please make use of the ”Send to a friend” icon at the bottom right hand corner of this page.
Remember... That the noisiest wheel gets the grease... So, let's make lots of noise... and get something done, before it is too late. Please, if you have photos, or can take some, please also put them on ”Flickr”... open an account if you haven’t got one already - it is free. If you have photos or suggestions, please comment on my photos and make me one of your contacts. I need feed-back and sufficient people to start a group on flickr, through which we can co-ordinate our efforts.
Please also take a look at:- www.flickr.com/photos/infinity-club/3842121040/ and www.flickr.com/photos/infinity-club/3841332979 in the "original" size, which I have created, so that you can get a better overview of the situation.
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#ApolloSoyuzTestProject
* The historic handshake in space *
"Cooperation means friendship, friendship means peace.
Let's live in peace."
-American Brigadier General Thomas Stafford
and Russian cosmonaut and national hero, Alexey Leonov-
40 years ago today something truly wonderful happened:
the historic handshake between former enemies USA and RUSSIA, who met in space during the #ApolloSoyuzTestProject and who inspired so many with something new.
Who would have dared to hope back then that this "small handshake in space would grow into that giant development of global co-operation" which built a wonderful foundation for
#SpaceExplorationAtItsBest, which is happening in so many areas these days.
Be it on our International Space Station #ISS, be it on our shared journey to outer space, flying by Pluto and leaving our solar system, following the motto "Together we achieve more".
I cannot express how thankful I am for all our adventures, which we share since a few years with a growing number of friends from all over the world in a growing number of countries and even on a growing number of continents - also thanks to this handshake.
And I am happy that all this also includes meeting Vance Brand and Alexey Leonov and so many other space ambassadors in person.
Thanks to ALL OF YOU for your daily inspiration!
#LetsGoInterstellarTogether
and enjoy our beautiful universe,
not as different nations,
but as one mankind.
#SpeakForEarth
OneEarthMessage.org
edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/world/space-handshake-annivers...
Because of the great fire wall of Chinese policy, it's so hard to cross the limit to visit flickr, so I could not reply my dear friends, I'm so sorry about that and please forgive me,thank you so much and hope my friends can still hit on me！由于中国网络原因，访问flickr很困难，速度很慢，所有暂时没有办法一一回应各位好友，请朋友们见谅！还请各位好友继续关注我！
My pro account is out of time，thank you my friends here for supporting me what a long time！！May I have a pleasure to receive a pro gift from you？我的pro账号到期了，感谢朋友们长期以来的热心支持！！有好心人能赞助一个pro账号给我吗，在此先表感谢！！
If you want to use or buy this image，please contact me. 版权所有，转载请联系本人。
because a woman this wonderful deserves spring's beauty.
wishing for love to carry you into this next decade of your life~ may you take root and flower beautiful friend.
happy birthday!!
Because I didn't trust the filter that came with my Ebay intake the plan was always to buy a Spectre, here it is
and couldn't decide what to do this week. And now it's Friday and this POS is what you are getting. It's gray and yuck outside so I decided to be gray and yuck inside. Now you all can feel like my computer screen. This is what I do ALL DAY LONG...sit here and stare at it. As I'm sure most of you do also. Ok, enough bitching...it's Friday people. Go enjoy your weekends!
Because so much of Park Avenue was closed off , which divided Manhattan into to halves, they had to put stops so traffic could pass through every so often.
Because love is always beautiful.
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From the NIN show at the Shoreline on 5/23/09. I was dancing while recording so forgive my horrific cinematography. This was the last song of the encore set, btw. His voice was perfect.
Title: I could post photos all day long but won't because its really nice outside. Thanks to these lovely faces for an awesome day to Lone Peak: 11,260 ft, 4.5 hr move time, 12.5 miles, 5,500 vert gain. A good day! - via Instagram: ift.tt/2rx8z94 Info: Follow a journey of adventurous metaphors; dive into the belly of self-love with unyielding trust and peace through the flow of Yoga, Meditation, Insight, Wellness, & Life. ift.tt/KhKH1x
Nelson’s Anchorage and the 100 Ton Gun
The location of Nelson’s Anchorage and the 100 ton gun, at Napier of Magdala Battery, has long been regarded as strategically important because of its ability to protect the entrances to both the main commercial harbour and what was the Royal Naval Dockyard in Rosia Bay. It was in this bay that H.M.S. Victory anchored for repairs after the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, before returning the body of Admiral Lord Nelson to England for burial.
Designed and manufactured in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Sir W.C. Armstrong in 1870 and nicknamed “The Rockbuster’ – this is the best preserved example of an early ‘Supergun’. Four were originally made and sold to the Italian Navy for mounting on their battleships. The British Government, alarmed that their important Mediterranean bases might be defenceless against long range bombardment from these Weapons, commissioned two guns each for Malta and Gibraltar.
For the era in which they were built, they were amazing state of the art and completely unique, and in fact remain so today. Two of those built still survive in the world today. One still resides in Malta and the other here in Gibraltar, at Napier of Magdala Battery.
The second gun’s location on Gibraltar was at Victoria Battery, on the site of what is now the Gibraltar Fire Station. Aspects of what was the below-ground infrastructure of that gun position still survive as well and remain in use for training by the Fire Brigade of Gibraltar.
The gun at Nelson’s Anchorage (Napier of Magdala Battery) is the one that was originally situated at the Victoria Battery, and it was moved to Napier when the gun there split during firing. The gun could originally fire one round every four minutes, but Lieutenant Colonel Ogilvie’s detachment reduced this time to two and a half minutes, which possibly contributed to the splitting of the original barrel.
The 100 Ton Gun battery at Nelson’s Anchorage was constructed here between 23 December 1878 and 31 March 1884 on the site of the old 2nd and 3rd Rosia Batteries at a cost of £35,717. Named after the governor, Lord Napier of Magdala, it remains a fascinating monument to Victorian artillery and technology.
This gun presented a typical Armstrong appearance, with a steel barrel encased in successive layers of wrought-iron, built up to form an increasingly massive bulk in the breach area. A typical product of the heavy engineering of the Victorian era, it probably represented the Zenith of its kind. The barrel comprised of a toughened steel tube in two parts. Forged and tempered in oil, with a steel ring in halves over the joint, and a series of sixteen wrought-iron coils shrunk on successively.
The 17.72 inch Rifled Muzzle loader, or 100 Ton Gun, has a barrel that is more than 32 feet long and can fire a shot that will range up to 8 miles in distance. Truly an amazing weapon in its time.
They were the largest guns of any kind that needed to be loaded through the muzzle, and were so large that it required an hydraulic system powered by steam to carry out the loading and firing operations. A steam engine pumped water into the bottom of a well, forcing an 85 ton piston up the shaft. It was this weight compressing the water beneath it which provided hydraulic pressure to move the gun. Although the official handbook states that sufficient pressure could be achieved in 35 to 50 minutes – a minimum of 3 hours is more often quoted. What seems today to be a ridiculously long response time was probably adequate for an era in which most ships still had sails.
Each gun required a crew of men to operate it, a crew of about 35 men to be exact, and after the initial head of steam was built up, the crew could fire the gun every four minutes. It took a total of 450 lbs of black prism gunpowder packed into 4 silk cartridges to propel the 2000 lb shell out of the muzzle with a speed of about 1540 ft per second. The cartridges were made of silk because this was almost entirely consumed by the explosion, leaving very little
residue in the barrel.
Like a gigantic cannon, the 100 ton gun was muzzle loaded using hydraulically powered ramrods 45 feet long. Their bristled heads were located in two armour plated loading chambers, situated on either side of the gun. In order to load, the barrel was turned first to one chamber to receive its silk cased charges of black prism gunpowder – and then traversed 180 to the opposite chamber to receive a shell.
The 100 ton gun had a 150 field of fire and was said to be capable of engaging a target up to eight miles away. This would have covered the Bay of Gibraltar – as well as the Spanish mainland towns of San Roque, Los Barrios and Algeciras. However, it is doubtful that this range was ever actually achieved. More conservative estimates put the gun’s maximum range at around five miles and the official record of armament PFG,951 lists the accurate range limit as only 6500 yards.
To impart rotation to the projectiles in flight and thereby increase their accuracy, the inside of the barrel was rifled with 28 twisting grooves. Large copper discs, called gas checks, originally used to stop exploding gases ‘leaking’ past the projectile, also served to impart the spin with the projections to engage in the rifling.
In 1863 Captain William Paliser invented a method of casting shot with the point in an iron mould. This cooled the point more rapidly and produced a brittle, but extremely hard tip – which enabled a shell from the 100 ton gun to penetrate 24.9 inches of wrought iron. A formidable prospect in an age when the best protected vessels only had armour plating 18 inches thick.
Although much about the 100 ton gun would have been familiar to a gunner in Nelson’s Navy – it also contained many revolutionary features. Just one example is that it was fired not by igniting a fuse, but with a platinum wire heated red hot by electricity from a battery. Information necessary to aim the gun was conveyed to a telephonist by range-finders situated higher up the Rock. Since the telephone had only recently been invented in 1876, this post of telephonist must have been one of the first in the British army. However, this use of ‘new’ technology contrasts vividly with the fact that commands within the battery itself were still conveyed by speaking tubes and
trumpet calls.
There is a story told about the 100 ton gun that is quite interesting too, which again speaks to us of the technologies of the time. It tells of a visit of the Inspector General in about 1902. Reportedly they were preparing to fire five rounds at a full charge and on their first try, the tube was all that fired. Further tries on their part as well as misfire drills were attempted but nothing seemed to work. At the end of the waiting time, which was thirty minutes, the General requested that a volunteer step forward and be put down the gun and fasten a shell extractor to the unfired projectile so that it could be removed.
There was quite a long pause prior to a tall thin soldier’s stepping forward and stripping to the waist to be lowered into the gun. He was safely removed from the gun and had completed the task for which he entered it, and it is said that he was, on the spot, promoted to bombardier. Not the most prolific of rewards for having risked life and limb, but certainly one that changed his life! All in all, the 100 ton gun at Nelson’s Anchorage is certainly well worth a visit, a testament to another, far more violent and uncertain time, when the Rock was unbreachable and the supremacy of the Royal Navy was tested and retested and not found to be wanting.
"Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout Cookies (or however the old adage goes)..."
This quote inspired my one object (Barbie) picture for the day -