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Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson. Dan Jaynes of USDA ARS inserts panels into a water control structure. The panels divert water from field tile into tile that run parallel to the stream, saturating the strip of land bordering the stream. Native prairie plants seeded in the buffer then remove nitrates from the water.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson. A water control structure is a key component; it either diverts water from field tile to the perforated tile that runs parallel to the stream--which saturates the buffer-- or allows water to bypass the buffer, depending on how many panels are inserted into the structure to divert flow.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson. A water control structure is a key component; it either diverts water from field tile to the perforated tile that runs parallel to the stream--which saturates the buffer-- or allows water to bypass the buffer, depending on how many panels are inserted into the structure to divert flow.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson. Dan Jaynes of USDA ARS inserts panels into a water control structure. The panels divert water from field tile into tile that run parallel to the stream, saturating the strip of land bordering the stream. Native prairie plants seeded in the buffer then remove nitrates from the water.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson. A water control structure is a key component; it either diverts water from field tile to the perforated tile that runs parallel to the stream--which saturates the buffer-- or allows water to bypass the buffer, depending on how many panels are inserted into the structure to divert flow.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Tactical Armaments Skeleton Modular Assault System Rail (MAS-R)
This is my first serious attempt at creating something awesome. I'm going to try and blend the grip to the main receiver.
Any comments/suggestions always welcome.
Had a go at recreating the excellent wood/stone buffer stop by Karwik (www.flickr.com/photos/karwik/4748535761/in/album-72157624...)
Installation of saturated buffer in Story County, Iowa, on land farmed by Justin Hanson.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Memoria a nuclei di ferrite utilizzata come buffer per le unità nastro all'interno del GUN (Governo Unità Nastro). È costituita da una miriade di anellini di ferrite, di circa un millimetro di diametro interno, percorsi ciascuno da tre fili (quattro in alcune implementazioni): x, y e lettura/inibizione. Ogni anellino rappresenta un singolo bit.
Questo genere di memoria veniva fabbricato a mano, quasi come fosse un tessuto, e spesso il lavoro veniva affidato a donne abituate a operare con aghi e fili di piccole dimensioni, per esempio cucitrici e ricamatrici.
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Recent windstorm did a number on Silicon Valley, 54 hour long electric blackout at my Sunnyvale location finally ended last night, but still continuing in parts of nearby Los Altos. This long of a blackout not in my past life experience. It's luxury camping, hot and cold water but no electric service. Cooking by camp stove. WiFi and VOIP telephone connection powered by UPS battery (likely less than half day, 12V 7 Ah when new, modem consumes .5A). Made a DIY cable to allow indefinite WiFi/phone operations powered by any auto battery. Many neighbors went elsewhere.
Some lessons:
1. Big bag of crushed ice in the freezer section did not help enough. It may have buffered some in the beginning, but at the 54 hour point even the frozen veg sitting directly on top of the still ice crushed ice bag had softened, as had all the other meat and frozen vegetables in the freezer. Negligible air circulation in the freezer section I think means the frozen meat and vegetables mainly keep the ice bag cold. Would have to surround the frozen food with ice to protect food better, not practical.
2. No need to open either refrigerator or freezer doors at any time during a blackout if you have tech gadgets. A thermocouple wire temperature probe slips easily past the magnetic seals to tell you the ongoing temperature story.
3. Soy sauce survives just fine (look it up).
4. Professional solder and shrink tube cable making is indeed possible in an extended blackout using the clumsy soldering attachment to the ordinary propane torch. The tip is way too big, but the technique is to make all splices include one excess long wire tail, and put the torch large chisel tip to the tail, put solder on it in excess and let the wire tail conduct heat and solder down to the splice area. After soldering you just cut off the excess tail, slide over the pre-placed shrink tubes and complete the usual way. The requirement for precision tip placement is eased, allowing you to mind where the sideways torch heat is going to avoid setting your arm holding the solder and the cable and surroundings on fire.
5. Ideally such cables are made in advance of need, using the proper connector to the modem that you find in your box of orphan wall wart power cubes. But if you make it during the blackout under primitive conditions, you can benefit from the law of ironic perversity, in that just when you finish and test the cable, the blackout is then shortly to end (in my case 15 hours in advance of the utility company prediction).
6. By my recent daylight experience 1 out of 5 Silicon Valley drivers just blow thru blacked out stoplight controlled intersections. In a blackout, the lights seem to have some limited power backup, but eventually go to all lights out in all directions.
The way for a bicyclist to survive this in heavy traffic is to yield right of way conventionally but once in the intersection do not assume approaching drivers will even see you. Stop halfway in the intersection if anyone is closely approaching from the right. With luck you will see some approaching cars coming from your right ignore the now dark traffic lights and you now stopped in the middle of the intersection, and blow right by you only a few feet away at 30 MPH. Do not presume they will stop or even slow. Then you can clear the remaining half of the intersection in one piece.
7. Although I am not particularly a tablet fan, my $10 Weirdstuff Android tablet delivered good blackout service for email access, better than my power hungry and aging battery laptops. Boots fast and my tablet recharges easily from a USB power brick or charger adaptor that plugs into an auto cigarette lighter socket.
8. Camp stove, matches and fuel stored in my earthquake kit many decades ago performed flawlessly.
9. The way that just in case UPS supplies intended for blackouts fail is that first you discover they produce obscure but annoying radio noise. You turn them off to enjoy less interference and forget about them. Then comes along a blackout and of course their long neglected batteries need replacement.
10. Blackout situations do increase the anticipation and enjoyment of daily vigorous sustained exercise. I ride even in the winter on dry days because it does seem to set a higher metabolic rate and psychological optimism for the rest of the day, and this is very evident in a blackout when indoors goes into the low fifties and sensible people have hit the hotels.
Buffer stops at Rugby station. The track has recently been removed as part of a redevelopment / resignalling project.
Growth in a saturated buffer along Bear Creek on land farmed by Justin Hanson in August, 2016 after it was seeded with a prairie mix the fall before. It will take time to establish the prairie plants.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
One man working & five men watching. Maintenance staff & depot driver shown here as a buffer on a DVT gets replaced during the blockade
My new railway track for the many railway models I find myself building. It has third rail electrification and realistic treated wood sleepers.
Section of Bear Creek on land farmed by Justin Hanson. A saturated buffer has been Installed that diverts some of the water from this field tile into a stream side buffer planted to prairie plants that remove nitrate from the water. Story County, Iowa.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Do these really serve any effective purpose in this condition? Cf my shot of the stops at Crewe the same day.
This person was driving impatiently behind me in the buffered lane. When I stopped to take their photo they figured out what was going on and merged back left. Note the green merging area for cars to cross the buffered lane into a right turn lane -- there are a few of these along the course.
The new buffered bike lanes were installed this weekend on SW Stark and SW Oak in downtown Portland
If you didn't see these buffer stops (which is very unlikely!) you could finish up in the entrance lock. The strange objects at the base of the left buffer stop are plastic dragon heads for use in dragon boat racing.
Taken at 10:02 on Sunday 22 July 2012.
The beginning of the Stark St. buffered lane is at the new Zoobomb Pyle at SW 14th. Note the truck unloading in the parking zone without blocking the bike lane (I noticed this was often a problem on NYC's similar infrastructure). Also note the auxiliary Zoobomb pyle at the bike staple next to the monument.
The new buffered bike lanes were installed this weekend on SW Stark and SW Oak in downtown Portland