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The A-10 Thunderbolt II is one of my favourite planes. It´s a very capable and powerful aircraft designed to destroy enemy tanks with missiles and a powerful 30mm Gatling gun.
But if you know me, you know that I like to "improve" already proven designs into something unique.
This time, I decided to build a WW2 style "Warthog", with two inline propeller engines on the wings, a dorsal defensive turret, a single barrel cannon under the nose (probably 50mm or maybe heavier) and only 5 or 6 hard-points for external bombs under the wings.
The model features retractable landing gear, movable flaps and a rotating dorsal turret.
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we would literally astound ourselves :-)
Thomas Edison
autumn higan cherry, 'Autumnalis', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
« Ensuite il me laisse seule, capable de réussir. » (C.K.)
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A trickster, highly capable on thriving in any given situation and an opportunist of the highest kind. Jaxx is next level. Her character was inspired by the character Joseph Porta
She's a skilled mechanic and a cook
The 400m long CSCL Indian Ocean beached in river Elbe approaching Hamburg. The Indian Ocean is capable to load 19.000 standard containers in one voyage and has 77.000 HP on her main engine, her maximum draught is 16m, currently about 11m. She was beached intentional on the smooth side (in the mudflats) of the fairway while she had problems with the steering gear. The rescue team needs a higher tide to free her, so she will stay for some days more....
“It is not the will which is lacking; it is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as lift a cart like that on his back. I have never known but one man capable of doing what you ask. He was a convict.”
“Ah!”
“In the galleys at Toulon.”
Once, during his time in the galleys, Jean Valjean lifts a terrible load to save a dying man. There was one man there who remembered it. Then, after a few more years, Valjean is freed. He had served 19 years.
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You perceive I am going slower than most others ;) . Hopefully I will speed up soon, but I do want to maybe build some other things during breaks. Anyhow, hope you like it!
'You know nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own; in pain or sickness it would still be dear.
Your mind is my treasure and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.
If you raged my arms should confine you. If you flew at me wildly, I should only receive you in an embrace.'
Jane Eyre
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This shows the great, high resolution that the 5DS-R is capable of. I used the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II on the 5DS-R from about 30-feet away. Having 50-megapixels to play with really is nice. I noticed the great detail in both the fish and snowy eyes, so I cropped a bunch, but I still had 2400x1900p left, after the huge crop.
Notice the slightly fuzzy area in the middle of the egret's bill? That's a plant between me and the subject. I'm amazed how a lens can "see through" an obstacle when focused beyond the obstacle. I focused on the egret's eye.
Presenting my Lego Space flagship - an interstellar explorer capable of intercepting asteroids and harvesting energy crystals on the cosmic frontier! Built for the Bricklink Designer Program - crowd support is now live!
Features include:
• Cockpit with airlock mechanism & ejector seats
• Articulated Canadarm behind cargo bay doors
• Twin scout ships docked in front wings
• Onboard reactor with dorsal fuel hatch
• Roof access to interior
• Robo-rover deployed from rear ramp
• Articulated radar dish
• Twin thruster modules
• Retractable landing gear
• Interior with bunk, smoothie dispenser, grow light, reactor, robo-suit storage, and armoury
• 2 Pilots, 2 Scout Pilots, Science Officer, Heavy Mechanic with robot-suit and rocket boots, and Android assistant
A Royal Air Force Typhoon of 1(F) Squadron (top) and a French Air Force Mirage 2000N practice their formation flying skills during Exercise Capable Eagle.
The exercise was the latest in a series designed to further improve the interoperability and effectiveness of Anglo-French military co-operation.
As well as Typhoons of 1(F) Sqn the exercise included Mirage 2000N aircraft of the Escadron de Chasse 2/4 "La Fayette".
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These four highly modified World War II fighters have dominated the last 30 years of the Reno Air Races.Capable of exceeding 500 mph, 50 feet off the ground,they have each won multiple Championships.
Voodoo, number 5, is a highly modified North American P-51 Mustang that was the 2013, 2014 and 2016] Unlimited-class champion of the Reno Air Races.
After Voodoo underwent further modifications, including removal of the aircraft's racer paint scheme and gaining sponsorship by Aviation Partners, pilot Steve Hinton made an attempt to break the 3 km World Speed Record of 528.33 mph (850.26 km/h) set by Rare Bear on 21 August 1989. On 2 September 2017, with the fastest of four runs recorded as 554.69 mph (892.69 km/h) and an average speed of 531.53 mph (855.41 km/h), Voodoo broke the record. However, due to changes in record measurement standards the Rare Bear record was not bettered as it had to be beaten by at least 1% (533.6 mph).
A newborn hippo is a surprisingly capable aquatic baby, born on land or in water, able to swim and nurse underwater immediately, with mothers fiercely protective, guiding them to the surface for air and keeping them safe from predators, although they remain dependent on milk for months and often ride on their mother's back. These "river horses" start on grass around three weeks but nurse for about a year, learning to navigate their watery world under their mom's watchful eye.
Key Facts About Newborn Hippos
Birth & Early Life: Born in water or on land, they can swim within minutes, guided by their mothers to breathe.
Underwater Nursing: They instinctively learn to suckle underwater by closing nostrils/ears and wrapping their tongue around the teat.
Mother's Protection: Mothers are incredibly protective, shielding calves from crocs, lions, and even aggressive male hippos.
Diet: They nurse for about a year, starting grass at 3 weeks, but milk is crucial for much longer.
Weight: Newborns weigh 55-120 lbs (25-55 kg) and can be surprisingly small for their species.
Behavior: Calves often rest by climbing onto their mother's back. R_49068
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a carrier-capable ground-attack aircraft designed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.
The delta winged, single-engined Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated the A4D under the U.S. Navy's pre-1962 designation system.
The A-4 is a compact, light-weight design with a maximum takeoff weight of 11,100 kg. With a top speed of more than 970 km/h, its performance is compromised by its small size. The aircraft's six hardpoints support a variety of missiles, bombs and other munitions. Power is provided by one 9,300-pound-force (41 kN) Pratt & Whitney J52.
"You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares."
(c) We Are All Astronauts - Doves
Boulder Beach & Otter Cliffs - Redux
Acadia National Park, Maine
I posted another version of this shot recently but I'm not happy with it anymore, so I started from scratch and re-processed it. Originally I pushed the image heavily towards blue to take out a lot of the green airglow color out of the sky, but this time I chose to feature a more natural colored sky. I still punched it up a bit for contrast, but the green glow in the sky is real, it is from airglow, a natural phenomenon that occurs high up in the atmosphere as molecular particles emit light when they react to scattered radiation from the sun and various other chemical interactions. The sky doesn't look like this to your eye at night but the camera is capable of seeing much more light during a long exposure, so the actual colors of the sky come out in the photographs. Airglow is much more visible (to the camera) in places where the sky is very dark without light pollution, and Acadia is a great place for that!
This is a blend of 5 main images, but technically 9 exposures. The sky is made up of 5 exposures at ISO 6400 f/2.8 for 10 seconds each, which are then stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker (available for Mac only, but you can do this in Photoshop) to achieve pinpoint stars and lower noise than a single ISO 3200 shot for 25 seconds would have yielded. The foreground is from 4 other exposures, 3 at ISO 3200 f/2.8 for 5 minutes each, and 1 at ISO 1600 f/2.8 for 10 minutes. The foreground exposures are taken at different focus distances so that I can get the entire scene in focus after blending them together. Doing it with multiple exposures instead of a single exposure at f/8 or f/11 means the exposures take less time and and I can re-take one more easily if there was a mistake, and I can capture water movement in a different way. All shots were at 14mm, using my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens on my Nikon D800E.
You can read much more about my process in my tutorial "Introduction to Landscape Astrophotography" on the Luminous Landscape website: www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/night_sky___astrophotog...
Starry Landscape Stacker is available in the Mac App Store.
#OtterCliffs #BoulderBeach #Acadia #Maine #Milkyway #night #stars #astrophotography
Have you ever considered yourself capable of manipulating gravity? When you grip an object, you are doing just that.
Gravity is constantly exerting its force on objects, most notably by keeping everything weighed down. But when you lift a cup to your mouth, you are playing against gravity.
Despite gravity being a force of nature, living with it does not come naturally to humans; we learn how to work with gravity in infancy when we pick up objects and learn to adjust our grip to its weight and gravitational force.
How our brains learn this process is at the core of the Grip experiment, being performed in this image by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station on his current Horizons mission.
In the weightless environment of the Station astronauts are like infants learning to adjust to the world in which they find themselves.
In microgravity, objects have no weight, which is an important indicator to our brain of how much grip force to apply to an object when moving it up or down. Furthermore, the inner ear no longer tells us which way is up. Naturally, our brains are a little thrown off and our coordination is disturbed. Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience in Brussels are studying how long it takes our brains to adjust to this dynamic.
How does the experiment work? Alexander performs a series of movements while gripping a purpose-built sensor that measures grip-forces, moisture and acceleration, and more to assess how the body adapts to situations in which there is no up or down.
Alexander will carry out three sessions of the experiment during his mission. As with most experiments flown on the Space Station, the data will be compared to preflight and postflight sessions.
The Grip experiment has flown on 20 parabolic flight campaigns. Results indicate that short-term exposure to microgravity induces subtle changes in how the forces used in gripping an object are coordinated. Our brains anticipate the effects of gravity even when it is not there. On the Space Station, researchers can now observe the long-term effects. The experiment was first commissioned by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during his mission in 2016.
These experiments are designed to help us better understand human physiology and disease diagnosis on Earth. They are also helpful to engineers designing prosthetic limbs on Earth and will be used to help design robot-human interfaces so astronauts can command robots on other planets, allowing us to further explore our Solar System.
Learn more about Grip in this video produced by Principle Investigator Jean-Louis Thonnard and his team.
Follow Alexander during his Horizons mission via alexandergerst.esa.int and his blog.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Giant Hogweed is an invasive non-native plant species that grows abundantly along river corridors, steams and beyond. The species can reach a substantial height within in a single growing season, with individuals found on average to be two to five metres in height.
Seeds germinate from March onwards, with the plant quickly establishing a taproot. It takes three to four years to reach maturity, and in the final year produces the main stem and a large flower head. A typical flower head is capable of producing 20 000 seeds, however up to 50 000 have been recorded for a single plant. Giant Hogweed can be found flowering from June to August, with seeds being released from late August each year.
The Ryning Palace (Ryningska palatset), was begun by the capable Erik Ryning in the 1640s to the design of Simon de la Vallée. As the architect died within only a year, however, large parts of the palace were not completed until 1770, many years after the death of the original proprietor and in an apparently different style than the older parts. The new proprietor Gottfried Sackenhielm used part of his palace to run a tavern and a brothel, frequently visited by many notable men of the era, including the still popular troubadour Carl Michael Bellman. Following the death of Sackenhielm, the property was taken over by Johan Bergstrahl, who, except giving parts of the block their present names, raised the activities in the buildings to an unprecedented level, introducing social clubs, newspapers and café's. Today the building is occupied by the Supreme Court and the Labour Court.
A child genius, capable of creating incredible inventions and deadly weapons from nearly any household item. He sold his inventions, and created a company called Gizmo Inc. He turned to villainy by joining the Fearsome Five, solely as a means for expanding his business.
I tried to base him on his design from Titans: Burning Rage. I used the jetpack build from the new Batcave, because it looks way more like some sort of weapon than just a jetpack (plus I didn't have the time to build anything new 😅)
Grumman E-2C Hawkeye VAW-120 164111 US Navy 621 Greyhawks
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft
Thunder of Niagara Airshow 2018
Photo taken at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station
Why gather your own supplies when you can build a perfectly capable drone to do it for you?
Knew somebody would point that out. I'm banking on the fact that you would make this in the early stages of the apocalypse. Therefore you would have the supplies.
Time for some more Nam builds.
In 1960, the United States Army issued Technical Specification 153 for a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) capable of fulfilling various roles: personnel transport, escort and attack missions, casualty evacuation and observation.
The aircraft entered service in 1966, arriving in the Vietnam War thereafter. The pilots dubbed the new helicopter Loach, a word created by pronunciation of the acronym of the program that spawned the aircraft, LOH (light observation helicopter).
The OH-6 set 23 world records for helicopters in 1966 for speed, endurance and time to climb.
Do people even read descs anymore? Anyways I thought I'd make a Cayuse as it's a much lesser done heli and that's what I prefer. Tail was tricky to get how I wanted as it's a very different shaping than many others but I'm happy with what I came up with and its very adaptable. This isn't just my "Little Bird" made dark green, it's a total new build and design concept in every area compared to my other helicopters. On the rotor area I managed to get another use out of a wrench lol..love those things! Used hands to give the blades a yellow tip and it works well especially keeping the blade thin as possible and extending its length that bit more which was needed. This started as a table scrap when I was bored and decided I wanted to try out some tech to see if I could get the legs area much better then id previousky done as i was never happy using the robot arms as the curve was just wrong and using other straight parts looked ok but meant the helicopter needed additional support just to sit, that wasn't what I wanted but I also didn't want the helicopter to sit very high compared to a fig when standing next to it as despite knowing figs are out of scale themselves I still think it's Important to try keep builds small as possible while still being fig compatible. I got what I wanted in the end and at the same the found a way to have a windshield added without needing the use of a traditional hinge plate which sometimes isn't made in some colours or is very expensive even in colours like tan. So I worked around all that so it didn't matter. Internally more work went on then I thought to get this shaped but still strong. Hope you enjoy the build.
This being made in dark green made it an extra tough build as certain parts just don't cone in that colour at the moment. That was the extra challenge I set myself.
Devil May Cry 5
Otis_Inf's injectable camera system; hotsampling via SRWE (30MP); bicubic smother resampling; reshade 4.5.4
“Only children believe they're capable of everything.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Predeal railway station
Romania
2021
Adult American Coot (Fulica americana) with its young at the nest site among tall marsh vegetation. Chicks are capable of swimming almost immediately after hatching, and soon leave the nest, but regularly return to the platform to be brooded and fed by the parent birds. They eventually become fully independent three to ten weeks later. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
Still a very capable air defence fighter, this Mirage 2000-5EG, was one of the new build Dash 5s (rather than upgraded 2000EGs) acquired by the Hellenic Air Force, and serves with 331 Mira
While I await the delivery of a new “professional” camera, I aim to explore just how capable an iPhone is – especially for macro photography. Shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, there’s plenty of power, even when exploring more technical subjects such as ultraviolet fluorescence.
Plants in the allium family vary vastly in the size of their blossoms, from the gigantic “big ball” alliums to the more subtle wild onions, such as this. While the wide-angle lens on the iPhone 15 series is certainly capable of getting up close to them, the resolution is lower than the main camera. This is one of the reasons to look at the iPhone 16 Pro models, which improve the macro capabilities with a higher-resolution sensor for the wide-angle camera; There are, however, other ways to improve your game. I use the Moment 75mm add-on lens which significantly improves the magnification of the main camera, allowing me to shoot 48MP RAW files.
48MP RAW from a phone isn’t the same as 48MP RAW from a larger sensor on a traditional interchangeable lens camera, but it does offer more flexibility. Better ability to crop into the frame, better dynamic range, and better colour correction than would otherwise be afforded by shooting with more “basic” modes. I believe the default camera app now allows you to choose this, but I prefer Halide for many other bits of additional control as my camera app.
The image is shot in a dark room, with UV flashlights aimed at the subject. The exposures can be a little lengthy, so a 3-second timer is helpful to touch the camera lightly and then give it time to settle before the exposure starts. A simple Bluetooth camera trigger works to make this more instantaneous, and only costs a few dollars. You still want the camera to be rock-solid steady and easy to position, so a good holder is essential. The best I’ve tried is this one from Platypod: www.platypod.com/products/platypod-grip
Post-processing to get the most out of these images has a few tricks, mostly to bring out the hidden colours in some parts of the flower. Allium flowers fluoresce mostly into the blue spectrum, with yellow-green pollen and stems. In order to make sure that these colours (other than blue) are properly represented in the final image, I employ a one-two punch: sway the white balance to be warmer (slightly diminishing the blue), and then increase the vibrance and saturation to re-balance the colour palette. The blue will come back, but so will the other colours that were less prominent. White-balance corrections are far more powerful when shooting in a RAW format.
Here's a “normal light” version of this image: donkom.ca/bts/IMG_5234.jpg - the fluorescence is quite transformative!
« Etre capable de trouver sa joie dans la joie de l'autre : voilà le secret du bonheur. » de Georges Bernanos
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A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom. The mix of slag and iron in the bloom, termed sponge iron, is usually consolidated and further forged into wrought iron. Blast furnaces, which produce pig iron, have largely superseded bloomeries.
A bloomery consists of a pit or chimney with heat-resistant walls made of earth, clay, or stone. Near the bottom, one or more pipes (made of clay or metal) enter through the side walls. These pipes, called tuyeres, allow air to enter the furnace, either by natural draught or forced with bellows or a trompe. An opening at the bottom of the bloomery may be used to remove the bloom, or the bloomery can be tipped over and the bloom removed from the top.
The first step taken before the bloomery can be used is the preparation of the charcoal and the iron ore. Charcoal is nearly pure carbon which, when burned, both produces the high temperature needed for the smelting process and provides the carbon monoxide needed for reduction of the metal.
The ore is broken into small pieces and usually roasted in a fire, to make rock based ores easier to break up, bake out some impurities, and (to a lesser extent) to remove any moisture in the ore. Any large impurities (as silica) in the ore can be removed as it is crushed. The desired particle size depends primarily on which of several ore types may be available, which will also have a relationship to the layout and operation of the furnace, of which there are a number of regional, historic/traditional forms. Natural iron ores can vary considerably in oxide form (Fe2O3 / Fe3O4 / FeO(OH) ), and importantly in relative iron content. Since slag from previous blooms may have a high iron content, it can also be broken up and may be recycled into the bloomery with the new ore.
In operation, after the bloomery is preheated typically with a wood fire, shifting to burning pre-sized charcoal, iron ore and additional charcoal are introduced through the top. Again, 'traditional' methods vary, but normally smaller charges of ore are added at the start of the main smelting sequence, increasing to larger amounts as the smelt progresses. Overall a typical ratio of total charcoal to ore added will in a roughly one-to-one ratio. Inside the furnace, carbon monoxide from the incomplete combustion of the charcoal reduces the iron oxides in the ore to metallic iron without melting the ore; this allows the bloomery to operate at lower temperatures than the melting temperature of the ore. As the desired product of a bloomery is iron which is easily forgeable, it requires a low carbon content. The temperature and ratio of charcoal to iron ore must be carefully controlled to keep the iron from absorbing too much carbon and thus becoming unforgeable. Cast iron occurs when the iron absorbs 2% to 4% carbon. Because the bloomery is self-fluxing, the addition of limestone is not required to form a slag.
The small particles of iron produced in this way fall to the bottom of the furnace, where they combine with molten slag, often consisting of fayalite, a compound of silicon, oxygen and iron mixed with other impurities from the ore. The hot liquid slag, running to the bottom of the furnace, cools against the base and lower side walls of the furnace, effectively forming a bowl still containing fluid slag. As the individual iron particles form, they fall into this bowl and sinter together under their own weight, forming a spongy mass referred to as the bloom. Because the bloom is typically porous, and its open spaces can be full of slag, the extracted mass must beaten with heavy hammers to both compress voids and drive out any molten slag remaining. This process may require several additional heating and compaction cycles, working at high 'welding' temperatures. Iron treated this way is said to be wrought (worked), and the resulting iron, with reduced amounts of slag, is called wrought iron or bar iron. Because of the creation process, individual blooms can often have differing carbon contents between the original top and bottom surfaces, differences that will also be somewhat blended together through the flattening, folding and hammer welding sequences. It is also possible to produce blooms coated in steel (higher carbon) by manipulating the charge of and air flow to the bloomery.
As the era of modern commercial steelmaking began, the word bloom was extended to another sense referring to an intermediate-stage piece of steel, of a size comparable to many traditional iron blooms, that was ready to be further worked into billet. wikipedia
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If you want to stand between Bamboo please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
Bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. In bamboo the plant stem are hollow. Bamboos are also the fastest growing plants in the world. They are capable of growing up to 60 centimeters 24 inch or more per day due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. However, this astounding growth rate is highly dependent on local soil and climatic conditions. Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in Asia where they are used extensively in everyday life as building materials, as a food source and as a highly versatile raw product. There are more than 70 genera divided into about 1,000 species. They are found in diverse climates, from cold mountains to hot tropical regions. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth; it has been measured surging skyward as fast as 121 cm 48 inch in a 24-hour period. The shoots new bamboo culms that come out of the ground of bamboo are edible. They are used in numerous Asian dishes. Bamboo is the main food of the Giant Panda; it makes up 99% of the Panda's diet. Pandas will move to other bamboo forests when they have consumed all edible bamboos of an area, or when the bamboos of an area are dying. But there are no Panda's in Laos. Bamboo can be used for many other things like: medicine, house construction, textiles, musical instruments, art and paper. Most species flower infrequently. In fact, many bamboos only flower at intervals as long as 60 or 120 years then the bamboo dies. This mechanism, as well as the evolutionary cause behind it, is still largely a mystery. In China and India, bamboo blossom was traditionally seen as a curse or an indication of a starvation coming.
I always love the wander inside a Bamboo forest. Forest? or should I call it a grass field. It's dark and no other plants are allowed to grow here. It's an extraordinary plant. After the blossom of the Bamboo, the flowers produce fruit, which the Chinese called "bamboo rice". Then, the bamboo forest will die. Since a bamboo forest usually grows from a single bamboo, the death of bamboos occurs in a large area. This mechanism, as well as the evolutionary cause behind it, is still largely a mystery.
Bamboe is eigenlijk geen boom maar is een plantensoort die behoort tot de grootste van de grasfamilie. De naam bamboe is afkomstig uit het Maleis en in vrijwel alle talen bekend als bambu, bamboo enz. Ze zijn van binnen hol en worden op geregelde afstanden onderbroken door knopen waar de bladeren aanhechten. De grootste bamboe is de reuzenbamboe die tot 35 meter hoog wordt en tot 30 cm brede stengels heeft. De plant wordt in uiteenlopende klimaten aangetroffen, van koude berggebieden tot hete, tropische streken. Hij verspreidt zich hoofdzakelijk via zijn wortels, die zich ondergronds ver kunnen verspreiden om hier en daar nieuwe halmen boven de grond te laten komen. Bamboe is één van de snelst groeiende planten: binnen één seizoen kan hij tot volle wasdom komen. De snelst groeiende plant ter wereld is een bepaalde bamboesoort waarvan reeds groeisnelheden van één meter per dag zijn waargenomen. Dit is drie keer zo snel als de snelst groeiende boom. De bamboeplant bloeit zelden, soms zelfs eens in de honderd jaar. Als een plant bloeit, dan bloeit hij in een groot gebied, soms zelfs zo groot als een continent of groter. Hoe al die planten weten dat ze tegelijk moeten bloeien stelt biologen nog steeds voor een raadsel. Na de bloei vindt massale achteruitgang en afsterving van bamboe plaats. Bamboe is de voornaamste voedselbron van de reuzenpanda die het moeilijk kan krijgen als in zijn leefgebied een belangrijke bamboesoort gaat bloeien. De jonge bamboescheuten zijn eetbaar en worden veel in de Aziatische keuken gebruikt. Als bouwmateriaal wordt bamboe veel gebruikt, onder andere voor: meubelen, steigers, wapening in beton, vishengels, muziekinstrumenten zoals panfluit, bamboefluit en parket.
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of Love"
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
"I have decided to stick with Love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always the 3rd Monday of January, and is a Federal holiday in the USA.
This year it is January 18,2016
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
"Love" is the actual name of this rose.
Sturgeon Memorial Rose Garden
Largo Florida USA
Introducing Saturn Corporation's brand new transformable mobile frame! This frame is capable of long distance flight, along with the ability to function as a mobile frame unit. It's equipped with two missile pods that are usable in flight mode or deployed as a frame. Because this frame is only a prototype these heavy missile pods are it's only armaments.
Although this new release comes at a harsh time for Saturn, their last frame The Revival peaked interest in investors enough that Saturn is no longer in danger of bankruptcy, their new Revival frame however was defeated by the ODUS-4 in armed combat. The ODUS-4 did not get off unscathed, it was left in critical condition, and as to not give away any secrets of the frame, activated a self destruct. Its sacrifice was worth the it in the end though, the reward was Saturn's embarrassment to more potential investors. Most importantly ODUS' death reveals, a puppet master with a strong influence and unseen resources. As things unfold a new company emerging from the shadows. A company known as Vera Industries.
Capable of leveling entire mountains, the Pahrak work to level the land itself. With the ability to trigger localized earthquakes and legs that allow them omni-directional burrowing, no irregularity is safe.
Although KITT is perfectly capable of operating autonomously, Knight Rider had a cast that viewers loved as much as they loved the car (well, almost as much).
So I updated my LEGO Ideas project to include Michael, Bonnie, and Devon.
You can check the project out here: ideas.lego.com/projects/104066
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night...."
Sometimes pictures just need to be in black and white, I think. Taking away colors can add to an image, rather than subtract.
This is the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, capable of MACH 3+, she was the fastest and highest flying operational aircraft. On display at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St. Cuthbert of Durham, usually known as Durham Cathedral and the home of the Shrine of St. Cuthbert, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham. The bishopric dates from 995, with the present cathedral being founded in 1093. The cathedral is regarded as one of the finest examples of Norman architecture, and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I've been wanting to do a night shoot in Durham (a city I love) for ages, but only recently acquired a lens particularly suited to hand-held photography in low light, namely a standard zoom not only capable of maintaining an aperture of f/2.8 across its entire focal length range, but also offering image stabilisation (a feature upon which I have previously been undecided, but am now completely sold). Rapidly becoming my personal Holy Grail is a pristine shot of the cathedral from Palace Green (especially floodlit at night). This is my best effort so far, so here it is... complete with omnipresent scaffolding!
Now, it seems to me that Palace Green ought to be the ideal spot from which photographers can capture the cathedral in all its glory. Yet it's a constant source of frustration that I have never yet managed to visit without finding something skanking up the shot! If it's not scaffolding, it's piles of rubble or building materials, tarpaulins, marquees, parked cars, temporary plastic fencing in a fetching shade of dayglo orange... other people... sassin', frassin', rassin'...!!! :-(
This is the nearest to an unblemished composition I have achieved to date, yet I still had to use Lightroom's spot removal tool to get rid of two red wheelie bins, two parked cars, four carelessly discarded traffic cones, and a couple of b****y tourists! Sadly, I could do nothing about the scaffolding, which ruined an otherwise beautiful scene.
On a more serious note (yes, in case you hadn't realised, much of the above was intended to be light-hearted, with more than a touch of self-mockery), of course I appreciate that historic old buildings will require almost constant maintenance, and I'm certainly not advocating a ban on public access purely for my own edification! :-O However, I don't think it's too much to expect of the cathedral's administration to make more of an effort to remove unnecessary eyesores.
Rant alert! Mutter, whinge, twist...
Early Years
For as long as Roger could remember he’d had a sword in his hand, training from near birth to be a capable swordsman and live up to their family heritage and words, fame through valor. Any time the young man wasn’t training he was down at Duskendale’s harbor learning how to sail, as the heir apparent to the Darklyn house his education wasn’t neglected but it was clear he favored combat and tactics to words and diplomacy. When he was old enough he would join his Uncle Steffon as his squire learning the workings of the King’s Guard and training among some of the best in the Kingdom. Being a squire for his uncle put him in close proximity to Visery’s I Targaryen as well as other members of the royal family if only in passing. He traveled much of the crownlands during this time, spending a significant amount of his teenage years in Dragonstone or King’s Landing. Roger would spend a lot of his free time outdoors in both locations being especially fond of gardens. He was charming and charismatic, training out of adoration for his Uncle more than a need to actually fight. He would often joke about joining the Kingsguard himself and letting his brother take his place as Lord of Duskendale but his father would never allow such a thing to happen.
Dance of Dragons
When the Dance of Dragons began Roger would flee King’s Landing with his Uncle, two stewards, four guardsman, and Viserys’ Crown bringing them to Dragonstone to join Rhaenyra and be present for her coronation. It was shortly after that he would be knighted by Lord Commander Steffon Darklyn. Not long after his father Gunthor was beheaded during the sacking of Duskendale and his Uncle would die at the maw of Seasmoke. These tragedy’s would shape the young Lord’s personality going forward. The young bright eyed boy who wanted nothing more than to join his uncle at the side of the Queen was gone. He became cold, his temper would run as hot as the fire that killed his idol. He grew callous and his tongue as sharp as his blade when it came to tearing down those he found to be inferior to him. He drowned himself in his training, mastering the blade as best he could. He pushed his body to the limit building his strength and brawn until he became as tall and unyielding as Dun Fort atop its hill. He joined the Black armies in battle fighting across the crownlands and learning at the side of older commanders how wars were waged. The war was short but harsh leaving him weathered and aged beyond his young years. His personality quickly twisted into one of arrogant ambition and fierce determination, the handsome young man considered himself beyond reproach and he hungered to make a name for himself. The Darklyn’s had fallen far in the Dance and he alone could lead them back to the fame and valor of their birthright.
Winter Begins
Roger had grown into a stoic young man, tall and wide as a galleon, the imposing figure had a face that was nearly always twisted into a scowl or smiling with an air of superiority. His dark raven hair swept over his head and his eyes sitting dark in their hollow sockets. Even before the winter Roger felt cold, always cold and uncomfortable, even though his skin was hot to the touch he would wear furs over his shoulders and keep his hair long to cover his ears. Following the Dance, Roger would return home to Dun Fort and consolidate what remained of his banners and people. The harsh cold years would do little to cool his disposition and the arrogant young lord would fight through the winter years leading his people to rebuild his burned harbor, his fleet, and his forces. As far as he was concerned Aenar was a consolation prize, it was his Mother that Roger, Steffan, and Gunthor had sword fealty to. He would honor those oaths for now but his bitterness at the green houses was far from faded and that growing resentment drove him to amass and consolidate his forces as fast as possible for what he hoped would be a reckoning of punishments levied onto the traitorous houses that had stood against Rhaenyra’s proper claim to the throne. Now the year was 135 and the King was throwing the Maiden’s day ball and one that Roger was keen to attend, he needed a wife and heirs as soon as possible and he was determined to levy for a position in the King’s new Court.
Royal Air Force No.99 Squadron's Boeing C-17A Globemaster III ZZ173 about to land at home base Brize Norton
The RAF operate a fleet of eight of these huge airlifters capable of carrying Paratroops, Troops, Helicopters, Tanks, Vehicles or fitted out for Medivac
276A1796
IMO: 9521069
MMSI: 378111827
Call Sign: ZJL8536
Flag: British Virgin Is [VG]
AIS Vessel Type: Other
Gross Tonnage: 398
Deadweight: 68 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 41.15m × 7.98m
Year Built: 2009
The 135.01ft Custom motor yacht motor yacht 'Komokwa' was built by Horizon in Taiwan, Province of China at their Kaoshing shipyard , she was delivered to her owner in 2009. Espinosa Yacht Design is responsible for her beautiful exterior and interior design. Previously named Bikini Queen 2,
Komokwa's interior configuration has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 12 guests overnight in 5 cabins, comprising a master suite, 4 double cabins, 2 pullman beds. She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard in 3 cabins to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.
Powered by 2 MTU (8V4000M70) 1,550hp diesel engines and propelled by her twin screw propellers Motor yacht Komokwa is capable of a top speed of 15 knots, and comfortably cruises at 10 knots. With her 44,160 litres fuel tanks she has a maximum range of 4,606 nautical miles at 8 knots. Her water tanks store around 10,400 litres of fresh water.
Vancouver Harbour, Burrard inlet,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
CN is still capable of producing a surprise now and then. It's been years since there was a Geep in the mix of power on the road trains. I saw this GP38-2 on the point of L517 in the early morning hours. I wanted to at least record the occasion when it came back on L516 even through it would be trailing. They made it back before dark even though the shadows were getting a little long by the time they came through town. My guess is the four axle was a last minute substitution the night before. Indeed it only made the one trip.
July 28, 2022.
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Originally: Royal Air Force utility 4x4, NCT984
www.flickr.com/photos/pete_edgeler/15450452290
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_series
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Backgound: Royal Danish Air Force Hawker Hunter F.Mk.51, E-421, 1956
www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/heritage-and-collection/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter
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Brooklands Military Vehicles Day 2017
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Olympus 9mm 1:8 140° fisheye zone-focus body-cap lens
PB191286 Anx2 Q90 1200h 1.5k f25
The black crowned crane is a stately, elegant bird covered with black or nearly black plumage. There are white and gold sections on the wings, and white and red skin patches on the face in the back of the eye. A small gular pouch beneath the head is capable of producing booming noises when inflated. The head is graced with a golden crown. The legs and feet are black. This crane stands approximately 104 centimetres, with the male slightly larger than the female. Black crowned cranes will form flocks during the dry season, but are territorial while nesting.
Black crowned cranes are true omnivores and will literally eat anything small enough that is unable to escape it. The cranes will eat vegetative matter such as seeds and fruit as well as insects, snails, and small vertebrates such as lizards, amphibians, crabs and snakes.
These cranes prefer to live close to water sources such as lakes and marshes, but they will tolerate drier conditions if necessary. The wet season is also the breeding season for the cranes, generally from May through November or December. Black crowned cranes prefer to nest near water, and will construct their nests out of rushes or grasses. Up to 5 eggs will be laid, and both parents will participate not only in incubation, but also in rearing the young. The male crane will often keep a lookout for danger from the vantage of a tree, alerting his family with a call if he detects an intruder.
Black crowned cranes face many threats to their existence, generally because of human activities. Habitat loss and destruction are probably the worst, with the draining of wetlands curtailing not only feeding areas but nesting grounds. The cranes are also subject to damage by industrial development and pollution, and increased agriculture. The construction of dams destroys the shallow water that the cranes depend upon for food – they are unable to hunt for food in water that is over 1 meter deep. The heavy use of pesticides has had a dramatic negative impact on crane populations, and these birds are also still subject to hunting. The drought that has plagued this part of Africa for years is also affecting the numbers of black crowned cranes.
Although black crowned cranes have received official protection in the countries in which they are found, enforcement of the protection is nearly non-existent.
For more information, please visit www.ourendangeredworld.com/species/birds-bats/black-crown...
GMC 270 4.4-litre gasoline OHV/pushrod straight-6, 91.5 or 104-hp
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Military Vehicles Day, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, England
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_CCKW_2%C2%BD-ton_6%C3%976_truck
PB190027 Anx2 Q90 1400h f25
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
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The Masai giraffe, also spelled Maasai giraffe, or the Kilimanjaro giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), is the largest subspecies of giraffe and the tallest land mammal. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Masai giraffe has jagged spots on its body. It also has a short tassel of hair on its tail. The bony outgrowths of the male's skull superficially provide the appearance of up to five ossicones. The dominant male's spots tend to be darker in colour than those of other members of its herd.
Adult males usually reach around 5.5 m in height—although they have been recorded at reaching heights of up to 6 m—and females tend to be a bit shorter at around 5–5.5 m (16–18 ft) tall. Their legs and necks are both about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long, and their heart has a mass of roughly 12 kg (26 lb).
No breeding season is noted for the Masai giraffe. Females typically can breed from the age of 4. They give birth standing up. Giraffes give birth after 2–6 hours of labor. About 50–75% of the calves die in their first few months due to predation. Though many calves die, the mothers stab predators such as hyenas or lions with their sharp hooves. This can critically injure or kill a predator quickly; the Masai giraffe's kick is strong and is capable of crushing a lion's skull or shattering its spine. - Wikipedia