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Dan Jones reaches to rotate his float device as he exits the water after one of the swims in the SwimRun competition.
Competitors in the SwimRun event participate in teams of two people and perform a series of alternating swim and run legs. Besides their swimsuit, race cap, bib and timing chip, racers are allowed certain optional approved gear items but they must start and finish the race with all their chosen gear.
For more information or to sign up for next year's SwimRun event to be held Saturday, May 2, 2020, click on SwimRun.
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Everyone has a right to access our public lands, but few of Glacier's trails were created with accessibility in mind.
A first step to addressing limits to accessibility is to identify them.
Glacier and the National Park Service are using tools—like the orange, one-wheeled device a ranger is pictured here using—to evaluate trails in the park using the High Efficiency Trail Assessment Process (HETAP).
HETAP identifies trail variables: grade, cross-slope, trail width, surface material, and more.
This data allows park managers to prioritize future trail improvements, and allow visitors in the future to make more informed decisions.
The Ben Day process involved screens with raised dots or patterns that could be painted with ink or other media and then burnished onto prepared areas of an exposed zinc plate before etching, a photographic negative before exposing onto a prepared metal plate, or even onto artwork or ad material before it was photographed for the printing process. A complex and unique process, it appears in use from the late 1800s through the 1980s—maybe beyond in specialized industries or printing plants that didn't update.
On this page, a standard form of the device is shown with details about what tints and patterns are available. It appears to be from
The page shows at the bottom the printed results of applying 40 patterns to photographic negatives before etching and then printing. Compare No. 532 on this page with the identical No. 532 in the next image in this sequence. A 20% tint applied as a layer of pigment to a negative means that 20% of the exposed area is opaqued out, leaving 80% clear. When exposed onto a photosensitized plate, the clear areas harden. During etching, only the unexposed portions wash away. As a result, the relief plate used directly for printing (or through duplication in the stereotype mold/plate method) have 80% of the area covered in tint.
From Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, Volume 6 (1950)
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield works with the Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device (SLAMMD) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. SLAMMD follows Isaac Newton's Second Law of Motion by having two springs generate a known force against a crew member mounted on an extension arm, the resulting acceleration being used to calculate the subject's mass. The device is accurate to 0.5 pounds over a range from 90 pounds to 240 pounds.
Image credit: NASA
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
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As far as I can tell this is a cupcake baking and decorating kit. Complete with an accessory plate to make animal and fruit-shaped cakes. And get this...you use the microwave (a real cooking device) to make these.
Device : Nikon D7200 with 18-140 mm lens.
Location : Curzon Hall, Dhaka University.
Captured Date : 07 june 2016
This image is a First Day of Issue cover commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight. It features a Colorano "Silk" cachet and the signature of Leonard Greene.
Details of the Cover:
Subject: The cover commemorates the 75th anniversary of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered flight, which occurred on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Stamp: It features a 31-cent US Airmail stamp (Scott Catalog #C92) issued in 1978, which depicts Orville and Wilbur Wright and a Wright Flyer aircraft.
Cachet: The "Colorano Silk" cachet is a full-color illustration printed on a satin-finish fabric and bonded to the envelope, framed with a gold embossed border. This style of cachet was popular among collectors for its unique look.
The "Colorano Silk" cachet was created by Ray Novak, the founder of Colorano Publishers. The company was established in 1965, initially specializing in maximum cards, before pivoting to first day covers (FDCs) in 1971.
Key Information:
Founder: Ray Novak (b. 1928 in Brooklyn, NY)
Company Name: Colorano Publishers (later Colorano Silk Cachets)
Inception of Silk Cachets: The first official Colorano "Silk" cachet FDC was for the "America's Wool" stamp issued on January 19, 1971.
Process: Inspired by French company Ceres' silk cachets, Novak developed a method to print full-color designs on satin-finish fabric and permanently bond them to envelopes with a golden embossed border. The unique, silky feel of the fabric gave the product its name.
Ownership Changes: Novak ran the company until his retirement in 1995, when he sold it to Paul Schmid. Schmid continued production until 2016, when the company was acquired by Mystic Stamp Company.
Ray Novak created a very popular and distinct style of first day cover that is recognizable to collectors by its unique fabric finish and bright illustrations.
Postmark: The circular date stamp (CDS) cancel is from Dayton, Ohio 45401, dated SEP 23 1978, which is the official first day of issue for this stamp.
Signature: The prominent handwritten signature is that of Leonard Greene. While general first day covers from this era typically have minimal value, an authentic signature could potentially add collector value, depending on the person's notability and the signature's provenance.
Leonard Greene (1918-2006) was a highly impactful American inventor, aerodynamics engineer, and philanthropist known for pioneering aviation safety technologies. He is most famous for inventing the aircraft stall warning device, a critical safety instrument now standard on virtually all fixed-wing aircraft worldwide.
Life and Work:
Aviation Safety Pioneer: Working as an aerodynamicist and test pilot for Grumman Aircraft during World War II, Greene witnessed a fatal stall accident. This led him to develop the stall warning indicator, which alerts pilots when a wing is in danger of losing the lift needed to stay airborne. This device has been called "the greatest lifesaver since the invention of the parachute".
LINK to video - Airplane Stall Warning Device - www.youtube.com/shorts/gCQkMQZz15c
Founder of Safe Flight: In 1946, Greene founded the Safe Flight Instrument Corporation to manufacture and market his inventions. The company became a leader in aviation safety, developing other crucial systems like automatic throttles and wind shear warning systems, which are now commonplace in modern aircraft.
Inventor & Innovator: Holding more than 200 patents, Greene's interests extended beyond aviation. His other inventions included a three-dimensional chess game and a device to help blind painters use musical notes to identify colors.
Philanthropist: Beyond his business success, Greene applied his wealth and expertise to charitable causes. He co-founded the Corporate Angel Network in 1981, a non-profit organization that arranges free transportation on corporate jets for cancer patients traveling to treatment centers.
Connection to Wright Brothers: Greene's signature on the First Day of Issue cover is a meaningful addition, as he was a major figure in the field of aviation safety and innovation, continuing the legacy of the Wright brothers by making flight safer for millions. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991 for his contributions. LINK - www.invent.org/inductees/leonard-michael-greene#:~:text=L....
A publicity device built in the Brijan Tours workshop, the chassis is a Ford Transit and parts of the body have various parentage such as the Routemaster grille, a plaxton badge etc.
Provincial Bus Rally
August 4th 2013
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Jamestown, RI
June 28th, 2014 at 8:41PM
What looked like was going to be a very boring sunset, wasn't at all. Never been here before and glad I went.
Some info on this historic lighthouse:
"Although Rhode Island’s first settlers were farmers, the colony shortly developed a thriving maritime economy as well. By the early 18th century, it was estimated that one in four men living in Rhode Island made their living in some way from the sea. Although exports included tobacco, maize, and lumber, the export of rum was the basis of a notorious trade triangle involving rum, slaves, and molasses. Ships took rum to West Africa, where it was traded for slaves. The slaves were then taken to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses and sugar, which was brought back to Newport. In a single five-year period in the 1730s, over six thousand Africans were delivered to the Caribbean islands. Slave commerce was an important part of Rhode Island’s economy for around 100 years.
The rising importance of shipping to the colony of Rhode Island led to a lighthouse being proposed for the southern tip of Conanicut Island, known as Beavertail Point. Beginning in 1731, ships calling at Newport had their cargoes taxed to fund the future lighthouse.
Construction was delayed for about ten years by war between England and Spain, but the lighthouse was finally finished in 1749. The wooden tower stood sixty-eight feet tall, was twenty-four feet in diameter at its base, and tapered to thirteen feet at the lantern deck. The lighthouse, known early on as the Newport Lighthouse, was the third to be built in what would become the United States.
The wooden lighthouse burned to the ground only four years after it was finished, but in 1754 a fifty-eight-foot brick and stone tower was built to replace it. A wooden spiral staircase led to the lantern room, which housed a light consisting of a two-tiered spider lamp with fifteen whale-oil burning wicks, each with a nine-inch reflector.
During the early part of the Revolutionary War, British troops controlled Newport. In 1779, as they were retreating, the redcoats set fire to the lighthouse and took the optic. Although the fire warped the masonry walls, the tower was repaired and put back into service in 1783. In 1827 the lantern was refitted with a Winslow Lewis optic that could be seen for sixteen miles.
Since the station was so close to the water, it often caught the full force of storms. Sometime during the early 1800s, Keeper Philip Caswell and his family were forced to flee when high waves threatened to destroy the small two-room keeper’s house. The dwelling escaped this storm with minimal damage, but the hurricane of 1815 would destroy the edifice. Fortunately, Caswell had again moved his family elsewhere before the storm as a precaution. The lighthouse tower survived the hurricane, although all twenty panes of glass in the lantern house were broken. The next year, a new five-room keeper’s dwelling was constructed.
The Beavertail Lighthouse was used repeatedly to conduct experiments with new fog signals and lighting equipment. In 1817 a local inventor named David Melville tried out a new coal gas process. The gas was generated by burning a mixture of coal and tree resin and piped through copper tubing to a chandelier in the lantern room. The cheaply produced gas resulted in a brighter and cleaner light, but lobbying pressure from the companies that sold whale oil (which was the standard fuel for lighthouse beacons at that time) brought an abrupt end to Melville’s work less than a year after it began.
In 1851, another experiment involved a fog signal created by Celadon Daboll, an inventor from New London, Connecticut. Daboll’s foghorn, which consisted of a vibrating metal reed inside a long trumpet, was powered by compressed air that was pumped into a holding tank by a horse attached to a revolving walker. Six years later, Daboll’s foghorn was replaced by an experimental steam whistle.
Robert H. Weeded accepted the position of keeper of Beavertail Lighthouse in 1844. Upon his death, four years later, his wife, Damaris, took over responsibility for the lighthouse. Damaris is the only female keeper to serve at Beavertail, and aided by her son, she remained at the lighthouse for nine years after her husband’s death, just long enough to see the completion of the currently standing 52-foot granite block tower.
The old 1754 tower was razed to its foundation, and when a new keeper’s dwelling was completed in 1859, the prior dwelling was demolished as well. The new 1856 tower was equipped with a third-order Fresnel lens that produced a fixed white light. Somewhere around 1899, the optic was downgraded to a smaller fourth-order lens.
Artillerymen at nearby Fort Adams often practiced firing dummy shells into the sea, but one day in December 1908, their aim was particularly bad. One five-inch shell narrowly missed the lighthouse tower, another landed in the yard behind the keeper’s house, and a third hit the tower’s foundation, causing the keepers to run for cover. The War Department repaired the damage and assured the Lighthouse Board that it would not happen again.
When electricity reached the station in 1931, the lantern room’s clear windows were covered with green Plexiglas storm panes to change the light’s characteristic, and an electric strobe device was mounted on top of the keeper’s dwelling to automatically activate a fog signal when visibility fell below two miles.
With its exposed location, the Beavertail Lighthouse was bound to suffer from the infamous hurricane of 1938 that caused so much damage at stations in Rhode Island. The wind-driven waves swept away the station’s fog signal building, revealing the foundation of the 1749 lighthouse. Although the facilities at the lighthouse were damaged, the loss suffered by Keeper Carl Chellis was far worse. His son, Clayton, and daughter, Marion, were returning home on a school bus, when storm surge toppled the vehicle as it crossed a causeway. Norman Caswell, the driver of the bus, recalls “I saw that we would have to leave the bus or be drowned like rats. I told the children to grab each other tightly. I had hold of several when the huge wave came over us. I went down twice. When I came up, I saw Clayton Chellis swimming around. He was the only one who was saved besides me.”
When a passerby tried to rescue Caswell, he responded “Please let me die. I lost a whole bunch of the kids I had in the school bus. Everything's gone. Please don't move me. Let me die.” Caswell did survive, and when Keeper Chellis arrived at the scene, Caswell told him “I got your boy, but your daughter’s dead – gone.” Grief-stricken by the news, Chellis grabbed a handful of rocks and broke out all the windows in the overturned bus. Caswell died shortly after the incident, unable to cope with the deaths of the children. Seven years later, Clayton Chellis drowned in the Pacific Ocean, during his World War II tour of duty.
Beavertail Light was automated in 1972. The station remains an active aid to navigation, currently equipped with a modern plastic lens, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The grounds are open to the public, and the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association (BLMA) operates a museum in the keeper's quarters and assistant keeper’s dwelling that is open seasonally. One of its main exhibits is the fourth-order Fresnel lens formerly used in the lighthouse.
The Champlin Foundations awarded a 2007 grant of $227,000 to BLMA to preserve and restore the granite light tower. BLMA has plans to expand into other buildings on the property as soon as they are excessed by the Coast Guard. The fog signal building currently houses an aquarium display operated by the state Department of Environmental Management."
SOURCE of all this good info: www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=403
The cabin that I stayed in while visiting the Daintree Rainforest. No TV, no cell reception, no internet. Could not even get my satellite device to find a signal due to all the trees.
Many of us who fly regularly have most probably seen a so-called winglet or wingtip device at the end of the wing of an airliner at least once. It is showing up more and more often on more and more types of aircraft, thus we felt it’s time to give an overview to our readers about these sometimes funny, sometimes cool and stylish looking aircraft parts.
History, Reason and Benefits
The initial theoretical concept goes back to times before even the Wright Brothers first took to the skies in 1905, but it was picked up and developed by Richard T. Whitcomb of NASA after the 1973 oil crisis – in order to reduce fuel consumption. The first tests were carried out in 1979/80 in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force. At almost the same time, but independent of any U.S. military organization, a private jet producer, LearJet exhibited a prototype in 1977: the LearJet 28 that featured the first winglets on a jet and a production aircraft. Flight tests made with and without winglets showed that the winglets increased range by about 6.5 percent and also improved directional stability for the LearJet- these two factors are the major reasons behind using this facility at any fixed wing aircraft ever since. A winglet is a (near) vertical extension of the wing tips. The upward angle of the winglet, its inward angle as well as its size and shape are critical for correct performance – this is why they can look quite different. Air rotating around the wing strikes the surface of the winglet that directs it in another direction – thus creating an extra force, basically converting otherwise wasted energy to thrust. This is a small contribution but can save a lot for an operator in an aircraft’s lifetime. Another potential benefit of winglets is that they reduce the strength of wingtip vortices, which trail behind the plane. When other aircraft pass through these vortices, the turbulent air can cause loss of control, possibly resulting in an accident.
Winglet Types
In general any wingtips that not end the wing simply horizontally are considered as some kind of a winglet. Even though in strictly technical terms Wingtip Fences are not real extensions of the wing, and Raked Wingtips do not have a vertical part, they are still widely considered as winglet variants.
WINGTIP FENCES are a special variant of winglets, that extend both upward and downward from the tip of the wing. Preferred by European plane-maker Airbus, it is featured on their full product range (except the A330/340 family and the future A350). The Airbus A300 was actually the first jet airliner to feature this kind of solution by default, but it was a very small version of the tool. Provided that most of the Airbus planes (including all A320 family jets) feature such wingtip fences, this may be the most seen and most produced winglet type. Even the new Airbus A380 double-decker features wingtip fences.
BLENDED WINGLETS (the real “Winglets”) are the most popular winglet type, leveraged by Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier but also by Russian Tupolev and Iljushin. Blended winglets were first introduced on the McDonnel Douglas MD-11 aircraft in 1990 with launch customer Finnair (it also features a smaller winglet at the bottom side of the wing). In contrast to Airbus who applies the wingtip fences by default on most of their aircraft (and the winglets on the A330/340 family), blended winglets are considered by Boeing for example as an optional extra feature on their products, except for the Boeing 747-400. For some of the older Boeing jets (737 and 757) such blended winglets have been offered as an aftermarket retrofit, these are the newer, tall designs and do not connect to the tip of the wing with a sharp angle, but with a curve instead. These winglets are popular among airlines that fly these aircraft on medium/long haul routes as most of the real fuel savings materialize while cruising. Longer flights mean longer cruising, thus larger fuel savings. And they also server as marketing surface for airline logos or web addresses usually.
Just recently the Boeing 767-300ER has received 3.4 m high (!) winglets produced by Aviation Partners Inc. with American Airlines as the launch-customer with Air New Zealand and Hawaiian Airlines following with orders of 5 and 8 aircrafts respectively. 141 shipsets have been pre-sold already as the forecasted fuel savings range around 4%-6% for medium/long-range flights. Airbus earlier tested similar blended winglets designed by Winglet Technology for the A320 series, but determined that their benefits did not warrant further development and they stayed with the wingtip fences instead. Aviation Partners Boeing claims that winglets on 737s and 757s have saved a collective 1.2 billion gal. of fuel since they were introduced and 11.5 million tonnes of CO2 while reducing those types’ noise footprint by 6.5%. It has sold winglets to 140 airlines and 95% of all 737NGs are fitted with them. It is working on four winglet concepts for the 777 and hopes to finalize a design for that aircraft type by December, 2008.
G-TCCB - 40067F - Thomas Cook Airlines - Boeing 767-31K (28865)
The Minx name was introduced by the Rootes Group in 1932 and was used for the next 38 years. For the design of this car Rootes worked with Raymond Loewy who created innovative designs for Studebaker in the USA.
£450 new.
Top speed 63mph.
1997cc engine.
Generously donated by Mr Daniels of Coventry in 1972.
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Wrist & Ankle Cuffs, Leashes & Leads, Cock & Ball Torture Devices…It’s just so flexible! Won’t you come see for yourself? ow.ly/Vx8G50vQWgR #AmpersandDay #anklecuffs
The side of the barrel of this peculiar device seems to be marked "Jr.Fl.M.W.Na.22.N". I was unable to find any info on this weapon until I found something very similar in "German Assault troops of WW1" from T. Wictor.
There he shows a Heavy 240 cm trench mortar "Iko" (Schwerer Flügelminenwerfer "Iko") with Iko standing for Ingenieur-Komitee (Engineering Committee). The weapon is based on French mortars. The device weighed over a ton and required 42 men to reposition it. 20 shells could be fired per hour and the range was slightly over 1 km. The device was mounted on wooden railroad ties (crosstie, railway sleeper) and was positioned in a pit of approximately 2 x 1.5 m and 0.5 meter deep. Fixation required more railway ties and wooden wedges.
Clearly, the device seen here fits this description, although it is not completely similar. I presume the example I have concerns an improved version, designed by the engineering committee at a later stage of the war. The barrel here is longer and the mechanism to adjust the height is more elaborated.
To get back to the markings on the side, and to relate this to the description found in literature, the "Fl.M.W." no doubt stands for Flügelminenwerfer. "Na" might suggest neuer Art, but I think "nA" would make more sense.
Recently, I've seen pictures of French 240 mm trench mortars and the mechanism looks very similar, so it might just be a captured example after all.
Two-car Class 156 'Super Sprinter' DMU 156 480 rumbles through Kirkby-in-Furness station, a deserted request stop, whilst forming Northern Rail's 07.41 (SaO) Barrow-Sellafield service. @07.52
I have a couple of these Realistic Quatravox units from the 1970s. They convert two-channel stereo into four-channel for a surround sound effect. When these units were out quadraphonic sound was the latest fad, Radio Shack marketed these as a low cost alternative to get into four-channel sound. They require no external power, just a simple circuit with switches and resistors.
After toddling around for years with different systems, I finally have a collection of devices that suit my taste;
-Vintage late 70's Akai Direct drive, auto return AP-206C turntable.
-Late 90's Denon AV surround receiver AVR-1801
-Mid 90's Yamaha CDX-480 cd player
-Late 90's Denon DRW-585 double cassette player
- Vintage 70's 484 Philips front speakers
-Vintage mid/late 80's Philips DRC MK2 rear speakers (not on the pic).
Just the stuff I need to annoy the neighbours ;P
BOX DATE: 2003
MANUFACTURER: M.G.A.
SPECIAL FEATURES: Working runway & lights; connects to music device; adjustable stools
IMPORTANT NOTES: This runway was also sold with a Nevra doll (who I pictured in my Miscellaneous Bratz album).
PERSONAL FUN FACT: This Super-Stylin' Runway Disco would have been one of the greatest Christmas surprises of my childhood. I say "would have" because I accidentally found out about this not long before the holiday. Nope, it wasn't a case of my older sister, Colleen, telling me Dad had picked this out. She was horrible at keeping secrets, but she didn't let this runway leave her lips. Instead, it was Dad's fault I discovered the surprise. The year before, for Christmas 2002, we had done some shopping when Dad went to open up the trunk to put the bags in. When he opened the trunk, I saw a brand new Hello Kitty comforter sitting inside. Immediately, Dad said, "Oops. You weren't supposed to see that!" You'd think he would have learned, but on the contrary a similar situation played out the following year. It was not long before Christmas 2003 when Dad asked me to go to the car and get something out of the trunk. It was parked in our driveway, as always. He had completely forgotten about the presents he'd bought and left there. When I opened the trunk and the lights inside came on, I saw Nevra's face gazing up at me. The box was positioned in a way where the doll was looking up towards the top of the trunk. "No way!!!" I thought, "Dad actually got me this amazing playset! I never even looked at in stores because it was so expensive." I couldn't believe my luck and how spoiled I was going to be that Christmas. I can't remember if I told Dad what I had seen, or if I pretended I had no knowledge of the Bratz surprise. Either way, I was just as excited about opening this when Christmas morning arrived. Colleen had picked me out Formal Funk Dylan to go with this set. I also got a few Bratz fashion packs, all with Sasha's skin tone.
To be honest, I rarely used this dance floor as a kid. I liked the reverse side more, with the bar area and dressing room. I usually kept the runway pushed inside, so it took up less space. As an adult collector though, Colleen and I have made loads of fun memories with this. I remember for my original Flickr account we filmed a short video testing out the runway. I wanted to show how newer Bratz, on the 2010 bodies, could still use this runway and the others like it that were made after. As long as the shoes had holes punched in them, you could get any doll to ride it. This feature is not the most efficient. The older Bratz weight a bit more, so they are more stable. But the newer ones who are lighter flop over. This happened to my Boutique Jade--she toppled over and my 2010 Anniversary Cameron came along behind her and pushed her off the runway. It was a hilarious accident that I'll never forget. Way to treat your prom date Cameron!!
'cure sleepiness right away' device is "especially suitable for long-distance driving, drunk driving and night driving" had to buy it ! the back how to use instructions are: "Before long-distance driving, drunk driving or night driving, put the "Cure Sleepiness Right Away" on the right ear or the left ear and, at the same time, move the switch to the location of "ON" and the "Cure Sleepiness Right Away" will begin to work.." what a mouthful... in case you havent guessed its basically a tilt sensor. engrish or just plain crazy?