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Cleo still likes to play but she would NEVER run after a toy. As she is an energy efficient creature she prefers to play while she is comfortably lying on a cushion and only has to lift the paw to catch the toy. Cleo has always tried to avoid any waste of energy, even 16 years ago when she was a kitten....
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Gli occhi delle libellule sono portentosi. Strumenti sovradimensionati rispetto al corpo dell'organismo ospite, essi consentono alle diverse specie una notevole efficienza predatoria e, al tempo stesso, una elevata capacità di controllo dell'ambiente circostante. Questo presenta anche il vantaggio di potersi sottrarre efficacemente all'attenzione dei predatori, che sono numerosi e sempre in agguato ..... ..
Bumblebees are known
as easy, efficient and reliable pollinators.
These are the advantages of bumblebees:
Bumblebees provide maximum insurance for optimal pollination, due to their high number of flower visits and large pollen transfer.
Bumblebee pollination results in higher yields, better shaped fruit, quality products and faster ripening of the fruit.
Bumblebees are reliable workers, they work 7 days a week from sunset to sunrise
Bumblebees work well under bad weather conditions and in protected environments
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty :-)
Eugene McCarthy
Climate Change Matters! Resist!!
fogdrops on prunus mume, white japanese flowering apricot, 'Tojibai', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
For monochrome Monday....
When Mr. Lewis needed a barn for his large livestock herd,he thought "outside the box",and built a more efficient round barn which was on his family farm till the 1990's.At that time,the family decided for it to survive,it needed to be donated to an organization who would maintain it.It ended as a part of the Adams County,IL. fairgrounds along with many other historic subjects-an old one room schoolhouse and an old general store some examples...
The Lewis Barn is on the National Register of Historic Places...
In Terneuzen ging uiterst efficiënt de 6463 meteen weer los retour Sas van Gent. De set Tads'en zou de rest van de ochtend één van de drie sporen op Terneuzen Zuid blijven blokkeren. Ondertussen waren de Lineas loccen die in het weekend overstaan met de suikertrein los vanuit Axel naar Terneuzen gekomen om de Blauwe Kade van Verbrugge te bedienen. Er werd een homogene sleep knikketelwagens uitgehaald, waarna er nog een set geplaatst moest worden die op de noodzijde stond opgesteld. De uitgehaalde wagens konden echter niet op Terneuzen Zuid worden achtergelaten, want dan zouden beide sporen waarvan je naar de kade kan bezet zijn. En dus werden de uitgehaalde meegenomen naar de noordzijde. Het tweetal 77'ers komt hier aan met de knikketels; achter deze wagens staat de set die nog geplaatst moest worden. Op de achtergrond wordt druk gewerkt aan een nieuwe sluis in het kanaal.
31 mei 2021, 08:46
Ruddy darter - Sympetrum sanguineum
The dragonflies are wonderful. They are very efficient predators, they can intercept prey mid-air, they can move each of their four wings independently from the others, they have near-360-degree vision with their eyes which contain 30,000 facets, each bringing in information about the insect's surroundings. Top of it they're beautiful insects :)
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Union Pacific’s Los Angeles and Salt Lake route was built along the drainage of the dry Mojave River to avoid mountains in the western Mojave Desert. In a business deal convenient in 1905 that seems illogical today, Union Pacific obtained trackage rights along competitor Santa Fe’s route via Cajon Pass to allow the LA&SL to enter the Los Angeles Basin and avoid building their own route through the same mountains. The logical intersection of the proposed LA&SL and the existing Santa Fe occurred along the Mojave River near a young, rough, desert outpost named after the then Lieutenant Governor of California, John Daggett. West of the new junction at Daggett, the Santa Fe continued to follow the path of the Mojave River west to a final approach to the Cajon Pass.
Today, intermodal traffic to and from Southern California makes the BNSF former Santa Fe mainline one of the most dense freight routes in the country. Although BNSF trains approaching the junction far outnumber UP, BNSF has increased track capacity here to efficiently combine the two. Two UP and two BNSF main tracks now merge at Daggett to form three main tracks west to Barstow.
At West Daggett, a westbound BNSF intermodal glides by a waiting westbound manifest under the rising morning sun. A mix of dust, haze, and thin cloud turn the first light into a fiery reflection. Just minutes later, a new crew will take the train west from Barstow.
The modern combined harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing—into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, rice, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers and rapeseed. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and ploughed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock.
Learning how to skillfully and efficiently handle an as wide as possible range of photo - processing tools is an additional reason that turned me into a "serious" lover of the art of photography ... All advanced digital photo-processing programs and their related plugins form literally a whole new world ready to help you present effectively and successfully whatever is imprisoned into your Micro SD drive via your camera's sensor ..
I don't like modifying the capture's fundamental traits ... I also strongly dislike removing or even adding elements that weren't there in the first place ... But I very much enjoy creating a low light surrounding ambient atmosphere that exhales tranquillity and helps revealing all the effort hidden behind the scene's capture ... I like stressing out the subtle contrast between the light around the frame's main point of interest and its surrounding environment ...
I enjoy giving special attention to every single detail of any image I find worthy enough to be exhibited in front of your eyes ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, shutter speed 1/16 s, ISO 200, f 8, focal length 40 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR processing derived from only one RAW file, no flash, use of tripod ...
Building a fence across a lake might not be the most efficient way of retaining water, or the smartest use of spare barbed wire and wood... I have to assume the lake wasn't there when the fence went up. Maybe the drainage pattern has changed; maybe there has been more snow and more rainfall in recent years than previously.
That said, I couldn't resist stopping on the way to the bird photo location (same morning as previous shot of road & car). I saw the fence; I braked. There was no traffic. Several ducks swam away. You can see them in this photo, tiny dots with v-shaped wake. Pre-dawn glow began to light up the eastern horizon. The air was cool. I felt unhurried and relaxed; I'm on prairie time now. It differs from regular time - in its timeless quality. I can't explain it any other way.
I've just gotten home and unpacked from another trip to the same location. This time I decided, more or less at the last moment, to take a motel room for the night. That put me within easy reach of my destination, and allowed both an evening and dawn shoot in the same trip. In addition, a grocery run and a slight back strain. Oh, well. We have to accept the consequences of our actions, good and not-so-good. This trip was mostly good. I will catch up with your latest uploads ASAP, but right now a painkiller/muscle relaxant and mid-afternoon nap are calling to me louder than anything else.
Photographed at an unnamed lake south of Cadillac, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
New energy efficient LED lighting illuminates the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge: red, white, and blue for the American arches over the Soo Locks; red and white for the Canadian arch over the Sault Canal. View from Lake Superior State University.
The International Bridge- -a 4.5 kilometer / 2.8 mile long metal Cantilever (suspended deck) Warren Through Truss two lane bridge with a two span arch over the American Soo Locks and a single span arch over the Canadian Sault Canal. It was designed by the New York architectural firm of Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London; the bridge opened October 1962. The bridge spans the St. Marys River and connects Sault Ste. Marie Michigan to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
An hour or so after lifting 10 loaded boxcars from the DCR interchange in Seaford, DE, those same cars are being spotted for unloading at Dart Container in Federalsburg, MD.
MDDE 1203 RS3M (ex-DLW 914, EL 1052 RS3)
Joel Mbithi, farm manager of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute's Kiboko Research Station, on an experimental maize plot. He collaborates in producing drought tolerant top-cross hybrids as part of the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project. This is run by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in partnership with Monsanto and CIMMYT, which supplies germplasm and expertise.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Clear sailing on Transmilenio (woohhooo ! no traffic!)
Giving the bus lanes is a pro-transit carrot & stick approach and is a more efficient use of road space.
Carrot - the bus is much faster than the car. Makes transit much more attractive than a car. TransMilenio has 2 lanes per direction on the principle trunk lines - this allows express routes in the outside lane, ( these may go 4 km+ between stops, and skip many stations) and local routes, which travel on the inside lane and stop at each station.
Stick - there is less space for cars (here they went from 4 to 2 lanes per direction), so congestion goes up, time of travel goes up. This increases the "cost" of driving beyond the financial ding.
The express BRT buses (next level up from plain BRT, and many levels up from plain old express bus) travel remarkably fast and are usually jam packed - officially 160 pax per bus, but in reality more. And some routes have bi-articulated buses (260 pax): farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2102889616_d0eb375269.jpg
This system is far more efficient use of road space, since of course, a bus full of people takes up far less space than the same number of people would if they are dispersed 1 or 2 per car.
Bogota was lucky in that its arterials were already 4 lanes per direction, or had very wide medians. To create the BRT, they simply expropriated/paved 2 lanes in each direction from the cars (or re-assigned used part of the median to BRT lanes. They did not build separate roads (money saving) The multi-lane method, termed "Quickways" by experts, adds incredible capacity, speed and flexibility to the system, and is a key component in TransMilenio's immense capacity.
You just need to make sure you have an extensive transit network so everyone has access to the BRT - Bogota doesn't have this yet - I think they especially need to consider making some more minor streets around the N-S spine into full transit malls to really make the network broadly accessible. An improvement will be when some form of rapid transit is created to Seventh Carrera (street?) some of the N-S volume will be dispersed. I'd guess a third line built about 750 m west of the one on Caracas Avenue would also go a long way in meeting the immense demand (but that is my imagination).
Click the word "TransMilenio" in my tags to see more photos about it.
Colombia has been building BRT left, right, and centre - here are some links:
Cali - MIO www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND54Nohdz1A&NR=1
Pereira - Metrobus: (loud techno music) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4ECe_sFwI
Bucaramanga- Metrolinea (flashy marketing): www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zyzj98VbM
See some good shots of the Rea Vaya, a similar system (with nicer stations) going in in South Africa: www.flickr.com/photos/38229935@N03/3575220517/
and a one-lane-per-direction in Quito: www.transalt.org/files/newsroom/magazine/042Spring/images...
This is how you get people to take transit, make it faster than driving... make it frequent and give it swanky stations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4IR7PvO6I (and make everything people need or want in urban life a few steps away from transit)
Another informative video is this one of the Rea Vaya - The Johannesburg system heavily modelled after TransMilenio.
Congratulations to Johannesburg! The Rea Vaya has made it's debut:
Great News Video about it here: www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3102&ar...
The efficient bus took me to Monnickendam, 12 km to the north of Amsterdam. Don't let me bore you with my findings about that small medieval city, today a thriving summertime harbor. Instead, allow me to tell you about my pleasant hike south on the Zeedijk which protects Waterland from the sometimes violent waters of what was once the Zuyderzee but now called the Markermeer since the great dike - Afsluitdijk - that closed the 'Zee' off from the North Sea.
That 'Sea Dike' took me along the Gouwzee which separates the island of Marken due east from the mainland. I continued onward to Zuiderwoude and finished my hike at Broek in Waterland, whence a bus carried me back to the City.
Walking on that dike I for the first time actually experienced the fact that much of the land here is below sea level. But the day was pleasant - though blowing a nasty cold wind - and the colors fabulous. Of course I didn't hesitate to take a dip among the other Old Coots - Fulica - which you can see right by my muddied waters. As I lay drying in the Sun, my eyes set on the greens of not yet blossoming Queen Anne's Lace, Anthristicus sylvestris, with its beautiful delicate hairs. And here he was, too, large-eyed Bibio marci, St Mark's Fly (St Mark's feastday is on April 25, in just a few days). He's really beautiful and just about ready, i would think, to find his small-eyed female partner. But I didn't stay to watch...
New energy efficient LED lighting illuminates the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge: red and white for the Canadian arch and red, white, and blue for the American arches. View of Sault Canal and bridge from the Sault Ste. Marie / St. Marys River boardwalk.
The International Bridge- -a 4.5 kilometer / 2.8 mile long metal Cantilever (suspended deck) Warren Through Truss two lane bridge with a two span arch over the American Soo Locks and a single span arch over the Canadian Sault Canal. It was designed by the New York architectural firm of Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London; the bridge opened October 1962. The bridge spans the St. Marys River and connects Sault Ste. Marie Michigan to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
The Sault Canal opened in 1895- - it was the world’s first electrically operated lock, and the world’s longest lock- -274 metres / 899 feet long and 18 metres / 59 feet wide. Closed in 1987 due to a lock wall collapse, the canal was reconstructed and reopened for recreational boating use in 1998. The Sault Canal is operated as a National Historic Site by Parks Canada.
Epic Fine Art Laguna Beach Victoria Beach Sunset LAndscape Seascape: The Golden Ratio in Dr. Elliot McGucken's Fine Art Photography: Nikon D810
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after, thusly providing symmetry over not only space but time, and exalting life’s foundational dynamic symmetry. Robust, ordered, symmetric growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in the arrangement of nature’s discrete elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which they and all their vital sustenance, as well as all the flowers and nature’s epic beauty, had been created—the golden ratio.
I'm not sure how this math works out, but apparently I was 92% efficient yet only 3% productive tonight.
New energy efficient LED lighting illuminates the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge: red, white, and blue for the American arches over the Soo Locks; red and white for the Canadian arch over the Sault Canal. View of bridge from the Sault Ste. Marie boardwalk looking across the St. Marys River / Rapids.
The International Bridge- -a 4.5 kilometer / 2.8 mile long metal Cantilever (suspended deck) Warren Through Truss two lane bridge with a two span arch over the American Soo Locks and a single span arch over the Canadian Sault Canal. It was designed by the New York architectural firm of Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London; the bridge opened October 1962. The bridge spans the St. Marys River and connects Sault Ste. Marie Michigan to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
El cotxe 703 de Tusgsal és un dels MAN Lion's City Efficient Hybrid estrenats per l'empresa. Una de les linies a on han circulat durant el seu primer dia ha estat la B20.
Amid restructuring, Mass General Brigham launches large-scale layoffs
Facing rising costs and hoping to make its sprawling network more efficient, the state’s largest private employer aims to cut payroll costs by over $200 million.
Jessica Bartlett February 10th, 2025, 9:22 AM
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Mass General Brigham said Monday it will let go of hundreds of employees in the next two months, the largest layoff in the organization’s history, as the health system grapples with anticipated financial shortfalls and ongoing operational challenges at its 12 hospitals.
With roughly 82,000 employees, MGB is easily the state’s largest private employer. Executives declined to say how many people would be let go, but said the target is to save at least $200 million annually, or approximately 2 percent of its salary and benefits costs. The cuts, which will occur this week and then again in a second round in March, would likely have rolled out more slowly over the course of years as the health system more closely integrates its hospitals, executives said, but have been sped up because of financial pressures.
“We are … facing the same unrelenting pressures affecting many health care systems across the country that are contributing to a projected budget gap of a quarter of a billion dollars within the next two years,” Jennifer Street, senior vice president of communications at Mass General Brigham, said in a statement. “We are acting now to allow us to continue with planned and future investments.”
Reductions will be focused on administrative and management levels of the sprawling organization, Street said, and will not affect front-line clinical workers or staff that supports patient-facing care. The system will also consolidate some roles and eliminate some vacant positions.
“If we do not take definitive action now to stabilize our financial health, we compromise our ability to continue to invest in our mission,” said MGB chief executive Dr. Anne Klibanski, in an email to employees that was obtained by the Globe.
The reductions may seem surprising for a health system that has posted positive operating margins each of the last two years, buoyed by a robust investment portfolio. In the 12 months ending in September, the most recent financials that are available, MGB reported a $45 million margin from operations, and a $2 billion net margin, on $20.6 billion in total revenue.
Experts looking at the system’s financials said its recent performance points to a level of resilience to face future challenges, at least compared to other Massachusetts hospitals that have less cash and smaller investment portfolios. In that context, said David Rosenbloom, professor emeritus at the Boston University School of Public Health, reductions may have more to do with becoming more efficient than to make up for losses.
Among Massachusetts hospitals, the gap between rich and poor widens
“They are not currently challenged,” he said. “Are they worried about the future? Yes. When I taught hospital finance, I said the primary and virtually only rule of a hospital is maximize your revenue today because you don’t know what the bastards will do to you tomorrow … There may be (also) inefficiencies of scale, when you get as big as MGB.”
MGB executives have put forth a drumbeat of concern about their core operations, saying that much of their operating margin over the last two years has come from federal financial support lingering from COVID or other one-time federal payments, while they face a problematic long-term outlook.
They describe a system where costs are steadily rising faster than revenues — which mainly come from private and public insurers who are themselves under pressure to keep health costs in check. And while MGB is able to save some money through improved efficiency, they’ve reached a point where they need to rein in labor costs.
At the same time, like many health systems across the state, MGB’s hospitals are crowded, with demand for inpatient beds exacerbating backups that spill over into the emergency room. That has financial consequences too, as hospitals are largely reimbursed once for each discharge, regardless of how long the patient stays in the hospital. So while MGB’s hospitals are busier than ever, its revenue growth has been held in check.
One bright spot for the hospital system is the billions of dollars it has seen in investment gains over the past years. But earnings on that money are largely either restricted by donors to certain uses or earmarked to capital projects, such as a $2 billion expansion at Massachusetts General Hospital. It’s not available, they said, to plug financial holes in the core business.
The main entrance of Mass General Hospital.
The main entrance of Mass General Hospital.
Rosenbloom, who several years ago sat on the audit and finance committee of what was then known as Partners HealthCare, said it makes sense why the organization isn’t dipping into its reserves to routinely cover its expenses. But he also noted that was a choice the institution was making with its money, only to invest it into capital projects and not to cover potential future shortfalls.
Dr. John Freedman, CEO of Freedman HealthCare, a national health policy consulting firm based in Massachusetts, also pointed at MGB’s cash and investments as a boon to weather what comes next.
“Any multi-billion dollar organization has struggles and challenges in running itself,” Freedman said. “The question is, are they somehow worse off than all the other provider organizations in Massachusetts? The answer is a clear no. They are doing much better. They have rich reserves.”
Beyond current financial pressures, reductions will also help to achieve efficiencies as part of a long-running effort to better integrate across its system, and in particular across its two flagship institutions — Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
That has been underway for sometime, with leadership slowing rethinking jobs and eliminating roles through attrition. Executives acknowledged that the mounting financial challenges accelerated the process, and prompted a wider reorganization plan. In November, executives began having conversations with ultimately over 100 senior leaders across the organization to discuss ways to streamline MGB’s administrative structure.
Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital.DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
Studies of Mass General Brigham’s management structure also revealed that Mass General Brigham had more managers per front-line worker than industry benchmarks, duplicative management roles, and many layers of managers, executives said. While high performing organizations may have maybe seven or eight layers of management between the front line worker and the CEO, in some places at Mass General Brigham, there were 15.
“Mass General Brigham is clearly trying to consolidate, become more efficient, cut costs, and dramatically change how it’s organized internally,” said Dr. David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund, a national group that does research on health and social policy issues. “Whether it will result in a stronger, more consolidated, premier [academic medical center] remains to be seen. I think it’s a big gamble for this community and we will have to see what the outcome is”
There has already been some pushback to MGB’s integration work, especially among doctors. A 2022 plan to bring together large medical services across hospitals stirred anxiety among some clinicians, who worried about being shut out from decision making and increasing corporatization of the system.
Then in March 2024, the system announced broader clinical consolidations, merging 34 departments across Mass General and Brigham and Women’s. At the time, executives said they did not expect job cuts.
That announcement ignited a firestorm within the workforce, who spoke out in town meetings and voiced ongoing frustration about the changes. Unionizations followed, first at MGB-owned Salem Hospital, and then 300 more primary care physicians employed by Mass General Brigham.
Citing ‘burnout,’ nearly 300 primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham take steps to unionize
While these layoffs are focused on managers and administrative staff, they could further strain morale.
And big healthcare institutions like MGB have encountered fresh challenges in the last few weeks, with threats to everything from federal research dollars to Medicaid funding. On Friday, the National Institutes of Health, which funds much of the country’s basic biomedical research, announced it would slash support for “indirect costs” for research funding — money that hospitals, universities and other research institutions rely on for basic operating expenses.
Executives said they did not plan budget cuts in response to possible reductions in federal money, but said creating a healthier organization now builds financial resilience to weather whatever comes next.
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The Canada Steamship Lines, Whitefish Bay, was in harbor to unload a cargo of grain into local elevators. It's an efficient process - a conveyor on the ship can elevate and swing out towards a hopper on each of the silos of the elevator. I imagine the crew simply shortens up mooring lines to move the ship back and forth to reach each of the silos.
From this angle, there's no doubt this is a good sized ship!
Southern Efficiency
Shaw, Washington, DC
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The elves worked diligently and efficiently to help stop a dwarven invasion on Avalonia and the Drow, to prevent war and promote peace. They sent out scouts on their newly tamed wargs and built towers to detect any sign of dwarves, and to stop them. Unfortunately, despite their efforts, it all came to nothing. The dwarves secretly mined underneath their very nose, and gained entry into Avalonia, ready to take war on the Drow..."
My entry into the Guilds of Historica Book II Challenge III Category B - Deceiving Elves
Phew! I can't believe I finished it in time! Thanks to the extension of the deadline and a canceled family gathering, I had enough time to finish my second entry into the GoH Challenge. Once again I experimented in one of Grant Davis's techniques that he created in his creation "Undermining." (If you have not checked out Grant's creation yet, what are you waiting for!? Go give it a look! ;) ) Tons of fun to build, making all the little sections of rock pieces fit together was so much fun (although very delicate)!
The details on the top were also fun to add, I finally got to use my wargs! :D Even though wars in LOTR are evil, I always though they were kinda cool, so if you could tame them...they could be quite lethal and well worth the effort. ;)
All in all, a decent build, there are a few more things I would have liked to try if I had more time, but deadlines are deadlines. ;)
Thanks for viewing, and enjoy!
Soli Deo Gloria!
~Matthew~
Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. Cooler cosmic dust glows at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths, displaying the structure of WR 124’s nebula. The 10 light-years-wide nebula is made of material cast off from the ageing star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. This brilliant stage of mass loss precedes the star’s eventual supernova, when nuclear fusion in its core stops and the pressure of gravity causes it to collapse in on itself, and then explode. As MIRI demonstrates here, Webb will help astronomers to explore questions that were previously only available to theory, questions like how much dust stars like this create before exploding in a supernova, and how much of that dust is large enough to survive the blast and go on to serve as a building block of future stars and planets.
In this image red is assigned to wavelengths of 12.8 and 18 microns (F1280W, F1800W), green to 11.3 microns (F1130W), and blue to 7.7 microns (F770W).
[Image Description: A large, bright cloud of yellow, pink, and purple surrounds a white star that looks like a tiny snowflake. A few small blue background stars are visible. Dark gaps break up the cloud, and small bright areas on the upper and lower left appear like schools of tadpoles swimming toward the central star. There are areas where clumps of bright hot material are being blown outward by the star, like hair streaming out behind someone standing in front of a fan.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
El cotxe 1508 de Plana és un Scania Irizar I6S Efficient. A la fotografia el veiem fent un servei llençadora entre diferents seus del "Mundialito 2023 de futbol juvenil" que s'ha celebrat a la Costa Daurada entre el 1 i 9 d'abril.
Reggio Emilia AV Mediopadana is a high-speed railway station located in Reggio Emilia, Italy.Designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, the station features a striking modern design with a sweeping roof that mimics the shape of a wav.
It serves as a major transportation hub for the region, connecting it to cities like Milan, Bologna, and Florence. The station features modern architecture and amenities, making it a convenient and efficient stop for travelers in Italy.
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