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SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists assigned to the international mail facility at San Francisco International Airport discovered 20 live giant millipedes while inspecting a package marked “toy car model”.
Photo provided by: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Muncipal Hospital which is connected.
Midwifery students in the labor room observing and participating in the birth process. Mom, Belinda Adoboe just gave birth to Sexist. They are helping Belinda breast feed her newborn. It's Belinda's second baby.
Head midwife, Euince Lartey,in white over sees things.
City of North Charleston officials broke ground today on a new $42 million Public Works complex off of Vector Avenue. The new complex features a state of the art design on a 38 acre multi-building campus to streamline Public Works functions and places the facility centrally within the City.
When the Charleston Naval Base closed, the City acquired off-base property at the intersection of Remount Road and I-26, where for years, a municipal court annex and several city departments operated. Additional property was later transferred to the City by the US Air Force. After the completion of the new city hall in the fall of 2009, all city departments were consolidated, except for public works. The consolidation allowed for the demolition of the former annex, freeing a large tract of land for a new public works facility.
On June 14, 2012, City Council approved the bond issuance to fund the construction of the new public works facility. With design, planning, and site preparation completed, building construction is set to begin.
The Public Works complex will consist of a multi-building campus, plus sheds for equipment and storage, spread across 38 acres. Its centralized location allows access to major thoroughfares and I-26. Construction is scheduled to be completed in April 2015.
Public Works is currently located at 1023 Aragon Street in a facility built in late 1975. At the time of construction, it was located very near the center of the City with room for expansion. After nearly forty years of growth, both in population and geographic area, the City has outgrown the now small, crowded facility.
“With our population now over 100,000, the replacement of our public works facility is long overdue,” said Mayor Keith Summey. “The new complex positions North Charleston for the next fifty years of growth, and ensures that citizens of North Charleston receive efficient and cost effective services.”
“North Charleston’s Public Works Department has come a long way since its formation in the early 1970s,” said Public Works Director Jim Hutto. “Starting with a used dump truck and a two man crew to fill pot holes, Public Works now employs nearly 200 and oversees a wide variety of services for the citizens and businesses of North Charleston. The new facility is ideally positioned to provide our employees the appropriate space to serve the people of our city.”
North Charleston’s Public Works Department is responsible for engineering, street and sidewalk maintenance, stormwater maintenance and utility, solid waste disposal, traffic signs and signals, landscaping, city facilities maintenance and repair, fleet maintenance, and construction contract administration.
Photo by Ryan Johnson
Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On January 15, 2013, at 10:30 am, the National Park Service held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Science and Resource Management building on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park across the street from Park Headquarters. View of warehouse interior storage area.
Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga and other special guests dedicated the new state of the art facility which is on track to receive a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
LEED is a third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings and Platinum is the highest rating obtainable. This facility would be the 12th LEED certified building in the National Park Service and only the 6th LEED Platinum certified building in the National Park Service.
Read the complete news release here: go.nps.gov/1l4nvu
A manual and plans for a "Farnboro" electric indicator, which was an early device used to measure conductivity in gases. Found discarded in an office of Building B-38.
Texaco Research Center / Beacon Labratories
*Demolished 2012
NASA and Lockheed Martin Orion leadership visited the team at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana to thank them for their efforts in building the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Flight Test 1.
012814: Hundreds of counterfeit NFL jerseys were seized by CBP at the JFK International Mail Facility at the JFK International Airport. These counterfeit jerseys primarily were of the two teams competeing in this years Super Bowl, the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The jerseys were going to be sold to fans who more than likely would have not known they were buying a counterfeit jersey. Authentic NFL Jerseys can sell for hundreds of dollars and CBP helps fans by seizing these counterfeit jerseys and making sure that these jerseys will not be sold for hundreds of dollars.
Photographer: Josh Denmark
A MOC for the ROBOT LEGO Collectible Minifigures.
At Lego City's Extraterrestrial processing facility (EPF). Robots process new arrivals from other planets. From the control stations, the robots man the conveyor belt and the extraplanetary disinfect machine (on right). The robots keep Lego City safe from extraterrestrial creatures. :-)
Custom Data Center Facility in New York City.
Manhattan Data Center located at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York.
Data Centers by Digital Realty Trust
A young girl, who is suffering from malaria has her temperature taken at a health clinic in Fenerive Est, Madagascar Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (Kate Holt/MCSP)
Built in 1870, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style former psychiatric hospital was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson to serve the population of the rapidly growing urban areas in Western New York with more advanced mental health treatment. Sitting among a large park-like campus designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the rusticated Medina red sandstone and brick structures of the hospital are laid out primarily according to the Kirkbride plan. The the largest commission by footprint and square footage designed by Richardson during his storied and significant career, being one of the earliest examples of his signature Richardsonian Romanesque style, which mixes rusticated stone with Romanesque architecture to create romantic picturesque compositions reminiscent of Medieval castles and churches in Europe.
The campus was expanded over time with the construction of additional wings in red brick on either side of the original Medina sandstone buildings, which consists of the central five wings, the three brick wings at the eastern end of the complex having been removed in the 1970s to make way for a modern psychiatric facility, despite the complex’s historic and architectural significance having been recognized during the 1960s. Additional buildings not in the kirkbride formation were scattered around the grounds, including a greenhouse behind the main building, several smaller service and utility buildings, and buildings that were constructed to provide additional wards to house patients during the early 20th Century, as well as buildings meant to house staff.
When the hospital was in operation, patients were segregated by sex, with male patients being housed in the eastern pavilions, and female patients being housed in the western pavilions. The building was utilized as a psychiatric hospital known as the Buffalo State Asylum until the 1970s, when changing methods of treating psychiatric illness were developed, leading to the building becoming obsolete and newer facilities being built on the grounds. The central wing of the complex, however, remained in use as administrative offices for the still-operating psychiatric treatment facilities on the property until 1994.
The building went through a period of significant and prolonged deterioration and uncertainty between the 1970s and 2008, with the unsecured facility becoming vandalized, decayed, and unsafe. However, in 2008, in the wake of a successful lawsuit filed by the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, the State of New York was forced to commit $100 million in order to rehabilitate the structure. Between the spring of 2008 and the fall of 2012, the complex was stabilized, and in 2013, the South Lawn was converted from parking lots back into the original, verdant green space it was meant to be. In 2017, the first phase of the building's adaptive reuse and rehabilitation was completed, which transformed the central three pavilions into the Hotel Henry and Conference Center, with the Buffalo Architecture Center also opening in the renovated structure. The plans for the complex were to convert the remaining intact but vacant pavilions into additional space for the Hotel Henry Urban Resort Conference Center, which would have been spectacular once it transformed and revitalized the amazing historic structure. However, due to restrictions and economic effects relating to the recent pandemic, Hotel Henry became insolvent and closed in 2021.
The complex consisted of a central wing with two tall towers that housed administrative facilities, flanked by five pavilions on each side, which progressively stair-step north from the central pavilion, a key feature of the Kirkbride plan, with a total of 11 structures in the complex, with three brick pavilions having been removed from the east side of the complex. The central wing features two towers with steeply-pitched copper-clad roofs, turrets at the corners, shed dormers, and corbeling, hipped dormers of varying sizes, with recessed panels and windows of varying sizes helping tie it back to its medieval aesthetic inspiration. The wing also features wall dormers, windows with arched transoms and stone trim, gabled roofs, and two-story arced connecting corridors that link it to the pavilions next to it on either side, features that are shared with the other medina sandstone buildings in the Richardson-designed portion of the complex. The front of the central wing features a porch with arched openings supported by columns with ornate capitals, tile mosaics on the faces of the vaults and blind arches on the porch, and a central doorway with an arched transom. The rear facade has been slightly modified with the installation of a curtain wall where an addition had been connected to the building in the mid-20th Century, which was added to serve as a primary and fully accessible entrance to the hotel that formerly operated in the building, with a large metal canopy having been added to this side of the building in 2021-22. To either side of the main wing are a total of four medina sandstone wings that formerly housed patient wards, which are largely identical and feature hipped and gabled roofs, wall dormers, windows with stone trim and arched transoms, arced two-story connecting corridor structures, and chain link-enclosed steel and concrete porches on the unrestored outer wings, which were once present on all of the wards, but were removed on the wards that were restored.
To the north and west of the sandstone structure are a series of red brick wings and buildings in various states of deterioration, with the two western wings being similar in appearance to the medina sandstone wings, but one floor shorter, blocky four-story red brick wings with low-slope roofs to the rear of the outermost sandstone wings, and two one-story service buildings behind the middle wings that flank the central wing, which feature hipped roofs, and differ a lot in materiality and details. At the very end of the western wings is a wing that is turned 90 degrees from the wing it is attached to and is roughly H-shaped, being only one story in height, featuring a gabled roof, a wooden porch with doric columns at the northwest corner, and a one-story bay window in the middle of the north facade. These wings are in much worse condition than the sandstone portions of the complex.
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The complex’s future is presently uncertain, with a large section of copper missing from the north side of the roof of the east tower on the central wing, many of the wings still languishing in abandonment and severe disrepair, and no longer having an anchoring business to preserve and reuse the buildings.
The Orion Crew Module Adapter simulator arrives at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Christopher Lynch)
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). Shagari Primary Health Clinic that MCHIP/Jhpiego helps underwrite. Pre-natal clinic where women are weighted and vital signs are taken.
Students from the School of Health Technology are doing their practicals this day.
Student Amins Lmrang,
Viviame Razafandrasoa, who gave birth a year ago and already has seven other children, arrives at a health center for treatment after miscarrying a baby at two months in the village of Manatsatiana, near Fenerive Est, Madagascar Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Viviame says that she wasn't using family planning because her husband didn't approve which is why she got pregnant so quickly after her last child. (Kate Holt/MCSP)
Photo credit: Pamela Baker-Masson, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Animal care staff at the National Zoo welcomed a new resident to Elephant Trails May 22—Bozie, a 37-year-old female Asian elephant. She arrived safely at 4 p.m. and is now in quarantine for approximately 30 days. Along with Elephant Manager Marie Galloway, Zoo Veterinarian Nancy Boedeker and a keeper from the Baton Rouge Zoo accompanied Bozie as she traveled via truck more than 1,100 miles to her new home in Washington, D.C.
When Bozie’s only companion died in March, the Baton Rouge Zoo worked diligently to find a home for its single elephant. At the Zoo’s Elephant Trails complex, Bozie will have three companions: females Ambika (65) and Shanthi (38) and Shanthi’s 11-year-old male offspring, Kandula. Records show that Bozie and Shanthi lived in Sri Lanka together briefly as young calves at the Elephant Orphanage Department of Wildlife Conservation before being transported to North America.
“Social interaction is key to an elephant’s mental and physical well-being,” said Don Moore, associate director of Animal Care Sciences. “We do everything we can to encourage these natural social bonds. I’m so jazzed for our herd and elephant team!”
Two months ago, the Elephant Community Center opened and marked the completion of Elephant Trails, the Zoo’s seven-year, $56 million project. This state-of-the-art exhibit was designed in keeping with the best practices for Asian-elephant management. It includes space for socializing, training and playing while providing the elephant staff safe access to the animals. Altogether, the facility can house 8-10 adult elephants and their young.
Bozie is off-exhibit in the Elephant Barn and will be cared for by keepers, nutritionists and veterinarians per standard quarantine procedure. To keep Bozie mentally and physically stimulated, keepers will provide her with a variety of enrichment, including bamboo, boomer balls and puzzle feeders.
Once Bozie clears quarantine, keepers will begin the introduction process. Initially, the elephants will have only visual access to one another. As they become familiar with one another’s smell, looks and temperament, keepers will begin the next phase of visual and tactile access through a barrier. Eventually, they will spend time together in the same enclosure.
“Elephants are equally curious and cautious in meeting a new member of the herd,” said Galloway. “By watching their behavioral cues, we’ll be able to determine their comfort level and can move as quickly or slowly as they see fit. Our goal is for Bozie, Shanthi and Ambika to bond and live together as a herd.”
Zoo visitors can see Ambika, Shanthi and Kandula on exhibit at Elephant Trails.
Chief Miwaleta Campground is located on Galesville Reservoir 8 miles east of Exit 88 on I-5 near the community of Azalea in Douglas County, Oregon.. The park provides access to a 640-acre reservoir for fishing and boating recreation. The park has two entrances, one for the campground and the other for the day use area.
The Park is named after Chief Miwaleta of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. Chief Miwaleta was Chief during the 1850s when survival for the tribe was very difficult. He passed during an epidemic that swept through the tribe’s village after settlement and mining began to take the toll on the land and the native residents.
Park Amenities:
Boat Ramp – A developed boat ramp is open year round with ample parking and a dedicated restroom.
Day Use Area – Located next to the boat ramp, a pavilion, playground, restroom and several picnic sites with barbeques sit along the shore of Galesville Reservoir under the trees. A trail runs along the shore.
Campground – 3 Cabins (2 deluxe and 1 rustic), 20 full hook-up camping sites with water front and forested setting. A restroom and shower facility service the full hook-up sites and a vault restroom services the tent sites. (www.co.douglas.or.us/parks/view_park.asp?id=11&featur...)
After a massive nuclear war humanity has begun to rebuild. Sadly though during this period of uncertainty for humanity 2 factions have formed- The Coalition, a large militaristic dictatorship, formed from the remnants of the world military's after WWIII, and the Renegades, a group of so called "terrorists" or "raiders", consisting of the survivors who refused to join The Coalition. The Renegades are based out of "Junk" settlement of the fringes of the wastes, and are trapped in a never-ending guerilla war against The Coalition.
This diorama shows Lone Wanderer encountering a skirmish between a number of Renegades and Coalition soldiers of the outskirts of a Coalition facility.
The dio took me about 4-5 hours to make while I spent about 45 minutes tweaking the figs.
Overview of Dio, more pics to come.
NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, Japan (Aug. 18, 2022) - Damage Controlman 2nd Class Gage Zimmerman, from Oceanside Calif., explains the registration process for the Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) Tracking System (NTS) during a NEO training exercise held onboard Naval Air Facility Atsugi for Citadel Pacific 2022. Citadel Pacific is an annual exercise designed to evaluate command and control capabilities, and to ensure the readiness and effectiveness of antiterrorism and emergency response programs throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Rafael Avelar) 220818-N-VI040-1097
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In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, technicians and engineers prepare to mate NASA's Parker Solar Probe to its third stage, built and tested by Northrup Grumman in Chandler Arizona. The Parker Solar Probe will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
STERILE AREA –
RAF Barnham Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility was heavily secured and at the time was probably one of the most secure locations in the United Kingdom. The security element was the responsibility of the RAF Police (RAFP). Personnel from differing operating periods at RAF Barnham have stated that there were up to three varieties of RAF Police specialisations working at the site: 'Provost' 'Station' and 'Qualified Police Dog' (dog handlers).
As well as a standard outer fence and main gate picket post, the facility included an inner perimeter fence and within that an inner concrete wall with another picket post. The area between these two latter perimeters was classed as ''sterile'', with trip wires and flares in the gap between them and atop the wall, to alert the guard force to intruders. Pole-mounted lighting was positioned at regular intervals within the sterile area and halfway between the towers was a V-shaped bulge in the fence to allow patrolling guards the ability to look up and down the fence line from a small path that ran within the area. A telephone post was located at these bulges.
Two electric sliding gates at the outer and inner fence and a traditional style split middle wire gate acted as ''vehicle traps'' for any vehicle driving in or out. At the front sliding gate was a personnel turnstile controlled by the RAFP guardroom. At the rear sliding gate was personnel access to the inner picket where flammables and other contraband (matches, cigarettes, lighters etc) were surrendered before entering the ''Danger Area''.
RAFP Dog Handlers patrolled the site and the RAFP station staff manned the watch towers and pickets. The area between the outer and middle fence was patrolled by the Dog Handlers, with elements of the outer perimeter reportedly just spools of barbed wire.
Five Watch Towers, one at each point of the pentagonal fence, were located on the inside of the middle fencing when the site was decommissioned. These were accessible along the path within the sterile area near the fence line, some elements of which are still visible under the moss and foliage. A 6th vantage point was located on the maintenance building towards the centre of the compound. Each tower could see the others at the time of operational use (trees get in the way now) and were fitted with searchlights at a third of the way up and right at the top, possibly similar to those used on ships. It has been reported that the angle of the lights had to be limited as the Officer Commanding RAF Lakenheath had made complaints that his pilots were getting dazzled by RAF Barnham's watch towers.
The existing tall metal towers were believed to have been installed in late 1959/early 1960. Prior to this there were wooden ones, described as being pretty basic and about 15ft high, with a base around 6ft square with a large searchlight mounted in the centre which could be swung almost 360° in either direction. Access was reportedly by a wooden ladder and there was a single railing round about waist height. There was a field telephone at the top of the ladder and ''special'' binoculars were issued. The platforms were in roughly the same positions of the new towers but on the inside of the concrete path. It has been reported by another source that when the new towers were built, the fences had to be modified to accommodate them, via a U-shaped cut-out, visible on the site today.
A former RAFP Dog Handler stated that before being posted to Barnham, you and more importantly your dog had to gain at least 90% in exams/tests, meaning they had some of the best personnel and animals in the trade. In comparison, the RAFP Station staff stated that they received no special training as such for the role. They did get sent on a special security course, but that it was of little relevance or use to RAF Barnham. They simply classed it as another security related job. Some have stated that they spent a lot of time on the range, with many of the Police being marksmen. It has been reported that the RAFP were issued automatic 9mm pistols towards the end of the site's operational period, replacing the Smith and Wesson .38 that had been in common use.
The shift pattern recalled by most RAFP personnel spoken to consisted of 9 consecutive shifts comprising 3 evenings (1500-2300), 3 midnights (2300-0700) and 3 days (0700-1500) which would then be followed by 2 days off. Approximately 14 Station staff were on shift, comprising of one Sergeant shift controller, one Corporal deputy shift controller and 12 others, some made up of National Service personnel. Therefore, with an off duty shift, this meant a guard force of around 56, plus all of the ''X'' flight staff (the term used for those involved with the weapon convoys), which had around 14 personnel. It was usually an hour on and an hour off on the old wooden watch towers. The Dog Handler shift patterns were (1800-0000) and (0000-0600), with no day patrols, around 8 dogs were on site at a time.
This and other RAFP sources have said that the security personnel knew very little about the goings on inside, even with the vantage points of the towers. It is reported that all movements were specially screened to be hidden from view, with even the large bombs themselves sheeted. One RAFP officer had even reported as quipping to a convoy commander about ''another glider'' coming in, making reference to the similarity between the ''Blue Danube'' pantechnicon and a glider trailer.
Information sourced from – rafbarnham-nss.weebly.com/security.html
A woman waits outside a maternal health unit in Fenerive Est, Madagascar Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (Kate Holt/MCSP)
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Renovations to the health facility done by USAID/MCSP program in Chemolingot, Kenya
Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi/MCSP
Mother and baby during a consultation with the doctor at a health facility in Migori, County, Kenya.
This facility has been in the same family for four generations. The shocking surprise for me was to step into this humble frame building and see cabinets holding priceless ancient pottery vessels. Having been at the Deming Lunas Mimbres museum a few days before and seeing their collection so beautifully displayed, this seemed a little "casual" to say the least. The woman there said her great, or great-great-grandfather had found all of these on the property, in lava rock shelters with more rocks piled in front of them.
The guest instrument facility is located at the ARM North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site in Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik.
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(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). MCHIP and USAID underwrite the HoHoe Midwifery Training school in Hohoe. The students get their practical experience at the Muncipal Hospital which is connected.
Dora Agbodza, and Etta Addo are MCHIP program officers at the school in the skill's lab
Etta has short hair and is thinner than Dora, both are wearing bright clothing.
Ernestina Oforiwa Akobeuah with the bun on her head and has dark glass and
Charity Mote (with gold glasses and short hair) are the preceptors who are running the midwifery students through a birth process and the care of a new born in the Skill's lab