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いとこにグランドピアノの構造を見せてもらって感動…
弾いてもらってさらに感動…音楽っていいなぁ :)
I first saw the structure of a grand piano...
I was impressed...Love Music :)
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Op vrijdag 1 juli voegde Stroom Den Haag een nieuwe sculptuur toe: Dutch Mechanisms van Folkert de Jong. Het beeld heeft als vertrekpunt de moord op de gebroeders De Witt in 1672. Die was het resultaat van de controverse over macht en leiderschap tussen de republikeinen en de Oranje royalisten, en markeerde het einde van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden. Folkert de Jong legt met de verbeelding van deze zwarte bladzijde uit de geschiedenis ook een relatie met het heden: machtsstrijd en populisme zijn van alle tijden.
Het beeld staat momenteel op de hoek van de Lange Poten en het Spui, bijna voor de plenaire vergaderzaal van de Tweede Kamer, maar de beelden van het Sokkelplan (ik blijf het zo gewoon noemen) worden nogal eens verplaatst.)
Tijdens de opnthullingsceremonie hield Bas Heijne een interessante toespraak.
Starting with Pullip Cheshire Cat, Pullips have a new feature that allows them to have partially open eyes instead of just opened or closed. I opened up Pullip Lupinus to rechip her and took pictures of the mech for anyone curious. The only difference appears to be the new blink levers.
Starting with Pullip Cheshire Cat, Pullips have a new feature that allows them to have partially open eyes instead of just opened or closed. I opened up Pullip Lupinus to rechip her and took pictures of the mech for anyone curious. The only difference appears to be the new blink levers.
Dia Compe brake return spring, modified, forces the light to pitch down. Lever arm, connected to vintage SunTour barcon shifter, pulls it back up. Equilibrium and friction keeps it where you want it to aim.
Black OPS Imperial Gunship & Shadow Trooper Hardsuit
Tons of playful functions jam-packed into this model, includes:
- Shadow trooper Hardsuit minifig with a mega 6 barrel blaster
- 2 firing weapon mechanisms: front turret & roof missiles
- 5 cannon missiles
- 14 retractable air to air flick missiles
- Escape pod/craft with arms station (removable)
- Swivel armory (removable)
- Storage compartments & cargo space
- Fits 14 Brick lights (sold separately)
- made to Real life specs + extra decorative details
Specs:
- Pieces 1100+ (more than lego's original 7676)
- Body size 11.5" L x 4.5" W x 6.5" H
- Wing span 13.5" L
- Weighs approx. 2 lbs
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tower clock mechanism, R. Trebino museum, Uscio, Italy - Meccanismo orologio da torre, museo R. Trebino, Uscio, Genova.
Buckets and spades on our first evening on the beach at Colwell Bay back in early April, was still a bit nippy back then, then we had 3 days of warmth and everyone thought summer was here, now you need a coat again!
Title from that random art title generator thingy, just seemed to fit
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//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm f/2 lens on 21mm of Fotodiox extension tubes. One gridded softbox camera right.
SSC 10/10/20: the inner workings of something mechanical
I had to hunt around a bit for something for this challenge, but I eventually settled on the inner workings of one of our hand-operated recliner chairs. (After a major cleaning operation under there, I have to admit, but having done so I took the opportunity to give the bearings a few shots of WD40.) How does it work? Well, on the outside of the chair there’s a handle, and the handle is connected to the crossbar, the crossbar is connected to the primary lever, the primary lever is connected to the secondary lever, the secondary lever is connected to the rotation arm, the rotation arm is connected to the foot rest ... well, you get the idea. (That reminds me of a song ....)
I understand that the bascule bridge was built in the 1930s as a liftable bridge to enable shipping from the River Thames to cross Glamis Road in Wapping and access Shadwell Basin. It is now permanently fixed in the closed position.
Someone in the police department had complained that the Detective smoked too much.
"You know why that man smokes so much?" the Commander demanded, "It's because he's seen some shit that would make you go insane. The things that crawl in the night, your very nightmares... he has met them with a rifle in hand. He smokes because if he didn't, he'd go crazy."
No one ever asked again.
One of the many cogs from a watchmakers cast offs. Stacked 50mm macro on 105mm Micro.
Strobist info: SB-28 on 1/64 power fitted with an omnibounce sitting about 2 inches in front of the cog (cog was on the table, camera pointing straight down, flash lying on the table pointing at the cog). Triggered with eBay remote.
Print available on Redbubble.