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Another Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Modification. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series. I didn't show it but the body has been painted a silver metallic that is actually a satin finish. I really wanted it gloss but I like this color for some reason. I used the color to restore my 65 Rambler dealer promo. My wife walked over with a box of the kids old 90's Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars that are pretty rough and she said maybe there are some good parts in here and there was this yellow truck box with all of the old cars. Kind of a silly side graphics but I was thinking maybe better than the stake bed.

horse chestnut by Tony Kemplen

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Temporary film-plane modification of the Koroll 24 camera that I previously used in week 132 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:

52cameras.blogspot.com/

www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240

I liberally applied sellotape in overlapping criss-cross strips at the film plane.

As the name suggests, this model manages to squeeze 24 exposures out of a roll of 120 film, by using a mask to make the image size 3cm x 4cm. The edges of the film are wasted, but by using the "12 frame" backing paper markings twice, 24 exposures are made.

I removed the mask, so the full width of the film is exposed, and the frames overlap, but if a full frame is desired, the film can simply be advanced twice.

The film was expired Fujichrome Provia ISO400 slide film, which I cross processed in Tetenal C41 chemistry.

Finished Lego 10246 Detective's Office Modification by Sjaak Lego

Modification of the Original Lego 10246 Detective's Office set. Built from 2 sets and some spare parts....it is 56 studs wide in stead of 32 studs.

Tamiya Monster Beetle with TV camera! 1 by Les Chatfield

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My modification of a Tamiya monster beetle r/c car. I attached a radio linked TV camera to the front of the chassis. This relays pictures back to a reciever and monitor. The system has a range of 70 feet. More than enough to spy on the neigbours!!!

IMG_0780 by Little island

part way done hot water heater access

loans by Cheese Curl

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Loans Modifications

My rook piercing! by Jennifer Wesoloski

my newest piercing! I have my tragus pierced on my right side. I was so nervous to do this one because I had a horrible piercing experience with my tragus...it hurt SO bad being pierced and the guy literally took 40 minutes to get the ball on the hoop all the while tugging on a fresh piercing trying to get the ball on. I always loved this piercing but like I said I was nervous because it seems pretty thick but I hyped myself up for nothing, it was a pop from the needle going thru, the jewelry insertion was a pinch of pain (not bad though.) The worst part was the alcohol or whatever it was to clean it up at the end ...that stung horribly. Virtually no pain since being pierced and I absolutely love it!

Done by Phil @ Slingin' Ink in Scranton PA while visiting my bro. After my tragus experience I have only gone to two piercers: Phil, and local to me Tony @ Rock 'n Willy's. They have been piercing and perfecting their technique for YEARS and have been 100% WONDERFUL to work with.

Update: piercing was done on 9/12, it was absolutely fine looked like this for about 3-4 days. I was cleaning it twice a day with H2O spray and being careful not to touch it/bump it...after the 3rd day it swelled like crazy and just immense pain throbbed through my ear, woke me up out of my sleep. I was absolutely MISERABLE for a whole day...my ear was twice it's size with the swelling...I wanted to saw my ear off to get some relief from the pain.

I went back to my local piercer and he told me it was absolutely normal just to keep cleaning it, maybe doing actual sea salt soaks with hot water, take some ibuprofen for the pain, and if it was really as bad as I said it was to crush up an ibuprofen and make a paste with water and put it on my piercing. I immediately did a combination of all 3 when I got home and continued with the sea salt soaks a couple times a day and I'm now two days since that horrible day and it's helped a ton! The swellings better than that first day, the first day you could barely see the bottom ball. I can now see the bottom ball but my ear is still pretty swollen. Knowing the pain I had the other day with this, had I ever expected to go through anything like that I most likely wouldn't do the piercing again...hoping I can heal it up so I don't have to lose it because I do really love it.

1:72 ZSU-62 „Kama“ (Object 503); vehicle „185“ of the Soviet Army’s 1008th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, 5th Guards Motor Rifle Zimovniki Division; Kushka (Balkh Province, northern Afghanistan), 1980 (What-if/kitbashing) by Dizzyfugu

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The ZSU-62 (Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka = anti-aircraft self-propelled mount) was a potential successor for the Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAG, developed in parallel with the ZSU-23-4. But unlike its brethren, the ZSU-62 was only produced in limited numbers, but it received limited fame during its late operational second-line career when it was successfully deployed to Afghanistan.

The ZSU’62’s roots were laid down just after WWII with the ZSU-57-2. The first prototype (Objekt 500) was completed in the summer of 1950, production began in 1955. The vehicle was built using a modified chassis of the new T-54 tank and was armed with two S-68 57 mm cannons – at the time the most powerful guns mounted in an anti-aircraft system. The modification of the chassis included reducing the road wheels per side to four and using lighter armor. The ZSU-57-2 was powered by a V-54 12-cylinder diesel engine providing 520 hp. Despite the weight of 28 tons, thanks to the strong engine, the maximum speed was 50 km/h. With a fuel load of 850 liters, the operational range was 420 km.

Each cannon had a (theoretical) rate of fire of 240 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 1,000 m/s. Maximum horizontal range was 12 km (with an effective range against ground targets of up to 4 km / 2.5 miles), maximum vertical range was 8.8 km (with a maximum effective vertical range of 4.5 km / 14,750 ft). The effective range, when used against flying targets, was 6 km. Armor-piercing rounds were able to penetrate 110 mm armor at 500 m or 70 mm armor at 2,000 m (at 90° impact angle).
Rate of fire was 120 RPM, but this was only a theoretical number, because each gun was fed with separate four-shot magazines so that only bursts and no continuous fire was possible. Both fragmentation and armor-piercing ammunition were available. The ZSU-57-2’s total ammunition load was 300 rounds, with 176 rounds being stored inside the turret and the remaining in the hull. To efficiently operate the vehicle, six crew members were needed: commander, gunner, loader, driver, and two sight adjusters.
The ZSU-57-2 had serious firepower that could easily destroy any aerial target but had many issues. The greatest weaknesses were the lack of modern range-finding and radar equipment, the impossibility of engaging targets at night or while on the move, the lack of protection for its crew (being open-topped), and low ammunition count. Nevertheless, more than 2.000 ZSU-57-2s were eventually built. While many would be sold to other Warsaw Pact countries, like East Germany, Romania, and Poland, its service within the Soviet Army was limited, because of its many operational deficiencies.

This led in 1957 to a new SPAAG program for the Soviet Army and initiated the development of the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka", the ZSU-37-2 "Yenisei" and a new ZSU-57-2 “Kama” (all baptized after Russian rivers) with the outlook to replace the original ZSU-57-2 by the mid to late Sixties. These vehicles were intended for AA defense of military facilities, troops, and mechanized columns on the march. “Shilka” was intended for close range defense (esp. against low-flying attack helicopters) while the more powerful guns of "Yenisei" and “Kama” were judged to be effective at covering the inner dead-zone of Soviet surface-to-air missile systems between 1.000 and 6.000 m altitude, with a focus on attack aircraft and more heavily armored targets.

All designs were based on existing tracked chassis’ and featured completely enclosed turrets as well as a proven radar system, the RPK-2 "Tobol" radar (NATO designator: "Gun Dish"). The ZSU-37-2 was soon dropped in favor of the higher firepower and range of the 57mm guns, so that both “Shilka” and “Kama” entered the hardware stage at Omsk Works No. 174.

However, “Kama” lagged behind the “Shilka” development because several technical and conceptual problems had to be solved. For instance, even though the armament still consisted of two proven S-68 cannon, the weapons’ mount had to be developed new to fit into the enclosed cast turret. To save space, both weapons were now mounted directly side-by-side. Their feeding system was furthermore changed from magazines to belts, what considerably improved the SPAAG’s firepower and now allowed continuous fire at a higher rate of fire of 150 RPM per gun. For sufficient flexibility, a belt-switching mechanism allowed to choose between two different ammunition supplies: each gun had supplies of 220 and 35 rounds, normally occupied with HE fragmentation and armor-piercing tracer (AP-T) shells, respectively, against aerial and armored ground targets. Changing between the two feeds just took a couple of seconds.
The twin S-68s were recoil-operated and the whole mount (without feeding mechanism) weighed 4,500 kg. The guns had a recoil of between 325 and 370 mm, and each air-cooled gun barrel, fitted with a muzzle brake, was 4365 mm long (76.6 calibers). The weapons could be elevated or depressed between −5° and +80° at a speed of between 0.3° and 32° per second, while the turret could traverse 360° at a speed of between 0.2° and 52° per second. Drive was from a direct current electric motor and universal hydraulic speed gears.

The “Kama” crew numbered four: driver (in the hull), commander, gunner and radar operator (all in the turret). The heavy guns, their ammunition supply and the radar system had to be housed in a turret, together with decent armor, and this resulted in a considerable volume and weight (a single 57 mm projectile alone already weighed 2.8 kg). Several layouts were tested, but weight and volume of the systems made it impossible to mate the “Kama” turret on the T-54/55 chassis, which was available in ample numbers for conversions. The limiting factor was the T-54/55’s relatively small turret bearing diameter.
To solve this problem, the “Kama” designers chose the more modern T-62 as chassis basis. It was outwardly very similar to the former T-54/55, but it featured a 2245 mm turret ring (250 mm more than the T-54/55’s bearing) that was able to take a much bigger/wider/heavier turret than its predecessor. Furthermore, the T-62 represented the Soviet Army’s “state of the art”. The choice of the T-62 ensured many component and maintenance communalities with the operational MBT and it also meant that the “Kama” SPAAG could operate in the same environment and the same pace as the T-62. In order to save costs and development time, the T-62 chassis was taken “as is”, with the same engine and armor level as the MBT. There were only minor changes in the electric components, e. g. a more powerful generator for the radar system.

In this combination, “Kama” eventually entered tests and state acceptance trials as “Object 503”. During these tests, some final changes to layout and equipment were made; for instance, the RPK-2’s dish-shaped radome received a retractable mount that allowed the antenna to be raised higher above the turret in order to avoid clutter and to protect the antenna when the vehicle was on the move.
The tests lasted until 1963 and were successful, so that an initial batch of 100 serial production tanks was ordered the same year. In order to avoid confusion with the old ZSU-57-2 from 1955, the new tank with the same armament was pragmatically designated ZSU-62.

Alas, while production of the “Kama” turrets ran up to be mated with T-62 hulls at the Uralvagonzavod factory in Nizhny Tagil, the ZSU-62’s future had already been sealed by the fast pace of technical developments: in the meantime MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System) had taken the medium-range SPAAG’s place and a foot soldier could now fulfill the same mission as an expensive and bulky 40 ton tank, so that the medium range/altitude gap between the ZSU-23-4 (which had already entered service) and heavier surface-to-air missile systems would not be filled with a dedicated vehicle anymore. The ZSU-62 had become superfluous the moment it had reached the first frontline units, and large-scale production was immediately stopped.

However, the initial production run was nevertheless completed until 1967, and the ZSU-62s were primarily sent to training units, where the vehicles were – due to their turrets’ shape – nicknamed “черепаха“ (turtle).
This could have been the ZSU-62’s fate, but the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan brought it back into frontline service. Since December 1978, the Afghan government called on Soviet forces, which were introduced in the spring and summer of 1979 to provide security and to assist in the fight against the mujaheddin rebels. After the killing of Soviet technicians in Herat by rioting mobs, the Soviet government sold several Mi-24 helicopters to the Afghan military and increased the number of military advisers in the country to 3,000. In April 1979, the Afghan government requested that the USSR send 15 to 20 helicopters with their crews to Afghanistan, and on June 16, the Soviet government responded and sent a detachment of tanks, BMPs, and crews to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the Bagram and Shindand airfields. In response to this request, an airborne battalion arrived at the Bagram Air Base on July 7, and ground forces were deployed from Turkmenistan territory into northern Afghanistan, securing the supply lines.

Experience in the mountainous Afghan landscape soon made the shortcomings of standard MBTs apparent, namely their lack of gun elevation, esp. when attacking hideouts and posts in high locations. While the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” was readily available and used against such targets, it lacked range and firepower to take out protected posts at distances more than 2.000 m away. This led to the decision to send roundabout 40 ZSU-62s to the Afghan theatre of operations, where they were primarily used against ground targets – both fortifications as well as armored and unarmored vehicles. The weapons’ precision and range proved to be valuable assets, with devastating effect, and the vehicles remained in active service until 1985 when their role was more and more taken over by helicopters and aircraft like the new Su-25. The ZSU-62 were, nevertheless, still employed for aerial airfield defense and as a deterrent against ground attacks.

With the USSR’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988 and 1989, the last operational ZSU-62s were retired. In the training units, the vehicles had already been replaced by ZSU-23-4s by 1984.

Specifications:

Crew: Four (commander, gunner, radar operator, driver)

Weight: 37 t (41 short tons; 36 long tons)

Length: 6.63 m (21 ft 9 in) hull only

9.22 m (30 ft 3½ in) with barrel in forward position

Width: 3.30 m (10 ft 10 in)

Height: 3.88 m (12 ft 9 in) with search radar fully extended,

2.84 m (9 ft 3¾ in) with search radar stowed

Suspension: Torsion bar

Ground clearance: 425 mm (16.7 in)

Fuel capacity: 960 l

Armor:

20 mm (hull bottom) – 102 mm (hull front)

Performance:

Speed: 50 km/h (31 mph) on roads,

40 km/h (25 mph) cross country)

Range: 450 km (280 mi) on road;

650 km (400 mi) with two 200 l (53 US gal; 44 imp gal) extra fuel tanks;

320 km (200 mi) cross-country

450 km (280 mi) with two 200-liter extra fuel tanks

Climbing ability: 0.7 m (2.3')

Maximum climb gradient: 30°

Trench crossing ability: 2.5 m (8.2')

Fording depth: 1.0 m (3.3')

Operational range: 500 km (310 mi)

Power/weight: 14.5 hp/tonne (10.8 kW/tonne)

Engine:

1x V-55 12-cylinder 4-stroke one-chamber 38.88 liter water-cooled diesel engine

with 581 hp (433 kW) at 2,000 rpm

Transmission:

Hydromechanical

Armament:

2× S-68 57mm (1.5 in) cannon with 255 rounds each

The kit and its assembly:

This fictional tank model came to be as a classic what-if, based on the question “what could have been a successor of the Soviet ZSU-57-2 SPAAG?”. Not an existential question that comes to your mind frequently, but it made me wonder – also because the real-world successor, the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka”, lacked the ZSU-57-2’s range and large-caliber firepower.

From this conceptual basis I decided to retain the 57mm twin guns, add an RPK-2 radar and mount these into a fully enclosed turret. The latter became a leftover M48 turret, which was suitably bulky, and the gun mount was taken from a Modelcollect E-75 SPAAG. However, both were heavily modified: the gun mount lost its boxy armor protection, just the brass barrels and the joint at the base were retained, the rest was scratched from styrene bits and wire. To accept the much taller weapon mount, the turret front had to be re-sculpted with putty, resulting in a boxier shape with steeper side walls – but the whole affair looks very organic. A simpler commander cupola was used and the whole radar dish arrangement on the rear roof was scratched, too.

The hull came from a Trumpeter T-62, just for the reasons explained in the background: the T-54/55 had a relatively small turret ring, and this caused severe development problems, because the MBT could not take a bigger turret and with it a more powerful cannon. Since this SPAAG would have been developed a couple of years later than the T-54/55, its successor, the T-62, appeared logical, and the “marriage” with the M48 turret worked like a charm. Even the turret’s adapter had the same diameter as the hull opening, I just had to modify the notches that hold it in place! The hull itself remained unmodified.

Painting and markings:

I wanted to place this SPAAG into the Afghanistan theatre of operations, and this was historically not very easy since I had to bridge some fifteen years of service to make this idea work. However, I found a story for the background, and the model received an appropriate paint scheme, based on real world vehicles around 1980 (actually from a BMP-1 operated in northern Afghanistan).

The camouflage consists of three tones, a pale/greyish sand, an olive drab tone and some contrasts in a dark, dull brown – it reminds of the US Army’s more complex MERDC scheme. The paints became Humbrol 167 (Hemp), Tamiya XF-62 (Olive Drab) and Humbrol 98 (Chocolate), even though the green appears darker than expected due to the high contrast with the sand tone.

The model received an overall washing with dark brown, highly thinned acrylic paint, and some dry-brushing with cream, faded olive drab and light grey. The few markings/decals were taken from the T-62 kit, and everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish before the lower areas were finally dusted with a greyish-sand brown mix of artist pigments, simulating dust.

A plausible result, even though a cast turret might not appear to be a natural choice for a SPAAG? But the AMX-30 SPAAG from 1969 had a very similar design and there was a German prototype called “MATADOR” (a Gepard forerunner from 1968) that had a turret of similar shape, too. However, the kitbashed/scratched turret looks really good and convincing, and the T-62 hull is a great match for it in shape, size and timeframe. The ZSU-62 turned out way better than hoped for! :D

IMG_0778 by Little island

picture of the 2 trailers- just installed the add-a-room onto the tent trailer - more room than the jayco qwest 8u we had

HH-47 Flir Upgrade by Korea Aerospace Industries

HH-47 Flir Upgrade

/ Flir Upgrade

/ Photo by KAI (2006)

한국항공우주산업

IMG_0776 by Little island

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just moved the tent trailer from garage to its new parking spot, truck camper sold a couple days ago, i will miss it

Samurai X_modification by Yodoba

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modification of #9566 Samurai X.

adaptation to LEGO official Ninjago minifigures.

Modifications by A380spotter

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Boeing 747SP-Z5

23610/676 [Final 747SP]

A9C-HAK

البحرين

Bahrain Amiri Flight

BAH

[300 mm - NO CROP]

www.heathrow.com/britainsheathrow

www.backheathrow.org/

Wing modification by Jonathan Hughes

Angie by Neko & Kao

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MNF Rheia mod. head

IMG_0775 by Little island

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picture of the jayco fleet , 2009 28bhs and 2010 jayco jay series 1007 tent trailer

Domaine de Vougeot by Patrick BOUCHENARD

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Le Clos de Vougeot (21 - Côte d'Or)

Diaporama (slideshow) "Clos de Vougeot" :

www.flickr.com/photos/pat21/sets/72157636240422033/show/

Website : www.fluidr.com/photos/pat21

picssr.com/photos/pat21?ref=user

The reproduction, publication, modification, transmission or exploitation of any work contained here in for any use, personal or commercial, without my prior written permission is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved."

V5 Mods by Paul Chasse

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The anti-cant level finally arrived for the polar scope, so I carried the mount out for a quick photo session This is about as modified as you can get at this point.

Lynx flir Upgrade by Korea Aerospace Industries

Lynx flir Upgrade

/ Flir Upgrade

/ Photo by KAI (2006)

한국항공우주산업

IMG_0777 by Little island

different view of the add a room , took about 30 minutes by my self puttering away at putting it up , a lot less if i had help

8110 modifications by Michael Wirth

Seattle Chemtrails Sightings by Jason Holtzclaw

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The Chemtrails phenomenon is widely up for debate, politicians and the military don't acknowledge it, but tangible evidence can be tested for in rainwater and soil samples across the U.S. and most western countries in the world. Without getting overly scientific, one of the biggest indicators of weather modification is the amount of aluminum showing up in the environment. The most common theory about this secretive sky spraying program

modified gingerbread back by Chris Doyle

Based on the amazing Micro-Model designed by master builder Mariann Asanuma for Brickjournal

Ignoring the elegant lines of Mariann's model, I made a few tweaks to the design, extending the roof and adding a chimney. I also gave a bigger hat to the snowman, 'cause I'm a rebel like that.

Ds18B20 sensor modification by Sascha Grant

Sensor in original position was reading approx 5 degrees higher than ambient. Re-positioning resulted in correct temperature readings.

Code available here - github.com/ibuildrockets/NixieTemperatureDisplay

body modification by Ma.NeverStopExploring

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Generated by me, Tool used AI Stable Diffusion

Pimp my wheels by Thomas Weinert

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Backpack Modification by Paul Carroll

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Snazzy new ThirtyFiveFifteen pressed on my back pack.

KSC-20170614-PH_KLS01_0056 by NASA Kennedy

Modifications are underway at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for the arrival of the agency's massive Space Launch System (SLS) core stage aboard the barge Pegasus. Equipment is staged and a crane will be used to lift up precast concrete poles and position them to be driven to a depth of about 70 feet into the bedrock below the water around the turn basin. The upgrades are necessary to accommodate the increased weight of the core stage along with ground support and transportation equipment aboard the modified barge Pegasus. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing the upgrades to the turn basin wharf. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA image use policy.

Asanuma Gingerbread House Modification by Chris Doyle

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Based on the amazing Micro-Model designed by master builder Mariann Asanuma for Brickjournal

Ignoring the elegant lines of Mariann's model, I made a few tweaks to the design, extending the roof and adding a chimney. I also gave a bigger hat to the snowman, 'cause I'm a rebel like that.

Oh, and I changed the door to red-and-green and used a 1x1 red plate to create a wee little doorknob.

Bottom view - Bohlen-Pierce guitar with permanent frets. by Katherine Bowman

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- A link to my recorded compositions in Bohlen-Pierce.

Another Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Modification. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series by Paul Maddams

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Another Matchbox Series No4 Dodge K Series Stake Bed Truck Modification. 1966 to 1968 - 1-75 Series. This is the testing with the new color and the restored stake bed painted green. The color I like but on the truck I am not happy with the stake bed. The warp is bad and I tried to fix it without it breaking which it wanted to do. I even soaked it in hot water to soften it but no luck.

HPP Modification by nino

I add two washers to the governor. This adds some preload on the spring which retards the opening of the exhaust valves. This way i eliminate a small bog/hesitation in the powerband when using the bigger 38mm carburetor.

chipmunk-cheeks by Jack.Danielle

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new dimple piercings.

Hey! It's a little piece of modern... by Fan of Retail

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This MC Sports and the former Elder - Beerman (now a musuem) appear to be the ONLY major modifications done to the Upper Valley Mall since it opened in 1971. It appears that this mall may have had new flooring installed and new seating areas added at one time while remaining otherwise unchanged. For a mall built in the 1970s to still be doing fine with minimal updates is pretty fascinating. I am not saying this mall should get a major modernization but instead that this mall in unique in the sense that it did not take part in the trends since the early 1970s that most successful older malls took part of to "evolve". Despite this mall going greatly unaltered for so long, it was fairly busy on my visit and there did not appear to be many vacancies. The Upper Valley Mall was developed by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation. Now the mall is part of Simon Malls; I know Simon fairly well and if they think a mall does not have much potential they will sell it. Simon also typically appears adament about updating their malls every so often or at least to a point where the malls have the standard food court, modernized lighting, and a more contemporary color scheme. I am shocked that this mall has survived so intactly under Simon and has not been butchered for a new food court, a newer cinema complex, and exterior updates.

FYI: most other malls I have been to that have not been greatly updated from the 1960s or 1970s are closed down altogether now or have a massive amount of vacancies with dead anchor stores and many empty smaller stores inside.

MC Sports - Upper Valley Mall - 1475 Upper Valley Pike - Springfield, Ohio

Penn-Wyatt House, Danville, Va 19 by David Hoffman

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[There are 27 detailed images in this set] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.

This is the Penn-Wyatt House (sometimes called the Hoffman House) on Millionaire’s Row in Danville, Virginia, originally built by James Gabriel Penn in 1876; it underwent various modifications, 1887-1903. Penn was a tobacco commission merchant. He died in 1907, but his widow ultimately couldn’t afford to maintain the house. in 1934 it was sold at public auction to Landon R. Wyatt and then sold again in 1977 to Dr. Allan A Hoffman. In 2012 it was owned by “the bank” and was for sale—the purchase price I was told was $250,000. Much work on the exterior and interior had been done, presumably more than the 2012 selling price. I don’t know its current status. It’s an eclectic Victorian structure with the monumentality of the Second Empire and the detailing of the Italianate style. It is brick, covered with scored stucco; it has a mansard roof tower and multi-gable roofs. There are at least 25 rooms with many stained glass windows, displaying a wide range of styles used for domestic architecture (as opposed to ecclesiastical and commercial). The following images show some of the domestic stained-glass in this home—thee domestic use of stained-glass is always dealt with separately from the structure in these photos.

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Three main divisions articulate the front façade, all separated by a system of quoining. Aesthetically it offers up a raised contrasts with the smooth stucco surfaces. To the left is a 2-story bay window with a parapeted roof with wrought-iron cresting and a tripartite rounded-arch window in the heavily bracketed attic gable. 1/1 hung sash windows are used throughout this bay projection. Also characteristic of windows throughout the home (except for the back portion) are the rounded-arch hood molds. The entrance tower is centrally positioned and separated from the sections to both right and left by prominent use of quoins. The entry is a double door with leaded glass in a geometric abstract design, a leaded glass transom and long single pane sidelights, each with an understated recessed panel at the base. The second level of the tower displays a pair of leaded stained-glass windows with a single round arch hood mold. The third story has a set of 1/1 hung sash windows with the ever-present hood molds. Above that is a single small circular window with hood mold. The tower roof is bell-cast mansard and is capped with cresting. The third division of the front façade is accentuated by the quoining. The door from the porch to the interior in this section is a large Colonial Revival entry with a large fanlight with sunburst design and a rounded-arch hood mold over all. The sidelights are less elaborate than the primary entrance but are unusually wide leaded glass. The second-story in this façade-division has a pair of 1/1 hung sash windows with a single round-arch hood mold. The 3rd level, with the major exception of no bay roof is similar to the gable are on the left. The roof of the house is slate and consists of shingles of different colors and shapes. The wraparound porch is supported by wooden Ionic columns on a stone plinth railing, the stone balusters being carved. The pedimented entrance has low-relief carving in the tympanum. The pediment itself is bracketed but not with the dominant design used throughout much of the building; a row of dentils below the pedimented roof brackets is a nice ornamental detail. The porch itself has a couple of tile patterns—one just at the front entry and the other at a porch entrance to the right side. In front of this porch section is a two-tiered circular detached porch with red shingles on the conical roof and with a wrought-iron finial. The house is impressive; the angularity of gables is counterbalanced by the circular detached porch and the rounded roof line of the porch roof; the upper level is fascinating with the dark-striped brackets and the large quantity of cresting on the roof. And all parts seem to cohesively form an aesthetic whole. Now that I’ve worked up a description, there are architectural elements I unfortunately overlooked when I photographed the structure in September 2011. The Penn-Wyatt House is within the boundary of the Danville Historic District, but it was listed individually on the Nation Register of Historic Places September 7, 1979 ID number 79003317

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ginerbread house modification by Chris Doyle

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Based on the amazing Micro-Model designed by master builder Mariann Asanuma for Brickjournal

Ignoring the elegant lines of Mariann's model, I made a few tweaks to the design, extending the roof and adding a chimney. I also gave a bigger hat to the snowman, 'cause I'm a rebel like that.

Mullingar Road League Rnd 1 2015 by Peter Mooney

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This is a photograph from the 1st round of the 2015 Mullingar Road League which was held in Belvedere House and Gardens, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 6th May 2015 at 20:00. This year the 5KM was ran on a modified route based on the route from the last couple of years. Tonight the final 1KM stayed within the Belvedere Gardens bringing runners down to the lakeside for a second time and finishing along the aptly named Stream Of Life. The route modification meant that the race offered a slightly faster route than the hill finish of previous years.

The race is promoted by Mullingar Harriers for the Pat Finnerty Memorial Cup. Competitors need to run 3 races out of the 4 races in May (any order) to be considered in the overall placing in categories at the conclusion of the league. Over 350 people took part in tonight's event. The weather was perfect for running with sunshine with just a little breeze. The new finish area provided a nice space for runners to stay around and chat in the evening sunshine. The Mullingar Road League 2015 has started off successfully and looks to add to the success in the history of this great series.

The "Road League" is something of a misnomer but is an indication of the League's origins on the roads around Ladestown Mullingar prior to it's move into Belvedere in 2008. The Road League is the envy of many other races in the country as the Belvedere locations offers a completely traffic free 5KM route.

We have an extensive set of photographs from tonight in the following Flickr Album: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/16772614064/

Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/results.aspx with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q

Photographs from the last number of years of the Mullingar Road League are found at the bottom of this text

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Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs

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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?

As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:

►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera

►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set

►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone

►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!

You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.

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Links to previous Mullingar Road League Photographs from over the years

Our photographs from Round 1 of the 2014 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644508131856/

Our photographs from Round 2 of the 2014 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644261638039/

Our photographs from Round 3 of the 2014 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644769714481/

Our photographs from Round 4 of the 2014 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644840050706/

Road League 2014 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/patfinnertyroadleague?fref=ts (Requires Facebook logon)

YouTube Video for the Promotion of the 2014 Road League: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfvVVwrkgTM

A Vimeo Video for the Promotion of the 2013 Road League: vimeo.com/64875578

Our photographs from Round 5 of the 2013 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633794985503/

Our photographs from Round 4 of the 2013 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633604656368/

Our photographs from Round 3 of the 2013 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633470510535/

Our photographs from Round 2 of the 2013 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633451422506/

Our photographs from Round 1 of the 2013 Road League on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633397519242/

Belvedere House and Gardens on Google Street View: goo.gl/maps/WWTgD

Chip Timing Results from Precision Timing: www.precisiontiming.net/results.aspx

Belvedere House and Gardens Website: www.belvedere-house.ie/

Mullingar Harriers Facebook Group Page: www.facebook.com/groups/158535740855708/?fref=ts

Our Flickr Collection from Mullingar Road League 2012 (1,800 photographs) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/collections/72157629780992768/

Our Flickr Collection from Mullingar Road League 2011 (820 photographs) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/collections/72157626524444213/

Our Flickr Collection from Mullingar Road League 2010 (500 photographs) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/collections/72157624051668808/

Our Flickr Collection from Mullingar Road League 2009 (250 photographs) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/collections/72157617814884076/

Our Flickr Collection from Mullingar Road League 2008 (150 photographs) www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/collections/72157605062152203/