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Beinn Dearg is a fine walk, very boggy at first until you start to slog up the first bit of rising moorland.Plenty room all around you, even on the ridge which is a spectacular viewpoint. Plenty other summits possible from here - we've carried on to Marsco from here on a good day.Park at Sligachan and grin and bear the first grotty section once over the fence on the Glen Sligachan track.
Scope and content Item is a drawing showing existing civic structures, possible new structures, and a proposed civic square.
Reference code: COV-S445-3-: LEG26.16
Physical Description: 1 architectural drawing : diazotype, hand col. ; 46 x 62 cm
Date of Creation: Sept. 22, 1960
Part of Fonds: City of Vancouver fonds
She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there
-Storypeople
View on black
So after quite a bit of colour recently, time for a return to my real passion - what my friends call my apocalyptic photography.
As always there's a little bit of a story to this photograph. For quite some time I wanted to photograph this but haven't had chance to get to this particular beach (and there's no dogs allowed which is a problem as I usually take Zack with me when I'm out). As it happens though, when I got there 'this' turned out not to be what I actually thought it was.
I'd seen some time ago an image that I thought was some kind of double groyne with circular posts. I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to shoot when I eventually got there at the right tide. As it happens, when I got there I couldn't find the groyne but did find this outlet pipe covered in seaweed. It took me a short while to realise this is what I was looking for - you can see towards the centre of shot the pattern of two posts side by side. So always happy to adjust, I changed the shot I had in mind and ended up with this. I was also disappointed at the time that there was a dirty great fishing boat right in line of the shot, only to get home and decide that it's actually a really nice feature. What do I know?
Out of interest, for anyone who knows anything about seaweed - is it likely that the seaweed on this pipe will die down during a certain season? Wondering whether it's worth a revisit later in the year to get the shot I originally envisioned.
Shot details
Canon 600D (T3i/Kiss X5)
Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S USM @ 16mm
Lee Big Stopper
Lee Filters 0.9 Soft Grad ND
ISO 100
175 second exposure @ f9
Photoshop CS6 & Silver Efex 2
500px | G+ | My website
Possible Carbonate-Rich Terrain in the Northeast Syrtis Region Basin
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (279 km above the surface, less than 5 km across.)
Source: www.uahirise.org/ESP_023735_1980
A further possible design idea for model features for the LEGO Caterham Ideas project: ideas.lego.com/projects/87703
This one incorporates a linked steering assembly, so when one front wheel is turned, the opposite wheel turns with it. (see video)
It also features a working piston engine.
There are 2 connections within this version that I'm not sure of the legitimacy on. i.e. if they are "set friendly" (I "think" they should be okay, but I'm not 100% sure)
The bonnet / hood has again been slightly reworked to improve the stability of connections within it.
So, between the R500 and 620R there are now 2 legitimate workable designs, which can be produced in a range of colours
The features between both versions can be voted upon, as to which ones people would rather see in the final end version (IF) it were to ever make it through.
i.e. The 620R model, but with the R500 linked steering, static removable engine. In BRG with yellow stripes and grey bodywork / black wheel arches could be option no.1.
I'm also working on a 3rd design, which has the long flared fixed front wheel arches, full windscreen and removable side door pannels, again to throw a 3rd option of choices into the mix for the final design.
As previously mentioned, I will try to get a poll together for this "if" we reach around 8000 votes.
Twitter feed for the project: twitter.com/Bricktrix_Carl
Kim Possible by Kyrramarie
Anime Expo 2018 Cosplay Day 2
AX 2018
Manny Llanura Photography
Los Angeles Convention Center
Carte de visite by Wood & Brother of Albany, N.Y. An older soldier poses for his portrait wearing a four-button sack coat and a sword sash. This image is part of a group of cartes de visite connected to the Ira Harris General Hospital in Albany, N.Y. He may have been assigned there as a member of the staff. If so, his sword sash was green.
I encourage you to use this image for educational purposes only. However, please ask for permission.
A girl from my church committed suicide.
I've been there before. Am I allowed to admit that? Too late. It's by the grace of God that I'm still here.
Look out for each other. Talk to each other.
If you need someone to rant or cry with, or whatever, please, message me or email me. Or someone.
Life isn't meant to be done alone.
Or maybe just minor channelization?
Not good to posess a rock hammer in an Open Space park, so I did not have the traditional geologist's scale tool. And my pocket camera has no lens cap! Main block in lower part is about 4 feet across.
Dawson Arkose
Dawson Butte Open Space
Douglas County, Colorado
a special thanks to flickr friend mcwont
www.flickr.com/photos/45519093@N00/
for turning me onto a program to recover files from picture cards. I was able to get back some of what I lost.
This video shows thunderstorms affecting our annual family camping trip! Our camping trip this year was from July 19-22, 2015. This year, we headed to the Wolf Creek Campgrounds located at the Union Valley Reservoir. The thunderstorms quickly formed during the afternoon hours. Skies were quite clear during the morning. Talk about afternoon convection and atmospheric instability in the making! We even heard quite a few faint rumbles of thunder while we were at the lake. (If you want, put volume up and if possible, wear headphones to hear the thunder). The storms came when we were right at the lake...but it was perfect timing. Now I got to enjoy my type of weather! Even some of us wanted to go for a dip in the lake during the rain/thunderstorm lol. It was a great experience indeed! The storms subsided by the late afternoon hours...
(Footage/pics taken on Monday, July 20, 2015 while in and around the Union Valley Reservoir, at the Wolf Creek Campground side.)
How things got interesting weather-wise:
Our trip so happens to fall in days when the region was to experience thunderstorms! What timing, right?! Even on Sunday, July 19, 2015 when our trip started, this was the same time when moisture from the remnants of former Hurricane Dolores went over SoCal, breaking rainfall records there. Even when we were leaving San Jose, CA, t-storms have already occurred around the Monterey areas!! Some of the moisture even eventually made it up here around the Sierra Nevada where we were! So I took full advantage of this and took quite a few photos and video of the t-storms that did form and drift into our campground. On Monday, July 20, 2015, some of us even had the rare chance to swim in the reservoir during a thunderstorm! Don't worry, we didn't get struck by lightning, though one of us saw a CG lightning strike nearby to our north or so! It was a nice experience to swim in the lake in such weather! Then on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, the region had another similar weather pattern. T-storms developed again during the afternoon hours. Even a severe t-storm warning was issued for the region as slow-moving storms popped up around the area. Some of us (including me) were lucky enough to see some lightning from a slowly approaching storm cell to our south! The fun part was seeing these storms develop and approach towards while we were chilling\swimming at the lake. Overall, our annual family camping trip this year was an interesting one, thanks to the storms! The t-storm development had slowed down at the time when we were leaving, too (Wednesday, July 22, 2015)! It's pretty neat to realize that the storms had occurred only when we were there up in the Sierras.
Full video version here:
Possible developmental early effects of endocrine disrupters on child health.
Publisher: WHO; ISBN: 978 92 4 150376 1, 2012.
The present document is a short summary of the current knowledge of the effects of endocrine disrupters on child health. The main focus is on congenital disorders, cryptorchidism and hypospadias, which have an endocrine connection, on thyroid hormone-related problems, and on puberty. There is ample evidence of endocrine disruption in wildlife, and the mechanisms of action of endocrine disrupters have been elucidated in experimental animals, but there is limited knowledge of the association of human disorders with exposure to endocrine disrupters. Accumulating data suggest that many adult diseases have fetal origins, but the causes have remained unexplained. Improving fetal and child health will influence the whole life of an individual and improve the wellbeing of our society.
This 2012 publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Sources and more information
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* Endocrine disrupters and child health, Possible developmental early effects of endocrine disrupters on child health, WHO, 2012.
* Download the full PDF.
* Our Endocrine Disruptors video playlist and posts tagged EDCs.
The entrance to an exhibition of works from Anne-Louis Girodet in the Art Institute in Chicago. There are not only some but many, many romantic masterpieces that get a little tiring after a while.
This is a lab scan from a negative. I wasn't satisifed with either the scans (noise!) or my own trials to get the colors at least into the reagion of "authentic". So I simply uploaded the original (after noise reduction). I now like the smooth yellow glow.
Ovipositor tip of a possible Lonchaea tenuicornis. It certainly has a different form from L. mallochi
Hollies Wood, Haughmond Hill, Shropshire 18 July 2016
65 x magnification.
I need some help with lighting and camera set up!
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known.
BR class 5, built at Derby October 1951 and withdrawn April 1970.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the model, the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Panzerkampfwagen E-100, also known as Gerät 383 and TG-01, was a German super-heavy tank design developed towards the end of World War II. It was proposed to be the basis for a heavy artillery system, an anti-aircraft vehicle, and a heavy tank destroyer.
The basic design was ordered by the Waffenamt as a parallel development to Porsche's heavy tank design "Maus" in June 1943, but part of the new, standardized Entwicklung (E) series of vehicles, consisting of the E-5, E-10, E-25, E-50, E-75 and finally the E-100. The latter was the heaviest and biggest chassis of the family, which was meant to standardize as many components as possible.
In March 1944, Adlerwerke company from Frankfurt am Main submitted blueprint 021A38300 for a super-heavy tank called E-100, after the tank was proposed in April 1943 along with the other Entwicklung series vehicles. According to the blueprints, the tank would be armed with a both a 150 mm gun and a 75 mm gun in a huge turret.
Two types of engines were proposed: one was a 700 hp Maybach HL230, with a transmission and turning mechanism borrowed from the Tiger II. The estimated top speed was 23 km/h, and it was clear that this powerplant was utterly undersized for the E-100, which would be almost twice as heavy as the already underpowered Tiger II.
The second variant,l which was favored for serial production, would have a new, turbocharged 1200 hp Maybach HL 232 engine and a top speed estimated at 40 km/h. Other engines in the 1.000+ hp range were considered, too, e. g. modified Daimler Benz aircraft engines, or torpedo boat engines.
The design had removable side skirts and narrow transport tracks to make rail transport more viable. This design was very similar to the original 'Tiger-Maus' proposal, but had larger 900 mm diameter road wheels and a new spring based suspension rather than the original torsion bars. A new turret was designed, too, intended to be simpler and lighter than the massive Maus turret - effectively the E-100 was 40 tons lighter than the 188 ton Maus prototype.
However, in July 1944 the development of any super heavy tanks was halted, but work on the E-100 continued at a low priority and with the outlook to produce a limited number of these massive vehicles for special purposes, using existing components. Eventually, permission was granted to proceed with the SdKfz. 193, with the intention to the E-100 as a tank destroyer with either a 15 cm StuK L/63 or 17 cm StuK L/53 gun.
The first prototype was completed in January 1945, and from the start several variants were slated for the limited serial production. Four battle tank variants were defined, differing basically through the turret designs and the armament. The first three variants A-C carried the 15 cm StuK as main armament, while the D variant was an interim solution that would carry the new 140mm PaK 46 L/50 cannon, which was originally earmarked for the tank hunter variants of the E-75 and E-100 family. However, since the dedicated E-100 tank hunter SPG "Krokodil" (the SdKfz. 197) with a low, casemate-style hull was still going through troublesome trials in late 1945, it was decided to adapt the new and powerful gun with the already developed cannon mount in a turret and mate it with the E-100 battle tank hull.
The result was a battle tank/SPG hybrid with a huge, boxy turret on the E-100's standard chassis, which could be fully rotated by 360°. The turret's front offered excellent ballistic protection, but the tall and massive silhouette made the vehicle hard to conceal.
Designed only as a stopgap solution, only about 20 E-100 Ausf. D were produced in total. Having learnt the painful lesson of the heavy Elefant/Ferdinand SPG deployments, the E-100 Ausf. D was primarily and right from the start only used in defensive roles for strategically important locations, and not as a classic, highly mobile battle tank. Targets could be engaged at very long distances, and the PaK 46 L/60 was able to destroy heavy tanks like the heavily armored Soviet IS-3 with a single, head-on shot.
The PaK 46 L/60 was a very powerful weapon, and, like its predecessor, the 12.8 cm PaK 44 L/55, very accurate and deadly even at greater distances. The gun was fed with two-piece ammunition, the projectile and cartridge making up separate pieces. Because of this, the gun could be fired using three different sized propellant charges; a light, medium and heavy charge. The light and medium charges were normally used when the gun was fulfilling the role of an artillery piece, where they would launch the ~32 kg projectiles to a muzzle velocity of 885 m/s and 940 m/s respectively.
The heavy charge was used when the gun was fulfilling its intended role as an anti-tank gun, where it fired a 35.4 kg APCBC-HE projectile (PzGr.46) at a muzzle velocity of 1,050 m/s. During practice, the estimated probability of a first round hit on a 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high, 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) wide target only dropped below 100 percent at ranges beyond 1,500 m (0.93 mi), to 95–97 percent at 2,000 m (1.24 mi) and 85–87 percent at 3,000 m (1.8 mi), depending on ammunition type. Recorded combat performance was lower, but still over 80 percent at 1,500 m, in the 60s at 2,500 m and the 40s at 3,000 m. Penetration of armoured plate inclined at 30 degrees was 242 and 192 mm (9.5 and 7.5 in) at 100 m (110 yd) and 2,000 m (1.2 mi) respectively for the armour-piercing shell.
In order to take on smaller, lightly armored targets, an MK 103 30 mm machine cannon (firing 425 RPM and having an effective range of up to 5.700m) was mounted co-axially, as well as a light MG 34. Another light machine gun was added in a ball mount in the turret's rear, in order to defend the loading hatches against infantry attacks. Another, manually operated machine gun was mounted on the commander's cupola against aircraft and close soft targets.
Aiming of the main weapons was improved by a built-in stereoscopic rangefinder — using twin matching armored blisters, one on each turret side. A "Sperber/FG 1250" night vision scope on the commander's cupola, together with a 30cm infrared searchlight with range of 600m.
Some of the vehicles where deployed in the upper Rhine and Ruhrgebiet area, while others were used in the defense of Berlin against the Red Army, and most of the time only one of two of these heavy tanks were allocated to units in which other, more agile vehicles could support and defend them.
Nevertheless, like all E-100 tank variants, the Ausf. D variant suffered from a general lack of mobility, so that it was not easy to field it or to change position after a shot. While the heavy armor could absorb a lot of hits and punishment, even from the latest enemy heavy tanks and anti-tank guns, many E-100s had to be abandoned or destroyed by their crews since they could not be saved from advancing enemy forces.
Another general weakness of the whole E-100 series was the massive fuel consumption of the HL 232 engine: with 10l per km (2,35 mpg) the tank had very short legs (only 120 km/75 ml with internal fuel) and was therefore even less suited for dynamic combat situations which involved quick advances or tactical position changes. Even in stationary use, its effectiveness was highly limited.
Another flaw, specific to the D variant, was its tall and heavy turret. The layout resulted in a very high center of gravity, so that the turret bearing and its hydraulic traverse mechanism was frequently over-stressed. If the crew would not pay attention to the tank's orientation and the underground conditions, the turret would easily get stuck - another reason why many of these super-heavy tanks were lost in action without direct enemy involvement.
Specifications:
Weight: 140 tonnes (154 short tons; 138 long tons)
Length (overall): 10.44 m (34 ft 2.4 in)
Width: 4.48 m (14 ft 8 in)
Height: 3.29 m (10 ft 10 in)
Suspension: Belleville washer coil spring
Crew: 6 (Commander, Driver, Radio Operator, Gunner, 2x Loader)
Armor:
Hull front: 150–200 mm (5.9–7.9 in)
Hull sides and rear: 120–150 mm (4.7–5.9in)
Hull top: 40 mm (1.6 in)
Hull bottom: 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in)
Turret front: 200 mm (7.9 in)
Turret sides & rear: 80–150 mm (3.1–5.9 in)
Turret top: 40 mm (1.6 in)
Engine:
1x turbocharged Maybach HL232 V12 gasoline engine with 1.200 hp
Performance:
Maximum road speed: 40 km/h (25 mph)
Sustained road speed: 36 km/h (22 mph)
Cross country speed: 14 to 20 km/h (8.7 to 12.4 mph)
Power/weight: 8,57 hp/ton
Range on raod: 120 km (74 mi)
Range cross counrty: 85 km (53 mi)
Armament:
1x 140mm (5.51 in) PaK 46 L/60 with 55 rounds
1x co-axial 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 103 machine cannon with 100 rounds
3x 7.92 mm MG34 (1x co-axial with main gun, 1x in ball mount in the turret's back side
and 1x anti aircraft gun on top of the commander's cupola) with a total of 5,850 rounds
The kit and its assembly:
This is an “in between” project, which I tackled on short notice while waiting for parts for another project. I am not a big fan of the huge E-100 tank, but I was given a surplus chassis from a friend who had bought a ModelCollect 12.8mm twin flak on an E-100 chassis in 1:72 – only for the gun, because this combo was less expensive than the flak alone (available separately). Since he had no use for the turret-less E-100 chassis I gladly took it.
It was the perfect occasion to invest and try an aftermarket conversion set from the German company Model Trans/Silesian Models, based in Essen, which offers a wide range of resin conversion sets for tanks and other military vehicles – including some Heer ’46 conversions/whiffs.
The turret for the fictional “E-100 Ausf. D” is one of these, and I like it for its bizarre, KW-2-esque style. The turret, certainly adapted from the Jagdpanther/E-100 tank hunter hull, looks impressive, even though it features some fishy details like the inward-canted rear wall or the rear of the turret overlapping the engine opening. But, hell, it’s a whiffy design, and the “cheese wedge” look of the turret certainly turns heads.
The turret set consists only of two massive resin parts, the turret itself and the barrel. The cast is excellent (no bubbles, almost no flash, crisp detail and clean surfaces; only the barrel had to be cleaned up a little), and I assume that the parts were moulded after parts from other ModelCollect kit parts.
Some missing parts like the hatch for the commander cupola or the Sperber infrared sight can be taken from the E-100 kit (even if it comes without a turret). Gaps between the barrel and the gun's mount were filled with paper tissue soaked with thinned white glue, imitating a leather of cloth shroud.
The pieces go together well and the turret base also matches perfectly the turret ring in the E-100 hull.
The E-100 kit itself is more challenging, though. While it is basically of simple construction, the sheer size of the parts and the fact that the hull consists of separate floor, side and rear walls and the upper deck, makes assembly a bit complicated. The fact that the floor and the side walls were slightly twisted did not help either. While everything went together well, I had to use putty in order to close some seams and bridge small gaps. Nothing dramatic, but modelers should be wary.
Mounting the wheels is not easy - esp. the sprocket wheel in the front and even more the idelr wheel at the rear have a very complicated and flimsy construction with a very thin and short locator pin. The PVC tracks also turned out to be too short, unfortunately I found this out I had painted and weathered them. Thankfully the massive side skirts help hiding the gaps, since I could not mount the tracks under any tension.
A nice solution are the separate side skirts and the complete engine compartment with separate hatches, a nicely detailed engine block and exhaust manifold as well as coolers.
I’ve built the E-100 hull OOB and left away the PE parts on purpose, since the mess of cutting them out or mounting them to the hull (e. g. microscopic lugs or a grate for the air intakes that are so dense that any paint applied by brush would immediately clog and ruin them) would IMHO not really improve the kit.
Painting and markings:
I wanted a fictional paint scheme for this one – no standard Hinterhalt camouflage tones, but still with a German feel. The inspiration for this green/grey scheme was lent from the Ma.K./Maschinenkrieger/ZbV3000 model universe, where many vehicles/mecha carry a pseudo-German scheme, some inspired by WWII Luftwaffe aircraft.
For the E-100 I adapted one of the Ma.K. designs and used Luftwaffe tones: the pale tone is RLM02 (the base is Revell’s 45, modern RAL 7003, which is slightly more olive green than the original grey), while the dark patches are German Panzergrau (Humbrol 67, modern RAL 7024, and actually a tone from early WWII). The latter turned out to appear very dark, due to the strong contrast to the RLM02, so that the scheme unintentionally reminds a lot of the late-war Allied “Mickey Mouse” scheme in olive drab and black? This was later slightly mended through the addition of RLM74 during the weathering process (see below), but the similarity remains, and once the kit became more and more complete the whole thing started looking like a modern German Bundeswehr Panzerhaubitze 2000?
In order to create an improvised and worn look, the camouflage was applied only thinly over an overall base coat with Humbrol 70 (Brick Red), which looks very much like stretched late war primer with which many tanks left the factories, to be camouflaged by the units in the field.
As a small color detail the barrel’s front end received a different scheme in Dunkelgelb (Revell 16, from below, kind of counter-shading against the sky) and Red Brown (Humbrol 160) from above, simulating a replacement part.
Once the basic camouflage had been applied, the kit was weathered with a highly thinned wash of dark brown, grey and black acrylic paint. Once dry the major surfaces were lightly wet-sanded, revealing more of the underlying red primer. Next, details and areas were highlighted through dry-brushing with true RLM02 (Humbrol 247) and RLM74 (Humbrol 245). After the application of the few marking decals, the whole kit received another dry brushing treatment, this time with Revell 75 (Hellgrau) and Humbrol 72 (Khaki drill). Some rust traces were painted with thinned sienna red acrylic artist paint.
Matt acrylic varnish (Italeri) was used to seal the kit, and once the (also weathered) PVC tracks and the side skirts had been mounted, the lower hull received a treatment with grey/beige/brown pigments, simulation dust and mud residue.
A relatively quick build, realized in less than a week, and some (minor) challenges. What a huge vehicle the E-100 has been – but what a waste of effort, resources and tactical limitations due to the vehicle’s sheer size and weight. Looks impressive, though, esp. when you place this hulk next to a “normal” tank…
In the end I am not really convinced of my paint scheme idea, but I ran with it since I wanted something different from the obvious German late war standard scheme.
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Sun going down, enough warmth to have feet in the water, just have some play...
The light was just fabulous as you can see, M, (*_*)
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