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A slingshot is a small hand-powered projectile weapon. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame, with two natural rubber strips or tubes attached to the upper two ends. The other ends of the strips lead back to a pocket that holds the projectile.
We made this slingshot out of plastic straws. It is most effective and strong.
One thing I noticed about several of the buildings at Hovenweep is that the entrances do not offer easy access. These are a prime example. Its surprising how many buildings were built on cliff edges with the only access being from the cliff side. The more I think about it the more I think that this had to have been a defensive measure. In addition, no building at all had windows larger than the small holes visible in the tower in the foreground. It begs the question of why they are so small. The occupants certainly would have been less vulnerable to projectiles. But some openings would have been necessary to have light inside and some ventilation. It could be that the small openings were more favorable to be able to stop them up to prevent the passage of cold winter winds.
There are petroglyphs in the house sized boulders off to the left of the far building. The Park Service blocked off the access. While it would have been easy to go over or around I thought I should honor their intent so I did not see them or get photos.
Hovenweep National Monument
Montezuma County, Colorado
The first documented human presence in the Sedona area dates to between 11,500 and 9000 B.C. It was not until 1995 that a Clovis projectile point discovered in Honanki revealed the presence of the Paleo-Indians, who were big-game hunters. Around 9000 B.C., the pre-historic Archaic people appeared in the Verde Valley. These were hunter-gatherers and their presence in the area was longer than in other areas of the Southwest, most likely because of the ecological diversity and large amount of resources. They left by 300 A.D. There is an assortment of rock art left by the Archaic people in places near Sedona such as Palatki and Honanki.
Around 650 A.D., the Sinagua people entered the Verde Valley. Their culture is known for its art such as pottery, basketry and their masonry. They left rock art, pueblos, and cliff dwellings such as Montezuma Castle, Honanki, Palatki and Tuzigoot, especially in the later period of their presence. The Sinagua abandoned the Verde Valley about 1400 A.D. Researchers believe the Sinagua and other clans moved to the Hopi mesas in Arizona and the Zuni and other pueblos in New Mexico.
The Yavapai came from the west when the Sinagua were still there in the Verde Valley around 1300 A.D. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Some archaeologists place the Apache arrival in the Verde Valley around 1450 A.D. Many Apache groups were nomadic or seminomadic and traveled over large areas.
The Yavapai and Apache tribes were forcibly removed from the Verde Valley in 1876, to the San Carlos Indian Reservation, 180 miles (290 km) southeast. About 1,500 people were marched, in midwinter, to San Carlos. Several hundred lost their lives. The survivors were interned for 25 years. About 200 Yavapai and Apache people returned to the Verde Valley in 1900 and have since intermingled as a single political entity although culturally distinct residing in the Yavapai-Apache Nation.
A reflection on Sacred Scripture at:
2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29
Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22
Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a
It was curious to find out that we are celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on Saturday, March 15, this year, as it usually has been on the nineteenth. Also since St. Patrick's Day falls within Holy Week this year, some dioceses are acknowledging St. Patrick on the fifteenth.
St. Joseph must be getting a chuckle out of this, because this is so typical. St. Joseph is known as the quiet, just man. He was literally given the responsibility of guiding and protecting the Savior of the world; yet we know very little about him. Some artists have tried to depict his docility by creating him as, what seems to this writer, a wimpy looking character. However to be obedient and docile, the characteristics of Joseph, takes the utmost strength of character! Besides, Joseph was a carpenter, a trade that takes tremendous physical strength.
Until this time next year, may St. Joseph guide us after our meaningful Holy Week, and help us to be open to the messages of His foster Son, and our Savior!
- Joan of Jesus, OCDS | email: jmurphy@utica.edu
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I learned at www.twainquotes.com/War.html
A wanton waste of projectiles.
- The Art of War speech, 1881
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, " Our country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation.
- "Glances at History," 1906
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With the five year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq fast approaching there should be no doubt that the Iraq War is a moral and strategic disaster for the United States--not to mention the violence it has wrought on the Iraqi people. But what has not yet been fully recognized is that the war has also been an economic disaster.
As Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier document in the new issue of The Nation, "With just the amount of the Iraq budget of 2007, $138 billion, the government could instead have provided Medicaid-level health insurance for all 45 million Americans who are uninsured. What's more, we could have added 30,000 elementary and secondary schoolteachers and built 400 schools in which they could teach. And we could have provided basic home weatherization for about 1.6 million existing homes, reducing energy consumption in these homes by 30 percent."
Meanwhile, over the past week, as Laura Flanders writes, the Winter Soldier hearings, organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, brought the public the occupation as seen by the very young men and women at the bottom of the chain of command whose lives have forever been transformed by what we and the US government asked them to do in our name.
EXPLORE # 324 on Monday, March 31, 2008; # 463 and # 491 on Sunday, 03-30-2008.
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park is a National Park and World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the United States.
The park was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, and with more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archeological preserve in the US. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
A beautiful river to kayak down, unspoiled wilderness.... so close to home
Thonotosassa is a creek/Seminole Indian word translated as “plenty of flint”. In the era 5000 BC – 1600 AD the area around Lake Thonotosassa was used periodically by Florida’s earliest Indian inhabitants as a major source of flint for tools and projectile points for arrows and spears. Around 1820 a group of 200 Alachua Seminoles settled here and it is from them that the name Thonotosassa came to be applied to the area around their village.
“I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.”
The shirt may be of some controversy, but the music is still good and well the look, besides the shirt making your chest flat.
Pueden contemplarse los cubos que dan paso al patio de armas de los Reyes Católicos. Delante, bolardos (proyectiles) de un asedio que contaré con otra fotografía. Y a la derecha el muro de la Odalisca, parte de lo que en su día fue el suntuoso palacio de Almotacín. Almería milenaria, años que habitan en esas piedras...
You can see the cubes that lead to the parade ground of the Catholic Monarchs. In front of bollards (projectiles) of a siege that I will have another photograph. And on the right, the wall of the Odalisque, part of what was once the sumptuous palace of Almotacín. Millennial Almería, years that inhabit those stones ...
233 709 (ex 132 709) was the last TE109 delivered by LTS to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. On 12th of Feb. in 2009 I met the "reversible locomotive" from the Buna train in Blankenburg/Harz. In the evening, the noble projectile took over a loaded lime train in the northern station.
The picture was taken during a break at work. Rainer Kühn and I did a preparatory service on 50 3708. The next morning we left very early for Braunschweig.
rish Name:
Fulmaire
Scientific name:
Fulmarus glacialis
Bird Family:
Tubenoses
amber
Conservation status
Status
Resident along all Irish coasts.
Identification
A gull-like bird with white underparts and pale grey upperparts. Also occurs in darker morphs ('Blue Fulmars'), which are commoner in the north of its range but not in Ireland. Has a thick neck and large head. Shows a pale primary patch on the upperwing. Does not show gull-like black tips to the primary feathers. Straight, stout bill with hooked tip and tube shaped nostrils on the upper mandible, giving distinctive bill shape if seen at close range. Nostrils used to excrete salt. Flies with very stiff wings, uses long glides at sea, with series of stiff, shallow wing beats. Hangs in the wind in the fierce updrafts generated by steep cliffs, where it can even fly backwards. Cannot stand upright, so needs to launch itself from a high ledge or patters along surface of sea to become airborne.
Voice
Vocal at the breeding colonies, with pairs cackling to one another with a guttural throaty series of "Ga, ga, ga ..." sounds.
Diet
A great variety of food taken including fish, discards from trawlers, crustaceans and whale flesh.
Breeding
A bird that has expanded its breeding range throughout Ireland over the last century, beginning in Mayo in 1911. Comes to land in the day, unlike its relatives the shearwaters and other petrels. Mainly breeds on sea cliffs, but will nest on level ground, on buildings and in burrows and crevasses. Will use both steep rocky cliffs, grassy cliffs and steep slopes above cliffs. Both incubating adults and chick use projectile vomiting as a defensive against predators, the oily stomach contents effectively fouling the plumage of other birds.
Wintering
Winters at sea, but can be seen in Irish waters throughout the year. Attends colonies in the winter sporadically, with breeding cliffs deserted one week and full the next.
Monitored by
Breeding seabirds are monitored through seabird surveys carried out every 15-20 years.
The SPW APR-S-6.7 is a new breed a Anti-Personnel weapons. Chambered in 6.7 sabot. A small steel casing surrounds a 10mm titanium projectile.
The system is a reminiscent of the slingshot of years past. A powerful electro-magnet on the muzzle end, pulls the sabot cartridge out of the barrel at speeds of mach 2. Effective range is 1200m
My first SPW weapon.
Credit Arch for inspiration
Credit Robbe for bipod
Credit Matt for fire selector
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park is a National Park and World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the United States.
The park was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, and with more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archeological preserve in the US. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
4 in one day is too much, but I had to get these uploaded before my memory became too hazy to describe the conditions. The weather in Iceland tends to suck most of the time, and not just suck like a persistent overcast, but an industrial strength suck, Hoover Deluxe in a power surge, as in you can barely stand against the wind and blinding projectile black sand grains are shooting at your face like bullets. That afternoon the wind was in full force but these images give an impression of calm, as if you can just put a chair on the beach and sip margaritas.... wrong, I was nearly swept out to sea by a rogue wave and got wet up to my thighs. I'm aware there are people in some of the frames, I know who they are so will not clone them out.
Consonance and dissonance.
I the body would be sharing certain events cached in its data files.
I shall remove the text if anybody feels hurt, offended or humiliated by its contents.
The little Eden sans vicious fruits:
With each passing year, the child loved his school more and more. At one edge of the big gate, there's a Cork Tree that welcomes you with the delightful fragrance of its flowers in bloom, while the fallen white tubular flowers lay a carpet for you to step in. The vast assembly ground bordered with Mahogony, English Oak and Soap Berry trees, the assembly hall with arched door and wooden panel flooring, and the grand tiled edifices and chapel in British architecture provides a lovely and lively ambience to the place. On special occasions, the kids assemble in the Assembly Hall, which has a grand piano planted on one side of the stage platform. Sister Audry plays the piano as the kids sing along loud.
Aged five, the child got promoted to 1st standard, and he loved the class and the ambience. Miss Annie, the class teacher, is a lean young lady who always keeps her chin up and hardly smiles. Though she is calm and gentle, the child thought that she is sad or upset with something.
The child has a beautiful garden at home, with lots of roses and dahlias. One day, before he started to leave home for school, he remembered his teacher when he saw the giant dahlias in bloom. He thought it would make her happy, and so, with his mother's permission and help, he took a big dahlia flower in the garden as he set off to school. Of course, he cared to keep it safe from damage, and on the way to school, he envisioned her excitement when he hands over the iridescent, deep purple and violet dahlia to her.
His mind was with the dahlia as the school assembly started with the prayer, "Father, we thank thee for the night, and for the pleasant morning light", followed by the pledge and finally the national anthem. His mind was with the dahlia when he marched with his classmates into the classroom after the assembly. He kept the flower ready as the teacher entered the room. The students greeted the teacher, and before things got settled, he moved forward and handed the flower to her with a sheepish smile. She received the flower, kept a stiff upper lip, said, "Thank you, " and walked out of the class with it. He expected she would return wearing it on her hair, but she returned without the flower. The child sat lost in thoughts while she was busy teaching some lesson from the Radiant Reader. At the first break, he ran out to check whether she has kept the flower on her table in the staff room. No, it's not there. Dejected, he returned to the class and abruptly, he saw the dahlia placed in front of the giant statue of Mother Mary in the corridor. The child felt disappointed as he believed that his teacher didn't like his gift, and just like the teacher, he kept his chin up the rest of the day.
His father was quite determined to make him a scholar and so was keen to arrange tuition classes for the kid after school hours. He met the class teacher, and she humbly refused the request. So he took the child to Marrey teacher, a graceful, old Anglo-Indian lady who resides close to the school. Marrey teacher's old tiled house is in a compound with lots of plants and trees. The furniture is of colonial style, and along with some framed photographs, a velvet Japanese painted wall hanging banner and an antique pendulum clock decorated the walls. There is a chime hanging few feet inside the front door, and the child loved its continuous soft chime.
Marrey teacher wears sober-coloured frocks and has bobbed salt and pepper hair. She welcomed the kid with a token smile and asked him to sit on a tall bench with a desk in front. She sat beside, on a cane chair with cushions. With her head bent, peeking through from above her thick-framed spectacles, like an interview, she asked, "What's your name, child?". The kid proudly and somewhat loudly told his name. It was followed by the unexpected immediate question, "What's your father?". Confused, he wondered whether she thought his father is an ape or something. Right then, she got distracted by something, and lucky for her, she hurried inside without listening to his reply. She would have died laughing if she heard the child feebly yet rather boldly mumble, "He's a man".
The child, who never sleeps in the daytime, tried his best to be awake at Marrey teacher's house. She makes him write while she frequently goes to the kitchen for cooking. Occasionally she would come to check the developments, chewing a piece of meat, like chewing gum. Once she leaves, he would be struggling to keep himself awake with the sound of the breeze on the leaves of the big oak tree that stands covering the tiled house and the lullaby of the melodious chime accompanied by the tapping sound of the acorns falling on the roof. Though he felt sleepy, he loved the place. Marrey teacher was too gentle and caring like a grandma.
When the child got promoted to the second standard, his class teacher, Miss Catherine Periera, agreed to tutor him at her home. The first day, back home from school, he was taken to her house at dusk. The kid got a bit disconcerted with the thought of being left at a new place, especially at a time of the day that he loved to be at home. The house is hardly half a kilometre from home, but the child felt it's very far. On the way, there are few flour mills, and he could hear 'Tharakaroopini' blaring on the radio from somewhere. The song made him sad, and so he loathed the smell of fresh flour and the sound of those flour mill motors. However, once he reached the teacher's home, he liked the place, as he found it lively and pleasant.
Boy students have to leave the school after the fourth standard, so they consider themselves 'senior' when they reach fourth. Within four years at the school, other than what he's taught, the child also learned that, for survival, it's necessary to react rather than to take things lying down. Though he is the most well-behaved boy in the class, he didn't let others outsmart or bully him.
His old nursery mate Deepti is the class leader. She has changed a lot, though not for the better. He didn't like her serious attitude that she pretends to be superior and do not even smile. When the teacher leaves the class, she instructs the class leader to note down the names of those students who talk. The class leader notes down the names of boys only, except her old friend Pravin. She would note down other's names, even if they sneeze. Once the teacher is back, she metes out the most 'severe disciplinary action' that one could imagine. Anyhow, the kid just loved the punishment. He's often punished and made to sit along with the girls.
Though the usual punishment is to make one stand near the wall, the teacher probably pardoned him as she might have rightly reckoned that he might have talked, provoked by his bench mates.
The very instant he gets punished, he would rush to sit with Karthika and Deepika. Deepika covers her mouth with one hand and giggles even if he moves, and though he wondered what she found so funny, he enjoyed playing the jester and loved to see her giggle. Karthika is soft-spoken, poised and elegant. The eight-year-old boy felt that he knew her for ages. Something made him sense she is inseparable and loved everything about her. The sweet smell of her hair, the fresh smell of her starched and ironed uniform, the twinkle in her eyes and the dimples on her rosy cheeks when she smiles, everything attracted him. He didn't know what's his feeling for her, but he loved her without knowing what it is.
He gifted her many of those 'precious' things from his valuable collection of vivid tiny glass crystal stones, blazingly coloured gilt paper strips, colourful feathers including a peacock feather, and flowers from the garden at his home. One day he gifted her a small bunch of colour paper strips, and he gleefully watched her delicately keep it safe inside her foreign-made, beautiful pencil box, with a gleam in her eyes. Soon it was lunch break, and when he hurried back to the class after lunch, he saw her at her seat with her head bent down.
He asked, "Karthika, what's wrong?" and from the quiver of her torso, he realised that she's sobbing. He held her hand and asked again, and the sobbing escalated. He gently lifted her chin to see tears rolling down her blushed cheeks. With one hand covering her eyes, gasping for breath, she pointed at Ramesh and said, " He grabbed and stole the papers you gifted me". Downhearted seeing her cry, he promised her that he would get her more of those colour papers the next day. Even though her sobbing slowly subsided, her tears broke the child's heart. In the evening before leaving the class, he promised her again, and on the way back home and at home, his heart was feeling heavy remembering her crying face. At home, late at night, he was busy preparing new paper bundles for her, as his mom kept reminding him that it's bedtime. He didn't stop even though he's sleepy and weary and continued his work with a bleeding finger which got cut when the blade slipped. He kept the bundles safe in his bag and dozed off, with the day's incidents replaying in his mind.
The next day morning, he was longing to go to school and gift the papers to Karthika. He saw her in the assembly and felt happy when she smiled at him. As Deepti didn't get an opportunity to monitor the class, unfortunately, he didn't get the chance to sit with Karthika. Yet, at the first break itself, he hurriedly approached her with a smile and handed over the paper bundles.
Her beaming smile and gleaming eyes warmed his heart, and when he happily returned to his seat, he could see Ramesh watch her tidily arrange the bundles in her pencil box. When she lifted her head, she, too, saw the villain watching her. The child's heart sank as she looked at him, tensed and helpless. While the teachers were busy with lessons, his mind was busy devising plans to thwart Ramesh from snatching away the papers. He finally planned to attack the villain with 'paper bullets' if he attempts any misadventure. Paper bullets are V-shaped thickly folded paper bits used as projectiles, fired using a stretched rubber band, like slingshots or catapults. At the lunch break, he skipped his lunch to keep watch and was busy making paper bullets. He stopped once when he felt convinced that he has enough ammunition. After the lunch break, right when the bell rang, the children rushed back to their seats, and he could see Ramesh rush towards Karthika. The vigilant hero took out his weapon and started showering the 'villain' with those projectiles. The 'villain', taken by surprise, turned away from Karthika, who was on the verge of tears. That very moment the teacher entered the class with her eyes on the kid who is busy with his weapon. Followed the loud command "Anuj stand up". The kid was happy that his plan worked successfully, and he didn't feel any guilt or regret.
She asked, "Why did you do that?" and approached him. She opened his pencil box and found many more of his ammunition in it. She repeated, "Tell me, why did you do that?". The child boldly replied, "He hurt my wife yesterday. He was about to do it today too, and I wanted to stop him.". With a hard to read visage, the teacher hurried out of the class. The class was unusually silent, and as the kid stood confused, the teacher returned with all the teachers in the staff room. Addressing them aloud, she said, "You know, I have a husband and wife in my class", and burst out laughing. She walked closer to him and rather loudly said, "Hello husband, please introduce your wife to the other teachers". The baffled kid pointed out Karthika, and as there was loud laugher all around, he was apprehensive whether it would make her cry. Her innocent, smiling face soothed his mind as it conveyed that she is sure he would never do anything to hurt her. "Any more husbands and wives in the class?" the teacher asked, followed by another bout of hysterical laughter before the crowd dispersed. She asked him to be seated and warned Ramesh not to repeat such odious deeds.
After a few more months its exams and after that he has to leave the school forever.
After the vacation, when the exam results were declared, he was taken to the school, and his eyes desperately kept searching her everywhere around. She came running towards him from the porch of the chapel and just stood beside him with a smile, thrilled and gasping. Holding hands, without uttering a word, they strolled around the ground watching the shadows of trees dance on the floor. Holding hands, they listened to a Koel's desperate call answered by its mate from somewhere far. Holding hands, they stood, watching the mahogany seeds spiralling down towards them from above. Soon he got summoned to return home. He reluctantly eased the grip from her moist, tender hand and walked back, looking back again and again as she stood watching him leave. The child felt like he is getting separated from his mother forever. It seemed like he lost his soul. With a weak smile to conceal his true feelings, he helplessly moved away as she kept watching him walk out of the gate and vanish. He could hear "Ishtapraneshwari" playing on the radio from some shop at the roadside on the way back with a heavy heart. Back home, the child lauded at home and the neighbourhood as 'the kid who never cries', ran to the bathroom and silently cried his heart out.
He loved the song, but the child's heart sank whenever he hears it from then on.
"Hey Koel bird, in your midst, is it the male or the female who has the insatiable thirst for love?
The never satiable thirst for love".
Ishtapraneshwari: Ishtapraneshwari
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La Ville de Paris a confié à la société Fêtes et Feux, la conception du feu d’artifice du 14 juillet sur le thème « Liberté, égalité, fraternité ». Jean-Eric Ougier, maître artificier reconnu, assurera la création artistique de ce spectacle.
Un feu très puissant sera proposé avec près de 25 000 projectiles tirés dont 4 000 bombes de gros calibres afin qu’il soit visible de tous les publics.
Une bande son originale composée de mix de chansons françaises et étrangères accompagnera des textes servis par des personnalités comme Alain Decaux, Macha Meryl, André Dussolier ou Stéphane Bern.
Des effets visuels impressionnants : plus de 100 projecteurs de lumière, des projections d’images, un drapeau tricolore géant déployé sur la Tour Eiffel…
This is the centrepiece of Bastille Day. The display will kick off at 11 pm on the Champ de Mars, close to the Eiffel Tower.
6 sequences recount the historic and universal story of France’s three symbolic words, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
Suivez le feu d´artifice du 14 juillet en direct sur Paris.F
1st sequence: Opening
2nd sequence: French Revolution
3rd sequence: the Champ de Mars celebrates the French Republic
4th sequence: At the Champs de Mars, three words become universal: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
5th sequence: The 3 words extend out to the world
6th sequence: Rainbow of all freedoms
More than 25,000 fireworks including 4,000 large calibre will make sure this is a powerful display!
On Explore on July 16th #57
The squirrels were having fun playing with the pumpkin this afternoon.
I'll leave the pumpkins out for a couple days for the 'cooners and squirrels to play with, before I toss them.
Thanks Finstr for the title suggestion!! I love it!
Alias: Buzzkill
Name: Buzz Saunders
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Allegiance: Villain
Powers: Has shuriken stored in most of his suit. He is able to use them at any time, which can spin around him, creating a whirlwind. He can also use them as projectiles.
Status: Active as a member of Mayhem (As like one of the footsoldiers, like Deathstalker.)
A pair of Northern fulmars nest among the sea pinks and grasses on a small ledge on the steep cliff below Sumburgh Head, Shetland, Scotland. Fulmars are monogamous, long-lived birds that return to the same nest site year after year. They protect their nest by projectile vomiting a vile smelly goo at predators.
08/12/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
A shuttlecock (previously called Shuttlecork) (also called a bird or birdie) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. The image was shot for the Macro Mondays theme: Mostly White.
Together, they eradicate the forces of evil by way of an endless barrage of projectiles aimed specifically at the faces of their enemies. Ammunition is fully spent after approximately 19 seconds of constant firing, but any battle that lasts more than 19 seconds isn't worth fighting.
© Cynthia E. Wood
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[Aug. 2007] After spending two truly miserable days laid-up in my tent with the flu (replete with projectile vomiting, a fever, and seemingly endless dust storms), I was finally feeling better by Friday afternoon... And then this came. And what a relief it was.
Otherwise known as "Warhorse" the Wrangler line has stood the test of time, driven for military and luxury purposes around the world. So when it came time for a new vehicle the UIC had one vehicle in mind. The Wrangler. Speaking with the Jeep cooperation about troop safety, comfort, and effective defense against attackers or mother nature herself special Wranglers were designed to accommodate the UIC's needs.
Mounted with a M2 Browning, enough smoke launchers to make Snoopy Dog jealous, incoming projectile resistant armor, its safe to say this Warhorse will be around for a while.
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This is a bit of a rather emotional post as one I own a Jeep Wrangler (Sahara Edition) and two, I'd always wanted to make a very well done 7 wide Jeep Wrangler, it was quite a process figuring it out. The end result surpassing my wildest dreams.
What with Jeeps 75th anniversary being this week I thought it quite fitting.
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For more photos and info check out our article on Hawgsmoke 2016 on the Aviation Photography Digest website
Note: The projectile departing the gun at 3+ times the speed of sound
Murray Park has two Mark XX 3"/50 caliber guns donated by NSD Clearfield through the efforts the the American Legion Post # 60.
The complex targeted by the gun is the Intermountain Medical Center. It is fairly new and was dedicated September 2007. While I am a fan of architecture and have good things to say about IHC, I wish the complex had not been built so close to Murray Park. The view to the west is no longer as pleasant as it once was.
Finding this gun aimed point-blank at the IHC complex made me chuckle. Ammo for the 3"/50 is hard to come by in this area without raising suspicion.
Gun Information:
The 3"/50 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (7.62 cm) in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 50 = 150" or 3.81 meters). Different guns (identified by Mark numbers) of this caliber were used by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard from 1890[1] through the 1990s on a variety of combatant and transport ship classes.
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%22/50_caliber_gun
Firing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZiiihU0SfE&feature=related
Firing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQpR888QuU
Process:
Nikon Coolpix P4, 3 exp 1/3 stop each, 12.9mm, f/4.9, 1/117s, HDR by Photomatix Pro 32 bit, adjustments in Adobe PE 8. Burning of the tree and some in the sky to bring out the gun. Some dodging of the gun highlights to increase contrast. I did not attempt to remove the tree limb that appears in front of the gun. Hopefully, the shell will pass through the branches before the centrifugal fuze is armed.
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Explored 12/30/2011, #73, page 8
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A black market network has scattered around Hogwarts' grounds. Some of the deals sound better than those at Hogsmeade. Some of the other goods however? Those can get you in detention quicker than you can finish saying the Projectile Jinx verbally.
OOC - Picture for promo for Deathly Hallows RP community.
March 1, 1881 on the embankment of the Catherine Channel, the Emperor Alexander II was killed. In the same year, a competition was announced for the projects of the memorial church on this place.
At the behest of Alexander III, the project was given the features of 17th-century churches. As a result, a variant was selected in the "Russian style", proposed by Archimandrite Ignatius and finalized by architect A. A. Parland.
The church was consecrated in 1907 in honor of the Resurrection of Christ.
The building was electrified, with 1689 lamps used for lighting.
In 1930 the temple was closed.
During the blockade, the bodies of the deceased Leningraders were brought here.
In the main dome of the cathedral, an unexploded German 240-mm projectile, lying in rafters until 1961, landed.
After the war, the building was used as a storehouse for the scenery of the Small Opera House, until in 1968 it was recognized as a monument.
Instructions! > rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-116924/ThrawnsRevenge/yuuzhan-vo...
COLAB BUILD! go check out ThrawnsRevenge at: www.instagram.com/thrawnsrevenge/ (you can find his youtube and twitch from there)
This ship is bio-tech ship made by the Yuuzhan Vong. Mainly used during the Yuuzhan Vong War/Invasion (New Jedi Order era) these living ships would be crewed by a single pilot using a hood to share minds with the creature/ship. It eats rocks and spits magma-like projectiles. It was propelled and shielded by a small heart-like Dovin basal.
Artillerie-Werk Festung Furggels (bei Bad Ragaz, Kanton Sankt Gallen): Blick in die Kammer einer von vier Bunkerkanonen Kaliber 15cm
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Artillery Fort Furggels (near Bad Ragaz, Canton Sankt Gallen): View into the chamber of one of four bunker cannons caliber 15cm
The Japanese Chef shoots a projectile of fried prawn directly to my mouth. It hit my chin and bounced, but found the target in the third attempt. Shot in a Japanese restaurant in Kansas city, USA. Photo: Kiran
Bal-lis-ti-cian | an authority on or one versed in ballistics.
Origin and etymology: from ballistics | the science of projectiles.
(Dad has some time off work, so we are posting a series entitled 'ballistician', consisting of one photo each day this week, revealing my enthusiasm for the science of projectiles.)
A field off (abandoned) Kemp Road, Ottawa, Ontario
Throwback Clancy, 4yrs 9wks
EXPLORE Clancy: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157656171825332
THROWBACK Clancy: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157655594489275
World’s 4th Biggest Defense Spender To Acquire “Israel Tech” As AD Systems Hog Spotlight Amid Russia-Ukraine, India-Pak Wars
By Sakshi Tiwari - May 12, 2025
After signing a historic deal with Israel in 2023 to purchase the Arrow-3, the world’s fourth-biggest defense spender is looking to purchase the Arrow-4, a next-generation air defense system currently under development.
According to SIPRI, Germany has emerged as the fourth biggest military spender after the United States, China, and Russia, and has surpassed India.
Lieutenant General Lutz Kohlhaus, the Vice Chief of Luftwaffe (the German Air Force), said on May 7 that the service wants to procure the Arrow-4 air defense system. The remarks were made during his opening speech at the Ground-Based Air Defense Summit in Berlin, as reported by Hartpunkt, a major German publication.
This appears to be a mere proposal right now, given that the German Ministry of Defense has not publicly acknowledged the Luftwaffe’s recommendation, and no official procurement timeline, budget, or contract details have been confirmed yet. However, the Luftwaffe Vice Chief said the decision to acquire the system has been communicated to Israel and the German Defense Ministry.
The Vice Chief said that the Luftwaffe will be able to cover the entire altitude spectrum of air defense in the future with the Arrow-4 and Arrow-3. Notably, the statement came shortly after the Inspector General of the Air Force received the first shipment of key equipment, including the communication element of the Arrow 3 system.
The German officials have repeatedly underlined the urgency of operationalising the Arrow-3 amid rising security threats in Europe. The Arrow-3 will be deployed at three locations across the country, with the first deployment planned for the military airfield at Holzdorf in eastern Germany, just south of Berlin. Construction is already underway at this site.
The alacrity in acquiring the Arrow-4 is noteworthy because the recent failure of the Israeli Arrow-3 in destroying a Houthi ballistic missile that struck the Ben Gurion Airport led to speculations that Germany may be alarmed and ask for assurances from the manufacturers of the anti-ballistic missile defense system that it has acquired for US$3.5 billion. However, the recent statement suggests that Berlin remains unfazed by the ‘rare’ miss and deeply committed to Israeli Arrow systems.
The plans to acquire the Arrow-4 align with Germany’s ongoing efforts to bolster air and missile defense, triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Germany’s role as a NATO logistical hub. The country is currently working on the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), which aims to create a multi-layered air defense network for itself and another European partner.
The German military has already procured the Patriot medium-range missile defense system, the IRIS-T short-range air defense system, and the Arrow-3. The next-generation Arrow-4 will add another layer to this network and fill a specific capability gap, potentially in endo-atmospheric interception, which is believed to be challenging due to atmospheric drag, heat, and missile maneuverability.
The German Air Force Vice Chief also noted that the Air Force will continue to buy the Patriot system and procure the F-35 fighter jet, adding that more European-based capability would be considered.
He stated that NATO countries operating American-origin equipment cannot conduct joint air warfare without Link 16, IFF Mode 5, or the standardized data flow, the standards for which would only be set by the US. Thus, diversification of military acquisition is required.
In addition to the Arrow-3 and Arrow-4, the Air Force is calling for the rapid procurement of six more IRIS-T-SLM systems to supplement the six previously ordered. It had also previously ordered eight 16 Patriot missile defense systems and three Arrow-3 systems. Kohlhaus noted that the country would have a total of 29 air defense systems (12 Patriot squadrons, 12 IRIS-T SLM/SLS, 1 Arrow 3 operational, 2 more by 2030).
File: Concept of Arrow-4 interceptor
What Is The Arrow-4?
Arrow 4 is an advanced missile defense system under development to counter ballistic and hypersonic threats. Unlike other systems in the German arsenal, Arrow-4 will have endo-exoatmospheric capabilities, which essentially means that it could intercept and destroy a target within and outside Earth’s atmosphere.
It is pertinent to note that Arrow 4’s primary focus will likely be endo-atmospheric interception, with low-exo-atmospheric capability as a secondary feature.
This is in stark contrast to the Arrow 3 system, which is known for its ability to destroy space-borne projectiles, including ballistic missiles and their warheads, during their mid-course phase, before they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Thus, the Arrow-4 would add another protective layer to Germany’s multi-layered air defense network. Germany’s acquisition of three Arrow 3 systems provides exo-atmospheric defense, while Arrow 4’s proposed acquisition would enhance terminal-phase coverage, complementing Patriot PAC-3 and IRIS-T SLM.
The Arrow 4 missile is being jointly developed by the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the US Missile Defense Agency. Israel started conceptual work on Arrow-4 in 2017, but formal development was announced in February 2021 amid the burgeoning threat posed by Iran’s long-range missiles.
The Arrow-4 interceptor would be employed against evolving threats, including advanced ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, and potentially nuclear-capable delivery systems.
One of the most significant features of the Arrow-4 interceptor is its ability to counter sophisticated threats, such as hypersonic missiles, which are very difficult to intercept due to their extremely high speed (five or more times the speed of sound) and unpredictable trajectory.
Since Germany’s missile defense aims to defeat potential threats from Russia, Arrow-4 would be a much-desired system, given that Moscow has various hypersonic missiles in its inventory.
Moreover, the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) and NATO’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) emphasize hypersonic defense, making Arrow 4 strategically relevant.
With better propulsion systems, advanced seekers, and increased mobility than its predecessors, Arrow 4 is expected to have “unprecedented flight and interception capabilities.”
Though there is a paucity of information at this point, it is believed that Arrow 3 and Arrow 4 will be designed to destroy targets using kinetic energy or direct collision (hit-to-kill) instead of exploding near the hostile targets.
Additionally, an advantage of the Arrow 4 swivel missile is that it can be used with existing Arrow radars and firing devices, making it a cost-effective solution.
Let's see, credit to...
Option for the SIA workspace
Miko for that ever present font
Achilles for the colour codes and inspiration for the magazine
Elliot for encouraging me to do this
This is a SIA'd version of the Evangeline Personal Defense Rifle: www.flickr.com/photos/bitches_be_crazy/7413508876/in/phot...
Like it's Imperial Ancestor, the Tungra is a compact rifle designed to fill an intermediate to short range role while providing sufficient stopping power. The caseless 9mm SUPER propels a heavy 9mm projectile at subsonic speeds, making the Tungra a perfect contender for covert operations.
The paint mines are named for their clay deposits, which contain iron oxides that color the clay red, yellow, and purple and were probably used as pigments by prehistoric peoples. In addition to their colors, the paint mines contain many striking formations. The area’s soft clay erodes easily, leaving behind monoliths known as hoodoos, where Dawson Arkose sandstone caps protect portions of clay from erosion. The area also contains selenite crystals and petrified wood.
Humans have used the paint mines area for at least 10,000 years, as indicated by the many cultural deposits distributed throughout the site. At least two areas in the paint mines contain artifacts from the Paleo-Indian period (9500–5800 BCE), such as square-base Eden-style projectile points. At least three sites represent Middle and Late Archaic period (3000 BCE–150 CE) habitation. The majority of the prehistoric artifacts in the paint mines date to the Ceramic period (150–1540 CE), including small corner-notched points, stemmed-style projectile points, and cord-marked ceramics. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the area was occupied by the ancestral Plains Apache. They were pushed out in the 1700s by the Comanche and Ute, who were in turn supplanted by the Arapaho and Cheyenne in the mid-nineteenth century.
I have not been to Urquhart Castle for about ten years, it was great to be here on such a nice day. I arrived about 10am I wanted to beat the crowds and I achieved that it was much busier by the time I left. I could see the views were good before I got down to the castle.
You will see what is effectively a giant catapult. It was used to hurl massive stone balls hundreds of meters, causing certain damage even death. There is no record of trebuchets being used at Urquhart, but 11 rough-hewn stones were found here. They may have been used as projectiles 700 years ago during the Wars of Independence.
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park is a National Park and World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the United States.
The park was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, and with more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archeological preserve in the US. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
This is ACW's first anti-armor weapon, it is designed with versatility and various situations in mind. the launcher it's self is made from aerospace grade alloys and polymers and has an integrated electronic sight with EMP shielding and the solenoid firing system is backed up by a standard firing pin set up.
The 84mm projectiles are preloaded canisters that attach to the back of the launcher and various payloads are available.
(Anti-Armor HEAT shown)
Cost: 1999$ USD
In more ways than one! We experimented with rear curtain flash and long exposure to try to capture the force of the projectile and the ejection of the casing.
Rule #1: Remember the ear plugs, nuff said.
ODC2 - Negative Space
Mesa Verde National Park is a National Park and World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the United States.
The park was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, and with more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archeological preserve in the US. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
Square Tower House, at the east side of Navajo Canyon - along the Mesa Top Loop
This photo was taken while kayaking on the Hillsborough River, in an area known as thonotosassa Flotida, near Tampa.
Thonotosassa is a creek/Seminole Indian word translated as “plenty of flint”. In the era 5000 BC – 1600 AD the area around Lake Thonotosassa was used periodically by Florida’s earliest Indian inhabitants as a major source of flint for tools and projectile points for arrows and spears. Around 1820 a group of 200 Alachua Seminoles settled here and it is from them that the name Thonotosassa came to be applied to the area around their village.