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NS Southbound Freight Train 385 ( Birmingham to Mobile, AL ) holds at West End, AL to let 219 & Amtrak P019 around, 385 secured their train here & ran light engines to get 384 that went on the hours of service on the 3B District, they secured 384 at Bessemer, AL & ran back light engines to their 385 to take it back south
Secure Airparks are now operating at Edinburgh Airport with a new Wright Streetlite. SN15ABX is seen here heading back towards its car park after a run to the airport. 03rd June 2015.
Kestell an alouberien/ Caisleáin na n-ionróirí/ The ivaders' castles - Kastell Talacharn/ Caisleán Talacharn/ Laugharne Castle +.+.+.+ "Unlike their invasion of England, the Norman penetration into Wales took place very gradually after 1066.
The new king of England, William I (‘The Conqueror’) quickly secured his English kingdom by establishing earldoms along the Anglo-Welsh borders at Hereford, Shrewsbury and Chester. But it wasn’t long before the new Norman lords began to look at expanding their lands westward into Wales.
William himself led a military expedition across south Wales to St. David’s in 1081, and is said to have founded Cardiff on the way. Throughout the 1080’s and 1090’s the Normans penetrated areas of Wales, conquering and settling Pembroke and the Vale of Glamorgan in southern Wales. England’s King Henry I, William’s youngest son, encouraged large-scale Norman settlement in south Wales, building the first royal castle at Carmarthen in 1109. The Welsh princes refused to submit however, and took the opportunity to reclaim land from the Normans when some ‘in (English royal) family’ feuding took place, following the death of King Henry I in 1135." www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/The-English-...
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"Mae ffin ieithyddol Sir Benfro, neu'r llinell Landsker, yn ffin ieithyddol hanesyddol yn ne-orllewin Cymru. Mae'r bobl i'r gogledd o'r ffin yn siarad Cymraeg yn bennaf tra bod y bobl i'r de wedi siarad Saesneg yn bennaf er y 12g.
Mae'r ymraniad ieithyddol hwn yn adlewyrchu hanes yr ardal. Daeth de Penfro i feddiant y Normaniaid yn yr 11g ac yn y ganrif olynol cafwyd mewnlifiad sylweddol o Saeson a Ffleminiaid. Saesneg a Fflemeg oedd iaith y rhan honno o'r sir mewn canlyniad. Mae ôl y Fflemeg i'w gweld ar dafodiaith Saesneg Sir Benfro o hyd.
Siaredir Cymraeg gan y mwyafrif o hyd yn y gogledd, yn enwedig ar hyd yr arfordir o ardal Tyddewi i fyny ac ym mryniau'r Preselau a'r cylch. Yno y ceir tafodiaith Sir Benfro (Dyfedeg) ar ei chryfaf.
Yn ôl yr hynafiaethydd George Owen, ar ddechrau'r 16g y Gymraeg oedd iaith cantrefi Cemais, Cilgerran a Phebidiog. I'r dwyrain rhedai'r landsker trwy blwyfi Llanbedr Felffre a Llanddewi Felffre yng nghantref Arberth a thrwy Llanfallteg a Llandysilio yng nghantref Daugleddau."
One of UK Specialist Ambulance Service's unmarked Audi SQ5 Secure Transfer Escort Vehicles is seen here parked up at their base in Rainham. My thanks go to the company for allowing a visit for photos and for moving and lighting the vehicles up. Plates blanked on request of the company.
20th May 2015
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আমি তখন রাতের ট্রেনে করে ঢাকা থেকে বাড়ি আসছিলাম। আমার মতো আরো অনেকেই সেরাতে আসন বিহীন টিকেট নিয়ে ট্রেনে উঠেছিল। ছবির যাত্রীরা (খুব সম্ভবত মা - মেয়ে) আমার পাশেই দাঁড়ানো ছিল এবং ট্রেন ছাড়ার বেশ কিছু সময় পর ওনারা ক্লান্তিতে ট্রেনের মেঝেতেই বসে পরেন। তুলনামূলক বেশি ক্লান্ত হওয়ায় মেয়েটিকে মা নিজের বাহুতে শোবার জায়গা করে দেন। ট্রেনে ভিড় ও প্রতিকূল পরিস্থিতির মধ্যেও মায়ের কোলে নিশ্চয়তা ও নিরাপত্তা পেয়ে ঘুমিয়ে পড়ে মেয়েটি।
‘’Secure Contain Protect’’
A security guard of the SCP foundation is standing guard at an unnamed site of the SCP foundation. I got this idea in my head for while to make a story about the SCP Foundation with some original SCP’s and SCP’s wich are cannon in the SCP universe. For the ones who don’t know what the SCP Foundation is, it is a secret organization entrusted by governments around the globe to contain and study anomalous individuals, entities, locations, objects, and phenomena that defy natural law.
The existence of SCPs is kept secret by the SCP Foundation to prevent mass panic and related chaos, and to allow human civilization to function normally. When an SCP is discovered, the SCP Foundation deploys agents to either collect and transport the SCP to a Foundation facility, or to contain it at its location of discovery if transport is not possible. Once SCPs are contained, they are studied by Foundation scientists. Test subjects acquired by the Foundation (referred to as D-class) are used to interact with dangerous SCPs due to the danger posed by those SCPs and the expendability of the D-class.
Alltrough they didn't appeared in any of my brickfilms so far as I'm writing this, they did got mentioned. The SCP Foundation has been a inspiration to many of my concept which can been seen in various of my brickfilms, including Sigma Foundation, which appears in the ‘’Outbreak Series’’ and in Lego War: Battle Of Mo-Wol, Sigma Foundation is also loosely based on Black Mesa from the ‘’Half-Life game series’’ and other shady labs in general.
Although this is a mere concept, I’m not 100% if I want to make it into a brickfilm as I’m writing this it’s just a concept. But maybe in the future, however this might be possible as while writing this drafts are made about the overal storyline.
Custom rifle:
Brickarms
Custom vest:
Minifig.cat/Si-Dan?
Head:
The Minifig.co
Link to The Outbreak:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjqkZeMoI04
Link to Lego War: Battle Of Mo-Wol:
This female hairy dragonfly (Brachytron pratense) was busy laying her eggs on surface debris which allowed me to get close enough for a shot.
This one is pretty easy to identify as it flies so much earlier than all other large dragonflies here in Sweden.
Magic Fog
About:
Foggy photos are sometimes magical, but I never managed to capture the special mood in those sceneries... This is a humble attempt, what do you think, did I tweak the contrast too much?
I turned down the contrast a little bit and made a more graduate transition to the fog in the top of the trees (see original and first attempt below). Thanks @~Amabile~ & Sonja_za
Photo
- Canon 40D
- Canon 70-200mm f/4L
- RAW converted to DNG
- 1/125 sec at f/4 ISO100 145mm (35mm eq: 232mm)
Post Process
I tweaked the shadows/highlights/contrast/clarity/vibrance/saturation quite brutally in the forest part. This was done to lift the forest part out of the fog and get some contrast in the shot.
Thanks
Comments and critique are as always welcome.
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To secure instant deployment, „dipteria class“ airships like the „Firefly“ could stay skybound for a month on end. The original paddlewheel-based propulsion had recently been updated with two massive 'Brickerton' engines with adjustable platinum-coated six-blade rotors, allowing for a top speed of 50 knots. Four smaller engines could, theoretically, add an additional ten knots, although their primary use was to allow for steady hovering of the vessel when in action. Nine water cannons – two of them massive with ranges of up to 250 meters, could extinguish any flame. The gargantuan water tank in the ship's hull can hold up to 400.000 liters of water, yet even this feature had been updated. A recent invention employed basic physics: Compressed air was shot out of the cannons which then condensed over the burning fire site. This not only made for less water spillage but also drastically reduced weight and power consumption, thereby increasing speed, range and duration of deployment.
To effectively and safely operate in smoke-filled dizzying altitudes, the firemen carried special breathing apparatuses and security goggles with nighttime vision. A state-of-the-art infirmary allowed for the performance of emergency operations with a high-tech ICU specialized in treating burns.
Additionally, three self-propelled service vessels, among them the blimp 'Sparkle' could be deployed to assist in the rescue of people floating on life-preservers, rafts or smaller airships.
All these brave men adhered to a simple yet catchy mission statement: „WE KICK ASH!“.
Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) hiding in some thorny scrub.
Wiewiórka (Sciurus vulgaris) chowająca się w jakiś kolczastych chaszczach.
Explore am 28.10.2008 - Danke! (Highest position: 353 on Wednesday, October 29, 2008)
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we push south and link up with Ohio states beachead and then we continue to push south and create a perimeter around the Peninsula as we clear out the Olympic state forest and park
I have another photo of this, already on Flickr. But I didn't post this one; don't know why.
This was taken with my Canon PowerShot camera, taken just before Christmas of 2011. I was walking around the residential area of West Hollywood, not far from my apartment complex, when I saw this display. Someone went to a lot of trouble to create this display for their secured entrance. I never noticed a security camera around there, and if there had been one, apparently my photography was not a problem with the property owner.
I wanted to get more contrast in the image, ridding the shadow areas of any milkiness. I added more saturation to the colors, bringing out the best in each and every color and shade.
The Canon PowerShot camera I have (and still have) was purchased in December of 2009. It had only a 12MP sensor, and it didn't have the dynamic range my Canon EOS has, and nowhere near the dynamic exposure range of my current smartphone.
One of the things I did like about my Canon PowerShot was that I could control the white balance manually if I wanted to. The smartphone has some manual capabilities, but it isn't the same as the way the various white balance settings are on the PowerShot. The PowerShot also has Custom White Balance, where one can white balance an image in a way that isn't quite the way it would look on the pre-set white balance. I may use the camera again, under certain circumstances, but I won't bother shooting video, which is 3X4 and is standard definition at 640X480.
The deer are secure enough at this time of year, to hunker down around our place, close to the house. This little one found a sunny spot and was just waiting for me to throw out some apple slices. Of course all the raspberry canes got in my way .. but it was so cute, I couldn't resist. I was shooting from the kitchen window.. which really needs cleaning!
The beautiful Syndicate Trust Building in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri is hailed by many as the greatest example of Chicago School architecture in all of St. Louis. Designed by Eames & Young with Harry Roach in 1907, this grand tower is covered with lavish terra cotta ornament from its store-fronted ground floor to its handsome cornice. It once housed the upscale department store of Scruggs-Vandervoot-Barney and now finds new life rising 17 stories high as downtown St. Louis' most luxurious condominiums.
Following is a timeline of the "issues" the Syndicate went through before becoming the luxurious condominiums that it is today:
‧ The Syndicate's long-running troubles began in 1993, when developer Mark Finney purchased the complex at auction for $600,000. A sequence of events since then shows how precipitously close the Syndicate tower has come to demolition:
‧ 1994: After purchasing the building, Finney cleared out most of its tenants and gutted the lower six floor for conversion into a parking garage. Subsequent investigation revealed what Finney claims is inadequate structural support for a garage, a matter that resulted in a court case with his architect.
With the building's structure in question, Finney abandoned the garage plan, favoring demolition after he was unable to sell the building. The building has sat empty since then. Demolition has thus far blocked by the city, based on the building's landmark status.
‧ 1997: a court judge orders the city to pay Finney's then-asking price of $4.2 million; the city is unable to come up with the money. After a piece of masonry falls off the building, a fence is erected around the property, blocking sidewalks and streets.
‧ 1999: The city agrees to buy the building through emminent domain. A commission settles on a value of $6.2 million -- less than the $9 million Finney wanted, but more than the $2 million the city had offered previously. The city declines the deal.
‧ July 24, 2000: Finney's asking price for the building is six million dollars (ten times what he paid for it when it was a functional and occupied building); the city seeks to obtain the deteriorating property through condemnation.
September 14, 2000: St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr. declares the building a hazard and gives the owner 30 days to file a demolition permit. Pyramid Construction Co. works to buy the building for development.
November 2000: Finney grants Pyramid an extension on the deadline to purchase the building.
‧ February, 2001: Finney threatens to begin demolition of the complex March 1st if Pyramid doesn't purchase the building by then.
‧ March 1, 2001: Pyramid's John Steffen is unable to secure the necessary capitol to purchase the building.
‧ March 2, 2001: Judge Dierker announces that he will approve demolition as soon as the owner files proof of a demolition contract.
‧ March 29, 2001: a mediator is appointed to negotiate a settlement between Finney and the city.
‧ June 2001: City development officials agree to pay Finney's asking price of $6.5 million for the complex.
‧ November 2001: Webster University plans to move into the Old Post Office. As part of the developments, the Century portion of the complex is slated to be torn down & replaced with a parking garage, part of a proposal by DESCO Group & consultant Steven Stogel.
‧ 2002-2004: Citizens and Landmarks of St. Louis mobilize to fight the demolition of the Century. Both buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Inexplicably, the National Historic Trust becomes a supporter of the Century's demolition, claiming that it is the only way to "save" the Old Post Office across the street (despite the fact that the Old Post Office, while vacant, was never in any danger of demolition.) Both buildings continue to sit idle and vacant.
‧ October 2004: Despite a pending court injunction, demolition begins on the Century Building.
‧ November 5, 2004: The City of St. Louis issues a Request for Proposals to renovate the Syndicate-Trust.
‧ February 2005: Century Building demo is essentially complete.
‧ April 5, 2005: Sherman Associates and Loftworks, LLC are awarded the contract to redevelop the Syndicate Trust. The building will hold 91 condominiums, 84 apartments, and street-level retail.
‧ November 2005: Work on the garage slated for the former Century Building site remains stalled (due to lack of funding?).
‧ 2006: Work commences on the Syndicate Trust renovation.
‧ July 2007: October move-in dates projected but the building finally officially reopens in 2008.
builtstlouis.net/syndicate1.html
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Secure and Discreet shipping to and from Picon, Twelve Colonies of Kobol.
Length 180 studs.
Built for SHIPtember 2019
Here's the 2019 Poster!