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Recently decommission due to budget cuts, this Space Police transport could carry two, four, six or more prison cells at once, using standard removeable modules.
I had a bunch of short pieces of maple, walnut, mahogany and pine plus a couple scraps of some veneer so rather than toss them I made a bowl. I've never been better than borderline at sharpening chisels or knives and with all the end grain this was a bear to finish and is still not great. Chisels have to be ultra sharp to avoid bending the wood fibers to a degree that's impossible to get out. It's 7 5/8" diameter and 3 1/2" tall with walls about 3/16" thick. Finished with five coats of water-based poly and rubbed with wet or dry #400 and 600 and two grades of pumice and oil and finally rottenstone.
Assembling the gears and disks and just sitting the segment disks on top as a sanity check. Wheels in the '4' position (see next image).
CO (La Plata County)
Day 5 (Segment 28)
Bridge site to Durango Trailhead
This was it. Final day on the Colorado Trail and downhill all the way to Durango. Not really, there is always some climbing to do but I wouldn’t be above treeline anymore.
This was one of my least favorite campsites. Although flat, it was loose dirt with no tree cover (although trees were around). Not the best conditions for probable rain.
About 2 in the morning it started raining with lightning and thunder. Concern was that if it kept raining this site would turn into a mud pit. I considered packing up and hiking out but no one wants to do that in the middle of the night. I decided to tough it out as I have in the past. Fortunately, it was a light rain and it didn’t last very long. Even the thunder and lightning faded away. The almost full moon reappeared and I managed some more sleep.
Hiking by 6 with the intent of making it to the trailhead as soon as possible. The Junction Creek Trailhead ((beginning and/or end of Segment 28 and the Colorado Trail) was a little bit out of town and my car was parked at the Durango Depot, about 5.3 miles away. I had used the train as my shuttle to get to Silverton and then hiked back to my car.
It was nice to be in the woods where everything was vibrant and green. The trail did start with some steep uphill hiking. The lush greenery actually became too lush and became overgrown and was encroaching on the trail. A summer task for trail maintainers on the Appalachian Trail is weed wacking, without which the trail would be completely overgrown, where snakes and ticks are hiding, not to mention the green briar and blackberries are waiting to grab you. Fortunately, I didn’t have any of those problems this morning.
I finally reached the top of this final climb at about 9500 feet. I was rewarded with a scenic view. In the distance were some treeless peaks, but I wasn’t heading that way.
Not surprisingly much photographed.
An architecturally-inspired twin-span segmental masonry arched bridge over the Aray with a conspicuous oculus (cylindrical opening) through the spandrel over the central pier. This feature enables the bridge to escape the unattractive appearance offered by two equal spans of 65 ft, referred to as an ‘unresolved duality’ in architecture.
The bridge was planned and erected from 1773–76. It was designed by Robert Mylne for the Board of Ordnance and the contractor, J. Brown. The Duke of Argyll, whose seat Inveraray Castle overlooks the bridge, is said to have influenced its design, particularly the parapets. The steep approaches must have been a trial to horses pulling heavy carts. The bridge is now operated as a single-lane carriageway controlled by traffic lights.
R Paxton and Jim Shipway 2007b
Pentax K-S2, SMC Pentax-M 200/4
For the Single in March 2016 Challenge, my last entry before joyfully dropping out for the last three days of March! ^_^ Done with 200mm!
'Back-lit' with a lightbox. Side-lit with an Elinchrom ScanLite 650.
Olympus C-8080, f8 & 1/400 ISO 50.
Moss tufa, a segment from a a larger roadside tufa complex
January 28, 2018
Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania
This is a closer view of the section to the left in image 1 of 4. With the exception of the opening, surrounding the snow, to the left of the images, the brown, as well as the moss-covered material, is all tufa-limestone. As the limestone forms, flow-ways used by the water change, which accounts for different colors of the tufa. The green moss-covered areas indicate the sections of the tufa that are currently receiving a steady supply of water.
The Evergreen Line celebrated a milestone on March 3, 2015 with the installation of the last segment of its elevated guideway on Pinetree Way in the City of Coquitlam. Since construction began on the elevated guideway, 1,005 segments have been installed, including 618 along Clarke Road and North Road and 387 along Pinetree Way.
I've loved doing the segmented cookie sets the past year (Santa last Christmas, then the Easter Bunnies). So - here's Rudolph! With Some Magic Reindeer food to sprinkle on your lawn on Christmas Eve! Borrowed some of Myri's (Chapix Cookies) little detail magic for the heads! This was the first (draft) -- I suspect the next ones will be tweaked a little!
Climate change screws with everything.
this used to be African desert, not so anymore.
The moisture in the air is almost unbearable, it feels like breathing under water.
VDOT and Lee Hy Paving were joined by Nikki-Dee Ray, meteorologist from WTVR- CBS6, for a work zone-themed segment of 'Nikki-Dee, Can You Be Me? (Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)
This turns out to have NOT been the correct datasheet for the device, just for a smaller one.
Playing with a large seven-segment display. Read more about this project here.
A close up look at Malvern Hall at the end of Brueton Avenue in Solihull.
Our History and Malvern Hall
It was during the days when the Second World War was raging throughout Europe and Britain was besieged, that two resourceful and determined ladies, Miss Christine Tucker and Miss Zelie Bull, decided to open a school for girls in Solihull at No 1 Homer Road. The school adopted as its name that of Saint Martin of Tours who was known for his piety and a particular act of kindness when he gave up part of his cloak to a beggar. The School’s motto ‘The Grace of God is in Courtesy’ is from the poem ‘Courtesy’ by Hilaire Belloc.
At the very beginning in April 1942, fourteen sets of parents entrusted the education of their daughters to Misses Tucker and Bull, and before long a house was purchased for boarders to live in. As the School continued to expand in the 1950s it was an important decade, and ensured the successes of individual pupils such as Mimi Khedouri, Head Girl from 1954-55 and was the first pupil from Saint Martin’s to go to Oxford University. Public School status was achieved on 1 September 1963 with the Founders ensuring the success of Saint Martin’s by handing over their interests in the school to a Board of Governors.
With the closure of the boarding in the 1960s and under the headship of Miss Bacon, the development of the curriculum moved apace and the demand for places continued to grow. A move from the Station Road site was inevitable and in 1989 Saint Martin’s purchased its present site, that of the historic Malvern Hall.
Malvern Hall
Henry Greswold, Rector of Solihull, bought Malvern farm and his son Humphrey built Malvern Hall in about 1690. The Hall passed to his brother and then out of direct line to various cousins until, in 1772, Henry Greswold Lewis inherited the property. Malvern Hall, as it then stood, did not satisfy wealthy Henry and the future Sir John Soane, surveyor of the Bank of England, was called in to remodel and enlarge the house. John Constable visited Malvern Hall and one of his paintings of the Hall from across the lake is in Tate Britain.
Henry Greswold had no children so, when he died in 1829, the estate passed to his cousin, Edmund Wigley. He took the Greswold name. In 1830, his brother, Charles, a young clergyman, after an evening of great merriment and much drinking, fell down the staircase to his death. It is Charles’ ghost that is said to haunt the Hall. In 1833 Edmund died unmarried.
In 1896, after years of neglect, Malvern Hall was sold to Mr David Troman, a Birmingham industrialist who reduced the Hall to its present size and added bow windows and balustrading. The house was again offered for sale in 1915 to Horace Brueton, but he seems to have made few changes to the Hall. In 1926 Mr Brueton sold the Hall to Solihull’s Rural District Council. In 1931, a single storey building was added at the side of Malvern Hall and Solihull High School for Girls opened. The school became co-educational in the 1970’s and known as Malvern Hall.
Malvern Hall is now the main administrative building for Saint Martin’s School.
Grade II* listed it dates to 1690.
Listing Text
SOLIHULL BRUETON AVENUE
1.
5108
5.12.49. Malvern Hall
SP 1579 1/22
II* GV
2.
Central block circa 1690 for Humphrey Greswold. Remodelled and wings added by Soane
1784. Centre reduced from 3 storeys to 2 and wings from 6 windows wide to 3 and
2, 1896.
Cement rendered walls with stone dressings, late C19 stone roof balustrade screening
hipped Welsh slated roof. Chamfered quoins. 7 sash windows with glazing bars.
Segmental bowed Ionic portico circa 1811. Painted by Constable.
Interior retains Soane's Hall and symmetrically planned staircase.
Large modern wing on right. Garden front terrace and steps.
Malvern Hall, and Forecourt Gatepiers at Malvern Hall form a group.
Listing NGR: SP1595079052
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Johnsons coach on the drive.
Easy to disassemble. Only unscrewing the tail cap is required to replace the single rechargeable Lithium battery cell shown here - a very commonly available 18650 size. All segments are sealed with rubber o-rings to keep water out if riding in heavy rain. The rings at the base of the lamp head are heat sinks to minimize temperature built up from the very hot LED emitter.
Flashlight weight = 185 grams
Tapeworms tend to be non-pathogenic. There's usually no need to treat for them, even when you see segments in the feces.
At Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a construction worker prepares a large segments of the support hardware for a new flame deflector to be lifted into place in the flame trench. The new flame deflector will be positioned about six feet south of the shuttle-era flame deflector’s position. During liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System, the rocket’s flame and energy will be diverted to the north side of the flame trench. The north side of the deflector will be protected by a NASA standard coating. The south side of the deflector will not be slanted and will have no lining. The new design will provide easier access for inspection, maintenance and repair. The Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Program at Kennedy is managing the installation of the flame deflector for Exploration Mission 1, deep space missions, and NASA's Journey to Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
After finally getting the concrete smoothed down, Lisa used an edging tool to give the edges a nice smooth corner. It won't take long before this concrete has set hard enough on which to walk.
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Bryan Quinn (left), Pope Air Force Base, N.C., and Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) logisticians prepare to load a C-130 aircraft during a hands-on segment of Uganda ADAPT 2010, a mentoring program conducted in Entebbe, Uganda, that resulted in certifying 25 soldiers as C-130 aircraft load planners.
U.S. Army photo by Gordon Christensen
A U.S. Army Africa (USARAF) organized Africa Deployment Assistance Partnership Team (ADAPT) recently trained, and for the first time ever, certified 25 soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) as C-130 aircraft load planners in Entebbe, Uganda.
A five-person team, led by Gordon Christensen of Army Africa’s G-4 Mobility Division, completed Phase III training with UPDF soldiers Aug. 27 in Entebbe, Uganda, said John Hanson, chief of the G-4 Policy and Programs Branch.
“This was the first actual air load certification we’ve done, of all the previous ADAPT engagements,” Hanson said. “That’s what makes it unique.”
Two weeks of classroom instruction and hands-on training enabled 25 of 31 students to earn U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Form 9 certification, significantly augmenting the Uganda land force’s air deployment capability, while developing greater interoperability with U.S. military forces, Hanson said.
The ADAPT program, developed to enhance the force projection capabilities of African militaries, is managed by the USARAF G-4 staff. Its aim is to bridge the gap between limited deployment capacity and the need to provide forces in support of peacekeeping or humanitarian relief operations, Hanson said.
“We’re building capacity for people to deploy, to do their own missions,” he said.
Even when the training doesn’t lead to actual U.S. Air Force certification, as it did this time in Uganda, it contributes to an enhanced deployment capacity for the land force involved, Hanson said.
“That’s the intent. They can’t do the certification, but they can continue to train their own people. Then we back off and they continue to do that,” he said.
The program is a Title 22 tactical logistics engagement funded by the U.S. Department of State, and focuses on African countries that contribute troops to peacekeeping operations, Hanson said.
Training is executed in four installments in order to create a long-term, phased approach to building deployment capacity, Hanson said. Instructors take students from a general orientation to tactical deployment principles to an advanced level of practical proficiency.
Instructors for the UPDF course were sourced using the Request For Forces (RFF) process, Hanson said.
Christensen was accompanied U.S. Army Capt. Jedmund Greene of 21st Theater Support Command’s 16th Sustainment Brigade, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and three Air Force noncommissioned officers: Tech. Sgt. Venus Washington, Robbins Air Force Base, Ga.; Tech. Sgt. Byran Quinn, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; and Senior Master Sgt. Anthony D. Tate of the Illinois Air National Guard.
“The training helped to strengthen the relationship with our Ugandan partners, and also helped them build a self-sustaining deployment capacity,” Greene said. “I hope 21st TSC can increase its support to USARAF logistics theater security cooperation events in the future.”
Army Africa’s G-4 staff is presently working to synchronize ADAPT with the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. A proof of concept joint training was conducted with ACOTA in Rwanda earlier this year, combining tactical- and support-staff training in logistics with the more complex operational techniques of force deployment and mobility, Hanson said.
The Rwanda training demonstrated the feasibility of combining available U.S. government resources to achieve the most efficient and focused effort to advance common foreign policy objectives with U.S. partners in Africa, he said.
To date, ADAPT missions have been funded for eight African countries. Previous training sessions have been conducted in Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso as well as Uganda, and the number is likely to grow in coming years, Hanson said.
“The programs were identified as being of interest to several other countries during the Army Africa Theater Army Security Cooperation Conference, held in Vicenza in August,” Hanson said.
The next planned ADAPT mission is for Phase I training in Botswana, scheduled for the first quarter of 2011, he said.
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The man in particular may think that seven segments is cooler than a fluent font.
On January 27, 2013 in Haneda Airport.
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滑らかなフォントよりもこういうのが好きな人、特に男性に多いんじゃないでしょうか。
2013年1月27日、羽田空港にて。
On Jan. 30, 2018, crews break noise wall panel segments and haul them off the work zone as part of ongoing construction for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project in Renton.
The seventeenth primary mirror segment installed on the James Webb Space Telescope. This completes the center section of the mirrors. Next come the two wings. This is the view from the Webbcam: jwst.nasa.gov/webcam.html
Credit: NASA
CO (Lake County)
Day 3
Segment 10
random spot to Segment 11 Interlaken Trailhead
Twin Lakes reservoir comprises two lakes. The trail crosses a dam at the far side of the larger lake. There are numerous recreation activities here. Camping possibilities are also abundant. Interlaken Historic Resort is located on the far side.
Phone battery was almost dead but just enough to reserve a room for Friday night at Inn the Clouds hostel in Leadville. Tonight I camped near Mount Massive Trailhead. Camping is allowed almost everywhere on Halfmoon Creek Road. The night before I climbed Elbert a few years ago, I camped along the road so I had a spot in mind that overlooked the creek. Unfortunately, someone turned in there just as I drove up. Oh well, I found another spot.
14.8 trail miles for the day; +1 to hike back to my car.
Some first architectural ideas on the way to constructing a modular origami tower from A4 sheets. Projected height: 2.5 to 3 m. That's far below the technical limits, but anything beyond that size would require a lab with higher ceilings and a crowdfolding project for making all the required modules.