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The 1967 version of "Safety in Welding and Cutting" (AWS Z49.1-1967) comes from a shrinkwrap license. Compliance with this standard is mandatory in the Code of Federal Regulations, OSHA standards 29 CFR 1910.252.
Jeff writes:"I stopped into the grocery store to buy my wife some tea... thought I'd get the "organic" tea cuz you know, organic means better, right (sarcasm intended). Then I noticed the organic, while priced the same as regular tea, is an 18 count box and not 20. Those 2 fewer tea bags translates to an 16% price increase, and although the products are technically a different SKU it still falls into shrink ray gun territory because Stash Tea company explicitly chose to decrease the quantity as opposed to increase the price for the organic. It actually gets worse when you calculate the pricing off the net contents. You will notice in the attached picture that the net contents are 18 grams in the organic version versus 38 grams in the non-organic. What that means is that the company has decreased the amount of actual tea by over half in one, while suggesting it's the same price as the original product. Actually, according to actual product volume, the organic version is 111% more expensive than the non-organic original product... $8.42 for the box if priced to the other premium product on a unit-to-unit basis. I complained to the store clerk, who looked at me like I was from another planet (a planet where people do simple arithmetic, apparently). "
I wanted to see how fast the holly berries shrink, once I picked them...this is day 3 and they seem to have shrunken to half their size and are all wrinkled....but the leaves stay the same but shrink at the same ratio.....and I wanted to use the new Diamine Salamander color ink I just got from Goulet pen Co...the background of the sketch book page is white but in order to show the true color of the ink I had to let it go an ivory color....so this is Lamy fountain pen inked and then waterbrush touched for shading..
A glacier forms in a place where snow builds up year after year for a long time. The key thing is that the snow does not melt away in the summer. As the snow builds up over time, its own weight causes it to compress into ice. When the ice gets thick enough, it begins to flow under the influence of gravity. Glaciers can form only on relatively flat areas, or on slopes with less than 30 degrees of pitch in the mountains; too much steeper and the snow will avalanche instead of building up to a thickness that would form into ice.
In only 11 days the ice has retreated from three places at the top of the glacier so that the top of mountain is now becoming visible. A few small areas of ice have vanished and others are much smaller. We had some warm rain a few days ago which probably melted more ice than just the hot weather.
Please pardon the fuzziness - it's a fairly hazy morning here today.
See all three photos in Shrinking Comox Glacier Album (Set)
www.flickr.com/photos/7292946@N08/sets/72157645980410590/
for more information about this global phenomenon you might want to watch The Age of Stupid at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSdPP9b0pc
especially the second story with the elderly glacier guide in the Alps.
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A recent snowstorm brought nearly 3 feet of snow near Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, and road crews are still working hard on opening the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Large June snowstorms like this one used to be more common in the northern Rockies, but average snowpacks have been in decline. Indeed, while Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers in the mid-1800s, there are now just 25. (Tree ring studies show that today’s annual average snowpack is less than anytime over at least the last 1,000 years.) This pattern shows no sign of reversing, as May 2014 was the hottest May on record worldwide.
Working with similar HST Champion 43302 (with "World Speed Record" transfers), LNER no. 43318, bearing transfers celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the InterCity 125, heads south out of Peterborough on 1Y88, the 1603 HST from York to London King's Cross.
The Jabiru is a huge, prehistoric-looking stork of wetlands in Neotropical lowlands. It has a massive black bill that curves slightly upwards, a bare black neck with a large red patch at the base, and entirely white plumage. Other large South American storks have black in the wings. It feeds on all manner of aquatic animals, including fish, frogs, snakes, insects, young caimans and crocodiles, crabs, and turtles. Feeding birds move about actively in shallow water, splashing with their bill to flush prey, which they then locate using either sight or touch. Particularly in the dry season, it often gathers in groups at shrinking pools, sometimes acting cooperatively to herd fish into the shallows. The huge nest is placed in the crown of a large tree and is used for consecutive years, each year growing in size and sometimes attaining a diameter of over 2 meters. The Jabiru is found in regions with extensive swamps or marshes from Mexico south to northern Argentina. While not migratory, it does disperse seasonally, and sometimes is found some distance from its usual range.
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Starring Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Phil Harvey, Trevor Bardette, William Flaherty, Linda Scheley, Harry Jackson, Troy Donahue, and Steve Darrell. Directed by John Sherwood.
Universal International had been producing some quality B sci-fi in the 50s. They gave us The Creature From The Black Lagoon trilogy, This Island Earth and The Incredible Shrinking Man. Their 1957 venture, Monolith Monsters (MM) is similar in production value, though far less known than their classics. The movie's almost-unique distinguishing characteristic is casting a mineral as the "monster." The movie is reasonably well done, considering an inanimate mineral is the villain.
Synopsis
A meteor crashes in the California desert. A state geologist brings one of the strange shiny black rocks to his office. They are made up an odd mix of silicates. A mishap spills water on the rock, which begins to grow. The next day, his fellow geologist, Dave, finds the office in shambles, black rocks everywhere, and Ben turned to stone. A little girl, Jenny, brings home one of the black rocks from a school field trip. Her farm house is destroyed, her parents turned to stone. Jenny's arm is turning to stone because she touched the growing rocks. She's rushed to the big city for intensive care. Rain comes to the desert and the rocks grow into 100' monoliths which fall and break. The fragments grow and fall too, beginning a destructive march down the valley. Nothing stops them. The doctor figures out that Jenny is lacking silicone. He fashions a cure. Dave and his college professor try the cure on the black rocks. They stumble upon saline as the key. Salt water halts the growth cycle. The monoliths will break out of the valley if they're not stopped. Destruction will be widespread. Dave thinks the only solution is to blow up a local irrigation dam in order to flood a salt flats and lay a moat of saline in front of the monoliths. They blow the dam. Water floods through the salt works and in front of the monoliths. It works. The town, and the world, is saved. The End.
The production values and effects are good enough to not hinder the story. Director Sherman does a good job pacing the story. After a steady diet of aliens, creatures and mutants, it's fun to see lifeless black rocks as the monsters.
One could see in the monoliths, a metaphor for something which dehumanizes and destroys civilization. This could apply to materialism or modernism almost better than communism.
Most movie monsters are humanoid or at least animal-like in some sense. They're usually presumed to have some intelligence, even if only enough to have malice. Rocks, however, have no feelings, no malice. They simply exist. MM is one of only three movies (thus far) in which an inanimate mineral is the "monster" of the story. The first was Magnetic Monster ('53), in which a freak isotope was doubling in size every 11 hours, threatening to unbalance planet earth. The second was Night The World Exploded, ('57), in which a rare mineral from deep in the earth was reacting with ground water to generate great heat, swell up, and explode, thereby causing massive earthquakes. In MM, the mineral also reacts with water, but destroys simply by growing so large that it crushes whatever is nearby.
The silicon-leeching quality of the monoliths is a second level of menace. This is a second story-within-a-story which keeps the movie moving. Like a stony Midas curse, whoever touches the growing monoliths eventually turns to stone. It becomes a race against time to halt the petrification of poor Jenny before it kills her (and several other hapless towns folk). The cure for Jenny becomes the key to stopping the monoliths themselves.
The dam model used in MM is the same one used in Night The World Exploded. The town was on Universal Studios' back lot. It was also featured in It Came From Outer Space ('53) and Tarantula ('55). A quick-eyed viewer might also spot that the meteor falling to earth was a repeat of the fireball-like "ship" landing scene from Universal's It Came From Outer Space. A quick-ear will hear the Creature's three note theme from Creature From The Black Lagoon as the meteor falls.
Geologist Dave is Grant Williams who was the Incredible Shrinking Man. Les Tremayne who plays the old newspaperman, was General Mann in War of the Worlds. --- Paul Frees narrates the opening. William Schallert is uncredited as the double-talking meteorologist.
Dave's car is actually a bit of a rare 50s "star", so worth noting. It's a 1956 De Soto Fireflite convertible. Only a hundred or so were made. One was used as the Indy Pace Car that year. It was a pretty hot full sized car. The '56 Fireflite line was very popular. In fact, it marked the pinnacle of the DeSoto company. The '57 model had an all-new body with bold styling, but production quality in the new line was poor. DeSoto never shook off the bad reputation it developed from the '57 models. The recession of '58 hastened the slide. Chrysler dropped the brand in 1960. Dave's hot convertible in MM captures the moment when DeSoto was at its zenith.
Bottom line? MM is a good 50s sci-fi movie worth watching for its rare "monsters". It's unthinking, unfeeling antagonist has left it poorly remembered and under appreciated. MM is a well paced and fairly well acted drama with two races against time to keep the hero hopping.42
I've thought about combining differently sized yoshimura decorations in one model for a while. finally I've had the needed revelation (either on my way to work or in my bed trying to fall asleep, can't remember which).
it's actually not so difficult at all, you just have to realize how a yoshimura diamond comes into being - you need 2 adjacent pleats of the same width. for my first realization of the principle I decided to have the diamonds shrink exponentially and symmetrically. in the end, though, you are totally free in choosing the diamonds' sizes as is demonstrated here.
(9.5.12, 343/365)
As I sat down... the body sort of pulled my head into it like a turtle... but damn that bottom harness strap was snug!
I took this photo as a personal reflection on Moore's Law, which was described in his 1965 paper titled “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits”. Moore observed that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubled approximately every two years . Related to Moore's Law is Mark Kryder's (2005) observation that hard drives are shrinking at a much faster pace than the doubling transistor count. The slowly shrinking physical size and radically expanding storage capacities evidenced in this picture serve to illustrate the work of these two researchers.