#Fabric Structures

[weather-canopies-protecting]

The role of weather canopies in protecting sensitive equipment

Sensitive equipment exposed to the elements can suffer from damage, reduced efficiency, and costly repairs. Weather canopies protect against unpredictable weather conditions, ensuring that essential machinery, tools, and products remain operational and well-maintained. Whether for industrial storage, vehicle maintenance, or outdoor workspaces, the right weather canopy can make all the difference.

Rain, UV exposure, wind, and temperature fluctuations can all contribute to wear and tear on sensitive equipment, leading to operational downtime and increased maintenance costs. By investing in a high-quality weather canopy, businesses can safeguard their assets, improve working conditions, and ensure efficiency in day-to-day operations. These container canopies also help prevent workplace hazards associated with slippery surfaces and water-damaged electrical systems.

These canopies provide robust, easily deployable container canopies that create protective environments for businesses requiring secure and weather-resistant coverage. Built to withstand wind and snow loads while offering modular flexibility, these canopies are a reliable choice for various industries.

McGregor Shield Canopies are built to withstand tough weather conditions, including strong winds and heavy snow loads. They are tested to European safety standards and made from high-quality materials to ensure long-lasting durability and reliable protection.

Why choose McGregor Shield Canopy for weather protection?

McGregor Shield Canopy is a leading provider of container canopies, offering a rapid, durable, and adaptable solution for businesses needing reliable weather protection. Their products combine innovation, quality, and efficiency, ensuring businesses receive a highly effective solution tailored to their needs.

[advanced-cow-housing]

How advanced cow housing designs improve milk yield and health

Modern farming isn’t just about tradition – it’s about innovation. As dairy farmers across the UK face mounting pressure to increase productivity while maintaining high animal welfare standards, investing in the right livestock housing is more important than ever. That’s where advanced cow housing steps in.

The environment in which your cows live plays a vital role in their health, milk yield, and overall well-being. Poor ventilation, overcrowding, and moisture-heavy conditions can lead to stress, disease, and a drop in milk production. Conversely, clean air, natural light, and proper shelter can do wonders for your herd.

Advanced livestock housing offers a modern, adaptable solution designed to create optimal living conditions for cows, calves, and other livestock. From improving airflow to protecting animals from harsh weather, the right farm building is engineered for performance and animal welfare.

Let’s explore how advanced livestock housing designs are transforming dairy farms – and how they can help you achieve better herd health and higher yields.

How advanced cow housing improves milk yield and health

Enhanced ventilation for respiratory health

Respiratory health issues, when left unaddressed, can turn into a major factor when it comes to milk production, and having a proper ventilation system is important. In poorly ventilated environments, ammonia, dust, and humidity can build up, which often leads to respiratory diseases like pneumonia, directly affecting both cow health and milk yield. 

Diffused natural lighting to reduce stress

Stress is one of the most detrimental factors for milk production. When cows experience high levels of stress, their body’s production of milk can decline, and their general health may deteriorate. Advanced cow housing structures integrate diffused natural lighting through translucent roofing materials that mimic natural daylight.

Dry bedding conditions for udder health

Mastitis, an infection of the udder, is one of the leading causes of reduced milk yield and quality. It is often the result of dirty, wet bedding, which creates an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. Advanced designs prioritise dry bedding through effective drainage systems and superior airflow.

How McGregor Agri Span helps farmers improve cow health & milk production

With decades of agricultural experience, McGregor’s Agri Span shelters are specifically engineered to support the health and productivity of your herd. Designed around animal welfare, weather resistance, and ease of use, these shelters provide UK farmers with dependable and expandable livestock housing. Here’s how Agri Span delivers measurable benefits to dairy operations.

[housing-structures-for-livestock]

Why rapid deployment pig housing structures are ideal for UK businesses

Find out how rapidly deployable pig housing structures can transform your farm's efficiency. Learn about the benefits and why McGregor Agri Span is the ideal choice.

In 2024, England recorded a 1.3% rise in its pig population, reaching 3.7 million animals. This growth highlights the increasing demand for high-quality livestock housing solutions. For farmers, ensuring the well-being of pigs while managing costs and operational efficiency has become a priority.

Livestock housing structures capable of being rapidly deployed offers a modern solution to these challenges. These structures provide a robust, cost-effective, and scalable housing alternative that can be set up quickly and easily. The flexibility and ease of deployment make them an invaluable asset to the modern farming operation. Whether expanding your farm or looking for a cost-effective way to improve pig housing conditions, rapid-deployment housing structures are the answer.

These modular units are easy to set up and versatile enough to adapt to fluctuating herd sizes and changing farm requirements. Their practicality makes them indispensable for UK livestock farmers looking to optimise space, improve animal welfare, and minimise disruption during installation. Read on to find out more about why you should invest in rapid-deployment livestock housing structures for your livestock needs.

Rapid deployment livestock housing structures can often be installed within days or weeks, depending on the size and complexity. Their modular design ensures a straightforward and efficient setup process. With proper care and maintenance, these structures can last for several decades. High-quality materials and thoughtful design ensure they remain a reliable investment for your farm.

Agri Span’s rapid deployment livestock housing structures offers exceptional value for UK farmers. Designed with flexibility, durability, and efficiency in mind, these structures are tailored to meet the demands of livestock housing. By choosing Agri Span, farmers can enjoy cost savings, improved productivity, and better livestock welfare, ensuring long-term benefits for their operations.

[choosing-cattle-housing-types]

Enhancing cattle welfare with adaptable cattle housing types in warmer weather

Cattle housing types significantly impact calf health and welfare, predominantly during the vulnerable early months of life. With this changing weather pattern adding complexity to the equation, farmers must adapt their housing strategies to ensure versatility and optimal conditions for their livestock. Temperature and humidity levels directly influence the increase in disease, making it essential to choose cattle housing types that can effectively adapt to these factors.

As the seasons transition and temperatures rise, cattle farmers face the challenge of ensuring the well-being of their livestock amidst changing environmental conditions. Particularly crucial is the management of calf housing, as calves in the UK are often exposed to temperatures below their thermal comfort zone (TCZ) during the birthing process.

According to data from the Met Office as of 2023, the mean annual maximum temperature in the UK stands at 10°C, with minimum temperatures in some areas in the UK reaching 2°C. This places calves in an environment below their thermal neutral zone (TNZ), which typically ranges between 15 and 25 °C during the first week of life. When temperatures fall below the lower critical temperature (LCT), calves must increase metabolic heat production to maintain thermal balance, often through energy-intensive processes such as shivering or increasing energy intake.

While individual calf housing has been traditionally favoured for perceived health benefits, there is growing evidence supporting the advantages of pair housing and large group management. Pair housing promotes better growth rates and solid feed intakes, while technological advancements such as computerised calf feeders aid in monitoring larger groups for signs of illness.

Embracing innovation for cattle welfare

In the face of warmer weather and the challenges posed by climate change, innovative options like Agri Span offer a beacon of hope for cattle farmers striving to maintain the health and welfare of their livestock. By prioritising animal welfare, adaptability, and sustainability, Agri Span represents a significant advancement in cattle housing types, empowering farmers to navigate the complexities of seasonal variations with confidence.

As we continue to witness the impacts of warmer weather on agriculture, investing in options that promote resilience and sustainability becomes not only a strategic imperative but also a moral obligation. By embracing innovation and prioritising the well-being of their livestock housing, cattle farmers can pave the way for a more sustainable and resilient future for agriculture.

[fabricstructures]

Shield Canopy MS-12 Explained: What Makes Them The Ultimate Military Shelters

Modern and modular shelters that are specifically designed for military applications are becoming an essential asset among institutions undertaking military, national security, and defence initiatives. They are prized for their rapid deployability, extreme dependability, unwavering robustness, and ease of relocatability by military construction teams and operational command alike.

Read more at : Container Canopies

[mcgregorstructures]

Modular Commercial Canopies For Industrial Recycling | OPUS

A surefire way of integrating the ideal setup of OPUS for your recycling business is to discuss the needs and nature of your specific operation with a specialist provider with decades of expertise and technical know-how.

McGregor Structures has a solid track record for delivering industry-leading modular canopies for commercial recycling operations across the UK and a specialist from the team is always ready to assist you when you reach out.

Visit us for more details : Aggregate Storage Bays

[arc-hus]

Nightlight Shed, Akaroa, New Zealand - Fabric

[miamaimania]

A reflective garment with a high collar and puffed sleeves casts intriguing shadows in this contemporary fashion editorial.

[trinitea-fics]

Company in the context of Sondheim being a closeted gay man who didn't come out until he was around 40 and hadn't been in a romantic relationship until he was 60 makes me soooooooo insane

[anghraine]

ngl I always find it wild to see Star Wars stuff that's like "if you think about it in terms of realistic statistics/science then..." about almost any aspect of it.

I mean, what about the Star Wars films gives the impression that this universe abides by realistic statistics, or realistic anything else? SW is broadly a fantasy epic projected onto an IMAX screen with a space background painted on it. Yeah, the planets and moons in the films almost always have improbably limited biomes and two major locations max, because narratively these locations are usually just fantasy city-states with space aesthetics.

Starships travel at the speed of plot and we simply jump past the amount of time that presumably is passing, and sort of imply the passage of that time through shifts in the character dynamics. But this passage of time cannot be analyzed with any kind of consistency because the only logic governing it is the pace of the story.

Just how long did it take the Empire to send a full contingent of forces to Dantooine, search the entire planet, find the Rebel base, and then report back to Tarkin between one scene and another? No one says and no one appears to care. How long did it take Han and Leia to reach Bespin and what exactly went on between them while Luke was, in the same time frame, going through a protracted training over multiple days at an absolute minimum? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How do giant space worms survive inside asteroids that somehow have an Earth-approximate gravitational field and I guess an atmosphere? Shhhh don't think about it. The point of the sequence is not "how does the giant space worm subsist off this random asteroid and how does it breathe and how does gravity work in this context, seriously" but that the giant worm sequence is fucking sick.

There's probably some after the fact EU justification invented by people who had nothing to do with the original writing of the space worm (or perhaps there are several mutually incompatible explanations) and I am profoundly disinterested in them. Nothing could make this even slightly realistic and it was never intended to be. Star Wars sings space shanties at scientific/mathematical realism as it sails past on a completely different ship going in the exact opposite direction.

And I do mean "sails" because while astronomy might tell us that space is unfamiliar and wild on a level we as Earthbound lifeforms can barely comprehend, Star Wars understands that space is basically an ocean, yet with stars and cool but survivable planets in it, or sometimes it's air but combined with a super cool space background so you can have early 20th century aerial combat that would make no sense in actual space conditions and doesn't need to.

"If you consider relativity, then just running the Empire would be..." General relativity does not govern the galaxy far, far away. Space magic does. I'm not sure there are even time zones.

[doctor-hopper]

I'm really tempted to comb through his lines about luck and write meta on it, because even off the top of my head, looking only at DR2/Dangan Island content, it's like

His FTEs frame bad luck as being part of good luck: bad thing leads into something good enough to compensate

But he has at least one Dangan Island line where he anticipates something bad after experiencing something good

And interestingly considers nothing much happening to him to be bad luck in Dangan Island's ending, even though he had a good time, which warrants some unpacking (my current hypothesis is it's because his impending death is making him desperate to make his life meaningful, not 'waste' his remaining time)

Not all of his examples fall neatly into his luck cycle model, especially not the FTE version where the events are connected. The diagnosis and HPA admission were separate-ass events, in DI's ending he expected his convo with Hinata to go well because of the aforementioned general '''bad''' luck too, the events of chapter 5 are hard to sort into the model, some DI interactions make it sound like he just has extreme outcomes sometimes (eg. he'd win capture the flag first try every single time), etc etc.

I have a feeling at least some of the way he talks about his luck is copium, especially in his FTEs since he really had to focus on the idea of bad -> good in the killing game. But as you say, he could have been intentionally oversimplifying... and if he actually thought the cycle worked both ways, saying he lives in fear of bad things every time something good randomly happens might've veered too close to genuine vulnerability. Which he avoided (by his standards anyway- I think he lacked awareness of how bad the kidnapping + plane stories were) until the final FTE.

Either way, I definitely need to scrutinise his lines more :'D

A ton of good points! Komaeda’s luck is fascinating and nowhere near as clear-cut as he originally makes it sound. Fics where he tries to “game the system” and finally gain some sort of control over his luck are interesting—but honestly, I feel like he’s already been trying to do that for as long as he’s lived. And he exercises an impressive amount of power under those restraints! But…also.

As for anticipating something bad after experiencing something good, I do think the way Komaeda portrays the order of events is just what he tells himself and/or Hinata. In reality, good and bad luck are two sides of the same coin to him—the real important part isn’t the order, it’s that nothing good can happen without something bad happening too. Everything has a price. Luck is a zero-sum game.

(He touches on this again in 2.5 when he says there’s “a fixed amount of luck in the world” and so he’s content to suffer the bad luck for everyone else’s benefit. In the dream-world sim, the luck he experiences is apparently “ideal”, but it still has to exist. There still has to be an Omelas child of sorts. Komaeda would just rather it be himself.)

As for good being caused by bad vs. just following it, it definitely happens both ways and he’s definitely contradicted himself. Beyond that, even, there are cases in the game where it’s not totally clear what sort of cycle is involved in the luck he experiences. In 2-1, he draws the short straw simply because he wanted to. Was the bad…offscreen? Was it the killing game itself? Would “being forced to clean” actually count as bad luck even if he wanted it? Was it then followed by the good luck of finding the secret passage? People hypothesize that his luck works differently in the simulation according to his own belief, which would complicate things even more, but I’m sort of back-and-forth on that theory. There are arguably examples of luck working the way Komaeda claims it does in DR2, also—such as getting the Despair Disease the worst out of anyone thanks to his compromised immune system, but being able to discover in the hospital that Tsumiki was the culprit. ending up in the hospital but meeting a lovey-dovey nurse GONE WRONG

I’ve always read the Island Mode ending as copium myself. I do definitely think he was hoping for a chance to die meaningfully on the island, and I guess in his mind that could be bad luck, but it doesn’t really fit his model. The way he tries to nudge Hinata into agreeing it’s bad luck, the scene reads to me like he just needs to believe it’s bad luck so he can solemnly ask Hinata to be his friend. (And I think it’s notable that in the word he uses for friend here is 友達 tomodachi, which in this context could be understood as more of a personal friend—everywhere else, he’s used the word 仲間 nakama, comrades, to refer to the whole class as a unit.) And remember, being loved by someone is another way that Komaeda’s death could have meaning—so even if he didn’t end up in the climactic situation he was expecting, perhaps he’s realized there’s another way to get what he wants. :’)

But, yeah, what decides if something is good or bad luck for Komaeda though? I think even that’s not always clear to him.

I’ve heard the view that it “gives him what he immediately wants while taking away what is subconsciously valuable to him” (from TheAmityElf, I think) which is interesting, especially to play with as a writing tool, but not ultimately convincing. Some events could be loosely mapped to that pattern, but others contradict it a bit—you can’t tell me he just wanted money, and he did actively try to turn down his invitation to Hope’s Peak.

Which is now also making me think: Since the diagnoses and the invitation weren’t directly related, do you think he even connected them in his mind at first? What if he didn’t, and so he was afraid that by going to Hope’s Peak he would be invoking even more bad luck yet to come?

One more interesting dimension of his luck to think about is whether it hurts others vs. himself. In 2.5 it only hurts Komaeda, but that’s not quite the direct opposite of his real luck, because his real luck gave him cancer and dementia! However, it also does seem to be proactive in protecting him from actual death in both 2.5 and the rest of canon.

I’ll conclude this reply with this…relevant blackout poetry (blackout infographic?) I made years ago and which you suddenly reminded me of, lmao.

Silly coda: This is why Komaeda’s favorite word is eucatastrophe.

(…How lucky, then, that people say “Komaeda, eucatastrophe!” to him all the time!)

[marypsue]

>checks care tag >"hand wash cold or dry clean ONLY!!!" >checks fibre content tag >"100% plastic! :) :) :)"

[fabricstructures]

Shield Canopy™ Creates Vehicle Maintenance 

The McGregor team worked with Bell Equipment to implement this multi-bay container canopy as extra outdoor cover for vehicle maintenance, repairs, and storage which enables them to be more productive all-year round.

[mcgregorstructures]

Shield Canopy MS-12: Larkhill Barracks | McGregor Structures

McGregor Structures have gained a strong reputation with the MOD following the success of military deployments across the UK and eastern Europe since 2020.

The latest deployment sees the Shield Canopy MS-12; a new military spec’ building, installed at the Larkhill barracks in Wiltshire.

[ashmp3]

fashion moodboard for @possession1981

[bonyfish]

Pros of knitting a round yoke colorwork sweater from the top down:

Can try it on as you go and make sure it fits

No seams to sew

Small number of stitches to cast on initially

Cons:

Fucking none, it's a perfect sweater format

Pros of knitting a round yoke colorwork sweater from the bottom up:

Can use a sleeve as a swatch to double check your gauge and color harmonies, assuming there is colorwork on the sleeve cuffs

The yoke is often the most exciting part and leaving it for last is satisfying

Cons:

Had to use like 5 different needles to get the sleeve stitches off of waste yarn and join them to the body, playing a game of absolute musical chairs with interchangeable needle tips

Can't easily try it on as you go so you've just gotta hope you didn't screw up too bad and that it'll fit when you're done

Danger of running out of one or more colors of yarn at the yoke, which is arguably the most important part of the design

Gotta sew up the little underarm holes when you're done

I know I already pointed out that you can't try it on as you go but I will bring it up again as I believe it is the most salient point here

What if you bind off too tight and can't get the collar over your head? What then???

In conclusion why do my friends keep letting me knit sweaters from the bottom up