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With temperatures well below zero during the overnights, NSM implemented their cold weather operating pattern of running shorter, but more frequent, trains. A heads up from Mel Wilson noted that the leased SD9043MACs were down with various ailments and that NSM had two three-unit SD40-type sets in service (apparently the GEs are still down).
With this knowledge Gus and I made the trip north to milepost 23 after having spent time shooting boats in Two Harbors earlier in the morning. Based on radio detector transmissions it became apparent that empties and loads were both on the move. The first to arrive was the empty set behind gray 661 and nice (figures) 651 trailing. I'm not sure what happened to the third SD40 in this set. The weather was a mix of sun, ice fog and snow showers.
As the empties rolled past creating a moving ground blizzard, the loads came into view and the two met just west of the overpass. Of course what should be leading the loads but 662 with nice (figures) 652 in the middle. In Mel's defense, he did tell me that both the gray beasts had burned-out ditch lights. Not sure what it is about NSM, but there always seems to be at least one unit with a burned-out ditch light. Payback I guess for nailing the SD90s in fresh snow and sun earlier this winter.
Oh, the detector at MP 34 reported an air temp of -17F. Both trains had around 110 cars versus the normal 156.
Recovering heritage and old urban spaces through the implementation of art projects.
Contemporary Art being exhibited at an old warehouse of São Bento Railway Station.
Vautour moine - Aegypius monachus - Cinereous Vulture
(Français + english versions)
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Rémuzat / Septembre 2025
Je m'aventure sur un terrain que je ne maîtrise pas, en tentant une petite approche du thème du baguage et du balisage GPS des vautours :
Ici, on peut apercevoir une balise GPS accrochée sur le dos de ce vautour. Elle permet le suivi d'individus afin d’évaluer l’état général des populations, les déplacements, certains comportements, dans le cadre de plans de conservation des espèces.
Ce vautour moine est également bagué au niveau des pattes, avec un code couleur et un code alphanumérique : www.flickr.com/photos/tostaky2/54794539706/
Il y a beaucoup à comprendre sur ces méthodes. C’est un sujet que j’ai découvert cette année lors d’une formation en ligne et qui m’a surprise, car je n’en comprenais pas l’utilité au départ.
En réalité, cela s’inscrit dans une démarche de protection des espèces et s’avère crucial, notamment pour appuyer les demandes auprès des responsables politiques qui, n’étant pas sur le terrain, attendent des données chiffrées.
Ces dispositifs ont également permis le sauvetage de vautours (« Œil-Rouge », le Gypaète, a été sauvé 2 fois, si ma mémoire de lecture est bonne, grâce à son signal GPS, qui a permis de le retrouver alors qu'il était en grande difficulté).
Cela permet aussi une coopération entre groupes de travail et bénévoles, que ce soit au niveau national ou international, car les oiseaux n'ont que faire de nos frontières administratives.
En cas de décès, l'oiseau peut parfois être retrouvé grâce au gps et ainsi il est envisageable de déterminer les causes de la mort : braconnage, collision, prédation, maladie... Ainsi on peut tenter de réfléchir à la mise en place d’actions complémentaires.
L'Humain doit intervenir pour protéger des espèces que sa propre espèce contribue à faire disparaître. C'est magnifiquement tragique.
Mais depuis que j'ai compris l'intérêt des bagues (mettre des bagues sur les pattes des oiseaux pour espérer les identifier ultérieurement) et des balises GPS, ainsi que des suivis, je suis totalement en phase avec cela, même si, bien sûr, il serait préférable que la biodiversité ne soit pas en déclin et que ces actions ne soient pas nécessaires.
Pour ma part, la cause animale est centrale depuis mon plus jeune âge, et je contribue bénévolement de plus en plus à des actions de suivi et de protection.
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Rémuzat / September 2025
I am venturing into unfamiliar territory by attempting a brief overview of the topic of vulture tagging and GPS tracking :
Here, you can see a GPS tag attached to the back of this vulture. It allows individuals to be tracked in order to assess the general health of populations, their movements, and certain behaviors, as part of species conservation plans.
This black vulture is also "banded" on its legs, with a color code and an alphanumeric code : www.flickr.com/photos/tostaky2/54794539706/
There is a lot to understand about these methods. It's a subject I discovered this year during an online training course, and it surprised me because I didn't understand its usefulness at first.
In reality, it's part of a species protection approach and is crucial, particularly in supporting requests to politicians who, not being in the field, expect hard data.
These devices have also enabled the rescue of vultures ("Oeil-Rouge” the bearded vulture was rescued twice, if my memory serves me correctly, thanks to its GPS signal, which enabled it to be found when it was in great difficulty).
This also enables cooperation between working groups and volunteers, whether at the national or international level, because birds are not concerned with our administrative borders.
In the event of death, the bird can sometimes be located using GPS, making it possible to determine the cause of death: poaching, collision, predation, disease, etc. This allows us to consider implementing additional measures.
Humans must intervene to protect species that their own species is helping to drive to extinction. It is magnificently tragic.
But since I understood the importance of rings (putting rings on birds' legs in the hope of identifying them later) and GPS tags, as well as tracking, I am totally on board with this, even though, of course, it would be preferable if biodiversity were not in decline and these actions were not necessary.
For my part, animal welfare has been a central cause for me since I was very young, and I am increasingly volunteering my time to tracking and protection initiatives.
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Modern mechanized hay production today is usually performed by a number of machines. While small operations use a tractor to pull various implements for mowing and raking, larger operations use specialized machines such as a mower or a swather, which are designed to cut the hay and arrange it into a windrow in one step. Balers are usually pulled by a tractor, with larger balers requiring more powerful tractors.
Revisiting an exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane called 'Precious'. People's collections of all kinds of curious items.
Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF8-15mm f/4L FISHEYE USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 239-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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another homeless person
The term unsheltered refers to that segment of a homeless community who do not have ordinary lawful access to buildings in which to sleep. Such persons frequently prefer the term houseless to the term homeless. Others may use the term street people, which does not fully encompass all unsheltered in that many such persons do not spend their time on urban street environments. Many shun such locales and prefer to convert unoccupied or abandoned buildings, or to inhabit mountains or, more often, lowland meadows, and creek banks and beaches Many jurisdictions have developed programs to provide short term emergency shelter (often in churches or other institutional real property, during particularly cold spells). These are referred to as warming centers, and are credited by their advocates as lifesaving.
A portion of the homeless population are generally in transit, but there is no generally accepted terminology to describe them; some nomenclature is frequently associated with derogatory connotations, and thus the professional and vernacular lingo to describe these persons is both evolving and not lacking in controversy. Much of the concern stems from the European situation, where homeless persons of Roma, Sinti and other ethnic descent have rejected the term gypsy. Other terms which some use regarding in-transit persons are: transient, vagabond, tramp or drifter. Occasionally, these terms are interchanged with terms not necessarily implying that the person is a traveler, i.e. hobo. The termbum is used for persons lacking a work ethic. The term transient is frequently used in police reports, without any precise definitions across jurisdictions.
It is complex and difficult to define homelessness. Many different definitions have been made and changes to the concept are constantly being brought to attention. The United States Congress has developed a definition that has gone through multiple changes. First applied in 1987, this general definition was provided and is now called the McKinney-Vento Act. As time went on and homelessness was still apparent in the USA, Congress added a definition for the homeless children and youths that will be using the educational programs; this change accrued in 2002. Congress later, in 2009, enacted the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition Housing Act, also known as The HEARTH Act. This broadened the general definition of homelessness and gave more consideration to help given to those who are considered homeless. Once again, in 2011, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a final rule to implement changes to the definition of homeless in the HEARTH Act. The implemented rule expands who is eligible for HUD-funded homeless assistance programs.
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The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
The SSMP is implementing the vegetation enhancement projects in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation near communities around the Salton Sea. The projects cover approximately 1,700 acres and are located near the communities of Salton City and Bombay Beach. The projects aim to establish and enhance native vegetation on the exposed lakebed to reduce wind-blown dust and improve habitat value for desert wildlife. Native plants being established at the project sites include iodine bush, big saltbush, salt grass, honey mesquite, palo verde, among others still being considered.
Flickr has once again implemented another new, new Beta version randomly selecting members to sample it. Being one of the most random people around, I was blessed with the opportunity. While the format has changed slightly, it is a marked improvement over the last which caused a mass exodus to foreign language versions as a means of avoiding usage, and much closer to the "old" version stylistically. Title, description, and comments are large and back to black on white text. The entire right margin is eliminated and group invites are clearly indicated and easily accessed. I can't find access to the HTML code yet but it must be there somewhere. While it may not be perfect, this is a vast improvement, obviously directly addressing the concerns expressed by membership. And for that, some appreciation is in order.
I would advise all of those who are utilizing alternatives to give a quick check back to English to see if you, too, are one of those so "honored" as to be capable of using the latest altered version. If you are not, the following link shows a sample page:
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Due to the invasion of southern and eastern European nations by the Warsaw Pact, the EU has sent back their troops to Europe from America to prepare and strategize a retaliation. Due to this soldiers now have a much more common presence in the daily lives of civilians. All forces will be used to create an advantage, even the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be used as a watch tower in Italy. The preparations are almost complete.
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Doing something very interesting with the leaning tower of pisa was harder than I thought if I wanted it to be pretty accurate, so this is more of a tone scene rather than a detailed one to be more accurate to the area.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
In 1868, British police first manually used red and green gas lights to control horse carriage traffic at night outside the House of Commons. According to Washington State University Magazine, the Americans then contributed the following:
"American policeman Lester Wire designed the first electric traffic light. It was first installed in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 5, 1914, at the corner of 105th and Euclid Avenue.
1917 — First interconnected traffic signal system installed in Salt Lake City, with six connected intersections controlled simultaneously from a manual switch.
1920 — William Potts, a Detroit policeman, invented the first four-way and three-colored traffic lights. He introduced yellow lights to indicate the light would change soon. Detroit became the first city to implement the four-way and three-colored traffic lights."
CCWeek38: Geometry in Road Signs (Diamond-shaped traffic sign)
Garden implements neatly arranged at Kumano Jinja (shrine), between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
24mm; 1/30 sec; f/6.3; ISO 400
Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
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Rare implement, gift from my daughter. Great for dicing herbs and other small stuff that you don't want to go scattering all over the place. Curved hollow in the cutting board matches the curve of the knife, keeping everything in place.
Heres my latest find and newest addition to my yard art. Its an old McCormick -Deering lime spreader, circa 1940's. I added some fall garland and plan to add more fall decor to all my old farm implements.
Pink farm implement in Montgomery City, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/125-second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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It is imperative that we implement a system of ecolonomic homeostasis to fight against the current anthropotechnogenic economic, social and environmental crises. Recent global economic and political instability has revealed the shortcomings of our current capitalist system. It further confirms the necessity for an ultramodern paradigm shift. On account of the deleterious impact of the financialization of the economic ecosystem, we must introduce an oligopolistic system that can be sustainably managed. The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is what is needed to fulfill our sustainable development goals. Environmental awareness must be the center of our ethos as we work to reduce our anthroposphere periphery in pursuit of global co-immunity. Not only must we manipulate living organisms through science and engineering to create commodities, we must also manipulate the Anthropos through cryptoeconomic engineering.
This new cryptospheric ecotechnic cybernetic system will revolve around a cyber-physical environmental intelligence. This transhuman technosphere of 15 minute city ecoregions will adopt a sustainable economic welfare system that will revolve around harvesting the body’s energy. You will be a collective of communities, a multitude of capital. We will combine biomimetics and thermoeconomics to economically rebalance the core-periphery dynamic. Xenocommodification: all money creation must have biophysical embedding—666. This thermalisation of thermoeconomics will be globally self-replicated.
In short: take the Mark of the Beast and become transhuman—embrace the techno-Beast system, because techno-animism is the way of the future!
These nerds want an economic system that revolves around the environment—a Social Credit Score System that will be linked to your Carbon Footprint and to the United Nations 17 goals of Sustainable Development. The ultimate goal is to tie this eco-economic system together with transhumanism—the merging of man and microchip…data capitalism (data totalitarianism).
Warning: “Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth. So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)
Implemento novo ai vai sendo o sider guerra 2025, partiu fazer umas carradas e dar inicio as ultimas safras do ano, logo logo dezembrão ta ai
the implements I prepared so as to facilitate giving Sonya water when she becomes weak as she can't drink by herself. But I didn't use that, because she had drunk water by herself until just before her death for luckily and fortunately. Sonya passed away by cardiomyopathy on the morning of October 6th, 2025. She was 7 and a half years-old.
Since its implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading, NS's roster of SD60Es has all but been absent from many of my jaunts trackside over the last several years. Last Spring, I had seen posts that the GoRail SD60E was working local service between Bellevue and Fostoria. A Sunday afternoon visit to Bellevue found this to be the case as NS L11 arrived from Fostoria around lunchtime, worked Moorman Yard, and then departed back to Fostoria in the evening. The train is seen here working its way through the Mini-Plant interlocking on the Sandusky District having picked up an SD40E in the yard.