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Incredible Russian model Sitorabanu in the Bugatti Veyron overlooking the nighttime Dubai Marina skyline.
R2 Unit on the planet Batuu at "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge". Disneyland, Anaheim, CA
"Uncle Owen, This R2 unit has a bad motivator." - Luke Skywalker
(Processed from an iPhone shot by T. Blair)
MOTIVATION
To succeed in the workplace, you need to be at your best, and you
can only truly be at your best when you are motivated to work.
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Aberdeen, Carolina and western MP15ac #1451 is motivated, it is a self starter. Yep self starter...I had no idea, standing on the road next to a quiet yard, this locomotive just started. I had no idea that a locomotive could be set up to self start. Most unnerving if you don't know and aren't expecting as there were no rail people around. The tag on the lower cab front has the decal in the next pic...I just hadn't seen it before it started. Guess the cab will be warm and the windows defrosted, lmao! Pic of the self start decal in link.
I think of this beautiful scenery of the distant mesas I will see from the walking path on Scenic to motivate me to walk daily. Best viewed large (not really best viewed in person!)
Italy, pizza, “Portobello”, thin pizza with a golden brown crusty border, outside crunchy, inside soft, topped with pizza sauce, buffalo mozzarella & grated Appenzeller cheese, Portobello mushrooms, rosemary.
Italian Pizza should be baked at temperatures between 360°C - 575°F & 426°C - 800°F, best in a pizza wood-fired brick oven by placing them on the very hot oven stone floor. If the oven dome has the above mentioned baking temperature, the oven floor will typically be cooler than that temperature.
📌...This very tasty variant of the brown mushroom came from America via the Netherlands to Europe, also known as a “Grill-Mushroom”.
The Portobello becomes a giant mushroom thanks to a special cultivation method. The mushroom has a large cap measuring 6 to 12 cm in size with a small stalk. The fins on the underside of the hat are brown in colour & clearly visible. The flesh is brown & very firm good for grilling, without the stalk also for stuffing & baked in the oven, also great as a tempura etc. etc.
📌…. a little slice of Italian pizza history..............
Etymologically, the term “Picea or Piza” first appeared in the Neapolitan dialect around the year 1000 & meant something like "push, jolt" & thus probably referred to the hand movement when lifting the pizza with a pizza turning peel out of the oven.
Tomatoes were first introduced to Italy from South America in 1522. At first the tomato was believed by the poorer peasants to be poisonous, fortunately they farmers overcame their doubts about tomatoes in the 17th century & started adding it to the bread dough,…focaccia was created & became the "gran, gran, gran mother" of today's pizzas.
Mozzarella had become available in Italy after water buffalos were imported from India in the 7th century, but its popularity grew very slowly until the last half of the 18th century. Like the growing acceptance of tomatoes, mozzarella cheese was slowly gaining ground too. But the cheese & tomatoes did not meet on a pizza until 1889 when Don Raffaele Esposito, an Italian tavern owner developed a pizza featuring tomatoes, mozzarella cheese & basil, components bearing the colours of the Italian flag. He named it "Pizza Margherita", after the Queen of Italy, Margherita Teresa Giovanni.
Italy unified in 1861, King Umberto I & Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889, legend has it that the traveling pair became bored with their steady diet of French haute cuisine & asked for an assortment of pizzas from the city’s Pizzeria Brandi.
In the late half of the 19th century, Italians migrated to North-America & with them their pizza bread recipe from Naples, replicating their trusty, crusty pizzas in New York & other American cities, relatively quickly, the flavours & aromas of pizza began to intrigue also non-Italians.
Beginning of the 20th century, Italian immigrants begun to open their own bakeries & were selling besides groceries as well pizza. The first documented United States pizzeria was Gennaro Lombardi’s, licensed to sell pizza in 1905 on Spring Street in Manhattan, a part known as “Little Italy” Lombardi’s, is still in operation today, however, no longer at its 1905 site, but has the same oven as it did originally. Pizza as we know & the world likes took the United States by storm before it became popular in its native Italy
Especially in the 50th, pizza’s popularity in the United States boomed & no longer seen as an Italian folkloric treat, it was increasingly identified as fast & fun food. Regional, decidedly non-Neapolitan variations emerged, eventually including California-gourmet pizzas topped with anything from barbecued chicken to smoked salmon.
Post-war pizza finally reached Italy & beyond their borders also influenced by the starting tourism. Like blue jeans, rock & roll, fast food etc. the Italians & the rest of the world picked up on pizza just because it was "Americano"…easy to eat, fast & tasty.
📍 …So actually pizza the way we like it is an "Italo-American" creation.
I personally like the pizza thin with a nice crunchy crust, fresh & hot with the particular flavour only a pizza right out of a pizza wood-fired brick oven has, sprinkled with a little oregano & a drizzle of Calabrian native olive oil, …but there is a pizza for each & everyone's age, taste & favours.
👉…One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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I've finally gotten myself motivated to clean out the largest storage closet in our house. Some of the "discoveries" were long forgotten- some were very amusing. Here are 2 wind-up swimmers found in the bottom of an old purse (????). During a break from cleaning, sorting, arrangement, discarding, preparing to donate (you all know the routine), I amused myself by watching these two swim in my kitchen sink... before they head-off to GoodWill for a child somewhere who is far younger than me (or is it I?) See photo that follows:
A moral-licensing-motivated improved rebuild of an old MOC out of the goodness of my heart for an online nagger pressing me for instrukshuns.
This was and is the last time I try to be nice to randos.
Explore Highest position: # 3 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007
(since we started tracking this statistic on April 19, 2006)
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Too hot these days around Spain,I thought a fresh portion of this yummy pineapple and yogurt, will do for me today...Wanna join?
“The more you are motivated by Love,
The more Fearless & Free your action will be.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
Germany, Hamburg / Shanghai, originally opened as a Chinese Tea House in September 2008 & built according to the architectural model of “Huxinting-Teahouse” in Shanghai, but after approx. two years closed in 2011.
Shanghai’s well-known traditional Chinese-style “Yu-Yuan Garden”, has a replica in the city of Hamburg next to the “Rothenbaum Chaussèe”, a version with about 80 % of the original Size of “Yu-Yuan Garden”.
The tea house nicknamed in Hamburg as the “Chinese Tea House” & served Chinese food & tea.
With the typical Chinese style pavilion & zig-zag bridges above the ponds, unfortunately without the Eurasian carps which are a must.
The tea instead being prepared the traditional way tableside, was prepared hidden behind the counter & served, the food far, far below standard, eve so the service crew was always friendly, it was no surprise that the place was not successful; however, the Tea House became a small landmark side for Hamburg & his sister city of Shanghai
December 2012 the Yu-Yan re-opened with a new concept by two separate institutions converting the location from a restaurant operation into a venue as meeting place for the university & could be rented also from associations, companies & individuals for various events. Main focus was being available to serve the German-Chinese exchanges, the Confucius Institute at the University of Hamburg eV to cooperate with the University of Hamburg Marketing GmbH.
After a few unsuccessful experiments the place was closed again, abandoned, weed, dust & dilapidation took over.
… 👉… now the good news on November 2019,
The Hamburg Yu Garden is current under extensive renovation & scheduled to be reopened by a new operator team in early 2020. The Shanghai tea house ensemble, which was built as a sign of the town twinning between Shanghai & Hamburg. From January 2020, the teahouse will once again open its doors to a broad public with cultural & tourism events & how it should be, with a high-quality gastronomic offer, thus again acting as an important location for German-Chinese exchange. The first events are already being carried out in a teahouse in a trial phase.
I wish all the best.
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
14 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
Mural tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle by SEF aka @sef.01, seen at 4808 South Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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I’m currently more motivated with trains, so don’t expect a lot of bus stuff, I still have thousands of pictures to upload so I may do them in “large batches” In the meantime 6124 crept up on me at the Old Steine the other day.
This one goes out to all my peeps that sometimes don't feel like going out and shooting. This one is for the brothers and the sisters, the mothers and the fathers, the next door neighbors, and the watchamacalits sitting up there on Capital Hill! And this one is especially dedicated to my main man... tommy...c! Word Tommy!
Why are you still sitting there looking at this lame photo?!?! Get off your ass and go shoot!
Lighting Info
- SB80DX at 1/2 power level and 24mm zoom in a 15-inch Lastolite Ezybox. Positioned camera-right about 4 feet from subject. (Key light)
- SB600 at 1/2 power level and 24mm zoom in a 43-inch Westcott reflective umbrella. Positioned on camera-axis about 5 feet from subject. (Fill light)
- SB600 at 1/4 power level and 24mm zoom gridded. Positioned camera-left behind subject about 5 feet. (Rim light)
- LP120 at 1/32 power level and 28mm zoom bare. Positioned inside the camera bag. (Rim light to highlight some of the contents of the bag... it doesn't do much, but it was better than everything in the bag going pure black)
- Cybersyncs.
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The Spirit of Lenfald:
Weight: 500 tons
Length: 85 feet
Beam: 22 feet
Depth of Hold: 12 feet
Burden: 140 tons
Top Speed: 8 knots
Crew: Fifty-five total: 25 sailors, 30 marines
Primary Armament: One large fore-mounted swivel ballista and two aft-mounted ballistas, all on fighting deck and equipped with anti-personnel, incendiary, and harpax (boarding) projectiles
Secondary Armament: Four mounted heavy anti-personnel crossbows, anti-boarding pole arms for slicing grapple ropes
This is the sign outside the gas station with the Open House I posted yesterday. Pentax 17, Kodak 5222 (Double-XX), Rodinal 1:50.
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*Make lists....
-Keeping track of your goals can help you budget your time wisely. But it can also aid you in seeing what you have already accomplished. By seeing progress with your goals, you will be more motivated to continue working towards them.
-Decide what kind of "to do" list works for you. What fits your lifestyle and schedule? Monthly, weekly, daily goals, etc? You don't want to over plan and feel bad about yourself when you don't have time/energy to get around to doing things on your list. So it's important to be realistic with yourself and your expectations. I personally find monthly goals work best for me since my schedule fluctuates, but I can still stay on track with getting things done.
-Keep other lists for more detailed tasks. For instance, say you want to wash a bunch of your dolls. Write "wash dolls" on your master "to do" list. But then have a separate checklist for each doll. This way you can keep track of who has or hasn't been cleaned. I do this with projects that can't all be done in one session, and need more time/attention.
-Write down any extra stuff you manage to accomplish in your set time frame. Sometimes we don't get around to everything on our lists because we get side tracked. By writing down the other things you did, you can still feel like you were productive.
-Break your lists down into categories. This will depend on what you want to accomplish with your doll collection. For me, I break my "to do" lists into four categories: Youtube, Flickr, "Dolly Maintenance," and "Extras." This enables me to make sure I'm dividing my time evenly between social media projects and things I need to do just for my dolls. It can also be a good way to see how certain tasks overlap. For instance, when my doll displays need dusting, it might be an ample time to film a collection video of all of them while they are off their shelves. This one task can actually turn into two different ones! Everyone's categories will be different. Perhaps you need to keep track of things you are selling, things you need to buy, dolls you need to clean, etc. It's also a good way to separate out your priorities--maybe some tasks are more important than others.
-Whiteboards can be a very handy way to write down very small, insignificant tasks that don't need real estate on your master "to do" list, but still need to get done. Sometimes I realize I need to re-shoot a photograph, or that a doll just got a new piece to her outfit. I will jot these notes down on my whiteboard as a quick reminder so I can take care of the task sooner. It also can be a placeholder for where I left off with editing, replacing photos, etc.
*Set small goals...
-Far too often we are over ambitious about what we want to get done. For instance, having a huge goal like wanting to reorganize ALL your doll stuff can be overwhelming. That's why having smaller goals that build up to the bigger one are more reasonable. For instance, if you want to reorganize all your doll stuff in the long run, start with one container, one type of accessory, etc.
-As you accomplish each smaller goal, you will see the progress towards completing the larger one. If you don't set realistic steps in place, then you will be too burdened and overwhelmed to do anything. It's better to do something small than nothing at all.
-Small goals will help you feel like you've achieved something, and will motivate you to keep taking the steps to accomplish your main, larger goal.
*Make it visually appealing...
-Let's be honest, we all like to look at pretty things. When a room, work space, or "to do" list is visually appealing, we are more likely to want to spend time with it. I like to surround my space with dolls and items that make me happy. As for my "to do" lists, I like to decorate the notebook they are in. Using different colors and fonts makes me enjoy writing and using my lists more.
-Don't over complicate things though! While I enjoy having an aesthetically pleasing "to do" list, I don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of time planning things...I'd rather spend that time working towards the actual goals. If you aren't a particularly creative person, or if you are like me and would rather actually do stuff than plan it, keep it simple. Using a notebook that is already visually appealing and not over decorating is a good middle ground.
-Be practical about what you need. Not all of us require a huge, fancy agenda/planner for our "to do" lists. If you need to carry it around with you or you don't have much space, keep your lists in a small book. I personally like to use sketchbooks, because I prefer to work without lines, and they are thin, but durable. They also are all blank, giving me the ability to create whatever I need out of the pages. But if you prefer to work in a book that already has pre-planned pages, than go for it! Tailor this to your specific needs.
*Stay organized...
-Set up things in advance! Since my "to do" lists are monthly, I will designate a page in my notebook for each month, and write my main four categories down in advance. This way I don't have to spend the time doing so each month. Rather, I can simply plan my goals quickly and get on doing them! So you can pre-plan sections for your day, week, month, etc...whatever works for you.
-Keep your lists in an accessible place. Nobody wants to dig under a pile of books and debris to get a notebook out. If you have the notebook or lists somewhere you can access them quickly on a daily basis, you are more likely to use the lists. There is no point in making lists or keeping track of your achievements if you aren't utilizing them regularly. I keep mine in a little slot on my desk, right by my computer. This is where I do most of my dolly computer work, and also it is in my doll room, where I complete many of my doll related tasks.
-Set aside time for cleaning and small tasks. Usually once a week I will go in my dolly room and pick up any debris leftover from projects. Even five minutes of this a few times a week can keep clutter under control. Sometimes it is as simple as putting books back in place, moving dolls off your work surface, sweeping the floor where some hair collected when you brushed your dolls, etc. The more often you do little tasks, the less deep cleaning you will have to do. Plus you can tackle very small tasks like dressing a doll, redoing someone's hair, putting away new stuff, etc.
-A clear space equals a clear mind. Nobody feels motivated when they have to climb over piles of junk or smell something icky. Have a special space that is clean and clear of debris to work on.
-Designate spots for projects. It's easy to make your desk or the floor a place to shove all the stuff you are working on, but haven't completed. I find that having a basket for dolls that need things done, a bin for mending, and a small case for clothes/accessories that were being worn by dolls that are currently being cleaned (or who just haven't been dressed up yet) is very handy. This prevents things from getting lost. Sometimes leaving a pile of doll clothes or a broken piece of their jewelry out can result in these things going missing. Just ask my Ocean Friends Kira where her fanny pack went after I left it out on the dining room table! Having designated spots can also prevent clutter on your main workspace. Somethings take longer to get around to doing, for instance mending clothes can be time consuming. Plus you don't have to worry about moving piles of dolls off your bed if you didn't have time to put them all back on display after dusting! Having a place just for these things ensures that you know where they are at all times, but these items aren't cluttering up your work area/mind.