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Destruction des silos à grains, Le Havre (France)
Ils n’étaient plus utilisés depuis 2003. Le chantier pour démolir les anciens silos céréaliers datant des années 1960 situés Chaussée Hermann du Pasquier, au Havre, a démarré.
Obsolete electronics for Crazy Tuesday
Peter collected such things for many years from TV sets and the like, and used them to create models etc. This is actually part of a Spitfire he tried to recreate - I always look at it and wonder when he is going to finish it!!
9031, 9025, 9027 lead T483G empty coal from PWCS Kooragang (Newcastle) to PN’s Greta Train Support Facility where it will be provisioned and then sent out to a coal mine for loading. Seen at Thornton at 1743 on Saturday 14th January 2023.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regrading whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.
Sovereign nations are obsolete. All forms of government are out of date. They lag behind technological development and modern ideas, such as Network states. These Network states will “transcend” nations. They will “regenerate the earth.” A variety of progressive ideas make up the concept of the Network state. These ideas form a dream of a new society. The Network state is a parallel society that will transform our world. It’s a “radical roadmap to replace democracy,” to “reshape society.” It’s a blueprint for the future. “The next Global superpower will be a Network state!” Corporations and billionaires are buying up land with the idea of forming independent countries (Network states) within sovereign countries. They want to establish their own governance. Divide and conquer! They want to operate outside the reach of government laws and oversight. They want to abolish the copyright system. They want to evade taxation. “We anticipate that the apparently solid power of nation-states currently devoted to mass democracy will splinter in tens of thousands of fragments into a system more reminiscent of the medieval period than the modern industrial age.” Like parasites, these Network states will kill the host country. Then we will enter the age of techno-feudalism, “the age of super-monopolies and super-exploitation.” The rich are playing a chess game for power. The peasants are but pawns.
They want to be kings of their Network states! Their feudal lands will be populated by peasants. People from around the world will migrate to them. Open borders! Quick, rubber-stamp all those work visas from the third world! The corporations and billionaires will have a constant flow of cheap slave labour. This system will “transition us beyond the confines of socialism and capitalism.” They don’t want socialist and capitalist governments impeding their ability to make money with roadblocks or red tape. They call their system Cosmo-localism. Woohoo! Cosmo-slavery! It’s a “post-capitalist” system. It “can be summarized with the acronym ‘DGML,’ or design globally and manufacture locally.” You got it, Network states are giant factories. Giant sweatshops! Network states will network with each other around the world. They sound a lot like the gulags. They are worldwide islands of slave labour camps. Or you could just call them 15-minute cities.
If you don’t think these things are happening, then watch Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plot for Rural America:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlcAx-I0oY
Revelation 17:12-13 “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the Beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the Beast.”
Bow to the techno-feudal king, the man of the hour, the Beast! His Cosmo-slave system will require a biometric ID-chip. The Beast, with his ten horns, will trample the whole earth. He will crush his subjects underfoot with war, famine, and plague. The gulags of hell are ever-increasing; its captives are in torment every hour.
I thought I would give you all a ring with this blast from the past!! This UK Phone Box resides in Antigua - a Very Beautiful Island where my son and daughter in law got married.
Revamped a bit in lightroom 5
For those who are not familiar with the Red UK phone box/booth - these used to be in every town and village but are not in use since the widespread use of the mobile phone. Some obsolete phone boxes are being utilised --- many are used by local communities as a place to swap books like a kind of mini library!!
a little fly landed here
looking around and with no fear
no birds around to eat him . . .
thought he
I'm safe to stay here
to rest for a while
so quiet and calm . . .
within natures wilderness
he stayed for some time
the light started to fade
it was the end of the day
he looked around
and then flew away :-)
Poem by www.flickr.com/photos/beverleyplaya/
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"Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage,
Polissez-le sans cesse, et le repolissez,
Ajoutez quelquefois, et souvent effacez".
Dans mon cas pour cette gare, ce n'est pas 20 fois mais plusieurs centaines de fois.
Contrairement à ce que l'on pense souvent, cette formule ne fait pas référence à l’Odyssée d’Homère, dans laquelle Pénélope, la fidélité personnifiée, refuse de reprendre époux malgré l’interminable absence de son mari Ulysse. Et qui, pour éloigner les prétendants, donne comme excuse, des années durant, jusqu'au retour d'Ulysse, la confection d’un large voile qu’elle se doit de terminer avant une éventuelle seconde noce. Mais démonte chaque nuit tout ce qu'elle a tissé durant la journée.
Il s'agit d'une citation de l'écrivain français Nicolas Boileau dit Boileau-Despréaux, extraite de "L’Art poétique", un poème didactique de onze cents alexandrins classiques paru en 1674, qui, à mon sens, garde toute son actualité, près de trois siècles et demi plus tard.
Appartenant au registre désuet, elle signifie : n'hésitez pas à travailler et retravailler inlassablement votre projet ou votre texte, à le peaufiner, à l'instar de l'artisan tisserand, qui ne cesse de remettre, autant de fois qu'il le faudra, son ouvrage (c'est à dire la pièce de tissu qu'il est en train de fabriquer) sur son métier à tisser.
"Make haste slowly, and without losing heart,
Twenty times on the loom hand over your work,
Polish it endlessly, and polish it again,
Add sometimes, and erase often".
In my case for this station, it's not 20 times but several hundred times.
Contrary to what is often thought, this formula does not refer to Homer's Odyssey, in which Penelope, fidelity personified, refuses to take a husband again despite the interminable absence of her husband Ulysses. And who, to ward off the suitors, gives as an excuse, for years, until the return of Ulysses, the making of a large veil that she must finish before a possible second wedding. But dismantles every night everything she has woven during the day.
This is a quote from the French writer Nicolas Boileau dit Boileau-Despréaux, taken from "L'Art poétique", a didactic poem of eleven hundred classic Alexandrians published in 1674, which, in my opinion, retains all its topicality, nearly three and a half centuries later.
Belonging to the obsolete register, it means: do not hesitate to work and tirelessly rework your project or your text, to refine it, like the artisan weaver, who does not cease to put back, as many times as he will need, his work (i.e. the piece of fabric he is making) on his loom.
Part of a turbine which is no longer in use The Krka Hydro Dam was the first one in Europe producing alternating currant and only the second one in the world. It was in operation from 1895 until the first world war.
52 in 2017 challenge #6 Equipment
An obsolete memory chip from an obsolete company (the National Semiconductor). A reminder of the good old days of electronics.
You can see the part number and the company logo inscribed on the right side of the chip.
” Please, turn the crank, we want to enjoy a carousel ride on top of this antique but obsolete Coffee Grinder”
Background created with Aluminium Foil
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Taken May 2, 2025 and uploaded for the group
CrAzY Tuesday #Obsolate
Gigaset GS290
ƒ/2.0
3.5 mm
1/20 Sec
ISO 1109
Two brass fasteners. These were once common place and used to hold together sheets of hole-punched paper.
Focus stack (25 images) Shot with two off-camera strobes (Leica SF 60/Leica SF C1 trigger) . Flash A modified with MagMod MagGrid, camera right 30 degrees above subject. Flash B mounted on boom, positioned above and in front of subject, angled at 45 degrees, modified with 32 inch white umbrella.
My attempt at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Obsolete".
Shot with a Friedrich "S-Coronar 100 mm F 1.9" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
“The slotted spoon can catch the potato.” – the final line of Jack’s Mother in the musical “Into the Woods” (1987) by Stephen Sondheim.
What Jack’s Mother says is true, but this spoon is not intended to catch potatoes. So, what kind of spoon is it that is pierced, yet is not used for straining? It is a sugar sifting spoon. Sugar sifters are small ladle shaped spoons which could be used at the table to take the powdered sugar from sugar bowls or sugar baskets and sprinkle it over fruit, puddings or cakes. During the Nineteenth Century refined sugar became cheaper and thus readily available to a larger section of the population. Sugar sifter spoons developed in the mid Eighteenth Century and are similar in form and size to sauce ladles, but with flattened bowl bases. The bowls were decorated with elaborate pierced patterns. This sifting ladle made in 1853 by the silversmiths firm Yapp and Woodward in Birmingham. John Yapp and John Woodward registered their business in 1845. At one stage they were partners with Joseph Willmore. They were renowned for making Visiting Card Cases. It is not usually possible to identify the artist or designer responsible for a particular design on a piece of cutlery, which makes this sifting ladle a delightful exception to the rule.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 1st of March is "one spoon and one fork". This is a nice, easy theme. However, me being me, I didn’t want to use just any old spoon and fork. Therefore I decided to use this beautiful sterling silver sugar sifting ladle with its ornate piercing and elegant handle. Of course, sugar sifting ladles are seldom seen these days and it is an archaic and obsolete piece of cutler from the Victorian age, so when it came to a fork, I decided to use an equally old fashioned and obsolete piece of cutlery: an ornately decorated rather trident looking silver pickle fork (used to withdrawing pickles from pickle jars to avoid getting oily fingers) with a sterling silver collar and a mother of pearl handle. Whilst both pieces are now obsolete, they are still beautiful objects that remind us of a time when even the most utilitarian items were beautiful works of art. I have placed them against a hand embroidered tablecloth from the 1850s, which also harks back to a slower and more genteel time when such handicrafts were common. As this is the case, I have given the image a slightly sepia tone to give that vintage feel. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
...on an obsolete credit card. The bokeh bubbles come from other raised numbers not seen and by using extension tubes on the macro lens. The edge is another raised part of the card. Remember when credit cards began using holograms?
Wanted to prevent any further hacking of this card. It’s really inactive. Truly. That’s an inked X mark in the right.
Hoping all stay safe!
Sheltering at home.
2023 Weekly Alphabet challenge
Pretty sure this truck model is no longer in production and is now obsolete!
"What we have here... is a failure to communicate." Obsolete and showing decades of exposure to the elements, this old pay phone in Galway's Eyre Square has turned from resource to eyesore.
Old vacuum tubes (valves). Mostly for television but the 6SA7 is a Pentagrid Converter tube used in very early superheterodyne radio receivers. For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: Obsolete.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
You might be lucky to snag a flashcube on ebay, they do come up time to time. There is a company (Lomography) that started making 110 film. There is a person I hear that 3D prints the 538 K battery with hearing aid batteries inserted into it but by large a total obsolete item at Kodak. RIP 1972-1976. A yard sale trophy, which works great for this theme, LOL.
Crazy Tuesday theme Obsolete. My BlackBerry and my ECLIPSE, MP3 player. Yes I keep everything for a future photo prop.😐
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The “Santa Maria Manuela” - altogether with other three former fishing schooners: “Creoula”, “Argus” and “Gazela” - is one of the last survivors of the Portuguese White Fleet.
Exception made to “Gazela”, which was wooden built in the turning to the XX century, these vessels share a lot of particulars, being “Creoula” and “Santa Maria Manuela” sister ships and “Argus” pretty similar to them. The sister ships were built side by side in the CUF shipyard at Lisbon in 1937 and “Argus” in Netherlands in 1938, to join the existing fleet and to participate in the cod fishing campaigns. “Creoula” is now a Sea Training Vessel owned by the Portuguese Navy. “Argus” was recently rescued from slaughter by Pascoal and waits a rebuilding like “Santa Maria Manuela”.
Empresa de Pesca de Viana kept “Santa Maria Manuela” in activity until 1963 and sold her that very year to Empresa de Pesca Ribau from Aveiro. During several years the vessel continued to operate on her original shape, suffering later on the 1960’s, important modifications dictated by technological innovations, introduced to cod fishing activity.
In 1993, despite the improvements, the vessel was still considered obsolete and given to slaughter, for demolition. Only her hull was preserved and that was the starting point of a long process that culminated on her recovery and in the return of the national identity patrimony that is “Santa Maria Manuela”, to her seas and to her people.
VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC.
It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
I still have this camcorder because I need to digitize a bunch of tapes. I have tried it and I have come to the conclusion that it is easier to pay someone to do it for me.
As I was about to upload my image I realized that the person before did almost the same thing. Oh well. I think 8mm preceded Mini DV.
For Crazy Tuesday theme "Obsolete Electronics"
I have an old Voigtlander camera that I have kept as a museum item. This weekend I saw this VW Beetle. It is made from old beer cans in Africa by a couple that helps recycle a fraction of the many tons of waste we make everyday.
My Mom moved recently and I found this, cleaning out her house. I just saw on a news story that cassette tapes are making a comeback. I'm not sure why.
For Crazy Tuesday theme "Obsolete"
From the lighting of a burner to the flipping of a switch and from automation to satellite navigation, lighthouses are supposedly obsolete. That's all fine and well on a placid sunset evening but I'll tell you this from my own experience: when tired, cold, and wet from a long stormy night on the water, you'll never see a sweeter sight.