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A new addition, I was finally able to find a Yamaha B-6 amp (the truncated pyramid on the second from bottom shelf) which I have wanted for a very long time (I know, I am a 'collector' :-)). At any rate except for dealing with an apparent problem in my power distributor this system is done. Very happy with the sound right out of the box, we'll see if it changes any with some time in.
The last locomotives purchased by the L&N were SD50s, but they were all delivered in Seaboard gray. They did, however, retain some of the L&N subtleties such as nose mounted headlights and marker lights. For a kid like me in '83, they were a real shock. Seeing these big matched sets pulling exhaustingly long coal trains was the final end of the Louisville & Nashville railroad forever. They always seemed to come in sets of three and always followed by a mile of coal hoppers. I have built a Seaboard SD50 before, but it passed back into the brick long ago. I knew this time around I would have to do it right and build a 3 unit lashup of these 3500 hp brutes. I'll get back to you on that mile long string of hoppers.
2011.09.21
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麻雀格闘倶楽部で時間を潰しながら電車の運行再開を待つ…
iPhone 4,Hipstamatic,TiltShift Generator,Lo-Mob
So to my annoyance, Bryan has sold all my Canon gear and bought all Nikon stuff *rolls eyes*. The reason being, is that he wants to use the awesome 14-24mm landscape lens from Nikon, and since I needed a full frame camera anyways, he bought the D700 to go along with it.
This was taken with my new 35mm f/1.4 lens from Nikon. I love the lens, but hate using the Nikon body. I only hold the camera with my right hand to take photos, and because my hands are so tiny, I can't reach any of the dials on the Nikon camera. It is meant to be held with two hands, but since I have one hand on a doll all the time.... well you get the picture...
Anyways, I've missed using a full frame camera... I hate using cropped sensors. This lens also has nicer bokeh than the Canon 35 mm f/1.4 and has more aperature blades. The bokeh is much smoother on this lens. Love the lens, but hate the body... what can you do?
Norcal Waste Systems Inc. trucks prepare to depart for waste collection in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Golden Gate Disposal & Recycling, a unit of Norcal, is San Francisco's authorized collection company serving businesses in the Financial District and contiguous neighborhoods including North Beach, South of Market, South Beach, Fisherman's Wharf and the Marina District. Photographer: Chip Chipman/Bloomberg via Getty Images
We need to "uproot the system" - While I didn't ask the protester with the placard what precise meaning she wanted to convey, it seems obvious that we need to challenge the global corporate political system if we are to implement effective measures to combat climate change.
As part of coordinated protest action by tens of thousands of people worldwide, demonstrators took to the streets to demand urgent action to tackle the existential threat of catastrophic climate change. In London, several hundred protesters, many of them students, met in Parliament Square before marching to the Home Office. All part of the Fridays for Future campaign.
USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after returning to the U.S. in 1899, but was returned to active service in 1902.
She served until World War I as a training ship for naval cadets and as a floating barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1917, she was mobilized again for war service, patrolling the American coast and escorting transport ships.
Following the end of World War I, Olympia participated in the 1919 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, and conducted cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas to promote peace in the unstable Balkan countries. In 1921, the ship carried the remains of World War I's Unknown Soldier from France to Washington, DC, where his body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Olympia was decommissioned for the last time in December 1922 and placed in reserve.
In 1957, the U.S. Navy ceded title to the Cruiser Olympia Association, which restored the ship to her 1898 configuration. Since then, Olympia has been a museum ship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now part of the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia is the oldest steel US warship still afloat. However, the Museum has been unable to fund essential maintenance for the old ship, and attempts to secure outside funding have failed. Therefore the current steward, under direction of the US Navy has put the ship up for availability to new stewards. It will take an estimated ten million dollars to put Olympia in a stable condition.
Olympia was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
As of 2012, Olympia's future was uncertain; repairs are desperately needed to keep the ship afloat. Four entities from San Francisco, California, Beaufort, South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, are vying to be a new steward, but it is a race against time due to the waterline deterioration of the hull. As the current entities are in competition for the ship, no significant repairs have been made, although the current steward has done some minor repairs. In reaction to this gap in coverage, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) has set up a fund repository which, if funds are raised, will be directly applied to immediate repairs of the vessel with the cooperation of the current steward. At the present time, March 2012, the NTHP is considering a triple application by the Naval Historical Foundation, the Historic Naval Ships Association, and the National Maritime Association to have Olympia placed on the NTHP's list of the eleven most endangered "places". The steward applicants from San Francisco (Mare Island), and Beaufort, S.C., have endorsed the application. Despite these positive steps, Olympia is in critical danger due to the lack of funds.
Since 2011, Independence Seaport Museum has renewed its commitment to the continued preservation of the Cruiser Olympia until the Transfer Application Process reaches its conclusion in summer 2014. The Museum has invested in extensive stabilization measures including reinforcing the most deteriorated areas of the hull, expanding the alarm system, installing a network of bilge pumping stand pipes (which will provide greater damage control capability in the unlikely event of a hull breech), extensive deck patching and extensive repair and recoating of the ship’s rigging. Although still in need of dry docking and substantial restoration, the Olympia is in a more stable condition now than it has been for years. This work was made possible by donations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The U.S. Cruiser Sailors Association and many individual donors.
Of the six candidates that originally applied for stewardship of the cruiser Olympia, only two remain: an organization in California and an organization in South Carolina. The Museum continues to seek resources to preserve the ship for education and interpretation. The ship will remain open to the public seven days a week from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and until 7:00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.
The diagram describe the input-output flows in the production of wood-based products. From raw materials/energy/chemicals/water to waste/emissions/water. In between, the products!
Co-designed with Margherita Paleari
It is finally here and available to but now. order it here www.esemtee.bigcartel.com/
also in store at chrome and black in the next few days..
100 pre-orders are being sent out tomorrow morning so watch out for that post man!
Our long awaited System Tumours DVD is now ready for pre-order at a discounted price of £9.99 + shipping. Limited time only.. (Usual price £15 + shipping).
System Tumours is a Graffiti film based around the SMT crew.. contains endless trains, back to back daytime whole cars, racking, interviews, TV appearances and much more..
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A Cargo System for (Classic) Space Minifig scale models based on standard cargo units (similar to ISO Containers).
I’ve already used the SCU for some models in the last few months:
- A cargo Unit for my LL 926 Space Crane
- My Transportable Base
- An SCU transport box/cage as a garage for my Transportable Rover
A simple transport cage can carry 6-wide vehicles as a roll-on-roll-off carrier and up to 8-wide scooters or other vehicles and equipment. Transport boxes and other Space Cargo Units are easy to build in endless variations – Expect to see more, soon ;-))
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC
Captured using Firecapture
FPS (avg.)=42
Shutter=0.545ms
Gain=33 (33%)
Gamma=34
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Average with drifting cloud.
Out of 6750 frames captured, about 1850 used for processing. Final image enlarged to 150%.
Thats our way to get a well presentation for our minfigures.
There is a standard base for one minfigure wich can be connected with another one. Two bases are connected by the legs of a minifigure in the retral line. So you get two lines of minfigures with a great view of all of them.
More information and pics up: THE BRICK TIME
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Taken in abut 1960
Glasgow Corporation Tramways ‘Coronation’ cars on Route 29 at Maryhill Road, on a blustery day in around 1960, with car 1221 nearest the camera. There appear to be broken branches and other debris in the road..
The entire system closed down on September 4th 1962, and four of the 'Coronations' were preserved, along with several other types..
Restored from a faded grainy light-damaged original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Monday, April 4, 2022, as the Artemis I launch team conducts the wet dress rehearsal test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ahead of NASA’s Artemis I flight test, the wet dress rehearsal will run the Artemis I launch team through operations to load propellant, conduct a full launch countdown, demonstrate the ability to recycle the countdown clock, and drain the tanks to practice timelines and procedures for launch. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'No.19' (works No.1614 built in 1918) was captured in the rain on the moors near Minnivey Colliery on 27th August 1971 as it was returning to Dunaskin with empty tippler wagons. The wooden-bodied wagon was a semi-permanent fixture to the locomotive and acted as an auxiliary coal tender. Supplied new to the Dalmellington Ironworks, it was transferred to the National Coal Board Area No.5 on vesting day on 1st January 1947 and, apart from works visits was maintained and worked at Dunaskin Loco Shed serving the Waterside System throughout its commercial service. Purchased by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group in 1980, it remains at Dunaskin to this day.
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From my recent shoot with Leonie Jane, taken in a recently harvested corn field near Rivenhall in Essex.
Nikon D610
Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 Lens @ 60mm
F4.5 @ 1/320 second exposure
ISO 100
2 x Yongnuo YN568EX speedlites on full power to camera left using onboard diffusers.
Triggered using the Nikon Creative Lighting System to achieve High Speed Sync (1/320 second) to balance ambient light
The TOC says, you can ONLY thumb through ONE of these lusty Librarians! So who's decimals will you defile? 1) 100-199 2) 300-399 3) 500-599 4) 700-799 ?
NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the agency’s Artemis I mission is shown fully stacked – with NASA’s Orion spacecraft atop – inside Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on Dec. 13, 2021. Artemis I is the inaugural launch of SLS and Orion as an integrated system. With Artemis missions, NASA will explore more of the lunar surface than ever before, using what we learn on and around the Moon to prepare for missions to Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
The Jovian System!
The Planet Jupiter & Galilean Moons last night.
Seeing was boiling...so I went down to lower power to get Jupiter & the Nicely placed Galilean Moons. I ran the Chip ROI at 1280 x 400 @30fps to fit them all in.
Jupiter with Ganymede, Io, Callisto, & Europa. Turned out okay..C8 at Prime focus with the QHY5IIL CCD camera, (1800 frames) 600 frames each RGB, Stacked in Registax, then RGB combined in Maxim DL.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
Hey everyone!
So, I'm actually posting something quite new for the first time in a very long while and I actually feel good about it. It was my friend's (the one in the photo) mom's birthday yesterday and she invited me and a couple of other close people out for dinner to celebrate and it was actually quite fun. Drank so much champagne and ate too much and just had adult conversations with the other people there. I took this just before we left for the party and it was totally spontaneous. There's something about this that takes me back to my older photos and I really love my older photos so yeah, I might start focusing on taking photos like these.
Anyway, more exciting news. I'm going to be taking new photos this coming week and I'm so excited. I've been meaning to take my camera out for a spin because I've been feeling a bit rusty lately (in terms of taking photos, editing, updating etc) so yeah, new stuff coming
Thanks for the support (comments, views, favorites, etc) and for everything so far! I know that I haven't been updating that much but that'll hopefully change soon.