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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.
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
Leica M6 (Demo Unit for Polyphoto S.p.A.) - Summicron-M 35/2 Asph
Kodak PLUS-X Pan Professional
Nikon Coolscan LS-30
L'hiver est bien là ! Froid humide, brouillard, ciel gris, plus une feuille aux teintes chaleureuses, les arbres transformés en baguettes de tambour...
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Winter is definitely here! Cold and damp, foggy, grey skies, not a single leaf in warm hues, the trees transformed into drumsticks...
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
Episodes from the History of Electricity.
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Benjamin Franklin (1750 - Lightning is electrical)
Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician (was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States), postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
In 1750 he published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. On May 10, 1752, Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment using a 40-foot-tall (12 m) iron rod instead of a kite, and he extracted electrical sparks from a cloud. On June 15 Franklin may possibly have conducted his well known kite experiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud.
Franklin's electrical experiments led to his invention of the lightning rod.
Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1781 - "Animal Electricity")
Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist and philosopher who lived in Bologna.
With his experiment he discovered that the body of animals is powered by electrical impulses. Galvani named this newly discovered force “animal electricity,” and thus laid foundations for the modern fields of electrophysiology and neuroscience.
Galvani’s contemporaries - including Benjamin Franklin, whose work helped prove the existence of atmospheric electricity - had made great strides in understanding the nature of electricity and how to produce it. Inspired by Galvani’s discoveries, fellow Italian scientist Alessandro Volta would go on to invent, in 1800, the first electrical battery - the voltaic pile - which consisted of brine-soaked pieces of cardboard or cloth sandwiched between disks of different metals.
Thomas Alva Edison (1882 - First Power Station)
Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company (today as General Electric) in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family. Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
After devising a commercially viable electric light bulb on October 21, 1879, Edison patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.
The company established the first investor-owned electric utility in 1882 on Pearl Street Station, New York City. It was on September 4, 1882, that Edison switched on his Pearl Street generating station's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current (DC) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London. The DC supply system provided electricity supplies to street lamps and several private dwellings within a short distance of the station.
Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name. More significant than the number of Edison's patents was the widespread impact of his inventions: electric light and power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries world-wide. Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.
Nicola Tesla (1891 - Tesla Coil)
Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla moved to New York in 1884 and introduced himself to Thomas Edison. Although Tesla and Edison shared a mutual respect for one another, at least at first, Tesla challenged Edison’s claim that current could only flow in one direction (DC, direct current). Tesla claimed that energy was cyclic and could change direction (AC, alternating current), which would increase voltage levels across greater distances than Edison had pioneered. In 1888, Tesla went to work for Westinghouse in order to develop the alternating current system. Westinghouse and Tesla in their design for the first hydroelectric power plant in Niagara Falls.
Around 1891 Tesla invented the Tesla coil, which is an electrical resonant transformer circuit. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits. In 1899 Tesla moved to Colorado Springs, where he would have room for his high-voltage, high-frequency experiments: Tesla was sitting in his laboratory with his "Magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts.
Tesla invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology, invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights. He also experimented with X-rays and gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication.
Western Europe's latest heat wave is supposed to abate tomorrow. Let's hope it does.
Sorry this is not a video. I don't do them much. But I am sure you get the idea. This young man had found out that a soccer ball will pick its altitude and then ride the water from a spout for at least a few seconds before losing its balance and falling to the ground. His audience liked watching this trick, and so did I.
The central plaza in this Alsatian village has numerous hidden water spouts and a fine drainage system. The village government turns on the spouts on hot summer days. All you have to do to get cool is walk onto the plaza and pick your spout. It's a ball, with or without a ball.
Location: Huningue, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's People.
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 ;-))
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.
Anne Rice's novels have, thus far, been turned into two films, "Interview with the Vampire" and "Queen of the Damned". As novels, I love both of these books, but I found their adaptations somewhat lacking.
What was not lacking, however, was Stuart Townsend's sex appeal in the latter. In honour of that, Kitti is listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=De4MX7lLaio&list=PLC5173DC41D... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu2pljo2VZM&list=PLC5173DC41D....
I've never been a fan of Linkin Park/Chester Bennington or Earshot, but they are two of the more memorable songs from QotD.
I know, Mister Clean's going to chide me again, but... I mean, listen, c'mon. I write horror. It's what I like. And this... this here has a red-blood-artery thing going on here. It just does! I can't help it. Stop throwing rocks at my head! Who stole my ice cream? *sob*
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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C'est une petite larve sur le bord d'un champignon lignicole.
Je suis fasciné par l'aspect de sa petite tête qui a une forme et une expression presque humaine.
Elle semble découvrir le vaste monde qui s'offre à sa perception.
J'aime la transparence de son corps sur lequel ont peut apercevoir un réseau tubulaire dont les extrémités aboutissent à la surface de sa peau. Sans doute son système respiratoire.
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It’s a small larva on the edge of a lignicole mushroom.
I am fascinated by the appearance of its small head which has an almost human shape and expression.
She seems to discover the vast world that is offered to her perception.
I like the transparency of his body on which can see a tubular network whose ends end at the surface of his skin. Probably his respiratory system.
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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ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (IR)
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
46.4K frames captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 2000 frames stacked in Registax
Wavlet Sharpened in Registax
Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
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!
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 ?
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
JoeyStarr has been a hip-hop musician for more than 20 years, once specially known for being one of the two members of the controversial, but talented, band "NTM". Time won or made him wiser.
He's mainly acting in family-friendly comedy movies now.
I'm quite sad I can't get a gray border around the D-pad. Revamp of an old MOC, and I think it's quite a bit better. Video
Shaniko History
As the five transcontinental railroad systems opened the United States to enormous economic growth from 1862 - 1893, the spur called “The Columbia Southern Railway” would open the eastern interior of Oregon for easier more profitable business. Papers were filed by the railroad company in 1897 to run track from the Columbia River at Biggs to a high grassland spot above the old stage stop of Cross Hollows. This was only to be a temporary terminus location and was decidedly named Shaniko.
Cross Hollows was operated by second owner, August Scherneckau from 1874-1887. He was well liked by the Indians, who could not pronounce his German name correctly. They called him 'Shaniko', thus the name chosen for the new and promising city. The Townsite Company bought the land from the third owner for $3,500 in 1899 as the railroad continued to lay track down through Sherman County. The Townsite Co. platted the town into thirty blocks. On May 13, 1900, the first train arrived to a few buildings and the tents that were pitched all over for the 170 or so people living in the infant town. The first wooden building built, a saloon, was operational.
Unfortunately, the railroad tracks could not to go any further than Shaniko due to terrain issues and the great railroad race of Harriman and Hill built tracks from the Columbia River along the Deschutes River, headed to Bend from 1908 to 1911. This put an end to the trek many grain farmers and livestock ranchers from the south previously made to Shaniko. The city, however, continued to meet many needs while approaching the slow decline. Most of the business district perished in a major fire in 1911; some never to be rebuilt. The people moved away, a few taking their homes with them. Though the railroad stopped service to Shaniko in 1942, people continued to live in the town.
Shaniko, Oregon is still classified as a Ghost Town even though people still live there. Once a place of legitimate community and commerce, it now survives as a shadow of its former existence. Ghost towns are categorized into three types: one still inhabited, one deserted, and one known only by the ground it once occupied.
With new interest in historic places in the 1960's, economic life began a slow revival. Today, the West lives on in Shaniko, as the community sees restorative changes and hosts events put on by the the City of Shaniko, Shaniko Chamber of Commerce and the Shaniko Preservation Guild. It’s a nice place to stay or just stretch your legs. The sunsets are beautiful and the sky can take you back a hundred years.
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
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.
As Mr. Einstein suggests, we all walk on a time-space curvature.
Pavement is elastic. The greater the weight, the deeper the distortion.
Weight is not a body-related cause, but knowledge (this is my vision of restricted relativity).
(Temporal and spatial distortions are optical illusions.)
(In all inertial systems, velocity of light is the same.)