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“Tao Te Ching” ―Lao Tzu, 4th c. BCE
“If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
Vincent: ...how i love her.
FOR THOSE OF YOU, WHO DOSENT UMDERSTAND THIS..:
Vincent tried many times, to write a letter for his love. But he couldn't write it, so she would understand. And then he just gave up, and fellt asleep in all the failed letters. o.o
"Masterpiece"
Spending so much time at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum, one will really begin to appreciate everything in their collection, not to mention the facility itself. Everything from the extraordinary to mundane will find its way into your mind and heart. I must admit that in my years of steam locomotive research and enjoyment, the Nickel Plate 700's did not strike me. For whatever reason, they just didn't click with me. I'm not sure what it was, but obviously, that's changed now.
Cale and I modeled 765 way back in 2017 when we were still figuring out Brick Model Railroader. It took some convincing, but we eventually decided that Nickel Plate Road 765 would be our first collaborative steam locomotive model. We had a running model that needed some adjustment, but quickly became disinterested in the project due to external factors. We were never quite happy with where we left this project, and vowed to each other that we would return to the model some day to do it again, properly.
Several years later, in late October 2021, and on a whim, I laid out a scaled wheelbase in stud.io, just to see what it would look like. I left the file alone for a couple more months until the Holiday season of 2021. I began thinking about a Nickel Plate Berkshire running around a Christmas tree, inspired by the amazing "Travel Refreshed" speculative project:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mU6jVcv4w&ab_channel=FortWa...
This set my mind racing with thoughts of the late 1940's when large mainline superpower led "hotshot manifest" trains through the heart of America. If there was ever a perfect depiction of postwar steam railroading, it was this, and the Nickel Plate Road was the poster child.
The Nickel Plate Road connected the farms of the Midwest in St. Louis and Chicago to Buffalo in the east. The road took a fast, level route along the southern edge of the great lakes. A direct competitor to the New York Central, it was purchased by the Vanderbilts in an effort to remove competition. As such, the line was never optimized and operated with older and slower equipment. The Nickel Plate was purchased by Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen, brothers from Cleveland who had controlling interests of several other roads including the Chesapeake & Ohio, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Pere Marquette, Erie, and more. The "Vans" would lead efforts to completely transform the Nickel Plate into the powerhouse bridge road it is remembered as today.
One of those efforts included the creation of the Advisory Mechanical Committee (AMC), which served as a design bureau for the roads under control of the Vans. One of the first projects for the AMC was the design of the C&O T-1 class 2-10-4 engines, the largest two cylinder steam locomotives when built. Continuing in efforts to rejuvenate the Nickel Plate, president John Bernet assigned AMC officer William Black the task of designing a super-power locomotive. The result was the Nickel Plate S class of 2-8-4, built by ALCO Schenectady in 1934. The AMC, capitalizing on their winning formula for the T-1, maintained the factor of adhesion just above 4 while scaling down the rest of the locomotive: eliminating the fifth pair of 69" drivers and creating a locomotive with 70% of the tractive effort and 70% of the weight. Unbeknownst to Bernet, Black, and the AMC, they had just captured lightning in a bottle.
To truly appreciate why the 700's were such good locomotives, the operating mentality of the Nickel Plate must be understood. The road was a masterpiece of engineering, maintaining a very flat right of way along the mainline, running shorter but faster trains handling bridge traffic over the line. Operating conditions like these coupled with the high-horsepower 700s, there has hardly been a more perfect match of locomotive and railroad. The Berkshires were so effective and loved, the Nickel Plate laughed away EMD diesel demonstrators multiple times until the end of steam in 1958. Even still, several of these locomotives were stored serviceable in anticipation of a traffic spike that never occurred.
763, part of the third batch of Berkshires in total (S-2 class) and second batch from Lima (Works #8671), was one of these locomotives. Officially retired a few years after the end of steam, it stayed in Conneaut, Ohio until 1966 when it was purchased by the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. 763 remained in Roanoke for several years until it was towed to New Jersey for inspection to pull the American Freedom Train, but other locomotives were selected., and 763 returned to Roanoke. Ohio Central and Age of Steam founder Jerry Jacobson purchased the locomotive from the museum in 2007, returning the engine home to Ohio. It is currently stored inside the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in stall 4, a regular favorite part of any regular public tour.
All that to say: I never expected to have such a deep, genuine understanding and appreciation for these engines. It says a lot when someone can connect with a piece of machinery in such a way, and gain understanding of its purpose and reason for existing. The 700s were truly magnificent machines.
So, in deciding that I was going to model one of these amazing locomotives, I began working in stud.io, and over the course of several months, I came up with what must have been at least a dozen iterations of the rough shape of the engine solely to achieve "the look." With 765 currently operating and with countless fans of the locomotives, the 700's are well recognized and people are going to be able to pick out the details, so any model of one has to be done properly. Once I had the correct shape and proportions, I filled in gaps and rebuilt section after section until I had a completed digital model in June of this year. By then, I had just seen 765 operate in person for the second time and was feeling inspired, so work on the custom wheels and connecting rods progressed alongside. Refining, trial, failure, adjustment, and testing continued until December 2022 when I completed the physical model. Naturally, I had to model 763 specifically, being the preserved example at Age of Steam.
Under the hood this model is identical to my Mohawk: a pair of Power Functions L motors geared 1:1 driving the third axle, each operating from its own Power Functions IR receiver, and powered by a Tenergy 7.4v 2200 mAh battery. 763 operates smoothly and without issue thanks to the drive train design and high-quality printing of the wheels, rods, and valve gear. Drivers and trailing wheels designed by me and printed by Rob Hendrix, all rods and valve gear designed by me and printed through Shapeways. All artwork was faithfully recreated by Cale Leiphart. Decals printed by OKBrickWorks and UV printed number boards and bearing caps are from Richard Glatter. Thank you all for your help with this project.
Having completed and published Buffalo Creek & Gauley 13, Morehead & North Fork 12, and now Nickel Plate Road 763, my Age of Steam collection grows. Those who know me personally understand that I'm not one to brag about my work. However, I feel I must say that I think I've outdone myself with this model. I would say this is the most new, ground-up design of locomotive I have built in a while. I've achieved detail and accuracy that I haven't seen on even some traditional scale models, and it all works together to make 763 perhaps my best model yet. A masterpiece of a masterpiece, if you will.
As 2022 winds down, I'm elated to publish this locomotive and check it off the list. As I mentioned earlier this year, I've had a lot in progress recently so wrapping something up feels fantastic. There's a bit more in store for the immediate future, but we'll get to that later.
As always, thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone for their support of my work through comments, questions, and compliments. It is always sincerely appreciated and I am thankful to be a part of such a fun community.
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utq-QdMlnk&ab_channel=GlennH...
Glenn
I understand that today the Lockheed C-130H Hercules was retired from Belgische Luchtmacht/Belgian Air Force service. Here CH-08 arrives at RAF Fairford to take part in the static display at the 2016 Royal International Air Tattoo.
. ... To understand the lichens is not given to all people... It's an astonishing world.... Even specialists lose their Latin... I've passed several years to study only a group of species (the group cladonia)... This had allowed me to understand the origin and nature of living behavior...
. ... Comprendre les lichens n'est pas donné à tout le monde... C'est un monde étonnant... Même les spécialistes y perdent leur latin... J'ai passé plusieurs années à étudier seulement un groupe d'espèces (le groupe "cladonia")... Cela m'avait permis de comprendre l'origine et la nature du comportement vivant....
Quite understandably the Coventry municipal fleet was well stocked with Daimler buses . . . until there was a little upset caused by an order for competing Atlanteans rather than home built Fleetlines.
Here though, Clem has caught VWK 264, a 1958 Metro Cammell 60 seater CVG6 from the previous generation to the above debacle, resting outside Red House Motor Services office. Soon after he took this photo, the Coventry operation wall fall under the West Midlands PTE unbrella, something which never seemed to sit particularly well with the good citizens of the city.
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Lisboa, 2013
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Day Whatever:
I'm Starting To Hate Showing Anything I Create To People.
They Don't Get It.
They Worry About Me.
And When I Try To Explain My Reasoning, They Suspect A Cover-Up.
Well Fine.
Think What You Like About My Art.
I Like My Art That Makes You Think.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
Everybody understands and agrees the beauty of Manakins. One quick look on the bird is enough, you don't even have to see them dance (in Ecuador I saw Red-capped and Club-winged Manakins dance). They just got the looks!
Yes, you've read it well! Manakins dance. They're famous because of this; just check youtube with the words "moonwalking bird".....
"Try to understand why
Don’t get so close to change my mind"
Photo, Model & Edit: me
Concept: me
Taken on February 19th 2009
PADDY: “I don’t understand why Daddy insisted that all three of us take Cabbage for a walk today.”
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “I don’t either, Paddy.”
SCOUT: “Well, it’s a beautiful spring day for it at least.”
CABBAGE: “Woof! Woof!” *Runs off across the lawn.*
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “Oh Cabbage! Cabbage come back!”
PADDY: “Too late! He’s gone!”
SCOUT: “But look Paddy and Cousin Paddington, he has stopped at something on our lawn!”
PADDY: “Goodness Scout! What is it?”
SCOUT: “I don’t know, but it looks like a picnic!”
PADDY, COUSIN PADDINGTON and SCOUT hurry over to where Cabbage has stopped.
CHIPPY: “Hullo chaps!”
PADDY: “Hullo Chippy! What are you doing out here?”
DADDY: *Appears from behind a rosebush.* “Surprise Paddy, Scout and Cousin Paddington!”
CABBAGE: “Woof… woof woof!”
CHIPPY: “Daddy thought the weather was so nice that it was time for a teddy bears’ picnic on the lawn and he wanted to surprise you! He thought I might enjoy it too!”
PADDY, COUSIN PADDINGTON and SCOUT jump up and down with excitement and delight.
PADDY: “Oh thank you Daddy! You certainly surprised us!”
COUSIN PADDINGTON: “Yes you did Daddy! Thank you!”
SCOUT: “Are those, jam fancies, Daddy?” *Eyes off jam fancies longingly.* “Grumby tummy Daddy! Grumbly tummy!” *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
PADDY, COUSIN PADDINGTON, SCOUT and CHIPPY: “We love you Daddy!”
CABBAGE: “Woof! Woof… woof!” *Snuffles.*
DADDY: “And I love you all too! Now come sit, eat some jam fancies and I’ll pour some tea.”
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” on October 24th is “song title” where the image must portray the title of a song. Therefore, I chose one of my favourite childhood and adulthood songs: “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic”, which is a famous song consisting of a melody by American composer John Walter Bratton, written in 1907 with lyrics added by Irish song writer Jimmy Kennedy in 1932. It is still popular to this day and has been recorded by many artists over the last century including Henry Hall and the BBC Orchestra, Ethel Smith, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Jerry Garcia, John Inman, Anne Murray and my favourite version performed by a band called the Palm Court Orchestra who specialise in playing Edwardian light music in a palm court orchestra style.
If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise!
If you go down in the woods today, you'd better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain,
Because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic!
Every teddy bear who's been good is sure of a treat today!
There's lots of marvellous things to eat and wonderful games to play,
Beneath the trees where nobody sees they'll hide and seek as long as they please:
That's the way the teddy bears have their picnic.
Picnic time for teddy bears!
The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today.
Watch them, catch them unawares and see them picnic on their holiday.
See them gaily gad about:
They love to play and shout,
They never have any cares!
At six o'clock their mummies and daddies will take them back home to bed,
Because they're tired little teddy bears!
If you go down in the woods today, you better not go alone!
It's lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home,
For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain,
Because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic!
This beautiful nursery tea set is made by the Shell China company in the 1910s. It features six cups, saucers (not all the set is being used today) as well as a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, all gilt and featuring different nursery rhymes including: "See Saw Margery Daw", "Jack and Jill", "This Little Pig Went to Market", "Taffy ws a Welshman", "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", "Little Jack Horner", “Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake”, "Old Mother Goose" and "I Saw a Ship a Sailing" amongst others. It is the prequel set to the Shell China nursery and faerie tale tea sets I have from the 1920s and 1930s. The designs are very Edwardian and the set is made up of smaller pieces. There are also doll (bear) sized tea spoons which are sterling silver salt spoons, and the spoon in the “Old Mother Goose” sugar bowl is an Eighteenth Century sterling silver mustard spoon.
My Paddington Bear came to live with me in London when I was two years old (many, many years ago). He was hand made by my Great Aunt and he has a chocolate coloured felt hat, the brim of which had to be pinned up by a safety pin to stop it getting in his eyes. The collar of his mackintosh is made of the same felt. He wears wellington boots made from the same red leather used to make the toggles on his mackintosh.
He has travelled with me across the world and he and I have had many adventures together over the years. He is a very precious member of my small family.
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
Cousin Paddington is a recent visitor to our family. Travelling all the way from London, he was caught in transit thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, so it looks like he is stopping with us for a while. The more I look into his happy, smiling face, the more attached I am becoming to him.
Chippy the monkey came to live with me when I was four. His name is derived from his innards, which are broken chips of hazelnut shells. He was made in America some time in the mid Twentieth Century. He features beautiful brown glass eyes, a felt face, hands and feet. He was given to me by one of my Grandfather's friends who worked in a small high street toy shop which sold a mixture of new, vintage and antique toys. Chippy was vintage at the time, and had been well loved prior, so with a few holes, some worn plush and patches, he was too worn to be sold, but my family friend knew that my gentle nature and respect for my toys meant he could find a new home with me for a long time. All these decades later, she was proven right, for he still lives with me; a bit more loved, a bit more worn and with a few more patches. He also has some red chalk marks on his right hand which I remember putting on him by accident when I was six! He wanted to draw a rose on my chalkboard and I helped him do it!
Cabbage is Paddy's Pug Dog. He was a gift to Paddy from a friend who also likes Pugs. He is fiercely loyal to Paddy and Scout, but seldom stays around long enough to have his picture taken, as there are always new adventures to sniff out.
I understand the practicality of activewear and pants/shorts for women running casual errands. The comfort and convenience are hard to beat.
Sure, I own some jeans and leggings, but I almost always prefer a dress when in public: day or night.
Here I am at a shopping mall - all dolled up.
Part of me knows I'll act the part more authentically if a greater effort is put into presentation. My costume is a confidence booster that reminds me to act ladylike.
Also - I've plenty of other opportunities to wear sport/casual clothes when not Nora.
People may think my look is old school. I prefer to think I'm starting a revival trend.
Fashion is cyclic, so it's only a matter of time before dresses and skirts make a comeback.
Right?
Hope so....
Abstract
To understand the evolutionary significance of geographic variation, one must identify the factors that generate phenotypic differences among populations. I examined the causes of geographic variation in and evolutionary history of number of trunk vertebrae in slender salamanders. Batrachoseps (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Number of trunk vertebrae varies at many taxonomic levels within Batrachoseps. Parallel clines in number occur along an environmental gradient in three lineages in the Coast Ranges of California. These parallel clines may signal either adaptation or a shared phenotypically plastic response to the environmental gradient. By raising eggs from 10 populations representing four species of Batrachoseps, I demonstrated that number of trunk vertebrae can be altered by the developmental temperature; however, the degree of plasticity is insufficient to account for geographic variation. Thus, the geographic variation results largely from genetic variation. Number of trunk vertebrae covaries with body size and shape in diverse vertebrate taxa, including Batrachoseps. I hypothesize that selection for different degrees of elongation, possibly related to fossoriality, has led to the extensive evolution of number of trunk vertebrae in Batrachoseps. Analysis of intrapopulational variation revealed sexual dimorphism in both body shape and number of trunk vertebrae, but no correlation between these variables in either sex. Females are more elongate than males, a pattern that has been attributed to fecundity selection in other taxa. Patterns of covariation among different classes of vertebrae suggest that some intrapopulational variation in number results from changes in vertebral identity rather than changes in segmentation.
Elizabeth L. Jockusch
Evolution
Images in this gallery were captured by:
Mark Smith M.S. Geoscientist mark@macroscopicsolutions.com
Daniel Saftner B.S. Geoscientist and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com
Annette Evans Ph.D. Student at the University of Connecticut annette@macroscopicsolutions.com
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Happy environment day! It is vitally important to understand that the responsibility of preserving and protecting it falls on us, due to its fragility and importance in all forms of life. All action in favor of this is significant, from the simplest. Let's become aware and take care of it, so that we can marvel at it for a long time to come! Photo of the front moraine of the Exploradores Glacier, an area in constant change due to the movements of this
I don't understand why I didn't think of this sooner!! I have been wanting to replace my little rocker with a reading chair for my office for over a year, but haven't been able to find one I like. Today I traded my little rocker for my mother's comfy accent chair that she never uses!!! It was a win win for both of us and the chair looks amazing!
Black kite uses fire by Su_G': entry in Spoonflower's 'Birds of Prey Wallpaper' Design Challenge. © Su Schaefer 2023
My design features the Black Kite, a tool-using Australian bird that spreads fire to hunt prey. Aboriginal traditions, across multiple groups in different areas, portray birds of prey as animals which carry fire… and field research has now confirmed this for black kite, brown falcon. Some say people learned from birds. For more, see sevenages.org/environmental-issues/birds-of-prey-in-austr...
Shown as a wallpaper mockup c/o Spoonflower.
Sorry that the new voting system still (sigh) has bugs... www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/Birds of Prey Wallpaper is the link for voting - generally open for one week only.
BUT be warned! There are about 950 entries, some of which are not very visible in the low quality rendered wallpaper mockups (those actual designs I checked are of much higher quality).
If you do feel reckless and decide for the "new and exciting" voting experience please let me have some quotable quotes re what worked and what didn't so I can pass them on to Spoonflower. Thank you! :-)
But I understand if that's too much.
[Black kite uses fire by Su_G_wallpaper_mockup]
So I understand this is kinda a crummy picture. But, it does show some major progress that I’ve made to the 747! The nose is one of those bits that is tricky. Really tricky. This has taken WEEKS just to get to this point. And it’s not even to it’s completed state. However, this is the general design I want to go with. I wanted to use wedge bricks and curved slopes for as much of the nose as I could and am happy that I’m able to incorporate one a couple of those larger 3x10 blue wedge bricks. I really didn’t want to use tapering or stepping especially on a plane with almost no studs or harsh lines on it. Speaking of harsh lines, I know what you’re thinking. That transition looks awful! But, do you really think I would let that slide? I will be smoothing out that transition later when I send these parts to get printed so no worries. Some of the odd colored parts are also temporary and are just being used as placeholders. More to come!
I understand this bird is a bit on the decline.
www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Brown_Thras...
The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unit of Gateway National Recreation Area
I have dreamed of taking this photo for a very long time, but given its difficulty in taking it, I have always put it off.
I had been studying the ideal conditions for shooting for years.
Now I will tell you how I made "Rosso Ciriaco".
First of all you need to know the exact moment when the Moon rises, taking into account atmospheric refraction and the moon phase in primis.
Once this is done I have to look for a full Moon (at 100% - very difficult because we almost always see it practically at 98-99%) "pumped" with its coppery color emphasized by the diffusion of Raylight (vulgarly, the twilight light that passes through the gas of the Earth's atmosphere and meet the Moon).
Once I have calculated the exact moment and checked above all the weather conditions, I can understand through sites and apps where to post to insert a landscape or a subject in perspective in the shot (with the Moon in the background). In this case I was in Collemarino (20/10/21 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm).
The question now is: how did you get such a close-up view from Collemarino of the Ancona Cathedral? Simple (even if it actually isn't)! I took the photo with my telescope!
The peculiarity of the telephoto lens or telescope is to reduce the perspective effect between the various elements, so it is possible to mask or reduce the distance between various subjects within the frame.
Arrived a little early in the place studied previously, I mounted the telescope and through the adapters I inserted my reflex (you need to know, however, that the frame in the telescope is upside down, this to facilitate things, obviously I'm ironic).
The photo is the result of 2 single shots, subsequently processed, taken in the exact same position and with the same framing, one for the Moon (1/80 sec, ISO 1270) and one for San Ceriaco (5 sec, ISO 1600).
The focal length is calculated with the ratio between the length of my telescope (750mm) and its diameter (150mm), therefore f / 5.
You probably understand that school has started. Luckily it's weekend again, because tomorrow is a holiday in Groningen. But unfortunately I'm getting the feeling I'm getting sick..
These big buildings will become one building, they're going to make a something between both towers on the top, click here for more info.
When I was taking this photo, Arend Jan was taking some photos around there too, coincedence right?
Oh right and let's now talk about the photo :)
I used a damn lot of filters to get this shot. A ND110, ND8 and Cokin 121s (that's a graduated soft ND8 filter)
The picture turned out to be completly monchrome with orange tones and with out much contrast after 350 seconds of exposure..
I really like RAW :)
What a long story :)
That little guy was standing there for the longest time trying to make sense of the art piece to his right. Eventually he walked off, shaking his head.
There are so many photos of her... I feel a lot of you have watched both of us change and grow over time :)
marie von ebner-eschenbach
when i was young, i loved discovering nature - picking leaves, blowing dandelion seeds, laying in the grass.
now that i'm older, i completely marvel in it. i stared at these little burning bush fruits for half an hour one day.
10/16/08 - I was so tired. My day was long and I came home and crashed. That is all. (:
I'm feeling happier and I'm no longer single! This is very alike to yesterday's with the window, but I love my bed being there.
sleep, sleep my darling << WHITE?!
[Explored #396!]
"Please sleep, my darling, sleep. Your cry for inspiration never reaches ears on distant stars. And every night, our lonely planet slides across the universe and I won't pretend I understand." - Plus 44.