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Doesn't exactly look like Class One railroading, more like "run through the Jungle." A visit out to Porter Jct and Chesterton Friday yielded seven trains in about 90 minutes. The subject matter wasn't the greatest; we saw way too much NS black, but there were enough exceptions to make the 35 minute trip worthwhile. CSX's daily Barr Yard to Grand Rapids freight, Q326, comes through the grass as it leaves NS's Chicago Line and heads up the former Pere Marquette to Michigan to meet its counterpart, Q327, who would show up here about 45 minutes later.
Cars must yield is apparently the English translation.
Chemin de Stevenson-2018-D12-15: Day 12 of 12 – St Germain de Calberte to Saint Jean du Gard: Walking the Chemin de Stevenson (#GR70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail) in the south of France.
Conrail local YPMO-R1 heads back for Morrisville Yard as the sun sets over Morrisville, PA. The driver of the Jeep had come ripping down the road at a pretty good clip until he got a windshield full of EMD.
A face-off at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. What a fun place to explore - highly recommended!
Various night shots around Youngstown, Ohio.
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The winter of 2014 yielded quite a bit of snow, along with some sharp trains on Pan Am's west end. Here, a pretty late 22K crawls through Orange, Massachusetts with Norfolk Southern SD60E #6928 up front.
i wish i had pivoted to the left just a bit so as to not block any of the distant mountain, but this was the best shot i got of this scene. Also found in Middlecreek, along the spur off of the driving tour.
Good album, by the way.
Dotted around the country are a number of these "Yield Bunkers" left over from the cold war. They were designed to be maned if a true nuclear bomb threat appeared. The crew would stay in the bunker and wait for nuclear weopons to be deployed. Equipment including atmospheric pressure monitors would measure the yield of the bombs and therefore calculate the damage that may be expected. The crew where not expected to survive.
You will find in pain a joy which pleasure cannot yield, for the simple reason that acceptance of pain takes you much deeper than pleasure does. The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self.
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Q: Nobody has suffered more than saints.
M: Did they tell you, or do you say so on your own? The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen. A saint does not want things to be different from what they are; he knows that, considering all factors, they are unavoidable. He is friendly with the inevitable and, therefore, does not suffer. Pain he may know, but it does not shatter him. If he can, he does the needful to restore the lost balance -- or he lets things take their course.
Q: He may die.
M: So what? What does he gain by living on and what does he lose by dying? What was born, must die; what was never born cannot die. It all depends on what he takes himself to be.
Q: Imagine you fall mortally ill. Would you not regret and resent?
M: But I am dead already, or, rather, neither alive nor dead. You see my body behaving the habitual way and draw your own conclusions. You will not admit that your conclusions bind nobody but you. Do see that the image you have of me may be altogether wrong. Your image of yourself is wrong too, but that is your problem. But you need not create problems for me and then ask me to solve them. I am neither creating problems nor solving them.
Q: Is perfection the destiny of all human beings?
M: Of all living beings -- ultimately. The possibility becomes a certainty when the notion of enlightenment appears in the mind. Once a living being has heard and understood that deliverance is within his reach, he will never forget, for it is the first message from within. It will take roots and grow and in due course take the blessed shape of the Guru.
Q: So all we are concerned with is the redemption of the mind?
M: What else? The mind goes astray, the mind returns home. Even the word 'astray' is not proper. The mind must know itself in every mood. Nothing is a mistake unless repeated.
The bliss of reality does not exclude suffering. Besides, you know only pleasure, not the bliss of pure being. So let us examine pleasure at its own level. If you look at yourself in your moments of pleasure or pain, you will invariably find that it is not the thing in itself that is pleasant or painful, but the situation of which it is a part. Pleasure lies in the relationship between the enjoyer and the enjoyed. And the essence of it is acceptance. Whatever may be the situation, if it is acceptable, it is pleasant. If it is not acceptable, it is painful. What makes it acceptable is not important; the cause may be physical, or psychological, or untraceable; acceptance is the decisive factor. Obversely, suffering is due to non-acceptance.
Q: Pain is not acceptable.
M: Why not? Did you ever try? Do try and you will find in pain a joy which pleasure cannot yield, for the simple reason that acceptance of pain takes you much deeper than pleasure does. The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace. The perennial desire for pleasure is the reflection of the timeless harmony within. It is an observable fact that one becomes self-conscious only when caught in the conflict between pleasure and pain, which demands choice and decision. It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great destroyer of sanity in life. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become experience -- painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
Q: Do you advise shunning pleasure and pursuing pain?
M: No, nor pursuing pleasure and shunning pain. Accept both as they come, enjoy both while they last, let them go, as they must.
Q: How can I possibly enjoy pain? Physical pain calls for action.
M: Of course. And so does Mental. The bliss is in the awareness of it, in not shrinking, or in any way turning away from it. All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
Q: Why should pain be more effective than pleasure?
M: Pleasure is readily accepted, while all the powers of the self reject pain. As the acceptance of pain is the denial of the self, and the self stands in the way of true happiness, the wholehearted acceptance of pain releases the springs of happiness.
Q: Does the acceptance of suffering act the same way?
M: The fact of pain is easily brought within the focus of awareness. With suffering it is not that simple. To focus suffering is not enough, for mental life, as we know it, is one continuous stream of suffering. To reach the deeper layers of suffering you must go to its roots and uncover their vast underground network, where fear and desire are closely interwoven and the currents of life's energy oppose, obstruct and destroy each other.
Q: How can I set right a tangle which is entirely below the level of my consciousness?
M: By being with yourself, the 'I am'; by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
M: When the mind takes over, remembers and anticipates, it exaggerates, it distorts, it overlooks.
The past is projected into future and the future betrays the expectations. The organs of sensation
and action are stimulated beyond capacity and they inevitably break down. The objects of pleasure
cannot yield what is expected of them and get worn out, or destroyed, by misuse. It results in
excess of pain where pleasure was looked for.
Q: We destroy not only ourselves, but others too!
M: Naturally, selfishness is always destructive. Desire and fear, both are self-centred states. Between desire and fear anger arises, with anger hatred, with hatred passion for destruction. War is hatred in action, organised and equipped with all the instruments of death.
Q: Is there a way to end these horrors?
M: When more people come to know their real nature, their influence, however subtle, will prevail and the world's emotional atmosphere will sweeten up. People follow their leaders and when among the leaders appear some, great in heart and mind, and absolutely free from self-seeking, their impact will be enough to make the crudities and crimes of the present age impossible. A new golden age may come and last for a time and succumb to its own perfection. For, ebb begins when the tide is at its highest.
Q: Is there no such thing as permanent perfection?
M: Yes, there is, but it includes all imperfection. It is the perfection of our self-nature which makes everything possible, perceivable, interesting. It knows no suffering, for it neither likes nor dislikes; neither accepts nor rejects. Creation and destruction are the two poles between which it weaves its ever-changing pattern. Be free from predilections and preferences and the mind with its burden of sorrow will be no more.
Q: But I am not alone to suffer. There are others.
M: When you go to them with your desires and fears, you merely add to their sorrows. First be free of suffering yourself and then only hope of helping others. You do not even need to hope -- your very existence will be the greatest help a man can give his fellowmen.
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Excerpts from I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That is a compilation of talks on Shiva Advaita (Nondualism) philosophy by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a Hindu spiritual teacher who lived in Mumbai. The English translation of the book from the original Marathi recordings was done by Maurice Frydman.
Drawing by William Blake
When I took this image, I only noticed the wide open expanse in front of me...just a wonderful view looking across west Texas. Later I noticed the yield sign...and could only think of Pearl Jam and their 3rd album.
Conceptually, or in terms of offering instruction, the Yield is my favorite road sign. We might all do well to listen to its gentle advice.
I'm partial to Witter Bynner's interpretation of Chapter 43 of the Tao Te Ching:
"As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,
so to yield with life solves the insoluble.
To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
But this unworded lesson,
This easy example,
Is lost upon men."
And Robert Frost when not to:
"But yield who will their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight."
It's not uncommon to find outdoor extension cords in parking lots and along roadsides here in Fairbanks. People forget to unplug their cars and drive off with the cords dragging and eventually they fall off.
I picked this one up on my walk in to the university and hung it up on the Yield sign where possibly its owner later was reunited with it.
Yield Folks.
Strawberry Yields // The Foods We Eat : Eat your Fruits and Veggies // Canon EOS R + Canon 100 f2.8L Macro // Godox AD200 (3x)
2018 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 25, Y for Yield
I thought this squirrel was behaving very oddly stuffing loads of moss in its mouth and as it was right in front of one of our windows and my camera was right next me I just fired away shots, resulting also in this one where it seems to want to be scary ... Apparently it is the end of the mating season and the expectant mothers are gathering moss and other soft stuff to cosy up their nests for the young ones to come. So probably here's an expectant mother with her yield of moss !
So glad you all like the image, thanks to your views, comments and faves it has reached Explore, highest place #174 on Sunday 24 June 2018. Thanks so much !
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Word of the week: Spirit
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Scilla yields blue pollen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pollen_sources
The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive. Bees mix dry pollen with nectar and/or honey to compact the pollen in the pollen basket. Dry pollen, is a food source for bees, which contains 16–30% protein, 1–10% fat, 1–7% starch, many vitamins, but little sugar. The protein source needed for rearing one worker bee from larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen. An average bee colony will collect about 20 to 57 kg (44 to 125 pounds) of pollen a year
Apparently, the honey can get a certain hue based on the pollen sources.
However, not quite like in this story:
futurism.com/day-honey-tuned-blue
Bees were near a bio gas plant and waste from manufacture of M&Ms was stored out in the open. A real feast for them and made for some exciting colour honey.
Eventually, it was discovered that the bees had been feasting on the shells of colorful M&M. As it turns out, just 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away from the beehives, Mars had a biogas plant that was processing waste from producing M&Ms. After the plant discovered the problem, they rectified it by cleaning and covering all of the outdoor containers that the M&M waste was stored in.
As an interesting (and unfortunate) aside, the strange colored honey isn’t technically honey. This is because, in order to produce honey, bees collect nectar from flowers. And since the M&M concoctions came from non-floral sources, it’s not really honey. Why is this a problem? Because the colored honey didn’t meet France’s standards of honey production (as it was not obtained from the nectar of plants), and so it could not be sold. This is rather bad news for a region that produces tons of honey annually.
Dienstag, 13. August 2019, nachmittags. Rheinufer am Fischtorplatz. Eine grandiose Kombination von Wolken verschönerte den Augusthimmel über Mainz und dem Rhein für einige Zeit. (PMZ1689)
The banks of the river Rhine close to Fischtorplatz in the city of Mainz, county of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the afternoon of August 13, 2019, impressive cloudscapes in the skies above the river yield a picturesque scenery.
That's the name of this mural seen in front of The High School of Art and Business in Corona, Queens, New York.
From the website of "Groundswell NYC":
"In collaboration with artists Yana Dimitrova and Olivia Fu, 16 youth muralists created a new mural for the exterior of the High School for Arts and Business that speaks both to the importance of livable streets and the multiple roads leading to success for New York City youth. Yield in the Name of Creativity visually combines the idea of safe streets, especially around a public school, with an illustration of lifes many pathways to success. The design includes winding roads and an eye watching over the dangerous intersection where the mural is located. Also featured in the mural are two children who represent the dual business and arts focuses of the high school."
As seen in "Gothamist," 1/23/23: gothamist.com/news/extra-extra-pandemic-era-subway-cleane...
Taken 6 minutes after sunset, looking from southeast to southwest. Perhaps with more clouds, it would have been more colorful?
Picture of the Day x 2
Yep, this is my (left) eye. It really wasn't easy taking this since my new camera (Nikon D5100) refused to AF with my Tamron 90mm macro lens in live view for some reason, so MF it was...doh! Other lenses, including my Sigma 18-200mm work just fine in live view and in normal use i.e. composing using the viewfinder.
NEW: Here's a short HD video clip of the same eye, with the pupil showing slight movement in real time.
My first impressions of the camera are very positive. The resolution is astounding and the performance in low light is quite exceptional. Images taken at ISO 800 with my previous D60 were just about useable but this image was taken at ISO 2000 and the detail remains. The noise level is still 'acceptably' low at ISO 4000 (and slightly above) enabling more 'keepers', which is what this game is all about to me. I was going to upgrade to the D7000 but with the ongoing backfocusing and lens compatibility issues I decided to save £300 and get the D5100 which has the same sensor and low-light performance; exactly what I wanted. It's missing a few tricks but the raw image quality (excuse the pun) at this price point more than makes up for it.
Images on the D5100 LCD screen look fabulous but seem to lack vibrancy on my Vaio X-black laptop LCD, relative to the D60/laptop LCD combination and appear significantly desaturated. I may need to calibrate my screen or investigate colour profile issues. Maybe the screen can't reproduce the colour information the sensor is capable of capturing??? Anyway, a superior (temporary) monitor yielded superior image quality, closer to the original image on the camera; it's just harder to judge the actual colours most people will see now! Does this image seem desaturated or flat?
Apologies for the essay and now I've left it too late to get to your streams tonight but I will do over the weekend!
NASA image release November 12, 2010
Hubble's Dark Matter Map: Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars.
Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe's mass. Hubble cannot see the dark matter directly. Astronomers inferred its location by analyzing the effect of gravitational lensing, where light from galaxies behind Abell 1689 is distorted by intervening matter within the cluster.
Researchers used the observed positions of 135 lensed images of 42 background galaxies to calculate the location and amount of dark matter in the cluster. They superimposed a map of these inferred dark matter concentrations, tinted blue, on an image of the cluster taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. If the cluster's gravity came only from the visible galaxies, the lensing distortions would be much weaker. The map reveals that the densest concentration of dark matter is in the cluster's core.
Abell 1689 resides 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. The image was taken in June 2002.
Read more about this image here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/dark-matter-map...
Image credit: NASA, ESA, D. Coe (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Benitez (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain), T. Broadhurst (University of the Basque Country, Spain), and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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