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,13 Aug.2014 Air park HAMAMATSU,JAPAN
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My dear Sir---Yours of the 6th is received. I answer it only because I fear you would misconstrue my silence. What is our present condition?
We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices. In this they are either attempting to play upon us, or they are in dead earnest. Either way, if we surrender, it is the end of us, and of the government. They will repeat the experiment upon us ad libitum. A year will not pass, till we shall have to take Cuba as a condition upon which they will stay in the Union.
They now have the Constitution, under which we have lived over seventy years, and acts of Congress of their own framing, with no prospect of their being changed; and they can never have a more shallow pretext for breaking up the government, or extorting a compromise, than now. There is, in my judgment, but one compromise which would really settle the slavery question, and that would be a prohibition against acquiring any more territory.
Yours very truly,
A. LINCOLN.
~ Letter to James T. Hale from Abraham Lincoln, January 11, 1861
Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements. However, with the release of the albums Icon (1993) and Draconian Times (1995), Paradise Lost also became known as pioneers of the gothic metal subgenre. In accordance with the change in musical approach, vocalist Nick Holmes changed his singing style. He used a death grunt on the band's first three albums, but on Icon refined his voice to have a cleaner tone. Later (circa 1997), the band began experimenting with electronic styles but after four albums reverted again to gothic metal.
Their line-up has remained stable for such a long-standing heavy metal band, consisting of singer Nick Holmes, guitarists Greg Mackintosh and Aaron Aedy, and bassist Steve Edmondson. Holmes and Mackintosh are the principal composers, with almost all of the band's songs credited to them. During the years, the band has only changed drummers, with original member Matthew Archer replaced in 1994 by ex-Marshall Law drummer Lee Morris In March 2004, Morris left the band. Jeff Singer took Morris' place and has played on all subsequent releases, though he was not listed as a permanent band member until the release of the single "The Enemy" in 2007. In a recent video interview, Mackintosh and Holmes revealed that Singer had already auditioned for the band when Archer left, but they chose Morris instead because "[Singer] had a pink drumkit"
In "my day" this was a full width two-way road, with a separate, walled-off pathway to the left: but sometime in the early 1980s, the left side (which had contained factory buildings) was all scooped out to form a large expanse of ground - used originally for newly-assembled tractors. Change came again at the end of the 1990s, when Tesco built a supermarket on the site. At least the right hand side of this view hasn't changed much: true, those factory walls now shield "Marshalls' Yard" retail park rather than Marshalls engineering works, but the look is much the same as it was in, say, the 1970s.
To have an idea what this same area used to look
like (albeit looking the other way) see here:
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm Zoom
Film: Kodak TMax 100 Developed in D-76
Epson V600 scan
When our modest town hall was built in 1785 the ground floor was home to 37 different market stall holders. It must have been an incredibly busy, noisy and probably smelly place to be! But for many years now there has just been one butcher, and all the rest of the space is taken up by public toilets (so some things are still the same!)
They have now decided that this year it is time to make the space more interesting and attractive for the town and visitors, so they are getting rid of the toilets and putting in a new, bright visitor centre and opening all the grand court rooms upstairs to the public.
While the building work goes on behind it over summer, dozens of young artists have created this huge mural which I think shows how the town might have looked in 1785, and is definitely more pleasing to look at than the builders' bums or the public toilets.
Color-Change Garnet (Voi, Kenya). 1.49ct, 6.18x6.19x4.42mm. Simply Brilliant Square, Crown 2 (GarCC683) Blue under fluorescent light, red under incandescent. Very rare blue (violet) to red (purple) color change garnet. Voi produces several varieties of color change garnets. The most frequently seen are the classic brown to red variety. Blue to red like this are very difficult to obtain. They almost never occur clean. (You can see the inclusions near the bottom of the purplish red aspect image). A stone of this size is considered large for the variety, though I have seen larger in images.
sasrai-Movement appeal Let People Act the best in 2016
Dear Madam/Sir
Greetings from sasrai-Movement that has been serving voluntarily since 2004 across the globe aimed at promoting prudent and sustainable consumption and conservation, optimum use and reducing the abuse of resources. `sasrai’ targets to animate, activate each individual, family, community, institution, organization to combat Climate Change, global warming, food, fuel, water, poverty, disaster, waste, ecosystem, biodiversity - finally reverse the devastating trend of globe. It brings into line SDGs 01 to 06 and 11 to 16.
Pope’s Opinion on CONSUMPTION SLAVERY
“When people become self-centered and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossible to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this horizon, a genuine sense of the common good also disappears” (#204).
Pope’s Opinion on social media’s effects on our culture
“When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop
people from learning how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously…. True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution.
To ensure rights, dignity, peace, justice for all we must get each baby caring to each particle of resource. “The world is heading for irreversible and potential catastrophic climate change.” "Nature does not discriminate rich/super power or a poorer, distress impact equally. Nature demand’s absolute care – We must stop `Consumption Slaving and Slavery’, "Let’s have mission to spread “sasrai-Movement” aimed at habitable earth. Planet demand voice from each corner to Combat the Climate Change and Global Warming Threat – Let People Act
01. sasrai commenced involve mass in the biggest combat, the climate change
02. sasrai believe in Peace, Justice, Rights, Dignity for all End Slavery, Poverty, Hunger, Reduce Disaster and Vulnerability
03 Climate Change Critically Changing Civilization - Cordial, Prudent, Purposeful Partnering is urgent ensure desired environment & ecology, habitable earth for the youth, next generation.
04. sasrai aimed at reverse the devastating trend of planet earth due to human driven climate change
5. sasrai means to Harmonic Development, Environmental Protection and achieve SDG that planet’s utmost need
06. Keep the planet habitable everyone's interest and each needed to be involved – sasrai is the strategy
We must promote `sasrai-Movement' preferably first step for the development personnel around the globe that brings significant change in mindset `how much less consuming I could be.' Pope’s “Cultural Revolution - sasrai-Movement” running since 2004. To materialize the Pope’s commandment UN, INGO, NGO Officials, Students and Factory worker needed to be orientated on “sasrai-Movement.” sasrai.com/mr-zambia-glimpse-of-hope/
To achieve SDGs earth community need sasrai Feelings and Practicing
No Matter Climate Changing or Not, Ice Melting/Rising or Not – We must Stop Our Greed, Stop the Creature Killing -- we must stop the Consumption Slaving or Slavery. We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking sasrai.com/does-paris-attack-eventual/
Earth community plummeted into two major catastrophic sea named Climate Crisis and Terror Attack. Immediate halt of those are utmost needs for the sake of humanity, next generation. Which is the first is not the question. Fairly placing fact those two monsters are sons of Consumption Addiction. This very Consumption Addiction or Consumption Craziness breeds Climate Crisis. And the Consumption Disparity breeds manpower for Terror Attack. Earth community needs to address the root cause. In absence of this, slogan for equality, rights, dignity, peace, justice etc is completely an abortive effort. sasrai.com/cop21-have-or-have-not/
Stephen Hawking: "Let us fight for every woman and every man to have the opportunity to live healthy, secure lives, full of opportunity and love."
6th century reformer Poet Solon wrote ----
"Snowstorm and hail come from a cloud and thunder comes from lightning,
But the ruin of the city comes from unjust men they do not understand how to restrain their greed. They grow rich, persuaded by their unjust deeds, which destroys the beautiful youth of many; and from its troubles the much-loved city is swiftly worn out, friendships destroyed in unjust factions." sasrai.com/terrorist-attack-in-paris/
Another of the casualties of the June changes was the 388, which lost its fairly short lived extension to Elephant.
It was curtained from the east at Liverpool Street though will gain a short extension to London Bridge in the autumn.
This is CT Plus 2526 at Elephant on one of its last trips this far south. 9.6.19.
The locomotive built to lead a nation at war.
A build long in the making...for well over a year and spanning many life changes that attempted to derail this project, Union Pacific #844 finally emerges from my workshop.
UP #844 has captured my imagination since childhood, appearing in several mini-series, TV shows and ads from the early 1990’s. With a sleek body, brutish flat face, high stepping drivers and enormous smoke deflectors, it embodies every definition of monstrous speed and power.
Manufactured by the American Locomotive Company and delivered to UP in 1944 to accommodate both wartime traffic and the projected increase in passenger service after the war, #835-844 were built upon the nearly perfected FEF-1 and FEF-2 series of locomotives delivered between 1937-1939. The entire FEF-3 series proved to be a masterpiece of design and was continuously called upon to lead top priority freight and passenger service.
#844 was delivered on a cold December day in 1944 as the final steam locomotive ever received by UP. Truly an unsleeping giant, #844 is the only steam locomotive of any American Class 1 railroad that has never been struck from the roster. Throughout her revenue career, she headed express freight, fast mail, and the most prestigious passenger trains of the central high plains and mountainous west – The Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose, and Pony Express.
Fitted with 80-inch drivers and a 300 psi operating boiler pressure, #844 generates 63,800 lbs of tractive effort. She was designed to comfortably haul a 1,000-ton train at 100 mph and would regularly run at 120 mph.
Significant research was put into this model. Before even laying out the frame I had compiled an 80-year timeline documenting every minor, and major, upgrade, repainting, and alteration. I had one specific goal in mind: to capture her high-speed passenger service essence. As such, I have modeled her exactly as she would have appeared in April of 1949 – oil burning, with a Sellers exhaust steam injector and painted in the famous two-tone gray of Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray. I am proud to say that this is one of the most accurate representations of a two-tone gray FEF-3 in the modeling world.
This model is 8-wide and precisely 1:48 scale. #844 represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam and I want this model to represent nothing less. It is powered by two L power function motors in a 1:1 gear ratio so that she has both high tractive effort and can travel at high speed. The tender is fitted with a power functions control switch and two V2 IR receivers, one dedicated to each motor, powered by a 20c 7.4V Turnigy battery.
I design all my models with usability in mind. That being said, due to the #844’s unavoidable long legs, the locomotive can technically snake its way through R56 curves but is much happier with R120. I will pride myself in saying that the tender can navigate R40 due to my engineering of a unique design to conquer the flexibility challenges that plagues centipede tenders.
Custom wheels and drivers were sourced from Brick Train Depot and Breckland Bricks while the Walschaerts valve gear is from Trained Bricks. I want to particularly thank Monty’s Trains who designed and printed all stickers you see on this model. Monty also provided the technical experience that allowed me to upgrade from a standard Lego battery pack to the vastly superior LiPo world.
I strive to make my models both detailed and accessible. As such, instructions ARE available for this model in both two-tone gray and black (accurately dated to July 1954). Additionally, both liveries come with simple and complex valve gear instructions.
Today known as The Living Legend, UP #844 is the last of a great breed and represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam as one of the most powerful, prestigious and well-engineered Northern type locomotives of all time.
I feel extremely grateful to the Union Pacific Steam Team for ensuring that, through unquantifiable amounts of continuous labor, #844’s clock is not approaching twilight, but held at dawn. She is poised to travel the high iron for time eternal, forever roaring across the heartland plains and into the rising sun.
Thank you everyone for taking time to read this post, I greatly appreciate your questions, comments and praise. This model represents the end of a personal era, and I appreciate all the encouragement and support that I received from the community along the way. Railroading and Lego modeling are my passions, and I am happy to be part of these growing communities.
Cort
A few photos from our rally on Tuesday
The banner was hung from the Science and Engineering Centre while the
Chancellor was hosting an event inside the building.
Grateful to have time to relax. Grateful to be here. Grateful to feel good. Grateful to read uplifting blog posts at American Kabuki. Grateful there are others. Grateful to lead with my light. Grateful to trust. Grateful to be ok with what is.
Grateful to let my fears go. Grateful we already checked in for our flight. Grateful we get to go to NYC with our friends and mentors. Grateful to feel part of something amazing.
Grateful to have a trained mind. Grateful to feel the power of my focus. Grateful for a mantra that WORKS! Grateful to feel this good so late in the day. Grateful to give myself permission to rest. Grateful my sister is going to check on the kitties! Grateful to feel prepared and excited.
Grateful for my sleepy wife. Grateful to feel energized. Grateful for AC and running water and for food in my fridge.
Grateful to be ok with what is. Grateful to trust this right now. Grateful to welcome more love into my life.
I intend to fill every space in my life with love. I intend to project the unconditional love I want to receive. I intend to lead with my love. I intend to give myself the love I crave. I intend to expand the love in my life. I intend to look for opportunities to love. I intend to love more every day. I intend to love all that I encounter. I intend to be the love I know I am.
I am ok with what is. I am allowing this to be the best night of my life. I am letting life live me. I am my reason for feeling good, because I am love.
I am practiced. I am peaceful. I am ok with what is. I am happy with what I have. I am excited to be me! I am excited to be open! I am excited to take life to the next level! I am love, I am god, I am one.
The vending machine forgot the difference between a nickel and a quarter (5 cents and 25 cents) and gave me the wrong change.
Here's a question: where you live, what do you call a bottle of carbonated beverage? And what is the average cost from a vending machine? I call it a soda (or use the brand name), and it costs US$1.50 for a 20 fluid ounce (591 mL) bottle.
We're Here! finding forgotten things. And this picture is number 27000 for We're Here!
File name: 08_06_027117
Title: Changing room
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Locker rooms; Athletes
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
I was really disappointed about this one, because I knew the buildings had hardly changed, and thought it might look quite good to have the 1893 carriage hurtling through the 2014 street. Sadly, whatever the building was that the old photo was taken from the first floor of, is no longer there. On the spot now stands the car park for a tapas restaurant, so unless I got myself a 15 foot stepladder, there was no way to get the 2014 photo from the same angle. Ah well.
All these photos can also be seen on my Facebook page...
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Regards, Fokke
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Festival of Resistance - a climate action by ShutDown D.C., in front of Constitution Hall as the IMF meets nearby.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
Found in London near the "Gherkin" (Swiss Re Tower)