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From "CYCLING" magazine - February 26,1932
Finally ... one bicycle which I am happy to NOT see on the roads.
A high wind driven grass fire north of Predator Ridge brought 4 AT-802 Fire Bosses to the area to action the fire. These 4 were orbiting in my neighborhood while the Electra tankers were dropping retardant around the fire. Their combined effort brought the fire under control just before dark. The Fire Boss can carry 800 gallons of retardant/water and is a very effective tool in supressing fires. My shots are not great, but at least I got them all.
Courting red-tailed tropicbirds (Phaethon rubricauda) are massing in the thousands as they prepare for the spring breading season on Midway Atoll. The noisy masses are common at beach sites with coastal naupaka (Scaevola sericia) under which is a preferred nesting site. This bird is captured flying perfectly backwards in display to a potential mate. I usually don't prefer a white background but the cloudy day, interesting pose and unique bird worked for me in this instance!
Red-tailed Tropicbirds perform courtship flight displays. These flights are the most spectacular in Tropicbirds. Both mates leave the group and fly together one above the other. They perform aerobatics and different figures with rapid wing beats, hovering, glides and rises, driven by the wind. Their red streamers are lowered and shaken from side to side. Then, they reverse the roles, and the pair describes circles in the air. These flights usually consist in flying backwards, vertical displays and circles.
While flying, both birds inspect potential nest-sites, and copulation occurs at the selected place.
Red-tailed Tropicbird is resident in its range. It may perform some dispersal, but most of adults are seen near the colonies all year round.
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Weight driven clock, German made Hermele. This is a single weight driven 8 day skeleton mechanical movement. It strikes the passing hour with a bell. (2004)
At one stage, this guy was performing poorly. A close examination revealed that he was suffering from jammed-hands syndrome. A quick fix put him back on track again.
Only Time will tell and every clock tells a story....
The problem with clock is, once you got two they start to multiply..
It all started when I acquired my first clock a 1960's jap 7-day wall clock from a colleague of mine by the name of Wong Mun Lai, a clock collector
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It was a non-working clock which I wanted to hang up for display. After a while, I felt something amiss. A clock is not a clock if it does'nt work! So I took it apart and do some fixing, to my surprise I managed to get it ticking again ! I was totally fascinated From there I got my second, third and so on....
My favourite has to be the 400 day clock
Amazing time piece and fun to repair Next in line is those of the electromechanical design type
I love the working principles
At the time of writing, my collection is still growing....but has grind to a halt as my interest is now focus on nature photography
A composition driven by the Most Versatile challenge and processed for use in Week 29 - 'Clean background' - with the Compositionally Challenged Group.
Taken with a black background to circumvent any post-processing which has been a feature of all my previous attempts at the ‘clean background’ homework.
Did it work? No! The black background came out grey so I had to adjust the levels to get it back to black.
DIY border in Photoshop elements 13.
ODC: Exotic
People do not 'drive' cars, they steer them.
People do not 'ride' bicycles, they drive them.
--- A. N. Mouse
This is the actual car driven by Roger Moore in the first season of TV series 'The Saint'. Eagle eyed viewers would have noticed that the car smoked on heavy acceleration during the show and this was traced during this latest rebuild to a scored cylinder bore thought to have been caused by a piston ring circlip fracturing. The original 6,000 P1800s were built in the UK by Jensen. On the 'TV and Film cars' stand. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429701/1962-Volvo-drive...
Seen in Stamford Street, London SE1 today are two 8gp (girl power) pedi-buses.
Each person faces inwards whilst peddling away in order for the driver to steer the "bus". I'm not quite sure what the pink hair was all about....or the blow-up doll at the back !
Music and wine was flowing, but the overtaking cyclist had had enough.
Might need to enlarge the photo in order to understand what's going on.
1989 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Jim Hague during the afternoon race for Group 8B (1974-1990 Stock Cars with disc brakes) on Sunday at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Heavily modified North American P-51D-25NA Mustang Unlimited air racer "Voodoo"; s/n 44-73415, N551VC
Note: On 2 September 2017, Steve Hinton Jr. established a new 3km Absolute Propeller Driven Piston Powered Aircraft (C-1e class) record, achieving an average speed of 531.53mph over four consecutive passes in the heavily modified North American P-51 Mustang "Voodoo"
Macro Mondays Theme - Drive Me Wild
It drives me wild that not all screws are driven like the one on the right!
The evolution of this telescope has been driven by conceptual breakthroughs. I'm not saying that these were brilliant on any objective, global scale, but for me they provided a series of steps forward.
Originally I was going to stick the new mirror cell I built into a PVC tube, so that the back end would match the front end. Then I realized that the trim ring from the back end of the National Geographic scope (read: cannibal victim) would work fine as a back-end cage, and I could skip the PVC tube and make the telescope simpler and lighter at the same time.
Similarly, the first build of the telescope used the original 3-vane spider (i.e., secondary mirror support) from the National Geographic scope. But that spider was loooong, so it had to be mounted a long way forward, which meant the whole secondary cage had to be long. I couldn't cut down the secondary cage until I figured out a nearly zero-length solution for the spider.
People have been mounting secondary mirrors on posts for literally centuries, and that was an option, but I wanted my secondary to be fully adjustable on all axes. Eventually it occurred to me that the secondary support could just be wedged into the tube; elasticity and friction could take it from there. This is exactly what it looks like: the secondary mirror holder is glued (with silicone) to a good ole No. 2 pencil. The pencil is cut to length and capped with fat rubber erasers, which have themselves been cut down slightly to enlarge their contact patches. The white slash on the inside of the tube is one of the spots where I had to grind down that internal ridge with my Dremel to make a flat (and rough!) spot for the erasers to grab.
This spider cost me about $0.35 for the office supplies. It looks like hell, but it works perfectly. The secondary is rock solid and holds collimation well, but it can be easily adjusted in any direction with gentle finger pressure. The only way I can see improving it would be to use a narrower beam, possibly a thin piece of sheet metal or a section of a small metal ruler. But I'd still anchor the beam with rubber feet to preserve the all-axis adjustability.
I ordered the mirrors for a 5-inch f/5 reflector that I intended to build as a travelscope before I ever saw the National Geographic scope. One of those mirrors is still in the post. In the meantime, this thing has given me an opportunity to learn some things and to come up with solutions I might not have otherwise.
So where from here? Eventually I am going to drill some more holes and glue in some more bolts so that I can use two struts 180 degrees apart, and put them into a Dobsonian-style mount. That's the same thing the often-referenced David Gilbank did with his (http://dgilbank.freeownhost.com/travel.html), and I'm going to do it for the same reason: the tripod pan head just has too much backlash. You don't usually notice one degree of backlash, but when that's the size of your entire FOV it rapidly becomes obvious, and irritating.
Still, the perfect is the enemy of the good, and right now this telescope is Good Enough. It will be going with me over the holidays; I'll keep you posted on our adventures.
Impressions during the session, at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
I've driven the No. 2 highway countless times, but have never noticed that I could actually see this massive grain elevator going both Northbound AND Southbound. This one is now Canada Malting Company who seems to have a few grain elevators in Alberta now.
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Fiesta Garage Driven by Ford at Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee - 2013 - © 2013 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
The Pen EM is the first Japanese camera to have an electric driven motor drive and rewind system.
The Olympus Pen EM went on sale in 1965 with three new features: an electronic shutter, automatic film advance, and automatic rewind.
The electronic shutter allowed an exposure range from 30 sec. down to 1/500 sec. according to the brightness of the subject. Power for the shutter, film advance and rewind systems was provided by two AA batteries. While the Olympus Pen EM had a major influence on the future of electronic technology and automation in cameras, there were manufacturing problems that could not be overcome with the technology then available. Sadly, production ceased after just one year.
Specifications Olympus Pen EM 1965.
Picture size : 24 X 18mm (single Frame Pen size)
Lens : Zuiko 35mm F2. 6 elements in 4 groups.
Diaphragm scale : F2, F2.8, F5.6, F8, F11, and F16.
Shutter : Copal Elec electronic shutter (diaphragm priority type) using four high performance transistors.
Shutter speed : A (automatic) about 30sec (F16 )—1/500 sec , M (manual) 1/30 sec no visible scale indicator for shutter speeds.
Synchronizing : X contact point.
Film speed scale : ASA 10—400.
Camera focusing system : Zone focusing rotary helicoid, eye measuring type.
Distance : M (meter) ∞,5 , 3, 2, 1.2, 1, 0.9 . Albeda type light frame finder , magnification 0,6 time , with parallax aid marks for short range photography.
Film advance: Electrical motor driven ; advances film at a rate of one frame per second.
Film rewind: Quick rewind by electrical motor.
Film counter : Remaining number type , take-up stops automatically when “0” appears in the counter.
Power source: Two size “AA” 1.5 volt dry cells alkaline type. Will last for over 5 rolls of film.
Dimensions : 123 X 73 X 54 mm.
Weight : 540 grams.
The kit and its assembly:
This build followed a spontaneous inspiration, and it became another contribution to the “in the navy” group build at whatifmodlers.com in early 2020. I actually had the Vampire kit already stashed away for a while, and the plan to convert it into a propeller-driven aircraft with a radial engine and a pusher configuration à la Saab 21 had been there – but I lacked an idea for an operator, so that I could build the background story around it. With the “in the navy” theme, it suddenly clicked – why not the IJN? The Vampire is a rather compact and slender aircraft, so there’s IMHO some Japanese “style” in the design, and after the torturous build of HMS Cerberus I wanted some kind of relief.
The Vampire kit is the vintage Heller mold from 1979, but actually in a mid-Nineties Revell re-boxing. Like many other Heller kits, it comes with raised panels, but detail is sufficient (nice dashboard, landing gear is O.K., and the kit comes with separate air brakes) – the molds seem to be a bit worn, though, I guess a “true” old Heller kit is more crisp and would be the better choice.
At the core of the conversion plan was the implantation of a radial engine in place of the jet exhaust. I found a donor part from a Hobby Boss MC.200 Saetta – a bit vintage, but it had the right diameter and I actually liked the ring of bulges on the cowling. Internally, a styrene tube adapter was added for a freely spinning propeller.
While adding a prop to a jet seems to be an easy task, the real challenge behind such a conversion are the many other changes that have to be made to the airframe. This includes a (considerably) longer landing gear and the respective wells, but also the tail surfaces. There’s also the question how the new radial engine actually breathes, where exhausts can be located, and a cooling system is necessary, too.
Work started with the search for new landing gear struts, and I also used different wheels – for instance, the main wheels come from a Hasegawa F9F Panther, while the front wheel comes from a Frog He 162 and is probably 35 years old(!). In order to make the longer struts fit into the airframe, I elongated the wells in the wings towards the fuselage, so that the track width was reduced – but with the Vampire’s small airframe and original wide stance, this was no serious problem. From the inside, they were faired with styrene profile material, and the extended covers were scratched – esp. the parts for the wings, with their bulges for the tail boom tips, were fiddly.
In order to move the overall look a bit further away from the Vampire, I completely changed the fin arrangement. The original, rounded and rather small fins and the bullet-shaped fairings that hold the stabilizer outside of the original exhaust blast were deleted. Once the wings and the tail booms were added to the fuselage, the stabilizer was mounted between the booms, in a slightly lower position. For the new fins I wanted a layout that would, beyond a more squarish shape that would better match the wings, protect the propeller. Therefore, I used stabilizers from a KP Yak-23; each was cut into two pieces, tailored further to match the rest of the aircraft, and glued in positions above and underneath the booms. Looks quite weird, as if the aircraft had been designed upside down, but it’s a rather pragmatic solution that has already been used on some pusher designs in the past.
The six-blade propeller was scratched from a spinner, carved from a thick piece of sprue, plus a metal axis and six single blades that were taken from the rather wacky one-piece propellers of Airfix’s Ki-46 kit.
Hollow steel needles were used as barrels for the Type 99 cannons in the lower fuselage.
Porsche 911 driven by Steve Limbert during the Sprint Race for Group 2 on Saturday at the 2014 Jefferson 500
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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. ROME CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER RAGGI TERM AS MAYOR - Raggi: "I rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Ferrari, the strongest Italian car." The Romans: "A Ferrari driven by wild boars." Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021) & Cinghiali “contromano” tra il traffico: in via Trionfale; in: Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021). wp.me/pbMWvy-1VH
“Bestemmie e cinghiali…dimmi che sei di Roma senza dirmi che sei di Roma”; in:
welcometofavalas / Instagram (Giugno e Luglio 2021).
1). ROME CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER RAGGI TERM AS MAYOR – Raggi: “I rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Ferrari, the strongest Italian car.” The Romans: “A Ferrari driven by wild boars.” Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021)
Foto: Roma & Virginia Raggi / Facebook & Twitter (09/2021).
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ROME - With just under three weeks left until elections in Rome, more than 2 million residents are tasked with choosing the next mayor of the Italian capital city amid a flurry of last-ditch public appearances and advertising onslaughts. The current mayor, anti-establishment Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi, is not lacking for opponents. The most significant is Enrico Michetti, who has thrown down the gauntlet to Raggi in a bid to raise the center-right flag over Capitoline Hill. But she’s got plenty to worry about on her own side of the aisle in the forms of Roberto Gualtieri as the center-left nominee and Carlo Calenda as the candidate for the progressive Azione party.
Most polling doesn’t bode particularly well for the incumbent Raggi: she’s currently trailing both Michetti and Gualtieri and only a hair in front of Calenda. Of course, with undecided voters topping 40%, it really is still anyone’s game. But it shouldn’t be this close, not with the promise with which Raggi entered the Eternal City. So what went wrong for her?
A rough start as a mayor
Virginia Raggi was elected the 34th mayor of Rome in June 2016, with 67.2% of votes in the second round. The first female mayor of the capital city promised to rid it of corruption, with the promise that “the wind is changing.” But it all went wrong.
It was a risky move to withdraw their 2024 Olympic bid, and the way it was done made her no friends in both public or private circles. She insisted that “with more than €13 billion of debt, Rome can’t afford to shoulder more to build cathedrals in the desert.” But her detractors heavily contested the position, claiming that pulling out from the bidding wasted the chance to upgrade infrastructure and public facilities with little or no expense. Funds would have come into Rome via the International Olympic Committee, private investors, and the government. According to a study from Tor Vergata University, the city lost an estimated €7.1 billion of gross revenue, 40,000 job opportunities, and, most of all, the chance to drag the capital city into the 21st century with cutting-edge infrastructures.
Once, Roman emperors used to host awe-inspiring public games in an attempt to appease and distract a population in constant turmoil. Back then, the Roman poet called Juvenal called it panem et circenses, Bread and Circuses.
Foto: Foto: France / EuroNews (13/07/2021) & Virginia Raggi / Instagram (17/07/2021).
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These days no one seems to bother that much, preferring it seems to distract citizens with piles of garbage and wild boars. Though that sounds like a metaphor, it sadly is not. The waste management sector of Rome is near total collapse: every year the city council spends €170 million shipping the capital’s garbage to other Italian regions. Dumpsters are so full of trash that gulls, rats, and even boars have been spotted rummaging through bins to find something to eat. They are not particular, but no matter; they are spoiled for choice.
Foto: TG 3 Lazio & Virginia Raggi (07/2021).
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Make no mistake, Rome is filthy. Not only does the capital recycle 15% less garbage than the Italian average (45% as opposed to 61.3% in 2019), but only 60% of roads in the city are effectively cleaned, far below the 92% guaranteed by the publicly traded AMA, the company tasked with providing urban hygiene services. Yet despite this, Roman residents pay the highest waste tax in Italy, 42% higher than Florence.
The (lost) battle against corruption
Faithful to the motto of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, Virginia Raggi trounced her opponents by promising to clean the city of corruption. But for a mayor that failed to clean up waste from the streets, it’s not surprising that she soon found herself under investigation by magistrates. The long list of judiciary proceedings deeply undermined Virginia Raggi’s authority, as two cases of malfeasance in office regarding staffing of her private office broke out. Eventually, the Court dropped all the charges against the mayor, citing her right-hand Raffaele Marra instead for illegal hiring practices. But the damage was done to her reputation and in Rome, reputation is everything.
Another trial regarding the new AS Roma soccer club stadium in 2018 resulted in the arrest of none people for crimes including corruption. Among them was the president of Acea (the local multi-utility providing water and energy services) Luca Lanzalone, who had been appointed to the position by Raggi herself. Although the mayor didn’t receive a sentence, the affair perpetrated the notion that anyone around the mayor was incompetent or, at worse, corrupt.
Regardless of who takes the reins, expectations look gloomy for the Eternal city. And though it is unfair to blame Virginia Raggi for everything that has gone wrong in the capital, she certainly hasn’t done anything to alleviate the problems that both preceded her and emerged in her tenure. For someone with so much promise, her greatest sin may just be her apathetic governance. The data speaks for itself: the city of Rome dropped from 18th in 2019 to 32th in 2020 in the national rankings for quality of life. No amount of bread nor circuses can fix that.
Fonte / source:
--- Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021).
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Foto: Rome, Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
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2). ROMA - Cinghiali “contromano” tra il traffico: in via Trionfale la processione si svolge in pieno giorno. Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
In una via Trionfale trafficata, in pieno giorno, i cinghiali “contromano” si districano tra il traffico. La scena è stata ripresa, all’altezza del civico 8229, da un residente mentre era sul balcone della sua abitazione e mostra un comportamento fin qui inedito di suidi che, solitamente, si spostano al calar del sole alla ricerca di cibo, soprattutto accanto ai cassonetti ricolmi di rifiuti.
Automobilisti e scooteristi, quasi increduli, sono costretti a scansarsi per far passare tre cinghiali adulti e undici cuccioli, non si sono registrati incidenti.
Il candidato sindaco di Azione, Carlo Calenda, ha postato nel proprio profilo Twitter un video che ritrae i cinghiali da un’altra angolazione. “Non pensate sia arrivato il momento di sedervi a un tavolo e affrontare la questione?” – ha scritto Calenda taggando il presidente della Regione, Nicola Zingaretti, e la prima cittadina di Roma, Virginia Raggi.
I suidi sono animali dal comportamento prevalentemente notturno. La carovana non è la prima ripresa nel nostro territorio, il 21 luglio scorso, un cinghiale è stato filmato da una passante in viale Mazzini, a poche decine di metri da piazzale Clodio, due giorni dopo, invece, un cucciolo è stato trovato morto in via Trionfale, accanto ai bidoni della spazzatura.
Fonte / source:
--- Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
romah24.com/prati/news/cinghiali-contromano-tra-il-traffi...
A closer view of the flywheel and tensioner pulley on the air compressor. This place was an absolute maze of pipes.
More images in the St. Nicholas Coal Breaker set.
On the 9th November 2019 a loco has seen the Bord Na Nona branding changed. No need for many rally drivers on the 3'gauge systems.
Description: Petrol-driven passenger car on the D-i-K. to Fields Railway.
Location: Dar-i-Khazinah, Persia
Description: Road and Railway Brige over the Rhada River built by the Company on the great road to the Oil-Fields.
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Aisha Butti Bin Bishr, Director-General, Dubai Smart City, United Arab Emirates , speaking at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 22, 2014) Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Nicholas Mertz, a member of Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, guides the Improved Navy Lighterage System Causeway Ferry 36 to dock with the dry cargo ship USNS PFC Dewayne T. Williams (T-AK-3009) during joint exercise Pacific Horizon 2015. Pacific Horizon is a scenario-driven, simulation supported crisis response exercise designed to improve 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade's and Expeditionary Strike Group 3's interoperability and strengthen Navy-Marine Corps relationships by conducting an in-stream Maritime Prepositioning Force offload of equipment, by providing host country civil-military security assistance, and by conducting infrastructure restoration support. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Nelson/Released)
Driven is our once a month worship service. Driven incorporates art, short films, teaching God's Word, and Christian fellowship. These shirts are designed for guys that come to driven.
[The models are from alternative apparel where we get all of our shirts.]
Got to work with the Media Group for the Driven show in Winnipeg yesterday. As you can see, I was very lucky and got to work with a host of talented young models.
I also got a chance to test out my new portable hot shoe soft boxes, which I must admit work very, very well for a couple 50 dollar ebay items.
Strobist Info: Two speedlights 1/4 power through 20 inch softboxes camera left and front.
175cc, chain driven single overhead camshaft
MV used the name 'Disco Volante' (Flying saucer) due to the unusual shape of the petrol tank
Amazingly advanced design for 1953. Engine castings are lightweight, with metal only where it is needed.
Multiplate clutch running in oil.
Unit construction engine/gearbox (four speed, foot change). See the rocking gear lever so that you didn't scuff your designer Italian footwear!
Tele forks and swing arm rear suspension. British bikes at this time were invariably still rigid or plunger rear suspension.
There were the usual period claims/ boasts by the manufacturer of 85 mph, 14hp and 100+mpg!
Truth is that the bike is capable of approx. 75mph with the rider flat on the tank, and it will easily top 100mpg even when ridden fairly hard.
Handling/roadholding and brakes could cope with twice the power quite easily!
These bikes were very expensive to buy, but compared with a BSA C11, Villiers powered machines etc. available in 1953, what a machine the MV must have been.
This bike was bought in 2002 and was cosmetically quite reasonable. Mechanically it was a huge disappointment, and struggled to make 50 mph!
The Italian 'racers' in the 1950's did not favour the MV sohc motor as oil feed onto the cam lobes was scarcely adequate. We designed a hollow camshaft with 'quill' end feed, and oil delivery holes on the cam flanks which cured this problem.
We worked on compression ratio, camshaft design, crankshaft balance factor, electronic ignition and overall gearing.
Next week , the bike is competing on its 5th 'Motogiro d'Italia' - a 1200mile, 5 day endurance event in Italy.
We use up to 8500rpm (6500 standard), and have designed the power characteristics to be flexible, reasonably tractable so that you could easily go shopping on it, but it still has an 'interesting' part of the power band in the 6500-8500rpm range.
Bike was re-painted in 2007. Damn pretty too!
On 'A' and 'B' class roads this is a superb and quick machine, particularly when remembering it is now nearly 60 years old!