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418 has been a bit of a back-and-forth bus between Carousel and Thames Travel of late, but is now on permanent duties back at Carousel on the 'red' half of route 1 between High Wycombe and Chesham Grammar School.
Unfortunately the branding hasn't been best designed, and the red aspects (including the word 'red' above the o of one and the outlines of the orange circles) can't be seen on the overall red colour of the bus!
Route One has had a new ticket introduced in the last week or so, and is continually proving that partnership between two operators is not only possible but a reality, despite the drawbacks.
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Pencil, from Old French pincel, from late Latin penicillus a "little tail" originally referred to an artist's fine brush of camel hair, also used for writing before modern lead or chalk pencils.
Though the archetypal pencil was an artist's brush, the stylus, a thin metal stick used for scratching in papyrus or wax tablets, was used extensively by the Romans and for palm-leaf manuscripts.
As a technique for drawing, the closest predecessor to the pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint until, in 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a large deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.
This particular deposit of graphite was extremely pure and solid, and it could easily be sawn into sticks. It remains the only large-scale deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.
Chemistry was in its infancy and the substance was thought to be a form of lead.
Consequently, it was called plumbago (Latin for "lead ore").
Because the pencil core is still referred to as "lead", or "a lead", many people have the misconception that the graphite in the pencil is lead, and the black core of pencils is still referred to as lead, even though it never contained the element lead
The words for pencil in German (Bleistift), Irish (peann luaidhe), and some other languages literally mean lead pen.
The value of graphite would soon be realised to be enormous, mainly because it could be used to line the moulds for cannonballs; the mines were taken over by the Crown and were guarded.
When sufficient stores of graphite had been accumulated, the mines were flooded to prevent theft until more was required.
The usefulness of graphite for pencils was discovered as well, but initially graphite for pencils had to be smuggled out of England.
Because graphite is soft, it requires some form of encasement. Graphite sticks were initially wrapped in string or sheepskin for stability.
England would enjoy a monopoly on the production of pencils until a method of reconstituting the graphite powder was found in 1662 in Germany.
However, the distinctively square English pencils continued to be made with sticks cut from natural graphite into the 1860s. The town of Keswick, near the original findings of block graphite, still manufactures pencils, the factory also being the location of the Derwent Pencil Museum.
The meaning of "graphite writing implement" apparently evolved late in the 16th century.[18]
Wood encasement
Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils
Around 1560, an Italian couple named Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti made what are likely the first blueprints for the modern, wood-encased carpentry pencil. Their version was a flat, oval, more compact type of pencil.
Their concept involved the hollowing out of a stick of juniper wood. Shortly thereafter, a superior technique was discovered: two wooden halves were carved, a graphite stick inserted, and the halves then glued together—essentially the same method in use to this day.
Graphite powder and clay
The first attempt to manufacture graphite sticks from powdered graphite was in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1662. It used a mixture of graphite, sulphur, and antimony.
English and German pencils were not available to the French during the Napoleonic Wars; France, under naval blockade imposed by Great Britain, was unable to import the pure graphite sticks from the British Grey Knotts mines – the only known source in the world.
France was also unable to import the inferior German graphite pencil substitute.
It took the efforts of an officer in Napoleon's army to change this. In 1795, Nicolas-Jacques Conté discovered a method of mixing powdered graphite with clay and forming the mixture into rods that were then fired in a kiln.
By varying the ratio of graphite to clay, the hardness of the graphite rod could also be varied. This method of manufacture, which had been earlier discovered by the Austrian Joseph Hardtmuth, the founder of the Koh-I-Noor in 1790, remains in use. In 1802, the production of graphite leads from graphite and clay was patented by the Koh-I-Noor company in Vienna.
In England, pencils continued to be made from whole sawn graphite. Henry Bessemer's first successful invention (1838) was a method of compressing graphite powder into solid graphite thus allowing the waste from sawing to be reused.
United States
Pencil manufacturing.
The top sequence shows the old method that required pieces of graphite to be cut to size; the lower sequence is the new, current method using rods of graphite and clay
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American colonists imported pencils from Europe until after the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch (7.5 cm) pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Country in 1762. William Munroe, a cabinetmaker in Concord, Massachusetts, made the first American wood pencils in 1812.
This was not the only pencil-making occurring in Concord. According to Henry Petroski, transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau discovered how to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite using clay as the binder; this invention was prompted by his father's pencil factory in Concord, which employed graphite found in New Hampshire in 1821 by Charles Dunbar.
Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook. He used the first circular saw in pencil production. He constructed the first of the hexagon- and octagon-shaped wooden casings. Ebenezer did not patent his invention and shared his techniques with anyone. One of those was Eberhard Faber, which built a factory in New York and became the leader in pencil production.
Joseph Dixon, an inventor and entrepreneur involved with the Tantiusques graphite mine in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, developed a means to mass-produce pencils.
By 1870, The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the world's largest dealer and consumer of graphite and later became the contemporary Dixon Ticonderoga pencil and art supplies company.
By the end of the nineteenth century, over 240,000 pencils were used each day in the US. The favoured timber for pencils was Red Cedar as it was aromatic and did not splinter when sharpened. In the early twentieth century supplies of Red Cedar were dwindling so that pencil manufacturers were forced to recycle the wood from cedar fences and barns to maintain supply.
One effect of this was that "during World War II rotary pencil sharpeners were outlawed in Britain because they wasted so much scarce lead and wood, and pencils had to be sharpened in the more conservative manner – with knives.
It was soon discovered that incense cedar, when dyed and perfumed to resemble Red Cedar, was a suitable alternative. Most pencils today are made from this timber, which is grown in managed forests.
Over 14 billion pencils are manufactured worldwide annually. Less popular alternatives to cedar include basswood and alder.
In Southeast Asia, the wood Jelutong may be used to create pencils (though the use of this rainforest species is controversial).
Environmentalists prefer the use of Pulai – another wood native to the region in pencil manufacturing.
Eraser attachment
Attached eraser on the left; Pencil lead on the right
On 30 March 1858, Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil.
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Ok I said I was done posting before my vacation but I found these Peonies out front and the Flickr junky in me took over. I'm leaving for Florida on Sunday . We are planning a trip to see the Egrets and the Wood storks nest in St. Augustine. I'm hopeful it will be a fantastic Op...Thank you so much and I will try to answer everyone before I go ( and try to make this my last post... )
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Today's post is another from the Dirt Cheap Photo Tour (DCPT) that Tom & I were part of in the fall in Banff.
On this particular morning, we finally caught a glimpse of some fleeting clouds that we had not be rewarded with earlier in our time in Canada.
Bow Valley, within Banff National Park, is an amazing location - full of wildlife and landscapes hard to beat anywhere. The air was crisp, the wind was light, and the sun had just peaked and kissed Crowfoot Glacier on Crowfoot Mountain. This is quite an interesting glacier, in that it was named for it's appearance (hence the crow-foot), however, it has receded to the point that the 3 lobes once part of the glacier, are now only 2.
It is a hot debate as to the reason of glacier retreats (natural occurrence or global warming), and it really doesn't matter the cause to me, but I find it disheartening to me to think that at some point in time, many of them will be gone.
Thankfully, through the magic of photography - digital, film, or video - we can all capture nature's beauty and keep it as pristine as it once was in our minds.
Sure would love to go back and stand at this some location off the Icefields Parkway and marvel at this once more.
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An example of how the method of photography has evolved and is still evolving, from the 1940s Agfa Karat 12 on the left, to the modern Nikon D700 Digital SLR in the middle and the LG G4 mobile phone on the right.
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This is a photo I originally didn't like particularly much but as I have continued on I have found myself coming back to it. I used to think the ducks had ruined the shot but now I think it adds a little something else to the scene.
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Sally, a hidden sexy dress. The dramatic back shows a little cheek just to make them wonder while the front has demure look. Create that drama in your life with this little ensemble. You are sure to turn heads.
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This image is related to a composite I did a while ago called Mud on my dress, blood on my hands. This kinda feels like it came from the same alternate 1930's reality.
I have no idea what's going on. Much like the other composite, it evolved from a simple gangster style image into something way beyond that.
All the elements, apart from Sarah-Jane, were created in Daz Studio and output as tranparent PNG's so I could layer and position them in photoshop.
La catedral de San Martín de Tours en pleno centro de la ciudad de Ourense (Galicia) – Spain; es una de las joyas a visitar en esta ciudad. Se compone de tres naves y varios ábsides, siendo iniciada su construcción en estilo románico a finales del siglo XII y continuando en el siglo XIII con el denominado románico tardío, y derivando en influencias cistercienses.
El Pórtico del Paraíso en la portada occidental del edificio con bellas esculturas policromadas, nos muestran una bella arquitectura, que nos recuerdan las influencias del Maestro Mateo en la portada del Obradoiro en la catedral de Santiago de Compostela.
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The Cathedral of San Martín de Tours, located in the center of Ourense (Galicia), Spain, it is one of the most visited places of the city. It consists of three naves and several apses. Construction began in the Romanesque style at the end of the 12th century and continued in the 13th century with the so-called Late Romanesque style, which evolved into Cistercian influences.
The Portico of Paradise on the west facade of the building, with its beautiful polychrome sculptures, showcases a beautiful architecture reminiscent of the influence of Master Mateo on the Obradoiro facade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Greetings mate! As many of you know, I love marrying art, science, and math in my fine art portrait and landscape photography!
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The dx4/dt=ic above the gun on the lingerie derives from my new physics books devoted to Light, Time, Dimension Theory!
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I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
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The Golden Ratio informs a lot of my art and photographic composition. The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo! Not so long ago, I came up with the Golden Ratio Principle which describes why The Golden Ratio is so beautiful.
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
The Birth of Venus! Beautiful Golden Ratio Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Helen of Troy! She was tall, thin, fit, and quite pretty!
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The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them. An often acrobatic forager, this black-and-white woodpecker is at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant galls, sycamore seed balls, and suet feeders.
Despite their close resemblance, downy and hairy woodpeckers are not very closely related, and they are likely to be separated in different genera;the outward similarity is a spectacular example of convergent evolution. Why they evolved this way cannot be explained with confidence; it may be relevant that the species exploit rather different-sized foodstuffs and do not compete very much ecologically.
This is one of my original two sided paintings, (this is the back side of it."
Evolving - 2009
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46"h x 23 1/2"w
see next two pictures for other colour phases
Rapid, reversible colour change in insects (animals in general) is extremely rare, yet in Australia such colour change has evolved independently in two disparate lineages. In both the dragonfly genus Austrolestes and the grasshopper genus Kosciuscola, males are able to change colour reversibly.
The alpine Chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis), with a restricted range above 1830m in the Australian Alps, exhibit a physiological colour change controlled by changes in temperature. The remarkable colour change happens within minutes of exposure to warmth, but its reversal is remarkably slower (up to 5 hours). Males are a bright greenish blue above about 25°C and a dull near-black below about 10 to 15°C. Intermediate shades are developed at intermediate temperatures. A similar, but less marked, change occurs in the female. On clear days the alpine grasshoppers become bright 2 to 3 hours after sunrise and begin to turn dark again during the late afternoon; the night is spent in the dark phase.
COLOUR CHANGE
The colour change in males is brought about by the migration of two types of intracellular granule in opposite directions within the epidermal cells: large (diameter 1•0 μm) spherical, brown granules, and smaller (0•17 μm) less dense granules which are white in isolated state. In the bright, warm condition the small, highly refractive granules are closely packed in the distal part of the cells, whereas the dark granules are found predominantly in the deeper proximal zones. The blue colour might arise from Tyndall scattering of light by the suspension of small granules and is intensified by being seen against a dark background.
In the dark, cold condition the position of these layers is reversed. The dark granules are found to have moved towards the surface, mingling with the smaller granules and ‘quenching’ the light scattering. At intermediate colour shades the granules show transitional distributions. The epidermal cells contain numerous microtubules, which are directed towards the cell surface, that is, parallel to the direction of movement of the granules. It is possible that the microtubules are associated with the movement. Females exhibit the same intracellular granule migration as males, but a masking pigment in the female cuticle seems lacking in the male.
THERMOREGULATORY ADVANTAGE
The function of the grasshopper’s colour change mechanism remains unknown. Although the bright colour does not reduce heat loading, the colour change may have a thermoregulatory function, e.g. by allowing foraging and mate-searching outside optimal temperatures. Males change colour primarily in response to temperature and the rate of colour change varies considerably, with the change from dark to bright occurring up to 10 times faster than the reverse. Body temperature changed quickly (within 10 minutes) in response to changes in ambient temperature, but colour change did not match this speed and thus colour is decoupled from internal temperature. This indicates that male colour change is driven primarily by ambient temperature, but that their colour does not necessarily reflect current internal temperature.
SEXUAL SIGNALLING
Because the colour change is limited to one sex, it is also possible that this trait may be under sexual selection. Bright males may gain a fitness advantage by being preferred by females or through deterring rivals. Sexual signalling function would imply that (1) the maximum brightness and speed at which males become blue is related to male quality (e.g. size, condition and age), (2) the colour blue is a signal to females and females prefer to mate with males that are brighter or turn blue faster, and (3) the colour blue is a signal to males and brighter males win contest with darker males over access to females. Despite having advantages, being blue might carries a substantial fitness cost by increasing visibility to predators.
Sources: apscience.org.au, Wikipedia, researchgate.net
This series of photos shows how the look of this castle evolves as you add and move small castle modules. Please tell Lego to make this a set by going to this link and clicking the Blue “Support” button. ideas.lego.com/projects/148797