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The view from ‘C’ cabin at Attock station as a loco leaves the yard during a Farrail charter.
Attock, Punjab Province, Pakistan 2021. © David Hill
No 44 Western Yeoman II draws it wagons to the loading point at Merehead Quarry. The guy in the orange had jumped out of the cabin on.the left to change the points. At least two more operatives can be seen sheltering in / driving the loco.
Polish Air Force Mig-29 'Fulcrum' polluting Fairford's runway threshold as the pilot winds up the 'burners' before launching for the display at RIAT.
Adorned with tail art depicting one of the Polish Battle of Britain Fighter Aces, this machine was once flown by the Czech Air Force.
Grateful thanks to Andy Chetwyn for the info.
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Winches only have so much pulling power (often just 8,000 pounds). Trying to pull your Jeep up and over a big ledge like this is like pulling against a giant chock block. So, to increase the winches pulling power, you double the line by running it out, through a snatch block (big pulley) attached to a stationary object (a tree or another Jeep), then back to yourself. This will double your pulling power. It will also cut your pulling speed in half.
If memory serves, Jeff is stacking a few rocks to make the climb easier, and so the Jeep won't roll into the big rock the the guy in red is standing on.
Unorthodox food storage in bear country, with the aid of a handy 2x6. Spindly trees just don't get the job done. Leverage can help in special cases like this.
Exposed to the elements after a fire destroyed the operator's cabin, the levers that once controlled the semaphores at Brighton Park Crossing in Chicago rust away as NS power with an oil train waits for a clear signal.
The conclusion for this series is associated with 7:8
The relevance of these diverse images to the potential narrative of the verraco will become apparent...
A general recap of the left-hand images.
I put forward the idea for 'Transport Dragons' as a way that helped clans of Homo Sapiens survived difficult conditions from their ages of prehistory, including ice, desert and even stretches of water (when a suitably well stretched frame is inverted). With the 'Transport Dragon', bulk weights of camp equipment (including leather and fur) are held tight using a peg and butterfly-knot based cord-leverage tool (currently uncategorized as 'Perforated baton') which I described in past posts and termed the 'tension lever'. Carried aloft aside the compressed camp goods would be pregnant, injured, young or old members of the clan i.e. the vulnerable and the precious. The 'Transport Dragon' frame offered both a redistribution of weight and a protection from the elements including cold winds, high heat and driving rain. These ideas were posted on Flickr from between February and March 2017.
Top left. A model of a horizontal Venus figurine representing a fertile woman carried during a journey on a simple frame. Pre hominid ancestors made and changed nest-like beds and refining those skills to help to keep a clan together when travelling in difficult conditions may have resulted in a simple platform held over the shoulder by four members of the clan - the birth of an idea that could help to define a species.
Lower left. I projected that the first real 'Transport Dragon' developed as a refinement and expansion of the basic frame: enlarged for multiple carriers to retain lifestyle essentials whilst protecting carriers from the bleak elements via leather pelts dropped down from a structural frame.
At this point it can be seen that a link to the principles of the 'managing the wild hypothesis of veraccos' exists. Long before the age of the verraco, and within the great ice ages, a clan, so visible on a vista as a line shadowed by footprints and smells, can - as a combined 'transport dragon', invert their relationship with predators. The apparent prey can attack, for whilst walking to salmon or reindeer rendezvous, the clan was vulnerable to attack from cave lions, hyenas, sabretooths and more. Sheltered within a transport dragon, the individuals can operate as a guise - a mythical animal attracting predators: looking out in secret, and replying to attack with pre-emptive preparation - in effect the core principles of a verraco. Man's mind grew up with this psychology, and principles could pass via long lost stories, stubborn residual examples, and from the collective consciousness of prehistory.
One essential that could also be carried within a 'Transport Dragon' was fire, held within the head of the mythical 'animal' in, for example, a basked weave covered in clay - a figure head quietly smoking, like breath on a cold day, ready to raw in the event of an attack. If attacked, the Transport Dragon could ignite real fire from managed embers, it could also defend as a combined crouch inside the thick leather housing, it could spear through slots, and 'the transport dragon' could also ultimately feed off predators, in between locations, without adding to archaeological settlement records or bone middens (an important detail regarding calculations of population levels). This social mentality of inverting issues of predator and prey may remind us of the "managing the wild theory of verracos" proposed in the adjacent post: 'Concluding prehistory. Function. 7:8'.
In another early post of this numbered series; "Concluding prehistory. The 'keys' of reality. 5:8" it was remarked that there seemed to be a potential influence on the verraco craftsmen of armature fed examples (weave and stretch) that may have existed outside of granite. I believe that 'Transport dragons' helped take modern man through extreme conditions, and the age of large predators, with ideas of God then held close with each clans chosen mythical or animal form. Here, God was plural for a real reason and man's sense of a globally important omnipotent 'being' a real world experience. As man removed the large predators, and the climate improved, the justification for this guised method of clan life will have faded, and examples of 'Transport Dragons' must have phase changed into rarer residues for festival and for remaining peripheral key clans: residuals, traders, holders of verbal data and quite literally living gods locked into spiritual pasts and futures. Each of these late transport dragons will have diversified according to the specific clan's idiosyncratic history: some with gargoyle-esque 'dragon heads', some with structures lined with 'ancient' pelts of multiple lion heads, some with just one eye, and others structured as half-man, half-animal: all as mythical creatures - all free to find logic from their rich and elaborated verbal pasts and fantasies. Here, the Sphinx might be understood as a regionally well-known example of an important ornamental manifestation of a late 'Transport Dragon' that was eventually stopped in a landscape and memorised as a mountain in stone. The long front legs simply a reflection of the ornate bars. The bronze age wheel as round as a full stop. By contrast to these fantastic and ornamental manifestations, as the miracle of domestication changed wild beasts into living associates, some late residual 'transport dragons' may have been shaped to elevate and worship these new pastoral real-world visions. Here, new ultra functional/descriptive animal varieties of the late 'Transport dragon' would celebrate the then terribly modern feats of man's very spirit of the time, and with clean lines and true empirical description they would have afforded distance from then more phantasmagorical ancient mythical examples. Sculptural and neo-realist late 'Transport dragons' celebrating the new domesticated 'cows', 'horses', 'pigs' and trained 'bears'. In their active age, there will have been 'Transport dragons' with aurock and bear heads smoking their slow fiery breath, and the then new Neolithic package must have asked for cleaner lines to mark contrast with the new spirit of mankind's domesticated wild. Here 'mythology's' Trojan horse was an ultra large and devious late pastoral transport dragon afforded bronze age wheels, and in the greater post Neolithic countryside, just such a weave and stretch animal was from a theme that was easily seen, and maybe some communities of craftsmen of these stitch-and-frame animals (lifted to float for assembled farming, crafting and trading publics) went on to carve in stone as the iron tools proved their presence and promise?
As people moved increasingly into scrublands, maybe the art of drawing-in danger was talked back into focus via stories associated with the last ceremonial 'transport dragons' bridging almost 9000 years with stubborn residuals and occasional local reapplications (strength and variety in meme). Here, the verraco concluded a long line of adaptations and expressions that had carried diversities of modern man past dangers from elements and sheer power, and around the planet earth. The 'conversations' between man and landscape, and man and other strong species moving from respectful out-witting competition, to distanced methodology and written protocols, in effect concluding prehistory.
The central image is from the Aboussouan collection, and was originally from Syria circa 4000ybp - so a mid bronze age. The wheel and carts arrived in the bronze age, and this early representation shows a concave lower interior level that makes little sense as a cart, but may retain a memory of the form of a late 'Transport Dragon', with head space and shoulder runs: no different here from the way that first cars 'remembered' earlier carts and carriages.
The last image is a verraco from the Medieval centre of Bragança in today's Portugal. It has no pedestal, and early medieval authorities seem to have wanted to put a stop to its sense of movement by skewering it with a definitive pillar. Implicit with the idea of verracos is that man had the strength and will to move them to help him attain protection from the wild. Stopping a verraco from moving was perhaps an attempt to stop their aura and pagan meaning from influencing early medieval rural communities.
Today, if we scan modern culture we may notice the scarecrow faintly asking pigeons and crows to go away like fay nemesis dilutions in threadbare. We can also see the pantomime-horse designed to play with an idea of a domesticated animal: to be ritually kicked in its behind for the pleasure of a clapping audience.
AJM 24.11.21
Leverage
makes the world go 'round.
It is the grease in the markets.
It is the strength to impose your will.
Freedom's trajectory
spans the planet,
whether all want it or not.
The arc or heaven rests
on American commerce.
- a fragment
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Thought For Food: Leveraging 3 Of The Few Cooking Devices I Use - IMRAN®
Microwave Oven. Air Fryer. Slow Cooker. Rice Cooker. Toaster Oven. Barbecue Grill. I use one or two of these on the rare occasion I “cook” something. This time I put three to use in parallel.
Philips Air Fryer, Chicken Parmesan. Toshiba Rice Cooker, pasta. Panasonic Microwave heated pasta sauce. Around 15-20 minutes total with maybe 3-5 minutes total prep time. Anything reaching 10 minutes of prep or cleanup time is not for me!
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High Line, an elevated railway line owned by the City of New York, today it is a 1.45-mile-long linear public park maintained, operated, and programmed by Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, on Thursday, September 17, 2015. High Line was opened in 1934 and moved goods to and from Manhattan’s largest industrial district until 1980. The third and final phase officially opened to the public on September 21, 2014. The High Line's green roof system with drip irrigation is designed to allow the planting beds to retain as much water as possible; because many of the plants are drought-tolerant, they need little supplemental watering. When supplemental watering is needed, hand watering is used so as to tailor the amount of water to the needs of individual species and weather conditions, and to conserve water. High Line is independently funded from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS). Urban forestry and green spaces are priority areas for USFS. With 80 percent* of the nation's population in urban areas, there are strong environmental, social, and economic cases to be made for the conservation of green spaces to guide growth and revitalize city centers and older suburbs. Urban forests broadly include urban parks, street trees, landscaped boulevards, public gardens, river and coastal promenades, greenways, river corridors, wetlands, nature preserves, natural areas, shelter belts of trees and working trees at industrial brownfield sites. Urban forests are dynamic ecosystems that provide needed environmental services by cleaning air and water helping to control storm water, and conserving energy. They add form, structure, beauty and breathing room to urban design, reduce noise, separate incompatible uses, provide places to recreate, strengthen social cohesion, leverage community revitalization, and add economic value to our communities. Urban forests, through planned connections of green spaces, form the green infrastructure system on which communities depend. Green infrastructure works at multiple scales from the neighborhood to the metro area up to the regional landscape. This natural life support system sustains clean air and water, biodiversity, habitat, nesting and travel corridors for wildlife, and connects people to nature. Urban forests, through planned connections of green spaces, form the green infrastructure system on which communities depend. Urban and Community Forestry (UCF) is a cooperative program of the US Forest Service that focuses on the stewardship of urban natural resources. UCF provides technical, financial, research and educational services to local government, non-profit organizations community groups, educational institutions, and tribal governments. The program is delivered through its legislative partners, the state forestry agencies in 59 states and US territories. Forest Service cooperative programs are currently being redesigned to make more effective use of federal resources. Programs will be focused on issues and landscapes of national importance and prioritized through state and regional assessments. Over the next five years an increasing percentage of funding will be focused on landscape scale projects. Three national themes provide a framework for this work: conserve working forest landscapes; protect forests from harm; and enhance benefits associated with trees and forests. More information and upcoming webinars on December 9, 2015 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET; January 13, 2016 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET; and February 10, 2016 | 1:00pm-2:15pm ET can be seen at *http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/program.shtml. USDA Photo By Lance Cheung.
Detroit's Delray Tower has the cleanest, tidiest interior I've ever seen in an interlocking tower. It is also one of the last, if not the last, "armstrong" lever-operated towers in the country, although for at least a few decades, the levers have controlled switches and signals via electric relays rather than piping. The tower's model board can be seen to the upper right, while to left are the electro-mechanical locks for track-and-time. With the recent closure of Kalamazoo's BO Tower, and ignoring bridgetenders' towers, Delray is the last manned interlocking tower in the state of Michigan.
PHILIPPINE SEA (April 23, 2017) – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Philippine Sea while conducting a bilateral exercise with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. Carl Vinson Strike Group is currently operating as part of U.S. 7th Fleet, but remains deployed under the U.S. 3rd Fleet Forward operating concept, which provides additional options to the Pacific Fleet commander and leverages the capabilities of both 3rd and 7th Fleets. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Z.A. Landers/Released)
Now this is a case of real non-political leverage in the iron age! This April marked the opening weekend of the Lohr/McIntosh Agricultural Heritage Center and I snagged another shot from the implements for gear heads. I got hung up in my project on that day. The "B.523" lever is connected to the draw bar with the "B276" b racket on the implement which is pretty old, judging from the oak and iron construction. Clearly, lever assemblies, No. B.523, were used in it's manufacture. Gotta love the bulletproof equipment America USED to manufacture!.
The terrain slopes down to McIntosh Lake that is in northwest Longmont. The loop trail around the lake is accessible from the ag center. I walked down to the inlet later to search for the mink but got spawning carp? and mallards.
Highway #66 seemed overloaded with early spring travelers to the hills, probably not knowing summer might not arrive until July in Rocky. There are several exhibits inside the red Dickens barn waiting for momma's explanations to the kiddies. All the kiddies want is a cool soda pop as long as they have to walk. Sunday offered them a look at a new lamb. Careful, the chickens and bunnies were under foot; a delight to the kiddies no doubt.
I had by now dropped everything else. I had to wait for the prairie dogs and bunnies to clear on my trek. Today was another day that topped the averages and it's not even California. There COULD be some time involved in editing. After I boiled the layers down to a TIFF, I edited objects I could then.
When we shoot a TV show or a movie, we often have to cheat our looks closer or farther away from the camera during our closeups.
Most of the time, the place we're supposed to look is marked with a piece of tape, like an orange X, for example.
When we shot the "showdown" sequence on Leverage, Aldis and I both had to cheat our looks on most of the shots, but there was one set up where I was able to stand just to the side of the camera for him. We were feeling silly that day, so I grabbed some tape and put an orange X right on my forehead.
"Hi, I'm Wil, and I'll be playing the part of the Orange X," I told him.
We all laughed, and I spent several minutes describing the different choices I make for different colors of tape.
"Playing the Red X is very different from playing the Blue X, and though I've tried my best, I've never really been able to nail playing a Green X."
(Thanks to Marc Roskin, who took this picture with his iPhone and e-mailed it to me.)
Bus Operator: Jam Liner Inc.
Bus number: 203
Area of Operation: Provincial Operation
Seating Configuration: 3x2
Seating Capacity: 61
Bus Manufacturer: Man Truck & Bus
Model: Santarosa MotorWorks Explorer
Chassis: MAN A63 18.232 FOC
Engine: D0836LFL10
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private, not-for-profit, and nonsectarian research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in the city area of Los Angeles, California. As California's oldest private research university, USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. An engine for economic activity, USC contributes approximately $5 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles county area. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all undergraduate institutions in the world.
For the 2015-2016 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in four-year undergraduate programs. USC is also home to 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university has a "very high" level of research activity and received $687 million in sponsored research from 2014 to 2015.
USC counts five Nobel Laureates, eight Rhodes Scholars, three MacArthur Fellows, 181 Fulbright Scholars, one Turing Award winner, 78 Academy Award winners, 119 Emmy Award winners, three winners of the National Medal of Arts, one winner of the National Humanities Medal, three winners of the National Medal of Science, and two winners of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation among its alumni and faculty. Additionally, of its current faculty, 15 are members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 are members of the Institute of Medicine, 34 are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 92 are members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 32 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities.
USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pacific-12 Conference. Members of the sports teams, the Trojans, have won 100 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation, and 378 NCAA individual championships, ranking them second in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 287 medals at the Olympic games (135 golds, 87 silvers and 65 bronzes), more than any other university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have collectively received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history.
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Here’s another device that resurfaced recently as I did some searching deep in the lower compartment of my toolbox.
It is shown in its folded configuration. The handle (the straight part) swings a bit over 90 degrees into its working position. It’s another Snap-On brand item.
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Added hints:
1) Both the curved and the straight pieces have small tapered projections on them on their ends.
2) The tool isn’t of that much use other than for its intended purpose for which it is excellent.
3) Snap-On Tools still offer this item attesting to its continuing need. Their current one has a suffix ‘-A’ added to the catalog number apparently to reflect a slight comfort modification to the handle.
4) It is a leverage tool.
Photograph © Jill Maguire
Ever since Brady was a tiny puppy, we give him cardboard boxes to destroy. He's finally learned (or we've finally noticed) how he uses his body weight to give him leverage in destroying the boxes. You should have seen the disaster area he made with all the boxes and wrapping paper when we opened presents!
A water pump (no longer functioning) with a long handle at the Château de Langeais in the Loire River Valley.
The Château de Langeais, to the right of the pump, is a medieval castle that was rebuilt as a château in the Loire region of France. It was restored beginning in 1886 by a wealthy citizen and later bequeathed to the Institut de France.
The romanesque L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste is to the left.
Leveraging the intelligence of human stem cells, Amy Karle created Regenerative Reliquary a bioprinted scaffold in the shape of a human hand 3D-printed in a biodegradable PEGDA-hydrogel that disintegrates over time.
The sculpture is installed in a bioreactor, with the intention that human Mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs from an adult donor) seeded onto this design will eventually grow into tissue and mineralize into bone on the scaffold.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
"When the whole universe weighs upon us there is no other
counterweight possible but God himself--the true God, for in
this case false gods cannot do anything, not even under the name
of the true one. Evil is infinite in the sense of being indefinite:
matter, space, time. Nothing can overcome this kind of infinity
except the true infinity. That is why on the balance of the cross a
body which was frail and light but which was God, lifted up the
whole world. 'Give me a point of leverage and I will lift up the
world.' This point of leverage is the cross. There can be no other.
It has to be at the intersection of the world and that which is not
the world. The cross is this intersection."
~ Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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*Photograph composition was created for the Our Daily Challenge topic:
A BALANCING ACT