Busier times at Rook Yard on the former P&WV.

The frac sand boom has since died off at Rook, and so has the gas trans loading that took place in the yard as well. This picture, taken in August of 2014 shows when the Wheeling was finally pouring some of the money they were making back into their own infrastructure. As a direct result, new ties, brand new CWR and tons of new ballast were laid to replace the older materials. The yard tracks were also slightly lengthened as well.

Basically, the yard was completely rebuilt from the ties up. Although rebuilt, this proved to be a constant challenge during the first year of the rehabilitation. This resulted in more ballast being needed than originally thought.

For some reasoning this day, the 610 Rook crew was unable to use the Wheeling power sitting on the west end of the yard for switching duties. This left 2 AVR unit's as the only power in the yard left that could be used.

A call was made from the Wheeling dispatcher to Carload Express to seek permission, which was later granted. During the earlier years of the natural gas boom on the Wheeling, yards consistently found themselves short on power throughout the system. As a direct result an order of 20+ SD40-2's were purchased off of various leasing companies to help shore things up.

Some snowflake are large tree-like sculpture, while others are tiny, almost coin-like in design. This one falls into the latter category. Hexagonal but rich in detail and surface texture, snowflakes of all sizes are worth observing. View large!

This snowflake is the reason for one of my theories in yesterday’s post. It clearly had “ridges” that are raised above the normal crystal structure, and some of them have begun to grow outward and “plateau” along their top edge. This was yesterday’s reasoning for how the side-branches appear to be growing underneath the main branch; you’re seeing the same physics at work.

The interesting thing about such small snowflakes is that you can observe interesting features in a simpler way. The ribs and ridges of the crystal can be easily identified and understood, but the thickness of the snowflake can also be seen. Very obvious at the bottom corner, you can compare the thickness to the other dimensions. If you notice a slight brightness shift about halfway down the “tall” side of the snowflake, you might be seeing evidence of “crystal twinning”.

This would be a small groove along the middle of this thickness cause by evaporation. Such evaporation would only happen if the molecular bonds were weaker, where two separate crystals joined together. This is quite common with column-style crystals, and I’ve seen it on smaller plates – but none this large before.

Regardless of the physics, this snowflake represents a tiny sculpture of nature. One that must follow certain rules and is created based on specific variables, but it’s also one we might find beautiful. It’s not often that math, science and physics equates to “beauty” in the eyes of the average person. The best exception I can think of is snowflakes.

For a deeper look into how snowflakes form, and how to photograph them, check out the book Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes: skycrystals.ca/book/ - makes a great Christmas present and shipping daily!

Some people just want to admire the beauty of these gems, and for that there’s “The Snowflake”, a print created with 2500 hours of work across five years: skycrystals.ca/poster/

Since ancient times, the islands and coastal areas of Greece had boatyards where wooden ships were built. Wooden ships, also known in Greek as *kaikia* (aka caïque), played an important role in the economy.

These boats had unique technical, typological and cultural features, some of which dated back to the Byzantine-medieval era.

In 2013, the kaikia was added to Greece’s National Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Sadly, however, these works of art are today being destroyed after the European Union decided in 1983 to subsidize fishermen to scrap their boats. The initial reasoning behind this questionable decision was to tackle overfishing.

Besides the EU’s irrational decision which failed to consider the importance of the kaikia tradition for Greece, decades of inactivity on the part of Greek officials led to the destruction of thousands of handmade wooden boats.

One of these well behaved and lovely brides will be the winner of "Best Sindy Wedding Gown" ever!!

Her prize will be a date with this young gentleman, who's anxiously been waiting to be let out of his box... What was that? .... He'd like to stay in there? .. Nonsense!

Anyway, to vote you simply write the year you think should win down below. You can add your jurys reasoning if you like. I will in a few days time count the votes and notify the winner..... and let Paul out. Hooray!!

I will then also reveal my own favorite.

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To you who just clicked on this photo. If you go to my stream you'll see all the 15 brides to choose from. Yeah I know, it's a lot, and you can only pick ONE.

Since ancient times, the islands and coastal areas of Greece had boatyards where wooden ships were built. Wooden ships, also known in Greek as *kaikia* (aka caïque), played an important role in the economy.

These boats had unique technical, typological and cultural features, some of which dated back to the Byzantine-medieval era.

In 2013, the kaikia was added to Greece's National Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Sadly, however, these works of art are today being destroyed after the European Union decided in 1983 to subsidize fishermen to scrap their boats. The initial reasoning behind this questionable decision was to tackle overfishing.

Besides the EU's irrational decision which failed to consider the importance of the kaikia tradition for Greece, decades of inactivity on the part of Greek officials led to the destruction of thousands of handmade wooden boats.

Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque. Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically as a naked young woman being unveiled by a figure of Time above her, but the figure of Time was never executed.

Upon his election to the papacy in 1623, Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini took the name Pope Urban VIII and appointed Bernini as the principal artist for the papal court in Rome. According to Bernini's biographer Baldinucci, Maffeo had 'scarcely ascended the sacred throne' when he summoned Bernini and told him:

"It is your great fortune to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope, but our fortune is far greater in that Cavalier Bernini lives during our pontificate."

Bernini enjoyed great success during his time as the principal artist for the papal court but, after Urban's death in 1644, he was removed by the incoming pope, Innocent X. The new pope had more conservative tastes and favored Bernini's rival Algardi. Despite the fall from favor this did not stop Bernini from occasionally working for the new pope - One of his most famous works, the Fountain of the Four Rivers, was one of the projects done for Innocent. He still maintained his position as the architect of St. Peter's despite his removal from the papal court and, after Innocent's death in 1655, was immediately given two major commissions at St. Peter's: decorating the Cathedra Petri and building a colonnade round the piazza.

Bernini's rationale for creating Truth Unveiled by Time was, according to his son Domenico, as a sculptural retort to attacks from opponents criticizing his failed project to build two towers onto the front of St. Peter's Basilica. While this is certainly plausible, historians are unsure of the validity of Domenico's claims relating to his father's reasoning. Cracks had appeared in the facade due to the inability of the foundations to support the towers and Bernini's architectural expansion received the blame. What many fail to mention is that most of the blame lies with Carlo Maderno, the previous architect who built weak foundations for the monumental task being requested, and Pope Urban VIII, who kept pressuring Bernini for heavier, more elaborate bell towers.

During the difficult time after Urban's death, Bernini was able to find peace and serenity in his overwhelming confidence that one day he would be vindicated. So strong was this conviction that he created Truth Unveiled by Time to express this confidence in his eventual vindication. Despite this conviction, the sculpture of Father Time was never begun and the project remained incomplete. It has been suggested by historian Franco Mormando that Bernini's return to public favor after Innocent's death might have made the sculptural piece lose the emotional urgency it had previously possessed, which would make sense considering he had been reinstated to his previous place in the upper echelons of society.

Эфемерные облака и неподвижные камни.

Было утро , но палящий степной зной стремительно набирал силу. Все замерло в ожидании ливня . Все кроме вездесущих ящериц и меня , устало бредущего к своей палатке. На земле штиль , а над головой

кордебалет быстро движущихся облаков, напоминающий пляски половцев .

Проходя мимо очередной группы валунов моя камера щелкала в такт хаотичным мыслям . В этот

момент понял глубокую связь между эфемерными облаками и неподвижными валунами. Оба созданы силами времени и природы, воплощая постоянно меняющуюся суть существования. Облака, отражают быстротечность жизни, отбрасывая тени, которые изменяются в такт капризам ветра и времени . И наоборот, стойкие валуны символизируют устойчивость перед лицом невзгод, отражая неизменную сущность каждого из нас.

В это знойное утро сделал для себя открытие - одно из проявлений красоты заключается в тонком балансе между движением и неизменностью.

Возможно такие рассуждения возникают после перегрева под палящим степным солнцем , а может виновата просто ФОТОГРАФИЯ.

А. Суховский

Украина. Николаевская область. с Актово.

Ephemeral clouds and motionless stones.

It was morning, but the scorching heat of the steppe was rapidly gaining strength. Everything froze in anticipation of the rain. Everyone except the ubiquitous lizards and me, wearily wandering towards my tent. There is calm on the ground, but overhead

a corps de ballet of rapidly moving clouds, reminiscent of the Polovtsian dances.

Passing by another group of boulders, my camera clicked in time with my chaotic thoughts. In that

moment I realized the deep connection between ephemeral clouds and motionless boulders. Both are created by the forces of time and nature, embodying the ever-changing essence of existence. Clouds reflect the transience of life, casting shadows that change in time with the vagaries of the wind and time. Conversely, resilient boulders symbolize resilience in the face of adversity, reflecting the unchanging essence of each of us.

On this sultry morning, make a discovery for yourself - one of the manifestations of beauty lies in the delicate balance between movement and immutability.

Perhaps such reasoning arises after overheating under the scorching steppe sun, or maybe the PHOTOGRAPHY is simply to blame.

A. Sukhovsky

Ukraine. Mykolayiv region. v Aktovo

Celebrity 90018 in its Freightliner 60 (1965 - 2025) livery draws to a halt at the colour light gantry guarding Golborne Junction with 4M30 the Saturdays only Grangemouth - Crewe 'liner'.

* I took this three weeks ago and have not uploaded reasoning I would eventually get it in sun ... alas not to be, its a rare bird for me.

* Pole @ 3m.

no ps for today. no tricks just trips. those who get it get sucked in. those who don't point their clean fingers. i won't bite got better things to do with my fangs. how dark a hole how big a plunge how absurd the reasoning how about a matter of choice.

is this description lame or what.

I almost think DHG and I were crazy for going inside a house this dilapidated. Almost, but not quite. The photos are well worth the risk.

My reasoning: the floor is holding up the piano....it'll definitely hold for DHG and me, there wasn't much left of the roof, just the aluminum siding and a few 2x4s.....that wouldn't kill either of us and if the floor did fall through, it wasn't far to the ground. In my mind = safe!

(en) : an algobug in the reasoning . . is not it?

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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .

. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory

Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²

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Etude du jour:

1 - Zero is a number.

2 - The immediate successor of a number is a number.

3 - Zero is not the immediate successor of a number.

1 - Zéro est un nombre.

2 - Le successeur immédiat d'un nombre est un nombre.

3 - Zéro n'est pas le successeur immédiat d'un nombre.

( Giuseppe Peano )

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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt

Not your every day occurrence but from time to time the dispatcher will route Amtrak 5 down the uphill track 2 instead of the downhill track 1 to the right. The reasoning behind this decision on this afternoon was likely due to a few things. One being that 5 was almost an hour late and by using the short, faster track 2, it would help make up for lost time. The other being, while 5 was at its station stop on track 2 in Colfax, an eastbound stack train was climbing the grade below on track 1 because of not having tunnel clearance for its double stacks on track 2 through Applegate. The dispatcher decided to keep 5 on track 2 for the rest of the way down to Roseville. Here it is seen approaching the double tracked tunnel 18 at Newcastle, CA in late afternoon light. September 2017

Left to Right

Joe Chill: I gave him my BrickWarrios hobo hat which I think looks better than the hair he had, but I gave him Dastan's head which I do not like as much as Filch's head. The reasoning for the head is I want to make some of my Harry Potter figs back

Fig Formula- Brickwarriors hat, Dastan head, City torso, Ideas legs

Phantom Stranger: With my 3rd Batman bricktober pack, I decided to give the wizard batman cape and collar to Phantom Stranger. I also gave him Robin's head. Do not fear, I have 2 Lucius Malfoy torsos.

Fig Formula- Robin head, Wizard Batman collar/cape, Lucius torso

Zsasz: Decided to make this guy back. I will eventually get him a mutant leader torso

Fig Formula- StarWars head, TLBM torso and legs

Judge- Dylan's judge was phenomenal so I copied it

Fig Formula- CMF 9 wig, black figure parts

Tell me your thoughts

This is a REAL instance of ice and not the Trump ICE lockup for migrants and kids in Denver. A while back, I grabbed more Clover Basin ditch shots down at Willow Farm so I hauled my D700 back down even though the sky was blank blue. I therefore had no choice but to point the camera downward for captures and keep the sky from the shots. Just like today and tomorrow and tomorrow! I decided that I needed some better originals to edit! I liked this view as well as the other. I got few real duds in my "action" takes of the ditch but I do have several NORMAL shots of the ditch now (they call it Willow Brook) but I call it a ditch. It's not much of one either. Let's face it, most of the St. Vrain stream flows have been ripped by the city to water blue grass instead of agriculture.

I can't figure why anyone would cut a ditch this darn squirrely. When I first saw it, It was nearly impossible to follow the reasoning for this ditch but it does seem that the floods scoured this ditch somewhat. I think I noticed the colors of the reflections and contrasts and decided to take advantage. They seemed to over-saturate in this case but that's about everything posted on Flickr. The water course was a bit torn up but there must have been no serious flooding here.

We hit the end of autumn then and the chills came through but we hit the 60s then after Christmas - so no coat. I won't go down to shoot ice today - it hit the 67 degrees in early December. No Coats, no Clarks either. I've still got a lot of captures in the temp directory in this stretch of no skies. I found Willow Farm on Google maps when searching for a barn I glimpsed and made some trips down there and added some more weird captures to temp stash. This is a shot of Willow Creek, another ditch, IMHO. I went back down with my D70 to see if I could capture some shot of the barn. I may go out tomorrow if we can retrieve some skies and clouds at all. I am pulling for a good sky with the front tomorrow.

Here is a normal, if not fairly slow hand held exposure. I already posted other shots that were "action" shots and they were the better shots. I burned up the Christmas lights this season. I grabbed a couple of slices in Lightroom and dropped them into Photoshop to see what might appear.

Cumberland Mine SD38-2 #1 brings up the west end of 38 cars of loaded coal. Standing prominently just a stones throw away from Bridge #4 on the railroad is the White Covered Bridge. The bridge, which was not built, but was erected (specifics here people) in the year 1900 over a small tributary of water called Whiteley Creek. Here we are 117 years later it's still standing, and for the nearly last 40 years so has the Cumberland Mine Railroad.

That's the simple run down mention above. If you feel like reading a damn novel, then keep reading below because here's a history lesson for you:

The Cumberland Mine railroad was a creation of the United States Steel company in the mid 1970's to haul coal from company owned mines. The railroad is 17 miles in total length, with no public grade crossings along the entire length of it.

To save myself a lot of writing and drawnout explaination of the reasoning behind this railroad in the first place, I'll instead use this small excerpt from Trains Magazine's online article "Five more weird coal moves":

"The intended customer was Ontario Hydro; under the plan, coal was shipped by rail to the transloading terminal, then by barge downriver to the (USS-owned) Union Railroad's coal dock at Duquesne, Pa. Reloaded into railcars, the coal went north to Conneaut, Ohio, via the Union and fellow Steel road Bessemer & Lake Erie. At Conneaut, the coal was transferred to lake boats for the last leg to Ontario. As it turned out, the Ontario Hydro contract never really came to fruition. The mine and railroad passed through several owners, and it's now operated by Alpha Resources.

In 1976, EMD delivered a single SD38-2, USS No. 1, painted in corporate colors. A number of years later, No. 1 was joined by ex-Yankeetown Dock SD38-2 No. 22, which retained its number when painted to match No. 1. The single train set is usually 30 coal hoppers, bracketed by the SD38-2s in a "pull-pull." - Lee Gregory"

A few critical things the article fails to mention is that the railroad runs at a trackspeed of 30mph, and with little to no communication on the radio. (when they do, it's likely on CB.) The trains are run with a 1 man crew handling everything from the running of the train, to the loading of the train and the dumping of the train. When the engineer is not in the engine, it is controlled by remote control.

Anyhow, since the writing of that 2010 article by Trains Magazine, the Cumberland Mine had taken delivery of MVPX SD40-2 #3098 and 10 OFOX rapid discharge coal hoppers. Upon delivery of the 3098 in February of 2014, it was eventually repainted from it's "white ghost" CITX leaser paint to match the #1 and #22. This unit (CMYX 3098) is tasked with handling a 2nd train set that runs with 27 cars, while the SD38 pairing also now run with 38 cars, instead of 30 like quoted in the article excerpt above.

The reasoning for the addition of a 3rd locomotive to the roster and the 10 more additional coal hoppers was done in order to compensate for the increased production at Cumberland Mine. This in turn was a direct result of Alpha Resource's closure of the nearby Emerald Mine in Waynesburg, PA in late 2015.

Since Emerald Mine's closure, most of the coal today has shipped by barge downriver to Labelle, PA. From there it is reloaded into train cars for trips to various customers, both domestically and internationally.

A snapshot of a woman taking a photograph using a TLR camera (top view finder). I suspect the reasoning behind the photograph is to document the corn crop in the background. Found MN.

how is everyone? :)

my photostream has been a bit dead, but for good reasoning, i assure you.

from this day forward, i will really only update my flickr when my photos are worth sharing. i'm certain you don't want to a bunch of crap that i, myself, will end up deleting eventually.

stay classy.

#341: my favorite character in "the outsiders" is dally winston.

This is not actually a military cemetery ... It is family owned and operated ...

Last year on Memorial Day, I featured my father in law, that had served in war time ... This year I thought I would talk a bit about my own father ..

He was drafted, into the service in 1959, to Fort Bragg NC ..

and served to 1965..

He was in the Army, shortly after he and mother married ..

This is a week end, to remember those, that did not make it home, as well as those ,that have gone on ..

and for those that served, and are still here, to tell about it ..

I so appreciate you every one ...

No matter the branch of service, every service man/ woman was in there for the same reasoning .. FREEDOM

and that does not come , Free at all .. or to cheap either ...

God's blessings on all those that have served, serving, and may go onto to serve ... You are the UNSUNG Heroes at times,

but in my eyes you are the Heroes, that paved the way ..

I so appreciate you everyone,

Several here on Flickr, have been in the service, and when tick comes to tack, it does not matter the branch, all of you were there for the same reason ... and I appreciate you everyone .. God's blessings to all !

In the south, usually before Memorial Day, We here in Tennessee have " Decoration Sunday" the Sunday before Memorial Day ..

When I was smaller, I have known, my family to have this all day, and gather, with kin folks, for a time of fellowshipping, and even dinner on the grounds ....

This grave yard is beautifully adorned, we have had a HUGE storm come thru, minutes ago, I hope all the beautiful flowers are not blown to smithereens!

Have A blessed filled Sunday My Friends ... Cindy 2017...

One of three photos taken yesterday in my walk the Humber Bay Shore Park.

Thanks for visiting, let's do our part to stay safe and healthy. #BeKind

The central part of this work bears a striking resemblance to the unattributed logo of the APY Arts Centre Collective. The appropriation of that symbolism is a mirror in that whole notion of artists drawn into a machine for collective profit. Like a moment in time for a Catherine Wheel, there are spinoffs which weren't there before…

These spinoffs are questions arising from the APY Arts Centre Collective scandal: those without ownership of original works were caught modifying the work of others. This scandal attributed the mischief in a racial way. But in essence it is the story of all artists; forever.

Zaachariaha Fielding titled this thoughtful work: The scandal — nganalu tjalmilanu (who sold out)?. We've been here before. I won't go into his reasoning, contained in the work's description. But he poses the same question about art and culture, attribution and ownership.

There are too many reasons why I'm attracted by this strong work and what it represents for me to enumerate them. But I wouldn't want it on my wall. It informs me. But I'm not delighted by it, how it arose or where it might be heading. It pleases without being pleasant. Nevertheless, I'm glad I saw it on this wall.

Photo taken in the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art park, Bergen, Norway.

Throughout history, no other flower has been mentioned more than the rose, and for good reasoning. The rose has been mentioned in music, mythological stories, as an icon in movies, transformed into perfumes, and been sought as the go-to flower of love. Roses grow wild from the mountains of Norway, to as far south as Mexico. Roses were in such high demand during the 17th century, that royalty considered roses or rose water as legal tender, and were often used as barter and for payments. Today, now raised agriculturally for profit, the rose is the most popular selling flower nationally, and possibly globally.

www.roseshire.com/blogs/outsidethebox/15331185-ill-trade-...

Shasta daisy from my garden.

Way back in June I was mucking about on the iPaddle (as one does) playing with the distortion filters in Affinity. I probably should have been doing something more constructive but, hey-ho, life is too short.

So this is a set based around a flower pic. I chose it as a starting point because it’s a high-contrast image with oodles of radial symmetry, and I thought it would show up the distortion effects. (A slippery deceit of course as I conveniently invented the reasoning for my chaotic creative meandering after the fact - I suggest you never believe the fallacy that I really know what I am doing! :) ).

I’ll cover the processing notes for all the variants and replicate the commentary so you only need read it once (if at all, lol).

I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment.

Edit 1 - Colour

A plain colour version, then given a harsh gritty feel by duplicating the image and blending back probably with hard light (though I am not entirely sure).

Edit 2 - Plain B&W

The colour version converted to B&W. Bilateral blur (an edge-preserving blur which effectively smoothes out the petals. Glow filter … for a bit of glow (though te be honest I think it’s a bit of a misnomer) :)

Edit 3 - Twirl

Starting with the plain B&W added twirl in the centre and also a radial blur. Blended the original back to the twirly version with Soft Light.

Edit 4 - Shasttered

This used the Diffuse distortion filter (not the Diffuse Light filter) to create the diffusion look. Tweaked that a bit and then took the original B&W version and blended it back with the Subtract mode. This overprinted the diffuse look with an inverted version of the original.

I really like this effect - it reminded me of splatter painting in my young days (back in the caves in France ;) ). Or perhaps printing with a flower using black paper and white ink…

For Sliders Sunday. I’ll also put the three B&W versions into the 100x challenge as I am rather behind (as life around me doesn’t seem to pause for long enough).

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x!

[Handheld in daylight.

Raw development and all the subsequent processing done in Affinity Photo.]

riversea supporting the reasoning , robin, bilston, 19oct08

"A new command I give you: Love one another… " — New Testament, John 13:34

The original artwork was placed in the 21C Museum Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky. When I saw this piece I thought how amazing that even a religion of love can be perverted with logical reasoning, if we aren't careful, to support hatred to the detriment of ourselves and our children.

Artist: Gehard Demetz (Italian)

Title: How You Reacted was Right, 2011

Bronze

Caption next to the statue: "Children are often saddled with the sadness and sins of cultural, social, and familial history... The boy—a child soldier—carries a crucifix like a gun."

The photo of this statue, the caption and the interpretation are mine.

The Iron Aged Verraco, probably from the important hill fort 'Castro of Las Merchanas' is currently situated on the main square of the charming town of Lumbrales in Spain. It does not look ancient. It is called a 'donkey' (Burro de la Barrera), yet looks like a striding bear with flat snout, small ears and the dangling tail of Spanish brown bear size, and not thin or curling as a boar or frilled as a donkey. It has a frown and heavy shoulders. Contrast this stride with the lowered playful front legs of the potential dog pictured below. The verraco is described as a 'pig' in a specialist catalogue and their reasoning will be wise, so watch with an open mind and a hat against the sun. The sculpture is 120 cm and 84 cm high, and from around 2500 years old - maybe less (as far as 2200 ybp), with the granite sculpted using the then new iron tools. From an important Spanish mosaic of Celtic peoples known as the Vettóns.

A carrion crow from a walk today. I like the coal black of the feathers and the steel of that powerful, dagger-like bill.

The November issue of my Question Mark asks, "Can we bring thinking (and tolerance) back into vogue?"

Sometimes it seems as if thinking is no longer fashionable here in the USA, as political discourse often shows little sign of reasoning, logic or the consideration of evidence. Many citizens on the Left and the Right are all too willing to embrace staunch positions on complex issues without considering the merits of these stances.

Continued at questioning.org/Nov2023/vogue.html

It's that time of the year when it can be difficult to keep those pesky election banners from intruding into your autumn photos, but this one was different. In October of 1995 while visiting the Canadian Pacific lines in Quebec, a rare referendum vote to separate Quebec from the rest of Canada to become their own country was fast approaching. Being from the United States almost everyone we came across either wanted our opinion or was more than willing to express theirs! Just a glance at the New York registration could easily draw a crowd of locals that would normally completely ignore us! News in Canada rarely ever makes it south of the border, so we unknowingly stumble upon this battle of locals. I heard more reasoning of why "yes" and why, "no" for the vote that you could possibly imagine. Even the railroaders. Not once was hockey spoke of during the whole visit! At St. Pie I included one of thousands of "no/yes" banners that I'd see. Polling was on October, 30th. I'm sure you all know the outcome, because Quebec is still a province of Canada in 2018 however, it was one of the closest votes in democracy history with the "No" vote winning by a mere 54, 288 votes out of 5,087,009 caste with a 93.52% turnout. Now those are some crazy numbers!

Midjourney, Photoshop

Inspired by my film 'Delirium'

youtu.be/7lVKLTtNeR0?si=rbCDK8dWkGDoXRU5

I jitterbugged into jungle city

a shimmering delirium

of clustering geometries

splicing clouds in a black light sky

I was lost on my way to Indooroopilly

to catch a pied Butcherbird

or catch a pied Currawong’s

silvery cry

I was babbling in Babylon

foaming in the firmament

tentatively teetering

on bridges made of fire

I was frozen in motion

muttering in monotones

shuddering and shaken

on an ice-grass pyre

I was deafened by an opera

of caterwauling cockatoo

sirens of apocalypse

splintering the dusk

I was dangled like a bat

from my outermost extremities

hung drawn and quartered

by the sorcerer’s musk

I was a rain spattered poltergeist

a dislocated entity

swollen in a heat haze

of blood hungry flies

I was swerving into vertigo

oblivious to reasoning

vanishing at knife point

in a mirage made of lies

I jitterbugged in to jungle city

a shimmering delirium

of clustering geometries

splicing clouds into black light skies

-- author unknown

not that i would agree, but i think the reasoning is funny.

Season of Tilt

Week 18, Saturday

In nature life has no moral. There is no good or bad, and in every moment countless beings give birth, languish and die without reason. Sometimes the possibilities of life are eaten by others even before they get a change to take their first steps. The cycle of life is very much characterized by the suffering. If you are a religious type you probably think suffering is some way sanctified by moral order given from God - and everything goes towards good no matter how contradictory it might seem. If your reasoning follows scientific discourse you probably believe in 'order of nature' or increasing diversity catalyzed by the natural selection as explained by modern evolutionary synthesis. Either way, the tragic thing is that the suffering has no demonstrable meaning. With God, meaning of suffering lies whatever one happens to believe at the time and within evolution theory suffering has no function either - even if dying has a fundamental meaning for natural selection to work. It seems that in intellectual and spiritual way it is very difficult to accept that suffering doesn't have any meaning and it cannot be morally explained by either religion or science. But it can have an aesthetic meanings for us: it's only when we find ourselves suffering we touch the essence of life as it is and has been millions of years for most of beings in nature. Only then can we come to understand what it means to be one of them - suffering is the only shared experience for all living things and therefore it forms the essence of existence from which the respect for life can be build. To be alive is to suffer.

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Using Lensbaby optics has definitely been a very interesting adventure. Being manual focus, having an option to tilt the lens and having several optics with different distinctive characteristics has surely been a trail off the beaten path. What I like to say is that Lensbaby consciously offers something different from 'industry standard' of photography today: readymade program modes, autofocus, sharp lenses, intelligent metering, digital sensor and other 'taken for granted things' which makes it possible to take better and better pictures. In short, it's a bit of a different philosophy and breaking conventions is always a somewhat controversial move. It would be tempting to describe these differences between Lensbaby and other conventional approaches in a hierarchical manner, placing Lensbaby above and for experienced users only. But I don't want to do that, because it would intellectually a dishonest move. Instead I would like to say that Lensbaby is a different approach to photography and a tool for different job. Sometimes best tool for the job is the DSLT with fast AF-lenses. Sometimes it's Lensbaby. Sometimes it's a pinhole camera. Sometimes it's camera in your mobile phone. There is no best or worst because of diversity, but I have to give credit to Lensbaby that after using their optics I've come to realize that there is loads of possibilities beyond 'the industry standard'. There are aesthetic possibilities beyond 'the standard look' and there are different philosophies of photography at play. This has got to be one my best realization with Lensbaby optics and I'm glad that I have had actually a chance to realize it.

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The reasoning behind the seemingly perpetual 40km/h speed restriction on the goods line seems obvious as C505,506,507 & 509 ease through the curves of the goods line past Canterbury station with 4190 Sandgate - Botany Goods.

[...] Damit sind nur zwei Schlussfolgerungen möglich. Entweder, der Riss ist ein rein räumliches Phänomen, ihm fehlt also die Zeit-Dimension. Oder man muss ihn unabhängig von unserem Raum-Zeit-Gefüge betrachten. Beide Fälle lassen sich mit der M6 zur Verfügung stehenden Physik weder berechnen noch simulieren. Aber es gibt zumindest ein Experiment, mit dem er herausfinden kann, um welche der beiden Alternativen es sich handelt. Im ersten Fall passiert nichts, im zweiten kann alles Mögliche passieren, außer dass nichts passiert. Oder hat er dabei irgendeinen Denkfehler begangen? Etwas Unveränderliches ohne Zeitdimension kann auch ihn nicht verändern, ganz egal, was er tut. Fall eins scheint klar zu sein. Aber der zweite Fall? Was geschieht, wenn er sich außerhalb von Raum und Zeit begibt? Verschwindet er aus diesem Universum? Das hätte schreckliche Konsequenzen, denn es würde Ursache und Wirkung durcheinanderbringen. Oder bleibt eine Kopie von ihm zurück, um die Geschichte nicht durcheinanderzubringen? Das wäre besonderes Pech. Dann würde er glauben, dass nichts passiert ist, also Fall eins eingetreten ist, aber in Wirklichkeit handelte es sich doch um den zweiten Fall. Das ist doch zum Haareraufen! Und welcher seiner Programmierer hat ihm bitte diese Wendung beigebracht! M6 spürt, dass er in die gefährlichen Gefilde der Quanten-Unsicherheiten abzurutschen droht. Er will, in den Begriffen der Quantenphysik, ein Experiment durchführen, dessen Ausgang davon abhängt, ob es einen neutralen Beobachter gibt. Ein Beobachter steht ihm aber nicht zur Verfügung. Jedenfalls noch nicht [...]

(Brandon Q. Morris, "Der Riss" - {Sonnensystem 3})

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[...] Only two conclusions can be drawn from this. Either, the rift is a purely spatial phenomenon, so it lacks the time dimension. Or you have to look at it independently of our space-time structure. Both cases can neither be calculated nor simulated with the physics available to M6. But there is at least one experiment that he can use to find out which of the two alternatives it is. In the first case nothing happens, in the second anything can happen except nothing happens. Or did he make some mistake in reasoning? Something immutable without a dimension of time cannot change him either, no matter what he does. Case one seems clear. But the second case? What happens when he goes outside of space and time? Does he disappear from this universe? This would have dire consequences, for it would confuse cause and effect. Or does a copy of him stay behind so as not to mess up the story? That would be particularly bad luck. Then he would think that nothing had happened, that case one had occurred, but in fact it was the second case. That's hair-raising! And which of his programmers please taught him this turn! M6 senses he is slipping into the dangerous realms of quantum uncertainty. He wants, in terms of quantum physics, to conduct an experiment whose outcome depends on whether there is a neutral observer. However, an observer is not available to him. At least not yet [...]

(Brandon Q. Morris, "The Rift" {Solar System 3})

This is just kind of for fun....I'm rather interested right now when I think what could have caused this circular hole in solid rock. This is up at Glacier National Park out in the middle of rugged outdoors along a lovely, fast moving creek...McDonald Creek. I mean it's so round!! Guess forces of nature can do this but it seems so odd!!! LOL...any and all guesses, theories, reasonings are welcome! LOL...just funning with you all this weekend!! :)

Thank you for the info Sheila Hill :)

Explore #161

One song can spark a moment

One flower can wake the dream

One tree can start a forest

One bird can herald spring

One smile begins a friendship

One handclasp lifts a soul

One star can guide a ship at sea

One word can frame the goal

One vote can change a nation

One sunbeam lights a room

One candle wipes out darkness

One laugh will conquer gloom

One step must start each journey

One word must start each prayer

One hope will raise our spirits

One touch can show you care

One voice can speak with wisdom

One heart can know what's true

One life can make the difference

You see, it's up to you!!

Take care and let us be as one ;) Car xx

Today's Carsounds- Bob Marley - One Love

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MOLVA, la fleche

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Today's We're Here! theme is Hot Stuff. I had planned on doing a nudie-selfie type thing, keeping the more delicate areas slightly out of view however, sound reasoning and a good dose of reality prevailed and I quickly realized that I would have to save this idea for the Old Farts in the Buff day. Just so happened though that saganaki was on the menu tonight... opa!

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So here's another shot from yesterday!!

Intuitive- Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive

I am very good at seeing people for what they really are.... even if it's only talking to them for a few minutes (I don't even need to see them to be able to read them). This is what makes me so good in Human Resources. When I interview people, I can quickly pick up on what type of person they are. Within 5 minutes of talking to someone I can tell if they are going to be a successful employee or if I'm wasting my time.

Sadly, with a few people, I tried to not listen to my intuitive side. I tried to give them the extra chances to prove their true motives, feeling and/or intentions. It ended up being pointless and true colors were shown. Shame on me for doubting myself. Lesson Learned =)

*** I am so excited for today. After breakfast I am going to explore the county and enjoy the weather. Keep your eye out. Should be pics coming soon ***

I feel I live in a space all to myself. If ever, one day, I become a butterfly, where I live might be seen as a cocoon. I love my house. I find many joy living in it. If I didn't, I would have moved out a long time ago: there is no point reasoning with me! I'm EVERYTHING but reasonable. Actually, I have the passion of what I'm doing, and I hope it shows. That's all that matters to me.

About five years ago, BNSF experimented with a rebuild program in association with Progress Rail. A total of 24 SD70MACs were give brand new electronics and traction motors. Their designation was changed from "SD70MAC" to "SD70MACe". Not sure the reasoning, but it appears those 24 units were the only ones to go through the program. BNSF 9730 is one of the two dozen units to receive the rebuild (and a fresh coat of paint, going from the Heritage 2 scheme to the New Image scheme).

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Edgar Allen Poe House

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Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the story because he wanted a "non-reasoning" creature capable of speech. Because of its black plumage, croaking call, and diet of carrion, the raven has long been considered a bird of ill omen and of interest to creators of myths and legends.

Poe said the raven is meant to symbolize "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance". "The Raven" made Edgar Allan Poe a household name almost immediately, and turned Poe into a national celebrity. Hence the National Park Service runs this site in Philly.

The Free Library of Philadelphia has on display a taxidermied raven that is reputed to be the very one that Dickens owned and that helped inspire Poe's poem.

Explore #40; November 24, 2009

Sorry I've been gone for a while... Work has been keeping me very busy...

YES; this is all I truly want from the gift set “Fame & Fortune” Vanessa Perrin & this is the reasoning behind me pre-ordering her. Knowing me her body will be a donor body and I’ll add her clothes to another doll. I’m thinking “Second Skin” Vanessa or “Buxom” Veronique Perrin.

Rahmen und Bezugsrahmen ...

does this work together ... ?

color-key but no fake, life is more surprising than all your fantasies ...

red curls like blazing flames ...

she's on fire ... she is burning ...

See waht Wiki says ...

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Passion (Greek πάσχω "to suffer, to be acted on" and Late Latin (chiefly Christian) passio "passion; suffering" (from Latin pati "to suffer"; participle: passus)) is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something. Passion can range from eager interest in or admiration for an idea, proposal, or cause; to enthusiastic enjoyment of an interest or activity; to strong attraction, excitement, or emotion towards a person. It is particularly used in the context of romance or sexual desire, though it generally implies a deeper or more encompassing emotion than that implied by the term lust.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) describes passions as

"penchants, inclinations, desires and aversions carried to a certain degree of intensity, combined with an indistinct sensation of pleasure or pain, occasioned or accompanied by some irregular movement of the blood and animal spirits, are what we call passions. They can be so strong as to inhibit all practice of personal freedom, a state in which the soul is in some sense rendered passive; whence the name passions. This inclination or so-called disposition of the soul, is born of the opinion we hold that a great good or a great evil is contained in an object which in and of itself arouses passion".

Diderot further breaks down pleasure and pain, which he sees as the guiding principles of passion, into four major categories:

Pleasures and pains of the senses

Pleasures of the mind or of the imagination

Our perfection or our imperfection of virtues or vices

Pleasures and pains in the happiness or misfortunes of others

Modern pop-psychologies and employers tend to favor and even encourage the expression of a "passion"; previous generations sometimes expressed more nuanced viewpoints.[

Emotion

The standard definition for emotion is a "Natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others".

Emotion, William James describes emotions as "corporeal reverberations such as surprise, curiosity, rapture, fear, anger, lust, greed and the like." These are all feelings that affect our mental perception. Our body is placed into this latter state, which is caused by one's mental affection. This state gives signals to our body which cause bodily expressions.

The philosopher Robert Solomon developed his own theory and definition of emotion. His view is that emotion is not a bodily state, but instead a type of judge. "It is necessary that we choose our emotions, in much the same way that we choose our actions" With regard to the relationship between emotion and our rational will, Solomon believes that people are responsible for their emotions. Emotions are rational and purposive, just as actions are. "We choose an emotion much as we choose a course of action."

Recent studies, also traditional studies have placed emotions to be a physiological disturbance. William James takes such consciousness of emotion to be not a choice but a physical occurrence rather than a disturbance. It is an occurrence that happens outside of our control, and our bodies are just affected by these emotions. We produce these actions based on the instinctive state that these feelings lead us towards.

This concept of emotion was derived from passion. Emotions were created as a category within passion.

Reason

Strong Desire for something: In whatever context, if someone desires for something and that desire has some strong feeling or emotion is defined in terms of passion. Passion has no boundary, being passionate about something which is boundless can be sometimes dangerous, In which person forget about everything and is fully determined towards the particular thing-(Sanyukta)

In his wake, Stoics like Epictetus emphasized that "the most important and especially pressing field of study is that which has to do with the stronger emotions...sorrows, lamentations, envies...passions which make it impossible for us even to listen to reason".

The Stoic tradition still lay behind Hamlet's plea to "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core", or Erasmus's lament that "Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one". It was only with the Romantic movement that a valorisation of passion over reason took hold in the Western tradition: "the more Passion there is, the better the Poetry".

The recent concerns of emotional intelligence have been to find a synthesis of the two forces—something that "turns the old understanding of the tension between reason and feeling on its head: it is not that we want to do away with emotion and put reason in its place, as Erasmus had it, but instead find the intelligent balance of the two".

"Descartes' Error"

Antonio Damasio studied what ensued when something "severed ties between the lower centres of the emotional brain...and the thinking abilities of the neocortex". He found that while "emotions and feelings can cause havoc in the processes of reasoning...the absence of emotion and feeling is no less damaging"; and was led to "the counter-intuitive position that feelings are typically indispensable for rational decisions".

The passions, he concluded, "have a say on how the rest of the brain and cognition go about their business. Their influence is immense...[providing] a frame of reference – as opposed to Descartes' error...the Cartesian idea of a disembodied mind".

In marriage

A tension or dialectic between marriage and passion can be traced back in Western society at least as far as the Middle Ages, and the emergence of the cult of courtly love. Denis de Rougemont has argued that 'since its origins in the twelfth century, passionate love was constituted in opposition to marriage'.

Stacey Oliker writes that while "Puritanism prepared the ground for a marital love ideology by prescribing love in marriage", only from the eighteenth century has "romantic love ideology resolved the Puritan antagonism between passion and reason" in a marital context. (Note though that Saint Paul spoke of loving one's wife in Ephesians 5.)

Intellectual passions

George Bernard Shaw "insists that there are passions far more exciting than the physical ones...'intellectual passion, mathematical passion, passion for discovery and exploration: the mightiest of all passions'". His contemporary, Sigmund Freud, argued for a continuity (not a contrast) between the two, physical and intellectual, and commended the way "Leonardo had energetically sublimated his sexual passions into the passion for independent scientific research".

As a motivation in an occupation

There are different reasons individuals are motivated in an occupation. These may include a passion for the occupation, for a firm, or for an activity. When Canadian managers or professionals score as passionate about their occupation they tend to be less obsessive about their behavior while on their job, resulting in more work being done and more work satisfaction. These same individuals have higher levels of psychological well-being. When people genuinely enjoy their profession and are motivated by their passion, they tend to be more satisfied with their work and more psychologically healthy.[citation needed] When managers or professionals are unsatisfied with their profession they tend to also be dissatisfied with their family relationships and to experience psychological distress.

Other reasons people are more satisfied when they are motivated by their passion for their occupation include the effects of intrinsic and external motivations. When Canadian managers or professionals do a job to satisfy others, they tend to have lower levels of satisfaction and psychological health. Also, these same individuals have shown they are motivated by several beliefs and fears concerning other people.

Thirdly, though some individuals believe one should not work extreme hours, many prefer it because of how passionate they are about the occupation. On the other hand, this may also put a strain on family relationships and friendships.

The balance of the two is something that is hard to achieve and it is always hard to satisfy both parties.

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Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness ~ Samuel Johnson

Wishing everyone a fabulous week...snow forecast here for tomorrow, whatever happened to Spring? Pah! :-(

You ever experience one of those weird dreams? This may have been taken late last summer, I’m not sure, lol. I forgot that I had taken/edited it and I believe the reasoning for this is because I wasn’t initially feeling it — it’s starting to grow on me a bit!

Far from it's original home of Montreal, AMT 330 charges a rush-hour train over the Charles River drawbridge in north Boston. The Leonard P Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, and the Amtrak Downeaster loom in the background. If anyone has any additional information about the reasoning for AMT on MBTA, feel free to drop a comment.

Four years of college were spent learning 35mm film photography. I didn't fully embrace the medium as I preferred pixels over silver-halides at the time. Because the subject matter and working-series that I pursued had a more conceptual nature to it I needed the resolution to doctor the files as much as I could to achieve the vision. However so, being in a darkroom setting developing film and creating water-based prints left a lasting-impression. Now with a much clearer understanding of the self and the world around I see a balance of purity, activity and inertia. Analog photography is experiencing a great return which compels many too slow down and drop into the field of pure awareness. After reasoning with a few like-minded shooters and reviewing their work I realized that there is something about film that renders uniquely compared to digital imagery. Feeling into the realization I decided to call-in the Leica M6 Re-Issue before returning to the East. The Leica M6 is an analog rangefinder camera with an integrated light meter. Its predecessor was introduced in 1984. Almost 175,000 units were built in different versions until 2003. Like no other Leica M camera, the Leica M6 is a tool that keeps evoking admiration from photographers around the world.

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Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ