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I remember getting "Aladdin Sane" when I was just 11 years old - my first Bowie album and one of the very first records in my still ever-expanding music collection.
By the end of the same year I'd also managed to acquire "Space Oddity", "Man Who Sold The World", "Hunky Dory" and "Ziggy Stardust" - and over the next two or three years I must have listened to each of those albums several hundred times....
Welcome to the latest chapter in the ever expanding saga of Lufthansa Group's subsidiaries... Here is their latest endeavour in the form of Discover Airlines.
Prior to being introduced in mid-2023, Discover Airlines was previously known as Eurowings Discover, initially created to take-over the long-haul operations of Eurowings which at the time was operated by Brussels Airlines and SunExpress Deutschland. With the closure of SunExpress Deutschland as well as Brussels Airlines focusing on their own network, Eurowings took on the long-haul fleet which were divested into the newly formed Eurowings Discover who obtained their own air operator's certificate in 2021. Eurowings would continue to focus on their regional network away from Lufthansa's main hubs.
The primary goal of Eurowings Discover, now Discover Airlines is to compete against a resurgent Condor who have filled a niche operating leisure-orientated flights. Eurowings Discover pretty much looked identical to the regular Eurowings, so in mid-2023 saw the Eurowings name dropped with simply Discover Airlines with an eye-catching two-tone blue and yellow livery, with discover. emblazoned as a billboard on the fuselage.
Discover Airlines utilises transferred Airbus A320s from Lufthansa, operating short-to-medium flights to leisure orientated destinations from their Frankfurt and Munich hubs; these routes were previously operated by Lufthansa but were transferred over to Discover Airlines.
Their long-haul fleet utilises a mixture of Airbus A330-200s previously operated by Eurowings via SunExpress Deutschland, alongside Airbus A330-300s coming from various Lufthansa Group subsidiaries, notably Brussels Airlines, Edelweiss and Lufthansa. Discover Airlines long-haul fleet operate from their Frankfurt hub only.
It will be interesting to see how Discover Airlines copes in the future...
Currently, Discover Airlines operates 11 Airbus A320 family aircraft, all of which are Airbus A320s. Discover Airlines are due to receive 4 Airbus A320s transferred from Lufthansa.
Alpha India Whiskey Bravo is one of 11 Airbus A320s operated by Discover Airlines, delivered new to Lufthansa on 24th May 2017 until transfer over to Discover Airlines on 16th October 2023 and she is powered by 2 CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 engines.
Airbus A320-214(WL) D-AIWB slows on Runway 28L at Munich-Franz Josef Strauss (MUC) on 4Y481 from Jerez (XRY).
Spectacular Ama Dablam (6,812 metres, 22,349 feet) viewed from the small Himalayan monastary village of Tengboche (3,440 metres, 11,286 feet) in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal. Near Nepal’s border with Tibet to the north and a couple days further east on the trek to the Khumbu Glacier and Everest base camp.
Male Yaks grazing in the foreground. They are particularly suited for high-altitude work above 3000 meters and provide the major means for transporting goods along the traditional foot highways and caravan trade routes in the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau.
Rock salt, dried sheep meat, wool and saddle carpets (like the carpets in this photo) are among the main cargo from Tibet, exchanged at lower elevations for rice, tea, sugar, kerosene and cloth. Today, yaks also service the ever-expanding trekking and climbing industry.
Slide scan, shot in the winter of 1973 with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4).
The Cellarium ---- orbs at the bottom of the picture
This is where stores of food were kept, because here they would stay cool, dry, and out of the sunlight. In fact, it was one very large pantry. If you walk beneath its arches at dusk on a summer evening, you’re more than likely to encounter one of the eight species of bat that have been reported around the Abbey. The rest is entirely up to your imagination
when you stand in the Cellarium of Fountains Abbey, with its vaulted ceiling arching like gigantic fingers above your head and dusty shadows lingering around its massive stone columns, you could be forgiven for feeling a sudden chill… alternatively, you might just start planning a Twilight premiere after-party.
Back in the 12th century, however, no vampires would have been seen dead within these sacred walls. The Abbey church was built in 1160, by a band of Cistercian monks who had devoted themselves to the worship of Christ. They had no room in their lives for dark romantic fantasies, and if one of them happened to feel a bit queasy around the time of a full moon, he would have taken himself straight off to the infirmary and asked for a fortifying herbal drink.
Cistercian monks were distinguished by their white robes, or habits. They believed in working the land so that their monastery was self-sufficient. This meant growing crops, keeping sheep and shearing them for wool, and grinding corn to bake bread. Any food left over from the monks’ table was given to the poor, and Fountains Abbey received a steady stream of hungry visitors once its reputation for generosity became widely known.
There were two kinds of monks living at Fountains Abbey: choir monks and lay brothers. The choir monks observed the Canonical Hours; seven times a day, the tolling of the bell in the lantern tower would summon them to prayer. Even at two o’clock in the morning, they would rise from their dormitory and walk down the stone stairs into the church below, guided only by candlelight. There was no point in complaining – the bell didn’t have a snooze button – and they had taken a vow of silence, anyway.
The lay brothers, on the other hand, did lots of manual labour. Their job was to plough the fields, harvest the crops, tend the livestock, operate the mill, tan hides for leather, brew ale, supervise the store-rooms and prepare meals. Some of them helped in the infirmary, while others were skilled stonemasons and carpenters.
It all seems such a peaceful rural idyll: no arguments, no suffering, no violence, and definitely no blood-letting. Wait…did I say no blood-letting?
Well, one thing that the monks were very careful about was their health. They ate a frugal but fairly varied diet, consisting mainly of vegetables, fruit and fish. However, during the Middle Ages, medical practices were primitive by today’s standards and science was mingled with folklore and fear. If diseases were unsavoury, sometimes the remedies were just as unpleasant. The abbot of Fountains Abbey obviously felt that prevention was better than cure, and every few months he gave orders for a bit of blood letting. Organised, peaceful blood letting however; not salivating, going-for-the-jugular kind of blood letting.
This procedure was believed to purge and purify the body, and it took place in the Warming Room, where massive log fires were left blazing. We don’t know how much blood was taken from each monk, but apparently it was considered sacred, and it was carried away and buried in the grounds of the Abbey. The monks were allowed to rest afterwards before resuming their duties.
What seems, to our modern eyes, a rather weird and gruesome practice was rooted in deeply-held beliefs: the monks were simply respecting the principles laid down by their holy order. But I’m sure at least some of them would have been glad to take a couple of vitamin tablets instead!
Throughout the 13th and 14th centuries Fountains Abbey grew to become one of Britain’s wealthiest monasteries, owning vast estates in the north of England and exporting fleeces to Flanders and Italy. But for the monks, time was running out.
In 1539, incensed with the Pope in not allowing his divorce of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII hunted for revenge – and where better than the rich monasteries scattered across his country, all under the guardianship of the Roman Catholic church? He set about destroying them, seizing their assets, and turning the monks out of their homes. Four hundred years of worship at Fountains Abbey came to an undignified end. Today it stands in ruins, although an atmosphere of serenity still remains.
As you gaze up at the spectacular remains of Fountains Abbey, in its heyday one of the richest monasteries in medieval Britain, it strikes you as somewhat ironic that its founders had abandoned a comfortable lifestyle in favour of simplicity, servitude… and a considerable degree of suffering.
In December 1132, the atmosphere in the nearby Benedictine Abbey of St Mary’s in York was somewhat less than peaceful. Far from following the discipline prescribed by St Benedict in the sixth century, the monks at St Mary’s were indulging themselves a little too freely for the liking of some of their brethren.
According to reputable sources, a riot broke out and the rebels – 13 monks who craved a more spartan existence – fled to the Archbishop of York for protection. The Archbishop was not too badly off himself, owning extensive lands around Ripon, and he granted them permission to establish a new monastery in the valley of the River Skell.
Snowdrop carpetView from west, showing dormitory and cellariumGreat news for the monks… they could build a new life for themselves! The bad news was that it was winter, and they had nowhere to stay. The valley, far from being the rural idyll that it appears today, was considered at that time to be “more fit for wild beasts than men to inhabit.” It did, however, offer a degree of shelter as well as a plentiful source of building materials and a good supply of drinking water. The National Trust guidebook says that the monks lived under an elm tree and covered themselves with straw; if this was indeed the case, they were hardy and committed individuals.
Although the Archbishop of York sent regular supplies of bread, the monks needed support of a different kind. They wrote to Bernard, the Abbot of Clairvaux Abbey in France, who despatched a monk to instruct them in the observance of Canonical Hours; he would also teach them how to build an abbey in accordance with Cistercian principles.
DoorwayThe first church was made of wood, but soon afterwards a much more impressive edifice was rising from the valley floor: the present Abbey church, with its magnificent west front, was finished around 1160. Stonemasons used locally-hewn sandstone, and massive oak beams supported the roof. Inside, the white-painted walls reflected the sunlight that streamed in through the many windows, and the effect must have been both stunning and uplifting. What must it have been like to hear a choir singing in there?
The Cistercian order, which the monks had adopted, called for a life of self-imposed hardship; they wore coarse wool habits and followed a strict routine of prayer and meditation, which involved long night vigils as well as daytime worship. They must have been freezing for most of the time… although there is a crumb of comfort in the survival of a ‘warming room’, where huge log fires allowed them a precious few minutes of warmth before embarking on their next duty. In the south end of the transept there is still a doorway, through which the monks would have emerged at two o’clock in the morning as they made their way from their dormitory and down some stairs towards the church, their steps lit only by candlelight.
In 1170, around 60 monks were living at Fountains Abbey, along with 200 lay brothers. The lay brothers were essential to the survival of the Abbey, because they were skilled craftsmen such as stonemasons, shoemakers, smiths and tanners. Many more were farm labourers and shepherds, managing the monastery’s ever-expanding estates. Some of them slept in the large dormitory at Fountains Abbey, while others lived on neighbouring farms. The system worked so efficiently that, by the mid-1400s, the monastery was one of the richest in England, and fleeces from the sheep were being sold as far afield as Italy. Hardly the spartan establishment to which its founders had aspired.
With guest houses, abbots’ quarters, dormitories, a refectory, kitchens, a cellarium for food storage, an infirmary, and a muniment room for the safe keeping of important books and papers, this large complex required precise and careful management. The monks were pretty much self-sufficient: there was a mill just across the river, grinding wheat, rye, barley and oats for bread; in the wool house, fleeces from the Abbey’s sheep were made into clothes and blankets; a tannery ensured an ongoing supply of leather and skins, and fishponds offered a healthy source of food. Hillside springs provided fresh water, while the toilets or ‘reredorter’ were contained in a two-storey extension over the River Skell. Not a bad idea! Although chilly, I should imagine.
Passing travellers were always welcome, and beggars were given food left over from the monks’ table. While ordinary visitors were shown into modest accommodation, the more prestigious guests were entertained in style; there are records of minstrels, travelling players and a ‘strange fabulist’ in the Abbey’s expense sheets. The elderly and the sick were cared for in the infirmary, which was a sizeable building in itself. But no women were admitted within the sacred walls: they had to remain in the Outer Court.
Blood-letting was one of the monks’ less attractive pastimes, as if they didn’t already subject themselves to enough rigours. The practice, which was carried out three or four times a year, was intended to purify the body. (If I was ever in any doubt of my absolute unsuitability for a cloistered life, this seals the matter). The extracted blood was later buried in reverence.
It sounds as if they all did pretty well – blood-letting notwithstanding – but that’s not to say that the Abbey and its inhabitants never suffered hard times. There were years of poor harvests and famine, and these in turn led to skirmishes by desperate raiders from Scotland. In the mid-1300s the Black Death reared its ugly face, carrying away at least a third of the Abbey’s inhabitants and leaving a shortage of labourers to till the fields.
East frontThe Abbey’s most noticeable feature, the 167-foot tower known as Huby’s Tower, was a comparatively late addition; prior to this, there would have been a smaller ‘lantern tower’ placed centrally over the church. Built in 1500, Huby’s Tower was the inspiration of Abbot Marmaduke Huby, and it bears a Latin inscription on each face, as well as carvings and statues. Today its broken crenellations are home to a flock of jackdaws; when they all take flight, they look like bees around an enormous beehive.
Old bridgeThings went very badly pear-shaped in 1539, as they did for monasteries up and down the kingdom. Henry VIII, furious with the Pope for denying him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, hit on an ingenious but ruthless solution. He turned his back on the Roman Catholic Church and declared himself head of the new Church of England. No more Pope-worship for him – he preferred the seductive delights of Anne Boleyn.
England’s abbeys and nunneries, which had been rising to a state of comfortable wealth over the centuries, were now in the firing line. To Henry, they represented an establishment that he hated with a vengeance – but their assets would come in very handy. He lost no time in destroying the buildings, evicting their occupants and seizing their estates.
A deed of surrender was signed at Fountains Abbey in 1539. In keeping with Henry’s orders, the place had to be made unfit for worship. The roof was pulled off, the lead and glass were stripped from the windows and any remaining religious relics were removed. Stone was plundered for new buildings elsewhere, and nature began to reclaim the broken bones of former glory.
The story of Fountains Abbey didn’t end at that point, though it was over 200 years before it entered a surprising new chapter. In 1767 the estate was acquired by William Aislabie, who soon set to work designing an elegant pleasure park. He planted trees, dug lakes and created paths that led past Gothic-style temples and summerhouses to a point on the opposite side of the valley, where guests could enjoy a ‘surprise view’ of the Abbey in its picturesque state of decay. Poets and artists came to explore and be inspired: J M W Turner painted the Abbey on several occasions.
Today, the ruins of Fountains Abbey are carefully tended, so they don’t have quite the same romantic abandon which they must have presented in Turner’s time. On the other hand, they are in much less danger of imminent collapse! As you walk down the nave towards the Chapel of Nine Altars the great east window gapes in front of you, bereft of its beautiful tracery and glasswork, but breathtaking all the same. Anyone who entered the church in its heyday would have been almost struck dumb with awe.
Huby's TowerBlind doorways in Huby's TowerColumns and arches soar to dizzying heights, and as your gaze follows them upwards, your attention is drawn to isolated wooden doors, once clasped by cold, pious hands, now leading into nothing but thin air. Deep shadows lurk in the aisles and transept, intriguing but not unkindly. Sacrilegious though it might appear, I searched for ‘Fountains Abbey hauntings’ and found that the voices of a ghostly choir sometimes echo through the Chapel of Nine Altars. That’s something I’d quite like to hear.
With a sudden flapping of wings, a pigeon launches itself from a window ledge. The songs of blackbirds and thrushes float across from the woodland. Otherwise, silence reigns – and it’s a peaceful silence.
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Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people. Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality of the People's Republic of China with province-level status.
Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century due to its favourable port location and as one of the cities opened to foreign trade by the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. The city flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became a multinational hub of finance and business by the 1930s. However, Shanghai's prosperity was interrupted after the 1949 Communist takeover and the subsequent cessation of foreign investment. Economic reforms in 1990 resulted in intense development and financing in Shanghai, and in 2005 Shanghai became the world's largest cargo port.
The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the "showpiece" of the world's fastest-growing economy.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Male Yaks are particularly suited for high-altitude work above 3000 meters. They provide the major means for transporting goods along the traditional foot highways and ancient caravan trade routes in the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau.
Rock salt, dried sheep meat, wool and saddle carpets are among the cargo from Tibet, exchanged at lower elevations for rice, tea, sugar, kerosene and cloth. Today, yaks also service the ever-expanding trekking and climbing industry in Nepal.
Slide scan, shot with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4) during the Namche-Tengboche segment of the Everest trek, Khumbu region, northeastern Nepal.
© yohanes.budiyanto, 2014
Aeriel view of the ever expanding downtown Singapore and the historic Raffles Hotel in its low-rise garden setting, circa 1887. Shown in the centre is the three storey Main Building, which upon its opening in 1899 officially made the Raffles a grand hotel, from its more humbler beginning as a row of bungalows of only 10 bedrooms facing the Beach Road.
Shown on the bottom right is the landmark Bar and Billiard Room, circa 1896, which is famous for its legendary tale of how the last tiger in Singapore were found and shot dead after fleeing a circus and hide below the earlier structure that was elevated from the street in 1902.
London is my inspiration, especially this view across the river from Deptford. I've taken so many shots here and never tire of looking at this ever expanding skyline. The sky was wonderful this evening so I jumped in my car and drove down to Deptford (as one does in this game) to try and capture some of the thundery clouds. Of course it started to rain but it was worth the effort (well I think so anyway...!).
Its last picture with Stagecoach, a week or so later it left for McColls where it has become part of their ever expanding fleet.
If some frail tubercular lady circus rider were to be driven in circles around and around the arena for months and months without interruption in front of a tireless public on a swaying horse by a merciless whip-wielding master of ceremonies, spinning on the horse, throwing kisses and swaying at the waist, and if this performance, amid the incessant roar of the orchestra and the ventilators, were to continue into the ever-expanding, gray future, accompanied by applause, which died down and then swelled up again, from hands which were really steam hammers, perhaps then a young visitor to the gallery might rush down the long stair case through all the levels, burst into the ring, and cry “Stop!” through the fanfares of the constantly adjusting orchestra.
But since things are not like that—since a beautiful woman, in white and red, flies in through curtains which proud men in livery open in front of her, since the director, devotedly seeking her eyes, breathes in her direction, behaving like an animal, and, as a precaution, lifts her up on the dapple-gray horse, as if she were his grand daughter, the one he loved more than anything else, as she starts a dangerous journey, but he cannot decide to give the signal with his whip and finally, controlling himself, gives it a crack, runs right beside the horse with his mouth open, follows the rider’s leaps with a sharp gaze, hardly capable of comprehending her skill, tries to warn her by calling out in English, furiously castigating the grooms holding hoops, telling them to pay the most scrupulous attention, and begs the orchestra, with upraised arms, to be quiet before the great jump, finally lifts the small woman down from the trembling horse, kisses her on both cheeks, considers no public tribute adequate, while she herself, leaning on him, high on the tips of her toes, with dust swirling around her, arms outstretched and head thrown back, wants to share her luck with the entire circus—since this is how things are, the visitor to the gallery puts his face on the railing and, sinking into the final march as if into a difficult dream, weeps, without realizing it.
Up in the Gallery
Franz Kafka
Fifty years after the disbandment of the original guild, British intelligence sought to create a new generation of paranormal investigators for the 21st Century. Times may have changed, but darkness still lingers at the heart of the ever expanding Human Race...
Left to right:
Jo' Han:
After the British Empire defeated the Cephalopod invaders of Mars, many native Martians sought refuge from the horrors of the war torn planet, travelling to colonies on the Moon, Venus and even Earth. Jo' Han is a descendent of the refugees, a warrior with a strong moral compass. Jo' Han wishes to discover and study the secrets of the Earth and it's people.
Rocket Girl:
A lover of retrofuturistic design, Jenny Jones (Nicknamed Rocket Girl) can often be found tinkering with vehicles and Machinery. She was recruited by the guild due to her expertise in alien tech. Her very own jetpack is constructed from scavenged heat ray devices. Jenny wishes to explore the stars and help those who have been devastated by the Cephalopod invaders of Mars.
I.Q.
Icarus Quail was a young prodigy, an expert in the paranormal. He possessed incredible psychic abilities such as telekinesis, clairsentience and precognition. Sadly his health deteriorated, and eventually he could barely walk, talk or move. Determined to survive, he requested that his brain be transferred to a pressurised mechanical suit in order to continue his research. Nicknamed 'I.Q.' Icarus continues to use is psychic abilities to assist the new guild in combating supernatural enemies.
Arthur Gunn:
The de facto leader of the group, fifty years has left Arthur jaded, lost and somewhat bitter. His immortal lifespan has forced him to work alone for many years, pushing many newcomers away in fear of outliving them. He reluctantly accepted the British Intelligence's offer to join the guild, hesitant and often silent. Arthur seeks a way to end his immortality and finally rest.
Evelyn Farquharson:
Arthur's protégé and great, great grandniece. Evelyn sought to find out more about her family history, soon discovering the truth about her ancestor Arthur (who reluctantly took her in and decided to teach her about the paranormal). A no-nonsense, ambitious and daring woman. Evelyn wishes to learn more about her heritage, and to help her great great uncle return to his former self.
Red Geisha:
A mysterious and enigmatic woman, The Red Geisha is a wealthy vigilante who wants to learn more about the spirit realms. Armed with a silver katana, and alchemical knowledge, she boldly joins the guild in their quest for knowledge.
The universe is ancient, vast, and ever-expanding. But yet, all our tiring years of evolution, accumulated knowledge, mistakes, perfections and imperfections, and inexplicable love for one another -- all will come to a dead end. The universe will contract, matter will decay, and all our existence will have been for naught. The universe will restart again, for yet another intelligent civilization to attempt to escape the inevitable.
Are we purposeless? Why are we here? What's the point of it all?
Why even bother to ask. The Creator has given us the remarkable ability to both love and be loved, and that's all that matters.
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Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species. Its abundant golden hair frames a charismatic black face and covers its small body and tail. Despite their name, these rare primates have far more in common with their monkey relatives than any feline.
The golden lion tamarin forms social family groups. Males help to raise their offspring, and often carry their young on their backs in between feedings. Tamarin young are usually twins.
Golden lions live primarily in the trees. They sleep in hollows at night and forage by day while traveling from branch to branch. Long fingers help them stay aloft and snare insects, fruit, lizards, and birds.
These interesting animals are critically endangered, as are many of the forests in which they live. Brazil's Atlantic coastal rain forests are disappearing due to ever-expanding logging, agriculture, and industry, and unfortunately, the golden lion tamarin is in danger of vanishing with them.
background information courtesy of National Geographic
I have to learn to curtail my spending habits as one dress leads to two which leads to three and then a top or two and then that leads to shoes…… there is no end to it 😊❤️️⚧️😂
Shanghai is the largest city in China, and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people. The city is a tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and City God Temple, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design.Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the "showpiece" of the world's fastest-growing major economy.
Kurt Weiser is Professor in Ceramics at ASU. Follow link below.
art.asu.edu/ceramics/index.html
In the hands of Kurt Weiser, (b. 1950) the centuries-old tradition of china paint on porcelain is given new life. Weiser’s sumptuous, provocative teapots and jars, resplendent with lush jungle scenes, can be both alluring and unsettling. Detailed depictions of tropical splendor become wayward reveries as radiant colors and subtle distortions transform classic porcelain vessels.
Weiser, trained in ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Michigan, originally worked in an abstract, non-representational style with minimal surface decoration. While director of the Archie Bray foundation in Helena, Montana from 1977-88, he began to feel limited by this approach and contemplated new ways of working. Around 1990, he took the first step towards his current style when he covered a porcelain teapot with intricate botanical imagery using black and white sgraffito. After making a series of visits to Thailand, where he was inspired by the region’s luxuriant, intensely colored flora and fauna, a black and white palette no longer satisfied him. Seeking to capture Thailand’s richness, he began to experiment with China paints. Soon his skill as a colorist became an indispensable element of his work.
With the introduction of color into his work, Weiser also began to indulge his narrative impulses by incorporating figurative elements, drawn both from fantasy and art history, into his jungle scenes. Weiser’s figures, often nude and distorted across the planes of his vessels, move through steamy, Eden-like landscapes, interacting with the natural world they encounter. Themes of lust, predation, scientific curiosities, and the vulnerability of both man and nature abound in these scenes, resonating curiously with the cultivated vessel forms and refined medium Weiser has chosen.
Although Weiser has worked in this style for more than ten years, his work continues to evolve. The technical challenge of the overglazing process he uses, which requires multiple firings for each vessel and careful attention to the order in which colors are applied, forces him to thoroughly consider each piece he creates. Through refining this method of working, he has learned to take full advantage of the three-dimensionality of his surfaces by extending his scenes to fully encompass each vessel. In his recent work, he says that the softened, amorphous forms of his vessels should blend with their seamlessly painted surfaces so that the pots fade from view and “the painting is the three dimensional reality” floating in space as would a dream or reverie. Whether Weiser’s work is interpreted as three-dimensional painting or sensuously decorated porcelain, the pots he creates are among the most vivid and decadent of modern ceramics, providing a distinctive contribution to the ever-expanding medium.
Awards
1999 Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist Fellowship
Regents Professorship A.S.U.
1998 Asian Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship
Research and Creative Activity Award, A.S.U.
1992 Artists Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts
1990 Artists Project Award: Arizona Commission on the Arts
1989 Artists Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts
1986 Artists Fellowship: Montana Arts Council
Education
1976 M.F.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1972 B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
1967 Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan
Museum Collections
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Columbus, Ohio
Charles A.Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
The George M. Gardiner Museum of Art, Toronto, Canada
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Hamline University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Helsinki Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia
Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Shigaraki, Japan
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of History, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island Schien-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University,
Alfred, New York
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Valley National Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Washington University Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Winnipeg Art Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Yellowstone Arts Center, Billings, Montana
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2000 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1999 Working His Way Around China, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama
1998 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1996 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1994 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1992 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1986 Lawrence Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon
1985 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon
Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana
1984 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado
Lawrence Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1983 Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Hand and Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
The Craftsmen’s Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
1982 Surroundings Gallery, New York
The Craftsmen’s Gallery, Scarsdale, New York
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1981 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon
Operated by Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes at the time, this smart open-top converted Fleetline was new to the erstwhile Grimsby-Cleethorpes Corporation Transport(113), in 01/1977. It would later work for Stagecoach East Midland, out of their Chesterfield depot then Stagecoach Yorkshire Traction. It is seen here on display at the now ceased Trans-Lancs Rally, Heaton Park, Manchester, on 04/09/2005. This popular event was last held in 2019. This was due to COVID-19 and the now ever expanding summer fairground.
The camera being a Pentax MZ-M with the film being a Jessops Colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 2005.
EV Experience Zandvoort 2023
The Geely brand umbrella is ever expanding. In Western Europe, it already consists of the Volvo, Polestar, Lynk & Co, Lotus, Smart (50/50 with Mercedes-Benz) and now Zeekr.
Zeekr is a premium electric car brand. Its first product is the 001, which was presented in China at the end of 2021 as the production version of the Lynk & Co Zero Concept.
The link with Lynk & Co is clearly visible in the design: the nose has a similar design. The new 009 MPV has a very different design, so both brands will probably follow their own path in the future.
I hope you all enjoy your break over the four days. We gave Rumblemumbles the token chocolate easter egg, and she forced me to have one from her, which I had to accept so that she wasn't offended.
This year Mrs Mail found some sort of egg that was a real egg and processed with chocolate. RM seemed a bit hesitant, so it will be interesting to hear the results.
We took RM shopping today for some furniture for the apartment that she has bought, that I haven't told you about yet.
We took her to the "trendy" James Street in Brisbane, so that she could find something a bit different than the normal boring furniture.
Below are some images I took while waiting for them to browse a kitchen shop. Yawn.
There was an interesting bicycle park next to the ice cream shop from heaven.
And a view of the market thoroughfare. It looks a bit industrial, but it is actually a very popular and "in" palce to be. I am actually surprised that let me in.
This is the description from their own website
It's an ever expanding lifestyle mecca and where the locals head for morning coffees, lunch dates, supplies for the kitchen, home and soul. You’ll find the city’s greatest collection of designer and eclectic boutiques and flagship stores of sass & bide, Easton Pearson and Scanlan + Theodore, plus on trend boutiques.
Wow. Scanlan and what . . .
Actually in the mid 90s, all the area grew out of an area close to the city centre, that was the Coca Cola bottling plant, after Coke moved out.
In 1962 he was named 'Time man of the year"
"Quello e vecchio" ... That one is old he will not do much ...
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli.
In the main Church of Saint Peter's many many people stop here and pray.
Pope John XXIII almost doubled the number of cardinals, making the college the largest in history ... John XXIII was beatified in 2000 by Pope John Paul II.
The Year of our Lord 1962 was a year of American resolve. Russian orbiting, European union and Chinese war.
In a tense yet hope-filled time, these were the events that dominated conversation and invited history's scrutiny. But history has a long eye, and it is quite possible that in her vision 1962's most fateful rendezvous took place in the world's most famous church--having lived for years in men's hearts and minds.
That event was the beginning of a revolution in Christianity, the ancient faith whose 1.8 b illion adherents make it the world's largest religion. It began on Oct. 11 in Rome and was the work of the man of the year, Pope John XXIII, who, by convening the Ecumenical Council called Vatican II, set in motion ideas and forces that will affect not merely Roman Catholics, not only Christians, but the whole world's ever-expanding population.
So rare are councils--there have been only 20 in the nearly 2,000 years of Christian history--that merely by summoning Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that has dissipated the Christian message for four centuries.
"The council may have an effect as profound as anything since the days of Martin Luther," says Dr. Carroll L. Shuster of Los Angeles, an executive of the Presbyterian Church. Boston University's Professor Edwin Booth, a Methodist and church historian, is so impressed by what Pope John has started that he ranks him as "one of the truly great Popes of Roman Catholic history."
The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries. It is located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, where it was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed. The museum, founded in 1977 by the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, has a collection of aircraft, both civil and military, aero engines, artefacts, and a small, but "ever-expanding collection of memorabilia honouring airborne forces".
BiBi: "What are you doing Lillian?"
Lillian: "I'm inventing The Ever-Expanding Dolly Shelf System.
Our Giants keep saying that we can't get any more sisters because there is no room on the dolly shelf ..."
"Would it expand like this dolls' house dining-table?"
"yes, but that only expands once - all in one go ... I'm inventing something that we can expand incrementally, overnight, so the Giants don't notice what we're up to..."
"until suddenly - there is room for another sister! I like it Lillian!"
Its been a while since I've done some urban HDR photography
I was visiting Antwerpen in Belgium the other day and had some time to kill.
So i decided to take the car and drive to this nearby "ghosttown" called "Doel" this is really one of the most creepy places I've ever been in my life, no lies. Goosebumps all over and shivers were running down my spine when walking there.
Doel is a 700 year old village on the river Scheldt in Belgium. Near to the local nuclear power plant, with its two giant cooling towers, it became the target for demolition not once but twice in order to make way for the ever expanding harbor. The successful protest groups of the seventies could not compete in the 90's and as residents began to leave, the government refused to rent out the properties again and instead let them fall into disrepair.
On the 23rd of March 2007, the government decided that the village would be demolished by 2009 and in June 2008, residents received a letter informing them that they were to vacate their homes by the 1st of September 2009.
Want to find out more about "Doel"? check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doel
And this video: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6406943835314615485#
D40 | Sigma 10-20mm | Single RAW HDR | F6.3 | 0.005sec | @10mm | ISO 200
HDR Processing: Adobe Lightroom 2.0 | Photomatix 3 | Adobe Photoshop CS5
Photographed in the wild at Monro in the Auob dunes, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. He is one of the two males in this photograph. How do we know? Because the one had a very distinctive mark on his rump - will tell you about that later. We were fortunate to see them quite often during our two week visit
The lion population in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s. Today, fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa and nearly half of all of Africa's lion populations could face extinction in the next 40 years if conservation measures aren't changed, according to a new study. It would seem the only way to protect lions from extinction is to fence them in. Lions have come into conflict with ever-growing human populations all over Africa as wild areas are converted to grazing for humans’ ever expanding herds of cattle and goats, reducing the population of natural prey for these majestic cats. Instead of going after a zebra, lions will hunt people's livestock (and occasionally kill people) as they are far easier prey.
Source news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/half-of-afr...
©Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved. This photograph and all others on my photostream are protected by copyright and may not be used on any site, blog or forum, nor linked to without my written permission.
New to Flight's, in 03/1960, and fitted with only twenty-five seats, this smart Reliance is seen here on display at the now ceased Trans-Lancs Rally, Heaton Park, Manchester, on 04/09/2005. This popular event was last held in 2019. This was due to COVID-19 and the now ever expanding summer fairground. This Reliance carries flights trademark '-77' registration plate of the period.
The camera being a Pentax MZ-M with the film being a Jessops Colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 2005.
At last some water in the Ru Courtaud.
From www.lovevda.it/en/database/7/one-day-excursions/champoluc...
"The sunny “hill” of the main valley from Saint-Vincent to Emarèse, had everything needed to receive and feed an ever-expanding population, at the start of the 15th century. Everything, except for one essential thing: water. The nearest glacier was Ventina, which descends from Mount Rosa, 25 km away. A 25 km canal was built by using pick and shovel by “free men” of the hill of Saint-Vincent in the territory of Ayas and Brusson. During refurbishment work in the 1980s, many sections were left open, and are now a pleasant walk, rich in history, through wide meadows and numerous pastures."
At a wayside station in northern Rajasthan, a meter gauge train and its passengers wait to let the opposite number cross. Scenes like these are fast becoming a rarity on the ever expanding Indian Railways network. Meter Gauge is giving way to Broad, semaphores to electronics and single tracks to double. Soon, these unhurried journeys will just be memory.
In the ever-expanding tapestry of the universe, the recent revelations in quantum mechanics and quantum science have ignited a fervor of imagination and inquiry. As we peer through the veil of reality, a gateway to Proxima Centauri b—a planet that mirrors Earth in so many ways—beckons us to explore its potential. This newfound knowledge has propelled humanity into a realm of possibilities, where the dream of a second home emerges not merely as fantasy but as a plausible future. With Earth facing unprecedented challenges, from climate crises to overpopulation, the concept of 'Planet B' transcends mere escape; it becomes a beacon of hope. As our thoughts race with the implications of life on Proxima, we envision a world where humanity can thrive once more, nurturing the essence of existence in a new celestial cradle.
Poem
In whispers of stars, the secrets unfold,
A dance of the atoms, a tale yet untold,
Through quantum realms where the shadows entwine,
We glimpse at a future where destinies align.
Proxima calls with its enigmatic light,
A sanctuary awaits in the velvet of night.
With dreams woven rich in the fabric of space,
We seek out a home, a new kind of grace.
Haikus
Stars twinkle above,
Proxima's shores beckon us,
Hope's new dawn arises.
Quantum dreams take flight,
Life blooms on a distant world,
A chance to restart.
In the void we reach,
Hearts yearning for a new dawn,
Planet B awaits.
Here's another recent addition to my ever expanding minidress collection! This one is an really clingy and snug fitting one shoulder metallic wet look red minidress with side shirring and I've matched it up with Osé Angel seamless pantyhose and my fabulous open toe platform pumps with the 5½" heels.
I think it looks super and I hope you do too!
To see more pix of my legs in short skirts and other tight, sexy and revealing outfits click this link:
Painted in a scheme from the winning entry in a competition run by the Guild of Aviation Artists.
The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries. It is located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, where it was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed. The museum, founded in 1977 by the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, has a collection of aircraft, both civil and military, aero engines, artefacts, and a small, but "ever-expanding collection of memorabilia honouring airborne forces".
Sonning Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. It is a brick arch bridge completed in 1775, to replace an earlier wooden bridge. The bridge has been the subject of many paintings and prints by artists and is a Grade II listed building.
A stone marker at the centre of the bridge is marked "B | O" (for the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire on each side of the river) with the vertical line indicating the exact boundary down the middle of the river. This is an ancient border which used to be between Wessex and Mercia.
The village of Sonning at the Berkshire end of the bridge, is one of the most charming on the Thames, despite being just a few miles from the ever expanding town of Reading. It was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
However, the village is plagued with queues of traffic, especially at morning and evening rush hours as the bridge is quite long and only one lane wide, and traffic lights control the intermittent flow of vehicles. It is the only bridge across the river between Reading and Henley on Thames and plans for another have been debated for many years.
Lat. 33° 52' 53" S. Long. 18° 29" 10" E
The Milnerton Lighthouse is situated on the shores of Table Bay on Wood Bridge Island in Milnerton. Mariners approaching Table Bay after dark are confronted by a maze of lights and a high level of background city illumination. Navigational lights tend to merge with the ever expanding lights of greater Cape Town making identification difficult. Milnerton functions in conjunction with the Robben Island and Green Point lights to avert any ambiguity in determining a safe anchorage.
The Milnerton Lighthouse was commissioned on 10 March 1960. The lighthouse is a twenty one metre cylindrical reinforced concrete tower, similar to the one at Cape Hangklip. The optic is a Stone-Chance, 250mm catadioptric group-flashing, automatic revolving pedestal. It produces three white flashes every twenty seconds and the candle power is 800,O00 cd. The height of the focal plane is 28 metres and the lighthouse has a range of 25 sea miles. The Milnerton Lighthouse has a subsidiary fixed red sector light which covers the extremities of Robben Island. It is installed in the tower below the main revolving light.
Electric power is supplied by the Blaauwberg Municipality and an automatic standby generator is installed in the base of the tower. An alarm system using coloured lights is monitored by Port Control at Table Bay harbour.
References: Southern Lights: Lighthouses of Southern Africa by Harold Williams.
So this was my second "night in" and it's fair to say life has been very rocky at times since last time. But we're surviving and I'm (Nicky) still alive (just) and very much enjoying and embracing being me, so things could be worse haha.
BTW I know the photos are very samey (is that even a word..?) and I need to have a bit more variety, I'll see what I can do in the future... That said I'm loving this new top from Boden :)
Oh and I've added more to my ever expanding bio/life story if you're interested in knowing more :)
SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest)
Sweet Briar Marsh is our very own Mini Nature reserve hidden away in a quiet corner of Mile Cross, and as you can see by it's designation as an SSSI, it's a very important sliver of green, surrounded by the ever-expanding Norwich as it spreads Northwest along the Wensum.
It can be found sandwiched between Marriot's way and the River Wensum and stretches all the way to Sweetbriar Road, and beyond through Hellesdon.
This site is of special interest for it's Dragonflies, Damselflies, Birds and much, much more... and the best part about it is that there is never anybody here. I highly recommend a stroll through here on a lazy afternoon, any time of year.
Finishing today's late lunch with another tour of my ever expanding collage space. Hover over the photo to see all the notes!
Shortly before the Cleveland Transit operation was swallowed up by the ever expanding Stagecoach business, three of their Northern Counties bodied Leyland built (Daimler) Fleetlines were seen at Whitby on a private hire (VEF 153Y just off the picture). GAJ 133V displays many similarities with the Turner's bus in the previous posting though there are detail differences. In my opinion, these and the low height Northern Counties bodies were some of the most attractive 'deckers of the era, though maybe not the builders finest hour constructionally. The 'HELP' water filled front bumper was something of a fad at the time.
Hunting on land earmarked for a huge housing development. This seems wrong when our wildlife is under such strain. A thousand houses, schools, shops and commercial units are planned in a town which is gridlocked with traffic. Of course our ever expanding population needs houses but this is the wrong place. Houses should be built next to motorways and decent traffic links to where jobs are available. Depressing
Entrepotdok 09/12/2019 18h27
A totally overexposed installation on the grounds of Artis Zoo. The eyes light up when boats sail by.
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter.
The theme of edition #8 is DISRUPT!. In line with the theme 'DISRUPT!', the festival has chosen a completely new route for the first time: Oosterdok, Oudeschans, Amstel, Nieuwe Keizersgracht, Plantage Muidergracht, Entrepotdok.
From 28 November 2019 to 19 January 2020 Amsterdam was again the stage for international light art.
amsterdamlightfestival.com
DE NACHTLOERRRDERS
Artist: 72andSunny Creative Collective
Far from the elephants and iguanas, the flamingos and armadillos, all the way at the back of ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo, we find the home of ‘De Nachtloerrrders’. Hidden in the darkest of darkness, down amongst the bushes or high in a tree, we see their strange, unfamiliar eyes shining out at us. Never knowing where the next one will appear or what it will look like.
The twenty pairs of constantly changing eyes in this artwork escaped from the imaginations of hundreds of Amsterdam school children (aged 8-12 years old) who were invited to collaborate with the 72andSunny Creative Collective, the artists responsible for it’s conception. These eyes are here to show us a possible future evolution, one that we humans could soon be faced with if we continue disturbing animal habitats with our ever expanding cities that light up the night skies.
They suggest a potential greater biodiversity lurking in our neighbourhood with much more life found outside the zoo gates than within. Like all nocturnal animals, all we can see are their glowing eyes, leaving the rest to our imaginations. How does this make us feel? Are we scared by these mysteriously shaped eyes lighting up the gloom? And how will they feel towards us? Are they friend or foe? Questions we may ask more often as more creatures adapt to our concrete urban jungle.
‘De Nachtloerrrders’ is part of Amsterdam Light Festival’s school project that in collaboration with Juf op Straat has been organised annually since 2012. During a series of workshops, primary school children work with an artist on a work of light art that will be exhibited during the festival. The ‘De Nachtloerrrders’ workshops showed children not only how animals see, but the whole design process from sketching to coding their own pair of eyes using the programming language ‘Scratch’. This way, the children were awakened to a range of valuable skills for the creative industries at a young age.
SUPPORTED BY: ARTIS | Juf op Straat
Life is like a hallway it sometimes seems dark but you always try your best to get trough even when you can't see where your going, when you reach your destination you feel as if your done, the truth is that outside that room is a world waiting to be explored an ever expanding world of opportunities
- Victor Sereno
Deep in the South Galapona Mountains, just south of the Loreos border, a tomb of a once great knight resides. During one of Boethius' travels, he stumbled across the entrance to this tomb. This is were he now keeps his ever expanding loot. This is the perfect hiding spot since the tomb has been forgot over the passage of time.
For the LCC Local Challenge.
A sign of changing times. The Aldi Supermarket in the background is one of many supermarkets being built by the ever expanding company which have shot past the already established supermarkets such as ASDA and Morrisons in many consumer tests. It is also the same in the bus industry, as M Travel have recently invested in 3 of these Ex Arriva Midlands East Lancs Lowlander bodied DAF DB250's, along with brand new Wayfarer TGX 200 ticket machines, as well as keeping a stronghold with passengers on the Junction 32 corridor between Pontefract and Castleford.
An example of this batch, FD02 UKJ, new to Arriva Fox County's 4723 in July 2002, has recently been repainted into M Travels 'Rainbow' livery and is seen here in Castleford Town Centre waiting time before working the 134 to Pontefract.
Photo taken on the 29th October 2016.
Oak Park was Sacramento's first streetcar suburb, established in 1887. For the last several decades, it has been known as the heart of Sacramento's black community. No surprise then that in the 1950s it saw two freeways routed in such a way that it was hemmed in by walls and wide trenches, providing a barrier between it and downtown and the hoity-toity neighborhoods of East Sac to the north and Curtis Park and Land Park to the west.
Its northernmost residential streets began a rapid phase of gentrification not long ago, radiating out from the charming tree-tunneled corner of the neighborhood adjacent to the ever-expanding UC Davis Medical Center. The wave spread west along Y Street and 1st and 2nd Avenues toward the old central business district of Oak Park, which at one time was as dense with enterprise as any area of the city outside of downtown, but which was decimated first by fires in riots that followed the police raid of the headquarters of the Sacramento chapter of the Black Panthers in 1969, and second by the city's immediate reaction to that event, in light of the neighborhood's reputation. Entire rows of dense commercial blocks with residences above where demolished and replaced with low-density public housing, both depopulating the core area and reducing its economic opportunity. But in recent years, hyper-gentrification has begun to roll through, and is now heading south, nearly reaching the long-vacant lot next to this mural of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gazing optimistically as if toward a lofty dream of peace, prosperity, and equality.
Things are more vibrant and invigorated in the north part of Oak Park, but often at the expense of affordability for the Oak Park born-and-raised. I must've participated in this wave of gentrification when I was throwing punk shows and noise shows inside Primo's Swiss Club--once a dank and decrepit old watering hole with asbestos fibers floating down like dandelion seeds through a gaping hole in the ceiling--which is now a bourgie supper club with piano lounge where you pay $30 for the privilege of cooking your own steak at your table. It was virtually impossible to get some indie music fans to ride their bikes just four blocks into the neighborhood to see a show at Primo's, but today that stretch of Broadway is totally safe for tiny-dog-walking for artisanally coiffed beardos sipping snobby coffee. But don't walk too far, fancyboy. Don't walk as far as this particular scene until somebody buys this vacant lot and puts a condo there with a brunch spot on the ground floor. Yes, now the time is right to densify Oak Park again with residences on top of ground-floor retail and restaurants. (Why did they ever tear those old buildings down again?)
Y'know...It's kinda funny. Here in Sacramento, when it was announced in the mid-90s that Sac was proven to be the most racially integrated city in North America, we were so proud to tout this. And the 2nd place city wasn't even close. We still are #1 by miles and miles, but the integration index measurement is falling in nearly direct relation to the redevelopment of Oak Park for tiny-dog-walkers and the cost of housing skyrocketing overall. Yet, nowadays, a city that's streaking by leaps and bounds to #2 is Portland! So, is the measure something to brag about or not, because in Portland, there was only one area which was home to the vast majority of the city's black residents, and when that area was suddenly the scene of hyper-gentrification, Portland's black residents became unclustered, dispersing mostly eastward, but over a wide area, yet also landing in other suburbs.
So, Sacto is one city moving down in its integration measures because of the historical heart of the black community being hyper-gentrified. Yet Portland's historical heart of its black community was hyper-gentrified, and its integration index has increased greatly.
Now I'm curious how the measure is changing in Oakland.
Like the Lada XRay of a couple of days ago, the Dacia Duster is a modern Crossover vehicle (CUV) from the ever-expanding Renault-Nissan group.
Whereas Lada (via parent AutoVAZ) has only recently come into the Renault-Nissan fold, after being associated with GM-Daewoo, Dacia has a much more extensive history tied to Renault going back nearly 50 years to an agreement to licence-build the Renault R12 in Romania from 1969.
The Duster II, shown here is a 2018 update to the original Duster CUV model launched in 2009. The Duster II uses the same Dacia B0 platform, shared with some other Dacia models, and which is a modified, long wheelbase version of the Renault-Nissan B-Platform, doing service under many B/C-segment vehicles including the Nissan Juke and Versa, Renault Clio and Captur, as well as the Lada XRay, The platform is saleable in both length and width, allowing it cover a significant cross section of the small-car market. The platform (along with the Duster) is built in many regions including Romania, Russia, India, Columbia, Brazil and Indonesia.
After taking over operation from week commencing Monday 1st April 2019, Thetford based Coach Services brief tenure of former Konectbus Tuesday & Friday services 17 West Bradenham - Dereham and Friday only service 18 Dereham Circular via Foulsham came to an end today, Friday 30th August 2019. It is suggested that as from next week, operation of these two services will pass to the ever expanding West Norfolk Community Transport. However, as of today there appears to be no confirmation/information to support this suggestion on the WNCT “Go to town” website, although both services have been removed from the Traveline site.
In bright morning sunshine, former Enterprise of Peterborough Optare Solo type - MX05 OUE is captured at Woodrising whilst passing the Village Sign timing point with the last Coach Services operated inbound service 17 journey. Having reached this point from Bradenham by way of Shipdham and Cranworth it will continue to Dereham via Hingham, Hardingham, Reymerston, Garvestone, Whinburgh and Yaxham.
Erected in 1967, the village sign depicts St Nicholas Church - which is down the lane to the right as we look - and two figures - Lord of The Manor Sir Richard Southwell and his wife.
So this was my second "night in" and it's fair to say life has been very rocky at times since last time. But we're surviving and I'm (Nicky) still alive (just) and very much enjoying and embracing being me, so things could be worse haha.
BTW I know the photos are very samey (is that even a word..?) and I need to have a bit more variety, I'll see what I can do in the future... That said I'm loving this new top from Boden :)
Oh and I've added more to my ever expanding bio/life story if you're interested in knowing more :)
Not pictured:
My fiance's Canon 1000D & Canon EFS 18-55MM that I used to take the shot and also my Lowepro Slingshot, not there cause I cant find It !
Next on the list of things to collect !!! is maybe a 5D MKII, but im weary of going full frame with the current lens gear I have so I might set my sights on the new holy grail that is the 7D........ or wait until there is the inevitable 7D MkII.
*** SADLY THIS IS ALL GONE !!! NOW REPLACED BY A NIKON KIT - IVE GONE TO THE DARK SIDE ! ***
Mingle Media TV Red Carpet Report team were on the red carpet for the World Premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the El Capitan Theatre, the TCL Chinese and the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
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From the mind of visionary writer/director George Lucas, the epic space fantasy introduced the mystical Force into the cultural vocabulary and it continues to grow, its lush universe ever-expanding through film, television, publishing, video games and more.
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EV Experience Zandvoort 2023
The Geely brand umbrella is ever expanding. In Western Europe, it already consists of the Volvo, Polestar, Lynk & Co, Lotus, Smart (50/50 with Mercedes-Benz) and now Zeekr.
The Lotus Eletre represents a radical break with the past of the British manufacturer of light sports cars. The Eletre is a large, bulky, heavy SUV with an electric drive that is made in China. The car shares its platform with, for example, the Zeekr 001.