With a pair of BNSF pumpkins in charge of the train, Norfolk Southern 315 barrels westbound over the Chagrin River in Willoughby Ohio. New apartment complexes can be seen in the background as the ever expanding urbanization of Northeast Ohio continues.

I wonder

if we,

vibrant and naive

can agree about beauty?

can we censor,

cleanse

rid

renew

this place

of all the shit

that stinks?

all the memories

that screw

the here and now?

We can be gods

or, we can just be.

Let things be

true

defiled

filthy

and real.

We have outlived

the antiseptic age.

Sprawl over-powers

the deep-clean inadequacies

of Oprahisms and cut-rate

Goop-fueled commercial satisfaction.

Revel in ugly.

Scour the Scandotrash of Ikea

for better lighting to shine

upon the earth, polluted

by light and more,

fraying the tapestry

of dark universe

betraying the narrative

of ever-expanding

unfolding

becoming

that made us.

Does the maker regret her work?

What reliquary survives this purge

of unsavory history

of being?

What truth shines absolute

from mosaics and murals

we have made?

I take solace in the notes

flowing from strings like a clear stream

which erodes the wearying

the way all rivers always do.

The flickr universe,a world within a world,

it is ever expanding and can become your world,

if you wish it to be

The clouds make this beautiful sunset which was viewed from Rosedale, California. This rural community is just west of an ever expanding Bakersfield.

Notes from an exhibit in Venice in 2019.

The wallpaper room created by Nadia Myre to welcome visitors consists of three walls and a heart-shaped sculpture woven over with beads. Guided by a soundscape evoking a mythical origin story of the universe beginning with a single sound, the visitor enters a built environment that mixes European and Native elements around which mutually shared stories were variably passed on by American peoples and Europeans each in their own way. Contextual elements such as ships, sections of maps, and other culturally relevant icons displayed on Myre’s design walls furnish the background for the centre piece of her installation: a human heart covered with Murano beads. Presented in much the same way as a man-made object in a Renaissance cabinet of curiosity this three-dimensional piece is emblematic of the relationship that Venice has indirectly had with indigenous North Americans over the centuries. Beads are here a marker or difference and identity simultaneously. Europeans conquered with Venice beads the hearts and imagination of Native peoples who eagerly welcomed this new trade good since the early contact phases. Historically appreciated for their brilliance and versatility, indigenous women created artworks of accomplished skill and beauty. Myre’s glass-covered heart continues in a long-standing artistic tradition that poignantly reminds us of the centrality of women in shaping history. If, as proven by commercial records and economic history, Venetians saw the North American bead trade as a lucrative enterprise, it is equally true that indigenous women’s desire for this merchandise was the incentive for Venetians to produce more, and as a consequence, make more profits. Equally treated as both a commodity and a colonial tool, beads have historically been the means by which European imperial powers established diplomacy and trade with Native North Americans. Used as the soft arm of colonisation, beads are therefore not just trade items, but agents of historical change in a cross-cultural conversation that Myre here invites us to peruse and ponder over.

Myre calls upon deep mythologies and re-examines European claims to a ‘discovery’ of the New World. For Myre, the exhibit brings to mind an ordinary sound--a sort of zero-vibration, an uncontained note or utterance--that recalls the many creation myths wherein the world was formed around an unending aural reverberation. Calling on this notion of an unfettered, ever-expanding energy as a point of origin, Nadia Myre’s works in this exhibition juxtapose Native creation stories with European contact history. These works investigate the role that European print media, especially maps, played in imposing a new, colonial origin story on North America’s Indigenous peoples; one that was rooted in a Eurocentric narrative of discovery and ignored existing modes of self-determination and historical record. Jumping off from her practice’s continual interrogation of transcultural mutation, these works focus on critically reversing the gaze of the othering eye through remixing and Indigenizing symbols of control and production of knowledge that formed a legacy of European nation states as the centre of the world.

Depicted in Myre’s damask-patterned wallpaper is a woman falling through a dark, vast expanse to begin human life on earth. To the Haudenosaunee, Sky Woman signifies a matrilineal line of descent which traces the people of Turtle Island to North America. Cradled, framed, or entrapped by images of European ships and mapping motifs, Sky Woman continues her fall to earth, enduring amidst the impending colonial origin narrative of discovery. Here, Myre translates a typical floral damask motif into colonial and indigenous signifiers, whose forms reflect, repeat and oscillate between evocations of growth, nature, violence and destruction, forming a doubled narrative of struggle, resilience, and layered points of origin. Based on the decorative double-sided textile from the Middle East, damask, as a popular luxury wall covering in Renaissance Italy, resonates with thematics of mirroring, cultural transmutation, and power. Through her incorporation of an ornamental circular motif used in Giacomo Gastaldi’s 1556 Map to delineate Hochelaga (Montreal), Myre uses the decorative and narrative nature of this wallpaper to abstract devices of circumscription and colonial naming of territory in a move to reject settler cartographic and claiming practices towards a consciousness of Indigenous knowledge of land and history. Aptly positioned as the nucleus of the installation is a terracotta sculpture of a human heart--standing in for the hungry heart of capitalism, greed, empires and colonies--covered in an Anishinaabe floral pattern made with Venetian trade beads. Used as ballast in slave/trade ships, beads were an important economic currency and exchanged for both goods and services as well as people. As a call to indigenization--a return to a focus on the environment and relational ways of knowing--the wounded heart, blanketed with beads, reminds us to centre with respect and love on all our relations. As a haunting story of the start of the world from a zero-point that precedes humanity, life, and form alike, the soundscape in Myre’s installation is a representation of the mythic original sonic vibration--rethinking the ways beginnings are identified, inscribed, written, and read. Points of origin are chosen; they do not indicate an end to nothingness, but only an inability to read what previously existed. Engaging creation stories are powerful tools of self-determination, cultural definition, and expression of value.

Sticking with Norman Foster, here's a shot taken on a recent 12hr photo-marathon to mark the 31st birthday of the Docklands Light Railway. I've photographed Canary Wharf Underground station several times before but I think this panoramic crop of a fisheye shot is one of my favourites.

Click here to see more shots of Norman Foster (and Richard Rogers) architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157604136925631

From Wikipedia : "Above ground there is little sign of the vast interior: two curved glass canopies at the east and west ends of the station cover the entrances and allow daylight into the ticket hall below. The Jubilee Park, a public park is situated between the two canopies, above the station concourse. It had originally been intended that the infilled section of the dock would be reinstated above the station, but this proved impractical because of technical difficulties and the park was created instead.

As with the other below-ground stations on the Jubilee Line extension, both station platforms are equipped with platform screen doors.

Canary Wharf station has become one of the busiest stations on the network, serving the ever-expanding Canary Wharf business district. Although it shares its name with the Docklands Light Railway station at Canary Wharf, the two are not directly integrated (in fact, Heron Quays DLR station is nearer at street level). All three stations are connected underground via shopping malls. Out-of-station interchange within twenty minutes between any two of the stations entails no additional charge."

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37901 Mirlees Pioneer heads 37800 Cassiopeia and Trans Pennine Express Mk5 set TP10 passing the ever expanding HS2 worksite on the approach to Lichfield Trent Valley running as 5Q42 Wolverton Centre Siding to Crewe South Yard. Thanks to young Rob for the info.

Chinatown in New York City is the largest Chinatown in the United States and home to the largest population concentration of Chinese in western hemisphere. It’s located on the lower eastside of Manhattan. The population has been estimated at 150,000 in this ever expanding area. The infamous Five Points Slums is where an enclave of Chinese who were in the United States both legally and illegally settled. They were many who had been in the west originally, opportunities afforded by the gold rush and working on Central Pacific Railroad, but when the gold dried up and the railway complete, the Chinese were driven to large cities in the east, driven back by Mob violence and rampant discrimination. New York’s already diverse immigrant population made it a particularly attractive landing spot, filled with Germans and Irishmen in the Five Points Slums. Even here though there was a great deal discrimination, so the Chinese immigrants segregated. They segregated not only in living arrangements, but really became a self-supporting community, tightly knit structure with an internal groups of governing associations and businesses that provided employment, economic aid, social assistance and most important in what had become a violent part of the city, protection.

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The ever expanding waterways in the Bellisseria Continent in Second Life are definitely worth checking out

August 13, 2017 - Eddyville Nebraska

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Tourist standing at the shore of Jökulsárlón, near its outlet. All the icebergs originated from the massive Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in the distance. The glacier used to reach all the way to the sea, but it has been retreating rapidly, leaving behind this ever expanding glacier lagoon.

Jökulsárlón, Iceland.

NEW HASHIMA a Sector 08 (端島): Apartments Available

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Happy to share a new addition to the New Hashima collaborative project. A high rise apartment building ready to house the residents of the ever expanding city. Keep an eye out for more updates coming soon. The city is headed to ATL Brickcon in Feb and Brickworld Chicago in June. Come out and see it for yourself!

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Monstrously big and scary, we found this Bald-faced Hornet's nest hanging in the woods at the edge of the new meadow. It's bigger than a basketball and filled with these beneficial, yet mean-looking arthropods. Despite their name, Bald-faced Hornets aren't really hornets - they're Yellow Jacket wasps.

Common Yellow Jackets, to whom these critters are most closely related, and whose stings I've lamented about earlier, are one thing. But these guys are bigger, far more aggressive and, because they can sting multiple times, dangerous.

Its inhabitants aside, and from a distance, this big paper nest is both a wonder of engineering and amazingly beautiful with its waves of beige, cream and light gray paper. The "paper" is made of natural fibers that the Bald-faced Hornets collect, digest, mix with their saliva and use to form their ever expanding, free-form nests.

If you look closely you can see that this one has totally engulfed entire branch ends of this maple tree and yet the leaves are still vital.

Amazing.

Looking for a smooth ride or do you want to bring out the beast in you? then take a look at this little beauty ..

Even the wild animals have their eyes on it while it tried to camouflage itself among the ruins on this cross country rally..as you can see its not doing a very good job of hiding ..*laughs*

This GTR is one of the many Items you can find on ~Victoria1980 Creations~ Market Place store..you can find cute little VW's to the Delorean used in back to the future..

Then homes to fences,staircases to gas stations to name just a few Items.. so please check it out for anything you might need to get your experience started here in SL or to add to your ever expanding inventory ( like mine lol ) ..all at reasonable prices too

Victoria1980 Creations GTR

Hannah Kozlowski Tiger/Marketplace

Mayan Skybox

shot at a secret car location lol

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Notes from an exhibit in Venice in 2019.

The wallpaper room created by Nadia Myre to welcome visitors consists of three walls and a heart-shaped sculpture woven over with beads. Guided by a soundscape evoking a mythical origin story of the universe beginning with a single sound, the visitor enters a built environment that mixes European and Native elements around which mutually shared stories were variably passed on by American peoples and Europeans each in their own way. Contextual elements such as ships, sections of maps, and other culturally relevant icons displayed on Myre’s design walls furnish the background for the centre piece of her installation: a human heart covered with Murano beads. Presented in much the same way as a man-made object in a Renaissance cabinet of curiosity this three-dimensional piece is emblematic of the relationship that Venice has indirectly had with indigenous North Americans over the centuries. Beads are here a marker or difference and identity simultaneously. Europeans conquered with Venice beads the hearts and imagination of Native peoples who eagerly welcomed this new trade good since the early contact phases. Historically appreciated for their brilliance and versatility, indigenous women created artworks of accomplished skill and beauty. Myre’s glass-covered heart continues in a long-standing artistic tradition that poignantly reminds us of the centrality of women in shaping history. If, as proven by commercial records and economic history, Venetians saw the North American bead trade as a lucrative enterprise, it is equally true that indigenous women’s desire for this merchandise was the incentive for Venetians to produce more, and as a consequence, make more profits. Equally treated as both a commodity and a colonial tool, beads have historically been the means by which European imperial powers established diplomacy and trade with Native North Americans. Used as the soft arm of colonisation, beads are therefore not just trade items, but agents of historical change in a cross-cultural conversation that Myre here invites us to peruse and ponder over.

Myre calls upon deep mythologies and re-examines European claims to a ‘discovery’ of the New World. For Myre, the exhibit brings to mind an ordinary sound--a sort of zero-vibration, an uncontained note or utterance--that recalls the many creation myths wherein the world was formed around an unending aural reverberation. Calling on this notion of an unfettered, ever-expanding energy as a point of origin, Nadia Myre’s works in this exhibition juxtapose Native creation stories with European contact history. These works investigate the role that European print media, especially maps, played in imposing a new, colonial origin story on North America’s Indigenous peoples; one that was rooted in a Eurocentric narrative of discovery and ignored existing modes of self-determination and historical record. Jumping off from her practice’s continual interrogation of transcultural mutation, these works focus on critically reversing the gaze of the othering eye through remixing and Indigenizing symbols of control and production of knowledge that formed a legacy of European nation states as the centre of the world.

Depicted in Myre’s damask-patterned wallpaper is a woman falling through a dark, vast expanse to begin human life on earth. To the Haudenosaunee, Sky Woman signifies a matrilineal line of descent which traces the people of Turtle Island to North America. Cradled, framed, or entrapped by images of European ships and mapping motifs, Sky Woman continues her fall to earth, enduring amidst the impending colonial origin narrative of discovery. Here, Myre translates a typical floral damask motif into colonial and indigenous signifiers, whose forms reflect, repeat and oscillate between evocations of growth, nature, violence and destruction, forming a doubled narrative of struggle, resilience, and layered points of origin. Based on the decorative double-sided textile from the Middle East, damask, as a popular luxury wall covering in Renaissance Italy, resonates with thematics of mirroring, cultural transmutation, and power. Through her incorporation of an ornamental circular motif used in Giacomo Gastaldi’s 1556 Map to delineate Hochelaga (Montreal), Myre uses the decorative and narrative nature of this wallpaper to abstract devices of circumscription and colonial naming of territory in a move to reject settler cartographic and claiming practices towards a consciousness of Indigenous knowledge of land and history. Aptly positioned as the nucleus of the installation is a terracotta sculpture of a human heart--standing in for the hungry heart of capitalism, greed, empires and colonies--covered in an Anishinaabe floral pattern made with Venetian trade beads. Used as ballast in slave/trade ships, beads were an important economic currency and exchanged for both goods and services as well as people. As a call to indigenization--a return to a focus on the environment and relational ways of knowing--the wounded heart, blanketed with beads, reminds us to centre with respect and love on all our relations. As a haunting story of the start of the world from a zero-point that precedes humanity, life, and form alike, the soundscape in Myre’s installation is a representation of the mythic original sonic vibration--rethinking the ways beginnings are identified, inscribed, written, and read. Points of origin are chosen; they do not indicate an end to nothingness, but only an inability to read what previously existed. Engaging creation stories are powerful tools of self-determination, cultural definition, and expression of value.

In the foreground is the lower part of the sculpture Spanda at Elizabeth Quay, Perth.

Beyond is the Elizabeth Quay Bridge.

Spanda is a public art work by Australian born artist Christian de Vietri located at Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Western Australia.

It was installed in January 2016. The sculpture is elegant, abstract, and minimalist, giving the impression of an ever-expanding vibrational pattern. It has been described as a celebration of the "union of the individual with the universal".

It measures 29 x 16 x 1 metres (95ft, or 9 stories high). Spanda is the world’s tallest freestanding structure made of carbon fibre.

Wikipedia.

And it cost $1,380,000 !

We haven’t had a decent rain season, winter or summer, for few years now. The 2025 monsoon season has been a total disappointment so far, and the rain forecast for next 2 weeks isn’t very promising either for the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix and the ever expanding suburbs). [the photo was taken in the winter of 2024]

Anglican clergymen in Aramac:

In 1883, the Rev John Alldis, recently arrived from England, came to work in the Aramac-Muttaburra district. He was the first Anglican clergyman to serve in Queensland’s central west. Rev Alldis conducted services and provided pastoral ministry not only in and around Aramac and Muttaburra (in the north), but as far south as Blackall. There were no church buildings, a widely scattered “flock”, and few converts. He was constantly on the go, with no fixed church base. Rev Alldis laboured in this seemingly impossible role for two years (1883 - 1884).

In the meantime, Anglican laypersons continued to conduct weekly Sunday evening services at Aramac’s courthouse. It is not clear how many people came to these services. “Religion does not seem to be a strong point on the Aramac” wrote one commentator in 1887 in relation to these services.

Rev George L Lester (1886 - 1889) followed Alldis. During his tenure, Rev Lester performed “remarkable self-denying work” in the ever-expanding Mitchell District of Queensland’s central west. Like Alldis before him, Rev Lester had no fixed church base. He travelled extensively and tirelessly throughout the district.

Saint George's Church:

Aramac’s first church building, Saint George’s (1889), served the people of Aramac for more than 20 years. However, members of the Anglican community at Aramac looked forward to the time when they could afford a new, larger, and more suitable building than the one they had. It took years for them to raise sufficient funds. In fact, by the time the new church building became a reality in 1913, many of those who initiated the project had either left the district or been gathered to their fathers.

Messrs Sam Clelland & Co of Barcaldine erected the new building alongside the old one. Mr A J H Elliott (architect) designed the structure, complete with chancel, vestry and vestibule. The building stands on four-foot (approximately 1.2 m) blocks and the roof overhangs two feet (approximately 0.6 m). The windows are gothic-headed lancet, frosted, and open on a pivot. There are six on either side, which helps cool the interior when all six are open. All the windows have mouldings, which are varnished. The walls are hardwood, the timber’s colour giving the appearance of age. Inside, the ceiling is made of Maryborough pitch pine. There is an arched opening to the sanctuary, which is carpeted. The font is a large clam shell set in an iron stand, a novel addition to the new church. The ladies of the church made the altar frontals and other linen items that adorn the interior of the building. The building was completed entirely debt-free.

The church is still in use today (2019).

Aramac, Queensland:

Aramac, a rural town, is 530 km west of Rockhampton and 70 km north of Barcaldine, central Queensland. It was the administrative centre of the former Aramac Shire.

William Landsborough explored the Aramac district in 1859 in his first expedition. Discovering a creek, which flowed south-west into the Thomson River, he named it Aramac, after a former pastoralist, Robert Ramsay Mackenzie (hence 'R. R. Mack'), who was also Queensland's first colonial treasurer. Pastoral occupation began in 1862 on the Bowen Downs station on Reedy Creek (north of Aramac) and the Aramac Station (1863).

In 1867 an employee of Aramac Station, John Kingston, opened a bark-hut store at an outlying point on the Aramac Creek. Enlarged two years later to include a hotel, Kingston's settlement was declared a town site in 1869 and surveyed as a town in 1875. It was the region's first town, and the centre of the first local-government division (see Aramac Shire). A post office was opened in 1874, a school in 1878 and a hospital in 1879.

By 1880 the western railway line from Rockhampton was half way to Aramac, and its further westerly extension was surveyed in an almost straight line, in a compromise alignment between Aramac and Blackall. Aramac missed the benefit of the railway, while the new railheads of Barcaldine and Longreach prospered.

From 1885 the Bowen Downs station was progressively partitioned for closer-settlement, and the Aramac township steadily increased in population. Bore water was brought to the surface for reticulated town supply and use in public baths by 1899.

Barcaldine's former shire hall (an attractive colonial timber building) was relocated by the council and re-constructed as Aramac's first shire hall in 1913. More famously, the shire financed a narrow gauge railway – the Aramac Tramway – joining the town with Barcaldine. Although well patronised by passengers and freight, throughput was seldom enough to generate good revenues. State assistance was needed after 1930 until the railway's closure in 1975, but the project stood as a celebrated example of local self help. The tramway station in Aramac was re-opened as a museum in 1994, and appears on the Queensland heritage register.

Rural roads absorbed most of the shire's funds until the 1960s, when at last the town's drainage, road surfaces, kerbs and channels were properly constructed. The primary school was extended to include a secondary department in 1965, and sewerage was connected in 1966.

Yet Aramac's population had peaked by the early 1960s. The end of the postwar wool boom and the reserve price scheme, and years of sagging demand for wool all contributed to a halving of the population by the early years of the twenty-first century. Low house prices (average $10,000) contributed to a small population increase in the early 2000s.

Aramac has a hotel, caravan park, local shops, primary-secondary school, Catholic and Uniting churches, and the former shire hall and offices. There are also swimming, bowling and tennis facilities and the Aramac Tramway Museum. A new ambulance station (2008) replaced the facility built in 1956. The 10-bed hospital closed in 2010 and was converted to a 'primary health care centre'.

The annual Harry Redford Cattle Drive begins in Aramac and partly traces the 1870 footsteps of renowned cattle duffer Harry Redford, known as Captain Starlight.

Primary source: All information of St George's Church was extracted from Judith Salecich’s blog Love in a little black diary, article Easter at St George’s Church Aramac (1889, 1913) posted April 11, 2020 by Judith Salecich (judithsalecich.com/easter-st-georges-church-aramac-1889-1...)

11. Rayner, Keith & The University of Queensland. (1962). The History of the Church of England in Queensland.(Thesis). Keith Rayner, p. 250.

12. (1883). Western Champion (Blackall/Barcaldine, Qld. : 1879 – 1891), Friday 27 July, page 2. Online: Retrieved on 7 April 2020.

13. (1883). Western Champion (Blackall/Barcaldine, Qld. : 1879 – 1891), Wednesday 21 November, page 3. Online: Retrieved on 7 April 2020.

14. Rayner, Keith & The University of Queensland. (1962). The History of the Church of England in Queensland.(Thesis). Keith Rayner, p. 250.

15. (1887). Western Champion (Blackall/Barcaldine, Qld. : 1879 – 1891), Tuesday 24 May, page 2. Online: Retrieved on 7 April, 2020.

16. Rayner, Keith & The University of Queensland. (1962). The History of the Church of England in Queensland.(Thesis). Keith Rayner.

37. Church of England, Aramac. Dedication of St George’s Church. An imposing Funciton (1913). Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts (Barcaldine, Qld. : 1892 – 1922), Saturday 5 April, page 11. (trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79744495)

Secondary Source: Queensland Places (queenslandplaces.com.au/aramac).

With the ever expanding south west London cityscape as a backdrop, GBRf's 66762 negotiates the complex pointwork on the approach to Clapham Junction whilst in charge of 6M79, the 12.01 departure from Angerstein Wharf to Bardon Hill.

Originally built new as Conrail 8232 in 1978 this GP38-2 is now part of The Prairie Line’s ever expanding roster . TPLX 31 also worked for Norfolk Southern and Belt Railway of Chicago as there # 580 before being sold to MEI. Seen at Metro East Industries East St Louis IL April 22nd 2025.

The EVER expanding wall!! I had to add yet another shelf in the right hand corner of my display to make room for other toys coming in! This is what I see when I walk out of my bedroom every morning lol.

This living room is part of a 700 year old village in Belgium which became the target for demolition in order to make way for the ever expanding harbour of Antwerp. As residents begin to leave, the government refuses to rent out their properties. As a result houses fall into decay and disrepair. Still, a few hardcore residents are remaining, so paying attention for the ‘bewoond’ sign in the front window is pretty much essential.. View On Black

My second train of my afternoon at mile 30 was eastbound doublestack train #122 with ES44AC 3201 leading.

In the background the clubhouse of the Glencairn Golf Club and their bridge over the CN are signs of the ever-expanding urban area (or progress?).

Circle Dance: Shinnecock Reservation, L.I., NY: Labour Day Powwow, September 2006.

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Shinnecock Tribe

Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy

Southhampton, NY 111968

631-283-6143

State recognized; (no BIA office liason - seriously ridiculous!)

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Shinnecock Indian Nation: An Ancient History and Culture.

Since the beginning, Shinnecock time has been measured in moons and seasons, and the daily lives of our people revolved around the land and the waters surrounding it. Our earliest history was oral, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and as far back as our collective memory can reach, we are an Algonquin people who have forever lived along the shores of Eastern Long Island.

Scientists say we came here on caribou hunts when the land was covered with ice. But our creation story says we were born here; that we are the human children of the goddess who descended from the sky. It was she, the story goes, who caused the land to form beneath her feet from the back of Great Turtle, deer to spring forth from her fingertips; bear to roar into awakening, wolf to prowl on the first hunt. It was she who filled the sky with birds, made the land to blossom and the ponds and bays to fill with fish and mollusks. And when all was done, the Shinnecock, the People of the Shore, appeared in this lush terrain. We are still here.

As coastal dwellers, we continue to prize the bounty of the sea, the shellfish, the scaly fish, which for thousands of years provided the bulk of our diet. We were whalers, challenging the mighty Atlantic from our dugout canoes long before the arrival of the big ships, long before the whaling industry flourished in the 19th century.

In the 1700's, we became noted among the northeastern coastal tribes for our fine beads made from the Northern quahog clam and whelk shells. The Dutch, who arrived on our shores before the English, turned our beads (wampum) into the money system for the colonies.

The Shinnecock Nation is among the oldest self-governing tribes of Indians in the United States and has been a state-recognized tribe for over 200 years. In 1978, we applied for Federal Recognition, and in 2003, we were placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Ready for Active" list.

Traditionally, decisions concerning the welfare of the tribe were made by consensus of adult male members. Seeking to shortcut the consensus process in order to more easily facilitate the acquisition of Indian lands, the Town of Southampton devised a three member trustee system for the Shinnecock people. This system of tribal government was approved by the New York State legislature in February of 1792. Since April 3, 1792, Shinnecock Indians have gone to the Southampton Town Hall the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April to elect three tribal members to serve a one- year term as Trustees. In April of 2007, the Shinnecock Indian Nation exercised its sovereign right as an ancient Indian Nation and returned to one of its basic Traditions: it bypassed the Southampton Town Hall and for the first time since 1792 held its leadership elections at home, where they will remain.

The Trustee system, however, did not then and does not now circumvent the consensus process, which still remains the governing process of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Major decisions concerning the tribe are voted yea or nay by all eligible adult members, including women, who gained the right to vote in the mid-1990s. Also in that period, the Shinnecock Nation installed a Tribal Council, a 13 member body elected for two years terms. The Council is an advisory body to the Board of Trustees.

Today, we number over 1300 people, more than 600 of whom reside on the reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. While our ancestral lands have dwindled over the centuries from a territory stretching at least from what is known today as the Town of Easthampton and westward to the eastern border of the Town of Brookhaven, we still hold on to approximately 1200 acres.

With modest resources, we have managed to build a community to help us better meet the demands of an ever expanding and intrusive world. In addition to the Shinnecock Presbyterian church building and its Manse, our infrastructure includes a tribal community center, a shellfish hatchery, a health and dental center, a family preservation and Indian education center, a museum, and playgrounds for our children. Also on our list of recent achievements is the design and development of an official Shinnecock Indian Nation flag and an official seal.

Our skilled craftspeople and fine artists find employment within the Tribe as well as the surrounding area. The number of tribal members holding advanced degrees in law, business, medicine, social sciences and liberal arts continues to grow, and tribal members hold positions of responsibility in all areas, including teaching, banking and counseling, both within and outside the Shinnecock community.

One of the earliest forms of economic development that the Shinnecock Nation undertook was to lease Reservation acreage to local area farmers for their crops, mainly potatoes and corn. While the project did bring in a small income for the Tribe, the resulting damages from pesticides leaking into the ground water and polluting our drinking water supply were enormous. We had great expectations for our shellfish hatchery (Oyster Project) but brown tide and general pollution forced it to close before it had the chance to develop into the business enterprise it was planned to be. In the summer of 2005, the Tribe began reseeding parts of its waterways with oysters, and celebrated a renewal harvest of Shinnecock chunkoo oysters at the Tribal Thanksgiving Dinner, November 2006.

At the present moment, the Shinnecock annual Powwow is the economic development project of record for the Shinnecock Nation. Revived in 1946 as a benefit for our church, the Powwow has evolved into an event that hosts thousands of visitors. But we are at the mercy of the weather. For the past two years, rainstorms have forced us to drastically revise our budgeting plans. We are now exploring Indian Gaming as a means of attaining the much needed self-sufficiency that will enable us to perform the sacred duties laid out for us by the Ancestors — to protect, manage and maintain the Shinnecock Indian Nation.

By Bevy Deer Jensen

Shinnecock Nation Communications Officer

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For more information on the Shinnecock Nation, please visit: www.shinnecocknation.com/

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photography: a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2006.

Here's my newest fractal creation. I've titled this one "Infinite Expansion" as it resembles a Nautilus shell. The Nautilus is a sea creature that lives in ever expanding series of chambers that it builds for itself for each new phase of its life.

St Barnabas Church and churchyard in the centre of this small remote village.

Apart from appearing in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's Diary as the home of her parents, the village's chief attraction is the wonderfully picturesque small manor house owned by the National Trust. Literally packed to bursting with the collections of Charles Wade, it's eccentric owner who gave the manor to the trust in 1951 and who had lived most of the time in a small cottage in the gardens as there was no room left in the house!

A relatively new attraction not too far away is the ever expanding lavender farm on the high thin limestone soils above the village.

In the course of the Federation's ever expanding exploratory activities, many extraordinary phenomena were observed. Particularly perishable specimens had to be analysed on the ground and so roving laboratories were employed to allow speedy analysis of the exotic minerals, flora, and fauna found on newly discovered worlds.

Solar panels allowed for much longer journeys into these boundless vistas.

The 40th anniversary of Classic Space keeps on roving! I actually finished this build well before Febrovery, but didn't manage to photograph properly until recently. The lab is detachable. It has an interior with two scientists, but I found it impossible to capture! (It also has a windscreen below the steering, though it's hard to see here.) All old grey of course.

hhhmm just couldnt help but tottaly go nuts on this shot. Bay st Toronto Ontario. Looking west from the 23 floor. That is the sunset shining (hallo) around the building the best shot that i could get of the sunset :(

'the ever expanding city' On Black

explore #15 sept 28th

Another one of the newer additions to London’s ever-expanding portfolio of quirkily-designed office buildings is this one, officially known as 70 St Mary Axe, but informally dubbed the ‘Can of Ham’ due to its shape.

Another challenging one to capture due to the lack of space around the building and the fact that it's wedged in between everything else.

Sporting Regional Railways livery 37425 Concrete Bob drifts by the ever expanding mountain of aggregate at Washwood Heath. The freshly painted tractor was working 4Z67 Long Marston to Daventry with a single IKA in tow. 6G92 stands in the foreground having arrived from Dowlow with the second load of the day.

Klick here for a large view!

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.

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Saw this new dinosaur sea creature thing and little frog in the ever expanding plaster decay while walking through a hallway after winter break.

Captured with the iPhone and the black and white, high contrast, square shooting app, Contrast.

For the Flickr friends, you may remember the macro plaster texture I posted early in Dec. of 2016.

That was a small portion of this now larger growth appearing on/in the wall. You can view the macro here if you care to puzzle out where is in the body.

www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/31427201306/

So, I watched Ghost in the Shell: SAC for the first time this year. I was always a big fan of Mamoru Oshii's 1995 movie but never got around to watch the anime series by Kenji Kamiyama.

And of course, as soon as I started watching, I fell in love with these little guys!

This build might be 17 years late, since the anime is out since 2002 and there are a lot of LEGO versions of the Tachikoma already. But with the ever expanding LEGO-part library, I wanted to give them my own new interpretation.

It was important to me, that they are as close to Minifigure-scale as possible. In the series their size changes from scene to scene, but their pod should be as big as a person. So I scaled the model accordingly.

Hope you guys like them!

""I have nothing to say" and "everything to say"

A moment of clarity materializes out of the hustle and bustle of the city. Everything stops.

The city takes a breath and asks the question: Do you remember what was?

I whisper my answer but who will listen? Who can listen? I am a mere soul dwelling amongst the giants. If I move a spec of sand will it make a difference? The city is confused, the country is worried. It hears the distant cries of the trees being moved, yanked out by their roots. They use to stand tall and proud. But now, the land feels eerily new lacking a stable identity; roots are invading its earth. Pulses go through it; its unnatural. It will take time to get use to the change, is it good or bad? That answer is yet to reveal itself. The days have to pass; the cars will come and go on the ever expanding streets. And then… the earth will talk once more, revealing what it wants. "

-Honest After Midnight Ramblings

Museums - The British Museum

The British Museum was founded as a ‘Universal Museum’. Its beginnings are bequeathed from the will of Sir John Sloane. He amassed 71,000 items, manuscripts, books and many natural history items. He has a statue in the London Physic Garden, Chelsea.

In 1753 King George II gave his Royal Assent to build the Museum, the body of trustees chose Montagu House for its location. This was purchased from the family for £20,000. Ironically Buckingham Palace was rejected as being too expensive and the location, unsuitable.

The first exhibition for scholars was opened in January 1759. In those early days, the Library took up the whole of the ground floor, the first floor a large part was taken up by the Natural History collection.

In 1763 the Natural History collection was reclassified using the Linnaean System, after Carl Linnaeus, famous Swedish botanist. This made the Museum a centre of learning for European natural history scholars.

In the oncoming years there were many new additions particularly in the Library, David Garrick plays (approx. 1000) were one example but it wasn’t until 1772 when the first real quantities of antiques were purchased. This was the collection of Greek vases from Sir William Hamilton. More items came into the Museum. In 1778 objects from Capt. Cooks round-the-world voyages were brought back and donated. By the early 1800’s it was clear that further growth was not possible, furthermore there were signs of decrepitude and overcrowding.

In 1802 a building committee was set up. The upshot was that the Old Montague House was demolished and work began on the new building in 1823. It’s original intention was for a Library and Picture Gallery but this was changed because another new gallery was commissioned in 1824 (The National Gallery). So this building now housed the Natural History collection, the building work was completed in 1831.

Whilst this building work was going on items still came into the museum. In 1802 King George presented the Museum with the Rosetta Stone, (this was the key that opened the lock to deciphering hieroglyphs). In this period from 1802 – 1820 there were many gifts and purchases of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian sculpture.

Because of the overwhelming number of objects coming into the museum, it was decided to move the whole of the natural history collection to The Natural History Museum in Kensington. In 1847 over 20,000 books were bequeathed by Sir Thomas Grenville (former trustee). These arrived in horse-draws carts, all 20 of them.

From 1840 – 1900 there were many new sources of objects coming into the Museum. Partial Tombs from ancient Lycia, more Assyrian artefacts from excavations, a valuable collection of antiquities belonging to the Duke of Blacas, (this collection the French government at the time refused to buy so instead it was sold to the Museum for FFr1.2m in 1867). In 1881 came a collection of armour, from William Burges and in 1897 another bequest, this time of Finger rings, drinking vessels, porcelain, Japanese inro and netsuke from A. W. Franks, curator and collector.

More pressure for room for the ever expanding collection culminated in the purchase of 69 surrounding houses. The first stage of construction began in 1906.

Over the years there have been many changes to the internal rooms in the museum itself. The Classical and Near East, The Duveen Gallery which was destroyed during WWII, now bought back to its best.

Notable additions to the museum include in 1939 ‘The Sutton Hoo’ treasures from the Anglo Saxon burial ship. In 1972 The Tutankhamun Treasures exhibition attracted over 1.6 million people. Also in that year Parliament passed a resolution to establish a British Library. This was a real necessity as 1.25 miles of new shelving was needed to house the books coming into the Museum on a yearly basis. However it wasn’t until 1997 that the books actually left. Redevelopment of the space took place and was opened in 2000 as the ‘Queen Elizabeth II Great Court’.

From those original days of 1753, the British Museum has 13 million items, The natural History Museum 70 million and the British Library has 150 million. An impressive collection of items. I have merely scratched the surface. Definitely worth the visit and don’t forget, it’s F R E E.

Self-obsession on 1:6 scale...? An addition to the ever-expanding tribe of Mini Mes. She's quite a bit slimmer and prettier, but the head mould for Dreamhouse Raquelle actually looks quite a bit like... well, me. I'm in the process of thinning her hair a bit, as well as making her some glasses and a more appropriately nerdy wardrobe.

As an aside: has anyone else noticed how the east Asian Mattel dolls are looking progressively less Asian? I'm a pretty Chinese-looking half-Chinese person, and it was a bit of a fight to get her looking sufficiently... Chinese.

Dordrecht, 13 maart 2016 - In de winter van 2016 op 2017 reed Railpromo met de wekelijkse Austria Express wintersporters naar diverse bestemmingen in Oostenrijk. De treinen reden op de terugweg vanuit Bischofshofen en Landeck via Kufstein en München door Nederland via Venlo, Utrecht, Rotterdam en Roosendaal op weg naar de uiteindelijke bestemming Brussel-Zuid. Dankzij de inzet van een meersysteem-TRAXX vond deze rit plaats zonder tijdrovende locwissel. Daarmee was Railpromo één van de eerste, zo niet dé, eerste vervoerder die met dezelfde locomotief regulier vervoer door vier landen reed.

Op 13 maart 2016 reed de terugkerende trein 13496 met NMBS B Logistics 2825 als tractie. Deze loc promoot de website www.modal-shift.be, waar de vervoerder zijn steeds uitgebreidere dienstenpakket op vermeldt. Op sleep is een mix van NMBS I6Bc en Wagon Service Bcmh ligrijtuigen.

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Dordrecht, 13 March 2016 - In the winter of 2016 and 2017 Railpromo operated the weekly Austria Express, carrying winter sport enthousiasts from Belgium and the Netherlands to the Austrian slopes. The trains traveled from Bruxelles Midi, Antwerp, Roosendaal, Rotterdam, Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch and Venlo non stop to Austria. Within Austria several of the main ski areas were accessed, before arriving at the end stations Bischofshofen and Landeck. Thanks to the use of a multi-system TRAXX of B Logistics Railpromo was able to operate these trains without time consuming locomotive changes at the borders. One locomotive would provide the tractive force for the entire journey between Bruxelles and Bischofshofen. Therewith the company was one of the first, if not the first, to provide regular passenger travel through four countries without changing the locomotive.

On the thirteenth of March 2016 the returning Railpromo train 13496 was hauled by B Logistics TRAXX 2825. This locomotive sports an advertisement for the website www.modal-shift.be on which the Belgian freight operator presents its ever expanding service offering. On its tail is a combination of I6Bc sleeper carriages of NMBS and Bcmh carriages of Wagon Services.

Less than 200 metres from the prestigious Kühlungsborn Marina, part of it just visible beyond the tree, neglect can be found. But this area, as prime real estate is undoubtedly earmarked for development, as the popular seaside resort ever expands out to the east bordering the beach and dunes of fine white sand. As a young family returns from an outing in the open countryside on the edge of town, 900mm gauge Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn "Molli" 2-8-2 tank 99 2324-4 gets into its stride from its Kühlungsborn Ost station stop and approaches an un-gated level crossing near Fulgen, heading the 10:35 Kühlungsborn West to Bad Doberan service on a wet 4th October 2018.

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Milo, new addition of a grandson to the ever expanding clan. Another one due in September!

Not much time to write more, my stepson gets hitched this afternoon so I’m taking a few moments to chill before the ritual begins.

BRAINS!

Continuing to grow our ever-expanding line of custom parts and pieces we are happy bring to bring to you Citizen Brick's new line of custom LEGO zombie heads and torsos! And because you all asked to be able to buy them as parts rather than in a pack that's how you get 'em!

-JD

240 Centre Street is located in Manhattan in what once upon a time, when the building first was built was Little Italy, today in ever-expanding Chinatown or SOHO…depends on who’s saying it, to a realtor its SOHO, to a lay person, probably Chinatown. The Police Building as this beautiful Beaux Arts Edwardian Baroque Renaissance Revival edifice is unofficially know was New York City Police Headquarters from 1909 until 1973 when the department relocated to its current location 1 Police Plaza a red-brick modernist cube by the Manhattan Municipal Building and next to the Church of St. Andrew. Designed by the firm of Hoppin & Koen, it replaced an older New York City Police Headquarters on Mulberry Street where at one time future United States President Theodore Roosevelt served as the commissioner of police for New York City. It was necessary as New York City had recently (1898) expanded from just Manhattan to now encompassing Queens, Staten Island, Bronx and by a slim margin Brooklyn… so the old police HQ was just not adequate for the job. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1905 with an expected finish in approximately a year, but it wasn’t to be as there was a constant struggle between Mayor McClellan and Police Commissioner Bingham over changes. When it completed and opened in December of 1909, it was a marvel, with an indoor gymnasium (which later became a basketball court), a full shooting range in the basement and a rooftop observation deck. It lay dormant for almost a decade after the police department moved out and the building on the triangular block was purchased by developer who converted it to apartments. In 1978 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

124/365 Back home to a new season, a new time zone, and to my ever expanding collection of dresses I will never wear! Had a wonderful day shooting and finding new autumnal locations with Adam, this one was right outside my old high school. I'm super jet-lagged, so a weary queen today. My body is doing one thing and my mind quite another. Either way, the world is on fire with colour and weary or not, I'm completely in love with it

Have to say we've been to Vegas before...maybe about ten years ago....and at that time, we saw all the silly sights, and the amazing sights...and without gambling one cent, we had a good time!

This time however we used this ever-expanding city as a base for exploring the hinterland...starting with the Red Rock Canyon, a US National Conservation Area. A short drive from Vegas...this was wonderful!!!

There is a 13 mile scenic drive in the park...and at least 19 signed trails...ranging from easy to strenuous...and lots to see...and good facilities for the visitor. The website is :

www.redrockcanyonlv.org

I'll post more photos tomorrow, and later, just a bit of the night-life in the city.

I suppose one way to make trespass on the railway more difficult is to allow the lineside to be taken over by trees and vegetation. Railway scenes are increasingly being dominated/constrained by the ever expanding vegetation as seen here where Freightliner 66541 working 6F33, 09:16 Bredbury RTS – Runcorn Folly Lane bin liner is approaching Northwich station, 23rd October 2018.

Ever expanding

The ever expanding skyline of glass and steel that is West Bay, Qatar. This view is from the Corniche, close to the Museum of Islamic Art. The afternoon haze creates a deceptively soft light

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Earlier this month I spent a week in Devon visiting family in and around Tavistock . Although I've been a frequent visitor to the West Country since before I could walk and talk it's only in recent years I've taken to documenting the area through photographic eyes and truly appreciating its breathtaking beauty. Being on holiday with time to wander the lanes and explore the countryside, the only time constraint being the loss of sunlight around 20:00 hours, was the perfect time to shoot film and play around with vintage cameras.

If you follow my work you will know about my love of film photography, my beloved Leica IIIf and my cousin Dan's impressive and ever-expanding analogue camera collection. My challenge for the week was to get to grips with the Yashica Mat and its waist-level viewfinder. Shot on my all-time favourite film - Kodak Portra.

Another Saturday and another double helping, this week's theme being 'GBRf acquisitions at rest' - locos brought into the ever expanding GBRf fleet from elsewhere........

Ex Gatwick Express, and Southern 'thunderbird', GBRf's 73202 sports a unique combination livery, here pictured in Tonbridge West Yard.

How selfies work. Note that I was too close for my 70-200mm lens to focus and take the selfie!

Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW, Australia

www.vividsydney.com/event/light/you-are-here-0

Artists: Hammer Lighting (Mark Hammer)

Collaborator: Andre Kecskes

You Are Here is a well-known phrase brought to life as a Light Art installation. Interact with this 4m-tall sculpture to capture your perfect Vivid Sydney moment, upload and share at #vividsydney – and show us your best selfie using #HowSelfiesWork.

Indeed.com is proud to sponsor 'You Are Here' as a Vivid Supporter in 2015. As the world’s #1 job site, Indeed helps job hunters and employers alike find the right careers and teams, offering millions of jobs in countless fields across the globe. You are here right now, but with our suite of job search tools and ever expanding list of opportunities, Indeed can help you get to where you want to be.

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I particularly like the Zuiko zoom lenses. They are small, solid and very well made. Obviously this is an ever-expanding collection :)