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Promoting the port of Antwerp, Lineas organised a tour from Brugge via Antwerpen Centraal to Noordzeeterminal PSA and back for a few hundred invitees.
Just before the Combinant terminal, the charter train had a scheduled stop on line 11.
27/10/2022
Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1582 (NK64 EEV), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14
Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.
Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.
Akihabara in central Tokyo is famous for its inexpensive electronics shops, maid cafes and stores ideal for anime and game lovers.
Maid cafés Hepburn: meido kissa or meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses, dressed in maid costumes, act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons
This is my mother, with my little cousin Heather looking on.
Mom is trying to introduced my new kitten Pumpkin (yeah.....that was the cat's name. I know it isn't even orange, but we got it around Halloween, so that was how my little brain was working when I named him!) to our parakeet Yenta
You can see where I get my love of animals from! 8-)
This was probably taken somewhere around 1964.
An Operation Lifesaver unit leads an eastbound tank car train onto the Fort Wayne Line at Alliance in late afternoon on a December day.
Alaa is a British-Egyptian political prisoner in Egypt. This photo was taken during the ongoing encampment protest by Alaa's two sisters - Sanaa (top left) and Mona (second from the right) Seif - outside Britain's Foreign Office.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endured much of the last twelve years in some of the worst prison conditions anywhere for his brave work in promoting democracy in Egypt. He was last arrested in September 2019 while attending Cairo's Dokki Police Station and in December last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment for "spreading false news undermining state security." More precisely, he had shared social media posts explaining the hell-hole reality of Egyptian prison conditions.
PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE
When this photo was taken Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, were staging a protest in London's King Charles Street outside the British Foreign Office in the hope that the Egyptian government can be pressured to release him, as media attention began to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022
Starting from Sunday 6 November, Alaa escalated his hunger strike, and stopped taking water. His sister Sanaa Seif took a flight the same weekend to attend the COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh in a last-minute effort to save Alaa's life.
For the latest on Alaa's situation listen to his sister's Sanaa Seif's speech to journalists attending the conference on Tuesday 8 November - "They are very happy for him to die. The only thing they care about is that it doesn't happen while the world is watching."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqXibJ7PUTY
TORA PRISON - "A DAY HERE, IS LIKE A YEAR IN BELMARSH"
In April, Alaa began his hunger strike in a cell in one of the most secure sections of Cairo's sprawling and notorious Tora Prison - a maze of grim high concrete walls and watch towers, which strike fear into even the thousands of commuters who have to pass daily.
In 2012, one young Londoner confined to one of the least uncomfortable and most survivable wings of Tora prison, contrasted it with his own previous experience at Britain's high security Belmarsh. I can never forget his exact words. "A day here, is like a year at Belmarsh!" A little over 12 months later, he died of TB - the prison authorities had refused to listen to the pleas of his aunt, who fell on her knees during a rare visit, begging that he be admitted to the prison hospital.
ALAA'S HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES AT WADI EL NATRUN PRISON
More than 200 days have passed since Alaa started his hunger strike. He has now been moved to the Wadi El Natrun prison complex in the desert north of Cairo, dubbed by inmates as the "Valley of Hell."
He may not survive much longer. However, as he holds British-Egyptian nationality, one would hope that the British government would be doing everything they could to secure his immediate release and it would be reasonable to suppose that the Foreign Office could get an immediate pledge in this regard, especially given that the British companies, including the likes of British Petroleum and BP, are the biggest investors in Egypt.
NO CONSULAR ACCESS
However, the British government have failed even to get him any consular access - think about that. That's an outrage. Even a convicted mass murderer, if British, would be entitled to consular access while in prison. That meeting would obviously not take place in his cell - but in a designated room in the prison or the highly supervised prison visiting area.
British men and women convicted of drug smuggling and other crimes in Egypt have received consular visits, so why not Alaa? The answer is because Alaa's crime is that he dared to tell the truth about Egypt, and the injustice both inside and outside its many prison walls. Nobody knows exactly how many political prisoners Egypt now has, but the number is estimated to be at least 60,000.
ALAA WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was one of the leaders of arguably the most inspirational democratic revolt the world has seen in the last hundred years. Although the first phase of the 2011 uprising in Egypt lasted just 18 days, and although it followed the toppling of the dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia - the streets and bridges around Tahrir Square became a deadly stage watched by the world, where protesters from every walk of life were pitted against Egypt's feared state security forces. Against all the odds, and at the cost of many lives, Egyptians refused to leave the square, sleeping in front of the tanks and fending off attacks from government militia.
The Egyptian people's initial success in toppling the dictator Mubarak led to further revolts not just across the Middle East (most notably in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria) - the highly organised Tahrir-Square sit-in provided the inspiration for strikes and workplace sit-ins against austerity across the United States and Europe and to the Occupy Movement of the same year. The people of Egypt showed that it does not matter how brutal, feared and authoritarian a government is, it can be toppled if people act collectively.
THE MILITARY BACKLASH
It's true that Egypt's flirtation with the path to greater freedom seemed to be only temporary - the Egyptian authorities deployed the usual divide and rule tactics - encouraging the less committed protesters to return home - and then rushed to elections without allowing time for genuinely democratic opposition parties to develop.
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood won the presidential election in 2012 - the Brotherhood (contrary to the perception many people have here in the West) had genuinely progressive elements within it, but the chance for any transformative radical programme was prevented partly by the corruption and self-interest of some of the main political actors and partly by opposition to its democratic mandate from the deep state (the military, the Interior Ministry, State Security, the police etc.)
The army, seeing its chance, seized power in 2013, superficially in the name of the people, but in reality, to advance the interests of the generals. The new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, moved quickly to crush all opposition, and ordering his security forces to attack Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had gathered in eastern Cairo at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square, killing at least 800 people - the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Egypt's modern history.
DON'T ALLOW EGYPT TO USE COP27 TO GREENWASH ITS REGIME - AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALAA
Now COP27 is scheduled to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh and Sisi has been given a golden opportunity to greenwash his murderous regime, which has also seen ever increasing levels inequality and corruption. While British representatives at COP27 will be given accommodation in the most luxurious five star hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh and fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves, another British citizen, Alaa Abdel El-Fatah is near death, on a painful hunger strike in the darkest of places - his dimly lit cell. The only thing he might hear at night is the desperate cry from some prisoner in another cell appealing for medical help which most likely never comes.
If we care for freedom, real democracy and justice, we can't allow the British Foreign Office to forget Alaa - especially if it's simply not to upset the highly profitable relationship British multinationals have with one of the world's most authoritarian and corrupt regimes - a relationship which only benefits the wealthiest of Egyptians.
If you live in London, please show your support at the protest at King Charles Street - and wherever you live please sign the petition -
www.change.org/p/help-free-my-brother-before-it-s-too-lat...
Promoting their show "Grecian Idolatry" which I wanted to see but it was only on for a few days in week 3 and just too late in the evening
I have been promoting noise reduction by stacking for years, but while I was able to recommend "Starry Landscape Stacker" for MAC users, there was no easy to use Software for Windows.
This has changed lately, with the release of SEQUATOR, a very easy to use program for stacking untracked nightscapes (for noise reduction) and the best of all: It is freeware!
sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/home
So far, I have been using fitswork, a dedicated software for stacking tracked star images. While I learned to use it for untracked images as well, this process is painfully slow. It would therefore be immensely helpful if SEQUATOR was able to perform as beautifully as fitswork, without all the slow manual interventions needed…
Today, I was able to do my first test of SEQUATOR. To see how it performs, I did a side by side comparison with an image I already processed with fitswork.
First I had to find an untracked image sequence. I have been doing mainly tracked shots lately, but I found my Bisti Eggs image which I shot from a fixed tripod:
To get a meaningful comparison, I decided run SEQUATOR with the same preprocessed TIFFs I have used for stacking in fitswork and publish some 100% crops taken from the resulting TIFFs right out of SEQUATOR and fitswork and without further processing. SEQUATOR has several options for stacking, but I found that “Freeze Ground”, “Auto Brightness OFF” and “High Dynamic Range ON” worked best for me.
As you can see, SEQUATOR does an extremely nice job. There are no star trails and no stacking errors and I really like how the foreground and the horizon are razor sharp. Very impressive indeed!
On closer scrutiny, the SEQUATOR result has a tad more saturated colors than my fitswork resut, but selecting “High Dynamic Range ON” avoided burning the stars. The increased saturation leads to slightly increased color fringes around the brighter stars, but this would have happened with the fitswork image as well during post processing and there are techniques to reduce this effect during processing.
SEQUATOR is really easy to use and it took me less than 5 minutes to produce the result, while my normal workflow in fitswork takes about 3 hours to arrive at the same stage.
Conclusion:
I can highly recommend SEQUATOR! If I ever have to process an untracked image sequence again, I use SEQUATOR instead of my fitswork workflow.
On Windows, it is by far the easiest to use and fastest stacking software for nightscapes and produces very good results. Even beginners can immediately produce excellent results. There are no excuses anymore for noisy single shot nightsapes… ;-)
PS:
1. Of course I still highly recommend using a tracking mount to achieve “deeper” sky exposures, by using lower ISO and higher exposure times. This means that you have to shoot the foreground separately with your tracker off and merge the two exposures during post processing. For this techique SEQUATOR might not be the best software out there, but to stay fair, that is not what it was built for…
2. Here is a very nice quick tutorial for SEQUATOR. The only point where I disagree with Mike, is that for better sharpness and no burned highlights, I recommend to use HDR instead of Auto Brightness.
[Boys wearing caps and holding banners about “Good Hope Hills” promote sales of lots in an area being developed in southeast Washington, DC]
[1924]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
Notes:
The photo was taken at 1406 H. Street NW, Washington, DC, the location of the sales office for lots in Good Hope Hills. Ads in the 1924 Evening Chronicle encourage visits to the neighborhood and a field day for boys in August.
Title and other identifying information from source: Flickr Commons project, 2020.
Date from negatives in same range.
Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
Format:
Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.26021
Call Number: LC-F81- 31777
Originally the line was promoted by the Keith & Dufftown Railway Company and most of it was opened in 1862. It later became part of the Great North of Scotland Railway. It carried both freight mainly associated with local distilleries and passengers enabling journeys through to Elgin and westwards up the Spey valley to Aviemore. In 1923 it became part of London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).
But improved roads, and increased car ownership led to a reduction in usage over the years and in May 1968 regular passenger services ceased. Freight services had ceased also by the early 1980s. Fortunately after that the track was not lifted and the line was still used by the occasional excursion such as the ‘Northern Belle’, an enterprising evening extension of ‘Nightrider’ services from Kings Cross. It was even graced by the passage of an Inter-City 125!
Those services ended in 1991 and two years later saw the formation of the Keith and Dufftown Railway Association whose aim was to restore the line between the two towns as a heritage railway. In 2001, just 10 years after BR bowed out, the KDRA began running its first passenger services over the full route.
A Promotional Image (Natural light portrait) promoting Ahmad Farzad's Recording Studio (King of the Jungle Productions - The-Studio-at-Vestavia -
with his chief engineer Steve Stanek). My son the one on the left! (Yes I am very old!)
From Over the mountain journal:
Upbeat about Their Business
February 7, 2012 By laura Leave a Comment
KJP owner Ahmad Farzad, left, and KJPhead engineer Steve Stanek
By Laura McAlister
Journal Editor
The outside of one of Vestavia Hills’ newest businesses is nothing out of the ordinary. But step inside and it’s clear that The Studio is different.
The Studio is home to a one-of-a-kind music studio, KJP, slated to officially open later this month. Ahmad A. Farzad is owner and, along with friend and business partner Steve Stanek, KJP’s head engineer.
The Studio is on Montgomery Highway in the former home of Frames and Fantasies. The space was completely gutted with three digital photography rooms added in the front for Ahmad’s sister Paris Farzad’s photography classes. KJP is housed in the back of the building.
Ahmad and Steve sought input from some of the music industry’s most respected producers to create a studio that would allow the best sound quality.
“Everything in here is mathematically and scientifically correct,” Ahmad said. “Everything was thought out. We weren’t just building a studio. This was designed with an artistic approach.”
Although music has always been Ahmad’s passion – he’s played in bands since he was 15 – it wasn’t always his career path.
After graduating from Vestavia Hills High School, he attended the University of Alabama for two years. During that time, four of his friends died.
“That’s when I realized I wasn’t doing what I wanted,” he said. “It seemed right that I pursue my passion. I applied to Berklee and got my degree in music business management.”
Ahmad graduated from the Berklee School of music with a degree in music business management. He worked in the music industry in New York City as a producer, learning from some of the best. He met Steve, who also was passionate about music but wasn’t in the business at the time.
Originally from Chicago, Steve wasn’t sure about moving to Alabama. But the idea of working with Ahmad and opening the recording studio quickly cast out any of his doubts.
“It’s a really special studio,” Steve said. “It took like three months and a couple Excel sheets just to get the wiring worked out, and I feel like we’ve really got a place that artists can pour their soul into.”
What they ended up with is a studio that allows for the best live sound, the business partners said.
The door leading into the recording studio is vacuum sealed and covered with Ceeulose fiber, as are the ceilings. The fiber, made from a mixture of newspaper and glue, is used to soundproof the space.
The studio has two major rooms: the live room, where performances take place, and the control room, where the recording and “critical audio decisions are made,” Ahmad said.
“We do the recording in one room, and then we have the control room,” Ahmad said. “We knew it had to be super honest. It’s got great sound. This is really art going on in here. Chances are, the room helps you sound better.”
The speakers in the recording studio are custom-built and enclosed in concrete weighing about 350 pounds.
Through Ahmad and Steve’s relationship with Black Lion Audio, a company that specializes in audio equipment and design for some of the industry’s top producers, they were able to have a specific set of converters custom-built that only KJP and three of the music industry top producers own.
“They sound wildly impressive and are incredibly rare,” Ahmad said. “Our set is extra specialized which makes it stand alone among its three other brother/sister units. Black Lion Audio are capturing the ears and hearts of users in every facet of the music industry.”
Steve and Ahmad wanted the studio not only to produce the best sound quality but also to be comfortable. The concrete floors are covered with Oriental rugs, and there’s even a couch and sitting area in the recording room.
Ahmad and Steve said they’re open to just about anybody recording in their studio, from serious performers to those who just want to have a little fun.
Although The Studio hasn’t officially opened, Ahmad said they are booking up fast, and he’s excited about what’s in store for them.
“This is just really one of the most exciting times in my life,” Ahmad said. “Every day is a blessing.”
not promoting Katy at all, just neat how the letters rendered 😛
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shamelessly promoting my etsy shop because i'm extremely broke.
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Promoting a new podcast App for BBC Radio this vibrant orange livery on Volvo B5TL / Wright Gemini 3, number 417 (BN64 CRX) has a very catchy colour and I wonder if anyone thought how good an idea it would be to have the main BBC radio stations playing (in the upper saloon only of course!).
Naturally, it would need to be balanced and there could be a station change every fifteen minutes....so Radio 1 for the first quarter, Radio 2 for the second, Radio 3 for the third quarter and the spoken word on Radio 4 for the last quarter. Somehow though I'm not too sure if residents living in Dalkeith would want a Beethoven piano concerto suddenly switching to a discussion on Brexit after a hard day at work!!
It's been done before of course, way back in 1975.
Considering I've been to Birmingham many times I'd never been in the Ikon Gallery which is particularly surprising as I'm a bit partial to Contemporary Art (the good stuff anyway......). This sign just inside the entrance caught my eye for the mix of materials.
More Birmingham shots here : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/sets/72157641857775864
From Wikipedia : "The Ikon Gallery (grid reference SP060866) is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. The gallery's current director is Jonathan Watkins.
Ikon was set up to encourage the public to engage in contemporary art. As a result of this, the gallery runs an off-site 'Education and Interpretation' scheme that educates audiences, promotes artists and their art. The gallery is open every day of the week except Mondays, though it opens on bank holiday Mondays.
Featured artworks include all forms of media including sound, sculpture and photography as well as paintings. Exhibitions rotate throughout the year so that as many pieces can be displayed as possible. Ikon is a registered charity which is partly funded by Birmingham City Council and Arts Council of England."
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Promoting “The Magic of Christmas in Nottingham” in an all over black advertising livery is Nottingham City Transport 908 (YT61 GOU) working Route 17 standing outside Royal Centre, Nottingham, 15th November 2018. YT61 GOU is a Scania N230UD chassis fitted with an Optare H51/35F body, part of a batch of thirty two vehicles delivered in 2011
A painted rock promoting the recently held Catch the Ace - Beyond 21 lottery in Williamstown, Ontario, Canada.
Beyond 21 is a community based learning centre for adults with developmental disabilities.
Catch the Ace was a recent fund-raising drive, where the winner keeps 50% of the total money raised via raffle tickets, and the other 50% goes towards funding adults with developmental disabilities at The Hub for Beyond 21 Foundation, Cornwall, ON.
This rock, at the intersection of Glen Rd. and County Rd. 27 in Williamstown, is used to promote or advertise various events throughout the year. It is clearly an effective, low-cost method of doing so. Just using Google Street View, one can see it wishing 60th happy birthday to a woman named Karen, and also, viewed from another angle, a tribute to Canada's renowned Terry Fox (Terry Fox rocks).
Dagupan Bus Co. Inc.- 1220
Bus No: 1220
Year released: 2012
Capacity: 53; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao/Kamias-Bolinao/Alaminos via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac/Sta. Ignacia/Camiling/San Clemente/Mangatarem/Aguilar/Socony/Sual
Body: Santarosa Motorworks Inc.
Model: 2012 SR-Cityliner ORD RE Series
Chassis: Daewoo BS106
Engine: Daewoo DE08TiS-BA
Fare: Airconditioned
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Leaf-Spring Suspension
Taken on: September 17, 2016
Location: McArthur Highway, Brgy. San Miguel, Tarlac City, Tarlac
" Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance " !
Alternative ~
"Proper Planning / Practice Prevents Painfully Poor Performance" !
The Boat, The ‘MST Rescue 1000’ Was Brought Into Service in 2008 ! Capable Of Speeds In Excess Of 40 Knots, the Boat Is 10.5 Meters In Length and Is Powered By Twin 370 hp Diesel Engines ! The Boat Is Kept Permanently On The Water and Is Continually Manned !
The Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (Marine Unit) Practice Every Day ~
My Practice Was ' Panning ' ~ Ideal For ' BIF ' Shots !
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Under a leaden sky, typical for a bank holiday, DB Cargo Class 67 No. 67024 approaches Rugeley Trent Valley at the head of a Retro Railtours 'Footex', 1Z45 0722 Huddersfield - Wembley Central on 29th May 2017. Despite the gloomy conditions, the day turned out well for the Huddersfield Town supporters on board as their team won promotion from the Championship to the Premier League by beating Reading at Wembley 4-3 on penalties, after the game ended scoreless after extra time. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
promoted to Baguio...
Bus No: 1253
Year released: 2007
Capacity: 45; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao/Caloocan-Baguio via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac/Paniqui/Carmen/Urdaneta
Body: Hyundai Motors Korea
Model: 2007 Hyundai Universe Space Classic
Engine: Hyundai D6AB
Fare: Airconditioned
Aircon System: Hyundai overhead a/c
Transmission System: M/T
Plate No.: CXF-766
Taken on: August 9, 2011
Location: Mabalacat Bus Terminal, Brgy. Dau, Mabalacat, Pampanga
Promote the dog walking service, she said. It'll be subtle, she added.
Hand-held. AF. Two frames.
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Dagupan Bus Co. Inc.- 8422
Bus No: 8422
Year released: 2014
Capacity: 45; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao/Kamias-Bolinao/Alaminos via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac City/Sta. Ignacia/Camiling/San Clemente/Mangatarem/Aguilar/Socony/Sual/Labrador
Body: Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co. Ltd.
Model: 2014 Golden Dragon XML6103 Series ("Snowfox Edition") Non-Aircon Variant
Chassis: Golden Dragon XML6103J92
Engine: Yuchai YC6G270-20
Fare: Airconditioned
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Leaf-Spring Suspension
Taken on: January 17, 2017
Location: Romulo Highway, Brgy. Malacampa, Camiling, Tarlac
Dublin Bus (Summerhill) VG34 swings off O'Connell Street onto Cathal Brugha Street operatng the Route 747 Airlink service to Dublin Airport.
VG34 was previously a Standard VG in Summerhll largely on anything but the Airlink,but traffic increases in Dublin Airport have seen 34 & VG35 promoted to the Airlink.
Photo Taken June 2015.
Title: Float promoting Gosford rail electrification, view of Gosford side
Dated: 22/01/1960
Digital ID: NRS21573_2_PR003383_c
Series: NRS 21573 Glass plate and acetate negatives with ‘PR’ [Public Relations] prefix [State Rail]
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Promoting Druze villages in Galilee, Israel at the IMTM in Tel Aviv today.
"IMTM is the largest annual professional tourism fair of its kind in the Eastern Mediterranean and like other international tourism fairs, it serves to promote incoming tourism, domestic tourism and outgoing tourism, as well as to strengthen cooperation among tourism bodies in Israel and elsewhere in the world."
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Twinned with Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
A site blessed by nature
A special destiny has permitted a town with origins that reach far into the past to exploit all the resources of a site blessed by nature, knowing how to seize opportunities and how to survive through the centuries while remaining always of its own time.
A lock town at the exit from a lake on a road crossing the great routes from Italy to Geneva, its site puts in contact with two zones: the pre-Alpine mountains of the Bornes and the Bauges on one side and the plain with the Albanais district on the other.
Its site is particularly blessed with the lake which has become its symbol, the Thiou, a former industrial route that has become a tourist attraction, the huge Semnoz forest which has remained wild, the spacious Fins plain well-suited to unlimited urban development, and finally the sloping border of Annecy-le-Vieux, the pleasant beginning of the northern landscape.
As for its history, the nearness of Geneva was to be the cause of successive rises in status as the town became in succession capital of Geneva county when the Counts chased from that city settled there in the 13th century, then a bishopric after the triumph of Calvinism in the 16th century.
Promoted in the 15th century to capital of an attached territory of the House of Savoie, it was to experience a radical transformation at the beginning of the 19th century by becoming an active industrial centre, a role which grew stronger in the 20th century without slowing the growth of tourism.
3100 years before Jesus Christ : a village on the shore-line
Annecy is probably one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Northern Alps. In fact, the recent digs carried out by the Department of Sub-Aquatic and Sub-marine Archaeological research, set up in Annecy, have allowed us to date the lakeside village which has been identified off the bank at Annecy-le-Vieux at 3,100 years before Christ.
The station known as “the Port” located near the Swan Island ; could be used to fix the date at 2,500 years before Christ.
Boutae in the Gallo-roman period
The Gallo-romain period started about years before our own and saw the rapid emergence of a “village” of about 2,000 people given the name Boutae whose expansion into a town on the Fins plain let enough remains to let us know the precise location of the Forum, Temple, Thermal baths (to be seen at 36 avenue des Romains), and of the theatre, the final element which could be restored.
The triangular shape of this town shows the importance of the traffic routes converging on this crossroads: points leading to Faverges (Casuaria), Aix Les Bains (Aquae) and Geneva.
After the dispersal of the inhabitants of Boutae in the 6th century, a new stage was begun from the 12th century with the progressive occupation of the banks of the Thiou at the lake mouth, an advantageous position controlling a vital part of the great north-south axis, crossing the river at the level of the island which was very quickly converted into a stronghold.
The medieval town
From that moment the medieval town began to be built on both sides of the Thiou protected by the fortifications which would become the castle. This was the beginning of “New Annecy” which is mentioned in a text of 1107.
The growing township was given an unexpected boost when it became the residence of the Count of Geneva when he was chased out of his capital after disputes with the Bishops.
Annecy becomes Savoyarde
This event triggered the building of the castle which became the prince’s residence until the extinction of the Geneva family in 1394 when the last member, Robert of Geneva, who had become anti-Pope at Avignon under the name of Clement VII, died. A few years later, in 1401, Annecy became Savoyarde with the absorption of the County of Geneva into the Savoyard state under its most prestigious ruler, Amadeus VIII, the first Duke of Savoie.
The former capital of the Geneva district, having lost its title, went through a period of sharp decline caused by a series of terrible fires which destroyed the greater part of the town in 1412 and then again in 1448. Amadeus VIII, realising the seriousness of the situation, took action to help the city to rise from its own ruins, undertaking reconstruction of the castle and the town.
He then completed these signs of regard for the town by creating an attached territory of Geneva for his son Philippe in 1444. And so Annecy rose from the ashes and regained its title of capital of a county including the districts of Geneva, Faucigny and Beaufort.
This brilliant dynasty of princes formed matrimonial connections with the royal family of France and received from Francis I the Duchy of Nemours (near Fontainebleau), conferring on these new princes the title of Dukes of Geneva-Nemours.
Annecy as a bishopric
This period left a permanent mark on the history of Annecy, when it became a bishopric after the Bishop of Geneva decided to leave the town after the Protestant Reformation in 1535. He was followed by several religious communities who further reinforced Annecy’s importance as a religious centre, which was such that some historians called it “The Rome of Savoie”.
From this period Annecy has preserved some beautiful buildings which permanently enriched its heritage: the Nemours Lodge, St Peter’s Cathedral, the Lambert House, the Note Dame de Liesse bell-tower. If we add to this the glorious history of the episcopate of St François de Sales, the opening of the Chappuisian College, and the creation of the Florimontane Academy, we can speak without doubt of a golden age for our town.
The occupation of Savoie by the French Revolutionary Army (1792) shook the town even though we notice a decline in religious fervour from the beginning of the 18th century.
An industrial destiny
Now open to new ideas, the town experienced a transformation for industrial uses of the sites vacated by the clergy, which was a considerable economic boost. Factories of all sorts were started, powered by hydraulic force from the Thiou.
It was a also a revolutionary vision which inspired the town plan drawn up by Thomas-Dominique Ruphy in 1794 in which a wide rectilinear road on the main traffic routes was designed to divert circulation from the historic town centre.
During the period of Sardinian rule (1815-1860), the industrial destiny of the town was confirmed by the plan for hydro-electric power carried out at the end of the century.
But from the middle of the century, the new sensibility concerning Alpine sites opened the region to the fashion for tourism attracting ever-growing numbers of visitors to our lake.