View allAll Photos Tagged Refinance
Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 reverses back into Statfold Junction station whilst running round its train ready for another departure, 5th April 2025.
Locomotive History
No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.
Original model (bottom) from 2:1 rectangle, next one from 4:1 and top one from 8:1.
All rectangles 52 cm length and 4 iterations hex grid.
Place: Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风M3 (jiānghuái ruìfēng M3)
Year of launch: 2014
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
The Refine MPV range currently consists of the Refine M1 (similar to the old Starex), Refine M2 (previously Hojoy RS), Refine M3, Refine M4 (based on the old Starex, but with new body) and M5.
Taken at Great dixter gardens in Sussex
One of the most familiar insects in the world is the Honeybee. This member of the insect order Hymenoptera plays a key role in the human and natural world. More has been written about honeybees than any other species of insect. The human fascination with this insect began thousands of years ago when people discovered what wonderfully tasty stuff honey is!
Honey is a thick liquid produced by certain types of bees from the nectar of flowers. While many species of insects consume nectar, honeybees refine and concentrate nectar to make honey. Indeed, they make lots of honey so they will have plenty of food for times when flower nectar is unavailable, such as winter. Unlike most insects, honeybees remain active through the winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death. Early humans probably watched bears and other mammals raid bee hives for honey and then tried it themselves. Once people found out what honey was, next they had to learn how to get it from the bees safely!
Honeybees have a bright color pattern to warn potential predators (or honey thieves!) that they have a weapon to defend themselves. Their weapon is a modified ovipositor (egg-laying tube). This is combined with a venom gland to create a stinger (formally known as an aculeus) located at the end of the abdomen. Because the stinger is modified from a structure found only in females, male bees cannot sting. When the hive is threatened, honeybees will swarm out and attack with their stingers to drive the enemy away.
Honeybees, like most insects, look at the world through compound eyes. These are made of hundreds of small simple eyes called ommatidia. The images received by all the ommatidia are put together in the insect's brain to give it a very different way of seeing the world. To see the world the way a bee does, check out Andrew Giger's B-Eye web site in the links section.
Honeybees are social insects. In the wild, they create elaborate nests called hives containing up to 20,000 individuals during the summer months. (Domestic hives may have over 80,000 bees.) They work together in a highly structured social order. Each bee belongs to one of three specialized groups called castes. The different castes are: queens, drones and workers.
There is only one queen in a hive and her main purpose in life is to make more bees. She can lay over 1,500 eggs per day and will usually live less than two years, although there are a few records of queens living longer than that. She is larger (up to 20mm) and has a longer abdomen than the workers or drones. She has chewing mouthparts. Her stinger is curved with no barbs on it and she can use it many times.
Drones, since they are males, have no stinger. They live about eight weeks. Only a few hundred - at most - are ever present in the hive. Their sole function is to mate with a new queen, if one is produced in a given year. A drone's eyes are noticeably bigger than those of the other castes. This helps them to spot the queens when they are on their nuptial flight. Any drones left at the end of the season are considered non-essential and will be driven out of the hive to die.
Worker bees do all the different tasks needed to maintain and operate the hive. They make up the vast majority of the hive's occupants and they are all sterile females. When young, they are called house bees and work in the hive doing comb construction, brood rearing, tending the queen and drones, cleaning, temperature regulation and defending the hive. Older workers are called field bees. They forage outside the hive to gather nectar, pollen, water and certain sticky plant resins used in hive construction. Workers born early in the season will live about 6 weeks while those born in the fall will live until the following spring. Workers are about 12 mm long and highly specialized for what they do, with a structure called a pollen basket (or corbiculum) on each hind leg, an extra stomach for storing and transporting nectar or honey and four pairs of special glands that secrete beeswax on the underside of their abdomen. They have a straight, barbed stinger which can only be used once. It rips out of their abdomen after use, which kills the bee.
If you want to see a 3-D model of a worker bee click on the picture. - NOTE: This is a 1.3 meg file! - (Save the animation to your hard drive [right click, save target as, etc.] to watch later. That way you can do other stuff while it is downloading.) Note the flattened area on the hind leg - this is where the pollen basket is located.
If you want to see more 3D insects, visit the
web site of Alexei Sharov.
The 3-D bee is best viewed with Quicktime Player.
Click here QT logo.jpg (2689 bytes) if you don't already have it.
3DB!
Close-up view of the honeycomb
Photo by P.O. Gustafson
(see links below)
The central feature of the bee hive is the honeycomb. This marvel of insect engineering consists of flat vertical panels of six-sided cells made of beeswax. Beeswax is produced from glands on the underside of the abdomens of worker bees when they are between 12 and 15 days old. House bees take the beeswax and form it with their mouths into the honeycomb. The cells within the comb are used to raise young and to store honey and pollen.
The comb is two-sided, with cells on both sides. As you can see, the cells are perfectly uniform in shape. Not only that, but the combs are built a precise distance apart depending on whether they are meant to contain food or young bees. The nursery area of the hive is called the brood comb, and that is where the queen lays her eggs.
Flower nectar is one of two food sources used by honeybees. The other is pollen. Both are gathered by the field bees as they fly about on their daily foraging flights.
Honeybees are important pollinators
As the field bees forage for nectar, pollen sticks to the fuzzy hairs which cover their bodies. Some of this pollen rubs off on the next flower they visit, fertilizing the flower and resulting in better fruit production. Some plants will not produce fruit at all without the help of honeybees. In the United States alone, it is estimated that honeybees accomplish 1/4 of the pollination needed for all fruit produced for human consumption - an estimated $10 billion worth of work each year!
The field bees stop periodically to groom themselves and collect the pollen onto their pollen baskets. They remove this load from their legs when they return to the hive and the house bees store it in a special part of the comb. The pollen provides protein and other essential nutrients for the bees.
Honeybee loaded with pollen
Photo by P.O Gustafson
(see links below)
There are four different species of honeybee in the world:
The Little Honeybee (Apis florea) - native to southeast Asia
The Eastern Honeybee (Apis cerana) - native to eastern Asia as far north as Korea & Japan
The Giant Honeybee (Apis dorsata) - native to southeast Asia
The Western Honeybee (Apis mellifera) - native to Europe, Africa and western Asia
Cave paintings in Europe indicate that early peoples were harvesting honey 8,000 years ago. The next step in human/honeybee relations came when people started keeping bees in man-made structures rather than just going out and searching for wild hives. The ancient Egyptians were beekeepers and their methods were copied throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. They used the Western Honeybee, and that is the most widely used species today. The Eastern Honeybee was also domesticated long ago in China. The other two species of honeybee do not nest in cavities and so were not suited to being put into hives. The subject of beekeeping is beyond the scope of this web page. For more information, see the links below.
Top of page
What are "Killer" Bees?
More properly called Africanized Honeybees, these come from a subspecies of honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata) released accidentally in Brazil in 1957. They were imported from South Africa by a researcher who was attempting to produce a variety of honeybee better adapted to the tropics than the European Honeybee.
Unfortunately, Africanized Honeybees not only produce honey better in hot climates, but they are also much more aggressive at defending the nest. Many people have been killed by mass stinging resulting from getting too close to a nest of Africanized honeybees. The escaped bees did well in the wild and began reproducing and expanding their range across South America into Central America and Mexico. They were recorded in Texas in October 1990, California in November 1994 and Oklahoma in 2004. Since they are adapted for tropical conditions, they may not expand their range beyond the southern part of the U.S., but that remains to be seen. They can tolerate up to 3 1/2 months of freezing weather.
Distribution of Africanized Honeybees in the U.S.
1990-2011.
Distribution of Africanized honeybees in the U.S.
Graphic from the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center.
Visit their web site to learn more about Africanized Bees!
WHAT IS COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER?
Colony collapse disorder (or CCD for short) refers to a mysterious malady affecting domestic honeybees that causes them to leave the hive and not return, leading ultimately to death of the colony.
First noticed in late 2006 in North America, CCD has been the focus of much research to try to determine what is causing it. Pathogens, parasites, environmental toxins and even cell phone transmissions have been the subject of investigation.
As of this writing (November 2007) the one factor that has been identified as being uniquely associated with CCD is a virus known as Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV). It is not proven yet that IAPV is the sole cause of CCD, but it is found in nearly all hives affected by CCD. A possible scenario is that CCD is triggered by various stress factors in bees infected with IAPV. Research is currently underway to test this hypothesis.
For more information on CCD, see the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium website.
www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/ColonyCollapseDisorder.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BEES:
An excellent source of more information on honeybees and other bees is the:
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona
Texas A&M University also has a lot of honeybee information.
Visit that web site
Albert Needham has a very comprehensive site on bees and beekeeping at:
Bees Online
P. O. Gustafson is a beekeeper in Sweden who took the honeybee photos used on this page.
Visit his web site
Dave Green has lots of information on beekeeping, bees and other pollinating insects at:
Pollinator.com
Visit the PBS web site for the NOVA television program on honeybees.
Tales From the Hive
The National Center for Appropriate Technology has a detailed reference on native North American bees available for purchase at the:
NCAT web site
Billy says this is a cool link! Take a Honeybee Trivia Quiz!
OTHER TYPES OF BEES
There are over 25,000 kinds of bees in the world.
About 3,500 different species are known from North America alone!
Some of the more noticeable types are listed below.
Bumble Bees!
Bumblebee on zinnia
Bumblebee visiting a Zinnia flower
There are about 50 different types of Bumblebees (Bombus sp.) in North America. Much larger than other bees, some species are over an inch long. They are densely covered with yellow and black
(and sometimes red) bands of hairs.
The long mouthparts of bumblebees allow them to gather nectar from flowers that have their nectaries buried deep within the petals, such as red clover.
They are social nesters, although their society is not as highly ordered as that of honeybees. In contrast to honeybees, nests are made anew each spring by solitary queens who hibernate through the winter.
The large bumblebees seen in the spring are queens looking for food and a place to start a new colony.
They will often take over an abandoned field mouse nest for their own. Laura Smith has posted a lot of information about bumblebees at her web site.
Another good site for bumblebee information is maintained by the Xerces Society.
Carpenter Bees!
Carpenter bees resemble Bumblebees, but they may be recognized by their dark, shiny (hairless) abdomen. The common North American species east of the Rocky Mountains is Xylocopa virginica.
They are solitary nesters and make their nest by chewing tunnels into wood. Often people will notice them burrowing into the rafters of barns or outbuildings.
On a quiet day you can hear the bee at work as she chews her way into the wood with her strong mandibles. The hole is 1/2 inch in diameter and goes straight in about 2 inches before branching at right angles into the brood chambers.
The males are sometimes encountered patrolling near a nest in a distinctive bobbing flight. This can lead to some anxious moments if you are suddenly confronted with a large hovering bee only a few feet in front of you!
The bee is looking for a mate, however, not a fight, and since it is a male it cannot sting you anyway! Male carpenter bees have a white face. Learn more about Carpenter Bees from University of Kentucky Entomology.
Sweat Bees!
This family of small, often metallic-colored bees has about 500 species in North America. They are primarily solitary nesters, but some show a degree of social behavior. Only a few species in the genus Lasioglossum are attracted to sweat.
They are just after water and do not want to sting, but they will if you purposely or accidentally squeeze them. Their food consists of the normal bee diet of pollen and nectar. They typically dig a vertical burrow in the ground with side chambers for the eggs.
Leaf-cutting Bees!
Leaf-cutter bees (Megachile sp.) are a type of bee which has the interesting trait of chewing little circles out of leaves or flower petals and using these to construct small, thimble-shaped nests in a dry, protected location.
They are typically dark in color with bands of whitish hairs running across the abdomen and range in size from 5 - 25 mm. There are 130 species in North America. Both leaf cutters and mason bees (see below) are superior pollinators compared to honeybees.
One leafcutter bee will do the same amount of pollination as 20 honey bees!
To learn more, read what the USDA Agricultural Research Service has to say about the Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee.
Mason Bees!
Mason bees (Osmia sp.) typically use the abandoned tunnels of wood-boring beetles for their nest. These small bees are not social. Mason bees mate immediately after hatching in the spring.
The female then searches for an appropriate hole or crevice to build her nest. After preparing a brood chamber, she gathers pollen and nectar until she has enough to feed a larva to adulthood.
Then she lays an egg and closes the chamber with mud. She repeats the process until the tunnel is completely filled and caps the tunnel with an extra-thick plug of mud. She will repeat this process until she dies in early summer.
The mature larvae pupate and overwinter in their nursery cells. Mason bees are closely related to the Leaf-cutting bees.
To gather pollen, they both use a brush of hairs on the underside of the abdomen (called a scopa) instead of pollen baskets on their legs.
There are 140 species in North America. You can find out more about Mason Bees from the North Carolina Extension service and the Wikipedia entry for the species..
Link-
Place: Zhaoxing, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风M4 (jiānghuái ruìfēng M4)
Year of launch: 2016
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
The Refine MPV range currently consists of the Refine M1 (similar to the old Starex), Refine M2 (previously Hojoy RS), Refine M3, Refine M4 (based on the old Starex, but with new body) and M5.
Just another shot and a different angle of this great location that never gets old. The perfect model railroad-esque industrial scene!
Housatonic Railroad train NX-12 consisted of leased GMTX GP38-2 2328 (blt in Feb 1966 as Illinois Central GP40 number 3011) and HRRC GP7u 22 still wearing Bangor & Aroostook paint despite having passed from BAR, to MMA, before coming to the Housatonic around 2014 in the MMA's bankruptcy asset sale. It was built for the Santa Fe in Feb. 1952 and originally wore black tiger stripes when delivered as #2722.
Specialty Minerals is the current owner of the historic limestone quarries dating to the 1800s on Canaan Mountain where pure calcium is mined. Consolidated as the New England Lime Company in the early 20th century it was owned by Pfizer from 1960 to 1992. To learn more check out this excellent article:
www.nornow.org/2008/01/01/billion-dollar-company-mines-re...
The steep 3/4 mile segment of track uphill from Union Station past to here is among the only surviving remnants of the former Central New England Railway. Opened through here in 1871 as the Connecticut Western Railroad, at its peak it was a 115 mile long railroad extending from Hartford and Springfield and then west across the northern tier of Connecticut into Dutchess County, New York and then down to Poughkeepsie and across the famed bridge to Maybrook and Campbell hall and the myriad rail connections to points south and west. I will not go into much of the convoluted history of the line here, but if you wish to learn more this is a nice concise article I found: mainstreetmag.com/the-railroads-lasting-impact/
Acquired by the New Haven in 1904 almost solely for ownership of the bridge and the mainline down to Maybrook, the rest of the route was abandoned in the 1930s leaving only a few short segments to last into the later 20th century among which this 3/4 mile of the old CNE mainline is the busiest.
Anyway, to learn more about the history of the railroad in general please check out the long form caption with this shot:
North Canaan, Connecticut
Sunday May 30, 2021
pencil on a3
When doing the creative process (developing and refining ideas) I never conceptualize what I do. everything flows according to the thoughts and feelings of the moment, After they become new - they think about the finished image and try to describe the object.
For example, if this picture is not given a narrative it will look brutal, horror and cruel like in DARK ART and I try not to get caught on the side of the art.
"... This depicts a PEREMPUAN (woman) who is able to injure herself for the happiness of her beloved children. She will do everything she can for her love for the family to give life and kindness. In the pandemic season, when life goes downhill to Zero, many men are cut off from work. company. It keeps turning and running and the economy at the lower levels is still moving, moving through the COVID -19 storm. The word "PEREMPUAN" comes from the old Javanese word EMPU which means: sir, noble. Because of my tenderness I also melted, because of weakness I also collapsed. ... "
Sometimes narration is needed for imaging (representation or reproduction of an object form) an image to condition positive or negative and lead opinions for the audience.
----------------------------------------rant 73 Febro.08,2021
A quick microscale build inspired by Moctagon Jone's sweet little Mars Mining Colony. Looking at it now, I realize how much I was inspired by it...
Anyway, it was a fun little build, and it reminded me how long it's been since I built some good ol' microscale :)
Enjoy!
Refining the design of our next 16cm BJD articulations. His/her name will be TRÉBOL, and will be soon available!
---
Perfeccionando el diseño de las articulaciones de nuestra próxima BJD de 16cm. Se llamará TRÉBOL y estará disponible muy pronto!!
Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风M3 (jiānghuái ruìfēng M3)
Year of launch: 2014
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
The Refine MPV range currently consists of the Refine M1 (similar to the old Starex), Refine M2 (previously Hojoy RS), Refine M3, Refine M4 (based on the old Starex, but with new body) and M5.
Today I refinanced my home at almost a full percentage point lower than where I was at. It took a lot of work to get the numbers to crunch, but it was worth it.
It's amazing how many people called me to try and get my business, but I am happy with the company I worked with. The bit of financial weight lifted off my shoulders is a great relief, and hopefully soon I will have the ability to finance my dream- to embrace my passion for building and music to start helping others in this world!
Theme: Devoid Of Color
Year Eleven Of My 365 Project
Refine your vision !
___
Jasa photo produk + editing !
Photography Service 📷
___
Photo by @refinephoto.id
Product : Ultraboost 3.0
Nordic ReFinance ME 1508 1515 and 1537 are also nearby being stored by DSB having come back from Sweden for reasons unknown
Needs a few refining touches, but a pretty good sketch to start developing further. There were no reference photos showing the plane from this exact angle (I didn’t find any, if somebody shows me some close approximation, it’d be greatly appreciated), so a 3-view diagram has helped.
…refining more and more this fascinating alternative print technique, saltprint
8x10 film printed on Berggercot320 paper
Borace gold toned
Place: Foshan, Guangdong Province
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风A60 (jiānghuái ruìfēng A60)
Year of launch: 2014
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
JAC's largest sedan was launched in 2014 as Refine A6, with a front end resembling the Audi A6 indeed... It received a refreshed front end in 2016, before sales finally commenced in December 2016 as Refine A60. JAC sold 2,427 units between December 2016 and July 2017, when it was already discontinued after a highly unsuccessful career. Note that the car I photographed is actually a pre production version with the old front end, making this one of the rarest cars I've seen in China.
Shell Refining Company No. 8 built by Andrew Barclay, Works No.1952 of 1928. gets loaded onto a low loader at Shell Ardrossan to be transported to the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group's site at Minnivey on 17 May 1986. It is now at the Group's Dunaskin site and is operation at some of the steam open days doonvalleyrailway.co.uk
Place: Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风S3 (jiānghuái ruìfēng S3)
Year of launch: 2013
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
JAC's SUV range consists of the S2, S3, S5 and new S7. The S3 was launched in 2013 and was a huge success for the brand, selling almost 200,000 units in both 2015 and 2016. However, demand has dried up and it has faded away so far this year.
Sales figures: carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/jac/jac-refine-s3/
With cloud enveloping Blencathra behind three of the visiting locomotives at Threlkeld stand awaiting duties for the day.
Hudswell Clarke No. 19 of 1914 was built for Colonial Sugar Refining, working at Lautoka Mill in north-western Fiji.
Having travelled the world she now enjoys retirement at Statfold Barn but can regularly be seen visiting other railways.
Behind are Quarry Hunslet pair 'Irish Mail' and 'Statfold'
It's such nice place to walk around', it's a little place but full of history.
that evening there was also a performance of classical music and tango dancers, i will upload that for you in the next days
Comacchio is a town and comune of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, 48 km from the provincial capital Ferrara.
Comacchio is situated in a lagoon just north of the present mouth of the Reno. It is built on more than thirteen different islets, joined by bridges. The most important wealths of these wetlands are the fish farming and the salt ponds. The seaport of Porto Garibaldi lies 7 km to the east. The wetlands south of the town, the Valli di Comacchio, are classified as a Site of Community Importance and a Special Protection Area in Italy.[1] They are also rated internationally important by the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands.
After its early occupation by the Etruscans and the Gauls, Comacchio was annexed by Rome. Under Emperor Augustus, who ruled Rome from 27 BCE to 14 CE, a canal was dug to deepen its lagoon.
Comacchio enjoyed prosperity under the Goths and the Lombards, and became the seat of a duchy. When the Franks descended into northern Italy in 756, their king, Pepin the Short, included Comacchio in his famous donation of land to Pope Stephen II, a grant later confirmed by Pepin's son and successor, Charlemagne. In 854 Comacchio was sacked by the Venetians, who destroyed it in 946. The Holy See later acquired the city and presented it to the archbishopric of Ravenna.
In the 13th century, Emperor Rudolph I conferred it on Obizzo IV d'Este of Ferrara. In 1508 it became Venetian, but in 1597 was claimed by Clement VIII as a vacant fief. In 1598 the Papal States again acquired Comacchio and retained it until 1866 when it became a part of the Kingdom of Italy.
Since then, most of the swamp land has disappeared, leaving ground for the expansion of agriculture, and creating new zones for dwellings. Comacchio was once home to a factory for sugar refining, which closed in 1988.
Still refining the frame using the Mixel/Chima joints. This version has double jointed knees and elbows. 100% legal, 100% purist, 100% Batman
The Atlantic Refining Company, Incorporated in 1870 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (ABNCo)
Number M05188
Shares: 10
Dated: Feb 25 1966
American Bank Note Company
The following is an account of Lake Hart published in 1947 -
Although for long it has been deserted, Lake Hart, on the lonely mulga plains, has Australia's Prize Salt Deposit.
Standing beside the transcontinental railway, 137 miles [219 kilometres] from Port Augusta, is a 7,000 tons dump of the best quality salt in Australia. Behind it, stretching far northwards, is Lake Hart, the place from which the salt was taken.
In 1931 this was the scene of a thriving industry. Today, it is forgotten in its isolation amid the mulga plains of the north-west. Lake Hart's importance as a salt deposit first became manifest in 1918 when surveyors investigated its entire area. They estimated the yield as three million tons, and defined the lake's area as 61 square miles.
Following these observations, the Sydney firm which owned the deposit - the Commonwealth Salt Refining Company - began preliminary operations with a few men.
Small quantities of salt were harvested and bagged for testing purposes. At this stage no refining plant had been installed, and the salt was sent to Adelaide for refining. The finished product proved so successful that the CSRC immediately launched large-scale operations. They installed a refining plant, and employed more than 50 men. The employees camped at the site and depended for their stores on the Commonwealth Railway's weekly food train.
Salt was harvested by day and refined continuously by shift workers.
Harvesting methods then were slow and cumbersome compared with present day methods. Sweepers first swept the water forward to the elevated catchment pens, each of which was 300 ft long by 150 ft wide.
When the salt had been deposited on the floor, the water was allowed to flow back into the lake, leaving the salt banked in and around the pens. The salt was then swept up and loaded into carrying carts, which were towed to the nearby refining plant.
Driving power for the plant was supplied by a gas producer engine. At first a Crossley type of 35 hp was used, but as production accelerated, a large Hornsby engine of 50 hp was added. These two engines may still be seen among the skeleton plant which remains at the lake.
The first phase of the salt's refining began when it entered the crushers. For Lake Hart salt, this was a very thorough process, due to the crude product's unusual hardness.
From the crushers it was carried into the washing troughs. Here it was scoured free of all foreign matter and, after a series of swillings was passed into the dehydrator.
When this machine had evaporated all water from the now whitened grain, the salt entered its final process - the drying oven.
This machine dried out all moisture and at the same time killed any remaining germ life, before discharging the finished product.
Such refineries were, of course, greatly inferior to present day establishments, such as those on Yorke Peninsula. Here, the sea water itself passes through several evaporation condensers before the salt is extricated for a complicated refining. But with Lake Hart's pure quality salt extensive refining was not necessary.
Few facilities existed to enable workers to negotiate the obstacles of outback industrial settlement. One employee crossed the lake in a flat-bottomed boat to ascertain the salt content on the opposite shore. He sailed across, but had to row 15 miles on the return trip. Today, people of the north-west give him the honour of being Lake Hart's conqueror.
Extreme difficulty was experienced from the late summer downpours which are prevalent in this area. During these storms the lake often became flooded, rendering harvesting impossible. However, the company had prepared for such emergencies. Huge reserve dumps had been heaped in readiness, and refining was not hampered.
For several years Lake Hart yielded 9,000 tons annually. Most of the salt was shipped to Sydney, where it was distributed for edible and industrial uses.
Commercial users throughout Australia were elated with the quality. Housewives discovered that, in actual saltiness, the Lake Hart product was twice as strong as any other.
The biggest asset that the salt had was its freedom from gypsum. This was, and still is, a very rare credential. All other main Australian sources are handicapped by gypsum content, which not only reduces quality, but enforces excessive work and cost during the refining process.
In 1921 the company amalgamated with the Australian Salt Company. The firm experienced great difficulties in obtaining water for refining purposes, its only supplies coming from occasional supply trains. Further, the isolated position created problems in the delivery of the refined product. These difficulties were the chief reasons for the cessation of harvesting in 1931.
Yorke Peninsula refineries were supplying more than enough salt for the State's use, and, although the quality was greatly inferior to that of Lake Hart, it was considered unpayable to continue work on the lake. To Australia, its closing meant a decrease in the quality of salt in use: but the quantity remains plentiful.
Salt is in enormous surplus, not only in Australia, but throughout the world. Our own refinery at Price on Yorke Peninsula, for instance, can supply enough salt in six months to last South Australia for five years.
Ever since closing the Lake Hart plant, the Australian Salt Company has employed a caretaker on the premises. The present caretaker has held his lonely job for seven years. His duties are simple. He records the rise and fall of the lake, and is responsible for the maintenance of the depleted plant.
Much of the plant was removed soon after the work ceased, but the catchment pens, crushers and engines remain in readiness for a reopening of the industry.
Last year it was intended to restart the enterprise, but fate ruled otherwise. Heavy rain swelled the lake to such an extent that plans had to be temporarily abandoned.
There is little opportunity for anyone to see Lake Hart. Train tourists can, but as both the East and West bound expresses pass this locality during the night, few see what is Australia's prize salt deposit.
Ref: Advertiser (Adelaide) 6-9-1947 Article by W J Watkins
Place: Liping, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风S5 (jiānghuái ruìfēng S5)
Year of launch: 2012
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
The Refine MPV range currently consists of the Refine M1 (similar to the old Starex), Refine M2 (previously Hojoy RS), Refine M3, Refine M4 (based on the old Starex, but with new body) and M5.
JAC's SUV range consists of the S2, S3, S5 and new S7. The S5, a copy of the Hyundai ix35/Tucson, succeeded the JAC Rein based on the first generation Santa Fe.
Refine your vision !
___
Jasa photo produk + editing !
Photography Service 📷
___
Photo by @refinephoto.id
Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Chinese name: 江淮和悦RS (jiānghuái héyuè RS)
Year of launch: 2009
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched successors have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
JAC's MPV range consists of the Refine M2, its new successor R2, M3, M4, M5 and M6.
Sales figures: carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/jac/jac-j6-heyue-rs/
10" ISO 250 F13
a photo like this may not be possible soon as the train line will be raised to remove the level crossing at K creek rd...(saw the workers there tonight (early Sept)..
Some refining or industrial plant in Wilmington, CA. Taken from the Anaheim Street bridge near the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.
Moments after taking this picture, from a bridge on a major public street, a rent-a-cop from one of the nearby industrial properties repeatedly drove up in his white pickup truck and harassed me, claiming that I could not take photos there and was breaking the law. He claimed there was some sort of federal law, which there isn't. I was shooting from the sidewalk and was perfectly within my rights, but it was clear the security guard either didn't know the law or didn't care.
How do I know I was completely within my rights? Because Thomas Hawk had a much less pleasant experience in exactly the same spot almost exactly to the day 6 years prior. thomashawk.com/2008/12/long-beach-harbor-patrol-says-phot... That's actually why I was there, because I saw that Thomas had taken some cool photos around my hometown of Long Beach. www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3150488843/
Eventually, as I was walking back to my car after 30 or so minutes on the bridge, two uniformed officers from the Long Beach Harbor Patrol rolled up and asked to speak to me, having said the security guard had called them. They were quite polite, and unlike the bullying security guard, they thankfully didn't try to argue that I was breaking the law. Instead, they said they were required to investigate when someone calls the police about a potentially suspicious person.
While they were nice about it, it seemed clear to me they were trying to ascertain who I was and if I was up to no good. I gave the cops my name and let them know I was just a hobbyist photographer visiting from D.C. When they asked for my drivers license after a few minutes of polite yet probing conversation, I instead asked whether I was free to go. They said yes, so I declined to give them my ID and bid them adieu.
It wasn't too long ago that the harbor police treated photographers as if they were criminals, rather than as citizens exercising their rights. I'm glad to see that they seem to be educated much better now about the public's rights. At the end of the day, while the rent-a-cop was unnecessarily obnoxious, both he and the police were just doing their jobs. It seems they may have found a reasonable balance between respecting photographer's rights and keeping the public safe from shady folks lurking around sensitive facilities. At the least, much better than when Thomas was there in 2008.
Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风 (jiānghuái ruìfēng)
Year of launch: ?
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
Coming soon! (Hopefully :-P)
Still refining the type. Still adding some extra characters, but it's getting there :-)
PS to everyone: I stated before (I think I removed that part of the text in the previous photo) the fact that I moved to Portland for a job and am currently finding myself having a hard time keeping up to date with my contacts (and adding the rest of those who've added me) due to the workload given. This typeface was actually a work in progress that made its way into some of the stuff I was working on at the job. Once mid August hits the fan, I'll be lurking through your photos to see what you guys have been up to! :-)
The interactions among water, energy and food are numerous and substantial. Water is used for extraction, mining, processing, refining, and residue disposal of fossil fuels, as well as for growing feedstock for biofuels and for generating electricity.[4] Water intensity varies in the energy sector, with oil and gas production requiring much less water than oil from tar sands or biofuels. Choosing biofuels for energy production should require a careful balancing of priorities, since water that has been used to grow feedstock for biofuels could also have been used to grow food.
Many forms of energy production through fossil fuels are highly polluting in addition to being water intensive, especially extraction from tar sands and shale and extraction through hydraulic fracturing. Further, return flows from power plants to rivers are warmer than the water that was taken in and/or are highly polluted and can consequently compromise other downstream usage, including ecosystems. Conversely, energy is needed for extracting, transporting, distributing and treating water. Energy intensity for accessing a cubic meter of water varies: logically, accessing local surface water requires far less energy than pumping groundwater, reclaiming wastewater or desalinating seawater. Irrigation is more energy intensive than rain-fed agriculture, and drip irrigation is more intensive yet since the water must be pressurized.
Food production is by far the largest consumer of global fresh water supplies. Globally, agriculture is responsible for an average of 70% of fresh water consumption by humans; in some countries that figure jumps to 80%-90%. Agriculture is therefore also responsible for much of fresh water over-exploitation. Food production further impacts the water sector through land degradation, changes in runoff, disruption of groundwater discharge, water quality and availability of water and land for other purposes such as natural habitat. The increased yields that have resulted from mechanization and other modern measures have come at a high energy price, as the full food and supply chain claims approximately 30% of total global energy demand. Energy fuels land preparation, fertilizer production, irrigation and the sowing, harvesting and transportation of crops. The links between food and energy have become quite apparent in recent years as increases in the price of oil lead very quickly to increases in the price of food. The energy sector can have other negative impacts on the food sector when mining for fossil fuels and deforestation for biofuels reduce land for agriculture, ecosystems and other uses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_energy_and_food_security_nexus
Due to the fact that the water diet is going to require you to drink more water than you are usually used to drinking, it is highly recommended that you stay away from water containing chlorine such as that which can be found in tap water unless the tap water in the place you live is so good it would be a waist not to not drink it.For those of us not fortunate enough to have a pure supply of clean tap water, using a distiller is that way to go. As low as you have a way to clean your water, then drinking out of the tap should not be a problem as long as it is distilled.In water, there are the concepts of soft water and hard water. The classification difference is based on the mineral content found in 1000mL of water. Soft water, usually what is left water running tap through a water softener has less mineral content and is considered to be more drinkable. In contrast, hard water has more mineral content.On the water diet plan, it is recommended that you drink mineral-rich hard water as much as possible. Drinking hard water said to have more of a filling effect that soft water. This may help prevent overeating allowing you to control your appetite drinking water.
However, in Japan where drinking hard water is seldom an option, most people drink soft water. Most people think that soft water is easier to drink. This may help you get to the 2 liter mark if you are having trouble drinking so much water.
Most important to the water diet is that the water you use is something you don't mind drinking. Since the amount of water you will be drinking is more than a mere cup, the water you drink should be just right for you.
I'm six today and I am wearing everything beautiful on my blog :)
Blogged at World of Ai Hienrichs - Refine Six.
• CF-LPF American Smelting & Refining. Delivered 22-Jun-1959. Canx date currently unknown. • CF-LPF Edward M. Martin, Buchans, NL. Circa 1964-until canx prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated 19-Mar-1972 • CF-LPF James R. Hart, Buchans, NL. Regd prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated. 19-Mar-1972. Canx prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated 13-Jul-1978. • CF-LPF Wentzells Flying Service, Corner Brook, NL. Regd prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated 13-Jul-1978. Canx prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated 18-Aug-1979. • CF-LPF Labrador Airways, Corner Brook, NL. Regd prior to Certificate of Airworthiness renewal dated 18-Aug-1979. Canx date currently unknown. • C-FLPF & CF-LPF Newfoundland & Labrador Air Transport Ltd., (NALAIR), Deer Lake / South Brook, NL. Regd 05-Sep-1979. Canx 08-Jun-1993. Accident: Tessier, Forteau, NL. 14-Feb-1985. Details unknown. • C-FLPF Viking Air Ltd., Sidney, BC. Regd 23-Jun-1993. Canx 08-Feb-1996. Note: Jun-1993 – Feb-1996. Viking Conversion to Mk III Turbo Beaver. Total time: Approximately 14,851 hours. • C-FLPF Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada, Sidney, BC. Regd 08-Feb-1996. Canx 07-May-1996. • SE-LEV Mission Aviation Fellowship, Hultsfred, Sweden. Regd 06-May-1996 Canx 25-May-1998 as exported to Bangladesh. • S2-ACE (2) Mission Aviation Fellowship, Bangladesh. Regd May-1998. • C-FLPF Viking Air Ltd., Sidney, BC. Regd 14-Mar-2006. • C-FMPC Government of Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Air Services Directorate, Ottawa, ON. Regd 22-Sep-2006. Based Prince George. Canx 25-Sep-2009. Accident: Level Lake, Circa 50 km W of Dease Lake, BC. 13-Sep-2008. At approximately 5:30 p.m, the RCMP aircraft flipped over while attempting to land on Level Lake. The cause appears to be that the wheeled landing gear was in the down position. The RCMP pilot and two BC Conservation Officers on board the plane were all able to get out of the Turbo Beaver aircraft safely with very minor injuries that required no medical treatment. The RCMP and BC Conservation Service were in the area as part of a joint enforcement project. No TSB report found. • C-FMPC North Cariboo Flying Services Ltd., Fort St. John, BC. Regd 24-Jun-2010. Cancelled 21-Apr-2016. Note: Restored by Northern Cariboo Air, Fort St. John, BC. Mid 2010. Total time approximately 15,498 hours. • Hours since converted 637.5 Mods include: New Hartzell three-bladed paddle prop., new P & W PT6A-34 power plant, Wipline 6100 amphibious floats. Viking upgrades include 6,000 lbs. gross weight kit and other engine management and interior fittings. Sealand fuselage extension and AK door, wing tip fuel tanks. Life time wing struts. Lake and Air Gear advisory system. (better late than never. See accident above.). 9-11 place seating. For sale: $1,400,000CDN Total time:15,618 hours. Actual date unknown. • C-FMPC Noted at Harbour Air facilities at Vancouver South (09-May-2016). • C-FMPC Escape Enterprises Inc., Vancouver, BC. Regd 04-Jul-2016. Canx 12-Nov-2021. • C-FMPC Regency Aero Lease Inc., Kelowna, BC. Regd 12-Nov-2021.
Place: Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Chinese name: 江淮iEV5 (jiānghuái iEV5)
Year of launch: 2013
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
In 2013 JAC launched a new compact sedan as Heyue (Hojoy) A20, which supposedly slotted below the Heyue/Hojoy A30. It was renamed Refine A33 in 2015, but never reached production. However, JAC did launch the compact sedan with electric powertrain only. It was initially named iEV5, then succeeded by the iEV6 and iEV7.
💝 SOCIAL MEDIA GIVEAWAY — You know what to do! ☁️
très beau x VELOUR Angel Collection:
Velour invited me to create a skin for their new body collection, and of course, I couldn’t miss it! It was the perfect chance to bring back some of my best sellers—originally for Genus—now fully remade for both Genus and Lelutka EvoX.
And what better way to start than Harmony? She’s always been a favorite, and with the 2K update, I completely reworked her—keeping her essence while refining every little detail. ✨ Plus, she comes with lots of extras (check below 👀) and even flippable versions to match
💕 HARMONY – This skin is designed for LeLUTKA EvoX and Genus Project—shown on Avalon. She comes in 15 stunning tones to suit your perfect look! ✨
Working on this skin made me realize just how much I’ve grown as a creator—my craft, my attention to detail, even the way I present my work. Seeing that evolution has been so rewarding, and I couldn’t be happier! Thank you for all the love and support—try the demo now at VELOUR! 💌
📌 Teleport over to VELOUR: VELOUR/86/125/84
📦 Included with your package:
．Face Shape & Eyebrow Shape
．Options for Brows or No Brows
．Ears & Seamless Neck Blender
．Waterline Enhancement Add-On
．Freckles Overlay Add-On
．Variety of 10 Lip Colors
🌸 In case you'd like to triple your chances, remember to check out our Facebook!
💖 très beau.
TwT Lalala~ More goofing around making mockups testing ideas out for my mint Realfee May.
Copy-pasta from the last one that explains her character/idea:
"She is supposed to be an idealistic and symbolic memorial statue of my character Petra's pet rabbit made after the her accidental death caused by Petra's herself. Rather than being a literal memorial for her pet, Petra makes her a statue in an image that is a mix of what she and her species as a whole consider the most ideal forms of beauty. Her exterior is made from bronze which after some purposeful tinkering from another character gains a lovely ethereal coat of minty patina."
Anyways, so in this experiment I was going for the all over bright minty patina look, very angelic and ghostly. I also went ahead and tried a more naturalistic all-over patina texture. With just solid color and texture however I thought it looked much too simple so I decided to add in some pastel colors so as to not take away from the overall bright appearance but still add a unique metallic and ethereal quality. Of course, still taking big creative liberties here as there really isn't such a thing as a pastel rainbow patina, but I thought it would do well to give off that beautiful angelic quality I want her to have. Something that is more realistic that I tired out here though is the bright minty parts being most saturated in the deep crevasses which is quite common in antiqued patina. So areas like between the toes/ fingers and in and around the eyes would be very bright.
I can see this sort of idea working canonically in the story as my vague original concept was to have the statue be a ghostly white, but I still think i've become more fond of having some of the deep bronze color being present. I do like the texture concept though and the patina coloring being more deeply saturated in the crevasses so those perhaps may in some respect become part of the final design. I also think this one in particular would be extra difficult to pull off as if she had a typical fiber wig I don't think I could accurately convey the texture that the body has. I've been toying with the idea of maybe sculpting her hair and attaching it with magnets to her head as that would really help convey the whole "statue" idea buuuut my only concern is that because her hair is so long it would create problems when posing if it were sculpted. Of course, it wouldn't be an issue at all if she has short hair but it has to be long as Petra creates her in an image that embodies the key elements of beauty in her eyes and by her species and In Unitrios culture exceptionally long hair is extremely revered. Sooo I'm thinking its a "no" on the sculpted hair idea for now, but it does still very much intrigue me so maybe i'll give it a try down the road. c:
Annnnnyways, yeah. Not nearly as fond of this one as I am the other, but there are elements of it that I like at least and that is the point of experimentation xD
Still one or two more strong concepts i'd like to make a mockup for to see how I like the look of them then i'll move onto the refining and drawing phase to see where it all goes from there c:
Place: Huangyao, Zhaoping County, Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Chinese name: 江淮瑞风S3 (jiānghuái ruìfēng S3)
Year of launch: 2013
JAC Motors (Jianghuai Automobile) is a Chinese state-owned automobile and commercial vehicle producer and was established in 1964. JAC started producing the Starex in cooperation with Hyundai in the early 2000s (JAC Refine), but their relationship was soon terminated. Another company, Huatai (later renamed Hawtai in English translation) made the Terracan and Santa Fe under license, but in 2007 JAC came up with their own Santa Fe, the Rein, featuring a (not so) unique front and rear end (in Lexus RX-fashion). In the same year JAC finally gained rights to produce passenger cars. Its first car was the large and unsuccessful Binjoy (Binyue) sedan, which was immediately launched in 2007. It was followed by a couple of impressive new models: the Tojoy (Tongyue) in 2008 and Hojoy sedan (Heyue), Hojoy RS (Heyue RS) MPV and Joyjoy (Yueyue) small car in 2009. Their later launched have never quite reached this level anymore. The Hojoy RS was refreshed in 2013 and renamed Refine M2 in 2015.
JAC's SUV range consists of the S2, S3, S5 and new S7. The S3 was launched in 2013 and was a huge success for the brand, selling almost 200,000 units in both 2015 and 2016. However, demand has dried up and it has faded away so far this year.
Sales figures: carsalesbase.com/china-car-sales-data/jac/jac-refine-s3/
01 Oil Studies, No. 32
Objective: Refine hue-chroma-values in autumn bright daylight.
Painted in 4 sessions: 15 to 23 July 2024
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless otherwise noted): Permalba white (Weber), yellow ochre, Naples yellow, cadmium yellow, French ultramarine, burnt sienna, warm gray (Rembrandt artist), sap green, viridian. Mediums: Gamsol, linseed oil.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 inches)
Process: I expanded on my initial objective above and added many birds with the intent of showing more their motion than their detail.
After Action Evaluation: (1) Pay attention to drying during the process. Sometimes and element needs to dry (such as the blue sky) before working around it. Sometimes elements need to blend; here cadmium yellow was added to tree foliage after it had dried resulting in too much chroma. (2) Given the scale, I was happy with he birds.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MANIFESTO GLEITZEIT 2015
BY STELLY RIESLING
Featured below is another original art work of mine in homage to THE PIONEER OF INVISIBLE ART — PAUL JAISINI. Forget all the copycats that came after him — Master Paul Jaisini was the *FIRST* of a totally original concept and the *BEST*. My favorite thing about him is that he’s a voice, not an echo, which is quite rare.
DISCLAIMER: This is for anyone who is a hater OR wishes to better understand me, what I’m all about, so you can decide whether I’m weird or normal enough for you — a kind of very loose manifesto, rushed and unrevised, full of raw uncut emotion that I don’t like to be evident in my writing as lately I prefer a more professional, formal style, so we can consider this a rough draft of the more polished writing to come when I have extra time. I might return to this text later and clean it up or break it into separate parts. Right now it’s a long-winded hot mess, so if you manage to make any sense of it, BIG PROPS TO YOU. lol …and if you manage to read it ALL, you have my solemn respect!!! in a day when reading has been reduced to just catchy headliners and short captions of images once in a while. The consequence of this one-liner internet culture is non-linear, tunnel thinking, which is baaaaaad.
There lives among us a most enigmatic and charismatic creature named Paul Jaisini who led me into the wonderful world of art, not personally, but through descriptions of his artworks in essays written and published online by his friend, which painted the most fascinating images in my mind. Early on as a kiddo, I experimented with photography, simple point and shoot whatever looked attractive to me. Digital manipulation of my photographs with computer software followed… and somehow I learned useful drawing techniques along the way to combine existing elements with nonexistent ones, which allowed me to elevate the context for my ideas. Later, I started creating my own digital art from scratch for my friends and family as a favorite pastime. They would shower me with praise and repeatedly encouraged me to share my “different” vision with the rest of the world… it took a while and wasn’t easy to overcome the insecurity of not being good enough along with a gripping fear of being harshly criticized, but one day I woman-ed up and started publishing my work on the web, reminding myself that my livelihood didn’t depend on a positive reception.
Paul Jaisini’s role in all this has been to not disgrace myself, even if what I do is just a hobby. And I would never do him and other genius artists the disservice of calling myself a professional because I know I’ll never be as good as any of the GIANTS of pre-modern history. Be the best or be nothing, no middle ground.
People’s jealousy in the past, future and present over my obsessive love of Paul Jaisini, which they are well aware is purely plutonic, has caused them to despise the man and has made many relationships/friendships impossible for me. I refuse to have such people in my life because by harboring any negativity towards Paul, they unknowingly feel that way about me and express it to me. It’s their own problem for not realizing this. Paul’s new art movement, Gleitzeit, shaped me into the allegedly awesome girl I am today, giving my art more edge, more “sexy” because it refined my vision of the world and propelled me to attain the skills necessary to not dishonor my family name through tenacious pursuit of perfection. Since the beginning of my life, I attempted to depict what I saw in visual, musical and literal forms, but continuously failed without adequate training and determination. Paul Jaisini’s Gleitzeit was the answer to my prayers. Who I am today I owe mostly to him and his selfless ideals of the artverse that I’ve given unconditional loyalty to (he has this cool ability for hyper-vision to see whole universes, not itty bitty worlds, hence I call it an artverse instead of art world, with him in mind). So again, anyone who hates Paul Jaisini hates ME because, regardless of what he means to you, he is the most important person in my life for making me ME. The way a famous actor, dancer or singer inspires others to act, dance or sing, Paul inspired me to become a better artist, better writer, better everything. More people would understand if he was a household name because they’re wired to in society. But we’re inspiring each other all the time in our own little communities without being famous, so if someone has the ability to change even ONE person’s life immensely with creativity, it is a massive achievement. And passionate folks like myself are compelled to scream it from the cyber rooftops. So here I am. It’s whatever.
Furthermore, I’d like to address here a few pressing matters in light of some recent drama brought on by both strangers and former friends. To start, I never judge the passions, interests or likes of others, which are often in my face all over the place, so likewise they have no right to judge any of mine. It is quite unfortunate and frustrating how very little understanding and education the majority of people have or want to have. Their logic is as primitive as a chipmunk when it comes to promotion of fine art on the web: “spamming, advertising, report!” It’s their own problem that they fail to understand what it’s about due to the distorted lens through which they see the world or inability to think for themselves; an inherent lack of perception or inquisitiveness. Well, guess what? Every single image, every animation, every video, every post dedicated to Mr. Paul Jaisini and “Gleitziet” (to elaborate: a revolutionary new art movement Paul founded with his partner in crime and personal friend, EYKG, who discovered him and believed in him more than anyone) has an important purpose. Every one of those things you run across is a piece of a puzzle, a move in a game, an inch down a rabbit hole; the deeper you go, the more interesting it gets; the more levels you pass, the more clues unfold, the greater the suspense and nearer the conclusion (yet further). You earn awesome rewards like enlightenment, spiritual revelations, truths, knowledge, wisdom and the most profound reward of all: the drive to improve yourself to the absolute maximum, so an unending, unshakable drive. People often make a wrong turn in this cyber game and go back a few levels or get stuck. Those that keep on pushing, however, will come to find the effort has been worth it. And what awaits you in the end of it all? The greatest challenge to beating the game: YOUR OWN MIND. You will be forced to let go of every belief you held before you had reached the last level, to completely alter your mindset and perception of the world, of life, of yourself. But by the time you’ve gotten to that point, it will be as easy as falling off a cliff! (It is a kind of suicide after all — death and rebirth of spirit.)
Paul Jaisini does NOT, *I repeat* does NOT use mystery and obscurity to his advantage as a clever marketing ploy, no, he’s too next level for that with a consciousness so rich, he should wear a radioactive warning sign (he’ll melt your brain, best wear a tinfoil hat in his presence as I certainly would.) The statement he makes is loud and clear, hidden in plain site for those who take the time to connect the dots and have enough curiosity to fuel their journey into unknown territory (an open mind and flexible perception helps a lot). Actually, anyone with an IQ above 90 is sure to figure it out sooner or later. Hint: You don’t have to SEE an extraordinary thing with your eyes to know it exists, to understand it and realize its greatness — you can only feel it in your bone marrow, your spinal fluid, your heart and soul. The moment you do figure it out, as the skeleton key of the human soul, it will unlock the greatness and massive potential buried deep within, changing the doomed direction humanity is undoubtedly headed. I don’t speak in riddles, I speak in a clear direct way that intelligent humans will understand, so I’m counting on them.
GIG is an international group of artists and writers that support Paul Jaisini’s Gleitzeit. We started off as an unofficial fan club of Jaisini in 1996, comprised of only 6 individuals spanning 3 countries, and eventually escalated in status to an official fan group across the entire globe. A decade later it had grown to hundreds of fans. Nearly another decade later, there are thousands. Let’s not leave out another delightful group of vicious haters that have been around for nearly as long as us since the late 90s and have also grown in impressive numbers. Now, for the record (and please write this one down because I’m sick of repeating myself), Paul Jaisini himself is not part of our group and has nothing to do with us. He loves and hates us equally for butchering his name and making him appear as a narcissistic nut-job in his own words. He casts hexes on us for the blinding flash we layer over the art that members contribute to GIG — “disgusting-police-lights, seizure-inducing-laser-lightshow, bourgeois-myspace-effects retarded-raver shit” in Paul’s words. Ahh, how we love his sweet-talking us. In a desperate attempt to please him, those among us who make the art and animations have spent countless hours and sleepless nights trying to solve a crazy-complex quantum-physics type of equation = how to not create tacky or tasteless content. He does fancy some of it now, we got better, that’s something! In the reason stated below, our mission just got out of hand at some point.
What little is known about Paul Jaisini, even in all this time, is he’s a horrible perfectionist who slaughtered hundreds of innocent babies — I mean — artworks of remarkable beauty created by his own right hand (mostly paintings, some watercolors and drawings). He’s a fierce recluse who wants nothing to do with anyone or anything in life. But those few of us who know of an incredible talent he possesses (one could go as far as calling it a superpower), could not allow him to live his life without the recognition he FUCKING DESERVES more than any artist out there living today and, arguably, yesterday. We use whatever means necessary to reach more people, lots of flash and razzle-dazzle to lure them into our sinister trap of a higher awareness. Mwahaha! The visual boom you’ve witnessed in both cyber and real worlds, that is GIG’s doing — two damn decades of spreading an art virus — IVA. InVisibleArtitis… or a drug as in Intravenous Art. It’s whatever you want it to be, honey.
Our Gleitzeit International Group (GIG) started off innocently enough and gradually spiraled out of control to fight the haters, annoying the hell out of them as much as humanly possible. They don’t like what we do? WE DO MORE AND MORE OF IT. But never without purpose, without a carefully executed plan in mind collectively. If we have to tolerate an endless tidal wave of everyone’s vomit — e.g., idiotic memes and comics; dumbed-down one-liner quotes; selfies; so-called “art photography” passed through one-click app filters; mindless scribbles or random splatters by regular folks who have the nerve to call themselves serious/pro artists; primitive images of pets, babies, landscapes, random objects, etc… then people sure as shit are gonna tolerate what we put out, our animated and non-animated visual art designed for our beloved master, Paul Jaisini, who has shown us the light, the right path to follow, taught us great things and done so much for us — and so in our appreciation of him, we stamp his name on everything, for the sacrifices he has made in the name of art, to save our art verse, he’s a goddamn hero. There’s a book being written in his dedication where little will be left to the imagination about him.
If Paul Jaisini was as famous as Koons or Hirst, for example, people would know it’s not him posting stuff online with his name on it but fans creating fanart like myself among others. But noooooo, such a thing is unfathomable to most people - the promotion of another artist. Like, what’s in it for us? Uhh, nothing?? This is all NON-PROFIT bitches, the way art should be. It’s a passion FIRST, a commodity/commercial product/marketable item LAST and least. Its been that way for us since the early 90s to this day. Not a single member of GIG has sold an art work (neither has Paul Jaisini who’s a true professional) and we want to keep it that way. We do it for reasons far beyond ego. So advertising? Really? How the hell do you advertise or sell thin air, you know, invisible paintings, invisible anything? Ha ha, very funny indeed. The idea here is so simple, your neighbor’s dog can grasp it. Our motives: replace fast food for the mind with fine art, actual fine art. You know, creativity? Conscious thought? Talent? Skill? Knowledge? All that good stuff rolled into one to bring viewers more than a momentary ooohand aaahh reaction. Replace the recycled images ad nauseum; repetitious, worn-out ideas; disposable, gimmicky, money-driven fast art for simpletons. Stick with the highest of ideals and save the whole bloody planet.
Fine art is often confused with craft-making. This often creates bad blood between classically trained artists who put out paintings that leave a lasting impression, that make strong conversation pieces, that are thought-provoking and deep… and trained craftspeople whose skills are adequate to create decorative pieces for homely environments — landscapes, still lifes, animals, pretty fairies, common things of fantasy, and other simplicity. Skills alone are not enough for high art, you need a vision, a purpose, the ability to tell a story with every stroke of your brush that will both fascinate and terrify the viewers, arousing powerful emotions, illuminating. I have yet to see a visible painting in my generation that does anything at all for me, other than evoke sheer outrage and disgust. What a terrible waste of space and valuable resources it all is.
Paul Jaisini leads, we follow. He wishes to remain unknown - so do most of us. I’m next in line, slipping into recluse mode, no longer wanting to attach my face, my human image to my art stuff. I wish to be a nameless, faceless artist as well, invisible like P.J., and in his footsteps I too have destroyed thousands of my own artistic photography and digital art made with tedious, labor-intensive handwork. The whole point of this destruction is achieving the finest results possible by letting go of the imperfect, purging it on a regular basis, to make way for the perfect. I love what I do so it doesn’t matter, I know I’ll keep producing as much as I’m discarding, keeping the balance. Hoarding is an enemy of progress, especially the digital kind as there’s absolutely no limit to it. It’s like carrying a load of bricks on your back you’ll never use or need.
The watering down of creativity that digital pack ratting has caused as observed over the years is most tragic. For the creative individual, relying on terabytes of stock photos or OSFAP as I call them (Once Size Fits All Photos) instead of making your own as you used to when you had no choice, being 100% original, is a splinter in the conscience. It’s not evil to use stock of, say, things you don’t have access to (outer space, deep sea, Antarctica, etc.), but many digital artists I know today can’t take their own shot of a pencil ‘cause they “ain’t got no time for that!” How did they have time before? Did time get so compressed in only a decade?
Ohhhhh, and the edits, textures, filters, plug-ins and what-have-you available out there to everyone and their cats… are responsible for the tidal wave of rubbish that eclipses the magnificent light of the real talents.
I can tell you with utmost sincerity there is no better feeling on earth than knowing your creation is ALL yours, every pixel and dot, from the first to the last. It’s not always possible to make it so, but definitely the most rewarding endeavor. I’m most proud of myself when I can accomplish that.
Back to Paul Jaisini, from the start there have been a number of theories floating around on what his real story is. One of my own theories is that he stands for the unknowns of the world who can’t get representation, can’t get exhibited at a decent gallery because highly gifted/trained artists aren’t good enough - those kind of establishments prefer bananas, balloon dogs, feces, gigantic dicks/cunts, and all kinds of what-the-fucks…
So again, you don’t get the Paul Jaisini thing? That’s your problem. Don’t hate others for getting it. People are good, very good, at making baseless assumptions and impulsively spewing it as truth. They criticize and judge as if they’re high authorities on the subject yet they clearly lack education in fine art or art history and possess little to no talent or skill to back up their bullshit. My little “credibility radar” never fails. When they say I know this or I know that, I reply don’t say “I know” or state things as fact as a general rule of thumb - instead say “I assume/believe” and state the reasons you feel thus to appear less immature, especially about a controversial topic like invisible art. I have zero respect or tolerance for egomaniacs who think they know it all and act accordingly like arrogant pricks. Who can stand those, right? Once again, a good example would be: I, Stelly Riesling, believe everything I’ve written in this little manifesto to be correct based on personal experience and observation from multiple angles, thorough research and sufficient data collected from verifiable sources (and don’t go copying-pasting my own words back at me, be original). Just because you or I say so doesn’t make it so. Just because you or me think or believe so doesn’t make it true or right. I only ask that my opinions are regarded respectfully and whoever opposes them does so in a mature, civilized manner. We should only be entitled to opinions that don’t bring out the worst in us.
I don’t normally take such a position, but the time has come to stand up for what I believe in! It’s quite amusing and comical how haters think calling me names, attacking me or my interests or members of the project I’m part of for years is going to change something. It only makes more evident the importance of what I’m doing so I push on harder still.
Words of advise to those who can identify with me, with my frustrations over people’s reluctance to change their miserable ways, with our declining art world…
DON’T waste time on people who sweat the small stuff, whose actions are consistently inconsistent with their words. DO waste time on people who always keep their eye on the ball—the bigger picture of life.
Paul Jaisini’s invisible paintings are more than hype, more than your lame assumptions. Here’s one I got that’s pure gold: a cult! It started out as A JOKE OF MINE that was used against me. I told a then-good friend that he should come join our little “art cult” in a clearly lighthearted manner, and later he takes this idea I put in his head first and accuses me of being in an (imaginary) cult—the jokes on me eh?. But wait, aren’t cults religious? Our group consists of people around the world of different faiths (or none at all) so how could that ever work? If religion was about making fine (non-pop) art mainstream and bringing awesome, fresh, futuristic concepts to the collective consciousness, the world would not be so fucked up today because talent, creativity, originality and individuality would be the main focus, not superficial poppycock; those things would be praised and encouraged and supported in society by all institutions, not demonized and stigmatized.
Here is one thing I CAN state as solid fact: only one person close to Paul Jaisini knows the TRUE story, or at least some of it: EYKG. Everything else that has ever been said about him is myth, legend, gossip, speculation, the worst of which is said by jealous non-artists (wannabes, clones, posers, hang-ons, unoriginal ppl in general) and anti-artists (religious psychos, squares, losers and -duh- stupid ppl). Sadly, people are unable to see the bigger picture by letting their egos run their lives or repeating after others as parrots.
Commercial art, consumerism, and ignorance of the masses truly makes me want to curl up in a ball, not eat or drink or move until I die, just die in my sleep while dreaming of a better world, a world where real fine artists rule it with real fine art as they used to and life is beautiful once again….
Well I hope that settled THAT for now, or perhaps inadvertently made matters worse. I hope I didn’t sound too pissed from all these issues that keep popping up like penises on ChatRoulette… just got to me already! Can you tell? I had to put my foot down, stomp ‘em all!
To be continued, still lots more ignorance and pettiness to battle… Till then peace out my bambini. MWAH!