Head: Lelutka Avalon w/Materials

Body: Legacy Perky w/Materials

Ade - Maria Hair [Lelutka 12 Days of Christmas 2024]

Dress: Celestina's Paula Bodycon Dress [Purple]

Nails: Mango Milk - Essential Nails - Almond [Reds]

Spa Complex, Scarborough with a high tide on Xmas Eve.

Grade 2* listed.

Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Spa

December 2015

Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) (a succulent) in the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, Cave Creek, Arizona, near Phoenix.

They say it takes 50 years before the first branch shoots off of a saguaro. If so, this one is a grandaddy.

4771 'Green Arrow' stops on the return Didcot to Tyseley leg of the tour at Banbury on 1-7-73

This was one of the L.C.G.B.

Gresley Commemorative Rail Tours run on this day. Take a look at Six Bells Junction website for a description of the events from the day they were quite tragic and eventful.

I think it demonstrates how flexible the railways were and the ability to procure replacement locomotives when required.

flickr21challenge

Luxor, Egypt

The Cellular Jail is one of the murkiest chapters in the history of the British colonial rule in India. Although the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British had been using the Andaman Islands as a prison since the days in the immediate aftermath of the first war of independence.

The British sent thousands to the gallows, hung them up from trees, or tied them to cannons and blew them up. Those who survived were exiled for life to the Andaman’s to sever their connections with their families and their country. The building had seven wings, at the centre of which a central tower served as the fulcrum and was used by guards to keep watch on the inmates. The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to raise the alarm in any eventuality.

Each of the seven wings had three stories upon completion. There were no dormitories and a Total of 698 cells. Each cell was 4.5 meters x 2.7 meters in size with a ventilator located at a height of three meters. The name, "cellular jail", derived from the solitary cells which prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. They were all in solitary confinement

Solitary confinement was implemented as the British government desired to ensure that political prisoners and revolutionaries be isolated from each other. The Andaman Island served as the ideal setting for the government to achieve this. Most prisoners of the Cellular Jail were independence activists. Some famous inmates of the Cellular Jail were Dr. Diwan Singh Kalepani, Maulana Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, Yogendra Shukla, Batukeshwar Dutt, Maulana Ahmadullah, Movli Abdul Rahim Sadiqpuri, Baba rao Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bhai Parmanand, V.O.Chidambaram Pillai, Subramaniam Shiva, Sohan Singh, Vaman Rao Joshiand Nand Gopal Several revolutionaries tried in the Alipore Case (1908) such as Barindra Kumar Ghose, Upendra Nath Banerjee,Birendra Chandra Sen. Jatish Chandra Pal, the surviving companion of Bagha Jatin, demented under torture here, was transferred to Berhampore Jail in Bengal, before his mysterious death in 1924.Hunger strikes by the inmates during the early 1930s called attention to the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore intervened. The government decided to repatriate the political prisoners from the Cellular Jail in 1937-38.

There were hundreds of MAHATHMA GANDHIS killed here in Andaman.

They are all “UNSUNG HEROS”…!!!

AUGEST 15th WE celebrating our 63rd independence day.

Each of us just thinks over how our fore fathers got the independence from the so called “cultured British RULERS, And one can understand the punishment they given to Indian freedom fighters in a brutal, uncultured Unimaginable way.

It’s all in the history. But as an Indian I wish to say all my politicians in the country should visit the place once their life time and I am sure they will be turned out to be a “true crimeless politicians”

Of course every Indian should visit this place in their life time and hear the death cry and sounds from the walls of ANDAMANS CELLULAR JAIL!!!!

CANON 5D MARK II -24-105mm "L" lens

ISO 12800

1/15 sec

shutter priority mode. +5/3

hand held shot.

New York University Langone Medical Center along the FDR and the East River

The newest apartment complex in Corvallis is called The Retreat. More than 1000 people live here, mostly students. They can walk to campus from here.

Aerothermodynamic Structural Vehicle 1 (ASV-1), part of the Aerothermodynamic/Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests (ASSET) Program, is seen being prepared for its September 18, 1963 launch from Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

I really like the following article, at the White Eagle Aerospace website, written by J. Terry White. Maybe that's why they disabled/blocked the ability to copy/paste from it:

"…the first ASSET flight test vehicle (ASV-1) successfully flew 1,600 nm down the Eastern Test Range (ETR) following launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Boosted atop a Thor launch vehicle, the hypersonic glider reached a maximum velocity of 10,900 mph (Mach 12).

Strangely, only one of the ASSET flight test articles was ever recovered successfully. In particular, ASV-3 was recovered following its 1,800 nm suborbital flight down the Eastern Test Range on Wednesday, 22 July 1964. The recovered airframe is currently on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio."

From/At:

www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/hypersonic-asset/

I'm going to leave the following for a while longer, because I'm pretty damned torqued:

I HAD MY USUAL INFORMATIVE, VALUE-ADDED DESCRIPTION HERE - ABOVE, WHICH I HAD TO YET AGAIN, PAINSTAKINGLY FINAGLE - WITH A LINK TO ANOTHER PERTINENT & INFORMATIVE WEBSITE (BELOW).

HOWEVER, SINCE THE PART-TIME “DEVELOPERS”/IT SUPPORT BUFFOONS AT FLUCKR CONTINUE TO BE COMPOSED OF STONED (LIKE “MANAGEMENT”), INCOMPETENT & LACKADAISICAL MORONS, AND IT WENT "POOF".

UN-FLUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!

space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/asset-asv.htm

The same photo:

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Both above credit: "Gunter's Space Page" website

Greater Manchester Police - GMP - BMW X5 - RPU - Unregistered - This will be a motorway spec vehicle. Seen at the Openshaw Workshop Complex on Saturday the 26th of January 2013. DSCF7381

Lens : Leica Elmarit-M 24mm f2.8 ASPH

In the complex mythology of Indian religion and Hinduism and its Gods and masters, this is a carving of the sage Bhringi, a great devotee of Lord Shiva, located in the Natya Mandapa (dancing hall) of the Veerabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh.

Bhringi was an ardent sage who worshipped only Lord Shiva, refusing to acknowledge or worship Parvati, Shiva's consort.

To test his devotion and teach him that Shiva and Parvati are one, the Goddess sat on Shiva's lap, making it difficult for Bhringi to circumambulate Shiva alone.

Undeterred, Bhringi transformed into a Bhringa (bee or beetle) and bored a hole through the middle of their united form (Ardhanarishvara) to circle only Shiva.

Enraged by this act, Parvati cursed him to lose all the parts of his body that came from a mother (flesh and blood), reducing him to a mere skeleton and making him unable to stand.

Seeing his devotee in a pitiful state, Lord Shiva took pity on him and granted him a third leg for support and balance, allowing him to stand upright.

One must realize that there is no Shiva without Shakti (Parvati) and vice versa. He is depicted in this form in the temple and is considered the dance master of the gods.

This 16th-century temple was built by the brothers Virupanna and Veeranna during the Vijayanagara Empire, and the pillar opposite this carving depicts the apsara Rambha mimicking Bhringi's dance movements.

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出身挪威的藝術家Haaken Placht，九o年代前後，分別於卑爾根囯立藝術學院與柏林藝術學院完成學業，隨後便進入學院任教。Haaken Placht曾舉辦多次個展，作品不論在歐美或是海外都享有極高評價。「Totalitarianism Complex」是以其工作室為場景拍攝的一系列圖錄，與Silvia Bachli作品集有異曲同工之妙。

The Trinidad Motmot is a representative of the "Blue-crowned Motmot" complex. For many years, all members of this group were considered to be conspecific, but members of this group now are reclassified as representing five different species. The Trinidad Motmot is confined to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. It is geographically isolated from other motmots, as no other representative of the "Blue-crowned Motmot" group occurs on the adjacent mainland in northeastern Venezuela. The Trinidad Motmot shares many features in common with other "Blue-crowned Motmots," such as the black center of the crown, bordered below with a broad blue band; the broad black line (or "mask") through the eye; and the long tail with "raquet" tips. The Trinidad Motmot is strongly rufous on the underparts, however.

Complex Enicospilus americanus-complex

Tatoi, located 27 km from the city centre of Athens, was the summer palace and 10,000 acre estate of the former Greek Royal Family, and the birthplace of King George II of Greece. The area is a densely wooded southeast-facing slope of Mount Parnitha. Tatoi palace complex includes numerous outbuildings, such as personnel quarters, outposts, storehouses, mews, apiaries, stock farms etc., which are now derelict.

The Cygnus Wall complex is a vivid skyscape of interstellar gas - a huge star forming region inside the North America nebula. I shot the closeup using my 8” scope.

This nebula displays the typical reddish glow associated with ionized hydrogen but also includes dark, dusty sections that obscure the background star field.

The picture is the result of over three hours of data, a long but satisfying night under the stars.

January 28, 2017

Raleigh, NC

光が丘団地。 Hikarigaoka Apartment complex. Sony a7iii + Canon FD50mm F1.4 S.S.C

Black bench on white snow seems like a simple enough subject; throw in the grid of the bench and the intersecting shadows and you've got complexity. Shot outside Downsview subway station.

Banksia cone.

Patron: Muhammad Bey (nicknamed Abu al-Dhahab, father of gold, because of his generosity & wealth) 1735–1775, a Mamluk Ottoman emir, Shaykh al-Balad (civil governor) & de facto ruler of Egypt (r.1772-1775).

Islamic Monument: #98 (an imitation of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha, in Bulaq #349).

Stuff I folded there:

My XO Stars

Awareness ribbon (intermediate ver) Fung

Bumble Bee (flat)

Bettens Twist container

Fish (taguro)

HJ Rex (Ku)

Pegasus (Kamiya)

Skull (matt green)

Sheep 2015 (Taro)

and Robin (Lee)

Hummingbird (vietnam)

Panda (peyton) not yet

Heres a good one, this is the 'Beauty of Origami' joas table of ousa2015, another exhibit quicky.

Keri Hilson in the August/September Issue of Complex Magazine.

The Wee MacGregor tram and rail complex and the former towns of Ballara and Hightville’ is located in the Argylla Ranges between Cloncurry and Mount Isa in North West Queensland, in the traditional country of the Kalkadoon people. Constructed during an early 20th century boom in copper prices, the place includes the sites of two abandoned mining towns, Hightville and Ballara (surveyed in 1913 and 1914 respectively); the former western terminus (near Ballara) of a private 3ft 6in (1.1m) narrow gauge railway line, constructed 1913 - 1914; and the route of an associated private 2ft (0.6m) gauge tramway, constructed 1914 - 1915, between Ballara and the Wee MacGregor mine. The complex includes a 48m long ore transfer stage (1914), and a 77m long tunnel (1914 - 1915).

The town of Cloncurry was surveyed in the 1870s to support the local mining and pastoral industries. Pastoralist Ernest Henry had discovered copper nearby in 1867 and established the ‘Great Australia’ (or Great Australian) mine. Part of the area was proclaimed a goldfield in 1874, and the Cloncurry Mining District (later the Cloncurry Gold and Mineral Field) was proclaimed in 1883. Copper was discovered south of Cloncurry in 1884, and a town was formed in 1898 called Hampden (later called Kuridala). At Mount Elliot, south of Hampden, copper was discovered in 1899 and mining commenced in 1906.

The absence of a railway initially hampered the effective exploitation of Cloncurry’s mineral resources. The closure of the Great Australia Mine in 1887 meant a proposed railway from Normanton was diverted to Croydon (1888 - 1891), but when copper prices rose in 1905 the Queensland Government decided to extend the Great Northern Railway west from Richmond, and the first construction train reached Cloncurry in December 1907.

Mining activity was increasing on the Cloncurry field even before the railway arrived. By March 1906, copper had been discovered as an outcrop at the Wee MacGregor lease, west-southwest of Cloncurry. The Leichhardt Development Syndicate was formed in October 1906 to develop the Wee MacGregor ‘group’ of mines, which included the Wee MacGregor, Grand Central, Wattle, and Wallaroo leases, and two months later MacGregor Cloncurry Copper Mines (the MacGregor Company) was floated in London. Hampden Cloncurry Copper Mines Ltd, and Mount Elliot Limited, two companies which later dominated the Cloncurry field during World War I (WWI), were also floated in 1906.

By October 1907 there were three prospecting shafts on the Wee MacGregor lease. That year, with a population of 650 miners (almost double that of 1906), the Cloncurry field produced 5.6% of Queensland’s copper. By July 1908 the MacGregor Company was employing 70 men, not including mine officials, and during 1908 a telephone link with Cloncurry was established and tenders were called for a mail service.

By 1909 a settlement, including company offices and a store, was developing near the Wallaroo mine, located about 1km southeast of the Wee MacGregor mine. That year John Frost constructed the MacGregor Hotel on the site of Hightville. The hotel was listed under ‘Hightville’ in Wise’s Post Office Directory of 1911, although the town of Hightville was not surveyed until November 1913.

Isolation threatened the economic viability of the Wee MacGregor group of mines. Ore was first drayed to Cloncurry along a rough road in May 1909, but this form of transport was uneconomic. One option for the MacGregor Company was to build a private mining railway, as had been done elsewhere in Queensland. Such railways were part of a wider pattern in Queensland during the late 19th-early 20th century: the construction of private and local government railways and tramways to transport the products of primary industry. However, the MacGregor Company could not afford a private railway to the closest point on the Mount Elliott Railway, 39km away.

Another option was for the company to contribute towards a state-owned railway, as had occurred with the railway from Cloncurry to Mount Elliott, via Hampden. The cost of this railway, which opened in 1910, was split 50/50 between the Kidston Government and the Mount Elliott Company. In September 1910 the MacGregor Company proposed a branch line from Malbon, on the Mount Elliott railway, under similar terms, and the government agreed to split the cost of a line survey and plans.

In June 1911 the MacGregor Company sought government support for a shorter branch line, this time linking to the state railway being built southwest from Malbon towards Sulieman Creek. Government officials were sceptical about the profitability and lifespan of the Wee MacGregor group of mines, despite the company estimating reserves of 100,000 tons of ore (most from the Wee MacGregor mine). Instead of a 50-50 funding arrangement for a state owned branch line, the government agreed to rent the MacGregor Company the rails they needed to construct a private line.

Queensland’s Railways Commissioner, Charles Evans, inspected the proposed route to the Wee MacGregor mine in July 1912, and the Railway Department’s Engineer, Percy Ainscow, proposed a ‘no-frills’ railway, with a 10ft (3m) wide formation, reduced earthworks, less side drainage, cheap concrete culverts and the minimum of bridges.

The company’s branch line was proposed at an opportune time. In 1912, the Cloncurry field produced 45% of Queensland’s annual production of copper, with annual copper earnings now exceeding gold’s earnings. There were 1485 copper miners on the field, which was the ‘foremost producer of copper in the State’.

The Wee MacGregor Tramway Agreement Bill was introduced to Parliament in November 1912. It proposed that the MacGregor Company pay for the construction and maintenance of a private 3ft 6in ‘tramway’ (actually a narrow gauge railway), 24 miles and 40 chains (39.4km) long, from the Malbon to Sulieman Creek Railway to a terminus at or near the Wee MacGregor mine. The Commissioner for Railways would provide steel rails, fish plates, fastenings, sleepers, and other permanent way materials. The company would pay 5% per year ‘rent’ on the cost of the materials supplied by the government, which had the power to acquire the line. By the 2nd of December 1912, the company involved in the proposal had become the Hampden Company, which purchased the Wee MacGregor group of mines from the Macgregor Company for £108,750.

Despite the Labor Party’s concern about a company gaining a competitive advantage from a private railway line, The Wee MacGregor Tramway Agreement Act 1912 was passed on the 4th of December 1912. Walter Paget, Minister for Railways, noted the difference from previous private sector-government railway agreements, with less government exposure to risk.

Work started on the 3ft 6in railway in early 1913, supervised by Ainscow. MacGregor Junction (Devoncourt), on the Malbon to Sulieman Creek railway, was the location of the main construction camp. The steepest grade for the railway was 1 in 40, with a minimum curve radius of 5 chains (100m). By April 1913 about 200 men were employed on the project.

The railway was planned as far as the Wallaroo mine, located east of the town of Hightville, but in late 1913 the Hampden Company decided that, due to the steep, difficult terrain near Hightville, the railway would be shortened, with the terminus now 22 miles, 49 chains (35.9km) from MacGregor Junction. The remainder of the route to Hightville, and beyond to the Wee MacGregor mine, would now be traversed by a 2ft gauge tramway, which could accommodate tighter curves and steeper grades than the railway.

A railway station and goods shed were constructed on the northern side of the town of Ballara, where a triangular junction was located. Ballara, situated at ‘Lady Lease Flats’, was surveyed in June 1914. A sale of town lots was scheduled for the 14th of August 1914, with upset prices for the quarter acre (0.1ha) lots ranging from £10 to £30. The outbreak of WWI led to the sale’s cancellation, and by the time a sale of 36 lots was held on the 24th of February 1915, prices had trebled. Facilities at Ballara included a Post Office, established in late 1914, and a police reserve was gazetted at the west end of the town in 1915. A district hospital was established by August 1918, on 5 acres north of the turning triangle. The Ballara Hotel existed by 1918, although it burnt down on the 27th of April that year, and again in April 1919. A state school was approved in May 1919, and opened in July 1919. A cemetery reserve was also gazetted, northeast of the hospital reserve, replacing the previous cemetery south of Hightville.

Hightville slowly declined after the 1913 decision to shorten the railway and relocate its terminus to Ballara, although a sale of 45 town lots still occurred in May 1914, with prices for a quarter acre (0.1ha) ranging from £5 to £25. As well as the Macgregor Hotel, Hightville had a butcher by 1913; a storekeeper and postmaster by 1914; and a boarding house by 1915. A state school was also approved in May 1917, and sites were reserved for the school and police in 1918. By 1917, however, Hightville listings were included under ‘Ballara’ in Wise’s Post Office Directory. When the MacGregor Hotel burnt down in 1914, its replacement, the former Cosmopolitan Hotel from Ravenswood, was moved to Hightville, and later to Ballara. The school and its pupils moved to Ballara in 1919.

The 2ft tramway ran west from the triangular junction at Ballara, over a raised concrete ore transfer stage, past the terminus of the railway, and then curved north. It passed between Hightville and the Wallaroo mine, and proceeded to the Wee MacGregor mine – a total route of about 3.8 miles (6.1km). A short branch tramway ran to the Wallaroo mine. Ore was transported via the tramway from the mines to the ore transfer stage, where it would be tipped from trucks on the tramway down into trucks on the railway. The railway would then convey the ore to the Hampden smelters (operational 1911). As the tramway was not part of the 1912 agreement, the company funded construction and purchased its 28 pound rails and steel sleepers.

By the 5th of May 1914 all earthworks, bridges, drains, and rails for the railway were completed to the terminal yard at Ballara, although the station building and earthworks beyond the station weren’t finished. The railway was operational during May 1914 and was officially opened to the public in July 1914, yet it was of little use for moving ore until the tramway was completed.

The tramway was under construction in early 1914, with earthworks extending for two miles (3.2km), and the ‘first five bridges and drains’ nearing completion, by the 5th of May 1914. Between Hightville and the Wee MacGregor mine a 77m long unlined tunnel, with concrete portals, and a 1 in 22 grade towards the mine, was constructed through MacGregor Hill. The tunnel was nearly completed by January 1915, with rails laid 5 chains (101m) through it by the 11th of March 1915.

The tramway was transporting ore by the 31st of May 1915. It had cost £11,005, and had curves as tight as 2 chains (40m) radius. The tunnel remains the most westerly railway tunnel in Queensland, and the 47.9m long, 2.65m high ore transfer stage is unique as the only recorded tramway-to-railway ore transhipment platform in Queensland.

The Annual Report of the Under Secretary of Mines for 1915 stated that ‘a 2-ft gauge tramway, four miles [6.4km] in length, from Ballara, connects the MacGregor and Wallaroo Mines with the main line, and carries 50 tons of ore per day in three train loads to Ballara, conveying firewood, mine timber, and general stores as return loading’.

Three trains a week had run along the railway from the 25th of May to 15 June 1914. However, the start of WWI on the 4th of August 1914 led to a temporary halt to mining, as German buyers held the contracts for the sale of copper. Only one supply train a week was run to Ballara until early 1915, when the Allied demand for copper revived mining and railway activity. Around 300 tons of ore was railed from Ballara each week during the war, and annual passenger numbers peaked at 4533 in 1916.

Wartime copper prices boosted the fortunes of the whole Cloncurry Gold and Mineral Field. The London market price for copper rose from under £60 a ton to £84 10s during 1915, and the Cloncurry district produced 53% of Queensland’s copper that year. During 1916, copper prices rose from £85 to £150 a ton, and in September 1917 British Munitions authorities fixed the price at £110 5s. The Cloncurry field produced 63.2% of Queensland’s copper in 1918, when the total population of the field reached 7795.

Copper prices dropped after the end of WWI, falling from £112 per ton in December 1918 to £75 per ton in April 1919. By March 1919 it was reported that the price slump and a scarcity of workers had ‘dealt a knockout blow to all’, although a new shaft was still being sunk on the Wee MacGregor mine. Copper production on the Cloncurry field fell in 1919, and only one train a week ran to Ballara, with 2170 tons of freight carried during the year – a 90% reduction from 1918.

Copper prices were £72 a ton at the end of 1920. This, along with high overheads, caused the closure of the Wee MacGregor mine in November 1920. Tenders were invited in December 1920 for purchase of the ‘MacGregor Mines tramway’, including ‘about 4 miles of 2 foot gauge tramway, built of 28lb. steel rails, iron sleepers, locomotive, and ten bogie trucks’. The tramway’s rails were removed during 1921 and stacked at Ballara. The train service to Ballara dropped to once a month from February 1921, when there were still 17 families in the town, plus ‘copper gougers’ (small mine operators) in the area. During 1921 the railway only carried 199 tons of freight.

Train services to Ballara were maintained by the government throughout most of the 1920s. In October 1922 a service from Cloncurry to Ballara ran on alternate Wednesdays. The discovery of a large silver-lead deposit at Mount Isa in 1923 raised hopes that the railway could be extended from Ballara to Mount Isa, but the line was constructed from Duchess instead. Services to Ballara alternated between a weekly and a fortnightly schedule until early 1927, when regular services ended.

The MacGregor Junction to Ballara railway survived for a short while longer, as 38 tons of minerals and 10 tons of other goods were carried in the 1928 - 1929 financial year, from Pindora siding. The rails between MacGregor Junction and Ballara were removed in 1929, and were stacked at Malbon. There were complaints that a final train was not even sent out to evacuate 30 copper gougers and their families.

After the mine’s closure in 1920, Ballara’s decline was inevitable. In 1920 Wise’s Post Office Directory listed a district and a maternity hospital at Ballara; plus a school teacher; butchers; refreshment rooms; stores; a boarding house; a station and post master; and the MacGregor and Ballara Hotels. By 1927 no names or institutions were listed under Ballara.

Although the tramway and railway had closed, and Hightville and Ballara were abandoned, copper gougers retained an interest in the Wee MacGregor area over the following decades. In 1954, prospectors also discovered uranium deposits at Ballara. Several concrete slabs at the site of Hightville date from the early 1970s, during a period of renewed mining activity at the Wee MacGregor mine, and in 2018, exploratory drilling work was underway at the mine.

Source: Queensland Heritage Register.

Modi'in. Israel.

Helios 81N 50mm f/2.0

豊島五丁目団地。

Toshima 5-chome Complex.

Boudoir Photogrpahy

Model: Complex Enigma

After the Mendocino Complex wildfire fo 2018

Angkor Wat

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I spent a few days in Udaipur for a friend's wedding, which occupied most of my time there. I did get a short opportunity to sneak away and check out the City Palace by Lake Pichola. It's easily a place you could lose yourself for an hour or two strolling the grounds, and going room to room within the palace walls.

Read the full blog post: www.aisleseatplease.com/blog/inside-the-complex

DBZ2306 "Shire of Dardanup" sitting outside the shed at Picton, Rail Complex, Bunbury WA awaiting either work or attention.

DBZ 2306 "Shire of Dardanup" is the ex DB1586, (Build No. 81-994/ 1982).

The 12 DB class locos were built for WAGR (later Westrail), by Clyde Engineering at Rosewater, NSW (2,000hp, Co-Co, 1982-1983, 108tons, 90kmh).

With the Westrail sale to Genesee & Wyoming's ARG in 1997 and QR Rail (later Aurizon), buying ARG in 2006, there have been plenty of owner changes, with more to come.

DBZ 2306 was sold in December 2017, stored and out of use by Aurizon to CBH - Co-Op Bulk Handling WA.

It was in the Wheatbelt at Beverley as a backup loco and parts donor.

In January 2024 after a South African export deal fell though, all 10 CBH owned DBZs were sold to Watco Australia.

Only DBZ2301 is active with Watco. The the other 9 stored locos moved in February 2024 to the Wheatbelt Heritage Rail Centre, Minnivale.

Still there in October 2025 awaiting their fate.

Occupying one of the launch pads at Kennedy Space Complex on the central coast of Florida.

Mandala art print.

Niavaran Palace Complex, Tehran, Iran

In the complex mythology of Indian religion and Hinduism and its Gods and masters, this is a carving of the sage Bhringi, a great devotee of Lord Shiva, located in the Natya Mandapa (dancing hall) of the Veerabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh.

Bhringi was an ardent sage who worshipped only Lord Shiva, refusing to acknowledge or worship Parvati, Shiva's consort.

To test his devotion and teach him that Shiva and Parvati are one, the Goddess sat on Shiva's lap, making it difficult for Bhringi to circumambulate Shiva alone.

Undeterred, Bhringi transformed into a Bhringa (bee or beetle) and bored a hole through the middle of their united form (Ardhanarishvara) to circle only Shiva.

Enraged by this act, Parvati cursed him to lose all the parts of his body that came from a mother (flesh and blood), reducing him to a mere skeleton and making him unable to stand.

Seeing his devotee in a pitiful state, Lord Shiva took pity on him and granted him a third leg for support and balance, allowing him to stand upright.

One must realize that there is no Shiva without Shakti (Parvati) and vice versa. He is depicted in this form in the temple and is considered the dance master of the gods.

This 16th-century temple was built by the brothers Virupanna and Veeranna during the Vijayanagara Empire, and the pillar opposite this carving depicts the apsara Rambha mimicking Bhringi's dance movements.

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