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♪Everybody's girl
What’s the point in bein' everybody's girl?
Maybe you think that way there’s no chance gettin' hurt
Livin' for no one costs me way more than it's worth
So you're gonna be a singer, well, I'll be goddamned
You're as pretty as a postcard, no thanks to the old man
It's the same coat I had on the night that I went in
I can stay an hour at Canners, the streets cool off by then
When can I see you again?
Whatever happened to the girl I knew?
In the wasteland, come up short and end up on the news
Whatever happened to the girl I knew?
In the wasteland, come up short and end up on the news
Hey, hey hey, hey
Everything you want
What’s the fun in gettin’ everything you want?
I wouldn't know, but look, baby, you should try
Forget that lefty shit your mom drilled in your mind
Give the world a new savior, sell his pictures to the press
Buy a place out in the country, leave this world for someone else
My destruction is an hour late, I’m at Buddy's Rendezvous
Tellin' the losers and old timers how good I did with you
They almost believe me, too♫
You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap
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Lockdown fatigue chic!! Filthy, take-a-way strewn, cat hair coated, pesky flies, because you just don't care anymore. Move-in ready and low low monthly rent....
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Mevlâna's successor Hüsamettin Çelebi decided to build a mausoleum (Kubbe-i-Hadra) over the grave of his master. The Seljuk construction, under architect Badr al-Din Tabrizi, was completed in 1274. The construction costs were met by Gurju Khatun, the wife of the Seljuk Emir Suleiman Pervâne, and Emir Alameddin Kayser. The cylindrical drum of the dome originally rested on four pillars. The dome is covered with turquoise tiles.
"It costs less at Sterchi's"
STERCHI BROS. STORES
to furnish your home.
From VanishingGeorgia.com.
This landmark, visible on Georgia Highway 22 between Gray and Haddock, is an amazing survivor from a time when the roofs of rural barns were used to advertise myriad businesses and attractions. The “See Rock City” barns have become icons, but many other businesses were promoted in this way. This example advertises Knoxville-based Sterchi* Brothers Furniture Company [It Costs Less at Sterchi’s], which was the largest furniture store chain in the nation in the early 20th century, with over 650 stores in the Southeast. There are only a few of these Sterchi barns documented, to my knowledge, and most are in Tennessee. It is believed that most are at least 80 years old.
A hand me down Little Tikes ride on car for our great granddaughter.
Florence is only 31/2 months old so it’s parked in our garage waiting a couple of years to be played with once more.
HMM
For me, it's the tree that gives this landscape shot perspective. Everything in this environment is larger than life, while the colours are both rich and confronting.
Here is an extract from my Journal of September 10th:
"At Kulala Camp, the manager greeted me, took me through an induction and showed me to a room with impossibly steep steps up to my “tent”. He saw my problem with the steps and said he’d find me a better room. While he did this, Ruby (my guide) took me on my first official game drive. On this drive we saw very few animals, Ruby was more interested to tell me about the geological history of the landscape. We stopped, she gathered up rocks and gave me the most comprehensive geology lesson of my life. We were indeed in an ancient landscape dating back to the dawn of time on Earth.
Ruby drove to a rise on the side of a vast hill of giant rocks where she laid out drinks and nibbles while we watched the sun set accompanied by the sounds of Barking Geckos calling to each other. We each had plenty to share and tell the other, and Ruby was uncommonly impressed at my having three cameras. Ruby was not only a tour guide and geologist, she was also a budding photographer who wanted to hone her skills on my cameras. It soon became evident that she knew nothing about composition, had no idea of focus but she had a keen admiration for my zoom lens.
She asked what activities might interest me, especially as a Swiss couple were taking a hot air balloon ride the next morning. I said I’d like to do the same, or take one of four sight seeing flights that were available. Ruby said it was too late to organize flights for the next day, and besides, she would take me to Sousousvlei tomorrow morning. She would get details and costs of the flight options for me during dinner.
That evening all the guests, except four who chose not to mingle, were seated together at a long table in the outside dining area. I was seated between a Swiss woman and an American man, with an English woman named Clair opposite. Clair and I were solo travellers and we hit it off from the moment we met. Such a beautiful intelligent and well travelled woman with a marvellous sense of adventure; we were destined to be great friends.
For me it was an early night, I had lost 8 hours on my flight from Australia. Ruby wanted me fed and watered for a 7 o’clock start the next morning. As promised, Ruby had details of the flight options, all prices were for two, regardless of one person flying. I would also have to pay Ruby’s wages for the day because she would have to take me to the airfield and wait there for me to return. I said I’d think about it overnight."
© gerd kozik/ yarin asanth 2017
And always think about please, the last one turns off the light in the cathedral! We have to much energy costs.
If you have a x-ray vision, a good infrared lamp, the 7th sense or you would like to drive by ear like me, come to my friend gerd outside the cathedral, through the magical forest (take the horse taxi) and just to the small lake of big harmony. You find him there....
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Another picture of my fractal artwork series. First I had an undifferentiated conception, just an idea about an atmosphere with a special soft white light. I wanted to create a purity, a picture especially for Sunday ;) A church, a cathedral, like in a fairy tale or a computer game, but it had to be almost unearthly. So I got more and more a clearer imagination. Now I looked at some presets pattern in the fractal software and after a while (droped up in the makro world) I found a preset with interesting details. Next I wanted to implementate a photography of my photostream with it’s own structur and a spectrum of colours, that I wanted to find again in my creation. I found a lake photography with a small spectrum of colours but a wonderful blue. This photo I layed over the fractal preset, changed some parameters and watched the math process. Than I took a detail shot. Ready. I hope you like it!
Ticket to El Tatio Park costs $ 15.00 and is not included in the tour price, $ 37.70. This value is managed by the Tatio Mallku Society that integrates the Atacamenhas Caspana and Toconce communities, in a fair and noble way, it is the community that cares for and draws its sustenance from the tourist activities in the region.
Although the geothermal field of the Tatio volcano is active for 24 hours a day the larger show, with much steam and water jets, is appreciated only in the early morning due to the shock from boiling water at about 80 ° C and temperature below zero degrees Celsius from the ambient at this time.
In the complex that occupies an area of 3 km there are about 80 geysers formed by the effect of subterranean rivers to 200 meters of depth (approximately) heated by the volcanic and magna rocks that generate a great pressure causing the water to surface.
" Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced."
Taiichi Ohno
Photo inspired by Tekken char - Kazuya Mishima
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Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
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© Marion Post Wolcott, 1939
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
This bright pink ferry shelter is situated by the river at Warsash.
The ferry itself is based at Hamble on the opposite side of the river and operates between Warsash and Hamble The pilot also keeps an eye out and when he sees passengers near the pink shelter, comes to ferry them across the river.
The shelter is photogenic but not too practical, a look inside revealed a dark interior with nowhere to sit and heaps of pebbles washed in by high tide.
It's not certain when the ferry began plying its trade but local research has dated it back to at least 1493.
The ferry has always carried a maximum of 12 passengers who were originally taken across the river by a ferryman in a small rowing boat (sometimes with their horse swimming along behind!)
Today a one-way trip costs £2.50 per adult.
It costs nothing and brings a lot.
It enriches the recipient
without making the donor poorer.
It's as short as a flash
but the memory of it is often imperishable.
Nobody is so rich that they could do without
none so poor that he couldn't afford it.
It means relaxation for the tired,
for the despondent encouragement,
for the sad cheer
and it is the best remedy for anger.
You can't buy it
still solicit
still borrow
still steal,
because it only gets its value
when it is given away.
Because nobody needs it so bitterly
like the one who no longer likes others.
The Monument of the Little Insurgent is located at the outer defensive wall of the Old Town in Warsaw. It commemorates the youngest participants of the Warsaw Uprising.
The scouts from Chorągiew Stołeczna ZHP im. Bohaterów Warszawy made idea of monument project of the youngest Warsaw insurgents. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz donated his project to his scouts, which was already prepared in 1946, and prepared free documentation necessary for making the cast. Money to cover the costs of works related to the casting and setting up of the monument was collected by scouts.
The monument was unveiled on October 1, 1983 by the scout-insurgent of Warsaw, Jerzy Świderski, in the presence of scouts from Warsaw and other Polish cities.
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Pomnik Małego Powstańca znajduje się przy zewnętrznym murze obronnym Starego Miasta w Warszawie. Upamiętnia najmłodszych uczestników powstania warszawskiego.
Z inicjatywą wzniesienia pomnika wystąpili harcerze z Chorągwi Stołecznej ZHP im. Bohaterów Warszawy. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz ofiarował harcerzom swój projekt, opracowany już w 1946, oraz przygotował nieodpłatnie dokumentację potrzebną do wykonania odlewu. Pieniądze na pokrycie kosztów prac związanych z odlaniem i ustawieniem monumentu (około 1 mln złotych) zostały zebrane przez harcerzy.
Odsłonięcia pomnika 1 października 1983 dokonał harcerz-powstaniec warszawski Jerzy Świderski, w obecności harcerzy z Warszawy i innych miast Polski.
A reprocessed image removing dust particles, some of the grain, and balancing the exposures a bit better.
Peak no. 45118 is captured at Wellingborough heading south with a Midland Mainline service to London St Pancras on a misty and numbingly cold winter's day in 1976.
The station was still under semaphore control at the time but the once busy goods yard, out of sight beyond the road bridge, was already showing signs of neglect - as indeed were the two freight lines on the right. Once one of the main arteries for transporting coal from the Nottinghamshire collieries up to the capital, by 1976 traffic volumes were significantly reduced and the two freight lines would eventually be reduced to a single bi-directional track to save on maintenance costs.
Fast forward and over the last 2-3 years the scene here has become almost unrecognisable - the line is now electrified and, from this year (2021), a regular service now runs through from London to Corby. The freight line that was removed has also been reinstated, in part to provide extra capacity for the new electric train service, and the then disused platform out of shot on the far right, is now in use again as platform 4. Sadly the view of the fine Midland Railway bridge in the background carrying Mill Road, is now obscured by a concrete bridge in the foreground carrying, perhaps appropriately, the aptly named Midland Road. All in all then, not quite the sleepy but beguiling place it was when I took this shot!
Agfa CT18
10th December 1976
St. James United Church
Built 1889 on Sainte Catherine Street in Montreal.
From Wikipedia: In 1927, to cover upkeep costs, the church permitted a commercial building to be built in front of its Sainte Catherine Street façade. The building, adjoining the church's structure, concealed the church for over 78 years, the church itself being announced by a large neon sign.
In 2005, as part of an $8-million restoration effort sponsored by the city of Montreal and the Quebec government, a portion of the commercial buildings were demolished, once again revealing the facade of the church as well as a new public square designed by Quebec architect Claude Cormier. Access has also been restored to the rear lawn from Sainte Catherine Street.
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St. Mark's Campanile Bell Tower, Venice, Italy
St Mark's Campanile is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the Piazza San Marco. It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the city. The tower is 98.6 metres tall, and stands alone in a corner of St Mark's Square, near the front of the basilica.
It costs 8 Euros each for taking the elevator to the top for the magnificent views of Venice.
For video, please visit youtu.be/PVk_WR7NXjU
If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live.
Thomas Merton.
Si tuviera un mensaje para mis contemporáneos seguramente sería este: sean lo que quieran, sean locos, borrachos y bastardos de toda forma, pero eviten a toda costa una cosa: el éxito. . . Si estás demasiado obsesionado con el éxito, te olvidarás de vivir.
Thomas Merton.
Por el bulevar de los sueños rotos
Pasan de largo los terremotos
Y hay un tequila por cada duda...
Se escapo de una cárcel de amor,
De un delirio de alcohol,
De mil noches en vela...
Por el bulevar de los sueños rotos
Moja una lagrima antiguas fotos
Y una canción se burla del miedo
Las amarguras no son amargas...
paseos de desconfinamiento
Torrent
mayo 2020
A Taste Of The
Mediterranean and Middle-East on a cold wet day in Taunton.
The Citroën H-Type vans, are a series of panel vans and light trucks, produced by French automaker Citroën for 34 years (from 1947 through 1981), that are memorable for their Industrial design, using many corrugated metal outer body panels, to save material, weight, and costs.
As fuel costs have risen dramatically over the last year; I like many others have taken to turning the heating down or off.
Its surprising how many extra layers of clothing you need when sitting in front of the computer and not moving much.
At least here in the UK its just cold as opposed to parts of the USA and Canada that are currently in the "deep freeze".
Aston Martin DB7 in Joe's Garage
History:
The DB7, known internally as the XX project, was made mostly with resources from Jaguar Cars and had the financial backing of the Ford Motor Company, owner of Aston Martin from 1988 to 2007. The DB7's platform is an evolution of the Jaguar XJS platform, though with many changes.
The DB7 began life as a successor to the Jaguar XJS envisioned by Tom Walkinshaw of TWR. Walkinshaw had been impressed by the XJS' potential after driving it in the European Touring Car Championship in the late 1970s and early 1980s and wanted to re-body the car so it would have more modern styling. He initially wanted to engage Peter Stevens to design such a car but he refused due to his on going projects as the time. Walkinshaw then engaged Ian Callum, who was new in the car design work at the time, to design the car.
Jaguar had been struggling to replace the XJS due to its weak financial position. A project codenamed the XJ41/42 (41 for the coupé, 42 for the convertible) was already in development stage in the company, mooted to be called the F-Type when completed and was designed by Keith Helfet. When American automobile manufacturer Ford acquired both Jaguar and Aston Martin, the new management cancelled the XJ41/42 project in 1990 because of the car's heavier weight than the XJS, the project's high budget and also the employee overtime spent on the car. Seeing the potential of the abandoned project, Walkinshaw based his concept on the XJ41 and tasked Ian Callum to design his envisioned body around the XJ41. He presented the completed car to Jaguar's management who rejected it.
Due to the development of the Jaguar XJ220, Ford had not been very keen on development of new Aston Martin models due to high development costs and the wake of the 1990s economic downturn. Aston Martin CEO at the time, Walter Hayes approached Walkinshaw as he had seen the potential in Walkinshaw's proposition to succeed. Development started with a project name of XX. Ian Callum was again tasked to redesign the car so it would look like an Aston Martin. Due to a limited financial backing at the time, the final product shared many components from other marques owned by Ford. The tail lights came from the Mazda 323 F, the Chrome door handles came from the Mazda 323 Estate, the turn signals came from the Mazda MX-5 and the interior door mirror switches came from the Ford Scorpio. The only foreign component would be the wing mirrors which were shared with the Citroën CX. The whole project cost US$30 million.
On 1 January 1993, Jac Nasser was appointed the new chairman of Ford Europe. He presented the finished car, which had yet to be named, to the general public at the 1993 Geneva Motor Show. Due to the positive and overwhelming reception, the car was put into production as the Aston Martin DB7
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Ystradfellte waterfall country. I do notice that English speakers tend to avoid using this name at all costs, because of the difficulty of pronouncing it. But I put in a plea for visitors not to avoid saying the names! Try: forvo.com/word/ystradfellte/ THANK YOU
"It costs less at Sterchi's"
STERCHI BROS. STORES. Located on highway 22 between Gray and Haddock, is a survivor from when the roofs of barns were used to advertise businesses. This barn advertises Knoxville-based Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company [It Costs Less at Sterchi’s],
People just decide that their boat isn't worth it anymore, they dump it or maybe it breaks down. According to CJ a local boat captain it costs they county about 15k to remove these boats and they only have a budget each year of 85K. So, when these owners determine enough is enough for them, they remove the VIN numbers and anything of value and let the rest of us pick up the mess. I really dislike people like that. Best part.... If you look at the name of the boat close up... Integrity.
Sapessi cosa costa germogliare a freddo, in un terreno senza pace...
Alda Merini
Cactus heart
If you only knew how much it costs to sprout in the cold, in a ground without peace....
View from Thirassia island with the much better known Santorini in the background. It only costs 3 Euro for the round trip ferry to escape the chaos of multiple cruise ships, gigantic tour buses, and frustrating traffic where making a simple left turn is a blood sport on the main island, and this was in October. Panoramic stitch of multiple portrait format images.
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The running costs for the Reindeer alone is a fortune.
So it seemed a waste not to use the "breaking and entering" skills throughout the year.
Happy Christmas.
The main difference:-
intent: "Breaking and Entering" is often just the unauthorised entry itself (trespassing with a stronger term), while "Burglary" requires illegally entering a structure with the intent to commit another crime (like theft or assault) inside, making it a much more serious felony. Think of it as: Breaking & Entering = trespassing + entry; Burglary = Breaking & Entering + criminal purpose.
About the 1934 LaSalle
In the 1920’s, General Motors (GM) competed against Ford’s “one size fits all” approach by building “a car for every purse and purpose.” GM’s Cadillac had become the market leader in both prestige and price. The LaSalle, first designed in 1927 by the talented Harley Earl, was the model to fit between the Cadillac and Oldsmobile brands. Following the success of the early LaSalle, Alfred P. Sloan, head of GM, promoted Earl to head a new design office: GM’s “Art and Color Section.” However, success began to wane as the Great Depression wreaked havoc on LaSalle sales.
In 1933 the LaSalle was scheduled for termination. Earl spotted an aircraft-inspired design on the drawing board of Jules Agramonte, a member of the Art and Color team. Immediately motivated, Earl and his team redesigned the LaSalle with new Art Deco features such as the tall, narrow front grill, pontoon fenders, biplane bumpers, portholes, chevrons, and chrome accents. Earl had a full-scale mockup built, and presented it to GM executives, proclaiming, “Gentlemen, if you decide to discontinue the LaSalle, this is the car you are not going to build.” GM quickly agreed to manufacture the beautiful new LaSalle, convinced it would revive sales and add excitement to their product line.
The 1934 LaSalle shared many aspects of its build with the Oldsmobile including, straight-8 engine components, frame, and transmission. Both cars also featured new, hydraulic brakes and a revolutionary independent front suspension, which Cadillac did not yet have. The LaSalle team was tasked with reducing production costs by 1/3 — a feat they achieved by sharing parts across model lines. The LaSalle was a design masterpiece, advertised as “the newest car in the world,” and was the pace car for the 1934 Indianapolis 500. LaSalle sales doubled for 1934 and continued to grow through 1936; however, as the US began to rise from the depths of the Depression, consumer demand trended away from such cars, toward smaller, less expensive brand models. By 1940, GM had finally conceded, cancelling production of the LaSalle.
Across coastal Algarve towns and much of Portugal, the beauty of historic architecture hides a sobering reality: a surplus of abandoned homes. Rising real estate costs make purchasing these properties inaccessible for locals and new buyers alike. Further complicating matters, strict renovation guarantees required by the government add a significant financial burden to restore properties to habitable conditions, dissuading potential investors.
The situation leads to many historic homes falling further into disrepair, trapped between heritage preservation laws and economic impracticalities. Addressing this issue may require incentivized restoration programs or subsidies to encourage sustainable housing solutions that preserve cultural legacies while addressing housing shortages.
97302 'Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways / Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog ac Eryri' powers through Poynton on 6Z56, Guide Bridge Brookside Sidings - Stoke Granville Sidings. For those interested, the crane in tow is DRK 81625.
A bit miffed with the world today. I'd arrived plenty early and lined up a lovely shot for this, with the vintage sign, bench and flower planter further down the platform all included. Despite the platform being empty, one guy on a bike decided, upon seeing me composing my shot, to ride his bike from the other end of the platform and sit on said bench, right in the middle of the frame. Despite asking him nicely if he wouldn't mind moving for 4 minutes, he refused, so I quickly had to recompose further up the platform.
Curries could soon cost £30 and fish and chips up to £20 as restaurants and takeaways pass soaring energy bills and inflation onto their customers - after pub bosses warned of £20 pints and a steakhouse chain says its dishes could reach £100.
Shale Ahmed, who runs an Indian street food company called Saucy Burger, says diners are facing an 'eye-watering impact on prices' as curry houses struggle to survive amid skyrocketing costs.
Speaking at the Farm-to-Fork Food Resilience conference, he described how the industry is in a 'dark place' and warns many businesses will have to close without immediate government help.
Mr Ahmed told the BBC: 'The sector's in a spiral effect and it's going down.
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Taken at Backdrop City
Ticket costs US$ 3.34
Ramses III’s magnificent memorial temple of Medinat Habu, fronted by sleepy Kom Lolah village and backed by the Theban mountains, is one of the west bank's most underrated sites. This was one of the first places in Thebes closely associated with the local god Amun. At its height, Medinat Habu contained temples, storage rooms, workshops, administrative buildings, a royal palace and accommodation for priests and officials. It was the centre of the economic life of Thebes for centuries.
Although the complex is most famous for the funerary temple built by Ramses III, Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III also constructed buildings here. They were later added to and altered by a succession of rulers through to the Ptolemies. When the pagan cults were banned, it became an important Christian centre, and was still inhabited as late as the 9th century AD, when a plague was thought to have decimated the town. You can still see the mud-brick remains of the medieval town that gave the site its name (medina means ‘town’ or ‘city’) on top of the enclosure walls.
The original Temple of Amun, built by Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, was later completely overshadowed by the enormous Funerary Temple of Ramses III, the dominant feature of Medinat Habu. But a chapel from the Hatshepsut period still stands on the right after you have passed the outer gates.
Ramses III was inspired in the construction of his shrine by the Ramesseum of his illustrious forebear, Ramses II. His own temple and the smaller one dedicated to Amun are both enclosed within the massive outer walls of the complex.
Also just inside, to the left of the gate, are the Tomb Chapels of the Divine Adorers, which were built for the principal priestesses of Amun. Outside the eastern gate, one of only two entrances, was a landing quay for a canal that once connected Medinat Habu with the Nile.
You enter the site through the unique Syrian Gate, a large two-storey building modelled after a Syrian fortress: as with the images of the pharaoh smiting his enemies, this harks back to the famous battles between Egyptians and Hittites, particularly at the time of Ramses II. If you follow the wall to the left, you will find a staircase leading to the upper floors. There is not much to see in the rooms but you’ll get some great views out across the village in front of the temple and over the fields to the south.
The well-preserved first pylon marks the front of the temple proper. Ramses III is portrayed in its reliefs as the victor in several wars. Most famous are the fine reliefs of his victory over the Libyans (whom you can recognise by their long robes, sidelocks and beards). There is also a gruesome scene of scribes tallying the number of enemies killed by counting severed hands and genitals.
To the left of the first court are the remains of the Pharaoh’s Palace; the three rooms at the rear were for the royal harem. There is a window between the first court and the Pharaoh’s Palace known as the Window of Appearances, which allowed the pharaoh to show himself to his subjects.
The reliefs of the second pylon feature Ramses III presenting prisoners of war to Amun and his vulture-goddess wife, Mut. Colonnades and reliefs surround the second court, depicting various religious ceremonies.
If you have time to wander about the extensive ruins around the funerary temple, you will see the remains of an early Christian basilica as well as a small sacred lake and, on the south side of the temple, the outline of the palace and the window, looking into the temple courtyard, where Ramses would appear.
It is a wonderful place to visit, especially in the late afternoon when the light softens and the creamy stone glows.
Locking up the shop for the last time:
Thousands of corner shops will be forced to close due to surging energy costs unless the government steps in with emergency support, a trade body has said.
The trade body, which represents 48,000 local shops employing 405,000 staff, said energy bills had surged to an average of £45,000 for smaller members, a figure more than double what store owners had been paying before renewing their contracts in recent months.
Wellington Somerset, UK.
it costs a lot of money to restore old cars.
These have been patiently waiting in a lot
in Steveston for a return to their youth.
listening to The Impressions - "Its All Right" 1965
Sometime in mid-September, the diamond between the CPR and former ACR at Franz, Ontario was severed, bringing over one hundred years of railroading tradition to a sudden and ruthlessly unceremonious end. Rumored to be the result of mounting maintenance costs and a lack of business, the railway between Franz and Oba now lies dormant. Here, heavy October skies set the tone as Canadian Pacific's Montreal to Edmonton hotshot no. 119 roars through the abandoned townsite of Franz and over the recently dismantled diamond. While the future of the ACR remains uncertain, Watco, the new operator of the line, has assured that a "One Way Low Speed" diamond is to be re-installed sometime in the new year when traffic is anticipated to resume.
Arabianranta, Helsinki, Finland -
The Arabia factories were founded in 1873. The design company is known for its modern dish design, and at one time it was the biggest porcelain factory in Europe.
Of the factory’s designers, Kaj Franck, Toini Muona and Birger Kaipiainen, among others, have had streets named after them in Arabianranta. The University of Art and Design moved into the factory’s premises in 1986, and the Pop&Jazz Conservatory followed in 1995. The aim has been to assemble the leading centre of art and design in the Baltic Sea region in Arabianranta.
The planning of the area began in the early 1990s at the Helsinki City Planning Department.
The construction of Arabianranta began in spring 2000 until 2012. The completed area will feature some 3,500
apartments for about 7,500 residents. The first new residents moved into the area in 2001.
Of the construction costs, 1-2 per cent has been reserved for art, and artists have participated in the planning processes from the beginning of the construction projects. There are works of art in stairwells, common areas and courtyards and parks.