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Exploitant : Cars Hourtoule
Réseau : SQY Terre d'Innovations
Ligne : 10
Lieu : Gare de Plaisir – Grignon (Plaisir, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/41511
The former Greetwell Quarry on the eastern edge of Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Situated in the area stretching from the east end of Monks Road / Crofton Road / Greetwell Hollow on the south to Wragby Road on the north, the most productive and extensive area of working being on the north side of Greetwell Road. The original mining operation was a mixture of opencast and underground adits or tunnels.
Operated by Mid-Lincs Ironstone Co. to exploit Northampton Sand Ironstone needed in steel making process at Scunthorpe. Over 1000 acres of land was bought from Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Area south of Greetwell Road was worked out by 1875. Both quarrying and mining took place, the ironstone being removed manually and transported by narrow gauge tramway to M S and L Railway at Monks Abbey sidings passing under road bridge in Greetwell Road.
A combination of horse and human muscle power was used. Steam power was attempted in 1911 and 1916 but was not a success. 6 separate areas were; Wilsons, Rudyards, Long Harry, East Drift, Grundys No 1 and Grundys No 2. Approximately 4 million tons of ironstone were extracted in lifetime of mines and quarries. Limestone has been quarried on the north side since the end of ironstone mining in 1930s, while the land to the south was levelled for construction of Allenby and Crofton Trading Estates.
It was a former working Limestone Quarry up until 2003 and in the years since nature has started to take over. There are now plans to build hundreds of new houses on the area and the new Eastern Bypass will come close to the south eastern corner so the whole landscape is set to change in the next few years.
Information source:
arcade.lincoln.gov.uk/report/ddba04b4-36dc-4bc0-93ab-ad72...
They said if I add some cute animals to my pictures I'd get more likes. Lets put this to the test! :D
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La motrice articulée à plancher bas BKM 164 est prise dans un bouchon causant une accumulation de motrices suite à une perturbation d'exploitation.
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"Mythical Jeep"
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Exploitant : SAVAC
Réseau : Express (Île-de-France)
Ligne : Express 307
Lieu : Vélizy 2 (Vélizy-Villacoublay, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/57820
Fotos del Tour of Chaos 2014 organizado por la gente del Resurrection Fest para REVOLVER España
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Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Magelys Pro (12,80m.) €5
Identification : 1410 (CP-341-DN)
Exploitant : Citram Aquitaine (Groupe Transdev)
Dépôt : Andernos-les-Bains
Réseau : Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Ligne : 601
Service : n.c.
Destination : BORDEAUX Quinconces
27/09/2019 09:42
Allée de Munich ; F-33 BORDEAUX
HMS Exploit on its way up the River Thames yesterday: it moored at Tilbury landing stage just beyond this.
HMS Exploit is one of 14 "Archer" class patrol vessels and in based at Portsmouth. It has a crew of 5. It was commissioned in 1988 and built in the UK.
The recent commemorations of the Dunkirk evacuations were marked by a fleet of Dunkirk Little Ships sailing from Ramsgate to Dunkirk last week: they are returning this week. The were accompanied by a number of Navy patrol vessels (7, I believe) and I imagine HMS Exploit was one of these. Another was further down the river a I shot this (I left when it began to rain...). I'd been hoping to see any of the Little Ships which were returning but wasn't successful.
The Little Ships were private vessels that sailed from Ramsgate across the channel to help in the evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops. There were over 800 Little Ships. One of the owners of a surviving vessel made the point that, with the passage of time, the Little Ships themselves are our last link with an extraordinary episode from a terrible time. I love to see them, whatever the reason.
(Just visible behind the greenery across the river: 3 tower blocks, masked by smoke from a fire a short distance up river).
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A group of tarpons accompanied us during our night dives on Bonaire. These nocturnal hunters exploited the light from our torches to find prey.
Ranting and raving by society rejected
He stood all alone one of the exploited
A life of public service was once suggested
20 years of education for him had been invested
Standing for election the polls he contested
The electorate in him could not be interested
With his interest in expenses more than vested
A recount at least was what he requested
..................... Copyright (c) Rodney Harrison 2014
After my exploits last summer and autumn, I'm good for photos of the brown and purple E200s, which is just as well since several faced sudden withdrawal last month. Not among them was 370; the one that doesn't have any branding on the front. You'd've thought it would have made a prime candidate for being sold on, as part of the de-branding job is already done.
Mansfield Road, Nottingham, 31.1.22
Ober-Assel comme on l'appelait à l'époque autrichienne doit son existence à l'exploitation minière qui s'est développée dès la fin du XIVe siècle dans tout le nord du département. La commune d'Auxelles se divisa en 1569 pour donner naissance à Auxelles-Haut et Auxelles-Bas.
Des mineurs venus du Tyrol et de Saxe immigrent dans le sud des Vosges au XIVe siècle pour travailler au creusement des puits et des galeries et à l'extraction du minerai de plomb, de cuivre et d'argent. Les noms germaniques apportés par cette population se retrouvent à Auxelles-Haut dans la toponymie (Gesellschaft, Teuschgrund, Pfennigthurm...) et bien sûr dans les patronymes, bien que très souvent francisés. Les puits et galeries portent la plupart du temps un nom de saint : Saint-Jean-Fundgruben, Saint-Philippe...
L'exploitation des mines d'Auxelles-Haut était complexe et dangereuse en raison de l'instabilité des terrains. Elle était encore compliquée par la présence de grandes quantités d'eau qu'il fallait extraire des mines. Des machines hydrauliques perfectionnées furent installées dans les années 1670-1680, utilisant la force motrice de l'eau de surface amenée aux mines grâce à un système de petits barrages et de canaux parcourant la montagne, et introduite dans les galeries par des conduites forcées. À l'intérieur de la mine Saint-Jean, en particulier, une immense salle accueillait une roue hydraulique de près de 10 mètres de diamètre ce qui était un exploit technologique pour l'époque. La mine Saint-Jean était l'une des trois grandes mines du Rosemont (la région dont Giromagny est le chef-lieu), avec celles du Phanitor et de Saint-Pierre au Montjean. Elle ne produisait que du plomb, qui était utilisé pour séparer le cuivre de l'argent issu des autres mines. La production d'argent assurait des revenus importants ce qui explique que l'on ait réalisé des investissements considérables notamment pour mettre au point des machines hydrauliques très perfectionnées.
L'exploitation des mines a cessé à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les filons les plus rentables ayant été épuisés. Au XIXe siècle, un tissage mécanique entraîné par la force de l'eau est construit par l'industriel Boigeol. On peut encore voir les ruines de deux petits barrages qui portent son nom, au nord du village dans le vallon du Rhôme, et qui étaient utilisés comme réserve d'eau permettant d'alimenter le moteur hydraulique. Il est probable que ces barrages aient été établis sur ceux servant à l'alimentation des machines hydrauliques des mines, aux siècles précédents.
On peut encore voir à différents endroits les vestiges de l'activité minière : galeries de mines et déblais dans le village, haldes dans la lande du Mont Ménard.
Cette activité industrielle très ancienne a laissé une marque profonde dans la structure de l'habitat : on voit à Auxelles-Haut quantité de maisons de mineurs et d'ouvriers, petites et serrées les unes contre les autres, près des mines, contrairement à ce que l'on voit à Auxelles-Bas où la maison typique est la grosse ferme paysanne.
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La commune d'Auxelles se divisa en l'An 1569 pour donner naissance à Auxelles-Haut et Auxelles-Bas.
L'église du village date de 1841, elle est située à coté de l'Auberge Le Coin de la Stolle sous le piton rocheux où s'élevait autrefois le château médiéval.
Plusieurs monuments entretiennent le souvenir de la Résistance contre l'occupant pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, et des combattants de l'ombre tués par les Allemands dans le village.
Au Mont Ménard, la Vierge des Auxelles a été installée pour la remercier d'avoir protégé la population. Un autre lieu emblématique de la commune est la Chaume du Querty, pâturage communal où se maintiennent deux chalets associatifs et où montent les Quichelots pour cueillir les myrtilles ou brimbelles.
Auxelles-Haut est maintenant un joli village, réputé pour être le point de départ de randonnées pédestres via des sentiers bordés de beaux hêtres.
Ces sentiers mènent le randonneur au sommet de la Planche des Belles Filles (1 148 mètres d'altitude) d'où il aura une vue superbe sur toute la Trouée de Belfort, la Forêt-Noire à l'Est et les pics des Alpes au-delà des crêtes du Jura, et particulièrement, le mont Blanc.
Plus près, la lande du Mont-Ménard, très facilement accessible depuis le cœur du village, ou la Chaume du Querty, plus éloignée, offrent aussi de beaux panoramas et un grand dépaysement. Plusieurs sentiers balisés et entretenus par le Comité départemental de la randonnée et le conseil général du Territoire de Belfort offrent de belles possibilités de promenades, courtes ou longues.
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Exploitant : SPL TransUrbain
Réseau : TransUrbain
Ligne : T2
Lieu : Pôle d'Échanges SNCF (Évreux, F-27)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/33417
Exploitant : Transdev Val d'Europe Airports
Réseau : Magical Shuttle
Lieu : Centre Opérationnel Bus de Bailly-Romainvilliers (Bailly-Romainvilliers, F-77)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/27300
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Author: Andreas Nierhaus, Curator of Architecture/Wien Museum
Last updated January 2014
Architecture in Vienna
Vienna's 2,000-year history is present in a unique density in the cityscape. The layout of the center dates back to the Roman city and medieval road network. Romanesque and Gothic churches characterize the streets and squares as well as palaces and mansions of the baroque city of residence. The ring road is an expression of the modern city of the 19th century, in the 20th century extensive housing developments set accents in the outer districts. Currently, large-scale urban development measures are implemented; distinctive buildings of international star architects complement the silhouette of the city.
Due to its function as residence of the emperor and European power center, Vienna for centuries stood in the focus of international attention, but it was well aware of that too. As a result, developed an outstanding building culture, and still today on a worldwide scale only a few cities can come up with a comparable density of high-quality architecture. For several years now, Vienna has increased its efforts to connect with its historical highlights and is drawing attention to itself with some spectacular new buildings. The fastest growing city in the German-speaking world today most of all in residential construction is setting standards. Constants of the Viennese architecture are respect for existing structures, the palpability of historical layers and the dialogue between old and new.
Culmination of medieval architecture: the Stephansdom
The oldest architectural landmark of the city is St. Stephen's Cathedral. Under the rule of the Habsburgs, defining the face of the city from the late 13th century until 1918 in a decisive way, the cathedral was upgraded into the sacral monument of the political ambitions of the ruling house. The 1433 completed, 137 meters high southern tower, by the Viennese people affectionately named "Steffl", is a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture in Europe. For decades he was the tallest stone structure in Europe, until today he is the undisputed center of the city.
The baroque residence
Vienna's ascension into the ranks of the great European capitals began in Baroque. Among the most important architects are Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. Outside the city walls arose a chain of summer palaces, including the garden Palais Schwarzenberg (1697-1704) as well as the Upper and Lower Belvedere of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1714-22). Among the most important city palaces are the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene (1695-1724, now a branch of the Belvedere) and the Palais Daun-Kinsky (auction house in Kinsky 1713-19). The emperor himself the Hofburg had complemented by buildings such as the Imperial Library (1722-26) and the Winter Riding School (1729-34). More important, however, for the Habsburgs was the foundation of churches and monasteries. Thus arose before the city walls Fischer von Erlach's Karlskirche (1714-39), which with its formal and thematic complex show façade belongs to the major works of European Baroque. In colored interior rooms like that of St. Peter's Church (1701-22), the contemporary efforts for the synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture becomes visible.
Upgrading into metropolis: the ring road time (Ringstraßenzeit)
Since the Baroque, reflections on extension of the hopelessly overcrowed city were made, but only Emperor Franz Joseph ordered in 1857 the demolition of the fortifications and the connection of the inner city with the suburbs. 1865, the Ring Road was opened. It is as the most important boulevard of Europe an architectural and in terms of urban development achievement of the highest rank. The original building structure is almost completely preserved and thus conveys the authentic image of a metropolis of the 19th century. The public representational buildings speak, reflecting accurately the historicism, by their style: The Greek Antique forms of Theophil Hansen's Parliament (1871-83) stood for democracy, the Renaissance of the by Heinrich Ferstel built University (1873-84) for the flourishing of humanism, the Gothic of the Town Hall (1872-83) by Friedrich Schmidt for the medieval civic pride.
Dominating remained the buildings of the imperial family: Eduard van der Nüll's and August Sicardsburg's Opera House (1863-69), Gottfried Semper's and Carl Hasenauer's Burgtheater (1874-88), their Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History (1871-91) and the Neue (New) Hofburg (1881-1918 ). At the same time the ring road was the preferred residential area of mostly Jewish haute bourgeoisie. With luxurious palaces the families Ephrussi, Epstein or Todesco made it clear that they had taken over the cultural leadership role in Viennese society. In the framework of the World Exhibition of 1873, the new Vienna presented itself an international audience. At the ring road many hotels were opened, among them the Hotel Imperial and today's Palais Hansen Kempinski.
Laboratory of modernity: Vienna around 1900
Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06) was one of the last buildings in the Ring road area Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06), which with it façade, liberated of ornament, and only decorated with "functional" aluminum buttons and the glass banking hall now is one of the icons of modern architecture. Like no other stood Otto Wagner for the dawn into the 20th century: His Metropolitan Railway buildings made the public transport of the city a topic of architecture, the church of the Psychiatric hospital at Steinhofgründe (1904-07) is considered the first modern church.
With his consistent focus on the function of a building ("Something impractical can not be beautiful"), Wagner marked a whole generation of architects and made Vienna the laboratory of modernity: in addition to Joseph Maria Olbrich, the builder of the Secession (1897-98) and Josef Hoffmann, the architect of the at the western outskirts located Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and founder of the Vienna Workshop (Wiener Werkstätte, 1903) is mainly to mention Adolf Loos, with the Loos House at the square Michaelerplatz (1909-11) making architectural history. The extravagant marble cladding of the business zone stands in maximal contrast, derived from the building function, to the unadorned facade above, whereby its "nudity" became even more obvious - a provocation, as well as his culture-critical texts ("Ornament and Crime"), with which he had greatest impact on the architecture of the 20th century. Public contracts Loos remained denied. His major works therefore include villas, apartment facilities and premises as the still in original state preserved Tailor salon Knize at Graben (1910-13) and the restored Loos Bar (1908-09) near the Kärntner Straße (passageway Kärntner Durchgang).
Between the Wars: International Modern Age and social housing
After the collapse of the monarchy in 1918, Vienna became capital of the newly formed small country of Austria. In the heart of the city, the architects Theiss & Jaksch built 1931-32 the first skyscraper in Vienna as an exclusive residential address (Herrengasse - alley 6-8). To combat the housing shortage for the general population, the social democratic city government in a globally unique building program within a few years 60,000 apartments in hundreds of apartment buildings throughout the city area had built, including the famous Karl Marx-Hof by Karl Ehn (1925-30). An alternative to the multi-storey buildings with the 1932 opened International Werkbundsiedlung was presented, which was attended by 31 architects from Austria, Germany, France, Holland and the USA and showed models for affordable housing in greenfield areas. With buildings of Adolf Loos, André Lurçat, Richard Neutra, Gerrit Rietveld, the Werkbundsiedlung, which currently is being restored at great expense, is one of the most important documents of modern architecture in Austria.
Modernism was also expressed in significant Villa buildings: The House Beer (1929-31) by Josef Frank exemplifies the refined Wiener living culture of the interwar period, while the house Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1926-28, today Bulgarian Cultural Institute), built by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein together with the architect Paul Engelmann for his sister Margarete, by its aesthetic radicalism and mathematical rigor represents a special case within contemporary architecture.
Expulsion, war and reconstruction
After the "Anschluss (Annexation)" to the German Reich in 1938, numerous Jewish builders, architects (female and male ones), who had been largely responsible for the high level of Viennese architecture, have been expelled from Austria. During the Nazi era, Vienna remained largely unaffected by structural transformations, apart from the six flak towers built for air defense of Friedrich Tamms (1942-45), made of solid reinforced concrete which today are present as memorials in the cityscape.
The years after the end of World War II were characterized by the reconstruction of the by bombs heavily damaged city. The architecture of those times was marked by aesthetic pragmatism, but also by the attempt to connect with the period before 1938 and pick up on current international trends. Among the most important buildings of the 1950s are Roland Rainer's City Hall (1952-58), the by Oswald Haerdtl erected Wien Museum at Karlsplatz (1954-59) and the 21er Haus of Karl Schwanzer (1958-62).
The youngsters come
Since the 1960s, a young generation was looking for alternatives to the moderate modernism of the reconstruction years. With visionary designs, conceptual, experimental and above all temporary architectures, interventions and installations, Raimund Abraham, Günther Domenig, Eilfried Huth, Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler and the groups Coop Himmelb(l)au, Haus-Rucker-Co and Missing Link rapidly got international attention. Although for the time being it was more designed than built, was the influence on the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the 1970s and 1980s also outside Austria great. Hollein's futuristic "Retti" candle shop at Charcoal Market/Kohlmarkt (1964-65) and Domenig's biomorphic building of the Central Savings Bank in Favoriten (10th district of Vienna - 1975-79) are among the earliest examples, later Hollein's Haas-Haus (1985-90), the loft conversion Falkestraße (1987/88) by Coop Himmelb(l)au or Domenig's T Center (2002-04) were added. Especially Domenig, Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au and the architects Ortner & Ortner (ancient members of Haus-Rucker-Co) by orders from abroad the new Austrian and Viennese architecture made a fixed international concept.
MuseumQuarter and Gasometer
Since the 1980s, the focus of building in Vienna lies on the compaction of the historic urban fabric that now as urban habitat of high quality no longer is put in question. Among the internationally best known projects is the by Ortner & Ortner planned MuseumsQuartier in the former imperial stables (competition 1987, 1998-2001), which with institutions such as the MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, the Leopold Museum, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Architecture Center Vienna and the Zoom Children's Museum on a wordwide scale is under the largest cultural complexes. After controversies in the planning phase, here an architectural compromise between old and new has been achieved at the end, whose success as an urban stage with four million visitors (2012) is overwhelming.
The dialogue between old and new, which has to stand on the agenda of building culture of a city that is so strongly influenced by history, also features the reconstruction of the Gasometer in Simmering by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wilhelm Holzbauer, Jean Nouvel and Manfred Wehdorn (1999-2001). Here was not only created new housing, but also a historical industrial monument reinterpreted into a signal in the urban development area.
New Neighborhood
In recent years, the major railway stations and their surroundings moved into the focus of planning. Here not only necessary infrastructural measures were taken, but at the same time opened up spacious inner-city residential areas and business districts. Among the prestigious projects are included the construction of the new Vienna Central Station, started in 2010 with the surrounding office towers of the Quartier Belvedere and the residential and school buildings of the Midsummer quarter (Sonnwendviertel). Europe's largest wooden tower invites here for a spectacular view to the construction site and the entire city. On the site of the former North Station are currently being built 10,000 homes and 20,000 jobs, on that of the Aspangbahn station is being built at Europe's greatest Passive House settlement "Euro Gate", the area of the North Western Railway Station is expected to be developed from 2020 for living and working. The largest currently under construction residential project but can be found in the north-eastern outskirts, where in Seaside Town Aspern till 2028 living and working space for 40,000 people will be created.
In one of the "green lungs" of Vienna, the Prater, 2013, the WU campus was opened for the largest University of Economics of Europe. Around the central square spectacular buildings of an international architect team from Great Britain, Japan, Spain and Austria are gathered that seem to lead a sometimes very loud conversation about the status quo of contemporary architecture (Hitoshi Abe, BUSarchitektur, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, NO MAD Arquitectos, Carme Pinós).
Flying high
International is also the number of architects who have inscribed themselves in the last few years with high-rise buildings in the skyline of Vienna and make St. Stephen's a not always unproblematic competition. Visible from afar is Massimiliano Fuksas' 138 and 127 meters high elegant Twin Tower at Wienerberg (1999-2001). The monolithic, 75-meter-high tower of the Hotel Sofitel at the Danube Canal by Jean Nouvel (2007-10), on the other hand, reacts to the particular urban situation and stages in its top floor new perspectives to the historical center on the other side.
Also at the water stands Dominique Perrault's DC Tower (2010-13) in the Danube City - those high-rise city, in which since the start of construction in 1996, the expansion of the city north of the Danube is condensed symbolically. Even in this environment, the slim and at the same time striking vertically folded tower of Perrault is beyond all known dimensions; from its Sky Bar, from spring 2014 on you are able to enjoy the highest view of Vienna. With 250 meters, the tower is the tallest building of Austria and almost twice as high as the St. Stephen's Cathedral. Vienna, thus, has acquired a new architectural landmark which cannot be overlooked - whether it also has the potential to become a landmark of the new Vienna, only time will tell. The architectural history of Vienna, where European history is presence and new buildings enter into an exciting and not always conflict-free dialogue with a great and outstanding architectural heritage, in any case has yet to offer exciting chapters.
Info: The folder "Architecture: From Art Nouveau to the Presence" is available at the Vienna Tourist Board and can be downloaded on www.wien.info/media/files/guide-architecture-in-wien.pdf.
Beautiful bison.
Sadly, they face a terrible fate. They are confined on a farm where they are exploited and will eventually be killed, so that humans can get pleasure from consuming their flesh.
Bison, and other animals, value their lives. Please go vegan!
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W. 301. Photo: Boulting Bros.
English actor, film director and producer Richard Attenborough (1923) won two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is known for his roles in Brighton Rock (1947), The Great Escape (1963) and Jurassic Park (1993).
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was born in Cambridge, England in 1923. ‘Dickie’ was the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough née Clegg a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Richard’s brothers were nature documentarian David Attenborough and John Attenborough, who was an executive at Alfa Romeo before his death in 2012. Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At the age of 12, his acting career had started when he appeared in shows at Leicester's Little Theatre. Attenborough's film career began in an uncredited role as a deserting sailor in the war film In Which We Serve (Noël Coward, David Lean, 1942). During the Second World War Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force. After initial pilot training, he was seconded to the newly-formed RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios, under the command of Flight Lieutenant John Boulting where he appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the propaganda film Journey Together (John Boulting, 1943-1945). He then volunteered to fly with the Film Unit and after further training, where he sustained permanent ear damage, qualified as a sergeant, flying on several missions over Europe filming from the rear gunner's position to record the outcome of Bomber Command sorties. After the war, he made his breakthrough as a psychopathic young gangster in the film of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947), a part that he had previously played to great acclaim at the Garrick Theatre in 1942. Brighton Rock received critical acclaim and was the most popular British film of 1947. After that, he was type-cast for many years as working-class misfits or cowards in films like The Guinea Pig (Roy Boulting, 1948) in which the 26-year-old Attenborough was wholly credible as a 13-year-old schoolboy, London Belongs to Me (Sidney Gilliat, 1948) with Alastair Sim, and the naval drama Morning Departure (Roy Ward Baker, 1950) starring John Mills. In 1949 exhibitors voted Attenborough the 6th most popular British actor at the box office.
In 1952, Richard Attenborough starred in the original West End production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, which went on to become the world's longest-running stage production. He took a 10% profit-participation in the production, which proved to be a wise business decision. During the 1950s, Attenborough worked prolifically in British films and appeared in successful comedies, such as Private's Progress (Roy Boulting, 1956) opposite Ian Carmichael, and I'm All Right Jack (Roy Boulting, 1959), also with Dennis Price. In the late 1950s, Attenborough formed a production company, Beaver Films, with Bryan Forbes. He began to build a profile as a producer on projects including the crime drama The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden, 1959), the drama The Angry Silence (Guy Green, 1960) with Pier Angeli, and Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes, 1961) starring Hayley Mills. In the first two, he also performed as an actor. In 1963 he appeared in the ensemble cast of The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) as RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (‘Big X’), the head of the escape committee and based on the real-life exploits of Roger Bushell. It was his first appearance in a major Hollywood film blockbuster and his most successful film up to that time. During the 1960s, he expanded his range of character roles in films such as Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964) and Guns at Batasi (John Guillermin, 1964), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM). In 1965 he played Lew Moran opposite James Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1965), and in 1967 and 1968, he won back-to-back Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Supporting Actor, the first time for The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1967), co-starring Steve McQueen and the second time for his comedic turn as a circus owner in Doctor Dolittle (Richard Fleischer, 1968) starring Rex Harrison. His feature film directorial debut was the all-star screen version of the hit musical Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough, 1969). Sergio Angelini in Directors in British and Irish Cinema: “a project inherited from John Mills, who had developed the screenplay with Len Deighton from Joan Littlewood's stage production. This satiric fantasia on the First World War is largely set on Brighton Pier, but Attenborough and cinematographer Gerry Turpin successfully open out the play with a number of bravura sequences, the best remembered being the final shot which pulls back to reveal an entire hillside covered in white crosses.” He later directed two epic period films: Young Winston (Richard Attenborough, 1972), which starred his favourite leading man, Anthony Hopkins, as Winston Churchill, and A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977), an all-star account of Operation Market Garden in World War II. His acting appearances became sporadic as he concentrated more on directing and producing. His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer, 1971) garnered excellent reviews and he also played to great acclaim in Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece The Chess Players (1977). Following his appearance in The Human Factor (Otto Preminger, 1979), he stopped with film acting for more than a decade.
In 1982, Richard Attenborough finally realized a project he had been attempting to get made for 18 years: Gandhi, featuring Ben Kingsley. It proved to be an enormous commercial and critical success. Gandhi won eight Academy Awards, and Attenborough himself was awarded the Oscar for Best Director and as the film's producer, the Oscar for Best Picture. He also won the Golden Globe as Best Director in 1983 for his historical epic. He also published his book In Search of Gandhi, another product of his fascination with the Indian leader. Attenborough then directed the screen version of the musical A Chorus Line (Richard Attenborough, 1985) and the anti-apartheid drama Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough, 1987), based on the life and death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and the experiences of Donald Woods. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films. His most recent films as director and producer include the underrated Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992) starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993), based on the relationship between C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). He made his come-back as an actor as the eccentric owner of a dinosaur theme park in Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) and the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997). He also starred in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street (Les Mayfield, 1994). Since then he has made occasional appearances in supporting roles, including as Sir William Cecil in the historical drama Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998) with Cate Blanchett, Jacob in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (David Mallet, 1999) and as The Narrator in the film adaptation of Spike Milligan's comedy book Puckoon (Terence Ryan 2002). He made his only appearance in a Shakespeare film when he played the British ambassador who announces that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead at the end of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).
Richard Attenborough has been married to English actress Sheila Sim since 1945. With his wife, they founded the Richard and Sheila Attenborough Visual Arts Centre. He also founded the Jane Holland Creative Centre for Learning at Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland in memory of his elder daughter. Jane Holland, her mother-in-law, and her 15-year-old daughter Lucy were killed in 2004 when a tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake struck Khao Lak, Thailand where they were holidaying. Attenborough has two other children, Michael and Charlotte, an actress. Michael is a theatre director and the Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre in London. In 1967, Richard Attenborough was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1976 and in 1993 he was made a life peer as Baron Attenborough, of Richmond upon Thames. At 84, he made his last film as director and producer, Closing the Ring (Richard Attenborough, 2007). According to Jason Buchanan at AllMovie, “Sixty-five years after making his screen debut as a young stoker in co-directors Noël Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve, Richard Attenborough perfects the balance between epic story and intimate tale with this drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell as a mother and daughter who find a relic from the past sparking an incendiary series of events.” Attenborough served as vice president (1973–1995) and president (2002–2010) of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and as president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (2003– ). For 33 years he was President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, and he is also the patron of the United World Colleges movement. He passionately believes in education, primary education that does not judge upon colour, race, creed, or religion. In 2008 Attenborough published, in association with his long-standing associate Diana Hawkins, an informal autobiography Entirely Up to You, Darling. Later that year he entered the hospital with heart problems and was fitted with a pacemaker. In December 2008 he suffered a fall at his home after a stroke and went into a coma, but came out of it within a few days. Shortly before her 90th birthday, in June 2012 Sheila Sim entered the actors' home Denville Hall, for which she and Attenborough had helped raise funds. In March 2013, in light of his deteriorating health, Attenborough moved into Denville Hall to be with his wife.
Sources: Sergio Angelini (Directors in British and Irish Cinema), Jason Buchanan (AllMovie), Encyclopaedia Britannica, AllMovie, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 8
Lieu : Gare d'Argenteuil (Argenteuil, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/37468
A sneaky little woodland plant. Unusual in that it blooms in the summer in the woods, its flowers are small and there must be some complex relationship with the sun for this species to eke out a living in the shade, exploiting gaps, disturbance, treefall and that sort of thing, It has flowers, but they are quite modest. Bees visit, but the literature makes it seem that this is infrequent and that there is self-pollination going on too. More study. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.
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We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
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Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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Sam Droege
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Exploitant : STIVO
Réseau : STIVO
Ligne : 34
Lieu : La Marnière (Vauréal, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/8781
Following the exploits of the former JPT buses sees one of the newer members of the fleet return to service following the hand over to Stagecoach. Enviro 300 RT59JPT was immediately taken off the road on takeover, or so I believe, and sent to Hyde Road. Whatever caused its immediate withdrawal cannot have been too serious as it is now back on the road after receiving attention. Again some new panel work and touch up paint but no Stagecoach fleet number is visible and the £2 Day Saver advert has not been removed, so a little tidier but again very much a JPT bus, or JP if you are looking at the side.
Sister bus ST59JPT is rumoured to have received Stagecoach colours already but its immediate return to service is in some doubt owing to the intervention of the CMA on the JPT takeover.
12th May 2014
This came from our garden yesterday, and I brought it inside to exploit in a more controlled environment.
Lighting stuff: Lit with a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box positioned at camera left, and just out of the frame. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I converted it to black and white using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pto.
Other black and white images that I've attempted can be seen in my Black And White Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157644989606939/
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422</a</a</a
With humans exploiting mother nature and nature resisting in its own way, where exactly is this leading to ?
Exploitant : SETRAM
Réseau : SETRAM
Ligne : 11
Lieu : Jacques Cartier (Le Mans, F-72)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/5644
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : Valmy
Ligne : 16
Lieu : Gare d'Argenteuil (Argenteuil, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/14765
Falling into disrepair but development is on the way as the plans have now been passed and work will soon begin. It was opened in about 1980 and one of the biggest design mistakes was it did not exploit the river and it’s beautiful surroundings.
Lahemaa literally mean "Land of Bays", and is obvious just by checking a map. Much of the current park was actually slated for resource exploitation by the Soviet government. At the end, the area was saved partly due to environmental protests, but most importantly simply due to lack of capital funds.
Two animal rights protesters in Parliament Square on 26 August 2023. They had just completed a march from Marble Arch to the square. According to an activist I talked to, they were demanding the end to all types of animal exploitation and highlighting universal veganism as not only the only ethical and humane option, but as also a vital tool to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Here are four good reasons to go vegan in 2023
Animal Welfare: By not using or consuming animal products you are helping to reduce harm to animals and supporting their well-being. You should choose veganism if you believe in treating animals with kindness and respect.
Health Benefits: Vegan diets can lower the risk of heart disease, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes. They typically include more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, which are good for your health.
Environmental Impact: Producing plant-based foods typically has a much smaller environmental footprint than raising animals for meat. It can help combat issues of immense importance to the planet's future, particularly by reducing methane emissions and deforestation and thereby mitigating climate change.
Resource Conservation: A vegan diet requires fewer resources like water and land compared to a diet heavy in animal products. It's a more sustainable choice for the planet's future.
Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Citelis 18 GNV
Identification : 2663 (BL-089-JA)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Réseau : TBM (Bordeaux Métropole)
Dépôt : Centre d'Exploitation du Lac (CEL)
Ligne : 14 NAVETTE RELAIS TRAM C
Voiture : 30022
Destination : Quinconces
Suite à l'incendie du parking souterrain des "Salinières" le 18 Mai 2019, la circulation des tramways de la ligne Tram C (passant au-dessus) a été suspendue entre Quinconces et Gare Saint-Jean. Il s'agit pour les équipes techniques d'experts d'évaluer l'état de la structure après le sinistre, pour ainsi déterminer les travaux à engager, et la date de rétablissement de la circulation des rames.
Des navettes de substitution ont donc été mises en places, en mobilisant le parc articulé disponible, et en délestant des bus standards de réserve sur les lignes pour libérer des articulés supplémentaires.
21/05/2019 16:14
Quai des Salinières ; Bordeaux
The frankly exploitative Greek publishing house, Synéchise, produced a series of comic books in the early fifties.
Now very hard to find, this rare cover features one of their enduring characters - the giant octopus.
The story, in this case "Oluupurs", is inconsequential, in that it involves nothing more than a few smugglers, some cat fighting, whisky, some shooting, a plot to overthrow the government, a trip to the moon, some amusing byplay on the word "socks", a talking dog, some psychedelic sweets and a talking candlestick, but the illustrations were something to behold.
These colourful covers mean that surviving copies today are very collectible. Look out for one in your local charity shop - you might get lucky!
A health teacher fights for her job at a high school plagued by delinquents and teenage pregnancy in this notorious exploitation film.
Title / Titre :
Map of mining operations along the Klondike River, Yukon /
Carte des travaux d’exploitation minière le long de la rivière Klondike (Yukon)
Description :
Plan of Lot 8 Group 2 showing claims nos. 12-13-14-15 above Maris discovery on the left limit of the Klondike River /
Plan du lot 8 groupe 2 montrant les concession minières n° 12-13-14-15 au-dessus de la découverte de Maris sur la limite gauche de la rivière Klondike
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : 1899-1950
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 4047078
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=4047...
Location / Lieu : Yukon, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation fonds. Library and Archives Canada, e011316577 /
Fonds Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e011316577
installed the new Maxwell screen last night. All i can say is WOW! The difference is like night and day, comparing to the default screen it came with. Love the sharpness and brightness this new part brings.
Oh, and the message in the screen. i guess you have to Press L and read the words backwards! :)
Olympus E-P2
Nokton Voigtlander 25mm F0.95