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Little chunks of snow that came off the shovel when I was shovelling the sidewalk. Atop the accumulated snow. The next day they had disappeared with the wind.
Mezhyhirya Residence Museum, Kiev, Ukraine.
The Mezhyhirya residence was built in the Soviet period on the site of a monastery that had stood there since the 14th century before being destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The Soviet regime, under which Ukraine lived for 70 years, tried to provide for all its leaders’ needs. Top communists were rewarded with a package that included a house in the country – a so-called ‘dacha’. Mezhyhirya, which was at the disposal of the leader of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, fell into this category.
After Ukrainian independence the building was used to accommodate foreign delegations, but when in 2002 Viktor Yanukovych was appointed Prime Minister and moved to Kiev from industrial Donetsk he decided he would like to live at Mezhyhiriya. Initially he rented it, but the Orange Revolution brought a fall in his living standards – a terrible thing for Post-Soviet Man. The new government, headed by president Yushchenko and PM Tymoshenko, evicted him from his home.
But a year later, after the fall of the Orange dream team, Yanukovych returned to the post of Prime Minister and secured the right to Move back into Mezhyhiriya, which was still government property. And another year later, in 2007, when he left his post, he took the house with him.
In Yanukovych’s final weeks as Prime Minister, his government illegally privatised Mezhyhiriya. No money was paid to the state for its sale; instead, a couple of semi- derelict buildings in Kiev were handed over in return (they have continued to fall down ever since).
Mezhyhiriya, meanwhile, was acquired, without any competitive tendering process, by a Donetsk company called ‘MedInvestTraid’, which immediately resold it and a few years later filed for bankruptcy. Was someone covering their tracks?
In 2009, after an unsuccessful bid to create a political alliance with Viktor Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko tried to return Mezhyhiriya to state ownership, but nothing came of it. MPs from Yanukovych’s party removed all the documents relating to the sale from the government departments involved. Yanukovych lived in it from 2002 to 21 February 2014, when he abandoned the estate during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
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Foreign Settlements
Tatooine
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: "4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
I remember walking as a very young child in our small mountain village in Lebanon, and just as I passed the old movie theater that used to only play Indian tragedies, an English word popped in my head. At that time, English was quite foreign to me and my vocabulary was extremely limited, yet somehow an adult word appeared: "determined". I never forgot that word and I only learned its meaning years later as a teenager. It was one of those strange life moments that are very difficult to explain. This little story brings me back always to 'the way', and for me there is a way that I know I need to follow if I listen carefully to the same nudging that introduced the word "determined" to me. And as with all good things, the way is never the easy one...
The CSX Geometry Train has been no stranger to the NBSR the past few years, with it testing the trackage once a year since 2024. 2 out of those 3 times however have had a locomotive of NBSRs stuck in the front, in my opinion making the train not as interesting to see. This year brought that theme back with NBSR 6406 leading with CSX 466 trailing.
Last year however on June 10th, it was testing the NBM trackage with no NBSR owned or leased locomotive leading, making it a must shoot in my books, so off we went. Here's a shot of CSX 9969, an ex MARC locomotive, leading the geometry train through Enniskillen, New Brunswick, about 30 miles from Saint John.
I believe the NBSR was power short at this time, since they had sent a bunch of 4 axles in for rebuilding in GP31ECOs, meaning they couldn't spare much power, so that might be why they let the CSX unit lead.
UP 7682 brings up the rear of manifest 10K through Cresson, PA as the sun begins to set over the Allegheny Mountains for the evening.
QGRY 6904 is leading SLR 394 which is putting its train together at right as CN 543 with borrowed NS power (NS 3660, NS 4039 & NS 7295) makes a move at CN's Southwark Yard on a snowy afternoon.
made in China, both foreign to me
for ODC2 - Foreign
A little model belonging to my husband..a Studebaker - 1958 Golden Hawk
What a unique vehicle! I'd never seen anything like it. In the earlier days of modern invention there were lots of ideas about how to do things. This was one of them.
Like most of the vehicles at this museum, it runs. Here a video of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vf-DGJZ6dE
October 2, 2021 - Went to Jeff Lane Motor Museum in Nashvile, Tennessee. This place is fantastic! Over 500 vehicles. I've been to one of the best car museums in the U.S., Petersen Auto Museum in L.A. but this one is right up there with it. Specializes in foreign cars and unique vehicles. Half of these I'd never seen or heard of. Well worth going to.
Even though the day was mostly cloudy, the colors of the two locomotives on the train greatly stood out.
Here, BNSF 5194 and KCS 4197 leads a Canadian Pacific freight from Bensenville IL as it passes by the Schaumburg station.
For a first, I chased this train from Bensenville to Schaumburg via Illinois 390/Thorndale Ave and overall, it worked pretty well.
Our Daily Challenge: Imported - Foreign - or Exotic
America, founded on wonderful principles, has a history of oppressing minorities. Our forefathers came to this world and oppressed the native Americans, and throughout our history we have done it time and time again. What makes America great is not embracing hatred but in the diverse peoples that have come together to make this great country. We are a melting pot, not a milky sea of hate. I am afraid of the direction this country is going once again. Can we not learn from our history?
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October 2, 2021 - Went to Jeff Lane Motor Museum in Nashvile, Tennessee. This place is fantastic! Over 500 vehicles. I've been to one of the best car museums in the U.S., Petersen Auto Museum in L.A. but this one is right up there with it. Specializes in foreign cars and unique vehicles. Half of these I'd never seen or heard of. Well worth going to.
NS 1808 has the rear position on the southbound train 469 as it reverses through downtown Calgary, AB
CSX 3396 pulls a medium-sized CP 250 down the Hinckley Subdivision on this nasty spring-like morning. The sun was playing that one game where it says 'hi' a few minutes before the train makes its appearance, goes away for the entire train and comes back right after :)
Honestly I'd rather had the CP 2292 lead instead.
I'm not sure how to start this off...My dude Jurne so graciously blessed me with a couple of outlines which I Frankenstein into the piece you are now viewing. I'm not sure if this is how the needle exchange program works but it sure was hella fun....I hope I did you right.
This piece reminds me of this song.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmodvpD-Cvs
Not sure why?
KCS 4855 sits at North Dexter getting a crew change as CN 3035 passes beside it, acting as one of the DPUs for the ONUCS-01.
Former Iowa Interstate GP38 628, seen here in Weatherford, Oklahoma, is far from home. It is now owned by Grain Belt, a subsidiary of FarmRail.
The World According to Xi Jinping
Edited magazine cover, Foreign Affairs, Issue Nov/Dec 2022.
Sydney
Αυτοκίνητα μηχανές περαστικοί ήχοι διαφορετικοί και εγώ μέσα σε τούτο το συνονθύλευμα, στο αυτοκίνητο σταματημένος.
Στο κόκκινο χρώμα του έρωτα που απλώς περίμενα και όλο περίμενα άνθρωπος να περάσει μα ο κανένας του Οδυσσέα παντού.
Διαφορετικές γυναίκες πέρασαν μα εγώ περίμενα σε εκείνο τον ερυθρό σηματοδότη μήπως και φανεί έστω και τώρα μα κανείς.
Οι δρόμοι ήταν διαφορετικοί εξαρχής και όσο κι αν περίμενα πότε δεν πέρασε από εκεί και όλο στο ρελαντί κρατιόμουν.
Θεατρικές παραστάσεις έδινε αλλού και χέρια σφιχτά δεμένα υπό τον φόβο μήπως το μυστικό φανερωθεί.
Στο τέλος της παράστασης όλοι χειροκροτούν, άλλοι χαμογελούν συγκαταβατικά άλλοι κοροϊδεύουν μα οι περισσότεροι γνωρίζουν.
Ακόμα και τα μικρά παιδιά χαμογελούν και ρόλους παίζουν υποδύοντας τους, προσπαθούν και αυτά στη μίμηση.
Μα τέτοιους θεατρίνους κανείς δεν τους συμπαθεί κατά βάθος της σιωπής μιας και το ψέμα προωθούν ενόψει τους κέρδους.
Κι αν είναι πολύ τότε χαλάλι θα πουν στα πικρόχολα σχόλια μα αληθινά, και ύστερα ο καθένας στο κρεβάτι του.
Και αναρωτιέμαι καμιά φορά εκείνο το κρεβάτι του καθενός τι να περιλαμβάνει στο μενού, πιο το φαγώσιμο ον.
Ποιος να ήταν εκείνος ο κρυφός που ίσως και πληρωτέος κατά κάποιο τρόπο δεσμός ενόψει της μοναξιάς και ύστερα της παραστάσεως.
Να ήταν γυναικός ανδρός ο πόθος, ποιος πραγματικά να ξέρει το μυστικό που ίσως και προδομένο να είναι από καιρό.
Η αλήθεια πάντοτε στα μυστικά φαρμάκια ζει και βασιλεύει και τα πάντα κυριεύει και ρωτά αν ο Μέγας Αλέξανδρος ζει.
Τι να τον θέλει άλλωστε τώρα που πέθανε μιας και για καιρό στα πόδια της τον είχε αναρωτιέμαι η τρελή.
Η απώλεια είναι ένα γεγονός που πάντοτε σε ξυπνά από το λησμονημένο φαράγγι σου, από τα δάση της σιωπής.
Κι αν ξυπνήσεις ποτέ δεν θα ξανά κοιμηθείς σε εκείνο το όνειρο που έχασες και πάντα στα χέρια σου κρατούσες.
Υ.Γ...Μυστρί..."Προδομένο Μυστικό"
UP 7216 heads west on the BNSF Marceline Sub. with the Union Pacific intermodal train operating on BNSF as F-IG4TU01 25. Currently swinging the curve into Rutledge, Mo. with some nice fall color accents.
It was a nice surprise to see a former Southern Pacific GE in the consist as well. There can't be more than 10 GE's still in the SP paint roaming the system.
UP 7322 leads CN U701 (coke loads) across the bridge to McKellar Island in Thunder Bay, Ontario on its way to Thunder Bay Terminals.
In the early Fifties, odd little cars began to show up on car lots across North America. Many had been brought to the continent by returning service men and the sports car movement was born.