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I highlighted in my photo titled "Pass the Parcel - 2" that in Autumn 2015, Pembrokeshire County Council took on the lease of a Plaxton Centro-bodied VDL SB200 for contracted Service 322 (Haverfordwest & Withybush Hospital-Narberth-Whitland-St Clears-Carmarthen & Glangwili Hospital) on behalf of the then contractor, Silcox.
Silcox had been regularly using a UVG-bodied Dennis Javelin, P780 WDE, on the contract, which had replaced an 08-plate Alexander Dennis Enviro300. January 2016 was the deadline for single-deck service buses used on registered local bus services to comply with the Public Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 2000 (PSVAR), which no doubt prompted the Council's actions in leasing the VDL.
Whilst Silcox had built up a sizeable fleet of former MoD vehicles, P780 WDE had been purchased new, presumably as as a cheaper option than a buying a standard coach.
This shot from March 2014 shows her in a foggy Blue Street in Carmarthen when she was on her way to Glangwili Hospital after dropping off in the Bus Station.
Stoneware from the Beardsley Pottery on Denman Island, in the "Leaf" pattern. Purchased in Victoria circa 2005.
Umspannwerk Favoriten (Substation Favorite), Vienna, Austria.
Architects: Eugen Kastner, Fritz Waage
Built: 1929-1931
The functional building represents "the international influence of the constructive coupling of self-sufficient volumes" and was possibly influenced by Soviet revolutionary architecture. The building, which was built on a triangular plot of land that was rather unfavorable for the purpose, is characterized by a purely technical need, namely the accommodating large transformers, an obligatory design that lines rounded up or interlocks and angular structures, which gives the building a futuristic and technocratic character. Supported by the three-sided floor plan, the association of a large ship's hull is also obvious: Eugen Kastner and Fritz Waage have, for example, designed the chief office as a command bridge projecting beyond the building, as is common on ships. Circular windows are reminiscent of the portholes of an ocean liner.
Today, the Favoriten substation is one of the oldest substations of Wiener Netze GmbH, which is still in operation after the technical equipment was renewed. Because of its special shape, the building has repeatedly been used as a film backdrop.
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C-FPCA, a 33-year-old Boeing 767-375ERBDSF, on approach to runway 06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as ACA7254 (Air Canada) from Lima, Peru.
Serial number 24306 first flew on March 28, 1989. It began its career as C-FPCA with Canadian Airlines International Ltd. on April 18, 1989. It joined the Air Canada fleet when CAIL was acquired on January 1, 2001.
After being converted into a freighter by Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. at Lod, Israel; it started operating again on December 9, 2021.
It is the first of eight 767-300ERBDSFs that will eventually be wearing Air Canada Cargo titles.
Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a great start to your weekend. Today I will be sharing the first set of photos of a custom build & interior design project that we have completed for our longtime friend and repeat client, Janessa. For this project, Janessa requested that we design and build, from the ground up, the spa located within her brand new Singaporean themed resort. Over the last couple of years, we’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Janessa to design her personal homes, corporate office spaces & resorts. This has given both Rooky & I, as well as Janessa, a keen sense of each other's aesthetics, as well as a solid understanding of how each other’s brains work, when it comes to completing a project. As a result of this, Janessa has placed her trust in us to execute her vision seamlessly, while delivering a product that is visually appealing to her guests, while also being functionally available for their use. The end result is a structure and spaces, which we have designed and built from scratch, that is completely unique to the resort.
In an effort to not discuss and show off too much of the resort, so all future guests have a surprise factor when visiting for their first time, I will only be highlighting a small number of details in the body of each post, as well as showcasing a small and select set of photos of this project over the next couple of weeks or so.
In the first photo, you are getting a peak into the shower area of the spa. To offset the black metal window frames, black concrete ceiling & other black architectural elements throughout, we created all interior walls and door frames in a beautiful oak, which has just a dash of warmth too it, helping alleviate the coldness that a space like this can have. For the privacy of the spa guests, we added shutters to the exterior windows. We customized the shutters by cladding them in the same wood used in the interiors of the spa, helping add another element of warmth into the space. For the flooring, none of you will be surprised to see that we created a custom mesh floor, which has become somewhat standard at TDF. The flooring is made up of an oak border, grey marble trim inlay, and a multi toned marble tile in a hexagonal shape. For the shower stalls, the walls and flooring are also custom, created with a black marble border, grey marble trim inlay, and a multi toned marble tile in a hexagonal shape.
In the second photo, you are getting a view into the change room area of the spa. Similar to the design language in the first photo, we’ve stuck with oak walls and trim to add warmth to the space, while continuing with the same style of mesh flooring.
As I say in all of my posts, thank you all for the continued support that is shown to our small team here at The Design Firm. It means an absolute ton to us <3
Lastly, I always recommend viewing my photos in full screen mode when able! This allows you to see the true depth and detail of the spaces that my colleagues and I create for our clients.
Photo Credit - Sean Hardy
The architecture of the East Coast Main Line 14 mile Selby Diversion won’t win any beauty contest and can at best be described as functional.
Built to avoid risks to trains from mining subsidence, a new diversionary route, the first purpose-built section of high-speed railway in the UK runs to the west of Selby, construction started in July 1980, paid for by the National Coal Board and opened to British Rail Intercity East Coast Services on the 3rd October 1983.
LNER Azuma is the third generation of High Speed Intercity train to use the diversion, here Class 800 Bi-mode 800106 speeds under Field Lane Hambleton with a service for Edinburgh.
800106 1S19 13:53 St Neots to Edinburgh Waverley Services not running into London due to Kings Cross rebuilding work.
20th June 2020
A wife uses her husband's torso as a laptop stand while sitting on a bench inside the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
About 20 kilometres (around 12 miles) outside Orange, New South Wales is the genuine heritage town of Millthorpe and we had to have a look at this. We realised we had been through before. This is the railway station, recently reopened as such which is also a very smart cafe where we had a lovely lunch. Sadly the town's success in many ways is also a bit of a negative, despite it being a weekday, the streets with their refurbished and upmarket shops were also busy and the preponderance of parked cars somewhat inhibited the photographic ambience of the widespread heritage architecture and values. It happens!
For anyone travelling, as I have said before some of these magnificent towns look like a page out of Australian history. There are quite a few around which will have you stepping back into the 19th century, colonisation architecture still standing doesn't go back further than that really. If you are travelling, you will find them more in the older states where primary building materials were stone and brick, like Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. Some wonderful ones are places like Campbell Town, Oatlands, Ross and Rothwell in Tasmania, several through the centre of Victoria, Millthorpe, Gulgong, Sofala, Hill End, Carcoar, Canowindra and the little towns I have mentioned recently in New South Wales and places north of the Barossa in South Australia. There are many more, these are just a sprinkle but well worth the visit. All are on good roads. I come from Queensland where there are also some rarer good ones (it was settled a little later and much was made of the less durable timber for building) but Charters Towers is a good one as is Ravenswood and places in the scenic rim around Brisbane. I am not so familiar with Western Australia, anyone want to chime in with other recommendations, please do so.
An entry into the Castle Siege category of the Colossal Castle Contest. This year I'm basing most of my CCC entries on The Peleg Chronicles book series. The layered landscape was inspired by Dubbadgrim and Brother Steven. I wanted to try doing a rounded tower and wall with sloped base while using a SNOT tile wall design, and I'm pretty happy with the result. The catapult and ballista are both functional, and you can see them in action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUikybEhKI&feature=youtu.be
Also I have a timelapse video showing the construction of this build here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JXqpEXWaY&list=UUG_66n8gPfj...
Count Rosencross and his men defend his castle from an attack by a neighboring lord.
Near Cattle Queen Creek on the Continental Divide.
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I finally set the pole to mount the remote wind speed/direction, outside humidity and rain gauge device. The sunny afternoon and high term of 68 F prompted this sudden burst of energy! Rains are predicted all day tomorrow so I should get some input on the accuracy of the rain catching device! The rain gauge is self dumping so you don't have to go outside to dump the accumulated rain and the amount is transmitted to this indoor display!
This image is the functional equivalent of me throwing my hands up in the air and walking away because I can't settle on an edit that I like.
Wednesday night, the skies cleared and I made a quick run out to Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area to stalk the Milky Way. I took 23 shots over the course of maybe 30 minutes and headed home, feeling pretty satisfied with what I got, at least based on what I saw on the camera LCD screen. At home, the stacks and panoramas weren't coming out well, and even the single frame edits weren't working, so I let the images sit, thinking I'd try to make sense of them tonight, Thursday. But, tonight I'm not feeling any better about them. The more I fuss with them, the ickier it gets.
I think there was more haziness in the air than I realized, and going earlier in the night (10 pm or so) meant there were a zillion more planes and more horizon light than I'm accustomed. (I bet it didn't help that low on the horizon to the southwest were occasional lightning flashes from distant lightning).
So, in quasi- defeat, I offer a frame directly from the memory card, a test image taken with the 12mm fish-eye lens as I waved a flashlight around. No edits, no adjustments in Lightroom, just a direct export to jpeg.
Details:
ISO2500, f2.8 and 25-seconds with a Canon 5D4 and a Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens.
needle roll made from felted scarf (blue) with felted cashmere sweater pages...part of the functional felt swap with accompanying pin cushion. Vintage glass buttons and trim.
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Monday Healthy Fact
Lemons contain a high amount of vitamin C, soluble fiber, and plant compounds that give them a number of health benefits. Lemons may aid weight loss and reduce your risk of heart disease, anemia, kidney stones, digestive issues, and cancer. {Sharing The Knowledge}
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There's a sort of Forest Gumpian function to our lives. A lot of stuff that happens is not probable. If you rewind, stuff that happened seems unbelievable. This is about the past.
Finding a place to live has been a life-long problem in California made worse today by rental housing being converted to short term rentals. In an upscale part of Silicon Valley, I was renting an industrial, former ambulance quarters: set back from the street and within walking distance of everything. A local government official who knew me had introduced me to the landlord. Window air conditioner? TV antenna? The owner could care less if I customized the place. Best of all, the rent was about half of the market rate.
Meanwhile, I stumbled on information about another local deal: a cottage on an abandoned estate (above). I told a friend who taught undergraduate classes. He reported the property had been foreclosed and was owned by a financial institution. The friend quickly moved in.
About a month later he had an opportunity which included relocation. He called me. "This place is tied up in a lawsuit. It's going to be vacant for years. You should move here," he counseled. "I already called the property manager and told them you're moving in." Well, then. I guess it's a done deal.
It was two and a half acre oak woodland in an area of 1-acre minimum lots. There were several buildings. The main house was over 8,000 square feet. You couldn't see the main house from the street. There was a functional, but cold, swimming pool maintained by a pool service. The place was somewhat overgrown and run down but also unreal. The original owner had been a retail chain tycoon. The garage had been built for carriages so my big Dodge would not fit inside the narrow doorways. I joked about it being a 'safe house.' In reality, it wasn't.
My neighbor had a Rolls Royce Silver something-or-other. Another neighbor had an elevator in their house and a diesel generator set that would light up whenever the power failed. There was a Ferrari in the neighborhood. The trappings of wealth were all over. Almost everyone was friendly.
I lived in one of several out buildings (not shown). The main house is shown. The only furniture in the main house was a table and recliner in the dining room used by me for reading. The dining room is the right portion of the building between the two chimneys. The restaurant-sized kitchen is out of frame to the right. The master bedroom is beyond the two-story portion of the home out of frame at left. There had been a lawn and irrigation at one time. These were weeds during the rainy season. I lived there for several years. At the end of my stay, the place was fully renovated. There was structural work. A note, "The leprechauns have been here and everything of value has been removed," was found behind fire brick during repair of one fireplace. Missing gargoyle heads were replaced. You get the picture.
There were many deer. A large, arthritic buck and I developed an understanding. There was a Great Horned Owl. Stellars Jays and Scrub Jays owned the place. Ravens? Yes. I found a fawn's head and vertebrae in the yard which I much later realized was a mountain lion kill.
The chief of a police department inquired about having a bachelor party. Invite a dozen people with guns over for some heavy drinking and running around the swimming pool? No, thank you.
Whoever has the goods to allocate never forgets himself.
- Leon Trotsky
Journalism grade images.
Source: newly scanned grainy 35mm film negative scanned on 4,000 DPI scanner.
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FebRovery 2022, installment 10.
Since none of the wheels are technically functional this is a display model only, but the big basket drive wheel was worth it.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot, constructed in 1917, is a locally significant example of standardized, functional railroad architecture in Sparta, Tennessee. The depot is associated with a pattern of railroad growth and monopoly that shaped economic and settlement trends in the southeast during the early twentieth century. Between 1902 and 1921, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the parent company of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, expanded its miles of track from 3,327 to 5,041 miles, representing an increase of 57%. Some of this new construction took place in White County as the railroad extended its 1884 Bon Air spur line to the new coal towns of Clifty, DeRossett, and Ravenscroft, near the border between White and Cumberland counties, in an attempt to better exploit coal and mineral ores. As historian Maury Klein observed in his study of the Louisville and Nashville, "it is significant that none of the new trackage tried to extend the L & N's territory but rather sought to exploit the existing territory more fully. What might be called a more mature phase of interterritorial strategy had arisen and was flourishing...[in the] cultivation of the sources of coal and ore traffic." (pp. 397-98)
White County was a significant producer of raw materials, especially coal and timber products, during the early twentieth century. After the coal company built an underground shaft at Bon Air in 1902, that single mine produced an average daily tonnage of 350 tons for the next twenty years. The adjacent Eastland Mine also opened in 1902 and produced an average of 350 tons daily for the next thirty years. Demand for raw materials increased even more dramatically during the First World War and great amounts of Cumberland Plateau coal and timber was shipped out of Sparta. White County walnut was especially in demand for use in gun stocks, first in orders from Allied nations and then, in late 1917 and 1918, for the U.S. Army.
Due to the increased traffic and demand for railroad services, the company in 1917 decided to replace the original frame Sparta depot, which housed only an office and freight room, with a new much larger brick depot. The new depot reflected the importance of the railroad, and the county's coal mines, to the economic life of Sparta. As the town's "gateway", it symbolized local prosperity and confidence at the height of the wartime boom in demand for raw materials. Moreover, the depot served Sparta itself as the town's major contact point between the national corporate economy and the local market economy.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot also embodies a trend in early twentieth century railroad architecture that balanced the cost-saving strategies of the railroads against the demands of a more sophisticated local community. The design achieved economy, functionalism and comfort under one roof. The waiting rooms accommodated more passenger traffic on the line, while the spacious freight room and loading platforms handled the increased volume of timber, mineral, and agricultural products being shipped out of the county. Although a standardized design lay at the heart of the depot's plan, its roof line and minimal Craftsman-style exterior detailing reflected the use of minor architectural features and varying roof shapes to give uniqueness to the building. Particularly distinctive were the wide, overhanging, unbracketed roof eaves. The square bay window of the business office also helped to add variety to the form while the functionally-placed windows on east and west elevations, along with the decorative band of bricks, added rhythm to the building's appearance.
The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad Depot is associated with and physically represents the peak of railroad influence in White County during the early twentieth century. Even after a period of decline due to the popularity of the automobile and the building of the Memphis to Bristol Highway, this small-town depot has survived and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on December 7, 1992. All of the information above (and a bit more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/9ea0e226-5cd8-49c3-9e5...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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