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Last week, Pan Am’s business train made a third consecutive week run. With the rumors flying of the Railroad being up for sale and potential new buyers checking out the Railroad. The train left Mechanicville, NY at sun rise but with all the slowdowns, the train came at pretty good timing. As seen here passing The farm land near the “Cosby Red Barn”. Photo taken Buckland, MA October 14, 2020
Eén van mij favoriete plekken om treinen te fotograferen is Sunstedt aan de lijn Braunschweig - Helmstedt. Op maandag 21 september kwam daar 151 017 van HSL voorbij met een set ketelwagens.
Sunstedt 21.9.2020
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Deze locomotief is in juli 2024 gesloopt bij Bender in Opladen bij Leverkusen. Daarvoor had de machine nog als plukloc gediend voor SRI Rail Invest.
Someone created this superb rendition of a labyrinth at the beach. It has been there several days although the tide has now taken a portion of it. The time, effort and creativity to accomplish this needs to be admired. Seen at Pawley's Island, SC.
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Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα), originally known as Raqmu (Nabataean Arabic: الرقيم), is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Established possibly as early as the 4th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue, and Petra became the focus of their wealth. The earliest recorded historical reference to the city was when an envious Greek dynasty attempted to ransack the city in 312 BC. The Nabataeans were, unlike their enemies, accustomed to living in the barren deserts, and were able to repel attacks by utilizing the area's mountainous terrain. They were particularly skillful in harvesting rainwater, agriculture and stone carving. The Kingdom's capital continued to flourish until the 1st century AD when its famous Al-Khazneh facade was constructed, and its population peaked at an estimated 20,000 inhabitants.
Encroaching troops of the Roman Empire in 106 AD forced the Nabataeans to surrender. The Romans annexed and renamed the Kingdom to Arabia Petraea. Petra's importance declined as sea trade routes emerged, and after a 363 earthquake destroyed many structures. The Byzantine Era witnessed the construction of several Christian churches. By 700, the city became an abandoned place where only a handful of nomads grazed goats. It remained an unknown place until it was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812, sparking renewed interest in the city.
The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. It is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage".
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Southeast Financial Center is a two-acre development in Miami, Florida, United States. It consists of a 764 feet (233 m) tall office skyscraper and its 15-story parking garage. It was previously known as the Southeast Financial Center (1984–1992), the First Union Financial Center (1992–2003), and the Wachovia Financial Center (2003-2011). In 2011, it retook its old name of Southeast Financial Center as Wachovia merged with Wells Fargo and moved to the nearby Wells Fargo Center.
When topped-off in August 1983, it was the tallest building south of New York City and east of the Mississippi River, taking away the same title from the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, in Atlanta, Georgia. It remained the tallest building in the southeastern U.S. until 1987, when it was surpassed by One Atlantic Center in Atlanta and the tallest in Florida until October 1, 2003, when it was surpassed by the Four Seasons Hotel and Tower, also in Miami. It remains the tallest office tower in Florida and the third tallest building in Miami.
Southeast Financial Center was constructed in three years with more than 500 construction workers. Approximately 6,650 tons of structural steel, 80,000 cubic yards of concrete and 7000 cubic tons of reinforcing steel bars went into its construction. The complex sits on a series of reinforced concrete grade beams tied to 150 concrete caissons as much as ten feet in diameter and to a depth of 80 feet. A steel space-frame canopy with glass skylights covers the outdoor plaza between the tower and low-rise building.
The tower has a composite structure. The exterior columns and beams are concrete encased steel wide flanges surrounded by reinforcing bars. The composite exterior frame was formed using hydraulic steel forms, or "flying forms," jacked into place with a "kangaroo" crane, that was located in the core and manually clamped into place. Wide flange beams topped by a metal deck and concrete form the interior floor framing. The core is A braced steel frame, designed to laterally resist wind loads. The construction of one typical floor was completed every five days.
The low-rise banking hall and parking building is a concrete-framed structure. Each floor consists of nearly an acre of continuously poured concrete. When the concrete had sufficiently hardened, compressed air was used to blow the forms fiberglass forms from under the completed floor. It was then rolled out to the exterior where it was raised by crane into position for the next floor.
The building was recognized as Miami's first and only office building to be certified for the LEED Gold award in January 2010.
The center was developed by a partnership consisting of Gerald D. Hines Interests, Southeast Bank and Corporate Property Investors for $180 million. It was originally built as the headquarters for Southeast Bank, which originally occupied 50 percent of the complex's space. It remained Southeast Bank's headquarters there until it was liquidated in 1991.
The Southeast Financial Center comprises two buildings: the 55-story office tower and the 15-story parking annex. The tower has 53 stories of office space. The first floor is dedicated for retail, the second floor is the lobby and the 55th floor was home to the luxurious Miami City Club. The parking annex has 12 floors of parking space for 1,150 cars. The first floor is dedicated for retail, the second floor is a banking hall and the 15th floor has the Downtown Athletic Club. A landscaped plaza lies between the office tower and the parking annex. An enclosed walkway connects the second story of the tower with the second story of the annex. The courtyard is partially protected from the elements by a steel and glass space frame canopy spanning the plaza and attached to the tower and annex. Southeast Bank's executive offices were located on the 38th floor. Ground was broken on the complex on December 12, 1981 and the official dedication and opening for the complex was held on October 23, 1984.
The Southeast Financial Center was designed by Edward Charles Bassett of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The Associate Architect was Spillis Candela & Partners. It has 1,145,311 ft² (106,000 m²) of office space. A typical floor has about 22,000 ft² (2,043.87 m²) of office space. Each floor has 9 ft x 9 ft (2.7 m x 2.7 m) floor to ceiling windows. (All of the building's windows are tinted except for the top floor, resulting in strikingly bright and clear views from there.) The total complex has over 2.2 million ft² (204,000 m²). The distinctive setbacks begin at the 43rd floor. Each typical floor plate has 9 corner offices and the top twelve floors have as many as 16. There are 43 elevators in the office tower. An emergency control station provides computerized monitoring for the entire complex, and four generators for backup power.
The Southeast Financial Center can be seen as far away as Ft. Lauderdale and halfway toward Bimini. Night space shuttle launches from Cape Canaveral 200 miles to the north were plainly visible from the higher floors. The roof of the building was featured in the Wesley Snipes motion picture Drop Zone, where an eccentric base jumper named Swoop parachutes down to the street from a suspended window cleaning trolley. The building also appeared in several episodes of the 1980s TV show Miami Vice and at the end of each episode's opening credits.
Zara founder Amancio Ortega purchased the building from J.P. Morgan Asset Management in December 2016. The purchase price was reportedly over $500 million, making it one of the largest real estate transactions in South Florida history.
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The Streetscooter Work XL is an electric van based on the Transit and built in cooperation with Ford. It's in use by DHL, part of Deutsche Post. Streetscooter was founded by Deutsche Post. It will be closed down this year due to lack of other investors.
I have bought a money tree, written on the label. After a while,I started thinking that it should be fake one ( giving no money), so than I should bring it back to get a real one which is functioning or get my money back.Later, I decided to wait and take care of my tree, thinking that I could get rich one day with help of my tree. I was imagining like on my photo.Money could be in other currency too.In our country, we don't have any currency exchange problem.
Here is the other side of her sign. She might be a teacher; I didn't bother to ask. Instead I rushed around to get more signs, when I should have taken a bit more time to get the backgrounds of some of these people who show up. Oh, well, maybe at the next march/expo.
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Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland, where the investment here is not in the roads, but rather one of the many chip shops as this guy hauls bags of potatoes across Buchanan Street.
My art is always about great Journeys. I invite you to come with me on todays. I have been working on changing my way of thinking of my self and who I Believe I am. I plan to be better then I was yesterday. This image is a Visual interpretation of my internal self. I always see my emotions as colors. To day Im busting out no walls can hold me back. Power strong will and driving without fear. Fear can just go take a hike. Every thing is going to be new. I start to open to the new truth in this life. I will shoot past the moon and stars in to the far off next galaxy. I become all my dreams and hold the keys to open every door I please. No more locks bricks or walls can ever hold me. Im the wave and I carve my path to day. I for give my mistakes of the past and will not look back. May I live each day as if it were my last day. For now I shall just engage. You better hold on this will be a fantastic new adventure.
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Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
Abstract Art set:
www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...
AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM
This shows how we do the Camera work:
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Thank you beautiful morning people for making our 26th CreativeMornings Cluj another awesome experience! Thank you so much Hedi Hoka for accepting our challenge and sharing with us a wonderful and inspiring talk. Thank you to our community partner ClujHub for hosting us. Thank you our dear local partners ClujLife, EBS radio, Food Waste Combat and AIESEC Cluj-Napoca. Thank you Natuu for the delicious breakfast. Thank you Alma Nicole and Jacob for sharing your musical talent and passion with us. This month’s theme is #CMinvest. @creativemorningshk chose this month’s exploration and Bao Ho (simplebao.com) illustrated it. Photo credits: Andreea Boros
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A street art stencil feating the "get out of jail free" card image from Monopoly board-game. Found pained on the sidewalk in New York City in 2007.
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On our fourth and last day we decided (on our drive home) to visit this lovely art gallery at Erwood Station in the Welsh Marches.
"Erwood Station Gallery is the sister to The Lion Street Gallery in Hay on Wye, recently rated as one of the best galleries in Wales. Here at Erwood we focus on showcasing the very best in contemporary craft and Applied arts in Wales and the Borders. All our the work is available on the Arts Council of Wales 0% Collectorplan scheme, so you can spread the payments over 12 months , an easier way to invest in Art." www.erwoodstation.com/
I have included in the collage a few of my favourite pieces - although practically everything there I fell in love with! I did buy a couple of wee stars for £6 - my price limit LOL. The kaleidoscopes were absolutely stunning but I would have to start saving now ... Lovely place to visit. More on the walk down to the riverside later :))
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Rural populations invest in improving their daily lives through community or labour-intensive work, whether on local initiatives or as part of development projects. In this specific case, the project concerns the development of an anti-erosion dike in the context of intense soil erosion following the clearing of river banks. This contributes to accelerating the flow of rainwater and degrading crossing structures. The treatment of gullies has demonstrated its effectiveness for soil recovery. However, the need for this type of development remains very significant in Burkina Faso.
Que ce soit sur initiative locale ou dans le cadre de projets de développement, les populations rurales s'investissent pour améliorer leur quotidien dans le cadre de travaux communautaires ou à haute intensité de main d'œuvre. Dans le cas précis, le chantier concerne l'aménagement d0une digue antiérosive dans un contexte où, suite au défrichement des berges de cours d'eau, on assiste à une forte érosion des sols. Celle-ci contribue à accélérer l'écoulement des eaux de pluie et à la dégradation des ouvrages de franchissement. Le traitement de ravines a démontré son efficacité pour la récupération des sols. Les besoins de ce type d'aménagement restent toutefois très importants au Burkina Faso.
In 1863 John Black set up a pastoral run at Cleveland Bay where Townsville now sits. Just to the south was the Burdekin River. A major investor in this pastoral run was Robert Towns who wanted to set up a boiling down works for cattle for the years when the market prices were low. In 1864 a hotel opened near the run and a government surveyor then laid out a town on Ross Creek which the government named Townsville after Robert Towns. In 1866 blocks were sold, a Customs House was erected, Towns started his boiling down works and the port of Townsville was established. A monthly steamer service from Bowen began and the town grew. But like Cooktown, Cairns and other places it was gold and minerals that made the town boom. QLD did not have the great gold rush of Victoria but numerous small fields were discovered. In Townsville’s case it was gold at Ravenswood in 1868 and at Charters Tower from 1872. Townsville had a double advantage- it was a port for pastoralism- wool and cattle, and for the export of gold. Stores opened, more hotels, schools and churches and a town library all before 1877. Some of these opulent Victorian structures still stand. Significantly one early businessman (1874) was Robert Philp who provided groceries and other supplies for store keepers, especially on the gold fields.
Philp was a canny Scotsman, and in 1876 he became a partner of James Burns a shipping agent. The company of Burns Philp expanded and prospered with a dual business of shipping and wholesale supplies to grocers. They carried goods all around the Pacific Islands as well as north QLD. Burns remained in Sydney and Philp in Townsville. They started out as agents for Queensland Steam Shipping Co but they soon acquired their own ships. They also traded a lot in Red Cedar from the Atherton Tablelands from 1879. In Townsville they moved into real estate and business finance and Burns Philp was incorporated as a limited company in 1883. Next they moved into insurance and helped establish the Bank of North QLD. They invested in the Palmer Creek and the Herberton gold mines and tin mines. By the early 1890s Philp was in financial strife but he survived thanks to real estate development of new areas of Townsville. Philp went into local government and state parliament. He helped fund the establishment of Townsville Grammar School in 1889, he acquired his own pastoral runs, and he helped establish the University of Queensland in 1912. He was Townsville’s preeminent citizen. He died in 1922. Burns Phil still traded for many years with an emphasis on grocery items, but they were delisted on the Stock Exchange in 2006 when they were taken over by the Rank Group Australia Ltd. Spices and Uncle Toby’s were some of their last major business products. Robert Philp was typical of many of the business leaders of early Townsville.
Robert Town’s original idea of a boiling down works was later supplanted by a meat works run by the North Queensland Pastoral and Agricultural Society which was founded in 1879. They ran the boiling down works and the annual agricultural show. The boiling down works was replaced with a meat processing works in 1890 once the frozen meat trade to England and Europe was well established. The export of frozen meat, and much later refrigerated meat, became a mainstay of the industrial base of Townsville. The meat works became the Ross River Meatworks with a tall chimney that was landmark in Townsville. In 1995 Smorgon Meat Processing closed down the old meat works built in 1890/91. A property developer demolished the old meat works but the chimney remained. The next developer proposed to demolish the chimney in 2008 but the citizens of Townsville protested; the chimney was placed on the heritage register; and the City of Townsville paid for the chimney to be restored. It still stands today as a memorial of the inland cattle industry and its role in the development of Townsville into a large city. It is surrounded now by a new residential development!
Townsville’s geographic situation helped the town grow further. In 1911 a railway line was built from the sugar growing area of Ayr into the port of Townsville. But before this the western rail line was pushed out to open up the interior to the port of Townsville. This is the line we travel on this Sunday. The railway line from Townsville reached Charters Tower in 1882; next there was a branch line down to Ravenswood in 1884. In 1887 the line reached Hughenden in the centre of the cattle grazing areas of the west. Once copper was discovered at Cloncurry there was a push to have the line extended to that city and that was achieved in 1908. It was extended to Mt Isa in 1929. And as pointed out above, the line from Brisbane linked Townsville with the capital in 1923. From the early days the port of Townsville exported gold, cattle, timber from the Great Dividing Range and rainforest, sugar and tropical produce. So by 1900 Townsville was a large and prosperous city with an air of grandeur and wealth.
The town was declared a city in 1902 when it had around 10,000 people. Into the 20th century it became a major finance and banking centre, education centre and retail and industrial centre. By 1917 it had Townsville Grammar School and a boys and girls Catholic College and a college for Anglican girls. Much later Townsville University College opened in 1960 and it is now James Cook University, the second university established in QLD. Despite more growth in the early 20th century the town was also troubled by industrial strife between the workers and the big sugar plantation, mine and pastoral property interests. Between 1916 and 1918 during World War One the city was troubled with strikes by seamen, garbage collectors, and meatworkers. In 1919 during a strike meeting of unionists and workers in Flinders Street shots were fired. The meat workers in Townsville had been on strike for months and during a demonstration the police opened fire. Behind the strike was not only low wages but stirrings by the local Bolsheviks which stirred the workers up to be anti-German, and hence against the World War One effort and sacrifice. This was also the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia so they were against oppression by the ruling classes. Townsville was one of the first cities in Australia to have a local Communist Party group in 1922.
It was World War Two that had a much greater impact on the city. The city felt abandoned when news of the Brisbane Line leaked out. Australia’s war plan was to defend the country to a line just north of Brisbane leaving the rest of QLD to Japanese invaders if this happened. This plan was developed following the February 1942 bombing raids on Darwin and other northern towns. But after the December bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941 Townsville became the base for around 50,000 American and Australian troops fighting in the Pacific region. In July 1942 the Japanese bombed Townsville three times. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 aircraft from Townsville played a major role as they did in other battles. Therefore it is not surprising that the second worst Australian aircraft disaster ever was in Townville in 1943. 27 people died when an aircraft crashed soon after takeoff at Townsville in August 1943. (The worst Australian air crash was at Mackay in June 1943 when 40 were killed.) 1943 was a bad year for air crashes in Australia with 140 people killed during that year.
After the War the troops disappeared but later in 1966 the Lavarack Army Barracks was established with about 2,500 troops and it now houses the 3rd and other Australian Brigades. Ten years later (1976) the Townsville Air Force base started up with more units being added over time. By this time the city population had grown to 80,000 people. Today defence is still one of the major employers in Townsville. The other major employment sectors in Townsville are tourism (boosted after the airport was opened in 1939), education, transport and port handling and metal processing. Townsville has three different refineries; one for zinc which comes from a mine near Cloncurry; one for nickel which is imported for processing from Vanuatu, the Philippines and Indonesia; and the last for copper from Mt Isa which is further processed in Townsville. Health (hospitals) continues to be major employer in the city.
In 2008 the cities of Townsville and Thuringowa combined to form a new Townsville City Council governing authority. The combined estimated population for the combined cities for 2010 is 190,000 people and growing. In recent years it has had a revitalised city centre and waterfront in an area that had been railyards. The esplanade called the Strand on Cleveland Bay (named by Captain Cook in 1770) has been updated and new residential developments are common with apartment complexes near the water front. Tourism and research has been boosted in the last 20 years with the Museum of North Queensland, the Barrier Reef Headquarters, the Australian Institute of Marine research, etc. Townsville is undoubtedly the capital of North Queensland and should it be?
In 1887 a Separation League was formed in North QLD to form a separate state with Townsville as the capital. This was diluted somewhat when Central QLD (based on Rockhampton) also formed a League a couple of years later. This proposal came to a vote in the QLD parliament in 1897 and nearly passed. It went to the vote the next day but several parliamentarians were absent and the vote failed. The next serious attempt to create a new northern state happened in 1948 when the state Governor mentioned this possibility in a speech. In 1955 a “new state for the north” convention was held in Mareeba but nothing eventuated. But the movement did not die away. The issue received public notice again in the 1960s and 1970s. More recently in 1994 a North QLD Party was established by a leading Townsville politician. This party adopted an “official” north QLD flag in 2003. The group still operates and wants their state to be called Capricornia but their website has recently disappeared.
