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Not less than 36 avatars created by you during the last two editions.
They were freely disseminated through the metaverse. A real pleasure to see them as they were presented or modified to suit your needs and for your pleasure!
For this third edition, we rely on your desire to show your knowhow, ingenuity and creativity; you may be a novice or not, we all remember this unique avatar that we would love to "dwell" for a beautiful virtual breakaway.
Participate in Fest'Avi is like saying that the big Metaverse under OpenSimulator is different: the common goods and the sharing are the essential components of this spacetime.
Fest'Avi reinforces our spirit for sharing cared objects , inspired, attractive and aesthetic.
That is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the third edition of this great celebration of the common goods around the avatar: Fest'Avi 2016.
The call for participation is open to all.
Your creations will be presented in a striking and unique evening at FrancoGrid,region Fest'Avi, June 4th, 2016 at 21.00.
Note now this event in your calendar that you do not want to miss!
Creators, audience, photographers, machinimists, we promise you the enchantment!
Registration and creations delivery :
1/ Registration of the participants by note :
"I confirm my participation in Fest'Avi 2016 as creator. I have read and accepted the rules" + creator name + name of the grid where he is resident.
2/ Deposit areas of your registration's notecard :
- Inworld:send a notecard to Cherry Manga or Praline B.
- FrancoGrid's Forum
- Facebook Fest'Avi page
- Google +
Regulation
- The avatars will be given full perms.
- The choice of themes, categories and numbers of avatars presented are free.
- The PG (all public) and adult standards are authorized with this condition and reserves:
**The so-called "PG" standard (every public) is defined as follows: no vulgarity , no suggestion of violence, no profanity, no genitals exposed, no weapons (avatars dedicated to role plays will be presented without their weapons, but their weapons as accessories may be presented separately).
Only general public avatars will be allowed in the official selection of FrancoGrid for the actualization of the proposition of avatars for the first connection.
** For the so-called "Adult" standard : The child avatars are strictly prohibited in this category.
- Minimum composition of the avatar: Avatars should include (at minimum) a shape, a skin, eyes, hair (essential elements)
- Avatars must be original creations, the collaboration between designers is possible. The use of sculpties, meshes, textures or any other open resources is permitted if reworked and indicate the sources.
- The copybots will be disqualified.
- All creation must be under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International).
- The complete avatar folder will be boxed and named:
your username + the title of the avatar and her outfit +license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Ex: "John Doe" - "Ruth Avatar"
- FrancoGrid take the right in the PG category , for a official proposition of Avatars proposal in the first connection category for his web page.
- All delivered avatars are under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license with all right on Avater region.
- The end date for the inscription and the presentation of your creations is fixed for the date of March 31, 2016 at midnight French time (GMT +1.00)
- Participants authorize, by their entry, the use of their creations under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 by FrancoGrid association making them available to its users on the FrancoGrid grid.
Participants while registering agree with conditions of participation set out above and agree to respect the FrancoGrid's CGU.
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
With her elephant, Bugsy, artist Liz Hall celebrates the smallest, and sometimes hidden, wildlife found around our great, green city. The creatures featured on Bugsy can be found in gardens, woods, hedgerows and parks in and around beautiful Sheffield. By magnifying them for all to see on her sculpture, Liz hopes that Bugsy can inspire others to look more closely at this wonderful miniature world that is all around us.
Designed by: Liz Hall
Liz Hall is a Sheffield based illustrator who enjoys working in a variety of media. She has a degree in illustration from University College Falmouth where she found her passion for natural history illustration. Liz enjoys sharing her love of all things arty at her part time job as an art consultant at a local primary school where she gets not only to teach art but to work on murals and other projects with different members of the school community.
Sponsored by: Knowhow
Auction Price: £11,000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
In die letzten Diablo-Baujahre floss bereits Audi-Knowhow ein - auch in den 1999 bei der IAA/Frankfurt vorgestellten Diablo GT. Gegenüber dem Diablo VT Heck- statt Allradantrieb, sechs statt 5,7 Liter Hubraum und 575 statt 530 PS machten den nur 80 Mal gebauten GT zum schnellsten Sportwagen seiner Ära.
5.992 cc
V12
575 PS @ 7.300 rpm
Vmax : 338 km/h
0-100 km/h : 3,7 sec
1.490 kg
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April 2016
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Herd of Sheffield, 2016.
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, have descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen.
No 39 - Bugsy (detail).
Location : Weston Park.
Artist : Liz Hall.
Sponsor : Knowhow.
With her elephant, Bugsy, artist Liz Hall celebrates the smallest, and sometimes hidden, wildlife found around our great, green city. The creatures featured on Bugsy can be found in gardens, woods, hedgerows and parks in and around beautiful Sheffield. By magnifying them for all to see on her sculpture, Liz hopes that Bugsy can inspire others to look more closely at this wonderful miniature world that is all around us.
IC 342 “The Hidden Galaxy” is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardias, located rather close (a “mere” 7-11 million light years away) to our Milky Way, and measures about 75,000 light years across containing an estimated 100 billion stars. The Hidden Galaxy would be visible in our night sky to the naked eye if not for its position, which we can only observe through gases and dust of our own milky way, serving to dim and obscure it considerably. It can, however, be observed with binoculars given sufficiently clear skies and enough determination or knowhow to locate it.
RASA-8, ZWO ASI183MC Pro, iOptron CEM-40EC, December 8-9 2020, 5hrs RGB (45-60s), 1hr Ha (120s)
With her elephant, Bugsy, artist Liz Hall celebrates the smallest, and sometimes hidden, wildlife found around our great, green city. The creatures featured on Bugsy can be found in gardens, woods, hedgerows and parks in and around beautiful Sheffield. By magnifying them for all to see on her sculpture, Liz hopes that Bugsy can inspire others to look more closely at this wonderful miniature world that is all around us.
Designed by: Liz Hall
Liz Hall is a Sheffield based illustrator who enjoys working in a variety of media. She has a degree in illustration from University College Falmouth where she found her passion for natural history illustration. Liz enjoys sharing her love of all things arty at her part time job as an art consultant at a local primary school where she gets not only to teach art but to work on murals and other projects with different members of the school community.
Sponsored by: Knowhow
Auction Price: £11,000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
The Renault Avantime first appeared, in concept form, at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show. It's styling was heavily influenced by the Vel Satis concept shown the previous year with the notable features of extra long double hinged pillarless doors, full glass roof and distinctive curved rear screen with protruding boot - later popularised by the Megane. The pillarless doors and lack of central B-pillar gave the car a large uninterrupted glass area on each side, which led to a large open area when the windows were opened. This, along with the full glass roof and light coloured interior gave the inside of the car a very open, airy and spacious feeling.
In September 1999 Renault announced the Avantime would go into production and unveiled the production model. Externally the car was almost identical to the concept, the main differences being the addition of side ‘bumper' strips, the exhaust being switched from the concepts bumper-integrated outlets which were built into the rear bumper for a more conventional twin-pipe outlet and the front lights which had been bi-xenon now just had xenon for the dipped beam and the indicator was now in a separate unit.
The main features of the double-hinge ‘kinematic' doors, no B-pillar and all glass roof remained. Although the room was still all glass, rather than being made of one large piece of glass it had now been split to provide a ‘twin sunroof' style, with the front one being fully opening - a full 1 sq/m - the largest opening glass sunroof ever fitted to a production car at the time. This also gave more of an open-air driving experience - not far off that of a convertible.
HISTORY AVANTIME
- Renault suffered from over-capacity at their factories, and rather than letting people off, they wanted to take over the manufacture of the hugely successful Espace. So, they made the agreement with Matra that if Matra was given the task of developing this new high-spec topmodel, Renault could bring the Espace production in-house. Since Renault don't have the knowhow and expertise to produce cars like Matra do, they had to redesign the Espace, making it the conventional steel car we see marketed as "Espace IV". Matra took on the task and they came up with a series of design-ideas, all based on the "Espace III".
- The Geneva motor show in March 1999 saw the unveiling of a new Renault concept car - where it was called a "Coupéspace" - which leads the way in opening up a long forgotten niche - that of a luxurious Grand Tourer Coupé with space for four adults to relax in comfort.
POSTER COUPESPACE 1999
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- In the 1920's and '30's Renault's main products were luxurious sports models like the 1929 eight-cylinder Reinastella and 1930 Nervastella, driven by Royalty and Europe's aristocracy. The AVANTIME takes some inspiration from these powerful Grand Tourers, built to cover large distances in great comfort and style, whilst focusing firmly on the future. The AVANTIME, illustrates in a forthright manner Renault's ability to shape the future of the motor car. The manufacturer is convinced that there is room in the market for a new breed of coupe, targeted at a customer group seeking the visual distinction, rarity and driving enjoyment of a coupe with the luxury of space and comfort found in a large car or monospace, all wrapped up in a vehicle which is technologically advanced and forward looking. Styled by Patrick Le Quément, the AVANTIME was intended to combine the space of an MPV with four-place pillarless qualities of a coupé. Regarding the styling, Thierry Metroz, design project manager, said, "We wanted someone walking around the car to be continually astonished."
- You sit high up, with glass all around you. The AVANTIME has no B-pillars - one thing that certainly delayed the project was getting the pillar-less design safety-approved - which adds a roadster feel to it, with windows down. It was named the AVANTIME, which is not pronounced fully in French, but a combination 'AVANT' as in French for "ahead" and 'TIME' pronounced in english. In other words "Ahead of its time". They are quite probably right, and it will not be the first time Matra have been ahead of their time, and have spotted a niche almost before it appeared. It is an avantgarde looking car, the target group were people (former Espace-owners) whose kids have left home, but who still prefer the style and flexibility of the Espace, spiced up with a more luxurious interior and some decent performance. Very similar to the Espace the AVANTIME uses a warm-galvanized chassis in the lower part, but with the upper structure done in aluminium, to get the centre of gravity even lower than the Espace. The bodywork is still polyester, which is bonded in place. The doors are now a (galvanized) steel construction with polyester bodypanels bonded to it, making them much stronger than standard Espace doors, which were all fibreglass, with a metal frame, and in later models (J63 and JE) a side-impact steel bar about halfway up, on the inside. The frontend design is developed from the Espace, with the air-con intake moved to above the headlights, rather than the sidemirrors. The sidemirrors, on the other hand, have moved towards the door-windows again, as on the early Espace models.
- Matra's engineers have avoided the top-heaviness of a minivan or SUV by fitting a lightweight aluminum superstructure to the Espace chassis. The track has been widened, the suspension lowered, and the wheels and brakes enlarged. Careful development has produced a car that feels stable at high speed on the autobahn, steers accurately, rolls only a little when cornered hard, yet smoothes all but the roughest roads. This is an impressive achievement and makes the AVANTIME fun for the driver and calm and secure for the passengers.
- Renault has enlisted the services of French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier to front its first-ever cross-brand advertising campaign "Créateur d'automobiles" (a one-minute spot with music by Etienne de Crécy). The pan-European ad aims to position the French motor brand as being creative and innovative, paving the way for forthcoming launches such as the new AVANTIME GT Coupe in 2001. TV advertising, by incumbent agency Publicis, breaks on October 17 (2000) and shows Gaultier designing and producing a new dress, from sketches to the finished product on the catwalk. After the fashion show, the model sees a Renault AVANTIME and is captivated by it. The ad then shows the process by which the car was created, in reverse from the completed car back to the production line. The designer's sketch is reduced to a blank piece of paper, mirroring Gaultier's process. Eric Bernard, Renault's worldwide advertising director, said: 'We're going to cause a stir with this campaign, and we hope to surprise and interest those who only think of Renault as a brand for small and medium-sized cars. 'It will trigger awareness and help us develop the new message in preparation for the launch of our new large cars.' The TV campaign's launch is being timed to coincide with the Birmingham International Motor Show, where Renault is unveiling its production version of the AVANTIME. It is being supported by press and poster activity.
TV SPOT AVANTIME COMMERCIAL (2001)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FS3V-akz-c
- In the meantime - there was a considerable delay in launching the AVANTIME - Renault had tested their design studio VEL SATIS with the public at car-shows and put the VEL SATIS into production, and hit the marked about the same time as the Avantime was finally ready. This means that Renault had two different approaches to the high-end luxury car, one being almost entirely Renault, the other a Matra. The Renault VEL SATIS has 4 doors, which should appeal to less adventurous (or more conservative) people. The AVANTIME was a two-doors only car (well, Matra did have a prototype 4-door version, but it never made it to production), but the doors are "huge" to allow for easy access, and are novel in the way they open, as they are internally hinged, making them sort of fold when you open them. Hereby even these huge doors will only require the same parkingspace as any other car, but at the same time offering excellent access. Having the AVANTIME compete with its Renault sibling obviously was not a good thing for Matra, who must have felt that Renault had not kept their part of the deal. To add insult to injury, its no secret that Renault urged their sales-organisation to push the VEL SATIS before the AVANTIME (by offering higher bonuses to the sales-people). This caused the AVANTIME to sell suficciently poor, to drain Matra for funds, and since there were no hopes for Renault helping them out, Matra decided in december 2002 that enough was enough and in April 2003 they shut down Matra Automobile and closed the factory in Romorantin. The last AVANTIME left the Matra assembly lines 18th of April 2003.
OFFICIAL VIDEO 10 YEARS AVANTIME, the "Coupéspace"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXHroaxg8w&feature=feedu
INTERVIEW PATRICK LE QUEMENT (2009)
What about the Renault Avantime? "It was a very modern piece of design, but it was not liked by many people. It was not supposed to be built in the hundreds of cars every day. It was two years late to market and it was launched at the wrong time. There was also the issue with Matra [which assembled the Avantime and its business folded mid-cycle]. I felt very awkward about this. If we had done a highly conservative design, would it have sold better? If pigs had wings! We will never know. It was a real blow when Matra went bust. If a model is not selling well you feel for the people at the factory. You feel involved when they cut a shift or something like that. When a design works well and it’s a big seller it’s very satisfying. But when it does not work, it’s so often design that’s held to be responsible."
- Patrick le Quément
The occassional person on a very quiet Princes Street, walking past all the many closed shops during Lockdown. With only a couple of food stores opened, all the many other shops on this normally bustling street in sight of the Castle have been closed for weeks.
THE AVANTIME HISTORY RETOLD
Renault suffered from over-capacity at their factories, and rather than letting people off, they wanted to take over the manufacture of the hugely successful Espace. So, they made the agreement with Matra that if Matra was given the task of developing this new high-spec topmodel, Renault could bring the Espace production in-house. Since Renault don't have the knowhow and expertise to produce cars like Matra do, they had to redesign the Espace, making it the conventional steel car we see marketed as "Espace IV". Matra took on the task and they came up with a series of design-ideas, all based on the "Espace III".
The Geneva motor show in March 1999 saw the unveiling of a new Renault concept car - where it was called a "Coupéspace" - which leads the way in opening up a long forgotten niche - that of a luxurious Grand Tourer Coupé with space for four adults to relax in comfort.
Poster AVANTIME 1999: www.flickr.com/photos/m_and_jiji/6920221965/
In the 1920's and '30's Renault's main products were luxurious sports models like the 1929 eight-cylinder Reinastella and 1930 Nervastella, driven by Royalty and Europe's aristocracy. The AVANTIME takes some inspiration from these powerful Grand Tourers, built to cover large distances in great comfort and style, whilst focusing firmly on the future. The AVANTIME, illustrates in a forthright manner Renault's ability to shape the future of the motor car. The manufacturer is convinced that there is room in the market for a new breed of coupe, targeted at a customer group seeking the visual distinction, rarity and driving enjoyment of a coupe with the luxury of space and comfort found in a large car or monospace, all wrapped up in a vehicle which is technologically advanced and forward looking. Styled by Patrick Le Quément, the AVANTIME was intended to combine the space of an MPV with four-place pillarless qualities of a coupé. Regarding the styling, Thierry Metroz, design project manager, said, "We wanted someone walking around the car to be continually astonished."
You sit high up, with glass all around you. The AVANTIME has no B-pillars - one thing that certainly delayed the project was getting the pillar-less design safety-approved - which adds a roadster feel to it, with windows down.
It was named the AVANTIME, which is not pronounced fully in French, but a combination 'AVANT' as in French for "ahead" and 'TIME' pronounced in english. In other words "Ahead of its time". They are quite probably right, and it will not be the first time Matra have been ahead of their time, and have spotted a niche almost before it appeared. It is an avantgarde looking car, the target group were people (former Espace-owners) whose kids have left home, but who still prefer the style and flexibility of the Espace, spiced up with a more luxurious interior and some decent performance. Very similar to the Espace the AVANTIME uses a warm-galvanized chassis in the lower part, but with the upper structure done in aluminium, to get the centre of gravity even lower than the Espace. The bodywork is still polyester, which is bonded in place. The doors are now a (galvanized) steel construction with polyester bodypanels bonded to it, making them much stronger than standard Espace doors, which were all fibreglass, with a metal frame, and in later models (J63 and JE) a side-impact steel bar about halfway up, on the inside. The frontend design is developed from the Espace, with the air-con intake moved to above the headlights, rather than the sidemirrors. The sidemirrors, on the other hand, have moved towards the door-windows again, as on the early Espace models.
Matra's engineers have avoided the top-heaviness of a minivan or SUV by fitting a lightweight aluminum superstructure to the Espace chassis. The track has been widened, the suspension lowered, and the wheels and brakes enlarged. Careful development has produced a car that feels stable at high speed on the autobahn, steers accurately, rolls only a little when cornered hard, yet smoothes all but the roughest roads. This is an impressive achievement and makes the AVANTIME fun for the driver and calm and secure for the passengers.
Renault has enlisted the services of French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier to front its first-ever cross-brand advertising campaign "Créateur d'automobiles" (a one-minute spot with music by Etienne de Crécy). The pan-European ad aims to position the French motor brand as being creative and innovative, paving the way for forthcoming launches such as the new AVANTIME GT Coupe in 2001. TV advertising, by incumbent agency Publicis, breaks on October 17 (2000) and shows Gaultier designing and producing a new dress, from sketches to the finished product on the catwalk. After the fashion show, the model sees a Renault AVANTIME and is captivated by it. The ad then shows the process by which the car was created, in reverse from the completed car back to the production line. The designer's sketch is reduced to a blank piece of paper, mirroring Gaultier's process. Eric Bernard, Renault's worldwide advertising director, said: 'We're going to cause a stir with this campaign, and we hope to surprise and interest those who only think of Renault as a brand for small and medium-sized cars. 'It will trigger awareness and help us develop the new message in preparation for the launch of our new large cars.' The TV campaign's launch is being timed to coincide with the Birmingham International Motor Show, where Renault is unveiling its production version of the AVANTIME. It is being supported by press and poster activity.
Link Renault AVANTIME spot commercial 2001: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FS3V-akz-c
In the meantime - there was a considerable delay in launching the AVANTIME - Renault had tested their design studio VEL SATIS with the public at car-shows and put the VEL SATIS into production, and hit the marked about the same time as the Avantime was finally ready. This means that Renault had two different approaches to the high-end luxury car, one being almost entirely Renault, the other a Matra. The Renault VEL SATIS has 4 doors, which should appeal to less adventurous (or more conservative) people. The AVANTIME was a two-doors only car (well, Matra did have a prototype 4-door version, but it never made it to production), but the doors are "huge" to allow for easy access, and are novel in the way they open, as they are internally hinged, making them sort of fold when you open them. Hereby even these huge doors will only require the same parkingspace as any other car, but at the same time offering excellent access. Having the AVANTIME compete with its Renault sibling obviously was not a good thing for Matra, who must have felt that Renault had not kept their part of the deal. To add insult to injury, its no secret that Renault urged their sales-organisation to push the VEL SATIS before the AVANTIME (by offering higher bonuses to the sales-people). This caused the AVANTIME to sell suficciently poor, to drain Matra for funds, and since there were no hopes for Renault helping them out, Matra decided in december 2002 that enough was enough and in April 2003 they shut down Matra Automobile and closed the factory in Romorantin. The last AVANTIME left the Matra assembly lines 18th of April 2003.
The following production figures have been published (Source: Matra France, L.Thimonner, 2003 ):
2001 : 2067
2002 : 5097
2003 : 1286
HISTORY REPEATING
Only 8450 Renault AVANTIME's were eventually built, before its abrubt end-of-life...
In the science fiction movie 'Children of men' (released 2006), the AVANTIME prototype 4-door version was seen in the cinema, Clive Owen and Julianne Moore travel in the AVANTIME until a breathtaking action sequence disrupt the journey...
Avantime has retained its feeling of novelty!
www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=renault%20icons%20...
The tale of Renault's short lived but stunning coupé is brought to life using interviews with the key players in the cars development, including ex Renault Head of Design Patrick Le Quement and Matra's Phillipe Guedon. With a colourful gathering of over 200 of the iconic cars at the famous Montlhery race track, the Avantime's 10th anniversary is the centre piece of this programme. Enthusiasts and experts swap opinions about what prevented this car becoming as much of a success as it perhaps should have been. Even more of the car's story is provided by Renault Avantime insiders Thierry Metroz and Carole Hurel, while current boss of Renault design, Laurens Van Den Acker gives his verdict on what makes this unique car so special.
Official Video Renault 10 Years AVANTIME, the "Coupéspace"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXHroaxg8w&feature=feedu
Explore Renault AVANTIME
circa 2007
A version of this image, my White Pin, appears elsewhere in my photostream. But I added it again here, because this version has a little something extra hiding in the lower left corner...
'Burnishing KnowHow' is one of four fundamental sidebar extras we wrote for our first book (the others are Baking, Leaching, and Finishing). Burnishing has been a big part of my polymer clay work process for a very long time, and it's played an important role in many of my pieces. There were seven samples of burnished work we wanted to use, and even in a digital book, with decent-sized images and captions to go with them, that's a lot of real estate to take up on the page. But in a pinch...
Viewed on my iPad, as it appears on page 43, this photo is about a square inch. That's not that big to really see the piece, and it's definitely not big enough to read the caption included with it: White Pin 2007. But I set the resolution of the image at 800 x 800 ppi so that when the picture is double-tapped on an iPad – whoosh! – it fills the screen with sharp, clear, readable results. I purposely set the font size really small, knowing it couldn't be read at 'actual size,' but could be double-tapped to zoom into readable focus.
I like the idea of hiding content in this way, embedding it in a deeper layer on the page. It got me thinking of this digital book as being three-dimensional, having depth as well as length, a book you can move into, and out of. I hope to play with these tools and ideas further as we continue to write more books.
If you'd like to go a little deeper into our first book, you can learn more about it here.
photo by Robert Diamante
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
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It's a bit of a trek but I walked from the City of Arts and Sciences to the beach just north of the harbour. On the way though there were plenty of interesting buildings including the Americas Cup building and the EDEM Business School, seen here.
Click here to see more photos from my trip : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72177720331217491
From EDEM's website, "EDEM was founded in 2002 in Valencia (Spain), when the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs realized that Valencians didn’t have their own business school so that the entrepreneurs and managers who wanted to continue training had to do it in Madrid or Barcelona.
Today, EDEM has more than 15 years’ experience of training managers and entrepreneurs. As a Foundation, EDEM comprises of many people who unconditionally support the project, sharing their passion for things done well. EDEM has the good fortune to be supported by a Board of Trustees composed of leading Valencian businesses, a Governing Body which acts on its behalf, and an Assembly of Members from different backgrounds who share their knowhow with the business school."
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This party of adventurers knowhow to deal with a small party of orcs.
The dungeon was made out of parts from both the Castle Fortraan and Caverns of Nathuz sets.
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
One of my associates .have fortunely passed the way ,oh..dear lord can't believe that maroni is dead ,i couldn't tolerate that anoying eastern european accent,
anyway since he's dead,his old turf is up for the taking,someand the rest of the gotham's criminal elite,won't let the costumed maniacs take it,we will divide it in an unfairly way,the one who's the first to get the controlof gotham's drugring get's it.
so,the Falcone's Disturbed Black sheep,Alberto arranged a meeting on his penhouse,because he doesn't getout very often,
so i told tyler to come with me since he was a tyger guard,let's see if he can protect me.
Falcone lived in a old gotham building that had an amazing view of the skycrapers.
whem we arrived we had a horrible welcome from the Shy Bastard ,and....his......wife?
(really? that asswhole got married?don't look' at me even i got surprised)anyway:
-Alberto dear,What is this ugly midget doing here?
that confused woman said.
-Business ,Honey,Business,
he said
-So...you got married huh!
i said
-Yes,her name is Francesca,we fellin love whem i was in Sicily.
He said
-Yeah,i remember:your father sent you there because the fed's where on his,back,than he died,than your brother took power of the family,than when your brother died,you came back.
i said
-Alberto dear,what is this dwarf talking about?
the poor woman said
-Nothing,honey,nothing.
the liar answered.
-Francesca,did you know about your husbands file?
i sarcasticaly said
-NO,what is in it?
the corious woman asked.
Then i looked to albertos face,poor man,old roman knew that he was week,so...i had mercy what.
-Sorry.Mrs.falcone ,i am a very busy man and.i forgot that i came here to talk with your husband about business.that conversation willhave to be in an other day.
i said
-Honey,can you go to our room please.
the poor man said
-Yes,i will let you gentlemen talk alone.
the polite woman said
-OK.Now,we all know that Maroni is dead,even the bum's know it,but before negotiating,do you knowHow he died?
i asked
-Aparently,deadshot killed him.
he answered
_Deadshot...but Floyd is dead?
i asked the obvius
_Aparently not ,two drug dealers have also been murderedby him.
he kind of answered my question
-But what did two random drug dealer's and Maroni had in comon ?
i asked him
-well,Floyd owned money to the three of them.
he answered
_so..,Floyd Lawton's "Ghost",is killing every one that he owned money or that he hated.we could welbe the next victims!
i warned the bastard
Yeah! like it woulld happen
he said
BOYS!do you want some wine?
White seamless b/g
Canon 550ex 1/8th pwr (flagged) lighting the paper.
Nikon SB800 + shoot-through umbrella 1/16th pwr front camera left
Canon 5D 50/1.8 @ iso100 f/8 1/180th
Thanks to Zack Arias for the inspiration and knowhow.
In die letzten Diablo-Baujahre floss bereits Audi-Knowhow ein - auch in den 1999 bei der IAA/Frankfurt vorgestellten Diablo GT. Gegenüber dem Diablo VT Heck- statt Allradantrieb, sechs statt 5,7 Liter Hubraum und 575 statt 530 PS machten den nur 80 Mal gebauten GT zum schnellsten Sportwagen seiner Ära.
5.992 cc
V12
575 PS @ 7.300 rpm
Vmax : 338 km/h
0-100 km/h : 3,7 sec
1.490 kg
80 ex.
Techno Classica 2016
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2016
In die letzten Diablo-Baujahre floss bereits Audi-Knowhow ein - auch in den 1999 bei der IAA/Frankfurt vorgestellten Diablo GT. Gegenüber dem Diablo VT Heck- statt Allradantrieb, sechs statt 5,7 Liter Hubraum und 575 statt 530 PS machten den nur 80 Mal gebauten GT zum schnellsten Sportwagen seiner Ära.
5.992 cc
V12
575 PS @ 7.300 rpm
Vmax : 338 km/h
0-100 km/h : 3,7 sec
1.490 kg
80 ex.
Techno Classica 2016
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2016
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
"First, I use a darker blend of the color to outline the shading of the face
and then I add a lighter 'secondary color' on top of it to create depth to the painted surface." ~Tomitheos
COLOR MIXING:
There are three 'primary colors': red, blue and yellow
By mixing two primary colors together, a 'secondary color' is created:
red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green etc.
If three primary colors are mixed together then we have what is called a 'tertiary color'..
Copyright © 2011 Tomitheos Art Photography - All Rights Reserved
How'd I do that?
I used a command line package that's been around a long time called 'netpbm'. Also here'.
Of course this package isn't for the feint of heart. It takes a lot of computer savy, image knowhow, and old fashioned mathematics (calculator), along with a good text editor, and an image display tool to show the widths and heights of each image.
This is the script I created, it took an hour or so, I guess you need to be a computer geek like myself to enjoy doing this :)
Oh, there is one more trick to this script, a trick that I think it would be hard to recreate with a tool such as PhotoShop. The script uses it's output as input. So that if you run the script multiple times, say, 6, 7, 8 or more times, then the upper left hand image is itself repeated over and over. That's how I got that effect. I suppose it can be done in P.S., but to me, I prefer this method because once I get the numbers right, all I do is rerun the script, and in seconds, I've regenerated the mosaic again! AND, I can move things around at will, if I like. Automation :)
Be glad I didn't bore you all with each of these 8 separate images spread out over 8 days .
Warren. Population 1,600.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
In die letzten Diablo-Baujahre floss bereits Audi-Knowhow ein - auch in den 1999 bei der IAA/Frankfurt vorgestellten Diablo GT. Gegenüber dem Diablo VT Heck- statt Allradantrieb, sechs statt 5,7 Liter Hubraum und 575 statt 530 PS machten den nur 80 Mal gebauten GT zum schnellsten Sportwagen seiner Ära.
5.992 cc
V12
575 PS @ 7.300 rpm
Vmax : 338 km/h
0-100 km/h : 3,7 sec
1.490 kg
80 ex.
Techno Classica 2013
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2013
The todays signal box in Bad Ragaz is one of the special ones of SBB. It is a relay interlocking of type Domino 67-N from June 1993. It is combined with the newer N-signals (numeric) and not with the L-system (point of light) as usual. The combination of old and new technology requires a lot of knowhow of staff who must know all special cases. From the mid-1990s on, electronic interlockings were increasingly built.
Bad Ragaz is a large signal box for the entire route between Sargans and Landquart. This includes the stations Bad Ragaz, Maienfeld, track crossover Rossriet and the technical station Neugüter. The techniques are located under the train station, today only partially in the historical basement from 1858.
This is the control desk on the track side of the station. It is still in operation but is controlled remotely. Switzerland, March 4, 2020. (1/21)
Detail of the holy scripture on the facade of one of the mosques in Buchara/Uzbekistan
the long letters symbolize an --L -- from --ALLah --
see my blog: ginanews05.blogspot.com/
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Chassis n° 1002
24 Hrs du Mans 1970
Ferrari 512 S Spyder
n° 9
Team : Escuderia Montjuich (E)
Result : Not finished
Grid : 24th (3:39.900)
Engine : Ferrari 512 V12 - 4.994 cc
José Juncadella (E)
Juan Fernandez (E)
24 Hrs du Mans 1971
Ferrari 512 M
n° 15
Team : Escuderia Montjuich (E)
Result : Not finished
Grid : 6th (3:18.700)
Engine : Ferrari 512 V12 - 4.994 cc
José Juncadella (E)
Nino Vaccarella (I)
From wind Tunnel.
In this era aerodynamicists' knowhow exploded. In 1971, with the latest advances the 512 S (Sport) became the 512 M (Modificata). Maranello provided bodywork for privateers like the Catalonian Scuderia Montjuich, which ran this car at Le Mans twice. It came 2nd in the 1971 Tour de France Auto driven by Jabouille and Juncadella.
Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans : the Prototypes Closed Cars
Private Collection
Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
September 2017
Molto probabilmente sei un Internauta fortunato che non soffre di filtri e censure Internet, ma non é cosi per tutti, se pensi che il problema della censura internet riguardi solo la Cina e pochi altri paesi con regimi autoritari ti stai sbagliando di grosso...
Leggi il post completo http://abtechno.org/index.php/2009/01/30/tecniche_per_aggirare_censura_internet
Warren.
North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.
Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole.
Auscott.
This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
At around 12:45, the GBRf is given the green signal for moves off the Yard line and onto the GCR's main line through to Rotherham Central, Aldwarke Junction and then, unlike earlier, to proceed on back to whence it came, Doncaster Roberts Road Shed; the last working of this, and all other days. It sis seen passing the GCR's Goods Shed, amazingly still in one piece but with graffiti here and there and weeds also making the situation look worse. The grey asbestos roof will have to be removed, safely, at some stage and the land will undoubtedly be found a new use, twixt canal and GCR metals. For now all is quiet as the Supertram and Tram/Train rattle past over on the right, the steel trains makes its way back and forth along the line to the right of 66777 and other odds-and-sods come and go along the main line. Traffic into Tinsley still continues with the Bardon stone train coming in most days along the other, south-west connection into the Yard. Moves into and out of the SIRTF and Outokumpu still happen, some DBC shunting of wagons also persists in the last remnant of the YArd at the side of the two aircraft-hangar type buildings, leased in recent times by M&S. The temporary diversion of Container traffic into the Yard may hold promise for future moves though Tinsley lost out to Doncaster when the new iPort was being built, and its a wonder that the Container traffic didn't get diverted to there, especially as the north-south moves are routed through Doncaster anyway, only to come back south to here. So. this week has seen Route Learner light engine loco moves into and out of the Yard, pending the brief traffic which Newell and Wright Container Services will re-direct into here for the next few week or so until track replacement work at the MAsbrough Freight De[pot is complete. From then on, who knows what will happen to the Yard; the Sheffield 'Streets Ahead' road refurbishment program is nearing completion and once that is finished, what will 'Amey' then do with their facilities at the north-eats end of the Yard... Tinsley YArd may well have a short reprieves but its long term future must be in some doubt...
Matchbox PK-174 M19 Tank Transporter
As a departure from their die-cast toy line Matchbox introduced plastic kits for modellers in 1972. At this time plastic building kits were an extremely popular hobby and this fact didn't go unnoticed by the Lesney Directors. Matchbox already had the knowhow with injection moulded plastic because the interiors and accessories for the toy cars were made in this medium. So it was just a natural progression to move into this market. One of the selling points to the younger builder was that the Matchbox kits were moulded in different colours.
PK-174 was part of the Orange range and issued in 1979. Here is the full history provided by Matchbox on the instruction sheet:
"With the increasing weight of the tank due to increased armour protection, the need for heavier transporter and recovery vehicles was of the upmost priority by the mid-1940's, in order to maintain the fighting efficiency of the tanks who's tracks, engines and suspension suffered heavily when driving over long distances. the task of developing a Transporter/Recovery vehicle was undertaken by the US Ordnance Corps for the british Government thus leaving existing heavy vehicle production uninterrupted. By 1941 the outcome of the development was the M19 Transporter/Recovery 45 ton. The vehicle consisted of a 980 Diamond 'T' Prime Mover M20 coupled with the Rodgers Lowloader trailer M9. These vehicles saw service in Egypt and Italy playing a vital role in the conveyance of armoured units to and from the battle areas. They also served with both British and American Amoured units throughout NW Europe. The M19 remained in service with the British Army until being withdrawn from service in the Mid-1950's."
Chris
Die 2050.05 ist eine dieselelektrische Universallokomotive der Österreichischen Bundesbahnen, Baujahr 1958. Heute gehört sie der ÖGEG und befindet sich im Eisenbahnmuseum in Ampflwang.
Die Baureihe 2050 war eine der Baureihen, deren Antriebs-Knowhow aus den USA importiert wurde. Die Beschaffung der Loks geht dabei auf die Vorführleistungen des General-Motors-(GM) Konzerns zurück, die Baureihe stand bis 2004 im Einsatz bei den ÖBB.
Breaking Bad Seasons 1-3 DVD Box Set
Breaking Bad Season 3 DVD Box Set
One of several fascinating original series from cable's American Movie Channel, Breaking Bad was produced by Vince Gilligan of X-Files fame. Former Malcolm in the Middle regular Bryan Cranston starred as high school chemistry teacher Walter White, who at age 49 was told that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer--even though he'd never smoked a cigarette in his life. Unable to pay for his medical treatment or provide for the future financial security of his pregnant wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and his son Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), the latter a victim of cerebral palsy, Walter began moonlighting at a car wash. When this proved inadequate to make ends meet, Walter entered into a slighly unholy alliance with former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Using Walter's chemical knowhow, the two partners set up a crystal meth lab, with Walter supplying and Jesse dealing. Now the unfortunate Mr. White found himself straddling two worlds, one legitimate, one definitely not. Adding to Walter's crown of thorns was the omnipresence of his brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris), a DEA agent who'd been trying to bust Jesse for several months--and who of course had to be kept completely in the dark as to Walter's new "sideline." Breaking Bad debuted on January 20, 2008.
I got this picture over the summer in an antique shop in Ramona, CA on my way back from counseling at my church's summer camp and planned to post it then, but never got around to it. The lighting and border makes this fellow look particularly regal.
The photographer is J Raine of Richmond Yorkshire. As for the time period, I would have to guess the 1880's or so just based on the hairstyle and the general composition of the picture, but anyone with more picture-dating knowhow can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. The reverse is listed below.
Gioia Massa, a NASA project scientist, poses inside a lab at the Space Station Processing Facility located at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Massa’s responsibilities include studying the effects of a microgravity environment on plant growth, discovering the perfect conditions for growing plants in space and determining what plant species grow the most effectively under those conditions. Massa and her team are currently experimenting with growing plants aboard the International Space Station to develop the knowhow to supplement astronauts’ packaged diets with freshly grown crops, which should facilitate long-duration exploration missions into deep space. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux