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Here's some photographic evidence of the free gondola rides down this Winter. Quite warm this weekend and this has made the hike up Sulphur Mountain much more slippery, but still manageable with just hiking boots and trekking poles. We again counted 28 switchbacks from sign to top, so that's the number we're sticking with.
On Friday, we made our way down to Okotoks for the Light Up Okotoks event. We've been going for the past few years and this year was much better than the bitterly cold 2013 one.
We spent Saturday and Sunday out in Banff and had an overnight stay Saturday night. This is probably the last of the cheap rate weekends with December coming next week, we'll be well into the Christmas party season and the ski hills will probably all be opened. Fantastic weekend, will not be soon forgotten, definitely one for the ages.
# of free gondola rides down this Winter: 4
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As cases rise, Americans are ‘checked out’ on COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis.
Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t wear masks even on the subway or on airplanes.
Amid this national attitude, it may be extremely difficult for local or national leaders to try to reimpose any COVID-19 restrictions.
An Axios-Ipsos poll this week found just 36 percent of Americans said there was significant risk in returning to their “normal pre-coronavirus life.”
At the same time, cases are rising to over 100,000 per day.
About 18 percent of the U.S. population now lives in “high” risk areas where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges everyone to wear masks indoors, and another 27 percent lives in “medium” areas where higher-risk people should consider wearing masks.
But experts say that the average American is not constantly checking the CDC risk levels in their area.
“People have checked out a little bit,” said Chris Jackson, senior vice president at the polling firm Ipsos. “People aren’t as tuned in.”
While CDC Director Rochelle Walensky this week called on Americans in “high” risk areas to wear masks, there has not been a similar push from President Biden, who has the biggest megaphone in the government.
Unlike earlier in his tenure, Biden has not been issuing sustained warnings about COVID-19, instead focusing on the war in Ukraine and efforts to fight rising prices.
This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), often seen as an ideological ally of Biden, declined to reimpose mask mandates despite the city rising to a “high” COVID-19 level.
“It appears as though there’s a new norm that is settling in our city and our country,” Adams said. “Variants are going to come. If every variant that comes, we move into shutdown thoughts, we move into panicking, we’re not going to function as a city.”
Andy Slavitt, the Biden administration’s former senior adviser on COVID-19 response, acknowledged the difficulties in responding given current attitudes.
“You have to understand that at this point in time that you can’t make people necessarily care more than they do,” he said, saying there are “fewer policy levers,” available.
He called for a “middle zone conversation” on masks, where people could be encouraged to wear them in certain instances even if they are not mandated.
Unlike in the early days of the pandemic, there are tools available that help make the virus more manageable and reduce the need for tighter restrictions.
Vaccines and booster shots provide strong protection against severe illness and hospitalization. The Pfizer treatment pills known as Paxlovid reduce the risk of severe illness or death by roughly 90 percent if taken within five days of the onset of symptoms.
But even funding in Congress to boost supplies of treatments and purchase updated vaccines for the fall is stalled, a sign of the diminishing political appetite for the COVID-19 response.
The U.S. passing 1 million deaths from the virus this week did little to shake up the environment.
The fall and winter pose an even greater risk as the weather gets colder, and as the virus continues to evolve. There is a potential for a new variant to circulate that evades the current vaccines’ protection even more.
Jackson of Ipsos polling said there is at least some room for attitudes to change if the situation gets significantly worse, noting that only about one-third of Americans said the pandemic is “over.”
“It’s not necessarily something they’re going to shut their lives down about, but when we ask point blank, ‘Is the pandemic over?’ two thirds say, ‘no,’ ” he noted.
Hospitalizations are still relatively low, compared with spikes earlier in the pandemic, but they are on the rise, with over 20,000 people in the hospital with the virus, according to a New York Times tracker.
Deaths are at a relative low, but there are still around 300 Americans dying from the virus every day.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha this week said deaths have not risen along with cases in part because of the effect of treatments like Paxlovid, but those stores are at risk of running out without new funds.
“We’re using therapeutics to save lives; we’ve got to continue doing that,” Jha said. “At some point, we’re going to run out of the treatments we have. And without additional resources, we will find ourselves in the fall or winter with people getting infected and no treatments available for them because we will have run out.”
Slavitt said the administration’s main focus should be getting funding from Congress and working on updated vaccines.
“My own view is a little bit soured that human nature is such that, you know, whatever science makes easy, people might do,” he said. “But whatever requires even the slightest bit of sacrifice, or compromise for the sake of some other unknown person getting infected, is a much harder stretch and a much harder messaging.”
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Shanghai makes way towards COVID lockdown exit, Beijing plays defence
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step towards exiting a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing kept up its defences in an outbreak that has persisted for a month.
Shanghai's lockdown since the beginning of April has dealt a heavy economic blow to China's most populous city, stirred debate over the sustainability of the nation's zero-COVID policy and stoked fears of future lockdowns and disruptions.
Unlike the financial hub, Beijing has refrained from imposing a city-wide lockdown, reporting dozens of new cases a day, versus tens of thousands in Shanghai at its peak. Still, the curbs and endless mass testing imposed on China's capital have unsettled its economy and upended the lives of its people.
As Beijing remained in COVID angst, workers in Shanghai were disinfecting subway stations and trains before planned restoration of four metro lines on Sunday.
While service will be for limited hours, it will allow residents to move between districts and meet the need for connections to railway stations and one of the city's two airports. More than 200 bus routes will also reopen.
Underlining the level of caution, Shanghai officials said commuters would be scanned for abnormally high body temperatures and would need to show negative results of PCR tests taken within 48 hours.
Shanghai found 868 new local cases on Friday, compared with 858 a day earlier, municipal health authorities said on Saturday, a far cry from the peak in daily caseloads last month.
No new cases were found outside quarantined areas, down from three a day earlier, health authorities added.
The city of 25 million has gradually reopened shopping malls, convenience stores and wholesale markets and allowed more people to walk out of their homes, with community transmissions largely eliminated in recent days.
Still, Shanghai on Friday tightened curbs on two of its 16 districts. On Saturday a third district in central Shanghai increased restrictions on residents and businesses.
The authorities "urge enterprises to strictly implement safe production, which is their responsibility, especially in meeting some epidemic prevention and control requirements," an official from the city's emergency bureau told a news conference on Saturday.
Delta Airlines said on Friday it would resume one daily flight to Detroit from Shanghai via Seoul on Wednesday.
DRAWING COMPARISONS
Most of Beijing's recent cases have been in areas already sealed up, but authorities remained on edge and quick to act under China's ultra-strict policy.
In Fengtai, a district of 2 million people at the centre of Beijing's counter-COVID efforts, bus and metro stations have been mostly shut since Friday and residents told to stay home.
A Fengtai resident was stocking up on groceries at a nearby Carrefour on Saturday, uncertain whether restrictions would continue.
"I'm not sure if I can do more shopping over the next week or so, so I've bought a lot of stuff today and even bought some dumplings for the Dragon Boat holiday" in early June, she said, asking not to be identified.
On Friday, thousands of residents from a neighbourhood in Chaoyang, Beijing's most populous district, were moved to hotel quarantine after some cases were detected, according to state-run China Youth Daily.
Social media users on China's Twitter-like Weibo were swift to draw parallels with Shanghai, where entire residential buildings were taken to centralised quarantine facilities in response to a single positive COVID case in some instances.
While unverified accounts from residents of the Nanxinyuan neighbourhood garnered thousands of comments and shares on Weibo, a related hashtag could not be searched on the platform on Saturday, suggesting online censorship.
"Perhaps... except for Shanghai people, no one will feel for Beijing's Nanxinyuan. However, I don't actually know whether there are people who will see this sentence," Shanghai-based director and actor Xie Tiantian wrote on Weibo.
Sun Shuwei, a tech startup employee, told Reuters the situation at Nanxinyuan, just 2 km (1.2 miles) from his home, has prompted him to consider leaving Beijing.
"This has left me very agitated," Sun said.
(NOTE: At the peak, on April 26, 2022, Mainland China had 93890 new case with a 7-day average of 30,368 new cases. On May 20, 2022, the number of new cases dropped to 5,54 with a 7-day average of 5,454.)
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Locked-down Shanghai finds new cases, breaking "zero COVID" streak
■ Shanghai had 5 days of no cases outside quarantined areas
■ Curbs and mass testing imposed in two districts
■ City plans to lift lockdown in June
■ More cities in China bring COVID under control
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday and imposed stricter curbs in two districts, but did not signal any change to the planned end of a prolonged city-wide lockdown on June 1.
The commercial hub of 25 million, in its seventh week of lockdown, has been slowly allowing more people to leave their homes in recent days, with many residential compounds issuing passes for brief walks or trips to the supermarket.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Time lapse sequence of Milky Way and endless celestial wonders, seen in Big Meadows Campground, high in Sequoia National Park, within California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The air is chilled but manageable with a few layers; make sure to wrap your camera setup in one of those layers to keep your lens from fogging up!
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Explore #405
This is my first posting for my 2010 photo challenge. This year I will be taking a shot a week of my doggie Dasher. I like the idea of a weekly challenge as it is more manageable for me.
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A bit of history about my dog....
Dasher was found on the streets, starved and abused when we GM#1 was working in animal control and brought him into the pound. Dasher refused to eat and when the other dogs were let out of the cages came to sit on his feet and the next thing you know this scrawny half starved dog was at my front door.
We called him Dasher as he had the roaming bug by then and constantly ran away ( actually took off on Christmas morning just last year in his little Santa cape lol )
We cut his matted fur and bathed him and slowly got him to eat.
He is now the most loyal and loving of dogs and constantly with me.
I believe that he is some sort of Maltese, cross shit-zu and about 6-7 years old. He celebrates his birthday on the same day as my other dog Bailey on the 18th September.
This shot was taken in my garden, the recent rain has brought all the lovely white blooms out and I thought he looked sweet hanging out there ;)
I am looking forward to this challenge as I think it will be fun and interesting :)
I know many of you have asked about De Glass, but alas I will have to admit failure on that challenge, although it taught me a lot, but with such a lot of travel in 2009, it was becoming a real chore to keep up. I do plan to take glass shots in the future, just not daily.
For now you will have to rely on De Dasher ;)
Car xxx
I took this a while back at the tail end of our R.A.T.S. 'Pub Crawl'. We called into the 'Seven Stars' in 1 Thomas Lane, Bristol and this young lady was 'wowing' the crowd with her brilliant style of playing / singing ...
Processed using Topaz 'B+W Effects' & 'Clarity'.
I am at my maximum / manageable (for me) number of people on my 'Contacts List' so I will not be adding any more people at present - but many thanks for the interest.
Cheers ... Dave
We were looking forward to a good hike with mild temperatures and little wind. The winds were much higher than predicted, but manageable. There was much less snow than we would have thought, considering we've above average snowfalls for this year. While the wind was annoying, the fact that wet snow would often clump to our boots was very frustrating... With all the ups and downs, we gained just over 800 m's on this very undulating 10.3 km return distance hike, but took 6 and a half hours to complete. The loveliest surprise was herd of Rocky Mountain Sheep near the true summit.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Graffito (singular).
Spotted this near the entrance to the 'Printhaus' in Cardiff where they were holding a 'Secret Cellar Pop-Up' Beer Festival on Sat. 3rd Aug ! I've toned the image and applied Topaz 'Clarity'.
I am at my maximum / manageable (for me) number of people on my 'Contacts List' so I will not be adding any more people at present - but many thanks for the interest.
Cheers ... Dave
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I'm currently looking at downsizing my Santa Fe Union Terminal project to
something a bit more manageable, and something that works a bit better with
layouts.
The crowds of visitors as my Parents hand out the candy. The weather wasn't great, but it was manageable. It was raining in the early evening, but stopped around 5pm and didn't pick up again until around 9pm. So we managed to get through Halloween pretty well.
We had a large crowd, about 237 people (And 3 Dogs) came walking through the yard. It was a blast, but I'm exhausted.
We shut down around 9PM, but with the reports of 40-50 mph winds for tomorrow, we needed to protect the decorations. So a lot of it needed to be collapsed and stuffed into the house. I didn't get back into the house until around 10:30 PM.
I hope everyone had a great Halloween. This wraps up my Halloween series, now I'm going to bed.
Olympus E-M5
Panasonic 7-14mm
Handheld - No FIlters
ISO 1600 - 7mm - f/4 - 0.8 Sec
BOX DATE: 1986
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
VARIATIONS: Blonde; African American; Hispanic (dated 1987)
BODY TYPE: 1966; Twist 'N Turn waist; straight arms; straight, non-bending legs
HEAD MOLD: 1976 "Superstar"
***The doll on the left is wearing a handmade tutu.
The doll on the right is wearing 1988 Dinner Date Fashions #1295.
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Oh what a sweetie this doll is! I had a hunch when I first discovered the gal on the left in the "Ken Suitcase lot" of 2016, that she was some sort of My First Barbie. Her short, manageable hair and her straight, non-bending legs were indicative of her identity. She has a very special looking face. I love the way her two toned blue/purple eyes look with her vibrant blue eyelashes. She has an extremely wide eyed, innocent look about her. I've always loved My First Barbie dolls for a variety of reasons, and this doll is certainly no exception. Obviously, they are typically easier to dress, because they sport straight, non-bending legs--meaning that pants glide on and off them with ease. But what really gives these dolls an upper hand is the fact that they are so basic, yet stunning. Each My First Barbie doll over the years has maintained her own unique look. They might come in similar outfits, but the dolls themselves are very distinctive. Plus, I love that these kinds of Barbies were available in a multitude of different hair colors and ethnicities. I personally have always favored doll lines with this sort of wide range of options. I acquired her leotard in the 2024 "Storage Sweeties Lot." I ended up making her a tutu at that time, so she could wear the leotard (but not look mostly naked).
My second doll was also from a lot. We found her in the "Rolling Heads Bin" of 2021. All the other 80s dolls, with the exception of Super Hair and this gal were decapitated. It was the hard, smooth legs that gave away this doll's identity. Her saran hair threw me off as you can imagine. My first version has kanekalon, which gives her an entirely different feel. I personally prefer the saran as it is my favorite hair fiber. Plus, my doll has super shiny tresses since her boil wash. I styled her hair in a bun to give her an elegant do! I always thought this Barbie was cute. But owning the second variant makes me appreciate how gorgeous she is. I should note that both my dolls are made in Malaysia. It just goes to show you that even the same country of manufacturer could have variations!
Last week I finally got around to transferring my possessions from the rucksack changing bag (so handy when there is a baby slung on your front, absolutely useless when the baby is slung on your back) to this shoulder bag. The job also encompassed pruning down the ridiculous amount of stuff I was carting around (5 pairs of the children's socks. Five) and throwing out the astounding volume of rubbish that both bags seemed to contain.
I think it is down to a manageable amount now, although it still seems a lot laid out like this. Nice to have a pretty bag once more though.
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve - this was a bit later and a bit closer than the previous shots, and this one didn't escape - straight down the hatch!
I found the fabric a long time ago, it's a Spandex, which is impossible to sew ( for me at least).
So I sewed it onto a thin foam and that way it became more manageable. Now the skirt is kind of a thicker neoprene-like texture( really cool)
The attached top in a black velvet corsage with fur trim and a leather belt with the decorative accent button/buckle in front. the corsage is lined with muslin and the dress closes in the back with 3 snap buttons.Voila! Amelia wears it well with her black Sling Back Shoes
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
Another trip to Exmouth seafront on thursday evening and we were treated with quite a spectacle as the tide rushed in.
With one of the highest tides of the year, the speed with which it was coming in was incredible. I have witnessed the tide racing in many times here, but never with this much power except in storms, but it was a very calm and windless evening.
Seemed like an ideal time to get out the welding glass to slow things down and get some unusual patterns in the water. It was getting a bit close to sunset and the light fading, so rather than several minutes, it was time to up the ISO to keep the exposure to a more manageable 75 seconds :~)
It was enough to create the different levels that I had hoped for. Here the smoother water of the open sea near the horizon, then the dark tones of the rushing water heading up the estuary, finally in the foreground the turbulance created by the water cascading over the groyne and breaking on the rocks of the sea defences at the base of the sea wall.
Mission accomplished, but it didnt really show the power and force of the water, so I switched tactics to what you can see below.
ARGANRain pure organic argan oil
Some of the benefits of using Moroccan argan oil for hair and skin are as follows:
- Argan oil penetrates deeply into hair follicles( hair grows in follicles) , strenghtens hair and thus help to prevent the hair loss.
- Due to affecting the blood circulation positie way, argan oil help to keep the skin cell live
- It helps to repair as well as prevent the occurrence of split ends caused by several factors.
- As argan oil contains unsaturated Omega 3 and Omega 9 fatty acids, so it is able to penetrate the hair shaft and repair damaged hair follicles.
- It also increases shine of lackluster dry hair by locking in the moisture.
- Unlike other hair oil, argan oil is non greasy and non oily and therefore it does not weight down hair making it limp.
- Argan oil is ideal for taming rough, dry, frizzy and unmanageable hair.
- It is light and almost weightless so there is less probability of build up.
- For those who have damaged their hair with too much of hair straightening and other chemical treatments, argan oil can help in restoring the lost luster.
- Many people with color treated hair complain of rough hair and color fading. Regular application of argan oil on color treated hair can help in keeping the color intact for a greater duration and it would also prevent any dryness.
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- Argan oil is immediately absorbed by the hair and it restores the lost moisture.
- It also acts as a shield for harmful UV rays and protects the hair from environmental pollution.
- Because it has a high content of vitamin E, argan oil is very effective for hair growth too.
- It nourishes hair from the root, strengthening it, thereby preventing hair loss.
- Argan oil is very good for uncontrollable and manageable hair. It restores the smoothness of hair make them manageable again.
- Hair stylists also consider that Argan oil may finally be right choice to heal and restore the damaged, dry and weak hair from environmental extremes,excessive styling practices and perms
Was surprised to get these super dark flowers from the other yellow blend of seed mix. These are a very manageable 5' tall.
A worker uses a powered tool to unscrew a bolt holding an old third rail chair to a track tie.
CTA crews replaced running rail in the Kimball Subway (Blue Line, O'Hare Branch) over the weekend, as a part of important regular track maintenance.
On Saturday, February 22, around 1,300 feet of new rail was installed, replacing old rail showing signs of wear on the Forest Park-bound track. One of the rails was replaced from the subway portal at the Kennedy Expressway (I90/94) down to the Belmont station. The new rail installed weighed nearly 50,000 lbs. (about 25 tons).
Workers cut the old rail into manageable segments, removed them, swapped in new pieces of new rail and joined the 1500-lb pieces together. Crews also made adjustments to the third rail, swapping out old third rail chairs with new ones.
Reusable parts of the rail that was removed was used to replace sections of worn rail on the O'Hare-bound side, Sunday (we reuse what we can).
This maintenance work is just a taste of what's to come with an upcoming project to improve this line! Later this year, larger, more widespread work will occur to improve tracks, stations and infrastructure on the Blue Line in areas between O'Hare and through downtown as part of the Your New Blue project, a $492 million investment in the Blue Line. Learn more at transitchicago.com/yournewblue
I've tried to keep my camera buying down to a manageable level in 2012 to date but I couldn't resist the opportunity to add this lovely FM2N to my rotating 'users' list.
It's not overly complicated and pretty easy to understand if you are used to an all manual camera (there is no Program or Auto mode).
There's a light meter that takes a couple of easily available S76 batteries and the camera will work without batteries just fine (except the light meter won't) and I love that about any camera. These were manufactured from the late 1980's to the early 1990's. No doubt about it, this was / is a quality Nikon SLR
Thanks to Nan for the chance to keep this sweetie running.
Bartow County Georgia. 3/9/2014
My 4th evening journey to view this magnificent owl. This visit was the first time the owl appeared for me at manageable range with decent light. The previous 3 visits the owl waited well into dusk to course the fields. The time window is generally very short from first appearance until light conditions become very difficult to work with.
In the side view image above one can get the feel for the great peripheral vision of this bird which aids it while hunting. Those golden eyes are set into its face with intricate precision.
Below in comments are a few other images from the same evening.
This is a clone of the Peach Fuzz. Like the Acapulco Gold, it uses a pair of those little LM386 amp-in-a-chip dealies like they use to make cigar box amps and it simulates the sound of a cranked-up amp...kinda. The Peach Fuzz adds an op-amp to kind of mediate things and turns it into more of a fuzz than an amp simulation, but it still kind of has that character. It still cleans up really nice with the Volume control on my guitar and the output level is much more manageable than the Acapulco Gold, although still pretty hot. You can see where I have it (the right knob) for unity gain. It's a very cool fuzz.
Railways of Great Britain
This start of another one of my collections, although I have posted a few in the past.
I have taken quite a few images over the years of Old Steam, Diesel and Electric engines and after sorting out probably 3,000 plus, I’ve now got it down to a more manageable number.
I’m starting with English Engines. Some of these images could be 25 years old. Many were transferred from negatives via a scanner so the quality will not be as good I would like. I have put them all through Photoshop to get rid of the most glaring issues
Apologies to those enthusiasts if I don’t get the right engine with the right Railway, they were taken a long time ago, some of them have moved on and my memory is not as good as it was.
Happy viewing.
Julia's long-awaited Nexus One finally arrived, via Hongkong :)
Very slick. The capacitive touchscreen is as good as any other, eg. iPhone, HTC HD2. The Assisted GPS was amazingly fast, as was the "wireless" only mode using cellular and WiFi triangulation.
The screen sucks in sunlight though, further compounded by the screen protector.
It managed to open music from our NAS over WiFi with no problems. PDFs were a bit slower, but manageable. My attempt to play a 300MB AVI over WiFi from the NAS resulted in failure :)
- Google Nexus One - www.google.com/phone/
A worker cuts through rail as part of regular replacement work.
CTA crews replaced running rail in the Kimball Subway (Blue Line, O'Hare Branch) over the weekend, as a part of important regular track maintenance.
On Saturday, February 22, around 1,300 feet of new rail was installed, replacing old rail showing signs of wear on the Forest Park-bound track. One of the rails was replaced from the subway portal at the Kennedy Expressway (I90/94) down to the Belmont station. The new rail installed weighed nearly 50,000 lbs. (about 25 tons).
Workers cut the old rail into manageable segments, removed them, swapped in new pieces of new rail and joined the 1500-lb pieces together. Crews also made adjustments to the third rail, swapping out old third rail chairs with new ones.
Reusable parts of the rail that was removed was used to replace sections of worn rail on the O'Hare-bound side, Sunday (we reuse what we can).
This regular maintenance work is just a taste of what's to come with an upcoming project to improve this line! Later this year, larger, more widespread work will occur to improve tracks, stations and infrastructure on the Blue Line in areas between O'Hare and through downtown as part of the Your New Blue project, a $492 million investment in the Blue Line. Learn more at transitchicago.com/yournewblue
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
As one plaque reads:
1927 1928
State of Arizona
Navajo Bridge
Arch - 616 Feet
Total Length - 834 feet
Height - 467 feet
Arizona State Highway Commission
...Cannot make out the smaller type in the middle...
Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
As a nearby sign reads:
Navajo bridge
Bridging the Past and the Future
Dedicated September 14, 1995
When the historic Navajo Bridge was built in 1928 it was never intended to carry the larger, heavier vehicles of today. A second bridge - wider and stronger than the first - was needed. The challenge for the Arizona Department of Transportation was to build a bridge for modern transportation needs that was sensitive to the environment and compatible with the historic bridge. The second bridge continues the tradition of the first - to maintain an important transportation corridor to some of the world's most spectacular natural wonders.
Techniques used during the construction of the second bridge mitigated environmental damage. To protect the visual character of the project site, excavated rock was removed in small, manageable pieces, and a steel cable net caught debris that otherwise might fall into the river.
Ironworkers, 470 feet (143m) above the Colorado River, install the center pin that connects the two halves of the steel arch main span. The pin was set on October 14, 1994, seven months after steel erection had begun.
Techniques used to construct the historic Navajo Bridge in 1928 were used 67 years later to construct the second bridge.
The steel arch was erected in two cantilevered sections, each extending 363 feet (111m) from the canyon walls.
A movable crane lifted and placed the steel members so that ironworkers could bolt them into place.
Tale of the Tape
Total Length - 909 ft (277m)
Steel Arch Length - 726 ft (221m)
Arch rise - 90 ft (27.4m)
Height above river - 470 ft (143m)
Width of roadway - 44 ft (13.4m)
Amount of steel - 13.9 million lbs (1,762,000kgs)
Amount of concrete - 1,790 cu. yds. (1,370 m2)
Amount of steel reinforcement - 434,000 lbs (197,000kgs)
Construction cost - $14.7 million
"We respect the historic Navajo Bridge because its design and construction triumphed over difficult site and technical problems. The major challenges for the second bridge were environmental concerns and coordination with government agencies that didn't exist when the first bridge was built."
Jerry A. Cannon, Bridge Engineer, 1995
Another nearby sign reads:
Natural Barriers to Exploration and Transportation
Native People
For centuries, the Colorado River and its deep canyons have been formidable natural barriers to travel, but for hundreds of miles, the preferred crossing of the river has always been here near Marble Canyon. Archeological evidence and oral tradition indicate that native people frequently forded the Colorado River in this vicinity when natural river flows were low enough to make crossing possible.
Explorers
In 1776, two Franciscan priests, Fray Francisco Atanasio Domingo and fry Silvestre Velez de Escalante, led an expedition across this area in search of an overland route to California. Because they anticipated being followed by soldiers, priests and settlers, the Dominguez-Escalante expedition provided the first written record of this region.
Almost 100 years later, in 1869, the Colorado River gained fame from the writings of Major John Wesley Powell, who conducted by boat the first scientific exploration of the Colorado River. Powell led a second expedition in 1871-72. His purpose was to determine if the river was navigable, map the river's canyons, and record geological formations.
Settlers
A ferry crossing of the Colorado River began operating at the mouth of the Paria River in 1871. The crossing is widely known as Lees Ferry, after its first operator, John Doyle Lee. During the 19th century, thousands of pioneers crossed the Colorado at Lees Ferry. The wagon roue became known as the "Honeymoon Trail" because recently married Mormons from new settlements in Arizona traveled this route to St. George, Utah, to have their marriages sanctioned in the Mormon Temple.
and Modern Travelers...
In 1929, the historic Navajo Bridge replaced the Lees Ferry river crossing. The bridge was so significant to this remote and rugged region that more than 5,000 people attended the dedication ceremony. Since then, travelers enroute to and through some of this country's most magnificent landscapes, have crossed the Colorado River in relative comfort and convenience by automobile.
"Nowhere in North America, and in very few localities in the world, are there any such barriers to road building as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado."
W.C. Lefebvre, State Engineer, 1926
And the last nearby sign reads:
Historic Navajo Bridge
Dedicated June 14-15, 1929
"The closing of the two great halves of the arch bridging the Colorado River has marked a milestone in the history of highway construction in Arizona."
Ralph A. Hoffman, State Bridge Engineer, 1926
The Vital Link
When the historic Navajo Bridge opened on January 12, 1929, Flagstaff's newspaper, the Coconino Sun, called it "the biggest news in southwest history." It was the only bridge across the Colorado River for some 600 miles (965km) and was a vital link in the first direct highway route between Arizona and Utah.
By easing access to this remote and rugged region, the bridge played a valuable and lasting role in transportation, commerce, and tourism in northern Arizona and southern Utah.
A 500 Pound Shot!
When the historic Navajo Bridge was constructed in 1928, blasting the canyon walls was permitted.
Ribbons of Steel
The historic Navajo Bridge was constructed as two cantilevered arch halves, each extending 308 ft (94m) over the gorge.
The Flagstaff side of the arch was erected first and took two months to complete. The Fredonia side of the arch was finished two and a half months later. The arch was closed on September 12, 1928.
Tale of the Tape
At the time of its construction, the historic Navajo Bridge was the highest steel arch bridge in the world.
Total length - 834 ft (254m)
Steel arch length - 616 ft (188m)
Arch rise - 90 ft (27.4m)
Height above river - 467 ft (142m)
Width of roadway - 18 ft (5.5m)
Amount of steel - 2.4 million lbs (1,089,000kgs)
Amount of concrete - 500 cu yds (385m2)
Amount of reinforcement - 82,000 lbs (37,000kgs)
Construction cost - $390 thousand
Another experimental panorama with my D90 and my 35mm lens. It is imperfect, but I like the effect. The original rendering was about 50 inches. I had to resize to a more manageable 25 x 30" size. This version is about 1000 pixels.
An interesting find at the Hilton Hotel (Beetham Tower) in Manchester was this Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, although I'm not a particular fan of the BMW builds, the Ghost is probably my favorite of the troop, seeming a bit more manageable than the bulky Phantom, although functionally it's exactly the same as a BMW 7-Series.
from elitistreview.com/2012/05/14/hawksmoor-wine-and-writers/
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The Editor and I travelled into The Big Smoke to meet Swedish wine writer Erica Landin in Hawksmoor Spitalfields earlier today. She seemed impressed by our capacity to eat, the general pricing policies of London and the specific pricing policy of Hawksmoor. Fair enough.
Erica’s experience of wine journalism in Sweden is somewhat different to that of mine in the UK and Europe. It seems less involved in getting riotously drunk and telling scandalously ribald anecdotes ‘off the record’ for a start. She seemed moderately impressed that we got through two bottles and a couple of cocktails for lunch; I’m told by the Editor that Swedes have unhealthy attitudes to drinking at lunchtime. Anyway, let’s have a quick look at the food.
Any reservations about the quality of the plum-pudding pig ribs I might have had on my last visit were utterly erased this time. They were absolutely cracking. The combination of melting soft meat and fat along with a richly spiced sauce is quite the winner and, like me, you should go for them every time.
Erica seemed a bit daunted by the towering nature of her burger, but said she liked it even if it did ultimately require utensils to get it into manageable-sized units. I would have been impressed by her asking if she could have both triple-cooked chips and a salad with her burger, but wasn’t because not many salads are worth getting impressed about. Salads are just so unhealthy – JUST SAY NO!
Editor Dani ordered a medium-rare ribeye, double fried eggs, roast bone marrow, macaroni and cheese and stilton hollandaise. So did I. Everything was at the ‘jester’s shoes’ end of the pleasure-spectrum. One forgets quite how good their steaks are, the bone marrow is brillo and served with style, their macaroni and cheese recipe is perfect and, though I don’t think quality meat needs much sauce, I like the hollandaise to add to the M&C for enhanced richness.
The only slight disappointment was the eggs. I know here in Hampshire we have been spoiled with amazing King’s Somborne eggs, but these really do seem to be lacking much in the way of flavour. When you shovel a big lump of animal flesh with a whole yolk on top into your mouth you want there to be serious yolk action coating your meat-filled hole; these did not deliver. More work needed on sourcing top quality ova, I think.
The cocktails were faultlessly perfect and I really felt in the mood to be witty, charming and able to listen to a new friend after knocking back my Fancy Gin Cocktail. This remains the single best martini I have ever consumed on multiple occasions. Sure, you can almost have stronger martinis, possibly, but drinking isn’t a meat-measuring exercise. These FGC’s remain quite heroic and definitely enabling/disabling enough without sacrificing anything in terms of being really nice drinks. Dani had something else, but I missed it because I was busy with my drink and being probed by Erica.
The wines:
Cote-Rote ‘Les Grades Places’ 2004, Domaine Clusel-Roch
Clusel-Roch remain my favourite Cote-Rotie producer and one sniff of this demonstrated why that is so. No silliness with high alcohol here: this clocked in at 12%. No silliness with new oak either; nary a hint of it on the nose which was all about beautifully elegant and refined fruit, which a sophisticated earthy hint and real energy and life. This showed a lot of life and was not showing any signs of falling apart having been from a weaker vintage. A supremely engaging and attractive nose of minimalism and restraint; all about beauty and understated pleasure. I was a bit surprised that when we first opened it the palate seemed a touch tough, but a shake in the decanter and a swirl in the glass sorted that out. It then showed silky, polished tannins, a fine acidity that made it sparkle with life and refined but really deep and complex fruit. The depth of flavour, despite the small-scale of the palate, was amazing – the old vines character really shining through. It was very long, extremely sophisticated and highly pleasurable. The most enjoyable Cote-Rotie I’ve had since the last bottle of this.
Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru la Richemone 2005, Domaine Alain Michelot
This was one of the most reduced red wines I have smelled in years. When it was first popped it honked of Hydrogen Sulphide and I was going to say we shouldn’t drink it. But I risked shaking it and vigorously decanting and it opened a little. But just a little, alas. It remained stinky and reductive, not much fun as far as fruit went at all. Strangely, the texture on the palate was quite nice, silky and reasonably seductive, but I couldn’t get over that nasty reductive character and surreptitiously ordered myself an extra cocktail as I went to ‘strain the vegetables’. I tell you, those Fancy Gin Cocktails would be all you need in the cocktail department if it were not for the rest of Hawksmoor’s brilliant list.
I’ve had a cold for the past week and this little jaunt into London was not only surprisingly manageable, both in terms of viral infection and London-related harassment, but quite a lot of fun as well. OK, I was let down by the Nuits, but the Cote-Rotie was wizard. Hawksmoor always deliver the goods and it was a real delight to meet Erica. I bet we got her more quaquaversal than the chap she was meeting next could manage.
Here’s Hawksmoor’s website
Related posts:
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She seems interesting and with easy manageable kind of hair style.
I haven't been interested in newer Blythe dolls released this year but this one does catches my attention.
And her stock outfit looks cute <3
*Obviously not my pic*
The Speckled wood, Pararge aegeria (or Bont Zandoogje in Dutch), is a daybutterfly that belongs to the genus Pararge, which compromises 3 species : Pararge aegeria, Pararge xiphia, and Pararge xiphioides. Pararge xiphioides occurs on the Canary Islands. Pararge xiphia occurs on the Atlantic island of Madeira. Molecular studies suggest that the African and Madeiran populations are closely related and distinct from European populations of both subspecies, suggesting that Madeira was colonized from Africa and that the African population has a long history of isolation from European populations. Furthermore, the species Pararge aegeria compromises four subspecies: Pararge aegeria aegeria, Pararge aegeria tircis, Pararge aegeria oblita, and Pararge aegeria insula. These subspecies stem form the fact that the Speckled Wood butterfly exhibits a cline across their range. This butterflies varies morphologically down the 700 km cline, resulting in the different subspecies corresponding to geographical areas.
The Speckled Wood occupies a diversity of grassy, flowery habitats in forest, meadow steppe, forest, woods, glades. It can also be found in urban areas alongside hedges, in wooded urban parks, and occasionally in gardens. Within its range the speckled wood typically prefers damp areas. It is generally found in woodland areas throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone. P. a. tircis is found in Northern and Central Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, Russia, and Central Asia, and the P. a. aegeria is found in southwestern Europe and North Africa.
The average wingspan of both males and females is 5.1 cm (2 in), although males tend to be slightly smaller than females. Furthermore, males possess a row of greyish-brown scent scales of their forewings that is absent in the females. Females have brighter and more distinct markings than males.The subspecies P. a. tircis is brown with pale yellow or cream spots and darker upperwing eyespots. The subspecies P. a. aegeria has a more orange background and the hindwing underside eyespots are reddish brown rather than black or dark gray. The two forms gradually intergrade into each other. Subspecies P. a. oblita is a darker brown, often approaching black with white rather than cream spots. The underside of its hindwings has a marginal pale purple band and a row of conspicuous white spots. The spots of subspecies P. a. insula are a tawny orange rather than a cream color. The underside of the forewings has patches of pale orange, and the underside of the hind wing has a purple tinged band. Although there is considerable variation with each subspecies, identification of the different subspecies is manageable.
The morphology of this butterfly varies as a gradient down its geographic cline from North to South. The northern butterflies in this species have a bigger size, adult body mass, and wing area. These measurements decrease as one move's in a southerly direction in the Speckled Wood's range. Forewing length on the other hand increase moving in a northerly direction. This is due to the fact that in the cooler temperatures of the northern part of this butterfly's range, the butterflies need larger forewings for thermoregulation. Finally, the northern butterflies are darker than their southern counterpart, and there is a coloration gradient, down their geographical cline.
Urbex Benelux -
In some cases a crane with a wrecking ball is used to demolish the structure down to a certain manageable height. At that point undermining takes place as described above. However crane mounted demolition balls are rarely used within demolition due to the uncontrollable nature of the swinging ball and the safety implications associated.
The fruitcake lives! What a long and complicated history this thing has had. The one my sister Angel is holding here is the second one we've passed around, and even this one is now fully five years old. The first one, which was about a third this size and thus far more manageable for storing in someone's freezer for a year, was successfully passed back and forth between 1998 and 2011. That was fourteen Christmases! But, when my niece Britni had it sent to her in 2011 when she lived in Hawaii, and she had her electricity shut off, everything in her freezer defrosted together and the original fruitcake died. Between 2012 and 2015 there was an attempt to replace it with a naked lady whose breasts were salt and pepper shakers, but the family tired of that one quickly—and finally, in 2016, a genius friend of mine suggested I just buy a new fruitcake. Why the hell didn't I think of that? I bought a new one from the same Texas company the original had come from, irritated that this was now the smallest size they sold (and still is; I checked), and taped a photo of the original box on the back, with the complete log of each person who has gotten it and what year.
The "new" fruitcake may be five years old now, existing through six Christmases, but it's only been successfully gifted four times. In 2019, my nephew Ricky addressed it to James, my cousin Toni's husband, thereby aiming it outside the direct line of my immediate family for the first time. The thing is, while Aunt Raenae as well as Toni (her daughter) and family came to many Christmases past, they all live in Aberdeen now and don't really come into Olympia for extended family holidays anymore. Ricky clearly hadn't registered that, and so the fruitcake sat in Dad and Sherri's garage freezer . . . for two years. Sherri did tell James shortly after Christmas 2019 that he had a gift at their house, but two and a half months later the pandemic hit and no one was visiting each other's houses. Then, there was no family gathering at all for Christmas 2020. I actually made a couple of attempts at getting my hands on that fruitcake in 2020 and 2021 to figure out what to do with it, either mail it to James or just give it to someone new when next we could. I only managed it on Christmas Eve of this year, when I decided we should give it to Angel this year. My eldest sister had never had it before, largely because we all didn't think she would be responsible enough to keep it intact for a year. But, we're all kind of once again close to being over it, so if it gets lost (or eaten!), we're like, whatever. Still, Angel opened it and said, "Does this mean I'm a grownup now?" (She's 52.)
I even re-wrapped it so I could update the log on the box. So, although there have been two of them and there's been a cumulative five years when it didn't get passed, the fruitcake tradition in our family is 23 years old. I did tell Angel we have a new rule: no giving it to someone who has already had it! I've been given it twice (1998 and 2000) and Shobhit got the new one once (2017), which means we've had it in our freezer for a year three times; Gina got it once and her wife Beth got the new fruitcake its first year, so Gina's had one for a year twice. Dad and Sherri have had it worst: Sherri got it twice and Dad got it once, so by 2010 they had it in their freezer for a year three times; but they also stored it in their garage freezer for the past two years when it wasn't even gifted to them, which means they've had it a cumulative five years! They were elated to be finally rid of it.
Ace can get extremely pissy whenever his hair is covering his eyes. Long gone were the days where he prioritize his dignity over anything else. These days he'll use any means necessary as long as his bang is manageable; even if it means wearing embarrassingly flowery hairpins!
I tried something in this picture. Can you tell what it is? :X
Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz
I'm happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless,but not for long
The future is coming on
I'm happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
Yeah... Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cos I'm counting no age
Nah I couldn't be there
Nah you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under a snare
Intangible
Bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose
Sit and lose...
______________________________________
Essa música vai longe, mas achei que tem a ver com a foto... sei lá... quem sabe... enfim, qual é?
Boa noite !!!!
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Sotheby's autumn auction in Sydney on 9 April presents 81 lots of outstanding Australian art. This includes two oils by Russell Drysdale, a true rarity by this master of the Australian country town and outback landscape.
Another eye catcher will be lot 27 John Olsen's "Seafood Paella" - however, a very big wall (and pocket) is required, as this late masterpiece from 2007 comes in five panels measuring 244 x 612 cm overall, with estimates of $700,000-900,000. In his "Faves" below, David has included two equally appealing, but smaller and perhaps more manageable offerings by the artist.
And of course the cover lot number 24: Charles Blackman's "Dreaming Alice" from 1956 is a magical masterpiece in blue hues to make you swoon ... as may do the estimates of $1,000,000 to $1,200,000.
Lot 62 is the international stand-out in the sale, and rare too: "Congo Landscape" 1945 (with the original frame from Zanzibar) is by revered South African artist Irma Stern, so we may well see some fierce phone bidding battles on the night.
This is a beautiful selection of fine art well worth viewing in person:
In Melbourne from 27 to 31 March, at 14-16 Collins Street
In Sydney from 4 April to 9 April at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.
You can peruse the Sotheby's catalogue also online
The auction is held on 9 April, 6.30 pm, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Sydney.
For advice and pre-purchase due diligence on any of the Sotheby's lots, don't hesitate to contact us on phone 02 9977 7764 and email info@bhfineart.com
Having followed the Australian art auction market very closely for over 15 years, we can assist you with expert advice in all aspects of purchasing quality art at auction.
And here are the gems David has picked for his Dave's Faves:
[caption id="attachment_5671" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 2 - Brett Whiteley, Untitled, 1960, 53 x 72.7 cm, est. $35,000-45,000. Be Green not Mean[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5672" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 6 - Elioth Gruner, Mosman Bay 1919, 20.3 x 25.3 cm, est. $40,000-50,000. You will enjoy to pay for Mosman Bay[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5673" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 7 - Russell Drysdale, Landscape of Rocks, 1949, 30.7 x 46 cm, est. $180,000-220,000. On the Rocks, Please[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5674" align="alignleft" width="257"] Lot 8 - William Dobell, Woman in Restaurant, 1934, 22.3 x 19.7 cm, est. $80,000-120,000. Smoke doesn't get in your Eyes[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5675" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 9 - William Dobell, Spring at Wangi, 1959, 30.4 x 44.3 cm, est. $60,000-80,000. Life before Lycra[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5676" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 11 - Margaret Olley, Ipswich Hotel 1948, 76 x 102 cm, est. $55,000-75,000. I love to have a Beer with Duncan[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5677" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 17 - Cressida Campbell, Interior with Sunflowers and Figs, 1998, est. $80,000-120,000. Honey I'm Home![/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5678" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 18 - Arthur Boyd, Diamond Bay, 1957, 52.5 x 71 cm, est. $100,000-150,000. Simple Stunner with Seagulls[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5679" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 21 - John Olsen, Emus Watching, 1981, 137 x 152 cm, est. $70,000-90,000. Watch This[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5680" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 24 - Charles Blackman, Dreaming Alice, 1956, 97.2 x 136.2 cm, est. $1,000,000-1,200,000. Everyone is waking up to the Magic of Charles[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5681" align="alignleft" width="288"] Lot 25 - Fred Williams, Australian Landscape, 1969, 91.2 x 86.6 cm, est. $180,000-220,000. Time to Chill with Will[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5682" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 30 - John Perceval, White Angel (Kathie), 1964-66, 74 x 81 cm, est. $25,000-35,000. This should fly[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5683" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 36 - Clement Meadmore, Fidgety Feet, 1978, 18 x 18 x 7 cm, est. $15,000-20,000. Time to get foot loose[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5684" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 41 - John Olsen, Frog Drawing 2001, 29.7 x 42.3 cm, est. $15,000-25,000. Your New Froggy Friend[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5685" align="alignleft" width="250"] Lot 43 - Sidney Nolan, Ned Kelly, 1966, 30.5 x 25.5 cm, est. $15,000-25,000. Stop horsin' around[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5686" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 44 - Albert Namatjira, Ghost Gum, Central Australia, 35.5 x 53 cm, est. $55,000-65,000. Ghost Gum Gold[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5687" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 47 - Brett Whiteley, Winter Willows, 1979, 47.5 x 41.5 cm, est. $60,000-80,000. The Hills are Alive[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 50 - Nora Heysen, Camellias, 1949, 37 x 44.5 cm, est. $25,000-35,000. Both Superb and Sublime[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5689" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 71 - Guy Grey-Smith, Salt Lake 1966, 61 x 96.3 cm, est. $20,000-30,000. Salt Lake for City Slickers[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_5690" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 76 - William Robinson, Nimbin Rocks in Fog, 1996, 137.5 x 183 cm, est. $150,000-200,000. Sure it's Fog, in Nimbin[/caption]
Dave’s Faves for the Sotheby’s Auction on 9 April 2019 is courtesy of: www.bhfineart.com/
Day 304-- Annika and I had a dress-up day to break up the day into smaller, more manageable chunks. It was pretty fun.
At the same time, my teacher husband asked me to bring his bomber jacket and aviator glasses to school because he forgot a few pieces of his Homecoming skit costume. I wasn't brave enough to go walk around a high school in my dress-up state, but Annika was (because honestly, how adorable is she?) so I got to take pictures of daddy and daughter dressed up together.
Outside the school, there's a bench in the shade with a huge sidewalk in the sun to bounce soft light in. That was clearly the place to put my little girl for my picture of the day.
Once the boulder was broken into a manageable size, WSDOT crews began cleaning the debris. A section of SR 410 was closed in October 2019 due to unstable slopes and rocks over the highway. The highway reopened October 25. The annual winter closure typically occurs around the Thanksgiving holiday pending weather conditions.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
Instant Study Area areas are primitive and natural areas formally identified by the BLM. Instant Study Areas are a specific category of WSAs. The units are less than 1,500 acres and generally not adjacent to other WSAs or a designated wilderness. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act -- FLPMA -- required an accelerated wilderness review of these Wilderness Study Areas. In Oregon there are five Instant Study Areas comprising 9,560 acres.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
All the various components laid out relatively neatly. This, of course, lasted all of five minutes before it became a manageable mess.
This image was scanned from a plan in the BHP Coal Geology plan set. The set of plans was donated to the Geology Department at University of Newcastle by BHP Coal Geology, in the early 1960s. The plans were transferred to Cultural Collections and stored in archives at the Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle (2012), together with other archival material from the Geology Dept.
The plans were scanned at 400dpi in GLAMx Lab, Cultural Collections, in August 2017. This set of plans was generated from the scans by Russell Rigby in October 2017 - the original scans were adjusted using Irfanview software and the following steps:
1/ the scans were "squared up" where necessary by fine rotation, and cropped to remove frayed edges, binding holes etc - all information was preserved.
2/ the scans were resized to 160dpi (40% of original)to get a set of plans at manageable size.
3/ the resized images were"auto adjusted" to improve colour rendition and contrast
4/ the adjusted images were saved as high quality jpg files (80%)
5/ the adjusted images were renamed for consistency.
The borehole and shaft numbers used on these plans are from sequential numbering of the data points generated within BHP Coal Geology. A reference listing of the BHPCG numbers used for the Newcastle Coalfield with the name and number of the data point is held in archives by Glencore, Mineral Resources, and may also be in the University collection (to be confirmed). Copies of the drillhole and shaft logs are contained in sets of typed sheets, with hand-coloured graphic logs.
The scanned plans are dye-line prints. They were printed from originals on transparent film which were updated from time to time in BHP Coal Geology. Later versions of these plans may be available from other sources, and the updated originals may still be in the archives now held by Glencore. The printed plans are hand coloured.
The plans are approximately 1050mm x 760mm, at a scale of 4 inches:1 mile (1:15840) unless otherwise shown. They are bound in a single hard-cover folio.
The borehole and shaft numbers used on these plans are from sequential numbering of the data points generated within BHP Coal Geology. A reference listing of the BHPCG numbers used for the Newcastle Coalfield with the name and number of the data point is held in archives by Glencore, Mineral Resources, and may also be in the University collection. Copies of the drillhole and shaft logs are contained in sets of typed sheets, with hand-coloured graphic logs.
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