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120 miles per hour?
I doubt it... and even if it could I don't think I'd be brave enough to trust the drum brakes!
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Plumpton, 11 April 2021. Handicap Chase (3m 1f). No.5 Ivilnoble (James Davies) leading no.4 Optimistic Bias (Philip Armson)
Several House Martins were collecting mud to repair their nests on 3rd August. They are quite optimistic about rearing extra broods very late in the season. Bank End, Lancashire.
Some blackberries/brambles are still flowering for the third time; this one has set fruit but very little prospect of them ripening! I awoke to the lightest dusting of snow and a hoar frost on a misty morning. I headed to the North Downs Way in Chantry Wood but there wasn’t enough snow on the track or the trees. I walked to the River Wey and came back via Racks Close, an old chalk quarry almost opposite our house.
46/365 (1903)
Mmm, the sun may have been out, but it was still cold, and it is February. Plus we only have wet sand at low tide, so not sure how many of these the stall holder sold.
Portrait of a young african girl with frizzy hair and traditional african plaits, and a shy smile on her lips
Optimistic Kim was poised to win her birthday game of Monopoly -- but sadly, fate had other plans in mind.
Optimistic Message on the Exam Room sign.
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while I have dreams of an SX 70, I'm stuck with my Sun600 and a fax machine to scan them with. oh well, I guess they are right for each other.
January 2008 optimistic patch of sky, taken late afternoon, as I was heading for home on a very dark & stormy old day.
Inspired loosely by Don McCullins Somerset Work.
www.hamiltonsgallery.com/photographers/mccullin/mccullins...
The U2 song, " One Tree Hill " also came to mind.
The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel, known as the Grand Hotel in later years, is one of a small number of skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today and is a prime example of how optimistic people were during the Florida land boom. Built in 1926, it found financing through a stock-sale campaign in the local business community, costing $500,000 after it was completed(which equates to about $6 million today.)
The building architecture, masonry vernacular with hints of Mediterranean-Revival, is also a good example of the time is was built. It was designed by two well-known architects at the time, Fred Bishop who designed the Byrd Theatre in Virginia, and D.J. Phipps, whose designed both the Wyoming County Courthouse and Jail and the Colonial Hotel in Virginia.
The hotel was constructed using the “three-part vertical block” method, which became the dominant pattern in tall buildings during the 1920s. Three-part buildings are composed of a base, shaft and a cap, all noticeably visible.
The hotel opened as the “Walesbilt” in January 1927, shortly after the land boom had started to collapse and two years before the Great Depression began. It’s also best to note that the hotel opened around the same time the Floridan Hotel in Tampa opened, another hotel built during the Florida land boom.
In 1972, the hotel was purchased by Anderson Sun State and renamed the “Groveland Motor Inn”. The firm completely renovated the hotel and used it to host visitors to the area who were interested in Green Swamp, land sectioned off for land development. At the time there was heavy speculation in the land because of it’s close proximity to Walt Disney World and were selling for around $5,000 an acre at the time. That ended after a state cabinet designation of the swamp as an area of critical state concern, placing the land off-limits to any large land developments. The firm filed for foreclosure and the hotel was auctioned off in 1974. Despite RCI Electric purchasing the hotel, it remained empty for many years afterwards.
n 1978, the hotel was signed over to the Agape Players, a nationally known religious music and drama group, who would assume the mortgage and would pay the costs to make improvements to meet city fire and safety standards. The hotel was renamed the “Royal Walesbilt” and after extensive improvements were made, it became the headquarters for the Agape Players; using it as a teaching facility and the base from which the group launched their tours. In addition, they operated a restaurant, an ice cream parlor on the lobby floor and a “Christian hotel” on the upper floors, catering mostly to groups. The Agape Players disbanded in 1985 and put the property up for sale
Victor Khubani, a property investor from New York acquired the property and renamed the hotel “Grand”. The hotel closed briefly in December 1988, due to a variety of code violations and causing the owner to later pay $14,000 in fines. On August 31, 1990 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, possibly for tax exemption reasons. In October 1991, The State Fire Marshall’s Office gave the owner one year to install a new sprinkler system and in May 1993, the code enforcement board gave Khubani until March to complete the work.
In March 1994, the hotel closed due to multiple code violations and was to remain closed until a new fire sprinkler system was installed. To reopen, the fire escapes and elevator, which did not function, would have to be repaired as well. In 1995, the hotel was auctioned off to a redevelopment firm, which dismantled part of the interior for reconstruction, which was never completed.
Since then, the hotel has deteriorated, becoming an eyesore to many of the residents of Lake Wales and nicknamed “The Green Monster” for the greenish color it has acquired from over the years. In 1995, it was even jokingly mentioned to become a sacrifice to “the bomb”, an economic boom that occurred in parts of Florida where movie production companies would pay cities to blow up buildings for their movies. In 2007, the city foreclosed on the structure for more than $700,000 in unpaid code fines, with hopes in finding someone to restore it.
Development firm, Dixie-Walesbilt LLC announced plans to restore the hotel, signing into an agreement with the city of Lake Wales in February 2010. By the agreement, the city would retain ownership of the building until a defined amount of work had been accomplished. The work must be completed within 16 months and the amount of money invested must succeed at least $1.5 million. The building would then be handed off the Dixie Walesbilt LLC, where they may continue with private funding or other methods to for debt funding.
Ray Brown, President of Dixie Walesbilt LLC, planned to invest $6 million into the renovation, with original plans to put retail stores on the ground floor and using the upper floors for as many as 40 condominiums.
On June 2, 2011, the city of Lake Wales agreed to deed the building off to Ray Brown in a 4-1 vote, after meeting the requirements of the redevelopment agreement. Though Brown submitted a list of costs to the city totaling $1.66 million, Mayor Mike Carter wasn’t satisfied with the results so far, pointing out that Brown failed to repair the windows and repaint the building. Previous owners had put tar on the building and then painted over it, so much of Brown’s investment went to stripping the tar off the exterior walls.
To repaint the building, Brown would also have to resurface the hotel with hydrated lime to replicate the original skin as well as the window frames would need to be constructed of Douglas fir, red cedar and gulf cypress. According to Brown, previous owners who renovated the building rarely removed the building original elements. They carpeted over intricate tile flooring, stuck tar paper above skylights and placed modern drinking fountains in front of the originals. He estimated about 98 percent of the building is still in it’s original form.
Restoration of the building’s exterior began in January 2015 and included surface repair, pressure washing, paint removal, chemical treatment, and a comprehensive resurfacing of the exterior.
While the original plans were for turning the building into condominiums, that has since changed and current plans call for operating the building as a boutique hotel. The hotel will feature geothermal cooling as opposed to traditional air conditioning, a permanent art gallery as well as theme gallery showings throughout the year, and the best WiFi/internet in the city. The project is expected to be completed in 18 to 24 months.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.cityoflakewales.com/505/Dixie-Walesbilt-Hotel
www.abandonedfl.com/dixie-walesbilt-hotel/
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
It's always better to seek an optimistic view on life!
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
© Brett Nickell
Mixed media on paper (Pastel, crayon, oil pastel, acrylic) 11 x 20 inches.
How much fun can one guy have with a box of crayons?
The unbelieveably ugly monument to Terry Fox at BC Place stadium. As part of the renovations to the stadium (it's getting a new roof which, surprise, will be retractable, but not when it's raining[??]), this will be torn down and replaced with a new art piece to be done by Douglas Coupland. Given the Coop's love of all things lego, I'm not optimistic about the results. There' was an article on the fuss and bother around this in the Vancouver Sun, but the page is now MIA, ie, 404.
Come to think of it, this one also has a kind of lego-brick look to it, doesn't it? It's always reminded me of those fake porte cocheres one used to see on 1980s stucco suburban monster houses, completely out of scale with the building and only tacked on because the homeowner somehow confused his place with Tara Estate; but never mind; tomorrow is – another day, isn't it?
What's interesting about the monument is what's on the inside of the arches. These are faced with stainless steel, and on the east face is a map of Canada with Fox's journey traced out, and on the west side, an image of Terry Fox himself. But what an oversized and obtuse covering for the information. It looks like a postmodern attempt to ironize the hero, that is, it's an oblique slam at the very concept of heroes, or at least, that's what it's always looked like to me. And what's with the lions on the top of the piece? An ironic reference to the imperial decorations on earlier Vancouver architecture, some sort of postcolonial appropriation of those symbols? Absurb. And foolish. And designed to draw attention to the architect, not the runner himself.
Optimistically awaiting further passengers on a miserable wet September day, is Stagecoach South Midlands Northern Counties Palatine bodied Volvo Olympian 16534.
PNA Leaders look fairly optimistic at this get together. They include Air Marshal Asghar Khan, Ghafoor Ahmed, Mufti Mahmood, Sherbaz Mazari, Nasim Wali khan, Nasrullah Khan, Pir Pagaro, Shah Ahmed Noorani and Sardar Abdul Qayum Khan. On the night of 4-5 July 1977 Gen Zia deposed Bhutto and took over.
Intergrated Wordle with Flickr in the truest sense! Photo + Words
For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic
by: Paramore
listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUdTO97ZQ0
Just talk yourself up
And tear yourself down
You've hit your one wall
Now find a way around
Well what's the problem?
You've got a lot of nerve
So what did you think I would say?
No you can't run away, no you can't run away
So what did you think I would say?
No you can't run away, no you can't run away
You wouldn't
I never wanted to say this
You never wanted to stay
I put my faith in you, so much faith
And then you just threw it away
You threw it away
I'm not so naive
My sorry eyes can see
The way you fight shy
Of almost everything
Well, if you give up
You'll get what you deserve
So what did you think I would say?
No you can't run away, no you can't run away
So what did you think I would say?
No you can't run away, no you can't run away
You wouldn't
I never wanted to say this
You never wanted to stay
I put my faith in you, so much faith
And then you just threw it away
You threw it away
You were finished long before
We had even seen the start
Why don't you stand up, be a man about it?
Fight with your bare hands about it now
I never wanted to say this
You never wanted to stay well did you
I put my faith in you, so much faith
And then you just threw it away
I never wanted to say this
You never wanted to stay
I put my faith in you, so much faith
And then you just threw it away
IMO Secretary-General Lim was in attendance as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the future of international cooperation to an audience of students, diplomats and the general public at Westminster Central Hall, London (10 May). Climate change, terrorism, human rights, UN system reform and technological advances were some of the subjects taken on at the UNA-UK event.
Speaking about global challenges as a whole, Mr. Guterres emphasized that “a strong commitment to multilateralism, to putting people at the centre of our concerns, is something we all need to be involved in.”
He also addressed the need to recognize and deal with the fact that not all people had shared equally in the benefits of globalization, and that on-going effort must be made for social cohesion through respect, tolerance and rationalism.
On climate change, he said that he was optimistic that the Paris Agreement would be implemented, stating that “the green economy has become the good economy – and the profitable economy”.
All of these challenges are being addressed by the UN system, including IMO, through the strategic lens of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Weird thing - I'm not feeling the post-Christmas mood swing that so often happens. I find myself really upbeat and looking forward to next year.
Now I've got all that bullshit about turning 30 out of my head and done with I feel a lot more free . . . if you know what I mean? It's like it's been hanging over me the last couple of years, sad I know but it's true, but since I crossed the threshold between decades it's like I don't have to worry about it anymore. And that's cool.
I may be growing older, but it doesn't mean I have to grow up right?
And there's other things too - so much is going to happen next year. We're going to have another baby, both mine and Lydia's jobs will be changing as our department is restructuring . . . that sounds bad but I could just as easily come out of it with a better job. It's a bit complicated, but I'm looking on the bright side.
I've found a new hobby I really enjoy (photography, dur) and I can only improve the longer I'm at it.
And I've got an iPod. I didn't want one for years, now I've got one I can't imagine ever being apart from it. Even iTunes is growing on me. I spent a couple of hours yesterday copying and pasting album covers onto my iPod so I could use Coverflow and it was worth every damn second. And I found some games, including a music quiz that bases it's questions on the music you have on your iPod! I can't tell you how cool that is.
So this shot is meant to be me looking all optimistic towards the future . . . in reality it's me clutching at straws for an idea and staring out the window, ha ha! Still, the setting sun had a kinda nice effect on the wall behind me, and with a bit of tweaking in Lightroom and a couple of textures it looks alright.
Couldn't think of a way to get my iPod in shot though. Humph.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
— E.B. White (1899-1985) "Coon Tree," The New Yorker (June 14, 1956)
Image: [The wild weather has been a warning we have yet to heed] Relief from the Ara Pacis (9 BCE) depicting the goddess Tellus Mater (Mother Earth) flanked by the Aurae (Peaceful Breezes) of sea and land
This North Eastern Life: Quote of the Day for 2016-07-12
#nature #environment #man #humans #EBWhite #quoteoftheday
Optimistically credited with 300 gross horsepower, Ford's ubiquitous "Thunderbird" 390 was something of a stone. It had decent low-end torque, but not a lot of high-rpm grunt. It was offered in most of the Ford line -- by 1967 it had found its way into everything but the Falcon.
After taking this picture I quickly caught it and fed it to my hedgehog, just so it wont escape. You know how quick they are.
The Hop streetcar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has completed six months of service.
Six months of The Hop! The Hop opened to the public six calendar months ago, on November 2, 2018. I've ridden it every single day of this time, and I'm more optimistic than ever that The Hop is, right now, serving well in its functions to motivate development (the construction along the route is testament to that), provide transportation (I see that every day while using it and seeing more and more residential, routine use), and interest people to see Milwaukee (as I see regularly on-board--people talking about Milwaukee and seeing neighborhoods and places they have never seen--even statements by long-time residents). The Hop has demonstrated itself for these functions as well as its ability to get through snow, rain, the polar vortex, and other conditions. I think expanding it is the next step! The Main Line now serves downtown, and yes, that is just a specific area of the city, but like libraries, Fiserv Forum, MAM, the lakefront, Discovery World, and other public features, it is located in a specific place, but invites everyone to use it. Downtown has long been considered "everybody's neighborhood"--the central area of Milwaukee--central to business and visitors--and the Hop's extension can serve to move and share this prosperity and development further out to more neighborhoods. In my own studies of urban transportation, I have learned how all transportation is context-specific, and that streetcars have a historic and demonstrated modern function in connecting densely populated areas. And densely populated areas have been demonstrated to support the kind of people-oriented knowledge economy that is in Milwaukee's potential.
No, i don't believe it'll work for a second. But it's my first year with an allotment, so I'm allowed to be unrealistic about the obstacles slugs and snails will get round 🐌.
ODC2. Optimistic.
It would be optimistic to think it would be restored.
Well this is a church not far away from me, me and my companion went for a ride just so I could get some images. Well this church closed years ago when it wasn't making enough money, and sadly it never got restored, and I think there may even be plans to have it knocked down. Which is a shame as I adore abandoned buildings. So I did have to capture this before I got caught! Well I am exhausted after that cycle, have a good Saturday everyone :-)
Check out my photostream for the video of this building!