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Mercedes Benz has received a repeat order from Cardiff Bus for 10 Citaros, following the 20 that arrived just under two years ago and the batch of 10 Alexander Dennis Enviro200s delivered last November. These are the 'new generation' C2 model and can be distinguished by their protruding destination boxes and rear roof panels, and more pronounced wheelarch mouldings. They are mostly replacing W- and Y-registration Super Pointer-bodied Darts.
Their registration marks follow the block allocated to recently delivered Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMCs 301-10, and the ones carried by 121-7 replicate those that were allocated to Stagecoach's MANs 22789-95. As a consequence, 123 carries 'ABO', which is very fitting given that 'BO' was a former Cardiff mark under the former registration system.
In this mid October 2015 view, she is turning from Wood Street into St Mary's Street when operating Service 50 to Llanrumney.
Monster High is an American fashion doll franchise created by Mattel in July, 2010. The characters are inspired by monster movies, sci-fi horror, thriller fiction, and various creatures therefore distinguishing them from most fashion dolls. They were created by Garrett Sander, with illustrations by Kellee Riley.[2]
The Monster High franchise also includes other consumer products such as stationery, bags, key chains, various toys and video games. There are also Monster High TV specials, a web series, a direct to DVD movie, and software. Lisi Harrison is the author of the Monster High books. The characters are depicted as being either related to or as offspring of famous monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Medusa, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Phantom of the Opera, and zombies and more. The characters are usually referred to as ghouls, rather than girls.
The dolls are approximately 27 cm tall. Or about 1 foot tall. Their bodies are made from ABS plastic. Their heads are made from soft PVC. They have various skin tones (blue, green, pink, brown, etc.) Each character has a unique head mold. No Monster High doll has the same shape head. The type of hair the dolls have is saran. The boys hair is either fuzzy or hard colored plastic. Aside from physical attributes, the dolls are quite different in the characterization of their clothes. And they all have their own unique freaky flaw, hair, etc. They might repeat bags and sunglasses. For example, 13 Wishes Howleen has the same bag as the original Clawdeen only that it is a different color. One is gold and another is purple and black. But they are both sisters. Plus, Howleen likes to borrow a lot of Clawdeen's stuff. And Gloom Beach Frankie Stein has the same sunglasses as the Scaris Frankie Stein. One s blue and one is yellow. All of them have various attributes of the monsters they are related to (i.e. fangs, stitches, wolf ears, fins, bandages,snakes, etc.)[3] Although Monster high and Barbie are from the same creator, Mattel, Monster High is starting to become more popular than Barbie.
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Monster High est une franchise américaine de poupées mannequins lancée par Mattel en juillet 2010 aux États-Unis, tirée d'une série de livres du même nom (de Lisi Harrison). Les personnages sont inspirés de personnes assez monstrueuses issues de la littérature fantastique, de la mythologie, ou encore de films cultes. Les Monster High sont toutes des enfants de monstres (Frankie Stein est la fille de Frankenstein, Draculaura est celle de Dracula, Deuce Gorgon est le fils de Méduse...).
La franchise Monster High se décline sur de très nombreux produits comme des vêtements, des bijoux fantaisie et de la papeterie, mais ses principales ventes se font grâce aux poupées mannequins du même nom. Elle s'accompagne également d'épisodes spéciaux pour la télévision et le marché DVD, et d'une web-série.S
Le concept de Monster High met en scène des adolescents tous descendants de créatures plus ou moins célèbres. Certaines poupées sont relookėes.
Les poupées mannequins mesurent une vingtaine de centimètres ; les garçons sont plus grands que les filles, même s'il existe des différences de taille chez certaines poupées (Twyla et Howleen Wolf sont plus petites, Nefera de Nile et Mme. Santête sont plus grandes...). Les corps (qui comptent de nombreuses articulations) sont fabriqués en plastique ABS et les têtes sont en PVC souple. Chaque personnage bénéficie d'un moule différent pour sa tête. Les cheveux sont en saran ou en kanekalon, voire en PVC pour les garçons dont les cheveux sont, pour la plupart des personnages, moulés. Les poupées filles de Monster High peuvent enlever leurs mains et bras mais les garçons ne peuvent enlever que leurs bras. Lagoona Blue, Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid ont des éléments amovibles que les autres poupées n'ont pas (des nageoires pour Lagoona Blue, des ailes pour Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid). Comme les filles ont des chaussures à talons, elles ne peuvent pas bouger leurs pieds, tandis que les garçons ont les pieds articulés.
Chaque personnage est caractérisé par un style vestimentaire et une gamme de couleurs qui se retrouvent dans différentes collections et qui reflètent leur personnalité dans la web-série.
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The Blues Festival in the little village of Thredbo, in the Australian Snowy Mountains is always a blast.
Indoors in the Schuss Bar, the Repeat Offenders, a new line-up of old musical favourites, pound out some seriously swampy southern soul with Gary Lothian on guitar, Rosscoe Clark on drums, Dave Green on bass, and Sally King on vocals.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/australia/music-in-the-snowy...
Victim tested positive for #methylisothiazolinone allergy (sensitization is caused from repeat exposure to this preservative found in hundreds of household products and makeup, as well as toilet paper, household paint and industrial products).
Caught this train again a bit south of McLure as it was slowly progressing towards Kamloops. CN nos.2232 & 2102 in charge.
Me and the elves are working like mad in the clay studio to sell pots to buy more film. Rinse and repeat!
The challenge for Saturday 6th July is a triptych, of the same subject but maybe from different angles, or of three connected subjects. I’ve gone for something of both, three views of different aspects of the same subject, and connected by virtue of the subject being a row of shops. In the 1920’s, when Old Coulsdon was being transformed from a scattered farming community into a dormitory suburb of outer London, the planners wanted to keep the ‘village’ atmosphere as a selling feature, so their idea was to call it the ‘Tudor Village’ with its new buildings having traditional ‘Olde Worlde’ looks. It’s a style that’s been described rather caustically as ‘Tudorbethan’, and how far the planners succeeded - or failed? - in their mission you can maybe judge from this triptych.
The businesses along here include:
> The Curry Leaf - smaller than it looks, but it serves superb Indian cuisine,
> Torio’s - my regular friendly hairdresser; in fact I was there on Wednesday,
> Holmes Pharmacy - where I pick up my repeat prescriptions nowadays,
> TheTudor Bakery - ah, that lovely scent of fresh-baked bread!.
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😃 As always, thank you very much for any 💬s or ⭐️s you might like to give!
Once again the miracle repeats itself: Yellow Warbler are back :)
Encore une fois le miracle se produit: les parulines jaunes sont de retour :)
Mt. Schaffer, named for Mary Schaffer, an early alpinist in the area and one of the first white women on many of these peaks, was a survey station for James McArthur. In 1892 he went up pretty much the same route we did and took survey measurements and photographs in order to make topographic maps of the area. Four of those images appear overlaid on the matching image to this one. You can see a lot of change - especially in snow and ice cover.
Check out the station with historic and repeat photos at explore.mountainlegacy.ca/stations/show/2351
To use this image under the noted Creative Commons Copyright (Attribution, Non-commercial, No derivatives) please cite as follows: Mary Sanseverino for The Mountain Legacy Project - mountainlegacy.ca/ and Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada.
I had been disappointed by my visit to Keys View in the afternoon, so I made the drive again the following morning, thinking if the light hadn't been good at one time of day it would be better at another. My conclusion was that the view was slightly clearer on this particular morning, but that the real problem was haze. (Confirmed by a nearby sign and improved somewhat with Lightroom's "Dehaze" function.)
The peak is Mount San Jacinto (10833', more than 5000' higher than my position); Palm Springs, California is located at its base. The valley is the Coachella.
From the park sign:
"Air pollution can come from locations many miles away. Southern California industrial plants, power plants, wood stoves, and automobiles belch soot, dust, and smoke into the atmosphere. Prevailing winds direct the air east and funnel it through Banning Pass, where it is dispersed through the Coachella Valley."
Seen from Joshua Tree National Park.
Today I learned a bit of Quechua, an ancient Andean language that people still speak in parts of Peru and in neighboring countries.
According to our gide, the suffix in the name of loge, "rinri," means "ear." So "Pumarinri" means "Puma's ear." There may be another more metaphorical meaning that I don't know, but I'm pleased just to know what the words denote.
When we were on the trail, the guide pointed to a vine and said its name. I wasn't quick enough to remember it all, but the suffix stuck with me because it was "huasca."
I asked the guide what "huasca" means, and he replied "soga," or "rope." And rope is analgous to vine.
Later on, on the way back down the trail, the guide mentioned that his community also knows and uses "ayahuasca."
I already knew, like at least half the planet, that Amazonian people use the ayahuasca vine to induce an altered state of consciousness. Their shamans use it to communicate with the spirit world. I have this direct from a shaman in Ecuador, but that's another story. Also, according to a scholarly article I read last year, ayahuasca use may not reach back into the misty mists of time but may actually be a phenomenon related to contact with Europeans. But I digress.
So, knowing that "huasca" means "rope/vine," I asked the guide what "aya" means.
"Bitter," he replied.
Now, during the hike our guide also named the quechua names several forest mammals. Time didn't allow me to ask him to repeat them, so thus endeth the Quechua lesson.
Pumarinri Lodge. (Cute, fuzzy cat ears.)
It's been some time coming, but finally the replacements for the FJ08 batch of Volvo B9TL's with Yorkshire Coastliner are arriving, and on December 8 2016 the new buses were launched at an event outside York Minster. As a repeat of history back from 2003, the Coastliner order is a tag-on to an order made for Harrogate and District's route 36 - however an improvement from 2003-4 is that the Coastliner buses are specified to just as high a standard if not better.
The vehicles used for the launch event are BT66 MVO and BT66 MVP which are Volvo B5TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 3's - oddly these have been given 36xx fleetnumbers, the reason I've been given is simply because these 'follow on' from the Harrogate order, but for clarity I have included the *correct* fleetnumbers in brackets for the photo titles. As it stands, only these two vehicles have currently been delivered - though two more are due late next week whilst the rest are still either in Northern Ireland or at Heysham; the two buses seen here will see their first day of service on December 12 with a new timetable in effect at the same time (the timetable conveniently shows which journeys will be run by the new buses). This order of B5TL's consists of ten vehicles to fully replace 411-420, and the order is worth just over £2.3Million; the engines comply to Euro 6 standard which means these buses emit less pollution in terms of particulate matter than a small diesel hatchback car (and studies have proven this). Each bus has a gross vehicle weight of 18t and is 11.5m long and 4.4m heigh.
In famous Transdev style, the plan for 411-420 has changed at the 11th hour and 59th minute: rather than going to keighley the company has decided not to renew the lease and so those will leave the group as a whole.
Interior specification for these is amlost identical to those used for Harrogate and District's route 36, however the seats have the Creating Desire moquette trim instead of leather (probably better for long journeys to the coast anyway, less sweaty bums!). Upstairs has high-backed coach seating with individual USB charging sockets, the seats themselves are wider than normal bus seats for greater comfort. Upstairs has two seating groups arranged around a table, and an improvement over the H&D 36 buses is that each table has a wireless induction charger for mobile phones; each table is also finished with a unique vinyl which is patterned for something associated with the coastliner route (likewise the interior panel of the staircase). The upper deck has a double-glazed panoramic sunlight going the length of the bus to allow better views and more light into the bus, whilst the aisles upstairs and downstairs is finished in wood effect. The seats have blue LED lights underneath to better illuminate the aisle and provide delineation between aisle and seats. The glazing panel inside for the staircase has been finished with an etched new-style Coastliner logo which is then edge-lit by blue LED's. At the rear of the lower deck the usual group of 5 forward-facing seats have been replaced by 4 wider seats to allow passengers more room, and the seats are also provided with a table complete with USB sockets, a footrest underneath and a space for bags (and in one photo is demonstrated by fellow enthusiast Frank). The bus has full CCTV coverage in addition to audio 'next stop' announcements controlled by GPS and the Mobitech destination equipment. The destinations also follow a new innovation being rolled out with new Transdev buses in that it can count down time until the bus departs its first stop.
Externally the buses have been given an entirely new livery in the current Transdev style as also seen in York on the Cityzap and Little Explorers buses, along with a new logo and the motto "Yorkshire's Amazing Day Out", as everything is amazing apparently. Each bus is given a unique rear advertisement to promote somewhere along the route, taking up the space previously used for the route map which has now been shifted to the side panels above the lower deck windows (seen in one photo where I seem to have caught Scott Poole by surprise). And the buses have crystal white LED destinations.
Quite a bit has changed in the nine months since this photo was taken. The interlocking here at Yost (East Galesburg) has since been modernized with new signals. The train 557 and the trailing GP50 are pulling (L-CHI101) was abolished a few days ago, and was replaced. But the worst part is that both the engineer and conductor on this train are no longer working out of Galesburg. The conductor retired two months after I captured this image after working for 43 years with Santa Fe and BNSF; and because of a complete restructuring of the operating system in Galesburg, the engineer has since been relocated elsewhere. I'm never opposed to change, but I was friends with both of them and it sucks that I won't be able to go see them on a somewhat regular basis. About the only thing that hasn't changed is the paint on 557, but with BNSF experimenting with rebuilding some of their B40's who knows how long it will be before that too changes.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.