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Towards the western edge of Guelph Lake these temporary docks are extended into the lake. There were several people at the ends of the docks fishing on this particular day. The lake's water level is quite lower than normal at this time of year as the Grand River Conservation Authority has adjusted the water levels of the lake and the Speed River in Guelph with a number of dams. In this picture, it's easy to see where the regular water levels normally are, abutting the tree line. On another note, the picnic table is not normally located there! Haha.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado

Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies

The single word ”border” conceals a multiplicity and implies a constancy where genealogical investigation uncovers mutation and descent. Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies and heterogeneous administrative practices, ranging from maps of the territory, the creation of specialized border officials, and architectures of fortification to today’s experimentation with bio- digitalized forms of surveillance. This chapter argues that we are witnessing a novel development within this history of borders and border-making, what I want to call the emergence of the humanitarian border. While a great deal has been written about the militarization, securitization and fortification of borders today, there is far less consideration of the humanitarianization of borders. But if the investment of border regimes by biometric technologies rightly warrants being treated as an event within the history of the making and remaking of borders (Amoore 2006), then arguably so too does the reinvention of the border as a space of humanitarian government.

Under what conditions are we seeing the rise of humanitarian borders? The emergence of the humanitarian border goes hand in hand with the move which has made state frontiers into privileged symbolic and regulatory instruments within strategies of migration control. It is part of a much wider trend that has been dubbed the ”rebordering” of political and territorial space (Andreas and Biersteker 2003). The humanitarian border emerges once it becomes established that border crossing has become, for thousands of migrants seeking, for a variety of reasons, to access the territories of the global North, a matter of life and death. It crystallizes as a way of governing this novel and disturbing situation,and compensating for the social violence embodied in the regime of migration control.The idea of a humanitarian border might sound at first counterintuitive or even oxymoronic. After all, we often think of contemporary humanitarianism as a force that, operating in the name of the universal but endangered subject of humanity, transcends the walled space of the inter-national system. This is, of course, quite valid. Yet it would be a mistake to draw any simple equation between humanitarian projects and what Deleuze and Guattari would call logics of deterritoralization. While humanitarian programmes might unsettle certain norms of statehood, it is important to recognize the ways in which the exercise of humanitarian power is connected to the actualization of new spaces. Whether by its redefinition of certain locales as humanitarian ”zones” and crises as ”emergencies” (Calhoun 2004), the authority it confers on certain experts to move rapidly across networks of aid and intervention, or its will to designate those populating these zones as ”victims,” it seems justified to follow Debrix’s (1998) observation that humanitarianism implies reterritorialization on top of deterritorialization. Humanitarian zones can materialize in various situations – in conflict zones, amidst the relief of famine, and against the backdrop of state failure. But the case that interests me in what follows is a specific one: a situation where the actual borders of states and gateways to the territory become themselves zones of humanitarian government. Understanding the consequences of this is paramount, since it has an important bearing on what is often termed the securitization of borders and citizenship.

Foucault and Frontiers

It is probably fair to say that the theme of frontiers is largely absent from the two courses that are today read together as Foucault’s lectures on ”governmentality” (Foucault 1991; 2007; 2008). This is not to suggest that frontiers receive no mention at all. Within these lectures we certainly encounter passing remarks on the theme. For instance, Foucault speaks at one point of ”the administrative state, born in the territoriality of national boundaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and corresponding to a society of regulation and discipline” (Foucault 1991: 104).1 Elsewhere, he notes how the calculation and demarcation of new frontiers served as one of the practical elements of military-diplomatic technology, a machine he associates with the government of Europe in the image of a balance of power and according to the governmental logic of raison d’état. ”When the diplomats, the ambassadors who negotiated the treaty of Westphalia, received instructions from their government, they were explicitly advised to ensure that the new frontiers, the distribution of states, the new relationships to be established between the German states and the Empire, and the zones of influence of France, Sweden, and Austria be established in terms of a principle: to maintain a balance between the different European states” (Foucault 2007: 297).

But these are only hints of what significance the question of frontiers might have within the different technologies of power which Foucault sought to analyze. They are only fragmentary reflections on the place borders and frontiers might occupy within the genealogy of the modern state which Foucault outlines with his research into governmentality.2

Why was Foucault apparently not particularly interested in borders when he composed these lectures? One possible answer is suggested by Elden’s careful and important work on power-knowledge and territory. Elden takes issue with Foucault for the way in which he discusses territorial rule largely as a foil which allows him to provide a more fully-worked out account of governmentality and its administration of population. Despite the fact that the term appears prominently in the title of Foucault’s lectures, ”the issue of territory continually emerges only to be repeatedly marginalized, eclipsed, and underplayed” (Elden 2007: 1). Because Foucault fails to reckon more fully with the many ways in which the production of territory – and most crucially its demarcation by practices of frontier marking and control – serves as a precondition for the government of population, it is not surprising that the question of frontiers occupies little space in his narrative.But there is another explanation for the relative absence of questions of frontiers in Foucault’s writing on governmentality. And here we have to acknowledge that, framed as it is previously, this is a problematic question. For it risks the kind of retrospective fallacy which projects a set of very contemporary issues and concerns onto Foucault’s time. It is probably fair to speculate that frontiers and border security was not a political issue during the 1970s in the way that it is today in many western states. ”Borders” had yet to be constituted as a sort of meta-issue, capable of condensing a whole complex of political fears and concerns, including globalization, the loss of sovereignty, terrorism, trafficking and unchecked immigration. The question of the welfare state certainly was an issue, perhaps even a meta-issue, when Foucault was lecturing, and it is perhaps not coincidental that he should devote so much space to the examination of pastoralism. But not the border. The point is not to suggest that Foucault’s work evolved in close,

Humanitarian Government

Before I address the question of the humanitarian border, it is necessary to explain what I understand by the humanitarian. Here my thinking has been shaped by recent work that engages the humanitarian not as a set of ideas and ideologies, nor simply as the activity of certain nongovernmental actors and organizations, but as a complex domain possessing specific forms of governmental reason. Fassin’s work on this theme is particularly important. Fassin demonstrates that humanitarianism can be fruitfully connected to the broader field of government which Foucault outlined, where government is not a necessary attribute of states but a rationalized activity than can be carried out by all sorts of agents, in various contexts, and towards multiple ends. At its core, ”Humanitarian government can be defined as the administration of human collectivities in the name of a higher moral principle which sees the preservation of life and the alleviation of suffering as the highest value of action” (Fassin 2007: 151). As he goes on to stress, the value of such a definition is that we do not see a particular state, or a non-state form such as a nongovernmental organization, as the necessary agent of humanitarian action. Instead, it becomes possible to think in terms of a complex assemblage, comprising particular forms of humanitarian.reason, specific forms of authority (medical, legal, spiritual) but also certain technologies of government – such as mechanisms for raising funds and training volunteers, administering aid and shelter, documenting injustice, and publicizing abuse. Seen from this angle humanitarianism appears as a much more supple, protean thing. Crucially, it opens up our ability to perceive ”a broader political and moral logic at work both within and outside state forms” (ibid.).

If the humanitarian can be situated in relation to the analytics of government, it can also be contextualized in relation to the biopolitical. ”Not only did the last century see the emergence of regimes committed to the physical destruction of populations,” observes Redfield, ”but also of entities devoted to monitoring and assisting populations in maintaining their physical existence, even while protesting the necessity of such an action and the failure of anyone to do much more than this bare minimum” (2005: 329). It is this ”minimalist biopolitics,” as Redfield puts it, that will be so characteristic of the humanitarian. And here the accent should be placed on the adjective “minimalist” if we are not to commit the kind of move which I criticized above, namely collapsing everything new into existing Foucauldian categories. It is important to regard contemporary humanitarianism as a novel formation and a site of ambivalence and undecideability, and not just as one more instance of what Hardt and Negri (2000) might call global “biopolitical production.”The Birth of the Humanitarian Border

In a press release issued on June 29, 2007, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) publicized a visit which its then Director General, Brunson McKinley, was about to make to a ”reception centre for migrants” on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa (IOM 2007). The Director General is quoted as saying: ”Many more boats will probably arrive on Lampedusa over the summer with their desperate human cargo and we have to ensure we can adequately respond to their immediate needs.... This is why IOM will continue to work closely with the Italian government, the Italian Red Cross, UNHCR and other partners to provide appropriate humanitarian responses to irregular migrants and asylum seekers reaching the island.”

The same press release observes that IOM’s work with its ”partners” was part of a wider effort to improve the administration of the ”reception” (the word ”detention” is conspicuously absent) and ”repatriation” of ”irregular migrants” in Italy. Reception centers were being expanded, and problems of overcrowding alleviated. The statement goes on to observe that IOM had opened its office on Lampedusa in April 2006. Since that time ”Forced returns from Lampedusa [had] stopped.”

Lampedusa is a small Italian island located some 200 km south of Sicily and 300 km to the north of Libya. Its geographical location provides a clue as to how it is that in 2004 this Italian outpost first entered the spotlight of European and even world public attention, becoming a potent signifier for anxieties about an international migration crisis (Andrijasevic 2006). For it was then that this Italian holiday destination became the main point of arrival for boats carrying migrants from Libya to Italy. That year more than 10,000 migrants are reported to have passed through the ”temporary stay and assistance centre” (CPTA) the Italian state maintains on the island. The vast majority had arrived in overcrowded, makeshift boats after a perilous sea journey lasting up to several weeks. Usually these boats

are intercepted in Italian waters by the Italian border guards and the migrants transferred to the holding center on the island. Following detention, which can last for more than a month, they are either transferred to other CPTAs in Sicily and southern Italy, or expelled to Libya.Finally, there is a point to be made about humanitarianism, power and order. Those looking to locate contemporary humanitarianism within a bigger picture would perhaps follow the lead of Hardt and Negri. As these theorists of ”Empire” see things, NGOs like Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) are, contrary to their own best intentions, implicated in global order. As agents of ”moral intervention” who, because they participate in the construction of emergency, ”prefigure the state of exception from below,” these actors serve as the preeminent ”frontline force of imperial intervention.” As such, Hardt and Negri see humanitarianism as ”completely immersed in the biopolitical context of the constitution of Empire” (Hardt and Negri 2000: 36).Humanitarianism, Borders, Politics

Foucauldian writing about borders has mirrored the wider field of governmentality studies in at least one respect. While it has produced some fascinating and insightful accounts of contemporary strategies and technologies of border-making and border policing, it has tended to confine its attention to official and often state-sanctioned projects. Political dynamics and political acts have certainly not been ignored. But little attention has been paid to the possibility that politics and resistance operate not just in an extrinsic relationship to contemporary regimes, but within them.12 To date this literature has largely failed to view politics as something constitutive and productive of border regimes and technologies. That is to say, there is little appreciation of the ways in which movements of opposition, and those particular kinds of resistance which Foucault calls ”counter conduct,” can operate not externally to modes of bordering but by means of ”a series of exchanges” and ”reciprocal supports” (Foucault 2007: 355).

There is a certain paradox involved when we speak of Foucault and frontiers. In certain key respects it could be said that Foucault is one of our most eminent and original theorists of bordering. For at the heart of one of his most widely read works – namely Discipline and Punish – what does one

find if not the question of power and how its modalities should be studied by focusing on practices of partitionment, segmentation, division, enclosure; practices that will underpin the ordering and policing of ever more aspects of the life of populations from the nineteenth century onwards. But while Foucault is interested in a range of practices which clearly pertain to the question of bordering understood in a somewhat general sense, one thing the reading of his lectures on security, governmentality and biopolitics reveals is that he had little to say explicitly about the specific forms of bordering associated with the government of the state. To put it differently, Foucault dealt at length with what we might call the microphysics of bordering, but much less with the place of borders considered at the level of tactics and strategies of governmentality.Recent literature has begun to address this imbalance, demonstrating that many of Foucault’s concepts are useful and important for understanding what kinds of power relations and governmental regimes are at stake in contemporary projects which are re-making state borders amidst renewed political concerns over things like terrorism and illegal immigration. However, the overarching theme of this chapter has been the need for caution when linking Foucault’s concepts to the study of borders and frontiers today. While analytics like biopolitics, discipline and neoliberalism offer all manner of insights, we need to avoid the trap which sees Foucault’s toolbox as something ready-made for any given situation. The challenge of understanding the emergent requires the development of new theoretical tools, not to mention the sharpening of older, well-used implements. With this end in mind the chapter has proposed the idea of the humanitarian border as a way of registering an event within the genealogy of the frontier, but also, although I have not developed it here, within the genealogy of citizenship.

 

What I have presented previously is only a very cursory overview of certain features of the humanitarianization of borders, most notably its inscription within regimes of knowledge, and its constitutive relationship to politics. In future research it would be interesting to undertake a fuller mapping of the humanitarian border in relation to certain trajectories of government. While we saw how themes of biopolitical and neoliberal government are pertinent in understanding the contemporary management of spaces like the detention center, it would seem especially relevant to consider the salience of pastoralism. Pastoral power has received far less attention within studies of governmentality than, say, discipline or liberal government (but see Dean 1999; Golder 2007; Hindess 1996; Lippert 2004). But here again, I suspect, it will be important to revise our concepts in the light of emergent practices and rationalities. For the ways in which NGOs and humanitarians engage in the governance of migrants and refugees today have changed quite significantly from the kinds of networks of care, self-examination and salvation which Foucault identified with pastoralism. For instance, and to take but one example, the pastoral care of migrants, whether in situations of sanctuary or detention, is not organized as a life-encompassing, permanent activity as it was for the church, or later, in a secular version, the welfare state. Instead, it is a temporary and ad hoc intervention. Just as Foucault’s notion of neo-liberalism was intended to register important transformations within the genealogy of liberal government, it may prove useful to think in terms of the neo-pastoral when we try to make better sense of the phenomenon of humanitarian government at/of borders, and of many other situations as well.

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Campo Grande Subway, Lisbon, Jun., 2013

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The remains of the temporary scaffolding railings along the promenade during refurbishment of the Knightstone Island complex and the Marine Lake. The recent weather and storm surge probably responsible...

Noa's cottage has (temporarily) been moved to the other side of the patio. We got new neighbours, and the old ugly wall between our patio and their backyard has been demolished. Until there is a new wall, Noa will have to camp in her cottage and a makeshift pen against the opposite wall. She won't be able to play on the patio for a while, because there's a 6m long open passage to the neighbours' backyard and driveway - and thus the public road - when there's no wall.

R694DNH rests in our Poplar Farm Depot, a temporary fleet addition owing to the demise of DD85, it will run on schools duties for us until our new double deckers arrive!

A small windstorm takes care of this trees' leaves

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No standing still. The path ahead into 2017.

Roadworks site set up at the Welland Steam Rally.

The vehicle is a 1926 Ford Model TT,registration BF 8147.

This is a very tricky one. I know many of you won't like it since there is no subject in it. Just the sea and the sky. But is that really important? If you think so, just skip this image...

 

Here's an attempt to explain it.

 

I've been a long time Hiroshi Sugimoto fan. Who isn't familiar with Sugimoto's U2 album cover? This very minimalistic photograph has been copied many times by other artists but somehow they always fail to capture the essence. So what is the essence? I've been thinking of this for a very long time until P R I M E R referred me to a very interesting interview on Sprayblog with photographer David Fokos.

I've been struggling for a long time to describe why I love minimalistic long exposure images. And this outstanding photographer David Fokos just hit the nail on its head. This is what he said (or just read the complete article):

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I believe that our sense of experience is built up over time – a composite of many short-term events. I will often suggest this analogy: Suppose you meet someone for the first time. Your impression of that person is not a snapshot in your mind of the first time you saw that person, but rather a portrait you have assembled from many separate moments. Each time that person exhibits a new facial expression or hand gesture, you add that into your impression of who that person is. Your image of that person — how you feel about that person — is formed over time, rather than upon a single expression or gesture. Likewise, I believe that our impression of the world is based upon our total experience. For example, the ocean has always made me feel calm, relaxed, and contented. If I were to take an instantaneous snapshot of the ocean, the photo would include waves with jagged edges, salt spray, and foam. This type of image does not make me feel calm — it does not represent how the ocean makes me feel as I stare out over the water. What I am responding to is the underlying, fundamental form of the ocean, its vast expansiveness and the strong line of the horizon, both of which are very stable, calming forms that I find relaxing. So, I had to find a way to brush away the messy, “visual noise” of the waves to get to the essence of my experience. I have done this by using my camera’s unique ability to average time, through the use of long exposures. In this way I am able to quell the visual noise (e.g. the short-term temporal events like breaking waves or zooming cars) to reveal a sort of hidden world. It is a very real world to be sure – the camera was able to record the scene – it is just not one that we normally experience visually.

Our bodies respond to many types of stimuli. What we see – the visual information – is just one type of stimulus, though it is often the most overpowering of the senses. However, due to the short wavelengths of visible light, this information is presented to us in an infinite series of frozen snapshot moments. Our bodies also react to other types of stimuli on longer time scales – our sense of touch, smell, hearing, etc. The wavelengths of sound waves are much longer than those of light so it takes our body longer to capture a “sound snapshot”. Our skin reacts to sunlight, another stimulus, but how long does it take for us to get a tan or sunburn? The point is that the world exists as a time continuum, not just a frozen snapshot. Our bodies respond to the world in a cumulative way, averaging our experience as we pass through time. Using my camera’s ability to average time through long exposures, I can reveal what our world “looks” like based on a longer time scale. My photographic process acts as a translator – translating from the “invisible” world of non-instantaneous events, into the visible world as a photographic print. In a way, it is like peeling back a page to reveal a world that, while very real, is not experienced visually. We feel it. We sense it. But in general, we don’t see it.(…)

And (…) When I make an image I know exactly on what I want the viewer to focus and what I want them to see and feel. By reducing my images to austere minimalist compositions I force the viewer to more closely examine what I have left in the frame thus intensifying the viewer’s observation and appreciation of the few things that remain in the image. Furthermore (…) To compose in a minimal way, I decide what it is that I wish to convey – what is it in the scene that I want the viewer to focus their attention upon, and what emotion I want to evoke. Then, I try to minimize anything else that competes with that. The composition becomes critical – specifically how the main elements interact with any lesser elements, the horizon, the positive and negative spaces created by their placement, the edges of the frame and the tension or harmony created by the positions of everything. (…) Please note that when I say “main element” I do not mean “subject matter”. My subject matter is the feeling I am trying to convey. The objects in my images are simply supporting characters.(…)

 

Well there you have it. Just trying to capture what I feel when looking at the sea by averaging our experience over time and trying to eliminate all other elements that can distract the viewer from the essence.

 

Part 1 of a series

Technical info:

ND110 - 10 stops.

f/14

ISO100

13 mm

120s (2min0sec) exposure

 

Software:

Lightroom 3.0

PS CS5 - Silver Efex Pro 2

 

Other Post processing equipment:

Wacom Intuos 4 tablet for some accurate editing.

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Beware the park police. You can land but you cannot linger

The people overhauling the wetlands had this temporary fence up so people wouldn't get into their working area.. I think they are just about thru with it now because when I was there last they had finished paving the parking area and the handicap parking is a long way from the trails.. I won't be using that if there are closer ones to the water.. Happy Fence Friday, Everybody!!!

This "love lock" is locked on a rope, on top of an active volcano. Eternal love (or until next eruption...)

Train 109 waits to let Train 20 slide by after meeting at the location where double-track returns to single-track East of 11th St. Station. This is CP 33.3 on the South Shore Line in Michigan City Indiana.

October 30, 2023

it's all about temporary tattoos these days. we've been looking for batman tattoos all over, with no luck. so, if you know where to get such tattoos, or any super hero ditos, please with sugar on top, let me know...

passing muni bus on mission at fremont street - financial district south, san francisco, california

The R&N Reading Turn has just returned from Reading Yard. Both units were adorned with temporary markings in honor of Memorial Day.

Hana and Archie resting on a bed in the computer room. The resting is only temporary before they enter crazy mode again (which at their age, is most of the time they are awake).

Venturing out in the rain is so much fun when you have a rainproof camera (Olympus EM1.1 and 12-40 Pro lens) ... let's not talk about the supposedly waterproof shoes, though. Anyhow, this little stream bed is usually empty and just a trickle of water flows off the hills into the river. But during yesterday's heavy rainfall, it suddenly swelled up into raging rapids ... just for an hour, but it still made for a very interesting subject.

So this custom was an attempt to see how much I could customise a body aesthetically. I bought this temporary tattoo and applied it on after spraying the back with matte sealer then applied it like I would on human skin.

 

MSC for some reason really emphasised the edges of the clear parts but Testors Dullcote helped it blend onto the plastic really well heh.

 

In Tokyo I had the exciting and unintentional privilege of living for a couple days in the Korea Town area of Shinjuku. It's a very beautiful and unique area that I really enjoyed spending my time in.

Southwell

 

The Workhouse, also known as Greet House, is situated in the small town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire. This austere building is now a museum operated by the National Trust. Built in 1824, it was designed by William Adams Nicholson an architect of Southwell and Lincoln, together with the Revd. John T. Becher, a pioneer of workhouse and prison reform. It was the prototype of the 19th-century workhouse. Its architecture was influenced by prison design and its harsh regime became a blueprint for workhouses throughout the country.

 

Designed to house around 160 inmates, they lived and worked in a strictly segregated environment with virtually no contact between the old and infirm, able-bodied men and women and children. Families were also split up and segregated, the entire building is split into separate zones.

 

Workhouses were controversial. On one hand they offered shelter and food to the infirm and the poor, but they were also authoritarian, brutal and those inside, who were capable had to work very hard, and very long hours.

 

The building remained in use until the early 1990s, when it was used to provide temporary accommodation for mothers and children. The stories of some of the people living there during this period can be heard inside, even then the conditions were cramped, very basic and could best be described as grim.

 

Before the building was acquired by the National Trust there were plans to turn it into luxury flats. Thankfully that didn’t happen, a tour around the interior is a real eye opener for people who think they are badly done to today. The exterior Victorian Garden with its fruit trees, flower beds and vegetable patches offer a welcome relief from what would have been the dour, gloomy and dismal inside.

 

What is worth remembering, the residents of the Workhouse were in many cases ‘better off’ than the people struggling in squalid conditions on the outside.

 

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Go Ahead have cobbled a fleet of E and WVL together for the start of the 99, 269 and 401 contracts pending arrival of electrics on order.

This has seen E207 return to Bexleyheath, and it’s seen by the Eardley Arms, Belvedere on the 99 after I alighted it. 21.2.25.

  

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I know that wasps have their place in how things interrelate, but even so I was content to see how this might play out - Id hardly expect a small garden spider to do battle with something as formidable as this, but the spider proved a no-show. The wasp freed itself and then continued with its wood scrapings, seeming none the worse for its short term residence in the extraordinarily fine web that'd snared it.

Relocated to this basement nook while the upstairs ceilings get an overhaul.

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Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

  

München-Riem

1972-09-05 (5 September 1972)

 

EI-APC

Bristol 170 Freighter Mk31E

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Aer Turas - Irish Independent Airlines

 

Aer Turas Bristol Freighter in front of the Lufthansa maintenance hangar. A very rare type at Riem, I know of only one other visit (by Instone’s G-BISU in June 1985) but probably there were more in the 1950s and 1960s. Note the feet sticking out of its big mouth.

  

Information from flickr - thanks to Ken Fielding:

Originally registered to the Bristol Aeroplane Company as G-AMLJ, it later used the Bristol temporary registration G-18-116 before being delivered to Aer Lingus in Jul-52 as EI-AFR. It was sold to Skyways Ltd in Jun-55 but wasn't returned to the UK Register as G-AMLJ until 3 months later. In Dec-55 Skyways sold it to Middle East Airlines as OD-ACM. It was acquired by BOAC Associated Companies in May-58 but remained operating in the middle east until it returned to the UK, again as G-AMLJ, in Oct-58 and was leased to BKS Air Transport. They bought it in Jul-59. It was sold to Aer Turas Ireland in Mar-66 as EI-APC. Aer Turas flew it for more than 6 years - in three different colour schemes - until it was sold in France in Dec-72 to Transportes Aeriens Reunis as F-BTYO. It was retired at Nice, France, in 1976 and broken up.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/EI-APC/838050

 

This airframe as EI-AFR with Aer Lingus at MAN in August 1952:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/6/5/1692561.jpg

 

This airframe as OD-ACM with MEA at LHR in 1957:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1177175

 

This airfame as G-AMLJ with BKS Air Transport at LPL in November 1964:

www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/16000061664

 

This airframe as EI-APC with Aer Turas at LPL in May 1966 (1st colour scheme):

www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5662866216

 

This airframe as EI-APC with Aer Turas (2nd colour scheme):

www.flickr.com/photos/ialmag2011/6691793113

 

This airframe as F-BTYO with TAR at NCE in December 1974:

www.airlinefan.com/photos/memberdir203/watermarked/large_...

  

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

The only furniture I have in the new place is a dining set. It'll do for now.

First Leeds received 3 enviro 400 double deckers during late August for the A65 bus lane launch although non are expected to stay. Here 33706 is seen inbound on the new bus lane complete with first Leeds branding, adverts for the A65 improvements and FWY legals.

The closure of this station in January 1983 proved to be only temporary as it wasn't long before the line (or at least the part between Glasgow and Paisley Canal) reopened. Can't remember the details now, but I suppose there were staggered platforms here. I assume I took the picture from the footbridge.

This was the last week of operation.

Marmorpalais. Potsdam

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This waterfall will be no longer, once the snow melts completely.

 

More new images soon on:

horia-bogdan.com/galleries/new-work/

While the Bible, liturgy and reading of the Fathers are essential for the monastic life of contemplation, Merton tells us they are meant to bring us to “encounter the life-giving and creative Spirit who, in full continuity with the ‘old,’ is able to ‘make all things new’ and indeed to fuse the old and the new in an original and entirely creative unity” (113). Whether one is a monk, a lay member of the Church or a seeker responding to Merton’s ever-broadening ecumenical outreach, he would have us open up to an ever-new and more living sense of the life of the Spirit in our world today. This invitation is as challenging now as it ever was.

-Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers Essays and Conferences by Thomas Merton Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell Foreword by Michael Casagram, OCSO

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Flu and shingles vaccine not recommended on the same day....

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