"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US issued its first fine for space debris, ordering the US TV provider Dish to pay $150,000 for failing to move one of its satellites into a safe orbit.""The FCC’s action could also help breathe new life into the still-small market for commercial removal of space debris, essentially setting a price—$150,000—for companies such as Astroscale in Japan and ClearSpace in Switzerland to aim for in providing services that use smaller spacecraft to sidle up to dead satellites or rockets and pull them back into the atmosphere."https://bit.ly/3tlrK9E
When the Duke of Lucca partially paid his gambling debts selling many of the works in the Palazzo Ducale at an auction in London in 1836 the city faced its most serious cultural loss. Masterpieces from churches and private collections were lost forever.Lucca was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1847 and the Lucchese painter Michele Ridolphi addressed a pleading to the Grand Duke Leopoldo II to refund citizens of this great loss. The Duke sent Lucca 82 works from the Medici Collection and they are now displayed at the Mansi Palazzo in Lucca.This beautiful painting is of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Ventura Salimbeni 1568-1613
A blind walker who wanted to "inspire others" by hiking along the Cleveland Way has completed his trek.Andrew Elliker-Reeve, from Beeford in East Yorkshire, said he challenged himself to live "life to the full" after losing his sight in 2020.He has spent two weeks walking the 110-mile (177km) route across North Yorkshire with the help of volunteers.The 64-year-old, who was raising money for Guide Dogs UK, said it showed sight loss "doesn't stop you doing things".https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66905809
Hannalie works with the captured image. Altered, reimagined and reinterpreted. Using mainly vintage photographs sourced from flea markets and even from her own family archives. These are used as is, or blown up to a larger scale. Altered with tire inner tube inlays and hand-embroidered detailing drawn with thread. Hannalie’s work is populated by people, masks and sometimes floral arrangements. What is shown and what is hidden become interdependent elements of visual storytelling, thus “a new fantasy emerges in a world clinging to the need to believe in the magic of innocent aspiration.”
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