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Half Nederland en ook aardig wat Duitsers 'rennen' de laatste weken achter al het door oudere elocs getrokken ersatzverkehr aan wat in het Ruhrgebiet rijdt en ja ik ben er net zo schuldig aan;) In de Regionalbahn Moers-Duisburg wordt een combinatie ingezet van een Smartrail 111 'smartie' en de korte Dosto-set van TRI. Deze trein pendelt overdag in Zweistundentakt tussen de twee steden en rijdt dan aansluitend nog een rit naar Millingen. Na een wat bizarre hobby-ochtend en het daardoor niet meer mogelijk zijn van het gedachte plaatje van deze trein, kon twee uur later in Trompet alsnog dit typische Ruhrgebiet-plaatje worden gemaakt. Rechts takt de goederenlijn naar Duisburg Homberg af die op het moment al het vervoer verloren lijkt te hebben...
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Can't stop buying new colors, even if my stock of colors will reach until the rest of my life.
Throwback Thursday
(8 Nov 2011)
Marines from Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, rig a 1,500-pound cement block to the bottom of an MV-22 Osprey during a training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Nov. 8. The training allowed both the landing support specialists on the ground and pilots in the air to train for night air-lift operations.
Strobists:
None!
Madness
Sometimes it takes a little madness to find sanity! :) That's all I have to say today...
Oh and thanks to this guy for the itty bitty texture.
ps: couldn't resist a lil photoshop today...oh and hopefully more from the "bath series" to follow.
111108-N-VN372-059 KABUL -- (Nov. 8, 2011) Task Force Spartan 3 Soldier Army Specialist Rhesa Schubbe provides security for her team while Afghan National Police (ANP) officers conduct routine vehicle inspections at Freedom Circle in the heart of downtown Kabul.
Spartan 3 is a 15-person team who serve as combat advisors to ANP officers at more than 50 different checkpoints within 5 Kabul police districts throughout the densely populated city.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist (SW/AW) Chris Fahey, NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan Public Affairs Leading Petty Officer.
By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County Post of the Society of American Military Engineers held a small business forum and monthly organizational meeting Nov. 8.
The morning featured panel discussions focusing on small business, many veteran-owned, and how they can team with federal agencies and the Department of Defense in nearly a half-a-billion dollars in small business contracts the District awards annually.
"In the panel discussions we had small business experts from federal and local agencies discussing how small businesses can get work," said Deputy District Commander Lt. Col. Steve Sigloch. "We had an attorney with 30-years in the business of dealing with all the regulations pertaining to small business. He briefed that in the past year almost 300 pages of updates were made, he went into some detail of those updates so small businesses are better prepared, better educated on how to qualify as a small business."
The guest speaker for the meeting, Brig. Gen. Ted Harrison, the Director of the National Contracting Organization, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has a wide range of contracting and procurement experience. For his talk, he focused on operational and contract support planning for emergency and contingency operations.
"As you well know the Corps of Engineers executes its mission by leveraging a very vibrant commercial sector through contracting support in just about every mission area," said Harrison. "On any given day, approximately 300,000 contract employees actively support our various projects around the world."
"Contingency operations, by their very nature, require a very short response time," he said. "Any contract support planning you can do ahead of time, before disasters strike or a contingency occurs, makes execution much more effective."
The past year was an exceptional one. The Corps of Engineers managed emergency operations from extreme flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to severe tornados in Alabama and Missouri.
"We have a series of contracts for our FEMA support mission that are called advance contractor initiatives," said Harrison. "They're in place now for large scale debris removal, ice and water, temporary housing and power generation. These are the missions that the Corps of Engineers has to support FEMA in disaster response and recovery. We also utilize small businesses in a great way in many of these contracts."
"We met and exceeded all of our goals, in contracting with small business, this past year," added Sigloch. "For fiscal year 2012 we're increasing goals by at least a percentage point or two in each category, based on historical past practice."
"You really have a commitment from the Chief of Engineers, right on down to the Districts that want to engage with you, that want to understand more about how you like to do business, and what our needs are and open dialog with you," Harrison added.