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impressions @ higher level
view from top of Maintower, Frankfurt a.M.
Deutsche Bahn central administration building & Central Station,
the red light district in between
Im Jahr 1935 wurde in einem Waldgebiet mit dem Bau der Luftmunitionsanstalt begonnen und es entstanden anfangs ein Gleisanschluss und Zuwegungen. Man errichtete 60 Bunker für fertiggestellte Munition und 12 für Zünder, weitere Bunker entstanden später. Ein Jahr später wurden Betriebs- und Verwaltungsgebäude auf dem Gelände errichtet.
Vor Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges waren rund 40 Arbeiter und eine ähnliche Anzahl an Soldaten in der Anlage beschäftigt, im Verlauf des Krieges stieg die Zahl der Beschäftigten auf bis zu 500. Zusätzlich existierte auf dem Gelände ein aus rund 150 sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen bestehendes Arbeitskommando.
Die Hauptaufgabe der Luftmunitionsanstalt war die Bezünderung und Lagerung von Bomben. Es wurden 2 kg-Brandbomben, 10 kg-Splitterbomben und 50, 250 und 500 kg-Sprengbomben verarbeitet. Zusätzlich ist Flak-Munition in den Kalibern 2; 7,5; 8,8 und 10,5 cm eingelagert worden.
Am Kriegsende erging der Befehl zur Zerstörung der Luftmunitionsanstalt. Da sich die Feuerwerker gegen diesen Befehl wehrten und nur kleine Teile der Munition sprengten, kam es nicht zu Zerstörungen an Einrichtungen. Am 11. April 1945 besetzte die British Army die Anstalt ohne Gegenwehr.
Chester Cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Chester, and is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral, formerly St Werburgh's abbey church of a Benedictine monastery, is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since 1541 it has been the seat of the Bishop of Chester and centre of worship, administration, ceremony and music for the city and diocese.
The cathedral is a Grade I listed building
Moskovsky Victory Park (Московский парк Победы, Moskovskiy park Pobedy) is a public park in the Moskovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name of the park was given in honor of Victory in the Second World War.
Victory Park is situated in the south part of Saint-Petersburg and bounded by Kuznetsovskaya Street, Moskovsky Avenue, Yuri Gagarin Avenue, Basseynaya Street. The address of the park administration is Kuznetsovskaya Street, 25. Park covers an area of 168 acres (0.68 km2).
Victory Park was created as the area redevelopment of the former site of the brick factory soon after World War II ended. The factory site and surrounding area carried a sorrowful reminder for surviving citizens. During the war, the factory facilities were used to cremate victims of German blockade and bombardments during the Siege of the city. The ashes were transported in mine cars and dumped in the nearby flooded pits. The brick factory was located less than a mile from Russian front-line positions along one of the city's major routes - International Avenue (now Moskovsky Avenue) - close to the south outskirts of the city. Several pictures taken by Nazi aerial reconnaissance in one of the harsh winters during the Siege shows that the crematory facility was heavily used as seen by markings on snow-covered area. Estimates on how many victims were cremated there widely range from at least 117 thousand to over 600 thousand bodies. Soon after World War II, the factory building was erased and the area was redeveloped into a park.
Victory Park was officially opened on July 7, 1946 and covered only the 1/7 of the present-day territory. During the next decade, the park grew to the present boundaries. The original quarries, trenches, and foxholes were preserved and further developed into a system of channels and small ponds. The 1950s saw construction projects in the park led by Soviet architects Evgeniy Katonin and Valerian Kirhoglani. They created a summerstage, fountains and several pavilions including two propylaea-like buildings at the main entrance. In further years, sculptures and monuments were installed throughout the park. A major alley called "Alley of Heroes" features busts of Soviet heroes, hence the name. Among statuaries in the park are the monument dedicated to Soviet marshal Georgy Zhukov and statues of Soviet war heroes Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and Alexander Matrosov. In the 1990s, the Orthodox chapel and commemorative plaque were erected at the former site of the crematory facility.
The park features several entertainment options including a small amusement park, playgrounds, cafés, boat rental, mini-golf, tennis courts and outdoor ice skating rink. Transportation to the park is provided by a namesake subway station (Park Pobedy Metro) at the south-west edge of the park.
The Ottawa campus of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Art Institute also includes Le Cordon Bleu Signatures Restaurant. It is located in the Munross Mansion built in 1874 by Scottish lumberman James Matter, one of the first members of the Canadian National Railway Board of Directors. Le Cordon Bleu is established in 20 countries with 35 international schools. It has a rich heritage of teaching internal culinary French cuisine for over 120 years.
Le campus d'Ottawa de l'Institut d'art culinaire Le Cordon Bleu comprend également le restaurant Le Cordon Bleu Signatures. Il est situé dans le manoir Munross, construit en 1874 par le bûcheron écossais James Matter, l'un des premiers membres du Conseil d'administration du Canadien National. Le Cordon Bleu est établi dans 20 pays avec 35 écoles internationales. Il a un riche héritage d'enseignement de la cuisine française culinaire depuis plus de 120 ans.
“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a MASSIVE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE [emphasis added]. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders — all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame. ”
— James Speyer
18 February 2026.
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▶ The editorial continued:
“This is not hyperbole or hyperventilation. It is our reality, as the facts amply demonstrate. This administration has:
• Murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, slandered them as 'domestic terrorists' and 'assassins,' and allowed their killers to walk free;
• Unleashed thousands of minimally trained ICE agents, recruited with explicitly white supremacist messaging, to inflict terror on people of color;
• Repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of citizens and non-citizens by arresting them for First Amendment-protected speech, raiding their homes without judicial warrants, and imprisoning them without due process;
• Killed dozens of civilians on the high seas solely on the unsubstantiated claim that they were drug runners (not that being drug runners would justify their summary executions without due process anyway);
• Released hundreds of imprisoned felons who brutally beat Capitol police officers on January 6;
• Converted the once-independent Department of Justice into an instrument of personal retribution via the prosecution of cooked-up lawsuits against the President’s enemies;
• Threatened to seize the territory of a sovereign nation (a NATO ally no less);
• Declared that legislators should be executed for reminding military personnel of their duty to disobey illegal orders;
• Tried to impose ruinous and unconstitutional sanctions on some of the country’s largest law firms simply because Trump doesn’t like them;
• Violated court orders on a massive scale. As the Chief District Judge of Minnesota recently wrote, 'ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence;'
• Shaken down some of the country’s largest universities by illegally threatening to withhold funding; and
• Engaged in breathtaking corruption: as the conservative writer David Frum stated, 'Trump's scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.' ”
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▶ In his commentary about the piece, MS NOW commentator Lawrence O’Donnell added:
And the Daily News did not even include in its description of the most powerful crime syndicate in history, all of Donald Trump’s violations of the Emoluments Clause [of the U.S. Constitution] to enrich himself, including accepting the gift of a 747 aircraft from the Middle Eastern dictatorship of Qatar. And the billions of dollars Donald Trump is making in cryptocurrency ventures and other rackets that he is running during his presidency.
Donald Trump knows that all of that apparent corruption could be effectively investigated by congressional committees, if, and only if, Democrats win the House of Representatives this year, or win the Senate this year. And to prevent that, Donald Trump has not come up with a new campaign message for Republicans. He has not come up with a new economic policy. He has not reversed his economically crushing, illegal, and unconstitutional tariffs.
Instead, he has seized the voting records of Atlanta voters in Fulton County, Georgia, to set the precedent that he can send the FBI anywhere he wants to seize any voting records, including ballots, at any time. Donald Trump is the first president in history who wants to take the administration of elections away from states and, in effect, count all American ballots cast in every election inside the Trump White House.”
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Amsterdam - Binnengasthuisstraat.
In 1913-14 aan de noordzijde van het vm. Binnengasthuisterrein opgetrokken ADMINISTRATIEGEBOUW naar een ontwerp van J.M. van der Mey in Vroeg Amsterdamse School-stijl in opdracht van het bestuur van het Binnengasthuis (cultureelerfgoed.nl).
DDD / TDD.
On Christmas Eve we made a trip to Longmire in Mount Rainier National Park for some family fun in the snow. As we pulled in I noticed these pretty cool icicles coming off the roof of the administration building.
When I visited the Beaux Arts jewel of Bethlehem Steel's 1901 Lackawanna Administration Building, it was clear the demolition was imminent. The site had become somewhat of mecca for photographers and explorers. FIlled with labs, offices, and hidden rooms that contained stunning vintage pieces, from lamps to typewriters, to a complete control room filled with 1960s era computers. Now demolished, the administration building holds an almost mythical place in my memory. As it closed in the late 1970s and early 80s, its interior fixtures and furnishing remained frozen in time. Time capsules are rare in my travels, in this was one of the most pristine.
The retired SAR S-76C++ arrived at Patria Helicopter's facility from its storage in Gothenburg, with a seasonal message on its cover.
Have a lot of paperwork building up; you know those things you never get around to; and keep putting off?
Well still have some outstanding as I never got around to it again. Ah well maybe tomorrow? As I'm already committed today.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Technology R&D
1968 Boeing 727-25C
R&D 40 / N40 / N8171G (ex-Eastern Air Lines / EAL)
Also known as the VA
We went to the Grand Junction, Colorado, VA, this morning (8-16-22). I had to have labs drawn, needing to get back into their system again. We had, another VA staff member, reach into Koda’s face. These are people working in a medical facility, and know better. Wouldn’t you say; Raymond, Jamie?
I just had my blood drawn, we were leaving the lab. The same lab and only lab, that lost my specimens, in the last 30 years. The staff were waiting at the door, mobbing and blocking it. The woman in our way, turns around towards us, has a card in her hand, sticks it out, right up to, and into Koda’s nose. She giggled, as she walked out ahead of us. There were 4 other staff members there to witness. When I walked around to the lab window to get her name. A woman called me back to the door again, started spilling hand sanitizer all lover the floor, as another man comes up behind us, trying to squeeze by. She did give me her full name, after repeatedly asking. We were mobbed and blocked when we first walked into the lab. This was the second time someone has done this, in just a little over a month.
This was the second time someone has done this, in just a little over a month. The first time, I mentioned in a previous post. It happened on 7-12-22, and was a Pastor. He was waiting for us at the door, along with two Security Police Officers. We were heading to the lab then. As we entered the main building; he, and the officers, had the area blocked. They moved, then the Pastor said something about Koda. I ignored him, because it’s usually baiting for something else. Especially, with two Security Police, at his side. Koda, and I went up to the lab. They didn’t have the request sent by the Doctor, so I had to go to the ER, to get it straitened out. We received the standard Mobbing, Street Theater, and Gaslighting, as we waited. I finally got it straitened out, and headed back to the lab. We were crowded in the elevator. One man; had everything I left on our kitchen counter, in a see through bag. Koda and I stepped to the rear. Once the elevator stopped, the three people in with us; signaled for us to exit. I told them to go ahead, they were hesitant, but did. They then stood just outside the elevator. As they did, I saw the Pastor, standing to the right of the elevator door. I told Koda to wait, he stopped in place, just inside the elevator. We paused for a couple of seconds, so the Pastor, reaches into the elevator, fingers spread, puts his hand in Koda’s face. I said he’s a service dog, you don’t do that to a service dog. He tells me, he just wanted to say hi. Bullshit! I didn’t want to start a confrontation, because the others were still standing there watching. We went onto the lab. When we got home, I called and spoke to one of the Security Officers. He was one of them, at the door when we first entered. That’s when I found out, the guy was a Pastor. He was waiting in the elevator today, with two others. The elevator closed before we reached it.
As soon as we arrived in the parking lot, the Half-wit show began. There was a woman, pulling in and out of spots, until we parked, then she zoomed over and parked directly in front of us. She rushed in ahead of us, so she could stand at the doorway texting, as we entered. It’s a Half-wit show, they put on for Targets. But, before we got in, a Corvette stops on the crosswalk, so it could zoom off, filling the air with exhaust. He then, drives around in a circle, and parks in a staff parking spot. We get the Zoo People stare. They stare at Koda, like he’s some kind of exotic zoo animal. Looking directly into his eyes. They will even bend down, towards his face. I should know; I did two years volunteer work at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. When we went to leave the parking lot; the guy that picks up people in a golf cart, blocks me in, just as I put my car in revers. We had a Security Police escort, as we left.
What people are trying to do; is to get Koda to act out in an aggressive manner. If he does, he can be removed from the VA Hospital. In turn, I don’t have my service dog with me. Koda, is a champ, and hasn’t reacted to any of it. What he does do; is look at me with concerning eyes. He knows, my blood pressure is starting to rise. He’s a Medical Alert dog.
I adopted him when he was around 11 months old. He came from a shelter, here in Grand Junction, Colorado. The first thing I noticed, was his reaction to hand movements. He would pull away, if I reached out, towards his head. He, also would not eat from his bowl. He kept taking a small pieces of food, step away then eat it. If I would say anything, he would walk away, tail between his legs. Who knows what kind of abuse, the poor guy had. I could tell, and started to hand feed him. He slowly began to trust me. I took him to dog parks, city parks, everywhere I could to get him socialized. I took him to a training area, where he could maneuver through or around obstacles. I trained him at automated street crossing. I taught him all the basic commands, and many more. He will pull a shopping cart, turn right/left, and wait, on commands. What I didn’t know; is that he would save my life. Not once, but twice.
We were in Arizona, I wanted to get a walk in before it got to hot. We were about ½ mile from camp. He was off leash (I try to let him be a dog), he was hanging close to me. He rushes up, hits me in the thigh with his nose. It almost knocked me over. I said what, he gives me a concerning look, but didn’t move. I said what again, he sets in place, begins barking. I said what Koda, what, show me. He stands up, turns around and slowly starts walking back to camp. I thought, maybe, he’s getting hot; so I followed. We were about 100 yards from camp, and I blacked out. The next thing I knew, I was laying on the ground, he was licking the dirt from my face. This happened on another walk, in Wyoming.
Koda, sensed something coming on, and warned me. The 2nd time, I found a large boulder, and sat down.
What I’m now finding out; is that I have neurological problems. I have a blocked Carotid Artery, restricting blood flow to the right side of my brain. The VA, has been Dicking me around for over two years. Starting with the Grand Junction, VA. Then the Phoenix VA, now Grand Junction, again. Koda, knew over a year ago, and warned me. My problems have gotten worse. I wake up some mornings; Koda, is standing over me, sniffing into my mouth. It’s not halitosis, he’s picking up on something.
I initially, trained him to help me help on walks, and shopping. He has pulled me up many hills, and stream banks. When I say pull or up, you would think he’s a sled dog. He’s so eager to please. Now, he’s telling me something, the VA should have two years ago.
The hate and retaliation, we receive in VA facilities, is nothing new. Veterans, are denied and delayed, medical care and treatment; just for standing up for themselves. If you address the shortcomings in a tactful manner; the retaliation from VA Staff, can be overwhelming. Some staff will do everything they can to discredit a Veteran, to include the Psychiatric Staff. Many Patient Advocates, do not advocate for the Veterans. They represent, these Toxic facilities. I have met some of the most hateful, vile people, that walk this earth; in VA Hospitals and Clinics. We go into these facilities for help, care and healing. Instead, this is what we receive in the United Sates of America.
Here is a link, to a couple of example that made the news recently:
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/man-punched-face-by-an-a...
These are good examples, of what is happening, and how Veterans are being treated. Our current president continues to brag about the 1%, that serve. But, it's a Comedian (John Stewart) that has the courage to stand up for us, and do the job, our president should be doing. Gang Stalking is deeply embedded in the United States Medical Communities. To include the VA.
The retaliation we received from our last post “The Bog Cover-up”, was extreme. We had the National Guard Jet, dive at our motorhome (again), gunfire each time we step out, planes circle right above us; as Koda tries to take a poo. A camper pulled in, just as we went to bed; Koda jumping up all night, looking out the bedroom windows. We went to dump and fill tanks today. Mobbed, and a woman teaching her teenage son how to hate. Walking pass the motorhome, didn’t get the attention they needed. So, her young son starts whistling, looking to his mom for approval. It made her day. We got the Black Diesel Exhaust Skit twice. And, much, much more; as I type this. This is the life of a Whistleblower/Targeted Individual; in the United States of America
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1928 Poplar Ave.
Built in 1936 by the city of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration. The site of numerous great Memphis shows including (according to its website) “the electrifying debut of a young Elvis Presley in 1954, where his groundbreaking performance opening for headliner Slim Whitman marked what many music historians call the very first rock and roll show, leaving an indelible mark on music history. In the years since, the Shell’s stage has welcomed an array of legends including Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Furry Lewis, Booker T. & the MGs, Isaac Hayes, Lisa Marie Presley, Mavis Staples, Sid Selvidge, and many more.” Not to mention Big Star, Alex Chilton, Mudboy and the Neutrons, and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns.
Redcoat Air Cargo, Bristol 175 Britannia 312(F) G-AOVS, commences its take off run from a wet Runway 23 at London Stansted during October 1978. VS was delivered new to BOAC during October 1958 operating with them until July 1965. It then saw service with Lloyd International until 1972 when they went into administration. Bought by IAS during January 1973 it was leased to Redcoat in May 1977, finally being withdrawn from use during October 1979 at Luton and broken up on site.
IMO, this should be the White House. The WH is boring compared to this Paris-hotel-de-ville lookin' piece of architecture. Way cooler.
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Title
Farmer rolling a cigarette. Construction of log house is shown. This farmer rents farm and house from the man who homesteaded the place but is now unable to farm. Pie Town, New Mexico
Names
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published
1940 June.
Headings
- United States--New Mexico--Pie Town
Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF33- 012733-M1 [P&P] LOT 639 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8a28605 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a28605
Library of Congress Control Number
2017742394
Reproduction Number
LC-USF331-012733-M1 (b&w film copy neg. from file print) LC-DIG-fsa-8a28605 (digital file from original neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Online Format
image
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The Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand.
The Grand Palace has an area of 218,400 sq. metres and is surrounded by walls built in 1782. The length of the four walls is 1,900 metres. Within these walls are situated government offices and the Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha besides the royal residences.
When Siam restored law and order after the fall of Ayutthaya the monarch lived in Thonburi on the west side of the river. Rama I, on ascending the throne, moved the centre of administration to this side of the Chao Phraya; and, after erecting public monuments such as fortifications and monasteries, built a palace to serve not only as his residence but also his offices--the various ministries, only one of which remains in the palace walls.
This palace came to be known as the Grand Palace, in which the earliest edifices contemporary with the foundation of Bangkok were the two groups of residences named the Dusit Maha Prasat and the Phra Maha Monthian.
The closure of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre sent shockwaves through Nottingham as the future of the historic site was thrown into uncertainty. The Broadmarsh lease was handed back to Nottingham City Council last June 2020 when INTU collapsed into administration.
The Greater Broadmarsh site totals an estimated 20 acres in the heart of Nottingham city centre, stretching from Nottingham Castle to the new Nottingham College development. The site incorporates the former Broadmarsh Shopping Centre and former Nottingham College buildings on Maid Marian Way.
Photo taken 17 June 2021
More in the Album: Broadmarsh Shopping Centre.
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The Library of Congress We made good money in the cherries this year 1939
I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know and always give due credit to The Library of Congress I have no commercial gain in publishing this image.
Title
"We made good money in the cherries this year. From then on we made just beans." Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Woman in mobile unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp
Contributor Names
Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Created / Published
1939 Oct.
Subject Headings
- United States--Oregon--Klamath County--Merrill
Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch2
- Film copy on SIS roll 28, frame 2424.
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF34- 021987-C [P&P] LOT 326 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8b35692 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b35692
Library of Congress Control Number
2017774410
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-fsa-8b35692 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF34-021987-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
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A photo assignment I did expressing how the present administration's policies effect trans individuals. This was the set up before the shoot of these doll parts or dolls in bottles.
Im Jahr 1935 wurde in einem Waldgebiet mit dem Bau der Luftmunitionsanstalt begonnen und es entstanden anfangs ein Gleisanschluss und Zuwegungen. Man errichtete 60 Bunker für fertiggestellte Munition und 12 für Zünder, weitere Bunker entstanden später. Ein Jahr später wurden Betriebs- und Verwaltungsgebäude auf dem Gelände errichtet.
Vor Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges waren rund 40 Arbeiter und eine ähnliche Anzahl an Soldaten in der Anlage beschäftigt, im Verlauf des Krieges stieg die Zahl der Beschäftigten auf bis zu 500. Zusätzlich existierte auf dem Gelände ein aus rund 150 sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen bestehendes Arbeitskommando.
Die Hauptaufgabe der Luftmunitionsanstalt war die Bezünderung und Lagerung von Bomben. Es wurden 2 kg-Brandbomben, 10 kg-Splitterbomben und 50, 250 und 500 kg-Sprengbomben verarbeitet. Zusätzlich ist Flak-Munition in den Kalibern 2; 7,5; 8,8 und 10,5 cm eingelagert worden.
Am Kriegsende erging der Befehl zur Zerstörung der Luftmunitionsanstalt. Da sich die Feuerwerker gegen diesen Befehl wehrten und nur kleine Teile der Munition sprengten, kam es nicht zu Zerstörungen an Einrichtungen. Am 11. April 1945 besetzte die British Army die Anstalt ohne Gegenwehr.
Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
November 1986
B-2448
Boeing 747-2J6BM
23461 / 628
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
B-2448 has landed on runway 25 and left the runway via the end, taxiing in to the field.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to LRS747:
Delivered new to CAAC 10th Dec 1985 and transferred to Air China July 1988. Converted to freighter Dec 1998 for operation by Air China Cargo, then transferred to Uni-top Airlines May 2009.
Stored from 2016 in Wuhan, still there in May 2022.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/B-2448/527524
B-2448 with Air China at CDG in October 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/75122977@N05/38145099814
B-2448 with Air China at HKG ca. 1990s (larger logo):
www.flickr.com/photos/darylchapman/5016520412
B-2448 with Air China Cargo at FRA ca. 2000:
www.flickr.com/photos/157839500@N04/49894859343
B-2448 with Uni-top Airlines at PEK in May 2009:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/64595_1629705224.jpg
B-2448 with Uni-top Airlines stored at WUH in April 2020:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/54224_1586786755.jpg
B-2448 along with B-2462 and B-2450 stored at WUH in May 2022:
cdn.planespotters.net/07634/b-2462-uni-top-airlines-boein...
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
The big wigs are in town.
The Federal Railroad Administration's Inspection Train rolls across the Thomaston Viaduct, just west of Manhasset.
Made by me from my own personal video I took at the January 21st Minneapolis show. PLEASE DO NOT STEAL...!!!
A lady pushing perhaps a love one to the San Diego County Administration Building. Love her dress and especially the hat!
Image created for the Our Daily Challenge topic;
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY... in this case 'The Good'.
For Release: May 20, 1969
Photo No.: 69-HC-622
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. -- The Space Vehicle for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 11, Lunar landing mission is shown arriving at Launch Complex 39-A, after roll-out from the Vehicle Assembly Building 3.5 miles away. The 363 foot tall Saturn/Apollo vehicle and its mobile launcher were transported down the Crawlerway at a speed of one mile per hour, and are shown being carried up the pad incline by the Crawler-transporter.
I photographed the SUNY System Administration Building, formerly Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company Building, from along the Hudson River last night It was built in 1914 and was the work of Marcus T. Reynolds.
Photographed using a Nikkor 43-86mm f/3.5 lens on a Sony A7R.
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Special NOTE: On Feb. 8, 2012 I attached a comment, readable & easily discoverable on Page 2 of the comments below, that details the vast corporatist scheme, fronted by Jeb Bush, financed in part with hundreds of millions from Rupert Murdoch (FOX nooze), to privatize American public education & reduce it to 'virtual' schools - not to improve anything (as national & international educational research studies clearly show), but rather to become the final recipients of the taxes people pay so that they can skim huge profits off of the top while providing grotesquely inferior services & lots of lying propaganda to keep the public bamboozled. I beg everyone to read the report.
The McGuffey's Ecclectic Spelling Book was published in 1879.
Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (1878-1970) founded Freedom Communications, a newspaper publishing & broadcasting company that has never hesitated to shape the news to fit right wing ideology. When Hoiles was alive & roaring I lived in Orange County, California, home of the equally right wing Walt Disney & Walter Knott, & was frequently compelled to suffer people who agreed with Hoiles' constantly editorialized insistence that public education was a form of theft & communism that must at once be got rid of. Hoiles was motivated by his fundamentalist Christian persuasions, & quite serious. We should restrain our laughter at the abysmal stupidity of his example, because in many ways he & people like him won & are still winning control of public education. - To introduce the article below, I'll say a little about the Christian strategy.
For many years Orange County's teachers worked under a Draconian ruling that forbade the teaching of values. There is no way around the fact, however, that the statement, "Values may not be taught," is itself a value statement belonging to a class of propositions known as Epimenidean Paradoxes. A comparably illustrative sentence would be, "This is not a sentence." Or, a favorite of the best hypnotists, used when addressing a resistant subject, "Do not obey any instruction which I give you."
What, then, was intended by those who created the paradoxical Orange County law? Well, if any teacher dared to say or imply something that would be disagreeable to any person whose beliefs began & ended with church, flag & free-for-all capitalism, then that teacher could be charged with teaching values & be suspended. One family friend, a young man teaching at an elementary school in Anaheim, was charged, hounded, publicly disgraced, threatened with death & discharged from his post, immediately after which he died from a heart attack. The case was depicted in Life Magazine. His only crime was that he was Jewish. His wife, also a teacher, remained bereft & embittered the rest of her long life.
These people became increasingly invisible over time, largely by devising ever more clever ways for gaining control of both education policy & the public dialogue about education.
Ralph Reed, working for Pat Robertson & the Christian Coalition, devised the "stealth agenda" to place fundamentalists in every local school board in America. The plan helped select & fund candidates, who in accord with Reed's instructions never mentioned their religion or religious connections when campaigning for office. In 1983 Reed rigged an election at his university - he got started early, in other words. Recently we learned that Mr. Reed & Jack Abramoff were associate crooks. The revelation forced Reed to abandon his run to become the lieutenant governor of Georgia. Mr. Reed will not disappear, however. He remains a darling of the far Christian right, & owns Century Strategies, a dirty-tricks political consulting & lobbying organization. In 1999 Karl Rove got reed a nice contract with Enron, which was paying Reed $30,000 per month. And guess who recently went to Georgia to try to save poor Reed? Rudy Giuliani, who has the hots to be the next U.S. president & is pandering to the Christians so he can be their new burning Bush.
Stealthiness did not go away when the Christian Coalition folded & Reed went off on his own to rig elections for big bucks. Rather, the stealth moved into policy matters. For instance, all the phony propaganda claiming religious & private education is more successful, creating the excuse to promote vouchers (for which the motives are both religious & racist). Or, most recently, Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, which was sought by the Christians not because they believed all the testing of students would lead to improved education, but rather because they wanted teachers to be made too busy preparing students for endless tests about facts to find time to do the great evil thing, which is the teaching of concepts. Teaching concepts leads to teaching logic, scientific & other academic methodologies which by their nature instill respect for critical - read, skeptical - thinking. Dogmatists, advertisers & con men have equal cause to fear skepticism.
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Taking Back Our Schools--and Fixing Them
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Posted on Apr. 25, 2006
By Wellford Wilms
The recent news reported in The New York Times that schools are throwing out science, social studies and art to make time for drilling students in remedial math and reading is a sign of things gone terribly wrong. Former New York State Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol told the Times that narrowing education to just math and reading would be akin to restricting violin students to playing scales day after day. “They’d lose their zest for music.” But most schools that serve poor populations, like those in Cuero, Texas, are squeezed to meet federal math and reading standards. Cuero Superintendent Henry Lind told the paper, “When you have so many hours per day and you’re behind in some area that’s being hammered on, you have to work on that.”
But by the looks of things, hammering students for higher test scores isn’t making much of a difference. Most students have already lost their zest for learning. How do we know? In Los Angeles, upwards of 50% of Latino and African American students never finish high school. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I’ve been a professor of education at UCLA for more than 25 years and am convinced that despite the fads that come and go, nothing has put a dent in the public schools’ failure to educate inner-city children. In fact, things are getting worse. But I am also convinced that we’ve been looking in the wrong places for solutions. My own research across a wide array of organizations—corporations, trade unions, public schools, colleges, teacher unions and police agencies—suggests another way of looking at the problem and that solutions will come from a new direction.
This essay is a proposition—one that I hope will spark a lively debate among Truthdig readers and inform policy leaders. Future essays will examine Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s campaign to take over the public schools, analyze whether teacher unions can be a force for productive change, and expose promising ways to rebuild public investment in the schools.
Let’s start with Jonathan Kozol’s new book, “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” It is a scathing indictment of American social policy that banned racial segregation in public schools in 1955 and then turned a blind eye to its implementation. Today, Kozol says, schools are more segregated than ever. But he fails to explain why resegregation has occurred. Because Kozol overlooks the root causes of the problem, his solutions—spending more money on dysfunctional schools and wishing for a social mandate to desegregate the schools—miss the point.
To be sure the problems are undeniable. Kozol examines the appalling condition of big-city schools. In school after school we see children who are brimming with potential but who are walled off from the larger society and abandoned by the schools. Most middle-class white Americans simply cannot comprehend the horrid schools that Kozol describes. Ceilings fall in, toilets are filthy, libraries, music and arts have been stripped away. Teachers in these schools, who are paid 40% less than teachers in the suburbs, are forced to teach “scripted” lessons that are written for children who are deemed incapable of learning.
It is all part of the latest reform pushed by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind initiative, a reform aimed at the singular pursuit of increasing test scores. Learning has been stripped of its intrinsic meaning and reduced to simplistic steps—“Authentic Writing,” “Active Listening,” “Accountable Talk”—that hamper teachers in teaching anything but how to take a test. Behind it all is an attempt to impose control, much as mass production techniques were used a century ago, to standardize instruction to fit new immigrants to the system.
Meanwhile, millions of children are failing. In nearly half of the high schools in America’s 100 largest districts, fewer than 50% of students graduate in four years. Most of these students are from poor Latino and African-American families. And from 1993 to 2000 the number of failing schools has mushroomed by 75%. Mayor Villaraigosa calls Los Angeles’ high dropout rates “numbers that should put a chill down your spine.”
The reasons, Kozol argues, are lack of money and racial discrimination that produce inferior and segregated schools. No doubt this is partly true. We have tried to desegregate the schools for a half-century and failed. Middle-class white parents have voted for individual freedom with their feet, enrolling their children in private schools, leaving the public schools more segregated than ever. The same is true for middle-class black families. Gail Foster, an educator who has studied black independent schools, was quoted in 2004 in The New York Times as saying: “Many of the most empowered parents and families are removing their children. What’s left, in even working-class communities, are schools filled with the least empowered families. Families with the least parent involvement to offer, families with the least help with homework to offer. There’s been a continual outflow for at least 10 years, and it isn’t stopping now.”
More money is not the answer either. Kozol points to wide disparities in educational expenditures ranging from $11,700 per student in New York City to $22,000 in suburban Manhasset. Disturbing as that is, study after study shows that equalizing money does not necessarily equalize learning.
In 1966, sociologist James Coleman conducted the most extensive study ever made of desegregating education and found that what mattered most in students’ learning was the economic status of their peers rather than the racial makeup of the school. He also found that school funding was not closely related to students’ achievement—their families’ economic status was far more predictive. Coleman’s findings were controversial and led to a bitter debate, but they have been replicated many times. Daniel Patrick Moynihan summed it up best when he commented shortly after Coleman’s groundbreaking study, “We should begin to see that the underlying reality is not race but social class.”
Since social class matters because money follows privilege, and since desegregation will take generations to eradicate, what can be done now? Are poor children doomed to attend grossly inadequate schools? Surely not. We must find ways to remove the influences that have crippled the schools. Money must be diverted from bloated bureaucracies that snuff out innovation. Instead it must go directly to schools where principals and teachers can influence what is taught and what children learn, and help bring parents back into the fold. Otherwise, it is going down a rat hole.
Parents have a significant role to play in their children’s education, but their voices have been largely silenced. Over the last 40 years, we have witnessed the decline of civic involvement and the growing dominance of self-interest over the greater good, a social deterioration that sociologist Robert Putnam calls “hollowing out” in his 2000 book “Bowling Alone.” One result, as the old saying goes, is that “the rich get richer” and the poor fall ever further behind in crumbling schools.
Over the last 25 years, education in general has been taken from ordinary citizens and teachers by politicians, administrators, union leaders, publishers, test makers, consultants, university professors, hardware and software developers and the media, each playing its part in keeping alive the illusion of reform. All in all, this $1-trillion industry has replaced the common interest, and no one, it seems, can muster the will to rein it in.
Local control is only a dim memory. Decisions now come from the top—from the federal and state governments, school boards and high-level administrators who have little knowledge of what goes on in the classroom. Teachers are left out of these decisions, carrying on the best they can, safe in the assumption that the newest fad, like those before it, will blow over. Parents are all but forgotten.
While command-and-control management may seem to produce results in the short run, it strips schools of the capacity to develop the stable leadership that is necessary to sustain success. Principals are besieged with demands from district offices and from the educational fads that emanate from publishers and university researchers. Many principals know that they put their careers in peril unless they do what their bosses want. One elementary school principal told me, “District directives undermine our own abilities to think for ourselves, to believe in what we see and know.” When schools discover something that works, it is rarely sustained because they lack authority or stable leadership.
In 1969 when I worked for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, I monitored the schools in impoverished Ocean Hill-Brownsville in New York City. The local school board hired a charismatic superintendent, who fired incompetent teachers and hired young and idealistic ones. The firings set the local board at odds with the huge teachers’ union, which demanded due process for the fired teachers. The superintendent, Rhody McCoy, was convinced that good teachers had to respect the children they taught. He put it in plain words: “If you’re convinced that this kid is doomed by nature or by something else to lead a shrunken and curtailed life, then you’re basically incompetent to teach that child.” The experiment worked. Observing classrooms left no doubt in my mind that students were learning. Eager first-graders sat attentively on the floor in semicircles shouting out answers to fraction problems and reading aloud. The schools buzzed with excitement as parent helpers streamed in and out of classrooms. But in a bitter power struggle the board seized authority and the experiment ended.
Years later, in 1985, Deborah Meier, a passionate educator who founded Harlem’s Central Park East Secondary School, achieved stunning successes that led the school to be celebrated as a model alternative school in Time magazine. But it could not be sustained beyond Meier’s unique leadership. Today, 10 years after Meier left, a respected children’s advocacy group, Insideschools and Advocates for Children, reports that the Harlem school “…has fallen on hard times in recent years with rapid staff turnover, low staff morale and uneven discipline.”
In risk-averse environments like public schools, few principals will stick out their necks, because they don’t want to buck the bosses downtown. Courageous and visionary principals like Rhody McCoy and Deborah Meier keep coming. But charismatic leadership is no match for heavy-handed district management, which always wins out.
Take Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles, for example. In 1989, Howard Lappin took over a failing middle school. With the help of teachers and an infusion of money, Lappin wrested control from the district and transformed Foshay. The school expanded into a K-12 “learning center” and became largely autonomous of the district’s bureaucratic requirements. Teachers and administrators decided who would be hired and what would be taught. Foshay succeeded, and in 2000 its high school was selected by Newsweek as one of the 100 best in America. But in 2001 Lappin retired, and his unique leadership was lost. Today Foshay is being threatened with sanctions by the district and the county because gains in students’ test scores have stalled. As the school has fallen under the district’s “one-size-fits all” bureaucratic requirements, the impact has been to undermine the once vibrant teacher leadership that made the school so enviable.
The problem with public education is not with the teachers, or with the children, but the way we organize the schools. Probably the greatest casualties are teachers themselves, who are forced to accept decisions by authorities about teaching that they know to be nonsense. One professor interviewed by Kozol said that forcing an absurdity on teachers teaches something: acquiescence. For example, in study after study, teachers report that relying on test scores as sole marks of student achievement and teaching scripted lessons destroy students’ natural love of learning. And such practices also erode teachers’ professional authority, which is fundamental to student learning.
Why is it so hard to foster the only kind of reform that really works, which is right in the schoolhouse? Because politicians, school board members and administrators are under intense pressure to produce immediate results, i.e., higher and higher test scores—a goal that is pursued through directives from districts with little input of principals, teachers and parents. Superintendents serve at the pleasure of school boards, and most board members are elected or appointed and have limited terms of office. As test scores have become the measure of educational quality, everyone is under immense pressure to show fast results or be turned out.
No wonder that school boards hire superintendents who promise to deliver quick results. But few do. Superintendents last on average only three or four years. Many are thwarted by outmoded bureaucracies that were designed a century ago using top-down control practiced in American industry to mass-produce learning. Within these organizations, power has quietly accumulated, making them all but impervious to outside influence. Sid Thompson, former superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, told me: “Trying to change the district is like trying to change the direction of a fast-moving freight train. You might knock it off course for a moment, but before you know it it’s rattling right down the tracks again.”
Frustration and suspicion about who might emerge from the shadows to sabotage their plans often lead superintendents to jealously guard their power. In 2002, Day Higuchi, then president of United Teachers Los Angeles, the Los Angeles teacher union, had high hopes for working with the school district’s new “can-do” superintendent, Roy Romer. Higuchi hoped that Romer would endorse a new union initiative called Lesson Study, a plan to help teachers work collectively to improve classroom lessons. At a breakfast meeting that I attended, Higuchi presented Romer with an invitation to work with the union to develop and spread Lesson Study across the district. When Higuchi finished, Romer flipped over his paper placemat and with a red felt pen drew a box with an S in it. “That’s me,” he said. Beneath he drew 11 boxes with smaller s’s in them, representing the 11 local superintendents, and below that, a number of small boxes with roofs, representing schools and teachers. Then, pulling his face near to Higuchi’s, he drew bold red arrows pointing downward from the top. Romer jabbed his pen in the air to accentuate each word: “You cannot usurp my authority to manage this district!” It was a dumbfounding moment, one that revealed the true underside of the use of power. Here was a chance for a new superintendent to forge a small but significant step with the union, but Romer, who recently announced his resignation, explained that he was “in a hurry.” He clearly had little time for ideas that were at odds with his own. In the end his refusal to work with the union undermined the possibility of creating a broader base of power that could transcend self-interest.
Nor are the unions exempt from self-interest. A few years ago I helped establish a national group of union presidents called TURN (Teacher Union Reform Network) who were dedicated to remaking their unions as forces to improve education. One way was to cooperate with administrators and encourage teachers to use their classroom know-how to redesign teaching at the schoolhouse. But hostility and mistrust run deep. The union leaders became nervous, fearing that fellow unionists would attack them for “collaborating” with the enemy and that if the effort to collaborate failed they would share the blame. Don Watley, president of the New Mexico Federation of Educational Employees, commented: “It’s like the Normandy landing. We’ve got the best troops in the world. We’ve got the best officers in the world. And we’ve got the best equipment in the world. But at 0800 when we hit the beach half of us are going to get killed!” Sadly, in the years to come, the ingrained mistrust, and the unpredictable dance of union politics, prevented these unionists from becoming a positive force in educational reform. Instead, they have been reduced to stockpiling power, much as the Soviets and Americans stockpiled nuclear weapons during the Cold War, to oppose any hostile moves the other side might make.
So what can be done to break the standoff between teacher unions and districts? How can teachers’ professional authority be restored? How can parents be awakened and brought back into the fold? Experience shows that it can be done. Schools such as Harlem’s Central Park East Secondary, Los Angeles’ Foshay Learning Center, those in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, and many others attest to the fact that schools can be made into safe places where children learn. Sustaining them is the hard part.
There is little doubt that trying to build good schools with command-and-control management doesn’t work. School boards, superintendents and union officials need to clear the obstacles—unnecessary bureaucratic requirements and outmoded work rules—to make innovation at the schoolhouse possible. These top-level educational leaders also must make resources available to support new ways of teaching. Jonathan Kozol has it right. Teaching is the only reform that counts and it can be done only at the schoolhouse by teachers, principals, parents and students working together.
Turning school districts upside down will also mean turning a century of top-down management on its head. But where is such bold leadership to be found? One promising place is among big-city mayors. But they must resist trying to take over the schools, as they did in New York, Chicago and Boston with mixed results at best. Instead, popular mayors could use their influence and visibility to tell the truth about the condition of education and to build a popular consensus about how change must occur.
In the next essay I am going to examine what mayors can do. Waiting for the schools to be saved by someone else is nonsense. Only concerted local action offers a chance. Doubters should recall Margaret Mead’s observation: “Never doubt that a small group of concerned people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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