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SOO 806 and 503-C work train 35 near MP444 west of Trout Lake with 92 cars on February 13, 1976. This is one of those 110 prints that I would give anything to have in 35mm.
Attached Lens: Canon FD 70-210 ƒ/4.0 @8.0 & 200mm
RAW Prozessing: Apple Photos for Mac
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Plan C worked for Macro Mondays Low Key theme.
Plan A was nabbed by Jacqui (see my version taken today in my photostream), then the model for Plan B (me) wasn't being very cooperative, so I fell back on an idea that was the back-up for Condiments if my planned image hadn't worked...
Wooden scoop is 3" total length, only showing around 1" plus spilled rock salt. Lit from the right with one speedlite. Dust cleaned up in Lightroom!
I am back, briefly at least. To say my life lately has taken on overwhelming proportions of work, responsibilities and stress would be a fairly major understatement. Part of that is due to the fact I am in a stretch of teaching where I have classes three days of the week (including both of my normal days off) and mostly due to the fact that the store I work for, Blue Moon Camera, is preparing to close for three and a half weeks to undergo major renovations and remodeling. That last bit is incredibly exciting but the logistical issues that creates? Imagine the giantest can of worms you can then douse it in gasoline and set it on fire. Heh. Something like that. We are all frantically trying to A) Prepare a store for a three week closure that involves moving all the inventory out of the front of the store - thousands of pieces of it - in a fashion that will allow us to not lose anything and replace it in an orderly manner. B) Schedule the work that will take place over those three weeks in such a way that it all gets done properly and on time. C) Work with our thousands of customers letting them know about the closure and giving those who have photos, film or cameras with us a chance to get in to pick them up and D) Carry on the day-to-day business of running a camera shop as usual. Couple that with the fact that my boss has mostly been holed up in the back of the store overseeing the renovations that have already begun and that leaves me in charge of all this business going on frantically up front, in addition to my normal slate of responsibilities that more than fill an average work day.
So a bit more about all that (my main reason for posting this today). Blue Moon will officially close at the end of business hours on February 15th. We will remain closed through March 9th, reopening for business on the 10th. During this time, the store will be fully shut down, there will be no access to the front of the store, nor will we be answering the phones. The only way to get in touch with us will be e-mail, which we will check and respond to, though our inventory will all be packed away, so even if you desperately need to buy something, unfortunately we will not likely be able to accommodate those requests. Though we will be happy to answer questions and give you direction as to other places to get such services done.
In terms of the renovations, they are almost entirely of the cosmetic variety. The layout and function of the store will remain the same, but we are putting in hardwood floors, redoing the ceiling, replacing all the old, ugly fluorescent lighting and refinishing all the cases and cabinets. Clearing out clutter. Reorganizing shelves. Etc and so on. At some point we will be rolling out a new website too. But that is all the details I am going to provide about that for the moment. ;-) You will have to wait and see the rest for yourselves when we open.
So yeah, you may not see much of me on here over the next month. I just have not had the time and when I have had the time I have not had the energy. Looking back at my calendar, my last full day off was January 16th, and that is a streak that is going to continue until the 19th of this month. So four weeks without a day off has run me a little ragged. It is also not a terribly good time to send me e-mails through Flickr that need fast response. Much better to send them through my personal website at www.zebandrews.com. Other than that, I am still out here, and I am sure I will be back in full at some point. I am just concentrating much of my efforts on other things at the moment.
So, til we meet again, take care and keep up all the great photo work.
I swear that the lunatics ran the asylum today. I have no idea what was going on today, but everything went kind of wrong. It was truck day at work, the truck didn’t show up, leaving a team of people without work and being given the choice to: a. go home b. go home and come back when the truck got there (yeah, right) c. work their regular shift or d. work their regular shift plus however long it took to unload the truck when it got there ( again, yeah ...right). So people were coming and going with little direction. I was good, I had a reset to do that I was able to work on, until one of my friends came up to me and said “I think I’m done.” “Done? What do you mean, done?” “Done with everything.” This led to an unauthorized run to Dunkin’ Donuts for Boston Crème and deep thoughts, which always leads to trouble (and usually no solutions). Sat in the breakroom with all of the truck team that had decided to work only their regluar hours, so the truck was not unloaded, which means that tomorrow will be truck day...again!
One of my friends pulls out his phone and shows me a photo of his 1957 Corvette and asked if he had shown it to me before... “Yes, you have and when....” “NO!!” “What do you mean NO?! When are you going to ...” “NO” .. .determined to NOT let me finish the question that I have asked before... “when are you going to teach me to drive a stick in the 57 Corvette?” Yeah, I get it... it’s not happening, is it? “I truly am hurt by your lack of faith in me”... all this, while my other friend is helping herself to pasta off my lunch plate... which I offered to let her finish because I don’t feel like eating because my stupid tooth hurts more now than it did BEFORE the root canal... which led to a series of “root canals gone wrong” stories from co workers that I really didn’t need to hear. The final straw was my manager telling me that he had let all of the managers in the district know that they have to fix their sucky unlinked shoe reports. “Really? Was that how you worded it?” “No, but next Friday you will be training the supervisors from another store.” Ugh, I HATE doing that!! Why can’t these people just do their jobs... afterall, it clearly is NOT rocket science. Then he tells me that I deserve a raise, but it is out of his hands. Have I mentioned before that our district manager thinks he is too sarcastic? So, because I am capable of doing this job right (probably because I have no life and spend way too much time at work) my reward is to become the training specialist for the district and not get paid for it. Yey, me!! I left after that, an hour early. I had had enough for one day. And there was soccer...
I wanted to surprise Dayna and show up at her soccer game today because it was her first game as a college coach. Her first time standing on the sidelines instead of playing on the field. So, I drove out to Paramus and got there just as the game was starting.... got TO THE COLLEGE just as the game was starting.... got to the field with 2 minutes left in the first half because I couldn’t find the field.... got to the field with a college security guard escort because I am sure that when I asked him directions he took one look at me and thought to himself... oh God, I’ll just take her... she’ll never find it (And he’d be absolutely right!!) Ugh!! Anyway, a 3-0 shut out for Dayna’s debut as a college coach. Not too shabby!! Got back home about 15 minutes before Dayna and she had to drive the team back to the college and drop off the van and get her car.... yes, something seemed to have gone awry on the way home too, even WITH the GPS!! Yes, I am totally and completely directionally challenged and hopeless.
My favorite thing about the game was the spectators that came with their own American Flag and posted it at the top of the hill overlooking the field. I am assuming it was because of 9/11, or maybe they bring a flag to every game, but I thought it was pretty great! So out of a whole bunch of really really bad soccer photos that I took today ( I guess I am really out of practice), this is one of the few that I liked, only because I was focusing only on the flag, but it has the soccer play in the background, the scoreboard showing Dayna’s team winning 2-0 at the time and Dayna standing on the sidelines on the far right (wearing her Rowan colors, brown and yellow) because she doesn’t have her CCM gear yet!! So, a fairly ugly day had a good ending. Congratulations to CCM on their first win and to Dayna for her first win as a coach.
Model: A.C.
Work belongs to the "La perte de l'innocence", a project which borned into a teenager´s dream. This is the second photography of the series.
Richard Evans, Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT No.D of 1874 (although works plate fitted is incorrect - it is actually No.C) "Bellerophon" designed by Josiah Evans, approaching Bitton from Avon Riverside during the Avon Valley Railway Autumn Gala, 4 November 2017. No.C worked at the Haydock Collieries and later for the National Coal Board until 1964, a working life of 90 years! No.C had one of the earliest applications of piston valves; it had Gooch valve gear.
My Flickr Friend Tammy C worked with some of my photos and enhanced them. I will post more. This one resembled the hairstyle of Marily a bit so I posted it first!
Richard Evans, Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT No.D of 1874 (although works plate fitted is incorrect - it is actually No.C) "Bellerophon" designed by Josiah Evans, at Bitton during the Avon Valley Railway Autumn Gala, 4 November 2017. No.C worked at the Haydock Collieries and later for the National Coal Board until 1964, a working life of 90 years! No.C had one of the earliest applications of piston valves; it had Gooch valve gear.
Coming to Fantasy Gacha Carnival from 7th November - fitted mesh leather apron designed to be worn over clothing.
For awhile now the sound on my computer was getting progressively worse, all garbled and the drivers would drop out completely. The final straw was when I was playing a YouTube video and it was like listening to a cassette player with weak batteries.
For awhile I've wanted to erase the hard drive and start fresh because the computer was taking too long to start or do certain things, and every so often it would go off into La-La Land, acting like it was thinking about something when it really wasn't doing anything at all. The final straw was when it started rebooting spontaneously when I wasn't touching it or running anything.
So maybe I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was at a yardsale and found a 2.4GHz Gateway for $5, and it's been sitting on my floor for a bit. A couple days ago I woke up, unplugged everything on my computer, then unplugged everything in my computer, and swapped the mainboards. Windows would reboot itself during launch but Linux worked fine, go figure, so now was my chance to wipe the C: drive and install Windows 7. Protip: When you look for info and drivers on computer makers' sites, there are a lot that they don't provide Win7 drivers for, claiming that the hardware isn't supported or capable. Much of the time it is capable, just not supported.
So most of the software already on the D: drive and that I reinstalled to C: work fine, with a few titles getting recent upgrades, and all is well there. Thing is, no one ever wrote Win7 sound drivers for the onboard audio, and the WinXP and Vista drivers weren't doing anything. (And then I found out later, after putting in a brand new soundcard, that the computer was sending all sound to the "USB Audio" device -- the turntable! -- and not to the sound card or speakers. Brilliant, Windows.) So I'm nearly done reinstalling all the most-used applications, and all seems to be fine. (Other than half an hour ago when it didn't want to use Windows Explorer to open up drives correctly, but that's Windows for ya.) I'm a bit behind on my usual daily stuff but priorities, the health of my computer comes first cuz I gotta be online!
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JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues on the back dike raising at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "14A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with Chad Brown, vice president of Ashridge Construction, the prime contractor. The project includes the placement of 198,000 cubic yards of dredge material to raise the back dike, plus an additional 40,000 cubic yards of sediment, according to Brown. It also includes the placement of 170,000 square yards of geotechnical fabric, which is layered under the dredge material to improve the structural stability of the dike. The team is also installing wick drains to help dissipate the groundwater. Construction began in the spring of 2013 and is slated for completion in October. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
There has always been a keen interest in culture, an eagerness for knowledge, among our Barrington people. The old Literary Society, the Debating Club, both before we had a high school, and the Chautauqua Circle which studied art, literature and history, and even an attempt at one time to establish the Barrington Academy evidences the literary craving of our forebears.
When a desire for the loan and exchange of books got to be frequent, Wm. J. Cammeron's drug store in what is now the east half of the Ben Franklin Variety store at 133 Park Avenue became the place to borrow a donated book. That was April 3, 1915. The Barrington Woman's Club was strongly behind this idea and boosted for books till a room on Cook Street over George Wagner's market -- formerly the Hank Abbott Drug Store -- was rented and different women of the Woman's Club took turns on certain days as librarians. Mrs. R.C. Work and Mrs. Gertrude (John) Schwemm were among the Club's committee who kept its needs and promotion ever before the public. Later the library moved to 119 E. Main Street over Ed. Rieke's confectionary store, -- now Marie's Bakery. Olive Dobson took over as librarian and did an excellent job in the work. To further this essential feature of civic welfare, several attempts were made to get permission of the voters to levy a small library tax but did not get it until April of 1924. By a vote of 670 to 285 a tax of one and one eighth mills through the village budget was allowed, and in 1926 a Library Board was elected.
Before the voting of the library tax, a stimulus to better library organization was the initial gift of $1,000.00 left by Mrs. Caroline (George) Ela who died February 28, 1914. Frank Hecht later gave $1,000.00 in memory of his mother.
In 1933 the library was housed, by the gracious permission of the Village Board, in the council chamber of the village hall. The trustees moved into a back room of the new addition.
The Woman's Club deserves credit, more perhaps than our Public offers, for the years of struggle that they put up to keep buying new books, to keep a librarian, to keep a place for the library and try to keep some one responsible for building fires and keeping the place warm and so forth. New books were added as funds could be spared. Many books were donated from Personal libraries. Good reference works and wholesome fiction has been the maintained policy of our library. The circulation, after inventory of 1956, was eleven thousand books.
The space in the village hall was too small for the book stacks alone and but little space was available there for reading and study. So, by a successful vote in November of 1953, the library board was permitted to purchase a site for a new library. A lot on South Hough Street at Monument Avenue 125 by 150 feet was purchased from Frank C. Weyer in the old Hawley pasture. One argument for this site so far from downtown was that with two-thirds of the library cards in the south half of the village this spot would be midway of the Hough Street and the Grove Avenue elementary schools. A library tax of four and a half mills in 1955 and a jubilee parade followed.
A building bond issue for $60,000.00 was authorized on June 5, 1956, by a vote of 279 to 83 and were bought by Scott, Wyandt of Chicago offering a premium of $102.60 and an interest rate of three and a quarter per cent. In September of that same year ground was broken and the building, as planned by architect Ralph Stoetzel, was under construction. Cornerstone laying was on October 14, 1956, and the building was completed in June, 1957. The beautiful building is of Williamsburg style, of one story on Hough and two story on the west with two large picture windows in the spacious base- ment reading rooms. The walls are of waxed elm throughout, with a fine office opposite the main entrance.
On July 2, 1957, the library in the old location in the village hall was closed and all was moved up the street to their new home. On July 8, it was opened to the public. A housewarming was held or Sunday, July 21, with a flag presentation by the V.F.W. It was a credit to the board and all the interested boosters who made the dream a reality. A beautiful terrace garden in memory of one of its former boosters, Mrs. Nellie Hammond, was laid at the north end of the building.
-Arnett C. Lines
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues on the back dike raising at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "14A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with Chad Brown, vice president of Ashridge Construction, the prime contractor. The project includes the placement of 198,000 cubic yards of dredge material to raise the back dike, plus an additional 40,000 cubic yards of sediment, according to Brown. It also includes the placement of 170,000 square yards of geotechnical fabric, which is layered under the dredge material to improve the structural stability of the dike. The team is also installing wick drains to help dissipate the groundwater. Construction began in the spring of 2013 and is slated for completion in October. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
Leyland Tiger Cub ft Ordinary Coach, now converted in Mail Service Van.
Date n Time of Filmed :- 08 july - 2010, 12 : 20 pm.
Camera man :- SwapniL (me).
Location :- on N.H. 17 at the front of Kankavli Coach Station.
[ Specially Restored for Mail Service ]
Operator :- M.S.R.T.C.
Operator Station :- Kankavli Coach Station.
Rout / Service : - 09 : 30 pm's M.C.T. Coach Station to Kankavli Coach Station [ Public Mail n M.S.R.T.C.'s Official work, valuable parts of coaches, Stationery - old type tickets..... many more ].
Brand :- B.S.R.T.C./M.S.R.T.C. Mail Service Van.
[ this is the second Mail Service Van ( टपाल गाडी ) for Kokan by M.S.R.T.C., First Mail Service Van was working under B.S.R.T.C. ].
Chassis : - Leyland Tiger Cub.
Reg No : - I don't have Reg no, B' i didn't click any pics of this Van.
Reg Station : - Kankavli Coach Station [ Sindhudurg Division ] form Kokan.
Flit & Coachwork ( firsthand Coachwork ) :- S.T. / Ordinary Coach Series bodywork with 3x2 Dark green seating arrangement with Blue color walls, Coach built by M.S.R.T.C.s Central workshop C.W.N., C.W.D. or C.W.A.
Restoration :- Restored in 2000's or 2001's M.S.R.T.C. Summer Restoration weak of Kankavli Coach Stn near gad nadi ( Fort river ).
This Service is not Regular, only for M.S.R.T.C. Work, but in 87's to 90's some times my dad miss the last bus to Kankavli. He Request to officers of Parel Coach Station & he got permission to travel in Mail Service Van ( टपाल गाडी ).
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues on the back dike raising at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "14A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with Chad Brown, vice president of Ashridge Construction, the prime contractor. The project includes the placement of 198,000 cubic yards of dredge material to raise the back dike, plus an additional 40,000 cubic yards of sediment, according to Brown. It also includes the placement of 170,000 square yards of geotechnical fabric, which is layered under the dredge material to improve the structural stability of the dike. The team is also installing wick drains to help dissipate the groundwater. Construction began in the spring of 2013 and is slated for completion in October. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues on the back dike raising at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "14A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with Chad Brown, vice president of Ashridge Construction, the prime contractor. The project includes the placement of 198,000 cubic yards of dredge material to raise the back dike, plus an additional 40,000 cubic yards of sediment, according to Brown. It also includes the placement of 170,000 square yards of geotechnical fabric, which is layered under the dredge material to improve the structural stability of the dike. The team is also installing wick drains to help dissipate the groundwater. Construction began in the spring of 2013 and is slated for completion in October. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
Engineers from the 1221st Engineering Company from Graniteville, S.C., along with support from the 125th Multi Role Bridge Company from Abbeville, S.C., work to replace a washed out culvert on a Lexington County road in Gilbert, S.C. Oct. 24, 2015. Soldiers with the S.C. Army National Guard continue to provide direct support for flood recovery and emergency road repairs as a result of the recent floods. The South Carolina National Guard partnered with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun/Released)
So I'm now in Hanoi. In the last week or so I did:
6 hr bus from Da Lat to Nha Trang, great, cheap hotel overnite in Nha Trang (decent beach, good food/bar scene that I skipped, no waves...lots of paragliding). Pondered trip to Budapest and Krakow, maybe Bratislava.
Nite bus from Nha Trang to Hoi An, morning nap and hotel overnite in Hoi An (cute town with neat shops of silk fabrics, ceramics, lamps, carvings, paintings....i bought a tshirt for 1.75 usd, I have three now, so less washing).
4 hr bus to Hue, stayed on nite in Hue - not very exciting place. Pondered trip to Istanbul & turkey
10 hr train to Ninh Binh one nite, next day Tam Coc, then bus to Hai Phong. Pondered Alaska
2 hour hydrofoil to Cat Ba island. 2 nites in Cat Ba
4 hr boat ride to mainland (pondered Beijing and great wall of china, and ____ with terra cotta warriors), then 3 hr bus to Hanoi - pondering beating the crap out of the guy sleeping on my arm....like it wasn't hot enough without A/C
Now here in Hanoi where I'm happy, fat and comfy. Good internet near my 12 dollar room (which has hbo, cinemax, lots of football - if the a/c worked well i'd be in there all day).
Ha Noi is cool already, has a very distinguished feel in the old quarter, but I'm tired of vietnam and will be moving on. So I'll leave indochine soon, maybe for NC, but I guess I'm still open. Not ready for the real world, but ready for something more constructive and a little less transient.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues on the back dike raising at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "14A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with Chad Brown, vice president of Ashridge Construction, the prime contractor. The project includes the placement of 198,000 cubic yards of dredge material to raise the back dike, plus an additional 40,000 cubic yards of sediment, according to Brown. It also includes the placement of 170,000 square yards of geotechnical fabric, which is layered under the dredge material to improve the structural stability of the dike. The team is also installing wick drains to help dissipate the groundwater. Construction began in the spring of 2013 and is slated for completion in October. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
JASPER COUNTY, S.C.—Work continues at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah Harbor dredge disposal area "12A" shown here Aug. 29, 2013. Col. Thomas Tickner, commander for the Corps' Savannah District, and his staff visit the work site and meet with David Snodgrass, a quality control manager from Edgefield Construction, the prime contractor for the 12A improvement project. The project includes the placement of 1.2 million cubic yards of dredge material to raise the dike, and the placement of 158,000 cubic yards of dredge material to place on inshore bird island, according to William Lane, Corps quality control inspector. The bird island will be topped with an additional 30,000 cubic yards of coarse sand, relocated from dredge disposal area "14B." The sand will form a two-foot layer to provide adequate nesting habitat for birds. The project also includes repairing five weirs—structures that control the flow of water to the disposal area—and expanding walkways on the weirs. When complete, the 12A project will increase the Corps' capacity to hold more dredged material from the Savannah Harbor. Construction began Sept. 2012 and is slated for completion in October 2013. The whole 12A interior spans 1,100 acres and is the Corps' largest disposal area for the Savannah Harbor. The Corps' Savannah District is responsible for operating and maintaining the Savannah shipping channel (and its associated dredge disposal areas) to ensure commerce has safe and adequate access to and from the Garden City Ocean Terminal. The Savannah Harbor is the nation's fourth busiest container port. USACE photo by Tracy Robillard.
1 years old, 1970, Fisher Price Music Box Teaching Clock
I've seen older brown versions of this with a square shape, but this was the 1968 redder version with an arched roof,it was supposed to be a schoolhouse. The version before this was called the Tick Tock Clock(1962-1967). They made this version here until 1983, so Im sure many people own/owned this thing.
Anyone who ever owned one of these things knows how dreamy and hypnotic that song is. "Grandfather's Clock", Henry C. Work, 1876. I'd love to get an mp3 of that!
This is definitely a family heirloom, it's been passed down from my older sister, to me, to my nephews, back to me, and while I was in California, to my nephews daughter(my great niece). I'm waiting for the day when she gets old enough to be tired of it so I can retrieve it
Richard Evans, Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT No.D of 1874 (although works plate fitted is incorrect - it is actually No.C) "Bellerophon" designed by Josiah Evans, at Bitton during the Avon Valley Railway Autumn Gala, 4 November 2017. No.C worked at the Haydock Collieries and later for the National Coal Board until 1964, a working life of 90 years! No.C had one of the earliest applications of piston valves; it had Gooch valve gear.
The Sedilia have many carvings, at the top are St Edmund, St Peter with his key, St Clement, St Ann with a lily, St Margaret of Antioch and a dragon, and St Mary Magdalene with her vase of ointment. The saints are being crowned by angels.
Lower down there are two figures in oak trees, men cutting grapes, one with a comb, and a pelican feeding her young by piercing her side. All these references are symbolic to wine at the last supper and Christ shedding his blood.
There is also numerous foliage, small heads and animals carved in the sedilia.
14th C. work very similar to Heckington.
The Penn Civic House Alternate Spring Break Group in Washington, D.C. worked with various organizations around the city dedicated to ending homelessness and poverty, including the DC Central Kitchen and the Central Union Mission. Afternoons were filled with education and advocacy events, including with Free Minds, an organization that uses poetry to help rehabilitate juveniles who have been imprisoned.
Richard Evans, Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT No.D of 1874 (although works plate fitted is incorrect - it is actually No.C) "Bellerophon" designed by Josiah Evans, at Avon Riverside during the Avon Valley Railway Autumn Gala, 4 November 2017. No.C worked at the Haydock Collieries and later for the National Coal Board until 1964, a working life of 90 years! No.C had one of the earliest applications of piston valves; it had Gooch valve gear.
Richard Evans, Haydock Foundry 0-6-0WT No.D of 1874 (although works plate fitted is incorrect - it is actually No.C) "Bellerophon" designed by Josiah Evans, departing Bitton for Oldland Common during the Avon Valley Railway Autumn Gala, 4 November 2017. No.C worked at the Haydock Collieries and later for the National Coal Board until 1964, a working life of 90 years! No.C had one of the earliest applications of piston valves; it had Gooch valve gear.
I loved this Renoir they have at the Rhode Island School Of Design's museum. In general I preferred their collrection of 20th C work to the impressionist collection but this one really spoke to me. Maybe because I love magazines so much!
Belgian army EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) team member (C) work on the site where German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) discovered an illegal weapon cache near the German army camp in Kunduz, September 25, 2008. German army found a large weapon cache of 25 soviet army artillery shells. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (AFGHANISTAN)
After starting out of the Janesville,Wisconsin area with this G351(Avalon to Crawford Grain),a we stop at Arena, and await our relief crew. After Madison, the trip is a slow tedious one at 10 mph. At least the A/C worked.
Engineers from the 1221st Engineering Company from Graniteville, S.C., along with support from the 125th Multi Role Bridge Company from Abbeville, S.C., work to replace a washed out culvert on a Lexington County road in Gilbert, S.C. Oct. 24, 2015. Soldiers with the S.C. Army National Guard continue to provide direct support for flood recovery and emergency road repairs as a result of the recent floods. The South Carolina National Guard partnered with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun/Released)
Engineers from the 1221st Engineering Company from Graniteville, S.C., along with support from the 125th Multi Role Bridge Company from Abbeville, S.C., work to replace a washed out culvert on a Lexington County road in Gilbert, S.C. Oct. 24, 2015. Soldiers with the S.C. Army National Guard continue to provide direct support for flood recovery and emergency road repairs as a result of the recent floods. The South Carolina National Guard partnered with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun/Released)
SEOUL (Nov. 25, 2018) Capt. Kenneth Collins, commanding officer of the U.S. Navy Band, conducts the Republic of Korea Navy Band at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. Members of the U.S. Navy Band, based in Washington, D.C., worked with the ROK Navy Band for several rehearsals and a concert, helping to forge a stronger partnership between the two nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Musician Adam Grimm/Released)
SEOUL (Nov. 25, 2018) Capt. Kenneth Collins, commanding officer of the U.S. Navy Band, meets with Adm. Sim Seung-seob, chief of naval operations for the Republic of Korea Navy, following a performance by the Republic of Korea Navy Band at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. Members of the U.S. Navy Band, based in Washington, D.C., worked with the ROK Navy Band for several rehearsals and a concert, helping to forge a stronger partnership between the two nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Musician Adam Grimm/Released)
KITGUM, Uganda, Oct. 20— Lt. Col. Tom Englehart, commander of the Army Reserve’s 629th Forward Surgical Team of Columbus, Ohio, talks to a Ugandan woman about her child’s health at Pajimo Clinic’s triage station. The 629th and 7225th Medical Support Unit of Greenville, S.C., worked alongside the U.S. Navy, Ugandan and Tanzanian medical providers to treat over 700 local residents per day for everything from malaria and skin infections to delivering a healthy baby. (Photo by Maj. Corey Schultz, US Army Reserve Public Affairs)
Engineers from the 1221st Engineering Company from Graniteville, S.C., along with support from the 125th Multi Role Bridge Company from Abbeville, S.C., work to replace a washed out culvert on a Lexington County road in Gilbert, S.C. Oct. 24, 2015. Soldiers with the S.C. Army National Guard continue to provide direct support for flood recovery and emergency road repairs as a result of the recent floods. The South Carolina National Guard partnered with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun/Released)
The Penn Civic House Alternate Spring Break Group in Washington, D.C. worked with various organizations around the city dedicated to ending homelessness and poverty, including the DC Central Kitchen and the Central Union Mission. Afternoons were filled with education and advocacy events, including with Free Minds, an organization that uses poetry to help rehabilitate juveniles who have been imprisoned.
When a desire for the loan and exchange of books got to be frequent, Wm. J. Cammeron's drug store in what is now the east half of the Ben Franklin Variety store at 133 Park Avenue became the place to borrow a donated book. That was April 3, 1915. The Barrington Woman's Club was strongly behind this idea and boosted for books till a room on Cook Street over George Wagner's market -- formerly the Hank Abbott Drug Store -- was rented and different women of the Woman's Club took turns on certain days as librarians. Mrs. R.C. Work and Mrs. Gertrude (John) Schwemm were among the Club's committee who kept its needs and promotion ever before the public. Later the library moved to 119 E. Main Street over Ed. Rieke's confectionary store, -- now Marie's Bakery. Olive Dobson took over as librarian and did an excellent job in the work. To further this essential feature of civic welfare, several attempts were made to get permission of the voters to levy a small library tax but did not get it until April of 1924. By a vote of 670 to 285 a tax of one and one eighth mills through the village budget was allowed, and in 1926 a Library Board was elected.
Before the voting of the library tax, a stimulus to better library organization was the initial gift of $1,000.00 left by Mrs. Caroline (George) Ela who died February 28, 1914. Frank Hecht later gave $1,000.00 in memory of his mother.
In 1933 the library was housed, by the gracious permission of the Village Board, in the council chamber of the village hall. The trustees moved into a back room of the new addition.
The Woman's Club deserves credit, more perhaps than our Public offers, for the years of struggle that they put up to keep buying new books, to keep a librarian, to keep a place for the library and try to keep some one responsible for building fires and keeping the place warm and so forth. New books were added as funds could be spared. Many books were donated from Personal libraries. Good reference works and wholesome fiction has been the maintained policy of our library. The circulation, after inventory of 1956, was eleven thousand books.
The space in the village hall was too small for the book stacks alone and but little space was available there for reading and study. So, by a successful vote in November of 1953, the library board was permitted to purchase a site for a new library. A lot on South Hough Street at Monument Avenue 125 by 150 feet was purchased from Frank C. Weyer in the old Hawley pasture. One argument for this site so far from downtown was that with two-thirds of the library cards in the south half of the village this spot would be midway of the Hough Street and the Grove Avenue elementary schools. A library tax of four and a half mills in 1955 and a jubilee parade followed.
A building bond issue for $60,000.00 was authorized on June 5, 1956, by a vote of 279 to 83 and were bought by Scott, Wyandt of Chicago offering a premium of $102.60 and an interest rate of three and a quarter per cent. In September of that same year ground was broken and the building, as planned by architect Ralph Stoetzel, was under construction. Cornerstone laying was on October 14, 1956, and the building was completed in June, 1957. The beautiful building is of Williamsburg style, of one story on Hough and two story on the west with two large picture windows in the spacious base- ment reading rooms. The walls are of waxed elm throughout, with a fine office opposite the main entrance.
On July 2, 1957, the library in the old location in the village hall was closed and all was moved up the street to their new home. On July 8, it was opened to the public. A housewarming was held or Sunday, July 21, with a flag presentation by the V.F.W. It was a credit to the board and all the interested boosters who made the dream a reality. A beautiful terrace garden in memory of one of its former boosters, Mrs. Nellie Hammond, was laid at the north end of the building.
-Arnett C. Lines