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Providence & Worcester NR-2 heads east back to Plainfield, CT with a very short train. It is passing the rear of the train it brought up from Plainfield, as it crosses the Willimantic River in Willimantic, CT
The engines are on the New England Central main track, as the train they brought with them is parked on the P&W main. They will cross over to their own track about a mile south.
Tokyo, JAPAN.
On 2nd Monday of Jan, we celebrate Coming of Age for those who become 20yrs old. Those youngsters usually cover themselves with traditional Japanese costume "kimono" and decorate themselves nice and pretty. Usually, there's get-together-event held in each local. They got to see their local peers. This is a big event especially for girls: how am I gonna decorate myself? What about my hair? make-up??
According to today's Japanese law, 20yr-old is considered "grown-up." Hum. What you get is right to vote, and doors open to alcohol and smoking.
vote, alcohol, smoking.
So we are grown-up.
In the past, it probably meant more than today. These days, this is just sort of fashion show for tons of 20yr-old, and the day finally they can officially get drunk.
However, it's still nice to see them in colorful kimono with shining hopes.
Stagecoach 28654 SP62BKA is edged carefully out of the workshop after receiving attention at St Andrews
When I visited Crabtree Falls this weekend, it was still too early for most flowering trees to be in bloom at that elevation, but some wildflowers along the trail were making their appearance, including this attractive bloodroot. Thanks to Larry W Brown for identifying it!
This swan lives on a large pond in Rhyl. Like most British swans it is so used to humans that whenever it sees some it hopes for free food. The ones on this pond do quite well as it is a popular place for families and fishermen.
www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/m/muteswan/index.asp
This is as close to SOOC as I get, ie its a single raw file minimally tweaked in CS
Luke Daniel Photography X Royal Vendetta
Coming soon, 2012
© Luke Daniel
Strobist:
Speedlite w/soft box, to the left and raised
Speedlite w/soft box, to the right and raised
Triggered with Phottix
CP train 198 heads thorugh the hills and across a bridge west of Kensal, N.D. This is a really cool area on the old Soo Line main line.
Model: Brianda Jaquez
Makeup: Brenda Rodriguez
Hair: Sarah Baddass Bridger
Photographer: AMP Productions/Buggs' Photography
Indiana National Guard Capt. Marc Blue, Wonder Lake, Ill., 4-19th Agribusiness Development Team, reunites with his family after a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Sunday, June 10, 2012, at Indiana Joint Force Headquarters, Indianapolis. The unit was responsible for revolutionizing Afghan farming techniques in Khost Province to help better stabilize the area in preparation for U.S. Forces leaving the country. Blue was one of the final 12 troops of the original 58 members of the 4-19th ADT to return home. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. John Crosby
Esta postal no es de mi colección / This Postcard is not from my collection.
Coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse
Ford had opposed the United States' entry into World War II and continued to believe that international business could generate the prosperity that would head off wars. Ford "insisted that war was the product of greedy financiers who sought profit in human destruction". In 1939, he went so far as to claim that the torpedoing of U.S. merchant ships by German submarines was the result of conspiratorial activities undertaken by financier war-makers. The financiers to whom he was referring was Ford's code for Jews; he had also accused Jews of fomenting the First World War. In the run-up to World War II and when the war erupted in 1939, he reported that he did not want to trade with belligerents. Like many other businessmen of the Great Depression era, he never liked or entirely trusted the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, and thought Roosevelt was inching the U.S. closer to war. Ford continued to do business with Nazi Germany, including the manufacture of war materiel.[45] However, he also agreed to build warplane engines for the British government. In early 1940, he boasted that Ford Motor Company would soon be able to produce 1,000 U.S. warplanes a day, even though it did not have an aircraft production facility at that time.:   Ford was a prominent early member of the America First Committee against World War II involvement, but was forced to resign from its executive board when his involvement proved too controversial.
Beginning in 1940, with the requisitioning of between 100 and 200 French POWs to work as slave laborers, Ford-Werke contravened Article 31 of the 1929 Geneva Convention.
When Rolls-Royce sought a U.S. manufacturer as an additional source for the Merlin engine (as fitted to Spitfire and Hurricane fighters), Ford first agreed to do so and then reneged. He "lined up behind the war effort" when the U.S. entered in December 1941.
Willow Run
Before the U.S. entered the war, responding to President Roosevelt's call in December 1940 for the "Great Arsenal of Democracy", Ford directed the Ford Motor Company to construct a vast new purpose-built aircraft factory at Willow Run near Detroit, Michigan. Ford broke ground on Willow Run in the spring of 1941, B-24 component production began in May 1942, and the first complete B-24 came off the line in October 1942. At 3,500,000 sq ft (330,000 m2), it was the largest assembly line in the world at the time. At its peak in 1944, the Willow Run plant produced 650 B-24s per month, and by 1945 Ford was completing each B-24 in eighteen hours, with one rolling off the assembly line every 58 minutes. Ford produced 9,000 B-24s at Willow Run, half of the 18,000 total B-24s produced during the war.
Edsel's death
When Edsel Ford died of cancer in 1943, aged only 49, Henry Ford nominally resumed control of the company, but a series of strokes in the late 1930s had left him increasingly debilitated, and his mental ability was fading. Ford was increasingly sidelined, and others made decisions in his name. The company was controlled by a handful of senior executives led by Charles Sorensen, an important engineer and production executive at Ford; and Harry Bennett, the chief of Ford's Service Unit, Ford's paramilitary force that spied on, and enforced discipline upon, Ford employees. Ford grew jealous of the publicity Sorensen received and forced Sorensen out in 1944. Ford's incompetence led to discussions in Washington about how to restore the company, whether by wartime government fiat, or by instigating a coup among executives and directors.
Forced out
Nothing happened until 1945 when, with bankruptcy a serious risk, Ford's wife Clara and Edsel's widow Eleanor confronted him and demanded he cede control of the company to his grandson Henry Ford II. They threatened to sell off their stock, which amounted to three quarters of the company's total shares, if he refused. Ford was reportedly infuriated, but had no choice but to give in. better source needed] The young man took over and, as his first act of business, fired Harry Bennett.
Kalina has started her journey from Finland to Georgia. I can't wait to meet her.
Thanks so much Tiina!
Same setup as last time except that I liked the first image smile but not the hand so I had to do some more photoshop magic.
For The Love of Light
A tribute to the art of Polaroid
This is a plug for a forthcoming book i'm contributing to, called "For The Love of Light". It's an epitaph of sorts to the magic of polaroid and features 25 photographers - from North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia - each with their own take on the medium.
The very talented Jen Altman is the editor and instigator (look at her stream if you haven't already!)
We're taking pre-orders soon via the site - http://www.fortheloveoflight.com/, where you can also sign up for updates on the progress of the project.
The plan at the moment is to produce a limited edition run of numbered copies, with further runs if it proves successful. Our intention is also to get a publisher to pick this up for more mainstream distribution.
Feel free to spread the word about this - we need the publicity. WIsh us luck!