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Seen negotiating the comparatively narrow and often congested Red Lion Street in Aylsham whilst working the above journey to Norwich on service X44 is Sanders East Lancs bodied VDL DB250 type number 105 - YJ05 PZE “Pegasus”.
One more night in Memphis and we took another look at Beale Street. This time a lot less congested and a lot less intimidating. Altogether a much better experience. Ate in the Hard Rock Cafe. I know not very adventurous but it was decent. And a stroll along Beale Street led to BB Kings where we were thoroughly entertained by one Patrick Dodd. Amaze-ing!!! Terrific blues and made Beale Street feel so much more worthwhile. This guy is awesome. He's on facebook, so check him out and if he's ever in your neck of the woods and if you love blues you will defy love this guy... www.facebook.com/patrickdoddmusic
Before leaving Memphis for Nashville I wanted to visit the Lorraine Motel, the scene of Martin Luther King's assasination as I read it was a civil right museum. When we got there we met the most incredible woman Ms Jacqueline Smith. She has bee protesting there for over 22 years. I got chatting to her and decided not to visit the museum after all. Read her story she is an amazing woman. And I got a wee kiss from her too!!! :D www.fulfillthedream.net/
Next stop Nashville wooooohooooo! (At last!!!)
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
The congested area driver training course uses CarriersEdge’s unique mixture of text, graphics and photos, real-life illustrations, interactivity and short quizzes to deliver material to drivers in a clear, understandable fashion that helps them retain the information for use on the job.
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
Pic shows: Traffic jam on Beijing??"Hong Kong??"Macau Expressway. Aerial footage of a congested highway made headlines this week highlighting the fact that several hundred million people have begun their return journeys from a week-long national holiday. An incredible 750 million Chinese people - or half of China???s total population - went on holiday during Golden Week, the seven-day holiday marking the country???s National Day on October 1. Photos of the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway show hundreds of thousands of drivers and their families starting to make their way home on the penultimate day of the holidays. Video footage of the massive traffic jam that could be seen converging on tollbooths on the 2,273-kilometre (1,412-mile) expressway were widely shared online. The route serves as the main route for cross-country travellers in the populous eastern part of China, where most of the country???s population resides. But the scenes were also repeated on many expressways across the country. China???s National Tourism Administration confirmed that this year???s Golden Week tourism figures have shown an incredible year-on-year 6.1 percent increase, with record-breaking numbers of travellers on Chinese highways. The administration said the tourist numbers have also exceeded those recorded during this year???s Chinese New Year - or Spring Festival - travel season which occurred in February. (ends)
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
Congested Highway across North Essex and often conjested as we continue this spiral to overpopulation.
Late morning on Monday, October 5, and we step off the train into yet another quite warm autumn day, this time in hectic Varanasi, at the eastern edge of Uttar Pradesh. Though we’d be going to Delhi/New Delhi on the noon train tomorrow, I didn’t realize at the time that this would be the last of my photo shooting in India for this trip. (We were in Delhi for roughly 48 hours, but I got sick from train food on the 18 hour journey between Varanasi & the capital. Since the capital seemed way too smoggy, dirty, congested, disorganized…I didn’t feel like I’d missed out terribly, though there were a few places I would have liked seeing there.)
I’ll finish this posting on a good note, though, and focus on Varanasi. Before getting there, I wasn’t terribly excited about the tourist attractions I’d read about, but that’s not why people come to Varanasi. Varanasi is to Hindus what Mecca & Medina are to Muslims, or Jerusalem to Christians. It’s their holiest city. On the banks of the Ganges, people come here to die, then have their ashes spread in the river.
Varanasi has a lot of poor and indigent people as well, who come and hope to be cremated and buried in the river, and there are a few places that serve as pseudo-hospices to help them. They tend to try to collect donations from anyone to afford to pay for the wood – it’s a specific wood they use for the cremation – so they can help these people.
So Varanasi is an interesting place. There are many ghats (ghat is like…a pier, or a place where you can access the river), and the most famous are probably Dashashwamedh Ghat (the liveliest and most colorful) and Manikarnika (the Burning Ghat). There are many other ghats, as well, and some have specific histories attached to them.
For me, the best plan was to stay in a hotel near the ghats in the Old City so we could enjoy the sunrise and stroll around. The Hotel Alka was my random choice, and it turned out to be good. It’s cheap, riverside, has a decent restaurant (though, as it’s a hotel restaurant, not as good as many of the others where we’d eaten in the past two weeks), and overall a comfortable room.
After getting checked in (and this place was pretty crowded), I took a shower, then headed off with a local guy who gave me a tour of the Old City. Now, a word on that… It’s not recommended that you go with any local who offers because most of them will steer you into various businesses, or towards people who are all too happy to try to get your money. I was very firm with this guy, though, and told him the maximum price I’d pay regardless of what he showed me, and that he should plan accordingly. He didn’t, and was a bit disappointed when I paid him exactly what I said I would.
The tour included stops at a few temples – they all started to look a bit alike after the second one – and at Manikarnika (one of the places where you’re herded and they try to make you feel guilty if you don’t fork over five million dollars to pay for everyone’s cremation). The last stop was at his boss’s store, well away from the old city, over in the Muslim Quarter, where I had to sit patiently through a whole lot of lecturing on textiles and their pleading that I buy the entire building. I tried to be as polite as possible with the last part, stating up front that I wouldn’t buy a thing before going in, though that disappointed them to no end. In the end, perhaps it’s better to go on your own…
After about four hours with my guide, it was already dusk and the city actually felt less safe than others. (There were a lot of police out and about.) It turns out that there wa s a religious ceremony that the police were banning this particular year for some reason, so there was a bit of tension. And since Varanasi isn’t a city that is lit up much at night, there wasn’t much to see, so I was glad to just get to my room and call it a day.
Waking early on Tuesday morning, I caught the sunrise over the Ganges, then wandered up and down the ghats for an hour or so. This really was an interesting experience as it seems the entire city comes to bathe in the river, and everyone seems pretty happy. There are plenty of boat tours, too, which I skipped, as I just wanted to take a walk.
After an hour or so of wandering the riverside, I went back to the Alka, had breakfast, and enjoyed my remaining few hours just watching the sun rise higher before heading to the train station for the unofficial (though still unbeknownst to me) end of this trip to India.
In hindsight, this was a terrific two weeks. Though I enjoyed Uttar Pradesh, I wouldn’t go out of my way to return here – unless going to different parts of the state, and I would certainly include a trip to Agra in that – but Rajasthan…I would gladly go back to anytime. However, India has a lot to offer, and I’m not sure if I’ll return here or go to different parts of the country. Anything is possible…
Saigon, Vietnam - Jun 30, 2017. Nguyen Hue Street at District 1 in Saigon, Vietnam. Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war.
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
Sometimes the traffic can build up badly on Staines Moor, resulting in congested bridges. No choice then but to take to the water!
Sights like this will never be seen again if this area is paved under an airport runway as per one of the plans for a third runway for Heathrow. Can't believe anyone would want to destroy such an important area as Staines Moor, the "environmental impact" assessment in the Heathrow document is a joke.
#76630 rl
Commuting on a motorcycle up and down the busiest and most congested freeway in the United States, the 405 in Los Angeles.
The Interstate 64 Widening Project in York and James City counties and Newport News will increase vehicle capacity, resulting in immediate congestion relief along one of the most heavily traveled and congested highway corridors on the Virginia Peninsula.
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
It seems bizarre to me, but somehow the original post of this photo got lost, deleted! I was shocked and saddened to realize that. All that lost! The worst part is to lose all your great comments, and great they were.
At first I wanted to blame flickr, but the truth is probably that I did it accidentally, although that's hard to believe.
I especially liked Boiani's comment about captureing the wet pavement glare/reflection and Goldenstatephoto's comment how he always wanted to get a photo like this and that I nailed it with all the elements (detailed).
And of course to get this photo I had to go out in the mud and rain and be at the right spot at rush hour at twilight, no easy task.
I even had a huge list of appropriate tags and I put it in some groups. Oh well. . .
It's like the theory that "Everyone has to eat burnt toast sometimes." Happy people learn to deal with disappointment and get over it. Even though it stings for a moment.
Another interesting comment in blog style:
I could feel myself, psychologically, going through the standard stages of grief. The feelings and thoughts that go through your mind when ever you lose something. (typically applied to death of a loved one but the principles apply to any loss.)
At first there is Denial: "Please tell me this can't be happening, I know I don't see it, but it must be there somehow."
Soon followed by Anger: "NOOOOOOOO! All that work for nothing! Flickr did this to me, I'll get them!"
Guilt: "It's my own dang fault", bargaining, Depression: "Flickr is useless, life is hopeless, why even bother with photography anyway? I give up."
And then finally: ACCEPTANCE! Stuff happens, get over it and get on with it, 'everyone eats burnt toast sometimes', "Life is good anyway, all is well."
Sometimes accompanied by nostalgia: "Those were some great comments, I'll always have good memories of them it probably even hit explore."
At the congested bus stands below the "New Hero" club (formerly the Swan Downer School) on Dyke Road, Brighton on 18th December 2010, Stagecoach route #17 service to Horsham via Henfield waits in front of B&HBCo W839 NNJ, whose destination blind is being changed (hence the cryptic "Estate Hove" wording!).
Heaviest most congested traffic in LA / Orange County since the Covid-19 crisis began.
Stood on the Beach Boulevard bridge over I-5 about 2PM - very little southbound traffic and absolutely none northbound. All northbound traffic was being forced to exit onto Beach Boulevard. All traffic trying to get on I-5 northbound hit a near dead end at the closed entrance. In addition several lanes of Beach Boulevard were closed for storm sewer work.
Beach Boulevard (California Highway 39) was at a standstill in both directions, blocking traffic on the cross streets. The hazardous material spill was in LA county on a segment undergoing reconstruction for over a decade. The alternate routes were also jammed.
Had no impact on me. Did my daily walk on Beach Boulevard (while waiting for my vehicle to be serviced) instead of in my usual neighborhood.
The mighty Royal Commission on London Traffic that was set up to report on "the means of locomotion and transport" in the Metropolis and to report on the better organisation, development and inter-connections between the various methods of mechanical transport. The Commission was pertinent given the rapid shift to electric operation of tramways at the time as well as the many, opposing, plans for additional deep level tube lines. Volume 5 contains dozens of plans and maps illustrating the current situation in London, relating to congestion, population, workplaces as well as the contemporary transport network and proposals. The information comes from a variety of sources who were asked to give evidence to the Commission.
The volume includes a series of photographs taken in 1903 and submitted by the Assistant Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce. Several of the photos show the congestion at tramway termini and interchanges; many of these, on the 'boundary' of the Cities of London and Westminster, were effectively created by these two inner local authorities who resolutely opposed tramways meaning that interchange to horse bus or the infant tube system was necessary thus causing much congestion. In 1906 some of this on the south side was partially solved by the London County Council who 'breeched' the cordon sanitaire by dint of finally extending their tramways across Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges, along the Embankment and through the Kingsway tram subway that they built and operated. However in many other places the edge of city termini persisted even into trolleybus days.
The photo of Elephant and Castle shows a landscape so much changed by WW2 bombing and post-war redevelopment by the LCC. The scene shows both horse trams and the early conduit electric system that the LCC introduced in 1903 a few months before this photograph was taken. Even in this local authority opposition to the streetscape impact of overhead cables forced the LCC into the complex and expense under road conduit system in large areas of inner London. The new electric conduit trams can also be seen in the photo of Westminster Bridge Road. As far as I can see there are no motorised vehicles in either scene, something that would soon start to change.
I just wanted to let you all know that, Vera died, yesterday of congestive heart failure.
Born January 1-1925
Died January 17-2008
A wonderful Mother, Grandmother, Mother-In-Law, a friend to everyone she met.
We love and miss you dearly...
Army childcare expands programs to meet Kaiserslautern community needs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Childcare for Ingrid Duty often meant hectic mornings, driving more than 30 miles before work to drop off her two daughters at separate care centers.
Duty, a government civilian, spent more than 45 minutes fighting congested autobahn traffic, driving from her Mehlingen home across town to Landstuhl, then back into Kaiserslautern. But that’s changed, thanks to a new school age services at Sembach Elementary School – one of a few Army childcare programs in Kaiserslautern growing to meet the community demands.
On Oct. 14, Lt. Col. Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, cut a ceremonial ribbon – officially opening the Sembach program center. Now, at Sembach, Duty’s daughters are both just four miles from home.
“When this came up, it was a blessing,” Duty said. “This is awesome.”
Duty has more time for herself, her girls and her husband, a Soldier who commutes 50 miles north to Wiesbaden, she said. In other words, there’s more time for breakfast.
“It’s a whole lot better now. I come and pick my daughters up and they don’t want to leave,” Duty said. “It’s great, they love it.”
Offering childcare at Sembach kaserne is among several ways that the garrison’s Child, Youth and School Services program is working to meet the demands of a growing community, said Elena Smeltz, acting CYSS coordinator.
“The community here has been growing faster than the infrastructure, so childcare is a big issue in the community,” Smeltz said.
In Landstuhl, finishing touches are underway on a child development center, creating more space for kids in kindergarten and younger. A CDC already at Landstuhl provides care for up to 126 children in that age group.
“An additional CDC was important, because there was great demand,” Smeltz said.
Set to open in January, the new center will allow another 76 children, from infants to kindergarten, to receive care. The project moved faster than originally planned due to the garrison’s commitment to the Army Family Covenant, an Army-wide program that includes a guarantee of quality CYS support to Soldiers and their families, she said.
Roughly, 920 Soldiers have children enrolled in CYS. But in Kaiserslautern’s joint service community, Army CYS also serves more than 675 children of Air Force personnel and roughly 20 children from Navy and Marine families. Serving so many, CYS works with parents to find space in childcare programs often near capacity.
At Kleber kaserne, CYS recently made space for 17 more CDC children. By mid-2011, they hope to open expand Kleber’s capacity, once minor construction is undertaken.
On Oct. 1, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
officially assumed oversight of the former Air Force base, now known as Sembach kaserne. When school started on Aug. 30, the Army garrison began offering onsite childcare, before and after school, to Sembach students.
“We have two rooms inside the elementary school that we have converted into our school age program,” Smeltz said. “So, the children simply have to walk from their classrooms down to ours.”
The new program is also more convenient for parents who, in the past, would often drive across Kaiserslautern to pick up their kids after work.
It was a relief to Lt. Col Roy Manauis, a father of two whose family faced their share of childcare challenges over the past two years. Now, both children go to the Sembach center. Knowing his children are cared for eases his mind, Manauis said.
“That’s imperative, that Soldiers and their families are looked after,” Manauis said. “This is a great example of the Army doing that.”
For more information on Kaiserslautern Child, Youth & School Services, call 0631-3406-4516 or visit their website at www.mwrgermany.com/KL/KLCYS
Cleared for public release. (Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison, Kaiserslautern)
LMS Class 5MT "Black Five" No 45154 "The Lanarkshire Yeomanry" heads a Blaneau Ffestiniog-Preston "Conway Climber" working across a rather congested River Weaver near Frodsham
...RM1033 heads up a congested Oxford Street underneath the Christmas Lights on the evening of 8th December 2012. Having been a regular on both routes 12 and 159 in her service life, a scene like this would have been a regular sight every Christmas time...
Hanging out with the Delhi donkey rider and his cadre.
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Charles was going to have a rotten tooth out, but abnormal abdominal breathing led to tests to see if he would survive the anaesthetic. Seven hundred bucks later, we established what I kind of knew already, which is that he's a fifteen year old cat approaching his retirement in the sky. (As a buddhist, I think he might come back for another life, though........maybe as a yak in Tibet? :):):)........I really wouldn't be surprised if he made human birth one day either...........).
I figured, if I paid the money and there was nothing else now to be done, the least I could do was share this in the interests of scientific knowledge.
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ANOTHER LITTLE SELECTION from my hard-drive, dated 2010 ................
This rather congested area, on the forecourt of WalterMart in Dasmarinas, is unbelievably hard to photograph ~ without getting yourself run-over !! . . because it is right on the road !!!
This angle shows at least part of the Jeepney-Park . . the Pinoy equivalent of a bus-garage !
There are often upwards of half-a-dozen Jeepneys drawn-up outside the main entrance . . .
The important trick is picking the Jeep' with the right destination-board !!
First East Lothian 69403, SN09 EZX. Urban bodied B7RLE. Seen here on a very congested High Street in Haddington, working the X8 Edinburgh service.
Edinburgh Bus Tours 505 climbing Candlemaker Row in the 'Auld Toun', sweeping passed parked vehicles congesting a road built to carry horse and carts
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An 'ordinary' evening commute in Dublin city in the eally 2000,s, busy, and congested with not a square milimetre of road space available. Times were good, money no object it semed, taxis,buses,traffic a plenty. At the time it struck me as a chaotic scene, the RV on the southbound 16A caught my eye, he was going to have some task in changing lanes in that cosmolopitan meltpot that was the evening commute.
Jump forward to the next decade and perhaps there was something prophetic in the logo on the front of the red Ford transit mini-bus. 'Over the top tours'. That is precisley where Ireland went. Over the top!!!
In some of the more congested areas of the historic Georgetown quarter, cycle tracks are clearly marked. I guess these are for the beca trishaws for I did not see any bicycles around. Unlike India, where it is usually a free for all, marking or no marking, I was pleased to see beca drivers not infringing on the unmarked areas, nor other motorists, including the notorious motorcyclists straying onto the cycle track. (Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 2013)
....to Sainsburys.
Having spent the last few days driving up and down the congested motorways of the UK, I was only too happy to revert back to pedal power (the simple life) for a shopping trip this afternoon.
The wartime Sun tandem (albeit upgraded in places) still plods on like a good'un, this time accompanied by my wifes stylish mixte framed 1980's Raleigh Misty.
I wished I could have a pound for everytime someone has come to talk to me about either a tandem or a delivery bike when I've been parked up waiting for the other'arf to do a "quick shop" !