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Bedfords 52484 R184 DNH had started out as part of the Coachlinks fleet, used on limited stop services to places including London and Birmingham. Later relegated to Schoolbus work a large batch were upseated to 70 (3+2 seating) all were Bedford based for a extensive network of contracts, along side the Harpur Trust Olympians Bedford had a sizeable fleet plus buses on more usual schools jobs. Firstly the Harpur Trust routes were lost, now the Big Yellow have gone after the end of the 2014/5 school year and tenders lost. 52124 had departed to Scotland for spares but the most have now gone to Ensignbus for resale.
Shot those pictures during a trip to Japan in November 2015. The Tournament was held at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center, it was the 16th of November and the 3rd day of the Tournament.
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Several hundred postal workers gather in Lafayette Park across from the White House July 12, 1978 after demonstrating on the Washington Monument grounds and at the Postal Service headquarters at L’Enfant Plaza earlier in the day.
Upwards of 5,000 workers had gathered earlier warning that they will strike if a contract agreement isn’t reached by the expiration date the following week.
The contract was set to expire July 20th with the two sides far apart on wages and other issues like job security.
President Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer, was referred to in signs like, “Jimmy, We Don’t Like Your Peanuts.” Other placards read, “No contract, no work,” despite laws barring strikes by postal workers. Postal workers had staged a nationwide wildcat strike in 1970.
The demonstrating workers later protested in front of the White House and the Postal Service headquarters.
In a period of double-digit inflation, the Carter administration sought to hold wage increases to 5.5 percent per year while the postal unions were seeking a 14 percent increase in the first year of an agreement.
A tentative agreement was reached that provided for 19.5 percent agreement over a three year agreement and the retention of a no-layoff clause.
However, several thousand workers at the Jersey City and San Francisco bulk facilities walked out on a wildcat strike urging rejection of the agreement. The courts quickly intervened and blocked a planned strike vote by the New York region American Postal Workers Union (APWU) that would have spread the strike.
The Postal Service, in a move that preceded President Ronald Reagan’s mass firing of air traffic controllers in 1981, fired several hundred workers they deemed leaders of the illegal strike.
By the end of July, the Postal Service had broken the back of the illegal strike and most workers returned to work.
Nearly every group voting within the APWU and the National Letter Carriers Union rejected the tentative agreement in a vote and sent the union leaders back to bargain a new contract. The members also set a nationwide strike deadline.
The Postal Service took a hard position and initially refused to enter into new negotiations.
However, with fewer than eight hours to go before a strike deadline, union leaders reached a compromise agreement August 28th and called off the planned strike. The agreement called for resumption of bargaining for two weeks followed by arbitration if no agreement was reached.
On September 15th, the special federal mediator imposed a settlement that lifted a cap on cost-of-living payments that effectively meant that workers would receive whatever percentage the cost of living increased. At that moment it was running a little over eight percent per year.
The federal mediator made a modification in the no layoff clause and provided that no current employee could be laid-off, but future hires could be.
Some unions, including the APWU and the Letter Carriers, submitted the binding settlement to ratification by their members anyway. In both cases, the rank-and-file members approved the contract and averted an illegal strike.
Amnesty was not achieved in the agreement and the fired workers continued to press their cause winning a weekly payment from the APWU and staging a rally and lobby session on Capitol Hill, but not achieving their goal of reinstating all strikers.
Both the Letter Carriers and APWU elected new national leaders in the wake of this contract fight and the APWU elected one of the fired strikers, Kenny Leiner, to a vice president position.
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Photo by Bill Wilson. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Project Management Team signing project contract.
From Left to Right: David Dow (Diamond Schmitt Artchitects), Darren Becks (St. Jerome's University), Art Winslow (Graham Construction).
DSC_4599 - DOE9 - LX58 CWY - Alexander Dennis Trident/Optare Olympus - Go-Ahead London General - East Croydon, Park Lane 21/04/15
The manufacturer's plate on Tyseley Locomotive Works Turntable in Birmingham (UK).
Rapier 146 Mundt Turntable
Made For B.R. Contract No.1114-M&E
Ransomes and Rapier Ltd.
OR.G.J.4985 Ipswich England 1957.
So, I upgraded my phone and started a new contract, I went with the Galaxy S3 and just...haven't gelled with it. Anyways, my boyfriend got the iPhone 5 on Friday and honest to God, it's so much faster and more fluid, there is no lag on Facebook or apps like there is on the S3.
So, I ended up wandering into town to find there is STILL a queue outside the Apple store, with people coming from all over trying to get one! I needed to head to the Orange shop to check I'd be OK to switch phones etc. so my boyfriend got in the queue.
He then rang me and told me he was the last person in the queue that got an iPhone, and the last in the store was a 64GB white. Quite funny then watching people coming from miles around getting turned down and us just swanning into town and getting it.
Either way, I can't use the blasted thing until my nano-sim comes! I'm happy though! :)
Pet Care Contract for Teens - it’s all about how teens Behavior with pet and how teenagers carrying their Pets.
Description: Sands Point is not named for its sandy beaches but rather for its early owners. Brothers James, Samuel, and John Sands purchased 500 acres at the tip of Long Island's Cow Neck Peninsula in 1695. Sands Point Lighthouse is the third oldest lighthouse still standing on Long Island, although it is no longer active.
In 1806, after lobbying by Senator Samuel Mitchill of New York, Congress approved $6,000 for a lighthouse at Sands Point to warn ships of the dangerous reefs 1,500 yards north of the point. In 1808, New York State purchased the necessary land for $512.50 from Benjamin Hewlett and gave it to the federal government. The boundary markers for the property were the shoreline, a large “Walnut or Hickory tree,” a “marked Buttonwood,” and a “White Oak tree.” The construction contract was won by Noah Mason, a Revolutionary War hero from Connecticut. After completing the station in 1809, Mason would stay on as its first keeper.
Sands Point Lighthouse in 1895
Mason was born a British subject in 1755 in Dighton, Massachusetts. The British invasion of Lexington and Concord in early 1775 shocked many New England residents, and the 20-year old Mason enlisted in the Continental Army in May of that year. Mason helped build a fort at Dorchester Heights in Massachusetts, and another one on the North River at Tarrytown, New York. He was injured in the Battle of Saratoga. After being discharged in 1778, Mason moved to New London and became a mariner. He married Lucretia Kinnie in 1786 and continued to work at sea for another twenty years until he submitted the winning bid for constructing the Sands Point Lighthouse.
The opening of the Sands Point Lighthouse triggered a local celebration. According to the records for the Towns of North and South Hempstead, “There was a grand civic festival at the place at which the members of the most respectable families in the neighborhood attended. Samuel S. Mitchell [sic] as the founder was honored with an invitation to meet his fellow citizens and was there on one of the happiest occasions that had occurred within the recollection of the numerous company assembled.”
The 40-foot octagonal tower was made of coursed brownstone, and the keeper’s house was of wood frame construction. As of 1838, the lighting apparatus was eleven lamps and reflectors, arranged on two tables so that the fixed white light was directed at vessels transitioning between Long Island Sound and the East River. In 1856, a fifth-order Fresnel lens was installed, producing a flashing light every thirty seconds.
On September 10, 1814, Keeper Mason was involved in another act of British aggression, but this time only as a distant observer from atop the Sands Point Lighthouse. As part of the War of 1812, the British frigate Acosta battled thirty America gunboats just offshore from the tower. Mason served as keeper until his passing in 1841 at the age of eighty-five.
Sands Point Lighthouse with dwelling
Photograph courtesy Library of Congress
The Masons reportedly added on to the dwelling, to the point that an 1838 report by Lt. Bache identified the house as having 23 rooms! In 1867 Congress allocated funds to renovate the tower and replace the keeper’s house, which was deemed beyond repair by that time. A new brick dwelling was put up and connected to the tower, while the tower itself was extensively repaired and renovated. The wooden spiral stairs and window cases were replaced with cast-iron versions. The old dwelling was torn down and its lumber used to build a barn, a shed, and an outhouse.
John Seaman was appointed keeper at Sands Point on March 12, 1866. After having served for fifteen years at the station, he almost lost his job when an inspector found that the “dwelling was crowded with boarders, which the Keeper had received in violation of the Regulations, and after having been heretofore informed that he could not do so without the authority of the Board.” The inspector called for keeper’s immediate dismissal, but somehow Seaman kept his position and remained at the station until his death in 1895. No longer considered necessary, the Sands Point Lighthouse was deactivated on October 31, 1894, but quickly reactivated in response to massive local opposition. In 1922, the beacon was moved to an automated steel skeleton tower located offshore at the end of the reef protruding from Sands Point.
In 1917, a large plot of land next to the lighthouse was purchased by a wealthy New York socialite, who built a large and expensive mansion there. The owner, a Mrs. Belmont, convinced the Bureau of Lighthouses to prohibit the lighthouse keeper from having any visitors on summer weekends, so as not to disturb the upper-crust gatherings at her estate. Many feel that her interference was one of the main factors in the decision to close the station.
After it was deactivated, the lighthouse and property were put up for auction. The State of New York attempted to buy it for a park, but Mrs. Belmont objected to that plan and managed to purchase the property for $100,000. In 1927, Mrs. Belmont sold the mansion and the lighthouse to William Randolph Hearst for $400,000. For a while, the Hearsts lived in the keeper’s house and used the mansion for their guests. When Hearst started spending most of his time at his San Simeon estate in California, the Sands Point property was put up for sale, but in the depression era no buyer could be found. The Hearsts finally surrendered the property to a New York bank in 1940 to satisfy the mortgage.
The bank also had a difficult time finding a buyer for the large estate and eventually sold it to a Realtor, who divided it into one-acre lots and built the private residential development that stands there today. Over the years, the light station has been damaged by erosion and storms, and a number of different protection methods have been built, destroyed, and rebuilt. Despite all that, the original lighthouse and keeper’s house remain in good shape. The only view of the lighthouse for visitors is from the water.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850.
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
Our lovely intern, Lisa Finch, has designed something special for our next author. And here’s what she’s done: hand-sewn, hand-made crafted contracts complete with their own little orange slip-cases. Read about the contract design here.
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The Kahala Hotel & Resort
5000 Kahala Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii
In 1959 real estate developer Charlie Pietsch Jr obtained a long term land lease on the 6 1/2 acre hotel site from Bishop Estate. Being a member of Bishop's Trust Executive Committee helped! With Waialae lease in hand, Pietsch puts together a 50/50 deal with his acquaintance Conrad Hilton. Pietsch signed a contract with Hilton International to operate the proposed 10 story hotel.
Pietsch suggested the name The Kahala Hilton because Waialae was too hard to pronounce and spell. Architects were Killingsworth, Brady, and Smith of Long Beach. The groundbreaking of the 368-room Kahala was in 1962 and the resort opened in 1964 with a $26 rate. The construction of the hotel resulted in Waialae Country Club to redesign several of its golf course holes. The resort used the post-and-beam construction on a grand scale that became one of Killingsworth’s hallmarks. More than 100 coconut palms were planted. 18,000 yards of fine sand were barged from Molokai island to pad the beach front. The resort cost $12 million to build. Killingsworth and his firm also designed the Halekulani Hotel, the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and the Kapalua Bay Hotel.
In 1968 Charles Pietsch sold his half of The Kahala to TWA, the owner of Hilton International, for $16.5 million.
1973 - TWA/Hilton International sells its shares in the hotel to mortgage holder Massachusetts Mutual life, but retains
management contract. Massachusetts Mutual Life sells its shares to MEPC, one of the largest property development
companies in the world at a price of over $20 million. In 1977 William Weinberg initiates a plan to buy the hotel for a price between $26 and $28 million. The contract takes two years to negotiate before closing the deal in May 1977. William Weinberg (WKH Corp.) owned the Kahala Hilton hotel from 1977 to 1993, this investment was most near and dear to his heart.
In 1993, WKH Corp. sold the 6.5 acre resort to an investment group then headed by isle developer Bill Mills after an arbitration panel raised the resort's annual lease rent from $96,000 a year to $5.6 million a year. Bishop Estate had proposed an annual rent of $13.5 million while WKH offered to pay $1.3 million a year. Japan-based Kahala Royal Corp. (Katsumi Iida) and local developer Bill Mills paid an estimated $50 million.
In 1996 the hotel was renamed Kahala Mandarin Oriental after a 40 percent investment by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The Mandarin Oriental Group took over management, lasting until 2005
In 2005 Kahala Royal Corp., the Hawai'i firm owned by Katsumi Iida, paid $97 million to Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group for its 40 percent stake in the hotel on land leased from the Kamehameha Schools. Trinity Investments of Honolulu bought the hotel for $175 million in 2006 and rebranded it "The Kahala." Trinity is owned by California hotelier Chuck Sweeney and attorney Jon Miho of Honolulu.
In August 2014 - The Kahala Hotel & Resort was sold to Japanese-based Resorttrust Inc. for $300 million, which equates to $887,000 per room, the highest per-room price ever paid for an Oahu hotel property. Resorttrust will use the hotel as part of its time-share network. The new owner plans to retain Landmark Hotels Inc., the Trinity affiliate that took over management of the hotel in March 2006. All employees are expected to be retained by Resorttrust, which will assume the collective bargaining agreement between the hotel and UNITE HERE! Local 5.
After a period of great expansionism, Crosville is now in a period of pronounced retreat. They are continuing to run their 100 service along the sea front and on a very wet Saturday in December 2012, a former Lothian Olympian F357WSC was doing the honours.
20 May 2019 – Building a Societal Contract for the World, Facilitator: Chris Hoenig, Co-Founder, Citizens Alliance
Scene setting: Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs & Communications, OECD
Discussion leaders
Hossein Derakhshan, Journalist, Research Associate, MIT Media Lab
Natasha Friis Saxberg, Deputy Chairman, Foundation for Social Responsibility
Gabriela Gandel, Executive Director, Impact Hub
M. Yasmina McCarty, Head of Mobile for Development, GSMA
Ida McDonnell, Team Leader, Senior Policy Analyst, Development Directorate, OECD
Manuel Muñiz, Dean of the School of Global and Public Affairs; Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, IE University, Spain
David Grégoire Van Reybrouc, Cultural Historian, Archaeologist & Author
Friederike Röder, CEO, ONE France
Dennis Snower, President, Global Solutions Initiative
Closing: Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD, OECD Headquarters, Paris.
Photo: OECD / Christian Moutarde
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Sarah Cumbers, second from right, speaks at the Social Contract in Time of Crisis Seminar during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Ariana Lindquist
11 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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The contract with the glazier, "John Prudde of the town of Westminster", was drawn up on 23 June 1447, and has been preserved.
Here the North Window: Harpsichord: Portative organ; Clavichord; Tromba marina; Triangle; Timbre (tambourine); Duct flutes (x2); Single and Double pibgorn (x2); Alto shawms (x2); Tenor shawms (x2); Bass shawm; Pipes (x2); Bagpipe.
Details are much improved in the larger sizes.
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