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City Job is leaving for American Crystal while one of the yard switchers waits in the background for headroom.
Yard job switches the Ford Claycomo Plant, as seen from the Ford-owned overpass.
Locomotive: NS 5057
10-31-11
Claycomo, MO
Daisy spends a LOT more time keeping her clothes in condition these days than she did in the past. Which is fine, of course. Keeps her out of trouble! 😉
After a long day, after so many problems before the race meeting, our little Mazda finally got 1st overall in Classic Cars among serious competition despite a slipping clutch
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5020/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Universal. Publicity still for The Galloping Kid (Nat Ross, 1922).
Hoot Gibson (1892-1962) was a rodeo champion and pioneering cowboy star of silent Westerns. With his easy combination of light, breezy, boyish charm comedy and riding abilities, Hoot filled a gap between the austere William S. Hart and the flamboyant Tom Mix and appealed both to adults (especially women) and kids. During the 1920s, he was one of the most popular children's matinée heroes, ranking second only to Mix, and one of Universal's top paid stars. In his real life, however, he had an expensive love for fast cars, motorcycles and airplanes and lead a rather painful rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags career.
Hoot Gibson was born Edmund Richard Gibson in 1892, in Tekamah, Nebraska. As a child he grew up 'horse crazy' and received his first pony at the age of two and a half. His family moved to California when he was seven. At age 13 the adventurous youth ran away from home and joined a circus for a time. At B-Westerns.com, Hoot recalled: "First job I got was on the Postal Telegraph. I was then 15. I rode that for about three months and liked it fairly well. I got a job at the Owl Drug Co., delivering drugs and packages to the different homes throughout southern California or that part of Los Angeles. That is where I got the name of Hoot. It came from Owl and later the boys started calling me Hoot Owl, then it got down to Hoot and Hoot has stuck with me ever since." Later work included punching cows in both Wyoming and Colorado. While working as a horse wrangler, Hoot developed a strong, active interest in the rodeo scene. In 1907 he signed a four-year contract with the Dick Stanley-Bud Atkinson Wild West Show, which toured throughout the US and later Australia. By 1910 Hoot started his film career with the Selig Polyscope Co. as one of the industry's first stuntmen. He was paid $2.50 for performing stunts, training horses and doubling for Selig stars. Director Francis Boggs was looking for experienced cowboys and stunt doubles to appear in his Western short Pride of the Range (Francis Boggs, 1910) starring Tom Mix. Gibson and pal Art Acord did riding and stunting jobs for the film. Gibson made a second film for Boggs The New Superintendent (Francis Boggs, 1911) with Herbert Rawlinson. Hoot lost a solid Hollywood contact in Boggs, however, when the director and his working partner, producer William Nicholas Selig, were both shot in October, 1911, by a mentally disturbed employee. Selig was injured, but Boggs was killed. Gibson also found stunt work in such prolific Western shorts as The Two Brothers (David Wark Griffith, 1910), starring Henry Walthall, and His Only Son (Jack Conway, 1912). Acting for Gibson was then a minor sideline, and Hoot continued to forge a name for himself on the rodeo circuit with his pal Art Acord. In 1912, at age 20, he won the title 'All-Around Champion Cowboy' at the famed annual Pendleton (Oregon) Round-Up. He also won the steer-roping World Championship at the Calgary Stampede. While on the circuit, he met fellow rodeo rider Rose August 'Helen' Wenger. They eventually married and she took on the marquee name of Helen Gibson. She even found film stunt work herself and eventually was chosen to replace Helen Holmes as star of the popular movie serial The Hazards of Helen (J. Gunnis Davis a.o., 1914) during mid-filming. Hoot himself had the job doubling Helen Holmes and doing the stunts from horses to trains in the Universal cliffhanger. Hoot picked up new connections in the film industry with Western star Harry Carey and director John Ford. With Ford, Gibson developed a lasting friendship and working relationship. Gibson gained some momentum as a secondary player in a few of their films, including Cheyenne's Pal (1917), Straight Shooting (1917), The Secret Man (1917) and A Marked Man (1917). With the outbreak of World War I, however, Gibson's film career was put on hold. He joined the US Army, eventually attaining the the rank of sergeant while serving with the Tank Corps, and was honorably discharged in 1919. He returned immediately to Universal and was able to restart his career.
At Universal, Hoot Gibson quickly worked his way up to co-star status in a series of short Westerns, often directed by John Ford. The two-reelers usually co-starred either Pete Morrison or Hoot's wife Helen, or sometimes both. Films such as The Fighting Brothers (John Ford, 1919), The Black Horse Bandit (Harry Harvey, 1919), Rustlers (John Ford, 1919), Gun Law (John Ford, 1919), The Gun Packer (John Ford, 1919) and By Indian Post (John Ford, 1919) eventually led to his solo starring success. During this prolific period, he was also directed by George Holt in The Trail of the Holdup Man (1919), Phil Rosen in The Sheriff's Oath (1920) and Lee Kohlmar in The Wild Wild West (1921). Around this time, Hoot and Helen divorced. In the early 1920s, Hoot went on to marry another Helen, vaudeville actress Helen Johnson. They had one child, Lois Charlotte Gibson, born in 1923. The couple divorced in 1927. By 1921, the demand for cowboy pictures was so great, Gibson began receiving offers for leading roles. Superstardom came with the Western Action (John Ford, 1921), which was taken from The Three Godfathers story. It starred Hoot, Francis Ford and J. Farrell MacDonald as a trio of outlaws on the lam who find a baby. Action propelled Gibson to fame and fortune and he remained at Universal for the next 10 years. Boyd Magers and Bill Russell at B-Westerns.com: "What made Gibson so popular over the years? He was not what one might call handsome, being a little on the homely side, nor did he cut a dashing figure on horseback, although he could ride like a demon. Neither was he a polished scrapper of the Bob Steele school of fisticuffs, but could mix it up with the best of them. He mostly never wore a gun in the standard cowboy hero way, instead shoved it in his belt or boot. So what made this cowboy hero one of the greats? You could call it character, a certain boyish charm, or simply a naturalness that appealed to the western fan. He had a contagious smile, and while most heroes had a sidekick who provided the comedy routine, Hoot was his own best sidekick." During his Universal years, Gibson starred in such classics as the exciting The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (Edward Sedgwick, 1924) , the humorous Chip of the Flying U (Lynn Reynolds, 1926) and the more serious and dramatic The Flaming Frontier (Edward Sedgwick, 1926) with Dustin Farnum, he would occasionally step out of his Western roles for a non-Western feature. By 1925 Hoot Gibson was making approximately $14,500 a week and spending it about as fast as he was making it.
Hoot Gibson successfully made the transition to talkies and, in 1930, married popular Jazz-era actress Sally Eilers, a third party to his previous divorce. The couple made three features together: The Long, Long Trail (Arthur Rosson, 1929), Trigger Tricks (B. Reeves Eason, 1930) and Clearing the Range (Otto Brower, 1931). When she found celluloid success on her own with the Oscar-winning Bad Girl (Frank Borzage, 1931), Sally decided to split from Hoot professionally and personally. They divorced in 1933. Hoot lost his Universal contract in 1930, which signified the start of his decline. During the early 1930s, he secured contracts with the Poverty Row outfits Allied Pictures and First Division Pictures, but the quality of his films suffered. Hoot had already begun to feature race cars and airplanes in his films such as The Flyin' Cowboy (B. Reeves Eason, 1928) and The Winged Horseman (B. Reeves Eason, Arthur Rosson, 1929). Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "Airplanes in particular became a large, expensive passion of his. In 1933 he crashed his biplane during a National Air Race in Los Angeles, which had pitted him against another cowboy star, Ken Maynard. Fortunately, he survived his injuries." With the advent of talking films, singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers were becoming the new rage, and both Hoot and Tom Mix felt the kick. Yet he managed a couple of comebacks by pairing up with others stars. He joined old silent film teammate Harry Carey and 'Guinn Big Boy Williams' in the 'Three Mesquiteers' Western Powdersmoke Range (Wallace Fox, 1935), and was billed second to Ray Corrigan in the Republic serial The Painted Stallion (Alan James, Ray Taylor, William Witney, 1937). Gary Brumburgh: "Hoot left films and toured with the Robbins Brothers and Russell Brothers circuses during 1938 and 1939 before retiring from show business altogether. His multiple divorces and reckless spending habits had taken their toll on his finances. For a time he found work in real estate before Monogram Pictures offered the stocky-framed actor a chance to return in 1943. Hoot teamed up with cowboy star Ken Maynard in the popular 'Trail Blazers' series, and the duo were later joined by Bob Steele. Chief Thundercloud replaced a difficult Maynard on a couple of the films, but by the end of the series Gibson and Steele were riding alone together." The nearly dozen films in the series began with Wild Horse Stampede (Alan James, 1943) and ended with Trigger Law (Vernon Keays, 1944), the latter being his last hurrah in films. Hoot then returned to real estate. By the time he appeared as a surprise guest on the popular sitcom I Married Joan (1952) starring Joan Davis, his Western features of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as those of Maynard, Steele and others were a large staple of films seen by a TV audience that couldn't get enough Western fare. He did a favour for old friend John Ford by appearing in a cameo role in the director's The Horse Soldiers (John Ford, 1959), starring John Wayne and William Holden. His last movie spotting was a guest cameo in the 'Rat Pack' film Ocean's Eleven (Lewis Milestone, 1960). Hoot married a fourth and final time in 1942, to 22 year old yodeler and actress Dorothea Dunstan. This marriage took hold and lasted for 20 years until his death. By the 1960s Gibson was on the verge of financial collapse after a series of bad investments. Gary Brumburgh: "Diagnosed with cancer in 1960, rising medical costs forced him to find any and all work available. He was relegated at one point to becoming a greeter at a Las Vegas casino and, for a period, worked at carnivals. It was an unhappy end for a cowboy who brought so much excitement and entertainment to children and adults alike." In 1962, Hoot Gibson died of cancer at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, just a couple of weeks after his 70th birthday. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Boyd Magers and Bill Russell (B-Westerns), Wikipedia and IMDb.
China is growing at a rapid pace. We all know that. It's a fact. Cities are constantly changing, buildings getting bigger and taller, skylines becoming more dramatic...
But those concrete jungles, those urban visions would be entirely worthless without the masses. Without millions of rural workers who travel from the country to the city, looking for a job, for a better future. It's a migration on a massive scale. Unprecedented phenomenon.
Often they leave their families behind. Those who decide to move to the big cities with their loved ones meet some serious difficulties.
It's all about hukou (户口) - system of residency permits, a tiny bordo book, a household registration record, a tool to limit and control the mass migration. Without it you're nobody.
You don't have an access to the educational and medical services. Unless you change your rural hukou into the urban one which is practically impossible. It's easy to imagine how it affects the kids.
Having no chance for an education determines your future. You lost before the race even begun.
There are rays of hope though. There are few schools out there who accept those children, there are people who are willing to help.
I visited one of those schools. Situated outside Chengdu's 3rd Ring Road.
Old, single story building. Poor and rather primitive environment. 700 students in grades 1-9 (Primary and Middle School levels).
The school is currently looking for a volunteer English teachers, who would be willing to teach the kids oral English once or twice a week to help them to break the fear of foreigners, the fear of using the language, to motivate them a bit.
It's not much but it may make the difference.
Moving in was completely strenuous. I had 72 or so hours to do it and had to work two of those nights. Tuesday I stayed the night one last time at my place but wednesday all the big furniture & heaviest boxes were moved courtesy of my uncle (technically ex-granduncle in law) and his son before their construction job that morning leaving me with one last day to move everything from my old apartment to my new one in the same complex (I had to downsize because of rental rates rising), a feat that sounded easy enough until I had to do it. The remaining boxes, my plastic cabinets, a glass coffee table & more miscell items were carried by I alone back and forth all day to meet the deadline of the end of business on day 3 and this was on top of cleaning & vacuuming. It was.....miserable and my arms are STILL a little sore from all of it but I managed and decided to reward myself with some dolls at walmart while grocery shopping.
I really should've gotten Catrine when she was $10 but I hadn't wanted her until her price had been corrected and didn't buy her due to that and to not finding a cute one. Thankfully this lovely was there and having some of my tax money left, as well as my desire to reward myself, emboldened me to ignore the extra $9 and just get her.
Catrine totally grew on me with time and while I'm still learning how to place her chalks in hand so that they look natural I do really love her, especially after slightly remixing her hair ;3
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Beyond Sunday: Wounds from the Surgeon
Focus Verse of the Week
For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. (Job 5:18, NIV)
Classic Commentary
For he wounds, but he binds up
The surgeon, who makes a wound even more painful by probing and opening it, does so to let out the matter and make way for his medicine. Then he lays on the plaster, and binds it up. So God causes grief and puts his people to pain, by diseases of body, or by making breaches in their families and estates, by other cutting providences. Then he binds up their breach, and heals the stroke of their wound, and in the issue makes all whole again. So it is in spiritual things - by the sharp, two-edged sword of the Word, he cuts and wounds, and gives pain and uneasiness. His Spirit lays open all the corruption of nature, and brings to repentance and humiliation for all transgressions; and then pours in the oil and wine of pardoning grace and mercy, and binds up the wounds that are made.
He shatters, but his hands heal
The same thing is meant as above, expressed by different words. The whole suggests that every afflicted man, and particularly Job, should he behave well, and as he ought, under the afflicting hand of God, would be healed, and become sound and whole again, in body, mind, family, and estate. For, though God for the present caused grief, yet he would have compassion, since he did not willingly grieve the children of men. He did not do it for his own pleasure, but for their good, as a skillful surgeon cuts and wounds in order to heal. See Deuteronomy 32:39, Hosea 6:1, Lamentations 3:32, and Lamentations 3:33.
(Adapted from john gill's exposition of the bible, job 5:18)
A Thought to Keep
No one likes going under the knife, but we like cancer even less. God is in the business of scraping off those warts and moles that threaten to become malignant and attack our souls. He wounds so we might experience wellness in the Spirit.
oooold one, but i had to upload it b/c i found this!
www.flickr.com/photos/46164358@N03/4242006678/
love it when i find little collage twins out there in the world.
it happened before too, with mary virginia carmack:
btw, notpaper blogged this incident (yay!):
Lauren Winfield and Jessica Watson walk off the field at Harrogate CC having scored 77-0 in 12.3 overs for Yorkshire Women 1st XI to beat Somerset Women 1st XI by 10 wickets in a ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 game.
The Bayport Job makes an appearance in its namesake town to serve Anderson Windows. The track in the foreground used to be used by the Milwaukee Road back in the day.
CNW's Jefferson Junction job is looking to return to Clyman Jct with hoppers from the malt plant however Soo has temporarily halted that plan. CNW 4140-4434 pause northbound just shy of the diamond at Watertown while LMX 8500-Soo 6609 complete their switching chores before continuing on eastbound. Those CNW Geeps were a fixture on that line for years. August 1993.
Today, the malt plant is idle at Jefferson JCT, the CNW Geeps are long gone, there is only one diamond at Watertown instead of three and the white Soo SD40-2 turned CP red.