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Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #14 ~ Represent A Song " "Black and White Wednesday”
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"Blue Suede Shoes"
Well, it's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go, cat, go
But don't you
Step on my blue suede shoes
Well, you can do anything
But lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well, you can knock me down
Step in my face
Slander my name
All over the place
Well, do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh
Honey, lay off of my shoes
And don't you
Step on my blue suede shoes
Well, you can do anything
But lay off of my blue suede shoes...
This is one of the best images, in my opinion, from my trip to San Francisco. I got this shot from a rest stop (of all places) on my way back from my day trip to Santa Cruz. While I took scenic CA 1 South to get to Santa Cruz, I came back via I 280, which is where this image was taken from.
If you would have told me that I would get one of my best images in California at a rest stop, I would have told you that you must be nuts. And if you would have told me that I would get one of the best images from a rest stop with my weakest lens (the Nikon 70-300mm f/5.6 with an such an underexposed shot) I would have told you to lay off the 'shrums.
My only regret coming back this way is that I didn't stop at Palo Alto. I will be kicking myself until I get a chance to get there.
Just skip the large size and go straight to "biggie size" on this one. I applied a touch of a soft focus effect filter to counteract the small amount of color noise coming from the underexposure of the frame.
Camera: Nikon D70
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/13
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 4/3 EV
Fill the head with aluminum foil, then lay out some sculpey to change the shape of the head. Then bake in the oven under low temp for however long it says on the sculpey box. its recommended to lay off the booze during this step otherwise you'll burn the whole freakin' house down!
Well, it's kinda hard to rest when Kiteman is sitting across from you buying a prostitute so I left. I headed on to the smugglers shipyard and let me tell ya there is not alot here holy crap accept a freakin PIRATES SHIP. I wonder what they're smuggling like guns or drugs or ......crap. They're smuggling kryptonite . One of them saw me and called his freind. Thise two chased me off the dock with kryptonite, green and blue. Being so close to the kryptonite is screwing with my powers can't fly away or run on the water. I'm screwed I'm screwed.
"No worries Supey! Kid Flash is here to save the day!!!!!" Bart yelled out as he ran on the water towards me with his arms spread out to catch me.
"Um........thanks? Bart" I said as I awkwardly landed in Bart's arms.
"Oof, don't mention it but....ya know you should really lay off a few super pounds"
Superboy moves from #115 Grant Park to meet a Kid Flash at #125 the smugglers shipyard.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
not your typical welder! This young girl worked in a warehouse for 5 1/2 years when the company she worked told her that she could either be laied off or be moved into the call-center. She went into the call-center but then took classes to earn her GED (she was homeschooled her entire life) at the age of 23, passed that in the top 10% of the state then started welding classes and ended up on the dean's list.
Many riders will wonder what the big deal is . . . this is my first ride over 10 miles since I had to lay off for a few years. I'm back! Looking forward to 30 and 40 miles like used to! Wonderful!
Outstanding early-day Southwest Texas Health spa. Had 27 flavors of mineral water, from over 100 hot and cold springs. (Indians used curative waters here before white settlement.) Resort was founded in 1848 by Dr. John Sutherland (1792-1867), who had been at the Alamo when Anna Santa came on Feb. 23, 1836, but sent out by Travis to summon aid. Sutherland built plantation home on bluff west of Cibolo, across from wooded valley of springs. Patients boarded in his home, homes of neighbors,or rented cottages at the springs. Most common mineral waters were white sulphur, black sulphur, hume sour. Hot springs were especially popular in treating rheumatic diseases.
Sutherland Springs was stagecoach stop on old San Antonio Road. In 1854 Dr. Sutherland had a British teacher lay off square and town as seen today. In 1860, when Wilson County was created this was county seat. Reconstruction judge Wm. Longsworth demanded $250 to keep county seat here, and failing to get it hauled court records to Lodi. Later to Floresville.
In 1909, "New Sutherland Springs", on lowland acres formerly held by Gideon lee. had a 52-room hotel, the largest concrete pool in south, church encampments. Floods in 1913 made that resort a ghost town. (1966) (Marker No. 5154)
Pictures from the Vanarama National League North clash at Broadhurst Park between FC United of Manchester and Darlington.
The game finished in a hard fought 3-2 victory for Darlo. who were 2-0 up inside 27 minutes.
Hardy opended the scoring for the visitors latching onto a superb ball from Thompson before slipping the ball past the advancing keeper.
Quakers went two-up on 27 minutes but it should have been more as thye spurned a host of chnaces. Liam Marrs’ free-kick was headed down by Mark Beck for Hardy to lay off in turn for Thompson to fire across Frith.
Against the run of play United pulled a goal back on 42 minutes when Jason Gilchrist spotted Jameson off his line, and chipped the ball over the keeper followed by an equaliser on 66 minutes from Thomson.
A draw looked on the cards however with 10 minutes left subsititute Cartman cleverly found Purewal with an overhead kick for his fellow sub to charge up the left. His ball to the far post was blocked, but it came back out to Cartman, who struck a low shot that took a deflection and beat the keeper to make it 3-2. Darlo were able to weather a late storm to secure all 3 points!
Greek police raided the Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki this morning, arresting 11 employees who had been part of an ongoing occupation of the Dean's office. The protest has been in response to the refusal of contractors used by the university to pay workers salaries for over three months.
Those arrested were released temporarily after their court case was adjourned till Monday.
With lay offs skyrocketing many unscrupulous employers have been using the fear of unemployment to delay or even stop payment of salaries, banking on the fact that people will continue working rather than face certain joblessness.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley
Well, it's one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my Blue suede shoes.
Well, you can knock me down,
Step in my face,
Slander my name
All over the place.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my Blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
You can burn my house,
Steal my car,
Drink my liquor
From an old fruitjar.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
Once a biker, always a biker.....
And you sure have proven it, after such a long and painful lay-off. Great seeing you back on 2-wheels, and that too, on such a beauty of a machine:)
A portrait of a friend, Srikanth Banerjee, captured using the Nikon 85mm f/1.4 AF-G.
Black Thought is still one of the greatest MC's of our time but last night was definitely the worst of the 6 roots shows I've seen over the years. They need to lay off the "classic rock" jam covers and stick to what they do best. I will say it was amazing to finally photograph them though
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas.
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
The gate of one of two toy-factories of Smart Union in Dongguan, Guangdong-province in China. The factory closed down in October after misinvestments of its management. More than 6000 people lost their jobs.
The local government agreed to pay-out two months of wages to the laid-off workers, which is written on the large papers at the factory-gate.
The local government agreed to pay-out two months of wages to the laid-off workers, which is written on the large papers at the factory-gate.
Swanage Beach Groyne, I wasn't sure with this one, Originally went looking for surf but jumped on the beach and snagged this. I must lay off using the b+w 10 stop but its becoming an addiction at the moment, bit of 0.6 Lee grad on this one too.
On the one hand... the Phottix Cleon II remote shutter release recommended to me by B*Wag and kimrose... arrived the day before yesterday. Thank you both! :D Yes, I've used it a few times—but not for this photo, obviously—and it works great! (No real serious testing of it yet, however.)
But on the other hand... I now have "nothing" to do. At work, all of the job functions performed in my department have now been completely transitioned to Overland Park, Kansas. Last night, I spent a lot of my time at work... reading. Gotta love that! Eight hours pay to read photography magazines (the May 2009 issue of SHUTTERBUG and the May 2009 "Landscape Annual" issue of OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER), a fantasy novel, and browse the web. Can't beat that sh*t with a stick, let me tell you! LOL!
On the one hand... The Phottix remote has a better build-quality than the previoius piece-of-sh*t I wasted my money on. The receiver unit of this Phottix model (that would be the smaller, squarer one) can also be used as a wired shutter release, too! Cool stuff!
But on the other hand... This getting paid to do nothing (I'm serious about this; I'm not kidding) won't last long. (Bastards!) It'll come to an end on May 29th, along with my job. Yes, the promised lay-off is fast approaching. However, this will free up a huge block of time for me to be able to pursue other things... like my writing and my photography.
On the one hand... DON'T THROW THAT BOX AWAY! Seriously. The instructions for using the Phottix remote are on the box, not on a piece of paper inside the box. Hey, it comes from Hong Kong! What did you expect? Also, the instructions are in a funny English translation, so in additon to getting a better remote than the last one I bought, I also get some entertainment, too. :P :D
But on the other hand... I'm bound and determined to get my ass out of telecom, if I can help it. I've come to absolutely loathe the industry. I'll still look for work in telecom, but only because I don't expect to be able to make a living at writing or photography overnight. Until such time, however, I'll be devoting the bulk of my time to things I love and enjoy doing. :D
On the one hand... If you're interested in this remote, then you need to go here, at eBay. They cost all of $30. (That link will take you to a page of remotes for Canon cameras, but they also make these for Nikons, too. It'll take about 2 weeks for it to arrive, if you order it, since it comes from Hong Kong.)
But on the other hand... Since I'm debt-free, I don't necessarily have to find another job in telecom to be able to meet my monthly expenses. A job in telecom would just give me more "disposable income". Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know! I could easily "dispose" more of it into my photography. LOL :P
On the one hand... I came this close || to posting a photograph that looked just like this one.
But on the other hand... I'm damned glad that I posted the one you're looking at here instead. :D
On the one hand... You really, really should view this on black.
But on the other hand... If you don't, then you're a nutter!
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Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 38mm (Canon EF 28-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS)
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Exposure Program: Manual (just so you know, since in the processing of this image the EXIF data got all blown out; all of the info here was gleaned from the EXIF data still stored in the .psd file on my computer—.psd = Photoshop document, for those who may not know)
Strobist: Canon Speedlite 430EX II 1/4 power @ camera left into 32" shoot-through umbrella, w/ black side of 5-in-1 portable reflector behind my hands
Processing: Photoshop used to create vignette at top of image.
Notes: Everything about this image was pre-visualised before I set up my lighting and my camera. It took me a dozen shots to get this. Six shots to find an exposure that I liked (I messed mostly with the aperture, and once with the ISO), and then six more shots to get my hands positioned correctly in the frame—and even then I still had to do a very, very minor crop to get them closer to centre.
(October 15th, 2009) Thousands of protestors flooded the streets in the largest public gathering in Puerto Rican history. The massive strike was in response to the republican governor Luis Fortuño's decision to lay off 16,720 public workers. Depicted here is a bulls eye of Governor Fortuño. ~ San Juan, Puerto Rico ~ Photo © 2009 Ricardo Figueroa
Nov 9 2017 - The company I work for announced it is closing next year and everyone will be layed off.. People have gone to drawing on this whiteboard and subtley offloading their thoughts.. my understanding is it is a boat in stormy seas hitting an iceberg and lots of water things ensue..
Saturday, July 3, 2010 @ approximately 500am
On Scene Units: Engines 71, 74, 72, Ladder 73, Rescue 74, Support 72, Battalion 70 & Lee County EMS Medic 20.
Engine 74 (right) supplied tank water to Engine 71(left) until a water supply was established from a hydrant on Cleburne Drive.
NOTE:
The Lee County Deputy Sheriffs on scene would not let me near the house for about 20 minutes. So, I waited until they moved and then was able to get these photos. Believe me all the Fire Departments in Lee County need positive Public Relations. Many Departments are running very low on operating funds due to the reclining Real Estate values. The City of Fort Myers, Leigh Acres and Tice Fire Departments have layed-off Firefighters.
The parking lot of the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn., stands empty at midday on Friday, May 1, 2020. The agency announced it will lay off nearly one-fourth of its staff due to declining sales in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.
"Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "The Crown of Mosques". The construction of the mosque was started by Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (1868-1901). However, the mosque was not completed due to lack of money, and after a long lay-off, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari Of Bhopal .
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas.
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
The bottom 1/3 of the set of stairs were laying off to the side and we broke a few steps off and made a sweet one foot wide, six foot long ride up to this thing. Max actually ollied onto this noseslide. Everyone was all "what are you going to do when you get to the end?" "I don't know, I'm just going to try it". He slid about 1/3 of the way down down the rail, rode down some stairs, laughed. Good enough?
I'm gonna lay off thee Selfies , cuz i'm pretty sure ya'll are tired of my face =P
I love this here Buddha of mine.
Which reminds me , i wanna go to a buddhist temple again soon <3
Pictures from the Vanarama National League North clash at Broadhurst Park between FC United of Manchester and Darlington.
The game finished in a hard fought 3-2 victory for Darlo. who were 2-0 up inside 27 minutes.
Hardy opended the scoring for the visitors latching onto a superb ball from Thompson before slipping the ball past the advancing keeper.
Quakers went two-up on 27 minutes but it should have been more as thye spurned a host of chnaces. Liam Marrs’ free-kick was headed down by Mark Beck for Hardy to lay off in turn for Thompson to fire across Frith.
Against the run of play United pulled a goal back on 42 minutes when Jason Gilchrist spotted Jameson off his line, and chipped the ball over the keeper followed by an equaliser on 66 minutes from Thomson.
A draw looked on the cards however with 10 minutes left subsititute Cartman cleverly found Purewal with an overhead kick for his fellow sub to charge up the left. His ball to the far post was blocked, but it came back out to Cartman, who struck a low shot that took a deflection and beat the keeper to make it 3-2. Darlo were able to weather a late storm to secure all 3 points!
Former TWA Maintenance Overhaul Base that was taken over by American in 2001 when they absorbed TWA. AA shut down all ops at the maintenance base on 24Sep10 and moved a quarter of the 900 employees to Tulsa, OK and layed off the rest.
I overslept this morning and have to dash out for a botanizing trip SW of the city - back later : ) It's going to be wet underfoot, as it rained heavily last night. The last thing people needed, coming straight after our Flood of the Century, just when many people had started to "dry out"!
Haven't been watching the News quite as closely as I should have been. Just found out that several parts of Calgary, mainly Sunnyside, had flash floods yesterday evening, two weeks after the beginning of the Flood of the Century.
"Fourteen days after historic flooding caused millions of dollars worth of damage in the northwest community, a Friday evening thunderstorm left Sunnyside under a significant amount of water. Water, as deep as half a metre in some locations, remained in the community for nearly an hour before it made its way through city drains."
calgary.ctvnews.ca/flash-flooding-in-the-community-of-sun...
Odds & ends:
"The Calgary Zoo is laying off nearly 300 people in the wake of the flooding that caused $50 million in damage to the non-profit." From CBC News.
One happy thing, though, is that, after being rescued from the flood, a Meerkat at the Zoo gave birth to five babies : )
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Being prepared for service after a lengthy lay off following refurbishment too this vehicle will be allocated to Riverside depot for the exclusive H route for NHS Staff only seen here at The Works under preparation
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Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson NJ was built during the Great Depression with grants from the federal government. A large portion of the labor came from layed off mill workers in Paterson NJ.
That federal investment in a construction project gave Paterson a 10,000 seat stadium that was used through the mid-1990s. Now in need a major renovations voters approved a ballot measure in 2009 to restore this historic structure.
Read more about Hinchliffe Stadium on Blue Jersey www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=4709C5CE325DA6...
My 1st cousin 2x removed.
This bio was written about her in 1963.
Elva Pate Parks March 14, 1963
Mrs. Joe Dobson Parks is a very versatile person—she can do just about anything she sets her mind to, but her skill for the past few years has been turned to making pies. She is affectionately known as the “Pie Lady.”
Many close friends, to whom she has always been “Elva”, now address her just as her many satisfied customers as the “Pie Lady.”
Before her marriage Mrs. Parks was Elva Pate, daughter Jonah Thomas Pate and Myrtle Lee Harper Pate, who recently observed the happy occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Elva Pate started school at the old Lankford School off Arno Road but finished here at Franklin in 1935.
Her first job was with Mr. Martin Tohrner at his warehouse when it was on 2nd Avenue and Margin Street and she worked for him off and on for 12 years. Even while she was working in Nashville she helped Mr. Tohrner during her off hours.
She worked for a while at NBC Beauty Supply Company and then she whet to Vultee during World War II. During a lay-off at the plant there she returned home and ran a milk truck for her father. She drove a two-ton truck and loaded and unloaded ten-gallon milk cans over an extensive route. Now she says she can’t even pick up a milk can.
Later she was transferred by Vultee to the plant in Allentown, Pa., one of the most beautiful cities she has ever been in. Around each light post on the streets of the city are concrete basins filled with blooming flowers during warm weather. Each night a city fire truck drives down the street to water the plants.
Allentown boasts a very lovely rose park and each year has a famous rose festival which attracts many tourists. The business houses promote the City Beautiful project by keeping colorful blossoms around.
Mrs. Parks had not been in Allentown long when on the Fourth of July she became ill with strep throat that developed into scarlet fever. She had to move from her residence because she was placed in strict quarantine, so she went to a hotel for 30 days. Her meals and linens were left outside her door and she had no physical contact with the outside world for that length of time. When she finally got well and out of quarantine, she decided it was time she came home.
She drove the milk route again for about six months and then went to Anthony Pure Milk Company to work in the laboratory. But she did not enjoy that type of work at all, so when Mr. Robert Moore asked her to work in the office for him she came back to Franklin. Her position with the feed and seed company was the last she held before she was married in 1947.
Mr. Parks was reared at College Grove and for the first year of their marriage they lived at his homeplace. Then they bought a place at Burwood where they lived for about two years before returning to home base at College Grove. They spent six years there before moving to Franklin where they have been for the past six years.
They live next door to Mrs. Wilson Ashworth who had been making pies to supply local restaurants, but was going to have to give it up because of ill health. Mrs. Parks decided to take over the business and thus she became Franklin’s “Pie Lady.”
She supplies regularly to the Green Acres Dairy Mart, Key’s Cafe, Sandlin’s and Dotson’s and offers a variety of the delicacies: pecan, chocolate, coconut, lemon, caramel, chess, apple, and cherry.
She is set up now to bake in quantity and prefers to bake at least 20. However, one day she baked 58. She makes up her pastry at night and refrigerates it until the next morning. She gets up real early and has most of her work finished before the children get up for breakfast. She calls each of the businesses the night before to get the orders for the next day. Not many people know it but she takes individual orders as well. All you need to do to get a pie is order it the night before you want it.
She says there isn’t a great amount of profit but it helps and it is something she can do at home. She doesn’t have to be away from her children.
The Parks children are Janet, 14, who is a freshman at Franklin High School and a member of the band, Joe, 11, a fifth grader and Tommy, 9, a fourth grader.
In spite of her busy days Mrs. Parks found time to be a den mother for her boys one year. They are members of the College Grove Methodist Church but usually attend Epworth
Church, because of her parents.
Mrs. Parks has three sisters, Mrs. H.S.E. Musgrove of Tullahoma, Mrs. Estell Stolp and Miss Irene Pate of Nashville.
The tomboy of the family in her growing up days, Elva Pate was the daughter who helped her father with the farm work. One day she was plowing with the two old mares and one young mule. Her father told her when she was through to watch that mule. She was being very careful and after she had turned the mares loose the mule headed for the barn. Her father had said not to turn him loose so she didn’t. She held on for dear life and he dragged her all the way to the barn. Fortunately it was over freshly plowed ground so she had only a few bruises as the result. But as the farmer of the Pate family, she didn’t learn to keep house until after her marriage.
In keeping with her “outdoor” childhood she is a great fisherman. After that last pie is delivered in good weather she frequently takes off on a fishing spree. Quite often the whole family takes a picnic lunch for a fishing outing but Mrs. Parks goes alone if the others can’t join her. Her favorite fish tale is catching a three-pound bass at Jackson Lake. She broke an 88c cane pole all to pieces but landed the fish.
She feels more people should take up the sport. Many problems can be solved in the quite of a boat or on a bank. Fewer people would be in mental hospitals if more people fished.
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates as it strives to deliver on its dual mandate of price stability and maximum sustainable employment. So far, the U.S. labor market has been impressively resilient; unemployment is at 3.7%, the lowest it has been in decades. But in several ways the impact of the pandemic on the labor market persists. Labor force participation is not yet fully back to pre-pandemic levels. While some employers are laying off workers, many others say they are finding it hard to hire. And work-from-home appears to be here to stay for many workers.
On November 30 at 1:30 p.m., Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy on the outlook for the economy, inflation, and the changing labor market. Following his remarks, Powell was interviewed by David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center, and took questions from the audience.
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Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
It's been a long time coming, and after some complicated scans today was the day for the root canal treatment on my tricky lower left seven.
It didn't go successfully. :(
The one thing you don't want to see when the dentist has a drill in your mouth - well, I suppose apart from a load of claret - is them slowly shaking their head. That's what I got today.
Two of the three never channels were playing nice. The third wasn't, so I got slapped together with a temporary dressing for a conversation.
Choices now are see a specialist (£600-800) for a slightly higher success rate, or pull the tooth. We found a third way. I'm going to lay off the anticoagulants for a week and then he's going to go again, drilling a little deeper. If it doesn't work out again then he'll just pull the tooth.
Not really how I wanted it to go, but it was never going to be straightforward. Ah well.
Our Real Photo Postcard Survey view of the Budweiser Tower at the end of Washington Street/Highway 151 in Manitowoc. A week later, Anheuser-Busch announced that it would lay off 45 employees due to a global glut of barley. The Scofield Souvenir post cards of the tower haven't been available at the Walgreens for awhile now.
The Costa Mediterranea laying off Catalina Island in the Dominican Republic - maybe due to the rocks!
The day after Congress killed funding for the SST, Boeing notified its employees that it was preparing to lay off 7,000 people. This document is from Boeing's historical archives.
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