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I won our club selection for the Toastmaster’s International Speech Contest! I’ll be going on to compete at the next level, the Area, next month.
My speech is titled: “Lessons from a Substitute Teacher.” It’s about the philosophical, leadership, and education insights I’ve had as a substitute that can be applied outside the classroom.
It felt very “meta” to be memorizing and practicing the speech during my lunches, recesses, and prep periods this week.
Jacket, Xhilaration (thrifted). Sweater, Express (consignment). Skirt, Thailand. Boots, Vince Camuto (consignment). Sunglasses, Marc Jacobs. Necklace, Zad.
Added an anit-cant level and a rubber eyepiece to the ZEQ polar scope.
Tested it under the stars last night, love the rubber eyepiece, no more cold metal against your eyebrow...:)
Freightliner Class 90 no. 90045 propels 1T29 10.00 Liverpool Lime Street to Wembley Central footex through Tamworth.
26th February 2012
Cwmorthin
Out of site in the darkness is a heavy well secured gate.
If you were serious about going inside for a look just ask or put in a little google research the key is available for a deposit.
The Bombings of 1940 forced a reappraisal of deep-shelter policy and at the end of October the Government decided to construct a system of deep shelters linked to existing tube stations. London Transport was consulted about the sites and required to build the tunnels at the public expense with the understanding that they were to have the option of taking them over for railway use after the war. With the latter point in mind, positions were chosen on routes of possible north-south and east-west express tube railways. It was decided that each shelter would comprise two parallel tubes 16 foot 6 inches internal diameter and 1,600 feet long and would be placed below existing station tunnels at Clapham South, Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Oval, Goodge Street, Camden Town, Belsize Park, Chancery Lane and St. Pauls...Each tube would have two decks, fully equipped with bunks, medical posts, kitchens and sanitation and each installation would accommodate 9,600 people...All the deep level shelters were sub-divided into sleeping areas. Each tunnel was divided into 4 sections with connecting doors between them. Each section was given a name. At Clapham South they were all naval commanders. The northern entrance sections (i.e. those accessed directly from the northern lift without crossing to the other side) were named: Freemantle, Beatty, Evans, Anson, Nelson, Jellicoe, Madden and Inglefield while those accessed from the southern entrance were: Grenville, Hardy, Drake, Oldham, Keppel, Parry and Ley. Each section had bunks fitted longitudinally along the outer wall, a single at the top, a double in the middle and a single at the bottom. Along the inner wall bunks were fitted across the passage forming bays. There were 7.952 bunks in total and each bunk was allocated to a named person. If they didn't turn up one night the bunk remained unused...Although work on them began in November 1940 there were difficulties in obtaining sufficient labour and materials so the first one was only ready in March 1942 and the other seven were finished later that year. Access to them was by ticket in order to help control numbers and prevent disruption to the underground network. There was considerable pressure to open the shelters to relieve the strain on London’s tube stations from people sheltering from the bombing, but the authorities were concerned about the cost of maintaining the shelters once opened and preferred to keep them in reserve in case the bombing intensified. Clapham South was used as weekend troop accommodation from 1943. The start of the attacks on London by V1 flying bombs (commonly known as ‘doodlebugs’) in June 1944, followed by the V2 rocket campaign in September that year, caused many of the deep shelters to be made fully available to the public; Clapham South opened on 19 July 1944. The south entrance, next door to what was the Odeon cinema, was in a small compound that housed administrative offices and ticket printing presses for all eight deep shelters. The shelters were used for their original purpose for less than a year. The north section closed on 21 October 1944 and the shelter was transferred from the Ministry of Home Security to the Ministry of Works on 1 October 1945. Clapham South closed completely on 7 May 1945 and from June 1945 it found a new use as a military leave hostel and for one month in June 1946 it acted as an armed-forces troop billet. At the end of the war, London had a severe labour shortage and the Colonial Office sought to recruit a labour force from Britain’s colonies. At that time there were no immigration restrictions for citizens from one part of the British Empire moving to another part. An advertisement appeared in Jamaica's Daily Gleaner on 13 April 1948 offering transport to the UK for a fare of £28.10s (£28.50) for anyone who wanted to work in the UK. As a result the ship MV Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury later in 1948 carrying 492 worker migrants from Jamaica. However, as there was no accommodation for the new arrivals the Colonial Office decided to house them in the deep-level shelter at Clapham South.
The nearest labour exchange to Clapham South was on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton so the men sought jobs there. As a result Brixton became a focus for West Indian settlers from that point onwards with successive arrivals making their way to the developing
community. The actual time the deep-level shelter was occupied by new arrivals was relatively short as the men all quickly found jobs and accommodation, and successfully integrated into many parts of south London.
[Subterranea Britannica]
DRS Class 47s nos. 47818 and 47790 storm through Tamworth on 1Z57 05.50 Edinburgh - Southampton boat train.
2nd August 2011
Shame about the 170 arriving in the background, and disappearing sun.
Athenry to Claremorris Railway Line - MP Tuam 15 1/2.
Lisduff Level Crossing (XE303) on the N17, Mayo 23rd August 2012.
Dublin to Cork Railway Line - MP Dublin 156.
Railway sign on closed level crossing (XC232) at Ballymartin, near Rathduff, Cork 22nd August 2011.
Gracias por la visita, comentarios, premios, invitaciones y favoritos.
Thanks for the visit, comments, awards, invitations and Favorites.
1935, Portsmouth Corporation Leyland Titan TD/4 RV6358, seen on the level crossing at Bodiam station, seen in monochrome.
This was a shuttle service running between the station and the castle.
Estación del AVE de Gerona / Spain
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Todos los derechos reservados. La descarga y uso de las fotos sin permiso es ilegal.
This was taken this morning from the small bridge over The Division Rhyne south of Godney. Normally these fields would be full of cattle in summer. The River Brue was overflowing between Glastonbury and Meare with water cascading across the road along a one mile stretch.
The photo below is the same view from the same spot taken in January when you might expect flooding, but at that time we had a drought.
DB Schenker Class 66 Co-Co 66065 approaches Tamworth HL on 6V78 05.35 Scunthorpe - Margam empty steel carrying wagons.
5th June 2014
Take 2.
Photographed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Assembly : Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Notes : Trim level unknown.
Proton has made so many different versions of the Wira between 1993 and 2007, that it has become a true challenge to accurately differentiate each and every variant / trim level / spec. The Proton Wira in the photo above is most probably the 1.5 or 1.6-litre model, but I really can't say for sure.
Here's some perspective; there's two versions of the Wira, the 4-door saloon and the 5-door hatchback, or Aeroback. Proton made 6 different engines in total for the Wira, 5 petrol and 1 diesel, all of which were licensed from Mitsubishi. The petrol engines came in 1.3L, 1.5L, 1.6L, 1.8L SOHC and 1.8L DOHC configurations, while the sole diesel option was a 2.0L unit. Some of these engines had carburettors, and some were fuel injected. Proton offered all 6 engines in the 4-door Wira, but the 5-door missed out on the diesel. Over the course of the Wira's production, some of the engine options were discontinued.
The Wira received at least 4 facelifts in its domestic market during its long lifetime; two were minor changes, one was major and the other was somewhere in between. The example in the photo above is of the first facelift revision. The amount of different front grille combinations on the Wira is staggering, and plain mind boggling if export-spec Wira models were included as well.
Trustworthy information on the web regarding the Malaysian domestic market Proton Wira is hard to find. I have to judge and learn from observations and experience instead. To make matters worse, the Wira is a favourite among young Malaysians who are into the modding scene. Every other Wira currently on Malaysian roads has been modified in one way or another. A clean, unmodified and well-maintained Proton Wira is hard to come by these days. Fortunately, the owner clearly took great care of the lucky Wira in the photo above, those high quality ( aeroblade ? ) wipers do make a statement. I've personally not seen a Wira this clean in a long time... of course, I meant 'clean' in the sense that it isn't modified or altered significantly. With a proper wash and subsequent waxing, this 17-year-old Wira would look really clean, in the literal sense this time.
Since it's so hard to explain and differentiate each Wira based on its specs / trim levels, I've made it a point to photograph all the different Proton Wira models for good measure, and your viewing pleasure. I wish Proton would publicise more information on the trim levels and specifications of their older models. Any spec sheet, brochure or price list would make documenting and preserving old Protons much easier.
Click here to view my original Proton Wira Aeroback mini-article.
Ground level view of the 1955 Hawaiian Village Hotel when it was still a low-rise paradise. Vintage white cardboard mount “Kodachrome Transparency Processed By Kodak” slide produced between 1958 and 1959 in a group of slides identified as October 1958.
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- Hawaiian entertainers, on the wall
- 1955 3-story Ale Ale Kai Lanais in the background
You'll have to wait for my full thoughts on the iPhone 6/6 Plus and their cameras. And I haven't even looked at all of my photos yet. But I'm very pleased with many of shots I came home with today.
(OK, technically, "the shots I came to the Panera a few Green Line stops away" with.)
With the whistle blowing, steam locomotive GWR No. 823 'COUNTESS' built in 1902 by Beyer Peacock at their Gorton Foundry, Manchester and its train consisting of two Austrian Salzkammergut Lokalbahn (S.K.G.L.B.) 4 wheel coaches and two Hungarian, Magyar Államvasutak (MÁV) bogie coaches approach Coppice Lane open level crossing whilst on route to Welshpool Raven Square on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Wales.
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A collation of 12 exposures, stitched and blended to create this final image...
MUST BE VIEWED LARGE BY PRESSING "L"...
The Glass House Mountains are a group of eleven hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest mountain is Mount Beerwah at 556 m above sea level, but the most identifiable of all the mountains is Mount Tibrogargan which appears like a giant ape sitting by the roadside staring out to sea.
The mountains were named by explorer Captain James Cook on 17 May, 1770. The peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire. Matthew Flinders explored the area and climbed Mount Beerburrum after sailing along Pumicestone Passage in 1799.
The range was formed as molten lava cooled to form hard rock in the cores of volcanoes between 26-27 million years ago. The source of the lava was from the East Australia hotspot. The cores of the mountains contain columns of comendite from lava which cools quickly into a hard rock. The surrounding softer rocks have been eroded in the subsequent time, forming the spectacular volcanic plugs that remain today. The peaks location relative to each other exhibits an alignment that is believed to have occurred due to fracturing.
Ogni gesto lascia un'impronta che evoca una storia. La fotografia lo testimonia e ne conserva la memoria, talvolta mentendo, talvolta dicendo la verità. Chi vede, distingue. Quelle che si scorgono sono le tracce di alcuni attraversamenti. I luoghi sono quasi sempre quelli dell'abbandono e delle rovine: un modo, come altri, di pensare il tempo. Dietro l'apparenza di ciascuna immagine, c'è un soggetto invisibile. E' il protagonista, o meglio, sono i protagonisti di infinite piccole storie. Non solo personali.
L.Amaduzzi
A Tyrannosaurus Rex statue located at the Science Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. It's in black and white because they didn't have color film back in the Jurassic Period.
Camera: Minolta Maxxum 300si
Film: FujiFilm 200
Date: March 25th, 2013, 12.36 p.m.
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Fuji 200 St. Louis-3 09-3ff