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Un operador trabaja en una torre de media tensión habilitando los servicios que fueron desconectados por fallas técnicas del sistema en el barrio Cristo Rey en Santo Domingo el 25 de junio de 2021, República Dominicana.
Foto: Orlando Barría
An operator works in a medium voltage tower enabling services that were disconnected due to technical failures of the system in the Cristo Rey neighborhood in Santo Domingo on June 25, 2021, Dominican Republic.
Photo: Orlando Barría
Un operador trabaja en una torre de media tensión habilitando los servicios que fueron desconectados por fallas técnicas del sistema en el barrio Cristo Rey en Santo Domingo el 25 de junio de 2021, República Dominicana.
Foto: Orlando Barría
An operator works in a medium voltage tower enabling services that were disconnected due to technical failures of the system in the Cristo Rey neighborhood in Santo Domingo on June 25, 2021, Dominican Republic.
Photo: Orlando Barría
The Postcard
A Bamforth postcard with artwork by Fitzpatrick.
The card was posted on Saturday the 13th. June 1970 to:
Mr. R. Butler,
21 The Haywards,
Thatcham,
Berks.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Lily & Bob,
We have had two lovely
days, very hot - getting
sunburnt.
Been sitting down and
resting all the time.
We had a good journey
down.
W & K".
Julián Elías Gil Beltrán
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 13th. June 1970 marked the birth of Julián Elías Gil Beltrán. He is an Argentine-born actor, model, businessman and TV host.
Julián Elías Gil Beltrán - The Early Years
Although Julián Gil was born in Argentina, he lived for some time in Venezuela as well. He grew up in Puerto Rico, and he considers himself Puerto Rican.
At the age of 20, Julián began his career in television with his own shows 'Julián Por la Noche' and 'Apartamento 52', where he was the lead in both television series.
Over the years he has worked for television networks such as RCTV, Telemundo, Univisión and Televisa.
Julián Elías Gil Beltrán's Career
In 2006, Julián participated in the Venezuelan telenovela 'Por Todo lo Alto', where his interpretation of the character "Halcón" brought him international recognition.
The following year he joined the cast of the telenovela produced by Venevisión and Univisión entitled 'Acorralada', where he played "Pancholón".
From 2007 until 2011, Gil was part of the jury 'Nuestra Belleza Latina', where he shared credits with Osmel Sousa.
In 2008 Julián participated in 'Valeria', and at the same time he obtained his first antagonist role on television in the telenovela 'Amor Comprado' where he played "Esteban Rondero". He then participated in the television series 'Gabriel', along with Chayanne.
In 2008 Julián obtained his first starring role in the telenovela 'Los Barriga'.
In 2009 he participated in the telenovela 'Sortilegio'. In the same year Julián became the protagonist of the Spanish series 'Valientes'. That year he won the Califa de Oro Award for Best Actor.
In 2015 Julián starred with Guy Ecker in Miller Lite's 'Rivales' ad campaign.
Julián Elías Gil Beltrán's Personal Life
Julián has two sisters, Lorena and Patricia.
He was married to Brenda Torres. He has a daughter, Nicolle (born 14th. January 1987) and a son, Julián Jr. (born 19th. September 1995).
On Bank Holiday Monday morning I took a few shots for a friend of some classic cars in Sandwich, arranged by the Ramsgate Old Motor & Motor Cycle Club. I know nothong about cars, so descriptions are limited, and possibly totally incorrect!
A couple of classy looking cars on display.
Hmm, new zoom means greater distance between camera operator and subject. NOTE TO SELF: Construct cardboard sign that reads I AM TAKING YOUR PHOTO FOR MY BLOG CALLED GOKUROUSAMA. SMILE!
Operator: RATP - (Quality Line) - (Epsom Buses)
Make/Model: Optare Solo (M850)
Registration Number: E5 HRR (YN53 SVK)
Fleet Number: OS20221 (EB05) & (OP15)
Operator: Go-Ahead (Go-Ahead London) - (Metrobus)
Make/Model: Optare Metrocity
Registration Number: YJ14 BFO
Fleet Number: OM12
Country: PORTUGAL
Operator: CP
Item: STEAM
Class or Maker: CP/E111
Wheel Arrangement: 2-6-0T
Number: E112
Place details: MIRANDELA Station yard
Additional notes: 1000mm
With British railfans from left, Alec McBlain, Dick Franklin and Charles Whetmath
Original source material: Agfa 35mm slide
Photographer: Robert W Bridger
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: RWBR.0031
30937 Transport Photograph Database
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VDL SB4000 Van Hool Alizee T9 YJ55 WSX with unknown operator on Rail Replacement in Peterborough, 1st February, 2025. It was one of a batch of five supplied to Arriva The Shires in 2005 for Green Line 757 between Luton Airport and Vic - I believe these were the first UK T9s to incorporate a wheelchair lift in the front overhang.
2016 PHOTOCHALLENGE, WEEK 15: PORTRAITS – ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS.
Ferris Wheel Operator. She rotates you around stopping at various perching points while eating and drinking 50' above the ground at Betty Danger's Restaurant and Bar in NE Minneapolis.
As i had a few hours to kill in Sheffield today i wondered off to the BUs station to see if i could photograph a 310 service. After viewing the timetable i noted one was due in at 12.35. It arrived 8 minutes late at 12.43 not bad for a national service. The 310 service was run by Travelstar European, but as of last week ( i think ) has been aken over and contracted out to Decourcey's who's FJ11MLU is seen here at Sheffield Bus Station a Volvo B9R / Cateano Levante C49FT . Photo taken 01/02/13
This Smooth Billed Ani may not win any beauty contests but it is still a very interesting bird, especially if you can get a close up view of the bill. These guys live primarily in savannahs in Central and South America and southern Florida.
Like other anis, the Smooth-billed Ani lives in small groups of one to five breeding pairs, and up to seventeen individuals. They defend a single territory and lay their eggs in one communal nest. All group members incubate the eggs and care for the young.
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Telephone operators, often known as “Gannon’s girls” for leader Mary Gannon, are shown during a strike meeting at Turner’s Arena circa 1945.
Gannon served as national chair of the National Federation of Telephone Workers and was an early advocate of equal pay for women. Gannon was outraged to find that the highest pay for a woman clerk was lower than the starting pay for a man doing substantially the same job.
Gannon was one of probably two woman leading a major local union in Washington during that period (Margaret Gilmore at the Bureau of Engraving was another). While the laundry workers and cafeteria workers unions were composed primarily of women, they were led by men.
Gannon led a one-day sympathy strike during World War II that disrupted communications across the country, including cutting off long distance service into the White House. It was centered around the issue of the giant “Ma Bell” importing workers at a higher pay rate than local operators in Dayton, Ohio. At least five other cities joined the walkout.
Gannon would lead the union on strike for eight days in 1946, calling for “an eight-day continuous meeting.” That strike centered on “sweatshop practices” like rules that read, “Do not change your headset from one ear to the other without calling a supervisor,” and “Don’t take an aspirin without being relieved from your position.”
The NFTW was an independent union composed of autonomous locals.
Eleanor Jane Palmer, the secretary-treasurer of the local union at the time recalled later how Gannon worked to aid telephone workers around the country and begin to form the basis for a true national union:
“Whenever anybody in the country was out! [on strike] I remember at one time in St. Louis the traffic girls were trying to get some air conditioning put in, and the only thing the company would offer were the tubs of ice. You’ve heard about them. In order to get some satisfaction on their grievance, they could have had a work stoppage, but they weren’t in the prime position where they were really disturbing the country or upsetting the country. So what they did was call to Washington and ask our president if she could give them some help.”
In 1946 the NFTW cobbled together 17 local unions with expired contracts (many had been on day-to-day extensions) and called a nationwide strike. AT&T settled before the strike began and the union gained the first national agreement in the telephone industry..
The following year, AT&T forced the NFTW into a strike. AT&T refused to negotiate a nationwide agreement and only offered a wage increase after workers had been on strike for three weeks. Four weeks into the strike, 17 contracts had been signed. The nationwide strike collapsed and it marked the end of the NFTW.
However, the local operators continued their strike until May 18, 1947, holding out for written guarantees that there would be no reprisals. With the operators ready to go back to work, Gannon led the operators to refuse to cross the picket lines of Western Electric workers until that unit settled later that day.
In June 1947, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) was formed as a national union with a stronger national structure, incorporating most of the locals of the NFTW.
Gannon led the local operators union from the time it was a company union in 1935 through militant strikes in the 1940s and up until 1950--after the Communications Workers of America was formed.
She led approximately 200 strikes—most for an hour or two—during her career, Many of the strikes were sympathy strikes helping other telephone unions around the country and helping to lay the basis for a national union.
She was in the late stages of pregnancy with her son Tommy during the six-week 1947 strike, and put in the long hours and picket duty required of a union leader. Her son was born shortly after the strike collapsed.
Gannon said of her decision to resign at age 38 in 1950, “I was torn between two children, for I feel like the union was my child too. But in the end I felt like I must give more attention to Tommy.”
During her tenure, the telephone operators were often known as “Gannon’s girls” by local news reporters.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.