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96-gallon Toter trash cart
Rubatino Refuse Removal
Everett, WA
May 2015
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
Dillonvale neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. I saw this truck coming and so jumped out of the car and drew my camera. He couldn't get close enough to the curb for the mechanical arm to grab the can so, the driver had to get out of the truck and move the can close enough for the arm to work. I believe he thought I was taking pictures in order to get him in trouble as he asked what was going on. When I explained that I simply like to shoot trucks, he went away probably thinking I was crazy. I can't disagree. Who the hell shoots garbage trucks? Then again, when you look at them closely, they are pretty cool mechanical beings and an important part of our civilized society. Think what live would be without them. And besides, it's an Autocar even if they have changed hands and are not the proud marque they once were.
Look at the writing on the door. You'll notice it is upside down. What gives? My guess is that it is the bottom half of the door and swings up into the position in the picture. Strange.
Sister Euphemia (Effie to her friends), is a former classmate of Lara, Katie and Jolene, all fellow members of the Heb Girlz. Effie Euphemia runs a highly successful, if somewhat controversial 'shock and awe' rehabilitation centre called 'Sudden Impact', on the south coast of Harris. Although her methods are considered harsh, nobody can dispute her success rate. To date, of the 167 inebriated drivers to have have passed through the doors of the 16th century historic building she calls HQ, none have re-offended. In recognition of her 100% success rate, the local court now offers convicted felons the option of attending one of Euphemia's courses as an alternative to a custodial sentence. This year alone has seen Euphemia treat a council employee caught selling stolen goods on ebay, a disgruntled accountant who infected his company's computer system with a virus, three crofters found committing crimes against sheep and several elderly Wee Frees have been taught how to reverse into passing places while driving to and from church. What actually takes place during her two week long 'Sudden Impact' reconditioning course remains a mystery to everyone except attendees. Those we managed to track down broke into a cold sweat at the mere mention of Sister Euphemia and refused point blank to discuss the experience. All we know is that whatever's going on, it works!
More of this sort of thing in my Heb Girlz set
Background: 5 shot HDR of Rodel Church
Model: Lela Rae c/o Marcus Ranum
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Cockburn, South Australia, is a small settlement immediately adjacent to the border with New South Wales near Broken Hill. It was established because the New South Wales government refused to allow locomotives of the South Australian Railways to operate in its jurisdiction, requiring locomotives to be changed at the town for 84 years until 1970, when the route was converted from 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) to 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.
Huge ore deposits were discovered in Silverton, which in 1884 prompted the government of South Australia to offer to the Government of New South Wales the building of a narrow gauge railway line from the limit of its jurisdiction at the border to Silverton, since horse-drawn drays over rough tracks could not meet the transport task for the journey to Port Pirie. This offer was rejected by the New South Wales government. In response, investors formed the Silverton Tramway Company in 1885 to build the railway line from Silverton to the border; as the railway was privately owned, it could not legally be referred to as such, hence the use of the term tramway.
The town of Cockburn, named after South Australian Premier Sir John Alexander Cockburn, came into existence in 1886 on the South Australia side of the border as a place for trains to exchange locomotives and crews. On the New South Wales side of the border, the Silverton Tramway Company built the Burns station and transfer sidings.
For 84 years, until 1970, Cockburn exemplified a busy South Australian Railways interchange station. Locomotives were serviced here and concentrate trains brought from Broken Hill on the Silverton Tramway were marshalled for their 350-kilometre (220-mile) journey to Port Pirie.
Pressure for the expansion of Cockburn was increased with mineral discoveries at Thackaringa and Umberumberka from 1883 onwards. The silver-lead-zinc discovery at Broken Hill led to the railway line being extended from Silverton to Broken Hill in 1887. The route was extremely important, as it provided balanced trading for locomotives with a momentum grade 'up' from Broken Hill to Cockburn and a rising grade 'down' from Cockburn to Broken Hill. This was the main advantage of the route to and from Cockburn.
By 1892, the town of Cockburn had become sizeable, with a population of 2000. Cockburn boasted two hotels, two general stores, three boarding houses, schools, and churches. It included within its business sector a blacksmith, butcher, baker, produce merchant and carrier. Stationed at Cockburn were two engineers, a stationmaster, customs officer, locomotive superintendent, and a miner. A locomotive shed and related work facilities were recorded as existing in 1892. Seven trains regularly ran between Petersburg (now Peterborough), Cockburn, and Broken Hill, and included passenger trains. 83 194 passengers travelled through Cockburn in 1892.
Cockburn also has a role in industrial relations history in Broken Hill. Tom Mann, a political "disruptionist", was barred from speaking publicly in New South Wales. In 1908, 3000 passengers came from Broken Hill to Cockburn to hear him speak. From the front of the hall, next to the Cockburn Hotel, he addressed the crowd. This was the beginning of a dispute known as the 1909 lockout. Broken Hill mining unionists were locked out of the company gates for rejecting pay cuts which would have been below the minimum wage.
The standard gauge railway line, officially opened in 1970, is south of the surveyed town limits of Cockburn. A new station and a passing loop were built but the station is now disused. In the early 1990s, the South Australian government proposed to close down the small communities along the Barrier Highway, leading to a strong and unified resistance from the local communities. The 2016 census recorded a population of 56 in the immediate vicinity of the town.
Nothing remains of the infrastructure of the railway yard other than an elevated locomotive water tank, repurposed as a bushfire emergency asset. The last buildings, six railway employee houses, were demolished or removed in 2009.
The Border Gate Hotel is technically within the boundaries of the New South Wales border.
There is no Local Government Area (LGA) for the communities of Nackara, Yunta, Manna Hill, Olary, and Cockburn.
Sir John Alexander Cockburn:
Sir John Alexander Cockburn (1850 - 1929), premier, Federationist, and medical practitioner, was born on the 23rd of August 1850 at Corsbie, Berwickshire, Scotland, second son of Thomas Cockburn, farmer, and his wife Isabella, née Wright. His father died in France in 1855, and his mother migrated to South Australia in 1867 with three of the four children. John, educated at Cholmeley (now Highgate) School, remained behind to study medicine at King's College, University of London (M.R.C.S., M.B., 1871; M.D. and gold medal, 1874), although he briefly visited his family in 1871.
Believing the medical profession to be overcrowded in England, Cockburn settled in South Australia in 1875, and set up a lucrative practice in Jamestown. He was elected its first mayor in 1878 and held the office for three and a half years. In 1881 he was appointed a commissioner of the North Midland Road Board. He was also vice-president of the Rifle Volunteer Force and captain of the Jamestown company as well as a lay reader of the Anglican Church.
Cockburn's ambitions did not lie in medicine and in 1884 he won the House of Assembly seat of Burra. He immediately made his mark in parliament as a picturesque and eloquent speaker. As minister of education in Sir John Downer's ministry in 1885 - 1887, he was mainly responsible for the inauguration of arbor day. He also established an inquiry to report on the best means of developing technical education. Although he lost his seat at the 1887 election, he won Mount Barker, which he represented until his retirement.
In 1888 Cockburn was appointed chairman of the council of the new School of Mines and Industries but he resigned when it opened in June 1889. In the same month the Thomas Playford government was defeated and Cockburn formed a ministry as chief secretary. In August next year Playford successfully moved a motion of no-confidence, Cockburn was again chief secretary in F. W. Holder's ministry, June-October 1892. He was one of three former premiers in the cabinet of Charles Kingston, formed in June 1893, and he remained as minister of education and agriculture until he resigned in April 1898 to become agent-general in London.
An advanced liberal, Cockburn was held by his critics to be an impractical visionary, easily swayed by the writings of reformers such as Henry George and Edward Bellamy. His intellectual eclecticism was paralleled in practical politics by frequent changes of mind; he was not a strong leader in an era of faction politics. Nevertheless Cockburn initiated a number of notable pieces of reform legislation. He was active in the struggle to secure payment for members of parliament, and he helped to change Kingston's mind on adult suffrage. He also introduced unsuccessfully a bill for a progressive land tax.
Cockburn was an ardent Federationist, representing South Australia at the 1890 conference, and the 1891 and 1897 - 1898 conventions. He was also the only notable South Australian to attend the unofficial People's Federal Convention at Bathurst in 1896. At these conferences he supported moves for a more democratic constitution. At the same time he wanted a strong Senate, basing his case on 'State rights'—his decentralist sentiments were declared at Sydney in 1891: 'Government at a central and distant point can never be government by the people'. He and Kingston were the only two delegates in 1891 to support Sir George Grey's proposal that the governor-general and the State governors should be elected by the people. Cockburn argued the governor-general would be a dummy and the office useless; many other delegates believed that an elective governor-general would have pretensions to real authority. A collection of his articles and speeches was published in Australian Federation (London, 1901), dedicated to his close friend, Sir J. Langdon Bonython.
Fears were expressed when Cockburn was appointed agent-general in 1898. The conservative Register wrote that "the Doctor of Fanciful Notions would be more congenially employed in a library studying mystical lore and in resurrecting impracticable political schemes from 'Plutarch's Lives' than in directing the commercial and financial operations of the government in London. The outgoing incumbent of the office, Thomas Playford, in a letter to the under-treasurer Thomas Gill, pointed out Cockburn's lack of knowledge of finance but felt that 'if he holds his tongue and refrains from gassing upon socialistic fads he may do well." As it turned out, Cockburn was a successful agent-general until 1901; he never missed an opportunity of advertising the State and its products.
He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1900. Patrick McMahon Glynn noted with disbelief in his diary that "Mr. Cockburn, the political mystic and interpreter of the democratic spirit as understood by himself, the paper-disciple of Rousseau, the chief South Australian exponent of philosophic equality and scientific methods of social progress—has been made a Knight". In 1901 Cockburn was appointed knight of grace of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. That year he hoped to enter Federal politics, but his friends failed to nominate him in time. Shortly afterwards he was placed in an embarrassing position by the government of J. G. Jenkins, which wished to downgrade the agent-generalship to that of a State agent, at a reduced salary. Cockburn's term of office was not extended, as had previously been the case, and his retirement reflected rather poorly on his former political colleagues. The Critic commented sourly that electors "would hardly recognise their old friend with the ultra-radical views … [who] dressed 'carelessly', wore his hair long like the typical anarchist of the papers illustrated, [but is] now immaculately frocked and has somewhat changed his views".
Cockburn remained in England for the rest of his life as a sort of unofficial ambassador for South Australia, many of whose citizens he entertained at Dean's Hill, Harrietsham, Kent. He made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the House of Commons at a by-election for West Monmouthshire in November 1904, standing as an Independent Tariff Reformer supported by Joseph Chamberlain and the local Conservatives; however, he had nothing else in common with them. He held directorships of the English, Scottish & Australian Bank, the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd, the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and the Central Insurance Co. He also became chairman of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce in London, the Nature Study Association and the Swanley Horticultural College, and was vice-chairman of the court of governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Cockburn was president of the Entente Cordiale Society, the National Association of Manual Training Teachers, the London branch of the Child-Study Society, the Men's International Alliance for Woman Suffrage, and the International Philological Society, and a vice-president of the Royal Colonial Institute. He was also a member of the council of King's College, University of London, from 1900. In addition, he did prominent work for the London County Council on elementary education, and was a prolific writer on Australian, Imperial and educational topics. Greatly interested in freemasonry, he had been deputy grand master in South Australia, and in England he became president of both the International Masonic Club and the Society for Masonic Study, and wrote extensively on the symbolism of freemasonry.
Cockburn was a short and handsome man. His obituary in The Times described him as "stamped with the zeal and courtesy of a past generation'. He was proud of his extensive library, and bookbinding was one of his hobbies. He died in London, at King's College Hospital, on the 26th of November 1929, survived by his wife Sarah Holdway (d. 1931), née Brown, whom he had married in 1875, and by a son and a daughter. His estate was valued for probate at £20 442. A bust in bronze by Alfred Drury is in the possession of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Source: LocationSA Map Viewer (location.sa.gov.au/viewer), Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Cover of Refuse Removal Journal in December of 1963 showing Santa on a 20yd GMC/EZ Pack . Refuse Removal Journal was one of the original Waste industry magazines and ran from 1958 to 1970 and then became Solid Wastes Management.It has been hard to find issues of this magazine.
48-gallon Toter EVR II trash cart
Rubatino Refuse Removal
Everett, WA
May 2015
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
16 Sep 13. On the western side of Kauai. Beyond the shoreline it is quite arid, after Pacific winds annually drop over 500 inches of rain on the volcanic highlands. Here three pictures in one, but not HDR.
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”
― Sarah Kay
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky".
Rabindranath Tagore
...God is pure light, undimmed by darkness of any kind. If we say we have an intimate connection with the Father but we continue stumbling around in darkness, then we are lying because we do not live according to truth. If we walk step by step in the light, where the Father is, then we are ultimately connected to each other through the sacrifice of Jesus His Son. His blood purifies us from all our sins. 1 John 1: 5-7
The new command is the truth that He lived; and now you are living it, too, because the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining among you. 1 John 2:8
Und doch schreibe ich euch ein neues Gebot, was wahr ist in Ihm und in euch; denn die Finsternis vergeht, und das wahre Licht scheint schon.
Toutefois, c'est aussi un commandement nouveau que je vous écris; sa nouveauté se vérifie en lui et en vous, car les ténèbres se dissipent et la vraie lumière brille déjà.
Y, sin embargo, os escribo un mandamiento nuevo, que es verdadero en él y en vosotros, porque las tinieblas van pasando y la luz verdadera ya alumbra.
H.U.V.A. Network - Symetric Lifes : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TODB7nntaq4
Paul Hardcastle VII - "Crystal Whisper": www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSfBRF_LT8
Brand: Rapid Rail Systems
Size: 100 gallons
Hauler: City of Toppenish
Location: Toppenish, WA
Date: November 2023
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Yeah! Another garbage truck.
This one is a small version of the Volvo FE. Features drive, steering, a 2 cylinder motor, opening doors, tilting cab, opening hopper, bin lift, compaction cycle, and extraction plate.
Much more at Thirdwigg.com. Find the Youtube video here.
In a March 2023 interview with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo continued to push ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as effective against COVID-19 (even Senator Paul refused to take the bait). Watch the interview.
Americans have lost confidence in their government. We no longer trust our legislators and the Supreme Court to solve our country’s problems: income inequality, affordable health care, a woman’s right to decide what’s best for her health, the economy, and climate change. Governance has become a series of battles. It’s no longer just political ideology. We are at war over cultural issues while our politicians ignore our basic needs. And we’ve lost faith in our country’s institutions when ersatz news organizations like Fox knew Donald Trump lost the election but promoted voter fraud to get ratings.
The morals of our GOP legislators and their sycophants are just as important as their economic policy. How can we trust a party that Alex Patton, a Florida-based Republican consultant, and pollster, has characterized as a party that “has become mean and driven by emotion on whom we dislike.”? “But,” he says, “that is the driving force in American politics right now.” That is the driving force of the GOP, not the Democrats. This is not an example of the equality of “bothsidesism.”
In my essay, “ It’s Time to Release Our Own Kraken!” I outlined the history of the Republican Party’s “below the belt” tactics. They continue to be underhanded to this day. But with the low level of civility in our present polarized country, many Republican legislators now in office have hit new ethical lows.
As a visual artist who has spent over a decade creating posters about the sorry state of American political discourse, this year I began a new series of portraits, “Faces of the Republican Party.” The men and women in this series deserve to be taken to task for their unwillingness to compromise, belief in conspiracy theories, and disdain for the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, and our children’s education. The purpose of our government is to solve our nation’s problems. It’s not a place for personal vendettas or manufactured cultural issues.
“Faces of the Republican Party” is not a partisan series of portraits. Merriam-Webster defines the word as “a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person, especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.” The people depicted in these images are the partisans. Instead, my series is a documentary and op-ed showcasing the facts in 2022. All of them had a hand in trying to overthrow the government. These images are MAGA Republicans who put their blind allegiance to Donald Trump and their careers ahead of the needs of the American people.
The results of the 2022 midterm elections showed we are tired of autocratic and self-absorbed politicians. We would simply like our officials to do the jobs we elected them to do. Everyone deserves a piece of American Exceptionalism. As it stands, there is nothing exceptional about the tribalism these people promote.
Republicans are perfect examples of Patton’s “driving force.” This force is dirty, mean, misogynistic, selfish, and wastes our tax dollars. These people are just a small sampling of individuals responsible for the loss of credibility and faith in America’s institutions. And worse, they couldn’t care less.
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Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010 to 2020 through a eight-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
Taken just a few hours before Squeeks was put to sleep, this is one of my most precious photos.
Squeegee was a strong kitty- so strong that he refused to go without a fight. Looking back at his videos and photos the day he died, I know I did the right thing by ending the suffering I know he had begun to experience. That doesn't make it much easier losing him, but I know I did all I could.
I really miss Squeeks....
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift.
Lucy T.Pettway American, Boykin Alabama 1921 – 2004 Boykin
Housetop and Bricklayer with Bars quilt , ca. 1955
Cotton and acetate
Lucy T. Pettway was known to be a keen observer of the world around her. She carried paper and pencil as she walked to and from her work in the fields each day and jotted down things that caught her eye, later using them as inspiration for her quilt designs. This extraordinary work is the only Gee’s Bend Quit in the collection that seems to be intentionally pictorial. Using the favored Housetop and Bricklayer pattern blocks, Pettway created an imaginary aerial view of the old Pettway plantation, with the large owner’s house at the top and four slave cabins below. The small printed calicos to the left of the houses represent the fields, while on the right, the blue Alabama River flows between red banks.
Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Colleciton, 2014 (2014.548.52)
From the Placard: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/lucy-t-pettway
www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/history-refus...
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/arts/design/history-refused-to...
Operated by: Minneapolis Refuse Inc. Minneapolis, MN
Unit Number: n/a
Body: McNeilus
Chassis: CCC
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Seen at HERC queued for the tipping floor
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It was all hands on deck for the staff at Veolia Hastings to clear up after the Olympic Torch Relay came to town on 17th July 2012.Third back is a Scarab Minor.
Owned by: Waste Management Inc. in Bradenton, FL
Chassis: Mack LEU613 Low Entry TerraPro
Body manufacturer: Heil Recycle 2000
Type of truck: Manual side load curb-sort recycling truck
Additional notes: This has an interesting sign on the side, "Be Cart Smart Recycle! SarasotaGreenCity.com"
Location of photo: Hillsborough County, FL
If you want to use this image, ask permission PRIOR to use. Don't be a thief - under most circumstances, I'm quite reasonable.
Copyright 2011 - Alan B.