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Cleaning the deck. All mysterious, questionable material is swept into the collection trough to be mysteriously removed in questionable ways...
Sling-style camera straps are all I use now, they're great. I also like the PacSafe camera strap for its slimness and low profile shoulder pad, so I combined them! Unfortunately, the strap may not be long enough for some people after this mod. I would've liked a few more inches but it's just about perfect as-is (fully extended).
For those who don't know, the PacSafe has steel cables running through the piping on each side of the webbing. No slash-and-grabs with this strap! I also like how the snaphook locks.
To do it, just remove the stitching at each tri-bar slide (as seen above), disassemble everything, then with one end of the strap, reattach it to the middle bar of the tri-bar slide, as seen in the "sewn_side" picture. The part of the strap that goes over the middle bar wont have the steel running through it, the steel terminates just before the TBS. You can duplicate the hourglass stitching pattern or just use lines. For mine I went with three perpendicular lines of kevlar (yes, overkill :) ) thread.
After that, the other end of the strap goes under the TBS, over the middle bar, then down and out through the other side. You can play around with different configurations. In the "completed_strap" photo, I have the TBS positioned above the shoulder pad.
(facing east) Crews remove bricks from the buried foundation of a building that once stood at the site.
This view shows window over sink which will be changed for a larger one bumped out about 9 inches, size 36w x 48h. The other window will be removed and a 5 foot opening from master bedroom into a sitting room will be added
From dug trench, termite treatment, cement pour, block mortaring, reinforcing rods, lumber delivery, framing to.....what?
NOTE: added4/18/2019
This was taken a mere week after work began (Oct 27, 2014) on our whole house remodel. Further details of what you see above and what changes were actually made.
The kitchen window was NOT bumped out even an inch, because it could not be protected adequately from breakage in a hurricane. I wanted to have an “infinity” window behind the sink, with nothing between the countertop and outdoors except glass. It required the window to be installed after much was done, and it was a special e-glass constructed to fit within the framing for the OLD window. I enjoy this feature immensely today.
Further, the wooden exterior which is painted yellow above, was all removed along with a goodly portion of the old plaster and stucco back wall. The window on the back wall would be lost when a sitting room was added across the back, so more than a 5 foot wide opening was needed. It was serious labor required to remove the cement plaster for the kitchen and the bedroom. In the end, where a wall was removed we left a sub of the old wall and in the overhead the doubled 2x12 beams added to support the ceiling, were held up by the wall stubs. I considered it paying homage to the bones of the strong old house stick built in 1950 by a contractor for his mother.
The end walls of the 10 x 30 addition had NO WINDOWS in them. Bookcases were meant to go floor to ceiling in the north wall of the sitting room. The south wall would house the fridge and the stacking washer/dryer, with a pantry cabinet....I added an under-counter GE 2 drawer fridge for beverages, handy spot for coffee paraphernalia. The opposite wall, along the NORTH side of the house, had no windows because it would feature wall-to-wall wooden bookshelves on metal brackets, heavy duty to support lots of weight. Across the back wall would be almost-floor-to-ceiling e-glass windows non opening, six foot tall. This wall faces EAST. There is a deck no sign of it in this photo, but it spans nearly the entire back wall, and will feature a hot/cold outdoor shower.
The current shape of the roof will continue, reusing the roof vent in the new exterior attic. In the process, we replaced the entire roof with architectural shingles (not metal as I’d wanted); replaced the sewer line to the street; replaced the a/c heating unit; added a whole house Generac natural gas generator; replaced old electrical and upgraded to 200 amp electrical service; converted heat to natural gas; hot water to a tankless gas. Our gas bill increased but the amazing thing was how different our AVERAGE ELECTRICAL BILL changed.... it went from a $294 monthly average all year, down to $74 per month.. and it is still at $80/month almost five years later.
What would I do differently? I’d add total window replacement for the whole house, to further maximize energy savings. And, I’d seriously consider adding powered roll-down hurricane shutters.—since we had the generator to assure power, no manual deployment would be required as we aged.
Another note to older people who may be considering remodel of a home rather than downsize or whatever..... if as a couple one of you does not deal with change in your personal lives, it can produce some problems. Before committing money to a big remodel project, weigh your options.
1. Air France - bought it at 3€ and then also I got several pieces of the complimentary Valrhona chocolate as Christmas gift.
2. Vista Jet - I got it from my cousin
3. I bought it when I visited Airbus "Taxiway" in Colomiers, Toulouse in France.
Scanned from a slide 2nd day of diving - removing the ice that froze overnight. Ice was about 18" thick. The guy on the right was up from Atlanta for the week. Notice the footwear? You can also see the shoveled areas radiating out from the hole - these help locate the opening when you're underwater.
Removing the H beams that for over 30 years had carried the locos and carriages of the WC&PR railway across the Land Yeo at Clevedon triangle.
A pair of removable steel plates will cover the open pit where the machinery and controls are located once the construction is finished.
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Alberta’s legislature will debate a potential referendum question asking Albertans if they think the principle of equalization payments should be removed from Canada’s Constitution.
Premier Jason Kenney introduced a motion on June 7, 2021 that, if passed, will put the following question on a provincewide referendum ballot on Oct. 18, in conjunction with municipal and Senate elections:
“Should Section 36(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 –Parliament and the Government of Canada’s commitment to the principle of making equalization payments – be removed from the Constitution?”
“Albertans elected this government to get a fair deal for them. That’s exactly what this referendum is about. For too long, Albertans have been forced to subsidize public services in other parts of the country where politicians have been trying to block our pipelines and impair our vital economic interests, even during times of great economic hardship for us. This fall, Albertans will finally get a chance to tell the federal government that they’ve had enough of the unfair equalization program, and want reforms that recognize our province’s role in creating national prosperity.” said Premier Jason Kenney.
The principle of equalization is embedded into the Constitution and is the Government of Canada’s primary transfer program for addressing fiscal imbalances between provinces.
Albertans fund equalization through federal tax contributions, which are then transferred by the federal government to other provinces for their programs and services.
However, the current program does not take into account fundamental matters of fairness, including the ability of “have provinces” – like Alberta – to contribute transfers even when their provincial economies are down.
“Justin Trudeau’s equalization program is not fair for Albertans. Their generosity is being taken for granted by leaders who are happy to receive the money but reject the jobs that produce it. Albertans will finally have the opportunity to be heard.” said Kaycee Madu (pictured), Minister of Justice and Solicitor General.
Holding a referendum on equalization was a key recommendation of the Fair Deal Panel, which submitted a report to government last year recommending several ways Alberta could strengthen its position in Confederation.
“Alberta averages almost $20 billion annually in net contributions to Confederation. Almost 10,000 Canadians commute from across Canada to work in the oilsands alone. Alberta certainly doesn't appear to be getting treated fairly and I'm very happy that our government is listening to those that spoke at our Fair Deal consultations.” said Tany Yao, MLA for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo and member, Fair Deal Panel.
“Equalization rewards irresponsible, anti-economic development policies while punishing responsible economic development governance. Over the past 10 years, hard-working Albertans have sent over $400 billion to some provinces that run budgetary surpluses with money that isn’t theirs. Albertans’ self-determinant spirit built this province, so it’s time we asked them whether things need to change.” said Miranda Rosin, MLA for Banff-Kananaskis and member, Fair Deal Panel.
(photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
Removed her faceup as well, so I wouldn't have to use acetone after doing her rerooting.
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